POEM STARTER
Awakening
Write a poem about an awakening - it could be literal or metaphorical.
Awakening
Eye of the volcano,
Open from the focal excavation
Site of it’s platformic base,
Pulses in energy, the green iris
Predicament glowing harshly
In dark and light rings around
Opaque Pupil: as it is deprecatingly
Named for the shards of tangible
Sediment it lets off into precious
Mining island earth dissolves
In visitation hands like igneous rock
But without glazed form as in ceramics:
Falling out chafed away by grasping
Stubborn picking hands, it is
The charcoal of rubbed into some
Portraiture, I must say, if the hunter
Is a random picker that has found
In childish collecting the material
For wild art in tedious art studios.
Eye of the volcano,
Without question it doesn’t blink
And with worthless question
It blinks without visibility; did
You know eye lashes are plastic,
And volcano eyes have transcended
With magma the ire of coconut cutting
Madmen living the atire of palm tree
Strings and mud caked roofs which crash
Down on the wrath magnetism, the field
Is outward in emanation from the eye
Not relative; we don’t have regular
Power symbol magnitudes which makes
One more seductive than the other,
For it changes with the millisec— seconda
Seconda that ticks in secondary syncopation
The latter is emphasized in collision, no
There is not first before the second when
Tectonic impact is made and seconds
Are foreign to the island people. Blink first
Before the second know the eyelid falls
Against nothing but weaker gravitational field
In reverse resistance upward against upper
Handed upper eyelid, and their poor
Houses are so cherished as to fall
Against equiliibrating fumes with electricity
And push against suspended ceilings,
That is how the mud cake ceilings rest
Against reverse gravity of the ancient eye.
Priceless deity, the eye is.
Gods exist to the island peoples,
Yes. They’re not dormant in modernity,
Try to call it normalcy and hey hey
Hi ho ho volunteer in cancer research
On the island? What an absurd thing to
Say. The eye exists that is why superstition
And idolatry of mere story heroes was
Awakened in imagination, but others far
Away from the eye, to them I say,
They are not excused from the source,
The distance in which magnetism failed
To reach their knowing, and the kind of
Knowing which must come as a prelude
To guaranteed acceptance, because inferior
Human reasoning can’t come up with that
Only a few elements of what Eye does,
And inserted within human soul, spirit,
And bodies, that’s what makes for
Futile stories. Lines of thought and imagined
Belief that is collages in drama,
Wow these are only for children who
Need to know a taste of the chaos
Of adulthood. The eye knows
Each one and their intentions before
It germinates in to understandability and
Human flaws that set in to prepare one
For downfall and mistake.
The eye sees, it doesn’t need to blink
And it is ugly not eyeball like,
For those who heard the myth but have
Fallen in duplicity to body beauty which
Must be princely in fashion when memorized
Words come out with godly ambition.
Those people are so wrong, because the eye knows it can’t be seen, and it doesn’t need
Skin, but people want to see it, and can’t,
And it doesn’t exist to them anymore even
If they have seen a fragment of charcoal
Tears come off from this alien object.
When is excavation complete?
Digging towards the center, it is
The five layers of magma, not the
7depths of inferno?
Earth is so strange; no I want to say
The eye is so tempting, for every island I
Have excavated for its lovely and true
Emanation in visible light; floating and
Weightless which my perfect and intact
Eyes can see. And when others discover
This same eternal gem, I’d say, with my
Wicked cunning, that lights emanate from
Indigenous inhabited places because this
Island is mine, and I had not to discourage
Them from the magic of the island which
They danced and hopped violently against
The tropical earth, chanting in rhythm
So arithmetically compatible with their
Wrathful hopscotch.
Eye of the volcano,
If blinded, everything shuts down. It is
Night always, and the island people
Must give in to slumber at random times
Where anarchy and assault rage
At random times, they can’t bow down to
The switch light switch no the rulers of
Universe, god Day and goddess Night,
And man and woman are switched off
You have to be both, island person.
Focal is not dual which is the focus
And which are the surroundings,
As simple tribal sight sets their
Bounds around family members
In the clan. You got to hop not when
Light cracks through the schism of the
The floating territory which has in magic
No need to connect to ocean floor
And has no bounds in perimeter,
Expanding 1000x plus or minus based
On its own will, just need to be solitary
And nothing main in stream to the ma
Mad mad imperious mainland. We are
A flag of own and the island powers with light of
Earth and sky, that is why electricity
And device, location and other sultry
Awarenesses of speed of ideas and
Respect, popularity into complex types of
Authority, boss, president, and pop star
Don’t exist just humility to sky darkness
And heeding time to sleep when
Rounding a and auctions get tired, it is dark
Regularly, we pray for satisfaction of hunger
Which everyone must obey and at regular
Intervals and extremities. That is the power of the island light, that the eye only forces
To the height of its inhabitants, who can’t jump
High enough to escape objective measurement
And no this decree of how many
Centimeters high, the believe,
Doesn’t come from the downward peer
Of the coconut tree, the coconuts have
No spacial awareness.
High up high down it is determined by the eye
And when people have grown up
In maximum centimeters in adulthood or
Latest childhood that is their stature
In regards to the savagery pricking
Others, to fall headfirst plummet into
A randomly napping other,
They can damage it beyond belief,
All organs, and you don’t know this is
Their way of fight, with no strategic retaliation,
Even possible. And you just don’t know
It except for this crazy poem you
Can bypass or remember for a few days,
But that is what happens.
Awakening after the eye isn’t survival,
It’s not surviving the natural deficiencies
That makes you lucky not to be an island person,
But if you wake before headfirst attack,
The island roused you from the eye, not
The exhaustion of the night, and its taunting
You, your eyes need light to see?
The eye doesn’t, that’s why they don’t realize
The power is the eye way larger and
Superb than everyone else’s: wake up.