POETRY
Selections from "Burdened by the Dreamscape" by Neil D. Ostroff

SYNAPSIS

There is a moment
when time transcends
and all creativity comes to life.
It is this transition
between sanity and insanity
sobriety and intoxication
When enlightenment occurs

With only minutes
to seize and explore

Entrance into these realms is painless
Absent is the hard, cold, shock
of knowledge
Whereyour thoughts drip off
Sleek icicles of imagination
And hours flow by upon the breeze
Suddenly a realization
A tiny glimpse of inspiration
An incredible truth, lost
In some crevice of rememberance
Familiar eyes
poke through strange darkness

~ all doors hecome locked again.

A stranded recollection
Faded postcard from the past
A time since forgotten
teenage lust
sex games
exploration. All is peaceful,
but only for the moment,
There's something absent in the air.

The dark pressure to create
Where are the demons?
Can you find
the voice
whispering in your mind?

The best years wasted
We missed the dawn
The coming of summer
and to sleep in blissful slumber.
Do you remember when,
you thought?
You knew?

DELINQUENT ESCAPE

Who really holds the power?
Orgasm is a glimpse of the infinite
also a primal urge.

Living on the street
In an orbital dream state
All masks adorned, worn
to illuminate
The hollow faces, glazed
injecting their Jesus hate
Dialated eyes, the angels cry
experience accumulates

The nightclubs
are dotted w/blood
scored in urine basins
Contorted faces,
drug induced rages
liquid God
how the soul ages.

Strange anomolies
Spirits cramped into tiny bags
ready for their sad delivery.


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