Ancient whispers
sweeping
through tired skies
blessed love
An Angels melody
the damned have fallen
the sinners are dead
War torn
totality of humanity
the clouds weep
blood,
our sun consumed
in desolate tears
for Gaia breathes
no more.
Karen Hayward ©2018
No claim to image
Stained threads of purpose,
clambering the ladder,
stepping stones of succession,
A charlatans profession.
My personal preference is to
Be forgotten, I am no man’s
stepping stone, no check list
item on the road, falsities are
for another, so let’s not pretend,
bridges burned to the very end.
Bridges burned to the very end.
Karen Hayward ©2018
No claim to image
Rot mutating at the very core
churning entitlement disease
an epidemic of waste, as eyes
die and skin becomes mottled.
Souls decaying between the
silent beats of a ravaged war
whilst ancient wisdom falls
from the page one letter at a
time. The conceptualisation
of ideology lost in the sphere
of thought. I am, I must,
I therefore… We have become
the beldam of humanity,
with blind eyes, scarred
hearts and jars of pickled
morals aside our broken values
left to soak in the bitter tincture
of ego blessed in whispered
incantations of pride.
Yes. Humanity is this worlds
Beldam.
Karen Hayward ©2017
A am a speck
Star dust.
An atom.
A mass of atoms.
A form created into structure.
Biological evolution.
I am a gender.
A stereotype.
Flesh, bones and grey matter.
And for the longest time the world’s axis stopped spinning at this realisation.
I am a speck.
An atom among atoms.
Star dust with an
ancient soul,
I am my reality
Living within another’s
surviving in a country
among countries on
a planet, among planets
Within a universe…
I am a speck.
Karen Hayward ©2017
The matrix island
of communication
wires, wired, wirelessly.
Welcome to
concept central, driving
the red hues of raging
rage, a slave to the angst
suffocating the exhaust
of a poisonous hum
of toxicity revving
between thoughts
of escape drifting
away on the back roads
of petrol pleated plumes
on carbonmonoxide
dreams of serenity…
…oh those dreams
that drive the mind
numbing beat of an
alternative reality,
catastrophic candy
for the herd bred
on societies
incestual insanity.
Karen Hayward ©2018
I feel only pity. Not for you, for those touched by you. Those stained with your toxin breath and acid words. Those that hear the echoes of your banshee scream as dawn calls upon another day and they believe they converse with an angel.
I pity the God’s you pray to, the hyprocracy in your evening cries, the venom in your devil eyes. A descendant of lilith, fallen angels with blackened wings fanning the vile words falling from your spitting tongue.
The serpent coils through your soul, what embers of innocence once lay there now crushed, dispersed on trade winds to a lover and another and any poor fool consumed by your succubus melody and the broken strings of your violin.
But alas I will carry your lesson into tomorrow on the beating wings of spirits love forever at my side. My gain was your want, eternal without condition beyond the physical realm. Spiritual devotion rewarded now in universal bliss…
Your lessons taught me the value
Of true loves blessed kiss. Your game play was preparation, for me to become his. Your poison was the toxin in my climb
as I learned self worth and when my King
took stand to claim his Queen,
I knew I was worthy this time.
Karen Hayward ©2017 Image and words
Mother?
Wife?
Home maker?
Peace keeper?
Nurturer?
Fuck that, us women are
God damn warriors,
Our love is our Excalibur
Our patience is our armour,
Our wisdom is our strength,
And our calm is our balance…
Women…humanities warrior
we shall slay all foe
that threaten the harmony
Of our creations,
Woman .. Gaia’s warrior.
Karen Hayward * ©2017
Collaboration between myself and a very talented poet/writer/creator Blueflamez.
Check out more of his work on the link at the bottom! 🙂
Forget the Ink, forget the page.. Let us entwine thoughts
and become the very essence of poetry. We’ll dedicate the
blank spaces between letters to the creation of our realities
based upon our fantasies. Quills together in shared unison,
a creative rush of chaotic lunacy…the building blocks of
moral sanity a pandemic thought spread throughout
humanity.Think about the concept, the art, those same
words embedded in your mind, the margin, the heading,
the facts you can piece together, and tear apart. The real
challenge is shaping up and breaking down the mental
blocks that can hold you back, only to channel that creative
spread that surrounds you, and unlock that potential.
Harness the power of a world within the world, the multiverse
of possibilities, choices, to see the mirror image of who
you were, to the person you’ve become. You are the pages,
you are your eternal life of spoken truths, and written fantasies,
your signature is your personality as your greatest work of all.
The letters of your existence a strong hold of knowing,
unknowing becoming and undoing. Call your name into
the cosmos, start with an inaudible whisper if you must,
there is no rush. Say it, shout it, call it from heavens bed
sign your essence across the skies of men.
Sign your soul across the minds of man.
Karen Hayward & poetryflamez ©2017
Image Karen Hayward ©2017
Find more of poetryflamez work here.
Dark skies have
fallen upon me,
cascading through
the depths of hell
pulling my soul into
the underworld.
Crimson,
dripping,
drip-
ping,
soaking my soul,
suffocating my heart.
Karen Hayward ©2017
Image and words.
Is it wrong that I often despise humanity?
The falsity of manipulation painted on faces
drenched in chemical fragrance to numb the
fresh stench of faeces. Everyone scrambling
for the pearly gates, lists in arse pocket detailing
the souls they used as stepping stones to reach
utopia within their poisoned minds.The false
echo of television, propaganda spoon fed to
the masses. Is it wrong that some days I despise
humanity? Hate speech wrapped in a silk bow
and sealed with a kiss of death, as children starve
for our fears. As children die for our silence…
worse still, as children survive for our ignorance
such sadness they must know.
Blind rationality, fools leading
the fools where is the compassion in my fellow
human? All out? Upon land upon oceans upon pixels…
not our problem. Not our problem. Not our problem.
Since when did human lives become…not, our, problems.
Karen Hayward ©2017
Photo prompt Photo credit Maricris Cabrera
