Legions of Light/Armies of Darkness
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And So It Begins...
Trenches of my past,
these tears,
they burn
deep into my flesh,
face of my genes
Nostalgia,
sublime depression,
a sense of loss,
days gone by
that could not be kept
to present pace
The future,
my oyster,
lays tracks
across my grave,
a residual effect,
emotions lying in dust
(a friend’s aging photograph : cancer’s latest
victory)
(a lover’s letters smothered in vacancies : once
heated passions)
Loved ones,
the baby brother,
engaged... married
Mother, I was not prepared for this
Days gone by,
I am betrayed
in the present,
my mind,
lost in vacuums
of a past
Blissful times,
fresh,
young,
when last I kissed her,
that lover
in the letters.
Manuscripts of happiness
And then...
first calling,
first amendment to my being,
by entities maternal,
extraterrestrial
Warned was I...
such treasures never last,
falling to my knees
Six years,
eons... ages ago,
all has happened
in split seconds
of a sadist,
Father Time
(whiplash : nostalgia : backwash : deja’ vu)
He remains an aftertaste
in the continuum
of my time,
my space,
trench warfare
in the DNA of my race
©1999 Rick Smith
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About the Book
Disturbing, challenging, surrealist, controversial
are but a few words that reel around in my mind about this book... which will
shock and stretch the reader's mind in many directions... not a light-hearted
pick-and-choose collection of poems... if it's something mind-stretching and
challenging you are looking for, then this book achieves that on several
levels.
– David Taub
Rick Smith explores, confronts and questions the
unexplained with pained honesty... expresses with his poetry profound lessons and
insights with multidimensional metaphors. His candor shows true courage.
– Joan Carra
Like passing through all the heights and depths of a
great mountain range at lightspeed... it hits the reader like a machine gun
blasting bullets of blood and guts observation and relentless social commentary
through the writer's experience... it reads like a versified new gospel for the
21st century.
– Ruth Solomon
A scintilating wake-up call!!! This remarkable book
is both complex and simple, direct and subtle, and always thought-provoking.
Dip into this and take away what you choose... you WILL go away enriched by the
experience... fun, terrifying, funny, sweet, and heart-touching... Rick Smith
deserves a much wider audience.
– David J. Koukol
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About the Author
Since 1991, Rick has been ‘downloading’
extraterrestrial information, turning it into visual and literary expressions
throughout his work as an artist, poet and lecturer. His exploration into this
realm began with acrylics. As time went on, the natural evolution of this
exploration led him down the path of a mixed-media artist, writer and lecturer.
In Legions Of Light / Armies Of Darkness he exposes his own intimate,
enlightening and horrific experiences, scenarios and confrontations for the
first time. As a teacher of the masses and a relentless truth machine, Rick
Smith knows his calling in life as he redeems the Abduction Phenomenon away
from falsehood, delivering unto the viewer a message of catalystic knowledge.
Ranging in areas of politics, religion, domestic violence and sociological
evolution, the far reaching implications set forth by the artist’s work become
startling and hard hitting.