Song of the Whirling

Imaginations packed tight in urbanities  

Thought caught between fiction and fantasies 

Blood and bone, filament fragile fragments 

Lit in bodies, pulsing, soft stuck on tangents 

Building concoctions, cars, and drones orbiting 

Heavy carbon thrusters, seeking, always targeting   

Ideals burning death holes into flesh 

Righteousness, wildcard bomber mess 

Games playing games with gamers who are namers 

Virtual reality vitamin tablet takers 

Stinky-ass kiddos, full of trash talk 

Limping like kings of the leper walk 

Seekers of the hot truth talking mama 

Pimps with gun tongues sending women into trauma 

Progressive aggressives, arguing about Shangri La  

Nazis posing as politicians in the land of blah, blah, blah 

Pretty, little blurry-eyed scenesters, fully grown 

Rewinding cassettes back to analogue unknown  

The clueless, fattening fingers on a digital button  

Unaware of the shape and size of deep-fried glutton 

Hybrid condo boxes built inside the zoo 

Made of fiddlehead ferns, plastic groceries, a bit of glue 

Collectors of creeps, glory, gods, and sneakers 

Meet weekly for a sneak peek at the full-length feature 

Zombies escaping to the country, next to the cows 

Cutting baked tofu into the shape of clowns 

Leaves Of Grass has been sprayed for bugs  

And The Song of Myself is met with a shrug 

Image created by me.

13 responses to “Song of the Whirling”

  1. Pen o’ the Woods Avatar
    Pen o’ the Woods

    Whoa and wow. Love the ending. Image is super cool too. And yeah, it’s like that…. 

    Thank you for naming it.

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks “Pen”!

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  2. Jane Pryce Avatar
    Jane Pryce

    Wow. Love the image.

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks! I rummaged through a few that I had and settled on this one.

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      1. Jane Pryce Avatar
        Jane Pryce

        Did you create it or was it a photo you took?

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      2. Ahzio Avatar
        Ahzio

        It’s a photo of lines next to the curb of a bridge that was recently constructed. There was a stick there as well, as you can see. I did a slight bit of digital drawing over the stick. That’s it.

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      3. Jane Pryce Avatar
        Jane Pryce

        That’s was what I guessed. I love it

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      4. Ahzio Avatar
        Ahzio

        Thanks. I thought there was something primal about it, yet full of modern noise. If that makes sense.

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  3. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Amazing! Beautiful, wow!!

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks Lia!

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  4. camilla wells paynter Avatar
    camilla wells paynter

    “The land of blah, blah, blah”! Oh, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! Powerful last line! Yes, thank you for naming it.

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  5. tenzenmen Avatar
    tenzenmen

    Nice! I have half an idea to take each line as a first line for new poems….. Now, if there was some spare time laying around somewhere…..

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