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"anecdotes" poems
Blind Willie Johnson strums six strings a day He drinks with the woman who taught him to play He spells out his secrets in the songs that he sings And breathes his life onto six rusty strings Blind Willie Johnson brings home the blues Blind Willie Johnson will wail the blues to you The brothel he grew up in is tearing down the walls He's got so many memories of those smokey halls His mama could be there or she could be dead He's got no pictures, just anecdotes instead Blind Willie Johnson said he don't know a thing Except for the truth in the blues that he sings Blind Willie Johnson ain't really blind at all He's just got those gray eyes from years of alcohol He stares into the smoke of a Friday night crowd Who stare back at him as his stories ring out Blind Willie Johnson doesn't cover up a thing Listen to his pain in the blues that he sings "Blind Willie Johnson" reads the graveyard stone Under the blanket of the sky, Willie rests alone Though his voice is lost underneath the ground The world will never forget Blind Willie's sound Blind Willie Johnson sang the way he felt He never complained about the hand he was dealt
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 12:59 AM UTC
Blind Willie Johnson
what my forays into online dating offered me that wasn’t s*x; european coffee beans, a film camera from the 70s, a workshop on ceramics, chicken parmagiana, bottles of blueberry lemonade, thai food that isn’t spicy, help with calculus homework, notes on gen chem, all the Star Wars movies, a book about magic: the gathering, a ride to an nba game, museum visits, nature walks, impulsive road trips, stories about their exes, silly anecdotes, photos of their pets, quality memes, awkward hugs that felt good. such small intimacies, never blossoming into something bigger yet still imbued with meaning.. filled with what-ifs, if-onlys, and almosts.
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Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019 at 10:32 PM UTC
“dating apps aren’t that bad”
En l’an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j’ay beues… Pipit sate upright in her chair Some distance from where I was sitting; Views of the Oxford Colleges Lay on the table, with the knitting. Daguerreotypes and silhouettes, Her grandfather and great great aunts, Supported on the mantelpiece An Invitation to the Dance. . . . . . I shall not want Honour in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney. I shall not want Capital in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond. We two shall lie together, lapt In a five per cent. Exchequer Bond. I shall not want Society in Heaven, Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride; Her anecdotes will be more amusing Than Pipit’s experience could provide. I shall not want Pipit in Heaven: Madame Blavatsky will instruct me In the Seven Sacred Trances; Piccarda de Donati will conduct me. . . . . . But where is the penny world I bought To eat with Pipit behind the screen? The red-eyed scavengers are creeping From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green; Where are the eagles and the trumpets? Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. Over buttered scones and crumpets Weeping, weeping multitudes Droop in a hundred A.B.C.’s
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A Cooking Egg
i’m at work. my coworkers, no, my friends are with me. the restaurant is empty and we’re laughing. laughing about who knows what; maybe a crazy customer, maybe one of his hilarious anecdotes, maybe her joke, maybe just because we’re dumb teenagers who’ll laugh at anything. we’re standing and laughing and for the first time in a very long time i feel it. it flows through my body starting from my chest and goes all the way down to my toes and fingertips. it surrounds me, but not in the suffocating way that the sadness does. no, this is different. this feels like a warm hug that i didn’t know i needed until i got it. i feel like my entire being is lighting up and i want to stay in that moment forever. after just a second, the happiness vanishes, but it still leaves traces inside me. i feel hopeful. when’s the last time i felt that? i feel hopeful and i know just from that fleeting burst of happiness that everything’s worth it. i know that i’ll be able to feel that high of emotions again and god, do i want to. and everyone else is still laughing and smiling and i know that things can’t stay this way forever because eventually a car will pull into the parking lot or the manager will come out and tell us to clean but none of that matters. because in that moment, i am happy and i know that i am not unfixable and i know that i can be a normal dumb teenager laughing at normal dumb things. and that’s all that really matters.
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Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 9:49 PM UTC
happiness pt i
*As I call upon the night To have a conversation Darkness gives way And night comes alive Conscious mind at rest Sub-conscious takes over Memory box is brimming So many anecdotes Not afraid to emerge Confident around the dark Shying away from the day Night has a life of its own Feeling antsy and inundated Quivering hands open the box Full of pictures in sepia A retrospective of events Which were long buried Sleep has abandoned me Old memories keep me awake*
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 4:33 AM UTC
Reminiscing at Night
Sequestered stream flows tranquil It’s journey from an unknown origin Traveling through varied landscapes Carrying stories from lands afar Listen to faint murmur with keen ears Narrates the stories from its chronicle You, an unknown traveler, alone Waiting by its side to drink from the stream To quench the thirst that’s within The contradictions and distractions Casualties of the unrelenting world Finally, your steps have led to this stream It flows, in spite of the challenges Cuts through every hurdle with resolve The messenger carries stories and life Breathing life with its tranquil presence Drink from the stream, replenish your resolve Think not of the hurdles and distractions You are to flow through this life Carrying the anecdotes and memories Be like the stream, and rejuvenate every life
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 12:20 AM UTC
The Stream
***a morning conversation with surprising anecdotes of unique explorations.. reported confrontations by science practitioners' sudden dates with death.. now authoring testimonies of their dimensional truth.. much comfort growing from ample recordings of bright tunnel experience.. let us now inquire are these flashing NDE's consciousness leaps..? might they point to death's vital role.. at last finding real self-awareness.. life in this moment..? asking then.. is not each breath our moment experience of near death...?***
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Feb 20, 2013
Feb 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM UTC
Near-Death-Experience
I was raised by a pack of fools Who proclaim Caucasians are the best. And are glad to fight, at the drop of a hint To put the whole matter to the test. They have an entire joke routine And descriptive names they repeat In minimizing and insisting that Their right to decent treatment isn’t real. There are references to some animals And unfunny comments about color. The statements about characteristics Of body and features always go together With a special set of gross anecdotes To cover any kind of non-Christian belief. And the refusal to consider equality As a decent attitude stands in bright relief. Beneath all this horror, not very deep, Lies a sickening river of hate and fear That fails to improve as education is Rejected year after disgusting year. Pointing out the error of their ways Might earn you a punch in the eye But the bigot hangs on to their rage And never gives fellowship a try. The American Bigot claims to be A staunch Christian all the way through Which forces them to hate and cheat And lie as much as Jesus would do. Of course, we know that Jesus was A preacher of love and acceptance But it seems that bigots never quite Made that Jesus’ acquaintance. So, here we can see we need to add Some terms to this kind of individual Whose relationship to peace and love Is at best slight, scant and residual. We also need to append to their titles Of masters of anger fear and prejudice The unhealthy pallor of indecency, Dishonesty, inhumanity and cowardice.
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Apr 4, 2016
Apr 4, 2016 at 11:33 PM UTC
BIGOTRY 101
I was raised by a pack of fools Who proclaim Caucasians are the best. And are glad to fight, at the drop of a hint To put the whole matter to the test. They have an entire joke routine And descriptive names they repeat In minimizing and insisting that Their right to decent treatment isn’t real. There are references to some animals And unfunny comments about color. The statements about characteristics Of body and features always go together With a special set of gross anecdotes To cover any kind of non-Christian belief. And the refusal to consider equality As a decent attitude stands in bright relief. Beneath all this horror, not very deep, Lies a sickening river of hate and fear That fails to improve as education is Rejected year after disgusting year. Pointing out the error of their ways Might earn you a punch in the eye But the bigot hangs on to their rage And never gives fellowship a try. The American Bigot claims to be A staunch Christian all the way through Which forces them to hate and cheat And lie as much as Jesus would do. Of course, we know that Jesus was A preacher of love and acceptance But it seems that bigots never quite Made that Jesus’ acquaintance. So, here we can see we need to add Some terms to this kind of individual Whose relationship to peace and love Is at best slight, scant and residual. We also need to append to their titles Of masters of anger fear and prejudice The unhealthy pallor of indecency, Dishonesty, inhumanity and cowardice.
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i given nothing i abandoned i adopted i dropout i garage i Apple i NeXT i Pixar i Apple i pilfered i i invented i i produced i i market i i retail i i am i i am i i tech beauty i consumer fetish i whom you love i sleekest widgets i Toy Story i Macintosh i macbook i Lisa iTunes iPod iPhone iPad i more i rebel i genius i visionary i entrepreneur i world changer i exceptionalism i capital market hero i bigger then business i cool capitalism i myth i "the man" i worker i employer i boss i thief i savior i billionaire i venerated i vanity i Buddhist i prophet i redeemed i 1 in 300 million i America i sing the pathos i am the creed i define the ethos i Steve Jobs i amassed riches i accolade crowned i ingratiate world i virtue i success i creativity i favored i Midas i bedeviled i tested i afflicted i retire i human i mortal i succumb i eulogized i leave legacy of i i am an MBA case study i employed workers i peddled intrepid product cycles i subject of amusing anecdotes i am heroic corporate folklore i grew pods full of music i incite kids to thumb phones i captivate consumer imagination i built rock solid balance sheet i erected toxic Chinese factories i enriched investors i am the cool corporate brand i inspired a million unused i apps i hipster capitalism i imposed my will i insisted i am that i am i cannot take it with me i leave blue jeans i leave NB sneakers i leave black collarless shirt i will be asked what i did with the time i was given? i did the best i could i played the hand dealt i parlayed it into a royal flush i filled it up with i i ask why i am no more? i leave the world i am no more Godspeed Beloved Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) jbm Oakland 10/6/11
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Nov 4, 2011
Nov 4, 2011 at 10:40 PM UTC
iBook of Jobs
i given nothing i abandoned i adopted i dropout i garage i Apple i NeXT i Pixar i Apple i pilfered i i invented i i produced i i market i i retail i i am i i am i i tech beauty i consumer fetish i whom you love i sleekest widgets i Toy Story i Macintosh i macbook i Lisa iTunes iPod iPhone iPad i more i rebel i genius i visionary i entrepreneur i world changer i exceptionalism i capital market hero i bigger then business i cool capitalism i myth i "the man" i worker i employer i boss i thief i savior i billionaire i venerated i vanity i Buddhist i prophet i redeemed i 1 in 300 million i America i sing the pathos i am the creed i define the ethos i Steve Jobs i amassed riches i accolade crowned i ingratiate world i virtue i success i creativity i favored i Midas i bedeviled i tested i afflicted i retire i human i mortal i succumb i eulogized i leave legacy of i i am an MBA case study i employed workers i peddled intrepid product cycles i subject of amusing anecdotes i am heroic corporate folklore i grew pods full of music i incite kids to thumb phones i captivate consumer imagination i built rock solid balance sheet i erected toxic Chinese factories i enriched investors i am the cool corporate brand i inspired a million unused i apps i hipster capitalism i imposed my will i insisted i am that i am i cannot take it with me i leave blue jeans i leave NB sneakers i leave black collarless shirt i will be asked what i did with the time i was given? i did the best i could i played the hand dealt i parlayed it into a royal flush i filled it up with i i ask why i am no more? i leave the world i am no more Godspeed Beloved Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) jbm Oakland 10/6/11
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119 Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of “Potose,” and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your wines! Cautious, hint to any Captive You have passed enfranchised feet! Anecdotes of air in Dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet!
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Talk with prudence to a Beggar
I'm am now over twice the age I was when we lost you It's funny to think that the time I have had without you in my life is greater than the time I had you in it But your love and the effect you had on me will last my whole life.  Time moves quicker than we would like, and memories become hazy Smells, sights, photos, clothes remind us most vividly of the past Remaining family with their stories and anecdotes from you and your life keep alive the essence of you, and remind us not to be sad that you are gone but to be happy that we all managed to meet you and have you in our lives, even if short lived.
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 4:27 PM UTC
Nonna
On the heap, Thou dangle and screech And bedeck, for I seemingly espouse. The anecdotes and myths: Engaged in a mutual pose. There comes the hymn, And the sway and the hum; The abnormality and the deform Halted on a single stance. To dozen of the tokens Whom I prejudged; The prevalence of the chaos That sleeps merely on my tongue. To all the estrangements From which I refrain, Within the bawl of the tantrum, upon the hook of the day. Farewell to all, farewell the haze Farewell the cluster, To the resolution found within a fane; Where rituals confuse, Where the practice becomes a fame. There thou taketh solely, A hymn and an interminable haze. Whats the sense of the ovation When no screen displays A mourning motion For which no motion craves? I sigh, and mumble To which mere consciences giveth To me only, mine solely. His to hear and his, keenly.
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 8:50 AM UTC
The Sway in the Temple
The black, iron God arm punched placid-blanched clouds, and dangled cat cable down to lemon-vested men with chalkboard faces. *Basic algebra, today's date, daily syllabi, God-fearing anecdotes, and the evils of homosexuality.* Fornicating with other dudes is like moving Jesus' rock with your condom'd ***** Let sleeping dieties die. We find them buried deep beneath **** ceramics by T.V. criminals, rapists, murderers, buzzers, free- lovers, angelheaded sweethearts. They have nearly four dollar souls, barely enough for a Wilpo dinner at Hepburn Diner. #2 breakfast with one cup of Columbian cartel coffee with a pinch of whole milk to take the edge off, so he won't be gripping the booth vinyl when a "freedom" flash cop car passes. Police cruisers are just bigger bicycles that we're afraid of, sporting cereal box baseball cards in the spokes. Cops were the kids that needed help their first time fresh off training wheels. Training academy training them for low-speed cat chases through flower beds. Sweet daffodil, you didn't have to die like this. You could've drank straight from the pitcher at a stranger's dinner party potluck, seen the guts of a New York highrise, shared the coke left beneath a woman's botched nose job. You could have been more than this. You could have been more. You could have been. You could have. You could. You. You, daffodil, stamen-down in Miracle Gro and dog **** could have been more.
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 1:06 AM UTC
Sweet Daffodil
They told me to take things back to the 90's Take things back to the heart Told me I should have done this from the start. But the views from my six are contoured. Covered in foundations of fuckboys, fuckgirls and blessers. So tell me how do I express my heart when this generation believes the only functioning ***** should be brain, Because heart will **** you And the others are going to die from harmful ingestions. They told me to take it back to the 90's. Take things back to the heart. So here I go. The basis of my poetry has always been pain. My heart and soul always confining in a dark pit of abyss. My body constricted in a corner Huddled up, popping everything it could. Now the basis of this story isn't about you saving me, But how you gave me your hand, shoulder, smile and wisdom to the path of saving. Of how you opened your chest, tore out your ribcage and gave me your broken heart as you took mine. Of how you taught me pain is inevitable but suffering is optional Of how you showed me true love. And how grateful I am. In twenty four hours the heart beats 115200 times. At least fifty percent of the time my heart skips a beat. This means from 57600 beats and above are skipped. A week consists of seven days In hours that's approximately 168. As like the first at least fifty percent is lost in thought of you Which means 84hrs and above I think about you. An average of all 12 months is approximately 140 days. Okay skip the math, let's get straight to the conclusion. Math is a fine art of illusion. Filled with various abstract to distract you. But the rule is you will always find your x. The x that completes your equation. So what I am saying is that you complete my equation of life You're my X. Literature teaches us to express our feelings in terms of literal devices. From anecdotes, personification to lititoes. It tells us to sing with our hearts, Speak with our souls and allow our voices to do it all. Like Christina Rossetti, "My heart is like a singing bird" "For my love has come to me" Look truth is you give me butterflies. You make my heart swell up in happiness. You make me feel alive. You make me stutter out of nervousness. You make me want to impress you. To always put a smile on that beautiful face. You make me want to hear your laugh every single second. You make me happy Which makes me want to make you happy. Because pain is a feeling we all get to experience But happiness is rare and I want you to feel it. What I am trying to say is I'm taking it back to the 90's To the early 2000's To tell you, you're one in a million That I'm stuck on you And that I am madly in love with you.
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 2:32 AM UTC
Back to the 90s
They told me to take things back to the 90's Take things back to the heart Told me I should have done this from the start. But the views from my six are contoured. Covered in foundations of fuckboys, fuckgirls and blessers. So tell me how do I express my heart when this generation believes the only functioning ***** should be brain, Because heart will **** you And the others are going to die from harmful ingestions. They told me to take it back to the 90's. Take things back to the heart. So here I go. The basis of my poetry has always been pain. My heart and soul always confining in a dark pit of abyss. My body constricted in a corner Huddled up, popping everything it could. Now the basis of this story isn't about you saving me, But how you gave me your hand, shoulder, smile and wisdom to the path of saving. Of how you opened your chest, tore out your ribcage and gave me your broken heart as you took mine. Of how you taught me pain is inevitable but suffering is optional Of how you showed me true love. And how grateful I am. In twenty four hours the heart beats 115200 times. At least fifty percent of the time my heart skips a beat. This means from 57600 beats and above are skipped. A week consists of seven days In hours that's approximately 168. As like the first at least fifty percent is lost in thought of you Which means 84hrs and above I think about you. An average of all 12 months is approximately 140 days. Okay skip the math, let's get straight to the conclusion. Math is a fine art of illusion. Filled with various abstract to distract you. But the rule is you will always find your x. The x that completes your equation. So what I am saying is that you complete my equation of life You're my X. Literature teaches us to express our feelings in terms of literal devices. From anecdotes, personification to lititoes. It tells us to sing with our hearts, Speak with our souls and allow our voices to do it all. Like Christina Rossetti, "My heart is like a singing bird" "For my love has come to me" Look truth is you give me butterflies. You make my heart swell up in happiness. You make me feel alive. You make me stutter out of nervousness. You make me want to impress you. To always put a smile on that beautiful face. You make me want to hear your laugh every single second. You make me happy Which makes me want to make you happy. Because pain is a feeling we all get to experience But happiness is rare and I want you to feel it. What I am trying to say is I'm taking it back to the 90's To the early 2000's To tell you, you're one in a million That I'm stuck on you And that I am madly in love with you.
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Oh the wayward motion that these celestial bodies tend to circumvent! Do you take the time to analyze or ever wonder why? A double edge sword, capable of discerning the heart’s intent Might you care to venture there soon? through crossed wires and code yielding insight or an invite of some kind with pictures, quotes, and anecdotes Do you read between the lines? Might I be the mirror that reflects your soul Might I be the receiver of the light that guides you home Might I be the kind of lady you’d want to pride around Or Might I be a distant noise-- a sort of solemn sound The way you shape your words, the thoughts you choose to speak The many times you chose to share the inner-workings of your being You plant a seed of hope, you give me life to breath And even though you don’t think so, you’re quite a fantastic beast
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 4:06 AM UTC
Notre Dame
Down, into the water, girls face, first In the grey depths Astride. Legs twisted in still shoulder hunched over, still - Words. Perfectly poised to but a few chairs, at tables Empty some, clung to the edges by a few small girls - a few. Who else to watch? Nothing else to do Bored though. Writing notes still Why not? Women tell fables, tales and fables Anecdotes of politics. As little as they're able simplified for softer ears. Shes beautiful. Quite. Well, she's not bad sitting there, grey hair, clad coat and perfume; sweet smelling politics. Soft around the edges. Don't stand up. Quietly exit Learn nothing. Feel cold. Inside. Lost hope Utopia slipping through manicured fingertips like soap.
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Dec 15, 2016
Dec 15, 2016 at 3:50 PM UTC
Women in Politics
Breathe in the freshness of the arduously picked commodity, That you hold between your lacquered fingers. Don’t let synthetic ingredients dissolve your thoughts and obscure your vision. The liquid remedy we sip is drenched, With pain and protracted nurturing Carefully fostered through inclement weather drink in the story that comes with it That fuels caffeinated conversations. Refined and defined leaving us blind to the painted secrets of lives that were once lead different lives intersect, different thoughts and opinions interject. Leaving lipstick kisses on the porcelain skin Sipping away worries and pain. Inhaling the smell of impelling advice, fragments of sugar coated anecdotes melt, integrating within, interfering with the raw, strong, sharp taste that can pierce through. the rare intense, earthy aftertaste is tainted with artificial garnishing, suffocating the fresh natural essence neatly contained in the teacup ready to serve and ready to present taking shape of the porcelain guise Don’t sprinkle it with processed collaborations of sugared doubt, Contaminating your imagination Manipulated by dainty voices Resonating in your head Like the delicate teacup You anchor with your soft hands Weighed down by the overly sweetened tea. No longer holding significance of the vast fresh fields it sprouted from Forgotten and drowned in the voices of someone else’s drum beat. cloudy vision reflected in the saturated tonic you sip elegantly, pasting a smile suppressing your own desires, under someone else's acceptance.
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Jul 16, 2012
Jul 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM UTC
No Sugar Please
Breathe in the freshness of the arduously picked commodity, That you hold between your lacquered fingers. Don’t let synthetic ingredients dissolve your thoughts and obscure your vision. The liquid remedy we sip is drenched, With pain and protracted nurturing Carefully fostered through inclement weather drink in the story that comes with it That fuels caffeinated conversations. Refined and defined leaving us blind to the painted secrets of lives that were once lead different lives intersect, different thoughts and opinions interject. Leaving lipstick kisses on the porcelain skin Sipping away worries and pain. Inhaling the smell of impelling advice, fragments of sugar coated anecdotes melt, integrating within, interfering with the raw, strong, sharp taste that can pierce through. the rare intense, earthy aftertaste is tainted with artificial garnishing, suffocating the fresh natural essence neatly contained in the teacup ready to serve and ready to present taking shape of the porcelain guise Don’t sprinkle it with processed collaborations of sugared doubt, Contaminating your imagination Manipulated by dainty voices Resonating in your head Like the delicate teacup You anchor with your soft hands Weighed down by the overly sweetened tea. No longer holding significance of the vast fresh fields it sprouted from Forgotten and drowned in the voices of someone else’s drum beat. cloudy vision reflected in the saturated tonic you sip elegantly, pasting a smile suppressing your own desires, under someone else's acceptance.
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a commune back home not hippie buy 300, no 500 acres great land in Codroy or misty high hilled Avalon built great big house wraparound porch beset by rocking chair by the sea yet in the woods at end of road all brown dirt growing gardens, herb and vegetable pulling weeds but keeping good green **** brewing beer by own hand group work but not always group think friends lovers writers growers givers all come to stay making great pots of stew and strange brews awakening brought far from Peruvian Torch homeland telling stories all somehow great fables and anecdotes for life and living and love and everything that's good in the long run at night over bottles on beaches by fires we worry these are funeral pyres for our great little social experiment fear of leaving loving womb of isolated salt fish by sea commune real world so crass&brash; an unctuous affair where here instead guitars, ukes silly screaming little buddhas recite poems by gleaming eye fireside
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
gleaming eye fireside buddhas
Is there happiness hidden behind your withered bones? You've always felt everything too deeply, maybe that's why your ribs are broken. How many mirrors have you broken since he left you? Every day is another battle between who you were with his oxygen and who you are now without it. I think the saddest thing I had to witness was you carving his name into stone skin so you could bleed out all of him that was left in your veins. You fill voids with sunset pictures and recordings of his voice when we both know it's killing you more than it's keeping you alive. How many days has it been since you overdosed on sentimental morphine? How many times do we have to go through this until you realize he's not coming back? He's never coming back.
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
overdosed & anecdotes
*A poet is omnipresent Travelling where none has before Everyone has a secret destination Loved more than any So many roads travelled Yet the poet’s soul is not weary So many reminisces from ancient times Poet’s soul is older than time can perceive Taking notes from the chronicles of universe Poet is testimony to many anecdotes Traveling through the length and breadth Touching lives of multitudes Poet shall live within the poetry Conveying the mystical and universe’s secret A poet is omnipresent Poetry shall encompass all of existence*
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Jun 12, 2015
Jun 12, 2015 at 11:26 PM UTC
A Poet
There once lived a family of rats, caught up in wires and tubes and they probably thought they had it good until the car started. That car’s air conditioning smelled like death stench for weeks, until we got it looked at. Who knew we killed a family, who knew they ate their way under the hood, who knew we killed a family and they reminded us of it for weeks. —— My mother and father killed my dog, barely big enough to not be called a puppy anymore, they ran over her, as she slumbered in the tall weeds and grasses of a field. —— We had a chicken named Thumper, his body grew big but his head never did, and he teetered and tottered on ballerina pointed feet, and the other roosters wanted to eat him alive. When we sacrificied him, my parents plucked his back, and they saw that his skin was a green-purple secret, hidden by a humpback and so many feathers. —— Our third horse got caught in the river. Big Mama got caught in Little River. I guess it’s not surprising when big things die when they get caught in little things. —— The coyotes got the rest of the chickens. —— The rattlesnakes almost got the rest of the horses. —— Most people don’t know that farm-fresh eggs are covered in blood. —— We had two of the largest, ugliest geese. They flew away. —— The cat died under the hot tub, we couldn’t find her for days. —— The forest is always a graveyard, is always hallowed ground, is where we buried the animals. Then they built a subdivision.
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Sep 27, 2012
Sep 27, 2012 at 2:22 AM UTC
Morbid Farm Life Anecdotes (or The Only Things I Know How to Write About Lately)
There once lived a family of rats, caught up in wires and tubes and they probably thought they had it good until the car started. That car’s air conditioning smelled like death stench for weeks, until we got it looked at. Who knew we killed a family, who knew they ate their way under the hood, who knew we killed a family and they reminded us of it for weeks. —— My mother and father killed my dog, barely big enough to not be called a puppy anymore, they ran over her, as she slumbered in the tall weeds and grasses of a field. —— We had a chicken named Thumper, his body grew big but his head never did, and he teetered and tottered on ballerina pointed feet, and the other roosters wanted to eat him alive. When we sacrificied him, my parents plucked his back, and they saw that his skin was a green-purple secret, hidden by a humpback and so many feathers. —— Our third horse got caught in the river. Big Mama got caught in Little River. I guess it’s not surprising when big things die when they get caught in little things. —— The coyotes got the rest of the chickens. —— The rattlesnakes almost got the rest of the horses. —— Most people don’t know that farm-fresh eggs are covered in blood. —— We had two of the largest, ugliest geese. They flew away. —— The cat died under the hot tub, we couldn’t find her for days. —— The forest is always a graveyard, is always hallowed ground, is where we buried the animals. Then they built a subdivision.
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Of a night on a battered red leather sofa It's moved with us three times It sits in a room with a broken bay window And we sit on it too And we sit on it too Drinking yellow anise from mismatched glasses With ice, not warm water Singing stories, spinning yarns with broken bottles Of girls with leopard-print hands And the straw man in the moon The straw man in the moon. The cord hangs on the wall: A symbol, but not symbolic As chords rise, break off and fall All a sham, but not shambolic A sham, but not shambolic. Swapping tales and anecdotes of cars parked between cake stalls And days with names that don't suit them People dying for causes they don't understand And war is an island; a land hyperbolic A Green land, a war land; unplanned hyperbolic. Linguistics are twisted and brass tales are dropped A cork is unwrapped from the web where it popped But the darkness is rising, the hours are ticking The side is hitched up so we all know we're doomed. We hear children singing in the guitar strings, Their screeches rising as they fall, Our speeches diving as they fall. And speaking of speeches, he says, a performance is mine But in France, man... in France the markets are open And the fields of Provence roll down to the menhirs of Carnac And Brocéliande lies to us all, And Brocéliande lies to us all.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM UTC
Bohemia, Bohemia
Kiss me. You are my woman. Fearless, **** ruled by Saturn. My muse. Fiery and timorous. Hair of a lion, lips that sooth my body and soul. Natural, scorching beauty and a mind like a whip. A goddess to be touched with the love. Love from thy fingertips encompassing every inch. A body of beauty to gaze and ravish. A mind of beauty to watch and devour. Mine for always. Kiss me. I am your woman. Untamed, nurturing, ruled by the moon. Behaving in balance with stellar pulls. Hips for bearing, ******* for worshipping. Internal beams only you can see; smiles gleamed in the moment. Listen to my soul and touch my heart. Yours for always. Kiss me. Let our tongues wander the inner walls of our mouths. Kiss me where our secrets and anecdotes lie. Mouths straying from lips to necks, Necks to ******* ******* to what lies between the thighs. Moistness and anticipation building between the ears and legs. Unyielding instants of uninhibited eye contact. Rapture. Pain. Relief. Everything rises to the surface. Ours for always.
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 3:43 PM UTC
Saturn meets Moon
The skin at the bed of her nails shone, tight. Forever healing, windows that rattle With the changing of her moods. Love was a locket, an heirloom That insisted its presence Upon her bedside table. She could turn out every light And it would still be there. Steady metronome, Lifeless thud, Invasive thought. The carpet gathered artefacts from late night walks. Bad habits clung to the walls. No pillow talk, only muffled strings, Failed symphonies, Conversations three years old: Memories that play Chinese whispers Across the faces in the ceiling. Irregularity of breath, Sleep comes, clothed in Zopiclone; A mind that never rests. Narcosis in the morning, Nausea over dried toast, Sweet flamenco on the radio, But there is nothing to calm her bones. The red wine cast last night’s shadow, Hollow in the eyes, first hit of daylight, First hit of nicotine To prove she is still alive. Anxiety: the ball and chain, Always dragging her behind. Living as a ghost, The people at the bus-stop stare, The traffic, the signs, the passers-by, The doldrums in the headlines, The rain upon her window; The heart attack and vine. Prescription pills in the afternoon To get her through the day, Until she can get her fix, Have her fill, And finally hide away. The high-street parade comes alive after dark, Lanterns on the lake, the fish-bowl Of a small town, familiar tongues that roll; Memorised anecdotes across the ashtray, The lipstick on her teeth. Clumsy in victory, each stumble confined To look as if she has walked through life Without ever missing a stride. There is nowhere to breathe But in the solitude of her insanity. She paints the walls To the colours of her moods: Grey in the long, long winter, Blue in the onset of June.
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 7:02 PM UTC
June
The skin at the bed of her nails shone, tight. Forever healing, windows that rattle With the changing of her moods. Love was a locket, an heirloom That insisted its presence Upon her bedside table. She could turn out every light And it would still be there. Steady metronome, Lifeless thud, Invasive thought. The carpet gathered artefacts from late night walks. Bad habits clung to the walls. No pillow talk, only muffled strings, Failed symphonies, Conversations three years old: Memories that play Chinese whispers Across the faces in the ceiling. Irregularity of breath, Sleep comes, clothed in Zopiclone; A mind that never rests. Narcosis in the morning, Nausea over dried toast, Sweet flamenco on the radio, But there is nothing to calm her bones. The red wine cast last night’s shadow, Hollow in the eyes, first hit of daylight, First hit of nicotine To prove she is still alive. Anxiety: the ball and chain, Always dragging her behind. Living as a ghost, The people at the bus-stop stare, The traffic, the signs, the passers-by, The doldrums in the headlines, The rain upon her window; The heart attack and vine. Prescription pills in the afternoon To get her through the day, Until she can get her fix, Have her fill, And finally hide away. The high-street parade comes alive after dark, Lanterns on the lake, the fish-bowl Of a small town, familiar tongues that roll; Memorised anecdotes across the ashtray, The lipstick on her teeth. Clumsy in victory, each stumble confined To look as if she has walked through life Without ever missing a stride. There is nowhere to breathe But in the solitude of her insanity. She paints the walls To the colours of her moods: Grey in the long, long winter, Blue in the onset of June.
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