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"brevity" poems
~for L3igh~ the briefness of brevity, the quality of giving and indeed, it is a-quality, a luxury item so affordable, yet, so totally, rarely purchased, When giving up the requisite, only the lonely, but always the critical, relevant or necessary exquisite in a few words Let us practice: I love you, but only the very first time, in a memory bronzed and burnished, putting to shame the way too short modesty of forever… uttering a precious precision of a soulful thank you to a passing stranger, who runs into your home afire, saving all of your family's lives could go on, and on, But that would not be, A Concision, instead, a concession, to the very few times in a day, in the world's entirety, when those are the words, are only the only, a sufficient holy, a devout summary spectacular, akin, but only a just, derivative of, a sincerely uttered: Thank You God^ nml
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM UTC
The Concision
is when they mess with your head light fires in your mouth and make you hide in your bed put stones in your heart to drag you deep down under they fight and they fight their screams predictable as thunder the rain is the part that gathers in mom's eyes when she keeps you up late to tell you lies lying on the couch her arm over her face foundation in streaks like old dry erase it's when she lets you stay up late to read to her specially just to give her departure more brevity when she kisses you on the cheek and holds you tight then calls the cops on dad that same night when she only gives you presents to make you feel bad when she feels better by making you sad emotional abuse is when she calls on a restricted number tells you she loves you but won't let you see your little brother when she slaps you in the face slams your arm in a door well maybe that's not emotional abuse anymore... when she tells you she loves you but leaves anyway... abuse is abuse, it all feels the same.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 1:10 AM UTC
emotional abuse
*consciously, willfully, I wish it quietly the Sunday, the sun day, drifts toward, in its natural game, set, overmatched, the foregone conclusion, nightfall diminishment the water songfully swishes, as the tide departs for places unknown, this then, now the only natural authorized aural apparition, the power boats renounce their normal noisy conditioning, honoring their silenced, under-sail brethren, as well as admitting their noises disfigure the fast approaching majesty of the end of our summer seasoning of humanity consciously, willfully, I wish it once again, lush is the quietude,^ now given up, surrendered and surceased to wonder, how come I to write of these moments so oft, thenever-ending quest to re-inscribe it on my sensibilities, in vainglorious hopes that this stamping will last, be the last, see me through the turgid frigidity of my Lucifer life, come the fall, the winter, the early dark, the daylight's brevity, the hurricane season of the mind, that...need I say more? consciously, willfully, I wish it the particular white cloud formation of the moment at hand, shall stay in place,  be the capstone of my summer living vision, become permanent part and parcel of the sclera, the white of my eyes, and when I will write, soon enough, my vision white weeping clouded, you will weep knowingly, sympathetically consciously, willfully, I wish for that as well* 8/27/17 6:35pm
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Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
the lush peace and quiet of volition, on a Sunday afternoon
If you should hear me Say Ave, Don't presume You hear me pray; It's just one way For me to say, How 're you? If you should hear me Say Shalom, Don't assume You heard a Jew, I'm only offering Peace to you. If you should hear Namaste, Don't be amused, I'm not Hindu, I bow to the good I see in you. Then again I say Waz sup, You don't think I'm  Gangsta, You know I mean to say Les hang togetha. Does it really matter What you heard; The silent or the spoken word. Words spoken in brevity Are heard with sincerity; But there's none more true, Than I Love You.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 7:35 AM UTC
There's None More True
After dark, energies flow in manners that pleases them most braided together in lust, two king cobras were seen spiraling up when darkness like a camouflage sets in thickly around,you're the  marijuana of my mind, seeking far horizons of pleasure. I willingly seek oblivion, when pink pointed goosebumps like tarantula's love bites, results of mating time cruelty infest all over my body's landscape, signatures of ecstasy. I feel your lips become, moist, soft, honey from each drips never enough,for me, is it possible to get inebriated more? Your sighs and moans speak the vocabulary of a forgotten ancient language love hurriedly resurrected for us from past, brevity is the crux of that lingo of erupting jets of desire, it teaches you to moan in fifty different tones in all;even more? Your sharpened nails etch cave murals on my itching back that has the searing taste of blood, in hot hot chilly red. my taste buds of lust, begs for more and more of it. You are the marijuana fueling my narcotic flights that land in your misty land, enveloping my senses as a whole. "The night is still young, hear what the darkness whispers" I hear you speak like an oracle, on things about to happen.
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 11:50 AM UTC
A tryst with ***** narcotic moments
Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 3:54 AM UTC
Mom
Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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Missing blissful memories, Cherished thoughts. Memories in webs, Tangled knots. Binding grievances Pave the way. Unfettered thoughts Have their own say. Moments felt, Moments understood. Times are past, Graveness its hood. Calm seas rejoice In silence. Storms are but Reasons to penance. Regret hopes to Unbind the will. Will’s infant cry To escape. Bewilderment stares With mouth agape. Confusions unfold In graves. Souls depart To hellish caves. Brevity speaks A thousand words. Wilderness stands On a million swords. Confused and petrified. Thoughts again To guide. A vicious circle So unholy. One committed To every folly.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 12:44 PM UTC
Thoughts !!!
I met him at the dock, While the witch's hour watched Lovebirds dive nakedly into the sea. When he kissed me at sunrise, I inhaled with the hope of holding Brevity. That next night he left me on a sidewalk With the taste of salt on my lips. And as I let go of my breath, I swear I felt a breeze dance between my fingertips.
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 6:47 PM UTC
Sea Breeze
Shouting for longevity, Slamming at the counterers… - upon your dignified respite! Would-be detractors without brevity, Before the wine-dark Sea at night… A pleading to philosophy of commonly renowned, Beating sand and posturing, uncouth before a crown; “Priam please!” Sun and Moon, two sons shall plead, nay, -beg in tandem with the man; “He serves the seas, trust him please, our father; this priest of Trojan-land!” Laocoon “Fear the Greeks, of mind I speak, approval by a van-i-ty; it surely is a death you seek! An asp this horse, gift no more and tragedy in due remorse, I beg of you my call to heed, wooden-burnt this crispy steed, …alight in flame, glorified name; Poseidon shall endorse!” Priests of Apollo “Ridiculous! Worship we must, now bring it to the City thus!” Laocoon “The actions of accursed Kore, Need I remind you all Paris caused this war? For he mocked this god, the abyss it knows, with terror comes a deadly tide, **** that fool and his fiddling pride!* Burn this beast we must with haste for Greeks they have a certain taste, Their acts meant always to confound, wily, since they were unbound. What harm may do, to rest at shore? Consult the stars of yester-yore. Assign no chore, one heaven’s night, plus a day, to sit upon our princely shore?” Setting (read/spoken at the fastest pace the reader can go) A horrid hiss above the wave as two doth slither from out the cave…   The creatures from the darkest days, ancient spectacle for the knaves, bear witness to the punishment, commanded by a great trident, hearing screams of bannermen, for King and council a shocking twist, serpents ****** from out the mists, encircling priest and his kin, the howling they had done no sin, never be forgot-ten, as Typhon cried out merrily, serpents and the tragic sea; swallowed up all the three. Priam “Farewell dear Laocoon and two sons with thee!” *
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 4:13 PM UTC
Knowledge of the Peoples
Shouting for longevity, Slamming at the counterers… - upon your dignified respite! Would-be detractors without brevity, Before the wine-dark Sea at night… A pleading to philosophy of commonly renowned, Beating sand and posturing, uncouth before a crown; “Priam please!” Sun and Moon, two sons shall plead, nay, -beg in tandem with the man; “He serves the seas, trust him please, our father; this priest of Trojan-land!” Laocoon “Fear the Greeks, of mind I speak, approval by a van-i-ty; it surely is a death you seek! An asp this horse, gift no more and tragedy in due remorse, I beg of you my call to heed, wooden-burnt this crispy steed, …alight in flame, glorified name; Poseidon shall endorse!” Priests of Apollo “Ridiculous! Worship we must, now bring it to the City thus!” Laocoon “The actions of accursed Kore, Need I remind you all Paris caused this war? For he mocked this god, the abyss it knows, with terror comes a deadly tide, **** that fool and his fiddling pride!* Burn this beast we must with haste for Greeks they have a certain taste, Their acts meant always to confound, wily, since they were unbound. What harm may do, to rest at shore? Consult the stars of yester-yore. Assign no chore, one heaven’s night, plus a day, to sit upon our princely shore?” Setting (read/spoken at the fastest pace the reader can go) A horrid hiss above the wave as two doth slither from out the cave…   The creatures from the darkest days, ancient spectacle for the knaves, bear witness to the punishment, commanded by a great trident, hearing screams of bannermen, for King and council a shocking twist, serpents ****** from out the mists, encircling priest and his kin, the howling they had done no sin, never be forgot-ten, as Typhon cried out merrily, serpents and the tragic sea; swallowed up all the three. Priam “Farewell dear Laocoon and two sons with thee!” *
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I L U like my ***** clothes Love being forgotten On my bedroom floor I L U like chores love the music that helps them forget they're chores I L U like ***** dishes Love hot showers and the other side of the sink I L U like I love spilling Salt, and warding off the evil, By tossing some behind my back I L U like I love Breaking rules about my own supposed non-Superstition I L U like black cats love Bad luck, cause to them, It's just Friday, you know? I L U like the hot dog bun Loves staring at the beef patty, Wishing "if only, if only" I L U like bread loves Being forgotten till we're really hungry And then we're all ungrateful, like "Hey bread, you remember us?" And bread is high above us, like "Always." Not even a hint of scorn I L U like the first time I saw Jurassic Park, The dinosaurs Were real enough sans chicken feathers, and Who needs modern science anyways when love has no fossil records? I L U like the weather loves Surprise parties. I L U like painful surprise party memories love being forgotten on my bedroom floor I love you like Mayflies love living, oh so briefly, once a day, every single day, Chapter one to chapter none I love you like mayflies love themselves, brevity and all, stirred by nothing but the glow of Dawn's light, Dead by dusk, the Mayfly never knows its final form. It dies in complete incompletion, but that's okay. It drank the salt ocean, it breathed the living air, And that's how I want to L U
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 4:26 PM UTC
I.L.U (Consider the Mayfly)
~~~ for our children and their children ~~~ the reason we say so oft, in whispers emboldened, I love you to our children is not the utility of its summarizing brevity no, no. it is because the eloquence of simplicity supersedes any other poem we could ever write... ~~~ July 26 2015
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
The Eloquence of Simplicity
i i washed up for a living,lily, for a while there this is something george** and i have in common.. on the whole i was treated decently pearl divers are a breed unto themselves.. mine was a life of ease over eating and boredem it was hard on the spine and knees.. a piece of cake compared to digging holes (surrounded by the boss and his extended family..) the pop wagon on friday cement as a whole the olive oil factory or carrying bricks.. ii the pop wagon on a friday took only two hours brevity that was the answer.. the cement truck on tuesdays took two and half hours.. but ended in tears.. the shift in the olive oil factory could last eighteen hours.. digging holes an eternity carrying bricks up stairs works up quite a thirst.. never mind soon be.. be in pauli´ s soup kitchen where wine smooth and cool as honey bees.. chicken and macaroni..! iii the cement was high in lime and invariably chafed the skin and in that hole it would set to be picked out with olive oil and a pin..drunk,the screaming and carry on.. we laughed and held them down better digging holes..!* *it was so painful..! **down and out in paris and london by gearge orwell
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 8:33 AM UTC
i washed up for a living,lily..
I try to sing this melody Of my own fidelity But I lack this morality That tells me the reality Of a life in harmony With spirits heavenly I am my own entity And when I show this identity It has no truth to humanity So I speak in brevity To hide the perplexity That only few conceptually Embrace with full integrity To soar in the clouds joyfully Like the eagles in serenity And the gods of heredity We are the truthful society Yet know one knows it verily I will continue transcendently Like the lotus in her artistry I will paint mindfully The visage of prosperity In all its beauty So vividly Until I rest solemnly In my garden above the galaxy Where all who truthfully Flew with divinity In utter tranquility While this world unfaithfully Decayed presently In the lies of commonality In this globe of duality Don’t sing this parody Avoid the practicality Your song is skillfully Hiding from the animosity You will have your symphony In a sky of pure unity
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 2:24 PM UTC
A Song Skillfully Hiding
The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 8:20 PM UTC
I'll Glue This To The Drawing Of My Face
The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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<> for the early morning teach <> she's young, beautiful and thinks her life is cursed, in the past, subject of some of my poems, her health to nurse, yet, as is normative, you fall into & out of a well of touch, until you accidentally once again path cross, she provides a precision mathematical status update "i'm fairly certain things are like at least 38% worse." it is 1:38AM for you, the not unnoticed ironic minute and hour when the night ether has prematurely worn off, rising time close but not nearly close enough, a dark dose of a sleeping nurse's aide seems inappropriate, and TV reruns seem like an insult to your brain instead you turn on some belle string musique, a Grande Messe des Morts, a chorus, singing a high mass for the dead, while opening all your various email luggage and baggage, smiling as you read a poetess's message of laughter behind tears "i'm fairly certain things are like at least 38% worse." and Mississippi ****** your uncontrollable mixed drink of her emotional Grenada grenade cocktail, flavored with musique, paintings, and words and a nearby beloved's gentling sleep sounds, has you writing your own protest poem, your very own, oy vey, grande messe, about lives that were supposed to be pictures of perfect artistry and for but a word or two, instead, a painting of a life that got hung upside down, and indeed, leaving a grand mess and no one to help clean up alternatively weeping, laughing as you are thinking, smiling recall Laurel and Hardy's summary definition of living a life's of ill begotten, misventured adventures: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !" but 38% worse? not an even-steven rounded up 40%, should I write you only 38% of a poem, teach? or more accurately, more mathematically, 138% of what was writ before? and you recall your older, prior words about the love hate affair between you poet, and the beauty of written brevity (her style) and you give her this then, this rambling, scrambled, attention paid notification, word attentiveness, a summary of your readings of her cheddar sharp and honey mustard sweet retorts of pained poetry, it is insufficiently but perfectly sufficient, a summarizing phrase that opens and yet briefly encapsulates all that you are feeling for her "thinking of you" or the 38% larger version thereof - ***"Well, here's another 38% more nice poetic mess you've gotten me into!"***
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM UTC
"i'm fairly certain things are like at least 38% worse"
<> for the early morning teach <> she's young, beautiful and thinks her life is cursed, in the past, subject of some of my poems, her health to nurse, yet, as is normative, you fall into & out of a well of touch, until you accidentally once again path cross, she provides a precision mathematical status update "i'm fairly certain things are like at least 38% worse." it is 1:38AM for you, the not unnoticed ironic minute and hour when the night ether has prematurely worn off, rising time close but not nearly close enough, a dark dose of a sleeping nurse's aide seems inappropriate, and TV reruns seem like an insult to your brain instead you turn on some belle string musique, a Grande Messe des Morts, a chorus, singing a high mass for the dead, while opening all your various email luggage and baggage, smiling as you read a poetess's message of laughter behind tears "i'm fairly certain things are like at least 38% worse." and Mississippi ****** your uncontrollable mixed drink of her emotional Grenada grenade cocktail, flavored with musique, paintings, and words and a nearby beloved's gentling sleep sounds, has you writing your own protest poem, your very own, oy vey, grande messe, about lives that were supposed to be pictures of perfect artistry and for but a word or two, instead, a painting of a life that got hung upside down, and indeed, leaving a grand mess and no one to help clean up alternatively weeping, laughing as you are thinking, smiling recall Laurel and Hardy's summary definition of living a life's of ill begotten, misventured adventures: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !" but 38% worse? not an even-steven rounded up 40%, should I write you only 38% of a poem, teach? or more accurately, more mathematically, 138% of what was writ before? and you recall your older, prior words about the love hate affair between you poet, and the beauty of written brevity (her style) and you give her this then, this rambling, scrambled, attention paid notification, word attentiveness, a summary of your readings of her cheddar sharp and honey mustard sweet retorts of pained poetry, it is insufficiently but perfectly sufficient, a summarizing phrase that opens and yet briefly encapsulates all that you are feeling for her "thinking of you" or the 38% larger version thereof - ***"Well, here's another 38% more nice poetic mess you've gotten me into!"***
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Two men, one poem. This day, on this site. Two men wrote to me. One called me brother. The other, an arrogant ***** Called me little. One shared his life, With humility and gratitude, Then, I lost it. Wept. Baby like. Honored me with trust. Swapped spit stories That bled into my brain, And a tattoo appeared on my Writing arm, one word, Humility. One boasted of his beans. His bean counting reads. Analyzed his trends, Predicting by Christmas (!), He would have this many. His **** poems he informed, Would be published. What need did he have For punk-u-ation, His rants, his **** stream of words. Better than mine, Just cause his stuff I said, Not my cup of tea. What a crazy place this place. Holy and ******** sided. Humble humble, always humble. He invoked, this arrogant one, God's name. Not knowing I talk to Him. So I rang Him up and said, How did a little peenus-genius Find his way onto this Holy Place, HP, of kindness. He smiled in brevity. Did I not create both, Angels and devils? I love God's brevity. His commas, his question marks, His pointed punctuation. I love that He could create A man whose sight of Me, unseen, but found capacity To love me in ways Undreamed. Because I peered in to the man's reveal, Saw quality, value, Saw humility. So of arrogance, I said, I would write. But it is of humility I will sing, Of loving human kindness extraordinaire. Of weeping endless. At the joy afforded me To read so many lovely poems, Here. If my poems never see the Imprimatur of a publishing house, It matters not, For I have seen a human being Weep real tears reading mine. I have shed rivers of my own Upon discovering yours. Humble, humble. If it is glory you seek, You will find it, All alone. ************ Me, I live here, in the midst of a Good Company. Sept. 7th, 2013
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM UTC
Two men, one poem
Two men, one poem. This day, on this site. Two men wrote to me. One called me brother. The other, an arrogant ***** Called me little. One shared his life, With humility and gratitude, Then, I lost it. Wept. Baby like. Honored me with trust. Swapped spit stories That bled into my brain, And a tattoo appeared on my Writing arm, one word, Humility. One boasted of his beans. His bean counting reads. Analyzed his trends, Predicting by Christmas (!), He would have this many. His **** poems he informed, Would be published. What need did he have For punk-u-ation, His rants, his **** stream of words. Better than mine, Just cause his stuff I said, Not my cup of tea. What a crazy place this place. Holy and ******** sided. Humble humble, always humble. He invoked, this arrogant one, God's name. Not knowing I talk to Him. So I rang Him up and said, How did a little peenus-genius Find his way onto this Holy Place, HP, of kindness. He smiled in brevity. Did I not create both, Angels and devils? I love God's brevity. His commas, his question marks, His pointed punctuation. I love that He could create A man whose sight of Me, unseen, but found capacity To love me in ways Undreamed. Because I peered in to the man's reveal, Saw quality, value, Saw humility. So of arrogance, I said, I would write. But it is of humility I will sing, Of loving human kindness extraordinaire. Of weeping endless. At the joy afforded me To read so many lovely poems, Here. If my poems never see the Imprimatur of a publishing house, It matters not, For I have seen a human being Weep real tears reading mine. I have shed rivers of my own Upon discovering yours. Humble, humble. If it is glory you seek, You will find it, All alone. ************ Me, I live here, in the midst of a Good Company. Sept. 7th, 2013
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Saul. Babbittz. Slight variation of the name Paul - sometimes pronounced with the "ah-oolll" of Raul - to intrigue cashiers and toll booth attendents. These words seem meaningless and even less interesting than the blank white background each letter invades. And still I thank the God in my stomach that wakes up every once in a while to capture butterflies before I leave the house so I can turn down the sounds in my head that stir the butterflies to a frenzied mess of tangled neurons and synaptic maladjustment. My interaction goes something like this: cashier-"do you have a bonus card?" me-(holding out the pad of my thumb - serious like lava) cashier-(looking at me with a confused look) me- "I thought thumb scans were enacted throughout the states. Sorry about that, I just got used to the thumb scan back home in North Dakota". cashier- (dumbfounded, slightly annoyed) me- (chuckling-embarrassed smirk) "you know, like a dystopian tracking system?" cashier- "uh, not really" (avoiding eye contact, rushed transaction) "freak" (under her breath). butterflies again I've never even lived in North Dakota! Just uncomfortable enough to prove that body heat activated "degree" does not provide 24 hour protection... Next transaction a day later: me- (silence)
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Dec 18, 2012
Dec 18, 2012 at 9:10 PM UTC
Brevity and forever... again
Cotton Candy Man Poem (6/7/2014) He was simple sugar, spun on hot air, soaked in pink, a tasty treat. He was cotton candy. I would wrap him around my finger, like I could coax a ring out of sugar and thin air. To have felt him melt in my mouth, each time the tip of my tongue got a taste. He was cotton candy. He was a carnival with all the best attractions. but balloon darts pop when you pour enough money into the game. but a dunk tank is just a plunge into shallow depths, a break from the sun. but elephants should be free, not tamed by fire and humans' greedy desire. but a clown without their makeup might as well be a less creepy comedian. but won over stuffed animals are just like cotton candy, a squishy substance when you need a stable solid. Step right up! Spotlight on the star of our circus show, see the cotton candy man. His heart made of sugar, a toxic substance. His breath's brevity enough to set off cotton candy's chemical reaction, scorching hot air against pink paint, there is nothing sweet about being spun. Dyed in bright colors to deliver a warped reality, he was seemingly a healthy vibrant, unlike the poison within. He was cotton candy, and I, a circus ****** craving him, freshly spun.
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Jun 7, 2014
Jun 7, 2014 at 4:46 PM UTC
Cotton Candy Man
**the sighs in our chest that emanate from a different kind of breast cancer** wrote these words prior, then, certainly uncertain of the exactitude of their meaning, clearly unclear of their useable intention, yet the too real wrathful sensations that inspired their caesarian creation, the sigh's very own exhalations, floatations devices for the interned-no-longer emotions, escapees via the crevasses of chest ribs splitting open, return to glory thanking me for freedom given let posterior eloquence suffice, let brevity guide my self's interior diagramming, lengthy explications and deep analytics, I leave to you, the astonished medical examiner and the horrified mortician chest ripped, my hand reinserted, the blighted scourges, the abscessed cancers, the obsessive relentless cankers, asking shamelessly why have I returned to the crime scene *the sighs are air-borne, ready for air plucking, all cloud seeded, deeded for poets to seize and commence, to plant and invent, a mountain top trickle to a mighty river of poems to be recovered and discovered, unrehearsed and unleashed but you and I have unwished, unfinished business, as of yet unwritten, one last poem to honor our mutually assured destruction, for this day will be rewritten differently*
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Oct 14, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 at 10:11 AM UTC
The sighs in our chest that emanate from a different kind of breast cancer
allocation of supreme alliteration illustrates perpetual contemplation and concentration that dictates a maligned mastication of federal incarceration of elongated complementary probation leaving you cuffed and based on baseless accusations conducted in aboriginal abbreviations masked task force concluding a course of brevity conducted in coordination then coordinating and copulating condemnation for a homeostasis of thought bought scolded eroded and shot inefficacy perpetrating cultural holocaust irrelevance somersaults galactic static of mathematical bombastic smack addict glued shut in a craft attic floral resurrection gartered section of ****** selection she moves fluid through unaltered perfection of cosmic bypass past the point of extemporaneous infinitude reciprocating fortitude of sinews congregating fabricating visuals of vitality soldering axonal membranes on the cerebellum and cortex simulation of sensual vortex demented fusion more blessed I am that which stands to understand the incomprehensible unconsidered options of racial conflicts the screaming round of unaltered copper fiber severing life from the living only now can we debunk the years
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Apr 17, 2013
Apr 17, 2013 at 9:01 AM UTC
White Demon
I don't know what to write anymore. But I can't stop thinking about flickers of your lips and splatters of your touch. When the rain pours just for you. Something has to flow. When water runs over your shoulders and down the drain like the wisdom of the world. In the brevity of your light I stole a slice of the sun for my own. Lying deep inside a dormant orbit. As the rain begins to weigh you down like the gravity of Jupiter. My light, my love will be all yours. Lay with me and tonight we'll steal the moon once more.
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
Stealing Planets
Save My Soul, (But First), Rub My Feet thus a poem auditorialy conceived, but! the sexuality of the deceiving dualities, irritates erogenous, exogenous perceptiveties, plethora of intensifying variables, a not-serious, harmless remark yet bring us to myriad of marauding reversals, add-venturing into harm’s way… much to discuss, but this topic bettered by much trading of traditional bantering brevity bettering our wordless battering insinuating, sensational signals bring us backwards & forwards to an exploratorium of wide boulevards back to new unfamiliar venues, narrowing alleyways & places we were before, places before we were before where, no unnecessary commas to separate, distingué, distinct tween the instinct of old and new, an uncommon commonality experiential revisionism now I understand what you said to me, a tenderizing of the sole synapses directing the brain, the old ooh ‘s, aah’s reigniting what what lay dormant, at long last, by opening doors to alternations, ven diagram of digressing yet intersecting old & new pathways, from the souls of her feet, to, too, two, we become diamond on souls of our heat
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May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM UTC
Save My Soul, Rub My Feet
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend But at the cost my dear, at the cost Of never boring them, you are their Entertainment, they are your love. Diamonds if they could talk would tell A causatory tale of distance and dirt You, a perfect diamond, a pure light In the compressed dirt of their lives. Diamonds reflect the compression Which is the brevity of our lives What remains forever of a passing Love that would be forever distant.
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM UTC
Diamonds & Dirt
Tearing the sky storms and thunders grunted eliting the trees! First rain drop fell floating like angel, like dead leaf rinsing my brevity. Gestures of steams driven the beauty of crazyness to mingle with my soul. Charmed by enthralling rhythms of mismerising rain my heart became wet! Strokes of poetry in the ruined part of my heart reverberated unconsiouly!
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Jul 11, 2010
Jul 11, 2010 at 4:01 AM UTC
Rain [haiku]
I went to sleep and woke up in a future, Where I saw you for the first time, Through eyes that adored you everyday, I didn't have to consider if you'd be mine. You stood there in the clear day, Looking back at me to take your hand, I reach out but I'm sinking as you rise, Looking through eyes - you erode it all away Anguish in the brevity of life, and the divide of futures. I'm impatient, Give me Dreams, Give me Touch, Sweat and Reality, Give me One more Moment, The Reunion.
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM UTC
The Reunion