Poetic Form 11: Abstract

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du-ring Du-ring DU-ring DU-RING

The phone is full of frivolous fluff

Sunlight shines in sight

Nu Nu Nothing to say

Just another sleepless night

Pop 

Pop-tart

Pop

Pop toast

Pop

Pop strudel

Cartoons clamour

The best day ever

Finding clues

Makes us feel clever

Oven beeped

Beeped

Beeped until canceled

Cycle through cycles

Clunk

Swoosh

Spraying until sparkling

Hummmm

Till they turn up the TV

A last groan

Aughhh

With a last dad joke

hee, hee, hee

Hun, what do you call...

Poetic Form #11: Abstract

There are a few different definitions for abstract poetry. The main idea is about how sounds, rhythms, and textures of the words evoke emotions rather than about the meaning of words.

Fade to Nowhere

I’ll just fade into nowhere

my past like a flare into the night

I don't dare

because of the fear I feel

that no one saw

the brief burst of color

in a night sky filled with satellites

broadcasting another game

another 80’s movie

or rerunning a game show

I’ll just fade into nowhere

this moment like a flare into the sky

Stranded on an island

searching for a rescue unit

in an endless blue of

ocean and sky

not a cloud to be seen

or rain to come still

my thirst for something

more than all this space

I’ll just fade into nowhere

my future like a flare that won’t ignite

The wick wet from

tears I’ve tried to

dry with your love letters

and mail from the strangers

who seem to know

nothing of me

but want everything

I’ve built this life with

I’ll just fade into nowhere

I’ll just fade

Fade

I’ll just fade into nowhere

Today

We have enough scars

and heartbreaks

crushed families

spilling from the alcohol that

pours from our TVs

Afraid to be

the best of ourselves

because everyone is

making fun of our

humanness

Add a filter

tip your chin

Not sure where you took the picture

but you are the center

The world though has its

own axis

and we are all spinning around the

same pole

So let's drop more bombs

open more prisons

and call people names

from our keyboards

because it doesn’t matter anymore

because it never mattered in the first place

The Internet tells me so…