Poetry – Page 256 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Crafting Misery

Joyously brutal
Sinister satisfaction
Crushing all delight

Listen to raindrops
Rattling rooftops gently
Soon forging rivers

Into the edge
Of the forgotten tomorrow.
Faster than the
Flights of dreams.

Come my heart.
More powerful than
This vacant, dusty
Fantasy. Enrichment
Filled senses
Collapse into
Mindlessness.

This week continues
Finish yesterday’s missed stuff.
Little creation.

Now begins this week
Laden with much potential
Awaiting the seizing

As today is World Poetry Day, I offer up this contribution:

Shall we celebrate power?
Speaking conscience to the brutal.
When nothing else can resist.
Words sharper than swords?

Or those words capturing love?
That exquisite, maddening
Sensation. Delightful, painful,
No greater sorrow, or pleasure.

Poetry, indefinable, glorious
Mystery. Savor this moment
For soon we shall recommence
Our most divine torment.

I shall explore life
It shall implode within me
Now only myself

Intense dizziness
Micro brutality wins
Sunlight climbs mountains

I sit, awaiting
The unique joy of week’s end
Such tranquility

Now, the week’s center
Mystical place of balance
Sunlight drifts forwards