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Lovers entered a forbidden forest bower, And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes, Deep as his, deep in arousal's sleep, heels fell,  As he knocked and pulled her dark honey hair  And whispered, surrender, into wanting ears,  Softly he drove his hunting command, homing  To his huntress. Her body braced, yet bade, with heat and vibrance. Ruthlessly, he ****** his arrow deeper and then  Once more and then again.  She bucked fiercely  And defiant, goading his prodding lance ever more Ever longer, and parting the pink lines of her white Rose, he was, and once again, Prince to the dark Dominion of her quarters. In the middle of this carnal match they paused. And looking into the forest beyond they saw A yearling fawn, a feral Goddess, grazing still,  Bathing in a vale, virginal, wholly unmoved  By their act of venery, lustfully playing, in the innocent  Leaves.  It was as if they were among her kin, a gentle  Doe and a noble stag. From that moment on  The human hunters did not speak. Falling, again, rolling eyes were deep in arousal's sleep. Her back was a crescent moon pocked and wet with dew. He could feel her heart beating in time with his piercing  Prong, her arching back glistened in the suns spittle As it broke through the dark and vernal ceiling wood. In the final shot her quivering buck lowered and broke And a sound not heard, made a scene, a sweet murmuring Shuddered and sank onto the floor of the forest leaves  With her tale, taken and told, her breathless breath,  Her nostrils cold and her heated and lanced openings  Dripping, draining; here was a New World’s beginning. Sated, solemn and softly quaking, his woman sweetly laid, And now, doomed with her doe eyes, two lovers, fated, made; She glowed, divine, like the rolling brook that mellowed Slow, in the vine-dark and golden forest stable, In Artemis’s wood.
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Jun 15, 2012
Jun 15, 2012 at 1:33 PM UTC
In Artemis’s Wood
Lovers entered a forbidden forest bower, And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes, Deep as his, deep in arousal's sleep, heels fell,  As he knocked and pulled her dark honey hair  And whispered, surrender, into wanting ears,  Softly he drove his hunting command, homing  To his huntress. Her body braced, yet bade, with heat and vibrance. Ruthlessly, he ****** his arrow deeper and then  Once more and then again.  She bucked fiercely  And defiant, goading his prodding lance ever more Ever longer, and parting the pink lines of her white Rose, he was, and once again, Prince to the dark Dominion of her quarters. In the middle of this carnal match they paused. And looking into the forest beyond they saw A yearling fawn, a feral Goddess, grazing still,  Bathing in a vale, virginal, wholly unmoved  By their act of venery, lustfully playing, in the innocent  Leaves.  It was as if they were among her kin, a gentle  Doe and a noble stag. From that moment on  The human hunters did not speak. Falling, again, rolling eyes were deep in arousal's sleep. Her back was a crescent moon pocked and wet with dew. He could feel her heart beating in time with his piercing  Prong, her arching back glistened in the suns spittle As it broke through the dark and vernal ceiling wood. In the final shot her quivering buck lowered and broke And a sound not heard, made a scene, a sweet murmuring Shuddered and sank onto the floor of the forest leaves  With her tale, taken and told, her breathless breath,  Her nostrils cold and her heated and lanced openings  Dripping, draining; here was a New World’s beginning. Sated, solemn and softly quaking, his woman sweetly laid, And now, doomed with her doe eyes, two lovers, fated, made; She glowed, divine, like the rolling brook that mellowed Slow, in the vine-dark and golden forest stable, In Artemis’s wood.
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Did you know that every time he searched your eyes, While he pushed deep- That his emotions passion and lust was equivalent to her? For every time he traced his finger tip down your spine; your hands grasped to cover more surface. Cotton. Polyester. Satin, as you braced for smooth impact. He only understood the similar love language he shared with her. With you- craving of possessive feelings, Proving your worth to him asking for time via a clock whom hands couldn’t unwind Separate. Disintegrate. A Minaj a trios- unbeknownst to you existed, Co-starring you For every soft connection within each curve... Your identity was a reflection of another. For all the things you projected Marriage. House. Dog. Children. His capability of taking you to ecstasy, Lead you here Had you any clue? This little game called life, Excluded the other woman (you).
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 3:50 PM UTC
Wishful thinking
She may not have been your prototype teen or hiree. Or of the masses. Or herd. However, she did walk into a McDonald's approach the counter emit an esoteric exchange for help with the cashier and with knowing eyes the cashier directed her to the starting gate. Now with application in hand and blue ribbons in her eyes she was off to the horse races, nervousness riding on her shoulders. In my eyes, she was a longshot to win, where I could see her shoes falling off before the race started. And her imaginary jockey falling off her horse from laughing so hard, for she presented herself through the restaurant and a job interview with a Starbucks frappe, totally oblivious of her unwrapping. It would be like turning up for a Yankee's job in a Red Sox outfit. Who would do this? As the rubberneckers, I looked on. Incredulous. She took her seat at a vacant table carrying her youth awkward. Her looks of brown hair, eyes, and raw innocence complimentary. But those jeans, high risers, with holes in the knees with a white Bebe shirt that hugged her shape shouted trendy but not job interview. Oh, my. She continued the procession extracting info from her phone and filling out her application. No doubt with votive candles at her side and prayers on her lips. And perhaps blue ribbons awaiting. After all, this was her foot in the door. It was at this time I had an epiphany moment tears welling in my eyes as I slipped on hamburger choices and sipped on past life on a teether, totally oblivious, too. It was like looking in the mirror. Her youth and awkwardness and my growing decadence towards the light. When the manager came in and summoned her to the interview table, which was located in the dining room, I saw a little kitten purr inside of her, where her eyes nervously checked her surroundings. At first introduction, the reddening blush on her face and Adam's apple stood pronounced but her low voice was choked. Almost inaudible. As the manager put her calming hands into hers the light turned on all foreboding escaping. All misplaces and tense faces replaced with aces. This was a defining moment for her, as the golden arches braced her feet, making all the rubberneckers, me, proud. Logan Robertson 6/6/2018
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Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 12:19 AM UTC
Rubbernecking a McDonald's Job Interview
She may not have been your prototype teen or hiree. Or of the masses. Or herd. However, she did walk into a McDonald's approach the counter emit an esoteric exchange for help with the cashier and with knowing eyes the cashier directed her to the starting gate. Now with application in hand and blue ribbons in her eyes she was off to the horse races, nervousness riding on her shoulders. In my eyes, she was a longshot to win, where I could see her shoes falling off before the race started. And her imaginary jockey falling off her horse from laughing so hard, for she presented herself through the restaurant and a job interview with a Starbucks frappe, totally oblivious of her unwrapping. It would be like turning up for a Yankee's job in a Red Sox outfit. Who would do this? As the rubberneckers, I looked on. Incredulous. She took her seat at a vacant table carrying her youth awkward. Her looks of brown hair, eyes, and raw innocence complimentary. But those jeans, high risers, with holes in the knees with a white Bebe shirt that hugged her shape shouted trendy but not job interview. Oh, my. She continued the procession extracting info from her phone and filling out her application. No doubt with votive candles at her side and prayers on her lips. And perhaps blue ribbons awaiting. After all, this was her foot in the door. It was at this time I had an epiphany moment tears welling in my eyes as I slipped on hamburger choices and sipped on past life on a teether, totally oblivious, too. It was like looking in the mirror. Her youth and awkwardness and my growing decadence towards the light. When the manager came in and summoned her to the interview table, which was located in the dining room, I saw a little kitten purr inside of her, where her eyes nervously checked her surroundings. At first introduction, the reddening blush on her face and Adam's apple stood pronounced but her low voice was choked. Almost inaudible. As the manager put her calming hands into hers the light turned on all foreboding escaping. All misplaces and tense faces replaced with aces. This was a defining moment for her, as the golden arches braced her feet, making all the rubberneckers, me, proud. Logan Robertson 6/6/2018
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When letters wait to pounce on a blank page when thoughts crowd the mind like frothing **** in a pond I keep wondering what poetry is to me what poetry is to many Is it not the language of the heart with no intervention of gray matter the unlocking of closed vaults stirring the embers of love, hurt or pain or giving a free rein to fancy and flying on magic carpets to lands forlorn Sometimes it is a glide into a sea of tranquillity an escape from the humdrum of the world a flash of liberation from assaults of pain a sedative to numb the turmoil a sanctuary for a burdened heart a window to look at the world through a companion when one is inconsolably alone a candle flame in a darkening world a cloth line to hang the ***** laundry a water lily blooming in the pool of tears a shelter in homelessness sometimes it is a ladder to climb up to Heavens an angel on wings with tidings of hope peace in a world braced for war Poetry, if you are all these let us fall at your feet bless us in our art may we splurge in fancy and conjure up worlds from words! our poems may not be light houses but could be fireflies on a starless night!
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Dec 20, 2017
Dec 20, 2017 at 11:56 AM UTC
What Poetry Is
2011: Here and there, you called my name For this is what you christened me “Maple is a hurricane.” Here and there you called my name. Face to face, you’ll ascertain That this is not the truth, you’ll see I’m not a ******* hurricane For this is what you christened me. 2015: Hear, and where you called my name – Abyss is what you christened me. Oh, “Maple is a hurricane!Said puppeteer’s overt reframe. Braced and faced, they’ll ascertain That this just YOUR truth – decreed You sought a ******* hurricane **Within YOURSELF; yet, christened ME.** HURRICANE MEDUSA, *******
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 12:27 AM UTC
STOP THE HURRICANE
He motioned for her to take her place on the back. He braced himself steady as she slid herself onto the rack. Once she had settled, he handed her his gunny sack, He told her keep it safe as he tackled the offbeaten track. The night was quiet, save for the crickets chirping in unison Hiding behind the clouds, the moon gave out a dim ominous glow. The tapper finally felt a tiny sliver of trepidation He wasn't sure of the outcome, that night would eventually show. The whole time, he was thinking in his busy little head... He tried to devise ways to thwart this playful, mischievous being. But those thoughts of his were quickly derailed instead. For her perfumed presence was very much intoxicating. Soon they had arrived at the foot of the hill He hastened his pedalling to meet the uphill slope. He would have continued slamming on the pedals until... He felt her hand on his shoulder clench into a tight ***** He tilted his head back towards his beautiful passenger. In a calm manner he mouthed the words asking, "What's the matter?" Her voice came right after in a nervous stammer, "Would you mind slowing down because last night this was where I had fallen over..."
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 8:26 AM UTC
Moment of Truth (VI)
She was sitting on her windowsill, looking at the tree's. She was sitting on the windowsill, with her hands between her knee's. Her mind was at the edge of nowhere, waiting to be seen. But nobody came to look for her, not the clouds, nor the tree's. Her feet were braced right at the edge, no longer anyplace to flee. She was sitting on her windowsill, thinking how soft the ground looked way up with the tree's. Downwards she tumbled, now she was seen. She is sitting at her windowsill, floating with the birds and the bee's.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
She was Sitting on her Windowsill
Bright buds hang precarious on their limbs. Their hundreds of digits green and supple sway as the winds try gently at first to shake them from their perches. They snap back, their ties elastic, always bending. The wind struck harder the third time. It caught them off guard, swinging back to face the sun. It barreled over them like a train, limbs snapped like bones under tons of industrial revolutionary steel, the cracking brings tears to the eyes of passersby. They were so green, so verdant was their exuberant friendship, covered in rosy flesh and sturdy bark, ring after ring of tribulation and triumph, but it fractured like a wish bone. She, Persephone, prosecutor of Her, Demeter, was judge of them both, prisoner of herself. Solitary confinement. She tugged at her half, she needed the wish, She need for Demeter to see that She needed wishes just like the rest of us. Demeter, jury. 12. Her crime: attempted impartiality, balancing a utilitarian ideal that we can divide our attention based on who needs it most. She cannot be tried on account of her inability to read Braille ciphers in gestures, ****** expressions, and Tumblr posts. Demeter tugged at her half, but only enough to show the other that she was there, but consistently there. It wasn’t enough. Snap. No marrow could be found. Where flesh was meant to be dripped rot, an odor of resentment filled their nostrils, it choked Demeter, as Persephone had been choking for years. This resentment, this cancer, this jealousy, it grew inside of Persephone like a tumor, days from metastasizing, the spread could have killed them. Amputate. You two are a tree. Bright buds dangling from every limb, they are still soft and green and supple at their ends. You two are still growing. Persephone will cut out this cancer, and She will heal herself, scar tissues covered by broadleafs. You will soothe them for her. And you will see past the rosy flesh what pain it may hide. And you two will grow. Roots firm, faces braced against the wind, and limbs always turned towards the sun.
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May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013 at 5:36 PM UTC
When the Wind Strikes, They Snap Back, Always Elastic
Bright buds hang precarious on their limbs. Their hundreds of digits green and supple sway as the winds try gently at first to shake them from their perches. They snap back, their ties elastic, always bending. The wind struck harder the third time. It caught them off guard, swinging back to face the sun. It barreled over them like a train, limbs snapped like bones under tons of industrial revolutionary steel, the cracking brings tears to the eyes of passersby. They were so green, so verdant was their exuberant friendship, covered in rosy flesh and sturdy bark, ring after ring of tribulation and triumph, but it fractured like a wish bone. She, Persephone, prosecutor of Her, Demeter, was judge of them both, prisoner of herself. Solitary confinement. She tugged at her half, she needed the wish, She need for Demeter to see that She needed wishes just like the rest of us. Demeter, jury. 12. Her crime: attempted impartiality, balancing a utilitarian ideal that we can divide our attention based on who needs it most. She cannot be tried on account of her inability to read Braille ciphers in gestures, ****** expressions, and Tumblr posts. Demeter tugged at her half, but only enough to show the other that she was there, but consistently there. It wasn’t enough. Snap. No marrow could be found. Where flesh was meant to be dripped rot, an odor of resentment filled their nostrils, it choked Demeter, as Persephone had been choking for years. This resentment, this cancer, this jealousy, it grew inside of Persephone like a tumor, days from metastasizing, the spread could have killed them. Amputate. You two are a tree. Bright buds dangling from every limb, they are still soft and green and supple at their ends. You two are still growing. Persephone will cut out this cancer, and She will heal herself, scar tissues covered by broadleafs. You will soothe them for her. And you will see past the rosy flesh what pain it may hide. And you two will grow. Roots firm, faces braced against the wind, and limbs always turned towards the sun.
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. Lovers entered a forbidden forest bower, And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes, Deep as his, deep in arousal's sleep, heels fell, As he knocked and pulled her dark honey hair And whispered, surrender, into wanting ears, Softly he drove his hunting command, homing To his huntress. Her body braced, yet bade, with heat and vibrance. Ruthlessly, he ****** his arrow deeper and then Once more and then again.  She bucked fiercely And defiant, goading his prodding lance ever more Ever longer, and parting the pink lines of her white Rose, he was, and once again, Prince to the dark Dominion of her quarters. In the middle of this carnal match they paused. And looking into the forest beyond they saw A yearling fawn, a feral Goddess, grazing still, Bathing in a vale, virginal, wholly unmoved By their act of venery, lustfully playing, in the innocent Leaves.  It was as if they were among her kin, a gentle Doe and a noble stag. From that moment on The human hunters did not speak. Falling, again, rolling eyes were deep in arousal's sleep. Her back was a crescent moon pocked and wet with dew. He could feel her heart beating in time with his piercing Prong, her arching back glistened in the suns spittle As it broke through the dark and vernal ceiling wood. In the final shot her quivering buck lowered and broke And a sound not heard, made a scene, a sweet murmuring Shuddered and sank onto the floor of the forest leaves With her tale, taken and told, her breathless breath, Her nostrils cold and her heated and lanced openings Dripping, draining; here was a New World’s beginning. Sated, solemn and softly quaking, his woman sweetly laid, And now, doomed with her doe eyes, two lovers, fated, made; She glowed, divine, like the rolling brook that mellowed Slow, in the vine-dark and golden forest stable, In Artemis’s wood. .
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May 3, 2018
May 3, 2018 at 2:50 PM UTC
In Artemis’s Wood
. Lovers entered a forbidden forest bower, And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes, Deep as his, deep in arousal's sleep, heels fell, As he knocked and pulled her dark honey hair And whispered, surrender, into wanting ears, Softly he drove his hunting command, homing To his huntress. Her body braced, yet bade, with heat and vibrance. Ruthlessly, he ****** his arrow deeper and then Once more and then again.  She bucked fiercely And defiant, goading his prodding lance ever more Ever longer, and parting the pink lines of her white Rose, he was, and once again, Prince to the dark Dominion of her quarters. In the middle of this carnal match they paused. And looking into the forest beyond they saw A yearling fawn, a feral Goddess, grazing still, Bathing in a vale, virginal, wholly unmoved By their act of venery, lustfully playing, in the innocent Leaves.  It was as if they were among her kin, a gentle Doe and a noble stag. From that moment on The human hunters did not speak. Falling, again, rolling eyes were deep in arousal's sleep. Her back was a crescent moon pocked and wet with dew. He could feel her heart beating in time with his piercing Prong, her arching back glistened in the suns spittle As it broke through the dark and vernal ceiling wood. In the final shot her quivering buck lowered and broke And a sound not heard, made a scene, a sweet murmuring Shuddered and sank onto the floor of the forest leaves With her tale, taken and told, her breathless breath, Her nostrils cold and her heated and lanced openings Dripping, draining; here was a New World’s beginning. Sated, solemn and softly quaking, his woman sweetly laid, And now, doomed with her doe eyes, two lovers, fated, made; She glowed, divine, like the rolling brook that mellowed Slow, in the vine-dark and golden forest stable, In Artemis’s wood. .
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It was silent as Chelsea crept into the room There I lay, nestled to sleep with a teddy bear The moonlight on my back, soothing light She awoke me violently, shaking me ashen And my eyes widened in terror at her face It didn't take long for her to find something A tool to suit the job, my punishment I was a bad sister, always was I wrong So she found a pair of shoes, my shoes And I braced for the nightly beating But Chelsea had something else in mind As she removed the lace from one of them She gripped an end in each hand, staring And she moved on top of me, saying; "I hate you, stupid attention ***** She placed the string over my throat And she pressed down very hard, frowning I felt my airway constrict, and I struggled She put her knees on my elbows in anger And my begging made her push harder As I began to see gray, I remember a tear But not the many that I released, I know Because I felt it patter onto my dying face And I sputtered and arched my back, hoping And Chelsea only pressed harder, murderous As I drifted out of consciousness, I heard My brothers voice, sweet brother Damien And he slapped Chelsea and pulled her off As I curled up and breathed delicious air And he caressed my face, and hugged me That night acted as a catalyst for hatred And within myself I bred a monster But I suppose I cannot give credit for My mistakes, to the true genesis of pain I just haven't found anything else to blame
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 4:15 AM UTC
Birth Of Hatred
ever since my childhood broke and the safety net disintegrated I've been running and holding it high above, arms aching in a futile attempt to stop things falling through woven seams. Sometimes it works and I stare up, neck burning, to the things I cannot touch. I do not look down to the debris scattered around me, to the failures of my braced shoulders, slipping through like water; impacting like stones. once I caught a fisherman; he threaded silver secrets through twine using smiles and sympathy and I lowered my arms, to keep him alongside. There were some places he couldn't reach but that was ok, because we ran for an eternity ensnared in each second. it was a particularly beautiful day when I noticed him slowing, staring out to sea, steps faltering and new smiles forming that were not faced to me. He left me and dived headfirst, forgetting that fisherman cannot swim. He drowned as I ran on, arms outstretched above me as the net danced in the wind and everything fell through. I have never stopped, never ceased these thundering steps; my eyes are still turned to the sky, the holes in my net cast beautiful shadows and through them I see the stars and wait impatient for the night when they too fall.
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 10:52 AM UTC
I wished for a lifeboat.
moving past the foliage I smack back the tangled brush a strange truth revealed my emotions in a rush Here I am in this hell-hatched bind braced against the winds grasping at shards            of the Divine for they're inside me, all those pieces jagged glass and soft meringue my innards humming shades of the blues in offbeat notes of pain and I know that deep within between my earthly beats of heart resides a light that's only mine that slices through this drape of dark It's a heavy nightcloak breaking as I reach out from                      the abyss praying for the comfort of my soul's bright morning                 kiss
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 7:38 PM UTC
breaking it
Festive morn, I crossed with thee Embellished silk shines with whirling elegance— Of translucent textures and fine fragrance The royal formation— that anticipates a chance— A romantic browse of catered acquaintance. As I swipe to slant,— Thy arms braced my shoulders— and uplift me— In awe of my still, Slipped palms of thy distant longed— In the halls of hide and seek— Despite the fragments,— Thou aimed to break the lines,— Chasing this harmony, Unravelling the elflock sway;— to clutch the Orchid; Until she stays..
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Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020 at 2:56 AM UTC
Festive Morn, I Crossed With Thee(I)
. 1 In the corner stands My blue guitar, Mirrors my grimace. 2 I have played you So like dream was the dear song Where you playing me? 3 Your body makes mine Shudder as I imagine A woman in my arms. 4 At the top of your body Are keys unwound at the ready, Silver spirals of tunings. 5 My soul is near hollow But the blue guitar Is filling in the foundations. 6 What makes the blue guitar So shining in the mundane, All the world is makeshift. 7 My fingers wet with you, What water sounds like, As it kisses the earth. 8 Deep in the strings I summon my being, Always blue as sheer sky. 9 Blue guitar, silent, singing, My fingers ***** your neck, Never do you scream. 10 Once I heard music, The sweetest tabulations Of sorrows in rosewood. 11 My fingers ache on steel, These are your moved guts, Strings that I borrow. 12 At an open window, All the day obtuse, I hear birds in your vibrations, Untouched air of blue guitar. 13 I do not know anything, Music is lathed on an open fret, The heart is beating to a note of bliss, Hole set in the body braced by wood, Time cuts as it is sectioned, a staff fires, All the chords are listed in primes, Is the ear a window or is the eye, Blind in the choral songs we make, All things are ephemeral, wonderings, Variations we work as structure fades, As the blue guitar is touched, turning light.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 9:37 PM UTC
Thirteen Thoughts on the Blue Guitar
As the wet wind hums its way through our two tower six-cylinder apartment complex. Birds fall from their naked winter wept branches, braced by stiff bones, mapped out in Alexandria, carrying notes from El Salvador. The corner market is closed, never opened. A hair salon stands in its place, it wrings out the "R's" from a Philadelphia warshing. And like every night, hot air cakes on an extra layer of indecipherable red dots up the arms and around the neck, minute pustules of hypochondria that steal my finger tips from the keyboard. I scratch and tip them, looking under their fiery scarlet caps for, I-don't-know-what disease. Paul says It's that magic school bus melanoma, typhoid drip, it comes at you from a computer screen and eats at your nervous system until you've got the wambles. Tuesday's used to be the worst, until I OWNED THAT **** I make a pronoun out of aluminum foil and wear it as a hat on a first date. Tinder is not bad for conceptual art projects. I carry it within me like an anodyne complex, out into the frozenness; into my mouth the air comes around my teeth, behind my uvula until winter freezes my voice and I am breathless. I abandon my miniature house to enter the pyramidal pinetum to the North. Wild paradise shrubs gather with songless animal noises watching as I take naked photographs of my father to preserve his body from anything less than his great immortal end. He lives on black moss and water from a nearby pond, he authors the face of Anthony Hopkins, thrown about, another casualty of fervid and blurry dreaming.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
Hologram Father
As the wet wind hums its way through our two tower six-cylinder apartment complex. Birds fall from their naked winter wept branches, braced by stiff bones, mapped out in Alexandria, carrying notes from El Salvador. The corner market is closed, never opened. A hair salon stands in its place, it wrings out the "R's" from a Philadelphia warshing. And like every night, hot air cakes on an extra layer of indecipherable red dots up the arms and around the neck, minute pustules of hypochondria that steal my finger tips from the keyboard. I scratch and tip them, looking under their fiery scarlet caps for, I-don't-know-what disease. Paul says It's that magic school bus melanoma, typhoid drip, it comes at you from a computer screen and eats at your nervous system until you've got the wambles. Tuesday's used to be the worst, until I OWNED THAT **** I make a pronoun out of aluminum foil and wear it as a hat on a first date. Tinder is not bad for conceptual art projects. I carry it within me like an anodyne complex, out into the frozenness; into my mouth the air comes around my teeth, behind my uvula until winter freezes my voice and I am breathless. I abandon my miniature house to enter the pyramidal pinetum to the North. Wild paradise shrubs gather with songless animal noises watching as I take naked photographs of my father to preserve his body from anything less than his great immortal end. He lives on black moss and water from a nearby pond, he authors the face of Anthony Hopkins, thrown about, another casualty of fervid and blurry dreaming.
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Before they fought, they had simple lives. Remember them, their loves and their wives. Others they served and many came home. They parted from service but went on alone. Heroes; the wounded, the brave or the scared Each one fighting hard, standing tough, as he dared. Returned to their homes, they remember alarms; Soldiers they served with, their Brothers In Arms. Into their minds, memories battle their war. Now home in safety, miss them once more. All go into battle, braced for the fight Remember their Brothers In Arms in the night. Memorial Day calls them, witness to bear - Such Brothers In Arms, they will always be there. Lin Cava©
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Oct 18, 2010
Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 AM UTC
Brothers In Arms - an acrostic
I want to be that girl in the photograph The one where happiness is etched on her face And her eyes are overflowing with joy The one where her smile shows her passion And how she’s so full of confidence The one where her expression shows her courage And how she uses it to set her ambitions high The one where she’s so comfortable being who she is And so at ease with doing what she loves The one where there’s no sign of fear Nor even a little hint of doubt The one where trust comes naturally And a fault isn’t to be found But sometime between then and now Life threw what it could at her And her confidence wavered Her courage was destroyed Her ambitions thrown away Her eyes left lifeless Her smile was forced And any love, trust or happiness was gone And she was no longer the girl in the photograph, The one where she was caught in the middle of a laugh Then sometime a little after now A realization hit her quite hard The girl in the photograph came to see That it wasn’t life that made her feel empty She opened her eyes and was surprised at what she saw It was her who’d taken herself down, with a mighty hard blow And she was the reason she suffered such pain So sick of it she became That she stood up and braced herself And made a decision that would change her life She decided: She was going to be the girl in the photograph again.
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 1:43 PM UTC
The Girl in the Photograph
. 1 In the corner stands My blue guitar, Mirrors my grimace. 2 I have played you So like dream was the dear song Where you playing me? 3 Your body makes mine Shudder as I imagine A woman in my arms. 4 At the top of your body Are keys unwound at the ready, Silver spirals of tunings. 5 My soul is near hollow But the blue guitar Is filling in the foundations. 6 What makes the blue guitar So shining in the mundane, All the world is makeshift. 7 My fingers wet with you, What water sounds like, As it kisses the earth. 8 Deep in the strings I summon my being, Always blue as sheer sky. 9 Blue guitar, silent, singing, My fingers ***** your neck, Never do you scream. 10 Once I heard music, The sweetest tabulations Of sorrows in rosewood. 11 My fingers ache on steel, These are your moved guts, Strings that I borrow. 12 At an open window, All the day obtuse, I hear birds in your vibrations, Untouched air of blue guitar. 13 I do not know anything, Music is lathed on an open fret, The heart is beating to a note of bliss, Hole set in the body braced by wood, Time cuts as it is sectioned, a staff fires, All the chords are listed in primes, Is the ear a window or is the eye, Blind in the choral songs we make, All things are ephemeral, wonderings, Variations we work as structure fades, As the blue guitar is touched, turning light.
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 5:23 PM UTC
Thirteen Thoughts on the Blue Guitar
We were building a boat. A sea-worthy vessel made for two. A cosy little nest, a shell of the promise for me and you. We made it sturdy... From keel to hull. We sang to each other to oust the lull. We spoke of the adventures, together we'd avidly chase. We braced for the storms, we'd most likely face. As the last drop of sweat... Fell freely to our feet, the boat was done. What were once planks, was then complete. I climbed aboard and hoisted up the sail. You lingered for a bit... Seemingly cautious that the boat might fail. The craft quickly drifted out to sea... When the wind, the sail did willingly welcome. I cried out to you so you could hop on... So with me you could come. But you simply stood there... With a gaze incredibly deadpan. As the currents pulled me further, I only then realised... That I was never your plan.
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Jul 29, 2016
Jul 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC
Shell of a Promise
11/24/2017 Everybody says i dodged a bullet But the bullet landed As for the trigger, was it him or me that pulled it? I thought he helped my heart expand its hard to think i even could with Both feet braced on solid ground Our situationship wasnt planned I know its hard to understand From the outside its easy to brand me Can we analyze every time i noticed how masterfully he handled me? I understand that time is the only poultice But for a moment Id like to be candid please The bullet landed and it travelled It ripped a path through my flesh Day by day i ate less and less Let this be as many lessons As you can manage to pull from this The side pieces and the rest is all fluff and ******** He put strings on my heart and pulled it And i danced and said “how high” And my soul became dull it became harder and harder to wake up every day Is it ok to say the only redeeming quality is that he never struck me? But i wanted to escape the pain of being stuck he told me never, ever again to cut He didnt see that he was the reason i needed release The Mona Lisa was out of luck Finally the bullet festered The pain became so great And the benefits so much less The bullet ripped a path I cut it out and sealed it back Now the bullet is nothing but waste And i can find a new way to relate New tissue to create It takes talent to close, to suture they say “Approximate, dont strangulate” And now the bullet is disposed So they say i dodged a bullet But the bullet landed It ripped a path through my flesh Til i became so much less And the wound began to fester So i cut out the bullet and cleaned up the rest Now i have a scar to show the truth The bullet landed And i still choose Not to be bulletproof
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Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 8:21 PM UTC
Bulletproof
11/24/2017 Everybody says i dodged a bullet But the bullet landed As for the trigger, was it him or me that pulled it? I thought he helped my heart expand its hard to think i even could with Both feet braced on solid ground Our situationship wasnt planned I know its hard to understand From the outside its easy to brand me Can we analyze every time i noticed how masterfully he handled me? I understand that time is the only poultice But for a moment Id like to be candid please The bullet landed and it travelled It ripped a path through my flesh Day by day i ate less and less Let this be as many lessons As you can manage to pull from this The side pieces and the rest is all fluff and ******** He put strings on my heart and pulled it And i danced and said “how high” And my soul became dull it became harder and harder to wake up every day Is it ok to say the only redeeming quality is that he never struck me? But i wanted to escape the pain of being stuck he told me never, ever again to cut He didnt see that he was the reason i needed release The Mona Lisa was out of luck Finally the bullet festered The pain became so great And the benefits so much less The bullet ripped a path I cut it out and sealed it back Now the bullet is nothing but waste And i can find a new way to relate New tissue to create It takes talent to close, to suture they say “Approximate, dont strangulate” And now the bullet is disposed So they say i dodged a bullet But the bullet landed It ripped a path through my flesh Til i became so much less And the wound began to fester So i cut out the bullet and cleaned up the rest Now i have a scar to show the truth The bullet landed And i still choose Not to be bulletproof
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Please remember to remember not to forget to remember We braced the chill and last shared voices in November When with reasons unknown you suddenly lost your temper And in faceless avenue unseen you put it all in a damper Please remember to remember not to forget to remember Two minds steep in years hoping to revive a dying ember Angling wisely for the solace of light in a peaceful chamber Rising for noble ideals each a worthy conscientious member Please remember to remember not to forget to remember I stoke flames and called out doves in days before September Not for glory or gain but in delight to fly a friend wishes tender Homage to a smile Lisa, like that made by da Vinci the painter Please remember to remember not to forget to remember Now its time to seek the Sun afar in the land of greens and timber soothing words that shows the grace and give of a friend keeper Remains aloof to a joyless onerous mind that will only get sadder Please remember to remember not to forget to remember Empty pride rousing clouded mind makes it fittingly simpler Strength and clarity to atone chimes only wit now't sinister A truer pilgrim seeks pardon and deftly shames attitudes insular To the wise what cost affinity in the garland of true harmony Copyright. LaurenceA31stJuly2018.Allrightsreserved.
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 6:51 AM UTC
Please Remember To Remember.....
A yellow jacket Pulsed while scaling candied ham Then braced, sawed a piece Away it swayed amongst oaks Cicadas shrilled loud and hot
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Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012 at 10:19 PM UTC
Late August Picnic
the day I fell in love for the first time was the second time it was meeting you first, all halo handcuffs and hallelujah I'm no playwright honey, but we were one act scene 1 you should have kissed her scene 2 you should have kissed her scene 3 you should have kissed her scene 4 when you meet, it isn't always magic scene 5 when you walk, fall behind on purpose just incase she falls scene 6 stumble on purpose just to grab a hold of her scene 7 wear her arm like a chokechain and pretend you won't let go scene 8 she has a bad memory and I am easy to forget scene 9 it's been days and elvis songs are still making me hide my face, I call myself lover and remind myself it's been days. it's been days. I let her hold me, let her make me honest; honestly, her tears are hymns waiting to be sung through the right teeth. and those sparkling lights that we did a push and pull dance beneath we both wanted to hold eachother's hands. I was made for the leaving, I was made for the breaking, my bones are braced. But honey you have god in your palms and you don't want to let him see you crack me. Open, like my heart when you whispered thank you for your poems. Thank you for loving me. But this is not a performance, this is a recollection of memories. Tapping on my tongue saying stop stuttering, idiot. Tell her you love her. Tell her two years ago you fell in love with an artist. And now you'll never die. scene 10 she's watching you stumble over your words about her scene 11 I still love you scene 12 I always will end scene.
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 6:09 PM UTC
a 12 scene act and a 1 act play
the day I fell in love for the first time was the second time it was meeting you first, all halo handcuffs and hallelujah I'm no playwright honey, but we were one act scene 1 you should have kissed her scene 2 you should have kissed her scene 3 you should have kissed her scene 4 when you meet, it isn't always magic scene 5 when you walk, fall behind on purpose just incase she falls scene 6 stumble on purpose just to grab a hold of her scene 7 wear her arm like a chokechain and pretend you won't let go scene 8 she has a bad memory and I am easy to forget scene 9 it's been days and elvis songs are still making me hide my face, I call myself lover and remind myself it's been days. it's been days. I let her hold me, let her make me honest; honestly, her tears are hymns waiting to be sung through the right teeth. and those sparkling lights that we did a push and pull dance beneath we both wanted to hold eachother's hands. I was made for the leaving, I was made for the breaking, my bones are braced. But honey you have god in your palms and you don't want to let him see you crack me. Open, like my heart when you whispered thank you for your poems. Thank you for loving me. But this is not a performance, this is a recollection of memories. Tapping on my tongue saying stop stuttering, idiot. Tell her you love her. Tell her two years ago you fell in love with an artist. And now you'll never die. scene 10 she's watching you stumble over your words about her scene 11 I still love you scene 12 I always will end scene.
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