Tribe (an acrostic poem)

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They were always looking for a place to settle down in

Running was so tiring, and the souls of their shoes were getting holey

It would start with that awkward silence that announced the countdown to launch

But this time there was no moment of quiet in the cacophony of laughter

Everyone deserves to find where their weird is the normal, and that’s how they knew they found their people, their…

Chamber (an acrostic poem)

Cozy silver jacket

Hammer at the ready

All we need is a single twitch

Making all this potential energy

Become a cacophony of kinetic energy

Exploding the projectile forward

Recoiling from what was done

Cycle (an acrostic poem)

Charging down the finishing straight

Yellow jersey amongst the cacophony of colors

Creating a chaotic dance of machines and men

Looking to master the course and each other

Every eye eventually bending towards the end in Paris

Shout (an acrostic poem)

Slipping my voice into projection mode

Heaving my words into the void

Ordering the world to pay attention to me

Understanding that I’m just adding to the cacophony

Though it does make me feel better   :>)

 

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Struggle (an acrostic poem)

So many children were screaming into the void

That the void got frustrated and threw the cacophony back

Resulting in an aural tsunami that came crashing over my consciousness

Undercutting the foundation of my sanity

Giving me a sonic lobotomy

Gone was any chance of getting anything done

Leaving nothingness

Existential emptiness

 

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Chaos (an acrostic poem)

Cacophony of past and future ideas

Hoarded on every flat surface of her office

A dizzying architecture of paperwork, books, and coffee mugs littered the officescape

Organized by randomness and curated by wild pixies

Still, she found the correct form in less than twenty seconds

 

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Crash (an acrostic poem)

Capsizing the tin of screws sent them careening to the tile floor

Running away from the cacophony, Flynn kept his head down

Another hammer flew by, smashing the windows on his left

Splinters of glass impregnated themselves into his flesh

He threw himself through the ex-window before the ground finally found him

 

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