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"angled" poems
a (the) woman’s body (pretty pleasing) is my reciprocal her waist is my happy place her neck is my doorway the rest is best when she is mirror accessorizing, preening, **** upon first rising, tallying the gains and the losses unaware of my watching, never satisfied she, tho she is 98% unadmitting contented, as she shifts her weight, from knee to knee extended alternating with slow delicacy for the pleasure is trebled for her imagine image reverberates throughout the house for ever(y) mirror is pre-positioned, accidentally angled just so, lol, her image transported from living room to dining alcove all the way to the kitchen’s bleacher seats she doesn’t know and asks why I’m grinning, answer is no confessionary, no telling I’m swelling and sinning eyes scheming-dreaming of her reciprocity she smiles and says   “good morning bad boy” maybe she does know but you won’t tell her, we, you and me, are pretty pleasing she is 1/me she is won over me
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 8:39 AM UTC
a woman’s body/ 1 over me/pretty pleasing reciprocal
To see more and more Every time, I used to sit at the train door!! I didn't capture this imagery before So, I kept my eyes wide open to store!! Well, I must agree You'll get to see Wide angled views for free All that I can recapture is a tree And, It never stops surprising me Meanwhile, the people who come to *** Will mistake me for a ******** Thinking that I'd jump off to make my life Departed!! They'll try hard to get me safe Guarded Finally, they'll close the door and have me Discarded!!
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Jun 2, 2018
Jun 2, 2018 at 5:06 AM UTC
Train Journey
you check on me many times a day with my antique ears I hear your squeaking shoes on these vinyl floors someone laid for those who came before like passengers on a stalled bus with windows that allowed only one view I know you and I wait for the same thing for you to check on the passenger who replaces me he will be no different a few more hairs, perhaps a few less stares you will gently place your hand on his wrist write in his chart, and maybe glance at the date of birth, do the mindless math and wonder without wonder if my replacement will have a bigger number than I but I am still here gazing at your angled eyes while you count the beats which slow a little each day waiting for you to say how long will this one last? don’t worry, squeaking vinyl floor walker when my drum stops pounding I will try to make sure it happens while I am asleep
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Aug 9, 2012
Aug 9, 2012 at 7:42 PM UTC
While asleep
I was a tender object living in your house. The things of these were bigger than my vision and we were only a moment. I asked for everything you never said, But your eyes spoke what the monsters upstairs didn't have courage too.. As big and frightening as they might seem, nothing scared you more than releasing the dark smoke in clear air, But my lipstick smeared to the apples of my cheeks and I closed my eyes. I created a home in your mind and it angled me to disbelief and I couldn't breathe. I gasped air from the grips of the trees and I grew roots on my feet, I stood whole for myself and dressed in self pity. The clouds were closing in and my caged heart couldn't fly freely, Yet the wind rolling against my thighs created comfort for the blind, Yet, My vision was not impaired; Only merely to what you have showed me, And I dangerously lived on sidewalks finding flowers to tape up my soul, So I became potted to the ceramics of solis and dreamed by luna, But mountains weren't moved and neither did I. I was tender, (pause) And (pause) I made home in your mind, You left me homeless And then I became blind
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Jan 30, 2018
Jan 30, 2018 at 10:42 AM UTC
Tender Roots
we lay together, 6:00am, body warmth touch-sharing, as the June morning summer chill coming off its night nadir coolness surrenders very reluctantly, full length pajamas, blankets and coverlets in use, keeping cold out while bodies touching generate heat - a big difference through these layers of cotton controversy, my right arm, my cunning, falls awkwardly upon her, advising I am woken and aware she is as well, hear her earbuds emplaced, make shushed whispering noises re the future of artificial intelligence and other such mental knottings my awkward angled arm rests on her landscaped outline of shape, coming to rest where legs meet at the top of an upside down V spot, which makes no request, but accepts my bequest of steady stroking of her ****** as an unnecessary but atheist-acceptable to her morning prayer ritual, kept at the intersection of the physical and physics theorems funny how some prayers, where recitation comes thoughtlessly and routine, uttered without any contemplation are yet deep comforting for their inherency, so I pray a stroking repetitive on her body, well hid neath a summer coverlet, wordlessly chanted, wordlessly accepted, silence connoting approving permission I comfort her, above and through a floral coverlet for her floral coverlet, till the sun rises enough to truly warm up our plot, my praying reaches the end of its rope, where quality and quantity achieve unanimity resolution no longer needed, but am appreciated, besides my arm is cramping, not designed for the rising, unleveled angle of her breathing bodice my comfort is her extra comforter, an offering of coffee my reward, for my daily work has begun, and I have many more poems stillborn that require coaxing stroking to become witnesses to living
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Jun 17, 2019
Jun 17, 2019 at 7:32 PM UTC
I comfort her ****** a coaxing
we lay together, 6:00am, body warmth touch-sharing, as the June morning summer chill coming off its night nadir coolness surrenders very reluctantly, full length pajamas, blankets and coverlets in use, keeping cold out while bodies touching generate heat - a big difference through these layers of cotton controversy, my right arm, my cunning, falls awkwardly upon her, advising I am woken and aware she is as well, hear her earbuds emplaced, make shushed whispering noises re the future of artificial intelligence and other such mental knottings my awkward angled arm rests on her landscaped outline of shape, coming to rest where legs meet at the top of an upside down V spot, which makes no request, but accepts my bequest of steady stroking of her ****** as an unnecessary but atheist-acceptable to her morning prayer ritual, kept at the intersection of the physical and physics theorems funny how some prayers, where recitation comes thoughtlessly and routine, uttered without any contemplation are yet deep comforting for their inherency, so I pray a stroking repetitive on her body, well hid neath a summer coverlet, wordlessly chanted, wordlessly accepted, silence connoting approving permission I comfort her, above and through a floral coverlet for her floral coverlet, till the sun rises enough to truly warm up our plot, my praying reaches the end of its rope, where quality and quantity achieve unanimity resolution no longer needed, but am appreciated, besides my arm is cramping, not designed for the rising, unleveled angle of her breathing bodice my comfort is her extra comforter, an offering of coffee my reward, for my daily work has begun, and I have many more poems stillborn that require coaxing stroking to become witnesses to living
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I thought I heard                Canadian slang from the opposite bed-side Like it's 2009, rub some lines off my face. Inner space bleeding outward, deep red, a nosebleed, angled points on white of The Maple Jack.                A Nip at the Sal's on Esplanade-Riel. Grab your runners and toque,                it's warm, but not forever and these legs are sore. Polar bears on the sweater you wore in the Fall-- Churchill, Manitoba, the streets are full of teeth and claws. Awoke and wanted warmth lacking. I thought I heard Canadian slang. I thought I heard "it'll be okay" from the voices of feathers fletching arrows falling.      they whisper and screams sink deep behind                                      eyelids                                      closing. A sentence unfinished,                 sinking in flesh                               in time                 sinking                               in snow and ice                 sinking                               in water in Summer                 sinking                               in memory. I thought I heard                plans being made and shy laughter. I heard it 5 times. Didn't I? Days fade, ears dull* Walking on streets, in the cold towards her home I thought I heard laughter--                                    heard something                         like laughter-- I thought I heard rain, as the Lodgepoles drank water. I thought I heard laughter. I thought I heard wax melt. I thought I smelled fairness. I thought you wanting more time to bleed and blur tenses. I thought I heard rivers rushing and roaring                                                  their battle cries-- --asserting their presence. I thought I heard cars pass and sounds of the daytime                     and late March walk along bridges. I could swear I heard something      Like Canadian slang,                  sweet                      water                   light                       laughter. Something.
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 1:28 PM UTC
Canadian Slang
I thought I heard                Canadian slang from the opposite bed-side Like it's 2009, rub some lines off my face. Inner space bleeding outward, deep red, a nosebleed, angled points on white of The Maple Jack.                A Nip at the Sal's on Esplanade-Riel. Grab your runners and toque,                it's warm, but not forever and these legs are sore. Polar bears on the sweater you wore in the Fall-- Churchill, Manitoba, the streets are full of teeth and claws. Awoke and wanted warmth lacking. I thought I heard Canadian slang. I thought I heard "it'll be okay" from the voices of feathers fletching arrows falling.      they whisper and screams sink deep behind                                      eyelids                                      closing. A sentence unfinished,                 sinking in flesh                               in time                 sinking                               in snow and ice                 sinking                               in water in Summer                 sinking                               in memory. I thought I heard                plans being made and shy laughter. I heard it 5 times. Didn't I? Days fade, ears dull* Walking on streets, in the cold towards her home I thought I heard laughter--                                    heard something                         like laughter-- I thought I heard rain, as the Lodgepoles drank water. I thought I heard laughter. I thought I heard wax melt. I thought I smelled fairness. I thought you wanting more time to bleed and blur tenses. I thought I heard rivers rushing and roaring                                                  their battle cries-- --asserting their presence. I thought I heard cars pass and sounds of the daytime                     and late March walk along bridges. I could swear I heard something      Like Canadian slang,                  sweet                      water                   light                       laughter. Something.
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boo croon the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay this garden was not tended to and when it was, it was done with bitter blisterless hands the weeds are creeping out now and thickening stalks and they move out out out goes any sense trust we grew in this garden. and out out out goes my frothy yellow blood into the humid grounds of the garden and you mop it up and glaze over my barkless parts boo croon the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay the hose to feed me was bent at angled corners and the water shrieked its way through to come out a subtle flaccid drop by drop by drop on my parched cracked tan sun slapped skins and i was angry that you never felt the need to untangle the hose because you turned the faucet to full volume so you assumed that was all the water you could give and i needed boo croons the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay the garden is all sand colored and tired and you don’t feel guilty you looked at it every day and squirted what you could on it and picked whatever weeds you saw but you never went beyond what looked pretty to visitors and you let the roots rot across the summer and now that the winter’s fallen in there’s not enough water to keep the garden beating and all the melted snow in the world won’t make up for it
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Jul 12, 2010
Jul 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM UTC
boo croon the sunflowers
910 Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By—Paradox—the Mind itself— Presuming it to lead Quite Opposite—How Complicate The Discipline of Man— Compelling Him to Choose Himself His Preappointed Pain—
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Experience is the Angled Road
Studying the 'Base', 'Hypotenuse', and 'Height' of a triangle, My mind recalls what I witnessed in that sensual night, You were like an unconceived mathematical notion, I a novice in geometry trying to draw a straight line Of kisses on your shivering body, How fragile those attempts were, How lovely to see them fail, Lying idle on the bed like a base of a building I lured you to stood high above me, And your hands pressing my chest as a ladder, We're affixed like a right-angled triangle Dizzy, and drunk exploring our area of love.
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Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 1:50 PM UTC
Pythagoras Theorem
My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. The horse strained at his clicking tongue. An expert. He would set the wing And fit the bright steel-pointed sock. The sod rolled over without breaking. At the headrig, with a single pluck Of reins, the sweating team turned round And back into the land. His eye Narrowed and angled at the ground, Mapping the furrow exactly. I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake, Fell sometimes on the polished sod; Sometimes he rode me on his back Dipping and rising to his plod. I wanted to grow up and plough, To close one eye, stiffen my arm. All I ever did was follow In his broad shadow round the farm. I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, Yapping always. But today It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away.
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Follower
Tepid damp and lukewarm night, Build your camp by rivers bright; Sable black and and somber grey, Silt the river's arms away. Island tenements rent for cheap, Bakèd bricks in plinths lie deep; Stores of merchants and their wives, Sheltered from the thund'rous tides. Glance on that maternal shrine, Softly angled toward the Rhine; See the men with flowing beards, Seldom entertaining fears. Moon illumes a stony pose, Sun sustains a garden rose; Temple pillars bathed in or, Leave mute shadows on the floor. Olifant horns begin to sound, Tribesmen fall upon the town; Riding with the northern gust, Trampling the homes to dust. Yet, as gateside rocks abound, From the ashes, rises now, Where that city met disgrace, A mighty fortress in its place.
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Jan 21, 2018
Jan 21, 2018 at 2:40 PM UTC
In the Temple of the Ruhr
Her red shoe heels made clicking sounds aloud, around the hall attracting attention; his shoes, alluring, plush, black magic silence power worn on feet cried for recognition. loudness gravitated towards silence black silence  angled wild red he measured her foot to hip, she focused on his  intense face the silence with in the precinct approved their illegitimate cravings. Avarice for attention came together held hands, kicked up their heels, to **** competition in foot fetish.
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Oct 18, 2011
Oct 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM UTC
FOOT FETISH
I asked the question but may never know But let’s give it a go I ask the question again, how does Mary Poppins angle her umbrella? It seems precise Maybe Magic is the advice It seems the winds are always in Mary Poppins favor But too some of use with ordinary conventional umbrella’s that’s hard to savor Mary Poppins seems to just glide through the air and her umbrella stays in tact Actually, could be more than fact With these so called conventional umbrella’s, people would be lucky if our umbrella’s didn’t turn inside out and became stems of its former self But Mary Poppins umbrella is not like everybody else When a breeze comes along, the ordinary conventional umbrellas simply bend What was an umbrella always comes to an end They just can’t seem to take the wind I guess Mary Poppins can Magic controls the umbrella on when But we really don’t know how Mary Poppins umbrella stays straight However, it’s Mary Poppins story of fate Yet that is something only Mary Poppins can appreciate As for us ordinary people can associate It’s definitely a magical thing The Mary Poppins name having a bling She’s like a Queen who masters her own sling.
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Nov 17, 2018
Nov 17, 2018 at 2:23 PM UTC
HOW DOES MARY POPPINS KEEP HER UMBRELLA ANGLED?
Artist The only description of her The way her eyelashes glitter In the shining sunlight The way her pale face Is angled to imperfection In a captivating way Where you have to feel every curve Every indent on her cheeks The way her wrists are stained With the color of her hair A raw red Exploding into the world Exposing her From all the rest It's just a shame That art is only admired After it's lifespan is gone
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
She is a Painting
Why do poets and photographers love fleeting things? Angled shafts of sunlight piercing a mass of clouds. A rainbow flashing from dragonfly wings. Water drops beading like shards of glass. The fluttering shape of a sycamore’s shade. The sun sinking into its reflection In a purple bay.  Smoke’s shadow. The rayed Curve of a finger reaching for perfection. Whatever churns, bursts, rocks, flies, Foams, flickers, roils, evades In pigments of impermanent dyes We try to fix before it fades Once I mourned the endless dying   Of here and now, the present always past Elegized each moment, sighing Beauty is loss and can never last. But now I think I had it wrong.  In fact (I learned this from an artist’s eye) Fleeting beauty reappears faster than we react, At the speed of a daydream flashing by. All around, light coalesces into form, Form explodes into light, And we live lavishly inside this storm If we can learn to see it right. Beauty multiplies, tapering, swelling: Reshaping, reforming, now familiar, now strange. This gaudy blur in which we’re dwelling Is the permanence of change.
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 8:32 AM UTC
Fleeting Things
Thugs with Pens & Aerosol Cans Thugs with Pens Hell-bent; not on cultism Just airing the other sentiments That don’t make it to primetime Thugs with pens Not poking out eyes Just venting spleen Sick of the lies Thugs with pens Deserve to be heard They don’t poison your brain With stacks of ***** Thugs with pens And aerosol cans Can change your mind In ******* time Thugs with pens Can make a dent They don’t need to insert Un-readable, un-interesting Covert small print.... Thugs with pens Don’t need no script writers Or advisors nor signatories Witnesses, nor dodgy men With gold plated fountain pen nibs To make amends Or throw in no hidden clauses That secretly **** your life blood Thugs with pens Don’t aim to pierce your skin But make their mark Deeper within Thugs with pens And aerosol cans Completely uncensored champions of free speech The establishment want suppressed, silenced, deleted; terminated. Thugs with pens And aerosol cans don’t Schedule meetings To fix the minutes And schedule another meeting And keep ‘minutes’ As square angled And unproductive As formal conversation Thugs with pens Aim venomous ink At headless politicians That squawks like chickens Bending over For the ************* Bank-beefing corporations, Controlling the masses With ***** little catchphrases And mounds of munitions And illegally enforced restrictions On your movement and free expression Honest men Have nothing to fear From Thugs with Pens & Aerosol Cans These “thugs” seek asylum From countries Where the law’s Not bought and bent Thugs with pens & aerosol cans Are made to wear monikers and masks Thugs with pens Don’t turn on its own Neighbours and citizens To perpetuate myths: A ****** ************* lie… A thing that never happened! (That’s for all of you dumb wits out there Who believe most of the **** That’s drip fed Your sensation addicted minds Most of the time,) Time you started reading between the lines In fact get a pen Or an aerosol can Write your own lines Start broadcasting Reclaim your space Before you’re completely neoned Into the shade And corralled under the spell Of a TV screen Or an anger raising headline That conducts the flow Of the status quo Load up your magazines With ball point pens And sharp edged writing nibs, Strap on a belt of aerosol cans Reclaim your right to free expression In public spaces Join the rag-tag army Of intuitive Self-knowing men The End: is well begun, George Orwell Should never have written That blueprint, ‘1984’
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Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
Thugs with Pens
Thugs with Pens & Aerosol Cans Thugs with Pens Hell-bent; not on cultism Just airing the other sentiments That don’t make it to primetime Thugs with pens Not poking out eyes Just venting spleen Sick of the lies Thugs with pens Deserve to be heard They don’t poison your brain With stacks of ***** Thugs with pens And aerosol cans Can change your mind In ******* time Thugs with pens Can make a dent They don’t need to insert Un-readable, un-interesting Covert small print.... Thugs with pens Don’t need no script writers Or advisors nor signatories Witnesses, nor dodgy men With gold plated fountain pen nibs To make amends Or throw in no hidden clauses That secretly **** your life blood Thugs with pens Don’t aim to pierce your skin But make their mark Deeper within Thugs with pens And aerosol cans Completely uncensored champions of free speech The establishment want suppressed, silenced, deleted; terminated. Thugs with pens And aerosol cans don’t Schedule meetings To fix the minutes And schedule another meeting And keep ‘minutes’ As square angled And unproductive As formal conversation Thugs with pens Aim venomous ink At headless politicians That squawks like chickens Bending over For the ************* Bank-beefing corporations, Controlling the masses With ***** little catchphrases And mounds of munitions And illegally enforced restrictions On your movement and free expression Honest men Have nothing to fear From Thugs with Pens & Aerosol Cans These “thugs” seek asylum From countries Where the law’s Not bought and bent Thugs with pens & aerosol cans Are made to wear monikers and masks Thugs with pens Don’t turn on its own Neighbours and citizens To perpetuate myths: A ****** ************* lie… A thing that never happened! (That’s for all of you dumb wits out there Who believe most of the **** That’s drip fed Your sensation addicted minds Most of the time,) Time you started reading between the lines In fact get a pen Or an aerosol can Write your own lines Start broadcasting Reclaim your space Before you’re completely neoned Into the shade And corralled under the spell Of a TV screen Or an anger raising headline That conducts the flow Of the status quo Load up your magazines With ball point pens And sharp edged writing nibs, Strap on a belt of aerosol cans Reclaim your right to free expression In public spaces Join the rag-tag army Of intuitive Self-knowing men The End: is well begun, George Orwell Should never have written That blueprint, ‘1984’
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I want the hollow Cheeks. The full, adipose, smooth Lips. The white-boned, Pearls she calls Teeth. I want the bright, clean, Sun bleached Hair. The fine, sharpened, Ready for scratching, Spotless Nails. The refined, sculpted, Long, profiled Nose. I want gold to flake, Off my ageing, porous, dull, Skin. I want the protruding, Famished, angled Bones. I want the pumping, Arrhythmic Heart. The tired, hissing, Tar coated, smoker’s Lungs. The round, fleshy, Cellulite covered *** The motherly, but Childless plump ******* I want the barren, Bleeding, afflicted ****** I want the faint, Wispy, high-pitched, Call that she calls a Voice. The bruised, bulging, Porcelain polished, etched Knuckles. The wide, protruding, Ballooned up, dangling Hips. The numb, heavy, metal Flavored, gum bleeding Mouth. I want the skewed, Backwards, lost Pedals she calls Feet. I want the hearing less, Wax, pus covered, Ears. The lost dull, lifeless Dumbed down, blue Eyes. I want to be her, All of them, and none. I want to be lost, Unwilling, tame, voiceless, Mindless, childless, Sexless, man-less. I want to be her, but I Can’t. I cannot because I am Thought burdened, fat, Violent, screaming, Child laden, broken nosed, Coarse. I cannot because dirt Flakes off my young Skin. Because my heart pumps, Oxygenated blood, At a steady, rhythmic Beat. My voice baritones, Deep, bottomless, Whispers. I sit on flat, concave Muscle. My lungs breathe, Strong, fresh, smog-less Air. Yellow stained, grainy, calcium-ridden Teeth. Dark, musty, greased Hair. I want to be her, But I won’t.
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 1:18 PM UTC
Femininity
I want the hollow Cheeks. The full, adipose, smooth Lips. The white-boned, Pearls she calls Teeth. I want the bright, clean, Sun bleached Hair. The fine, sharpened, Ready for scratching, Spotless Nails. The refined, sculpted, Long, profiled Nose. I want gold to flake, Off my ageing, porous, dull, Skin. I want the protruding, Famished, angled Bones. I want the pumping, Arrhythmic Heart. The tired, hissing, Tar coated, smoker’s Lungs. The round, fleshy, Cellulite covered *** The motherly, but Childless plump ******* I want the barren, Bleeding, afflicted ****** I want the faint, Wispy, high-pitched, Call that she calls a Voice. The bruised, bulging, Porcelain polished, etched Knuckles. The wide, protruding, Ballooned up, dangling Hips. The numb, heavy, metal Flavored, gum bleeding Mouth. I want the skewed, Backwards, lost Pedals she calls Feet. I want the hearing less, Wax, pus covered, Ears. The lost dull, lifeless Dumbed down, blue Eyes. I want to be her, All of them, and none. I want to be lost, Unwilling, tame, voiceless, Mindless, childless, Sexless, man-less. I want to be her, but I Can’t. I cannot because I am Thought burdened, fat, Violent, screaming, Child laden, broken nosed, Coarse. I cannot because dirt Flakes off my young Skin. Because my heart pumps, Oxygenated blood, At a steady, rhythmic Beat. My voice baritones, Deep, bottomless, Whispers. I sit on flat, concave Muscle. My lungs breathe, Strong, fresh, smog-less Air. Yellow stained, grainy, calcium-ridden Teeth. Dark, musty, greased Hair. I want to be her, But I won’t.
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A hand on a throat, where if all fingers touch, the throat turns to ash. The villain of an anime I now watch clutches the hero with his middle-finger aired before the vital moment. I jump on holiday off a cliff and my chest stumbles with simulations. My body angled poorly as I could slap headfirst. I was warned that my feet should sink first if I merely fall. If I dive, my fingers should first touch the water. I am depressed the months before. College student, America. So far off, so cold from the landlock of my birth. And the summer study-abroad, double-abroad. In Italy I was watching the Creation show itself on old ceilings in marble-rooms, looking for some culture that might have been ours if not for the pillagings that brought gold and bodies to shape that gold into buildings like this. So I jump and fall. And shiver emptily. It is the same feeling as the nights on the bed thinking of futures without this self. Thinking as if I did not exist. Ignored emails from therapists. And here *this feeling!*: it made me want to live. So I jump again on the higher ledge. My friend afterwards asks if I'm okay. I'm shaking slightly. I'm without words. I laugh with the same absence as any birth. A baby's confused cry without tears. A long way down. What blue-green water, as if dug for in the earth and sold for courtyard dances. It glimmers all over my body, frizzes up my hair as my ****** curls soak it, squeezes it down my face, down towards my neck like fingers. The villain walks away. The next time the hero sees him he should be careful. He will have decided to **** me by then.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
Cliff.
A hand on a throat, where if all fingers touch, the throat turns to ash. The villain of an anime I now watch clutches the hero with his middle-finger aired before the vital moment. I jump on holiday off a cliff and my chest stumbles with simulations. My body angled poorly as I could slap headfirst. I was warned that my feet should sink first if I merely fall. If I dive, my fingers should first touch the water. I am depressed the months before. College student, America. So far off, so cold from the landlock of my birth. And the summer study-abroad, double-abroad. In Italy I was watching the Creation show itself on old ceilings in marble-rooms, looking for some culture that might have been ours if not for the pillagings that brought gold and bodies to shape that gold into buildings like this. So I jump and fall. And shiver emptily. It is the same feeling as the nights on the bed thinking of futures without this self. Thinking as if I did not exist. Ignored emails from therapists. And here *this feeling!*: it made me want to live. So I jump again on the higher ledge. My friend afterwards asks if I'm okay. I'm shaking slightly. I'm without words. I laugh with the same absence as any birth. A baby's confused cry without tears. A long way down. What blue-green water, as if dug for in the earth and sold for courtyard dances. It glimmers all over my body, frizzes up my hair as my ****** curls soak it, squeezes it down my face, down towards my neck like fingers. The villain walks away. The next time the hero sees him he should be careful. He will have decided to **** me by then.
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My eyes are wet and lips wide open hair angled slightly that way. These times of moving have come to still in pictures we feel we're living. Now in looking we are sure to fail the colors came out sideways. The Moons not there my colorless hair unhappy with just being.
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 9:22 PM UTC
Selfie
~and for Harlan, who loved this one best~ *"for tandem is the ever-changing, graying color of their fierce attached tenacity" waking/walking in careful pacing regular lock steps, like new cadets, counting cadence, in perfect silent, almost motionless, except for the minuscule quivering of slightly parted moving lips these two elders, still now plebes, freshmen but of a latter, graduated stage, demonstrating robustly the slow shuffle-along, a well practiced dance conjured 'in tandem' her arm, crooked in his, his other hand, in protective custody of a knight's armored chain glove encasing hers, he, shuffling just,   a precise, intended half-a-beat slower lest she ever think that she, ever be a drag upon him hair, his, threaded with daily, new arriving grays, proudly accepted as the privilege of graceful aging hers, disguised with periodic outings, outings for the hidings of life's bookmarks, conceding nothing ever to time's lunatic desire to separate them modest in dress, styling hints of  pasts' elegant, the man's hat defiant, daringly jaunty angled, a small scarf to handbag knotted, matching his Windsor knotted tie the passers-by, all smile,   the signal charm of an end game processional, thinking so sweet, yet mine eyes detect more, something hardy and radical a fierce, fierce fierceness, both fighters in the resistance, armed with tandem tenacity, ground given, but only inches surrendered, wounds resisted by scar skin toughened by the caress of ions bonding under the pressure of atomic level mutuality worn out, well past Purple Hearts, no capitulation feared, to the ever changing, enemies' new disguises, they, a two person platoon, each, having the other's back and I burst into tears on the street, a train of out loud moans, even groans emitted, like a string of perfect pearls breaking, clattering on an asphalt terrain weeping not from visions of the inevitable, sighing not from the certitude of a cycle's uptime ending* but jealous furious by this reminder delightful, angry at myself, for having lost so many wasted years, mine, the loss greatest, for absent was the fierce tenacity of tandem
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Mar 6, 2017
Mar 6, 2017 at 8:41 PM UTC
Tandem: The Color of Their Tenacity
~and for Harlan, who loved this one best~ *"for tandem is the ever-changing, graying color of their fierce attached tenacity" waking/walking in careful pacing regular lock steps, like new cadets, counting cadence, in perfect silent, almost motionless, except for the minuscule quivering of slightly parted moving lips these two elders, still now plebes, freshmen but of a latter, graduated stage, demonstrating robustly the slow shuffle-along, a well practiced dance conjured 'in tandem' her arm, crooked in his, his other hand, in protective custody of a knight's armored chain glove encasing hers, he, shuffling just,   a precise, intended half-a-beat slower lest she ever think that she, ever be a drag upon him hair, his, threaded with daily, new arriving grays, proudly accepted as the privilege of graceful aging hers, disguised with periodic outings, outings for the hidings of life's bookmarks, conceding nothing ever to time's lunatic desire to separate them modest in dress, styling hints of  pasts' elegant, the man's hat defiant, daringly jaunty angled, a small scarf to handbag knotted, matching his Windsor knotted tie the passers-by, all smile,   the signal charm of an end game processional, thinking so sweet, yet mine eyes detect more, something hardy and radical a fierce, fierce fierceness, both fighters in the resistance, armed with tandem tenacity, ground given, but only inches surrendered, wounds resisted by scar skin toughened by the caress of ions bonding under the pressure of atomic level mutuality worn out, well past Purple Hearts, no capitulation feared, to the ever changing, enemies' new disguises, they, a two person platoon, each, having the other's back and I burst into tears on the street, a train of out loud moans, even groans emitted, like a string of perfect pearls breaking, clattering on an asphalt terrain weeping not from visions of the inevitable, sighing not from the certitude of a cycle's uptime ending* but jealous furious by this reminder delightful, angry at myself, for having lost so many wasted years, mine, the loss greatest, for absent was the fierce tenacity of tandem
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It is docking it is tocking in the winter garden locking over still and heavy knocking that defies the very dew. We see storms and angels crumbling under load of dearest kindling and the fire and gases burning in the skies where clouds are churning and the snow, hail, sleet, and ices come to split the air in slices as it settles over houses, villages, shoes. Waiting huddling drawing the blankets hot and heavy with a fear of powerful nature in the windy savory few. Now we see and hear the howling like a wolf entangles scowling as she tries to say her fowl and angry message to the blew. I am never quite so settled as when all around me crumbles and the anger of the desert makes the inner anger moot. And the people seem to gather in their individual lathers but they all believe the madness that the storm will never pass.  But pass it does and finding with the dawn a calm descending, yes, a calm that is so different that it seems to crush our ears.   We are happy to look outward and even hear a skylark and to see the streaming sun rays flitter over piles of snow. Ever angled up in heaven we almost see a dragon or a cannon that's protecting rampart walls. And we know that we are safe here but it was such a battle that the scars are not quite healed.
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 2:17 AM UTC
Winter Storm
One day when I'm angled and slight We can stay up, drowning in starlight Limbs left cold Hearts left warm Fragile,  wavering in a midnight storm
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 2:55 PM UTC
Wishing
When it comes to strong form When angles are always precisely norm Grows an alluring mathematically touched creation Inspired by pure calculated scientific divination Such an alluring symmetry to behold Causing the circle’s envy to unfold For this angled beauty’s strength enforced Its sold core mass equally divorced It’s rigid looks captivating us all Luring architects to its enchanting call Ancient Greek hands carving stone shrines Securing their beauty for all times Its slight outer angles enduringly tease Yearning us to brush with ease Who came up with such design? Was it indeed a gift divine? However it did come to be We all can enjoy with glee Well all but rectangle and square As they sulk with envious glare Murmuring curses over hexagon’s slight curve Endlessly plotting to mathematicians they serve Scheme upon scheme developed to suppress The sheer allure designed to impress Despite all this the hexagon persists Engaging us all in mathematical trysts Never will we lose an eye No matter how hard we try For the beauty a hexagon reigns Over the kingdom of geographical gains Forget not what you see here Our ancestors have made it clear Line upon line attached in twine Measured precisely from sips of wine The hexagon is a wonder indeed Allowing us our own mounted steed
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Jan 17, 2013
Jan 17, 2013 at 7:43 PM UTC
Hexagon
In one's lifetime, comes a moment or two, when a sunny day's sky of powder-blue turns to an utterly gloomy black night not at all a beautiful twilight :::just a dark firmament...no homing birds in sight When in a flurry, it comes naturally, to want to sit...on the ground, on the floor...just somewhere down with both palms cupping jaws resting on knees are angled elbows discontent and stagnation nag one's  imagination heartbeats ............are drumbeats glances are fleeting unfocused:::::escaping such are vain attempts, to dismiss avoided thoughts and scenes:::to release ::::and decide...all must eventually cease yet.........it's never easy to find peace can't just forget sounds of voices...and sweet laughter jokes and conversations that came, before and after... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: they are tattooed in the mind ::::::::: they are :::::::::: ::: i n d e l i b l e :::::::::: :::: e s p e c i a l l y :::: :::on:::moments:::when::: :::we struggle the most::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::only:::to:::realize:::::: ::::::::::::::::::[[[]]]:::::::::::::::: ::::::::[[ memories ]]:::::::::: ::::are:::a::::[[metal cage]] ::::::::::::: and we ::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: are ::::::::::::::::: :::::::[[captured birds]]::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: it usually takes long::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::to be freed::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::;;;; ::::::from being::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::held::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::[[ c a p t i v e ]]::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (November 2015) Sally Copyright January 13, 2016 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 9:56 AM UTC
[[CAPTIVITY]]
In one's lifetime, comes a moment or two, when a sunny day's sky of powder-blue turns to an utterly gloomy black night not at all a beautiful twilight :::just a dark firmament...no homing birds in sight When in a flurry, it comes naturally, to want to sit...on the ground, on the floor...just somewhere down with both palms cupping jaws resting on knees are angled elbows discontent and stagnation nag one's  imagination heartbeats ............are drumbeats glances are fleeting unfocused:::::escaping such are vain attempts, to dismiss avoided thoughts and scenes:::to release ::::and decide...all must eventually cease yet.........it's never easy to find peace can't just forget sounds of voices...and sweet laughter jokes and conversations that came, before and after... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: they are tattooed in the mind ::::::::: they are :::::::::: ::: i n d e l i b l e :::::::::: :::: e s p e c i a l l y :::: :::on:::moments:::when::: :::we struggle the most::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::only:::to:::realize:::::: ::::::::::::::::::[[[]]]:::::::::::::::: ::::::::[[ memories ]]:::::::::: ::::are:::a::::[[metal cage]] ::::::::::::: and we ::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: are ::::::::::::::::: :::::::[[captured birds]]::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: it usually takes long::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::to be freed::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::;;;; ::::::from being::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::held::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::[[ c a p t i v e ]]::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (November 2015) Sally Copyright January 13, 2016 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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