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Oct 2015 · 620
miss
Cripp Oct 2015
They say love is bloodsport.

We love so much.
we lose so much.

And miss the mark.
Jun 2015 · 512
coward
Cripp Jun 2015
You can talk your way out
go on, cold shoulders and stony silence
and ***** snow walls
let the current of love flow
avalanches and waterfalls don't just stop
nor do midnight pulses.

Abrupt flood, mountain dreams clouds
not a coward, just afraid
and biding the right time
till we run out, and we will
but meantime, no points for guessing
who cowers in the dark.
Dec 2014 · 1.3k
the flute in the willow
Cripp Dec 2014
dreaming a pie slice of life with you, I'll happily plagiarize
inside the stinging bee's nest, nobody dares find it
secret, secret, oh little secret tune
sing the truth on the flute in the willow
who could ever guess who it really is, but you.
Nov 2014 · 311
keep still
Cripp Nov 2014
what beautiful words in a smooth setting, roughing gentle
keep still, it's coming............
Oct 2014 · 372
we could have, so easily
Cripp Oct 2014
in came scythes to sheave into bundles, every chance mocked
and death enjoys gawking at our shock
we could have, so easily taken from the train there, the bus over
together we could have done it

the bus rode over a **** and it continued to the wood's end
it's there where your fire's burning huge beacons
it's some work still to find you, hiding in that forest
we could have, we could have.
Apr 2014 · 1.5k
embarrassed
Cripp Apr 2014
you're not embarrassed by my writing, really
it is me, my presence you can't seem to stand
off I go to some quiet spot where you'll find me, if you care
but I appear to do more harm to you than ever and wonder if it's only me.
when I left I left that place, then you came back.
Feb 2014 · 581
(domed)
Cripp Feb 2014
have one VERY dry and coughing throat here

realy miss freedom

here, feel this :o

I'm so taunting time, just to see........argh!

poet missing brilliance

to be open to woken joy!




(domed) structure collapsing.
I miss you and gutterally glad to see your face
make a plan.
Feb 2014 · 631
long
Cripp Feb 2014
how I long to find
the one who isn't

frightened by
my love

why so long to wait?
how many more lifetimes does a soul have to be born into
to find a shred of mercy?
Feb 2014 · 542
dove
Cripp Feb 2014
when birds flap restless to settle upon the ends of your command
are they fully cognizant of what awaits them?

there comes one dove who really means no harm
and dies to please you in every position and way

fix your mien and and touch that pulse inside (the other one)
and maybe your cynicism can be smacked with truth.
Cripp Feb 2014
they hold tubes of ink and can grip cumulus ends
type out the letters of sinking words I lie fallow for
they curl disdainful and wipe out tracts untainted

flakes come off the ceilings in my stretch to the sky
planes skim clouds overhead and truckers roar by
little whips to frenzy, the calm of your cyclic beauty

I exist happenstance on the indulgence of your digits.
Feb 2014 · 613
circling overhead
Cripp Feb 2014
the best time is our secret when I am blessed with the fortune of
circling overhead the debris of your existence
and falling in love with your fecund mind each time

you don't know it yet, but so many gems live within the bowls of your pain
your patterns are ejected from your ancient fears with alarming accuracy
a test subject of exiguous view
you open the heavens on us all
and how you are loved!

tomorrow, as usual, I will come and perch on your shoulder
and peck at the pieces of your remnant mind
it's my job to let you reach your best

I cannot apologise for the same thing you do
to me
Jan 2014 · 603
mixed up
Cripp Jan 2014
please to take the hand and lead the way to the next moment of difficulty
walk up to the offended and offer sorries to a scribbling pen looking down

mad and mixed up, seeker on ironic bend of heart sap in a vat, cracked a bit
swearing to do better from a record of silly peccadilloes steeped in arrogance

all around with notepads which scratch and jot down every single word, I see
chances have to be bought with obedience drummed into a free head

break your spirit, take what the world gives
there's little space for a heart wishing to fly
Jan 2014 · 988
discord
Cripp Jan 2014
it hangs sullen from ropes made of judgment, discord is tangled in every breath
guesswork at the outcome, uncertainty the only thing that is certain
trials and hearings hold the lives of others in the hands of men, bent on working some out

society, as a rule, ***** at extending compassion
they cut off the hands that feed the monstrous system
and the eyes of stereotype crinkle, bemused and complacence smiles sly

true justice is a shy thing, skittish and absent
standing on the sidelines, it's a hopeless mess!
Jan 2014 · 690
red blooms
Cripp Jan 2014
into your hands, come astonishing things
like wide yarns of wishes and dribbling dreams
if you hold on tight and yet easy
we may alight the route around the eyes of time

nothing stops the sweet running over cobbles
nor the petals of desire in red blooms
deep red and blushing open
I want to see your eyes when I fall into you
and when the tips of our want can twist sculptures out of black holes

this is when I crush your flowers, just like you want me to
don't you?
Jan 2014 · 801
to be there
Cripp Jan 2014
a chest that tightens, a hold that grips
a life that slowly dies while still breathing
all I really need is for someone to be there
just to confirm I'm not alone in this struggle
wrestling with things that force the locks of sanity

we hold on, we conform
but if we let go of expectations, how easy it could be
the battle to maintain claims a severe price in time and soul
can we just be there for each other, dear?

thank you for being there, for breathing
Jan 2014 · 574
sung for you
Cripp Jan 2014
blowing on the cusp of the new
comes expanding moments of clarity in smiles and hearty welcome, is it any real?

can you hold onto those long reins of power in your grasp
as well as to the heart you flung in that corner, far from eyes, yet close enough to singe?

can you dare to unfold your fears packed in wads and unravel your ire
can you afford to hold me?

you will hear the song sung for you, penned by this heart so steeply in love
sung for you, by choristers at some interment
Jan 2014 · 357
light rains
Cripp Jan 2014
on leaves you peck off with the lightness of ease
sunspots pierce through and green light shines
light rains fall
and its regular beat goes in time with mine

I'm glad for your will that bends
means you make room for another
namely, me

may light rains fall on
and give relief to your sad but beautiful heart
Jan 2014 · 1.5k
members only
Cripp Jan 2014
room for members only
inclusion to the party or left outside
for some reason, you’re not good enough - - - go away!

racks and rows of sorrowful pain come beating, like rain
in an endless circuit, it runs a spool
subtlety plays its wicked game of tug and pull, and horror is a resident in a dilapidated hostel
croakers dive into lucky packets, curing ails by tearing off layers of skin
these leechcrafters perfect the axiom, regurgitating sedatives to enact fever struck pattern
sawing bones into finest dust stream, disabling balm by wilting growth

only the knowers know what’s happening
keep the outsiders out
it’s a secret party - - - not all are welcomed
Dec 2013 · 468
beyond beautiful
Cripp Dec 2013
the moments lost in your eyes, beyond beautiful
relief spills in glad beats for your good fortune

keep smiling and all good to you
you are beyond beautiful to me
Dec 2013 · 297
in the sands
Cripp Dec 2013
I long to place my arms around you
and to tell you things I lose courage in
instead these words I fail to utter
fair and square
are found printed beneath my soles

and one day, when I leave
you will find them
in the sands of time

that other time where dreams are allowed to live and breathe
in harmony with the real
Dec 2013 · 327
disaster on leave
Cripp Dec 2013
a most beautiful day, disaster takes a well deserved break
it's smiles and happiness
light humor
good time on a high
disaster on leave

thanks to the heavens for prayers answered
Dec 2013 · 1.5k
soil just right
Cripp Dec 2013
how can I be just what you need?
soft words easily spoken fall out the ear eventual
gooey hugs make things sticky and sugarcoat what's real

what I need to be is
soil just right
for your flowers to grow in and thrive
you have to agree to take the knocks and life bruises
after all, everyone knows where the best compost comes from

(so glad to see you, my love)
Dec 2013 · 402
too mad right now
Cripp Dec 2013
to talk -- to reason -- to ask -- to grill --
to query -- to roast

but ilu.
always.
Dec 2013 · 459
tear speech away
Cripp Dec 2013
I can feel you want to talk with me as much I do
yet we both hesitate
speechless genius turns out struggler
till sound can claim your voice
you're running circles in my head...... stop!

make up your mind what you want
I'm still ****** as hell at you for leaving me dry out so
do you think my silence means I agree?
no.

I'm quite mad at you, but I love you more
and the vase of flowers I give you, is yours
I've told you before, but you didn't catch it
I cannot turn my back on you, even when you tear speech away.
Dec 2013 · 569
red carpet
Cripp Dec 2013
you are the one who holds high quality over my meager quantity
dense is your talent as is my head
I spread myself broad to ensure enough red carpet reaches wherever you step
enough softness for you to tread on

I know you don't need a place to fall
it's just you keep yourself in limbo for so long
you won't allow to fall
I will never hurt despite the arrows you shoot my way
you can't trust enough to believe that someone really cares

good to know you're fluid enough
glad to see you can pocket your ego for a while
great to find that I exist for you
for now, that is enough

until you find the red carpet again
beneath your feet
Dec 2013 · 592
while I was sleeping
Cripp Dec 2013
while I was sleeping
I dreamt of blood

let flounder in light of dawn
for five hours on end
give all view, ripped vellum
for five hours

blood sinks out ashen face
as eyes fall on proof
of inner sanctum

while I was sleeping
you slew deep and left

right, now awake
senses serve no function
in sudden tepid treacle
vigorous swirls of shark ridden words
cut jagged and abrupt
despondent clime

ouch

as I was waking
I smelt blood
mine
Dec 2013 · 337
penalty
Cripp Dec 2013
quite mad at me, you are
said I'm sorry and I care
please would you lift the heavy penalty
I feel barred from your kind graces
forgive a soul and give a break
please?
Dec 2013 · 958
flippers
Cripp Dec 2013
a pendulum swings too wide and clicks vicious out of time
low brooding in a sealed place that parochial visitors never find
beautiful burden of oval things in an old, worn basket
tartan rectangles neatly capped in your salvation drink
empty nest on a cool, summer's day offers some relief
four sets of foliage gives nice tunes for the little princess
ice chips clink hearty like ships in the dream tumbler
a friend revered turns fiend when eyes burn on horrid tiles
a plate cracks in down slide and ossified barracuda get split
a spooky reminder gets played slowly on a vintage turntable
once fine songs given for free to unwieldy strokes
round and round on the turning thing

and just like that, off you go, like a seal
on your flippers
away from here
Dec 2013 · 360
response
Cripp Dec 2013
I'm there for you when you have downs or even ups
I guess I ought to remember how you hate tales
I tried to reach out to you, I felt alone
you offered no response, until now
and it revealed that in the depths of your misery
some ecstatic news, a tone which I'm so glad for

I just wish I could be met halfway, too
smiles will continue for you, all the way
I wouldn't want you to feel this anguish

a century old letter has fallen to me
from an attic in a forgotten chest
and I uncover the strangest secret things
under this sky, was once a love so great
yet devastating and wild
just like ours

I wonder what happened to them
I dare to think it all worked out
that they rode over the expected
and caught the real deal

there are two sets of letters, those from her and his reponse

we will make it through the tumbles
I don't believe in make your bed and lie down

make your bed, then jump on it
with me!
Dec 2013 · 505
find
Cripp Dec 2013
what an amazing find you are to sore eyes in the middle of deliberate storms
what's even more astounding is the way you hold the reins of words and pour into me
then shock comes when I see you made a find

you found yet another slice of me
you scare me so with this alarming skill you have
spiking paranoia like big balloons in sky, waiting to pop

there must be sides of you I do not know
and keepsakes that you keep from me
but I do know that I will not FIND another *you
Dec 2013 · 1.5k
fabric
Cripp Dec 2013
cotton on thigh
satin beside hip

hessian under ****
wool over shoulder
polyester inside cuffs

take off, take off

silky silky slide
felt in slit

fabric shifting smooth and rough
delicious contrast
Cripp Dec 2013
dreaming on this bed of you coming through the door leaping on me
but I'm alone in a basement with one window and a view of bare tree

there will be one flight of birds to cross the marsh over to the lake
where I used to go guppyin' as a kid to catch gifts nobody wanted

one bird is always behind
one flight too long
time too short

I love you
until alone becomes we.
Dec 2013 · 643
loving strokes
Cripp Dec 2013
can you feel me doin' loving strokes?


i'm flat licking  my pussycat
send us to thrills
tell me you want me to pound you
with loving strokes

tell me!
Nov 2013 · 437
(h) (e) (a) (t)
Cripp Nov 2013
tremendous power in your gorgeous eyes and (h)(e)(a)(t) on your tongue
that word would catch fire in your mouth
it's better to approach right after a shower
for fear of igniting in your entrancing stare

you are (f)(i)(r)(e) kindling my woken want
and I'm getting dryer now


(the deep forest catches that untainted downpour)


maybe I too
like playing
with fire
(yours)
Nov 2013 · 444
melted
Cripp Nov 2013
balmy winds on open lands
giving space to breathe

if fear were made of wax and courage wind
how then, would it be melted?

maybe the formula's all wrong
cos there's no balancing yet
Nov 2013 · 375
follow and breathe
Cripp Nov 2013
I follow what you say

you're stepping gingerly through someone else's  fracas
pieces strewn all about
how can there be place for me?

you're asking me unambiguously to step back a little
very hard to do
where to place this gift of love?

you're struggling to find ways to keep breathing
as am I
here, you can have my heart

so you can breathe
I follow what you say
I follow what you want, whatever you want
I follow you
please, breathe
Nov 2013 · 698
fury
Cripp Nov 2013
I want to take you in the spirit of vengeance
deep and hard.   filled with  it all
cash in on my fury and let this be yours
on the staircase behind his attaché case
or on the couch you relaxed with him last night

you will feel me fill you as you fill me
Nov 2013 · 457
push
Cripp Nov 2013
once upon a wendy



               y                                         o                                          u



can                                            

push

that

truth                                              ......................................................

INTO­


me


perhaps windmills will visit your sickened guts
and tell you it's time




to




either move on



OR    



take a ******* chance




already.
Nov 2013 · 409
commiserating in spirit
Cripp Nov 2013
wallowing in deepest **** cannot help
after a while, your nose can't smell it and you get too used to what is abnormal
even though I hate what you're suffering through, this heavy baggage which isn't all yours
inherited
I am here for you, commiserating in spirit

I am here for you
Nov 2013 · 862
extreme
Cripp Nov 2013
extreme sports call for action
(just like you)

I can't lay too low, just now I lose you
(then maybe I never had you)

red light on and blue one flashing
(why are we always in ambulant-mode?)

extreme takes it
Nov 2013 · 398
let out
Cripp Nov 2013
you love to get a rise out of me
goad me to distraction
and let out the horrors you know exist inside
why?
do you enjoy the ensuing misery?

I'm your biggest secret
you wanted me to say it
so, now I do
you keep me in the dark pockets of your existence
and take me out to play
when you're all alone
don't you?

once in a while, a moment comes
when you tire of the pattern
you shake things up
(with me inside)
you forget there's still your living toy inside
and it's hard to hold onto corners inside

and later, when your tantrum dies
you realize and remember
by which time
I've had to sweep up once again
all the broken pieces and glue them back together
then it's your turn to pour on the soothing oil of sweet love

I don't know why I hang around
I don't know why I care
I only know I feel alive
even when you shake and rattle me so

so I let out your little secret
that I'm your biggest one!
you do know that love is sometimes not enough.
Nov 2013 · 407
so intent
Cripp Nov 2013
on chasing me off

miracles hardly survive on earth

you don't believe

morality is the stick held to beat

if it's how you want peace

let me help with your equation

look after you please

life is never perfect

plans going all skew, just script tweaks

**** it up can be in small sips

so intent on throwing out the child

its cries will be heard in your dreams

and you will get the chance to hold it

for once in your entire life

you get to see who the child really is
look after you
Nov 2013 · 318
can you feel me?
Cripp Nov 2013
with  my hand under your want, can you feel me?

would you like me to go on...??
do you?
you know you could do with one
**** right, you do!
you miss the kisses and i'm up for you
come if you can and i'll stroke you real slow and feel you wet and ready
with your knees apart on that ship, i will drive into you so SLOWLY

very slowly
I can feel you do
you want to come
waiting for you to come on over
come to me
Nov 2013 · 462
next to you
Cripp Nov 2013
you wanted me to see your bookshelf right next to your bed
narrow space to step in
you lean forward and reach out to touch a weathered spine
and make a move to take one but change your mind

a beeper goes off
you bring my attention to another title
it brings me next to you and I inhale your fragrance of lost flowers
deep and heady into me

you turn halfway to me and smile with eyes which stun me
mute me
all I can do, is look at you, entirely dumbfounded which is when you turn to face me squarely
and rocks fly forth from mountains like pistons on a glorious day

      
  against the wall                                                             ­                                                                 ­  
then                          
next to you


then
against you                                                              ­    


and
one step becomes










(no space)                                                           ­               

next to you

within the circle of darkness comes a bursting light                              
into you
Nov 2013 · 1.0k
rotten mess
Cripp Nov 2013
no doubt a right rotten mess
all that  ******* noise
who can stand it?
i hate guy fawkes day

maybe it was a clever idea at the time
now it's a rotten mess of noise and the revellers don't really get
now it's crackers and food and idiots making noise
boom-boom go the cars, kicking ball on your wall
you ******* you mothersucking *****
*******!!

do they even remember the reason behind it all?
******* idiots make a rotting ******* bunch of noise collection!
worse than a box of rotting tomatoes or rotting beefstrips in the corner
they should be made to EAT that!
Oct 2013 · 444
said
Cripp Oct 2013
what was said that made you mad?

silence shrouds the me of you

place the sauce in pan

pick up the sizzle



and you **** the you of me

so distant

this calculating game feels hard

get me on board and coax my fears

then so easily, cryptic break



you said it all - without a single word

t(ouch)é
Oct 2013 · 846
want
Cripp Oct 2013
eyes fall again as intuitive meteors
and it all heats up at alarming pace
this want grows strong over an ocean
that we just don't account for

you want something
something shocking
and I cannot see why
it's so important now

we gallop together across the moors of our land
never looking back
always forward into the waiting light
shining
shining

you say you love me so much
this reciprocal fount we drink from
unstoppable flow
we are making headway into the night
disregarding the long gone moon
who has tipped over to the other side of the firmaments

silent covenant in confusion
I want you so much
we stroke each other to madness
and whip each other to sweet and high want
you drive your missives very deep into me

you rush along so
I hold you back
I tell you
I want it
slow

very slow

you seem disheartened in the heart of your throb
I hold you tight
I take your hand and lead you back
from easily mired traps

we both know what we want
but time's a hapless passerby on a rickety scale
let's have fun and go slow
Oct 2013 · 382
move
Cripp Oct 2013
so, I saw you move
yesterday
really move

and how moving that was
your lips moving and saying things
I could hear you
and see the meeting of sounds on your mouth

and how you moved your head
from side to side
you drew me into a fallen dream
I've always had
but never remembered

then you lifted your eyes to me
and I felt it
that electric shock beneath tiers
nobody can find

you found it
and you don't know it
yet

now
I try to hide
from you
from us
fearing you might twist away
as I'm holding you in a vice grip
in my head

and I can feel what you want
because I want it, too
Oct 2013 · 558
superior
Cripp Oct 2013
every time. someone places themselves lower than
you
see fit to kick them in the teeth

be superior always
swipe that moral sword over my head
each time

no fail
easy
Oct 2013 · 377
break
Cripp Oct 2013
you keep doing this
break the thread we build as if harm waits in my every move
bring your heart out into the open
and let me free to fly my ***** into the wind

you want me to taste you
(and I have, when you were sleeping)
who's really the wicked one here?
we both long to be
but something keeps us back

you brake
I brake
this creamydish vehicle
and we break away


until the next time again
see you, my love
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