Violent Conception

By Brian Phillipson

From the congestion of Los Angeles to the sands of San Diego; from the heights of New York to the desert sun of Las Vegas; from the cafes of Paris to the streets of Amsterdampoetry drumming to the maddening beat of a primitive, personal war-dance. Order and chaos; the way between young and old: straining to perfectabsorbing the world; absolving all sin. Eroticism-savagery-bloodlust: both frightening and beautiful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 26, 2004
• ISBN: 9781462819089

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Contents

Quicksand in Shadows(1998-2000)

Icarus

Wishing His Escape

Striped Naked

Borrower of Night

Leave Nothing

The Righteous Bullet

Dancing in Irrelevance

The Devil is Merely the Idleness of God on that

Seventh Day

House Rules

Roman Nights

Sulking

Call Down the Beast

No Sound Coming to the Brain

Mighty Miss May

Motor Baby, Motivate Me

Ears Over Eyes

Junk Town

Idler

Espresso Highs

Summer’s Will

Again Silence Alone

Drinking to the Moon

Last Call

September

Ankh

Divine Sin

Throwing Pearls

Chasing the Snake

Colors Come Through

How to Hang With the

Way Modern Life

Good Morning Pill

Garnet Ave.

Slave to Fight

Fly By

Form

Starve

Eternal Feminine

Candle Flame Burn

Lion in Winter

Theory of Everything

Dancing in Circles,

There Being No Point

In-Between

Death of a Dream

Sleeping with the Dreamers

Icarus Landing

God Came on to Me

Strange as Love(1998-2000)

Amusing Muse

Angel

Weight of Roses

Speak Easy

Fell Down

I’d See it All If I Was a Bird

A Noble Novelty

Dizzy Friend

Ebb and Flow

Of a Runaway

To the Other Side of Dawn

Cassandra’s Allure

Elusive

Thinness of Light

Red Apples

Public Consumption

East of Eden

My Sweetness

(A Private Overture)

Pistol Goddess

The Maddening

Poor Little Rich Girl

Proletarian

Of Your World

Nothing, Please

Nothing’s Forever, Please Stay

Lady of the Lake

Axis

Savage Girl

Seeing Without Dreaming

Like an Accident

Gypsy Eyes

Wolf

Live Life Like a

Loaded Gun

Thoughts All Alone

Distant Stare

Grocery List

Drunk on the Heart

Dana’s Sigh

Yellow Belly Ballad

Genius, Poet, Twat

Sunshine

Isle

Broken Heart

Avatar

Missouri St.

Summer Rain

Matchbox Poems (Epigrams and Interludes)

Sympathetic as Love (2001-2002)

Of a Future, Lost

Waters of My Heart

Come Alive

Perfume Comforts

Dreamer’s Symphony

Sleeping in Calabasas

Fourth of July

Fleeting Thoughts

Dusk’s Glow

Morning

She Sleeps

Chained

Wind Chime Sounds

Sail

Upon My Pillow

Empty

Cliché’

An Ending

I Just Can’t Write

Daughter of Seventy Six

Every Master

Blind Stargazer

Remember the Future

Shadows in Quicksand (2001-2002)

Ignite

Accidental Poet,

Crashing Poetry

Cradle

City of Strangers

Wavering Flag

Black and the Blues

Immortal Youth

Watery Sol

Sucking a’ la mode

(In the Prevailing Form)

Youth is Something More?

Mildew Raindrops

Last of the Morning Stars

Carousel

Communion

Ephemeral

Shameful, as it Seems

Sorrow Borrows Tomorrow

Charity

Public Relations

Odysseus’ Son

Billy the Kid (R.I.P.)

Just a Spade

All Too Human

Kent’s Ditty Swing (R.I.P.)

Delicate Isolation

Hope Unsung

Shine On

Come Sparkle

Narcissistic Child

Chimerical

Fellow Travelers

Divine Tango

Life, Light, Love

My Dreams Never Sleep

Beautiful Broken Record

Over the Light

Breathe the Highway

Wild Wisdom

Anchor Worshiping Sailor

In the end, one experiences only one-self

. . . and poets lie too much.

Only Fool!

Only Poet!

-Nietzsche

Quicksand in Shadows

 (1998-2000)

Icarus

I

. . . flying, flying

I hold your fire – not bound to life

not allowed to die – just breathe

breathe as you let in light

as you let in so many ideas

flying – staring into the sun-

with eyes wide open

reach for me – like a bird

into the sky – fly

glide above high tide

above the ground

so frantic to stay-

float peacefully

let all this light in

as you dare to fly

and stare into the sun

with eyes open – reach for me

I am open – just reach.

II

. . . flying, flying

high up – so vast

moving as fast as light

above the tide – I am reaching

for her – water surrounds me

as I drink from the blue-

her arms wide open

reaching – covering me

as I fly through the clouds

holding my fire-

I’m not bound to life

I’m not allowed to die-

keeping back tears

as she reaches for me

floating like a bird

reaching for a pearl

never bound to life

never allowed to die…

flying into the sun,

falling to the ground.

Wishing His Escape

Knowledge over wealth

he gives up