my noir apotheosis

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." -- Anais Nin

my banal original
left ordinary impressions
on the surface of your eyes; stanzas you couldn't
get out of your mind playing carpe diem

chasing your memories romantically
while you held fast to recognized patterns,
you'd say anything with a cigarette
hanging from your lip: tempus fugit

those wisps accent your spent look;
something frozen, dead winter,
caught by the Sun, melted, a haze of ste… Continue

The Stones in 75
Jamming about shelter
Social heat
Began to swelter
A tad bit shy
Of Helter Skelter
High School daze
Chills along my spine
As I relive them on YouTube
Pam’s satin hand
Gently clasped in mine
Feeling fine
Permanent friends
Never to forget
The years have blistered by
Children having children
Concept we call life
Void of obvious strife
It snuck in through the back door
I’ll die a happy man
Knowing it was all a dream
Come true………


© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009

Spatial verve
Social disadvantage
Harbinger of joy
Drives his latest toy
Stuff
Can be replaced
No price tag on extortion
To focus on reprieve
So hard to achieve
Legions roam
Bewildered
Shuffling abroad
Begrudgingly applaud
Those who persevere
Epitome of cool
A calculated risk
Lingering kiss
The crux
Of pleasantry


© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009

I feel I've been hanging by a thread -- though I hung from a windy-tree, the icy-rain deformed me; I swung in thunderous reverie, did-see the roots and mud entwined to form the scruples of my mind; there, the Runes in bone-clad dead made the language of my head and formed the magic of its ...fire, rhymes that seared with my desire; my end-times -- our words are created by misery and joy, in the language we convey, our Monsters and Saints - hanging in there ...

Lazy Sunday evening
October 2009
Days of 100 proof
Overkill indeed
So grateful they’re behind me now
Extreme behavior
Trademark of rebellion
Deftly woven
Throughout my DNA
Microscope of truth
Glaring irony
I lived to tell about
Blessings
God’s grand reprieve
Stage set for a showdown
Conscious
Versus ego
The outcome
Preordained
Holy destiny
Not hard to understand
Grace
Effortless gift
Void of mortal pride
I drift
Subtle revelations
Journey to His light
Magnificent flight


© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009