THREE POEMS
A.R ARTHUR
POEM I
POUNDED
Pounded coble
Pummeled by millenniums of activity;
Thin, delicately proportioned movements;
Deserving,
Not a deflated alien
positioning shirts
and sweating through
layered delirium.
Infinite steps make up for nourishment;
pastries doused in sugar and hours to decimate,
I seek momentary salvation in little moments
where a dizzying anxiety disturbs sanctity.
Maybe this loose skin
will melt into roman streets
and allow fertile soil
to grant reprieve
of dysphoria disturbing.
POEM II
BONDS
Baroque architecture fades
as dullen skies consume abrasive tracks
and manmade opulence
is relinquished to flaxen fields
untouched reminders of existence
before boundaries or national sentiment.
For unity was presupposed
when bonds were narrower,
More restricted by temporality
and fear of unknowns ubiquitous
allowed for social bonds genuine;
Bonds constricted by circumstance
nonetheless.
POEM III
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Questioning voices disrupt the narrative;
Media sensationalisation, manipulation candid,
Personally driven to entice docility;
Passive acceptance ensured by passive existence
and instilled in socially sanctioned downers.
Failures to govern disguised by worn apparatuses;
Institutions gently slipping into futility,
A new era some suppose,
But it is the delusion that such acceptance
Can continue to be manufactured;
A lewd perversion widely recognized
But seldom held to account.
It is solely the fear of brutal anomie
that may insight a disobedience
that transcends temporality
And cleanses corrupted society.
POUNDED
Pounded coble
Pummeled by millenniums of activity;
Thin, delicately proportioned movements;
Deserving,
Not a deflated alien
positioning shirts
and sweating through
layered delirium.
Infinite steps make up for nourishment;
pastries doused in sugar and hours to decimate,
I seek momentary salvation in little moments
where a dizzying anxiety disturbs sanctity.
Maybe this loose skin
will melt into roman streets
and allow fertile soil
to grant reprieve
of dysphoria disturbing.
POEM II
BONDS
Baroque architecture fades
as dullen skies consume abrasive tracks
and manmade opulence
is relinquished to flaxen fields
untouched reminders of existence
before boundaries or national sentiment.
For unity was presupposed
when bonds were narrower,
More restricted by temporality
and fear of unknowns ubiquitous
allowed for social bonds genuine;
Bonds constricted by circumstance
nonetheless.
POEM III
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Questioning voices disrupt the narrative;
Media sensationalisation, manipulation candid,
Personally driven to entice docility;
Passive acceptance ensured by passive existence
and instilled in socially sanctioned downers.
Failures to govern disguised by worn apparatuses;
Institutions gently slipping into futility,
A new era some suppose,
But it is the delusion that such acceptance
Can continue to be manufactured;
A lewd perversion widely recognized
But seldom held to account.
It is solely the fear of brutal anomie
that may insight a disobedience
that transcends temporality
And cleanses corrupted society.
A.R.ARTHUR (formerly A.R. Salandy) is a Black Mixed-race poet & writer who has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK & America. Anthony's work has been published over 240 times internationally. Anthony's Flash Fiction was shortlisted and received an honourable mention in the 2022 The Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize Competition. Anthony has 3 published chapbooks titled 'The Great Northern Journey' 2020 (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) & 'Vultures' 2021 (Roaring Junior Press) as well as a novel 'The Sands of Change' 2021 (Alien Buddha Press). Anthony's Chapbook 'Half Bred' was the Winner of the 2021 'The Poetry Question' Chapbook contest. Anthony is the EIC of Fahmidan Journal/Publishing & Co, Review Editor at Full House Literary & Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review.