Over and Under the Deep

[MorpheusSandman]

Fly! Fly! You marauding gulls!
Chasing the tails of fire-flying unicorns
Through the nether ether
Towards the tops of impossible peaks
Ride around the ravines and peer over the precipice
These slippery sides of rotting weeds and olden wood
Tail and tell the wispy tales of late night magic

Dam these burning gulfs!
This torrent of couree charged
We’ll chase the fncker back to its leaking mouth
Leave us this scoria
Commit to this imperial march over the obsidian banks
We’ll wrack and tear our tender feet on the basalt
Abjure the cool and all relief
Live only for our permanent torment

But oh! Only for a time!
Only for a short time…
Never was so long ago before I knew what it was
Yesterday
And tomorrow was just a wraith
A promise and nightmare to drown thoughts in
This evil and day has come
Conveyed on the backs of phantasmagoric horses
You dragoons and mustangs must stay and yield

The razor blades of grass cut easily through this carnal cage
Rip and tear us to pieces
If I could ever catch a thunderheaded nebula
Interpret it in fits of pareidolia
Arrest the sounds in an ever shifting jungle
Understand it through this paralyzing apophenia
I’d be ok
I’d be ok
I just know I would

But never, never, never, never, never
And today

[paperleaves]

I really liked:
"Interpret it in fits of pareidolia" and
"I’d be ok
I’d be ok
I just know I would

But never, never, never, never, never
And today"

I liked the movement of this poem, it seemed as if it were flying, I could hear you speaking it, quickly and precisely.
Thank you!

love
paper

[cogs]

this is panoramic, and almost insane. i like the assonance, consonance, and rhyme.

[~Sophia~]

Lot's of great language and a quickening rhythm or sense of urgency! I think these are my favorite lines:


But oh! Only for a time!
Only for a short time…
Never was so long ago before I knew what it was
Yesterday
And tomorrow was just a wraith
A promise and nightmare to drown thoughts

and through most of my interpretation (and there is no rhyme or reason as to why) I had puff the magic dragon visions going through my head! Thanks... good read!

[MorpheusSandman]

Thanks to paper, cogs, and Sophia.

@Sophia: Puff, eh? I remember watching the show as a kid and thinking even then it was some far-out stuff!

[haymanali]

Ingenious, fluent and inspirational. Great job.

[MorpheusSandman]

Thanks haymanali!

[Pendragon]

Had me with the opening lines! I could almost see that image of a "fire-flying unicorn"! Great stuff!

[MorpheusSandman]

Thanks Pen!