Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Let creation set you free: Poetry

Silence

Cut down, pushed down, thrown down
a spastic reaction, a commandeering confection of a bully 
Crashing. 
Down.

What is silence.
To be torturted by it. Nay but nay. 
What is silence. 
The gift of tongue forcibly ripped, defiled from the frame, literally silenced. 
What is silence. 
Lover castigating your soul's breath, making it trivial as a reminder of your "place."
What is silence.
But of water squelching on the fires of passion, on the passion of devotion on the devotion of IT.
What is silence. 
A self made prison of barbed-wire and chain linked fence, where the tulips grow outside the unlocked gate.

What is silence.
Is it found in the twisted torment of a childhood bound by scars, lashings, and pleasurably guilted sex scents?
What is silence.
Is it the empty "home" with blood stains strewn across the idyllic curtains 
and 
fallen photos staring into the loathsome Nothingness upon its walls?
What is silence.
Is it the noose around the neck of the body whose burden is too much to bear? 
What is silence.

What is silence?
Is it madness? Is it peace? Is it revolution? A time of contemplation? 
What is silence?
It is tethered by invisible strings that flow from Genius, to fingers, onto the page.
It is the feeling of rage, hate, love, kindness, peace, swelling tearfulness, & desire to be alone - in a single moment?
What is silence?
Is it in the mindful spaces between the pauses and screams? 
Between the sirens, flashing lights, the tireless infant and the paranoid lover incessantly battering?

It is found in the quiet, panted inhalation of the willful submersion.
It is found upon the bitten brim, invisible beside the flesh eliminated
It is found in the shards of the forsaken heart anesthetized through decades.
It is found in her Mind, that despicable self-disdain, to allow such subjugation. 


When did the Uninvited silence, Silence me.







© 2014 Silence - DNKG

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Let Creation Set You Free: Nostalgia is Good for the Soul


Sometimes, nostalgia brings back feelings from the torpor of the underworld and other times it amplifies the seedlings nestling quietly in the window box. Clearing my craft area brought me this gem from over a decade ago when I was selected to represent my school in a statewide poetry competition. I was by no means my first published poem, nor my last. What's interesting to see are the techniques I was exploring. Rhyme was obviously one. It's also nice to see how one has grown, but also, how one has remained the same. 
Nostalgia: a gift from G-d. 

Illusion in Hawaii's Sky

Stretching across the dismal skies
Vivid colors in the darkest of eyes
A double ray, a unique delight
is within my broken and blurred sight
Kissing the waves of the open sea
Gently caressing the swaying tree
Warming the heart of the ocean blue
In majestic lands of beautiful hues
Romance is ignited by its amazing sight
Passion unfurled by its summer night
Its beauty was a born in Aurora's grace
Dispering from the heavens at a bewildering pace

Danielle O'Brien
Notre Dame High School
Riverside
© 2002 Creative Communications Press




© 2014 DNKG Nostalgia

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