Insomnia

“INSOMNIA”
Original art by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013

For Olivia and our AWOL dreams:

Sanctimonious sleep

swat mosquito minutes

While seconds drip

Daymares vex

REM not

Torpor tortures

Fatigue’s final falter

Alarms tattle

 

 

Tweeted on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:25 pm CDT

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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Mobile Post: Not For The Squeamish

Because I have such squeamish friends on Twitter, Facebook and WordPress, I’ve been forced to change the title of the poem “Colonoscopy” to “Worm Hole”.

Chicken!

Look for a new — and more politically correct — poem later today

Geesh!

Floaters

 

“Floaters”
Original art by Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013 Audrey Schwartz Rivers & Poetweetry

Cornea corona

Noon fireflies

Cinder snow

Weiss webs

Captive slug trails

Dancing ants

Twilight tiaras

Opaque omens

Black hole avarice

 

Tweeted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:15 p.m. CDT

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Worm Hole

“Worm Hole”
© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers & Poetweetry

 

Serpentine Satan

Arse Auger

flush away Eden

pilfer polyp parasite

I warp into fetal labyrinth

curse each centipede inch

tail between legs

 

Tweeted on Monday, April 2, 2013, 8:30 pm CDT

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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Pause

My father died last week.

I have been and will continue to write a cycle of poems about my family. 

However, please allow me a bit of time to pause and reflect.

Thanks so much for your support and understanding.

Audrey

(aka Poetweetry)

What Thomas Wolfe Said…

“Stucco”
Original Artwork
© 2013 Audrey S. Rivers
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“And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there.  

It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.”

Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again

 

I don’t exist here

not in dust

nor echoes

UR stucco heart jagged

gate fixed

Yet perdition leaks in

w/mourning doves’ censure

effacing refuge

 

 

Tweeted Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:33 p.m. CST

Jack of Hearts

Artist Rendering by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013 by Poetweetry
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Knave bluffs

leers retrograde rebukes

cuts hand dealt

draws black aces

Guilt’s trump card

Since he already lost

goes all in

Jokers wild

 

Tweeted on Saturday February 2, 2013 at 4:57 pm CST

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Genocide

A pilot whale appears to cry after she and baby (rear) captured at Taiji, Japan for entertainment trade
[Photo via By Bhavna Singh @Bhavz09]

Once our friends

split-fluked ones

invade Cove

Spears rage

Nets drown

Families culled

From sea womb torn

now orphan Calf

forever slave

Weeps

 

 

Tweeted Friday, January 18, 2013 at 3:44 pm CST

Poem © 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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[Photo via Twitter By Bhavna Singh @Bhavz09]

Introduction to “Genocide”

[Please read “Genocide” poem, next blog entry]

The killers kidnap the vulnerable first — usually a small group, especially juveniles. The abductees cry for help and their kin rush to rescue. Then, the boats herd families into the killing fields; nets trap them, thrashing for breath. Auschwitz-esque selection begins. The youngest and most attractive chosen for lifelong enslavement. The strong, picked for their flesh. The ugly, old and weak perhaps released, traumatized back into the wild. The assassins pummel, club, hang and gut the captives. 

 

The sea bleeds in the coves of Taiji, Japan (as highlighted in the Academy Award winning movie “The Cove”) where an estimated 25,000 dolphins and whales (including Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Risso dolphins, Striped dolphins and pilot whales) have been slaughtered in the last decade. Most of the cetaceans are sold to marine parks — trainers from the International Marine Animal Trainer Association and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums stay on-site to immediately indoctrinate the captives. The remainder goes to feed Japanese school children, to supplement sushi trade, or to spoil in freezers.

 

Halfway around the globe, villages celebrate their annual ocean festival in the Danish Faroe Islands. Families gallivant to the beach to participate in ancient if barbaric rituals. Residents cheer as men corral, gaff and eviscerate pilot whales on the shore. Children participate by slashing the dead, traipsing in entrails, or playing with dead calf fetuses cut from the womb. The celebration causes upwards of 2,500 whale murders annually. 

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Today, Japan, Norway, Iceland and some island nations continue annual whaling slaughters, even though neither meat nor blubber remain survival staples.

 

For more information about the annual global dolphin and whale genocide, please check the following web sites:

Ocean Preservation Society

Earth Island Institute 

Save Japan Dolphins 

Whales and Dolphins Conservation 

 

 

{Note: Photos appear on various Web sites, therefore, origination or copyright difficult to ascertain.}

Evil Monkey

With appreciation — and/or apologies — to Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane)

 

Evil Monkey lurks in UR closet still

Hoochies w/ Gucci

Poos in Choos

Adds notches 2belts

Nests in dirty laundry

Witnesses childhood

J’accuse!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tweeted on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 4:28 p.m. CST

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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