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Poetry https://siever.ca/kim Writing and researching politics and social issues Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:41:49 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 70863899 Chains https://siever.ca/kim/2020/01/21/chains/ https://siever.ca/kim/2020/01/21/chains/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:46:32 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=4102
  • Shackled and fettered in chains
  • Sacrificed body and brains
  • Hooked up straight into my vein
  • Labour gets sucked down the drain
  • Only for capital gain
  • Ignoring my illness and pain
  • Begging and pleading in vain
  • Silenced each time I complain
  • Speak up considered profane
  • Hours each day on the train
  • Ever extinguishing flame
  • My number is now my new name
  • Whispers in secret start swayin’
  • Conspirators also are sayin’
  • All of us no longer playin’
  • Time for the head to start payin’
  • Together our voices outweighin’
  • As long as we’re standin’ and stayin’
  • Our message more strongly conveyin’
  • Power and strength we’re displayin’
  • This isn’t pretend we’re portrayin’
  • No longer on us are they preyin’
  • Instead, they are cowerin’, prayin’
  • The shackles and fetters decayin’
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2020/01/21/chains/feed/ 0 4102     Polished skin https://siever.ca/kim/2019/08/18/polished-skin/ https://siever.ca/kim/2019/08/18/polished-skin/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:46:37 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3707
  • A fraying thread now fading red knitting my heart splitting apart.
  • A crimson rag I glisten tag the lonely tears that hold my fears.
  • A tattered shawl in battered brawl comforts my back from hurt and crack,
  • It flood with red from blood I shed, my weighted yoke, deflated, broke.
  • A scarlet rope ‘round scar-red hope to bind a hole in mind and soul.
  • A ruddy pin so bloody thin securing pain, injured again.
  • A cherry cloth, it nary doth erase away the basest ache.
  • And here I sit so counterfeit with polished skin but mauled within.
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2019/08/18/polished-skin/feed/ 0 3707     Topsy turvy https://siever.ca/kim/2019/06/16/topsy-turvy/ https://siever.ca/kim/2019/06/16/topsy-turvy/#respond Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:57:31 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3659
  • Towering trees all veiled with leaves, hanging from the sky
  • Calming seas with salty breeze in the desert dry
  • Starry light so dimly bright shining through the ground
  • Chicken flight of soaring height to the prairies bound
  • Blazing fire and climbing higher fuelled by frosty ice
  • Reaching spire up from the mire, and pearls of little price
  • Oil wipe with water swipe, while darkening of soul
  • Black and white midst greying stripes, widening the hole.
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2019/06/16/topsy-turvy/feed/ 0 3659     The Doorway https://siever.ca/kim/2018/09/12/the-doorway/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/09/12/the-doorway/#respond Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:28:04 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3446
  • Frozen in the doorway separating dark and light
  • There before my wondering eyes a most intriguing sight
  • Centaur in mid gallop, on its back was found a clock
  • It’d stopped its steady ticking and had silenced every tock
  • Stuck at stroke of midnight—or maybe it was noon.
  • Never really certain whether it was sun or moon
  • Lighting up the hallway where this human–horse had flown.
  • Should I keep familiar or push off into unknown?

    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/09/12/the-doorway/feed/ 0 3446     Chipping Silence https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/04/chipping-silence/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/04/chipping-silence/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:10:21 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3448
  • Cradled by my fingers, this awkward chunk of stone,
  • Sharp and jagged edges hiding shapes unknown.
  • Inside there’s potential, whispering as urge.
  • Time and slow precision cause vision to emerge.
  • Careful chipping silence reveals what’s ’neath the face.
  • Water polished finish marks the resting place.
  • Standing now before me—none before had stood;
  • Pleased with this new story, I declare it good.

    • Listen

    ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/04/chipping-silence/feed/ 0 3448     Into the Dark of the Depths https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/01/into-the-dark-of-the-depths/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/01/into-the-dark-of-the-depths/#respond Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:46:36 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3424
  • Into the dark of the depths
  • Sapping and draining my breath
  • Diving away from the light
  • Vanish from surface’s sight
  • Alone in my silent descent
  • Away from the cries of repent
  • But there at the bottom so still
  • A new light my empty soul fill

    • Listen

    ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/07/01/into-the-dark-of-the-depths/feed/ 0 3424     Waters of Dust https://siever.ca/kim/2018/06/04/waters-of-dust/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/06/04/waters-of-dust/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:01:20 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3420
  • Hanging up on a cross;
  • Dripping from toes, my dross.
  • Buried in waters of dust,
  • Chipping away at crust.
  • Breathing on me, a dove
  • Sent from the moon above.
  • Tending fin, wing, and claw.
  • Eating good fruit I saw;
  • Nibbling on blood and brain.
  • Riding on wheel of pain.
  • Farming thorns from the brink,
  • Wanting for crumb and drink.

    • Listen

    ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/06/04/waters-of-dust/feed/ 0 3420     Complexity https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/29/complexity/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/29/complexity/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 21:07:59 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3413
  • Complexity perplexes thee; simplicity, it vexes me.
  • Eliciting complicitly abandonment so recklessly.
  • Inadequate, inanimate, and sorely not compassionate.
  • So poorly though, thought lordly though, soul-infecting contaminant.
  • Sufficiently inhibiting the visiting of ministry.
  • A symphony of imagery: your bigotry so vicious, see?
  • Efficiently prohibiting the limits of soliciting.
  • Not riveting, just dwindling and dulling of my glistening.
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/29/complexity/feed/ 0 3413     Philosophia https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/19/philosophia/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/19/philosophia/#respond Sat, 19 May 2018 23:26:02 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3406
  • Wisdom in each heartbeat pulsing through my veins
  • Mending every sorrow, comforting each pain.
  • Wisdom in each blood drop healed by Mother’s kiss,
  • Or her tear, or stroking, or her embraced bliss
  • Wisdom in each longing reaching from my chest,
  • Passing through the vastness, to her ear to rest.
  • Wisdom in each flushing—flustered, nervous, shy—
  • Hand upon my shoulder tells me she is nigh.
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/19/philosophia/feed/ 0 3406     Shattered Spectacles https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/12/shattered-spectacles/ https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/12/shattered-spectacles/#respond Sun, 13 May 2018 01:34:47 +0000 https://siever.ca/kim/?p=3402
  • Temples made of glass are buried in the ground
  • Churches made of clay where cornerstones are found
  • Porcelain scriptures are holding up the arch
  • Splintering tokens are moulding frail the heart
  • Shattered spectacles, kaleidoscope of truth
  • Rusty microscope shapes confidence of youth
  • Mirror cracked and chipped reflecting state of mind
  • Standing on the spire is where you might me find.
    • ]]>     https://siever.ca/kim/2018/05/12/shattered-spectacles/feed/ 0 3402