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[ Mind Warp - Volume #1, Issue #4, File #015 ]
[ "Miscellaneous Poetry" by Dark Horse ]
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Miscellaneous Poetry
[Dark Horse]
*Dark Horse - "hmm:"
*Date: Wednesday June 15 2:59am 1994
Midnight blues:
2nd chorus
a knick,
a scratch
in an old wooden speaker
has more to say than the evening news.
A person, place, thing, or idea
stamped there for eternity, posterity.
A movie in solid state.
15 min of forever:
cut out of time and
squeezed into wood.
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Just something in my notebook. The whole midnight blues(2nd Chorus) has to do
with being in the middle of Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues ~242 Choruses~
and liking it alot, mimicking a bit of the style. Anyway this was written
after a page-long incoherent essay about potential and kinetic ideas.
it's 2:54 am, i have to get up at 10 or earlier to take a practice psat; in
other words I'll fail it, but that's ok. ain't no thang...
-dark.horse
*Dark Horse #48 - "2 Poems from a thunderstorm"
*Date: Thursday June 16 2:38am 1994
Midnight Blues
3rd Chorus
on the rooftop,
Arms autstreached
Back arched to catch the
falling rain
face to the sky
waiting for
the lightning
to take me
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India
India the cover exclaims
the country? probably
but maybe, just maybe
the girl
a chapter for her hair, sparkling dirty blonde
30 pages for her smile
20 for her eyes(bright blue)
40 for her thoughts
someday her for me
India: not quite a love poem,
but more than a rememberance
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Wrote both of those during the storms today, I feel like i should expand on
them at some point. Tell me what you think.
-dark.horse
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*Alexa - "poem"
*Date: Sunday June 12 8:58pm 1994
for all intents and purposes this is a poem
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this
is a poem. whatever that means. am i supposed
to spit out meaning and put life
into a free verse box and envelop it with the
glistening metallic wrapping paper of a silver tongue?
i don't know. what's a poem?
is this
a photograph in words? and of what? of a feeling? of
truth? of hope? of despair? happiness?
or of everything?
i don't know. what's a poem? is this really a poem?
this
is just me. thinking, feeling, hoping, writing.
that might be a poem. i'm not sure. i always thought
poems were more than that. in what way?
i don't know.
what's a poem?
is this
really enough? is this me, on this page? i mean the poem me
the whichever me is the me that means poetry, whatever
that might be, and if there really is a poem in me. is there?
i don't know.
-- but i do know that long after this page has been shoved away
into some drawer or thrown, by an absentminded or overcritical me
into the shiny black maw of the wastepaper basket,
i find myself remembering every single line
ú a ú l ú e ú x ú a ú
*Dark Horse - "..."
*Date: Monday June 13 1:10am 1994
What is a poem?
(A response in free verse)
a poem
is just thoughts
a picture of thoughts :
a picture of your mind
This? this is not a poem
it is a spark that flows from my brain
to the screen.
The picture will fade before it can develop
a reverse-Polaroid,
the image makes way for new sparks
new brains
new ideas
This is a fluid thought in a static world
unreachable but for a screen
and nothing without it...
-dark.horse
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