Tag: performance

(un)Settling (performed with the ex-optimists – settling)

Settling and settling and settling
Settling in to the unsettling sound
The on and on and on drone,
The twitch, twitch, screech,
The prowling paranoia,
This –my friends- is the disturbing din of Discordia
…The unsettling settling in – reaching out from the rafters of time,[…]

Settling and settling and settling 
Settling  in to the unsettling sound
The on and on and on drone,
The twitch, twitch, screech,
The prowling paranoia, 
This –my friends- is the disturbing din of Discordia 
...The unsettling settling in – reaching out from the rafters of time,
-- A claw screeching across our chalkboard mind.
This is the unsettling settling in – all before us – 
The cacophony of chaos ringing out, forever and forever,
The unsettling settling in –all around us –

The unsettling sound…

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Unsettling and unsettling and unsettling 
Let's turn instead, settle down to the settling sound,
The ring of right from wrong -
of sound from fury,
the crack of dawn from din, 
of symphony from cacophony 
Break free from the unsettling and 
Settle into something pure, something passionate,
Settle into the lyre – the lute –
The ordered lines and notes – 
The beaming eyes and beating hearts…
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The settling down. 
That settling sound. 
Settling down.
Settling down.

2.28.15
M. L. Michael

About…

apparitions (performed with bi_Polar bear)

The sun sets on the empty horizon,
And a blood moon aches to fill in the space,

The Ghost of I, mirroring the Specter of Sighs,
Running from the Abyss of Nigh,
Struggles to find relief
In the space twixt cold sheets. […]

The sun sets on the empty horizon,
And a blood moon aches to fill in the space,

The Ghost of I, mirroring the Specter of Sighs, 
Running from the Abyss of Nigh,
Struggles to find relief
In the space twixt cold sheets.           

Crows caw in the distance,
Caroling the end of an era,
Ushering in the reality of an omen,
Crows caw,
Signaling the beginning
Of the flight or fight omen,
The dawn of
The do or die era.

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There will be no sleep for the Ghost of I,
For the crows have spoken,
And in their caw they have responded with a simple chorus –

The ghost is done,
The specter moves on,
The abyss has won,

Their caw echoes into the night,
Their call remains unanswered…

Unless…

Unless the ghost rages from its haunted bed
And floats out from the dark, into the light,
Into a forgiving, a living, world,
To find the crows of ill tidings,
And correct them of their misguidings.

…Brimming with purpose, the ghost sets out,
Across the deserts of depression,
Into the forests of folly,
Over the mountains of malaise,
Into the ravines of reward..
Through the fields of failure,
Into the space of what’s to come.
The ghost must be determined
To find the crows and stop their cawing.

Time is lost to the one so determined,
And – hope never forgotten –
Full of vim and of fighting,
The ghost finds the nest of crows,
The source of his true haunting,

Here is that murder,
A whirlwind of wanting tar feathers,
A myriad mass of caws and cacophony,
A indistinguishable blur of agony,
A writhing want of bliss for the abyss.

But fear is lost to the spirit so determined,
And – pain now forgotten –
Full of vigor and of fighting,
The ghost dives into this cacophony,
Into the source of true agony.

To gnash and gnaw,
To crash and claw.

The abyss is theirs to revolt,
To rebel against,
The abyss is theirs,
To dispel,
To distort against.

The abyss is theirs
to own.

….

The crows are never silenced,
But now they caw a different chorus,

The ghost is done.
The ghost has won.
The ghost moves on.

The End.
The End.
The End…

-12/18/13-
M. L. Michael

About…

RIP Jeremy Rounkles…