Word Hoard
To seemed glance the but thought the discarded. Emotion human this was.
Feeling sensation this was. Eyes his impale to seemed that, look graceful a
with met was and heel his turned he. Impulses unexplainable of bundle terrifying yet mesmerising this. Sense human basic
this of fond not man a was he.
Were them of none fact in. Satisfactory not was them of some. Comprehension
human withiin feeling every matching screen a was there looked he where matter
no. Down and up. Right. Left. Body his surrounded that screens the watching.
Wistfully. Carefully. Street the of center the in standing was he.
Phanerothyme
Happiness lies somewhere in between the slight grinding of his teeth and the dilation of his pupils
When the warmth of a thousand hells and the shivering cold of an eternal winter is surfing through his body at one and the same time.
A Daliesque tattoo imprinted on his brain
Resonating the geometry of immaculacy
Reaping the hearts of his nearest, like Cain
Completely and utterly submissive to the forces of Sandoz pharmacy
Where the fruits of life come hemorrhaging
This is the phantom which is so terrifying,yet mesmerising
Your vocabulary-game is strong and it supports the flow. Word to the wise: read this poem out loud. Reminded me of taking a sick acid-trip or perhaps the feeling of watching 'Requiem for a Dream' on fast-forward while blaring some Aphex Twin in reverse.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't actually need the whole raw word hoard, although the full Yoda is quite fun...
ReplyDeleteThe backwards phrase you chose is one of the easy type, where a mirroring of two words around a word such as 'and', 'not' and 'yet' ensure that it's as easy to work with backwards as it would be forwards.
The descriptive poem is successful in creating a mood through its rather extravagant vocabulary and pomp of exaggeration. I was unsuccessful in grokking what the title referred to other than a random album. Of course anything 'phanero-' refers to the present, manifest or visible, so that's ironic...
I understand that the title might need some explanation so here is the concise version. Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmund sought to coin a term for what is now known as the psychedelic experience. Through their correspondence Huxley suggested: "To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of Phanerothyme"
DeleteOsmund's response was: "To fathom in hell and soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic".
So your recognition of manifest/visible is correct by that regard. I believe the indepth version can be found in Huxley's "The Doors of Perception".
Very cool - it's been a few decades since I read The Doors of Perception!
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