Sound and Silence
January 11, 2018
Regroup, pass, heart-outpourings come,
Come, kingdom-come blue blethers,
Blusters, endeavours, promenade around my blood;
Fix ambuscades, take, overthrow, a something drab,
A digit stale,
And junk, so ease, these mawkish roars of mine;
Jives on our lives’ imperious prized justifications:
I unload to you no gillyflowered saccharin
I start up a carp about me, what I think I share,
Weathering what’s other people, as the time has them declare,
I a stand alone public garderobe, or a snorted common cold; -
I am, I know, I am roundly told, also somewhat crazy old
Scars in the temporal fabric percolate a froward sky
Rent like the Temple curtain, signifying nicely why
Look up and lo, no dove winged welcome graces, overfly
See instead come pursuing Harpies rolling; this the people’s joy
As if were a madcap Marvel comic movie being played
Hyper and hypno action-stations’ rattled chatter-raids
Through all the ninety minutes of each purgatorial hour
Changes of jangle only; clangour gathers weight of power,
Marking the current rubrics, bending off indolence, dream,
Parings of hectic clap-trap, sharp as sticks, mind-dinning scream,
Calling out one peremptory bawl, loud baying Hectoringly,
Olympian shout to clout the whole house down; they bawl
In the public marketplace snatch at space, a common brawl
To the ears dings, brings, invectives, pitched athletic strains
Harsh blasts of pyroclasts broadcast to scatterbrains
Irks, ruptures, burst relationships, gloat on next victories
Nag need to brag its manic fad and hear no silence.
In the sensory space, behind one’s face, where fidgets fiction-filled
Cram-packed to doors like superstores, abhoring vacuums,
Our tried grandpappy headaches, resolute to one small tune
Occupied upstairs, downstairs, brokered bleated sonic booms
Sound supererogates, steals thought’s interrogatories away
Marching them off on exercise, thereafter squarebash drill,
Regimentation takes them up then takes them down its daily hill
Death brings them in their tablet – end-of-day, deep-sleeping pill
Social constructions cover up, smother unrequited sighs,
Cloak total immersion shroudings on the heart’s sought sympathies
Wandering desires not noting their inheritance denied…….
Oh! Verities of The Word: pronounce release, uncircumscribe,
Bright turned in our hands love’s gems, uncovered things, perk lustrous eyes
Vasts of cuts of brilliants burn discovered, profusions amplified;
Aweful love’s gentle message - taste, dry runagates, and shine -
Come faithful gospel bearers bring you in brim-filled divine,
Drink of God’s blessed water made miraculously wine]]>