Tag: micro poetry

See, I’m not afraid if you or anyone leaves.

I mean, this might come as a surprise to the self-impressed but —

Come what may. I’ll always have me.

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: ART-BY-DOC

Remember that thing I once said about me going through emotions with clinical deliberation? This is it. No stones are left unturned.

Welcome to our first lesson in brain-dead reasoning.

Today’s Topic:

“Expecting people around us to maintain an infallible integrity

Even as we continue violating their trust —

Simply out of convenience and dysregulated impulse.“

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: neo-innov

When you pushed me into the darkness, what were you expecting?

For me to quiver how you would if it had been you?

That’s the kind of wishful thinking you find in Y.A. and charity fairs

Unknown to you, I’m familiar with the monsters of the abyss 

I can denote the separateness in their voices, even when they whisper.

Your desire to dominate is infantile compared to what they can do.

But some part of you already knew that.

After all, you’re pushing demons to do your dirty work for you.

Some perspective: You’re a tadpole in a giant pond —

A giant pond, Burrowed deep, on an island,

An island, in the middle of an unmarked ocean

Your enlightenment has a ceiling.

Your value system carries the self-indulgent wisdom of a basement dweller

With a day-old cadaver rotting in an unplugged freezer.

Tell me, exactly, how I was meant to break with you involved?

With you involved, the push was a failure by default.

It’s insulting, to be tormented by a weasel

A weasel, eager to lead but knows little to nothing

Little to nothing about regulating its own thoughts and feelings.

Carrying the ambition to run a country

But having no idea how to run your own home,

The type to shoot me in the head and still miss.

See, when you pushed me, you should have finished the job.

But it’s too late, I’m back,

And right behind me? The monsters you tried to feed me to.

See, I don’t know what fascinates me more

The fact that I was right about you

Or the fact that despite having remarkably low expectations 

I still left feeling disappointed.

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: neo-innov

What can I say, It’s a good day for an exorcism.

Love isn’t complicated,

The absence of it is.

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: Gydw1n

A quote I took from one of the lines in my recent Spoken Word.

DO YOU KNOW THE SPEED OF BLOOD?

Blood flow in arteries ranges from 4.9 – 19 cm/sec whilst blood in our veins ranges from 1.5 – 7.1 cm/sec.

Also, an adult heart is said to pump approximately 5 litres of blood per minute at rest.

WE SEE EVERYTHING IN THIRTY – SIXTY FRAMES PER SECOND (30 – 60 FPS)

I don’t know, I think that’s a fascinating piece of useless trivia that you should hear about.

CINDERELLA’S MAGIC SYSTEM DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE

So, hold on. Everything from the carriage to Cinderella’s dress reverts back to its original form when midnight strikes. Everything but the shoe? The super glass shoe stays the same. Super contrived and lazy if you ask me.

Might as well call the story “The Glass Shoe” because we now know who the true main character is.

NO ONE ACTUALLY KNOWS WHEN TO CALL A LANDMASS AN ISLAND OR NOT

People will tell you that an island needs to be surrounded by water. It (the island) needs to be able to sustain life (plants and animals) — and if it can’t, it’s just a rock. They’ll tell you that there’s no definitive scale for anyone to begin calling a landmass an ‘Island’. 

To be an island, the landmass needs to be “entirely surrounded by water” but it needs to be “smaller than a continent” — real specific there Britannica.

So I can’t call continents “islands” because continents are bigger than islands

And I can’t call islands “continents” because islands aren’t as big as continents.

Wonderful.

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Oh, I forgot we’re at a party. Can someone please pass me the champagne?

AHH YES, ‘OBVIOUS’ COLOUR NAMES.

The colour you see when you open your eyes in a dark room isn’t “black” you uncultured swine; it’s “Eigengrau” —broadly identified as #16161d.

Literally, everyone knows that.

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: LukasFractalizator

How can anyone say “now” is the present,

When by that estimation;

Now has already been two lines ago.

– O.D. ©2022

Art by: viktorow

And if you’re reading this, how far has now been?