Friday, May 5, 2017

Kristen de Kline #93 some days the Gods

some days the Gods
smile     upon you  

bullets speed past in the wrong direction  
coppers' dogs thrown

off your scent: CK Eternity  
it's no longer     sweet

some days the dead
chatter: it won't be long     now

you lay down in a place to bury strangers
listen to the bridges     burn

ghostly girls     pale blue eyes
gaze at the smoke tip-toe-ing across the

water     the black hole sun washes away the tears
turns white, slowly

as a Tarot Reader hands you the ten of cups card
great joy love bliss   rainbows arching

across inked blue skies     no more crying
me a river     no more

Tower cards bursting into flame
or lightning strikes     falling men

one head-first, the other backwards
you follow clouds of grey smoke meandering

over the skyline of the power station
clink aluminium cans with the boys at Lawless Road

down a third strong black
coffee     grind beads with an electric thingamijing

some days    your breath tastes
sweeter     there's a sea of possibilities rippling

past    little waves like the beat-beat-beating of a butterflies
wings     some days the Gods

smile     it won't be long
now


9 comments:

  1. some days the gods just lie in bed
    expecting a raspberry and a bit of a tickle

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    1. And some days - if they're lucky - they may even get a raspberry and a bit of a tickle :)

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  2. some days the gods
    take us for pressed flowers
    what person wouldn't

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  3. Exactly Rob - but do we look like pressed flowers? :)

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    1. Dear Kristen, I was in a rush when I wrote the lines above. Reading your poem now again and again. Magnificent.

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  4. Some days down there on Lawless the gods make instant coffee undrinkable, These are all just fantastic Kristen, I think I've died and gone to heaven!

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  5. James, I'm glad that instant coffee has become undrinkable - the Lawless poets and the smiling Gods will see to that. Thanks for your encouragement :)

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