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sky fire

28 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Illustration and art, Poetry, sonnet

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fire fly, Morning Star by starlight, my daughter, shooting star, sonnet

my childs fall from grace

Three dead fireflies. My three children gone.
Burned out. I am alone. The midnight skies
have cleared. I carry my dead daughter’s bone
in a bag close to my heart. My black eyes
do not have time for grief, but my heart does.
My heart is wild, in pain, a child. My heart
cries for blood, follows the laws of outlaws.
But we are a restrained people, our art
hints at our pain which we call beautiful.
I do not want you. I want my children –
no – no – no – back. Sky fire. I am without
hope, love, salvation. I curse my people.
I curse the heavens, they turned my vision
into shooting stars: I’m burning, burned out.

mount ararat

14 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Poetry, sonnet, Translation

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Ararat, Armenian, Basho, poem, sonnet, translation

ararat

Արարատ Լեռ

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«ընկերներ բաժանվում են ընդմիշտ — անզուսպ սագը մոլորված ամպերի մէջ» — Բաշօ

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Բոլոր սովորածս բառերը կարող էին տեղ տալ մի

ափի մէջ ու նրանց բոլորի իմաստն էր տուն վերադառնալ: Առավոտ

ու ես հագվում էի այս խորը արեվի երկրում

եւ խորը սարերի: Հագվում կէս չհարբած, քայլում

դէպե Փոլիթեքնիք սովորելու նոր բառեր:

Միշտ բառեր: Միշտ այդ ընդարձակ կապոյտ սարը

դիտում. կանչում իր զավակները: Այնքան աբզուրդ

որքան կէտաձկի կանչը: Բայց ավելի մեծ քան

այդ, այնքան մի մեծ ձայն որ արտասանվում էր համր

լռութեան մեջ, ոսկոռի եւ ճանկի լեզվով, այբուբենի

գաղտնի տնքալով: Կարծես ասելով «եկեք տուն, զավակներս, եկեք»

Ոչ: Ես ոչ մէկի զավակը չեմ եւ ոչ մէկը

գնում է տուն: Ոչ: Ոչ այս զավակը: Ոչ իրականում:’

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Mt. Ararat

“friends part forever — wild geese lost in cloud” — Basho

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All the words I learned could be held in one

hand and they all meant going home. Morning

and I would dress in this land of deep sun

and deep mountains. Dress half sober, walking

to the Polytechnic to learn new words.

Always words. Always that long blue mountain

watching, calling her children. As absurd

as a whale’s call. But so much bigger than

that, a call so big that it spoke in dumb

silence, tongue of bone and claw, alphabet’s

secret groan. As if to say, “come to me,

child.” As if to say,“come home, my child, come.”

No. I’m no one’s child and no one gets

to go home. No. Not this child. Not really.

the road to enlightenment has many paths

08 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Erotic, Poetry, sonnet

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enlightenment, masturbation, orgasm, prayer, sonnet

 

“… loveroot, silk thread, crotch and vine.”
— Walt Whitman

I’m not interested in who suffered more,
just those who mastered pain’s blood alphabet.
Trust joy. If what you long for is a door
that will lead you to love do not forget
that the door is here. What other purpose
could the orgasm have but to let me
talk to gods? At the moment of climax
when I leave behind ego and body
I call that act enlightenment – no hate,
attachment or pain – only bliss. Only
pilgrims working hard at their nightly prayers,
at blood’s loveroot. Don’t trust those who dictate
the path to wisdom. They are not holy
like you and all of your sticky fingers.

 

 

 

 

my mistress’s witcheries

07 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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frog, goats, honey bee, knitting, my mistress's witcheries, poem, Poetry, sonnet, tink, witchcraft, yarf

“It is knitting time,” a friend, a witchling,

informed me. She knew secrets to distill

dyes, how to tink, frog and yarf. Loom knitting

was her passion. “I was taught how to kill.

I was trained in the witcheries of war.

But,” she added, “Blood does not interest me.”

She lived in a lone mountain pasture, far

from the engines of men and their ugly

tools. That spring she taught me how to prepare

wool for spinning; how to charm honey bees

from their hives; how to talk to willow, yew

and oak. “I was trained only for warfare,

but witchcraft is far better. This craft frees

me for my loves: knitting, goats and now you.”

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NOTE:

For a while I wanted to write a knitting poem, but since I don’t actually know how to knit I wrote this instead. The terms I use in the poem:

FROG: To rip back (when you say, “rip it, rip it”) by removing the needles from the project and pulling on the loose end of the yarn.

TINK: To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion, effectively un-knitting the stitch.

YARF: Slang for “yarn-barf.” A big lump of yarn that accidentally gets pulled out of a new center-pull ball, usually when you’re trying to find the end.

the sea queen’s daughter

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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diving girls, mythology, Okinawa, Our Lady of War and Submarines, Rin, Sea Queen, sonnet, Uminchu

There is a legend told by the diving
girls of Okinawan, the Uminchu,
that the Queen of the Sea, while out floating
one day on the surface, gave birth to two
daughters. A goddess births only pearls,
of course, big as the moon. These two daughters
slept on the sea floor. Side by side, two girls
in their pearly forms slept. Then pearl divers
found Rin curled all round. Where her twin sister
was hid none could say. So they took her home,
combed her hair and called her Rin, the Sea Queen’s
daughter. And being the Sea Queen’s daughter
Rin was the essence of love and sea foam …
… and Our Lady of War and Submarines.

without

30 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Feminism, Poetry, sonnet

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crone, fey, maiden, mother, sonnet, without, woman warrior

It was in a valley of sunflower

blooms when the maid, the mother and the crone

came to our door. They called you out. “Daughter”

is a word hard enough to shatter stone

so now all I have left are broken rocks.

I am fine with the rites and all we do,

but not this. First they cut off your dreadlocks,

tattooed your skull, gave you a sword, taught you

how to kill. My daughter now makes chaos

kneel and beg but was taken one spring day,

leaving nothing for my arms to hold tight

but air. I wait for you, love, so that my loss

might be found. You’ll always be my blessed, fey

child; not some blood-soaked woman, dying knight.

crime is bliss

28 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Humor, Illustration and art, Poetry, sonnet

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Bonnie and Clyde, Buddha, Buddha save me from your followers, crime is bliss, greed is god, Humor, Jekyll and Hyde, mantra, sonnet, swag, You cannot commit the crime until you have become the crime itself

"You cannot commit the crime until you have become the crime itself" -- The Buddha

“You cannot commit the crime until you have become the crime itself” — The Buddha

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Crime is bliss. What do you need? Whatever

it is it is gone. The night kissed me, said,

“go and look for it.” But why would horror

want to be reclaimed? You were not misled

when they said life sucks. It does. Like people

who call themselves Buddhists — already they’re

doing it all wrong. I lost my Jekyll

(or was it my Hyde?) my thrill, my nightmare,

all that I could carry in a spare bag

and say, “hands up!” I don’t hate the Buddha,

just his followers. Take what you need. Greed

is god. Don’t feel too bad. If you need swag

you need swag. “Crime is bliss,” is my mantra,

because, apparently, that’s what I need.

* * *

You cannot commit the crime until you have become the crime itself2

err or err

28 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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blank as a headlamp, err or err, opposable thumb, sonnet

I don’t want to be born. I want to be
made-up from a world of cryptic but bad
grammar. Make me bionic and hungry
for spare parts. Ink pens for lips, a keypad
smile. Where I walk loose change shall fall. I err,
for I struggle with my opposable
thumbs every day. It is in my nature
not to have any Nature in me. “Null”
is a good word. So is “methyl,” “sour”
and “carbon-based life-form.” Shall I compare
myself to a sodden day? I am damp
as a void. I mean, it takes an odd hour
to fill the wet gap in me. Err or err,
either way I’m as blank as a headlamp.

two shallow graves

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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sonnet, stumblebum, stupid heart, two shallow graves

I went into the backyard and dug two

shallow graves; one for you and one for me.

I sure as hell don’t want to be with you

in a dirt hole for all eternity

if I fuck this up. When I hate something

it gives me focus. I’m a stumblebum.

Focus isn’t my strength. O heart, bleeding

won’t end a thing, but it’s a start. Seldom

do we get new starts. Heart, foolish heart,

you have been cut and pierced, starved and eaten.

You are a sad, little thing when you bleed.

I don’t care about revenge, the sweetheart

who broke me, anyone. Heart, you’re the one

I want dead; the last thing, right now, I need.

caliban among the ruins

25 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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shaman for the dead, sonnet

The sign said, “I couldn’t hurt you like you

hurt me.” Don’t be so sure. I’m Caliban

cast out among ruins; I never knew

how to curse before you taught me. Shaman

for the dead; that job does me no damn good

now. Who knew I had this violent hunger

in me to see you bleed? I think I could,

I could bleed you, drain you dry, and never

call it a sin … I think I’d like vengeance …

except that would mean bringing you back here.

To this world full of light like the first dawn.

So … no. The dead hate you. You’re a nuisance,

nothing more. Being unloved was your fear.

You weren’t, once, but now all that love is gone.

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