Without Grace

By Alchemist

 

The pessimist cage is conspiracy
You'll never galvanize grace
So speech shall be enslaved
When deathly words are spoke at grave
Voice loud above the velvet hills
Mountains are confident whispers their kill
But the shadow that’s cast is still

Greed aglow with a false nature
Ebb and flow like a virgin suicide
In a puffy cloud like dress
Up is the bridge and the blue outside
Red lingers around street signs
Cold and pink, while wind seeps into your bones
Through every crack and dry tingle

Shiver with a white knuckle grip
Powder loafs around and face starts to slip
Geometry twinkles and vessel is shrinking
So you need the rapture of screaming
To wash over you while blinking
In that instant a sorcery of meaning
But when has it ever been that easy

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Copyright 2011 shawn
Published on Monday, July 25, 2011.     Filed under: "Reflective" and "Poetry"

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  • A former member wrote: Your use of metaphor is divine, I absolutely love this, especially the last stanza. Bravo 👏

  • A former member wrote: LOVE the last line. Ties everything in so well. A lot of the poems i'm reading today have so much to do with how i'm feeling of late. It's like every one leads to another that has to do with the last one or what i've been going through. So true, that first line, as all. i'm an optimist eternal, and i get much shit for it. But who is to say whose world is 'right' and whose world is 'real'. i feel that this poem encapsulates the difference between 'pessimism' and 'reality', and the way pessimists believe that the two are the same. Orrrr...am I looking at this through my own rose~coloured glasses and can't see the true meaning? When has it ever been that easy? ;)

  • terris crimson On Saturday, November 12, 2011, terris crimson (169)By person wrote:

    love this, new poem to be addicted to. sir, it is freaking amazing

  • maddin foxxxy On Sunday, November 6, 2011, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    I think this cast a spell on me...read it several times

  • MikeShank1989 On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, MikeShank1989 (93)By person wrote:

    "A rapture of screaming" is an intense image. I loves the last stanza the most. Your work is well worth the read.

  • sIo On Monday, July 25, 2011, sIo (926)By person wrote:

    That was intense I liked it.

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