deviant art





Login
Join deviantART for FREE Take the Tour Lost Password?
Deviant Login
Buy Art Buy deviantWEAR Buy adCast Buy Premium Upgrade
Shop
 Join deviantART for FREE Take the Tour
Shop Similar Prints
This Print Not Available
[x]

More from ~jonzoiplu

1945
there was a time   he bragged
immortality       to be inherent
to his people         that hubris

was insignificant        (for god
was dead)       that this world
did not belong      to a people
they hated

our purpose was    to swallow
dis-ease           let them cast
lots for our wives           heat
his chimney with             our
bodies in the winter          to
make him think      they were
somehow better

i could go    on about horrors
we endured               the life
and how      our skin became
loose          around the heart

instead     i will let the weeds
curling at my toes      slowly
scratch away     at h
he eats fernando i.

the devil visits
and i am lured
to feed my soul
with heteronyms.

ii.

i am tempted to call myself
poet, trying to explain
the world without
knowing myself.

for it is a wide-mouthed pot
and we are blind at its temple
lips, believing
we can see through this fog
from off our father’s flesh.

iii.

as kingdoms are procured,
we renounce our hopes
of power, proclaiming

the beauty

x.

of imperfection.  falling
off the bony ridge,
we are shattered

by the shoulder
blades below.
skiapheros .

I shall give up the world
    for an idea, swallow
the blackened sky and spit
   out the sparrow planes
into the cloudless sea

I will build upon old Babel
    with rust-bent ribs, climb
    the obdurate steps to heaven

and turn my face away

.
ring.maker .

Like children, they are tarnished
by the air of the world.  Each day,

she scours its love like foul words
from their mouths to a sheen.

But alas!

All her brass is bent and her silver
poured.  I can only wear her children

upon my winded fingers, wishing
they were our own.

.
dove, i am i.

The ravens mutter over the squalid state
of the world, wallowing in forty nights' of an earth-
curdled rain.  The swallows huddle by heaven-
battered walls.  They speak

of puddles of land, bared
with the growth of clouds – hanged
bodies collecting the wrath of God
in pale willowing wineskins.

ii.

I am thrown again to the moaning
jaws of impartial winds --
harsh and unforgiving.  The ocean
is a desert of mankind's shallow

love, scattered with corpses, run amuck
with his warring hands, fallow amidst the filth
of time.  I sore – the sun receding
like pearl-born tides – and I soar.

iii.

The moon traces

Featured in Groups:

Not currently featured in any groups.

Details

October 8, 2008
70.0 KB
800×807
Link
Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 58
Favourites: 123 [who?]
Views: 2,830 (1 today)
[x]
:icon:
Add a Comment:
 
Preview   Add Comment
:iconkoisuki:
~Koisuki Dec 14, 2008
I just love this and it is so true. I just feel sad sometimes that writers don't get the credit they deserve.
Reply
:iconjonzoiplu:
~jonzoiplu Dec 15, 2008
i think there's a saying in hollywood that they need to make sure writers don't know how important they are.

but i'm not in hollywood, so [shrug]

--
let's go play on a baggage carousel
Reply
:iconexistentialfake:
~existentialfake Dec 4, 2008
So true.
Reply
:iconwhatsupmgf:
~WhatsUpMGF Nov 19, 2008
D: I know exactly how this little guy feels! And it sucks! ;_; I fell in love with Ben from Driving Lessons, played by Rupert Grint.

--
:pride:Bisexual: I'm not indecisive. I'm just greedy.:pride:
Reply
:iconcaptain-vodka:
=captain-vodka Nov 17, 2008
I feel the same way most times.,,only I usually end up throwing popcorn at my tv instead of eating it. :P

--
In the name of science take off your pants.
Reply
:iconjonzoiplu:
~jonzoiplu Nov 18, 2008
popcorn is easier to identify than say, tolstoy-flavored vegan snacks.


my sympathies to your tv.

--
let's go play on a baggage carousel
Reply
:iconcaptain-vodka:
=captain-vodka Nov 19, 2008
You are completely right but vegan snacks sound better.

--
In the name of science take off your pants.
Reply
:iconmadfairy7:
=Madfairy7 Nov 17, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
Featured in my newest journal.

--

:pokeball:
^steph1254 is better than all of you ♥
^LOVERHOLIC ♥ ROBOTRONIC
Reply
:iconjonzoiplu:
~jonzoiplu Nov 17, 2008
thanks!


c:

--
let's go play on a baggage carousel
Reply
:iconmadfairy7:
=Madfairy7 Nov 17, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
My pleasure!

--

:pokeball:
^steph1254 is better than all of you ♥
^LOVERHOLIC ♥ ROBOTRONIC
Reply
:icon:
Add a Comment:
 
Preview   Add Comment
©2012 deviantART. All rights reserved
About Us | Contact Us | Developers | Careers | Site Tour | Help & FAQ Advertise | Premium Membership Etiquette | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Copyright Policy