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Ghostword Graveyard

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[Dedicated to the memory of all the poems that
I thought of in the night which I didn't record]

if the brain is space infinity
and I owned an endless spaceship
then I could float
and thus rip free
that verse
which I dreamed
in my half-sleep’s
amnesiac sea

millions of words go down that black hole
etheric anodyne limbo
apparently
(devouring reams)
there’s some
secret place
which has kidnapped
our obstinate dreams

what if texts in that ghostword graveyard
assembled themselves into prose
unjumbled scripts
spontaneously
writing
phonetic
filigree maze
unflinderingly

maybe obsession will bring recall
searching for clusters lostingly
my brain a disk
with errors made
repairs
carried out
completion of
my wordly crusade

my mindfulness craves for that ether
where books whirl around on the breeze
lost in a space
forgetness-shaped
create
mega-tomes
form steppingstones
to my dream[e]scape

somnial processes seize my mind
analogue lithographs littered
with storylines
book jamboree
not just
a single
binding I see
but myriadly!
 

◄ Les Mots qui Rient [a sonnet]

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Laura Taylor

Thu 14th Jul 2011 10:06

Loving the made up words in this, the sounds of them clunking and clacking against each other in that chaotic mental way. You've pretty much put in a poem what happens in my head when I lay it down on the pillow at night! Fantastic use of language.

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kealan coady

Wed 13th Jul 2011 18:28

I enjoy the theme here. Theres a vacant area in the literary scene for astronomical poetry, I try me best with it cuz iv'e always been a space enthusiast, theres nothing more interesting than an event horizon. Anyway yeah this was okay, lostingly i dont know about but i appreciate the effort of originallity

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