Only A Man
by LORD DERMOND
The whole world,
I have to fight
with one hand tied
behind--
nails, once soft
as a virgin
cradling
the sweat wet neck
of my martini
harlot.
With my whore
in me, I was
an only man
ready to love
the world whole.
Disintegration
Fallen in dusts’ decay,
Shall the arisen ever rise
And ever truly know?
Allow me the medication of sun--
Of stars, soul and air! For there
is enough here to fill my needle.
January 3
A bittersweet baptismal.
I love him-- hate the taste,
Daddy long legs
Swirling in my glass of memories.
I pour him down...
Why do you hate me, hurt me?
The waters are black and my heart sinks
Like the stone you said could not swim.
All Hallows
Nomadic swirls of bruised ruby
Descend in peerless isolation,
A longingless alone of motion.
Trees stare to a goblin nod,
The lowered glow beans furiously
As we dance for joy, joylessly.
Next time will be the last--
This time will be the last!
And last fall, we fell for sure,
A divinity of undying recall--
Deadly devout as all hollows fall.
Imperfect Testament
Idle, in eyes of black--
A child of astonishing days
Deluging elegance and tears.
Emerald angels bleed
In my consuming soul,
Rushing my remorse
To drenching revolt!
Purified in eternity,
I stammer fatally
For the infinite life,
Alighting the dry alive
Of astonishing days.
The unrepentant went
Of worry, languishes
In holy terrors,
Blacking the radiant revive
In my assuming spirit
Of crushing repose.
Retire into the blue,
For I shall ever soar
Forever alone,
Alone in the cruel glare,
The wind riven array
That betrays my heart
Humbly holding gold.
Eternally, I shall leave this
Before it kills me.
Shells
Bodiless, dense
In crystal-- sheen
Drifting.
Airs of green
Cortical skies
In undone decorum
Thumbing bold
Corollas low
Silt-spilt ruins.
My paper cuts
Preserve and mirror
Small sketches
Embalmed,
Dolorous morning
Tangibles
Disintegrate
As they rule
Stellar remains--
As the dead
Of Jericho lie
Date raped.
she walked into my heart like a tall cool sunflower
throwing golden light into my eye
A Temporal Exhalation
The unextinguished wave of a tameless strength
Trembles in unseen revelations that fall
Among our kindling eyes.
Voiceless shadows of this undying flame behold
The unknown envisioned, clasping ecstasy
From an illumined pursuance.
The living truths that your laughing spirit tell
Render death out of a blue veiled paradise
In the awakening wings of a dream--
To weep as we would flow in the velvety dawn
Like a thin eclipse of the living consumed.
Diffused by a sightless joy,
Like some itinerant beating of angels’ breath,
Desolation flees into the immortal hollows
Of eternity’s abode.
Birthday
I am alone.
The moon culls no glory--
Half-cracked.
Black baby airs chill
Blue suicides
Icing altitudes exhausted.
Wrap me in the salt torrent,
A kleptomania of tides
And crippled reflections.
The womb spews it out.
Does this make you feel
Removed
Contemplating each shred,
Pinned to a prayer
Terrified?
Effacing the elements,
Stars steep in stillness
Fatherless,
Married to shadow--
They bury me.
Merciless radiance.
Impetuous echoes, irretrievable
In lost sleep
Dreams
Endow elate celebration.
Vase of wake, the end
In dead iridian
Very sensed--
Embalmed, never less
Eternal.
Silver
Silver floats suspending
In scapes of opalescent shadow--
Pearls dandle the sea.
Kiss my eyes of azure
In the blessing embrace
of the dream’s tendencies,
Immortalizing heaven’s veil...
A rose in my heart
Unterrified--
The cherished suns sleep
In the liquid ministries
I see.
The will eclipses profusely,
The dying rounds renew
With tears
Waking in sight consumed
As ascending successions
Compeer.
Glittering, slain of till--
The onbound prow
Cast her down
Plunging the sacred jewel
To feldspar raining,
Everlit.
Afterbirth
Tears terrify the skies.
Holy communions
Of irretrievable blessing
Emptied of cold beauty--
Such a bleeding of pink,
Egos touching soul
Surely drenched to isolate
Enticing destinies
Wounded like the tide’s
Stitching incoherences.
Dawn swaths the infinite
In a visitation of pearl
That crawls in fluid necessity,
The heavens holding still
Dissolved of the sorrowed
God lollies....
In Silence
I return to the sea.
Babies ring drinking
The rosen altitudes,
My leash tightens.
Inexorable and pure
As jeweled air-
Moons knuckle stiff
For the annunciation--
An opus of holiness.
As I respire and repair
These emptying veils,
It is my heart--
Those pink colonnades
Evaporating-- wings
Of glass opening.
Absolution
I no longer hold my soul--
no affinity for this play,
long since dead. My voice
hangs in cold sceneries,
efflorescent eyes empty
and my heart retards
when I need it most.
And once I seemed pure,
epiphanies to melt gods!
But now all is lost,
my words so useless.
I feel real healed.
Tenderous Leaves
My slow guilts
Angels slip
In empty light
Embracing
Sultry graves
Invert cataract
Gardens and scarlet
Snowflake.
Blue scythes.
Her marbly iris
In petal passion
Jade silk.
Looking out? Inwardly,
Coma kiddie- tio pepe.
Empty
Today in lime--
Light parody
A rhythm for
Lost loves,
Leanly in grace
Slits
May rain
Lush coffin silks
Shone lonely webs,
Mangled.
Robbing opera
In rose faded
Still, losing
Yesterdays’ fabled
Catacombs.
Eclipsed ocean
Elegies and blues
Traverse, whispering
Princess, fissures
Mollify the sullen
Hysterical elements.
It shuts my eyes.
LORD DERMOND