travu2
The Fly
A lifetime is crumpling on the horizon,
like the sticky shell of a pearl
bleeding its thin milk into the heat,
drowning swarms of spindly horses
that vibrate in shades of blue.
A forgotten impulse was found
suddenly, and is wandering through
the exhaust of apathetic gardens,
exhuming flowers along the way,
stirring up drifts of bleached insects.
Birdsongs are embedded in growing
plumes of drowsy lovemaking.
Bees are in their hive staring
out at those quiet blue meadows
all a-shimmer with excited sperm.
As these porous cathedrals revolve
around me, as animated bundles
of laughing molecules receive the signals
that tune the summer to busy,
I see nothing staring back at me.
I can?t help but be a part
of this chain reaction of a billion years.
I can?t help but see
the glare of indifference on the leaves.
I am just a bubble, a perfect pearl
that can only be carried along, waiting
to pop like everything else,
in the sunny froth of summer.
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"He likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to sing along."
Nirvana
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 08-09-2001).]
like the sticky shell of a pearl
bleeding its thin milk into the heat,
drowning swarms of spindly horses
that vibrate in shades of blue.
A forgotten impulse was found
suddenly, and is wandering through
the exhaust of apathetic gardens,
exhuming flowers along the way,
stirring up drifts of bleached insects.
Birdsongs are embedded in growing
plumes of drowsy lovemaking.
Bees are in their hive staring
out at those quiet blue meadows
all a-shimmer with excited sperm.
As these porous cathedrals revolve
around me, as animated bundles
of laughing molecules receive the signals
that tune the summer to busy,
I see nothing staring back at me.
I can?t help but be a part
of this chain reaction of a billion years.
I can?t help but see
the glare of indifference on the leaves.
I am just a bubble, a perfect pearl
that can only be carried along, waiting
to pop like everything else,
in the sunny froth of summer.
--------------------
"He likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to sing along."
Nirvana
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 08-09-2001).]