redbrick posted a new Poem titled no exit, no arrival 18 weeks ago
"No Exit, No Arrival"
A Beckettian fragment in two voices
Characters:
Camus (on the platform, holding a ticket)
Sartre (inside a carriage, visible through the window)
Silence (offstage, but present)
(Dim light. A platform. A... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled parable of two wrecks 18 weeks ago
Parable of Two Wrecks
Dean’s collision left a boy in a Ford, haunted by silence, living decades with the weight of a single instant, his name footnoted, his breath unremarked.
Camus’s crash left a friend in the driver’s seat, carried... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled crowned by werckage 18 weeks ago
Crowned by Wreckage
He faced the void like a cartoon hero, not with the easy cry of “Believe in yourself!” but the harsher creed: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” The moths bore his manifestos into flame, while history yawned,... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled weapons of mass distraction 18 weeks ago
weapons of mass distraction
Screens glow like altars.We kneel, thumbs twitchingprayers to gods of noise.
The loudest silence isthe one we scroll past.
Billboards bloomlike invasive flowers,their petals of neonmasking the... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled fragment from the hill 18 weeks ago
"Fragment from the Hill"
I know the stone will fall. I know the slope will not forgive. Each ascent is already erased, yet it is mine— the weight, the sweat, the rhythm of refusal.
Do not pity me. The gods gave me repetition, but they... [read more] |
ramonathompsont posted a new Poem titled There Are No Kings 18 weeks ago
This much we all know and can agree upon
Heaven help us againest a mad man who believes otherwise
Eternal this truth has been and always will be
Ruthless power cannot be allowed to run unchecked
Every one of us carries the burden to do our part to... [read more] |
randyjohnson posted a new Poem titled Goodbye Ace Frehley 18 weeks ago
Everybody loved his performances but he can't perform anymore.
Ace Frehley has died after having a fall at the age of seventy-four.
He was a man who millions of people will miss.
Frehley did a fantastic job as a member of KISS.
When KISS became a... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; To Basho, In Praise Of His Young BoyFriend, 39 [ /;\ ] 18 weeks ago
Full moon high, Toyo---
almost naked---invites you
between his buttocks.
As you thrust, his feet---still sheathed
in sheer socks, moonlit---glisten. [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled fragile aching 18 weeks ago
we kept the wake with candles trembling, faces bent like reeds in the hush of the room, our vigil a tide that pulled us deeper into the hollow of your absence.
outside, a boat passed, its wake unfurling like a wound across the... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled your leaving 18 weeks ago
we kept the wake with candles trembling, faces bent like lilies over still water. the room was hushed, yet every silence was a tide pulling us under.
outside, the river carried its own wake, a boat cutting through dusk, its foaming... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled dance in the wake 18 weeks ago
"dance in the wake"
I have carried your absence longer than your presence— your laughter once rippled across me, your shadow bent in my tide.
Now I mourn in silence, my waters thick with silted memory, each wave a knell, each... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled dare to give 18 weeks ago
to speak is to betray perfection,
to remain silent is to betray love.
the coin burns in the palm,
thirty for truth, thirty for loss.
better the broken syllable
than the... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled Althea and Maria 18 weeks ago
I know a young gal named Althea
Who's always so glad to see ya
She'll say 'I'm so delighted
That you have decided
To spend time with me here today, dear'
I know a young gal named Maria
Who never is glad to see ya
She'll scream and she'... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled only answer 18 weeks ago
Only Answer
if somebody asks why I loved the way I did, I will not speak of beauty, or kindness, or the thousand small gestures that filled our days.
I will say only this: we were authentic, we were real, we were genuine.
that... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled respectable 18 weeks ago
Respectable
since you wanted me, I ask myself— to what point did I become more respectable?
was it the mirror of your eyes, the sudden weight of your touch, the way my name sounded different in your mouth?
or was it only... [read more] |
