Poem: No-Man’s Land

August 8, 2012Richard Krepski

Between the Word and the sacri-legible scrawl,
Among the crawlers of No-Man’s Land,
In trenches more deep than I am tall
…sigh…I take my stand.

Psychomachinists would lathe me,
Fulfill their quota of happy cogs.
Founders of faith would melt me, pour me
Into molds the shapes of their gods.

Where plates grind their convergence line,
Within the cracks, I bide my time;
‘Til tectons split the synclination
And manifest a new creation.

  • Christian Tappe

    I really enjoyed this man. My good friend and I have, together, wondered about the wastelands of plastic signs and broken toys that will carnally outlive us. They are indeed real, right? They are made of the same things as you and I, but are so seemingly meaningless! When you are walking in a strip mall on the side of a major road in Denver, confronted with deadness; the advertisements and frozen stone slabs speak (?) of such chaos (ironically).Today, the via negativa, the cracks, seem limited to suburban hollows and spaces between my keyboard, the world under my bed. The drainages outside of Target are not the same cracks that the mystics crawled into. When shall we flee to the mountains? I pray for our clarity in such confusing times. The end of this poem was especially beautiful.

  • online diploma

    Letter/ Words are such treasures &
    you prove it through your post..

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