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"basses" poems
I asked my mother for a glass kaleidoscope, but instead she handed me three shots of wine and a field guide to running galactic bases, which I guess is her way of selling dreams at low prices. I have yet to understand a coffee shop's symmetry, so I embrace the scrupulous company of a dragon-riding-a-butterfly. One spin around the Milky Way leaves the butterfly with holey wings and the dragon vomiting in my make-shift kaleidoscope. The apple tree in the corner of the living room ruins the symmetry of the space and I have to chug another glass of wine to make up for the peach tree I couldn't dream about and another wrong note sung by the basses. The song's in too low of a key, which is the basis behind the evil chinchilla's plan to mass-produce butterfly farms as part of a larger goal to pillage the dreams of dreamers. Luckily, we all have a handy-dandy kaleidoscope and a bag (or two) of bitter-tasting wine stolen from their boxes -- too much symmetry. My brother put a block on local news; the symmetry of our county's border was too much for me to bear. He bases his action (when mother asks) on the wine he didn't drink, so I throw the broken butterfly out the window where it lands on my nephew's spinning kaleidoscope. He doesn't know it yet, but that drum he's banging will envelop his dreams. A hike to the top of the cliff (a leap) re-energizes my dreams and I still can't relate to the maple leaves and their symmetry, but at least I can look through a lampshade at the kaleidoscope of trees dancing below me. There are seven thousand bases yet to run and they still haven't caught the butterfly, so a boy yells, "Drink!" and I take another sip of wine. The dragon and chinchilla are tipsy from the wine at this point and discuss the difference between dreams and electricity while my mother sautés the butterfly in ice cream and abstract ideas. The symmetry of my right ankle is still a bother, so I tell the basses to sing a quarter tone flat while I collide a scope. Off goes dragon-with-butterfly (once again) and I finish the wine. I make my nephew a chinchilla-skin kaleidoscope and rinse the rocks stained with dreams. My mother comments on the apple tree's symmetry while the trees below keep running bases.
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Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012 at 9:27 AM UTC
Dragon-flies (Sestina)
I asked my mother for a glass kaleidoscope, but instead she handed me three shots of wine and a field guide to running galactic bases, which I guess is her way of selling dreams at low prices. I have yet to understand a coffee shop's symmetry, so I embrace the scrupulous company of a dragon-riding-a-butterfly. One spin around the Milky Way leaves the butterfly with holey wings and the dragon vomiting in my make-shift kaleidoscope. The apple tree in the corner of the living room ruins the symmetry of the space and I have to chug another glass of wine to make up for the peach tree I couldn't dream about and another wrong note sung by the basses. The song's in too low of a key, which is the basis behind the evil chinchilla's plan to mass-produce butterfly farms as part of a larger goal to pillage the dreams of dreamers. Luckily, we all have a handy-dandy kaleidoscope and a bag (or two) of bitter-tasting wine stolen from their boxes -- too much symmetry. My brother put a block on local news; the symmetry of our county's border was too much for me to bear. He bases his action (when mother asks) on the wine he didn't drink, so I throw the broken butterfly out the window where it lands on my nephew's spinning kaleidoscope. He doesn't know it yet, but that drum he's banging will envelop his dreams. A hike to the top of the cliff (a leap) re-energizes my dreams and I still can't relate to the maple leaves and their symmetry, but at least I can look through a lampshade at the kaleidoscope of trees dancing below me. There are seven thousand bases yet to run and they still haven't caught the butterfly, so a boy yells, "Drink!" and I take another sip of wine. The dragon and chinchilla are tipsy from the wine at this point and discuss the difference between dreams and electricity while my mother sautés the butterfly in ice cream and abstract ideas. The symmetry of my right ankle is still a bother, so I tell the basses to sing a quarter tone flat while I collide a scope. Off goes dragon-with-butterfly (once again) and I finish the wine. I make my nephew a chinchilla-skin kaleidoscope and rinse the rocks stained with dreams. My mother comments on the apple tree's symmetry while the trees below keep running bases.
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We are surrounded by shatter broken  beer bottles, wine coolers gone to waste. We've gone to war inside our own heads, pulling ourselves into corners and kitchens and couch cushions where all I can think is how pretty you look tonight I can feel my heart beat to the technicolor rhythm of your butterfly gas leak eyes "This music hurts my heart I want to leave now" is what you whisper to me under dropped basses and stepped dubs "I know" is what I whisper back alongside the same sad forget-your-worries rhythm So we leave, floating over alcohol puff swollen bodies left behind by unreliable boy-girlfriends sick of cleaning ***** out of the back of their pickup trucks And we roll our sickly drunken souls to the Mcdonalds where they give  you coffee to get rid of wasted smashed faces if you're underage and alcohol-laced we sober up over cold coffee and scalding fries We sober up, But I get drunk on your candy stained mouth as you pour out lies you've never told anyone before I want to let you know all my favourites, all my secrets, all my everythings But I don't. And after that pretty pretty night where we sobered up but I got drunk on you The only time I see you Is past someone else's head As I smash my drunken lips to theirs.
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 9:32 PM UTC
Platitude
I Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music. It is like the strain Waked in the elders by Susanna; Of a green evening, clear and warm, She bathed in her still garden, while The red-eyed elders, watching, felt The basses of their beings throb In witching chords, and their thin blood Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna. II In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. She searched The touch of springs, And found Concealed imaginings. She sighed, For so much melody. Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions. She walked upon the grass, Still quavering. The winds were like her maids, On timid feet, Fetching her woven scarves, Yet wavering. A breath upon her hand Muted the night. She turned-- A cymbal crashed, Amid roaring horns. III Soon, with a noise like tambourines, Came her attendant Byzantines. They wondered why Susanna cried Against the elders by her side; And as they whispered, the refrain Was like a willow swept by rain. Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then, the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind-- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral. Susanna's music touched the ***** strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.
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Peter Quince At The Clavier
I Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music. It is like the strain Waked in the elders by Susanna; Of a green evening, clear and warm, She bathed in her still garden, while The red-eyed elders, watching, felt The basses of their beings throb In witching chords, and their thin blood Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna. II In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. She searched The touch of springs, And found Concealed imaginings. She sighed, For so much melody. Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions. She walked upon the grass, Still quavering. The winds were like her maids, On timid feet, Fetching her woven scarves, Yet wavering. A breath upon her hand Muted the night. She turned-- A cymbal crashed, Amid roaring horns. III Soon, with a noise like tambourines, Came her attendant Byzantines. They wondered why Susanna cried Against the elders by her side; And as they whispered, the refrain Was like a willow swept by rain. Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then, the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind-- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral. Susanna's music touched the ***** strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.
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Transported by the waves of sound so transcendentally human I am swallowed, surrounded The basses are an ocean swell the tenors, a hull of solid oak. We stand upon the altos’ sturdy deck, gaze upwards at soprano sails swollen with song What strange creatures we, to join and mingle so to vanish in the whole. This ritual enacted for this God, or that has outlived immortals and still floods with lifeblood Anu, Enlil, Enki, Baal, dived divinely in the sea of song and vanished. Forgotten gods adrift in harmony, in melody And while I wish all gods forgotten I would abase myself before Jehovah’s golden toes to be a part of this eternal choir.
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM UTC
Feral Choir
The orchestra of the night plays in the background. Sweet rhythms and soft melodies fill the dead air space in this empty room. The words shape shift Into the silhouette of your body moving around in the room where you once were. The soft violins, violas, and basses mimic the tones of your voice. The sound waves do a poor job at replacing your touch. The musicians sit in the chair you once sat in. The conductor embraces his performance much like you embraced me, before the room was empty.
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Oct 25, 2011
Oct 25, 2011 at 1:18 AM UTC
Orchestra
When Twilight falls the Fairies Play gracefully upon their Enchanted instruments Celtic harps and violas Join in this beautiful solo Double basses and violins Ring out through the calm Night The Fairies play from Twilight 'Til Midnight Then move on somewhere else And play upon their instruments 'Tis the Fairies' melody For they love living in Instrumental harmony With happiness and smiles From little pink lips They play upon the prettiest Bells and chimes ever Celestas and harpsichords, Pianos and organs Raise their beautiful But meek and humble voices Creating a tapestry of music The mandolin also follows And lifts its voice And the flute comes next Beautiful sounding oboes Sing sweetly on the Night breeze Next come the wood winds and brass winds And their beauty cries out A bittersweet paradise The most beautiful music Played while All humans are asleep But when Fairies are awake ~Marian~
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 11:18 PM UTC
The Fairies' Melody
everything about it the raising waves of sound and the pluck of the violin the fiddling fingers on the mandolin and the swell of the drums his voice bows like a singing saw and curls down into the depths of his own feeling and art not only in the poetry but poetry in the very sound *i want to see the things you see because i like the way you breathe* it pulls a soul onto its toes both of the mind and of the feet and sends it dashing down the snowy roads lined by broken corn stalks and gray buildings and fairy lights of the city brings us one with the buskers and into the hearts of every other person who has heard it my god, it has made us into a pool of humanity each soul touching in ways deeper than this to my dear violins and violas and basses and mandolins and drummers thank you for the gift of sound
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 6:25 PM UTC
Ode to a Band
Music is my Muse From the funky jazz tempo To the sounds of salsa From the classical rock To the alternative basses From the Opera Lady's bellow To the Tenors solo From the 80's slow jamz To them 50's swinging bands, To them country folk songs To those old folks blues Music is my Muse, My inspiration, Being Black&Puerto; Rican I- A NuYorican, I've heard the best tunes, Bahchata's & Merengue, Bailes La Cumbias, Like Macr Anthony & oh how he sang to me, My wanting to rock with you like Micheal Jackson- To Vanilla's Ice Ice Baby, It's yo thang do what you wanna do, Candy coated Rain drops By Soul For Real, & When will I see you Again- Babyface Until I muse in my amusement When Tim McGraw Sanged don't take the girl, Reba "Asking Does He love me like he's been loving YOU", To its my prerogative Like Bobbi Brown said, Let not for get Johnny Cash, Or what About them O'Jays Yeah my muse is musical- Music and thinking artfully coincides with one another, with breathing and eating Rhyme & Rhythm linguistics even as we walk down the street or cruising while jamming in ya car, LL Cool J said Cars drive by with the booming Systems- AH Push it was My jam back in the day R&B; Was mostly what I liked But growing Up I started listening to Rock & Hip Hop, Got drunk off those sweet Monster Ballads while Making love to Sade, Sung All Cried Out at my graduation party, Tony Toni Tone Made Us-FEEL GOOD YEAH at all them block parties back in NYC, Now I listen to everything going on 33 heard it through the grape vine that YOU share a likeness in this Musing? Music is My Muse. Always Me Ayeshah
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Mar 8, 2010
Mar 8, 2010 at 5:02 PM UTC
Music is my Muse(a bit long pls read)
Music is my Muse From the funky jazz tempo To the sounds of salsa From the classical rock To the alternative basses From the Opera Lady's bellow To the Tenors solo From the 80's slow jamz To them 50's swinging bands, To them country folk songs To those old folks blues Music is my Muse, My inspiration, Being Black&Puerto; Rican I- A NuYorican, I've heard the best tunes, Bahchata's & Merengue, Bailes La Cumbias, Like Macr Anthony & oh how he sang to me, My wanting to rock with you like Micheal Jackson- To Vanilla's Ice Ice Baby, It's yo thang do what you wanna do, Candy coated Rain drops By Soul For Real, & When will I see you Again- Babyface Until I muse in my amusement When Tim McGraw Sanged don't take the girl, Reba "Asking Does He love me like he's been loving YOU", To its my prerogative Like Bobbi Brown said, Let not for get Johnny Cash, Or what About them O'Jays Yeah my muse is musical- Music and thinking artfully coincides with one another, with breathing and eating Rhyme & Rhythm linguistics even as we walk down the street or cruising while jamming in ya car, LL Cool J said Cars drive by with the booming Systems- AH Push it was My jam back in the day R&B; Was mostly what I liked But growing Up I started listening to Rock & Hip Hop, Got drunk off those sweet Monster Ballads while Making love to Sade, Sung All Cried Out at my graduation party, Tony Toni Tone Made Us-FEEL GOOD YEAH at all them block parties back in NYC, Now I listen to everything going on 33 heard it through the grape vine that YOU share a likeness in this Musing? Music is My Muse. Always Me Ayeshah
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you were there, god knows i need you man holding the puzzle, together while we both were dying to take our own apart plastic six footers your lungs are the only in one to clear the smoke our friend mr. kool-aid is a tricky fellow as we incinerate beautiful gifts from the earth, let us destroy our movie collections and flip back through them ten fold you know them word for word dude i thought i have skills with quotes you were falling apart help together we are both both searching for something our friendship possesses if you don't come by, i'm sure to be over before work it seems like days haven't gone by since BC mango and great lakes were had as fireworks celebrated. i wanna see your face before you see maui scared we'll never burn trees again you are my best friend i shouldn't be afraid for i know you'll be there with a tuxedo, as i start a family i haven't met her yet i'll be your best friend, and you shall be mine no matter the distance, no matter the time cause we'll still have those trips where we didn't go anywhere you said people might thing we were together, cause we always were, splitting sticks of cancer smoking each other up dragging one another to bars or back form them when feet wouldn't go in front of the other. dude, you are my brother, i've never had if you ever need anything, don't think to ask i miss you like crazy whenever drums stomp basses slap or guitars and voices sing i'll listen to you and our old friends at work or with fake friends and always tell them its the **** for me music is something that takes me back back to the dog days, were catch and air hockey were played, so kick my *** at darts one more time lets go grab a beer, have a spliff and repeat, i miss you!
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May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 at 8:10 PM UTC
you, chris is your real name
you were there, god knows i need you man holding the puzzle, together while we both were dying to take our own apart plastic six footers your lungs are the only in one to clear the smoke our friend mr. kool-aid is a tricky fellow as we incinerate beautiful gifts from the earth, let us destroy our movie collections and flip back through them ten fold you know them word for word dude i thought i have skills with quotes you were falling apart help together we are both both searching for something our friendship possesses if you don't come by, i'm sure to be over before work it seems like days haven't gone by since BC mango and great lakes were had as fireworks celebrated. i wanna see your face before you see maui scared we'll never burn trees again you are my best friend i shouldn't be afraid for i know you'll be there with a tuxedo, as i start a family i haven't met her yet i'll be your best friend, and you shall be mine no matter the distance, no matter the time cause we'll still have those trips where we didn't go anywhere you said people might thing we were together, cause we always were, splitting sticks of cancer smoking each other up dragging one another to bars or back form them when feet wouldn't go in front of the other. dude, you are my brother, i've never had if you ever need anything, don't think to ask i miss you like crazy whenever drums stomp basses slap or guitars and voices sing i'll listen to you and our old friends at work or with fake friends and always tell them its the **** for me music is something that takes me back back to the dog days, were catch and air hockey were played, so kick my *** at darts one more time lets go grab a beer, have a spliff and repeat, i miss you!
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Decipher the bowels that slushes out through my imagination Crystals and xylophone chimes Pouring out the ink wells of sensation Don't pivot pickets to my position I can't stalemate this war for expansion For my tongue is a swollen pickle Dipped in bitterness and ****** by the lips of semantics I groove in the basses of basics and grow a garden for further foundation For my tongue is a swollen pickle And boy is it's perfume amazing I mean Can you smell the awkward amps? Pumping veins with Crayola visions or a Chaplin transcript with deadpan humor Are you experienced enough for social division? My tongue is a swollen pickle Say whatever the hell I wanna say Crunch me when you digest this sour thought For the reign of excitement's here to stay
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
My Tongue is a Swollen Pickle
I reflect with a projection, when hearing melodies of rhythm or stronger lower basses like guttural voice chords, especially in the dark or being on a waiting room of a car ride, whenever I want it or not / an endless dance or some semi-tangible image that twirls into hot red rose petals even though there’s no dress to whizz, feet strong like Carmen Amaya’s had no mercy for Iberian taverns’ dance floors of flamenco / watching that spectacle always from discarded collage views / of that accounting and how no voice is needed to direct the melody a vector, only let it be sung-thrung through the heat rising and orchestra listened to completely, sharp motions in the eyes of the crowd or those who had ever considered pondering on me like a philosophy... Maybe such styles and asphyxiations of rapid ragged jerkings of too sharp notes in the air cutting the atmosphere like a blunt knife have got to me a long time ago, stay ever more as visions to moves audacious, and have been chosen beforehand my vessel without its decision to be turned into something greater in the collaboration with my own other dishes to fit Passion. Then - then - I always imagine - then in all that how any certain entity would be looking at that, taking it in from the outside and what that painting of me partly will be made as in their sculpted no flesh eyes. / Thank you Ladies, Gentlemen, Whoever Further for attending /
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Nov 8, 2020
Nov 8, 2020 at 11:36 AM UTC
Morenorosa
I know the fire of your eyes When you’re sitting,wallowing in My reflections that you painted In your mind I know those eyes got blind They’ve been opened all The nights persistence of my visions Made them gleaming so wild I know that I make your libido Goes high ,running your body temperatures like a boiling water Darling I’m your twilight I know that I could cross your Lines I’m dauntless as you , the day I visited your view The day you savoured me like Crystal **** ,bleu   I know my darkness would make You vague And twirl around you like an abyss Black Feeding you my bones and every Drop of my blood You don’t Know That I’m dreaming about You every day and every night Every star every bliss In the sky Hear the harmonies That have been spinning On my mind but You don’t hear You don’t know Your magic words still Waltzing within my Ears You taught me How to feel These things I would Never reveal Wish you taste Every tear If I was you I would kneel it’s my Fault , you can’t hear You don’t know your Phantom loomed out Of blackness and towered Over Me   And I couldn’t find anything To see Except you and me But you don’t see You don’t know  that I want to penetrate every Inch of your machine and Breath under your skin Let me call you My ecstasy   You don’t know How to sense this Ember that makes Me suffer every time I miss you so tender Iike  melancholy Lavender You don’t know that I Forget the words when I see your multiple faces Go with me off to the races Dream wild with me like Diving into the basses   Within your soul a million Places l visit you I visit you to the starts To the starts In our breathtaking spaces I will be Your forever shades
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Mar 13, 2021
Mar 13, 2021 at 10:17 AM UTC
Love me like you know
I know the fire of your eyes When you’re sitting,wallowing in My reflections that you painted In your mind I know those eyes got blind They’ve been opened all The nights persistence of my visions Made them gleaming so wild I know that I make your libido Goes high ,running your body temperatures like a boiling water Darling I’m your twilight I know that I could cross your Lines I’m dauntless as you , the day I visited your view The day you savoured me like Crystal **** ,bleu   I know my darkness would make You vague And twirl around you like an abyss Black Feeding you my bones and every Drop of my blood You don’t Know That I’m dreaming about You every day and every night Every star every bliss In the sky Hear the harmonies That have been spinning On my mind but You don’t hear You don’t know Your magic words still Waltzing within my Ears You taught me How to feel These things I would Never reveal Wish you taste Every tear If I was you I would kneel it’s my Fault , you can’t hear You don’t know your Phantom loomed out Of blackness and towered Over Me   And I couldn’t find anything To see Except you and me But you don’t see You don’t know  that I want to penetrate every Inch of your machine and Breath under your skin Let me call you My ecstasy   You don’t know How to sense this Ember that makes Me suffer every time I miss you so tender Iike  melancholy Lavender You don’t know that I Forget the words when I see your multiple faces Go with me off to the races Dream wild with me like Diving into the basses   Within your soul a million Places l visit you I visit you to the starts To the starts In our breathtaking spaces I will be Your forever shades
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There's a soundtrack stuck in my head. A whispering, quiet melody. Flutes and violins take center stage As cellos and clarinets round out the sound. The soft plucking of a harp shades and fills in With the gentle support of a French horn. And so the basses and the tubas grow louder As the melody swells Like a leaf blown higher on the wind. As it begins to crescendo, I can feel it in my fingertips-- The emotion of it all. There's a symphony in your smile, An orchestral accompaniment To the twinkle in your eye. Your laughter is the thumping of the timpani; Your chuckle the plucking of an upright bass. Your soft conversing is a harmonic woodwind; Your finely crafted wit, a lively piccolo. And your hands gently taking mine, Cradling them and never wanting to let go, Is the soft caress of a singing violin. And when you say, "I love you", I realize it was you all along. You are the music in my head, The soundtrack to my life. And like we used to do in bygone days, I would play this music cassette Over and over and over again Until the film is faded and cracked, And there is no more cassette that can be played. Then I would sit and close my eyes, And recall it in my memory, For the music of the heart never fades. Just like your "I love you's" And my "I know's".
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Oct 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
Music in My Heart
That tree it swings and blows and loves to show the comes and goes wanderers and glasses cases with altruistic basses let it go let it flow drip drip down pails of silt for building ***** all of them, fending off hurricane storms and flooding waters roll up your jeans baby it's wet out today muggy and watery what's the state of our affairs? He said he wanted one but only in his head, I think I wanted him to want an anything with moi just a silly old anything that involved his naked body but he can't do that can he? I don't know I'm too afraid to look too excited to keep my eyes shut so where does that leave off? Frozen with hormones and confusion anticlimaxes burning my brain his loss could have been the best thing he ever bragged or regretted who cares not me not him not the ones holding off the storms and the thorns not the glint in my eye that proclaims the day is good so long as I can breathe and then and then it comes and goes and so it shows I need a better use of my rhyme.
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM UTC
Boom Went the Kryptonite
Rien n'est précaire comme vivre Rien comme être n'est passager C'est un peu fondre pour le givre Et pour le vent être léger J'arrive où je suis étranger Un jour tu passes la frontière D'où viens-tu mais où vas-tu donc Demain qu'importe et qu'importe hier Le coeur change avec le chardon Tout est sans rime ni pardon Passe ton doigt là sur ta tempe Touche l'enfance de tes yeux Mieux vaut laisser basses les lampes La nuit plus longtemps nous va mieux C'est le grand jour qui se fait vieux Les arbres sont beaux en automne Mais l'enfant qu'est-il devenu Je me regarde et je m'étonne De ce voyageur inconnu De son visage et ses pieds nus Peu a peu tu te fais silence Mais pas assez vite pourtant Pour ne sentir ta dissemblance Et sur le toi-même d'antan Tomber la poussière du temps C'est long vieillir au bout du compte Le sable en fuit entre nos doigts C'est comme une eau froide qui monte C'est comme une honte qui croît Un cuir à crier qu'on corroie C'est long d'être un homme une chose C'est long de renoncer à tout Et sens-tu les métamorphoses Qui se font au-dedans de nous Lentement plier nos genoux Ô mer amère ô mer profonde Quelle est l'heure de tes marées Combien faut-il d'années-secondes À l'homme pour l'homme abjurer Pourquoi pourquoi ces simagrées Rien n'est précaire comme vivre Rien comme être n'est passager C'est un peu fondre pour le givre Et pour le vent être léger J'arrive où je suis étranger.
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J'arrive où je suis étranger
It was the scent of juicy, honey dew melon, It was the golden kiss of the sun, It was the warm summer feel that let me know you were the one. It was reggae basses and baritones blessing the air, It was your lips on the back of my neck letting me know that you were there. It was the screech of the fan replacing the tune of the ice-cream van, It's funny how both joy and sadness reside with that man. It's the gentle waves smooching the edge of the tub, those summer nights, when we gently fell in love. T.S.
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 7:44 PM UTC
Those summer nights.
i said goodbye to the desert spit out a few grains of rust and sand as i sat in the back of my mother's grand marquis i was bidding farewell to the long plaid skirt i wore to school every day the school that was mercifully unmarred by bullets the glitter on the popcorn ceiling of my grandparents' home the smell of an overwhelming saturday evening which stank of discarded waste and cigarettes we were going somewhere special goodbye nuevo laredo eight years later i said goodbye again to a neat little home nested tightly amongst the bricks of others a hilly backyard bluebonnets sashaying on the side of the highway mexican restaurants every three blocks that could never replicate what i once had stars and stripes holding steady in the shade of a sycamore tree a glittering city in the distance i was in love and i was going somewhere special i was elated to escape both of my previous lives always finding myself awash with uncertainty adrift as i committed and uncommitted to a series of distractions from the beastly recesses of my pruned little brain that snarled about hopelessness abandonment a lack of worth and motivation maybe i knew i was meant to run since the moment of implantation my new neighborhood is impeccably silent at night no hollers to strain my ears for no ominous pop-pop-pops (was that a firework or could it be...) no jovial music with thundering basses and large round drums i eat pork drenched in teriyaki sauce and drink green tea in the evenings on the train, i gaze at the empty stares of other passengers my gaze is also unreadable i practice the strokes of a kanji one, two, three... my husband and i meander through temples heavy and groaning with the weight of a thousand years of life benevolent buddhas and Cheshire-grinned demons i can't help but think of the message of a western God that my mother recited to me every night in the black of our room sometimes i shuffle my feet in the square space of my living room to the tune of cumbia i used to think that i didn't have an identity no confinement to a culture conceived by the likes of men but i am what i am and i never actually escaped
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Nov 29, 2021
Nov 29, 2021 at 5:00 AM UTC
a life escaped
i said goodbye to the desert spit out a few grains of rust and sand as i sat in the back of my mother's grand marquis i was bidding farewell to the long plaid skirt i wore to school every day the school that was mercifully unmarred by bullets the glitter on the popcorn ceiling of my grandparents' home the smell of an overwhelming saturday evening which stank of discarded waste and cigarettes we were going somewhere special goodbye nuevo laredo eight years later i said goodbye again to a neat little home nested tightly amongst the bricks of others a hilly backyard bluebonnets sashaying on the side of the highway mexican restaurants every three blocks that could never replicate what i once had stars and stripes holding steady in the shade of a sycamore tree a glittering city in the distance i was in love and i was going somewhere special i was elated to escape both of my previous lives always finding myself awash with uncertainty adrift as i committed and uncommitted to a series of distractions from the beastly recesses of my pruned little brain that snarled about hopelessness abandonment a lack of worth and motivation maybe i knew i was meant to run since the moment of implantation my new neighborhood is impeccably silent at night no hollers to strain my ears for no ominous pop-pop-pops (was that a firework or could it be...) no jovial music with thundering basses and large round drums i eat pork drenched in teriyaki sauce and drink green tea in the evenings on the train, i gaze at the empty stares of other passengers my gaze is also unreadable i practice the strokes of a kanji one, two, three... my husband and i meander through temples heavy and groaning with the weight of a thousand years of life benevolent buddhas and Cheshire-grinned demons i can't help but think of the message of a western God that my mother recited to me every night in the black of our room sometimes i shuffle my feet in the square space of my living room to the tune of cumbia i used to think that i didn't have an identity no confinement to a culture conceived by the likes of men but i am what i am and i never actually escaped
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I play a game of chess with Marcel Duchamp Stripped bare totally but with looks still in the mood I make a final move to rook him into my moan 'You know I want to be the darkest queen of your dreams' He lifts calm his queen as his eyebrows but without really looking at me picks up my rook contiguously deepens some of his penetrating basses and whispers playfully: ' You already are my sweet Rose Sélavy and shall stay so eternally but … you know … for now...' and that 'but...for' mutes my **** mount line highlights a grin of an ingenious rhyme and briefs a victory on every strategic corner he knows to reach so well to at once turn me on at an endgame pattern of check to mate '... c'est la vie sweet Monsieur S' he whispers ' I want to be the lone king for my queen' and pushes solid his queen towards my defenseless territory.
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 5:28 PM UTC
Sélavy++
Delirious foaming sips Fidgeting for a cigarette I look like a raging manic Time to whistle the time away With strategies of how I could have spent It better ( My time I mean) Courting disaster A youth breathing in angst Working out the senseless semester Of continuous mistakes Sinking sailboat within the space of Sea in the back of my mind The bubbles pop like acid rain And I've nothing tangible to soak Up the stain I've perpetrated my desires into A crisp letter that I've labelled With a sticker of a lark Spun out on stress Reliving the sickness A gush of cough suppressed in My chest Vladimir Nabokov's ****** Explains it the best Contemplative in public places With my thoughts hung like Guitar basses Riffs in my skull that whisper How this phase is contagious And I'm still the only one left of my Peers with sweaty palms And a sore throat Dancing High to a symphony of lyres As I suddenly hit a sour note This vast mountain road Sliding back and forth on Riding to a sense of home I've Long ago forgotten Is this tingle normal? Is my preservation of self Illegal? Like that girl Lucy with Cartier in the sky? The leaves withered up long ago Like dry grapes and I can't wait Much longer in this combustible Longing for Someone's lies to shelter In my soft direction No use speaking about my Indiscretions Because no one ever listens till I utter "I told you so" I pour karma, dharma and nirvana Into a tea cup Finish the potion up And start to loosen my joints Poking along my skin in oddly Sewn points Walking through the doorway From one world to another To the waking screaming world From a heavily dosed slumber Seasons came and passed Grains of sand caress the insides Of an hourglass Waiting for forever it seems For some stranger I catch glimpses Of in my dreams Courses through my veins As novocaine After a bright vision solidified In numb numbers as they said it would be My blanket no longer fits me As my feet stick out contorted And my bleek sensation of safety Seems to have become distorted A calender left blank I sit in a shackled ruin I'm running on the brink And no longer doing things I thought knew me Withdrawing from stings Of the images in my fantasies
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Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
A Flickering Compass
Delirious foaming sips Fidgeting for a cigarette I look like a raging manic Time to whistle the time away With strategies of how I could have spent It better ( My time I mean) Courting disaster A youth breathing in angst Working out the senseless semester Of continuous mistakes Sinking sailboat within the space of Sea in the back of my mind The bubbles pop like acid rain And I've nothing tangible to soak Up the stain I've perpetrated my desires into A crisp letter that I've labelled With a sticker of a lark Spun out on stress Reliving the sickness A gush of cough suppressed in My chest Vladimir Nabokov's ****** Explains it the best Contemplative in public places With my thoughts hung like Guitar basses Riffs in my skull that whisper How this phase is contagious And I'm still the only one left of my Peers with sweaty palms And a sore throat Dancing High to a symphony of lyres As I suddenly hit a sour note This vast mountain road Sliding back and forth on Riding to a sense of home I've Long ago forgotten Is this tingle normal? Is my preservation of self Illegal? Like that girl Lucy with Cartier in the sky? The leaves withered up long ago Like dry grapes and I can't wait Much longer in this combustible Longing for Someone's lies to shelter In my soft direction No use speaking about my Indiscretions Because no one ever listens till I utter "I told you so" I pour karma, dharma and nirvana Into a tea cup Finish the potion up And start to loosen my joints Poking along my skin in oddly Sewn points Walking through the doorway From one world to another To the waking screaming world From a heavily dosed slumber Seasons came and passed Grains of sand caress the insides Of an hourglass Waiting for forever it seems For some stranger I catch glimpses Of in my dreams Courses through my veins As novocaine After a bright vision solidified In numb numbers as they said it would be My blanket no longer fits me As my feet stick out contorted And my bleek sensation of safety Seems to have become distorted A calender left blank I sit in a shackled ruin I'm running on the brink And no longer doing things I thought knew me Withdrawing from stings Of the images in my fantasies
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feeling throbbing basses deep inside my body your eyes locked with mine gazing right into my mind feeling your body against mine as if it were a single one song by song flies past us still it is as if time stands still
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Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 12:56 PM UTC
friday night
~ In the late 1960’s when my mother was in high school choir a ghost sang with them sometimes in the rehearsal room if all the basses, tenors, and sopranos joined on que and their tone and pitch were perfect a mysterious songbird arrived to harmonize with them near the ceiling octaves above their own voices. Mr. Dougherty, the instructor, would whoop and holler inviting their songbird, Alice, to sing louder… and without flaw when a tone reverberates in each of us a ghostly phenomenon of the normal variety rises to the ceiling to sing inside and with us all and as a species. In those moments our collective voices join in harmonious chorus we become one with each other and invite the natural world to come, and sing along. /
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May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 4:21 PM UTC
Overtones
There was a guy in glee club who was a composer and had perfect pitch, who wrote a cool piece for us glee clubbers to sing, so, I liked it, but there was one part that the conductor repeatedly said that the basses, which I was one, scooped the pitch, but, I didn't think so, so it ****** me off, and after a performance we had a party, and some of us went out back to sing this piece, so, right when we got to the part that the conductor was talking about, I scooped the hell out of the pitch, and the composer with perfect pitch said that he would never perform that piece again.
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Aug 13, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 at 10:52 AM UTC
Glee Club Three
Tu meurs d'envie de moi Et tu me dis tout de go J'ai envie de toi Là Maintenant Bande Bande Bande Et tu chronomètres le temps Qu'il me faudra pour atteindre La taille exacte que tu désires Et quand le petit soldat s'exécute Au quart de tour comme tu l'exiges Quand il pointe l'arme vers tes neiges éternelles Tu dis : Garde à vous, fixe Tu condamnes mes fesses au peloton d'exécution Au clic de ton appareil photo Tu tires à vue Tu mitrailles à bout portant Et quand tu es enfin satisfaite de la pose Tu dis : Déposez arme Et je me dégonfle Instantanément Et tu exaltes, tu jubiles De ta toute puissance Je suis ta chose, ton pantin Ton esclave Tu es ma maîtresse Et tu me flagelles à distance de ton flash. Et tu exiges des photos explicites Des gros plans, des détails intimes De mes parties honteuses Tu veux la vulve qui dort paisiblement sous mon aisselle Tu veux la raie du cul qui se dessine dans le creux de mon coude Tu veux la trique qui ronfle Au coeur de la mangrove du mont de Venus Tu veux le trou de mon cul dans le nombril béant Que je forme de mes plantes de pied jointes Tu veux que mon sein gauche secrète A gogo des tasse de café chaud arabica Tu veux tout Tout de suite Le tout et les parties Sans filtre Sans retouches Tu dis que mains et mes doigts t'excitent Et tu suces mes ongles pour en soutirer Les envies et les cuticules Et tu mordilles mes orteils Lentement l'un après l'autre Tu croques Histoire de voir si je suis chatouilleux Ou si je ne suis pas déjà mort Et tu veux que je me batte en douce Comme on bat la campagne Comme on bat un cil et les cartes Comme on bat le fer quand il est chaud Comme on bat le grain pour le moudre Comme on bat sa coulpe Comme on bat la mesure Et comme on bat son coeur Je me bats en douce Je te baptises de mon foutre Je te fais des messes basses Et je fais main basse sur tes envies A voix basse Je m'exécute Je t'exécute Car tu reignes vierge souveraine, En sourdine, Osmose et Extase, Dans mon royaume tantrique.
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Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 6:54 AM UTC
Envies
Tu meurs d'envie de moi Et tu me dis tout de go J'ai envie de toi Là Maintenant Bande Bande Bande Et tu chronomètres le temps Qu'il me faudra pour atteindre La taille exacte que tu désires Et quand le petit soldat s'exécute Au quart de tour comme tu l'exiges Quand il pointe l'arme vers tes neiges éternelles Tu dis : Garde à vous, fixe Tu condamnes mes fesses au peloton d'exécution Au clic de ton appareil photo Tu tires à vue Tu mitrailles à bout portant Et quand tu es enfin satisfaite de la pose Tu dis : Déposez arme Et je me dégonfle Instantanément Et tu exaltes, tu jubiles De ta toute puissance Je suis ta chose, ton pantin Ton esclave Tu es ma maîtresse Et tu me flagelles à distance de ton flash. Et tu exiges des photos explicites Des gros plans, des détails intimes De mes parties honteuses Tu veux la vulve qui dort paisiblement sous mon aisselle Tu veux la raie du cul qui se dessine dans le creux de mon coude Tu veux la trique qui ronfle Au coeur de la mangrove du mont de Venus Tu veux le trou de mon cul dans le nombril béant Que je forme de mes plantes de pied jointes Tu veux que mon sein gauche secrète A gogo des tasse de café chaud arabica Tu veux tout Tout de suite Le tout et les parties Sans filtre Sans retouches Tu dis que mains et mes doigts t'excitent Et tu suces mes ongles pour en soutirer Les envies et les cuticules Et tu mordilles mes orteils Lentement l'un après l'autre Tu croques Histoire de voir si je suis chatouilleux Ou si je ne suis pas déjà mort Et tu veux que je me batte en douce Comme on bat la campagne Comme on bat un cil et les cartes Comme on bat le fer quand il est chaud Comme on bat le grain pour le moudre Comme on bat sa coulpe Comme on bat la mesure Et comme on bat son coeur Je me bats en douce Je te baptises de mon foutre Je te fais des messes basses Et je fais main basse sur tes envies A voix basse Je m'exécute Je t'exécute Car tu reignes vierge souveraine, En sourdine, Osmose et Extase, Dans mon royaume tantrique.
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Mon amie, ma muse Nue et sincère Tu cherches l'oiseau rare, L'âme effervescente aux yeux d'eau noire, Aux yeux sans visage De sel, de cendre, de vin Qui te ressemble Et qui profusément te rassemble Entre tumescences et détumescences. Tu l'appelles Décébale, géant guerrier de pierre, Tu le pries Gilgamesh, immortel héros mythique, Tu le couves des yeux Lucifer, Ange déchu, doux démon Entre tumescences et détumescences Tu les synthétises, tu les allaites Tu les baptises et débaptises Tu les tatoues En femelle animale virginale En chatonne de lynx captive Un jour Regina, le lendemain Jao, le surlendemain Zoé. Je l'appelle sublime élan vital, Entre zénith et nadir, incandescence. Il se manifeste entre boursouflures, Dilatations, bascules, Turgescences, érections, éruptions, bandaisons, Flux et reflux de sang et de sève, Marées basses, dégorgements, Enflures, dégonflements, coulées de lave. Alors dans cet entre-deux parfait où les eaux Animales, humaines et divines Se déversent en impossible amour Ton masque entre en transe Et tu nages jusqu'au delta lustral Des colombes aux abois. Tu es Dyonissia, tu es Aura, Gradiva, Annabel Lee, Princesse Brambilla, Tu es immortelle, tu es Tout-Monde Entre tumescences et détumescences Tu renais immortelle.
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Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 2:17 PM UTC
Tumescences et détumescences