Mixing Uppers with Uppers

Mixing Uppers with Uppers
* Midday Lunch *
“It is easy to climb up;
climbing down again, however,
is the hard part, the pain “ –
is what we teach our children
on climbing trees
and how to perceive
and spot the moment
which throbs and feels like ascension
is taking place within them:
to Lights! But to lamps, or rays of suns
or forest fires,
or candles?
Like a million good questions in one second!
about moments in which
one with absolutest of certainty
will have forgotten
that he remembered
breathing;
the raw pulse of moments
in which do we begin
to lift the glass; to take the shot.
It’s aftermath and legacy
ironic, starlit ceilings
and desolate praries.
Is it not how we would describe
our children – to the fairies?
moments like – solar years
orbiting into
repeating repentance:
I missplace myself in the tranzit.
*
In my last night’s fabrication
on a field
I saw him –
a man stabbed in the back
with nines : daggers, swords and sabers –
he was kneeling;
in the epicenter
of his pain
thinking only
of all the good possibilities
etched into his, now forever,
un-moving eyes
gazing the distances
as the moments
golden and ashen
boom
in their vacant valleys,
like switches being on – and – off
and we met in the middle :
The World and I;
and agreed
how
I am not for the world,
but the world is not for me
either.
This is where you and me
wake up
then immediately inhale and do
all over again,
spin it like hula-hop;
like Cardio.
Midday – lunch.
We are the peasants in the painting
just with a Missed call
from god.
~ by Oloriel on October 9, 2020.
Posted in Lights and Shades
Tags: anguish, creativity, doubts, dreams, inspiration, metaphores, poetry, writing
Ah! How I love these meanderings and circumlocutions that make for such a delicious read. The magic in it is almost tactile, the ascension felt in the very fingertips and waking in the best possible manner. I love this bit:
“as the moments/golden and ashen/boom//in their vacant valleys,/like switches being on – and – off/and we met in the middle”.
Thank you very much for stopping HA< always love to hear from you.Hope you are well and safe ❤
Great post and painting!
Thank you very much, I am glad to hear you enjoyed reading the poem!
Welcome!