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"breathy" poems
who is this husky? shedding luck and fur down by the horizon. town tips in snow & breathy-fog. the mountain tips and prays on bowed-knee, to daughters in pursuit of happiness, & trees. she’s out there looking for the best in mother madness. a horse’s bangs, sprung moon to ridge to purpling autumn-seared fields four days lit. this ease into living, carousel, carnival of lights & love. the rolling of a family unit. the sound and punched beauty of it. like when we were birds, or kids, or humming the sun strummed hills. [ catch a dream. ] open your little eyes, bear cub. see small pools of sulphurous heat & repeat, let go the smoke to breathe.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 12:14 AM UTC
mountain town
. Each morning I rise unto hours, Wheeling in sun, with wee wild flowers. An hearty wish, on hills by the sea Each day I skip about live stones, In winds I run, deep dancing my bones. I am made of each, cairn on hillocky Each sweep of air a breathy kiss, On skyline by the sea, one mighty bliss. Dancing my bones, in winds I run Each hour a new turning of page, Each heap on hill, of these I am made. Wild wee flowers, wheeling in the sun
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 12:52 AM UTC
Mighty
I dropped by my favorite place today, released another exhausted breath. My pants were bulging out and the fat kept me stretched out. I hate that feeling. My stomach turned into billowy waves of expectant marks, pinning through my outer skin. I hate that feeling. When I sit, my thigh provokes every nerve in my body. If she has thoughts, she'll be a demon whispering through the wind. My unkempt hair is spinning around like gravity does not exist. Somehow, I failed to sigh out the black smoke forming all over my body. My skin, when pinched, is like soft straps that cannot be withdrawn from their owner. My skin is like the skin of my ancestor—it keeps stretching widely, tirelessly, and unprovoked. My heart is tightening its grasp on me. God, please help me! My eyes! I swallowed all my tears away, but my reflection still reflects the dark hue of the moon. When it is sad, the moon exposes his true nature, just like rolled down skins on my neck. My hands go from gently holding my heart out of my chest to weighing the weight of my body. If I let out my thick heart, my body would be lighter and my skin would be a plethora of scars and clay. If I abandon thee and such a calloused body, art will find me beautiful, and that is one of the moon's other sides. It's thick and uncooked. The heavens may not forsake an insecure moon, but a woman hates her reflection when the moonlight lights on her flesh. "Mirror, mirror on the wall..." I called and they did not answer. I froze in my seat and waited until the sun bloomed and dried my tears. Yet I still could not breathe. I went into the sea and swam with the lonely whales. The sun reflected on the waters. I reached letter fourteen, but it was written by someone else. The ambience of the calm ocean washed over me. I released a breathy sigh, and the light went to take me.
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Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022 at 1:28 PM UTC
Letter Thirteen from Gaia's Journal
I dropped by my favorite place today, released another exhausted breath. My pants were bulging out and the fat kept me stretched out. I hate that feeling. My stomach turned into billowy waves of expectant marks, pinning through my outer skin. I hate that feeling. When I sit, my thigh provokes every nerve in my body. If she has thoughts, she'll be a demon whispering through the wind. My unkempt hair is spinning around like gravity does not exist. Somehow, I failed to sigh out the black smoke forming all over my body. My skin, when pinched, is like soft straps that cannot be withdrawn from their owner. My skin is like the skin of my ancestor—it keeps stretching widely, tirelessly, and unprovoked. My heart is tightening its grasp on me. God, please help me! My eyes! I swallowed all my tears away, but my reflection still reflects the dark hue of the moon. When it is sad, the moon exposes his true nature, just like rolled down skins on my neck. My hands go from gently holding my heart out of my chest to weighing the weight of my body. If I let out my thick heart, my body would be lighter and my skin would be a plethora of scars and clay. If I abandon thee and such a calloused body, art will find me beautiful, and that is one of the moon's other sides. It's thick and uncooked. The heavens may not forsake an insecure moon, but a woman hates her reflection when the moonlight lights on her flesh. "Mirror, mirror on the wall..." I called and they did not answer. I froze in my seat and waited until the sun bloomed and dried my tears. Yet I still could not breathe. I went into the sea and swam with the lonely whales. The sun reflected on the waters. I reached letter fourteen, but it was written by someone else. The ambience of the calm ocean washed over me. I released a breathy sigh, and the light went to take me.
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The trellis of oak trees winked, captured my soul in a spinney, chalked whispers of free promises breathy like a silken shawl trailing Those wise men of old, withered skin of bark, tall and strong, waving their introduction. They bowed to me in free form, in humble escapism. Sun had stroked their warm palms, fed them sweet sap. To my left a stray leaf, rested amid invisibility, caught the air train, and spiralled free. Twizzled to the green painted rug basking under my cotton covered feet. Reaching out, it blew away, I chased the freedom fields. The brook teased it and set sail under the woody bridge, green from seasonal tears. Lost sight as it spun the space between us. The grass sprung its beginnings in full Spring, tall in parts, summer not yet wrapped and ready to visit us, much less invited to the summer ball where shadows are ten a penny, and sunshine bought on every street corner.  I am among spring devoured in daffodil eiderdowns, elbowing out the crocus, snowdrop chandeliers. I seagull my way, swaying in step with willow, blossoming surprising myself, how I let go of school day shivers, tinkering my brain into gear for terms talking tightness, cramming commas, fat full stops.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 7:47 AM UTC
The Park in Spring
Lay rest your flashing glaze of wishes Down received for a moment Breathy bow lifts to hold and waver across few measures Sienna and topaz Sienna and topaz Singe and simmer Shine and glimmer against All the thoughts born and dead What makes you eager to rise If it is not sensing gone away stories or nursing the aches that lunge through anywhere else but here While you replay and delay all creation the blossoming goes unseen She, the maiden is reigning Une palais à remplir Une palais à remplir where she is her own queen Her oceans made of no time channel open mouths flooding its spill She waded into The archer Downed in his own vessel he mistook himself the pilot of He, marooned in the surrender of damp and fertile places where in Death he is still recovering Soldiering and sullen Soldiering and sullen He is choking, and can not stop to see or savor the blossoms rising from his own till
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Jan 5, 2022
Jan 5, 2022 at 9:03 PM UTC
Remplir
Blue eyes watching. Blushing at the sight at the very thought.  Flushed with emotion. Hearts beating so fast and hard.  Deafening rhythmic beating.  Quivering at the thought of what may be next.  Hoping it will be so, yet afraid of what is to come.  Self-conscious and embarrassed, time stretches on.  Not wanting the moment to pass.  Holding on hard to the idea.  A soft, almost accidental, brush of the lips.  A light, absentminded gliding of the finger on the skin.  Systems heightened, mind swimming, emotions running rampant, temperature rising.  Taken by surprise the lips plant firmly yet gently.  A breathy moan leaves no doubt.   Sighs tell a story Opening the door to play And so it begins Tentatively, lips touch.  So sweet and delicate the dance.  Welcoming, beckoning to be entered.  Warm and wet they go exploring, tasting, breathing in the essence of desire.  Doubt gives way to fire, and passion wins out.  Piece by piece the offering is made and accepted.  The game continues.  Silently daring to be outdone.  First one button, then another.  Heat rises.  Smooth skin under rough hands. Electricity.  Fingers trace a line that the tongue follows.  Closer, closer, closer.  Involuntary movement brings skin against skin, breath against breath, body against body. Minds lost to passion Floods come to drown the desert Drink til thirst is quenched The hand once afraid to touch, briefly runs the length of its desire.  Like a volcano letting off steam.  Embers turn into an inferno consuming all it comes near.  Floodgates opened, beckoning.  Waters tested.  There is no denial, no second thoughts, no rewind.  Short gasps of need, punctuated by the sounds of the flesh.  Glistening in the moonlight, two outlines become one.   No more wondering The question has been answered Hearts have been traded There are no thoughts left to ponder.  In this moment there is only those eyes.  Those blue eyes that pierce the soul, that see right through the words.  Lips removed from lips.  Watching the moment.  Waiting for its impending arrival.  Fingers grasp tightly as they pull against the skin.  Trying to melt into each other.  They dig in a little too hard, the sounds are a little too loud. Inhibitions lost on the wind.  No longer able to hold back. And in that moment There is only perfection Nothing else matters
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Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010 at 11:51 PM UTC
passion a haibun
Blue eyes watching. Blushing at the sight at the very thought.  Flushed with emotion. Hearts beating so fast and hard.  Deafening rhythmic beating.  Quivering at the thought of what may be next.  Hoping it will be so, yet afraid of what is to come.  Self-conscious and embarrassed, time stretches on.  Not wanting the moment to pass.  Holding on hard to the idea.  A soft, almost accidental, brush of the lips.  A light, absentminded gliding of the finger on the skin.  Systems heightened, mind swimming, emotions running rampant, temperature rising.  Taken by surprise the lips plant firmly yet gently.  A breathy moan leaves no doubt.   Sighs tell a story Opening the door to play And so it begins Tentatively, lips touch.  So sweet and delicate the dance.  Welcoming, beckoning to be entered.  Warm and wet they go exploring, tasting, breathing in the essence of desire.  Doubt gives way to fire, and passion wins out.  Piece by piece the offering is made and accepted.  The game continues.  Silently daring to be outdone.  First one button, then another.  Heat rises.  Smooth skin under rough hands. Electricity.  Fingers trace a line that the tongue follows.  Closer, closer, closer.  Involuntary movement brings skin against skin, breath against breath, body against body. Minds lost to passion Floods come to drown the desert Drink til thirst is quenched The hand once afraid to touch, briefly runs the length of its desire.  Like a volcano letting off steam.  Embers turn into an inferno consuming all it comes near.  Floodgates opened, beckoning.  Waters tested.  There is no denial, no second thoughts, no rewind.  Short gasps of need, punctuated by the sounds of the flesh.  Glistening in the moonlight, two outlines become one.   No more wondering The question has been answered Hearts have been traded There are no thoughts left to ponder.  In this moment there is only those eyes.  Those blue eyes that pierce the soul, that see right through the words.  Lips removed from lips.  Watching the moment.  Waiting for its impending arrival.  Fingers grasp tightly as they pull against the skin.  Trying to melt into each other.  They dig in a little too hard, the sounds are a little too loud. Inhibitions lost on the wind.  No longer able to hold back. And in that moment There is only perfection Nothing else matters
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seeds spread by whirlybirds couples who take on thirds love flying everywhere trusted not and the scared a puff, a blow, and then you go fuzzy flight to and fro **** ball picked and his wish to feast upon a dreamy dish yet a breathy breeze decides where scattering of seed shall hide in the fields, or cracks of pavements lovers bound in their enslavements to one another's dreams dandelion dreams it seems always never completely fulfilled dandelion will be tilled from immaculate and pristine lawn or in a forest by a fawn nourishment it is for me its root bound deep, not free like those dandelion seeds rest my head upon cement men I've met will not lament sprouts doubts of dandelion's needs
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Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016 at 11:30 AM UTC
Dandelion Dreams
there was no poem neath my pillow no poem on my tongue, none from eye envisionaries, no dew gift from my grassy emissaries, parting residue of an unknowable finger touch nothing stirring, the mother muses mushing their shushing noises, only breathy quietude, an airy surround sound tissue, the cadence of intermingled hearts, the mother and the child two awakenings, one instantaneous, the other restless unhurried slow, but within an impatience to intersect, the overlap is love stars crossing, impatience weaponized to make momma aware her companions refreshed status, a needy for love’s suckling, embrace of fresh baked smiles from hot heartedly hearth furnaces thus a-born a new poem, a welcomed well coming, in words, the alliance of alliterated words from the interlacing of the mother’s chest heaving and the sniffling joy of a five year old boy reimagining the dreams that crossed from mother to son, and back again, requiring composition and joint authorship of them *the only and only true authentic authorship, mother and child, their owned unique duality of singularity*
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Feb 7, 2019
Feb 7, 2019 at 2:30 PM UTC
There was no poem welcome neath my pillow (mother and child)
this is where you own our love purse your lips and twist mine because I am the one who has to sleep without you no compromise you said as I ran my feet over the smooth 12,000 threads but no body even the patter of the rain can’t soothe it hits my face in horizontal crosswind and I sit in that same fold out chair on the porch looking out across the park at the children playing in puddles now when I think of your highlighted jaw line I am truly gaping at the mirror that shiny shiny reflection where my eyes pop blue and I’m magnetized at your breathy yawn what’s in your head? what caused this boiling this cream that settled on my coffee? actually already easily I am forgetting interestingly intriguingly amazingly you still taste sweet when I blast music in my car and then I hear myself uttering thank you.
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM UTC
this is your birthright
A long time ago Unicorns roamed the earth They were ugly And dumb And did not know fear Did not feel the need to use their horns for anything They were fat They smelled bad Like an open wounded staph infection They did not even taste good To other animals or humans But there was this boy who loved to watch them graze with his pet turtle Rusty He watched and listened The Unicorns did not neigh so much as they screamed high pitch and breathy Into each other’s mouths They made no sense It was beautiful to him that things that made no sense Could exist without reason And there be nothing wrong with that Rusty would walk around them A turtle’s pace And graze Occasionally bite at an ankle It made him feel strong To cause such a big animal pain And slink away unscathed No one will ever see the way such a proud turtle walks As the way Sparky did Head so high His neck did not look like ******** skin The boy also watched them die Watched as the men in his tribe led them to a nearby valley Where they would smash the unicorn’s head in with rocks The animals just stood there Not understanding what was being done to them The boy felt like a unicorn then When his father hit him He felt dumb Dumb in the heart Dumb in the brain Dumb in the body For continuing to stay The boy cried as the last unicorn died His father said that soon everyone would forget that something so ugly lived The boy understood So he went to nearby caves Where all the gay tribe boys go Because in hunter gatherer societies Boys who did not work were gay They did what makes them happy That is why it is called gay In the caves he would draw the unicorns He made them beautiful And intelligent With blood that healed wounds And horns that if stabbed you Would cause the most beautiful death When all this ugly is gone People will tell stories about us
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Aug 28, 2012
Aug 28, 2012 at 3:41 PM UTC
The Death Of The Last Unicorn
A long time ago Unicorns roamed the earth They were ugly And dumb And did not know fear Did not feel the need to use their horns for anything They were fat They smelled bad Like an open wounded staph infection They did not even taste good To other animals or humans But there was this boy who loved to watch them graze with his pet turtle Rusty He watched and listened The Unicorns did not neigh so much as they screamed high pitch and breathy Into each other’s mouths They made no sense It was beautiful to him that things that made no sense Could exist without reason And there be nothing wrong with that Rusty would walk around them A turtle’s pace And graze Occasionally bite at an ankle It made him feel strong To cause such a big animal pain And slink away unscathed No one will ever see the way such a proud turtle walks As the way Sparky did Head so high His neck did not look like ******** skin The boy also watched them die Watched as the men in his tribe led them to a nearby valley Where they would smash the unicorn’s head in with rocks The animals just stood there Not understanding what was being done to them The boy felt like a unicorn then When his father hit him He felt dumb Dumb in the heart Dumb in the brain Dumb in the body For continuing to stay The boy cried as the last unicorn died His father said that soon everyone would forget that something so ugly lived The boy understood So he went to nearby caves Where all the gay tribe boys go Because in hunter gatherer societies Boys who did not work were gay They did what makes them happy That is why it is called gay In the caves he would draw the unicorns He made them beautiful And intelligent With blood that healed wounds And horns that if stabbed you Would cause the most beautiful death When all this ugly is gone People will tell stories about us
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Breathe the silk impression of this skin pressed into you, Infuse my dreams with reality.......rose Strip me, one sense at a time; Touch me... Touch me...mould me into your open arms... Paint me with the trail of your tongue.... I will dance for you, Slow Body sways, that beg you heed My hips whisper of fiery petals, leading you To temptation's gate... A savoured decadence, Your shape shadowing mine, Lowering into my waiting arms Skin upon skin... Run the tip of your tongue along my spine Ride my pulse higher, Wash over me Leave me wet and wanting And I will devour you with my hungry mouth... My probing tongue, Surface scanning your skin, Delicious... I will sink beneath your hidden desires My playground, here inside your sighs... Envelope my breathy willingness, Awaken to your addiction in devil’s thighs... Sip my liquid gift And know, I burn.... I burn for you.... My soft glisten, a pout upon swayed surrender, Melted beneath a ride of skin, Craving....craving always the singe that Trembles these silky strands... Your electric essence, Painted red... mind hungry, Where eyegasms impregnate the heart of this woman.................rose
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 2:37 PM UTC
Hip's Whisper :
These kinds of stories are hard to find. I posted up in a bar between nowhere and a town named Ida (probably named after some sweetheart, that old southern name), and in the characteristic openness that I can only find during my travels, I decided to say, "hey stranger." It was early in the evening, he was a traveler too, but of the trucking sort, ashen eyes and pale breathy skin, we got talking amid electric neon glow and the pale blue light that shown in through the rain. His name didn't matter, I won't tell you his name, but the truckers know thumbers (there are 5000 or so across the country at any given time), and so he told me of a thumber. This thumber was in the thunder, clothes torn and eyes wide, and with a mind that was, at that point especially, oblivious to the solidity of the dry towel that was set on the solid truck seat, and, what a mess this boy was, so by appearance, I presume, it was easy to ask, "what in the hell happened to you?" It went like this: the thumber turned those wide open eyes (I imagine he was shivering), and told of how he was walking, backpack and all, and of how he smelled a storm approaching, how when he saw the treetops bending, he expected the rain and pulled a waterproof cover over his pack just in time, it started pouring. This time the thumber, he said he knew he had to keep going, he said he didn't like rolling dice, no, he said it was a cheat because if you knew enough about throwing die the die land the same, they land the same enough. So, listen, have you ever walked through heavy rain? You get dizzy, but in some deep part of your mind in the spray, the insurmountable lukewarmness stealing a little with each blow, you lose yourself, and that's what I imagine happened to this thumber. At one point, the thumber knew ground no more, that's all he said. He said he landed one county over, that's all he said. And by the jingling of the die hanging from the truck's rearview mirror, one of the truckers laughed and said ******** as the story of the thumber came around, what in all hell else could you say? And the thumber wiggled his head and gave a queer sneeze. Against the neon glow I peered at the trucker, you can't tell an honest man by his eyes but you can tell it by his breath. I shook my head and said, "that's a kind of story that's hard to find."
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 8:00 AM UTC
Tornado Alley
These kinds of stories are hard to find. I posted up in a bar between nowhere and a town named Ida (probably named after some sweetheart, that old southern name), and in the characteristic openness that I can only find during my travels, I decided to say, "hey stranger." It was early in the evening, he was a traveler too, but of the trucking sort, ashen eyes and pale breathy skin, we got talking amid electric neon glow and the pale blue light that shown in through the rain. His name didn't matter, I won't tell you his name, but the truckers know thumbers (there are 5000 or so across the country at any given time), and so he told me of a thumber. This thumber was in the thunder, clothes torn and eyes wide, and with a mind that was, at that point especially, oblivious to the solidity of the dry towel that was set on the solid truck seat, and, what a mess this boy was, so by appearance, I presume, it was easy to ask, "what in the hell happened to you?" It went like this: the thumber turned those wide open eyes (I imagine he was shivering), and told of how he was walking, backpack and all, and of how he smelled a storm approaching, how when he saw the treetops bending, he expected the rain and pulled a waterproof cover over his pack just in time, it started pouring. This time the thumber, he said he knew he had to keep going, he said he didn't like rolling dice, no, he said it was a cheat because if you knew enough about throwing die the die land the same, they land the same enough. So, listen, have you ever walked through heavy rain? You get dizzy, but in some deep part of your mind in the spray, the insurmountable lukewarmness stealing a little with each blow, you lose yourself, and that's what I imagine happened to this thumber. At one point, the thumber knew ground no more, that's all he said. He said he landed one county over, that's all he said. And by the jingling of the die hanging from the truck's rearview mirror, one of the truckers laughed and said ******** as the story of the thumber came around, what in all hell else could you say? And the thumber wiggled his head and gave a queer sneeze. Against the neon glow I peered at the trucker, you can't tell an honest man by his eyes but you can tell it by his breath. I shook my head and said, "that's a kind of story that's hard to find."
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Your expert fingers gently     strum and pluck at my strings                 Making every inch of me sing. My body thrums     With each staccato beat And goosebumps ***** my skin as we race towards the crescendo. The music peaks     And beautifully tuned notes entwine In heart-stopping harmony. Your bass blends     With my soprano In a perfect balance of tone and pitch. In the stillness that follows     The music fades Into a duet of breathy sighs. And then we :||
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 8:12 PM UTC
Orchestra
In the orange cream dying sun's half light swaddled by blankets wrapped in ***** clothes I open my lips wanting your taste eye to eye, mons ***** warm fragrance To offer myself and soul over completely When we were young did you ever think we'd drown in the ocean of flesh between legs? She smiled brightly, made noises overjoyed much more than confused, though that's not the story now, is it? In an instant passion rises up with steam gone again before I wipe the mirror and brush my teeth, and once again I see blackened debris, they're rotting out from misspoke verbs All that's sweet now is the imagining of diabetic what once was Two closed eyes reach back with a breathy sigh withheld truths and well meant half lies, cannot inspire lift again that left me, but that doesn't stop the faithful Has the tide this whole time been sending waves of false hope, on which I'm floating? Daydreaming, heating oil, she wants dinner, and I hunger for satisfaction in new pictures A hand for a finger, a tongue from both mouths comforting by grabbing hungrily until heads get thrown back, abs tighten when pressed to relax, on the rack stretched but both floating Why does she want to drink my blood? I don't ask just imbibe in return Those days are long gone Times when the worst thoughts could not undo whatever flicker remains in the waning brazier's ember
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 7:43 AM UTC
Songs About the Aching Ocean
Hair adorned with rainbow glee good tidings brought to noble thee Bones are weary thoughts are cloudy heart is heavy sighs are breathy But on this day the snow is thick the days are long with brightening sun And your radiance gleams like dragon's treasure tucked away in secrecy your beauty and its measure For love you have to share in oodles soft as silk and satin warm, like labradoodles You give of yourself and want for nothing so here it comes a day of wonder For today you were born and continue to live continue to fight continue to give So receive instead these joyous words to thank you for you for being a friend Though life is heavy and the snow layers thick your smile lights the world and in our minds, stick
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May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024 at 1:05 PM UTC
Brighter As The Snow Wears Thick...
I stepped into the house and removed my rain-soaked shoes on the grizzled entrance mat. No one in the kitchen. Though the aroma lingered, the coffee *** had turned itself off. I touched the glass -- cool. No one in the living room. Half a pair of sequined flats were in the dog's mouth, half a lady's pantsuit -- the black legs -- lied on the floor. A soap opera on the screen, the volume low, the gold-tipped ceiling fan oscillating, and Serge Gainsbourg's Histore de Melody Nelson played down the hall. I followed the breathy vocals and wandering baseline to my room, and there she sat. The blinds open, veiny rain running along the pane, on the beige carpeted floor, next to my unmade bed, criss-crossed Jessica. "Hey, sweetheart," I said. Jessica smiled. When she smiles, her cheeks go flush, she lowers her head slowly, embarrassed, but yet when she laughs, she laughs loudly, boldly. I've never understood that. Jessica was wearing a white, spaghetti-strap undershirt and blue cotton ******* Her brunette curls -- down, reaching past her shoulders. Her toenails -- painted purple and chipped. Newspapers lied strewn about her, with puddles of acrylic paint atop them. In her lap, a white canvas stapled to a wooden backing frame. She sang, *"Princesse des ténèbres, archange maudit, Amazone modern' style que le sculpteur, En anglais, surnomma Spirit of Ecstasy."* as she painted two lovers growing together like curious oak trees. I sat behind her on my bed. Pushed aside the tangled sheets. She craned her neck to kiss my cheek sweetly. "How was your day?" I asked. "Oh, who cares," she responded. Her eyebrows lifted, her fingertips traced my thigh, "Tell me something beautiful." "What?" She dipped her paintbrush in red, in white and applied them to the lovers' lips. "Tell me something beautiful." "I can't think of anything," I said. "Try."
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Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 12:03 AM UTC
tell me something beautiful
I stepped into the house and removed my rain-soaked shoes on the grizzled entrance mat. No one in the kitchen. Though the aroma lingered, the coffee *** had turned itself off. I touched the glass -- cool. No one in the living room. Half a pair of sequined flats were in the dog's mouth, half a lady's pantsuit -- the black legs -- lied on the floor. A soap opera on the screen, the volume low, the gold-tipped ceiling fan oscillating, and Serge Gainsbourg's Histore de Melody Nelson played down the hall. I followed the breathy vocals and wandering baseline to my room, and there she sat. The blinds open, veiny rain running along the pane, on the beige carpeted floor, next to my unmade bed, criss-crossed Jessica. "Hey, sweetheart," I said. Jessica smiled. When she smiles, her cheeks go flush, she lowers her head slowly, embarrassed, but yet when she laughs, she laughs loudly, boldly. I've never understood that. Jessica was wearing a white, spaghetti-strap undershirt and blue cotton ******* Her brunette curls -- down, reaching past her shoulders. Her toenails -- painted purple and chipped. Newspapers lied strewn about her, with puddles of acrylic paint atop them. In her lap, a white canvas stapled to a wooden backing frame. She sang, *"Princesse des ténèbres, archange maudit, Amazone modern' style que le sculpteur, En anglais, surnomma Spirit of Ecstasy."* as she painted two lovers growing together like curious oak trees. I sat behind her on my bed. Pushed aside the tangled sheets. She craned her neck to kiss my cheek sweetly. "How was your day?" I asked. "Oh, who cares," she responded. Her eyebrows lifted, her fingertips traced my thigh, "Tell me something beautiful." "What?" She dipped her paintbrush in red, in white and applied them to the lovers' lips. "Tell me something beautiful." "I can't think of anything," I said. "Try."
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Hundreds of words lived inside of me, Swirling about my brain. I wanted to spill them at your feet, truly I did. Adjectives burned my tongue and Tiny verbs danced about my stomach. They laughed furiously Until all that was left were encrypted sonnets, that dug down deep, Burrowing inside a place they were sure to be safe. You wanted to read them, Instead I swallowed them whole. I did tell you once. I told you everything through breathy prayers But you never heard Because you were asleep.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 12:50 PM UTC
Secrets
we are two trees lilts of speech and soft tapping tendrils played on stringéd instruments that is our water supply intense lashéd eye contact wrapping our long legs and aching arms around each other's anatomy that is our sunshine heavy, breathy sighs and long, slithering ********** that is our photosynthesis grow with me
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Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 12:33 PM UTC
two trees
Pine needles in my head Snowbird starts to fly A want of apricity Enters my blood stream Like lukewarm sea water Enters hiemal streams I'm sprawled facedown An angel or so Below the snow The taste of frost Technically wintergreen From your breathy kiss Hinting at a return To rays of affection And the crush of limbs
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Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021 at 9:10 AM UTC
When We Were Subnivean
I saw her at the diner She caught my eye right from the start It wasn't too long after That this woman caught my heart She didn't fit in with the people Drinking coffee , eating up She was drinking with her pinkie out As she held her coffee cup She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She had her napkin tucked Just so, you know Not all scrunched up in a *** And she only dabbed the corners Like an Angel sent from God She was crisp and pressed and perfect Not a hair was out of place And the light just made her eyes shine She had such a lovely face She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She was sitting in our diner although she belonged far uptown Most folks here all wore ball caps while she deserved a crown When she spoke, my heart just trembled Her voice was breathy, like a wisp And she spoke like she was Royal So cool and cut and crisp She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She was someone from a movie Full of mystery, intrigue And I knew from looking at her She was way out of my league I wouldn't know just where to start She was gold and I was tin She was High class in my low class world And I surely wanted in I stood there in the kitchen Washing dishes in the sink And I knew I'd go home lonely What else was there for to think? She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king
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Nov 1, 2012
Nov 1, 2012 at 6:55 PM UTC
High Class in a Low Class World
I saw her at the diner She caught my eye right from the start It wasn't too long after That this woman caught my heart She didn't fit in with the people Drinking coffee , eating up She was drinking with her pinkie out As she held her coffee cup She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She had her napkin tucked Just so, you know Not all scrunched up in a *** And she only dabbed the corners Like an Angel sent from God She was crisp and pressed and perfect Not a hair was out of place And the light just made her eyes shine She had such a lovely face She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She was sitting in our diner although she belonged far uptown Most folks here all wore ball caps while she deserved a crown When she spoke, my heart just trembled Her voice was breathy, like a wisp And she spoke like she was Royal So cool and cut and crisp She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king She was someone from a movie Full of mystery, intrigue And I knew from looking at her She was way out of my league I wouldn't know just where to start She was gold and I was tin She was High class in my low class world And I surely wanted in I stood there in the kitchen Washing dishes in the sink And I knew I'd go home lonely What else was there for to think? She's was high class in a low class world That was plain as plain could be I wanted to be in her world And I wanted her with me She was queen of somewhere I don't know, and I wanted to be king She was high class in a low class world And I wanted to be king
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Her prayers are Breathy I love you's, Warm and pained against your skin. Your body is her altar, Her temple, The cathedral surrounding her In her heartbroken worship As she unravels, Crying, Shaking, Clinging to you with Everything She Has Left. The shattered pieces Of her heart are the broken winged swallows, Flocking in fluttering storms In your bell tower, Nesting in your rafters Alongside the owls you've let be To this point, Content to allow them to roost. Her hands are your bibles, The creases telling a thousand stories Of the girl who weathers the fiercest storms, But falls apart at the seams For love of you. Your laughter serves as her hymns, Ringing through the expanse of you, Singing in her ears. Sometimes she tries Laughing alongside you, But her voice cracks Like an untuned piano Whenever she opens her lips To add her laughter to Your songbooks. You each find a different kind of heaven In the stained glass windows Of the other's eyes. Hers are the ocean, Deep and stormy, Only ever calm Just before lightning shakes her frame, Rain and froth Pounding Against the glass, Breaking it's way through, Trying to flood your halls As the tempest carves new legends In her outstretched hands; New biblical stories to lose yourself in. She finds summer nights in your gaze, Bonfires dappling damp grass, And a boy Laying on the hood of a run down car, Staring too intently at the stars To truly register their fragility, Their mortality, Even as they plummet from the sky, Bursts of white light Reflecting gold through green glass. The comet-light ripples, Climbing to the rafters, Startling the owls from their perches, And you can feel them thrumming, Beating their wings against the ceiling of your ribs. k. f.
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 5:57 PM UTC
Of Swallows and Altar Rafters
Her prayers are Breathy I love you's, Warm and pained against your skin. Your body is her altar, Her temple, The cathedral surrounding her In her heartbroken worship As she unravels, Crying, Shaking, Clinging to you with Everything She Has Left. The shattered pieces Of her heart are the broken winged swallows, Flocking in fluttering storms In your bell tower, Nesting in your rafters Alongside the owls you've let be To this point, Content to allow them to roost. Her hands are your bibles, The creases telling a thousand stories Of the girl who weathers the fiercest storms, But falls apart at the seams For love of you. Your laughter serves as her hymns, Ringing through the expanse of you, Singing in her ears. Sometimes she tries Laughing alongside you, But her voice cracks Like an untuned piano Whenever she opens her lips To add her laughter to Your songbooks. You each find a different kind of heaven In the stained glass windows Of the other's eyes. Hers are the ocean, Deep and stormy, Only ever calm Just before lightning shakes her frame, Rain and froth Pounding Against the glass, Breaking it's way through, Trying to flood your halls As the tempest carves new legends In her outstretched hands; New biblical stories to lose yourself in. She finds summer nights in your gaze, Bonfires dappling damp grass, And a boy Laying on the hood of a run down car, Staring too intently at the stars To truly register their fragility, Their mortality, Even as they plummet from the sky, Bursts of white light Reflecting gold through green glass. The comet-light ripples, Climbing to the rafters, Startling the owls from their perches, And you can feel them thrumming, Beating their wings against the ceiling of your ribs. k. f.
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voice in whispered tone like breathy saxophone I hold a longing moan within fingers through my strands ruin all my plans the way your calloused hands grip skin lips that taste like truth of gin and dry vermouth pierced by sinking tooth and sin I memorize your face as I fade from this place forgetting all that time and space has been
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Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
Oblivion
you took powerful women and made them powerless, kissed each tongue as if she was a new flower sniffed a treasured spelled question where its only found in bliss a new girl for my hand now that's a cowards tisk tisks spitting each one of there souls for your own self discovery my menacing thoughts are hashed out as if each one was for her, you see like i was a monster with an inner demon that counted our souls that counted our souls as if i was the one stealing right out of stock i rather fight then mock im stronger then i look most of mother ******* rather leave then look you know leave comfort right outer your nook its over booked like a library over due curse each one of my demons that over see my shoulder they sneeze achoo and i only flu they breeze Jehovah my god he sees. id rather respect him then fall into a snare of sleeze you mother ******* barely got a grasp of life and see more then only I can sac riff ice its a little watery for jam, maybe you should open it close most of those books that never opened or writ or did i mean write lets charge the read not for the color but only because we seek for that lover its or an orange melodies that searched more then what i have to cover or more then me just wanting to brother sibling or not i will fight and naught breathy cadence of her warm children most of you mother are just feel ins they are some what still-in(steal?) no use reuse you dont think God (God dont you think) will choose?
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Nov 17, 2013
Nov 17, 2013 at 6:05 AM UTC
your own self discovery
It comes suddenly a storm that rages to fury bleeding me between your hands, your mouth, to where each syllable lost between midnight’s satin crests into a crazed madness where the soft slide hardens to gripping intentions as my arousal tastes in jasmine-licked surrenders like manna for your hungered heaven there, where no scream goes unanswered but only echoed, you are with me primal seared, the flesh of you wetly hot to my thundering pulse, I am surrender laced with impetuous desires woven to linger upon your reddened lips pressed ******* scrape across your flesh as you moan in greedy adoration to my whispered frenzy, “taste me here, let me feed you there” the suckle of your hot mouth plastered to my ******* fills me and I am burgeoning upon graven yearns here, I ache in throbbing flames as your tongue lathes love’s lick playing tag to my purr of silken gasps and breathy mewling cries in your ears stating my submission of this plunging dominance…. I burn…burn …to inferno Smiles wreathe pearl as you revel in my passionate blossom, your lick peels me wanton where we are pooled shameless and painted, my torrents are spilled for you stained and swallowed greedily and I, quivering in the tsunami that you bequeath to my racking body, I arch, reaching that shattering golden gateway singing joyous to the columns of fate’s raging wave Unleashed, I am the tide Where you are damply hollow and drowning...
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 8:08 PM UTC
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