Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Constant Swirl in Flux

Constant Swirl in Flux
by Michael Warren Grant

We, like swirls in a stream
appear fixed, yet are a series
of molecules in constant flux.

We often cling to the water
as it passes through our form;
our assumptions, our possessions
take up much space in the room
of our being.

Such restless grasping at rocks
in the infinite sea of sky
we inhabit!

we are never complete,
and this is a great gift of life;
the opportunity to discard
and insatiably seek, the spirit
of evolution, the renewing
of the swirl.

Now to form a living mandala
by repositioning the stones
on the river's bed. A swirl
to manifest our inner charge.

Your electric fur is on end
as the tie that binds
slips out and then in again.

Nocturnus

Nocturnal Screeches
and the yips of coyotes
on the blood trail;
purgatory, toward
a threshold of eden.

The night is alive;
buzzing and humming
with evening's cacophany.

There is infinity left to go
in this palor of nightshade.
There is no completion, only striving
towards creation, deletion.

This night reminds me
that a moths life
is no less brilliant
for its brevity.

The flames we chase are all
we stand for. And on this eve
every flame
eats us alive.

Swing from your ropes of thought,
perform you mental acrobatics,
and exit exhausted, brimming
with your new book's revelations.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

A Fall into Night

A Fall into Night
by Michael Warren Grant

A Fall into night, as
The frogs and crickets sing
in orchestral harmony,
accented by the beating
of a moth's wings,
all heralds of the eve.

A Fall into night
ushered by the slipping sun,
rosy hues overtaken
by sullen blues,
purple and cyan
bleeding into black,
the color of unfettered mind.


A Fall into Night
Smoothed over, the horizon,
like a soft hand over felt.
With patient sips of wine,
gentle murmers of silence,
and each soft remembrance
allowed to take fully form,
then fade from conscious mind.
Now to bloom,
like a crackling firework
in the aphotic skies
of subconscious.

While She is There (I Cannot be Here)

While She is There (I Cannot be Here)
by Michael Warren Grant

She has taken residence
of my mind;
a lavish suite
of Persian rugs
and tasseled pillows.

Animal desires, 
dispelled,
have given way
to appetite for life;
a single white rose
blooming in its bed.

Now, to nourish this tender
creature with gracious offerings
of word, of song,
and honesty of speech.

Fragrant Bloom
presented when next
tender skin meets
and full lips intertwine.
When next her smile
peers into mine.

When next her soft voice,
patterned after breeze,
echoes sweetly in my ear?
For while she is there
I cannot be fully here.

The Solace of Storm

The Solace of Storm
by Michael Warren Grant

Mesmerizing, raindrops

falling upon a pool.

Ripples akin to psychedelic

incantations.


Arousing, lightning

rubbing and grinding,

release akin to celestial

orgasm.


The solace of a storm,

womb-like, the blanketing

rain. An excuse to be shuttered?

Nay, an opportunity to retreat.


The sky, he thrusts sporadically.

I see a flash across her face,

then hear the thunder

of her moans. I bathe

in their diluvian outpourings.

Their chalice emptied,

to be renewed by hot

and cold fronts combining;

the migration of birds.


A volley of hail covers the sky

as ten thousand English arrows

rend her landscape.

A lovers spat, his tears made hard

by cold shoulder.


The roaring of the rain

is turned up to ten -

there is no formula

for predicting what climax

will be reached next.


I gaze like stunned spectator

for each fresh revelation.

Masterful play-writes, the sky

and ground; commercially

inviable, and so forgotten.


Though the show has gone on

too long - the audience, exhausted

by this heart-holding display,

wish only a return to mundane,

yet we cannot turn away.


Another flash!

Another drumroll!

Another flutter,

Within my heart-hold!