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 Aug 2012 Catie
Helen
busking to the outer hands
grasping for a taste of life
reaching for a soft thigh
breathing in the scent
upon a sigh

I sing the song of the outcast
the borderlands stand foreign
against all thought
and the ruling emotion
is
pure
emotion
a guttural cry is last
next to our swaying motion

darker than the twilight
throatier than a growl
to come apart in the moonlight
without running a foul
of crossing from the sunlight
to the darker plains of pain
the borderlands are not for the weak
or those starved of the rain

the dryness is oppressive
the darkness is aggressive
dusking in the borderland
leaves one crooning
to the old world muse
with a fragility
that is impressive

so they sit upon the crossroads
listening to the songs of desire
and watch the sun set
but left an empty shell
because they refused
to be consumed
by the fire
for those of us that have crossed the borderlands and survived to arise from the fire and became.... more ;-)
 Aug 2012 Catie
Ashley Bertram
You're simply not here.
I stretch my mind to find you,
Bending around all the nooks,
Until I cannot bend, stretch, or flex
The depths any longer.

It's been a long time.
I remember our last engagement,
Rather clearly, might I add.
You were sticky, sweet, and satisfying,
Just like old times.

I remember why you left.
It was my fault, but we had an agreement.
Time wasn't on our side,
It deceived, manipulated, and warped
My mind and emotion.

It's been a long time.
I remember you told me many things,
Things I tried for years to forget.
You said I was selfish, despicable, and a *****.
I believed you.

You're simply not here.
I don't search for you anymore.
What I've longed for for so long
Has finally enveloped, released, and replaced
My chastising memory of you.
 Aug 2012 Catie
Joanna Johnson
I found an answer today.

Might not have been easy. It took time, and a way.
Hours, days, weeks, months, a year.

Hard to remember, easy to forget.
The answer is simple, not to be judged or felt.

I'll get there in the end, don't know how, when, where or why.
Answers take time to be found.
Worry not, and remember, there's no need to stress.

Everything is fine.

I found an answer today, don't know how, when, where, or why.
It was pure.


*I'm OK.
 Aug 2012 Catie
JW Carter
So I swam out into the deep unsure if stumbling in my sleep,
Inept to help the starry sky escape the dawn's predestined reap.
And as the lights fell into dark I saw the sun slip into ocean,
Completely unaware of trends in simple harmonic motion.
I watched it be consumed in daily water-based disaster,
To return spat out at night to glow in shades more like its master.
It then occurred that even though it shone up high like royalty,
The sun was subject, all this time, to answer to the sea.
 Aug 2012 Catie
Favour
In Jesus name!
Satan falls
All his wicked plans
Shall fall along
SHATTERED!

We have power, you’ve got the power
Jesus has given you victory
No matter how hard the situation
We shall walk on deadly things
They will not harm you
No matter the difficulties
Nothing can tear us down
Nothing is impossible for God’s children
We can defeat the devil

Even though the evil spirits
Fall at our knees
This is not the reason to we should be happy
Rejoice, Rejoice your name is written in heaven
You name is written in the book of life
from LUKE 10:18-20
I think,
what you should keep in mind
is the thrusting
pulsation, my
veiny
body parts
do.

My heart and
others'
stop
to feel
the coursing
flow.

You don't.

But you should.

Wait for breath;
catch it and,

yes,
use it
to pull out
every ounce
of air
that seeps
from lungs
and touches
on your hollow throat.

Let it vibrate
through your empty
self, into
the
sounds,
which form
my name.

"Wo es war,
da soll ICH
werden."
--
The self is manifest in the signifier.
MMXII
 Aug 2012 Catie
Mark Albert
Low lights and varnished wood
places in memory, now long gone
Tables looking like they might be sticky
ashtrays emptied, stale tobacco air

Places of memory, folded and
put away in corners of my mind
bars by lakes, downtown smalltown
beers and jukes
shots and bar puddles
laughter and hair
bell bottomed floors.

Simple, to the point
play pool, talk about fishing
long gone days
leaving me wishing.
 Aug 2012 Catie
Mark Albert
Hope is a Cypress
cracking tendrils
through solid rock.

Churning sustenance from
the barren land
holding tight to the cliff.

Growing, twisted in the wind;
thriving, thrusting branches
growing leaves of redemption.

Defiant and hard
courageous and beatiful
she conquers, she lives, she thrives.
for a new friend who, if I'm lucky, will one day be an old friend. :)
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