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Moths float out from behind an opened, warped door. I push my face into your clothes, hung heavy like pearls in an antique shop. Stale and familiar, the scent follows me like a lost little bee. It buzzes even after I leave. Hopscotch down the hallway to find dead crickets in the bathtub. Scuffed wallpaper camouflages a cobweb. Metallic vines curve around bursts of petals. I’m certain you chose this pattern, but I don't know. Memories are few. I fill in the holes with honey and arrowheads. Indian feathers and an old brooch. Piles of pie. Did you love to bake pie? Games of bridge on that old, scratched table top with a musty deck of Bicycle cards. Each deck a photo album of your face. Your raisined face. I remember holding it in my hands. “This aint a walk for old womans.” And out the door I go. Empty handed and independent.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM UTC
Pictures, Teacups, a Patterned Pillow
102212 Indian soul I want your bow Weapon of peace Instrument of thieves Gift of the gods Curse of the slaves Children of fate Wait Revenge finds thee Sets you free Rest now
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 12:09 AM UTC
Arrowheads
Southwestern Dis-United States of Memory Piñon smoke and sagebrush, voice of New Mexico night driving into an Arizona dawn rising over dreaming pueblos, low-ridden plazas, kivas and ruined cities’ rubble traced and highlighted by sunlight, Anglo angling into Aztec toward Zuni over arid zones… A to Z to El Dorado; a voice covers the high hills with a dusting of snow—every word hangs in the notes of the song: music to fall apart to, breakdown to, hurling the soul  into the bottomless well of psychotic nostalgia: música de cavanga, falling into the depths. Melody pushing to the threshold of a bar and leaving you there with cash in your pocket and no ride home. The warmth inside beckons—you step across as the song fills, swells, intoxicates, then excavates the wall of the dam until it collapses. The fatal mistake: you read too much into the lyrics of shallow love songs. The deathwish beast of despair arises, the flooded plains dazzle your eyes, the Indian girl smiles on the rim of the grand canyon, the tattooed cholo pulls a knife in the trailer park, the dark waters under the bridge murmur and surge with regret; el río de Las Animas, Durango CO, Aztec calligraphy on the wall: Las Cruces, NM; Clifton, Morenci, Globe, AZ: stepped pyramids of copper tailings, gang-warred walls in fallen barrios covered in Chicano hieroglyphics, the ruined huts of shepherds and cowboys, pit-house dwellings’ flaked arrowheads and pottery fragments scattered forever in the coyote laugh of desert dusk. Crepuscular colors on the names of mountain ranges: Santa Catalina, Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, each one a separate sunset delirium—then you ride through the night to the city of palm trees and the orange-lined boulevards of Heaven. The singer herself grew old but her YouTubes live forever.
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
Lindísima
Southwestern Dis-United States of Memory Piñon smoke and sagebrush, voice of New Mexico night driving into an Arizona dawn rising over dreaming pueblos, low-ridden plazas, kivas and ruined cities’ rubble traced and highlighted by sunlight, Anglo angling into Aztec toward Zuni over arid zones… A to Z to El Dorado; a voice covers the high hills with a dusting of snow—every word hangs in the notes of the song: music to fall apart to, breakdown to, hurling the soul  into the bottomless well of psychotic nostalgia: música de cavanga, falling into the depths. Melody pushing to the threshold of a bar and leaving you there with cash in your pocket and no ride home. The warmth inside beckons—you step across as the song fills, swells, intoxicates, then excavates the wall of the dam until it collapses. The fatal mistake: you read too much into the lyrics of shallow love songs. The deathwish beast of despair arises, the flooded plains dazzle your eyes, the Indian girl smiles on the rim of the grand canyon, the tattooed cholo pulls a knife in the trailer park, the dark waters under the bridge murmur and surge with regret; el río de Las Animas, Durango CO, Aztec calligraphy on the wall: Las Cruces, NM; Clifton, Morenci, Globe, AZ: stepped pyramids of copper tailings, gang-warred walls in fallen barrios covered in Chicano hieroglyphics, the ruined huts of shepherds and cowboys, pit-house dwellings’ flaked arrowheads and pottery fragments scattered forever in the coyote laugh of desert dusk. Crepuscular colors on the names of mountain ranges: Santa Catalina, Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, each one a separate sunset delirium—then you ride through the night to the city of palm trees and the orange-lined boulevards of Heaven. The singer herself grew old but her YouTubes live forever.
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The Queen of Absentia rises from royal stool to watch the moon set sheathed in broiling cloud as she skips whirling adders that hiss in fat jagged coils, their hollow blades jutting death in sprinkler sprays of misting veils and her head is hypethral; a Gaudi shipping container soldered in reptile curves, licked by arrowheads of falcate flame as she rounds its laughing corners; an adderaled lab rat, eyes black funnels drinking electrodes pulsing crimson and the stars are crackling in the pan as she     sees planets torn shrieking down Hell’s hungry plughole as fallen Gods divide by zero and the clock’s skittering claws scratch prophecies of consequence of poorly sewn seams, but she smiles like a risen crocodile and says,      ‘you’re just jealous cos the              voices only talk to me.’ And again she dives as unwanted advice gibbers up out snapping drains, and power points shoot sharp blue spears lighting substrates of ancient horror, inchoate but fattening before her eyes as she sits, wrapped in ghosts, guarding her ochre tea in its chalice of steaming bone, trying to sell herself a ticket to tomorrow’s sunrise, staring at thunderheads bunching up satin over sodden ninjas sprouting cardboard hair, slicing down legions of roaring pearl as death hunts hollow-eyed below. Her Majesty holds court, amid the percussion of steel and plate, a matador to shadows that clasp their hands and dance around, as clouds hammer rain to the ground.
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Jul 23, 2012
Jul 23, 2012 at 6:44 PM UTC
The Queen of Absentia
The Queen of Absentia rises from royal stool to watch the moon set sheathed in broiling cloud as she skips whirling adders that hiss in fat jagged coils, their hollow blades jutting death in sprinkler sprays of misting veils and her head is hypethral; a Gaudi shipping container soldered in reptile curves, licked by arrowheads of falcate flame as she rounds its laughing corners; an adderaled lab rat, eyes black funnels drinking electrodes pulsing crimson and the stars are crackling in the pan as she     sees planets torn shrieking down Hell’s hungry plughole as fallen Gods divide by zero and the clock’s skittering claws scratch prophecies of consequence of poorly sewn seams, but she smiles like a risen crocodile and says,      ‘you’re just jealous cos the              voices only talk to me.’ And again she dives as unwanted advice gibbers up out snapping drains, and power points shoot sharp blue spears lighting substrates of ancient horror, inchoate but fattening before her eyes as she sits, wrapped in ghosts, guarding her ochre tea in its chalice of steaming bone, trying to sell herself a ticket to tomorrow’s sunrise, staring at thunderheads bunching up satin over sodden ninjas sprouting cardboard hair, slicing down legions of roaring pearl as death hunts hollow-eyed below. Her Majesty holds court, amid the percussion of steel and plate, a matador to shadows that clasp their hands and dance around, as clouds hammer rain to the ground.
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any ground 18 stood on crumbled as all once-great nations do. the flame of hope that had kept the lights on turned and burned down the wooden roofs, while the archers left arrowheads in flesh. lakes of insurmountable grief covered the ruins of who she once was. in moments of cruelty, she could feel the bottom of the waters, could feel the glory of the old self. the wickedness was that she did not possess the strength to lift it up again, could not resurface glimmering gems. left without sight and taste, doomed to the brush of fingertips.
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Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 2021 at 11:30 PM UTC
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I always thought one day I’d write something worth reading So far, just lines and lines, used up catchphrases I slumber in the pine needles and breathe in the scent of cut Juniper Bathe in the shadow of sundials as the day fades, turns smiles to moonlit slumber In the green grass among the dead leaves I lay my head and listen to leaves changing color On the cold sand I listen to high tide turn to low, the rolling of the rocks and the breaking waves of foam The birds in the trees sing of bamboo forests in her backyard, blue room where she collected rocks and lucky charms Books with pages torn out, arrowheads she found in the field, a feather in her hair Pale blue eyes which reflected my dullness, reading Camus by the door She used to read to me, when the sun was sinking and my head was spinning from the last cigarette And hold me like a child, hold me with my eyes shut and my lungs screaming to speak one simple phrase To grab the pen, to open my eyes and speak symbols onto the page, make my ballpoint sing To read a word worth reading, to write a line worth writing, this is my desire
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM UTC
Latitude & Longitude
There is no peace at all for the wicked. Stinging, ruthless words that pierce through mind and heart Swiftly, precisely, from lips of clay depart Arrowheads dipped in green poison find their way To an unwary target, without delay. There is no peace at all for the wicked. The tongue is a sinister, crushing weapon Who dares resurrect one fatally bludgeoned? “He deserves my verdict!” Rage seethes in defense. “He smashed my fortress with the least reverence.” He is without excuse. Yet the comely victim-prince says, “Follow me…” He with the sad, compelling eyes And nail-scarred hands offered gently, steadily To a soul vanquished by frantic, chaotic “I” He whose dazzling raiments from the throne hang unused Willfully submits to slight, beating, abuse As leather sandals cushion dusty, wounded feet He weeps; Fallen creatures smite head and side–they bleed. Still the comely victim-prince says, “Follow me…” Now, therefore, beyond excuse, Man is guilty.
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May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016 at 4:45 AM UTC
There is No Peace for the Wicked
Passing around a fatal flaw like a joint in a hot box, Refreshing baths of Coca~Cola and regretful indulgence We are wasting away in a paradise of my creation Poems tinted grey through abstinent romanticism, and an inexplicable undertone inherent to my prose. As everything starts to return to a drumming constant. It all sounds the same. We've been sunbathing in porcelain skies and empty daydreams. Drab and dreary and acid washed. Interrupted like a beach by the sea, By the little pieces of drug soaked warmth that act as comforting distractions. A smile or a shoulder or a sunny day to drink from. Summer and solitude, the likeness of warm bodies in a cold pool. So. Compose me an opera of Soda Cans and of choral song. Synthesise two bass lines and slow drip coffee and pollen and folk. Make it for me so I can watch you as you work. Let me listen and bask in its ludacris vanity, and clean shallow waters. How I would relish the time spent muddying the current. Destroying the tide I desired out of boredom. And black hot frustration. Flowers painted in acid and acrid accounts of repetative revalations in the context of rude rosy cheeked romance. Blonde haired ignorance and one dimensional delusions. Blue eyed terrorists armed with air and arrogance. Give me seatwarmers and handholding Or corvettes and convertables. Give me arrowheads and heart attacks Humble my bones with a cardiac !F.R.I.E.N.D.S.! SITCOMS ADJASENT PLOTLINES mumble rap AND ***** TALK HOTLINES four letter words with little context or meaning and selfless expression that's often demeaning Its September in January and it rains for a day And despite all our efforts The days waste away
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Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020 at 12:26 PM UTC
Exurbia, Rock Ballads and Soda Cans
Passing around a fatal flaw like a joint in a hot box, Refreshing baths of Coca~Cola and regretful indulgence We are wasting away in a paradise of my creation Poems tinted grey through abstinent romanticism, and an inexplicable undertone inherent to my prose. As everything starts to return to a drumming constant. It all sounds the same. We've been sunbathing in porcelain skies and empty daydreams. Drab and dreary and acid washed. Interrupted like a beach by the sea, By the little pieces of drug soaked warmth that act as comforting distractions. A smile or a shoulder or a sunny day to drink from. Summer and solitude, the likeness of warm bodies in a cold pool. So. Compose me an opera of Soda Cans and of choral song. Synthesise two bass lines and slow drip coffee and pollen and folk. Make it for me so I can watch you as you work. Let me listen and bask in its ludacris vanity, and clean shallow waters. How I would relish the time spent muddying the current. Destroying the tide I desired out of boredom. And black hot frustration. Flowers painted in acid and acrid accounts of repetative revalations in the context of rude rosy cheeked romance. Blonde haired ignorance and one dimensional delusions. Blue eyed terrorists armed with air and arrogance. Give me seatwarmers and handholding Or corvettes and convertables. Give me arrowheads and heart attacks Humble my bones with a cardiac !F.R.I.E.N.D.S.! SITCOMS ADJASENT PLOTLINES mumble rap AND ***** TALK HOTLINES four letter words with little context or meaning and selfless expression that's often demeaning Its September in January and it rains for a day And despite all our efforts The days waste away
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Are you not what i always wanted ? if so, i am thankless and crib death mysterious. i am ****** and clarity if you are not to be what's mine. you are confounding compounded. a rough in the smooth crime. a jinx in my saving grace... and a loon. if it be so, that we cannot connect then let me set my sparrows to arrowheads and fell the beasties of my wayward skylarking - so they may know a noble death in mid-flight where the downward and the Midnight are - eyes, still chirping absurd love at your dissonance with cold blessings. but give me this. keep my hands in your robbery. intertwine my fingers to lay prints on whatever you stole from god. let me share the fall and the fault so that we may yet share a single living Sting. elsewise, the ruin and the peck is only your wound chirping and my song is mute as a victim in a flock of ill. or a grain of hope in a scarecrow's eye.
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 12:56 PM UTC
Keep My Hands In Your Robbery
near the surface, just beneath the sounds of our feet among the bones, are arrowheads maybe a spent cartridge from the bluecoats who brought a strange thunder, disturbing the a cappella birdsong, deeper hidden in eons of darkness, unperturbed, until now, by the shallow, scratching efforts of the creatures above,   a black organic soup, remnants of plants and animals who once breathed   like we, we who now voraciously drill through the tired but tenacious skin   to reach a rich marrow, one we resurrect to blaspheme in our mobile ovens and scatter ashes on a deaf and dying rock   Post Script: The earth never forgets. Whatever we do to ****** it is recorded, often in ways undecipherable to man, but etched  permanently somehow, somewhere. Does the earth seek revenge? Or is it retribution, or a reckoning? Anything that has the power to recall every act in infinite detail and in perpetuity has the potential to respond. Maybe a propensity to respond?   Is the earth an angry god? I do not know, but the earth never forgets.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM UTC
the burial ground
And ‘panic’ doesn't nearly describe: Pure oxygen turning sour in lungs, Meals threatening a return from the stomach, Twitchy fingers and wobbly legs, Soreness of a tense body, Laughs-turned-sobs, Eyes adorned with purple rings, A destructive adrenaline that welcomes blood. The red bag has been replaced (just as I was). No longer do my weapons sit alongside your arrowheads of safety and legitimate love. A black casket is their new home, shiny and perfectly angled. It hides in the farthest reaches of a drawer, beckoning my hand to let the metal topple out of its dark casing. Three generations of proving that I’m alive, that I’m capable of feeling something other than the feet of someone on top of me or the sting of words meant to be innocent. And yes, I am stronger than I once was. But I’m stronger in a different way, in a different sense of the word. Yes, I am weaker in spirit and weaker in a way that makes daily thoughts into nightmares. But I am stronger in body. I am ready for the war this time, and I swear to Orion that I won’t let my lack of muscle mass or the words ‘replaced’ and ‘forgotten’ etched across my thighs and hip bones hold me back from fighting. I will throw punches until my arms lay limp and I will kick until my feet are bleeding and my toes are broken.
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM UTC
I am stronger in body
December 18th, 2018 I've been running down this Snow-covered road For fourteen miles With arrowheads Pierced through The bridges of my feet Extremities turning blue, then black You can't turn back now, face it- "Twelve inches overnight", they said We reap what we sow, echoing... A whisper ran beside me Running off the road - into the woods I followed- Until we reached the lake Frozen almost to the center I laid down, began making snow angels Looking up at old light and dancing trees I hope the ice cracks reach me- Before they do
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Apr 12, 2019
Apr 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC
Chugiak, AK
Sun rays roll down the green grass & ochre weeds Yellow, bitter, flowers, litter the hillside Long red rays turning pink as split figs Orange as hot coals, blue as the ocean Then the bustle of twilight, such noise Streaking headlights fade into receding redness Carrying their sound with them, down the road Figures, sillouhetes, wander by me, quiet conversations Wind stirs their outlines, rustles their clothing, their hair Bringing me the scent of dust, of split juniper Darkness descends, but it cannot ***** out street lights Or the flourescent floodlights, glaring artifical brightness Or the blinking red eyes of radio masts I'll peddle back now, chased by headlights Down black asphalt roads, black as the night Radiated heat, gathered from this boiling day Sweat pouring down my face, into my eyes Breath tearing at my chest, blood racing through veins I have to outrun the night, to make it on time To that quiet destination, a little room on the second story With a chair, a desk, a shelf full of unread books A yellow notepad, a pen that doesn't work so well Arrowheads and unshaped stones, a bullet on the dresser My grandpas old knife, a symbol of the ****** Mary Your charms that you carelessly left behind A small tiled room with a shower to stand under Watch it drain away, dirt & soap, all of it A face stares back at me, changed, distorted A reflection in the mirror, a reflection that was me
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 5:09 AM UTC
My Four Corners
I used to keep a bell jar full of old fine fishing line arrowheads, gold coins and stuff not easy to find like cherry cured shine from my mountains of Tennessee buried in a lunch bucket twelve paces from the coop waiting for the moon who took his own sweet time slower than a long night listening to the same hoot of the same old hoot owl in the same old dying tree knowing it was the end of my days on the Creek me, I could see it coming like a dead star's light from so long ago I couldn’t possibly know which old road I’d follow so holler at me my friends, my loves from time to time wherever you be whenever your heart strings are feeling a need to tell this spirit of mine your sorrows, your joys or wishes for better tomorrows and I will from somewhere be there with open arms and ears and a heart sewn tight with that jar of invisible string that binds our lives together forever and longer than that light from a dead star still burning on shining so bright.
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Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 10:26 PM UTC
The invisible strings that will bind us
*What mighty importance rests so fat on the shoulders of you that i'm refused the right to lay love where I want it grown? Bonds can loosen Loads you've carried furthest can be shared I know Trust is earned but it's Earnest too, when I demonstrate it purely, Laying all my bones at all your doors as promises and gifts I'll even renew - if you want - That honest vow to remember all your birthdays to Topple on your soul If you need the weight of someone not you. Can we be side by side In a blurred rush towards the singularity? or Am I the *** you lead to water - am I the water itself? Don't let me place-hold or keep the seat warm for overdue truths There's no need to balance each other's acts of self sabotage Or to pretend Either of us is any more than what we are We both understand That grace is to us just brightly coloured feathers. Please let us be safe Together, in that disappointing mess And let me work on Those snags of control and owning and having Because I don't remember how you became confection behind a window What made me Treat you as the best since...sliced boys but My diet did change I didn't want to spoil you for lesser bread and Now a hunger and rot collide in the vacant spaces you're yielding. Is it an upset to cry at your objection to my care Or when I kick and scream at the labels you stick to me When you call me callous Hysterical and paranoid to preoccupation Incurring open fire and pointed barbs about your ***** Mother Who ruined you for women, love You, who will only ever be half aware of this and that. I'll go willingly though on display, to be mocked in silent penance For What else next but to try to hold you to me To try to sit as still As time and light do for me when you move in my direction and Be as hard as your endorsement makes me. But for all the noise Of our collapsing walls and siege machinery The poison that may never fully be drawn. You are here. I am here. What else are we gonna do.*
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Jul 8, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 at 7:22 AM UTC
All My Arrowheads at All Your Doors
*What mighty importance rests so fat on the shoulders of you that i'm refused the right to lay love where I want it grown? Bonds can loosen Loads you've carried furthest can be shared I know Trust is earned but it's Earnest too, when I demonstrate it purely, Laying all my bones at all your doors as promises and gifts I'll even renew - if you want - That honest vow to remember all your birthdays to Topple on your soul If you need the weight of someone not you. Can we be side by side In a blurred rush towards the singularity? or Am I the *** you lead to water - am I the water itself? Don't let me place-hold or keep the seat warm for overdue truths There's no need to balance each other's acts of self sabotage Or to pretend Either of us is any more than what we are We both understand That grace is to us just brightly coloured feathers. Please let us be safe Together, in that disappointing mess And let me work on Those snags of control and owning and having Because I don't remember how you became confection behind a window What made me Treat you as the best since...sliced boys but My diet did change I didn't want to spoil you for lesser bread and Now a hunger and rot collide in the vacant spaces you're yielding. Is it an upset to cry at your objection to my care Or when I kick and scream at the labels you stick to me When you call me callous Hysterical and paranoid to preoccupation Incurring open fire and pointed barbs about your ***** Mother Who ruined you for women, love You, who will only ever be half aware of this and that. I'll go willingly though on display, to be mocked in silent penance For What else next but to try to hold you to me To try to sit as still As time and light do for me when you move in my direction and Be as hard as your endorsement makes me. But for all the noise Of our collapsing walls and siege machinery The poison that may never fully be drawn. You are here. I am here. What else are we gonna do.*
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Skies stretch sparks to light the damp ground And I watch, chuckling by the lambs Lapping the waves that smack tastily at their feet And bring in the harvest for the day. The sun bows its head And sea makes its sleep For it to hide amongst the bubbles Until the Night claps it awake. Footprints stretch up the beach made Of arrowheads and other cobbled things You're there, you're there Pulling me to your place. Warm, shivering houses, of Wooden overcoats and salty lashings Made wind by fervent tides Desperate to huddle in and hear stories Of your uncle, your father, your brother's ruddy cheeks, But you have eyes with me And we lend them together to the fire To hear of orcs, of brochs and angry kings, far away. The howling streets meet no one, And pirates prowl their decks to see A glimpse of my island girl As she holds my arm cased in wool Blond hair crying to the floor. For I am a story, you see, I know what I have when I have it And salt, quiet lamp-lit salty living Make ancient ages while keeping, The mainland for themselves. Good thing I have her, So I can share in what she calls home So I can lie in the lavender in Summer And cry with the Winter rain when she's gone.
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 6:56 PM UTC
The Salty Longing for my Island Girl
The delusional expectancy of arriving to a unified decision under a false, and somewhat mysterious banner leaves the tender footed Neanderthals to drawl and crawl towards their inevitable demise, at the hands of a lesser evil, catering to their cowardice, the ultimate usurper. … Barriers formed and forged in concrete molds left behind by a war mongering ancestry devoured by their ****** progeny. An enemy approaches… Throne rooms held in recessed hills, concealed in a shroud of fog, left off by the chilled steam stewing off yesteryears loss. Heroes transported on expensive tapestry, in banners provoking deeds of old, and the memory of their meaning. Hold in masses of collected honor. Catapulted horrors break the line. Strains of panic retreat in woeful singularity. Fear infects the herd as arrowheads of cowardice break the chain-mail guard. Women and children pushed behind a diseased king as he purges his principles in the face of death. He seals the entrance in stone. A son, known for his great misdeeds, and vast misfortunes takes step before his small family as the army approaches. In a hallowed tomb as a mere boy, he heard the tune, uttered from the devil’s lips. A summoning song. Here he sings the treacherous tune as the sounds of heavy marching fill the halls. The last barrier breaks. Shrieks of terror erupt. Demise is at hand. Men lose their valor as they turn and flee, only to be met by a concrete reminder of their inevitable fatality. The child’s voice grows demonic as the words begin to devour his soul. There’s an odd presence in the room. Death is prolonged…momentarily. A void is opened. The army begins to flee. Victory is at hand. Then the illusion of their invasion lifts, as soldiers, once more than visible, turn to ghosts, and finally fade from battle. Cheers break out, only for a moment. A hole opens in the center of the room, at first no larger than the size of a pin, but it expands outward at an alarming pace. Guards scramble to funnel their people out of the breach. An evil comes forth, once barred from the walls of this land. It antagonizes the people with tales of its delusional sorcery. Then thanks the young boy who brought it forth. A world is soon devoured. The end.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
This Took Grew Up Wrong
The delusional expectancy of arriving to a unified decision under a false, and somewhat mysterious banner leaves the tender footed Neanderthals to drawl and crawl towards their inevitable demise, at the hands of a lesser evil, catering to their cowardice, the ultimate usurper. … Barriers formed and forged in concrete molds left behind by a war mongering ancestry devoured by their ****** progeny. An enemy approaches… Throne rooms held in recessed hills, concealed in a shroud of fog, left off by the chilled steam stewing off yesteryears loss. Heroes transported on expensive tapestry, in banners provoking deeds of old, and the memory of their meaning. Hold in masses of collected honor. Catapulted horrors break the line. Strains of panic retreat in woeful singularity. Fear infects the herd as arrowheads of cowardice break the chain-mail guard. Women and children pushed behind a diseased king as he purges his principles in the face of death. He seals the entrance in stone. A son, known for his great misdeeds, and vast misfortunes takes step before his small family as the army approaches. In a hallowed tomb as a mere boy, he heard the tune, uttered from the devil’s lips. A summoning song. Here he sings the treacherous tune as the sounds of heavy marching fill the halls. The last barrier breaks. Shrieks of terror erupt. Demise is at hand. Men lose their valor as they turn and flee, only to be met by a concrete reminder of their inevitable fatality. The child’s voice grows demonic as the words begin to devour his soul. There’s an odd presence in the room. Death is prolonged…momentarily. A void is opened. The army begins to flee. Victory is at hand. Then the illusion of their invasion lifts, as soldiers, once more than visible, turn to ghosts, and finally fade from battle. Cheers break out, only for a moment. A hole opens in the center of the room, at first no larger than the size of a pin, but it expands outward at an alarming pace. Guards scramble to funnel their people out of the breach. An evil comes forth, once barred from the walls of this land. It antagonizes the people with tales of its delusional sorcery. Then thanks the young boy who brought it forth. A world is soon devoured. The end.
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Worded arrowheads are fastened to shafts. They rain down on our Love-fed ears. Bowstring at ready pulled back high-sky, They strike down all who lived this earth. My soul, infringed, asked, "How can this be, with heart shut tight from melancholy?" Closed cold, a shield, I thought could withstand the force of a blow guided not by your hand. The force of a blow guided not by your hand. In time the sands will salt our land. Your words will crop my sagging skin and feed the ground with hollow chest. Death for the young never-held as best, but for this earth a heart at rest. But for this earth, put Death to rest. The price of youth, pays for the best.
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 11:43 PM UTC
The Price of Youth
At Singing Hills Down upon the earth, boy, brushing dirt from broken flints. The woman, tall, in khaki pants, slowly stands and squints. Down upon the earth with pockets full of stones. A hundred yards across the land where knife-grass spears the sand a bullsnake sleeps in sunlight. Speak of arrowheads and Utah, you, with dignified excitement; speak of ostrich eggs! You and I, she'd say, Galapagos! Where armored turtles heave their bulks across the land. Here Mother Earth lies naked to her bones. Flint bones, in sun as white as lamplight. With your Thermos cup in hand talk of arrowheads again— or Galapagos— Where giant turtles rule the land!
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Feb 1, 2017
Feb 1, 2017 at 4:05 PM UTC
Galapagos and Arrowheads
Three children brought Onto earth Three children did He rear Three children made From His own genes From stardust we appeared. From the foundation Of our lives He sent us to school Possessed of his intelligence And HE was NOT a fool Great aptitude for reading This is how he taught The books my father gave me Produced much Higher thought We went to places far & wide Hawaii was like heaven! We went to Montreal For Expo '67 Various religions We were to understand We went to see the kivas In the native lands We went to search For arrowheads We looked for various traces Of native habitation Appreciating other races He tried to teach me math Using the flashcards But I was into writing So he let me be a bard He loved the arts & sciences He loved agriculture He grew up deprived of it So he taught us culture We took the piano He helped me make a start Writing my own music He encouraged my art! I'll read him this poem We will then discuss How he has the   GREATEST legacy *For my dad has US!*
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Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 3:31 PM UTC
My Father's Legacy
One wears the wages of sin As war's protecting bibs Where arrowheads of flight Cannot pierce the pump within Taste the salt upon the sea The sea where sins are drowned Upon the hearts that sit on sleeves The head of smiles we crown Back across the cross we bear Hear the pounding of the condemned Perhaps we will never be more Than the crown of thorns we wear So the cherry tree has fallen It's bark black with disease Lime should cure the problem I will be planting trees
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Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 3:38 AM UTC
Temptations and Cherry Juice
*What was the inspiration for country ponds , for carefree bodies of water nurturing native songs Filling young hearts , blue mirrors with tall pine edges , carefree days 'neath cozy river birches Dragonfly prancers and rock bass river dancers , sultry bullfrog diddies , red clay marsh , rolled up britches , sacks of sandwiches , straw hats , cardinals , egrets , herons , chickadees and finches Rain cooled July breezes , row upon row of knee high corn , blackberry , blueberry and dewberry thorns Songs of the creek , of highland hayfield and crystal clear rivers Tales of arrowheads , tomahawks and hawk feather quivers The confluence of neighboring streams The story of piedmont dreams*
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Mar 14, 2017
Mar 14, 2017 at 6:17 PM UTC
Days On The Water ...
We begin to touch from fingertips to flesh, that’s how we introduce ourselves. We’re naturally compelled to to feel each other’s energy. My fingertips are encoded with my identity. They are imprinted with twist and turns, a blueprint of my chemistry. They extend beyond my reach. Grasping at life, taking in everything it returns. They may be burned while touching the flame or met with warm hands just the same. My fingertips dance gracefully over goose-bumps and soft skin. They feel the rhythm of deep breaths and skipped heart beats that begin to beat again. They palpate rough stones in cool river beds. They caress raw edges of ancient arrowheads. My fingertips have healed broken hearts and past regrets. They mend sore feet and weak spines. They feel for the lone tear drops that are intertwined with high fives and laugh lines. Like branches seeking light they reach out for love. Past tangible offerings seeking all the things that can’t be touched.
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Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 1:08 AM UTC
Snowflakes
For me we it comes realizing later that Chris Cornell is gone same as Dad but different still we have our Garden of Sound with weeds sprouting against the grim Cutter hoping for a missed experienced Maybe the refugee's trauma have dried all the tears on lonely crowded airfields of a long ago Vietnam seeding salt from a Grandmother, mother, father, aunts and uncles, paladins in our child eye dry because of the stampeding Thestrals we shouldn't see And now almost 50 we know better the slings and arrowheads of fortune the calcifying currency souls make by roughing the round edges of damning tears scattered like petals over littered cigarettes killing us softly because they've metastasized from intellectualized Lung **** to a flowering carcinoma
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 8:31 AM UTC
Realizing later
Taste new words to see it through. a pseudo synaesthesia grown easy on the eyelet, fits, apparently awake the derelict convictions say, it cannot be this much is all The All, we are to ever have and less the time to take Seems aeons since the badlands let, their Agincourt of arrowheads, projecting from the epicentred tragedies of Your a softer vector than before yet, pertinent, as ever Their ambient trajectories descending back to you
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Jul 23, 2022
Jul 23, 2022 at 5:21 AM UTC
Arc