Saturday Pomes & Words, 08/03/2025 - Kundalini Sixteen & Seventeen

Dark French Romantics?

Seeing as you already have Eighteen & Nineteen, and the previous Pomes & Words last week was Thirteen to Fifteen, I thought I would just fill in that little gap. After this there’s two more to go and you’ll have all twenty-five. To start from the beginning, One to Three, click ye there.

There are some extras after that, but I am minded to make them for paid subscribers. I have to at least attempt to make a living somehow, after all. I am also minded to actually do something positive by publishing this collection. So I am working on that at the moment, but I’ve encountered a little snag in the form of how to format poetry, specifically so it looks respectable as an e-book. I will do this print-on-demand thing too, though, as I’m sure I’m not the only one who prefers a physical object to hold in your paws. In the same way that vinyl sounds better. Looks better too. I would say in a utopia everyone would get a kind of allowance to build up their record collection and personal library - although they’re only allowed to use it for, well, obviously proper records and proper books.

Anyhow, once I’ve overcome this latest challenge, I shall let you know. Remember that paid subscribers get free copies of all my e-books, as and when they appear. Not much of an enticement at the moment, I know, but things change.

I have been messing around with the Gimp and have a potential cover. Please let me know what your opinion of it is in the comments. And be honest. Obviously I’m going for a sort of dark, enigmatic minimalist look. You can probably tell what kind of music I like from this, I reckon. Anyway, here it is:

This is a lower res version. Hope you can actually see it on your device. I don’t have a smartphone, me, so I don’t know what posts look like on those things. Screen too small for my liking. I think you can resize and zoom in and out and stuff though. See, what do I know.

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Anyhow, enough intro from me. Here are the next two in the collection. As usual, the title in square brackets first is the alternate title as given in the contents. These are usually my own offbeat cryptic references. I’m like that. Likewise you can reduce the poems by using the Fibonacci numbers as indicated. Just take those numbered lines and turn it into a shorter poem. Ironically, these two only half-work with that. Intriguing, for sure, but incomplete. Then again, there’s a certain je ne sais quoi about The Unfinished…

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Dream this tempest away, Siren

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[Baudelaire]

[Eye and Spleen]

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I look like how I feel,									1
Bruised and battered,									2
My black soul										3
Scattered to the forceful winds;
And then it changes,									5
Leaning into a weathered past,
Carried away like a fever in spring,
Calmly taken to the temple of calm,						8
My look is a splendid screen,
I am so tired, siren,
All I want now is sleep,
Dream this tempest away,
Ideal thought for the day –								13
Now I am alone.

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[Camus]

I want to be

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I really do not think you								        1
Will see the things I see,								        2
Lest you destroy me, deconstruct and learn					3
My turning divine words into play
And keep up, keep up with my burning mind.					5

I am a serious star, vague some
Times but I am not mad, just tamed,						8
Exiled, sad, my frame of reference is other to yours,
Changed, please reverse the changes of the past
Changed, spirals and curves a world away
Like snakes, entwined like a pack of foreign wolves.
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Rushing through the trees

My visualisation has you
Deep living in a living forest,
I hear no sounds but sit down facing,
You are my self, my clearing heart, spaces in between,
You are the purity I should have been.

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As I mentioned at the outset, to follow the order of the Kundalini collection, the next one is Eighteen & Nineteen, which you can read there already.

If you wish to skip them and go to next week’s Pomes & Words, which is Kundalini Twenty to Twenty-Two, then click ye there.

Bye bye for now! Oh, remember there’s these lovely like, share, and comment buttons down below. We like those buttons, we do. I think you do too, deep down…