The Beautiful Thirst

My heart - delicate,
And malleable
Undulates
Within two poles,
Seamlessly juxtaposed -
Beauty and affliction;
Capricious container -
Truth and fiction;
The sheer surfeit
Of choice
Reverberates with
Imperious diversion,
Settled invitation-
Loud and shiny things.

Hard to breathe,
I'm in exile
Slave to my emotions,
Obsequious and servile
Barren, cold and mute
Existence - the brute;
Tilted reminiscence,
Scars of loss
Contrive frames
Around moments -
Footprints,
Interminable -
Being and time.

Infinite diety,
Triune polyphony
Artist of sublimity
Smearing shades
Of lonliness,
Vestiges of faith,
To retrieve
Hues of meaning;
Oddly convivial
Prophets
Of reprieve.

Orpheus lost Eurydice
Palpable discordancy
Suffused in time,
Could not resolve
Without verse
Decidedly sonorous,
Canvas, showered pain;
Splashed
Jackson Pollack stain
Love - onerous,
Deep beneath
The veneer,
It's mercy severe.

Fiction from the first,
Eden's fatal gift,
Lucidity cursed,
Altered cosmos murmuring;
Parlance of
Disordered elegance;
Effusive language,
Phrasing art nouveau
Tacit script,
Ensconced within
the fabric;
Create a thirst -
Torment, visceral
And immediate.

Ardor and innocence
Once quenched,
Render
Pathos in proportion
To the pleasure,
Conveyance of beatitude,
The past absorbed
Into the treasure,
Inscrutable heart -
Devotion and turpitude;
Desire, loathing and paucity,
Affinity in abundance,
Fear and doubt
Inhabit certitude.

©2009 & 2011 W.S. Warner

The Scandal of Particularity

Verdant eyes, translucent pearls
speak in silent witness,
wounds unfurl
meaning revealed,
interrupted girl.
Safe in solidarity
prolific in eccentricity,
the scandal of particularity.
Pouting mouth
grief - filled lips
alluring, set sail a thousand ships;
tempt me to leave harbor.

Arousing euphoria as such,
resistance, amity and distance
amour sans touch
her sense of humor transcends,
appeasing my mind’s thirst
a vogue sultana,
seasoned swagger
hair resplendent flame,
alternating cool, black
asymmetrical coiffeur;
nonconforming demure
the renegade metaphor -
singular for sure, no cure.

Muted vanity, bathos piercing
the jaded circumference of banality;
pale protagonist in servitude
the sapient palaver of the urbane,
covered patina of pretense,
induced coercion,
the commodity self
appearing abased
wearing lesions of lassitude.
Artistic chattel - eminent domain
preempting genius,
subsidiary of consuming narcissism
external locus of control;
surrender to the tentative,
fettered pendant, Venus in chains
arrested visionary bane
sterile savant, edifice of pain.

The soubrette, dubious incarnation
gravid ingénue of prevarication
imperceptible venue -
theatre of the absurd;
withdrawn siren,
solitude of necessity -
skin - slender veil of shame,
nearness loitering redemption;
moments envisage
the appointment with the soul;
ambiguity eschews clarity
awareness; ineluctable anxiety,
imago - centric confession
sacred pardon, seraphic venation
intravenous textures presume,
the tactile margins of liberty.

Therapeutic retrieval,
Sanguine,
beneath the portico of
individuation;
Your smile I hear,
recovered autonomy
blessed emancipation,
The scandal of particularity;
peculiar treasure
ironically captured
film, canvas,
prose profundity.

Ciphering as an ambling book,
I peruse you,
rendered captive
hypnotic avant-garde fiction,
spectator of denuded opacity
analogous reflection, I Mirror you.
A modest proposal - pontificate the imperative,
forgo the disposal, adapt your narrative,
the scandal of particularity -
resonate the echo, cogitate our propinquity
Love, imagination and destiny.

©2008 & 2011 W.S Warner

The Humiliation of the Word

The pierced ego sees
through an opaque lens;
a vestige of hope,
humor and
intellectual solidarity.
Effigies of forgotten ethos,
the culmination of a
fated dream;
unrequited ardor, abandons
identity to an irreducible
fervor,
subtext of tension,
enduring sexual privation;
etude of a paramour
ending torture,
tasting mystical polarity.

The wounded heart
once intruded,
bleeds effusive;
the ornament of humility.
Flattened collateral
damage,
primal search,
proves illusive;
portals of hurt, slivers
of pride,
assembled fragments of
thereness
absorb the loss
of my English muse.

Poetry and devotion
punctuated murmurs
of piety,
depth perception
virtue unfound;
expectation - access
to suffering,
disinterested love
present,
desultory carnage
of rescission,
absurdity personified;
euphemism
of adieu,
the sound of no sound.

The discarded image
finds no favor,
the salt lost it's savor
unquenched thirst;
desire of
diminished purview,
the saporus stream
deferred;
vision eclipsed;
saturated self
hidden in the text.

Poverty asks the
question,
absence summons
ethereal substance
merged into
the immanent frame;
integrating,
in solitude signifying,
mediating - logos
contested,
the humiliation of
the word.

Lyrical enigma,
where did I go?
provisional
personality
scorned,
renouncing nostrums
of the prosaic,
surrenders to the
the realm interior
sovereignty
assumed in
provenience,
native
horizon of the next.

©2008 & 2011 W.S. Warner