Straight From a Twisted Soul

By Brian Dziokonski

This collection of mesmerizing poetry challenges the reader to grapple with opposites. To do so, they will have to surrender to them. Beyond the twilight and past the wee hours you'll find fragments of daybreak dangling in the foreboding darkness. Whether you feel gut punched or seduced, or maybe even amused, is a function of your psychological make-up.

Kick back and prepare yourself for a patchwork of perfect chaos. These are unconventional poems, "Straight From a Twisted Soul."

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098325787

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PRAYER

TEDDY

Dystopian eye drowned in delirium,

seemingly possessed, air scratched in

asylum’s corner, words misspelled

on walls collapsed.

Few can hear hurt conspiring, save the

unsound within earshot.

Bump in the mind, curved silhouette,

madness to be reckoned with.

Fetal position in the spotlight, echoing

in brevity a wretched life, reality bends,

fantasy straightens, lying in bed

expressionless.

Psychotic prayer whispering a thunderous

noise, the inner voice for the moment quiet.

Life choked out of a pet, shit projected

onto it, tears usurp a laugh.

A psycho cuddling his murdered teddy,

grieving without regret.

TWISTED CIRCUS

Marvel at the man, whose eyes were surgically

relocated to the back of his head, as he attempts

to walk backward in order to go forward.

Revere the recovering addicts juggling

hypodermic needles filled with heroin.

Feast your eyes on female chiropractors

pole dancing around a giant spine.

Savor sadistic artists tattooing their

customers from the inside out.

Mobilize around mutant chickens

biting off the heads of geeks.

Cheer for the cactus hugging

naked hemophiliacs.

And you won’t pay an arm

and a leg for admission.

We just want one

or the other.

EARNESTLY FLIPPANT

Laughing at death, crying at life,

an ocean in a teardrop,

a tissue blanketing the stars,

sanity welcoming madness like a rose

pricking a thorn.

Possessing peaks are off-colored clouds,

shaded valleys stay in control.

A hesitant loner swarmed by certainty,

let indecision decide.

Moonlight in sunny skies,

two fists opened tightly,

arms open to being closed.

Earnestly flippant are the owl’s ears,

listening to nothing,

seated

on its nowhere throne.

BALANCED DESPERATION

Powerful premonition, pointless prediction,

juxtaposed, unexplained.

Bipolar disorder in the audience,

personality disorder on stage.

Stale brains swimming in coffee grinds,

omnipotent onions, forcing a tear at a time,

unimaginable depth sitting on a