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"alaskan" poems
I march to a different drummer My life it is my own I'm an explorer of experience That is how I'm known I've seen snow in South Dakota I've been on the Vegas strip Had barbeque in Kansas My life has been a trip I'm a gypsy of the railways I'm a legend in my time I move on in a boxcar Brother... spare a dime? I've been through all the landlocked states Five provinces as well I've seen Niagara Falls all frozen I've seen it flowing fast as well I've had margaritas in Key West And Bourbon in Kentucky Craft beers out in Oregon In my life I have been lucky I travel on my stories Feed myself with all my tales I'm an explorer of experience I'm a gypsy of the rails I never stick around too long I don't wear my welcome out I come and see just what I want That's what life is all about I've railroad friends in Texas Some up in BC too We've shared drinks in San Diego And had a great Alaskan brew I'm not one to live by your rules I find my rules suit me fine I'm an explorer of experience And I'm riding on the lines You can find me down in Georgia Or eating spuds in Idaho I never know just where I'll be Until my ride begins to go I'm a gypsy of the railways I'm a legend in my time I move on in a boxcar Brother...spare a dime?
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 12:12 PM UTC
Gypsy of the Railways
I want to find my Alaskan Sunrise. Her appearance rare but burned into memory. Whose warmth begins a new era in time. Doesn't last long but neither does high tide. Her beauty is an Alaskan Sunrise. Burns away evils of the past. Replacing my thoughts with a warmth that will last. The light at the end of the month, Tunnels of darkness a tricky labyrinth. But I will find that Alaskan Sunrise, All in good time, As I wait out the dark, Dreams of her warmth, Warms the hollow tree's bark. My Alaskan Sunrise will melt the dark ice cold, Erase the old, Replace with gold, Hell, I'm already sold. Alaskan Sunrise, All in good time.
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Jun 25, 2012
Jun 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM UTC
Alaskan Sunrise
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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Jul 14, 2017
Jul 14, 2017 at 2:17 AM UTC
Arcturian women
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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The silver bullets we spread beneath our eyes, those tears that burst into sparks. I traded those tears for wisdom, And the road to glory never seemed so vain. Now seeing the blank walls in my room, and the sinking ceilings, I feel there's so much to the world, but like the ocean   it only leaves me thirsty. So I trade wisdom for this..... To hang upside down and see your smile, to see the stars kiss and flicker in the summer heat, to feel the rain that pours through your hair,   to be blinded by your warmth in the Alaskan sky.   This is wisdom, my dear.  This is wisdom. Playing hide and seek in the night, holding your hand while the stars fall.  Yelling our names into the sky. This is  how legends live on.  Ruling the world with laughter, and stupid jokes, laying on the blue green grass, falling into the mud, till' the night is weary to see us at play.     Holding the candle of your heart, singing till' the sky falls to the ground.
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 1:22 AM UTC
Summer Lights
Evergreen and ivory Turquoise tears bleed ebony Fuchsia trees bear violet cherries Blood oranges, Mushroom clouds and ashberries. These are the thoughts that grace my mind As I turn to leave Garden gnomes and rose scraped knees Faster now Faster than before Kiss me golden, Less, then more And tell me who I am. Coteries and clandestine deals Soft-sweet midnight chamomile And indigo aspirations Somber February celebrations Anniversaries white and red Blue and green and white and red And can you keep a secret? Black-tea memories always slap me sleepless And I have never known quite exactly how I feel. Clementines suspended in yellow lamplight Cross it out to scarlet rewrite. Beige mountains and Alaskan hills Crescent moon and sawdust mills Silver smiles on a benign boat Blessed if I'm an allusion to a footnote.
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 9:25 PM UTC
Autobiography in Technicolour
There'll be a crowd encircling you, I'm sure. They'll nod at your every word, imperfectly mimicking what people look like when they actually listen. I'm sure the crowd will be people we know. Old high school friends with real estate ventures and gyms and multi-level marketing schemes. Most of them will be doughier, their cheeks permanently stained red from a decade of drinking. Most of them will have photos of their kids on their phones, and they'll tell you they're "sure you don't want to see them" as they pull out their phones and show you photos of their kids. I imagine I'll approach, stop just short of the circle, pretend to bid on an Alaskan cruise. As you talk about redoing your floor in a faux tile that looks just like the real thing for like half the price, you'll see me. I hope you'll think of that kiss five years ago, outside of a bar in Norman, when the world entire bent for us, when all traffic silenced for us, when all people vanished for us. Maybe you'll think of the time we ****** in a twin-sized bed, beside a wall decorated with newspaper clippings, which I thought made me look worldly and learned. I admit now the look was less academic, more serial killer. And maybe you'll think of the manchild fit I threw when I found out you had moved on after I moved away. And maybe you'll be totally present. Good to see you, you'll say. You will ask about my family. We will discuss the cooler weather. We will talk about your business, your kids. We will side hug and say goodbye. We will take the same route to the same exit. There will be children coloring the sidewalk with chalk. We'll each borrow a piece. I'll outline you; you'll outline me.
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Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 11:59 AM UTC
What If Our Paths Cross at a Chamber of Commerce Silent Auction
There'll be a crowd encircling you, I'm sure. They'll nod at your every word, imperfectly mimicking what people look like when they actually listen. I'm sure the crowd will be people we know. Old high school friends with real estate ventures and gyms and multi-level marketing schemes. Most of them will be doughier, their cheeks permanently stained red from a decade of drinking. Most of them will have photos of their kids on their phones, and they'll tell you they're "sure you don't want to see them" as they pull out their phones and show you photos of their kids. I imagine I'll approach, stop just short of the circle, pretend to bid on an Alaskan cruise. As you talk about redoing your floor in a faux tile that looks just like the real thing for like half the price, you'll see me. I hope you'll think of that kiss five years ago, outside of a bar in Norman, when the world entire bent for us, when all traffic silenced for us, when all people vanished for us. Maybe you'll think of the time we ****** in a twin-sized bed, beside a wall decorated with newspaper clippings, which I thought made me look worldly and learned. I admit now the look was less academic, more serial killer. And maybe you'll think of the manchild fit I threw when I found out you had moved on after I moved away. And maybe you'll be totally present. Good to see you, you'll say. You will ask about my family. We will discuss the cooler weather. We will talk about your business, your kids. We will side hug and say goodbye. We will take the same route to the same exit. There will be children coloring the sidewalk with chalk. We'll each borrow a piece. I'll outline you; you'll outline me.
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maple-cured, smoked, rawhide hands, tarantula hands bulldozing rice onto tines like an icebreaker ramming through glacial bergs, Holly Golightly on the tv, on mute, and oh those hips, that figure, in that black dress, banana hands cracking Alaskan king crablegs and ******* the juice and eating the meat, legs spindly and hairy and soaked in butter, dripping, liver cooking, roasting, sloshed on gin, cribbage board patinaed in dust, he eats his liver, downs another gin, cracks another leg, crab hair caught in his teeth, Holly talking about getting the mean reds but he can’t hear it, his luck run out, his luck a prize from a box of ******* Jack, and the snarling throb in his head, cinderblock face, cinderblock house, 3-day-stubble, has he had enough (to drink)? not by the stubble of his chinny-chin-chin, liver is gone, crab is gone, so he eats the eyes, dowsing his ******* Jacks in gin, yesterday wine-in-a-box and Cheez-Whiz, sprayed right into his unbrushed maw, a one-person wine- and-cheese fête classy as it gets, he’s Mister High Society, Cheez-Whiz crust in his stubble, and a cinderblock CRASHES to the floor and it’s lights out, and Holly, still no one to hear her, saying she’ll never let anyone put her in a cage.
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 4:25 PM UTC
******* jacks & gin (Dinner at Tiffany’s)
The days went fast, but the nights moved slowly, like a sad country song or the Alaskan summer sun - forever trying to set, yet never able to do so, leaving the sky with the color of perpetual dusk.
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Jun 17, 2019
Jun 17, 2019 at 2:49 AM UTC
Alaskan Summer Sun
Nine months of darkness, Snow on the ground, No leaves on the trees, No warmth around. As the winter comes to a close, Lakes and rivers still seem froze, Soon the waters will break free, Moving life far as eyes can see, And now its time to have some fun, Playing under the Alaskan sun. Rivers are running , bears now conscious, Birds a flutter, fish obnoxious, Breathing in the summer air, Floating down the river bare, Baggie of green, cooler filled supreme, Almost as if, it were all a dream. When I look back, old and grey, I'll remember the nights and days, When we found euphoria under the Alaskan sun.
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Oct 27, 2013
Oct 27, 2013 at 8:45 PM UTC
Under the Alaskan Sun
fem in isms, i imagine Sapphic eyes: bad *** advert coruscates elite fairness sensing slavish blind in gestate calm affirm in genders More numerous of Windows-- Superior--for Doors-- O harsh judgement foiled, as a foil, as unknown truth foil-doubles in the brow, abject symmetry to systemize a fertile lack of sterile barrenness, i am a mediatrix rend, nirwaan, hijra wonderment aside from transemotion's ground swells demeaning to be understood. i celebrate and face the same to be what paperwork tests being normal being, freely chosen atom each belonging moves an asterisk of paths of mutate art of nature social darwin maze. i imagine Sapphic eyes, ginko soft they pile up all cobble memories themselves concretely cloistered fame spray of salty waves, macho screams symbol for dismissal ease for tearing at an inner unsaid war with lists offense of proper taste to what posterity intends an undulation womblike seeming nourish safety sounds. i imagine Sapphic eyes past debauched meanderings where hyster-clarity rejoins its titular and reliable escapisms curl the lips of maleness found here and there  smile  sneer love i imagine Sapphic eyes linguistic pirouettes congest that wisdom nonetheless the moment passed  on to a feigning truth in pretty rhyme ornamenting time with fine  meter  fine vernacular chimes peter in to juggle perspectival paradox, redichotomize the twilight idols, resolve the conflict like a dawn Aurora, i imagine Sapphic eyes running plastic with Alaskan wolves, toga floats to snow to let us see the purest fairness form a ****** circle, Hypatia ascends from tenebrous grave, Impregnable of Eye is pregnant now with Wollstonecraft revered in liberation's fount families held exemplar gaze of Taylor, ****** Cady, Anthony resanctified to vote entitlement's empathic origins, waxen mold of nascent categories, narrow hands spread wide to panoply anew the manifest evolve in true unknowns
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Nov 23, 2012
Nov 23, 2012 at 11:56 PM UTC
i imagine Sapphic eyes
fem in isms, i imagine Sapphic eyes: bad *** advert coruscates elite fairness sensing slavish blind in gestate calm affirm in genders More numerous of Windows-- Superior--for Doors-- O harsh judgement foiled, as a foil, as unknown truth foil-doubles in the brow, abject symmetry to systemize a fertile lack of sterile barrenness, i am a mediatrix rend, nirwaan, hijra wonderment aside from transemotion's ground swells demeaning to be understood. i celebrate and face the same to be what paperwork tests being normal being, freely chosen atom each belonging moves an asterisk of paths of mutate art of nature social darwin maze. i imagine Sapphic eyes, ginko soft they pile up all cobble memories themselves concretely cloistered fame spray of salty waves, macho screams symbol for dismissal ease for tearing at an inner unsaid war with lists offense of proper taste to what posterity intends an undulation womblike seeming nourish safety sounds. i imagine Sapphic eyes past debauched meanderings where hyster-clarity rejoins its titular and reliable escapisms curl the lips of maleness found here and there  smile  sneer love i imagine Sapphic eyes linguistic pirouettes congest that wisdom nonetheless the moment passed  on to a feigning truth in pretty rhyme ornamenting time with fine  meter  fine vernacular chimes peter in to juggle perspectival paradox, redichotomize the twilight idols, resolve the conflict like a dawn Aurora, i imagine Sapphic eyes running plastic with Alaskan wolves, toga floats to snow to let us see the purest fairness form a ****** circle, Hypatia ascends from tenebrous grave, Impregnable of Eye is pregnant now with Wollstonecraft revered in liberation's fount families held exemplar gaze of Taylor, ****** Cady, Anthony resanctified to vote entitlement's empathic origins, waxen mold of nascent categories, narrow hands spread wide to panoply anew the manifest evolve in true unknowns
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Going once the cruise_______* One specific lover What do we uncover More advice going twice in (2) You see an unexpected attraction Like twins with two heads exact copy Say Action your movie part "The offer you cannot refuse" You cannot duplicate her heart With another Flower rose Another heart obligation "Alaskan Huskies Twin Adoption" Two heads better than one snipper She- Wolf surf and turf Mexico taco, at the gulf Her green planet thumb Mount Fiji we climb Right force ruler the heart divider the duplicate lover "To Reproduce" over the a million light-years duplicated love tears Years we treasured It's in our duty Congregated United we stand   Imagine the world stopped to be buried The duplicate became a twin maid of honor She lost her duplicated purse "Twin Identity" Doppelganger Your heart couldn't hold on____ Any longer To reproduce the same forbidden fruit voiceover singer The rare find someone with a Giving heart Having a double scotch doing the part The pirate wearing Eye patch* Twofold twice the gold one heart match Poems true believers One is the snitch To love life singles or doubles subjects to catch up in triples The full house what a spouse Your boiling minds Twice around the coffee house The day she or he was born The comfort comes with love Fire eye lit bedding (Forever young double wedding) You're the one so gifted hearted*
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Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 3:00 PM UTC
Duplicate
I came to you, oh mighty land Asleep to everything at hand Lethargic from more southern air Not yet awakened, unaware The panorama I beheld Composed a view unparalleled A pastor with his best endeavor Could preach forever and forever And never say with words as clear As the aura of this atmosphere In the awe inspiring craggy peaks And the chasms as His silence speaks Where His creation stirs conviction That brings a balming benediction To one that hungers for a proof Here, upon the planets roof
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Nov 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010 at 3:30 PM UTC
Alaskan Love Affair
. I looked Thru the glass at a trembling lil thing Beady eyes of a worried gerbil In a worrisome place The Petco by my house had Everything you could have -almost Rhino's, Daffodil's Lynx's, Gecko's & even Alaskan Klee Kai's Wrapped up in Saran wrap Or in little glass cages With little bobbly water dispensers And kindly placed dishes Holding nifty pellets of tasty food That fits their Specialized Diet Plan They don't have elephants yet We'll have to ask the manager to order some of those
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 1:16 AM UTC
Petco
Those dog days of summer Near forgotten and gone, Are stored for the winter, And remembered in song. The dogs' days of winter Tell a different tale, Of dogs pulling sleds In Alaska for mail; Or searching the Alps Bringing whiskey and ale, Panting and pulling In hills, waters and dales. Siberian Huskies, The Great Pyrenees, The Alaskan Malamute, Run off their tails Battling death and disease. The Keeshond   Doesn't wear Wooden clogs, Like the Newfie And Wolfhound, They're winter work dogs. If working in snow Isn't enough to freeze fur, Look to the Lab, In frigid waters In layers of warm flab Helping fishermen, Or retrieving a lad. These warm furied friends Will work til their end. The dog days of summer Ran off with the pack, Leaving the dogs Of our winters To haul, trail and track.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM UTC
The Dogs' Days of Winter
**☉The sun falls in November☉ ☊ And won't rise until February ☊** It's a sick feeling ◉ Total darkness ◉ ⍤The pines whisper their worries⍤ ☾ Aligned with the moon's shine ☽ Hungry winter bears ❄ And snow-white hares ❄ ◗ Try to escape the night ◖ Being out in ⚇ The Last Frontier ⚇ 《 All you hear is your breath 》 It's a quite sound ⌭ Snow-creak ⌭ You're left me out here in the cold ☆ But I decided to put my hopes on the stars ☆ There’s so many So many that are bright ★ I think the dark ones are my favorite ★ ◎ Your soul is a crystal sky ◎ ✧ Lit from the North ✧ Dancing to a shifting melody ☪ Only broken out at midnight ☪ Changing your colors To fit your light between my dark stars ***∬ Wavering ∬ § Fluctuating §*** ⊝ Undetected by most ⊝ ␥ But those special few watch from the water ␥ ⎊ They’re alone like me ⎊ Soon your shows slows ↡ And you fall asleep with the dawn ↡ ⚰ Frozen tongues can’t taste your remains ⚰ ∈ Nor can they converse with themselves ∋ My heart was left out in the coldAnd it learned to love Alaska ⚉ ⚖ Solitude and freedom go hand-in-hand ⚖ ⚔ I'm not afraid of commitments⚮ But I'm terrified that my heart won't have what it desires. ⚮
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
My Alaskan Heart
Yet with the hype and madness about the Coronavirus I open window and take a deep breath breath of icy Alaskan air The glass wearing a frosty negligee Leaving transparent area just large enough to get a small peek at the natural show of pale snowy scenery on the other side Eerily quiet There is a foreboding sensation about the vacant stadium Lone songbird whistling simple serenades to a pre-apocalyptic invisible audience
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Sep 22, 2022
Sep 22, 2022 at 12:15 PM UTC
Eerie Silence
COLD, HARD flesh - a very lonely girl in a room filled with fluttering moths and fully-functional nooses - Makes a game plan, in an effort to:   - penetrate your wavering, wandering, yet wholly conscious mind (The fate - the fear - lurks in the futility, the fragility, of your unsuspecting ears) - Equipped with: an anchor (the rock-climbing kind, in order to avoid a metaphor), followed by some paper (and a pen - the use of my blood as script seems overly dramatic), and - a concoction of incredible (and edible!!) proportions                     THE GOAL: - To become the smallest presence possible, to take up the tiniest amount of space in the real and imagined world, and to in turn envelope your very existence - like a Sunday driver in rush hour - with emphasis on: The slope of your neck - I could mount my anchor into it and climb for days; I could nest in your ****** Youth cut when I reach the top, I could build the world's smallest fire with the world's saddest hands                     STEP ONE: When secured in predesignated cocoon, I will unleash the first sheaf - a perforated edge - and enclose a minuscule fragment of my still-breathing soul (for your keychain, perhaps, but preferably your pocket)                     STEP TWO: I will mail you a fraction (incidentally, a subject I still can't grasp) every week until: - I have decreased in size with each turn, I get smaller and smaller until my tangibility disappears entirely and the only presence left of me is a slip that reads: - apply to areas affected (only as directed) Wait! No, not only that- my very own subconscious now rests inside your "thinking cap" - INTRODUCING: Your every day monotony, now littered with: - 17 scratched mix CDs you didn't want to listen to - 4 dogs I secretly liked (and only you knew) - a bright pink dumpster, largely livable - a rusted mailbox with an ocean in full - soundless Skype calls in stolen sweaters - alphabet soup with undiscernable letters - the unfaltering presence of a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness - confused with the very small and haunted town I couldn't leave to see you - and last but not least - The ceaseless, repeated  chorus of "you belong to me", like an immortal fly in an endless August dream
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 12:52 AM UTC
With Dreams of Getting Stuck in One Place
COLD, HARD flesh - a very lonely girl in a room filled with fluttering moths and fully-functional nooses - Makes a game plan, in an effort to:   - penetrate your wavering, wandering, yet wholly conscious mind (The fate - the fear - lurks in the futility, the fragility, of your unsuspecting ears) - Equipped with: an anchor (the rock-climbing kind, in order to avoid a metaphor), followed by some paper (and a pen - the use of my blood as script seems overly dramatic), and - a concoction of incredible (and edible!!) proportions                     THE GOAL: - To become the smallest presence possible, to take up the tiniest amount of space in the real and imagined world, and to in turn envelope your very existence - like a Sunday driver in rush hour - with emphasis on: The slope of your neck - I could mount my anchor into it and climb for days; I could nest in your ****** Youth cut when I reach the top, I could build the world's smallest fire with the world's saddest hands                     STEP ONE: When secured in predesignated cocoon, I will unleash the first sheaf - a perforated edge - and enclose a minuscule fragment of my still-breathing soul (for your keychain, perhaps, but preferably your pocket)                     STEP TWO: I will mail you a fraction (incidentally, a subject I still can't grasp) every week until: - I have decreased in size with each turn, I get smaller and smaller until my tangibility disappears entirely and the only presence left of me is a slip that reads: - apply to areas affected (only as directed) Wait! No, not only that- my very own subconscious now rests inside your "thinking cap" - INTRODUCING: Your every day monotony, now littered with: - 17 scratched mix CDs you didn't want to listen to - 4 dogs I secretly liked (and only you knew) - a bright pink dumpster, largely livable - a rusted mailbox with an ocean in full - soundless Skype calls in stolen sweaters - alphabet soup with undiscernable letters - the unfaltering presence of a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness - confused with the very small and haunted town I couldn't leave to see you - and last but not least - The ceaseless, repeated  chorus of "you belong to me", like an immortal fly in an endless August dream
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I let you slip through my fingers As every day yours began to slim And the puzzle pieces that fit perfectly began to float away like melting ice caps under the Alaskan sun And I wanted to hold you a little longer But all the while I felt you absorbing into death like spilt coffee in a washcloth And bit by bit I watched the sand of your hourglass slide to its end You always told me you couldn't be scared because heaven was real and you kicked the devil sideways years ago And for your sake I hope he stayed down, and for your sake I hope you were right But these days it feels like he's standing up, holding his side, coming back for revenge He's got his pliers out and he's coming for my soul and I'm kicking I'm fighting I'm screaming But I'll never be as strong as you and I never learned how to keep afloat of my own sin So now I'm sinking And I sit and listen to them speak in artificial intelligence And wonder how they've kept the devil down Do they stand on his back and scream "You can't have me now" Or has he just lost interest like I have? When all sounds are lost and I've made enough tissue paper thin excuses to stay alone for a few hours, I picture your smile, cloaking me like warm candlelight But you know the wind came years ago and now it's a flickering warmth I remember your fingers, skeletal now And I hope you were right I hope our slender fingers meet one day But for now I will feign strength and grind my fears to dust with a mortar and pestle And for the time being I cannot look at my own hands For fear that they be bloodstained
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 4:08 PM UTC
The Skeletal Now
I let you slip through my fingers As every day yours began to slim And the puzzle pieces that fit perfectly began to float away like melting ice caps under the Alaskan sun And I wanted to hold you a little longer But all the while I felt you absorbing into death like spilt coffee in a washcloth And bit by bit I watched the sand of your hourglass slide to its end You always told me you couldn't be scared because heaven was real and you kicked the devil sideways years ago And for your sake I hope he stayed down, and for your sake I hope you were right But these days it feels like he's standing up, holding his side, coming back for revenge He's got his pliers out and he's coming for my soul and I'm kicking I'm fighting I'm screaming But I'll never be as strong as you and I never learned how to keep afloat of my own sin So now I'm sinking And I sit and listen to them speak in artificial intelligence And wonder how they've kept the devil down Do they stand on his back and scream "You can't have me now" Or has he just lost interest like I have? When all sounds are lost and I've made enough tissue paper thin excuses to stay alone for a few hours, I picture your smile, cloaking me like warm candlelight But you know the wind came years ago and now it's a flickering warmth I remember your fingers, skeletal now And I hope you were right I hope our slender fingers meet one day But for now I will feign strength and grind my fears to dust with a mortar and pestle And for the time being I cannot look at my own hands For fear that they be bloodstained
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May you remember to stand up straight May your spines be flagpoles Sailing your heart at full mast The caps in your knees full of steel Unstoppable in your travels of Alaskan tundra Let your mind grow roots in your culture May your hunger for knowledge Be that of a (amaguq) wolf Never give up on yourselves For I will never give up on you
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Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 7:10 PM UTC
To the students of my 4th and 5th grade classroom
im switchin back n forth from the past to present like time is stretching and my mind is elastic im trapped inside a casket siftin through my brothers, mothers and cousins ashes they keep metal chains wrapped around my ankles and wrists like i am natural born savage, padded room and straight jacket, psychosis like you cant imagine, icicles dripping off the ticking of the clock, tears dripping down the wall like molasses, swervin in my kayak cuz im addicted to liquor and tabacco, crystal **** crack and smack from the invasion forcing Russian Orthodox as my baptism, certificate of indian blood 25 percent Aleutiq, but im down with any Eyak, Yupiq, Tlingkit, Haidan, or Athabaskan, i speak english cuz they stole the native tongue from my Grandma and my Grandpa, trying to paint a picture of the mask that ive been wearing as i stare at my reflection, all i see is that i am just another average cold blooded alaskan
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC
cold blooded alaskan
Late morning after dreaming of these hand-written Alaskan three-dollar bills Polaroid photographs of empty silver screens hidden elevator button escape routes mid-performance ****** reconstructions I half-wake from my half-sleep and in seventy-five-cent consciousness beg the man of my waking misconceptions to meet for one more one more double latte Marlboro 27 kiss behind the parking lot than we’d ever had before we part again and he will reunite with his lunchmeat of holiday hopes and aspirations And I will return to the land of brotherless love and flaming heterosexuals the land of ugly **** and self-righteous queers the land where there is no God because I chased him from the West before he could do me harm the land filled with my pity and inebriated mindless self-perpetuation the land consumed with no passion because the Yukon’s landscape eyes are bleak and empty the land where the only direction is floating down-river to the blood-stained rocks of our maturity still within my mental prison with my other mental inmates and mental shanks and ***** I dream again with my eyes wide open and lips drawn in two-tier lonely grimace dream of the blue green red-eyed beauty that I have never known
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Mar 5, 2010
Mar 5, 2010 at 6:07 PM UTC
To the New Year
The wind was cold and the air crisp in our lungs but the streets were clear of ice and the yards barren of snow. Our Alaskan winter just wasn't Alaskan. But down came the snow and your giggles of joy erupted from your gorgeous belly as you skated over the ice in your CivNasty, giggling the whole way. Your joy is nothing but contagious as your smile consumes your face. My PTSD vanishing as I hold your hand drifting around corners. We're everything but safe, completely immersed in a fairy tale that is our love story making donuts in parking lots and love beneath sheets. Risky business. Make love to me in this winter wonderland beneath the blankets of white snow and grey clouds engulfing us in the love that is the warmth of our limbs intertwined together. Whisper secrets to my goosebumps, My lover.
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 8:34 PM UTC
Wonderland Love
A glow shining from the inside out As beautiful as the purple magnolias of Asia Yet as rare as a bright orange Alaskan sunset So long separated by time and distance I almost do not recognize the vision set before me Reality with the ability to transform Distrusting my eyes Afraid they may conspire to betray me To lead me to the path of blunder Surrendering me to lies and ruin Outward perception distorted by fear Is it the meadow of flowers I paint in my dreams? A winsome smile forces my lips to part Thoughts of pleasant changes captured within me I am unable to free them but doubt still lingers Apprehensive of the mendacious nature of my heart She unwittingly deceives Loves without regard to reciprocation She dominates I am no match for her strength I am subject to her will Mental chains of steel I use to restrain But the arrows of cupid still calls The beauty of two beings intertwined beckons A longing to live in the painted canvas Perfect hues, perfect shades
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Aug 11, 2010
Aug 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM UTC
Dancing Butterflies
The mighty grizzly bear Waiting by the waterfall Watching the crashing waves Listening to their mystic moves The first salmon leaps, Just to make sure it doesn’t run into a famished bear It’s mind panics, as it realizes what is happening The bear’s mouth widens And clamps down its jaws Satisfied with his dinner, but wanting much more. The wolf cries out from above Depending on the moonlight to show her the path She’s drifting away, too tired. But remembers she needs to feed her cubs She lurks in between black spruce trees Her sons, closely following behind. The creatures of the night watch where they run Making sure they don’t catch the attention of death. Though she doesn’t realize, the scampering rabbit Just two feet in front of her The rabbit is lucky enough to have a snow white coat To blend into god’s blanket, laid across the land. Mother wolf isn’t so blessed, for tonight is one more night Her cubs will have to go unfed. The eagle Mastering the art of flying Swimming in the skies Looking for a tree, too perfect to live Skimming the land Just the perfect tree is all he needs To sleep on tonight For the sun is coming down And moon is rising up The stars become visible The eagle is getting worried But finally, he finds a tree Swings down and places its claws onto a branch So peaceful, listening to the wolf’s howl Like the theme song to his life. Unlike the “woof” that the same animal makes It pierces his ears, the eagle loathes it. Finally asleep, eyes closed. Dreaming is his favorite thing A television for his mind.
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Feb 9, 2011
Feb 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM UTC
An Alaskan Night
The mighty grizzly bear Waiting by the waterfall Watching the crashing waves Listening to their mystic moves The first salmon leaps, Just to make sure it doesn’t run into a famished bear It’s mind panics, as it realizes what is happening The bear’s mouth widens And clamps down its jaws Satisfied with his dinner, but wanting much more. The wolf cries out from above Depending on the moonlight to show her the path She’s drifting away, too tired. But remembers she needs to feed her cubs She lurks in between black spruce trees Her sons, closely following behind. The creatures of the night watch where they run Making sure they don’t catch the attention of death. Though she doesn’t realize, the scampering rabbit Just two feet in front of her The rabbit is lucky enough to have a snow white coat To blend into god’s blanket, laid across the land. Mother wolf isn’t so blessed, for tonight is one more night Her cubs will have to go unfed. The eagle Mastering the art of flying Swimming in the skies Looking for a tree, too perfect to live Skimming the land Just the perfect tree is all he needs To sleep on tonight For the sun is coming down And moon is rising up The stars become visible The eagle is getting worried But finally, he finds a tree Swings down and places its claws onto a branch So peaceful, listening to the wolf’s howl Like the theme song to his life. Unlike the “woof” that the same animal makes It pierces his ears, the eagle loathes it. Finally asleep, eyes closed. Dreaming is his favorite thing A television for his mind.
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May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 at 5:52 PM UTC
scene from a jungle in honduras