Tag: surrealist poetry

• Venus Flies at Night

  

  Salvador Dalí, The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1968-70 Venus flies at nightrugged-faced androgynous as a whistlea cactus breeds listens with two heads at the same time(a bit like walking without sunshine)perhaps a better woman would have squeezed the worldno. a better woman would have told you happiness is singing with your hair downin spite of all the […]

  theusedlife

  April 5, 2021

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  creative writing, creativity, poem, poetry, surrealist poetry

• Cut to Black

  

  the film switches to men on their backs, they’re our real heroes, surfing on the chemical pink underbelly of a fertile sky they’re our whiskey dreamers the soft dancers, the coronet of half-naked bodies blown down by a puff of incense and a hit of stale tobacco it is a scene that begs for rearranging […]

  theusedlife

  August 21, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, poem, poetry, surrealist poetry, writing

• Elegance in Circles

  

  Salvador Dalí, Portrait of Picasso, 1947 tell me the entire face is mine, even the subtle interior, like a self-tied knot or the crutch of a malformed pearl that rests a weakened fleece on its forehead and tell me the riddle at the end of the nose is also mine sunny cranial jukebox sly rhythm […]

  theusedlife

  June 6, 2019

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  creative writing, creativity, mystical poetry, poem, poetry, surrealist poetry, writing

• Lo Lite

  

  Salvador Dalí, Surrealist Composition (c. 1928) between me & the road was a red letter r, an ember of hair or a single faceless masquerade with a line above the brow indicating “no direction” the air was a blue-green funk lo lite rays & the ripples of a halogen fantasy (it is our duty to speak […]

  theusedlife

  April 12, 2019

  poetry

  creative writing, creativity, fantasy, poem, poetry, stream of consciousness, surrealist poetry, writing