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Captain Zoom
20:40 / 11.01.02
I was kind of inspired by the "Weird Fiction 'Zine" thread. I wouldn't mind collecting it all up and editting it a bit, throw in some illustrations and put it out, either online or in print. I'm going to give it some thought over the weekend, the logistics of it, and see what I can come up with. I'm also in favour of trying to resurrect the Barbelith Anthology, but that might be a little more work.

Zoom.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:50 / 11.01.02
Day 31, Jan 11, 2002

Listen!
The elephants are playing music
banging and clanging
they're playing music
hitting and bashing
crashing
it's music
like bells that have fallen
down a church spire
or pots collapsing from the dish drainer
it's music
the sound of wind blowing through
a metal sculpture

but all that's unimportant
because listen!
the elephants
the elephants themselves
are playing music


(inspiration: http://www.mulatta.org/Thaielephantorch.html )

[ 11-01-2002: Message edited by: Captain Zoom ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:00 / 12.01.02
Day 31, Jan. 12, 2002

The Antithesis

slowly, carefully
it crawls from the ocean floor
stinking of oil
leaking sulfur into the air
a bad dream awake
displacing water in huge, mountain-sized handfuls
a wave of screaming preceding it
the cool water boiling around it
and terror

a small New England town (A TOWN!!)
disappears under it's claw
it's landfall claiming it's first victims
cries of horror across the country
plans of attack
on this deadly monstrosity
all too late

grass crumbles to filth
dirt will never bear a crop again
stone ages a millenia in a second
and then another
all it gazes on withers and dies
unstoppable
and terror

this world
is no longer ours

it never was.
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:32 / 13.01.02
Day 32, Jan. 13, 2002

Belittling
Lazy
Incredulous
Nonsense
Derogatory
Names
Enable
Superfluous
Suffering
 
 
Captain Zoom
12:38 / 16.01.02
Day 33, Jan. 16, 2002

Sorry, been sick the last few days and didn't feel like writing. I'll try to do three today.


It's going to be a glorious day
Can't you feel it
Look at the sky, how it sings
The sun crests through the clouds
Scattered across the deep, deep blue
Glorious
Like an angel when it falls from Heaven
The pavement dries
Windshields reflect the brightness
And you can just tell
It's going to be a glorious day.
 
 
bitchiekittie
12:40 / 16.01.02
Id just like to say that I really love this thread, zoom
 
 
Laughing
13:33 / 16.01.02
Spontaneous verse I composed for a friend's children:

Over and under and over again
The Mice from the Moon come a'creeping.
To see Little Mary and Michael and Ben
And Shh! Little Laura is sleeping!

(I feel almost sacreligious putting my two cents in here but hey! That's never stopped me before!)
 
 
Captain Zoom
14:36 / 16.01.02
Check it out BK. You just signed off with "zoom" as well. Copyright infringement or strange synchronicity?


he wanders
somewhere in an electrical web
unsure of reality
a dream, at most a mirror
refracting everything he has ever been
and focussing it on her
lost and hungry for information
following the golden astral thread
to the belly of contentment
like a dream that is so much more
but less than real

the subtle approach?
all he is capable of
broken down and split apart
spread too thin
and losing coherence

caught in this electrical web
vast shapes move by, ignoring his cries
finished only when he touches the light
and wakes

and cries a little
for dreams can seem more than real
and in the infinty between sleep and waking
a dream can be a lifetime
of love.
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:26 / 16.01.02
and finally.....


I wish I could fly
It would be so much easier
To go from here to there
If I could fly
Like a super-powered angel
Or a high-tech jet
Breaking clouds with my smile
If I could fly
Spending hours above the world
Spinning and gliding high
Then coming home
If I could fly.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:31 / 16.01.02
what the heck! one more for good measure and 'cause my soul's feeling a little weary today.

i am not me
i am an artist drawing on the pavement
i am a child banging on a drum
i am a woman striding into an office
i am a boy crying himself to sleep
i am an old man remembering his youth
i am a baby wanting only food
i am not me
 
 
toadchrist
22:08 / 16.01.02
none
 
 
deja_vroom
08:26 / 17.01.02
Day 31, cap. Day 31.
 
 
deja_vroom
14:50 / 17.01.02
(deleted cos it was crap)

[ 21-01-2002: Message edited by: Marquis de Jade ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:31 / 17.01.02
Day 34, Jan. 17, 2002

the sheltering sky

what is the opposite of a heart?
an empty space or an ache
an unanswered phone ringing

this long sought kiss
drawn through an empty space
energizing, a brief shock
a warmth in the base of my skull

what is the opposite of an ache?

me

blue. so blue.

(editted 'cause I hated the first version I posted.)

[ 17-01-2002: Message edited by: Captain Zoom ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:52 / 18.01.02
Day 35, Jan. 18, 2002

am i enabled?
is it time for me to go?
so long waiting
i pray that it is so
swooping down
a flash is all you'll see
fear me i am death
i am your death to be
not coming from the sky
not poisoning your food
but standing right behind you
the one you thought was good
don't trust me for a minute
though you've loved me for a while
a flash is all you'll see
i really am that vile.


(Zoom's feeling a little anger today!)

 
 
The One Eyed King
01:29 / 19.01.02
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato

Perhaps one of the many reasons that I do not write it.

[ 19-01-2002: Message edited by: C.A.S ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
13:38 / 19.01.02
Probably the only reason I do.

Zoom.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:07 / 19.01.02
Day 36, Jan. 19, 2002

it shines through the day
blasting away everything in it's path
destructive and beautiful
smothering and warm
it is a cold diamond that everyone wants
that crumbles to coal when crushed to your chest
but warms and gives light when cradled in your palm
do not stand in it's way
it will cut you down leaving only shards
but bend with it, allow it to form you
and you will be reborn, mended
given faith
it is cruel, but careful
it is joy and it is hatred
it is yours
if you want it.
 
 
I, Libertine
23:07 / 19.01.02
BLANKS

Calliroes Sinus, a red-cratered tunnel to eternity, the blistering cold of subheat comatrauma.

How do we see here? How do we breathe? How does the child of the moonglow grow?

Rapaciously, voraciously.

How’s the kitchen?

Vicious dishes bite snarlrarl.

Ollie ollie oxen free.

Here we go loop-de-loo.

We’re blanks. We’re all blanks here, before phasing in. Tabula rasa.

Have you seen the plaque by the doorway, nightglim slipping over the polished brass: Illegitimi Non Carborundum. Good advice. Take it. Run with it. Never run with scissors.

In night’s tender moments we see everything there is that can be, and it’s nothing. Our eyes go blank until all we perceive is our own plea. There’s no one else in the room just the blinding flash of the nice softhairs, the delicious wetheat pulsing, oozing genitalia in excesstasy on this cold cold night.

Speaking in semaphore means you don’t talk but you still communicate. As long as the recipient understands. Maybe they don’t comprehend at all. Signals and symbols tumble into a void. She doesn’t sense anything but unbearable pleasure, thickened friction, our eyes are blanks and I fade into the pleasurehaze myself, gone. How does this child, Love, this Moonchild, grow?

Rapaciously, viciously, with a snarl. Hack out your own heart and it will doggedly regenerate, hack it out again. And again. Before too long you’re chopping up your own heart in anticipation of the inevitable, leaving people dumbfounded and blank, wondering why. Then one day it doesn’t grow back. Or maybe it did, but it’s small and dark, a stone in the cold depths of an ocean, crustaceans scrambling over the salty surfaces.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:57 / 20.01.02
Day 37, Jan. 20, 2002

boundless energy
you fly from room to room
chattering constantly
a streak of consciousness
always learning, absorbing
intuitions growing daily
amazing me at every turn
infuriating me at some
but always, always
a smile or a hug
a quick chirp of how you spent your day
then off again
not a moment to spare.
 
 
Rialto
11:20 / 21.01.02
21.0.02

'Untitled'

Why
Oh why
Oh why,
why,
why?

Why?

Walking through town on the way to work,
I see the stupid people.
Stupid, stupid, stupid people.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, STUPID STUPID people!

Why?

Do they think about the suffering of the poor?
Do they think about pollution?
Do they think about the inherently inegalitarian nature of the capitalist regime?

I very much doubt it.

Why?

On the grey screen, colour of dead skies, I see POTUS,
Smiling ape-face Texan robot robot POTUS.
Does he lie awake at night and wonder why?
Why he deserves to live, not die?

It makes me cry. Why?
I don't know.


------------------------

Thank you kindly. Please be gentle.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:36 / 22.01.02
Got swept up in "Memento" last night so here's two.

Day 38, Jan. 22, 2002

sleeping
moving in and out of time
dreams of the past
bizarre glimpsed of the future
(or presents to be)
shadowing myself
being someone else
who is me
 
 
Captain Zoom
09:01 / 23.01.02
Can't
Realize
Appropriate
Phrases

(so.fucking.lame.)
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:42 / 23.01.02
Day 39, Jan. 23, 2002

well I wonder what you're wearing
just before I undress you in my mind
it's not important, I just wonder
what colours will fall on the floor
it adds something real to this fantasy
something I haven't just made up
I can see your clothes, the way they fit you
as I slip them from your body
once they're gone, I pay them no mind
but they're there, on the floor
and if I glance down I will see them
giving substance to my thoughts
and as my hands trace all your curves
the thought of clothing leaves my mind
but deep down, I know they're there
just like you are, here with me.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:25 / 24.01.02
day 40, Jan. 24, 2002

Though true, I fear that my love strays
A little more with every glance
And wanders endlessly for days
At every beauteous stranger's chance
And while my love I try to tame
And keep my love from wand'ring far
It has become a tortured game
That leaves upon my heart a scar

My love it reaches far and wide
T'will not be reigned though I have tried.

[ 24-01-2002: Message edited by: Captain Zoom ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
23:23 / 24.01.02
(That last one was kinda nonsense)

sadness
and this weight
crushing, suffocating
squeezing everything from me
but sadness
and this weight
a cross, a shouldered world
whose only purpose
is to fill me
with sadness
and this weight
the shape of tears
the size of wracking sobs
reminder of
sadness
and this weight
this fucking weight
this horrible, horrible weight
and sadness.
 
 
grant
12:31 / 25.01.02
actually, I like the 'twas one better than the sadness one.
 
 
Captain Zoom
09:52 / 26.01.02
Day 41, Jan. 25, 2002

ambivalence
lacking any and all desire
looking aimlessly forward
forgetting what has come before
pointless and redundant
not a care
blissfully ignorant
happy.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:16 / 26.01.02
Day 42, Jan. 26, 2002

Don't panic
It will all come true
Everything that was promised
To me and to you
Keep faith
It will come around again
The hardship is ending
And so is the pain
Sad songs will sing
Only of days gone by
For discontent will leave us
Unhappiness will die
I believe this
Though you call me a fool
But there is this in humankind
To rise above misrule.
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:25 / 27.01.02
Lookit that. Yesterday was one hundred posts. We done good.

Day 43, Jan. 27, 2002

One night of wonder
One night of psychic pain
Discovery is penetrative
A violence on innocence
Close to the bone
Cuts deep and bloody
But the reward, the reward
Leaves me wanting more.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:04 / 29.01.02
Day 44, Jan. 29, 2002

After The Fact

And my halo brightens
(That's what haloes do)
but it's always just a little
too late
too far behind
too much lower on the ladder
Even sweeping upwards leaves me
two steps behind
racing to catch up
vain hopes dashed
Like a blind leopard stalking prey
but my halo brightens
maybe that's what's important.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:48 / 30.01.02
Day 45, Jan. 30, 2002

I am not your tagalong
No puppy, lapdog dragalong
No caged bird to sing you songs
And take the blame when it goes wrong

I am not a scapegoat boy
So why do you deny me joy?
And treat me like a small cheap toy
Use me as your decoy

I am human hear me roar
Kick me I will settle the score
Don't push me unless you want more
My sense of worth has been restored.
 
 
lentil
21:38 / 30.01.02
Comfort pursued
Pleasure, too
Often detrimental
To good intentions
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
10:38 / 31.01.02
Monday I'll be nice and kind,
Tuesday's when I help the blind,
Wednesday's just a day behind,
And I've got Ball-Sack on my mind.

Thursday is international Ball-Sack day!

This is the day on which we celebrate the male scrotum, and we feast on other animals ball-sacks.
It really does have a lucious flavour.
On the whole, I like mine tender and slightly chewy.
 
 
Captain Zoom
16:07 / 31.01.02
I am scared.

Zoom.
 
  

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