Sky-sculptor's Show (I.I. Part 2) by d-pend

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Sky-sculptor's Show (I.I. Part 2)
<center><h1>Sky-sculptor's Show</h1>**.
<sub>Infernal Interstate Part II</sub>
original poetry
by @d-pend
.
featuring
photography
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by [BrightStar2](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/gallery/)**</center>
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![the_waking_sleep_by_brightstar2-d9fhdrr.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcwJzfja4uDKbQBTaVUXSKw2waGqqJrrhd1vFSwSTU6Lj/the_waking_sleep_by_brightstar2-d9fhdrr.jpg)
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<center><h2>Introduction</h2></center>

<div class=text-justify>Hello and welcome to the second <em>(official)</em> installment of the 'Infernal Interstate' series of poems. This is a series of "dictated poems" that were created by recording voice memos and transcribing them later. So far, they have been only minimally edited from their original version. Part one is <a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@d-pend/inner-static">"Inner Static,"</a> and there's an "honorary member" a bit more absurd in nature called <a href="https://steemit.com/sarcosmic/@d-pend/goldilocks-discontent">"Goldilocks' Discontent."</a>  In the future, I may publish the original audio versions or make new voice recordings of these pieces. Please enjoy and I hope to hear your impressions in the form of a comment!</div>

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<h2>Sky-sculptor's Show</h2>

As a delighted child 
I watch the deft adjustments
of the sky-sculptor.

Stretched rudders and distended torsos
melting in high noon's cataclysm:
graceful gestures to the marionettes of cotton
looking on in admiration from nearby fields.

The horizon splays its fingers,
swallows me in its porcelain veins.

The cardiac presence of many-hued transversions
blasts me down the patchwork ribbons
of tar, stone, and light-particle antibodies.

Each cattail or dandelion
a thousand-scrolled papyrus,
oscillating the whisperings of sages
through the automobiliac breeze.

A sheriff golden with anxiety,
pewter helicopter,
squat box-truck spewing squid ink,
row upon row of cubic blasphemies in the median
all swarm like hornets in an abstruse alliance
of manufacturing at the altar of the artifice.

The effulgent veil
of a cumulonimbus dragon
dies in a burning fit of laughter—

a slow death, ecstatic
with the comprehension
of the tragicomedy
of heaven versus earth.

Lights so penetrating
they outshine the sun.

Stenches so garrulous
they outtalk the ocean.

Toxins so noxious
they poison themselves.

A cultivator: 
dull green leviathan gormandizing grain and dust
and the thoughtwaves of one billion crickets
roars in antique fury.

And somewhere, 
empathic carnivores weep
for the trillions of insects 
dispatched for vegetarians 
to make the bread they eat on a picnic
while they watch the sky-sculptor's show.
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<center><h3>Original Poetry
by @d-pend
.
Oct. 12, 2018
.
Photography
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by [BrightStar2](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/gallery/)</h3>**.**
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[I. — "The Waking Sleep"](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/art/The-Waking-Sleep-570200823)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[II. — "Rise"](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/art/Rise-588044134)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[III. — "Photograph Love"](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/art/Photograph-Love-489610712) *[mirrored]*
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[IV. — "The DayDream Stop"](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/art/The-DayDream-Stop-485167611)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[V. — "Promise"](https://www.deviantart.com/brightstar2/art/Promise-553633150)</center>
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@zeleiracordero ·
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Beautiful description of the sea seen from a moving vehicle at dusk. The vision is striking and recreated with strong images that exploit the neurons trying to "see" what was painted with words. 
Excellent linguistic panorama, only comparable to the magnificence of the landscape architect.
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**"The cardiac presence of many-hued transversions
blasts me down the patchwork ribbons
of tar, stone, and light-particle antibodies."**


That was beautiful
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@certain ·
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Dear @d-pend sir!
Beautiful poem of Infernal Interstate's series. Brilliantly mentioned about farmer and green field in  these lines...A cultivator..............fury.
Your photography  skill is also admirable. Taken with different angles.
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@mineopoly · (edited)
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Poems like this remind me how much I do love the land and sky itself, especially from my home land. As a child I would spend hours lying on a hill making out what the artist in the sky was doing. Today on a good day I do the same thing from the balcony with my son. 

Road trips are even better. Even though the car is moving down the highway it seems the clouds are fix in the sky until you look again a minute later and a sheep is now a dragon.

 I never saw the amber waves of grain along the interstate but I have seen more corn than I bargained for and now golden heads of rice lying in sparkling pools. 

Send my blessing to Mr. D.

Best of health to you all. 
<br>
Peace
<br>
Enjoy your time at home. There is no "accident". You are there at this time for a purpose.
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@slowwalker ·
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Really nice photos and poem.
Both suits perfectly.
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@scotchhorse ·
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I am not a fan of your work. You are in love with the thesaurus. You are running out of ideas.
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@trumanity ·
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Intensely evocative. Joy and awe, i felt small and significant all at once. Just enough here to move the listeners through from light to night, to describe a scene, while doing them the honor of allowing them to project whatever they bring to the verses. Fully enjoyed!
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@bacus15 ·
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Upvoted and resteemed.  Hopefully we will have another exchanges of poetic flows, soon.
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@quillfire · 
@d-pend,

Dan ... I've been reading your ongoing series of traveling poems. Here's the imagery that's crystallizing in my mind:

Imagine four guys in a car driving cross country. 

One of them is D-pend ... who's gone off the deep end ... and who, in the depths of his delirium begins to ramble on, incessantly, about the metaphoric meaning of everything from asphalt to automobiles, rear-view mirrors to roof-racks. 

Sooner or later, as was inevitable, he utters the word "void," pushing everyone over the edge.

The car squeals to a stop and they throw him into the trunk, bound and gagged. They un-gag him every 200 miles for a drink of water ... then re-gag him and continue.    

*Quill*
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