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385 · Sep 2016
Shame (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2016
Heavy makes you small,
such weight within will implode.
Let go what you did...
384 · Dec 2016
(Life). 'Tis Of Thee
Butch Decatoria Dec 2016
There has to be more to Life

Than these fervent hungers

Bumper to bumper

Traffic

Jambalaya

Over powering flavors

Of cauldrons and ether...

                                The fevers of Need

Checklist buckets of Lusts

The Must-Haves, wanting,

All of it, for more... (and more)

More Over the rainbows

And the somewhere's

Else

Not yet devoured / eaten away

The molds fur-coat on rotten fruit

Grey a color of the unseeing,

Giving fever

Yearning for remedy /

                          Hand to mouth

Mc-Stuffin' and stuck

Without knowing our own feelings

Hurting ourselves just to relieve the numbness.

There has to be more...


In the loving eyes

of wakefulness, new

Without a fear or the fading becoming jaded

Green as Envy

The morning is at last seen / For the first time

                     Being alive / full on Wonder

And Beloved

                     More
                                 Over
                      Life ...

A rainbow of free will

And wide Freedom

Skies...

How should I thank all

this ...?

*(Tis of thee... Oh Life!)
384 · Dec 2015
HOT PLATE (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Dec 2015
HOT PLATE

Drink sierra's drought
summer's heat a microwave
cook ourselves their meal.
384 · May 2016
SORROW IN TOW
Butch Decatoria May 2016
So
lonely even in celebrations craze
single and longing for just another taste
popular but carries sorrow in tow
a forced feeble smile he attempts to show
handsome yet always feels ugly below
he is a quandry unto himself, he is low
So
how to relieve this disbelieving stink
how to find that self adoration again
will anyone notice how deep he drinks
so full of feeling, so quick to self-blame
even tired of wishes which never came
a child so wild, so slow to tame
So
now in days of yearning to touch
learning to love, he craves it much
for a truth that is matched and with his own
no one else to please, no place else to roam
in loving, laden arms to call his home
even if and when / wishes never come
So...
Butch Decatoria Oct 2016
In the land of the wasteful

The flesh is bound to despairing

Time like a mosquito

Caught in Amber

Unmovingly

All dreams dreamt away

Are as transient as its blood

Orange clarity

In the mind

Of thee, those in the land

Of the wasteful...

Pain is as hollow as

The uncaring

When already the broken heart

Has let go, passed long ago

Since childhood's end

Not having known

To recognize

Or find oneself

In the beauty of a world

We played pretend

In the land of waiting

For our sadnesses to end

Waking up alone

After all

In the land of ungrateful men.

*(The kind have gone extinct)
383 · Sep 2016
MONKS (Acrostic)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2016
M-en discarding ego

O-n the one path towards

N-oticing & Nascence,

K-nown for mastery of Sacred Secrets

S-elf of sentient light's

                                          (Double--Happi­ness).
383 · Jul 2016
FRENCH KISS (Senryu Haiku)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2016
Such buttery lips,
Silken creams wrapping our tongues,
My *Patisserie.
Butch Decatoria Dec 2017
A poet loves to question
love and praise the beauty of anguish,
he drinks the strength
of justice
like Mr. Hyde to Jekyll's buried famished
thirst
a poet needs hidden
Treasures true in the pond, the search,
the meanings, symbols and riddled
rambling - man of petals of roses
he angers at stoics
and weeps when he sees love between
enemies - finding peace
in rhetoric
the harmony of overwhelming feelings
he is privy to the silence, congealing, and understands
why and how
the ways of things, work,
the violence of truth, berths
moving revelations in compromising
and yet the importance of
where and when
the sun is surely rising

a poet may love to hurt at times
the moon waxes full and blue with brine,
but it is the passion a poet finds
when he stays true

The
Rhyme’s own journals /written
Days,
nights.
pain. songs.
sublime.
rain, love, or come shine.
deign to cry.
dream.
breathe.
die.
381 · Jul 2017
Of A Feather...
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Birds of a feather

Share a binary plumage

One

Mostly with better weather

Hey Sam I am    With the band

Cannot without

One another

A bubble of no

Others

In elevations / in Evian flights

Above the trees

We breathe all manner of breath

Above the blunted trees

We hover high

Earth

Diminished minusculed into

The Truths

Our Universe

Above the blues and green

Where only the starlight breathe

I wonder what vast oceans

Or most void a wilderness

Those sprinkles of effulgent dust

Must endure

Beyond time inconceivable

The fathoms of infiniteness...

What dreams will swim

Beyond this breath oh

We birds of a feather.

(Wandering together.)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2016
The brow will furrow
but eyes are bright in thought:
pensive and relish.
378 · May 2017
Icarus Cush
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Get on with your Bad self

Go on with your Hustle

Into the bustle

And the gristle

Briskly

Frisky

Grizzly world...

Go 'head find and get that paper

Let your greenback wings unfurl

Telling you who to be

Made

So dapper...

Go Rise above

But still only talking

'Bout

That Unfathomable

Love

Still wrapping

The turkey in a noose

Letting bullets loose

For hundred dollar shoes

Shoes!

Shoo sure 'nuf!

Time to wake up / this close to the Sun

Wax in' & Flossin'

Ill prepared to Rise above

Pretending to exude

The same kind

Of Love...

You

Go'ne now...

You Dawg you - A "g"

N-word y'heard in Everythang

We trust

Go'ne muss it up!

I just must know

(My boo)

Didn't you?

Give the World

This Life

Much Love?

Fire in the sky... Fallen

Too high

At dusk...


gone to fly into the eye

(Cush)
377 · Sep 2016
Poppy (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2016
Her rouge a deep dark
pharmaceutical Red to
kiss your pain away.
Butch Decatoria Sep 2020
Again—again, swift friend
To our end, again…
We commune to the late dark night,
to suspender tunes, a fool’s distractions
made of bubbling mighty
Satisfaction
in silver streaks
forgetful of our lives’ brilliant signs
Not meek of Right,
Left to respite  & deign.

But that life style
with its surround sound slapping:
steel-hard flesh colliding whilst
a wolf’s eye inside widening to
**** full moons, moons
so pale, too soon to rise…

Again—again, we failing friends
Tribune to these piercing
screams,  shouts of only instincts,
inarticulate
again—just stiff, obtuse sticks
instructed by our wilderness’
Darkening

For not to feel or heavy think,
Its common sense,  so stuff it hard
lick and **** it to submission
until it’s gone—happy—endings:

dispensing wars at the Mission,
eagerness of eagles’ energies
Or in Xanax-shaped tears
melting memories from Rx,
Dine in beads of suffered sweat
Upon your forehead, a mark of X,

Naught to forget…

Again—again, we ravens,
crazed friends from paper cups
sup’ nesting cockholds
syringe-able suspensions’ luck
again—and somehow
through the groin’s gruff
and guile of drug-induced *****…

Again—again, commenced
Love-lost ***-lust
we forget to “be”

Us
again if only friends amok
our eyes off to the shadows, flee
on walls written on bedroom showers
greasy with gristle
and regretful towers
powerful stink whilst spits
illusions...

Again—again, tell that friend
Without refusing
us again, our spinning life
begin again—we clones commune
to the late late nights
numbing the looming doom
our wool’s worth & boon.
Libra scales and afterlife
Oh the tithes which bite

To the Lateness of darkest Night.
Revised final.edit.
375 · Aug 2016
BABIES' BREATH (Haiku)
Butch Decatoria Aug 2016
Flora's be-dazzler.
Bright bouquets' light blush of snow:
Mum's exhalations.
Butch Decatoria Jun 2016
BLEEDING
When broken feels raw
as a throbbing from a cut,
truth must weep as deep.

CLARITY**
Tears are no longer
loose and quick to disarray
how sight understands.
*Clarity has a previous title called "Blur" still in haiku and its original prose.
374 · Jun 2016
ON EDGE ('08)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2016
Edging (*******) : Refers to ****** stimulation, especially of one's own genitals, and often to the point of ******, which is performed manually; by other types of ****** contact (except for ****** *******), by objects or tools (or *** toys), or by some combination of these methods.
Also see definition of Edging at Www.Orgasmedging.com.*




I'm ready to nut.

An hour before dismissal from this dismal
paycheck to paycheck
every few minutes looking up at the clock
not ticking fast enough
J.O.B.
wishing for an emergency
to relieve me - early enough
before the bank closes...
money is burning in my pocket
as well as the rising tide
the eminent swell and wave-curling
rocket... fueled
by the constant rubbing against my thigh
'cuz you know a brotha (from a flip motha)
goes commando
although a fetish for underwear
on the bottom
dresser
drawer, hides a collection
g-strings, jocks, and leather...
just in case  of a turn
in the weather...

I'm ready to nut
cocoa-nut sized milk pools
until my insides are outside
and my eyes pop
slinky boppin' tool
flacid from receding tides
sensational libation without licking shots
drunk on release
stuck in my seat, and naked
sweaty celophane skin
sunk in a *******' rut
like i said
I'm ready to nut...

The clock is cruel to conspire
against an innocent man's need to perspire...
to reach heaven here
earth heavy with flesh & gravity
not near like hunger - this is a deeper desire
thirsty carnality like a lion's snarling
roars from depravity
I'm ready to get the-****-out of dodge
I'm craving for more than a simple squirt of my ***
I'm ready to nut
is it wrong to pray for this
to God??
374 · Dec 2016
Look To See
Butch Decatoria Dec 2016
1.
How to begin? ...
"We are Here!" - we all say this with absolute certainty, and it is without doubt the Truth...

When we begin to speak to one another without any certainty, going to fabricating "truths" with hisstory, lacking any real knowledge or irrefutable facts, imagination run amok, it begins to look like the wrong foot...
       And it sounds like Rabble Raucous Riots
Mumbling Music to all ears, those who hear what all there is to
Around here

Inside four walls and a low ceiling.
Under a short roof, the Chaos bounces quickly back from over our victories, it seems like we've gotten water on the mogwai.

Knowing now we are
Our own storms we make here / our sphere / three demensional
This circle.
What goes 'round, must come 'round.
(What are we to each other?)

2.
Right should always be alright, all the time... There should be no suffering.

When once it was a perfect circle, knowing nothing about pain or Death
That fear made manifest
By nothing but a myopic view
Giving a word it's name,
And with each name - an existence.

So where to begin? Who is asking? Why then should it be?

Should we rather then "believe" like as though we were made
convinced,
should it not be? How then did this all
come To Be?

We begin then with Here, a healthy mind full of heart filled questions felt
Little flash bulbs of
Star light / sprinkling the blind dark void.

And those questions, that are intimately belonging to us, those questions deserve only the truth.

I expect the same as what I give... And I bow to divinity while
I raise her up to / the sky and universe.
I your fellow *living proof

In these briefest of vast moments shared alongside you.

Let's begin with Life - the fury of God.
And with the Truth, the word of ...

The One And only  - (All for You).

*Life must Live / Ours must prove
374 · Jan 2019
Asphalt (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jan 2019
Metro’s wastrel streets,
Littered with points, blackened foil;
Excremental prey.
373 · May 2017
Orchid #2 (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
No nectar's sweet kiss
Venusian lips moist flower
For bumble bee love.
372 · Feb 2017
Raziel
Butch Decatoria Feb 2017
Little Lithe Leoprine
Songstress
One in the symphony of Light

She's the new borne melody
We sometimes whistle
When blithe uplifts Life

Happily out of tune

Minutes floating into liquid
As carefree as the rain
Love pouring compliments

Like skeins of midnight's moon...

We dance in the rebirth
Oceanus the perfect kisses
That touch our thirst and skin

Raziel is the beauty that we feel
As the sky's brilliant applause
Booms & Flickers lightning

Exciting yet inside silence laud
Like hush hovers in an infants room,
Golden sleep Til cherubs dawn

Love is the secret kept awake
By every parent proud,
Standing in the light

Through the doorway,
Keeping quiet keeping watch
Silence and treasures, futures bright...

Keeping faith staying true
Watching the breathing of lil
(oh when that was you)

Flawless is the beauty
When joy is all that's known
We choose to leap when we let go

Knowing well we reap what we sow
Down here below.

Shhh... Love is kept secret
When the Devils see your truth
Tiny dancer, lovely songstress,

True blue my baby boo.

Listen lithely and fearless too
To life's passions/hues
Raziel is the heart's pulsing,

(Rainbow lightning)

All within you.
371 · Nov 2017
Chrysanthemums (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Nov 2017
Gold Mandala Suns,
In fine Ming vase of green jade.
Welcomes day’s good Grace.
371 · Mar 2017
Organza (senryu)
Butch Decatoria Mar 2017
Veil of black viscose
Curtain for the widow's tears.
Shades the world in gray.
370 · Nov 2016
RECLUSE (acrostic)
Butch Decatoria Nov 2016
Reticent in his ruminations:

Excalibur sometimes sheathed in stone.

Candelabras in castles of his imagination

Likens not to bloom to vain applause

Uninvited eyes of guillotine judgements

Sensitive as he is to compliment guffaws

E**eks out existence, collecting curiosity & moss...
369 · May 2017
Doorways (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Your Thoughts Wishful Dreams.
Surface Between Swimming Breadth.
Breakthrough Free from fear.
369 · Dec 2016
Braille (10-words)
Butch Decatoria Dec 2016
Touch

can    teach

the   blind

to                    see

Worlds

in

words.
369 · Jun 2016
ENEMY MIND, LISTEN.
Butch Decatoria Jun 2016
Listen
Technicolor dream screen
Conditioned glob of a thing,

Synchronicity / listen / close
                                                 Electric sanity

All a pulse a puzzle
Abuzz in wandering  wonder
(In the brain)

Explosive rain / pains:
Alight
Each breaking bone
Thunder loud
Razor-heat bullet hole

You are mind
Always a flight
Even in respites' malingering
Wight
Ghosts
Living machinations
                            Of physical information
Kept / Wept
Even in plundering / times

Deformity

It is difficult to hear you
In the dark vale / veil shrouds
Truth...

Listen to all the pandering /
Crimes :
Symptomatic cacophony
Like pixelatious chaos
Snow of black & white

Void of hi-def depth
Just a box of a skull / **** tube / (blight)

Still flesh heavy
In the silt of reality's sleights

Conditioned for numb
To naught care / less aware
Chewing gum

As the wilderness from without
Floods
Cantankerous / gelatinous
Countries of grey
Matter
Overwhelming mind

Rather than mind over
                                Thought to spontaneous
Flame
Create universe
In your vox cave

So listen closer now
Such multitudes of crave
Life,ride focus to rife clarity
Imagination & knowledge - just the same
As sane and
Obtuse / for Over- use /
Voracity...


I am you
And you are I

I am the fire
Magic in the eye

If we are one
And one are we
Shed light in this space
Mountain / that is mine

Seeing is knowing
Stay true to thine
                     For you are mind
Technicolor wisdom now

Awake

No longer dead or blind /
Listen, no word need spat
This is the beginning of all that

We are infinite

Music
I hear You at last...

No enemy minds
Listen.
368 · Jan 2017
"Alone, Washed Ashore"
Butch Decatoria Jan 2017
Alone, washed ashore, by a storm out at sea / upon an ocean so world vast / creation / such are we...
The monster came from dark lagoons (within) / the deep / from a cyclone's cyclopic eye / microscopic minuscule / in the Atomic plane / astral, cosmic spaces:
The Gargantuan
That feeling : like a Godzilla / Dragon looking down,
looking to eat us.

The mountainous undulations (Grand Canyon roller coaster)/ and the thunderheads overhead, lightning in cotton candy / reflection / all dead / shades / of grey (swallowing itself)...

The hellish ride / upon the way towards death process

Yet the experiences most remembered, were the minutes that lit brightest, when I was made / alone / on monsoon ***** serpentine sea / monster of / "an ocean (that) swallowed my parents..."

The poet wrote about his solitude,
About that boy in the headlines:

"Survivor Makes a Storm" / "Monster-Trucks of Life"
/ ["When Towers Fell"]

"The Masters of .Com / Consumers' Industry / Of Games, A Won Not Sum"

"Defeat Will Rewrite (un-write)"
                                                          Their Mystery.
"Into The Blue / Absolut"

Nothing takes away fear like being dead... And Bobby McFerrin said : "Don't Worry Be Happy now"

We whistle in paradise, the poet wrote / the Romantics still yet all to be heard / an unfinished History / Novelties / Neverending / Story of Us

Lovely loving Love...

The Poet Wrote :  (this one here)
"Alone, Washed Ashore" - All aboard!

*(Falling Up)
368 · Jul 2016
TSUNAMI (Haiku Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2016
Death's devastating
chaos - drowns all the petty
fights and last concerns.
368 · May 2016
Hot Tin Roof (Haiku)
Butch Decatoria May 2016
A light Summer's breeze
cools our cacophonous bodies,
hot stars in the night.
366 · Sep 2019
BANANAS (acrostic)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2019
Believer or not, **** happens
And then it hits the fan
Nincompoop narrations **** news
Alcatraz turns Hollywood tours
Nightlife street food
A craze of tastes du jour
Split or pealed, monkeys drool like crazy...
364 · Jan 2021
Paradigm (Todos)
Butch Decatoria Jan 2021
In the heavy dust
from dry summers
selling Chiclets from inside the rim of a sombrero,

Tortured attire of a woolen rainbow
Poncho, pleading to appear a lowly vagabond

by an uncle who seeds alleyways,
Clothed in his tequila stench;

Instructed by an aunt, obese from endless
refried beans and Uno-Vision sopas.

“Chiclets! --at the top of your lungs, mejo!"
Louder as the weight of the dust devils possess

His voice : a squeaking version of itself,
Coughing at the same spot  in Tijuana’s

Les Miserables, the invisible, at market...
Dirt in his tears, no longer noticed, too often cried

There is no need to pretend how lowly
Or dinghy his juvenile face has smeared;

A clown of earthen make-up, in misery’s portrait,
to example the tender, the precious,

have been left to pander to love, for sale.
A paradigm of angels, fallen with the truth;

Deep in this formidable of fates, of hell...
Here, he is not above the silences,
but he must live in it, live to tell.

How wishes are often made without a well.
Revised
362 · Apr 2017
Wariness
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
The seasons south west
Are predictably reliable
When it's winter, it is as cold to behold
The east coasts' persisting twisters
Or the northern snows and lights
But our summers are best
In California at night

Spring has blown in
This seventeenth year, two thousand
And the weather has turned
Cruel the natives fear climactic
Warmer burns the sun
Overcrowding natural wellsprings
Truth deflecting beach volleyball fun

I think we're almost done...

(And I have yet to experience
The joy of creation
By the earth I stand on
By traveling some)


And the universe must be balanced
I fear that justice must do harm
To rectify our crimes
Lo and behold...
What wicked this way comes
Our times
Wasted to have undone...
362 · Apr 2016
PIECE OF MEAT
Butch Decatoria Apr 2016
The boulevard is hollow with sounds
of a shadow falling down,
caresses late night 2 in-the-morning
as he's roaming with no purpose
but to be found
homeless yet under dark canopies' night
no wakeful eyes
with their human curiosity can witness
the part-time employment
of a piece of meat...

He has lost count of years,
the self-deluded reasons behind why
still alive
his feet are numb
his senses save for scent & tastelessness
have intertwined
as destitute as cruel as thirst
/ un-cared for
used for last, far from first...

oh where to go, and how to get there
what to do when kind arrives?
with dust of too many past lives
he's fabricated a coat of armor
dementia for his steed he rides
with shield of quick words remiss of wit
dagger of harsh emotions
self inflictions like a whip
the truth is
there's no such thing as happy endings
for a thing like him
piece of meat at markets
that cater to the web
to the beasts...

A piece of meat has no story
when it is consumed
to fill the hunger of insatiable eschewing
like teeth of wolves sharply chewing
with the voracity of fierce
unfed hunters killers thieves
for them it is easiest to capture
the **** who is blind
than discover that their food
in it’s short lived time
had a life,
complicated lack of voice
complete with name and face and choice
suddenly the price has its admission
into existence
how to consume the friend now known?
or infect another now
reflecting the flesh of brother...

There is always a choice
to be
what it is you make
yourself
                     see...
because you see:

*"no eyes doth have a piece of meat"
362 · Aug 2018
Before & After
Butch Decatoria Aug 2018
If the wizard of Oz was a fraud, we might get lost in Oz. So begs the question: “was the miracle of Oz real, or all made believe-in-me?”
*** Poem GreySkull.
361 · Nov 2017
Been Had
Butch Decatoria Nov 2017
Bugsy's dream                                Operatic fountains synchronized streams
                                                     Dead music legends interpreted by cirque
                                                     glamour the eyes neon and distractions

gangster's paradise
imploded and expanded                  stars in the sky out shined by fluorescent sands

desert roads in summer throes
craps and snake eyes
piercingly like void venom              artifice and slots easy as swallowing shots
                                                     life: a machination of mannequins
electric pulse of a new heart
as mob money mobs                        sincerely catering service champagne rooms
since greed barely sleeps
and lust is always hungry...             it be only history now viral and industry

sin city  
once only an idea, a peanut
from - y'know - "like whoa! what the frank??..."
but gotta hand it
the business took                            legit crooks, stashing books, making whoop...
dream getaways by blue moons      
in blue pools
privacy like freedom is a pension crap toss
EXPENSIVE...

where those blind to consequence
can witness
(convertible caddy)
the highway to losing grace              seeing is half believing when gambling
                                                       feels like a game, and the surroundings
                                                       rarely change.
Where the indifferent ego
Idled by self
becomes a parasitic pretender
talented liar
actor to some...                              walking among
                                                      the vapid vehemency of true victors & kings
brilliantly glamourized
in billboard lights
numbingly blinking                          hypno hyper active analogues
                                                      of high def diminishment
of common folly logic
displacia of senses
fairy-dust of forgetting                   (in a Benjamin straw)

duty discarded
familial responsibility a hollow weight
a close second to desperations

the hustle was once a dance

the true crime and you
metro and the fool
willing food                                   flash floods and tour buses full

just to be had

gangster pimped out a city
called it "the table"
dubbed by sin
stole some cash

catering to our vices / service entrance in the back

"What happened in vegas...?"

some call it  being had ...
360 · Feb 2016
LAST TIME
Butch Decatoria Feb 2016
Can't remember

the last time I made love,

not the quick unarmored ***

gasping in a Friday night urgency,

tearing off clothes

with tiger-teeth and monkey-hands

no, making love:

like a gentle wash cycle

of lips on shoulder and nape,

simple looks of consenting thirst,

gorgeous shape of muscles

sifting into one another

glued in a slow, deliberate,

delicious dance

no conspiracy

no ulterior motive

but to know each and every niche

the highways of sweat and skin...



Can't recall exactly the date

of that last time

but I remember who

and I know how,

still remember those heavy eyes...


these searching hands between my legs


hot breath on my neck,

****--how that had made me melt:

considerate fingers playing deep blues

on my side, of my ribs,

rapacious thirst of oceans

dissolving into my august body

discovering sensitive spots to linger wet,

his mouth, I remember

pink caucasian  smoothness whispering

more & more my name - such authority on the kiss


As we become Las Vegas

bright lights & heat waves

hunger no longer an ache or crutch

I can't remember precisely

that last time I've been touched,

when my heart & soul felt

so much,


but I still can remember

the last time

with whom I made

This, like that

Oh! and How!

He had me

melt...
edit 6/4/2016
360 · Oct 2018
CONCERNS (acrostic)
Butch Decatoria Oct 2018
Chappo will only notice if money is missing.

Other intimacies are nonexistent to greed.

Notice, not like “Urgent” paper / pay your bills!

Children’s unfiltered eloquent hugs say so much;

Elderly who have fallen you help get up,

Racial tensions, too much attention / negative media.

No one will care until the bitter end it.

Show don’t say that we’re Be-friended…


(PBWY.)
358 · Nov 2017
Acupuncture (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Nov 2017
Needles to threadbares.
Old Chinese secret-blood-map.
Porcupine poultice.
358 · May 2016
BLACK SHARPIE (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2016
Permanent ink stains
the skin hidden in your sleeves:
"One Eight Hundred - Guilt."
357 · Sep 2016
Clock Tower (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2016
Top of the hours
You toll, minutes reticent,
Seconds most remiss...
357 · Apr 2019
Quote #whispers
Butch Decatoria Apr 2019
Whisper to you

The Sweet-Nothings

Of this No-nothing

The point made moot

My whispers with you.
356 · Sep 2016
Rebel Yell (Senryu Haiku)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2016
Defiant of will
Fearless youth loudly makes love
To Life's rock and rolls...
356 · Feb 2017
FATHOM [rewrite]
Butch Decatoria Feb 2017
Dungeonous landscapes...
As blind fears swim the abyss,
In my thoughts you glow.

Minds with light will see
Love's liquid skies where we bathe
One conflagration.

As deeply precious
The breath that remembers you
Soaring dark chasms

Imagine, Dragon,
Love for water will not thirst
Life swims in wisdom.

Tho' I dread failing
I will give myself to you.
In my thoughts We glow


*(For love, life and soul,
It's better to always know,
To have not to hold.)
355 · Jan 2017
Feng Shui (senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jan 2017
To fashion a Home.
Warm comforts transcending trends,
Welcomes inner peace.
354 · Jul 2016
CALIENTE (Senryu Haiku)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2016
Like the chili seed
her words burn and love making
keeps warm fires lit.
Butch Decatoria Mar 2016
Part Five
WALKING HOME FROM WINTER
_____

MY WINTER GIFT

Downey skin so white
like a cold glass of fresh milk.
Unwrapping Christmas.


MOTHER

1.
Labor
In such pain is love
her voice reaching higher halls
giving birth with God.
2.
In Genuflect
Here to care for you
I am more than man or son
I reflect your light.
3.
Taking Care
Even when you've gone
still unworthy, in your debt,
once our roles reverse.


ASPHODEL SNOW

Gossamer winters
caught in fractal panes, your sighs:
white breath of flowers.


WARM / HEARTH

Fires for our nights
we once feared the cold unseen
now an "Ansel" scene.


PERPETUAL STUDENT

Effulgence of youth:
wit for blades to speak their minds,
turns left yet keeps right.


ONE

     So first and foremost
     "nothing is impossible"
     since once was for all.

TWO

     Love cannot be spelled
     with an "I" nor  g.o.d.
     yet with two it's "good"


DUSK**

My mortality
tho' bright, reminds me like them
sunsets in your eyes.
351 · Jul 2016
HEREAFTER
Butch Decatoria Jul 2016
Pass mind fear's dark tunnel,
in One's vast ocean of Light

We swim in the sky
and fly in the deep...

Leave behind our shell
with the weight of human pains

Oh Ocean of Light
Our perfect home where love is rain

and the sun is both gold & chrome
and our kiss begets white lightning...

After all is said and done (again)
here where our withering bones have won

I will always love you beyond
and forever more....

after all the words are said
when none have gone and done is dead

I will love you always and instead...
350 · Jan 2019
Proud (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jan 2019
Sacrificial lamb
Motivates the hearts of Men.
How good sons are made.
349 · Jun 2016
INVISIBLE (Original)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2016
(The sound of breathing)

I am the air / unseen
a breath
underneath
                  the rush
                  the coffee
                  the traffic
on concrete streets

I am lifting the dirt
                  the grime
                   the dust
polluting us
I am adding wings
to the speed of your feet
to where your dreams may meet

I am the sigh
in your quivering lungs
inside your heart
                  such self defeat
when you concede to it
deceit / disease / cease to breathe
never to notice me
or listen to our song

everything

Wind chimes time
a summer's relief / a breeze
strides along
cooling your face from the heat

Do not say you blame it all on me

Don't say I'm the purpose
                    the reason
or                  the space between
knife and slice of skin
between the heart & the eyes
unable and refusing to see
why our love
retreats

Dagger / plunged
the deathblow
a quick hands woes

A heartless man goes
so neat and clean
so discreet
hiding in the bleak
uncaring

so...

I am the air
   you never notice me
touching
           your sorrow
            your skin
yet never being / your glee
invisible
that is how despair begins

I am the air / unseen
waiting for you to care
                        to notice
                         to open eyes, see!

I am the air, here / with you
a friend that is always
there

invisible
waiting to be / seen.

do you notice me?

(The sound of breathing)

A heart is beating.
Lub Dub Lub Dub*

Did you notice me...
348 · Feb 2016
CROCODILE TEARS (Pretend)
Butch Decatoria Feb 2016
Let's pretend I can read your mind.

What kind of words would you not say,
     whose name would you hide?

What places would you flee, in dismay,
or wish to caribbean-cruise to?

If I could hear your love,
what would it tell me
     that I do not already know?
What kind of fantasies would whisper?
Will your fears be softly moaned,
or scream loudly to be let go?

Let's pretend you knew I could
hear deeper all your silences,

     how many flatteries, there, would echo
like broken vinyl,
a skipping heartbeat, a flat tire... (blown)

Would you still lie, if you knew--that I knew,
still believe them?
Still make me believe you?
(never telling the truth)

Let's say you could
hear my thoughts...

Would you condemn me and herald my secrets?
Command me for your work
     make me a lackey
     or say I'm crazy
to everybody a nobody...?

If you could see through me
or feel my worst hurts,
would you understand \why and how
my heart should burst?

And of course, this is all make believe,
imagination at it's height,
     but true life is another sort
     of story

from our minds' eyes
to witness
to be told :  be realized.

And every tale has once come true:
man now
     flying, cloning,
          in rockets to the moon,

I'm sure my fiction will be
written soon
if not already in that book...

what kind of mood
He must of had when craving
King & Koontz
the idea of me...
           (and god knows who?)

scratching chin
his beard of white
in a bowl of crocodile tears,

playing pretend,
and silent night
with our living years...
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