Dandelion fields forever

Dandelion Field Painting by Igor Barkhatkov

Unsober is the day,
foul play on sleepless nights
The Guns are awfully absurd
The Stones are even further,
I can’t find my music and the words won’t follow
dreams are ending with an artificial flavour
politically wasting years of savage force,
I need more than substance
to hang pretty portraits on a straighter wall
to preach the passion buried deep inside
build newer gods in the image of my kind,
I need darkened mountains
I need fertile valleys with running sky clear waters
to wash my sorrows and bury deep my fears
in the shadow of a greater fuller purple moon…
brick by brick, in the dark
breath by breath, doors closed, windows high
the heart collapses from the harder stronger grip,
I need a supernova, not only the spark
an exploding sunshine to burn one way out
to put down the unrest
to unspill the ink from the very first page,
in a coffee shop up that steep road
where dark roast and winter black tea
slowly wrote us to unstaged tragedy
the war and anguish, the spite I covered in me,
I need a blue spring
to walk anew the dandelion fields forever…

The fall

fall is coming rain and chill
dusk colored hot spice
and your blonde turns red
shinning silver to one’s breath
walking barefoot like a tiger
you serve wonders for desert,
twenty something miles ashore
where your blue turns green
feels like seventeen once again,
the young shapes on the floor
unless knees are bruised on fire
can’t spell ire form desire,
and we are fast driving
but I still need more –
a supernova in a winter storm
wild dancing and changing form
giving life to amazing chaos
filling up the heart and soul
without rhythm and control
bringing music to the whole,
is a spark I could call love…

Don’t sleep in the cold

when everything is wrong
and nothing turns out bright
painting your hour in the deepest hue
wisdom is forbidden while the chains hang heavy,
so you’re locked in stone
break the rhythm, don’t sing along
life is damn’ short, why sleep in the cold?

wake up!
wake up!
you’ll sleep when you’re old
wake up!
wake up!
don’t sleep in the cold!

when all the doors are closed
and no one rings the bell
strike another tune and turn to the next page,
maybe it is right or maybe it is not
but being lost in limbo never payed a debt,
and always ask for sugar
even if the merchant deals in salt…

ask for sugar,
never take the salt
ask for sugar,
never salt,
sugar…

when the darkness falls
burn up the whole world
so they feel it coming
when heat goes up through hell,
and leave nothing behind
no trace, no hate, no excuse
only love, if you’ve got what it takes…

it takes
what it takes,
it takes
what it takes,
to run on empty and love on the full
it takes
what it takes,
it takes
what it takes…

Julia

odd key is out of tune
the turning never ends
a big house with big windows and bigger skies still,
the glass is half empty
even half full
and the noise is killing slowly
in your face I see the fall,
where is the beauty ?
where is the pain ?
where is that life
happy,
insane,
they die one after the other
heroes of thy father,
and I lie my ear down on the strings of a sound that never spins…

I am in the wrong,
for how much long ?
out of pity
it grows
it feeds on the sadness
larger than the world that it quotes,
blue tainted hair and blue painted nails,
it scars the skin
it bleeds
and it dreams,
in between hills
where the water spills
the burning has passed with a bottle of gin
and so,
Julia dreams…

of X and Y

writing became stale,
my thoughts linger outward in a redundant and unskilled manner
in hesitant yet concise steps,
nothing but disgraceful sampling of the unattended entropy…

the inner equation is unfit
the variables tremble,
either there is no constant or the definition may be inaccurate
so the pursuit of an X proves fruitless
and it is more of a Y than anything else;

I,
a single letter to me
it is key to understanding…

You,
poetry seeks insight
there is a rhythm to follow, an elegant musicality
the incorporeal promise of beauty and excitement
as imagination unfolds at the very moment the eyelids drop –
a slap to the senses :
is there anything left for … ?

Unwanted

I am the
I am the darkness
the might to be
and the state of being I can not control,
a feeling
lost in between times
a single line going straight to you…
you are a friend
but not the one to me
and I scream into the void
I scream my will to exist
free from fear
free from the prison I have accepted in me
I will you to be,
the one
the one that is there waiting for me
a doorway to another existence
another chance to be
free form weight
open to all
gravity pulled
sunward emotion
I need a feeling to transform my devotion,
love me
adoration
I am but a soldier
unwanted commotion,
you love me
the emotion
I am
resolution
darkness
my way is commotion…

Honey

Dear friend,
I’ve lost my way going south…
trapped in a dream that is not really mine
building bricks to build up the Wall
people are wrong
tell me who you are,
I need music
my voice will it suffice?
when in the craving
I fill up the cases
and then fade in some way…
my fingers blue
my sight alright
are there any purple stars?
dancing
with
my
heart
there is not much light
on the other side
of the line I followed from the start;
Love –
how do you measure
how can one know
the steps you have taken
the strings you have severed
brought you any closer
or made you whole,
a simple choice
her hand is made of white noise…

The Breaker

I am the darkness, I am the world
this is the suffering, do as you’re told
you have no choice,
it’s beyond control
in this dungeon, in the cold
this is where it takes your soul
immortal life from the above
you’ve been dreaming since day one…

I am the silence, I am the wreak
in this longing there is no break
there’s no fire for them to see
your eyes are filled with misery,
no equation, no chemistry
love’s a lie and so is she
shadow covered memories
you broke it all and you can’t feel…

I am the fate, the voice of reason
calling your name in this prison
stretch your arms,
break the machine
give your mind an atomic spin,
chase your devils, loose your hounds
I am fire, I am the blood
when I seek I never hold
never do as you were told!

For I am the voice, I am the rage
that never screams when out of stage,
I am the heat, I am the heart
I am the beat and the savage night,
thoughtful king and cruel master
a monster ride on a purple kite,
a beast of many sorts
I am the pure glorious life…