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"confessor" poems
Why Men Cry in the Bathroom For so many reasons. I will tell you the why. I think you know, Or perhaps, you think you know. Men are always O.K., Even when not. We expect the worse, Accept the worse, Nonetheless, We are forever unprepared. Wearily, we cry, In the bathroom, in private, Lest sighs slip by, We be unmasked, Early warring, strife signs warning. Copious, tho we weep Before the mirror confessor, It is relief untethered, Unbinding of the feet, An uncounting Of beaded rosaries, Of freshly fallen hail stones, Of night times terrors By dawn's early edition's light, and welcomed. But look for the mute tear, The eye-cornered drop, *** tat, that never drops, But never ceases formation and Reforming, over and over again, In a state of perpetuity of reconstitution, *The tippy tear of an iceberg revealing, And I see you peeping, wondering, What is beneath* Look for: the torn worm-eaten edges of spirit, thrift shop bought, extra worn, grieving lines neath the eyes, where the salt has evaporated, discolored the skin. worry lines, under and above, browed mapped, furrowed boundaries. the laugh line saga, where better days are stored, recalled, as well as recanted, publicly, privately. Why just men? I don't know, Perhaps, it is all I know. end.<nml> Jan 6, 2013
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Jun 22, 2013
Jun 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM UTC
Do You Know Why Men Cry in the Bathroom? (2013, can u believe it)
O Out of a bed of love When that immortal hospital made one more moove to soothe The curless counted body, And ruin and his causes Over the barbed and shooting sea assumed an army And swept into our wounds and houses, I climb to greet the war in which I have no heart but only That one dark I owe my light, Call for confessor and wiser mirror but there is none To glow after the god stoning night And I am struck as lonely as a holy marker by the sun. No Praise that the spring time is all Gabriel and radiant shrubbery as the morning grows joyful Out of the woebegone pyre And the multitude's sultry tear turns cool on the weeping wall, My arising prodgidal Sun the father his quiver full of the infants of pure fire, But blessed be hail and upheaval That uncalm still it is sure alone to stand and sing Alone in the husk of man's home And the mother and toppling house of the holy spring, If only for a last time.
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Dylan Thomas - Holy Spring
from a distance, I thought you might be a wolf   straying from the high country, confused by the cacophony of scents, but no, ‘twas my vapid vision, you were   only a mongrel, perched high on the mound   the odors of suburban fast food ghosts     and tuna tins familiar to you   you stood atop the reeking remnants your right front paw resting on   the shredded files of a grand embezzler   your left rear on the ear of a headless teddy bear   another on an orange rind until you shifted your weight and found footing on a crinkled crushed water bottle one of about…33,448,899 in the heap, or maybe 33,448,900   and the last on the ubiquitous cell phone that heard its final voice a fortnight before, when its master spoke his last light words before he tossed it into a dark dumpster   and replaced it with another plastic confessor   whose fate would ultimately be the same   after some sublime texting  and sexting and a few vain words to other deaf dogs
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM UTC
the cur at the landfill
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM UTC
Thrift Shop Confessional
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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i'll always be there outside of the box where you spill out your burdens to god tell me everything you've done wrong- just unpend your sins, you're cleansed, now you win i'm the convenient answer to feeling remorseful about what you've done made a mistake?  i'm here, don't you wait i've got all the time you need and on it goes; my shoulder for you to lean on will always be there but don't bother to ask me how i'm doing- you're not supposed to care i'm tired of being used like an old ***** you rip me to shreds, leave my tongue on the floor i'm speechless, i'm hurting, held back by my pride i'm letting my ego take over my mind i'm playing callous like it's some sort of game pretending i'm fine when i'm driven insane you take the wheel from me, steer into a ditch leaving me battered and broken, unimpressed, not spoken i've got my tongue tied in knots from navigating the tangled webs you drag me through but i will never let myself lose i need to destroy something, run it right through to reflect my insides after speaking to you and maybe i'm just a bitter young ***** but i'll take a hit, and i won't let you miss   so drive me into the ground i won't be beaten down you can't do much to me; i can't get much lower now how far can you bring me down? yeah, i'll hold my ground i'm tired of hearing each of your confessions simply not being able is not a transgression you're weighing me down with your innocent guilt i won't feel your trauma if no souls were spilt i'm so sick of hearing your troubles; don't say what's amiss take a hint your drama won't make or break you it's no calamity if she hates you i'm tired of hearing about your petty fights scuffling over my business won't help with your strife you think being hateful will show me the light? you're wrong, good riddance, get out of my life something so intrinsic isn't abomination no matter your creed or your denomination your social life will never make you a saint and confessing won't stave off my hate i'm so sick of hearing your troubles; don't say what's amiss take a hint get off of my shoulder, take your own ******* boulder and live your own life for a bit don't confess, i'm not impressed, just live your life and leave me be.
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Oct 7, 2012
Oct 7, 2012 at 4:21 AM UTC
confessor
i'll always be there outside of the box where you spill out your burdens to god tell me everything you've done wrong- just unpend your sins, you're cleansed, now you win i'm the convenient answer to feeling remorseful about what you've done made a mistake?  i'm here, don't you wait i've got all the time you need and on it goes; my shoulder for you to lean on will always be there but don't bother to ask me how i'm doing- you're not supposed to care i'm tired of being used like an old ***** you rip me to shreds, leave my tongue on the floor i'm speechless, i'm hurting, held back by my pride i'm letting my ego take over my mind i'm playing callous like it's some sort of game pretending i'm fine when i'm driven insane you take the wheel from me, steer into a ditch leaving me battered and broken, unimpressed, not spoken i've got my tongue tied in knots from navigating the tangled webs you drag me through but i will never let myself lose i need to destroy something, run it right through to reflect my insides after speaking to you and maybe i'm just a bitter young ***** but i'll take a hit, and i won't let you miss   so drive me into the ground i won't be beaten down you can't do much to me; i can't get much lower now how far can you bring me down? yeah, i'll hold my ground i'm tired of hearing each of your confessions simply not being able is not a transgression you're weighing me down with your innocent guilt i won't feel your trauma if no souls were spilt i'm so sick of hearing your troubles; don't say what's amiss take a hint your drama won't make or break you it's no calamity if she hates you i'm tired of hearing about your petty fights scuffling over my business won't help with your strife you think being hateful will show me the light? you're wrong, good riddance, get out of my life something so intrinsic isn't abomination no matter your creed or your denomination your social life will never make you a saint and confessing won't stave off my hate i'm so sick of hearing your troubles; don't say what's amiss take a hint get off of my shoulder, take your own ******* boulder and live your own life for a bit don't confess, i'm not impressed, just live your life and leave me be.
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What does one do when the characters you hate Are the ones you best construe? Misgivings and flaws you can relate To, tho venerable traits you eschew, The green light gazers and "architect" praisers Familial leeches or the confessor who preaches That awareness absolves one of sin, Compromisers and self-named kaisers Resound and reverberate within They pass by in my pages to be mocked and scorned As evil, cruel, an oaf, or a tool Too low to respect or too high on their horse Despicable, maniacal, mediocre, or worse And I do hate their vileness, I do hate their flaw I want to shake them and claw at their skull For nothing more than the gleam of recognition That by some misfortune of natural law They and I share a need for contrition.
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Aug 14, 2021
Aug 14, 2021 at 12:41 PM UTC
Reader's Dilemma
Don't tell me your sins I'm not your confessor Don't tell me you're sorry I'm not too forgiving Don't feed me words Like I'm starving for verbs When it's authenticity I've been deprived of It's not a game of give and take When all you can say is, "I didn't mean it" Who do you pretend that you are That you can stand here and ask me "Do you believe in soul mates?" "Will you take me home with you?" We're far from a clean state By now you and I are old fools Who never get tired of this slow dance Where I make myself the victim And you get to hold the knife
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
(Wedding Dress? Take A Second Guess.)
fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 6:54 PM UTC
For the Sin
fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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The sound of your voice, linguistic forte digital portrait combined, reads lyrical, like Joyce, the use of imagery - elevating the plebeian, resplendent -   the imposition sublime. Pellucid prose, tête-à-tête immersed in esoteric allusion spoken with au fait. Liberating my pedestrian inhibition, premise of surrender - adrift, desultory, delicious ambiguity. Seduction begins in the mind, assets of imagination, intellectual property; side by side: lying supine didactic invitation, in assertions of diversion; a chance to find euphoria within our reach. Linear alliteration; fulgent flowing Fumé Blanc, fire and wine private beach, rhymes of elucidation two bodies align, I will learn if you teach. Sensual epistemology, curvaceous figure of speech, the Orphic; woeful lover’s plight, a porous song recite art professor, verse confessor tutor me tonight. ©2010 & 2011 W.S Warner
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM UTC
Elucidation
"BUG" I saw a Bug Battle, in the cracks of the street Blood and Struggle Their plastic screams and cellophane curses were almost like yours and mine. Until a brave one crawled to my ear, and he told me of his trial in the street crack theater, I grinned as if I cared, he smiled like he had the time He said "in whose camp does your banner fly, and can I have you on my side?" He loaded a Pistol while I replied: I said: I'm anti-pro no shout catechist, so keep your pamphlets political activist, You take your cause for lack of a purpose in life, pursuit of happiness, "eudemonia"  good spiritedness you're living proof that ignorance aint bliss Pray "Libira nos a malo!" and Free Tibet! But you never prayed for the souls with affixed Bayonets; so I wave like the man being shot from the cannon; born on this chunk of warm rock hurling through nothing; who only on the front of spirit can fight; Storm the Bastille of desperate life; and dance in the street every night till the day I die. The Bug Replied: Know All, Know all, in the dialog to win, two grants are a Franklyn one Lincoln's just a fin? Posit value for this bug since you're so well balanced, gaining perspective from the outermost valence; you never killed what you eat and confuse "labor with action,"   but you think you're to evolved to fight for my faction; We're currency baby as we live and breed, BASTILLE for you ATTICA for me! better get in the frae my anti anti teacher before it ***** you along with every other fighting creature; I'm going back to me cell where I breathe a little freer; but let me give a final though like I'm Jerry Springer: If happiness is purpose than you can call my purpose love, to survive I fight the Battle and to me you're the bug. Thunderstruck, I sat on the curb, realizing I could be a "social surd;" then I saw my small confessor get killed in a raid; I would have stomped out his assassin if I wasn't so afraid; instead I rose to my feet, and walked straight home, locked myself in, and wrote out this song, I think of the bug while I'm dancing in the street, every time my neighbor throughs a sneaker at me; I feel his wrestles spirit longing to fight, while I'm drinking and singing in the middle of the night, than it hits me: The bug was right
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 9:04 PM UTC
"BUG" Recorded as "Bug Dialogue" 2009 (BMI)
"BUG" I saw a Bug Battle, in the cracks of the street Blood and Struggle Their plastic screams and cellophane curses were almost like yours and mine. Until a brave one crawled to my ear, and he told me of his trial in the street crack theater, I grinned as if I cared, he smiled like he had the time He said "in whose camp does your banner fly, and can I have you on my side?" He loaded a Pistol while I replied: I said: I'm anti-pro no shout catechist, so keep your pamphlets political activist, You take your cause for lack of a purpose in life, pursuit of happiness, "eudemonia"  good spiritedness you're living proof that ignorance aint bliss Pray "Libira nos a malo!" and Free Tibet! But you never prayed for the souls with affixed Bayonets; so I wave like the man being shot from the cannon; born on this chunk of warm rock hurling through nothing; who only on the front of spirit can fight; Storm the Bastille of desperate life; and dance in the street every night till the day I die. The Bug Replied: Know All, Know all, in the dialog to win, two grants are a Franklyn one Lincoln's just a fin? Posit value for this bug since you're so well balanced, gaining perspective from the outermost valence; you never killed what you eat and confuse "labor with action,"   but you think you're to evolved to fight for my faction; We're currency baby as we live and breed, BASTILLE for you ATTICA for me! better get in the frae my anti anti teacher before it ***** you along with every other fighting creature; I'm going back to me cell where I breathe a little freer; but let me give a final though like I'm Jerry Springer: If happiness is purpose than you can call my purpose love, to survive I fight the Battle and to me you're the bug. Thunderstruck, I sat on the curb, realizing I could be a "social surd;" then I saw my small confessor get killed in a raid; I would have stomped out his assassin if I wasn't so afraid; instead I rose to my feet, and walked straight home, locked myself in, and wrote out this song, I think of the bug while I'm dancing in the street, every time my neighbor throughs a sneaker at me; I feel his wrestles spirit longing to fight, while I'm drinking and singing in the middle of the night, than it hits me: The bug was right
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“My poems are often wiser than me, lean into a more keen universe of understanding.” Joy Harjo <•> instant recognition moment, Joy, your words, (despite the kitchen cooking clanging chatter next door), spilling into the quiet space of my thanksgiving brain my wiser poems are insights inscribed inside, exposed and released all in their own good time, they, always blogging, leaning out to escape, asking the Governor for clemency, early release poems that are my self-defensive explicit explanations, excuses, convoluted ratinocations, prosecutorial accusations, leveled by my disbelieving, revealing, sworn to silence not-to-be-trusted-confessor-me against the indefensible nobody likes a wise guy,   but out they come, under the covers, dem poems   of nighttime darkness, spilling beans and silent screams, asking you if we remember that time when we... yes, we. but writ in the first person personal, in words summoned from his own ****** deep darkness? better in plain english when sharing shadings of universal, and you leaning in on me from within, presence of pressure, a plaintive palliative wailing, ejecting an *********** of joy when “please release us” is honored with our collective wisdom <•> 11/24/17 9:07am
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Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017 at 10:07 AM UTC
My poems are often wiser than me
A nobreza de tua família, teus descendentes! Fernando era teu nome, Deus te chamou... Junto a água pura Deus te abençoou, Os peixes estavam contentes, Tua catedral resplandecente, Santo do amor eterno e confiante. A tua voz sagrada, Em Pádua a vi idolatrada. Teu túmulo que me fez chorar com amor, Meu santo amigo, eterno confessor. Contigo aprendi a ser humano e amigo, Me deleito a orar contigo. Rezo a Deus e busco tua sabedoria infinita, Pois Deus a todos beatifica.. Victor Marques
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Dec 14, 2009
Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 AM UTC
Santo António de Lisboa e Padova
called me in for a consultation, “*lean in,” he suggested, with nearly closed eyes, “see the youthful optimistic predecessor, the conqueror, who could not be defeated, his thin images within still resides the man of firm voice who when he spoke above the rabble, all fell silent, and when he looked, all could share his visionary insights and did not hesitate, saying, we will do and we will listen, but to follow, just did, wrapped in your confidence I want that boy back, smooth skinned, fearless, do not return him till the shadows have dissipated, the bruised lines of worry have evaporated, the hands look unscathed, then raise them in self-supplication, demanding satisfaction, then in success, born overhead, marking appreciation, let us adventure forth, straightening tilting windmills, punishing renegades and dragons fearful, saving damsels who waited just for our arrival, shedding courage upon those who watch us, cheering and being cheerful here is your mighty pen, cut sharp the poems out from the within, read them slow, winding to now crooked old friends, who remember everything dear, their youth of no fear, the best of past, dreaming poems, mist born, fog vapor gone, of black and waiting white, worthy words all revived return to me in blazes, sumptuous colors of derring-do, I need that child brave, for perhaps you have not noticed my flaking slivering skin, the expanding cracks that cross my images, just like you! I need you to rebirth you, I need you to rebirth me!*”
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Aug 16, 2019
Aug 16, 2019 at 7:35 PM UTC
my old confessor, my bathroom mirror
called me in for a consultation, “*lean in,” he suggested, with nearly closed eyes, “see the youthful optimistic predecessor, the conqueror, who could not be defeated, his thin images within still resides the man of firm voice who when he spoke above the rabble, all fell silent, and when he looked, all could share his visionary insights and did not hesitate, saying, we will do and we will listen, but to follow, just did, wrapped in your confidence I want that boy back, smooth skinned, fearless, do not return him till the shadows have dissipated, the bruised lines of worry have evaporated, the hands look unscathed, then raise them in self-supplication, demanding satisfaction, then in success, born overhead, marking appreciation, let us adventure forth, straightening tilting windmills, punishing renegades and dragons fearful, saving damsels who waited just for our arrival, shedding courage upon those who watch us, cheering and being cheerful here is your mighty pen, cut sharp the poems out from the within, read them slow, winding to now crooked old friends, who remember everything dear, their youth of no fear, the best of past, dreaming poems, mist born, fog vapor gone, of black and waiting white, worthy words all revived return to me in blazes, sumptuous colors of derring-do, I need that child brave, for perhaps you have not noticed my flaking slivering skin, the expanding cracks that cross my images, just like you! I need you to rebirth you, I need you to rebirth me!*”
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That Pillow...if it could speak, would have all too much to say. It would drown your very ears with stories of fears. It would count, for you, the lost numbers of tears that have been shed, but never wiped away, just dried up slowly, instead. That Pillow...if it could speak, what would it say? How many dreams and secrets would it betray? Ahh, but that tender Pillow of mine, it would never cross that line, For it is always there...eager to bend... for me, and always to lend... itself, as my friend, you see. That Pillow...it serves me quite well, and though there is always much to tell... I know it will never sell... me...out like that. Discarding judgement, it takes it all in... both virtue and sin. Soft confidante as well as confessor, putting up with the aggressor. Never questioning a word or thought, or the torment of inquiries sought. Oh...that sweet Pillow; it knows me too well, And a true friend indeed; veiling inner stirrings and secret stories... and it shall never tell. -by Mercurychyld Copyrights
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 6:30 PM UTC
PILLOW TALK
You talk about corruption, and you spit words of destruction. But you won't offer redemption or even protection, for the youth of this nation, the people of this generation. Kids who know they could be better fathers or mothers than they have. Who know they should be better sisters or brothers, they want it so bad. They who know they need more than a job a McDonald's or WalMart, or some department store because they're so smart. High schoolers who dream of college but know they'll never get there with any of their knowledge. Who want to offer more to the world than just a ******** remark, but can't because they didn't get better marks on their report card, though they tried so hard. But their GPAs never rised, and they lied. And that Grade Point Average? It says "less than average." But a college professor, a "truth" confessor, wouldn't accept "less than average" unless it was written in binary code. Well that's a load, they're full of it. For every kid who's ever taken a hit, took a chance, but lost all of it. Because "the nation's best" never learn, they only care about what they earn day after day. It's sad, because some of us can't afford to live that way.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 1:18 PM UTC
Less Than Average
The miscreant carried a bushel of poisoned apples And gave the out to anyone who thought themselves a good judge of character He exasperates the attentive ones who suffer from a hand to mouth problem He discoursed immensely on the subject of turmeric and thickened plots The deathbed confessor's ghost implored the miscreant to cease his doings And focus on a productive form and function Preposterous as it sounds, this paranormal plea was second to none For as soon as the spirit appeared the miscreant was filled with fear and immediately knocked off all his wayward ways The miscreant became the lapdog for an elderly man who dispensed to him far out wisdom Using his silver tongue He told him of his days as an escaped chain gang convict Running across the country Pilfering pies from unsuspecting windowsills "It was wrong!" the old man said while hitting the miscreant with a newspaper for 1911 "Now, fetch me some lunch" "Bring me one of those apples, and one for yourself"
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 5:29 PM UTC
Full Circle
If alleys were blind, If you could drive me anywhere near insanity's brink; Or if time could march, and the moon whisper it's forgotten lines in blue octopus ink. If scarce winds could dance, where soft rains kiss, or the brave stars wink. If my neurons were, in that thinking circus of blown-fuse circuits, the weakest link. If man is a parasite ***** blood from earth, grieves igneous oceans that once gave birth; If venial sin is always the lesser, and time leaves us dead in the dust, I'm bound to make you my secret confessor, for time never sleeps in your rust.
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Sep 16, 2010
Sep 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM UTC
If birthdays didn't make you older
+++ Tongue, curser, kisser, blesser, Hold thyself firm and still, Enough! Insulter, and confessor, For cruel and bitter you can be, Away with thee, arrogant professor, Professing truths you think you see, Fumbling clod, ye ought be acquiescer +++
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 8:03 AM UTC
Double Edged
How? Just how? Did you know, past my smiles and reassurance, through my antics and all, that underneath, behind my eyes, that I was in pain, I was taking a fall. How did you know? You saw right through me, like no one else could, you sent me words of reassurance, like no one else would. So how did you know? I hid it so well, no one else could catch on, yet there you were, to catch me, before I was long and gone. How did you know? It's unnatural, uncanny, nearing impossible! How you do what you do, but I'm glad you did, I'm really, really glad, that you knew. But did you know? You're my secret confessor, though neither of us know it yet. Because now with you, I know my heart is set. I can show you the things, that only I hide below, because it seems I just can't hide it, because you always seem to know. I Love... You. But you'll never know.
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May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
How did you know?
I will not be your confessor priest, nor forgive all that you do. I have no power of forgiveness, even though you're dying too. I have seen you **** the mothers, in the West and in the East; You **** your babies in the womb, to create a devil's feast. Yet I cannot judge you, nor forgive all that you do, I cannot sit in judgment, for I am but passing through. I cannot judge you for your wars, religious jihad settled scores; All the scriptures penned as ****** to power games, those septic sores. Nor that you choose to impose peace, with nuclear  threat and freedoms cease. I cannot purify your will, which caused the poor to pay the bill, for your diseases that spirits **** For I am dying just like you, and like the horses fodder, we just pass through.
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Jan 18, 2012
Jan 18, 2012 at 4:56 AM UTC
Dying For Forgiveness
alliteration intervening invasion, a bed-throned life journey summarily unasked for, reviewing follow behind the collected beaming seams, to the discolored end-of-a-whiting rainbow of writings sack in hand, sack'd yet surfeiting, gleaning the falling bits, inventoried stories, the poor and the glorious light droppings, stir'd and stor'd in hopsack bag, woven intervals of clashing fabrics trilogy of me, myself and I, following falling, trailing, failing flalings cross currenting, swirling, disheartened chest heaving cursing if only, a mite more sipping of courage everlasting here a memory, there a visionary, happy haunting, glaceing eye dreams keepsakes of a life modesty and poorly lived error prone, choices weak, father confessor to the supremity of oneself played safety first, thirst quenching with the unsatisfying yellowed bursts of "it could be worse" but these stuffing, gleanings of a life, uprighted night, declining days, admixture of son and moon, women's flashing eyes inviting happy danger and ending disaster inevitability this sifted treasure chest of self-selected retained cursings and blessings, the measuring cup of a tragedy well acted, quantifiable pathos superb aplenty a play veined with comedic relief, a Falstaff for every Hal, compare and contrast your essays on the container storage of dusted cells morning-mourning summarizing gleams gleaned from a life well....dissatisfaction satisfied...truth in poetry
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM UTC
gleam gleanings (April 3rd, 2016, 8:43am)
i grab an iron scythe and bolt a metal ball unto its handle's bottom, roughly sharpening its time-worn rusted blade between two flat-side stones, a leather wrist strap hung below in case it falls out of the swinging hand, to grasp what's happening when metal slices human flesh down to the bone, my questions, each with force that deeply penetrates will breach her shield and nick her armor slicing wide to move through flesh, expose the hidden living blood, and all that's cryptic in her heart, although she hates confessions, she will moan thus cleansing all inside till secret truth has quick deluged in filthy flood (C)2012, Christos Rigakos
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Aug 6, 2012
Aug 6, 2012 at 12:27 PM UTC
Confessor
Forgive me Father for I have sinned. I cross my heart and heat the pin To burn out the angels and tarnish my soul. Dark Father, I have forgotten your goal. Our Cathedral stands atop basalt Chaos churns its eternal assault Across the horizon where my tears were shed. Forgive me Father, I should be dead. The Throne upon which your eternal flame Rests on my brow - a crown of shame, Has beauty and light crossing it's face. Forgive me Father for kissing Grace. Take my heart as if your own, Make it bleed and make it moan It's confessions upon the cold earthy ground. Forgive me Father, for the Light that I found.
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Feb 12, 2010
Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 AM UTC
To The Dark Confessor
_Confessor_, I am reborn, Vain with ash and frankincense; Absolved of my inverted pleasures, Reconciled to the morality of suffering. _Confessor_, I am returned, Predestined to gravely offend; Nimbly contrite in my genuflection, Gracefully weak-kneed in my resolve. _Confessor_, I am reborn, Although aged by my discretion; Examined satisfactorily by my conscience, Blessedly relieved through your encouragement. _Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa._
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Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 4:30 PM UTC
Mea Culpa
A little boy who was so sweet I'd ask him, would you like a treat? Ice cream, candy or bubble gum You know that granny will give you some... CONFESSING.... But Granny, you know I just had a treat. One is all that I should eat... BUT... If you put it in a bag, I'll carry it home to share with dad... by ~ granny judy
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM UTC
THE CONFESSOR....