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7 New Poems from Clifford K. Watkins Jr.

Faceless Redemption

rocking chairs vacant

the lone whisperer reinvents himself

standing anew

someone else

other than you

envisioning unknown realms

a crucifix painted blue

a lucky buckeye

and swirling immaculate hues

darkness has friends

spinning wild lies

cloud-faced depression

pacified with awkward tongues

too tired to pretend

breathing with angry lungs

unable to mend

memories spin

laughing

I'm him again

to my chagrin

it never ends

the windows run

our quest is done

wandering through barren wilderness

a golden beggar's sun

lost reflections

memories of rust

spilling lies

liquid lives

saturated

parched by excess

leave nothing to trust

a shed of coal dust

a fine mess

blown into a furious gust

you've been blessed

redemption is a must

awakened to

a dawn of strangers

blind assumptions

repression clears

the path of doom

absent tears

consolidating madness

insanity looms

swimming in our fear

words empty

a stranger is breathing near

condensation rolls on shards of glass

a glimmer of obsession

it comes to pass

one can dream

delusional bliss

it comes fast

nothingness

transcend everything

become anything

a million fragments of myself

a world on a whim

seeking solace

sanctuary

someone else

opening my eyes for a fallen friend

trying to be a universe again!

sneezing out coal dust

dancing around the pigpen

skipping into the apple orchard

wild-eyed strangers encircling fire

unconscious confessions

a setting so dire

uninhibited fools

naked mannequins

faceless

whispering heedless words

unremembered

unheard

moonshine warming their hands

unlocking their minds

simple strands

burning lines

beneath a sky of lunacy

pretending everything is okay

screams of futility

kicking at imaginary dogs

unreality

haunts his existence

jousting at a face of bliss

a caustic wit

or a closed fist

blindness

smiles

remnants of lost worlds

pointless swirls

unexpected guile

they're easily unfurled

shell casings

blood-stained knives

disrupted sleep

untrained eyes

evil arrives

the world is a mound

of clueless tiers

hands down

liberation hides

switching gears

reality slides

and surreal scenery goes flying by

minds are emptied into night's reign

he's never the same

anything but the norm

bleeding

pain

scrutiny

shame

grand uncertainty

a single flame

a fragmented plane

the promise of light

demeaning names

and an underlying sacred swarm

ending the game

the eyes are cold

the water is warm

we live

we lie

we linger undone

so timorously racing

against a swollen sun

make your fate

love

kill

and create

beyond us lies everything

anything more than our meager lives

Skies Of Gold

ephemeral skies of gold

dissipate into the eyes of old

where the convoluted mind of misery slowly unfolds

life could be our biggest obstacle

outside of it anything is possible

The Hideous Being

gaze into the eyes of the hideous being

screaming and reaching for tomorrow's dream

I'm nothing

moments fleeting

a corpse entombed

a meager heart beating

racing against doom

I'm the dream waning

captivated by this womb

it's pointless

the complaining

a recluse lost in this room

easy oblivion is always near

futile words reign

and echoes linger

as the fallen fury of a single tear

Music Box

we exist in some fleeting spinster's dream

as she twirls in a music box

listening for secrets

swimming in our tears

she brings the melody that summons our fear

she sits in darkness

spinning fortuitous realms of bliss

and when she awakes

we vanish into nothingness

We Are They

mourners feast from the smoke house

and garden light

grudgingly they travel near the threshold of madness

like lonely whisperers ready to scream

muttering ultimate truths

afraid to be obscene

carving rock tributaries in crimson streams

waiting for anyone to enter their dreams

they burn unsightly strangers

as swirling smoke ascends into heaven

appeasing gods

insuring their return

and another tomorrow

they dance for forgiveness

and laugh away sorrow

they dream of bliss

wanting to believe in anything

but their randomness

Choose A Muse

choose a muse for inspiration swirls

enter strange witness

this flurry of dreams

lose yourself in this forgotten world

pointless legions

and insanity streams

listen to the influx of sorrow

and reasons why

counting the footsteps before she arrived

blood-swallowed disorder

and rolling hills of intrusion

if only there was a place to hide

but no one survives this carnival ride

slowly evolving into god's eyes

maybe someday we'll reappear

and maybe her reflection is clear

in this stint we wallow in the quagmire of somber Sunday

we travel inside ourselves

trying not to cast life away

Dear God

a soul's a breeze
and a world a whim
it makes sense
what
religion's a fence
freedom's indifference
we breed away innocence
closed mind
shut up and die
maybe god will make us blind
wait
there's not enough uncertainty in your mind
once lost
I prayed for a rainy day
I cursed the sun anxiety-gray
I dreamt the sun died
consumed by a cloud along with our eyes
sunshine-suicide
I used to wonder what is a soul
is it like a heart
or empty like a hole
could it be seen in art
or felt as tears rolled
is it fun like words
can it be adjusted
or eaten like flocks
and herds
the more I've read
the less I've learned
we've sinned for ages
and I've turned countless pages
do people really live in stages
minds can't be dissected with tactless tools
we're all idiots
colossal cowards
and hopeless fools
sleepwalkers over puddles of our own drool
it's okay
progress is rude in a way
tomorrow forges on
where the tree lover is dead
and so far gone
technology is life's expense for simple sense
the average man is insignificance
the face no one sees
we're never clear
remember me
or I was never here
not a remnant of a dream
or shard of memory
unseen
a flushed reality

god's stomach rumbles
unheard words mumble
as cookie-cutter people crumble
we're eager to devour
god's shit which is our flowers
there's bravery in hopeless cowards
ordinary beings with inept powers
there's no relief
death is a thief
we can't escape grief
what do you believe
I'm bloodshot eyes
tobacco stained teeth
art splattered on walls
a phone rings
but no one ever calls
meet satan
today it's alcohol
mildew decorates the hall
the web could be another way to smother
a nosy neighbor who redefines big brother
a mind reading mother
a probe of certain kind designed to unlock minds
and give vision to the blind
it's positive in a certain sense
but negative too meets at indifference
freedom of the mind is all that's truly left
it's all we've ever had
breathe
go ahead
take another breath before death
imagine a monopoly on minds
big brother charging you to fantasize
life's goal
to manipulate what's behind your eyes
deep in mind
a mine of knowledge stolen caves in
we hope to live again
I fear the end
I'm not self-assured
but I can pretend there's a cure
certainly I'm sure
that wisdom scars are forgiven
blood drained from veins
but I'm still living
the more we advance
the more we derange
the evil strain of convolution stains

is god a witch doctor chanting in my brain
are we characters on a screen
a video game
am I deranged
what's he smoking
you've got to be joking
game over
deposit another token
today god is the sun
and yesterday's jesus is the ocean
we're insanity in motion
a bloated corpse floating
as sharks start to frenzy
I know you're bored just pretend for me
treading water
I'm my own worst enemy
from burning flesh to divinity
escaping thru open wounds
freed from the burden of reality
life's a joke
a quest
a fleeting memory at best
wisdom could be the ability to sing in drowning distress
I guess
some say the waves are the source
I bleed words
and beat a dead horse
ideas gather
it doesn't matter
I'm getting fatter
the object of ridicule
I mean laughter
I write faster
maybe tomorrow I'll be wiser
life's master
I try to prosper
but dawn comes too soon
shut up fool
night light entombed a simple buffoon