S. M. Stouch

Poet, somnambulist & professional people watcher. . . Life without the 7 arts is no life at all. Dostoevsky, Woolf, Monk & Mompou fill my dreams. My poetry is ©

[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

Set gazing through the eyes
of envy

out upon the ease of the enemy
at hand

such uncertainty and
a guise of unreasoning.

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Saddest line
akin and sorrowed

a bemoaning strayed
and beguiling against.

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These hours amidst the tremors
the terrors of a livid
salubrity

a wept,
a contention
of
a contrition

odd and oscillatory.

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Out of the arms of sincerity
and into the dastard thrill
of proximity

a terse wept
affliction
- this remorse.

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Gift the time to strain
the time to gather and hang
of a dream deferred.

Gift the time to strive.

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Sadness of the varying wait,
as of mischief?

"Nay."

More of the vanity kind
as such sickness.

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What am I,
by the sea of regret

a season of stalwart
wonder & worry,

a mesmerizing meandering
in mind?

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[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

This same
of a sadness of us

another want before
the tide & the torrent,

a wept felt & furiously
felt.

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Such is the ethos
of the macabre

a mutiny
amidst humanity
and the sterile

all saccharine
& servile.

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So out of love with self
to believe in the narcissistic
ache of self,

and the incomplete disaster
of selfish.

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[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

Sadness,
of the saccharine type
sound

of treason
sought in the fury
and the festive.

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What sin are we again,
again, against the pardoning
and the summation
of summary
sung salubrious?

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[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

What of an ancient voice,
a feral utterance
into the quiet hysteria
of a final bliss?

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[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

Into the shadow of a tear
a memory revealed
then forgotten

from the shadowing of a tear
a felt unspoken.

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[S. M. Stouch @S_M_Stouch]

Sudden suddenly
of a timed imbalance
of a respite without spite
the momentum of tenacity rescinding.

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I weep this alone
this nascent ache

not by the sum
of lonely,

but by this tethering
of silent life.

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Wept in a semblance of
silences,

these enticings of "I"

between the name and
the ache.

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Suffer this quiet
this solemn emblem

of the wondrous the truancy
of fortuitous cares

this parody of ache.

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Such love unknown
between the plenty and the
puerile

a mischief knowing
and fawning.

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Wanton, are we the parody of
self-seeking serendipitous

- a conclave of cautionary
and of caustic conceit?

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