pOETRY
Adrenaline
"I want to roll the dice, take a chance,
I want to leap into the grasp of gravity,
elasticity pulling me to perceived safety,
adrenaline, can I have this dance?
I want to travel endlessly, trek to France,
make the trip limitless, a spiral into depravity,
feeling my heart reverberating in my chest cavity,
air waves rippling, my body traversing a vast expanse.
Nothing is ever shown in actuality at first glance,
imitations plague the landscape, my thoracic cavity
is plagued by breathlessness, taking the world bravely,
working odd end jobs in order to finance
this idea of being on edge that has me in a trance,
I don’t want my grand tasks to be dainty,
I want to dance the line between creative and crazy,
set sail on endless conquests, accompany me perchance?"
DL
"I consume pages carnivorously, capricious cast away
thoughts of tectonic plates, shifting tangents
amaretto on the lips of an American tourist
I could get lost in the library, elaborate array
of books set out for no other reason but for my fingers to play,
my optic nerves devour every centimeter of inscription
every word sinking into my synapses, it tends to illicit intense
satisfaction, brightening me up, chipper as a blue jay
I gulp the written word, beautifully arranged on display
visually satisfying and intellectually stimulating,
escape to far off realities, distant from real life’s fallacies
I’m a book worm in every sense of the cliché
intricate instillation of wisdom, parallels to portray
on a full page of perfection, bits of language
shaped aesthetically into constellations
some more highly wrought than the milky way."
DL
"you excite my electrons,
illuminate my fallacies,
enrich me with endless verity,
I’m trying to collaborate clarity.
got lost somewhere along the way,
caught up in useless strifes,
precariously depleting my potential,
your candor qualities are influential.
you make me want to reach the stars,
fingers outstretched, Orion slipping
from my grasp, but I can get it back
I momentarily lost track
jovial arrogance flavoring your tone,
chock full of pride I’ve never known,
so sure of yourself, I envy the crisp
confidence in your cadence, mercy.
I’m enamored by you, I feel
like we could be absolutely stellar
our bond is of the ionic variety
you make me want to cast away my filial piety."
DL
"crystal lattice criss crossing
a regular repeating reality
rattling off numbers relatively
irrationally, coordinates
pointing to all of the
locations I’d much rather be.
exploration is the theme of the game
uncharted will be my middle name
blast off to foreign landscapes
testing the waters for countless escapades
we can forget our own morality
sweet, sweet melancholy."
DL
"Amazon
Lush foreign landscape leaching inquisition from the human race,
leaching the bones left behind by their exploration of this place,
sunlight filtering through the canopy, a land so far from tame,
a terrain that is most certainly not for the weak of heart to claim.
Beautiful branch-work building up an entirely new reality,
chaotic characteristics laced into complicated tranquility,
vibrant colors assaulting my optic nerve, never ending
Anaconda of an Amazon river, treacherous with its bending."
DL
"Egypt
Great triangular pyramids, stacking to the sky,
burnt desert diagonal to a deep blue back drop,
sand full of ancient history, landscape bone dry,
rays of radioactivity beaming down nonstop.
I want to live large, like Mark Antony and Cleopatra,
asp bitten, chancing my demise for intimacy,
never stop adventuring shall be my mantra,
trying my best to tempt your celibacy.
I want to engulf the girth of the Nile, swim through
hieroglyphics, dance across pages scattered
with legends, everything drenched in a burnt sienna hue,
inscriptions about the great Egyptian goddess Isis covered
the cavernous tomb walls, flood enveloping the great serpent,
tears spilled mourning the loss of her precious Osiris,
a mother’s womb drenched in an amplitude of amorous ardent,
the great power of the gods forcing me to forsake my hubris."
DL
"All of this rage building up inside of me,
I don’t know where to put the pain.
It’s chaining me down and I want to be free,
everything burns like acid rain.
I’m a bent and rusted fence post,
you’re an unbroken arrow,
forever shooting straight, ghost
of feelings in my throat, sparrow
on the verge of taking flight,
spreading your wings for destiny.
I’m drowning in my own spite,
I was so sure that we had chemistry.
My chest cavity is caving in like
the eroding ruins, you’re my
Parthenon, burn me like the Third Reich,
albeit you are the healthiest sort of high."
DL
"relentless logarithms of loneliness
raging at the crest of midnight
we are the most honest when
no one is watching, haunting
thoughts fire up my amygdala
if only sunrise came fast enough
to chase all of my nightmares away
you can get rid of monsters under
your bed when they’re merely realities
wrapped up in folklore to scare the kids
the witching hour is upon us
come out, come out wherever you are
join in the fun and games as the sun
goes down on this wicked town"
DL
"I want to roll the dice, take a chance,
I want to leap into the grasp of gravity,
elasticity pulling me to perceived safety,
adrenaline, can I have this dance?
I want to travel endlessly, trek to France,
make the trip limitless, a spiral into depravity,
feeling my heart reverberating in my chest cavity,
air waves rippling, my body traversing a vast expanse.
Nothing is ever shown in actuality at first glance,
imitations plague the landscape, my thoracic cavity
is plagued by breathlessness, taking the world bravely,
working odd end jobs in order to finance
this idea of being on edge that has me in a trance,
I don’t want my grand tasks to be dainty,
I want to dance the line between creative and crazy,
set sail on endless conquests, accompany me perchance?"
DL
"I consume pages carnivorously, capricious cast away
thoughts of tectonic plates, shifting tangents
amaretto on the lips of an American tourist
I could get lost in the library, elaborate array
of books set out for no other reason but for my fingers to play,
my optic nerves devour every centimeter of inscription
every word sinking into my synapses, it tends to illicit intense
satisfaction, brightening me up, chipper as a blue jay
I gulp the written word, beautifully arranged on display
visually satisfying and intellectually stimulating,
escape to far off realities, distant from real life’s fallacies
I’m a book worm in every sense of the cliché
intricate instillation of wisdom, parallels to portray
on a full page of perfection, bits of language
shaped aesthetically into constellations
some more highly wrought than the milky way."
DL
"you excite my electrons,
illuminate my fallacies,
enrich me with endless verity,
I’m trying to collaborate clarity.
got lost somewhere along the way,
caught up in useless strifes,
precariously depleting my potential,
your candor qualities are influential.
you make me want to reach the stars,
fingers outstretched, Orion slipping
from my grasp, but I can get it back
I momentarily lost track
jovial arrogance flavoring your tone,
chock full of pride I’ve never known,
so sure of yourself, I envy the crisp
confidence in your cadence, mercy.
I’m enamored by you, I feel
like we could be absolutely stellar
our bond is of the ionic variety
you make me want to cast away my filial piety."
DL
"crystal lattice criss crossing
a regular repeating reality
rattling off numbers relatively
irrationally, coordinates
pointing to all of the
locations I’d much rather be.
exploration is the theme of the game
uncharted will be my middle name
blast off to foreign landscapes
testing the waters for countless escapades
we can forget our own morality
sweet, sweet melancholy."
DL
"Amazon
Lush foreign landscape leaching inquisition from the human race,
leaching the bones left behind by their exploration of this place,
sunlight filtering through the canopy, a land so far from tame,
a terrain that is most certainly not for the weak of heart to claim.
Beautiful branch-work building up an entirely new reality,
chaotic characteristics laced into complicated tranquility,
vibrant colors assaulting my optic nerve, never ending
Anaconda of an Amazon river, treacherous with its bending."
DL
"Egypt
Great triangular pyramids, stacking to the sky,
burnt desert diagonal to a deep blue back drop,
sand full of ancient history, landscape bone dry,
rays of radioactivity beaming down nonstop.
I want to live large, like Mark Antony and Cleopatra,
asp bitten, chancing my demise for intimacy,
never stop adventuring shall be my mantra,
trying my best to tempt your celibacy.
I want to engulf the girth of the Nile, swim through
hieroglyphics, dance across pages scattered
with legends, everything drenched in a burnt sienna hue,
inscriptions about the great Egyptian goddess Isis covered
the cavernous tomb walls, flood enveloping the great serpent,
tears spilled mourning the loss of her precious Osiris,
a mother’s womb drenched in an amplitude of amorous ardent,
the great power of the gods forcing me to forsake my hubris."
DL
"All of this rage building up inside of me,
I don’t know where to put the pain.
It’s chaining me down and I want to be free,
everything burns like acid rain.
I’m a bent and rusted fence post,
you’re an unbroken arrow,
forever shooting straight, ghost
of feelings in my throat, sparrow
on the verge of taking flight,
spreading your wings for destiny.
I’m drowning in my own spite,
I was so sure that we had chemistry.
My chest cavity is caving in like
the eroding ruins, you’re my
Parthenon, burn me like the Third Reich,
albeit you are the healthiest sort of high."
DL
"relentless logarithms of loneliness
raging at the crest of midnight
we are the most honest when
no one is watching, haunting
thoughts fire up my amygdala
if only sunrise came fast enough
to chase all of my nightmares away
you can get rid of monsters under
your bed when they’re merely realities
wrapped up in folklore to scare the kids
the witching hour is upon us
come out, come out wherever you are
join in the fun and games as the sun
goes down on this wicked town"
DL