Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Litany of Winds

Uncanny dreams
Filled the wind blown afternoon
In the light passes of pastels
To disassociated memories
Linked in the superstitious synergy
Of small world occurrences
An externalized repression
Of a reflection on sociopathic dissension
Thy positivity a manipulative romance
Coupled with thy external victimization
Casting the negative energies
That compressed thy psyche
Into concrete spaces
Defined by the straight lines of reason
Off to the voluptuous wind blown sea
Mother Nature's evening disguise
Con Lady Luck
Enveloping the other shore
The afterlife post traumatic experience
A rebirth where kind appearances
Replicated the authenticity
Of thy silences
Like a poetry in motion
Dancing close to thee
A deep blue wild flower of the ocean
The substance of myths
What prophecies have imagined
In the shallow reflections of Narcissus
What truth bespoke
From the imagined meniscus
Of flat surfaces
Contained in the deep sleep
Of reconstructive depression
To slow the wind blown numbers
Scattering thy mind
And find their order
In some astronomical alignment
Resounding through the billowing clouds
Of your deep felt dreams
Roaming pastel colored walls
To the last bellow of the organs
Thy self directed analyses
Left thy soul imperfectly becoming
Through self referential first impressions
Come close to swoon
In the wind strewn delusions
Of intersubjective atmospheres
Staring back at you vie dreamy eyes
Some litany of winds


Jason Greendyk
www.jasongreendyk.com

Monday, May 6, 2013

Earth's Vain Shadows Grew Long


A generation had passed in senseless chatter
Souls stood one with bodies
Arisen from the ground
Beneath the trees
Where the birds are always singing
And now a mockingbird stood out on a limb
The irony as I stood to the left
In the legacy of the heretical redress
And in my thoughts 
Was the essence of my passage
Ghostly and grave in grace
As shadows filled thine eyes
With the offerings of the blessed
The short words that would color
The spaces of your ego
The long pauses of music
A silence that filled your soul
As you stood long and close
In the distant relation
Of your vagrant wanderings
The essence of your adventurous spirit 
Lived on
As Earth’s vain shadows fled
From the words that would captivate them

A romance language
From a late swim on the midnight river
Seeped through the gaps
In the enclosure of the light
Yes the light at the end of the tunnel
Fled through the crevices within your psyche
Like a vine enveloping your thoughts
The great imaginary number in the clouds
That pulled you through the veil of life
To the other side of things
Where the straight lines of reason
Bled together quite compassionately
And your yearning for peace and quiet
Became a hollow echo in the tunnel
As you gasped for breath
Through putrid fumes
Of resonant exhaustion
Your thoughts muted
In the daily consumption
Of chemical essences
That lent your grunge
A contemporary shine
Echoing in circular appearances

In your last gasps
Did you stare straight through the wall?
Did your penetrating gaze
Discern the light
That enveloped the enclosure 
Of your thoughts?
That kept you warm in your dreamy weariness
Your nostalgic passes and latent wishes
Could have been


Jason Greendyk, www.jasongreendyk.com