Tale of the Time Poem, by Jordan Cash, at My poetic side

At an odd hour in the morning

I've yet to have a wink of beauty sleep

It's already Thursday

I'm a bird perched on the branch of a tree

In desperate need of some help

I'm dying for my art

Why?

I can't explain it

I can't sum it up in a sentence

No one knows about my bizarre behavior

Or that I'm sea foam green like a dollar

Consuming cheap soda

I've pushed my secrets into an oil drum

I scrub until the grime is gone

I do it, I do it, then I do it all over again

Every time, it's flagrant

I've mastered the technique of dying

I'm deadpan and brazen

Biting my viper tongue

There's a malfunction in the axon

My vision is starting to blur

It's nihilism

I'm hooked on the high

I can't get enough of the buzz

Friday night stuff

Another chapter has been closed

I'm in a forest of crucifixes

In combed suede, going to my grave

The pain will wax and wane

It floods me like dopamine

An endless ocean

Always here, never there

Limp evildoer, I'm juggling a circus

Feeling like a bee stuck in syrup

I bend like a cuticle

Life is a bellyful and I'm a loser

Singing for Buddha

I haven't felt felicity since I got third degree burns

Scars when I was young under the sun in summer

Basking in the heat, I soak in the pulchritude

All the vermilion jewelweed.

dusk arising February 5th, 2020 20:11
Full of mystery and enchanting, bewildering nuance only to jet off onto another tangent. Exciting reading this though i remain confused but that's in me not you.

A unique style i applaud with a hope of seeing more.
PotbellyPleb February 5th, 2020 22:43
I appreciate this poem on so many levels.
It's mysterious and the wording isn't predictable, where it goes keeps you surprised. I may still not know the meaning of this poem, but that's part of what makes it good--it requires discovery. The imagery is thought-provoking, which is refreshing. We need more poems like this on MPS. Thank you.

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Tale of the Time