Dark Poetry, Volume 8: Tiptoe Thru The Twilight & Other Gothic Poems: Dark Poetry, #8
By J J Ginty
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'GOTHIC TWILIGHT':
HE WHO CONTINUES TO TIPTOE THRU THE TWILIGHT, RECORDING THE MIX OF BODILESS VOICES HE ENCOUNTERS ECHOING WITHIN THE PSYCHIC ACOUSTICS OF THE INNER MIND'S EAR …
A more than usual personal impression is left keenly resounding, after one has explored, considered, and unraveled the exquisitely delivered, profoundly deep and arcanely crepuscular, evocative messages contained within J J Ginty's poetic journal.
The pulsating theatricalities and transmittable intensity felt between the lines of this impassioned, honest, and most consuming read is especially potent and curiously palpable – from the very first line to the very last. This distinctive and uncanny little composition is sure to articulate and resonate somewhat further and deeper beyond that which might normally be expected from a short book of dark/gothic poetry; in the sense that, the 37 poems herein are not archetypically consistent with that of the dark and the gothic in a classical, traditional or conventional, or even contemporary, sense.
That is to say, if one is expecting or hoping for pages brimming with nothing but haunted castles, spooky graveyards, vampire bats hanging upside down in the belfry, living folk being buried alive and dead folk rising up out of their graves, and other such jeepers-creepers; or, if one is looking for overt tales and experiences that share accounts of abuse, self-harm, suicide, depression, various psychopathologies, criminal insanity etc., etc., this may not be the collection for you; though, it must be said, there are a wide variety of these preternatural themes and psychosomatic subjects (along with many others, and much more besides) woven into, between, and beyond the vivid lines and emotional content herein, which are, at the very heart of it all, obliquely dark/gothic in their depictions, considerations, feelings, inscapes and outlooks.
It would not be precise to describe these poems as light, dark or gothic (per se) – they would be more accurately described as (shall we say) … twilight (i.e. somewhere in-between the light & dark).
For isn't twilight that wonderous great vehicle which transports us from the light of day into the darkness of night?
J J Ginty does so colorfully express that which he conceives – born out of that which he perceives – thus communicating and connecting with those of us who decidedly share in similar proclivities: those of us (albeit so very few of us) who perhaps appreciate the widely interweaving, multifarious and provocative twilit themes to be found within one's own life, … death, … afterlife …
This book was conceived, born and nurtured out of ordinary day-to-day life and its mortal, earthly, mundane happenings ('reality', if you will), leading the author to produce this collection; effectively displaying his very own idiosyncratic take on Strange & Peculiar Reality.
Contains strong language.
Dedicated to the 'Isolationist':
Those who generally feel somewhat adrift
Those who perhaps feel they are something 'other'
Those who don't always believe in what is seen, heard, taught or disclosed
Those who are of a deep & introspective nature
Those who occasionally like to stick two fingers up at the external world
Those who are inwardly travelling Time.
In Appreciation. Always.
J J Ginty
J J Ginty
J J Ginty is an eclectic writer who is indeed a poet by nature and selection; and beautifully exhibits his artistry through the composition of verse and prose. An author who could perhaps write about any theme in any place, in any time, or any space. Composing his work to suit almost any style, and almost any taste. Having a propensity towards the darker characteristics of life (and death); whether they'd be real or surreal; natural or unnatural (supernatural); normal or paranormal; ordinary or extraordinary. It would be difficult to sum J J Ginty up as a writer; but for now, at least, it shall be said ... he is a writer/poet who has crafted his style to articulate the Dark and the Gothic.
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Dark Poetry, Volume 8 - J J Ginty
I DREAM WITHIN THEIR DREAMS
Idream
I dream
I drown
I drown
With the untold
Countless paramours
Of old gentleman ghoul
& old lady fiend
Who fly above
Over Time
Who
Looking down
Into the black paralysis
See me drown
Within their dreams.
BEAST
Ogusty wind upon shadowy mountain
I belong here, with you, nowhere
In desolation
In primal communion
Everywhere – an elixir in kindred blood
I feel it alone – only here
Lonely? – never!
Great moon
By you, I roar, I tear ... upon savage fold
So frail, so tender
The antelope
Hunted
I chase
To meet their death
Of this, I partake
‘til the break in my fast
To conquer nothing
but to slake the drought in my blood.
These mountainous pastures
Where I rule,
for now,
It is only for now
Here, this moment ...
Possessed, spellbound
under your supernatural shadow
of moonlight
Where you & I are one/the same:
Same hunger, the same ... – irrevocable
In the end, I guess, I hope (no, pray),
that one day, in You,
I am freed.
AERIALS
Dream leaders supreme
Fraught with frozen heat
Pulsing pain
Delusion dashed
The transparent hedonism
OH, IT LACKS, THIS earthly paradise
It’s unending summer fair
Full of the flower, & the song, of those
Who grant to us the aerials of Plenty:
Hosts of ravishing wings
EATERS OF BONE & SOUL
THE PASSIONS THEY BESTOW
Like a plague avalanche, sweet
Bitter their faces bleed, mutilations
Peeling & dripping onto their feet
Running from the flying wings of Paradise
THE EARTHLY LEADERS of Famine.
FOOTSOLES (INTO THE TWILIGHT)
Chasing my own fugitive footsoles
across the paltry pastures on into the twilight
of my own indifference on over the borders
which appear to snuff out the noise
of the murmuring sleeping birds
I feel their weighted eyes & folded wings
in the shadows, sleeping,
tho somehow watching over me
thinking again about life’s sick philosophies
Watching, engrossed,
as all the engorged herds of frantic
babbling ghosts are being chased
all about me
by the lofty featureless Sandman
He is so blank, he is so struck & stuck