I really like this as is but I share some thoughts:
Now go the hell away. Very good use of this line. I'd make it the title unless a specific event or place comes to mind. Like "Workshop, May 32nd, Highway-to-Hell, Nevada".
I'd find active verbs for each use of 'is' and replace each 'the'. Like "May's sky screams blue; Spring's sea blooms green". This provides a season and action, sound, something.
Could use a grammar check unless you like it as is. Grammar is less important in poetry; this isn't an essay. For a definite pause (like for rhythm) you can use an emdash instead of a comma like: "I kid you not — nature's obscene,"
To add "darkness" to it... this is that season...
Explorers with lost souls explore,
Search worlds they've never searched before,
They'll kid you not — forevermore,
Now go the hell away.
My flesh lies on the grave of my mattress,
I think death might not be much different,
Existence has become claustrophobic,
My skills are being still and of slight breath,
I avoid many things I want,
I guess I've been dead for a long time,
Maybe my whole life's been mere practice.
In time's wonder, does a drink help me think,
Is alcohol a schoolboy's wishful dream,
My animal intensified uplink,
My words, an excuse disguised as a theme.
When Longfellow wrote down something mellow,
A bit of good booze may have helped him lose,
Neurosis allowing him to bellow,
Which heightened or relieved him from the blues.
All I realize is that I'm snockered,
And getting snockered-er with every word,
Dear friend, my monitor is growing burred,
Now even my typing is getting slurred.
So, all in all, at last, I think I've found,
One way I should never try to expound.
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