POM - flaggwalkstheline!

Congratulations, flaggwalkstheline! I have deemed you Poet of the Month!!!
I have posted 3 poems that I enjoyed for a number of reasons! If anyone else would care to post any of flagg's poems that they wish to discuss, feel free!

Please enjoy the poems I posted...

POEM #1

Somewhere
Grey and silent as a monastery floor
A chalkmark has been scraped
Drawn into
My shape
I know this while clenching my hands in empty coat pockets
I watch headlights wink as if making a private mechanical jest in darkness
Somewhere up the road

everything I ever wanted
Flies by with blazing eyes
Heatseeking-missile kisses meant for someone else

A white outline is sketched on the sidewalk near a building
Cold Island in a colder sea
That’s me
And that’s the machine

The scraping keeps me awake


POEM #2

The blue eyed schemer
Bit the ear of the green eyed dreamer
You and I
Though we walk smugly under burnt umbrellas
Will never hold out the flood
And its time spanning tidal burp
So rather than watch the water grow into the clouds
We should turn our backs on the typhoon
The inevitable is as boring as a blank morning paper
We should climb into the mountain's dulled teeth
Fling our metal trophies and withered wreaths
Down just to hear the sudden sullen clank
Turn your back on the avalanche
And climb with me
Climb like spiders in love
You and I whose feet have never felt
The pure ancient rocks beneath the labyrinth
Have heard the bull stomping stomping
Climb and we will never be inevitable
Pick plums until out lips are purple
Chew them to the very core
The center of amnesiac sweetness
Sunlight tempts eyelids to open and become brief sunflowers
Sticky hands fused together with sap from a dying tree
You and me
Should dream like reptiles on cold stone
Shedding yesterday's skin

POEM #3

My hands
Only know how to to do simple things
And I think its a shame the way
My fingertips like to touch everything they come near like little bloodhounds
Yet still can't play the piano

Congrats!

Haven't heard from FWTL in awhile, does he still hang around here?

Love the second one BTW. Flagg has a lot to choose from. One could read his thread for quite some time. Very prolific.

I haven't seen this person in awhile either. The poems listed are all very good but I like #3 the best. Its a quick poetic thought.

I like it the best of the 3 as well! I'll post some more of flagg's works later!