Geologica

phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Geologica

Gondwanaland,
tectonica,
Pangaea,
pulled apart
by magmatic
convection oven,
tender thin
shell broken
like crusty
marshmallow,
singed and
charred a-top
molten cream
fired within,
not instant
inferno obliterating,
but taffy
pulled and
clipped into
porcelain plates
floating in
indigo seas.

Amino acid
soup souffle,
souls stretched,
dynamic DNA,
cooked clay
of blocky
rock uncarved.

On far
away Pacifica
plate, fair
as bone
china, flower
seeded field,
with scent
sweet incense
wafting its
essence for
hummingbirds’
ambrosian nectar,
evolving biota
before the
salty spray
and sawtooth
cliff scree.

Glacial ice,
scouring moraines
over oilfields
and rockcoal
ooze, covered
Appalachian seams
submerged by
layers lensed
streaming sand
from Canadian
shield washed
ashore against
a Pennsylvanian
swamp, teeming
amino DNA
separated the
original core,
as fish
amphibianate
and evolving
mammalian erectus
walking in
sunclouds as
gorrilaz, bearz,
saber-toothed
snarly-gnarly
and sprung.

Magma fires
convection roll,
as plates
collide, birthing
mountains and
golden cliffs,
coastal sun,
sand flowers
spread, and
green grasslands
populated by
migrational pull
of westward
ho! wagons
and time
accelerates, continentally
creeping closer—
manifest destiny,
expanding wildly,
guided by
changing moon
and Polaris
star-fires,
as the
atomic clocks
tick tock
toward the
re-emergent
collision of
plates and
culture, as
continental drift
brings worlds
together long
separated from
preter-natural
amino pods,
similarly and
in synchros
recombined those
separated genes
restored as
dolphins and
man merge
in new
perfectly imperfect
order of
soulstices entwined.

Microchips and
electronics, spurred
by fiber-optics,
accelerate the
inevitable: words
crackle sparkly
electric auroras,
wires crossed,
amid mixing
the Boullian
and borealis,
into new
poem energy
flows as
rainbow bright
as Vivaldi,
or pictures
painted by
Renoir, Rembrandt,
or photographs
O’Keeffe and
Ansel Adams.

Camus flower
on Palouse
Hills, blue
on gold,
wine goblets
pinot grigio
toasting in
a jacuzzi,
exchanged by
free will,
or ordained
astrologically
on a
full moon
night under
light just
now viewed,
as meteors
over Palomar
burst like
fireworks from
asteroids not
seen since
Gondwanaland
and Pangaea
were last
one worlds.

This explanation as
plausible as a platypus,
as predictable and ordained
as quantum mechanics, as
incredible a scenario as
mystical as the muse.

Perhaps that is why
some poets have spent
all their lives on a
vision-quest to pen
the impossible perfection
of Beauty,
as remarkable
a concept
as God,
the alchemy
called “LOVE”!
--January 15, 2002
@pth
rockon,
phishgod
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  • cassiacassia Posts: 277
    Astronomica

    Nestled on a seaside sand dune
    the soft windy sunset and then,
    night coming in across black-glossed
    gentle waves, the phosphorescence
    of foam play, the tall sparse
    grass tufts

    somewhere, a trace of a moon
    a distant ship
    and the giant star, our star
    the star of the sea
    Jupiter, glittery
    as

    a diamondy gold-sugared
    gum drop

    the confections
    of the universe unfolding
    deliciously, deliriously

    and how grateful, how
    wonderful,
    to have evolved this far

    through the crisscrossing
    of stars, pains and dreams
    to have arrived

    at this perfect moment
    of pollywogs and papillons



    *****
    good morning, iloveyou, you're beautiful and i'm grateful...
    stars ...and seas...and loveboats....can you believe we're here,
    a couple of tahitian pearls,
    coo

    jam on, phishgod
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    Cassia--

    Yes, yes
    for you,
    ma Pearl--
    grateful,
    whither Tahiti,
    or Balboa,
    Lydo?
    Pearl kisses,
    yes yes,
    grateful,
    all sheeny sheeny bright
    pearls,
    clasp't tight
    in deepnight lumens'
    embracing,
    Ah! Yes!
    Pearls!
    Jam
    on--
    ma jeune fille
    papillon,
    ma "pollywog",
    from geologica
    to astronomica,
    we are:
    sunfires and moonbeams,
    planetary explosions,
    novas of
    earthforces of wonder,
    Beauty etched
    on cut greenglass,
    as if the
    still stark joy of new sunrises
    together,
    reflected in
    some Krispy Kreme booth dawn,
    we are:
    rainbows of irridescence,
    pearled
    nautoloids frozen for all time,
    abalone dreams
    here now, evolved,
    criss-crossed together
    like Jack's Seattle midnights'--
    phosphorescent, evanescent
    sometime well before dawn
    or in some bubbly
    35th floor
    jacuzzi soak'd pool's
    light, raising our diamonds
    to the moon,
    or Jupiter's
    gumdrops
    of nestled sweet
    confections,
    black glossed wave's
    foamy play
    and the gentle dew
    of our kisses,
    pearls glistening
    to the sky
    amid angst of
    pain, fear, or
    stars of sea-glory,
    more than arrived,
    I'd say
    "we shall overcome",
    but that,
    now that,
    that would be
    telling
    the whole world
    that I love you,
    now wouldn't it,
    ma pearl...?
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • cassiacassia Posts: 277
    asparkly pearl maestro of unabashed dream!
    with whisks and silken purrs in the blue midnight seas
    whole world whole world Told and deep in glows
    all atrilly and fabbing
    walkerly joinings
    hipfastened mojo pojo quadrulets of copojo
    cup of Joe java king of blindeyed kitten mornings.
    Whirlwind
    of twirly swiveltons amber amulets & invisible gems!!
    SOMETHING SPECTACULAR IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
    aurora borealled in shadow rains and tea whispers
    Rising
    under the northern snow, a blueberry patch is Deciding
    all the possibilities of being blue....indigo purple pearls
    dreaming of hearthhomes in muffins and bellies
    All one the pearl the berry the belly
    the fire in the center of the home, angels on the mantel
    GLEAMING
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    -blueberry tea skimmings and espresso foams,
    - blue smiles, sequined & boa'd,
    -silky pink & red kimonos of dawn
    - otter whisks,
    -copojo, co-boggled
    -bliss'd, co-blissed
    -walkerly co-joined,
    -gleamin' in the gloamin',
    -beaming (note: NOT a Beamer, or Beaners HA!),
    -indigo of wordplay & morning ritual
    -eyelove
    -sparkly reindeer, or sea-shells on the sink
    -SOMETHING SPARKLY STELLAR SPECTACULAR IS REALLY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
    -Glowing.
    -Twirly Swirly
    -The Seven Suns of Golden Eternity Jade Palace Heaven of the Moon and Seven Stars (which is you),
    -a good blonde, and other poems,
    -fires in the jewel heart center of berries, bellies and pearls
    -not getting blue, but really getting the blues
    -oil slick rainbows
    -water & snow diamonds your eyes
    -Auroral wanderings on roads we choose & re-choose
    -jello tv sparkle kaleidoscopes
    -cut glass crystaline bevels of light
    -fire in centerhearth, decked with Rainier/ LBQueen Anne's cherries
    -sparkly wine
    - mutant gened roses bio-engineered by phish-scientists, fingerlings rising,
    - love of my life forever, Mahalo M'Lor
    -yr words sparkling in the snowdust, as i head of to lunch.
    -Wallace Stevens, and the sun, forever going down, or rising
    (just like me, or our Idaho neighbor's pop?)
    -Love (On a Monday Morning), or Ode to the Pogues
    -a diamond for your left hand, at some future date, to be determined?
    -sparkling cheese & corn chaioder,
    -ILY.
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • cassiacassia Posts: 277
    je t'aime
  • Nobody has replied to this, Geologica was quite remarkable, one of the best uses of that kind of style I've seen - you might be interested in Ammons, although his long poems such as Garbage seem a little less polished and more stream of consciousness - I think the ending is a little forced though I would consider dropping off the love through poetry and just leave it off at the description where the verse is the strongest - overall excellent poem
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    Wow! Thanks for your read and your comments,
    I've skimmed a bit of Ammons here and there,
    although this IS pretty much my style these days,
    it is a bit of mix of influences
    from JK, McLure, Ginsburg and others too many to mention.
    However, Cassia says the Love stays, and since it is her poem,
    she gets the final word....:)
    glad you enjoyed...
    P.
    rockon,
    phishgod
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