Float On

Eying the world from on high....

  

The twilight seemingly everlasting, shimmers with lightning bug flashes

On the bed where my fleshly shell rests, mortally ticking with engaging thought

Lying motionless excepting only the visual cues that uplift my spirit

I see the world in curse and revelation

Slowly I leak ethereal

Rising, lucidly, with purpose, commuting in experience

Riding on currents, freshly bending time and warping intellectual process

Eating quantum bits, and breathing Christ like tendrils

In war, I saw the soldiers grip

An infant broken with innocence leaking blood and light

He saw me and cried for help, fingers sketching injustice

My gaze a Valium, placebo to allow the soul to live, cheating insanity

In love, I drift and eye a pool of sizable lust

The male hooks my gaze, his hands on milky breasts, his guilty smile

Her pool accepting a temporary thrumming, hearts bombastically syncopated

My smile a sail of hope for enduring communion, blissful companionship

In death, the creation of space and energy, a needed vacuum of mortality

She longingly sobs to my feet, not daring the torturous glance of truth

Pulling the maggots from eyes long since milked over

I settle anxieties meant only for tears welling in active bosoms

I float to prize a tumultuous past

I float to preserve hopeful, mesmerizing dreams

I float to eat the ripe paste that nourishes a doubtful tomorrow

I float because….I need you

Author's Note

You tell me....

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

It is far better to float than sink. You are finished then. I was enthralled by the varied experiences of a life and what it can churn out. Some awful experiences, you would rather forget and how you have to cope with those. You float to live in the now as well as dealing with the past. Well done Crowley. Great reading.

Chris

[Troy Henson]

Very nice wordplay throughout, thought provoking and fantastic imagery. Thank you

[Crowley]

Thanks Troy!!! I appreciate the review and kind words.

[a]

One of the best poems I've read here. Great verses composed of words and thought.

[Crowley]

Thanks so much!!! I appreciate the read and the kind words.

[barleygirl]

This seems different for you. Usually your message is leaping off the page, whereas your wordplay is more subtle in the background. At first, your message had me by the tail & V2 blew my socks off in that regard, but shortly thereafter I started becoming mesmerized by the sound of the words (many being complex words with interesting sounds) strung together so that I was feeling this on a more visceral level, based on the way it felt to read it, more than on what my brain was reading into it (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Crowley]

I am glad you could enjoy it in a different way. It’s an old one, and I kind of felt that way when I wrote it. Was trying to find my way into the poetry thing. Thanks a million Meargie, love you long time!!!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

I float because I am not ready to sink....or quit reading these awesome, mesmerizing,infectious poems!

[Crowley]

You float because you are as awesome as they come!!!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

giggles***

[NonsenseTyper]

Beautiful choice of words, it is truly amazing to read into these raw emotions, there is truth at the heart of these words, a bitter taste to them. Powerful poetry. "a needed vacuum of mortality", "Eating quantum bits, and breathing Christ like tendrils"... Astonishing imagery and frightful imagination!

[Crowley]

Lol...thanks man! This was one from way back. I appreciate the read and review!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Very heavy rumbling thoughts Cee...Its Almost as if they've fallen from the history books...I can see you ...in the square...toga voiced....booming and pronouncing life. your followers whispering adoration....good stuff here Cee. So much to drink in.

[Crowley]

Wow, this one has you returning....this was like the third poem I ever wrote. I like it because it portrays the desire to help and understand, without the ability to do so in a hands on manner. People with a spirit of compassion need other people I think.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Poetry often requires return when it's full. I like the full kind:)

[sette]

very imaginative.. so profound.. so deep...

[Crowley]

Thanks Sette!!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

It's really these first two stanzas that do it for me Cee! Those phrasings...Im just rolling and rolling in them! Those quantum bits are ravenous and Ill chew this some more in the morning with coffee :)

[H.W.]

I must agree with the previous reviewer in that this is not a poem willing to give up its secrets at a glance. I like it and I hope to be back and say more about why after some consideration.

[Crowley]

I hope you do!!! Thanks for the stop and the read, I appreciate it!

[H.W.]

It's so packed with imagery that it feels a bit like I have vicariously lived an emotional lifetime. It's beautiful, and lends itself to repeat readings (as my favorite poems generally do).