2K17 Mrb Poetry - Nature and death afflictions

Womb kicks

the blow is fetched on someone, the blow regains its power

storms blow and trespass in hemispheres

by the hourly tide 

you shone with your arms out wide

just perched there like a scarecrow

an innocent crucifix with no ribbons

and no bows. 

i would bow in your presence

but it would only sacrifice humility for pretense

the art of pompousness in portent

unrelenting destruction relating to conundrums of the soul

scoring an own goal, kicked off the pitch

wind blown in a ball, all the air kicked out of it

all the air kicked out of it

all the air

kicked out of the very thing that gave life its speed. 

Death waltz

The line
Drab
Inked into dust
Cast on the sky
A dusk constellation either way
Waltzing with sentient beings
Obsessed by atomic death
And clause by cryptographic clusters
Cloying to the mind's eye.

 Apartness

Apart you say
Who are we
Alluding to catastrophe
Dismay dismay dismay

The path seems rocky
Your bones will soon find
Frailty is not proposed by the wind

Nor is calamity produced by snow
Catastrophe, who are we
Dismay, dismay, dismay.

Apart from the seasons we experience treason
All down to psychiatric failure
No rhythm
No reason
Oh dismay
Are you fickle?
Are we a trickle
A raindrop
Dismay dismay

Oh, apart we turned to gray.

Convalescence

The transcription of wit
From an inked glass
Blotted like a murderer's paper
What are these deeds, you ask
A cornucopia caper
A trick of the devil
An illusion of relativity
Or a convalescence of greed.

The bright sun shines outside
Oh widow, won't you weep for me.

Affliction of the distinctive soul

Something comes from nothingness

Always from death to life

Pain to strife

Regenerating forwards and back like a marble lock

The smell of machinery gloats on the dock

Cogs in machines

Cogs in streams

Buried from view

Alligators swallowing marbles

Drowning the marbles of others

This ode to death cannot be recovered

It can only be docked

As a regeneration process from death to life

One which we all experience

At a later time in life.

Copyright Michael Robert Buckingham - MRB poetry 2017 all rights reserved.

VIDA DE-sign by Michael Buckingham, aka Mick Muttley

Dear friends (yeah really, one of those)

I have become a women's wear designer for VIDA!

http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/

I was skeptical at first - you never really know - but they really talked & wanted 3 of 5 submissions for the site!

Vida has been an upstanding women's fashion ecommerce platform since 2015. They have a whole bunch of amazing designers on board...do I match up? I don't have a high opinion of my collage style, but it looks better here than at any other place.

The products are custom made. Like limited edition vinyl, each one is different and unique. My Turkish DE-Lights scarf is Cashmere so I understand Vida have bumped the price up of that. As to who'd wear any of these...well I would if the 'Think Positive' design was printed on black silk...I can arrange something. Every tee is silk here. There are currently 3 designs to choose (which are live)

Fascists (65 $ white silk modern tee)
Think Positive (65 $ white silk modern tee)
Turkish DE - Lights (85 $ multi colour Cashmere scarf)

The way it works...if you pre-order an item, it will be sent to production and custom made for you. It has my initials (MB) on the tee. Every item sold, I get 10% profit back. It does not cost me anything to design for Vida. They own the licensing authority, I own copyright.

I sincerely hope you found any of this personal post interesting. On with the show!

 Mike xxx