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"clapping" poems
my town where wild flowers grow between tram tracks. there was a time when it was hardly morning, no bridge into daylight. walls had ears, neighbors had eyes whispering behind the curtains there was an emptiness in the guts of the city and poetry locked in the drawers, Borges was read under the blankets while Dostoievski was  a comforter: demons were embedded. yeah, people were clapping and smiling watching the nub of history, numb they had a life to live, what can you say? one day the radio burst on in the streets some were shivering in the attic "we are free", they said "we are free", came the echo in trance "shhhhh"! said others, let us wipe the blood don't disturb the sacrificed so we can sleep without dreams it's Thursday in my town streets are weary and our souls are slowly expanding
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 9:25 AM UTC
where wild flowers grow
let it not be confused let no one else's name ring throughout these sentences let this be a hatchet let me put this to rest this is not a test i don't want to think about shipwrecks anymore i am tired of folding apologies into origami birds and placing them at the headstones to your tantrums this is not is not geology class these are promises written on razorblades     *& if you are getting choked up      then maybe you should be* maybe we should be buried with our telescopes face down my mouth is full of sorry all for being honest we are falling out of orbit we are burning bystanders so cast away your callous condolences because no one is clapping in this waist deep water this is not a baptism so do not tell strangers that this was a chance to drown any differently i am not a catalogue of constellations you cannot name this is not mythology so stop believing your horoscope i am not a wishing well i am just a wall for you to paint post nuclear fallout & antonyms for catharsis on we destroy the things that are not ours- the wanton ways we embody wrecking ***** and then cry over the rubble this is not a heap or a mosaic this is leaping off a thousand story building with no one to catch you at the bottom & maybe that's why some quiet moments are so fragile, maybe that's why butterflies have mimicry your words are black powder and poetry is your musketry i guess that makes me your blindfold
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
hands on fire
there was a little hamster he just loved trapeze flying through the air flying with such ease so he joined the circus at the local show climbed on the trapeze so he could have a go climbed up to the top that was very high now it was  time for hamster to see if could fly he jumped on the swing swinging to and fro people they all loved him he gave there hearts aglow they all started clapping and shouted out for more a  hamster on trapeze they had never seen before
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Feb 2, 2014
Feb 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM UTC
circus hamster
I hear the rhythmic clapping And feel the pounding of feet on the ground As dust swirls and dances around While I sit facing the sun In all her divine beauty. Encased in the wood of the red gum tree, I am at peace. Burnum carves my totem outside Surrounded by holy men, Loved ones and ancestors. This is my signifier and protection. I am Miki the moon Recently returned to my tribe Heeding the call of the spirits. My people mourn deeply But know I will come again To be at one with them, First I must commune with the great creator Rainbow spirit of the sky For now is the time for dreaming.
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Mar 11, 2018
Mar 11, 2018 at 1:21 AM UTC
Miki
Lithe, pharmaceutical muscles regulating microfiber hairs Draw from the primitive neglect and sin A clarinet changes the chemistry of champagne Inside Humanity again A stock infection of planets and galaxies and their debris Small enough to be e coli and atomic dreams Beading with the warmth of breath, persisting, Naming dragons and archers in the infinity, The cocktails brew people at the seams Their sentences clapping the breeze Into a day, or a season, or her hand leading
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Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 at 9:50 AM UTC
Circadian rhythm
The rooster sings to the sun, answering the call is the light that embraces all. All at once the birds sing their own song. Awaken by mother's sweet voice. "It's time to go" she says. She hands me a  green cubeta con maiz. The corn's color is purple and white instantly I fall in love with its kind The cold blue morning gives me chills. I carry the bucket to my grandmother's house. With her mandil and her braided hair, she sits by the comal making tortillas. "Good morning abueltia" with a smile on my face. "Good morning m'ija" she replies. I keep walking carrying the heavy bucket. A small room next to a store crowded with senoras. Their rebozos around their heads and arms and buckets in hand. I feel so small so young but inside I'm proud. I wait in line as I greet and make small talk. These ladies have the nicest smiles. My turn, I grab my cubeta and proceed to the molino. My arms are too little. A lady approaches and helps me load the molino. I watch in awe as the grains turn in masa. I bend down and collect it. "En una bolita" the lady tells me to shape it. I nod and continue to make it. Gray like the color of my grandma's hair. soft like my mother's hand. I fill the bucket with the masa. I thank las senoras and head back to mi casa. I hand the bucket to my mom who was milking la vaca. She starts the comal and gets the cal. Her hands slapping the masa like she was clapping. Perfect big round warm tortillas. I was a little girl that helped her make them. A little girl that still remembers.
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 5:24 AM UTC
Tortilla Memories
The rooster sings to the sun, answering the call is the light that embraces all. All at once the birds sing their own song. Awaken by mother's sweet voice. "It's time to go" she says. She hands me a  green cubeta con maiz. The corn's color is purple and white instantly I fall in love with its kind The cold blue morning gives me chills. I carry the bucket to my grandmother's house. With her mandil and her braided hair, she sits by the comal making tortillas. "Good morning abueltia" with a smile on my face. "Good morning m'ija" she replies. I keep walking carrying the heavy bucket. A small room next to a store crowded with senoras. Their rebozos around their heads and arms and buckets in hand. I feel so small so young but inside I'm proud. I wait in line as I greet and make small talk. These ladies have the nicest smiles. My turn, I grab my cubeta and proceed to the molino. My arms are too little. A lady approaches and helps me load the molino. I watch in awe as the grains turn in masa. I bend down and collect it. "En una bolita" the lady tells me to shape it. I nod and continue to make it. Gray like the color of my grandma's hair. soft like my mother's hand. I fill the bucket with the masa. I thank las senoras and head back to mi casa. I hand the bucket to my mom who was milking la vaca. She starts the comal and gets the cal. Her hands slapping the masa like she was clapping. Perfect big round warm tortillas. I was a little girl that helped her make them. A little girl that still remembers.
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Strip of fabric folded Darkening the day So that you not see Desire radiating *** cherry red Soft hands clapping Flushing the cheeks And then you smile I want to be your teeth So that your tongue Is constantly touching Feeling and licking Black cat arched back Fingers arachnid running Descending and deliberate I want to be your teeth
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Jun 2, 2021
Jun 2, 2021 at 4:18 PM UTC
Oral
Remember, that chaos first was a primordial deity, Chaos; the nothingness from which all else sprang headfirst and heartfelt, half-naked and handsome, hook, line and... halibut. All of this, every measurable moment, every particle, every object set forth in motion sprang from a void so harmoniously as if the absence of everything was kissed sudden by the presence of something. Often depicted with wings, a bow, and a quiver of arrows, Cupid, son of Venus - goddess of love, son of Mercury - god of trade, his story, almost identical in Greek and in Roman mythology, his story, about a couple of gods who seem so inherently human by nature, jolted by jealousy, dumbstruck by beauty, hellbent on immortality, his story has been hallmarked as red hot velvet rose petal fine wine and symmetrical hearts. Wrapped in tin foil red ribbons bitter-sweetly sugarcoated dipped in thin layer of chocolate taste-tested and lover approved. Remember that scene in Hook where Tinkerbell leaves her footprints on Peter's chest, well that's you and that's me-- touch me where my heart beats because I don't ever wanna be a lost boy. I wanna grow up like a good bedtime story with morals and purpose, I wanna have meaning. You might say that Cupid found himself. You might say that Psyche found her soul. You might say that Tinkerbell was just faking it-- with the clapping. Truth is, we can never know the whole story-- the complete truth. Problem is, we think we can and act like we do. So the only time we mean what we say is the first time we say it, every utterance thereafter is just an attempt at recreating a moment. I love you is a paraphrase that deserves three separate ellipses because there's a lot left unsaid. I (distinctively remember shadow-boxing with) love (against a star-dotted sky anchored to a moonlight so vibrant it can only be compared to) you (and your tidal waves). And that's where I fell headfirst and handsome. I (was punched-drunk by a kiss so breathless that it spiked my dopamine to a volume that can only be described as) love (in that every time my neurotransmitters feel) you (they spin themselves dizzy and dance to your science). There was a moment in the absence of everything when I was kissed silent by the presence of something. Hold me to your breastplate. I don't ever wanna go back to the void. 02/09/2010
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Feb 14, 2012
Feb 14, 2012 at 2:03 PM UTC
Hallmarked & Handsome
Remember, that chaos first was a primordial deity, Chaos; the nothingness from which all else sprang headfirst and heartfelt, half-naked and handsome, hook, line and... halibut. All of this, every measurable moment, every particle, every object set forth in motion sprang from a void so harmoniously as if the absence of everything was kissed sudden by the presence of something. Often depicted with wings, a bow, and a quiver of arrows, Cupid, son of Venus - goddess of love, son of Mercury - god of trade, his story, almost identical in Greek and in Roman mythology, his story, about a couple of gods who seem so inherently human by nature, jolted by jealousy, dumbstruck by beauty, hellbent on immortality, his story has been hallmarked as red hot velvet rose petal fine wine and symmetrical hearts. Wrapped in tin foil red ribbons bitter-sweetly sugarcoated dipped in thin layer of chocolate taste-tested and lover approved. Remember that scene in Hook where Tinkerbell leaves her footprints on Peter's chest, well that's you and that's me-- touch me where my heart beats because I don't ever wanna be a lost boy. I wanna grow up like a good bedtime story with morals and purpose, I wanna have meaning. You might say that Cupid found himself. You might say that Psyche found her soul. You might say that Tinkerbell was just faking it-- with the clapping. Truth is, we can never know the whole story-- the complete truth. Problem is, we think we can and act like we do. So the only time we mean what we say is the first time we say it, every utterance thereafter is just an attempt at recreating a moment. I love you is a paraphrase that deserves three separate ellipses because there's a lot left unsaid. I (distinctively remember shadow-boxing with) love (against a star-dotted sky anchored to a moonlight so vibrant it can only be compared to) you (and your tidal waves). And that's where I fell headfirst and handsome. I (was punched-drunk by a kiss so breathless that it spiked my dopamine to a volume that can only be described as) love (in that every time my neurotransmitters feel) you (they spin themselves dizzy and dance to your science). There was a moment in the absence of everything when I was kissed silent by the presence of something. Hold me to your breastplate. I don't ever wanna go back to the void. 02/09/2010
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Feeling unattractive I blame the mirror Feeling my voice is cracking I blame the radio Feeling no one is clapping I blame the show Feeling the weakness I blame your sweetness Feeling like I'm falling I blame boys Feeling like lost in love You're the one I blame Feeling like a trash I blame society Feeling empty I blame happy people Feeling uncompleted I blame lovers Feeling like no one is right Feeling like I'm unwelcomed Feeling super suicidal I don't blame the blade I blame myself
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 10:15 AM UTC
I Blame Everything
in the middle of nirvana, ashima wakes up she doesn't know how she reached this sphere full of silver lights and black silhouettes everyone she knows seems to be present greyly shimmering leaflets are floating through the air, gently, like mist and red fireflies are clapping their wings the crowd of shadows is starting to sing: "ashima, you have come a long way to us we are the voices of nirvana, listen nirvana is the deep core of your soul the land of your most secret wishes sometimes, in your dreams, you reach out when you are waiting for a train and the rays of the sun are reflecting your thoughts you never find us but we know where you are you may call us your wishes, we belong to you as **** as branko and your mom do are you the imitation of your dreams, ashima? or do your dreams imitate you, our girl? certainly, you will become the thing you dread we know that you took revenge recently when you were slashing the pedophile's throat as his blood was slowly flowing into the sheets" in the middle of her apartment, ashima wakes up she becomes aware of a crinkled and dark leaflet it is more than twenty years old, informing about something that ashima can not read anymore the letters on the leaflet have become dust ashima is taking a deep breath and sighs her pitbull branko is strolling towards her his wet tongue, ashima thinks, feels cute
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Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 11:04 AM UTC
Ashima's Wishes
The Aces check their sleeves, Hearts rippling across the breeze. The Queen arises Slowly, Torn dress ripped at the knees. The Jack saw his fill And quickly took his leave. Stood trembling in a doorway, Mind struggling to believe... The King was an alcoholic, It was widely known to be so, Each eve he would sit solemn, Wine in hand and sword on show, Clapping to the Jokers' japes As he danced and sang About love and fate. But how was the King to know? Not two rooms away His wife had lain, With a smile and a ***** Creating a cuckold and a fool... The Jack had had enough And promptly marched To the throne room. Armed with only knowledge, Unleashes inevitable typhoon. The winds will rise, This house shall succumb, Imploding inwards Till the house is done. And all that remains Among ash and decay, Broken hearts and broken spades, Is the Jokers last laugh. A mockingbirds call as daylight fades.
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM UTC
House of Cards
I want my cake and ice cream too. Who wants to blow out a candle? When there is no food. I wants to do the things that kids usually do. Blow out the candles and spread ferms too. Hey, we kids. And you know they assisting me too. Camera snapping. Kids clapping. Cause the ice cream and cake is about to be cut. While adults are playfully laughing.
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Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 9:19 AM UTC
Cake and Ice Cream
*i think, you should stop going to italy, for one, oh **** me, keep going on hedonist piss-fuck fests to places like mallorca, but stop going to italy, you're making my stomach ache from laughter, with what you come back with, the so-called "innovations"; somehow i'd just poach my cauliflower, and drizzle it with fried breadcrumbs, and serve it as a side-dish to fried eggs (2), and some tatties; for goodness sake, even cauliflower cream soup makes more sense, garnished with some fried chorizo!* first it was avocado on toast...           who the **** puts avocado on bread? i can imagine putting it in pasta... but on bread?                 hey, what the **** does the acronym f.a.d. mean?              i don't know, and i won't google it... o.k. avocado on toast...               nothing near guacamole,   but fair enough...            but what i discovered... pushes the button where i turn into a fox laughter (fuchslachen) -            i couldn't stop...                       you can find it in the weekend section of the saturday times newspaper... written by nicola m.           cauliflower and mozzarella pizza... you have to be ******** me...                 cauliflower? on pizza? one of my housemates at university told me an anecdote:     i was in a restaurant once,           and asked for a pizza with no cheese... he continued:       and then the head chef came out and asked me... are you, insane?!        a bit like: bread...    but no butter? and i thought i was insane eating a watermelon today, whole, the red pulp, and the outer layers including the skin included, allowing myself a gorilla imitation cameo gimmick...       but i thought i was mad... but there's avocado on toast...    and now... cauliflower on pizza...                               it's a ******* side-dish! wait, don't tell me... you're going to put some potatoes onto the pizza the next frizz comes along... right?                       how about beetroot?                          thankfully, if i have some wacky ideas in terms of culinary escapades, they happen, drunk, after 12a.m., and i'm the scientist, and the experimental rabbit 2-in-1...                      a newspaper column? apparently, you get one, putting avocado on toast...                  or cauliflower on a pi-zzzzz-ah... to be honest, even though i haven't tried it, grilled aubergines on a pizza could work...    the toast?               marmite and cheddar... english people should stop glorifying holidays in italy... they're ****** cooks...                    an italian would just look at a pizza with cauliflower and say:          cosa? i'd suggest heading to scotland first, and picking up the vibes from some haggis. **** me...    avocado on toast...                 caulifower on a pizza?!                            now i can die happy, 'appy, clapping: encore!
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Jun 10, 2017
Jun 10, 2017 at 2:54 PM UTC
english culinary experiments
*i think, you should stop going to italy, for one, oh **** me, keep going on hedonist piss-fuck fests to places like mallorca, but stop going to italy, you're making my stomach ache from laughter, with what you come back with, the so-called "innovations"; somehow i'd just poach my cauliflower, and drizzle it with fried breadcrumbs, and serve it as a side-dish to fried eggs (2), and some tatties; for goodness sake, even cauliflower cream soup makes more sense, garnished with some fried chorizo!* first it was avocado on toast...           who the **** puts avocado on bread? i can imagine putting it in pasta... but on bread?                 hey, what the **** does the acronym f.a.d. mean?              i don't know, and i won't google it... o.k. avocado on toast...               nothing near guacamole,   but fair enough...            but what i discovered... pushes the button where i turn into a fox laughter (fuchslachen) -            i couldn't stop...                       you can find it in the weekend section of the saturday times newspaper... written by nicola m.           cauliflower and mozzarella pizza... you have to be ******** me...                 cauliflower? on pizza? one of my housemates at university told me an anecdote:     i was in a restaurant once,           and asked for a pizza with no cheese... he continued:       and then the head chef came out and asked me... are you, insane?!        a bit like: bread...    but no butter? and i thought i was insane eating a watermelon today, whole, the red pulp, and the outer layers including the skin included, allowing myself a gorilla imitation cameo gimmick...       but i thought i was mad... but there's avocado on toast...    and now... cauliflower on pizza...                               it's a ******* side-dish! wait, don't tell me... you're going to put some potatoes onto the pizza the next frizz comes along... right?                       how about beetroot?                          thankfully, if i have some wacky ideas in terms of culinary escapades, they happen, drunk, after 12a.m., and i'm the scientist, and the experimental rabbit 2-in-1...                      a newspaper column? apparently, you get one, putting avocado on toast...                  or cauliflower on a pi-zzzzz-ah... to be honest, even though i haven't tried it, grilled aubergines on a pizza could work...    the toast?               marmite and cheddar... english people should stop glorifying holidays in italy... they're ****** cooks...                    an italian would just look at a pizza with cauliflower and say:          cosa? i'd suggest heading to scotland first, and picking up the vibes from some haggis. **** me...    avocado on toast...                 caulifower on a pizza?!                            now i can die happy, 'appy, clapping: encore!
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Little girls with their hair in pig tails old men chatting away over a game of cards the endless clapping of heels on concrete madness business men in suits and ties faces melding to iPhones catholic priests ******* kids they know his name danger in a lightning flashed smile panic in a thunder clapped laugh they know his name but it never leaves their tongues he dances in the gaps of their teeth and chips away at our heart strings incessant whispers in our ears telling us what we want what we need he stands off in the shadowed corners of every forgotten room in every one time family home as we watch our worlds crumble around us if Christ lives inside of all then he has one hell of a roommate
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 11:05 AM UTC
Roommates in Hell
Are you a tourist or A volcanologist my dear? With a painful joy To a live volcano  getting near, Do you want to pay homage To earth's nadir Conscious that beneath a sea level A sweltering heat you can bear? Then to Erta Ale  come you not why Found under Ethiopia's sky? With a style jumping high, Hitting the ground Beating  drums, on their waists, Sabres tied around Afro men along with braided women, With butter greased hair, The latter ululating and clapping In a row facing each other Chant a  love song “My feeling for you is strong!” The male herd camel, While women babysit,prepare food And make short huts With tiny malleable wood. Also dot the mirage-forming sand Huts grand. Are you a tourist my dear Eager to see about Out of the ordinary you heard Say about multicolored magma Volcano's dust, Disgorged out of earth's crust? Do you want to see a scenery You have not seen Since you were born, How in a motley garment Mother nature itself Likes to adorn Come then to Ethiopia, Located in Africa's horn? Visit Erta Ale , On earth To run away from earth Enjoying its hearth. You will witness The extraction of salt In a volcano-formed fault.///
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Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018 at 3:30 AM UTC
On earth away from earth
Island can't stop sliding even when dull pencils stuck in sand push back strong, even when your toes are curling inward and holding on tight The sunburn highway is crowded today and we're stuck in traffic, caught behind a particularly thick cloud, compounding beach breezes and midday shivering beneath towels With sweaty hands clapping beat and fast punches, the overnight foliage blooms and dies, laughing hard in the bright room with no doors
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 4:28 PM UTC
Tiny seashells
Raindrops ricochet off my umbrella, sounding like muffled applause; Mother Nature is clapping, amused by the fact that people are hiding from her marvelous creation. ~~a.s.f.
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Feb 19, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 7:01 PM UTC
Mother Nature is *clapping.*
Signals cross dissonant chills along the surface of my skin, Prickled hair rises up under the brush of my touch. Warm sensation waves attention as flags fly high warning shots into the sky. My eyes wide shut abruptly in case the wind blows particulate along the curving arch of my vision, flipped back open upon collision, batting down waterfalls in between curtain calls as clapping hands of a broad audience pass the winning touchdown play onto poppy seed fields. My Love runs long and deep like the river through lost canyons, hiding unknown along the moist horizon of dew drop mornings. ...*Oh, me? I'm doing just fine fair weather, Light as a feather, am I.* But look! ...how the Earth shakes proudly the rocks upon her back. Cast no Stones, She moans ...and you? How do you do?*
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 1:09 PM UTC
Dew Drop Mornings
Fingers tapping, one, two, three, A slow rhythm drums in my chest. The words on my screen blur and fade before me. The world slows as we are put to the test. The streets, barren and eerily silent, Darkened windows, chairs on tables. Places once filled with noise now absent. Are we now living in one of God's fables? Perhaps, then, we must stop and listen, Listen to the lessons He is teaching us all. These drastic measures, so brazen, Yet we are close to the edge, were we to fall? See kindness and beauty, See all that is good, As Mother Nature breathes freely, Tired from all She withstood. Laughter and bored games, Brought together by distance, Whilst the air, the water, She reclaims, No more waiting, no more patience. Yes, waters clear as emissions drop; A truly beautiful consequence. But we must not forget - take the time to stop, Extend our minds to at whose expense. Unemployment creeps ever higher, Many lives are lost. For those a dark and terrible chapter, Enduring such a saddening cost. The good that lies within, The beauty of humankind, Rainbows, clapping, togetherness underpin, Our world, our people, our priorities realigned. So listen we must, To our animals, our rivers, our Earth. Look to your nearest and dearest, Use this time to recognise their full worth.
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Nov 2, 2021
Nov 2, 2021 at 6:12 PM UTC
Lockdown Lessons
My lips can no longer hold back. The muted tones cannot bring out the infinity that hides discretely points to an exit sign. Certainty waves goodbye. My only function now is to collapse it. To put the past behind. The barred doors allow the bottleneck to tighten for a few hours, but memory has a way of sounding the alarm in the morning when the early birds rise, armed with ancient lessons that remind me they're the ones who are eating well. I want to come up from the dirt and drink from the well. My low-life self can no longer heed the worm's advice: "Sleep all day and you won't get eaten." Out. Out with your tepid voice and halfway disposition. Out with your elevated mind, your profound commitment to the mediocre task of enlightening the little people. The empire you fabricate may stay stitched for a while. But the clothes of emperors always burst at the seams. A workaholic, addicted to the common you're winning your converts with tired dreams, vicarious imaginings of those finer roads, well tread by shoes that are not your own. You don't believe in the masses. Fine. But get the **** off your throne. Reciting badly drawn poems at four in the morning (it could have been worse e.g. I could have wrote "mourning") looking to insight myself, not into a passionate frenzy like Bacchae drunk on the moonlight. No -- I want piercing red. That's what I want to be. Want to show the heavens how I use the precious wine. Sip it. Out the undulations go. Sweating out the great myth that time forgets when it flows. My pagan-witch ego has put me on the hunt for blood tonight, and the full moon is giving rise to ****** undulations, washing up teeny-book explanations of loves once lost. But I'm far from my being, and from the infinite ocean. And the only sound I can hear right now is my one hand clapping at the curtain call, retiring my broom, bowing goodbye.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 12:23 AM UTC
You Are Never Nowhere. You Are Only Now Here.
My lips can no longer hold back. The muted tones cannot bring out the infinity that hides discretely points to an exit sign. Certainty waves goodbye. My only function now is to collapse it. To put the past behind. The barred doors allow the bottleneck to tighten for a few hours, but memory has a way of sounding the alarm in the morning when the early birds rise, armed with ancient lessons that remind me they're the ones who are eating well. I want to come up from the dirt and drink from the well. My low-life self can no longer heed the worm's advice: "Sleep all day and you won't get eaten." Out. Out with your tepid voice and halfway disposition. Out with your elevated mind, your profound commitment to the mediocre task of enlightening the little people. The empire you fabricate may stay stitched for a while. But the clothes of emperors always burst at the seams. A workaholic, addicted to the common you're winning your converts with tired dreams, vicarious imaginings of those finer roads, well tread by shoes that are not your own. You don't believe in the masses. Fine. But get the **** off your throne. Reciting badly drawn poems at four in the morning (it could have been worse e.g. I could have wrote "mourning") looking to insight myself, not into a passionate frenzy like Bacchae drunk on the moonlight. No -- I want piercing red. That's what I want to be. Want to show the heavens how I use the precious wine. Sip it. Out the undulations go. Sweating out the great myth that time forgets when it flows. My pagan-witch ego has put me on the hunt for blood tonight, and the full moon is giving rise to ****** undulations, washing up teeny-book explanations of loves once lost. But I'm far from my being, and from the infinite ocean. And the only sound I can hear right now is my one hand clapping at the curtain call, retiring my broom, bowing goodbye.
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I have hands that won’t keep to themselves. They are always rummaging and dancing and clapping and snapping and opening and closing and trying to fix every single broken thing they can find. And that includes you. My heart is a bottomless pit for aches. Not mine, but yours. It’s almost a cursed thing, how despite its size being only that of my fist, my heart always finds a way to squeeze in some new hurt into the spaces that before you, I never knew existed. There they stay; and like all things that stay, with enough time, become part of their surroundings. I can’t tell whose cut is whose anymore. Put me in a room full of people. Blindfold me. Spin me like a tornado. Make me stop. My outstretched fingers will be reaching for the most broken souls in the room. Call it compassion. Kindness. Empathy. Whatever you like, but there is a fine, fine line between that and the way I bleed. Oh, how I bleed. Forgive my boldness when I say I won’t even try to make you understand the fact that I do somehow understand. Think of it this way: ripples. And I always get the last one. I’m still a child. I like to play pretend. I’m a doctor. I’m a superhero. I’m the one with all the answers, all the weapons, all the magical cures. Take that! And that! Ha! Aha! Ha! Ha… Ha. As the years wear on, I see that my tools aren’t right, and that my cape is too tight around my neck. I don’t have all the answers. No weapons. No magical cures. I’m just a girl trying to play the part that was never hers. And it’s taken me three volcano boys, a couple of glass-bottomed hearted girls, and just about the rest of the world to realize that I am not the Savior. My hands were not made to heal every heart they rest themselves upon, or to fill that vacuum inside every man, one that nothing, nothing, nothing in this world will ever make whole. So here. I let go of every burden that’s been causing me to stoop and to stumble, every pressing weight that’s been keeping me from keeping faith, every heavy yoke that’s been causing me to choke on things I never should have let in in the first place. Yet I will continue to love you. I have come to learn that love has a lot of ugly before it becomes beautiful, a lot of hurt before healing’s arrival, a lot of you before any of me. My part is done. These fidgety fingers no longer carry suffering. Here, let me see yours, though battle scarred and bruised. You’ve been bearing more than you were built for, beloved. I think it’s time to surrender.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Hands
I have hands that won’t keep to themselves. They are always rummaging and dancing and clapping and snapping and opening and closing and trying to fix every single broken thing they can find. And that includes you. My heart is a bottomless pit for aches. Not mine, but yours. It’s almost a cursed thing, how despite its size being only that of my fist, my heart always finds a way to squeeze in some new hurt into the spaces that before you, I never knew existed. There they stay; and like all things that stay, with enough time, become part of their surroundings. I can’t tell whose cut is whose anymore. Put me in a room full of people. Blindfold me. Spin me like a tornado. Make me stop. My outstretched fingers will be reaching for the most broken souls in the room. Call it compassion. Kindness. Empathy. Whatever you like, but there is a fine, fine line between that and the way I bleed. Oh, how I bleed. Forgive my boldness when I say I won’t even try to make you understand the fact that I do somehow understand. Think of it this way: ripples. And I always get the last one. I’m still a child. I like to play pretend. I’m a doctor. I’m a superhero. I’m the one with all the answers, all the weapons, all the magical cures. Take that! And that! Ha! Aha! Ha! Ha… Ha. As the years wear on, I see that my tools aren’t right, and that my cape is too tight around my neck. I don’t have all the answers. No weapons. No magical cures. I’m just a girl trying to play the part that was never hers. And it’s taken me three volcano boys, a couple of glass-bottomed hearted girls, and just about the rest of the world to realize that I am not the Savior. My hands were not made to heal every heart they rest themselves upon, or to fill that vacuum inside every man, one that nothing, nothing, nothing in this world will ever make whole. So here. I let go of every burden that’s been causing me to stoop and to stumble, every pressing weight that’s been keeping me from keeping faith, every heavy yoke that’s been causing me to choke on things I never should have let in in the first place. Yet I will continue to love you. I have come to learn that love has a lot of ugly before it becomes beautiful, a lot of hurt before healing’s arrival, a lot of you before any of me. My part is done. These fidgety fingers no longer carry suffering. Here, let me see yours, though battle scarred and bruised. You’ve been bearing more than you were built for, beloved. I think it’s time to surrender.
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her churiyan clashed submerging in the red, orange and green of her sharara as she spun round and round a blur of striking colors her laughing face hidden among those of her cousins as they danced in a circle each girl wearing colors of the rainbow smiles like the sun brightening their faces their bare feet decorated with mehndi as they spun on their toes letting their hair follow them like velvet curtains the pitter patter of their restless feet becoming one with the music around them the elders of the family throwing rose petals and clapping watching the new generation bless the married couple with laughter, colors & life the girl with curls in her hair pulling down the bride-to-be off the stage and onto the dance floor her fiancé nudging her and watching his future twirl with the young girls as families became from two to one he looked upon his love with eyes full of wonder as she pushed back her dark hair and hid her face refusing to dance but even the blushing bride couldn't stop the girls from convincing her to join them they took her by the hands and let the music guide them as they threw their arms in the air swaying to songs about boundless ishq and the stars which shine upon those who fall in the arms of endless love the bride's red gharara shimmering under the lights complimenting the red in her cheeks the sparkle in her teeka bright but never brighter than the twinkle in her euphoric eyes her mother teared watching her baby all grown up and her father looked at her as his success seeing his only daughter so full of joy others onlooked as the girls embraced their youth and with the bride created a circle of joy for that moment, the love was shared between them all they forgot all about their heartbreaks and the everlasting love which never lasted they forgot all about the boys with pretty eyes and even prettier lies as they rejoiced over the love of their loved ones with a little inch of hope in their own hearts that someday someone would look at them as the smiling groom did the stunning bride *passion. surety. serenity. pyaar*
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Dec 26, 2015
Dec 26, 2015 at 9:55 AM UTC
mehndi (wedding celebrations)
her churiyan clashed submerging in the red, orange and green of her sharara as she spun round and round a blur of striking colors her laughing face hidden among those of her cousins as they danced in a circle each girl wearing colors of the rainbow smiles like the sun brightening their faces their bare feet decorated with mehndi as they spun on their toes letting their hair follow them like velvet curtains the pitter patter of their restless feet becoming one with the music around them the elders of the family throwing rose petals and clapping watching the new generation bless the married couple with laughter, colors & life the girl with curls in her hair pulling down the bride-to-be off the stage and onto the dance floor her fiancé nudging her and watching his future twirl with the young girls as families became from two to one he looked upon his love with eyes full of wonder as she pushed back her dark hair and hid her face refusing to dance but even the blushing bride couldn't stop the girls from convincing her to join them they took her by the hands and let the music guide them as they threw their arms in the air swaying to songs about boundless ishq and the stars which shine upon those who fall in the arms of endless love the bride's red gharara shimmering under the lights complimenting the red in her cheeks the sparkle in her teeka bright but never brighter than the twinkle in her euphoric eyes her mother teared watching her baby all grown up and her father looked at her as his success seeing his only daughter so full of joy others onlooked as the girls embraced their youth and with the bride created a circle of joy for that moment, the love was shared between them all they forgot all about their heartbreaks and the everlasting love which never lasted they forgot all about the boys with pretty eyes and even prettier lies as they rejoiced over the love of their loved ones with a little inch of hope in their own hearts that someday someone would look at them as the smiling groom did the stunning bride *passion. surety. serenity. pyaar*
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/ Many days I do not read any newspaper Even do not see television At all Many days have gone After You I do not read any poetry How to feel that since this morning! Repeatedly hear identifying tunes on the air Your arrival in the sky, The air reverberates Looks like another day In the Paradise, In another song, Which brings the soul The Aroma Everyone is coming out From all sides Young Old Babies Boys Women Men Everyone Everyone is clapping Singing the song of the same tune This song is not the song of Rain Not even a lamentation The Southern breeze whispering your words Slowly Said, The Little Tailor Bird No, No, Not such a summer afternoon Not even a hurricane warning Each of the human eye Follow the Eastern Sky   Tireless Eye Watching the sun, The Red Sun, You went to bring dreams for us From the Sun Hundreds of thousands of people In his next question Hand with Flower Shoulder to Shoulder Today will be the day of strangers, The poet will come We are standing in the flowers Fist full of dreams to take Float in the sky with white clouds My dreams are calling again Today is not such an Autumn But Still feel like an Autumn Indeed,   The poet will come, A poem in the New Where each word will be spoken dream Love to be evacuated Poems that will repay The debt to my Ancestor Take revenge on thee For their injustice, Torture Poems that would bring the stars For our next generation A poem that would bring the red rose for my darling, Would bring such a smile to my mother's face As Moon that smile And that is simply killed false dreams Will we ever Released Sing Freedom Songs The Poet, My beloved Poet You will come, Will surely come And will recite your immortal poem / @ Musfiq us shaleheen
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:11 AM UTC
The Poet Comes and Recites an Immortal Poem
/ Many days I do not read any newspaper Even do not see television At all Many days have gone After You I do not read any poetry How to feel that since this morning! Repeatedly hear identifying tunes on the air Your arrival in the sky, The air reverberates Looks like another day In the Paradise, In another song, Which brings the soul The Aroma Everyone is coming out From all sides Young Old Babies Boys Women Men Everyone Everyone is clapping Singing the song of the same tune This song is not the song of Rain Not even a lamentation The Southern breeze whispering your words Slowly Said, The Little Tailor Bird No, No, Not such a summer afternoon Not even a hurricane warning Each of the human eye Follow the Eastern Sky   Tireless Eye Watching the sun, The Red Sun, You went to bring dreams for us From the Sun Hundreds of thousands of people In his next question Hand with Flower Shoulder to Shoulder Today will be the day of strangers, The poet will come We are standing in the flowers Fist full of dreams to take Float in the sky with white clouds My dreams are calling again Today is not such an Autumn But Still feel like an Autumn Indeed,   The poet will come, A poem in the New Where each word will be spoken dream Love to be evacuated Poems that will repay The debt to my Ancestor Take revenge on thee For their injustice, Torture Poems that would bring the stars For our next generation A poem that would bring the red rose for my darling, Would bring such a smile to my mother's face As Moon that smile And that is simply killed false dreams Will we ever Released Sing Freedom Songs The Poet, My beloved Poet You will come, Will surely come And will recite your immortal poem / @ Musfiq us shaleheen
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