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LIBERO

21 Tuesday Apr 2020

Posted by drdamiang in art, Author, Beauty, Civilized, Colonialism, Consciousness, Creation, Creativity, Dawn of Man, death, Decolonization, Design, Empire, Eternal eternity, Eternity/eternal, Freedom, History, Humanity, Intellectual, Intertextual, Language, Lateral thinking, Metamorphosis, Metaphor, metaphoric, Metaphysical, metapoetic/metafictional, mythical/mythological, Nature, Nonlinear, philosophical, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, political, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, postmodern, Poststructuralism, psychological/psychoanalytical, Reader, Renaissance, ROME, science, The book, Thinking, transformation, wordplay, writing

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Beauty, Consciousness, Creation, death, Fibonacci, Freedom, Humanity, Italy, liberation, Mathematics, meaning, Metaphor, metapoetic, perspective, philosophical, poem, poetry, postmodern, ROME, writing

LIBERO

drunk on the promise of liberation
I crafted this poem whose very premise,
if you would permit me to explain,
does to
this very topic
appertain

insofar as it proposes, argues,
steadfastly maintains,
that words
be the clay
out of which all
was made

not as complete fiat but
slowly, slowly: process
of trial
and error

the code pre-established, all
the systems set in place

(this
as sure as
triangles
are
triangular,
spirals
are spirals)

all done and dusted
tried and trusted
written into the
acid of
our DNA

and so
I salute you
creatures
of truth and beauty

and fib you not
Senor Fibonacci

loving the light in
your fair land with
its paramount city

leaving your own
carefully calculated
indelible impression

and
here is the very book
in which it is written
(the one we
contest, always argue over)

so much
blood in the
sand
of that arena

why is it
that beauty must
always contend with death

again
I hold up my
net
and trident

(or sword: for
pen
best metaphor,
best metonym)

so much
marble and gold
begging the eye
to look upward
redefine perspective, dream
of long-last freedom

drunk
on those
dreams
of
a future
on promise
of liberation

under which
eternal pressure
I do write
this poem

trying to
tie up
loose ends
get
opposites
to meet

square
all circles

such ironic that libero
the word I shamefacedly stole
is actually your own

SAPIR-WHORF

26 Thursday Mar 2020

Posted by drdamiang in Intertextual, joy/ecstasy, Language, Lateral thinking, Metaphysical, philosophical, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, postmodern, Romantic/romantic, Sensual, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, Uncategorized

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conceptual, Language, linguistic, love, perception, philosophical, poem, poetry, Sexual

SAPIR-WHORF

need to invent
re-
invent

so much: perhaps
I should start
with a list

bullet-point it all
my need for
a new language
a new
poetry

in order
to express you
linguistically
caress you

all the better to
love you with
my little red
riding
wearing that
scarlet dress I
bought you in
Johannesburg

new modifiers, qualifiers,
participles (dangling and
non-dangling)
concepts so
conceptual breakthrough
they are the likes
of which
ain’t ever been
seen
(likes of which
the world
never seen)

LAGOON

23 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by drdamiang in Creation, Creativity, Horror, Language, Lateral thinking, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, science, science fictional, Semiotic, Uncategorized, wordplay, writing

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Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, Horror, Language, poem, poetry, science fiction, semiotics, wordplay

LAGOON

was playing a word game
and came up with “lagoon”

now I love that word
for all its monsters

more crude and less
philosophical
than anything that
woke up
Mary Shelley
to create science fiction

how I will miss
a world of constant
counter-intuitive surprises

like the insects running
up down the wall
being the product of
the angle of the spectacles
shifting in an
hallucinatory direction
(subtle pointing of the head
the preferred technique for
a first-time
commitment to
multi-focals, whether
near or
far-sighted

those slight degrees of shift
simply switching the genre

which fucks (as well it should)
with that well-established delusion
that reality is real

for how real is a
reality when you
are swamped with such desire for me

your fingers (all appendages)
wandering
all over me

determined to
drag me along to
some
great cave of philosophy

or down to your
lair at the bottom of that lagoon

for B-movie sex
that you have already guessed
is protocol rewriting, Kama
Sutra by-passing

raw content to be inferred since
restricted to off-screen

WAITING IN VAIN

23 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by drdamiang in Alien, film, Language, Lateral thinking, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry

WAITING IN VAIN
(FOR THOSE
SAPIR-WHORF
ALIENS)

not to be pedantic
but Big Bang no longer
poses itself
under
mark of
the
question
(perhaps
in later times
in may well
return
ask
another one)

but something’s in the air
there’s a breeze Chaos
bounded
bracket everything you
have read, everything
your parents
told you
old stories, new
stories they’re
all
boomeranging back

so it doesn’t matter how
you letter, go for
a voice-raise
with pointy exclamation!

It’s back to the belly
of the beast, labyrinth
where was this thing
first growled
that has grown
into language

thing tough on the lips, teeth
and jaw yet
so fragile of concept
(should Sapir-Whorf aliens threaten
to magically materialize,
suddenly upend

renumber with
abandon, punctuate everything backwards
let conclusion
prove premise
as
play
total havoc
with tense).

CURVED

11 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by drdamiang in Intellectual, Lateral thinking, metaphoric, Nonlinear, philosophical, Poem, postmodern, relativistic, science, the body, time and space (space/time), wordplay, writing

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how come it
took us so
long to
think relativity

when everything sexy
intellectual is
beautifully curved?

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IN MY RED HAT

01 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by drdamiang in Lateral thinking, metaphoric, Poem, poetry

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I put on my
green hat and
leaves appear

I put on my blue Bono hat
and sky is charity
nothing
to fear

about that
red hat either,
licence to
storm, rage in
anger

love
them tender

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