Delusional Inspiration

Just as a slight introduction, it has been a busy week filled with work, writing and studying and I have spent many hours focusing on matters I generally do not devote so much time and energy to. Some of these poems are inspired by studying I've been doing, and others are from music I've listened to while writing. They're unpolished and a bit coarse, not like a diamond but like the scuffed tip of your shoe:

The Clomping Animals

Like church bells tinkling at a pyre,

a warning is told to animals from the shire;

Clomping along snout and tail,

The embodiment of fundamental human failure.

Dry

Bursts of noise stay rooted in soil.

Flowers wilt in the cracked earth.

No rain, no rain and voices are dry

The collapsing sound shakes nobody,

And nothing speaks.

                                                                                   

Clouds

Bright bulbs are flashing around and it’s hard to think straight because of all the sound. Something is leaking, slowly dripping onto a shoe. Looks like water, but no, it’s thinner than water. Clouds overhead amble and drift, playing catch up with each other as they try to cover the endless blue sky.  Now the clouds are gone and the wind is gone but the bulbs are still flashing and the sound in the air is louder and louder like a thunderstorm perched above. With no wind to move, it stagnates, slamming and slamming; everything explodes.

The clouds reappear, still steady and slow, a great migration with places to go.