My disembodied head spins
a whirlwind going nowhere
upwards here and there
cackling greets my arms
pulling it down
the harder I try
the faster it spirals
towards the sky
beyond the clouds
exalting at the shroud
lifting from Eden’s gate
Angelic songs serenade its wake
A cry rose and peeled my eyes
off heaven’s scented air
hurtled me down
a shooting star
into an abyss
pregnant with terror
screaming claws pulled at my hair
cobwebs suspended
my limbs in the dark
should I fall
should I fly
I am terrified of heights
guilt weighs me down
I cling to the shaft
of light piercing through
the valleys I bathed
in living waters
bloody red from the cross
my body fell
my head reeled
from the trip
to heaven from hell.
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For Dverse’s Poetics (on DMT), Anthony Desmond wants us to write under the inspiration of Jay Electronica’s Dimethyltryptamine. I understand it to be a hallucination-like poem. I do not care for rap music (I wonder if I even named the genre correctly), but when I looked up the lyrics, the words are actually mesmerizing. So here is my take, a combination of anesthesia-induced fact, meditations, nightmares, and fiction.
Thank you for coming by. 🙂 I hope you get to check out DVERSE for more ‘surreal’ responses.
glad your dream ended up in the good place 🙂
wow… glad this ended with to heaven, from hell… Geese, all I have to see are cobwebs and I am terrified… bcus I know there’s a spider near by… This is a great write; a lot of twists and turns through darkness and to find that light in the end… very cool
one trip i am kinda glad that i do not have to make in reality…at least you were moving in the better direction, toward heaven…ha…quite intense and vivid…
Brilliantly written with the perfect ending…. “to heaven from hell.”
To be scared of heights when guilt weighs you down… That to me is the worst part when flying in dreams..
YES..A balance of heaven and hell..the YIN and Yang of bliss can make heaven too..
from hell
as
well!
smiles and have great day!2!..;)!
This is a nightmare journey from heaven to hell ~ I too am terrified of darkness and heights~
Well done.
I really enjoy your poetry-Imelda of Malta(Europe).
Thank you, Imelda. 🙂 I very much appreciate your reading and comment. 🙂
Particularly liked the trip from heaven to hell image, Aldous Huxley described his experiences with mescaline as being “The Doors of Perception” later he added some further thoughts and called it “Heaven and Hell”
Thanks for coming by and the comment. I learned something new from your post. 🙂
That was some trip the journey can be rough guilt will weigh you down when you want to soar, In the end you ascend so that brings calmness.
Powerful and thrilling. Had me spinning in delight.
Wow! So glad it ended in heaven Imelda. You are one powerful poet hon! Love it! 😀 ♥ Hugs ♥