August 16, 2012

• Presentation Poetry: "Softening the Edges"

   

   

  

  Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
  8:15p.m. pdt August 15, 2012

  on edge again

  powerful prickly

  never know why
  and it hurts

  precise painful perilous brittle cutting seething
  agony searing the temples
  pricking purveyors of the impossible
  ripping serenity from the hinges of my sanity

  why do I feel this way why
  ?
  what is wrong today
  ?
  it's hot
  yes
  it's stifling

  but I have an air conditioned soul, don't I
  ?

  I'm the electric poet aren't I
  ?
  rescuing wisps of emotion from the abyss
  no.....don't talk to me
  don't bother me
  my soul SCREAMS...
  get out of my way
  damn it hurts so much

   

   

  but then,

  too slowly to be sudden
  a cloud, and then another
  appear on the horizon of possibility
  questions fade with father Sol
  as He slowly disappears
  beneath the line of trees rimming my painful brain

  

  and I relax

  finally
  awestruck with the passing of circumstance
  aware and awake and alive again

  the questions become answers

  if

  only

  for a moment

  

  I don't care about past prickly painful power
  I only care about impending solace
  as the crescent of the baby moon appears
  and Mother Earth begins her rest for the night
  under a blanket of pink pulcrhitude

  

  goodnight my demons

  hopefully I shall not meet you on the morrow
  and the pink will soothe sensing sure  
  and serenity will prevail again
  as she is
  and
  as she has
  during my yesterdays

  and tonight

  in the pink

  

  EDIT: 8/16/12 6:30a.m. pdt. BEHIND THE PRESENTATION: So last night I'm out taking my evening walk, trying to forget the depression which colored most of my day for no really reasonable reason. When pink appears like this, and it's usually a bit later in the year, I usually head to the beach, as with my Oct. 2010 PhotoPost: Pink Sunset. I'd only just posted a series of sunset cloudscapes on July 13th. But y'all have to know by now how much I enjoy looking at, photographing, and contemplating clouds, (which are not a normal enough occurence in the part of Southern California where I live most of the year.) Eager to snap some photos as the sun set, in preparation for a sequel to my internet movie "Cloudscaping" from 2008, I rushed home and grabbed the camera. (Still don't own a cellphone!) My home puter has a bad video card and it took forever to create this entry. The process included inspiration for a poem, and my plan was to print the entire poem across the images, like the title card. After FOUR total crashes and reboots, it was nearing 10pm, so I modified the post somewhat. Wish I could have gone down to the water, but magic time waits for no man! Hope this one gets some recs! That would really send the depression packing.   MFN/ppf

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