Aberrant Literature Crowdfunding Campaign

Hello everyone!  I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you have been supportive readers of my poetry.  It means the world to me to see the view totals continue to rise and for them to do so on a regular basis is extra awesome!  So, yes, I indeed offer you all my sincerest gratitude.

Looking to the future of both this poetry blog and my writing career as a whole, I have high expectations.  Those expectations are waiting at the end of a long journey that continues with my first published short story, coming to you thanks to Aberrant Literature.  We are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to bring life to these goals we've all worked so hard to accomplish.

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Stars

Stars

I have never seen the stars
I have longingly gazed up
And found only afterthoughts

Unconscious balls of fire
Hurtling through an indifferent vacuum
They were born in that vacuum
They will die in that vacuum

Before they flicker out
They will inspire
Ideas of greatness
Promises of eternal love
Hope for something more
Curiosity for the uncertain

But I have never seen them
I have questioned them
Forgotten them
Assumed they were there

But with each passing moment
They move in only one direction
Away

Masks

Masks

Pick a mask
And glue it to your face
Let the synthetic adhesive sink in
Deep into the face long forgotten
The image long mistaken
The unfamiliar lie in the broken mirror
The broken truth in the cracks
Where once there was a face made broken
There is now a mask made whole
Whole and empty
Empty of potential
Full of the world's allowances
Wear the mask
With accompanying muzzle
And find your place in the crowd
Your place
Built for replacement
For a new, empty mask

Switch

Switch

Flip the switch
The bulb turns on
The room lights up

Flip the same switch
The same bulb turns off
The room's light empties

I am not a switch
I am not a bulb
I am not a room

It's simply not that simple

Dare to Dream of Something More

Dare to Dream of Something More

So long as I am the one
To hold you in my arms
I will kiss each tear
That rolls from your eyes
I will listen to every heartbeat
I will believe in every song

I will dream
                    of something better
                    of something brighter
                        something special
                        something more
                                          more of this
                                                        this life
                                                        this life with you

I will support you through every tear
Your eyes shed
                 shed when hurt
                                   hopeless
                                   helpless

I will cherish the moments
Your heart races
                  races with joy
                                   excitement
                                   passion

I will sing in awe
Of you and your compassion
                   your will
                   your love

Through the darkest of days
You make me believe

Through the most hopeless of moments
You make me believe
You make me believe
        make me believe
                        believe in me
                        believe in the beauty I see
                        believe in the happiness of we

We the lovers
We the loved

Truth's Final Ascension

Truth's Final Ascension

Stop this shedding of tears

And speak the truth

Stop this spreading of fears

And speak the truth

Stop this theft of hope

And speak the truth

Speak the truth

Into ears still listening

Into hearts still open

Sing the truth

Into songs still playing

Amidst the distracting noise

Forever I am hurting

Forever I am waiting

Forever I am sacrificing

For the truth

The truth

Is beyond control

As are all things absolute

Remove the masks

And bask before fading

In the light of this truth

Know in this truth

Secure in this truth

Bound not by this truth

But by your courage

But by your courage

Is the truth strength

But by your courage

Is the truth forsaken

Forsaken by those

That fear this truth

That this world

And its people

Are forever

Truly

Lovers

Lovers of this truth

Lovers of this love

Lovers of this dream

This dream prayed upon

By lies bent on controlling

You, me, and everything

We see and feel

Everything we know to be real

This dream

This fragile, yet powerful thing

Made strong by our sacrifice

Made immortal by the inevitable

In the end

Only the truth can come to pass

Even without eyes to witness

Even if the witness

Is forever of the past

The truth

Transcendent of time

Beyond our limits

Will forever be

Long after we cease

Be a part of its legacy

See the truth

Speak the truth

Be the love

Share the love

Be the truth

At armageddon's strike

An attack against our conviction

Do not fall

Stand upon the truth

Stand for the truth

And when the end obtains its self-proclomation

Alone, love will stand

Made whole by the legacy of truth 

Wisdom Revolution: Trying Something New

Wisdom Revolution: Trying Something New
A Re-creation* of "Writing in the Dark" by Denise Levertov

A universal truth
Shouted with urgency
To the tumbling toddler
Is not heard

The same universal truth
Shouted with the same urgency
Leaves the child confused

Then, with the consciousness,
The inevitable, stark awakening
Of adulthood's challenges
The light in the dark is rediscovered



*Re-creation as described in Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Bruce Novak, "[Participants] are first read a short poem; then, as it is read again, they circle the words that resonated with them; finally, they write their own poems, in 2 1/2 minutes, the time [Gabriele] Rico has found optimal for creativity" (Page 60).  It should be noted that in between circling words that resonate and writing one's own poem, there is a clustering stage in which participants use free association to write down words they connect the words they circled in the poem.  This clustering technique was also developed by Gabriele Rico.