WARNING: I drop the F-Bomb in some of my writing. I believe in free speech, if this will offend you, please move along.
Dain Brammage
Art, Poetry and Spoken Word
Art feeds the soul, not only for the artist, but for the patron as well. Please browse around and see what has been on my menu. Comments are always appreciated. ~Love, db
There is Hope
Yet, deep within me
Resides a place of great light
Balancing darkness
Tags: Autobiographic, Belief, Growth, Haiku, Human Condition, Poetry
Love Sick
Stomach somewhat soured
Churning from your words
Like bile spat in my face
Your truth now has emerged
Heaving contempt for me
Bubbling off your tongue
The acidic slight toward my affection
Has left my heart unstrung
True love leaves you nauseous
More bitter as it grows
But when you belch your rejection
Your fear is left exposed
Tags: Channeled, Human Condition, Poetry
The Effect of Music
Listening to the music
I try to linger on each note
But the next forces me forward
Keeping me in the moment
Tags: Autobiographic, Human Condition, Poetry, Quatrain
My Sun is Setting
A brilliant light
Blinds my eyes
But warms my decaying soul
I am dying
I do not ask for redemption
I have lived a just life
I have not repented for my sins
There are no such things
I have answered to myself, always
I have forgiven myself, daily
If there is a God that lives within me
Then I have done right in this world
And if there is not
Then no amount of last-minute gestures
Will help me pass or ease my pain
I cross-over with peace in my heart
Ready to live and love again
Tags: Autobiographic, Belief, Growth, Human Condition, Poetry, Reincarnation
Soul Searching
Who are you?
Do you know?
Have you looked inside
To see if you can see?
Who you are is there
You are not what you show
To the World through your skin
Nor are you who your ego tells you to be
You can see your spirit within
If you are brave enough to look
The idea scares you
You have so much tucked away
You keep yourself hidden
Not from others
Not from the ones you love
But from yourself
Your spirit leaks into the world
And reveals your nature, your truth
Many others see this around you, diluted
You can see it in full vibrancy when you look inside
Look first to your heart
It has something to say
Hear it speak to you
Receive its message
Look next to the brain
Find the contradictions
Note them, they are the fallacies
Let them drop away
Now who are you?
Are you who you thought you were?
Tags: Autobiographic, Growth, Human Condition, Poetry
On Feeling Empathy
When I say I empathize
I do not always mean
That I simply understand
What you are going through
When I say that I feel you
I am not speaking to
A tactile sense about your skin
Or the softness of your clothes
When I say I empathize
I often mean that
I feel your emotions
As if they were my own
When I say that I feel you
What I am probably saying to you
Is that I feel your life force
Your soul, your energy
If I say that I understand
I am then relating
I get the ideas you put forth or
I have been through that too
Tags: Human Condition, Poetry
Question in Haiku Form
If time heals all wounds
Yet time is an invention
Do inventions heal?
Tags: Haiku, Human Condition, Poetry
Mere Existence
I often forget
That by my mere existence
I create loves depth
Tags: Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, Poetry
Fade
Looking at her sleeping
Her soft silky skin
Peeking out from under the covers
Even though the love has faded
She always makes me hungry
Tags: Human Condition, Poetry
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New Outlook
I would rather create
An understanding than
Destroy a friendship
Tags: Growth, Haiku, Human Condition, Poetry, Social Commentary