ix: Albatross

By Feral



A collaboration with chance -

Why are you so drawn to the idea of purpose?
Of separating and categorizing experience into

waking.real.rational.tangible.worthy
and
dreaming.faulty.irrational.dismissible

These perceptions run parallel, the
categories are lies and the attempt is nothing short
of intellectual dishonesty.

It is true - you do not trust your self.
You are lost.

Not the wandering lost, no, you have traveled
through weakness into uncertainty.
Questioning the instincts that served you
for decades.

Both eyes are open, but
This is not for you.

Close one, burn one out, sacrifice the lying orb
return to the studied attention
given to accident, chance, patterns
the howling laughter, returned. 

A resonate form opens, its tendrils 
as deep as they are distant.
Traveling in all directions, refracted through
thought, through memory, through perception
through senses as yet unnamed but whose fringes
are at the edges, influential if not acknowledged.

Its hum is marked by reverberating crashes
carried by the winnowing winds in aerial clashes of intent

Bloom,
bloody and beautiful 
a towering fulgurite once more.





 

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Published on Friday, August 11, 2023.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • blue On Thursday, March 16, 2023, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    I don’t know why, but this is making me want to call up taoist quotes. Well, I do know why, but that is beside the point. My point is this, lady: this write, your language, this way of expressly constructing ideas (yes, I nabbed it…well sort of) is so uniquely yours… knowing you, it probably has an elemental signature that stands out in the ultra violet spectrum. Stop being so damn clever. “…a resonate form opens” …the last three stanzas really pull this together. Now' fulgurite… that’s curious to be sure; can’t quite figure on what is the key element here, the sand, the lightning or the glass. Curious, very curious. ~b

  • LIFEINVADER On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, LIFEINVADER (302)By person wrote:

    The concept that embracing uncertainty can lead to a more profound and significant form of existence is a remarkable notion.

  • carlosjackal On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, carlosjackal (3016)By person wrote:

    A call to arms. Astounding work.

  • carlosjackal On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, carlosjackal (3016)By person wrote:

    To quote Bri: “This is blood work.”

  • Feral On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Feral (87)By person wrote:

    It absolutely is, in every Rilkean sense of the word. Thank you, my friend.

  • SolApathy On Saturday, March 4, 2023, SolApathy (667)By person wrote:

    A great poem that deserves more than one read. Thank you for sharing, I will be back to read this again.

  • SilentStalker On Friday, March 3, 2023, SilentStalker (1066)By person wrote:

    …I have to come back to this to make a proper comment…for right now, all I can manage is thank you, so much, for writing this… Scholar

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