My sock monkey in my arms
Still have sand in my  bathing suit
I see red but  not sure from where
I try and bury myself ,but I can't hide
The waves today were the ones I wanted to carry me away

A swollen tongue can't speak
A black eye can't see
A split lip can't eat
A dead man can't beat

Delicious color through the porcelain sky
Among  sacred desires
Untamed with velvet poison
A blanket of moss
As the fertile moon is gently bright
Deep beneath when nothing is right
A world of beautiful lonely rivers
Nature is how life grows
Withers and leaves peace between
Poetry is the season of the song
When  all feels wrong

Skin of linen and hair of marmalade
Seaweed eyes where lovers drift away
Lopsided lips trembling with unspoken words
Charcoal eyes patch my worries
Your winged eyelashes catch my dreams

This is a contest I joined it is a photo not a poem. But if you have time would you vote? It is for a cover of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula magazine. My photo is Secure Tranquility you don't even have to vote for me there are some beautiful photos on here.   You can vote daily and share it with others contest ends Feb 8th. Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula Cover Contest. You can find it by going to Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula on Facebook then clicking on KeweenawCoverContest.
In the Upper Peninsula we have six months or more of winter so poetry and photography is my outlet. If this is breaking any HP rules please let me know I will remove it. To me this photo is poetic

Your serene lips could liquefy petals of a rose
With twigs on your spine
Consuming my dreams as you lure me
Stretching as the stars shine
Tangled in the ocean breeze
Beyond beautiful you steal my soul
Our hands unify in the shade of the unknown
Tonight we step beneath the flesh
As the path of dust disappears

I want to drink from your collar bone
Every crevice I  will endear
Following the maze of your fantasy
Impeccable skin inviting me in

The anticipation intoxicates my desires
As I travel your outline I stiffen for you
Eager to gratify the valley of your liquid pearls
You whimper as I dissolve your engorged delicacy
As you spasm and tremble you ignite the evening air
A Magnetic exuberance of fervor swept over me

Our swollen, lustful lips surrender again
As your majestic heart  nurtures our love
I famine to have your tongue renew me
Your quivering hands beginning to stimulate me
You brush against my hardness lightly
I stir inside my stomach
Restless and blazing I await  
Teasing the tip my luster rises
As your manhood swims inside my mouth
You swell my peaks, passionate yet tender
You linger feeling my need
Slipping into your enticing throat
My fingers clutching your hips
Connecting with my core as I absorb you
I quiver and cry out loud

With handfuls of starlight and luster
We create a haven just for us
You enter me so carefully
As we wither and blend
Our flesh is stamped together
A serene ambiance is swaying with us
As you whisper and writhe beneath me

I wear these new scars
Because of you
With your pin ***** kiss
Making my lips burn
Your bare bones weaken me so
Perhaps we could wipe the dust off

I would be gentle and new
We hide in the darkness of how we lived
I want to heal the brokenness  in my heart
Into my veins as the blood explodes
As your hand collides with my face again
I trying to strive and  find myself some faith
Broken and wounded
But the seductive whirl I can't seem to purge
My heart is dying I feel shamed
The ghosts that live in my stomach
Try to consume my mind
Dazed eyes that can't cry
Through fields of regret
Wisps of me fly away
Not much left to say
The whimpers disappear from my lips
A quiet poison that captures me
Farewell to those whom I admired
Farewell blackened eyes
Farewell to a broken life
I'll have you know
I'm finally free

A victim of humanitarian living
Where the faith is dipped , with the wounds of pain
Those who chose ignorance to ignore the truth
Destruction at the execution
Yet so many ingest the virus
Malnourished and vanquished
Stained with hunger
My death is Interlaced with my Eternal Life
With a passage to follow into my burning death
Tranquil departing at last
The fatality gives me a reason to live

We enlighten our essence,
as we constitute our resistance.

I bleed all my blood for you
It spills the contents of my need
The longing to  have you hold  me
When your near
Naive and incomplete
I swallow my humanity
Beg for your touch
Kiss me lingering your fingers on my breast
Starving for you to enter me
Slowly I weep into the shadows of hunger
Exposed unaware with no sense of pride

Caught my heart upon the shore
Skins of shells unfold
As golden reflections of pearls emerge
My fingertips lace with the sand
Beneath cracks where my reflection lay
My mouth is contorted and ripe
The flesh of my body is warm with light
On the coasts of your curves
Riding the waves as they crest and ebb
Trembling with a rhythm that enchants the petals of my rose

**** it ******* gone, eyes ******

Crawling through the depths of the shadows
To places I don’t belong
Under the debris beneath the ***** is a place for me
Securing myself with my arms
Blood that traces my lips
The horrific taste of metal lingers and dances on my hips
Pieces of shrapnel inside my veins
Forcing the strain to explode
At last it’s a quick fix
I relax my bones until my bones can breathe
Lay down with my emotions into the haze
With droplets of dew upon my skull
There is no sensibility of this wreck
Catastrophic solitude fits me the best
Despair is my favorite dress
I wear it all too well
Desolation with metal traces of you
Hands shake ,heart battered and blue
On that morning eve
As my skin turned gray
Eyes that are vacant wasted away
No longer to survive the internal force has dried
I only know why

What is the sound of a heartache?
A bird whispers then dies
What is the sound of a heart break?
Maybe silence, it has no sound
Singing to the heavens
Something so sweet
A melody that can drift you away
Give you freedom and love

Disregarded lost in space
Prying eyes shout
Staring  into the darkest protest
As the walls of my mind judge
I mistakenly sunk

I sweep my bones under the rug with my sanity
Off it goes through the door and down the drive
Tumbling screaming towards the mass confusion
I have dreams that I have held carefully in my hands
But I ran with them and watched as they collide
I have overdosed on love
It drained me so
At first I needed and desired
Now I need more
Caress my mind freeing my soul
Its been a cold war
I have confessed sins that I already own
Use my skin look within
Rich colors that glow
Underestimate my perceptions
Blood buries the lies that reside in my veins
Eating at the shadows
Hiding only at night
I overlook you
Wished the worse on you
Climbed inside of you
Kisses make me weak and weep
Holding my head down until I’m in the ground
Digging my nails through the ***** soil
Aching  in disbelief as I stride to be alive
I need fumes to make this right
Inhale the scent of your sweetness
Waves are crashing down on me
Sinking to the bottom peaceful and free
If I’m gone to long don’t you  look for me

My sister on the sun
I miss you so
But I know that it was god's plan
I  know that your in a beautiful place
Sister of mine missing you hurts
But I will have to let go

Beside hope we must remember
The sweet promises we once believed
The language of this universe soars through a thousand dreams
Together the morning light finds its home
We try and unite and for a second its pure delight
A tiny voice that imagines emotions
A sacred sound that belongs
We become a prisoner in the depths of our core
Yearning for youth and so much more
Haunted by a broken eternity
Concrete secrets that slay the joy

Falling into a nest, that don't feel like home
I'm going to jump
I will not arise

I bear a breast beneath his finger
Whispering over the music
One thousand sweet tiny kisses
A symphony of delicious screams
Frantic with beauty that has been left unseen
Chanting a love language by luscious wind
Through insignificant cries
One will recall
The urge to smear the shadows out to sea
Paint diamonds through the forest
Smelling the sweet skin
Worship, swim and run through me

Dressed for the dying
I attended the funeral
Smelling of life

I fall so quickly
I have no time to prepare
Although this is nothing new
As I fear

My hands that feed our babies
And cook the food
Suddenly has to protect
I crawl upon the floor
Picking up the remnants of my tooth
Tears strain to appear
Forced to clean up the blood I made
As the rag soaks up the red
I hurry to be done

My son finds pieces of my tooth
He is excited the tooth fairy will come
I wish something magical would occur

Some ask how do you love him?
Why don't you leave?
I love this man with all I have
If I leave he will **** me
Besides I have no power over him
He is strong and I'm weak

My eyes were given to him now he can see
My mouth was given to him now he can breathe
My heart was given to him but nothing changed
On that cold winters day
The shot gun was so loud it made me fade away
I got the message loud and clear
The only thing I owned was fear
I don't wear it well ,in fact it don't fit
I never looked good in black and blue

We sit in the kitchen its a quiet night
You get angry and flip the table
Glass is everywhere I try to clean
You put your large hands to my face
As my heart does a race
My skin feels like it will tear
I hold still my eyes are in pain
I struggle to speak
I have no voice
This is not how I want to live
Hands are suppose to be tender
A kiss should be soft
Not a bite of the lips
I'm so weary
I'm lost
It's time to move on
I shall never return

He wants me one last time
I remain still as he undresses me
Pulls my hair as he enters me
Filling me with his sickness
I begin to bleed
Dressing myself as my whole body aches

Mysteriously he agrees
I know this may not be the end
But I walked through the door
Had my babies at my side
Something magical had happened
I became alive

This war professes the whispers of infatuation
A hopeful faith yearning for satisfaction
Deteriorating steps that began to  carve my way

The spirit knew he had to stay away
With visions of burning fields
As  you return from your flight
I'm condemned for the harsh tight wounds
That you created and sewed in my chest
A dress made of scars and a  lost youth

You may stay and gather
To try and survive
Although this place will beat your bare
All hours I  still wanted to come inside
You were awake hiding in a piece of a shadow
Sheltering your rage
Destroying the hunger of lies
The mystery of numb thinking

The very words that escape your throat
Lust that reflected the water onto the stones
A displaced reflection without the truth
Vomiting my beliefs of this solitary exhaustion
Petals of torment that hindered me
Trembling with a million pieces of need

Obstructed by the hostility that fulfills me
A vision of intolerance frantically spreading
The taste of callouses gathering on my tongue
I unearth the truth
Peeling the flaws of our mistakes away

Summer pebbles sow the profound need
As I recognized my sad spirits
I climb the wind to my demise
The warm years spent  in this blue breeze
Voices appearing from  my novel mind
Resting upon the clouds above the soft shine
Over the moss of the rain is my continued existence
Wild are those who are left to wander
Without any shade
As winter approaches things come to a halt
A fresh raw beauty that eats the day
The end must encourage the summer days to fade
Wishing for an innocent angel to help me on the way
A world  trapped between peace and pain
Soaring through the evening moon
Looking for life anew
Gathering all the strength I have
In a tranquil hallowed world
Where there in so sound
As if I knew

A jagged rig ,  nose diving through my arteries
China white is my new  side kick, making me comatose and delirious
As my  brain ******'s with  gratification  I'm swaddled and content
Toxic wasted eyes , creases like canyons scrimshawed into my face
I'm a wraith of my own creation

Violets heavy with the night rain
As the fatigued stars start to spill
I catch them
Filling my pockets with dreams

Jolted, pondering, and dazed
Illusions unraveling as the silence dips and exhales
Windswept  essences of a divine peace
Waves sailing with a savage hunger
A promised confession with remnants of a forbidden whisper  
The bones of the sea dance with the flesh of the breeze

Touching dreams beneath the sound of clouds
Weakened shadows fall from light
The blue earth speaks with the wings of the dance
Whiskey teeth tangle and hate
In the stomach of a perfect hunger
Sorrow turns every corner
Bare wounds in the fields of fragile faith
Bruised screams recover the  sunlight spilling the moonlight
Silently undone, fingertips numb
Foreign ashes with circles in my mind
An ancient atmosphere, ashamed diving through the cracks
Streets stained with calloused imperfections

We were  street light drinking
Stretching our years not our tears
Putting down roots to make our home
Sticking to church pews stained with sin
As shadows were traced in a golden inkwell
Grasping the map just to hold me down

I love that feeling when your frantic with desire
Wanting to climb into the other person to feel them alive
Often that passion does gap and divide
If only that frantic hunger did not die
I would love to always be hungry for the same meal after years of indulgence

A day or even seconds inside his brain  
Often wondering what is being said
Are neurons triggering as they should?
Is his brain shaped differently or the same as mine?
Can he make friends with the voices in his head?

Wooden mouths engraved with shadows of stillborns
Hairpins stir the wildfires that reside in my head
My spine is an abortive memoir that nobody wishes to read
Mists ablaze with unbound petals kissing the sea to sleep

I want to collect kisses
Melting moments into my mouth
No agony
No everlasting despair
Submerge the demons
I'm stars ripping through the sky
As the ashes fall
Hidden truths can no longer hide