Vain Imaginations
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Vain Imaginations is a collection of poems written over the course of 2000 to 2014. The poems range in nature from whimsical to political, from heart wrenching to heart felt, from word play to imaginative. There is Jumper, a thought exercise on escaping while staring through the barred windows several stories up the external stairwell of the psychology building on a university campus, followed by the lighter Steam Room, a fresh albeit scientific take on the subject. Some of the creatures featured are gnats and giants, ostriches and finches, foxes and kangaroos, wasps and politicians. In these pages, winter, spring, and fall are present; can you find summer? Death is present: the death of emotions and the death of loved ones. You'll find tools and technologies: metronomes and teapots, fax machines and a smart phone; textbooks and trash. If you look carefully, you can find Teddy, Bradbury, and Orwell; and at last, peace.
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Vain Imaginations - H.K. Longmore
Jesters
Poets are liars, prone to exaggeration,
Hyperbole and misrepresentation,
Contortionists,
Distortionists.
But...
Poets are truth-tellers,
Calling a cur a cur,
Portraying the world exactly
As they perceive it.
For their different viewpoints—
For their unique positions,
Valuable insights
Sagacity sometimes—
For these will the world
Condemn them?
Contort them, distort them
Into jesters worthy of Lear.
CONTENTS
Jumper
Melting into walls, I let go;
Can see where I want to be.
Slide through bars cross the window,
But cannot fit: I am not free.
Still through the bars I pass,
Over the precipice I slide.
Still seeing darkly, as through a glass;
Slowly sliding down the walls' outside.
I want to melt with the trees below.
I want to meld with the grass and dirt.
The mountains, my pillow;
The breeze my shirt.
Throw this poem, this book thirteen
Stories down
And follow after it, yet leave the sidewalk clean.
It's done—you're too late—now, don't frown,
It was all in my head.
CONTENTS
Steam Room
Cohesion cries
As it tries
Oneness to maintain,
From separation refrain.
Adhesion adjures
But its peace Kinetic injures,
While the Dihydrogen Oxide
Mingles with the air inside.
Breathing in, breathing out
It takes the tracheal route.
Pores open, heart rate increased,
Sweat quickly released;
Until at last Condensation
Joins the fray,
And Gravity makes a new sensation
In the realm where the Hesions hold sway.
CONTENTS
Giant Snack
I am a Giant.
I pick up the mound of earth
Before me. Houses tremble and shake
As Mount Olympus is removed from terra