Southern Goetical


A collection of 24 poems Circa 2020

  1. Brave Heart
    Keep it clean and quiet
    she said with a smile.
    A punk rock princess
    to make me feel royal.
    I watched the moon tonight
    she was so bright
    the city lights
    found a new hue
    the night creeps in
    I’m terrified
    that’s the only way
    to be brave
    the only way
    to know
    that something’s there
    waiting.

  2. Beams
    Make your own happiness
    rely on no one
    but always remember
    not to be alone.
    Your friends will
    be the beam
    holding your world together
    while the roses will sing.
    Remember that there are other worlds
    than this.
    The most unlikely situation
    found
    Eddie and Susannah
    and Blaine
    may be a pain
    but he helped
    somehow.

  3. CurvesThe way that flowers unfurl
    reminds me of her
    way of waking, stretching,
    milk-white breasts rising
    to eclipse the morning sun.
    Her arched back lifting sheets
    to reveal curves
    that could kill a man
    dead.

  4. Skirt
    Her skirt lifts as she spins
    I wish we were alone again.
    While company is great,
    I wish to lay there
    untangling hair and
    speaking to nothing.
    Of course, I’m happy
    as long as
    she is.
    However, her eyes
    already state
    that she feels the same way.
    This is the longest
    and the shortest
    night I’ve had
    with you.

  5. Liquidauralconnection
    Bellows raise the fires
    danger, Will Robinson, Danger, dumbass.
    Fly, you fool, fly.
    I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.
    She could break you so easily
    you’re drifting into dangerous territory.
    It’s grasping at me
    what’s grabbing me?
    Will I bleed?
    If we travel any further into this territory
    there might not be any coming back
    not if I take it slowly,
    to be free
    these are dangerous people
    on a whim, they might,
    take your heart from its cell
    walk, with every bit fo hell
    rings a happy bell
    let the flowers die slowly
    they might consume it
    my heart is a harp
    that she unknowingly plays
    we must first sense them,
    figure out their desires
    and work from there
    this ship is fragile
    and the shields are down
    hon, she said
    to the captain
    I want you in my bed
    let loose, don’t let loose, don’t go don’t
    slipping slowly
    into a vector
    sorry, dear, I want you near
    I want your heart and soul more than
    your music box.
    Twitching, danger, unknown planet, what sector?
    must take safety to
    5*1*18*20*7
    home.
    I saw the beauty by the record machine
    she took my hand and led me
    houston, can you hear me?
    I came with the goddess of death from out west
    get to my head
    the robots have lost it
    programming failure onboard
    Danger, why can’t they let me do this?
    why panick? Panic.
    relax.
    It’ll be over soon.
    liquidauralconnection
    inspection
    programmingfailureonboard
    liquidauralconnection
    don’t take my pen.
    I’m falling in.

  6. wake
    Awoke after three hours of rest
    to find myself
    drenched in sweat
    hostile message
    another that felt
    an awful lot
    like rejection
    when hours ago
    she was so sweet.
    I won’t be bothered by
    any of this
    that which does not
    further my life
    or increase happiness
    does not matter
    for too long, I’ve cared
    no more
    for
    I grow
    to be
    the most I can be
    I live
    for no one.

  7. Religious romanticism
    Agnosticism
    edging towards
    Atheism
    the deity has
    disrespected me
    publicly
    acting out towards
    a new goal
    not acting so old.
    I find
    myself
    hearing from the walls
    of last night.
    Weilling to find
    a new path.
    We will see
    just how honest
    a Goddess
    you can be.
    This won’t be
    the first time
    I lost my religion.

  8. A symphony
    Tired, we spoke of music and stories
    laughing after a long morning
    we slept and smoked with Lana Del Rey
    wasting away the rest of the day.
    We had slipped
    into a fugue state
    effervescent, soporific, hypnogogic
    world of surrealism
    without the loss
    of who I am.
    A mix of
    synonyms and antonyms
    to create
    a different kind of state.

  9. Ashpyxiating Ghosts
    It knocked rapidly upon the door in my head
    seeking to consume every breath
    getting lost in my own mind is a chore
    navigating that lost dungeon of failed hopes
    labyrinthian misery, blood congealed
    go ahead and consume me
    cause right now, I’m alone
    and won’t
    drag anyone else into this
    marina’s trench
    of frozen hell.

  10. We were not born in sin.
    I was not born to drown
    you were nto born to suffer
    we were not born in sin.
    Yet, we still pretend this is all we’ve got
    I still drown in memories and alcohol
    you & I both suffer the floods
    and we still feel ashamed of
    who we are.
    I’m changing my perspective
    growing to accept that these things
    are not inevitable
    that nothing is inevitable but death
    and before I pass away
    I fully intend
    to live my own way.

  11. Blood of the teeth
    Blood spills from between my crooked teeth
    they’re to remind me of jagged failures
    this weekend, I ate more than the weekdays
    during which my heart bled poisonous wroth
    thoughts are consuming, the reasons so many
    escape with their habitual consumptions
    their addictions, because they don’t know
    how to forget every blade that they’ve forged
    how to forget every page that they’ve wrote
    these boundaries exhaust me
    only because
    I let myself grow weak.
    I became
    something
    lesser than me.

  12. The winding night
    I’m going 70 in a 45,
    gasoline spilt in my trunk,
    getting me high
    these curves are a little tight
    for the speed I’m travelling
    can’t get past how
    the sun and the moon
    were out together earlier
    the moon with her children
    the stars
    and the sun with all of his
    brilliant fury and rage
    fighting his eternal war
    against her peaceful, quiet love.
    In the morning, I get up,
    quietly make and prepare coffee
    put on music, rest, shower, relax, write.
    Inside, I wonder why I haven’t died
    cause I fight the impulse to
    stop in oncoming traffic
    to overdose
    fill my lungs with helium
    drown in ethanol
    or purchase a firearm
    etcetera, etcetera
    I fight these urges for no reason
    but that these actions are meaningless
    so I’ll quietly go one hundred miles an hour
    on the interstate
    quietly say come what may
    but the truth is
    I want to be there
    for my son
    and all of my loved ones
    these feelings are a loaded gun
    and I can’t ever
    see me
    getting any
    better
    anytime
    soon.

  13. If you want to find hell with me...
    Today, I fought the rare desire to quell the fires
    with amphetamines, codeine, alcohol and weed
    like I did before.
    I ripped apart a few problems,
    grappled the facts
    presented my presentation just before going to
    another quiet day of “say hey
    what was I supposed to do again?”
    Yeah, I’ve lost tracking, interlaced videos playing
    I know very few understand what I’m saying
    through subconscious streams of thought
    presented upon ancient weathered rock.
    Today I fought desires born of rage and
    a desire of peace. I hope this possibility
    might work out for me
    but
    I have grown jaded
    lost every ounce of faith I once had
    within life’s stream.

  1. Something New
    You and I raised hell
    in the Alabama night.
    We stole Signs,
    laughing throughout
    our long, roving ride
    ‘til the sun come up
    &
    I woke to find
    you’d left my side
    and as the leaves all fell
    the wind cooled,
    our demons sought
    for something new.

  2. The Dancing Ghost
    In my head, you’re still smiling
    though you’ve left my heart long ago.
    Guess you could say that
    I’m a tired old fool.
    We were just children,
    playing the role of adults.
    Now, that’s all gone
    on out the window.
    Keep on dancing in my head,
    I never lied when I said
    I’d love you until my death.
    Now, how many years have gone by
    since you left in such a fury
    while I held my broken guts,
    freezing though those winters
    and starving for my pride?
    I’ve loved and failed since then,
    heard you settled down
    while I forsook the hallowed ground.
    You keep on dancing in my head,
    I didn’t lie when I said
    I’d love you ‘til the day I die
    I just can’t be there anymore
    cause you changed your mind
    about me.

  3. Weather Dreams
    Autumn weather
    precedes her
    equinox.
    Spring stayed a week
    after six and a half
    months of winter.
    We’re skipping pleasantries
    always forgetting
    to stop for a look
    at the surrounding beauty.
    Move slower, speak lower
    learn to love
    without expectations
    perhaps then,
    we can dream
    once again.

  4. Wrath
    Come, bring the fires,
    they dance in mirth and mire
    for their nailed corpse god,
    drawing out ancient ire
    with ignorant indigence
    indifferent towards the indigenous
    and the spirits they condemn,
    draw blood-red lines,
    sanguine scars upon their
    dead hearts to carry
    into the next iteration,
    weaponless, bloody,
    denied salvation.
    Bring the fires,
    let them burn.

  5. Laundromat
    Outside of the laundromat,
    we talk about the future
    and take photos fo the moon.
    My cigarette tastes terrible,
    I hate my bad luck
    and my dirty hands
    look wrong against this paper.
    I hope soon
    that things get better
    for me, for you
    for everyone.
    Until then,
    let’s enjoy one another,
    the company we share
    and the crisp autumn air.

  6. Dead Man Dancing
    The pallid man sat
    in an old saloon
    long abandoned,
    dust ran along every
    surface of the room.
    Tales tell of a piano playing
    late at night,
    patrons coming and going
    and every now again
    a loud fight
    always ending in a shot.
    The pallid man gets up,
    goes to the middle of the room
    and dances with an unseen entity
    her beauty
    all his
    to see.

  7. Mea Silentis Vox
    I woke up late today
    and smoked the last cigarette.
    Money’s a little tight
    made a check to find out
    loyalty’s not what I thought it was.
    Gave it a chance
    at least honesty’s available.
    My room’s cold, should turn off the A/C
    stomach rumbles, should be eating
    shouldn’t feel so badly
    can’t help it
    the voice that usually drives me
    is deafeningly silent.

  8. 20/20
    Twenty, twenty, vision none
    that's how I've been living my life
    blindly searching for a partner
    that'll stay for more than a while
    now I'm done, grow my hair out
    won't open my mouth
    unless I need to
    need to visit the river soon
    baptise myself, wash off the sins
    I've clearly been living in
    self-deprivation, ignoring the world
    forgetting the importance of
    simplicity over complexity
    come to the ocean with me
    we'll watch the ghosts all dance
    upon the rocks below
    better yet, stay where you are
    I'd rather love the moon alone.

  9. Puzzles
    Abtruse, multifarious
    Abstractions
    splice the parlance of
    ratiocination
    foundering a ramshackle actuality
    heretofore an anomaly of cant and piety
    this essence has opposed forays
    seeking to crush the crux
    upon which this animus
    endures the angst of being
    slowly, the psyche seeks
    reparations

  10. Transom
    The transom window fell open
    beneath my drunken, bloody palms
    and the ground rushed in.
    Without viable reconciliation,
    I slammed shut the doors
    that revealed who I was
    shattering blossoming flowers
    akin to murano glass.
    Still, somehow,
    she found my key
    and let herself in
    to plant a new garden
    and let the light in.

  11. Morgan and Myrddin
    Leaves rustle, the breeze teases
    all that she touches
    with her ethereal presence.
    These mountains glow in
    Luna’s presence
    and Morgan Le Fay stands by my side
    I am Myrddin Wyllt in the guise
    of a sane soul, though truth be told,
    these energies are
    wild, lost and old.
    The romance within this heart
    will grow thorny vines of rose
    for nimue will I fall, begotten by
    the enchantress’s wile
    a mad druid overcome
    by the forces of which he loves.
    This is all to say
    I cannot give up
    for I have so much more to give
    when it comes to love
    and time to live.