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"abdomen" poems
To be a woman Is to be property To act ladylike Is to mold into the stereotype To speak up is unheard of Just go crawl behind the white man you see in front of you A glimpse Of steel is all you see before The warmth of blood drains every part Every being you thought to be strong Now gone Pick up the pieces Bandage that wound We have a war One that was fought before Blood on the knife Stained the suit of the man walking to the congress chair He holds it up with a smile And the other men in the house follow As they add it to the closet of achievements We are strong We are not blind to perspective We see in color Stitch up the knife wound Targeted at the abdomen Property does not fight back A piece of land does not speak words The cornfields do not unite To be a woman Is to have a voice One loud enough to be heard over laws That prohibit natural human rights Our bodies are not to be tagged by the market vendor down the street Politicians now playing a game of operation in their makeshift white coats Forgetting all that we have achieved Women's bodies are now more dangerous Than a gun on school property To have a body Is to have a choice To be a woman Is to bring justice and unity to all
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Jun 1, 2020
Jun 1, 2020 at 12:25 PM UTC
For Old Times Sake
i want to say something haunting and profound about the twisting in my abdomen and the red stain blooming between my legs— but all I can think about is how far ******* gone I am and how much it hurts to be a 19 year old girl with a brain like a jagged seashell
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 1:54 AM UTC
Untitled
This is past due like the rent paid on the thirteenth Late better than never-- and I got this here forever Flow like rain during any kinda weather Keep this here close to my heart And when the block comes, I don’t know where to start Beat-beat Thump-thump I'll just let the words flow from my heart But you ain’t feelin me’-- You ain’t hearin’ Queen So I got to bring you back to the forefront with my so⋅lil⋅o⋅quy I remind you of all the things that had you fearin’ me This Army of One, brighter than that star He created we call Sun Under its blaze, us two can become one (lets make our Son under His) While I lay with fragmented words.... spoken Promises I made to myself remain unbroken And my gift is as natural as the slender ducts of my abdomen called fallopian I am Woman The prototype made perfect and pure Whose prose is as tight as my kegels allow my femininity to be Wrath your ******** may not be able to endure Thought you knew a good Woman and tight ***** make you surrender on your knees And dream dreams about your seed taking root in this royal vessel I am Mother Earth And this is my Gift—my Gyft I am Myself and such a present I present to thee For I AM Queen Poetree So when I seem silent When you think you hear nothing but your heart beat Nothing but the cool air enraptured in the breeze I am the Life that flows from you I am the Wind rustling the trees leaves I am the fragrance left in the air you interpret as another I am the overwhelming sensation made between two lovers under duvet covers I am the softness of lips and the sensation made by the flick of a passionate tongue I am that empty space you try to fill with another one So when you think you hear nothing When you think you’re all alone I am every word, every adlib of your favorite song Every stroke every morning when you brush your hair I am your deep breath because, baby, I am your air I am everything pleasurable—every pleasure experienced since your creation And it all stems from the balance of my concentration during this poetic intrapersonal conversation I am everything virtuous I am the eye of the storm I am your hope, your future I am the pages of your favorite novel whose cover is worn I am air, I am sky I am the clouds, and the Sun’s heat But most importantly, to my core I am Queen Poetess B…
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Apr 12, 2010
Apr 12, 2010 at 5:53 AM UTC
I AM *Queen*
This is past due like the rent paid on the thirteenth Late better than never-- and I got this here forever Flow like rain during any kinda weather Keep this here close to my heart And when the block comes, I don’t know where to start Beat-beat Thump-thump I'll just let the words flow from my heart But you ain’t feelin me’-- You ain’t hearin’ Queen So I got to bring you back to the forefront with my so⋅lil⋅o⋅quy I remind you of all the things that had you fearin’ me This Army of One, brighter than that star He created we call Sun Under its blaze, us two can become one (lets make our Son under His) While I lay with fragmented words.... spoken Promises I made to myself remain unbroken And my gift is as natural as the slender ducts of my abdomen called fallopian I am Woman The prototype made perfect and pure Whose prose is as tight as my kegels allow my femininity to be Wrath your ******** may not be able to endure Thought you knew a good Woman and tight ***** make you surrender on your knees And dream dreams about your seed taking root in this royal vessel I am Mother Earth And this is my Gift—my Gyft I am Myself and such a present I present to thee For I AM Queen Poetree So when I seem silent When you think you hear nothing but your heart beat Nothing but the cool air enraptured in the breeze I am the Life that flows from you I am the Wind rustling the trees leaves I am the fragrance left in the air you interpret as another I am the overwhelming sensation made between two lovers under duvet covers I am the softness of lips and the sensation made by the flick of a passionate tongue I am that empty space you try to fill with another one So when you think you hear nothing When you think you’re all alone I am every word, every adlib of your favorite song Every stroke every morning when you brush your hair I am your deep breath because, baby, I am your air I am everything pleasurable—every pleasure experienced since your creation And it all stems from the balance of my concentration during this poetic intrapersonal conversation I am everything virtuous I am the eye of the storm I am your hope, your future I am the pages of your favorite novel whose cover is worn I am air, I am sky I am the clouds, and the Sun’s heat But most importantly, to my core I am Queen Poetess B…
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You were a different version of the religion, you were a ****** of the region when we met. I had the brownest eyes. You had the greenest eyes. chin sits perfectly in shoulder, hand fits in hand, molded. I had hair like a little girl's. You had hair like a little boy's. Both half ****** my arms were as thin as yours, and toned. You didn't own a single curve, just edges and bone. Only your lips were soft. Only my lips were soft. The fading light bounced off the angles of my abdomen and visible ribcage, made your mouth water. With a shy, curling finger, you called me over to you. It drove me wilder. We undressed each other under the covers. You giggled and I crumbled when you saw I needed help with the clasp of your bra. I chuckled, returned the favor when you gave up on my belt buckle. I had the body of a little girl. You had the body of a little  boy. The sheets wound around and pressed us together, You had the hardest hips. I had the hardest hips. You compromised what was inside your mind; I felt those first few moans rattle your visible ribcage and escape through lips pursed like a porcelain doll. Took it all in, held on to your fragile frame and from the moment we were free, two children in the wilderness.
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Dec 27, 2010
Dec 27, 2010 at 8:00 AM UTC
Adolescex
Handsome is not your dancing eyes when you smiles Handsome is not your sunny face or your well built muscle I have never been wrong.. in defining handsome handsome is not your flesh not your looks but a little bit lower than your abdomen Look down... Its your fat wallet in your pocket... Thats handsome...
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 6:04 AM UTC
Handsome
Pink Sakura, Pink Sakura. Oh where do I begin. Adrenaline, knees separate, a touch upon your chin. Pink Sakura, Pink Sakura. From there do I descend. And down your neck and collarbone, sensation stirs within. Pink Sakura. I whisper words. You bite your lip again. I feel them all, Pink Sakura, the goosebumps on your skin. Another inch. Pink Sakura. I reach your abdomen. Another breath you can't contain; the fire and the sin. Pink Sakura. It's getting warm. I wonder where you've been. I'm drawing near, it's softer here. I pass a subtle grin. Pink Sakura, Pink Sakura. Your heart is beating fast. I find my way beneath the lace. Pink Sakura, at last.
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Nov 19, 2018
Nov 19, 2018 at 6:39 PM UTC
Pink Sakura
Did you know that if you don't stretch in the correct way, you might end up thwarting the entire purpose of your workout and suffer unwanted injuries? Doing pre-workout stretches thoroughly will determine whether you are benefiting from your workout or whether it's worsening your muscle tear. Here are the major stretching crimes that you should never commit. Not doing a proper warm-up According to gym instructors worldwide, this is the most commonly committed crimes in any gym. A warm-up is a must before any kind of workout — cardio or weights — and must ideally last at least 12-15 minutes. Assuming that stretching is a warm-up Stretching and warming up is not the same. You need to warm up first, before you are ready to stretch. A slow jog or brisk walking on the treadmill is a good warm-up. Rushing through your stretching exercises Stretching should be for the entire body. You cannot skip any parts. Involve stretches that work your lower back, shoulders, calves, stomach, quads etc. You should not move from one stretch to the other in very quick succession because that may cause untoward injuries. Try to hold each stretch for 20 seconds. When you breathe deeply and hold the stretch, your muscles get trained to tolerate the maximum that your limbs can go to. Giving stretching a skip after a workout You have done an hour of strenuous exercise and now you just want to rush out of the gym; that is a huge mistake. Spend some time bending and stretching after your sweat session. Then, do a cool down before you leave the gym. Not stretching every day You need to be your flexible best always and that can only happen if you stretch daily, even on the days that you aren't gymming. This ensures that your gym days are more fruitful and that you make the most of them. Not breathing properly Breathing right is a very important aspect of stretching. Breathe naturally while you inhale through your nose, expand your rib cage and upper abdomen as you fill in your lungs. When exhaling, breathe out through your mouth, preferably making an audible sound. This relaxes you. While stretching, you need to breathe out when you are exerting, that is, when you are actually contracting your muscles. Doing static stretches Never stand still and do stretches that work only one muscle. You should rather do stretches that work a group of muscles — like a lunge that stretches your upper hamstring muscle, your ankles and also your glutes. Ignoring pain while stretching When you are in the middle of a stretch and you feel pain, stop immediately and consult an expert. Your stretch should make you feel a gentle pull only, not immense pain. If you are hurting, you are doing it wrong. Rest a few days and then go back to working out under a qualified trainer.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 5:40 AM UTC
8 stretching mistakes you should never commit
Did you know that if you don't stretch in the correct way, you might end up thwarting the entire purpose of your workout and suffer unwanted injuries? Doing pre-workout stretches thoroughly will determine whether you are benefiting from your workout or whether it's worsening your muscle tear. Here are the major stretching crimes that you should never commit. Not doing a proper warm-up According to gym instructors worldwide, this is the most commonly committed crimes in any gym. A warm-up is a must before any kind of workout — cardio or weights — and must ideally last at least 12-15 minutes. Assuming that stretching is a warm-up Stretching and warming up is not the same. You need to warm up first, before you are ready to stretch. A slow jog or brisk walking on the treadmill is a good warm-up. Rushing through your stretching exercises Stretching should be for the entire body. You cannot skip any parts. Involve stretches that work your lower back, shoulders, calves, stomach, quads etc. You should not move from one stretch to the other in very quick succession because that may cause untoward injuries. Try to hold each stretch for 20 seconds. When you breathe deeply and hold the stretch, your muscles get trained to tolerate the maximum that your limbs can go to. Giving stretching a skip after a workout You have done an hour of strenuous exercise and now you just want to rush out of the gym; that is a huge mistake. Spend some time bending and stretching after your sweat session. Then, do a cool down before you leave the gym. Not stretching every day You need to be your flexible best always and that can only happen if you stretch daily, even on the days that you aren't gymming. This ensures that your gym days are more fruitful and that you make the most of them. Not breathing properly Breathing right is a very important aspect of stretching. Breathe naturally while you inhale through your nose, expand your rib cage and upper abdomen as you fill in your lungs. When exhaling, breathe out through your mouth, preferably making an audible sound. This relaxes you. While stretching, you need to breathe out when you are exerting, that is, when you are actually contracting your muscles. Doing static stretches Never stand still and do stretches that work only one muscle. You should rather do stretches that work a group of muscles — like a lunge that stretches your upper hamstring muscle, your ankles and also your glutes. Ignoring pain while stretching When you are in the middle of a stretch and you feel pain, stop immediately and consult an expert. Your stretch should make you feel a gentle pull only, not immense pain. If you are hurting, you are doing it wrong. Rest a few days and then go back to working out under a qualified trainer.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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He was large as frogs go Fist-sized happy rotund dweller of backyard pond Garter snake large, too large with his ominous yellow stripes and jaws to take a larger than average mouthful Choked by abdomen's girth Legs drooling from his glut Before the victim's even hit his gut's digestive juices Kid with hockey stick makes him puck for his sin Frog makes  desperate slim swim for rocks Where he lies in recovery from shock and teeth marks on his belly Underdog gets defense from phone call-- Eve 150 miles away intercedes Frog gets mercy of a transport to another backwoods pond-- to find his life forgetting trauma Suns himself and swims Eats the bugs and ***** the froglettes of another day
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 8:39 PM UTC
Underdog Frog
This is not a breakup poem This is not me liquifying when I open my eyes in the morning This is not my furious animal tearing at my chest to control the thrashing inside This is not the bile that burns my throat And this is not the hollow in my abdomen This is not a breakup poem This is not your static sobs and back-breaking voice cracks This is not your acid apology This is not your deadly uncertainty And this is not the jagged shards of yourself This is not a breakup poem This is not the blood bursting from my scraped elbows and knees when I went head over heels because you promised you would catch me This is not my pavement-smacked stinging palms This is not the gravel in my wounds from when you let go too soon This is not a breakup poem This is not your whiskey bottle on the shelf at the foot of my bed, a gentle reminder that now I have nightmares alone This is not the toothbrush and the hair gel and the speakers and the things that have more staying power than you And this is not a breakup poem
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM UTC
This Is Not A Breakup Poem
May I join you in the doghouse, Rover? I wish to retire till the party's over. Since three o'clock I've done my best To entertain each tiny guest. My conscience now I've left behind me, And if they want me, let them find me. I blew their bubbles, I sailed their boats, I kept them from each other's throats. I told them tales of magic lands, I took them out to wash their hands. I sorted their rubbers and tied their laces, I wiped their noses and dried their faces. Of similarities there's lots Twixt tiny tots and Hottentots. I've earned repose to heal the ravages Of these angelic-looking savages. Oh, progeny playing by itself Is a lonely little elf, But progeny in roistering batches Would drive St. francis from here to Natchez. Shunned are the games a parent proposes, They prefer to squirt each other with hoses, Their playmates are their natural foemen And they like to poke each other's abdomen. Their joy needs another woe's to cushion it, Say a puddle, and someone littler to push in it. They observe with glee the ballistic results Of ice cream with spoons for catapults, And inform the assembly with tears and glares That everyone's presents are better than theirs. Oh, little women and little men, Someday I hope to love you again, But not till after the party's over, So give me the key to the doghouse, Rover
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Children's Party
we explored one another, similar to that of how the seven sins would explore their vices, corrupting their virtues. but that's what made the garden blossom, grow with intense passion that radiated with a melancholy glimmer, with a dipped and ragged vine of sweat and sheen arousal and desire.   craving, begging, mewling, whining; gluttony, craving for the excess sloth, craving for moments of rest, envy, craving for a bearing of arousal, lust, craving for a touch, a sinful taste; greed, craving the moans and swatches, wrath, craving for sullen destruction, pride, craving for the fall of a bereaved apology.     our garden; a place of virtues, a place of our vices. you showed me the deepest things, darkest epithets of what was to be explored, blossoming a crimson rose of pure desire in the pit of my abdomen, vines of thorns wrapped firmly around my hips and the soft ashen flesh of my wrists soon to be accompanied around the thin circumference of my ankles. the shark divots soon finding their way around the swells of my breast, and the tremble of my inner thighs; body arching, lips quivering, ecstacy of your words, your seed planted garden that became a part of me. I found the cardinal sins in the dropping countenance of your words, of your demands, and of your wishes, and i bathed in it, soaked myself up in the lavender of your scent, the scratchiness of your thorns. our garden was the place to cast our sins, delve into them, and it ruined me, but oh how I solely craved it. our encounters, our actions, our experiences putting even the seven deadly sins to same, forcing them to turn when catching a glimpse of us. The swells of their cheeks blossoming with that of a rose tinted hue.
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 1:26 AM UTC
; garden of ecstacy
we explored one another, similar to that of how the seven sins would explore their vices, corrupting their virtues. but that's what made the garden blossom, grow with intense passion that radiated with a melancholy glimmer, with a dipped and ragged vine of sweat and sheen arousal and desire.   craving, begging, mewling, whining; gluttony, craving for the excess sloth, craving for moments of rest, envy, craving for a bearing of arousal, lust, craving for a touch, a sinful taste; greed, craving the moans and swatches, wrath, craving for sullen destruction, pride, craving for the fall of a bereaved apology.     our garden; a place of virtues, a place of our vices. you showed me the deepest things, darkest epithets of what was to be explored, blossoming a crimson rose of pure desire in the pit of my abdomen, vines of thorns wrapped firmly around my hips and the soft ashen flesh of my wrists soon to be accompanied around the thin circumference of my ankles. the shark divots soon finding their way around the swells of my breast, and the tremble of my inner thighs; body arching, lips quivering, ecstacy of your words, your seed planted garden that became a part of me. I found the cardinal sins in the dropping countenance of your words, of your demands, and of your wishes, and i bathed in it, soaked myself up in the lavender of your scent, the scratchiness of your thorns. our garden was the place to cast our sins, delve into them, and it ruined me, but oh how I solely craved it. our encounters, our actions, our experiences putting even the seven deadly sins to same, forcing them to turn when catching a glimpse of us. The swells of their cheeks blossoming with that of a rose tinted hue.
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when you asked me about certainty and if my mind was a tree rooted in cement and truth i was on my unaccustomed knees blinking into a sunbeam's architecture when the brilliant wind brought you to me to cure me with the miracle touch i was alone by a window dreaming through glass you bent toward me in a mile wide sky a butterfly with a skinny voice or an adorable tomato in a retail uniform before that i only knew the clouds as bears wrapped in pastel baby-blankets before i first kissed you in the street i knew the sunset as a drop of fire in a barrel of whiskey and suddenly your eyes like a deep pool in a forest seeking out my past with the molecular traces of your fingers across my abdomen mandalas blooming out of our palms only touching at the fingers as flames from mosquito torches filled the round coral faces of my gauges with apricot light
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 12:16 PM UTC
adorable tomato in a retail uniform
You're only seventeen - the light seems to shine right through you, peach-furred skin dessicated drawn in upon itself - and old. Your moisture-dewed youth has evaporated. It’s been emptied ****** clean dried and drained. You reach out with snappable wrists Your brittle bones bulge and bow. Your ribs vibrate with every breath air thrills and ripples the whole chest cavity. Your hands and feet Minnie Mouse big too big for the fragile framed tiny dancer. Your hips have become pelvic bone butterflies that arch and flare out from your sunken abdomen concave and strangely hung with loose folds of skin. Your eyes like oases in the desert of you cartoon-cute big but sunken deep into your head as if drawing away from the sight of you. Just a few more Kilos and you’ll be gone. © M.L.Emmett
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 11:53 AM UTC
Anorexic Girl
it was the hooded-sweatshirt, sit-close-and-pretend-you’re-cold, bleacher-seat, whiskey-and-coke homecoming that you never had when the leaves changed. but the leaves changed anyway. the damp grass smelling vaguely like your fireplace as the world got quieter, your nose in your precalc and your foot tapping and how-many-years-left of solo fridays, you counted the suburban stars but didn’t tell anybody how ******* beautiful they were above your head, because they were yours. when you wore your high school colors, you were cold for real. no pretense in your shivering, no flutter in your abdomen because he wasn’t gonna talk to you, and you didn’t really care, you shrugged. but the leaves changed anyway. and you changed, slowly. grew taller and smarter and prettier and then the remaining solo fridays shrank to none, and you left. big sweet snowdrifts turned to spring and you shared whiskey-and-coke with the city, your stars dimmer but abdomen finally fuller, and limbs warmer and no sweatshirt because you didn’t need one, and hands all over to hold and feeling all three kinds of love at once. and then the accidental homecoming, and the changing of the leaves and the hooded-sweatshirt shivers and knowing you’re so much bigger now than the suburban stars and the backward glances of the bleacher-seat kids, but the damp grass still smells like your fireplace and suddenly you’re small again, just for a second but god that second, you shiver and turn around again. you’re so much bigger than this but homecoming, this whiskey-and-coke homecoming still isn't yours.
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 11:58 PM UTC
Homecoming
it was the hooded-sweatshirt, sit-close-and-pretend-you’re-cold, bleacher-seat, whiskey-and-coke homecoming that you never had when the leaves changed. but the leaves changed anyway. the damp grass smelling vaguely like your fireplace as the world got quieter, your nose in your precalc and your foot tapping and how-many-years-left of solo fridays, you counted the suburban stars but didn’t tell anybody how ******* beautiful they were above your head, because they were yours. when you wore your high school colors, you were cold for real. no pretense in your shivering, no flutter in your abdomen because he wasn’t gonna talk to you, and you didn’t really care, you shrugged. but the leaves changed anyway. and you changed, slowly. grew taller and smarter and prettier and then the remaining solo fridays shrank to none, and you left. big sweet snowdrifts turned to spring and you shared whiskey-and-coke with the city, your stars dimmer but abdomen finally fuller, and limbs warmer and no sweatshirt because you didn’t need one, and hands all over to hold and feeling all three kinds of love at once. and then the accidental homecoming, and the changing of the leaves and the hooded-sweatshirt shivers and knowing you’re so much bigger now than the suburban stars and the backward glances of the bleacher-seat kids, but the damp grass still smells like your fireplace and suddenly you’re small again, just for a second but god that second, you shiver and turn around again. you’re so much bigger than this but homecoming, this whiskey-and-coke homecoming still isn't yours.
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Dinner is done everyone's settled the evening.....like the moon.....is full... the weight of the night has itself eased into mine, my expected moment of slumber...now distraught... the Heavens are purpled twilight drapes have fallen, winds of March...bellow .........my pillows ..............are hollowed .......................by my elbows ......as a distant rooster crows........ i lie on my abdomen...legs swing back and forth, catching inspiration, a word, a daydream...a thought, i grab a pen falling, i grasp a journal, a book, ...............everything is within reach but, not...the....long..................stretch of hours....of a sleepless night...whence ....spiced...spiked...and sugared memories... ..........accompany me...and sail with me .......as i cruise along this lethargic sea 'neath a silent dark, where aches are loudest .........domed, by an unworded loneliness, i am wearied by a flow, that is endless, .....this minute...imagination is ceaseless ........i reach for my mug....but, it's empty .........................i hear no liquid seething this moment,  a dark sea, should be brewing.... this hour, verses must be a river, overflowing, ...enfolding, this cool and starry, starry evening... .......i am caffeinated....even without coffee.... Sally Copyright March 23, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 1:49 AM UTC
Caffeinated
morning dew drops on your collar impressing me with the zealous way the seasons drastically measure the moment it takes me to reach forwards and brush it off liquid winter falling onto a ***** cement the initials 'F T' written jaggedly into the cold stone of asphalt i wait for it to disappear, for the flicker of everything gone to fade from my vision but it passes too quickly i look back up and there's no one around the street is empty and the capricious wind has ceased a sucker for patterns i walk into a fabric store and feel my hand linger on the erratic linens fingers paused on the peach organza sprawled like a pink bubblegum sea and i am swept into the manic fantasies of wearing the sheer tissue-like textile into the abdomen of your sweaty palm and sinking like a sticky sweet stripe until you put your hand in your pocket and i spend a year inside melting into the every thread and curve of your jean until it is nothing but disgusting sugar everything i could be when i am hidden from sight in the dark caverns of denim pants who knew the tongue in cheek joke would be nothing but my tongue in your mouth touching all the way up your gums   find me sweltering beneath the uvula wondering if i could go back to the time i found that girl with the mountain logo sweatshirt who whistled between her teeth and hummed all the reasons i should skin my knee and kiss the salty wound because there's no greater pleasure than knowing you don't have to wait for that morning dew drop to fall from their ******* collar
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 1:30 AM UTC
brash saucer
morning dew drops on your collar impressing me with the zealous way the seasons drastically measure the moment it takes me to reach forwards and brush it off liquid winter falling onto a ***** cement the initials 'F T' written jaggedly into the cold stone of asphalt i wait for it to disappear, for the flicker of everything gone to fade from my vision but it passes too quickly i look back up and there's no one around the street is empty and the capricious wind has ceased a sucker for patterns i walk into a fabric store and feel my hand linger on the erratic linens fingers paused on the peach organza sprawled like a pink bubblegum sea and i am swept into the manic fantasies of wearing the sheer tissue-like textile into the abdomen of your sweaty palm and sinking like a sticky sweet stripe until you put your hand in your pocket and i spend a year inside melting into the every thread and curve of your jean until it is nothing but disgusting sugar everything i could be when i am hidden from sight in the dark caverns of denim pants who knew the tongue in cheek joke would be nothing but my tongue in your mouth touching all the way up your gums   find me sweltering beneath the uvula wondering if i could go back to the time i found that girl with the mountain logo sweatshirt who whistled between her teeth and hummed all the reasons i should skin my knee and kiss the salty wound because there's no greater pleasure than knowing you don't have to wait for that morning dew drop to fall from their ******* collar
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In a second grade classroom a tiny ant with a treasure thinks only of taking it to his colony. A big hero he will be. So he drags a piece of popcorn much bigger than he. he drags and pulls and tugs On a second grade classroom floor, the ant's work is hard but will be worth it. A big hero he will be. So he drags a piece of popcorn much bigger than he. he drags and pulls and tugs On a second grade classroom rug, the ant's task seems insurmountable but he knows of no other way. So for an hour, he retraces his path backwards dragging a piece of popcorn across the classroom rug. He drags and tugs and pulls In the open of a second grade classroom, the ant feels exposed on the carpet but cover is closer now, he can feel it. It's just there, where the wall meets the carpet. A space just big enough to hide an ant. Closer and closer. He tugs and pulls and drags his prize closer still Pulling and dragging the popcorn lurches across the carpet. His rear legs reach cover Then his thorax, his abdomen, his head with antennae and mandibles then The Problem. and... In a second grade classroom a line of popcorn rests where the carpet meets the wall.
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Aug 27, 2012
Aug 27, 2012 at 8:33 PM UTC
The Problem
(and I cannot live from with-out) <> a poem in appreciation to Rossella Di Paolo <> I, too:           - am an embryonic work in progress, well into my seventh decade, with no ending in sight                                 I too,     live in the house of poetry, the address likely differs, but suspect the innards of the houses differs little, the decor,  quite similar          - my house shrewdly requests a rethinking,                                     noting, it lives my artifice, with in & with out Then, we are a We:                                              - my cavities house her, She, Poetry is of Ruth (1) born,           - Poetry, She, reminds me, ”whither thou goest, I will go” This duality:           - where the haunting of words providential,              emanate, both inhabiting & inhibits my breathing               She, a fearsome creature, a fearful-something, for it tears me and shreds tears its demands be wrung from with in to with out She, Poetry:           - leaves me gaping, hollow, fills me with             depressurizing boreholes exposed to the elements  of             externalities of an admixed atmospheres, that nature demands             be refilled, fresh in, stale out, for which the artifice trick is knowing which is which when Poetry’s  birthing:           - chest pounds, heart-rate beats heavy metal,             abdomen contracts, there then, no languid in my language,             no help untangling the alpha-bet jumbling,             product of the screams of pushing, squeezing it forth* *you’re hoping to quick-catch newly formed combinations, for if you fail, a poem noisily crashes to and through the floorboard cracks, where poetry’s chaotic glinting etes maliciously glimmer~winks at me with a sarcastic thank you* *“ah, too bad, another creation stillborn, gone to rest, biting the nether dust, without hope of resuscitation…”* just another unfinished work in progress periodically a survivor clean caught, transcribed, edited to be finished, amniotic fluids cleared, poem resurrected blessed with eternal life, readied to be shared and delivered, affirmed and you say to no one and to everyone: this poem will be our poem, wither it goes, ascending, descending, all live in the house of poets, one house, many apartments, each poem a god, and my God will be our God, your God, my God, in the House of Poetry
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Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023 at 5:55 PM UTC
I, too: Live with-in the House of Poetry
(and I cannot live from with-out) <> a poem in appreciation to Rossella Di Paolo <> I, too:           - am an embryonic work in progress, well into my seventh decade, with no ending in sight                                 I too,     live in the house of poetry, the address likely differs, but suspect the innards of the houses differs little, the decor,  quite similar          - my house shrewdly requests a rethinking,                                     noting, it lives my artifice, with in & with out Then, we are a We:                                              - my cavities house her, She, Poetry is of Ruth (1) born,           - Poetry, She, reminds me, ”whither thou goest, I will go” This duality:           - where the haunting of words providential,              emanate, both inhabiting & inhibits my breathing               She, a fearsome creature, a fearful-something, for it tears me and shreds tears its demands be wrung from with in to with out She, Poetry:           - leaves me gaping, hollow, fills me with             depressurizing boreholes exposed to the elements  of             externalities of an admixed atmospheres, that nature demands             be refilled, fresh in, stale out, for which the artifice trick is knowing which is which when Poetry’s  birthing:           - chest pounds, heart-rate beats heavy metal,             abdomen contracts, there then, no languid in my language,             no help untangling the alpha-bet jumbling,             product of the screams of pushing, squeezing it forth* *you’re hoping to quick-catch newly formed combinations, for if you fail, a poem noisily crashes to and through the floorboard cracks, where poetry’s chaotic glinting etes maliciously glimmer~winks at me with a sarcastic thank you* *“ah, too bad, another creation stillborn, gone to rest, biting the nether dust, without hope of resuscitation…”* just another unfinished work in progress periodically a survivor clean caught, transcribed, edited to be finished, amniotic fluids cleared, poem resurrected blessed with eternal life, readied to be shared and delivered, affirmed and you say to no one and to everyone: this poem will be our poem, wither it goes, ascending, descending, all live in the house of poets, one house, many apartments, each poem a god, and my God will be our God, your God, my God, in the House of Poetry
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And lights. She looked a little pale In the yellow light. The spots had been Changed to white. And when the white Couldn't hide her pallor, She asked the makeup To put on a brighter colour. They didn't ask if she had eaten. They tried once, Came back browbeaten. "Diet only for ma'am" Her abdomen perfectly satisfied; Her soul craving for more. And camera. The perfect shot Ended with a sweeping glance Across the set At her hero all decked In the knightly splendour. She was a princess whom He saved from a dragon. Little did anyone know That after a day's worth Of angry cameras panning Her face and scrutinising her life, She needed saving Mostly from herself. And action. This time, a thriller. She walks down the corridor set - Director's thumbs-up, To hunt down the culprit Who snatched her family. She gives the perfect action sequence, Complete with blood trickles. "An award winner, surely." She is done with the shoot And heads home, her van. Someone is waiting. He had been waiting since she left Him that summer. Waiting for an excuse, at first. Then acceptance. Then forgiveness. She gave it her best performance, But could not fake the relief When he approached with an apology And a gun.
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Mar 27, 2015
Mar 27, 2015 at 5:48 AM UTC
Lights, Camera, Action.
There are parts of you that make you who you are, And parts that don’t. Parts of you, that without them, You don’t feel like you belong to the group you Once associated with. Having my ******* removed in order to enter remission And beat breast cancer Feels like my womanhood has been lost. Flat chested takes on an entirely different meaning. It’s crazy how I hear women Wishing that their ******* weren’t so small But they don’t know what it’s like To have no ******* at all. Or that they wish their hair was longer When mine is the length of the guard On an electric razor that my husband uses. How does a man begin to love a woman That has scars where her ******* should be? The hair on my head has yet to grow back, even a little bit. Reminding me only that I’m still a woman Is the gift Mother Nature sends each month. The cramps in my abdomen seem ten times less Compared to heaving an empty stomach Into a pan or toilet bowl next to me After the chemicals have entered my system. Throwing up from morning sickness As my unborn child has just started to live Told me that I was indeed a woman. But now after she has grown and must Watch her mother battle cancer, Lose her hair, throw up nothing but emptiness, And she still tells me that I’m the Most beautiful woman on the planet. How do I tell her that I feel like An alien from Mars?
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 3:44 PM UTC
Womanhood Lost
me? these days? i have to bribe bonsai tigers to fall asleep by giving them excess treats, drink myself to a limit and then take insomnia tablets, glance at the stars and gag up a bolshevik black hole, think about russian newly-wed millionaires spending so mcuh the taxes go up, testifying: well when the full circus with elephants and missing acrobats comes... and there's no french revolution versace... we're in bigger crap we thought we were... so i took to peddling, keeping heart rate with feeling rather than a heart-rate keeper on the wrist known as apple / iWank... you'll never believe the amount of creativity that comes from Onan... it's like that story of onan and samson like it's that story of cain and abel... you'd have to be a mozart to find a creative continuum in women rather than beethoven in the hive of being deaf... say rich and thus say spend... say poor and thus say like a primate with two flint stones... what the hell is this?! japanese crow reduced their beak for nut crushing purposes into a car tire. FIRE! FIRE! PROMETHEUS! so came the world favouring thought from prometheus' liver when in diaper-shelter postman pat delivery by a stork... but each of us that got the slit of liver never claimed origins in the apple adam ******* out when eve forgot that satan's singularity was expressed in a pluralism: eat this apple, depilate, and you and adam will be like the gods... but then the metrosexual emerged with shaved legs and a shaved chest... down the drain that dream went: as long as you eat the apple and know you have hairy legs... i'm sure whatever you say he will be ordained with pleasure to perform... eve - i need a hammer adam - here babe eve - i need a nail adam - here babe eve - i need five planks of wood, four legs one like an abdomen adam - here babe eve - mash it up adam - hey babe, what's that? eve - a ****** table, tapestry for porcelain! adam - woah! that's great! eve to god - this adam is a ****** robot! satan to eve - well... get ready for ******
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Dec 17, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 at 8:48 PM UTC
prometheus & premetheus (the gemini)
me? these days? i have to bribe bonsai tigers to fall asleep by giving them excess treats, drink myself to a limit and then take insomnia tablets, glance at the stars and gag up a bolshevik black hole, think about russian newly-wed millionaires spending so mcuh the taxes go up, testifying: well when the full circus with elephants and missing acrobats comes... and there's no french revolution versace... we're in bigger crap we thought we were... so i took to peddling, keeping heart rate with feeling rather than a heart-rate keeper on the wrist known as apple / iWank... you'll never believe the amount of creativity that comes from Onan... it's like that story of onan and samson like it's that story of cain and abel... you'd have to be a mozart to find a creative continuum in women rather than beethoven in the hive of being deaf... say rich and thus say spend... say poor and thus say like a primate with two flint stones... what the hell is this?! japanese crow reduced their beak for nut crushing purposes into a car tire. FIRE! FIRE! PROMETHEUS! so came the world favouring thought from prometheus' liver when in diaper-shelter postman pat delivery by a stork... but each of us that got the slit of liver never claimed origins in the apple adam ******* out when eve forgot that satan's singularity was expressed in a pluralism: eat this apple, depilate, and you and adam will be like the gods... but then the metrosexual emerged with shaved legs and a shaved chest... down the drain that dream went: as long as you eat the apple and know you have hairy legs... i'm sure whatever you say he will be ordained with pleasure to perform... eve - i need a hammer adam - here babe eve - i need a nail adam - here babe eve - i need five planks of wood, four legs one like an abdomen adam - here babe eve - mash it up adam - hey babe, what's that? eve - a ****** table, tapestry for porcelain! adam - woah! that's great! eve to god - this adam is a ****** robot! satan to eve - well... get ready for ******
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On its back, The cockroach, In a jacket of red wings, Slender legs, And bulging abdomen, Like the tummy of African statesman, Its legs wallowing in despair, In the air, Stamping the spread eagled, Hind and forelimbs, Of the poor anthropod, Kicking and waving, A cry for the succor, To be freed from ebola, Or breaking the *** tether, Or un-doing strong bonds of poverty, Three districts under leprosy, In the domain of the bull’s eye, Where lesbians and gays swallow raw fate, Its salient manifestation, Then the cockroach kicks silently, Anticipating for salvage, But when the domain owner comes, He steps with full weight, His foot dressed in military boots, From the previous legacy of Che Gue Vara, On the belly of the kakerlag at Berlin Wall, Bursting its stomach but hopscotch, Spilling the white stuff out, Of poverty and mental dilemma, Amid hopelessness in future and history, As terrorism mires tomorrow, When China reigns today, At mercy of contemporary panjandrums, Moving from white to black And from black to face book, Killing those who fall in commercial love, As if money is the ***** for nuptial night, But only to go forth ignobled, Without making momentous affinity, In the realm of ill fated cockroach back-dom, Sending Mafousian Egypt to Swedish table, Without scorn and regard for true African blood, Where will I apologize? If the ****** bug Enters my head and heart, To blind my logical eyes, Only to open wide The senses that see and feel Religion and race; O! Al Qaeda!
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 6:17 AM UTC
THE COCKROACH ON ITS BACK
On its back, The cockroach, In a jacket of red wings, Slender legs, And bulging abdomen, Like the tummy of African statesman, Its legs wallowing in despair, In the air, Stamping the spread eagled, Hind and forelimbs, Of the poor anthropod, Kicking and waving, A cry for the succor, To be freed from ebola, Or breaking the *** tether, Or un-doing strong bonds of poverty, Three districts under leprosy, In the domain of the bull’s eye, Where lesbians and gays swallow raw fate, Its salient manifestation, Then the cockroach kicks silently, Anticipating for salvage, But when the domain owner comes, He steps with full weight, His foot dressed in military boots, From the previous legacy of Che Gue Vara, On the belly of the kakerlag at Berlin Wall, Bursting its stomach but hopscotch, Spilling the white stuff out, Of poverty and mental dilemma, Amid hopelessness in future and history, As terrorism mires tomorrow, When China reigns today, At mercy of contemporary panjandrums, Moving from white to black And from black to face book, Killing those who fall in commercial love, As if money is the ***** for nuptial night, But only to go forth ignobled, Without making momentous affinity, In the realm of ill fated cockroach back-dom, Sending Mafousian Egypt to Swedish table, Without scorn and regard for true African blood, Where will I apologize? If the ****** bug Enters my head and heart, To blind my logical eyes, Only to open wide The senses that see and feel Religion and race; O! Al Qaeda!
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I have stomach aches Caused from the hole deep within me Where the butterflies ate away at the flesh that I was You see butterflies are nasty little things They like to come when you want…to come. For that special someone But I have butterflies for people that don’t know I do. So I tried to fill the hole with honey With vanilla With anything that I could get my sticky fingers on. The only thing my fingers got on was me And then they got me off Because I have this hole This deep burning hole that gives me stomach aches That I want to fill with peaches With kiwi With pomegranates Sometimes the stomach aches come in the night When I lay there in my peach colored sheets Pulling at an old band tee shirt until it comes off And I become a writhing mess in the witching hours But sometimes my stomach aches for the boy that wears sweaters It twist and turn and the hole will scream from my abdomen “Give me” I want to kiss his lips I want to stain his sheets with my *** But then the ache goes away I’ll get an ache for the arrogant and snarky boy When he sits there with long, admirable fingers I want him to dig them into me And sometimes my stomach aches for me It aches for the day that I can completely satisfy myself In every aspect a human ever could
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Mar 7, 2018
Mar 7, 2018 at 11:15 PM UTC
Stomach Aches
The Most Exciting Part About The Night, Was Watching The Milliliters Of The IV Bag, Count Down From 1000, Blood Staining My Right Arm, A Glassy Stare Fogging My Own Vision, The Bitter Taste Of ***** And Dissapointment, Was Lodged In The Back Of My Throat, Thirst Coating The Roof Of My Mouth, My Body Weak, The Rhythmic Clicking Of Machines Relaxing, Almost--Peaceful, Black Clawing At The Sides Of My Eyes, Whispering A Lulling Language--Sleep My Friend, Doctors Poking At My Abdomen, Nurses Pushing Fluids Through My Veins, Dyes, Potassium, Water, And Many Medicines, X-Rays And CAT Scans Went By In A Blur, As I Slowly Regained My Body
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 12:34 PM UTC
The Hospital