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The clouds he welcomed,
and let them play
While the sun descended
to kiss his rugged make

The winds would rage
yet come to him
as a petted bovine
tamed at whim

Like a ***** giant
stood the mountain tall,
in brooding silence
as he towered above all

Then the rains came, and
brought a stranger home
She was none like them
yet she seemed their own

In her winding bends
the mountain heard
the frenzied beats
of a heart so stirred

As the brook looked up
and the mountain down
she found calm
and him, storms found

The clouds he asked
how he could move
and mustered his will
for a measure of stoop

She looked at him
with a drowning feel
clutching at her banks
and digging in her heels

The bend showed up
like an eternal curse
carrying the aching brook
like a solemn hearse

One last time
she looked back at thee
the one she killed
in setting free
A moment shared in love can be enough for a lifetime.
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Work The Slow Work"


Work the slow work of diligent accomplishment
In the only now that does exist
Chimeracaly  no forced coercion can prevail
Relatively we bend and sway and break with fads
Hatred commercial excitations selfish desires
****** reflexive static cyclic molecular physics
Birth death birth death birth death
Ultimately i do not understand          therefore i am
I am plastic, c-through

the gnats in my bedroom know as much
they fly into me as though by accident

an impossibly clean sliding-glass door
that upon approach is nevertheless shut

these small things hit my skin
but leave no physical marks

no gnat guts splattered
on my pocked arms

I am not glass but plastic
I can bend without breaking
Wilkes Arnold Aug 2017
The stream leaves my eye as it threads
Between muddy arms,under swaying grass,
With darkened stones nestled snuggly in its bed
Stalked by a hound reflected in amber glass
Playfully raising front paws to fall and splash

Though she tired beneath the cloudless july sky
The hound did not enter the stream's embrace,
Her longing whimper and the streams cool reply
Still echo in my skull's subspace

What something held her tail I can't recall
But she tired and layed down to rest
In soft brush n' pleasant light n' long before sun fall
Shedding the vigor she had professed
She shut the light from her eyes and slumber soon commenced


Far from sight, the stream trickles on
And the hound snores at my feet,
The remnants of their meeting gone
But for those held in my seat
Paul Jones May 2017
I might see further,      should I bounce belief
on the bending rule      and raise my thinking.
18:00 - 02/05/17
Julie Grenness Feb 2017
Does time speed up as we age?
I gaze back at the end of the day,
To- do- lists are very helpful, I guess,
But very boring, I must suggest,
As kids we used to anticipate,
Time dragged on, it was never too late,
Then, a bend in time,
It's already supper time!
Feedback welcome.
Ravanna Dee Dec 2016
Our feelings are like a river,
they go through different bends.
And is it right for a person tell a river
where it's allowed to tend?
You don't get to decide if what you said or did hurt someone.
If it did, it did.
You can't tell them what to feel.
Poetic T Oct 2016
Don't you be talking to my man like
you some ***** on a cross reborn.
He more woman than you and he a man.

Just cos he got a bigger hang over
than me don't mean that I'm the lady
in this relationship, he knows who the boss.

He will slap you in the face soft toy handle
***** black eyes be your friend. Don't you
down grade my fella, His **** tighter than yours.

O' no you didn't just think you all that,
my man got his heels on and your went
out white after labour day ***** please..

You respect my man, he got my back bend
over hard, my man is mine and he is always
has my hand. you just another scank **** all ya....
Did this for a competition where some one protecting there man... who be a man... interesting prompt special for a straight man...
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