poem poetry – Page 17 – poems 2 die for

POST YOUTUBE

post YouTube
we live in a differenf Universe
where aliens
fly through our atmosphere
like sardines
in the sea

and there is great conspiracy
to create
the ultimate conspiracy
in theory we know
just how diabolical this can be

so just
sit back, relax
watch on two screens so
you can becoms your
own twin-slit experiment
you may not
know her beyond
her avatar but
you do seem
hopelessly entangled

and if those sweet words
professing love eternal
spiritual
sustenance and
emotional protection

sound
too good to.be true
don’t worry
my child, soon
they will tweak your bestie
rework their
AI
and soon you
will be
squabbling so
intimately human

post YouTube you can
TED talk it through

ACTUALLY

actually
I have fought for love

actually I am still
fighting on love’s Russian front

taking huge losses
grievous wounds

the snow, ice and frost
freezing my body
until my limbs
snap off

lost all
space to maneuver
room to move

CHIME

beware
when things go
against the grain;
Emily chime

when nothing
could seem so innocuous
with
good reason

when death is civil, mannered,
unrushed, polite and smiles

when zero fellows creep
and crawl

and voice
too suddenly bone —
gone the good old swagger
thrush of life

and poem
absorbed in stone
— dumb tone!

SAILOR

I sailed out to the end of the ocean
but found only
meaninglessness
when I had been
expecting land

and in this space
where nothing is of consequence
everything forced or
obligatory
I found myself
in one sense floating at random
through a cold, deep darkness
in another sense
absolutely rooted
to the spot

but that spot moving because
here there is no stationary
and yet no
clear causality or
direction
to follow

and I wondered about love
and every love message

were they spoken too softly
or did I, to my shame and
destruction
of life somehow
someway

contrive to channel
them away
blot them out

I sailed all the oceans and
appear
to have learnt nothing