Make an Effort like a Lotus in Fire – beat56

December 2, 2021

aeons and ages of the poets

 

 

the jewelled

reverse 

waterfall of

poetry 

rain

rubies

on our tired

sapphiredead

sapphiredread

souled visions

cosmic delight 

mock the

                desolation 

the heart is for love

head for drugs

somewhere in between 

poetry 

 

shipwreck with bliss 

           -for Jim Morrison 

 

shipwreck with bliss 

the crystal ship

pain rain rain pain 

a thousand pills a thousand pills

a million ways

to kill the time 

the reason delivered 

why you’d rather die rather fly

rather fly fly fly rather fly

 

 

Chai tea and cigarettes 

 

books sit quietly 

on their shelf

old grunge records

in their soul sleeves

I sit lonesome 

like Coleridge 

or old Kerouac 

a divine fragility 

to read such beauty words

the drug was childhood 

the comedown was memory