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Coastline Reverie

Without holding schemes,

drowned in wayfaring,

roving down coasts,

realms blurred by streak of red and yellow,

pulse of blue,

kindling fire in lungs.

Cigarettes charred like fleeting pledges.

Suspended in Portland,

stalled in Port Angeles,

lingered in La Push,

stationed canopies in sand,

ocean voicelessness, murky arcanum at back.

when effulgence crept high,

galloping,

restive cores,

coveting Nox,

besotted demons,

upper devils,

cachinnation,

guffawing with knives,

scathing through air.

Clambering jagged stones,

aqua chaws on feet,

hearts thrumming to cadence of chaos,

cold-blooded billows swallowed overall,

over and over.

Nights flavored with liberty,

unknow possessor

darkly convivial.

Pursuit of vacant stars

Peculiar stammers arise,

anthem forged blazing false ideal,

peace tacks together placid betrayal,

greed wears crowns of delusion.

Pressure crushing,

submission never selected,

gnawing hunger of interminable itches,

achievement of amiability aspirations,

oath abscond,

tauten chains.

Defective sleep shades,

dwellings sculpt bleached trusts,

elite float overhead,

saturated gold glass,

swaddled collapsing plethora.

Hasten resources,

stalking pilfered timing.

Fists tremulous,

grasping languished commodities,

vacant pursuit haunts,

interval expansion,

stars lulling, zooming.

Fleshly,

disoriented crater,

singed desertion gobbling discourse,

aloof arteries regulating acutely,

expressive transmissions channel nihility,

mutiny expires unseasonably.

Pursuit of Vacant Stars was originally published in Black Coffee Poetry on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hatched in wreckage of generation,

demolished pieces, sparks of kindle,

prevailing only to burn,

assembled ash.

Ogling expanse,

domains staring reverse,

everlasting looking glass of mortality.

Luminaries, close to termination,

blink in duration, fleeting breaths.

Moonlight ghoul harrows

frozen, idle space,

undertone of past,

sunlight claws through concealment,

absent, swallowed time.

Colossal mesh of broken branches,

spreading, reaching, consuming.

Strands in tangled total,

cycle unbroken, endlessly displaced.

Juncture bend and fold,

untruly disappearing,

what is eternity?

Words, aspirations, fleeting will,

caught between hands,

human apprehension.

Earth cracks,

suns blast fervid surrender,

galaxies twist and die,

birthing unknown.

What of us?

Stardust,

Nonentity and reflection globe

apathetic to comprehend consultation,

limits,

measure.

Substance of heavenly,

cosmos’ grand conception,

clinging illusion control.

Invention of age

propels the lost society

back into the arms of slavery.

Stranded machinery masses

cast mankind

Away

under speechless entertainment.

What extinction we build.

Adam’s youth

now resolved

to inhibition.

God limited

through weights

of forged material.