tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25904724858517437112024-03-13T21:34:41.874-07:00metamodernismArrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-53510852921533181912007-08-11T21:17:00.000-07:002009-01-21T23:44:47.863-08:00Sobriquet<pre><br />Nicked of name, slandered apiece<br /> Pie plantation, harvesting<br /><br />Tricked by same idolatry<br /> Wince, dismayed, at feigned release.....<br /><br /> Reined in by the whip-cracking snide <br /> Made man; debased in his parlor,<br /> His greeting-card smile replaced by a vile-set<br /> Face, agape.....<br /><br /> A weighty resolve,<br /> A credulous host;<br /> A fish in a tin:<br /> A swimming success!<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-89701862950733181722007-08-11T21:12:00.000-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.769-08:00Skyscraping<pre><br />Drastic are the days of these finds:<br />Tower-high fulminous waste-plants,<br /> Churning with virulent sulphur-fumes<br /><br />Bedeviled by blasphemous pride:<br />Gyroscopic contorted endeavors,<br /> Whirling 'round the balustrade<br /><br />Tragic are the ways of these minds:<br />Fickle and fractious filaments,<br /> Dimly emitting a wan woesome light<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-58351138878678776032007-08-11T21:07:00.000-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.770-08:00Pheasant<pre><br />Underglass, all microscopic:<br /> Essence masked in blithe responses<br />Questions asked, drawn blanks beneath<br /> A thin veneer of make-believe<br /><br />A quarter-horse run ragged down<br /> Some clustered hive, damned environ<br />Blueblood quench the red beneath:<br /> Twisted, that serpentine wreath<br /><br /> <span style="font-style:italic;">Sotto voce</span> far-flung point made moot<br /> From fine-wrought banquet-table's foot:<br /> "Somehow the savory scent of your substance<br /> Falls short of redeeming the loss of your trill....."<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-69812041056916786582007-08-11T20:55:00.000-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.771-08:00Panaceanathema<pre><br />Strawman broke this camel's back;<br /> Humpday water-fetching lad<br /> In druggist-clothes forged false RX:<br /> Buzz unperturbed amongst insects<br /><br />Thousandeye surveyed the scene:<br /> A-list black-tie go-between;<br /> In chemist-robes' threadbare embrace<br /> Slit earthbound eyes see inner-space<br /><br />Handshake, tremulous, defied<br /> Clenching diffidence's vise;<br /> In paragon's ruse the entirety clear:<br /> That fallow field near.....<br /><br /> Plowshare-meek cast to the wind:<br /> Dandelions, might-have-beens;<br /> On pariah's tar-blackened and feathered disguise<br /> Burnt rouge falls in flecks from ash-cindery eyes <br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-23221485716964387992007-08-11T15:51:00.001-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.772-08:00Nothing Doing<pre><br />Featherstrewn road's slipshod cobblestone-needs<br /> Gracelessly chosen: sky-high, plummeting<br /><br />Granted pluralists' pose slywise indemnity,<br /> Fuck the trodden-upon: boot-stomp mercilessly<br /><br /> Not a one of our curses can even encompass<br /> The malevolent means to their ill-gotten gains;<br /> Long-sheathed but still sharp, world-worn talons, aquiver<br /> Recall once, when they thrived, more alive than today<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-22440658130400138092007-08-11T15:49:00.001-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.773-08:00Graft<pre><br />Leaking through the trickle-down gutterway-foundation town<br />Arsenic faucets' malevolent shine, <br /> Reflecting off the brine<br /><br /> Waterworks, porcine promont'ry:<br /> A pinhead-fashioned abdit'ry<br /><br />Jogger-feet stir restless rhythms: blacktop traces, whitewashed schisms;<br />Vantage-point from gallows-pole: <br /> Perceive piecemeal of the whole<br /><br /> Mineshaft's sun-deprived crevasse:<br /> A mighty price for diamond-glass <br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-67897726687125045932007-08-11T15:47:00.001-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.774-08:00Forfend<pre><br />An unwieldy rule, this decaying retainer,<br />A firmament-mouthpiece: that old confidence game<br /><br />All fallacious, presume trite tautologies' precedence<br />Aught anomalous evidence tossed, meanwhile, aside<br /><br />Aching dissonant minds: everyman-ostracization<br />Allows for no haystack; this needle, let lie.....<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-43961731529155730832007-08-11T15:39:00.000-07:002016-01-06T11:16:38.642-08:00Ersatz<pre>
Whither these trappings?
Faux lace, and drawn curtains;
A dithering stink at minstrelsy's knee:
Cloying airs, as-you-please
Whence these affectations?
Imitations unflattering;
Wobbly caric'ture's simpering swain:
Progressive, but in name
Wrath ersatz, wraps filthy racket:
Dissident-mimics' capricious bravado;
Tiresome reaction'ries' cacophony mimes
Musty nihilist/hedonist doggerel-lines
Wretched conniptions, banal as they're brazen:
Warhol-foretold spawn'f McEverything;
No 'mount of piercings or patches or perfid'ous polemics
Can conspire to ply this punk pretense with substance</pre>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-11623881275354734442007-08-11T14:52:00.000-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.776-08:00Delphi<pre><br />Omphalous stone, sideways petrified wood<br /> On crude earth-riven shanties<br /><br /> Drunk: kool-aid tart tasteless<br /> Depraved, as only was perceived:<br /> Stone-shattered glass windows<br /><br /> Parnassus groans, underneath leaden ten-weight<br /> Paw-prints in the wastelands<br /><br /> Beast-provenance glimpse: <br /> Reductionist-reckonings cleft twain, as daydreams<br /> Fill Salacity's eyes.....<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2590472485851743711.post-73415931321878802852007-08-09T20:43:00.000-07:002009-01-07T14:58:36.777-08:00An Inaugural Thought<pre><br />blinding freewheels on the mountain road<br />oblong shadows lopside-overthrown<br />rutted pothole-asphalt, pockmarked pit<br />marks the onset of a chain-link fence<br /><br />pining meatbags glut the Sunset strip<br />blinkered monkeychildren fit to flit<br />turnabout around their deadset ways<br />agglomeration of uncounted days<br /><br />winding circuit aught to close in time<br />etch-marks underscore the bottom-line<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">ipso facto, dominae gloriam<br /></span>butter-fingered keeper's quaking hands<br /></pre><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><pre>AF ~ <a href="http://metamodernism.blogspot.com">metamodernism.blogspot.com</a></pre></div>Arrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306780557761857125noreply@blogger.com0