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james-banks-worsham
james-banks-worsham
34/M/American I'm from Alpharetta Georgia. If you read my stuff please tell me what you think, even if you hate it.
Can Cardinals wear secret coats? Waiting for a gray beard To cross the plains Tell us something wise Make our cries fall quiet Old hands, that they are Old hat, not so much Some of us are on rooftops And some in basements Seeming standing on the ceilings Throats open for the promised yells We can’t remember how once we uttered So instead we shudder at how shuttered Our little rooms we live in are And can only force a stutter Lank and loose with dull eyes gleaming But bored and dead unable to find the siren sound that cuts our thoughts and feelings The echoed noise of our minds weeping
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Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM UTC
Steamboat Springs
Imperfect bodies never heavenly mingle Orbits intertwined Heat seeking souls can’t miss their peaking shine
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Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM UTC
Ursa Major
Heat seeking souls Under the table pickle dealings Crisscrossed road scarred dry strangled useless and varicose Mice never squeaked until the invention of the squeaking machine, which taught them everything they know While the best of tender chickens Laid down in those trenches Old souls lost to lost causes In mud mined by young blood
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Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM UTC
Pastiche
This garden growing wild      Catches at our breath           Stilled But for a moment quiet      Like our tigers after riot With eyes as embers      In the silence Untamed shades      Move behind            Gentle gazes Like spiraled vines       In shadow The flaws of perfection      Tipped our scale            Towards symmetry And lead our naked steps      To a delicate line We crossed with whispered      Thoughts of wants So flaws bore fruit      And the wild thrived And the temptation of two bites      Caught fire in our teeth Two hearts burning bright      With desire           In our minds                Our eyes                     Our tongues                          Our touch
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Jul 24, 2022
Jul 24, 2022 at 10:54 PM UTC
The Garden
Channel South. The Mississippi fold Whipped midnight dust From the quiet cages Of homeless graves. The dead awake To low night music As yellow electric light Mirrors the slow flow Of gorgeous life That loves to shine. So speak to the fine eyes As if you found them In a great Khan’s garden, Elegant and wild
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Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020 at 2:12 AM UTC
Down South
Wild lives grow      like vines With secret beasts      in roaring leaves Seeking to dream blues      north Hags burn      sinister herbs From the foliage      but smoke blows south Heavy breaths      gasp clean air Growing bored      to choke
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Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020 at 9:28 PM UTC
Wild Lives
We only howl when the sun rises Cause nights are for softer sounds And softer hearts than The faces made for the Days that make fists Paler light unclenches them. We blend into a scape Without fading, a starry Dusk overwhelming Our cries will cease And we will hum and burn In our fall.  The trip to Earth is fun While it seems to smile back The land glowing closer
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 10:31 AM UTC
Nightlife
A glow in the night Through thick glass Accompanies the silence Of a city seeming Muted Where is this button That shuts its voices down? Missed whispers in unfiltered night air May I dream them If I sleep? If the humming walls Will ever cease
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 9:52 AM UTC
The Ward
Boundaries broke the storm before it rose So the glow settled The beautiful put to bed And wonder died while it slept
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 9:31 AM UTC
Boundaries
A kiss too late that left my lips And passed to you with a gentle press As you glided by. You barely seemed to see my eyes In wanting need of some return And glanced your sadness on to me That now was not the time.
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Feb 16, 2013
Feb 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM UTC
Bad Timing