What am I talking about?

The frantic scriblles of a madmanThe regurgitation of a sick manThe productivity of a recluseThe result of insomniaThe transcendental recordings of a wise manThe blood of a masochistThe songs of a loverThe praise of a priestThe death of a childThe lens towards beautyThe veil to realityThe path to destructionThe road to salvationThe ink on this […]

There’s this pain in my heart that just won’t go away

even though I want to speak to you I don’t know what to sayI wish that I could tell you exactly how I feelwish that you understood that what I feel for you is realcuz our story has not been terminatedwe’re just living our lives separatedit’s hard to understand why wechanged to you and mebut […]

The oxymoronicality of a subjective cosmological satire

The chains of apathy hold me upas I latently struggleto break freeinto this world of boundless limitationsI rest tirelesslyhidden in plain sightamidst the light of the nightdreading the darkness of the dawnand all the terrorizingacts of human compassionseeking the solace of lonelinessin my closest companionswondering how a world so beautifulcan look so uglywe are taught […]

built to spill

He was a sad manstrumming his guitarsweetlyangrilyslowlythen fast againmy best friend and iwatched him playand took solace in the shade,the shadow castas the sun setover the harborfound comfortin his voicesingingbeautifullypainfullyunderstanding wordsfilling the airwavesbooming out overthis gathering of peopleand words of gratitudefor everyonethank you

go do

It’s been a whilesince I’ve dreaded my bedit’s been a whilesince I’ve been alone in my headsometimes there’sstrange thoughts up theresometimes I think thingsthat other people don’t want to hearsometimes I wonderwhat it will be liketo live a lifewatching thingspeoplefriendsfamilydieit makes me anxiousit makes us all nervousso try to think aboutthe good thingsall the things […]

Tonight, Life was Hope/Love

Take my hand,And walk with meFor the sake of life.We will walkThrough the shining beams of light,The stretches of darkness.Tonight, we deem destination unnecessary,For our ends lie within our selves.Take my hand,And speak to meFor the sake of life.We can talkOf anything we want,Or nothing at all.Tonight, the subject is us,For we long to share.Take […]

An exercise in gratefulness and commas

The moon, beaming forth through the clouds during what we here call night, deemed subtle by 21 years of moderately consistent and considerably persistent sensual perception, altered slightly by eclipses, harvest moons and other planetary alignments so far beyond my grasp, attempting to keep this world, this universe, our existence, in balance, disrupted by mankind, […]

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice