Sunday, April 14, 2024

Medusa Planet Death Mirror Game

 by shaun lawton 

   I won't follow the game going over 
each play blow by blow as they come and
 neither should any of us waste our days 
worrying over every frame in time. 

  The best thing to remember as we slide 
toward September is to keep our wits
 about us and appreciate the air 
so we may live without a care 
but try our best to represent us 
  by stopping for a thought about the bigger 
 picture and helping out the distressed 
since serving others helps to maintain 
the whole assuring we are all blessed. 

 In the ravages of these quickening times 
multiplying the horrors to come 
  opportunities to help increase with the tides 
 for our war that is forever won 
  for there are no wars that belong to Them 
 since every war belongs to our very own heart.

We are the so called 'Masters of War,' 
every woman, child and man play their part.

  None among us may walk away innocent 
of the accusation of total complicity 
 amid the atrocities committed by any nation 
dwelling upon this planet as we have been 
  all of us in it together as of this very moment 
 remain one hundred percent at fault.
 
  Each one of us pointing our fingers 
and facing the other's index-indications
 continue to be the sole perpetrators 
of everything that's wrong with our world.

 Since we aren't capable of getting together 
and setting apart our differences
 of perception for even a moment then 
we may as well stand and lay down, guilty as charged.

 It matters that the subsidiary wars undulating 
underneath the refractive layers cast upon 
 this glamorous  multilane media-lit world 
of after-hours trafficking and chemical traces 
of neurons all along the towering electrical gridwork 
firing perpetually to light up our dreams and waking lives 
  into their constant interaction of charging up 
the shared screen that passes for our minds.

  Of course it matters as it leaves us all 
 enthralled by the idea of being alive 
when every last one of us just remains 
  yet another person stuck in this game to survive. 
    
 
 
  

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Count Down

by   shaun lawton 



a bug defect flaw hitch malfunction mishap problem bitch blow glitch
defeat delay difficulty adversity complication crisis deadlock dilemma 
gridlock plight predicament circumstance crisis hardship impasse
 standoff standstill pickle plight condition predicament quandary
 trouble anxiety concern danger difficulty adversity complication 
hazard crisis catastrophe change confrontation disaster calamity 
debacle emergency failure breakdown collapse decline beating
breakdown destruction annihilation carnage elimination
 eradication decimation extermination extinction obsolescence
 end of life void nullity nonbeing nothing zero 


Thursday, June 2, 2022

The Power of Dirt

by  shaun lawton 


One definition of knowing 
 could be settled for a rationale 
Just a cursory demarcation 
of a rendering into twice told tales
the individuation or formality 
forever the annotation you get the drift 


The setting for a reason 
 a soundness of understanding 
To the edge of the terminus
for clarity to a definition
taking shape before all struck eyes
like a sliced off cross section of fruit

Don't let it bewilder or concern you
 with portents of unforeseen wonder
Luring the witchery into a trance
to contemplate inside one's castle built
the pipe dreams of the chimerical muse
the craft of a life's work hung in the balance

Pursuing the inquest to follow the legwork 
 leading to question and reason it out 
A matter of deliberate consolidation 
melding into a coalition of alliance 
by association with the syndicate
all aboard with the trusted crew

An inconspicuous murmuring 
 through the members of the clade
But the moon was very full and bright 
a turn of strange events had led to the ones 
that already had it made forced to turn around
headed back in the direction which they had come


 

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Heading Back Into The Dark





Conflations of energy flow are woven
 about us so we know just how sure we should be 
of ourselves at any given moment, 
how else could we have shown otherwise 
if not to disguise our basic need for want 
of another seed to plant anew our dream 
and see it flower into another fortune 
altogether, only we'll never figure 
it could be better than our original
 venture into unknown territory together,
showing us how we are guided
 by the most innocuous measures
 back into the nethermost silent
territories adrift in the plumb deeps. 
Here we gather for our treasure
 hunting expeditions we can keep
regards to others in their own weather
while the times exist together under
the wind in the fields of wheat.

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Initium

by Shaun Lawton 

I found myself wading in to the city knee deep in an easy going low tide of floating dandelion spores dislodged by my passing and kept abreast of my knees' methodical marching by the breeze generated from my own insistent locomotion as much as any stirred from our planet's solar juxtaposition.  Glancing at the vanishing point above the wild grassy field before me, my effort at observation was lanced with a brilliant spear of haloed light that dazzled under the cupped palm of my left hand as I kept it, a living visor of meat and bone grown translucent red from the light's intensity, firmly against my forehead.  Lowering the lids of my eyes revealed a swarming host of magnified infusoria tracking weightlessly to the right until lifting them, which replaced my vision of their petri-dish appearance with uninterrupted blue.  The flares of brightness edging in from the horizon blinded me repeatedly.  Gnats and mosquitoes dove within my ear's scope into irritating high-pitched drones.  I kept swiping at the buzzing as the sunlight continued dazzling my barely opened eyes.  Clouds piled up above me elevated toward the horizon in all directions, white as dreams ballooning within the azure sky.