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Monday, June 27, 2022


 

summer had arrived
dawn and glory broke
once again I awoke
a fire still burning
deep inside
knowing peace
opens doors
still this energetic world
worn down by cruel war
savagery is something
we humans should abhor
yet a seething treatise
reflection in these early hours
could humanity do more
I watched a mythic serpent
slither through my open door
shedding its moral skin
a carnal reformation
information about kith and kin
something about hate and naked sin
tormenting our embittered dreams
consider all these broken mornings
I need to repent
consider all these token warnings
things don't progress
so it seems
neglected and rejected
glazed over and frozen
an ice age of misbegotten history
unsolved mysteries
hastily buried human remains
unspoken apologetic refrains
still the suns electric rays
steadily burns holes
branding our eclectic souls
those lasting wounds and scars
tears wash over human disrespect
what brash light and imperfection bring
flooding our disbelieving eyes
eternal prayers and constant fasting
rearranging my congressional self
I wonder how far truth might see
when conceptual free love
remains continually blind
what do foolish hearts feel
impaled and tormented
actions harsh and unkind
such boorish behaviour
our kind is one kind
reflecting my rebellious mind
species human being
everything we do and see
sometimes discouraged and discontented
compressed and depressed
other times compassion and empathetic
so much impressive war to be lamented
all those starving homeless birds
stress and more stress
diminishing glaciers and bleaching coral
wonderful things we have forgotten
beautiful songs and how to sing
acquisitive activities greed brings
selfish corporations that are immoral
just what should each new dawn bring
something magical and remarkable
graffiti remarking on a back alley mural
or something more contemptible
even beyond redemption
can justice be near at hand
without divine reconnection
life should cultivate
a sacred garden
love a lasting peace
shower harmony and joy
across every war torn land

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022


 

On the occasion of Aboriginal Heritage day in Canada, June 21st, 2022.
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remember that unfair day
scary white police
came to take you away
make you
force you
on that one way train
of course you went
confused
wondering
about that train
its incessant clackety-clack refrain
abused
wondering
why that train
never turned around
at the end of the day
to take you home
your scared mind
you could see
mother waiting
wanting her child
but you were blown
like so many others
in that devil wind
landing on a doorstep
where hell's gate opened
a nightmare concept
those false welcoming doors
black and white nuns
ordered you to eat
compelled you to sleep
demanded you dream
of blood and wine
priests got you drunk
then they would fuck you
child abuse in those drastic places
life absolutely stunk
cruel nuns
abhorrent priests
hiding behind habits and collars
convicted by their abusive lying faces
God punishes idolaters
those unhappy demon places
corrupted by holy clothes
Satan devours heart and soul
clearly hatred motivates
in their twisted mind
a sacred goal
those savage unholy people
your tormentors and jailers
you were truly sweet
a dear child just like God planned
then the nuns strapped and beat you
for being a real human being
those demented nuns abused you
just before the criminal priests fucked you
residential school wasn't about you
residential school was about prison
Satan built it
your heart and spirit and soul
torture you endured
but somehow you survived
existing there
starved and neglected flowers
you left that horrid place wilted
I know you remember
those tragic days
I know you feel
angry and ripped-off
your family life stolen away
cold establishment and brutal church
they got their sordid evil way
how do you let go
of something like that
how do you grow
when they've taken
the Indian out of you
how do you recover
since mother church
marked and branded you
so you feel lost
surely you feel forsaken
father son and holy ghost

 


 

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Thursday, June 16, 2022


 

some folk and poets


might wonder


if they are stupid

 
or just insane


some might ponder


token dreamy stars

 
and broken love notes


inspect wounds and scars


as if cupid's arrows

 
blunt and harmless


are nothing but inane

 

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022


 

Earth to humans
you've dug deep
exposed a part of me
I didn't want
you two-leggeds
to ever see
an esoteric cataclysm
my mythic dark well
you'll lose your soul
where the patronizing devil
demands such a heavy toll
you've touched me
treating me
like something mega-cheap
setting me ablaze
all your consentual fire
stripping me
of my will to give
mining my deep oceans
certain consternation
my finite resources
still you want
your right to live
you watch me burn
fatal eruptions and deep chasms
all my blessed wealth
tearing at your heathen walls
your unholy phantasms
still I give
and I give
compassionately
I give
feeding you
passionately




rationally
I nurture every one
my vast consecrated home
environment and global ecology
for every living earthly thing
mother's breast for you
a vested sociology
you say love
swirling in corruption
my sacred atmosphere
allowing you
God's Krishna blue
invest in spiritual twirling
bow to warrior Arjuna
 just like that
bend like blessed Vishnu
you readily breathe
God's empathetic treaty
this garden temple
my steady allowance
evidently it should be clear
your virulent war kit
such sour steady death
readily you've reached it
one prevailing mind
a social project together
flailing in that prevailing wind
what a dour fit
don't blame me for war
it's all your doing
your failing
you humans
your hard core tones
what you've done
destroying sentient primates
engineering rockets and guns
rearranging DNA and critical hormones



contagion
fumbling about with everything
strangling crumbling climates
worrying my rumbling weather
consistently you're mocking God
insistently you're mocking me
you just fuck yourself
tumbling head over heels
out of my hands
but you can't fuck God
you can screw with me
still we orbit
the precious sun together
no matter what you do
I'll survive
your fucking
I've been here before
more patient mucking
I'm stronger than your bloody gore
still I'm grieving ancient founts and lore
all your deceitful sucking
don't count on me
get yourselves unstuck



earthly attitude
maintain mental fortitude
still this continental universe
more Venus than you
my planes of fortune
my oceans of good
pray for Saturn's good luck
track back billions of Neptune years
could human history
ever really account
galactic time
in memorial
I'll be here
like fumarolic moons
and super nova stars
long after
you are gone
majesty me
my royal quest
investment
I'm attached
my loyal mistress
spinning treasured glory
my romantic moon
stringing along
shimmering around a divine sun
keeping holy time
we're divinely orbiting
celestial lovers
neanderthal drummers
primordially advised
accompanied by trumpeting angels
a full chorus of attending orbs
just as attentive God devised



revise none of this
fluid existence
essential vapours and oils
quantum particles of resistance
piercing light and energy
nothing crudely improvised
genetic plans
serving forever and a day
all your human efforts
everything you've automated
every thing in nature
you've rudely compromised
purely connotation
my inherent stature
I don't give a holy care
legitimate denotation
my sacred natural will
my blessed destination
I'll still be here
after all your human ash
after all you've ever done
beyond nuclear detonation
indistinguishable as dust
that final atomic drifting
sifting into the angry sun



disappointing
your greed and selfishness
hungry paranoia
leaving you
paralyzed and stigmatized
all that damning gold
your futile abandonment
your poor me moans
alone you can't do a thing
I am a creator
you are just a cosmic fling
remember this
I won't fade into you
you can't do a thing  
besides fade into me
unlike you
I'm forever seeing
humbling worms and creeping bugs
unlike you
bumbling human beings


I am
a numbing equation
a vibrating finger
on the venerable hand of God
I'm boldly advancing
not just an entertaining seed
I wait without waiting
in silent cosmic thought
so perchance
while you watch the convincing stars
waiting for the honest moon
every agreeable substance
that monthly change
a full system charge
waiting for seasons
good reasons
for planting and harvest
completing each stage
essentials
but you'll never understand
my changing nature
simply even withstand
waiting for my love
each insistent reprimand
naively unanswered
earthquakes and hurricanes
you continually demand love
your cyclone quandaries  
so binding and blinding
my el nino boundaries
you'll never be so great
as grand Jupiter
remember
dinosaurs and flying raptors
keep up
no better
than warrior Mars
comets and ice ages
far flung Pluto
all those life changing stages
so much universal strife
I'm the one
filling every weary heart
in your existent ritual life



sustainment
I'm the one
contentment
fish and fruit on your plastic plate
your satisfied belly
you can never last or leave me
so you nastily resist
as long as you exist
we shall never be apart
your earthbound life
searching for precious gems
marveling at insurgency
all this incurred strife
your bitter diamonds
I'm so profound
wearing
my resurgent crown
hear my divine sound
songs and poetry
I'm heaven and hell
my planetary Om
fire and water and solid ground
my sacred world
good vibrations
my pyramidal mounds
you will never know
all my divine potions
you shall never see
my farthest reaching notions
your finite portions
your crass emotions
you'll never truly understand
you'll never be
my master
inattentive humans
come to full attention
avoid this next critical disaster
we're revolving
bound together
I am the evolutionary master



problem solving
involving fate and destiny
each vortex and black hole
there is a new solar rate
this revolutionary earth
clasping evolution's hand
what if convoluted life
like the speed of light
remained forever
eternally unchanged
primal gravity
your consumptive worth
more than horrid evil and cruel sin
detrimental
more than contrite humans
sentimental
all my planetary love
all that is truly divine and right
should you resist
try to withstand
tomorrow's abnormal confusion
beware of moral fright night
beware of immoral institution

 

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Saturday, June 4, 2022

 

if love
but then
that ocean between us
my heart
but still
your soul
this romantic commotion
and yet
your heart
my soul
some connection
far out in space
somewhere truth
past crab nebuli
where we first met
a swirl of delicious light
love energy
God laughing with us
while we picnicked
delight and relishing
star ripened peaches
delicious cosmic cream
swimming in that heat
filled with sultry plums
savouring sweet sweat
so many candied kisses
a chaos of sparks
encouraging that burning
each excited yearning breath
that palpitating love
such a sudden storm
a romantic invitation
writhing in orgasm
one after another
reciting exotic poems
singing tender songs
romancing passionate love
clearly erotic vision
one after another
but then
summer turns to winter
snow keeps lovers apart
winter ice
frozen jungle love
when the flood came
a sudden flush again
I almost drowned
finally some dry land
a tiny island
far out at sea
saving grace of God
but everything
saltwater crocs
nothing ever
great white sharks
was the same again
broken I'm crawling
over incremental years
instrumental searching
for some sentimental oasis
an arid desert place
beyond detrimental chaos
feasting on sweet dates
where compassion lives
bathed by empathy and shadows
dignity under majestic palms
a perfect shelter
beneath a sweltering sun
quench my quantum thirst
slake never ending desire
first pure water
sacred from a divine spring
still love remains buried
secreted away
under remote hills and  dunes
hidden down under
beneath pathetic tortured ruins
supreme time hurried me
I let the wind carry me
impure without you
from ledge to insecure ledge
as a sign
an aerie kestrel nest
finally privilege
I felt at home
it seemed jagged time
grinding eccentric life
honed each ragged edge
shimmering concentric dreams
minding one for you
so far across that feral sea
finding another with less strife
curdled milk and honeyed cream
which suited the monk in me
a careless hermit dream
fool sentimental love
please set me free
cruel nightmare love
please let me be

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