Ruptured Landscapes

by Paul Tristram / September 25th, 2016

Traversing through
other people’s tempers.
Carcass hills
of rotting imaginations.
Penned in
by insecurities
not of your own.
You break free
and shine again
in pockets of rebellion.
There is no community
only a sheep enclosure
governed by those
weak when alone.
There’s brilliance in disaster,
evil in too much happiness.
A surgical clarity
in sensing the bullshit
before contamination.
And rainbow-ing brightly
because and despite
of the seething nonsense
that endlessly follows you.

Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres.  He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since.  His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, September 25th, 2016 at 8:03am and is filed under Poetry.