Compounds Constitute

By Leigh Warbrick

Compounds Constitute is a compilation of poetry in the short-form.

The book is a rewrite of the compilation 'Compound Constitute', one of three compilations, which were rough self-published books for family & friends. It covers the themes that run throughout all of Leigh's work, nature, landscapes, seasons, elements, metaphysical, astronomy, time, cityscapes, technology, transport, perceptions, philosophies and human interactions.

‘Compound Constitute’ was Leigh's first compilation, it was assembled into two parts, the first part, was organised into chapters based on the themes of the five forms of matter, (air/gas, earth/solid, water/liquid, fire/plasma & ether/life). While the second part, was themed on the circle, which represents matter/elements being bound together into compounds, (time, seasons, landscapes, philosophy, interactions & outcomes).

Leigh's poems are predominately a composition of a particular moment or instant, like a photo or painting of a scene or a feeling in the moment it's felt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Warbrick
• Release date: Nov 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9780975792148

Leigh Warbrick

Leigh was born and lives in Sydney Australia he started writing poetry in the early 1990’s, after writing for over a decade he decided to self-publish for family & friends, three rough edit compilations of his works. The titles of these compilations are representative of the themes that run through his poetry. Leigh's first compilation was ‘Compound Constitute’, which was assembled into two parts, the first part, was organised into chapters based on the themes of the five forms of matter, (air/gas, earth/solid, water/liquid, fire/plasma & ether/life). While the second part, was themed on the circle, which represents matter/elements being bound together into compounds, (time, seasons, landscapes, philosophy, interactions & outcomes). The other two compilations, ‘Dream Cast’ and ‘Circles Upon Circles’, are organised chronologically, with the chapters being the name Leigh gave to the notebooks into which the ideas & concepts for each poem were handwritten. For the compilation ‘Dream Cast’, Dream is representative of perceptions, beliefs & bias and ‘Cast’ is representative of reality, projections & images. It is a statement on how our perceptions become our reality, and that we continually create these realities, dreams, aspirations for ourselves, yet the catalyst for this creation, our perception, is fallible and evolving. For the compilation, ‘Circles Upon Circles’, the title is an acknowledgement that from microscopic to macrocosmic we perceive patterns, shapes, rhythm, cycles and layers that repeat in varying scales, represented by time and change. A few years after publishing the three compilations, Leigh decided to take his work to a public audience, with the release of the ebooks ‘Dreamland Castaway’ and 'Compounds Constitute', these works are a complete rewrite of ‘Dream Cast’ and 'Compound Constitute'. Leigh's latest work is 'Transit Transient'. It is set out like a diary, with the dates the poems were written recorded for each title. Written almost exclusively while travelling on public transport, to and from the author’s place of employment on train trips of about 40minutes duration. Nearly every poem was composed on a single trip, with observational themes for the poems being landscapes, cityscapes, transport, technology, society, nature, seasons, time, transience and human interactions. Leigh presents the above themes and concepts in a short-form poetic style, as a snapshot of a scene or a feeling in the moment it's felt. Additional themes include landscapes, nature, seasons, elements, metaphysical, astronomy, time, cityscapes, technology, transport, perceptions, philosophies and human interactions.

Book preview

Chapter 1

Elemental Air

Oily Horizon’s Shadow

Slipping, between, dark oily horizons’ sheet,

Crossbones, carbon grit, grey shroud,

Luna, majestic, illuminates slate, bleached beam.

Rising prow, over, black powder city’s street,

Skull, murky silhouette, halo browed,

Lily, crowned, emanates tide, death-mask cream.

Flying, cannonball orbit, across, sky’s pleat,

Scythed, midnight sails, air ploughed,

Willow, regency, magnates shade, rictus gleam.

Breathe

Sky’s, whispered exhale, floats white buoyant,

Across horizon’s, azure pane, flurry dust.

Icicle breeze, cracks, the permeable pored skin,

Of landscape’s, contour face, eddy thrust.

Sylphs, spin dervish, revelry tempest whipped,

Upon breath’s, tremor zephyr, mosh gust.

Industrial Gargoyle

Covered vista, eve, murky morning, oil,

Charcoal, grey grease, chimneys exhaling, spoil.

Waft atmosphere, rice-paper screen, foil,

Smoky dull, sooted gaslight smogs, vapour, coil.

Banking, horizon choke, thermals, voile,

Dust stack slag, tarry coke, cold breath slick, soil.

Altitude obscure, pollutants spired, roil,

Toxicity smother, exhaust expel, fumes fog, moil.

Nebula Drifting

Vertigo, falling, through hazy galactic, distant, misty glared, alight.

Spectrum, crystallise, opal cloudy nebula, iridescent particle, ablaze.

Accretion, tumbling, fragments apparition, ambient crackle, aflame.

Effervesce, gravitational, spun gaseous sparkler, stellar crèche, afire.

Clouded Solitary

Cloud draws heavy, bass notes trudge,

Revolving, slow motion, born.

Smudge grey sultry, deep solitary hulk,

Spilling, dull moisten, forlorn.

Polish sullen dark, rumble reverb thud,

Looming, humid mope, thorn.

Falcon’s Strike

Gliding, arrow slung, upon, thermal winged vapours.

Talons flex, poise descend, from sun, ambush swoop.

Feathers, aerodynamic slice, slipstream, diving thrust.

Striking predatory, javelin skew, scarlet misty, sated.

Conjure Recall

Memories, reverberate haze, ephemeral clouded, effect disperse.

Gaseous form, recollection graze, materialising, nimbus transient.

Wispy trigger, retrieve maze, stimulus synchronous, insular reflect.

Past connection, translucent raise, bygone foggy, cherish identify.

Misting pang, chronology phase, perspective vapour, overcast faint.

Bubble Pop

Bubble expands, density compress, reaction atmospheric,

Vacuum burst, rippling eddied, galaxy pool, emulsion ebb,

Light render, nebula rainbow glisten, stellar twinkle faceted,

Gases diffuse, nimbus disperse, dynamic cosmic, capsule spun.

Cloud Framed

Sight’s focus, silhouette framed, vision smudge,

Imagery shifted, peripheral divide, appearance nudge.

View congeals, clouding grainy, distortion ring,

Tunnel blurring, snapshots backlash, assumption ping.

Storm Raven

Elevate, embraced night aloft, on greasepaint plume wings,

That relinquish clutch, lightning doom.

Apparition materialised, raven sheen, vapours, coil clawed,

Shadow envelop, tarnished silver bloom.

Darkness silhouettes, wraith spook, hoarse, crackle cawing,

Gaze compelled, rubble smoulder boom.

Drifting, murder-score, hourglass sentinel, frigid, gust flap,

Hark upon setting rays, silent coal gloom.

Corporeal Hover

Hiving, cerebral, floats suspended, detach,

Driving, subconscious, thoughts whim, glide,

Surviving, individual, constellation, levitate,

Striving, super-conscious influence, propel,

Contriving, multi-sensational feather, soar,

Thriving, hum, anarchic-conscious, elevate.

Airflow Turbulent

Distances temperament, shifts, motion lens, strobe,

Momentum warp.

Passage, imagery expanse, dimensional contoured,

Form buffets, shape.

Physical transmutes, ceaseless, resonance displace,

Temporal interact.

Immersive, slipstream present, periphery perceive,

Current grain, worn.

Sonic Current

Moment plucked, aspects altered, present harmonic, gush.

Senses tweak, resonance adjust, cognisant temporal, rush.

Identity strum, substance actualise, physical vibrate, lush.

Heart twinged, beating rhythm surge, opiates pulse, flush.

Gaseous Toke

Life inhaled, gaseous, clarity fume,

Brain arcs, radiant symmetry, plume,

Reality caresses, chemistry react, bloom.

Spirit absorbed, etheric flush, boom,

Pulse abounds, vigour energise, spume,

Helix swirls, ephemeral, exhaled exhume.

Deth Mask

I seek, your inspiration, within every elemental face,

Looking, always, for your wanton caress’, embrace,

That radiates, pervasive, molten solar eyed, encase.

I live, entangled thread, heart flutter, strum, strand,

Guided, stem suspended, within this Summerland,

Vigour, evanesce temporal, before autumn’s hand.

Stellar Window

Stasis frozen, to gravity’s, spiralling force,

Spherical rotary, bound, planetoid marooned, oscillate.

Evening’s, ebbing stellar wave, crashes visual,

Past existences, glacial, mute vast magnitude, vacillate.

Orbiting axial, vessel, sky hazy window tint,

Aeons transparency, stares, entropic alluvial, scintillate.

Spring Buds, Winter Chilled

New shoots, outstretch, sprig yawn, vigour bloom, ripened lush,

Generations seasonal, branches clump, canopy herd, breath blush,

Leaves, multitude sustain, buds, stellar blossom, environs brush,

Legacy’s tree, withers, balding crown, stratum bough, light mush,

Habitat stunted, roots gnarling, bonsai prune, weathered onrush,

Youth’s fruit, requiem cast, mortality wither, autumn pyres, flush.

Leaves Stepped

Walking, through autumn’s scattered leaf, whispers expire,

Pulled asphyxia, upon, sprinkle withered strands, present crinkle.

Wind sniped, mortality gulp, falling respiration tide, breath,

Tumbling gravitate, across, wrinkle paths surface, fleeting winkle.

Siren’s Song

Embraced, by your welcome, addictive melody, hook,

Intone caress, enchantment pluck, comprehension thrall.

Held, stasis transfixed, reverie reverb, sublime compel,

Onward guided, haunt adrift, channelled, insistence call.

Spoken Word

Gas sounds, breath whispered rattle, expelled, respiration pant,

Vocalise, tongue twisting cast, conscious modulates, chant.

Murmurs intone, emphasis discharge, will inflect, breath incant,

Utterances, vibrate echo, babble meaning, recognition rant.

Slivered Shivers

Vision deprived, of galaxy’s radiant cradle, fragile