Faceless Desires
A glittering fire
As I lumber
Padded, hidden
Heavy with glorious light
Endless pockets
Bulging, overflowing
Yet sown up tight
Glittering memorial dust
Lines my veins
It trickles out of
Every pore and orifice unseen
Filtering through
Bulbous sacks of collecting truths
Expansive hollows
Filled with shimmering strife
The shine attracts
The swiftly flicking wrist
Of a cut-purse
Seeking unearned riches
An easy life
The golden allure
Burying those
Whose footing’s unsure
Pelted with suffocating sorrows
The very same I’ve been
Synthesizing with efficiency
Spilling, in a tinkling torrent
Multiplying, expanding, and inflating
Like a caustic foamy disease of wanting
Metallic glint overwhelming
Tired eyes
There's no glory
In stealing the shine off
Someone else’s vibrant mind
They call it the “Midas Touch”
For there's no gift of alchemy
No mortal man can
Change lead to gold
To magically transform
Is to stand
Forever a statue in remembrance
To intentional ignorance in
The face of tribute
Every time
Staring into the faceless
Golden eyes of
Desire
K.B. Silver
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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The flow of accumulation and spill mirrors human desire perfectly, it’s both mesmerizing and unsettling.
This is the type of poem one needs to sit with...simmer with...read multiple times. But what I've internally processed and gleaned from first readings is that the riches of this realm seduce many into an endless cycle of want for the sake of want in exchange for soul corruption. That's a weight and a burden too heavy to bear. Balance in all things. Congratulations on your top story!
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"Faceless Desires" is such a beautiful title. The imagery of "glittering memorial dust" lining the veins and the "tinkling torrent" of synthesized sorrow is absolutely striking. You’ve captured that heavy, suffocating nature of desire and the hollow cost of the "Midas Touch" with such poetic precision. Congratulations on your Top Story!
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I was riveted by your paradox. I love social commentary, and "Endless pockets / Bulging... yet sown up tight" is a perfect image of our society. Your heavy word choices really capture the rage we feel toward it. It is profound how you used an extended metaphor to show truth and memory running through your veins. It makes the feeling so real and physical. I also liked the juxtaposition of "shimmering strife" and "golden allure." The "cut-purse" and that "flicking wrist" were so vivid. We can all relate to the pain of losing something that was once secure.
Oooo, this was so deep and beautifully written. Loved your poem!
Some great words and a wonderful image, desire can burn if it can't be satisfied