Words, or
Art, or What?
Such canvas
collects gestures,
of fingers fusing
text to image, and
image to text
We read this in ways
we can't imagine,
turning heads for
eyeing swoops, dots
and staggered lines
as undetermined
possibilities that not
even the artist knows
for sure whether
Words, or
Art, or What
— for #ds106 about Asemic Writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
Begin
at the edges
and fold your way in,
finding center
(along dotted line)
before folding the long way out
(along creased line)
so that wings
and beaks and message
collide at corners'
ending
for #ds106
Chewing on words
a poem's rough edges
cuts the tongue, barbed
irony abounds, jagged with
reminders to go slow or
pay the price
the script informs
how one must speak the words
dense, disturbed, distant,
a mixed emotional concoction
of removal
this prose tastes abandoned,
a story from one age eaten
more than morsel, if one cuts
the edges off to find the center
often hidden
Swallowing these lines
for #ds106 Daily Create
I am shadow
in screen-light;
the quiet
of morning
still sleeping,
pausing to get
each word right,
the table beneath
keeping us balanced-
the computer,
the coffee,
the poem,
and I
for #ds106
All postmodern
birds are nothing more
than
wings of words
feathers of letters
talons of tales
beaks of books
written and
read, but rarely
seen
for #ds106
So it sits, all winter:
The engine, cold;
its ignition switch,
dangling by a wire;
a small fire, barely
remembered from November;
when nights, cold, meant
grass didn’t grow;
Yet still, it waited
in silence, ready to break
the world with noise
#ds106
It’s nearly impossible
to know the movement
of Earth, while standing
in the center, pondering
its invisible pull;
Perhaps we see it
most clearly in pencil marks
of poets, gliding words
in motion, on paper -
a waterfall tumbling into
nothingness
#ds106
Breaking the frame
becomes you — the
slight angle in which
your eyes remember
the point of view
Breaking the frame
releases, too — the
quiet pause in which
your mind remembers
the point of you
for #ds106
So much of us
remains forever hidden -
the super of man
the wonder of woman -
until the time
we find we are needed,
the moments
when we pull from inside
something to believe in
for #dS106
fire hand
slowly burns
this fire land
into ashes
we are reborn
again in the dust
of what has gone
before
Here, hold my fingers
grasp my fire hand
tell your story
rebuild the world
once again
for #ds106