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Nat Lipstadt Jul 2019
love between poets: “who will be between the sheets next week
when I’m gone,” she lets sigh-escape,
as she watches the backyard paradise parading landscape
of animals before the bay, perfect day sure to come,
her new pets obeying the early morn sunrising awakening call
to rise, everyone playing~parading, before her royal summons,
no coincidence, finger-of-god, two by two

this while I’m kissing her neck,
my arm around her *******,
and the he-intent on slip sliding down
to the small of her back,
obeying his innate,
worship worshiping and giving up,
all he’s got intense intently contentedly

unfazed, unphased,
non-nonplussed,
he’s been interrogated before,
heart is pure he answers:

next weekend when you are back in situ,
thousands of miles away, airplane housed for hours,
writing poems of love from the lost and found,
recalling this exact moment,
how I worshipped your presence,
and these words:

You will be with me in every breath,
our sheets will radioactively emit
ions and molecules of our scent combined,
and present as present  your perfume can be,
elicited, elixir, you and me combinant

she turns from the bay-view,
the animals who now mutually
worship her adoration,
watching, focused on us as observers,
she lifts me up and smiles,
replying

“oh my lover you’re the cad of cads,
king of the baddest poet-lads,
the gist of what is wrong with the best of men,
her, pressing me hard to her chestnut hair chest,
she, falling down into my eyes

take me back to bed, liar,
let me add to my aroma,
to ensue, to ensure you will miss
the best love
you had partly, insufficiently, and unhinged
completely

I’m your lassie, you my lad,
my king of cads, my lover poet,
thief of my poems and my secret speech spells,
escalating senses of one’s imaginings”


and,
along came the rest
of what was freely given,
for love between poets
man and
a woman,
is a someone, somewhere,
sometime summertime
thing

I will still smell you in my
heart, and send to you ballistic missives,
words to explode your tear ducts
when you rest in sheets that met me,
when you’ll know me by my odors,
cry out loud so that you’ll scare our animals,
no matter how many tides wash away our residue,
you will never unknow and be forever unprepared
for my return,


even though we will be each, a thousand unwritten poems away...
Jara Jones Jun 2010
So... I guess I'll just walk away
We obviously aren't going to see eye to eye
So...I guess I'll just smile and say
"Well, **** me then."
Nods all around and that just goes to show
I guess I really don't know
So...******* then?
I think you're ideas are silly
And I could have done everything you've every done much better
I laugh when I think about the time I wasted for you
So...**** who then?
It's my fault but I have to make a living
Even though I'll be written off right away
I'll go and try anyway to make something of my day
I think I always knew I wasn't cut out for this
So...**** this then
It's just too easy to get into a groove
Just scraping by, and by the time it's over I'm way too tired
And that's why we'll rarely progress to anything better
So... **** us then
I don't think you respect yourself
I don't respect myself
I don't respect anything much
Respect is for the sunrising and setting and that's it
So...For God sake
Ellie Belanger Aug 2018
you are like
being a child, waking up
from a dreamless slumber,
suddenly awake
warm beneath the soft comforter
your grandmother sewed for your brother
the one faded almost to threads,
so white and gently patterned in the eight am sun
and fall has come
and the air is clear and dry and cold
but the sunlight is warm
so you cast off the comfort of the comforter
you holler silently down wooden hallways
you scatter loosely down broken gravel pathways
and out into and endless grass
up to the waist, with purple and golden flowers
all covered in wet night dew
and you sing the song of the soul
that is
the chilly tickle of water droplets running down your legs
and the slight scratch of the blades of grass across your ankles
and legs.
The song of morning
and of bright sunlight
and of fresh air and rebirth,
a song of things passing on
and new things beginning to
be.

you are like the small minutes
of infinite and beautiful and
humble freedom
that makes us all human again.
I used to watch your ****,
shamelessly, naked, here,
on my mother's couch, alone.

I used to watch your ****,
until the sunrising and my
hand felt dumb 'til the morn.

I used to watch your ****,
reminiscing nights of *****
as Jesus set as stone.

I used to watch your ****:
but then I stalked you on Facebook™
and find out you have a life
and find out you have a baby
and find out you have an old spanish husband
who's got scars, and tattoos, and smoke cigarettes,
and find out you got ugly
as the years and years passed by
in a careless whisper, of all the nights
I used to watch your ****.
Got Guanxi Jan 2016
i see you in the Philippines.
east of the sunrising,
colliding with my thoughts.

Taught differently to me.
yet a breath of fresh air.

How you living over there?

Not like me,
i guess,
Wondering whats it like in Manila,
Sat here in London,

Were not far in mind,
but far in land.

Not far in skin colour either.
And we probably believe in different things.

My life embargoed.

Would we trade places?
I don’t know.

This one is for Paolo,

The crystal ball see’s the future;
Cristablo.

X
Nickolas J McKee Mar 2022
O’, how bitter howls the moon,
Reflecting sorrow as it shines,
Sublime, sublime,
till the days of sunrise…

The deepest pains, we wish loving gains…

…we hear you…

Of lovers’ crossings, we hear the lost sings…

…we are you…
Steve Page  Apr 2018
Morning
Steve Page Apr 2018
God given songs to angelic tunes
Holier anthems for reflective moods
Soul searching music with eternal themes
Songs from our hearts that harbour old dreams
Movements in light, emerging from dark
Sunrising symphonies, the thrush and the lark
I welcome the chorus here at my dawn
I rise and I stretch and then I press on
Spring is a great time for the dawn chorus.  Even in the city.
Ottar  Jul 2014
The Disenchanted
Ottar Jul 2014
They fall like leaves,
and drift away, bouncing,
on curled crisp corners,
aged by the season,
the wind blows them,
not caring, no reason
where they land.

But they are not leaves,
nor are they believers,
they are in touch, not
with the Earth,
not with second birth,
some still think, they
need to earn their worth.

They are blood and flesh,
a thread knotted enmeshed,
in a society they don't want,
they are the uprising,
setting upon action
as there is a sunrising,
they have hopes, dreams, and mirth.

They want their day Canada,
they are willing to work smarter to prove it,
don't feed them the Desiderata,
say they have the heart and a future,
                                                                                         can you do that?
When heart get saturate,
With despair and pain.
And twinkling rays,
Fails to stimulate it again.
A stinging gel secret's from soul,
Full of anxiety with furious flow.
Skip from moisture laden eyes,
Carries saline of every smile.
Haphazardly rush like a naked lad,
To burst down on its mother lap.

Translucent cage of immense emotion,
Hanging down from blooded ocean.
Chronic embedded darken spots,
Peep's from core of its ***.
Golden day's out of the blue derailed,
Skid down on its viscous terrain.
A brutally tempered piercing blade,
Knockout rainbow from its shade.
Crowd so afraid of 'agonizing sol,'
Runs away calling 'fire ball.'

When heart get blessed,
With joyous and with love.
A smiling face,
Could not hold its grace.
Happiness sprinkle from jubilant soul,
Dispersing treasures of heavenly store
A pearl appears in mother eyes,
Looking her child 'candid smile.'
World glitter with its scattered light,
People's call it a 'gem of life.'

Sometime shed from peckish cries,
Calling mother to feed her child.
Sometime solidifies on wrinkled eyes,
Desperate for her grown-up child.
Sometime leaks from grassy green,
To smooch and hug sunrising beams.
Sometime appears on shedding leaves,
Bidding farewell to sunset scene.
Paradise Lost or Paradise gain,
Tears narrates the secret of game.

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