• 100 FOLLOWERS
  • A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY
  • A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY (part three)
  • About
  • ABOUT ZERO GRAVITY
  • ABOUT ZERO GRAVITY
  • FEEDBACK?
  • FIRST REVIEW OF ZERO GRAVITY
  • GRAVITY AND TIME IN TWO SCIENCE FICTION FILMS
  • GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY (PART 2)
  • GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY (Part Five)
  • GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY (part six)
  • GUIDED TOUR THROUGH ZERO GRAVITY: PART FOUR
  • HE MIGHT LIKE THIS BOOK TOO
  • How to get my collection Zero Gravity
  • I SUPPOSE SOMETHING IN ME ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POET
  • if you like my poetry here…
  • LIFT OFF
  • MESSAGE FROM MY CAT KASPI TO ALL WHO LIKED HIS HAIKU
  • Poetry and new media
  • THANKS EVERYONE
  • Thanks to Notegraphy
  • Using the Visual Poetry app for iPhone to create a triptych promoting Zero Gravity
  • Zero Gravity
  • Zero Gravity
  • Zero Gravity Facebook Page
  • ZERO GRAVITY LAUNCHED
  • Zero Gravity visuals (visualpoetry)

best poetry blog in the cosmos

~ 4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site

best poetry blog in the cosmos

Category Archives: Life

WHAT THE SERPENT TOLD ME

10 Sunday Nov 2019

Posted by drdamiang in death, Life, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Snake, spiritual, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

death, Life, poem, poetry, serpent, Snake

WHAT THE SERPENT
TOLD ME

in the beginning
there was anger

fire and
water

a million
kinds of venom

every colour and
colour combination

out of the
premise of death

first slithered
life

FORTH

10 Tuesday Sep 2019

Posted by drdamiang in Humanity, Life, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, wordplay

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Humanity, Life, poem, poetry, wordplay

FORTH

so the Creator bade us
“go forth and
multiply”

so we
multiplied and multiplied
and multiplied and
multiplied and
multiplied
and multiplied

but did not go
forth very
far at all

ANNULMENT

15 Thursday Aug 2019

Posted by drdamiang in dark, Dark and light, death, Life, Metaphysical, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

dark, death, Life, Light, Metaphysical, poem, poetry

ANNULMENT

death be
not divorce

be more
annulment

of all
you ever were

but wait, the air
so cold

cold as the bleakest
darkest spot of
the Universe

sub-zero breath of
your new lover your
new true partner

finally, yes,
the perfect ice
of this embrace

it gets to last
for all eternity
(there
foreshadowed

in every word
dark muse

of life itself, all
its poetry)

BENEATH K2

24 Friday May 2019

Posted by drdamiang in death, Life, Mountain, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

death, K2, Life, Mother Earth, Mountain, poem, poetry

BENEATH K2

I kiss your breasts
am
in free fall

no rope
no umbilical cord
linking me to
the Mother of
Heaven

only the rich, really rich
get to climb K2

breathe the roof of the world
as bottled oxygen

only the dead
get to write their names
on the mountain
bind their tin-plate plaques
to the rock

time, wind, snow and ice
will efface, erode,
swap away

THE JOY

14 Tuesday May 2019

Posted by drdamiang in Fire, Humanity, Life, Light, Nietzschean, philosophical, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

energy, Fire, Humanity, joy, Life, Nietzsche, pain, poem, satire, star

THE JOY

you struck
a match

in the
darkness

but
burned your
finger

the pain
the pain

the
joy

sheer
joy

fiery
as a
star

LAZARUS

05 Sunday May 2019

Posted by drdamiang in death, Life, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

death, Life, limbo, poem, poetry

LAZARUS

it is strange in limbo

one can wait for centuries as if
eternally frozen

but then
move fast as a meteorite
or thing verging on light speed

let us, for purposes of this poem.
interrupt Lazarus
stop him dead in his tracks, about
to munch a life/death sandwich
(you can imagine the artistry it takes
in baking such as that)

he who was saved, brought back
but is now in the crosshairs
no one will believe anything he says
about the afterlife
neither dystopia nor
utopia, yet
pretty surreal place

and being there even a brief instant
changing viewpoint, perspective,

the light so
merciless
pulling him backward

he says
he will never look up into the Sun again

RETURN

20 Saturday Apr 2019

Posted by drdamiang in Creation, Creativity, death, Life, metapoetic/metafictional, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Shakespeare, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Creation, death, Life, metapoetic, poem, poetry, Shakespeare

RETURN

there is a poet
in the cemetery
writing

as if
on cure
things

take
a dark turn

for is it not
this literary machine thing
devolved to pen
and paper

life’s deepest resistancew, death’s
finest achievement?

I mean — check out these stones: so many have poetic couplets
some of them epigraphs
no space for odes or even sonnets
still less
Iliad or Odyssey

this I muse whilst
graffiti on the chapel wall
pictures Sam Beckett tumbling
from birth to grave
signs too
that Nietzsche is back
back with braveface to live a return

Sun going down: convenient metaphor that
for how everything recycled

like these very words, some of them
(like “Caesar”, “dust”) dug out of their fertile grave
back from the worms that
we imagined owned them
still something of that a little less than
ghost attached that once
we might have given a name to and
that name Shakespeare’s

words
inadequate, not doing justice
especially to such names which
deserve not
to be dropped

so I
break that solemn wall

do you
openly address

restore with
heart and
with light

the death and life in all I have said
need your insight to connect

together to make
this accomplishment
(small small jewel being
our return)

LIFE

02 Tuesday Apr 2019

Posted by drdamiang in death, Life, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

death, Life, poem, poetry

LIFE

I cried
my friend had died

like his father,
mother, before him

his infant daughter, baby son
and wife

this planet
teeming with life.

ICU

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by drdamiang in identity, Life, Light, loss, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Transcendence, transformation

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Ending, identity, loss, love, meaning, philosophical, poem, poetry, transformation

ICU

there is on-off switch
there is
reset button

there is new you
liberated from hard memory
surviving
the frailty of
the flesh

intricacies of
the mind

so seeing you plugged in
safe and yet so vulnerable

me wondering
if when you
spoke to God, crawled
your way out that darkness
He got
your details right, you
got your details right

would have given so much
to be afly on the wall
for that conversation

what fly?
what wall?

yesterday the machines you were
meshed into (pipes and tubes
everywhere I looked
leading in
every direction)
toldme so many
basic truths about you

and about me
both of us at that moment
craving nothing so much as
the light the light

ELMIJACK

27 Sunday Jan 2019

Posted by drdamiang in death, Life, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

death, Life, poem, poetry

ELMIJACK

escaped my white sepulcher
my Egyptian tomb

and now they
are bringing students there

hopefully with the life
to resist that doom

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013

Categories

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • absurdism
  • Academic
  • Aging
  • Alchemy
  • Alcoholic beverage
  • Alien
  • Allegory
  • Alternate universe
  • Ancient Greece
  • Android
  • Angel
  • Antarctica
  • Apocalypse
  • apocalyptic
  • Archetype
  • art
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Astrological
  • Author
  • Beauty
  • Beer and wine
  • Biblical
  • Big Bang
  • Binary opposites
  • Biology
  • Birth
  • Birthday
  • Blood
  • book
  • Books (the book)
  • Breasts
  • BREXIT
  • British
  • Bureaucracy
  • Canonical
  • CAPE TOWN
  • Capitalism
  • Carnival
  • Carpe diem
  • Cartesian
  • Cat
  • celebration
  • Celestial
  • Censorship
  • Chance
  • Change
  • Chaos
  • Charity
  • Chess
  • childhood
  • Christian
  • Christmas
  • Civilized
  • classical
  • Cliche
  • Colonialism
  • Comedy
  • Commercial
  • Commercialization
  • Community
  • Consciousness
  • Control
  • cosmic
  • Cosmology
  • Counter culture
  • Creation
  • Creativity
  • Crystals
  • Culinary
  • Dance
  • Danger
  • dark
  • Dark and light
  • Dark night of the soul
  • Darwinian
  • Dawn of Man
  • death
  • Decay
  • Decolonization
  • Deconstruction
  • Deep
  • Democracy
  • Desert
  • Design
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Devil
  • Difference
  • digital age
  • Dionysian
  • dog poem
  • Drama
  • Dream
  • Drowning
  • Dumbing down
  • Dystopia
  • Eastern
  • Ecology
  • economic
  • Education
  • Egypt
  • elegiac
  • elemental
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Empire
  • Ending
  • ENGLAND
  • Enlightenment
  • entropy
  • erotic
  • Escape
  • Eternal eternity
  • Eternity/eternal
  • Ethics
  • Ethnography
  • Evil
  • evolution
  • existential
  • Expressionist
  • Failure
  • Fairy
  • Fairy tale
  • Family
  • Fantasy
  • Fascism
  • Fashion
  • femme fatale
  • Fiction
  • film
  • Fire
  • Food cuisine
  • Football Soccer
  • Forest
  • Forgiveness
  • Fragmentation
  • Freedom
  • French Symbolism
  • FREUD
  • Garden
  • Genetic
  • Genre/form
  • Ghost
  • glamour
  • Global warming
  • gods and goddesses
  • Good versus evil
  • Grace
  • Greek
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • haiku
  • hallucinogenic
  • Healing
  • Heaven
  • Heavy irony
  • Heavy v light
  • Hell
  • hermetic
  • historical
  • History
  • Holocaust
  • Homeric
  • Homonym
  • Hope and despair
  • Horror
  • Humanity
  • hypocrisy
  • Iconic
  • identity
  • Imagination
  • Incompleteness
  • Industrialization
  • Infidelity
  • Infinity
  • Influence
  • Innocence
  • innuendo
  • Integration
  • Intellectual
  • intense
  • Intertextual
  • ironical/comic
  • Journey
  • joy/ecstasy
  • Judgement
  • Justice
  • Kitsch
  • Labyrinth
  • Lacan
  • Language
  • Lateral thinking
  • Law
  • Learning
  • Life
  • Light
  • literary allusive
  • loss
  • Lost
  • love
  • Lunacy/madness
  • Lust
  • lyric
  • Madness
  • Mafikeng
  • Magic
  • Male/masculinity
  • marriage
  • Mars
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanistic
  • media
  • Medieval
  • Metamorphosis
  • Metaphor
  • metaphoric
  • Metaphysical
  • metapoetic/metafictional
  • Miracle
  • Mirror
  • Misrecognition
  • Modernism
  • Moon
  • Moral fable
  • Mother
  • Mountain
  • Muse
  • Music
  • mystical
  • mythical/mythological
  • Narrative
  • Nature
  • Naughty
  • Neoliberalism
  • NFL
  • Nietzschean
  • Night
  • Nightmare
  • Nonlinear
  • Nonsense
  • Notegraphy
  • Nuclear
  • Nursery rhyme
  • Ocean
  • Order
  • Other
  • Parable
  • Paradise
  • Paradox
  • paradoxical
  • Parallel universe
  • Pastoral
  • Patriarchy
  • Peace
  • philosophical
  • Planets
  • Plato
  • Poem
  • Poem from ZERO GRAVITY (my collection)
  • Poet
  • poetry
  • Poetry
  • Poetry
  • Poison
  • political
  • Politics of poetry/writing/Literature
  • popcultural
  • post-apocalyptic
  • Postcolonial
  • postmodern
  • Poststructuralism
  • power
  • Predetermination
  • Prison
  • Privacy
  • Professorial
  • Propaganda
  • Prose
  • psychological/psychoanalytical
  • Punk
  • Puritanical
  • quantum
  • Questions
  • Race
  • Rap and hip hop
  • Reader
  • Reality?
  • Rebirth
  • redemption
  • relativistic
  • religious
  • Renaissance
  • Repression
  • Restoration
  • Revelation
  • Revolution
  • Revolutionary
  • Ritual
  • rock music
  • Romantic/romantic
  • ROME
  • Sacrifice
  • satire
  • science
  • science fictional
  • Seasons
  • Self-satire
  • Semiotic
  • Sensual
  • Separation
  • Sexual
  • Sexual innuendo
  • Shadow
  • Shakespeare
  • shamanism
  • SIMULATION: We are living in a simulation
  • singularity
  • Sleep
  • Snake
  • social comment
  • Sonnet
  • Sorrow
  • South African
  • Space
  • spiritual
  • Stars
  • Story
  • Subversion
  • SUN: the sun
  • Super Bowl
  • surrealism
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Symbolist symbolistes
  • Tabloid
  • Tarot
  • Tattoo
  • Technology
  • Temptation
  • Tesseract
  • The 70s
  • THE BEATLES
  • The Beatles
  • the body
  • The book
  • the city
  • The desert
  • The Fall
  • The future
  • The ocean
  • The ocean, the sea
  • the sea
  • The World
  • Thinking
  • time and space (space/time)
  • Time travel
  • Topical
  • Torture
  • Tragedy
  • Transcendence
  • transformation
  • Truth
  • TV
  • Twilight zone
  • Twist in the tail
  • Uncategorized
  • Unconscious
  • Unconscious (the unconscious)
  • Understanding
  • Underworld
  • Unity
  • Universe
  • University
  • utopia/dystopia
  • Value and meaning
  • Vampire
  • Viking
  • Violencr
  • Vision
  • Visual poetry
  • War
  • Wasteland
  • Water
  • water
  • Wild
  • woman
  • Woman
  • wordplay
  • writing
  • xenophobia
  • Youth
  • Zen

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

Blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy