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Tanisha Jackland Apr 2016
There are moments
i want to soak you in
seeing the gesture
of your pen while
it wails across
the static void.

i would be there to tend
your wounds but mine fester
longer
the blood-letting go...

i could
lick what makes
you flutter...

but
i cannot undo
what's due you
but
you could...
  Apr 2016 Tanisha Jackland
mike dm
you are being.
pointillation
along this
broken
pale
blue dot

lit

with focus
and swarming intent,
strange, and
sometimes dark, yet

true enough:

your words do not simply word
but world
things

into existence;

your mere gaze,
ten thousand and ten gods clod in daisy chains,
whose glance together moves matter into wave,

history into potential origin
re-eden'd, new again;

your light,
never flawed or sinful,
always already
there and
so ******* perfect.

everything feels wrong,
but feels so right.

all the devils
are here
in drag.

worry not poet,
you are only light that matters.

so, play the role.
be somebody.
and make me swim
inside your pointillist earthing spoken,
cursor sojourning
across the blank page that awaits
the next line.
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2016
they say poetry is boring
I say poetry is a Goddess
exempting her patrons
from mortal bores and
group thinking legions
she kisses with the
certainty of words
and
manifests the glory
of effervescent moons
If you're bored, you're probably boring. Nothing new, there.
  Apr 2016 Tanisha Jackland
mike dm
let me yoke to you.
twist mine into yours.
***** me in at the hips.
lift me into your if's
and have me, present.

our torquing bodies
charging each other,
holding back the

bloom of darkness.

yes, it is true:
we are
closest to the dark.

but we are also
sown to the broadest urge
that wrote us.

this ebb is lit with written poems,
receding into the lightness of dense being.

so,
jot me
into this

and i
will
exist in
your margins,

like nice little notes
that mean everything in the world.
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2016
i am the body depth-
come fathom me
and explore me
with your fluid hips-
like there is more than
blood between us-
but in the certain miles
i am drunk on you
and
i have almost forgotten
the way that you
sing me into
your perfect pitch...
mermen sing, too.
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2016
Shadows are fair-weathered
friends that mimic
you in clear sight

They are fickle things
-remnants of sin
mocking the
physicality of you
-the insufferable notion

Shadows are
keen things driven by
the rain and the
blues with its inevitable
silver lining...
The Blues **** in every way...not the singing of it but the proverbial saddest that comes with it.  But woe to thee that hath not seen its true nature...which is peace, depth, change and dare I not say, happiness.
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