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ria 13h
i fear the day that the sky turns dark red.
when chocolate covered strawberries taunt me.
and when dagger-sharp arrows fall overhead.
these are the sure tell signs that you must flee.

you must fear St. V, for he is peckish,
famished and preying for those lonely hearts.
he will seek you out and offer a kiss
and with eyes closed, aim at you with his darts.

you must not trust this pink and lovely day.
no matter the roses or the love notes,
or the sweet grand gestures and what they say.
St. V will trick you and slash through your throat.

So when that dreadful love-filled day rolls in,
go find that cherub babe, and slaughter him.
MetaVerse Jul 8
Laura.  She tempts me much to self-abuse,
The sin of which is true love's evil twin.
I regularly sin by giving in,
Making a sock of fresh banana juice.
I struggle to resist, but what's the use
When future me will certainly begin
To tug himself (much to his own chagrin)
Thinking about her headlights and caboose?
The walnuts swell upon the walnut tree;
The sap is running—slimy walnut sap.
Her apples call my name.  They're teasing me.
The hardwood grows with vigor in my lap.
I burn to plant my seed deep in her V,
The garden of her earth, then take a nap.
Cobby Jul 5
I pressed my soles against your rosy bricks
and felt my bones familiar to your kitsch.
I loved it anyway: the houses that
lined up like ducklings in bowties peach-and-
lemon, dumb to the pretense of their ton.
And while this ingrate-grey estate went on
with his tired litanies, my eyes drifted
somewhere searching past the weight of the wind -
what more deceits do I fit into my
pockets and bring home? I cupped a palmful
of air and sealed it inside a coat pocket;
one hand freed to take snaps of a daydream.
These hands will warm soon enough and these bones
will stop aching, these eyes will stop searching.
Bryan Jul 4
The rarer fruit is sweeter when despite
Her bruising skin, she sits atop the bowl
On seasons not her own. A juicy bite
So sweet and thoughtful, full of all the soul
I need to last another day. She's ripe
And I am hungry. Fallen fruits await decay
Yet never her. I'd thought she'd be the type
To know about her rare, forbidden sway.
But all the more I stare into her pit
I think about the farm she's stolen from
And what a better tree she'd make if it
Was not for me and my **** hunger. Plum,
So stuck upon your twig, you'll never know
What joy there is to have in letting go.
MetaVerse Jul 4
ınk a new line that drips upon a page;
poetry plays a point that letters spell.
when feet are running meter's rhyme and rage
the poet writes of love that's worth the tell.
a statement made of stanzas rings a bell
in ears that crave the rhythm of a verse
rehears'd in dulcet tones that maybe yell
at times when feeling love is but a curse.
volta Velveeta cheese an early hearse
and bathroom book of verses by anon.
musical fruits smell better smelling worse:
ıf music be the food of loveplay on.
     in octaves, sevenths, sixths, fifths, fourths, and thirds,
     poesy *****-footing plays with words.
Bryan Jul 3
Allow my letters, ink and stroke, be paint
And words and lines the image I portray.
This paper is no canvas. Its restraint
Is too encapsulating, too cliché.
If poems may be painted, then what base
Would words applied to greater meaning hold
To? Any art must this one problem face:
What form should this piece take to be retold?
But poems need no canvas, staff, or tools.
In memory they live just as they're heard.
So let my canvas be your brain. Its spools
Of woven thought infuse my every word.
Each canvas breathes a life I'll never know
Into a piece of art I cannot show.
MetaVerse Jul 2
a noble mole.  what dribbles **** a chin
lickable fungus glowing martian pog?
Al Addin's lamp (ummm...) frıght night of the djinn
whilst gripping chokes a chickensmoke some smog:

the summersmell of blacktop picks a long
boogery nose that smells a little silly.
a ******* wonderbabe removes her thong
sunsh¡ne and sits as pretty as a lily

and yet: the interstellar shift of sky
that breaks the ball of e art h & leaves it flat
for thunderbirds that birdshift flying by
the troll that eats with relish someone's brat.

an awful machine sits upon a dish.
lettuce a leaf  .make ye a daisy wish
larry mintz Jun 30
The ice has thawed ; and Berchta is truly here,
I think of events I Wish  to do too,
And petals of blooms open I'm filled with cheer;
I think of gardening it's time is due,
Feel one with Nature,alive, feel like a seer,
I tried Witch Sight practice first a breakthrough
And gardening filled me with cheer,I felt clear,
I worked happily past my rendezvous,
The Hissing of the Serpent needed work,
The second time I felt like a thirsty bloom.
Got the seeds planted -no link to nature,
And practicing Serpent Hiss felt like a ****
A chain that's half connected is my doom
And plants surely got watered none in danger
I hope I break chains of my destiny
A link with nature thru gardening  I see
About gardening,life
There is a way my essence splits
And two versions of myself emerge,
But the first true version that split is gone—
It cannot outlive my tremorous surge.

Then there's a way the body lingers,
In rhythm, it moves but never leaves.
It's not a possession, or a common release,
Just a tethered echo in hollow needs.

There is a way the world curves wrong,
As if it's not spherical, rather concave.
As if we're not outside but inside the hollow,
As the eye leaves faulted perceptions of shape...

It's there, in the way the retina lies,
And spins existence before observed,
To let us know that we know what we know,
As knowledge itself grows faint to a blurry.

There is a way the hands disobey,
Keep reaching for love that never belongs.
They act as if they're holding puppet strings,
But their motion is that of a borrowed ghost.

There is a way my heart has thoughts,
And also a way my brain can feel.
The way that my body begs—
The way that I always forget to kneel.

There is a way my essence splits
And two versions of myself emerge,
But the first true version that split is gone—
These very moments my reflection turns.
Vibrations are humming beneath my breath.
As I gaze at a sky that forgot the time.
I'm kept in my silence, feels more like death,
As I entomb your words in my lucid rhyme.

My lucid dreams are of forgotten gospels.
Each is a doorway, but no two are the same.
Been here on the edge with your lingering echoes,
Since you stitched your own voice into ash and flame.

You've hidden secret keys inside every frame,
In the swirling chords of your painted hymns.
When I found the key, I whispered your name,
And a silence that screamed started pulling me in.

It said, “God must reside in our hollow spaces.”
Oh, how those words stab through me like nails.
My will to keep breathing left without any traces.
As for finding its hiding place, I always fail.

You always used to say, “Death cannot be the end.”
It might be something taught before we're born—
Like a stairway that hides beyond mortal bends,
On the path one might take when the soul gets too worn.

So does this body live just to shape the soul?
Is the form of its matter something we outgrow?
I think I'm going to smile through my final breath.
I want to paint the night with my afterglow.

Clock is unwinding all of its hidden gears,
And now time has become more like soft deceit.
I've carried carnal weight far past my weight in years,
Toward your heavy truth that still walks without your feet.

So, if anyone should ever call, and I don’t reply,
Don’t call it the end. And don’t cry or grieve.
“Choosing death doesn’t always mean one wants to die,
And not everyone goes through the secret door to leave.”

But in a dream I felt you vanish into pulsing sparks.
I watched your soul turn to light and ignite the void.
You said, “Not every light gets buried in dark,
And not every broken heart has to feel destroyed.”

But my heart is offbeat from your syntax, lost,
And your pain-ridden language, I can now translate.
You wrapped your silent, sacred gift in its brutal cost,
As you left to chase the pulsing light beyond the gate.
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