Animal VS Beast
Golden rays gushed forth from the halcyon sky, frolicking among blushing fluffs of white, their faces painted in all hues of red and orange as they masqueraded joyously in the eventide carnival. Raptured by the sky‘s colourful parade, the day’s light forsook the canopy below and all the forest-green, emerald, lime-green, olive and verdant leaves that still held tightly to the trees, as darkness stole in. Shadows danced in the disco light rays peeking through cracked gaps in the foliage and branches, joining the forested sundown party.
Looming trees swayed their branches, entranced by the wind’s rhythm twirl
The Sea
A sea of smiling faces ushered in raging applause
As over flowing blue gowns parted
to reveal white dresses and suits
Flowing elegantly with each confident step.
Eclipsed with honours, and academic achievements
Their eyes dazzled like the flash of endless cameras,
poised to capture this prestigious moment.
A testimony to their tertiary success.
They should be proud… satisfied.
But where can contentment be found within the depths of this watery grave.
Whose waves crash against stony hearts carved by self-condemnation?
An unquenchable urge to succeed, charting greatness
Only to be shipwrecked failing to see reach the light
Thro
The War Within
If only there was rest for the slaughtered soul
condemned to these bloodied chambers
whose walls pound like rockets on a besieged city
crumbling to its knees.
This war
escalating
inner violence
tearing asunder
spirit and flesh.
Each implosion
muffling voices
bombarding
thoughts
numbing
the senses
flailing
falling
deeper
into
unending
despair.
Desolate
self-contained
abandoned in this cage of flesh and bone
the tormented mind
gropes desperately in the dark
trying to piece together
what was and will never again be.
Shattered memories
piercing the subconscious
crucifying the flesh
as the spirit bleeds out…
If only.
If
The Garden
Have you seen it?
Have you seen… The Garden…?
Trimmed to perfection without a weed to be found,
Is the grass that’s greener than the best kept lawn.
Arising from the dew kissed earth,
And ocean of treasure doth nature birth
Golden yellows. Sapphire blues.
As red as ruby and garnet to.
Emerald green and every other shade and hue
Come witness these flowers in full bloom.
Beautiful.
Isn’t it…?
I know,
I know it all too well.
It’s hard to forget
From where one once
Fell.
Like a dead leaf sent hurdling to the ground
I was cast out by the Mighty Wind
I was cast from the presence of the Tree.
Left to
Poetry's Web (revised version) by DEANJENO--art, literature
Literature
Poetry's Web (revised version)
Poetry’s Web
Like the Ancient Anansi mediating between two worlds
Casting a web on the ears of all that dare to listen
So do I
Spinning my tale.
Luring and trapping my reader in a web of words
Drawn from the depths of my soul.
Like any true spider
I conceal the truth.
Hiding behind facades
and a flurry of symbols and metaphors
My true self lies obscured.
My unsuspecting prey draws nearer
still.
Like Derek Walcott
I seek to craft new metaphors.
New ways of expressing the recesses of my soul.
These words are the masks
Carved and engraved with untamed emotion
Dancing to the beating drum of my heart
As single thread of thought is cast i
Poetry’s Web
Like Anansi spinning his web,
So do I spin my tale
Luring and trapping my reader
In a web of words
Drawn from the depths of my soul.
But like any good spider
I conceal the truth
Hiding behind facades
Behind a flurry of symbols and metaphors
My true self obscured.
Like Derek Walcott
I seek to craft new metaphors.
New ways of expressing the recesses of my soul.
These words are my masks
Dancing to the beat of my heart
Carved with untamed emotion.
I write
I write to find salvation
To exorcise the pain of this soul
To find deliverance from myself
As I am crucified on this page, this tree
My pen, the nails that bore it.
Doth
Frozen Masks
An avalanche o thoughts
shatter the frigid silence
of unspoken words
whose burden threatens
to crack the thinning ice
separating a masked world
enrobbed in white
from the restless waters beneath
whose icy depths
and chilly touch
imprisons the warmthless body
freeing the soul...
releasing the true emotions
and one's self within...
O Ice!
Thou frozen gateway
in whose frosty mirage
one beholds oneself
in a crystallized image
glistering under these pale,
these pale lifeless skies.
I see
I see myself
I see beyond myself
through this thin frozen wall
into a moving realm filled with life
and creatures swimming in frozen bliss.
Yet
Glorified Acquaintance by DEANJENO--art, literature
Literature
Glorified Acquaintance
Glorified Acquaintance
1
Once in a blue moon
there arises a hero
who survives the realm of acquaintances,
crossing the battlefield where multitudes die
and painstakingly reaches the other side.
They scale the soaring walls
and enter the fortress known as the "friend-zone"
where very few have ever dwelt
and even fewer, if any, remain.
But sooner or later
like the few others
who miraculously reached that far,
they, to, fall prisoner
to the tests of time.
They are dragged from the courts of friendship
and thrown back unto the battlefield
where the hundreds upon hundreds
innumerable acquaintances battle to enter
the illusive friendship gates
Heart and I
O heart thou betrayest me.
Thou causeth tears tears to flow from my innermost being.
Thou causeth me to feel
to feel great pain.
Why doth thou care so much O heart?
Why doth thou care...
Seeth thou not the pain it causeth thee?
Seeth thou not the pain...
Alas I must hide thee.
I must hide thee from the world
and endure the pain thou causeth me in silence
This pain that pierces my soul
Let thy sobs be silent
and thy tears hidden.
Put on thy facade
and let us hide this pain.
For we are alone O heart
You and I.
Who can understand our pain?
Who would spare a thought for us?
And why should they?
This is our pain.
Our hurt
let us