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Sep 2020 · 56
The Inner Translator
Me Sep 2020
You hand me
words that I translate
into colour for you so that you
can understand
I loosen them up
break, gently, their hard lines and shapes
so that their energy becomes one
you can handle
so that this world becomes
one you can handle,
dear
Sep 2020 · 46
Tight
Me Sep 2020
The thing sitting
on my chest
immobile
staring, wide-eyed
not saying
a word
why
not a single
word
Sep 2020 · 227
The Rational Mind
Me Sep 2020
The Rational Mind knows
There is no such thing
As the absence
Of feeling
A mind that truly serves you never denies emotion.
Sep 2020 · 71
Coming out of the Water
Me Sep 2020
Look,
that
lies beyond shame;
being enveloped
in the certainty:

you are
perfect
Crack the smile for me
Sep 2020 · 37
In the Open
Me Sep 2020
Pinned
to the wall naked
you can see
every inch of my body
every
scratch
scar
mark
and I feel
so
utterly
vulnerable and open
and you
tirelessly
asure me
it
is
fine
Sep 2020 · 47
The Proud Animal
Me Sep 2020
Stubborn
To cover your shyness
You stick
Your neck out of the waves
Spreading
After a courageous inhale
Your sticky wings
And push yourself
Off the ground
Soaring
Lips parting
When finally
You allow yourself the smile
That was building up
All this time:
You know how to fly now
Sep 2020 · 63
Encouraging the Fire
Me Sep 2020
~
But what if I burn too much
says the fire
In that case I will
just put you out a bit

murmurs the water
and wraps itself
around the flames
just enough
to calm the fire down a bit
~
Aug 2020 · 38
Emerging
Me Aug 2020
The impact of your golden boots on the cobble stone is heavy,
getting more decisive with every step of the path, forward.
Your deep-red silk cloak sways in the wind
and covers your shoulders and back;
you are on the way, and it is good.

Imagine a king who sets one foot in front of the other, not yet
a hundred percent convinced
that he is going to like his job, this work.
A king who, nevertheless, takes it, because it is his place
and because it is time.
Imagine a king walking with heavy step so as to be heard;
a king whose first command is one pronounced with utter clarity - because it is necessary.
Imagine a king emerging,
leaving all insecurities behind - because it is time.

Imagine this king, secretly pressing - under his red cloak -
his right hand on a spot a bit above his pounding heart,
bracing himself.
For all this is new.

Imagine a king who is human, and knows it.
Aug 2020 · 44
The Red King
Me Aug 2020
The crown on his head slightly
crooked
for not being
so used to it
yet
his steps
steady but still
a bit shaky
the weight new to his body

and everything still
waiting for his
tender command
~
Me Aug 2020
Carved into land into soil there run
Veins of steamy wagons
Noisy vehicles
And trains
Along the arteries
Flowers grow
Courageously
inbetween it all
And You-

Through all the noise I hear
The beat
Of the heart
Of the Earth saying
Look
Saying
I want
To feel
The naked soles
Of your feet walking
My skin again

You explain look-
Time changes...
Of course you
Both smile knowing
haha, does it
Fit your hand into hers
into his
Shake it off
Loose your thick cough and free
Your lungs from steam and dust
You did it
Many times before and will
This time
All the more free yourself and others:
A brother is who sees what is at stake
When needed
Greetings
Aug 2020 · 41
Evolutionary Dance
Me Aug 2020
Two flowers
one fuelled by
pain the other
by love
grow side by side
one day
a painful moan escapes
the crying blossom
and the other
reaches over
to spend comfort
propelling them
both
a great deal
upward
united
for a bit
of this path
before they part again
beginning
to sense
their roots being
intertwined
deep deep down
in the soil
sending little signals
tears on the petals
a code to remembering
Aug 2020 · 54
Bonobo
Me Aug 2020
Eyes filled with
such obvious
expression
you do not have
to ask
for any
single
detail
to be clarified
no official language
makes
a conversation like this
No need really to teach any animal an invented sign language, I feel. There's communication going on always all the time, just you may or may not choose to realise :)
Aug 2020 · 43
The Tale
Me Aug 2020
I set out to built
a street
a shed
a house
then wanted
a palace
an island
a country
a landscape
a universe

You begin to be
become
a universe
with stars
with earth
with hearts beginning
to beat
to know you
Aug 2020 · 26
The Dream Land
Me Aug 2020
Somewhere in the prairie
A wolf howls
And it could be anywhere
But it taps you
Right on the shoulder
Belying
Time or
Locality
Aug 2020 · 44
The Body of Water
Me Aug 2020
You let yourself be touched in the gentlest of ways,
a feather caressing your skin from your fingertips up to your shoulder and on til your cheek, letting loose a sensation that reverberates
out from the center of your chest into your whole body
and out from it.
It makes you a lighthouse, an involuntary beam of unrepressed, most intimate joy.
A most honest feeling.
The water beneath your feet is crystal clear now,
truly reflecting icy blue and silver, not cold.
It brings almost as much joy to you as this caressing touch.
And you want to show it, point it out, share the knowledge of it, that is. You are eager.
And you don’t have to worry that you might not find your way  back.
And you already know why. You have mastered the water,
as it taught you how to, tirelessly and in so many ways.
Aug 2020 · 26
Rose Line
Me Aug 2020
It could be like this,
she says, disguising her pride by
raising one thin eyebrow
in what she hopes
is an eloquent manner
giving him the pains of
hiding
best as he can
the loving smile that wanted to pop onto his face
and beam, fully, at her;
It could be
just like this:
and he reads it

Already somewhere
in yet darker corners and still
slightly hidden
sights
some are mumbling
about love returning
about something
utterly
rejuvenating yet
slightly painful
returning
into
a stream of life blood
a stream
making it
for the first time
as it should be


A thunder growling in the distance
but it is not threatening

A beaming smile
now coming through
against all odds
inevitably

A dashed blasted, beaming
most beautiful
smile
Aug 2020 · 32
Downcast Eyes
Me Aug 2020
Slowly with
shy yet full-on determination
eyes
are directed
up
for sure
to face
and be faced
fully
in the most beautiful of lights
Jul 2020 · 36
Red Moon
Me Jul 2020
White lines marking
her skin she
tilts her head
slightly
narrowed eyes
knowing alright
once more through it
with patience
and strength
moonlight keeping
her company
Jul 2020 · 67
The Thing
Me Jul 2020
...
Write it yourself, I say. Write it yourself like you write it into being with every single facet and fibre of it.
Write it like you know you are writing it.
A shape, form, emerges in front of your eyes,
your fingers are not still now, cannot be still
for they are at the same time describing and creating what you see with your own eyes.
They move, in constant motion because you are in constant motion, and you want it to be clear.
You are not running from it, but it is not easy.
It feels - it pulls at you rather strongly rather like this is the thing that is not very patient anymore not feeling like it makes sense to wait everything out - the thing that sent flashes of bliss into your fingers
in the first place, the thing that makes your very own chest sting and pound hard in turns, like a ship in the most childish of storms.
You do not dare to breath out fully, and when you do it sinks down right into your stomach and there feels
so much more profound and physical.
It stretches out into your hands and feet, your fingertips.
You do not look at your words because you are the one who’s already seen them before they came into being. You are not quite
daring to free the full power, the
full
spell of the word that lay under this thick layer, but you feel it fully, feel that already the word is out, uncovered, hovering - getting to know you better, getting to know your condition,
the multiple points of connection already apt and willing,
and the ones that still push - push away.
There is time.
There is time for sure. But the thing is as sentient as you are.
...
Jul 2020 · 46
The Eye of it All
Me Jul 2020
Peer over the edge,
dear, and look
right into the seething
center
of the volcano
it will not ever
really harm you
Jul 2020 · 90
Alive
Me Jul 2020
Force and matter holding
hands together wandering
through time and space
on traces
of stardust
Jul 2020 · 94
Adjusting your Sari
Me Jul 2020
Don't hide
your embarrassed
perfectionist side, dear
it is
by far
the cutest
Me Jul 2020
They cower-
Staggered-
In a lions' den
Not knowing

You're in here


You write
the world
for them

Marking
With fire
Where to tread on
Jul 2020 · 45
Contrast
Me Jul 2020
In the classroom

black and white are not really
opposites
you know

a clever child once
told me this-
they much rather
complement
each others'
blissful specialness
revealing
all the million shades
in between
To this clever child who will always do well ❦
Me Jul 2020
On a bright sunny morning
Up in a field of chance
An orange-hooded creature shows
A vivid dance on a
White mountain top
Encircled in a cloud
Of greenish surging fog
Ad hoc thoughts
Throb through
Veins and arteries
And nothing there that might
Disturb the scenery
Dance!
Jul 2020 · 29
The Heart of Hearts
Me Jul 2020
Inside of you sits
a beating heart
that patiently waits til it feels
safe to take you
right through the core and out again
all the time
reminding you
with every subtle beat
of all the other
beating hearts
all of them
beginning to remember
how well they knew
each other
always
to Jamadhi Verse; thank you for inspiring me to write this  :)
Jul 2020 · 35
Conception
Me Jul 2020
A spark

then
silence

before

skip

skip

an
explosion so
joyous and vast
you can only
begin
to imagine

So laugh,
dear,
Laugh

❦ ❦ ❦
Jul 2020 · 32
The Grown Up Warrior
Me Jul 2020
...
knows that it's fine
Once in a while
To hide instead of
Fighting
If only just
To catch
Your breath
Jul 2020 · 94
Revealing the Challenge
Me Jul 2020
The whole
you being
destructively sad and
raging
being
childlike full of tremendous
joy being
a silent
observer piercing
every thing
being
a hilarious fool one eye
fixed upon
the truth,
still-
being
a deep deep feeling
creature rejecting the
building of
fixed walls-
rather
tired of the motion
being
the seeing kid that feels and
understands
the push and pull
and navigates
through it
with a fierce
perseverance
a breath so persistent
it could give you
a pause
more often
letting go just
a bit of
the existential
relentlessness
I am so many things at the same time, it really IS a challenge to  be the conductor here :D
Jul 2020 · 52
Does it have to be like
Me Jul 2020
Does it have to be always
this painful
truth vs harmony
no, honey
look
be true to yourself so you'll be
in harmony
always
in harmony
with
Yourself

Huge epic moment of insight for me tonight
Jul 2020 · 42
Exist
Me Jul 2020
In the midst of
a minefield no
headphones nothing
and this time
so be it
This time I'm
not doing
the mine dance
Not avoiding the mines, cause I can't.
Jul 2020 · 37
Nature
Me Jul 2020
She speaks
truth
only
and feels
the immense
resistance and
defence
the guarding
of locked-up things
that call her
over the heads of
the defender
okay so
not the time yet

she has to repeat
to herself and the things
not the time
yet

...
Jul 2020 · 32
The Bird in the Storm
Me Jul 2020
Such a weird mood
half inwardly
laughing half
clenching teeth for
what's
to come
ah girl
hummm the song til
it all gets
clearer ~
you little strong
bird in the storm  looking for
the word beneath
Jul 2020 · 31
Hope
Me Jul 2020
The deepest grief
frees you
the most
Jul 2020 · 31
m = E/c²
Me Jul 2020
While on the way he frowned saying
crap
I forgot my
paperback we'll go
fetch it

Not a problem,
she said, we're not in
any hurry
things don't change
that quick
Me Jul 2020
What we see

Everything that basically

Stops

The light in motion

And is that bad
I don t
think so
Jun 2020 · 40
Spell-bound
Me Jun 2020
Sorry I
st
st
stutter
it's just
look
my heart
flutters
could you
hold it
for now
Jun 2020 · 45
The Concept of Random
Me Jun 2020
as your view
widens and
your
patience
allows you to
watch
things
unfold
you
bit by bit cross
the term
random
out of your
dictionary
replace it
with
yet to
explore
~
Me Jun 2020
Shadows of flames dance
across their
pale and
sweaty faces
deepening the
wrinkles on
both wrinkled
foreheads
eyes bowing
over a scripted
problem
not knowing
where
or why
to find
the missing
particle

Both try hard
tried hard
to consult
uplift
amend
each other
in this sweaty
slightly devastating
search

Both try
like always
to stick to their very own
defining
way and manner of doing
and speak in such a way that
they don't need to fear the
loosing of themselves

Yet both
and this is new

face

each other
with a little more
curiosity
a little more
edgy
allowing the
tingling between
their legs just
a little more

Still
unconsciously
giving time to
themsleves
their selves
to see
fully
the shiny faces
to face
courageously
each other's
shiny eyes
For You.
Me Jun 2020
Racks my brain
racks my brain racks my-

because:
how why for what
reason

do we
so much in vain attempt
to
pin
things
down

not let them

be
***
Jun 2020 · 32
The Golden Scale
Me Jun 2020
A golden
Scale
Reflects
From where it lies
There in the stream
A gleaming
Single
Ray of light
Directs it so that
It
Precisely
Hits
The iris
Of my resting eye
And
By its
Sheer power
Makes me
Shiver
Jun 2020 · 34
The Path of the Particle
Me Jun 2020
Why
I am
both
a wave
and
particle
and do not rack
my brains about it
like you seem
to do
Jun 2020 · 21
Collapsing of a Wave
Me Jun 2020
Propelling
itself
joyfully through
the Space around
colliding
and spinning to dance
all the way thinking
You did not give me
agency
singing
and laughing to
itself when
the next
new
wave
meets its path
to cancel out
all that
seemed paradox
You did not need
to give me
agency
the Photon sings
while travelling
along its
chosen path
Jun 2020 · 27
The Great White Shark
Me Jun 2020
Forehead to
pointy forehead you
swim in the
cloudy
cold water with
the giant
showing his
gentleness
against all odds
Jun 2020 · 22
Time for Major Changes
Me Jun 2020
What a
Sick thing climbing
Up and out
Never to return again cause it's
Enough already
It’s
So much enough now that
I almost shove it out
Cupping my hands together thinking
Off off outtt
And howl
Like a wolf but fiercer
Teeth more
gritted and
Gripping what seeps out of my intestines pushing
It like no now is
not the time
Not the time for
Minor fuss
It’s time for
Big things
Major changes
And I am sick of
Waiting
Jun 2020 · 23
The Chaos Game III
Me Jun 2020
You feel like okay my fingers itch twitch like it needs to be written needs to, ah like, squeeze it all out and in between it feels tremendously like
***
And what if
No kid this time no what ifs
This time just running if you feel like it
This time
Just hum like a humming bird not like
A wrecking ball caught between two schedules
You now
Have full control
Of your body parts baby
No dealing with outer fury and
Guilt in order to make them shift
You have
Grown a whole
Incredible lot
Like a mountain on the move
And dealt with
Water whirling in the
Scariest form
No one now
Dare
Touching
Your untouchable parts and if so
Become
A tiger and roar like what not
Roar your guts out have them spill
In front of everyone right on
The coffee table
Does no harm to
Shake 'em up a bit
Once in a while-
Oh what
A lightened smile this casts
Upon your face
What a
Feast of learning
Celebrate
Yourself
My dear
Remember
It is
Chaos
It
Is
Always
Here
For you
Jun 2020 · 41
The thing before thought
Me Jun 2020
The thing before thought
envelopes me
making
my heart unfreeze
Jun 2020 · 29
Leading Towards
Me Jun 2020
What is and was and will be

I can handle this
Your
lips between
my legs the first time
I remember
I can actually
handle this

hundreds of
intense
impressions
memories
at a time
I can
actually
handle this

Us
both on a
rocking ship
you holding
my camera
I will
handle this

You every
year making
fig jam for me
flinching at my
stupid joke when we run out
haha-
We can
handle this

You handing over the
binoculars to me
watching
goats in the middle of
nowhere
We will
actually
really
handle this

Baby
Your eyes
saying
everything's connected
and I pull back
just a little
thinking
will we
handle this


You
looking
at me
and nothing
is out of place
nothing else needs
to be
added

We will
actually
truly
handle this,
Love
We
will
actually
handle this
Jun 2020 · 27
Simple and true
Me Jun 2020
The sky was
so blue I
remember lying
on my back next
to you
by the beach
And this is the most
simple poem and yet
the most
true
I love you
honey
Jun 2020 · 62
Her Treasure Box
Me Jun 2020
This is my
treasure box
she says grinning and
gifting you with
a brief look inside
You
irritably
glance back saying there
is nothing in it
Her grin grows
bright
lips curling
up
Sure
she replies
every time I find
some thing that I love I
immediately throw it
back into
the waters
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