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 Jul 2013 jennifer baldwin
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Today.
 Jul 2013 jennifer baldwin
M
A wake in this cloud-like foundation
As silent and motionless as holding a breath
To grip the colors a little longer
This scene seems familiar
Yes. I've been here before
In a dream, or in a memory
But in this moment
The corners of the place you
Laid your lips curl
It was you
For only a second
It was you
As the hours passed
To create this day
It was you
These hours
All turn to minutes
And
I'm seconds away
From forever
Knowing it will always be you
I love you.
 Jun 2013 jennifer baldwin
brooke
I find myself apologizing for the
music that I like and the way I talk,
letting people know that I say one
hundred wrong and I'm constantly
saying words with the wrong tone
apparently I say theater like an old
man and I'm sorry that I don't know
a lot about the pixies I can't fix these
little things about me. I will never know
more about john frusciante or IGN, I'll
never look into video games on my own
whim

I'm so tired of putting my radio
away and being afraid, that if
I play my music everyone will
walk away. That I have to make
the rhyme obvious to see, that I
have to split these paragraphs to
make it more easy. That I have
to censor everything I say, that
I have to stoop to a level that was
never easy to reach. I thought things
that were higher were the standards
to vie for but bending down is a task
i have fight for.
(c) Brooke Otto.


I dunno.
 Jun 2013 jennifer baldwin
Noah
i don't know how to write poetry without
using cliches because
i don't know how to write poetry.
i know how to write poetry about as well as my mother knows how not to drink
so it should be rather obvious that
i don't know how to write poetry.
i form sentences that wouldn't sound any worse being pushed through slurred maternal lips.
i paint images that wouldn't look any better being viewed through hooded, blurry eyes.
these jumbled sentences and images are proof enough that
i don't know how to write poetry.
i write like she speaks - in muddled messy bursts of nonsense, sometimes stopping right
in the middle of a thought before picking back up, or maybe quieting into nothing and switching
topics completely lost is my sense of direction when it comes to mapping my thoughts,
as lost as the key she's had stuffed in the pocket she's checked a dozen times already.
i'm sure this mess makes it clear, clear as her tequila, as its empty bottle, that
i don't know how to write poetry.
i may never know how to write poetry.
i may never, ever learn.
but god i hope i try.
Waiting for a call
that will never
come
© Daniel Magner 2013
I'm coffee and you are cigarettes
I keep you going
while you **** my slowly
© Daniel Magner 2013
 Jun 2013 jennifer baldwin
I W
Roses are red, violets are blue,
love left unsaid, is much more true,
than lies lips lay, on yearning ears,
for words delay, love's yonder years,
from taking place, upon our plates,
in feast of grace, and Tantric traits.

The center piece, of table tall,
a red rose wreath, that blooms in fall,
for in summer, amidst sun's tryst,
vintage vesture, would be amiss.
Amongst fed flames, and wilting wax,
its beauty tames, the burned boar's racks,
from stretching thin, the table's cloth,
placating then, what wrath has wrought.

Round the setting, span bands of birch,
guitars fretting, torn tunes in search,
of feathered feet, to wield their quills,
unite the beat, weld weary wills.
So listen wide, ***** up your eyes,
and take my pride, my petty sighs,
into your prance; I'll be in tow,
and we shall dance, 'til candles blow.
O how it cracks
O how it tastes
O how the tang waits
Upon my face
Till the bag is gone
A new day waits
A quite good peace of work I have spent many hours working on
 Jun 2013 jennifer baldwin
M
Lay weak in the emerald plains.
With your shadow blind sight and blend with every breeze.
Weightless and without worry your soul sways to break expectation.
As a pure parcel of the world, glow.
Glow and the world will watch you, Beautiful.
You are my dream in which I wake.
My infinite soul, in this infinite universe.
I miss you like the waves miss the sea.
"Count to ten"
one, two, three, four
Someone closes a door
I'm surrounded by masked men

A gleaming silver knife
I hear my angel weeping
A mechanical cruel beeping
A sick, metallic life

Everything is so white
Am I dying?
&, if not, why is she crying?
She swallows, "Don't follow the light"
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