Beauty Is Not For Me
Beauty is words...
Delicate words
A fluttering verse
Spells to form a curse
Butterflies wings
Or angelic happenings
This is the beauty of words
Trapped in a verse
Paraded for all to see
In cages of stanzas.....
Set them free
Cryptic meanings
Thoughts running freely
Can't convey my feelings
Words can be murky
When they should be understood easily
Misinformation
Misinterpretation
An asylum seeker
In an alien nation
Comitted to completion
Or..
Deserving of deletion?
Am I really being me?
A story to tell
But trapped in one format
The lavar lies dormant
I'm Lucifer still trapped in hell...
The beauty of rhyme
Isn't beautiful all the time
Forced to conform
Another prisoner to take..
I've become a victim of the very thing I'm trying to escape
Thin Ice on the lake
To which I could skate
Hesitate....
Think again...Am I being fake?
This could be a mistake
It could be the pebble that causes the ice to break
Frankenstein and his monster
Counterproductive
Both repulsive and seductive
Hallways of smoke and mirrors
Playing rock, paper....
Don't run with the scissors!
Nothing makes sense to me?
Run in the opposite direction
Avoid your reflection
Please beware!
I'm sorry
I didn’t see you there
Obvious yet subtle
My thoughts are in a muddle
Seeing in blizzard conditions
Thickets of imagery and wisdom
A humble place is my abode
A lonely mind in a snow globe
Sending abstract visions
Via messenger pigions
So I look through the mirror
To oceans of emotions ...
My thoughts can be as black as night
Staring back is a Dali painting... Gone right
On the raft at sea
Searching for the shore
Along with the right metaphor
Lacking reason and creativity
Beauty is not always beautiful..
At least not to me
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Wow! Syd this is brilliant! It echoes how I feel completely, written SOOO well! Hat's off to you my friend!! Pinned for it's brilliance!☺
Thanks John, I'm glad you enjoyed. I'm going to be honest with you. I hadn't been on Cosmo for a while so I stopped by your page for a read and I noticed Tonys comment on your poem. I too had fallen into the same routine.
Although I like the subject matter, most of my poems have the same format. So you and Tony, as well as my past poems were the inspiration. I'm not sure it's going to be style I choose to write in often though. Call me old fashioned or whatever but I do like poems to rhyme. That 2 4 2 4 format is great for that, although it is simple.
Thanks for reading and pinning. As always I appreciate the feedback.
Take care - Syd
So that's why it mirrored my feelings!lol! Thanks for stopping by btw, and I'm happy it inspired you, you certainly did the situation justice! I too, do like poems to flow or rhyme, but as I said in my reply to Tony, I find I frustrate myself sometimes as I fall into the same patterns, even if I start a write with the intention to do something different, my mind automatically thinks of rhymes to follow each line. I tried a bit of narrative, but they still ended up rhyming too! Lol!
This site is great for inspiration, advice, support etc!
My respect to you mate!☺
Yeah it was more than just coincidence although I was starting to feel like a slave to my own poems especially with the Wonderland Avenue saga which I still haven't finished (I started with the best intentions). I'll give the rest of your poems a read another day...I'm worn out.
Oh I wrote a poem a while back called Champagne and Caviar if you want to read something else of a different format but which also sort of rhymes (I don't expect a like or a star rating, just trying to be helpful)
Cheers - Syd
Hey SYD!!......this is stunning...,, fantastic ability to play with words here....... "A lonely mind in a snow globe!" ~ wow! I freakīn LOVE that line!!.....there's so much going on within the formatting and execution here that I wish I were there to give you props for your efforts...... because I was riveted brother!..... seriously, the abstract quality to the tone and imagery is truly DNA-like!!..... and you know I LOVE a good Salvador Dali painting!!..... so go figure!!.....PINNED!!...smokin' grooves brother!!.....smokin' grooves!!....T xo ???. ♥
Hi Tony,
Thank you for your kind words and feedback. I tried something different, something abstract, something out of my comfort zone. Your comment on Johns poem was the inspiration for my write, that along with my previous poems.
Take care Tony. Love and rockets also - Syd xo