Poetry Blog by Joshua Van-Cook
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Alignment
In gilted gold halls
Between wealth wrought walls
Came the last of the self-pronounced worthy
Their dresses and suits
Swayed to silver flutes
Music divine and unearthly
And the satirists would depict
Just how all were tricked
And subjugated without mercy
Each position maintained
And anger reigned
In a rife and rapacious rancour
Each being to steeped to se...
Tuesday 12th November 2019 3:37 pm
The causality casualty
I died today
Because my heart gave out
As a result of my diet
As I ate to offset my depression
Due to bullying through school and work
By cause of a wimpy and nerdy disposition
Owing to me being highly introverted
On account of being diagnosed with Autism
In the interest of maintaining my academic career
Which only raised my self-consciousness
By virtue of the limiti...
Tuesday 12th November 2019 3:07 pm
River amidst a forest fire
A low hubbub carries on the air over me
A dark grey envelopes the heavens
On introspection I see its reflection
Calm smattering gives way to a spark
The prior quiet besieged by panic
Smoke lends itself to the sky's palette
The brazen, livid orange blaze meets me
A study in contrast between it and me
I stay unphased as it spreads
A hellish talon offset by merc...
Tuesday 12th November 2019 2:18 pm
Polarity
The long redacted sound of reason crackled
Static-pronged consensus of a bygone concept
Against a typified gestalt of incandescent insanity
The layer-laden deceptive dynamic caught wind
Ushering and redoubling its efforts
Polarising all subject to it
Two turns played, a fool's mate prepared
The clocks, still nascent, are brought to a stop
Complexities and nuance are o...
Tuesday 12th November 2019 1:34 pm
Limerick
I'd heard of a woman from Crete
Who had unusually large feet
It was said that her shoes
Were the size of canoes
Her collection of which were a fleet
Monday 11th November 2019 12:58 pm
Sidelined Life
The sun sighted as a Galilean dream
As vision faded from the grasp of Winter
A kid leaned out of the window
Whispering out what he needed to say
But in needing to blurt it out
His mind submerged in uncertainty
Choked between a tearless cry
And a cheerless laugh
As with notated thoughts all about
His room was littered
And the sidelined life he adopted
Was cast to t...
Monday 11th November 2019 12:16 pm
Arrival
They came by water
They came by train
They came by flight
They came in luxury
But some arrived in cages
All strangers to us and each other
They were stopped at the docks
They were stopped at the station
They were stopped at the airport
They were stopped in their conditions
Remaining ever a constant
Adhered to each other in isolation
They saw the look...
Thursday 13th June 2019 12:40 pm
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