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TomDoubty Aug 5
Night about me like a locked box
Outside my window, shifting like a smuggler
Whispering its oily tune at my heart's valves
My beats slow imperceptibly
Notes of guilt insinuate themselves
between thick sheets that press me down
The itch and chafe of thoughts gnawing for a voice ,
the tick feeding in the groin,
speaks its blackness to my veins
TomDoubty Aug 1
Sit now, close your eyes in prayer
Now, beat back to the forest
Through cinnamon dust and
Summer's suffocating air
Pounding heart
He is here now
See him beating
See him whirling
Your once boy body
Nostrils scorched in peppered air
Red earth prying between white toes
Which jump excited
At the burr's ***** and
Rushing now, red footed
Rush, rush, rushing now
His fingers whip at bark
Taught flanks lashed by fern
Sweat beads and sweetens
Cut and sting, this roughened
Breath and body sing
Eyeless and intoxicated
Now circling, now slowing
Toes trace a story from the dirt
Turning in a trance
He dances a circle and falls
Panting, in dimming light

In the forest's heart
Leaves patter beyond closed lids
No  thought intrudes here
In the silence of the woods
TomDoubty Mar 13
Walk the waking streets
In yawning air
Draw near, to my soft pacing
Turning in
Behind tear-filmed eyes
Now closed
Be still
And whistle in a breath
Taste indifferent air
Your fate held
A moment
There
Until the hour's redress
I onward roll my stone
  Jan 18 TomDoubty
Joel M Frye
While I still breathe, I write to save my life
in compact form; mistakes, the lessons learned,
triumphant days and nights of needless strife
brought on by willful dreams and bridges burned.
One day too soon, a final page will turn,
the book will close. My fine and fragile chain
to life will break.  A loneliness unearned
will mark your passing days in ink of pain.  
Then if you wish to hear my voice again
one silent morning when you wake alone,
I leave you songs and poems.  Each refrain
will resurrect the soul you've always known.
So when my fated moment shall arrive,
my words are here; come read me back alive.
Ne m'oublie pas = Do not forget me
Re-post from another account.
TomDoubty Nov 2024
Turn onto
Trap grounds
Spend a moment
Curated Eden
Silver bushed
Wet scuffing squirrel
Shoots under
Rooted upturn of trunk
Slakes back
Hairy tendril roots
Finger away
Dappled heat
Old breath of rhubarb
Chokes
Stumble drunk elder
Fizzes nose
Alerted fresh
Up there hear
High branched breath
Look down there
Mushroom home
At foot
Lowly  mauve
Modest flesh
Penetrate deep
Immense
Deep dark
Wet dark
Soil
Absorbs
Thunderous
Footfall
Unperturbed
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