Recommended Posts
Lighthouse Keepers and Regurgitated Nectar, Poetry and AI Showcase
8 comments
Lighthouse Keepers & Single-Minded Yachtsmen
fill a kettle, light the gas
fire up the elemental
be patient, but wary
your minute, personal tempest
simmers long
before it boils away in a blink
will it be whiskey or brandy
maybe some rum ...
you mix with your light-keeper’s brew
go slow, take your oblivion
one shot at a time
dose in hand
retire to your porthole
overlook
what is a lovely view
but only in good weather
this long night ...
Polaris is scrubbed out
beneath steel-wool clouds
in the sparks and soot
there is no seeing the way
alone, upon dark waves
persists
a single-minded yachtsman
his gliding and swinging ways
long lost upstream
his course now sodden and shortened
the gale-drunk seafarer knows
tack with economy
or be washed away in the rage
drowned in silent eddies
light-house keeper
why not open
your drop-splattered pane
call out and invite the journeyer in
be more than a glimpsed beacon
to a lost navigator
would he mistake the warmth
the energetic vibrato in your tones
for the sizzled warning
of a coming lightening strike
he's a little further
down-current
this rain-pelted mariner
haphazardly jettisoned
increasingly absorbed
in the turbulent flow
a waterlogged cork
berth-less, adrift
aquatic detritus
cast off ... and away
from the high-life at sea
a dead or mast-head
the difference ...
a question of time
the rising water level
still ... why not open your portal
call out the way
Website
air-borne
consumable
bites
of code and fractals
Pooling Tears & Regurgitated Nectar
adorned in rose-bud pink
skin polished and painted
a flesh shade off geisha white
diamonds draped, a true match
to the pear-shaped tears flowing
lágrimas incógnitas
from beneath leaded-combed lashes
isn't she a doll, so easy to hold near
snake-coiled helices
spring-feted agitants
buzzing, droning, drunk on dew
calling out and hungering
there can be no satiation
there can be no hiding
always there is a flower blooming
isn't she a petal, so easy to hold dear
FEED ME
hush now, little dolls and dew drunkards
the sage within wears lotus blue
swims within the psychedelic hues
of pooling tears and regurgitated nectar
***
Words and poetry are my own. Images are a collaboration of AI, Grok, and myself. Concepts are my own and should be considered as visual haiku. Lighthouse Keepers and Single-Minded Yachtsmen is published in Domesticate the Heavens. Pooling Tears and Regurgitated Nectar is published in Strays. Website was first published on the X platform. Domesticate the Heaves, Strays and all the titles below are available in paperback or digital through amazon and your local libraries and bookstores. Click on any title below to further explore and support my writing.
Comments