Poetic Fragments
Secrets
The things that
We are afraid
To
Give voice
PoeticFragments@05172022A(Leonard C. Gesinski)
Archive for the Experimental Verse Category
Poetic Fragments
Posted in Experimental Verse, Free Verse, Poetic Fragments with tags Free Formed Poetry on April 18, 2022 by lengesinskiAntithesis(How they dance)
Posted in Experimental Verse with tags Experimental forms on December 7, 2015 by lengesinskiAntithesis(How they dance)
Light
Dark
Fast
Slow
Peace
War
Hate
Love
Order
Chaos
Left
Right
Cool
Warm
Stability
Instability
Left
Right
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Prosetry Fragments
Posted in Experimental Verse, Free Verse, Prosetry Fragments with tags Free Verse Poetry, Prosetry Fragments, Senseless Violence on November 17, 2015 by lengesinskiProsetry Fragments
Heavy rain
falling
like the tears
of
so many
frightened children
-Paris-
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Numbed
Posted in Experimental Verse, Free Verse with tags Experimental forms, Free Verse Poetry on October 29, 2015 by lengesinskiNumbed
Hearing
their
own
words
rehearsed and calculated
playing to the crowds
emptiness
has
it’s
own
sound
shallow thud
echoed
promises
and
matching smiles
with
all
the
warmth
plastic
and cold
gravestones
people
have long since
become
numbers
mere statistics
shake
those
hands
wave
those
flags
hold
those
babies
train
condition
desensitize
blind
deafen
divide
conquer
defeat
them
young
on
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Poetic Fragments
Posted in Experimental Verse, Free Verse, Poetic Fragments with tags Free Verse, poetic fragments on March 18, 2015 by lengesinski
This lifetime is indeed a strange thing
a
meandering
line
meeting
all points
between
here, there
everywhere
anywhere
but nowhere
was not
an option
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Shattered Lens
Posted in Experimental Verse, Shattered Lens with tags Experimental forms, Free Verse, Shattered Lens on March 17, 2015 by lengesinskiShattered Lens
wraiths
of
memories
immolation
of
self
a
repetitive
curse
a
familiar
malady
a
warped
rhythm
expecting
knowing
waiting
to
forever
writhe
in
mental
anguish
unable
to
forgive
oneself
unable
to
forget
past
unable
to
transcend
one’s
own
chains
one’s
own
bondage
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Shattered Lens
Posted in Experimental Verse, Shattered Lens with tags Free Association, Free Verse Poetry, Image Interpretation, Shattered Lens on March 10, 2015 by lengesinskiShattered Lens
In his words
unlimited
wisdom
in his eyes
sorrow
the weight
of
experience
the collected
burdens
of
a long life
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Note: Interpretations of random pictures, images, pics from news articles for a new category(Shattered Lens)
Broken Prose Fragments
Posted in Broken Prose Fragments, Experimental Verse, Free Verse with tags Broken Prose Fragments on March 9, 2015 by lengesinskiBroken Prose Fragments
Only
after the formaldehyde
stained walls
were ally
brought
down
only
after the acrid stench
of the countless drying skins
that were left
hanging to dry
in
a silent darkness
in the dregs
of this tannery
The
faceless immigrant workers
whose
broken backs
mental scars
hardened hearts
long ago silent
In
a time of
bare bone wages
Yesteryear’s
common
ordinary
blue collar jobber
100 years
…this place of death
…of the poisonous concoctions
dumped into the Chicago river
Welcome
to a view
of early 1900’s
Chicago
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Bits and Strands
Posted in Experimental Verse, Free Verse with tags Experimental Verse, Free Verse on January 28, 2015 by lengesinskiBits and Strands
These
cold winter months
we walked these streets
while the winter sun
still warmed our backs
as we bravely
faced midnight
while many dreams
never have come true
we still searched..in vain
for those retrospective
parts
stubbornly young
but
in chasing
a fountain of youth
a litany of fortunes,
foibles…. fables
tales
that only lead
to more woe
inevitably
as the mourners continued
to fill
these empty spaces
rows of seats
…this modern day
den of inequity
lines of
sullied consciences
their blackened souls
the
concrete roads
that still await
our footprints
counting the discarded
flower blossoms
…yesterdays glories
we’ll search tomorrow
and tomorrow’s tomorrow
with life as a Blake’s hitch
while
infinity’s grip
continues to tighten
all the while
with our dead man
smiles
greeting the foolish scrounger
welcome!
you are free
to reach
for this
bit
of
corroding
bit of hope
promises…..further…..
ever
decaying
their messages…necrotic flesh
the
mixed signals
gradually
narrow
this being
just what an empty reflection
resembles
while
other
echoes….voicings
fall further and further….further…..further
back and into the shadows
till there is
….no light
….no spark
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Abstract, Experimental, Free Verse, Stream of Consciousness
Poetic Fragments
Posted in Abstract Poetry, Experimental Verse, Poetic Fragments, Uncategorized with tags Abstract Minimalist, Experimental Verse, poetic fragments on January 14, 2015 by lengesinski
Poetic Fragments
(A)
When
one person’s act of overt aggression
…….is a storm of silence.
(B)
When
the only flight from fear
…….is to stand and wait.
(C)
delirium’s trip
oh, it all comes so quickly
this dance….in your maze
leng64 