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"cradling" poems
Let me, Be the waves; The tides that will wash your troubled thoughts. And with every crash of waves being your happiness and joy, Your ripples of bliss. Pushing away crumpled parts, Cradling your body in warm currents. Let me, Be the waves. Guiding you effortlessly Out into the everlasting blue. The waves, that orchestrates your heart.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 4:05 AM UTC
Waves
I am she Who compliments & completes The dream-lover and wishes Made when he is asleep. I am she Who suffers the most, Giving birth, cradling ghosts, As the crone or maid, (Once and always) Sister, mother, daughter, wife. I am she Who waits through the night. I am she Who equals the strength Of his light. "See me with your loving eyes, See me more than the tears I've cried!" I am she Who is willing To go with him to war, Not a man but as an equal, (I'm both soft yet hard) I am she To whom he'll give his heart I am the tunnel's bright end I am where The family starts, The breast which nurse small men. I am she The twin, The Juliet, The Goddess divine! I am she Who deserves the same in life, and for all time. (Peace be…) I am she I am you I am her I am the one besides And inside She is I… The romance in the dress, Patient Partner to the ends, Tiny dancer on the floor I am The one that loves you Forever & Evermore.
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Dec 1, 2019
Dec 1, 2019 at 10:20 AM UTC
I Am SHE (for Women's Day)
It’s all you’ve ever seen in a midnight’s dream the zero sum games and exorcised demons asinine plunges on tunkwa brides phantom fingers cradling the ragged red dress shadow hands clasp at the floodgates lava fields boil through scorched amber veins needles pierce the look out where flames dance wildly over boneyard grounds deep red pedestals behind bleeding walls empty halls and doorways throughout the sinful nest bulging eyes and blood rush in a dark crimson sky a funeral, before I die
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Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 2:14 PM UTC
Fever Dream
She looks up, Tears swelling in her eyes, And looks into his, Searching for a reason to hold out hope She delays just a moment- Waiting for a sign, A wavering tear, A slight gesture, One word to make her worries disappear She's hoping he will fight for her, Dang it. But instead, she walks away, Stronger than ever, Cradling a broken heart.
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Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017 at 11:49 PM UTC
The Strong Heartbroken
Stories browsed by the bedside of budding of children Told of all the adventure that awaited us So I ran amok with my compatriots Every one of us wreathed in youth Burning with the boundless fuel Of curiosity From the streets spilled opportunities Of Fame, Of Wealth, Of Love Then eventually the Sun rays Bent Before bleeding upon the stone So that we traversed on bricks of yellow Until sore legs led us To an enchanted emerald mirror And as we stared we began to wheeze Seeing a frail old wizard or witch Wondering “why” with a whimper As curtains cradling clocks, crash upon us
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Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 8:47 PM UTC
The Whimsical kneeling to Wisdom
if ever there were gods or goddesses of desert of the drylands of parched earth some call home they would be surprised to learn                      of the miracle of                            this Spring deluge                                 unfurling forth                                             from deep within                           the crusty dermis           of this sublunar territory:           hydrangea and ***** apple flower,           intermingling their hues           of mauve and lilacs,                               as well as the color of sky                                blooms of the succulents                     popping open                     in celebratory dance                                    in wild fuschia                                 sunray butter: a dazzling botanic trance           hollyhocks of magenta,            veils of bougainvellia, too                     sweetpea clusters              curling in the trellis weaving heavy-scented magic through and through a private orchard of lemon tree, and apple olive and pistachio grove One would not guess the endless giving of this desert treasure trove And I feel like a goddess               of mythology softly spun like Demeter, or Ceres ancient Egyptian Renenutet my hands spread out in the licks of gentle sun for as spring pours forth its honey all through this barren land I , too reawake and flush out all the infected, dust-scratched sand I welcome in the waters of abundance, of love, of light under stars let new energy wash out old poisons my radiance spilling far Reaching out unto the Universe, cradling this heart          I cup the buds of blooms,                                       of nectar to inseminate my dark        allowing me to release the past and seed within me, lit          the atoms of  new                start unfolding bit by tender bit
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 10:05 AM UTC
desert bloom
if ever there were gods or goddesses of desert of the drylands of parched earth some call home they would be surprised to learn                      of the miracle of                            this Spring deluge                                 unfurling forth                                             from deep within                           the crusty dermis           of this sublunar territory:           hydrangea and ***** apple flower,           intermingling their hues           of mauve and lilacs,                               as well as the color of sky                                blooms of the succulents                     popping open                     in celebratory dance                                    in wild fuschia                                 sunray butter: a dazzling botanic trance           hollyhocks of magenta,            veils of bougainvellia, too                     sweetpea clusters              curling in the trellis weaving heavy-scented magic through and through a private orchard of lemon tree, and apple olive and pistachio grove One would not guess the endless giving of this desert treasure trove And I feel like a goddess               of mythology softly spun like Demeter, or Ceres ancient Egyptian Renenutet my hands spread out in the licks of gentle sun for as spring pours forth its honey all through this barren land I , too reawake and flush out all the infected, dust-scratched sand I welcome in the waters of abundance, of love, of light under stars let new energy wash out old poisons my radiance spilling far Reaching out unto the Universe, cradling this heart          I cup the buds of blooms,                                       of nectar to inseminate my dark        allowing me to release the past and seed within me, lit          the atoms of  new                start unfolding bit by tender bit
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She says something but I wasn't listening I was feeling her ******* with my eyes Then she points to something Oh , my ! What a gorgeous *** I could see both of my big hands Cradling her most perfect buns Then she's got legs of an Olympic gymnast So thick , firm and succulent Her long brown hair smells so good I want to take a swim in it "You haven't heard a word I said !" She says with an air that's foul "I'm sorry," I say ,"but I couldn't hear you . Your body language was way too loud."
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 3:35 AM UTC
Body Language
#*child of heart but not of womb, would i'd been gifted to ban the hope-thieving, spirit-throwing parasitic lies, to shelter ears & fragile petals against bruising, whiskey-glazed acts and words. would i might be gifted now to soothe, cradling tender soul through deadest night's watery gloom. yet firmly i know none other will ever be gifted to bestow what only One balm can perfectly renew, and He waits for you, my beautiful girl.*#
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Jul 16, 2016
Jul 16, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
petals
*If you were my sheets, and at my beck and call fulfilling all my fantasies, into you, I would fall. You'd cradle me so gently, and massage me everywhere releasing all my juices, and all my  stress, and cares. In splendor we'd heat up the room, and I'd crinkle every sheet and when we were apart, I'd rejoice, every time we meet. Pillows would cradling my face and head, where jasmine scented rests blending of our fluids as our bodies, orgasmically attest. We'd fall asleep together, and spoon throughout the night and in the morning waking, to unimaginable delights. Your hands of silken sheets caressing, exciting every nerve giving me all the pleasures, and climaxes, in you, I am immersed!*
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Jul 20, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 at 10:58 AM UTC
If you were my sheets... (collaboration with Temporal Fugue)
and we stay like this: with fright, cradling What If in our arms, caressing Maybe's forehead. confused. fearful. not knowing in which direction to go. tick. tock. tick. tock. one more hour. one more day. they all pass by like that because... we are waiting. we are waiting for a certain day so we can make that step, the same when we were waiting for the school bell to announce the break. we are waiting for help, but we never ask for it. we are waiting for another day to pass, leave it, maybe tomorrow it will be okay. we are waiting for a sign, a phone call, it's not like I could call him to ask him out. we are waiting for the rain to stop, so we won't ruin our hair /pretty shoes /coat /etcetcetc. we are waiting for something we don't even know what it is, because it would not be ok to do this or that. we are waiting because the sun did not rise yet and it is too dark outside. we are waiting for ourselves. we are waiting without an aim. maybe something will happen so we won't be bound to do things we are afraid of and things we are not sure of. tick. tock. tick. tock. instead of getting the best out of every little thing that gives us the chance to discover, we stand in line for our own happiness... you know that saying: instead of us thinking thoughts, the thoughts think us...
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Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 8:42 AM UTC
what the hell are you waiting for?
Discoboli of African poetry has now sparked above aphasia The aphasic silence today breaks eardrums with cacophony Of the world audience in the by standing duty of workshop tubes, Executing poetic experiment on the origin of **** poeticus To link the archaic baboonish proteins to the black chimpanzee Cradling African man, the sire of all and their poetry. That when the Chimpanzee blood we poured Into the African veins of vena cava and aorta, Feeding the heart with viscosity of nutrition, And the Chimpanzee blood fell into deadly Tomperousness like Shakespearean impetuosity Once seen in Romeo and Juliet, giving timely Birth To untimely half the yellow Sun That juxtaposed planet of poetry Behind the star of tribe as a priority Condemning to stark oblivion all the fated, in full uniform of tribal dimunitions, or mimesis. Ever predated on when tribes form nations. A time to try the chimpanzee blood in the veins Of white humanity, battling cynosure Historically evinced in Antony and his father, Or Tybalt and Mercurial of mercutio, Or Macbeth and counterparts Or Hamlet the Danish and the inheritors of his mother, As the white blood cells of the white blood, Militantly attack the white corpuscles Of the misfortunate chimpanzee, Converting the later into A chewer of misfortune.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 11:55 AM UTC
CHIMPANZEE BLOOD INSIDE AFRICAN VEINES
Just imagine, me, between the earth and the sky, cradling the sun
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 7:08 PM UTC
Cradling the Sun -Haiku
It's deep night, damp and sticky with the residue of southern heat which refuses to totally dissipate this far into the night. The night is thick with the voices of insects and sleepers sweating atop their sheets, committing sins in their vivid imaginings. Dreaming, I'm standing by the wide river wishing I could fly with the breeze through the trees, the soft, warm, cradling breeze that comes up from the Mississippi River. It stirs the boughs of cypress and oak trees and arouses a wind chime's music somewhere down the dimly-lit street, while scattering a newspaper like huge leaves; a wind that smells of magnolia and dogwood blossoms and river mud. A full moon casts long shadows which melt into even darker, yet benign shadows. The night has compiled its secrets, mysteries, transgressions; surely that is the charm of night - it frees the mind to settle not on what seemed important during the day, but on the longings kept locked away, hidden from the disclosing light, struggling to break free and take wing with this night wind. --
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Sep 14, 2011
Sep 14, 2011 at 1:34 PM UTC
Magnolia and Dogwood
The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk with a middle-aged bitterness of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him— The man whose love confused you, whose clumsy attempts of fatherhood kept the heart of a young girl perpetually guarded by a cautious skepticism— The man who brought you into a world he found absurd as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with the two of them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bear into this bittersweet game of ******** we play that we’ve since called ‘life,’ that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to navigate the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM UTC
"Adulthood" (revised)
The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk with a middle-aged bitterness of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him— The man whose love confused you, whose clumsy attempts of fatherhood kept the heart of a young girl perpetually guarded by a cautious skepticism— The man who brought you into a world he found absurd as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with the two of them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bear into this bittersweet game of ******** we play that we’ve since called ‘life,’ that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to navigate the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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Are acceptance and approval synonymous terms? It is important that we give adequate definition to that which blocks our winding garden path, where foxgloves, lupins and a multitude of botanical dreams can blossom into a gorgeous array of ****** captivation. If we embrace that which is repugnant, then possibility may not be confined to the cradling arms of the mistress of death. So, my judgmental and moralistic companion from the sands of Jupiter – if your daughter is a raunchy stripper, then keep your expectations on the leash and preserve your anthropological connectedness, otherwise you may veer into prickly thorns of certain detriment and thereby lose her attachments. It is incumbent upon us to nourish those fragrant plantations with a careful approach, so that beautiful reproductions will abound in a bouquet of resolution.
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Nov 7, 2013
Nov 7, 2013 at 12:23 AM UTC
Floral Psychology
You told me I was **** when you touched me on my chest and stomach, but I am sure that I wasn’t **** at all. I have memories of you cradling me like a lion with his cubs, except there was nothing paternal to your touch or words, and I felt no safety when I was in your bed. Not even when you told me not to worry, not even when I came to you to escape my nightmares. You didn’t seem to understand that you simply led me into new, scarier ones.
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Apr 27, 2010
Apr 27, 2010 at 8:10 PM UTC
****
I know you are part of my destiny So I haven't cried as much over our separation True, I did cry an ocean of tears But not so many to drown the grounds I stand upon I said words of frustration And whispered cries of surrender and desertion But I am open to emotions and those words allowed release -But- what I suggested in heated state of mind was just that Suggestions, not proclamations nor plans You know I tend to submerge myself in evil waters In order to rise from them with strength even greater Those shouts you may or may not have heard were the waters I was wading And now, I am back to the heavens with a heart more unbreakable Refreshed and replenished with the purity of home air I remain sure of the decision I made that day Don't worry, I am still certain of my true love for you No- More certain of everything I guess it took all those months to realise it I needed to break down in strengthening To lead the way to the point of exhaustion Because now, it's your turn to stand ahead As I deep down predicted, my words did not gain action Although reactions were clearly achieved Though words were controlled and questions avoided Your eyes that trick you, are as always unable to deceive me I guess what I am trying to express Is my undying true love for you My heart is unbroken, despite what I said Still holding you within, still cradling our infants to come
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM UTC
True love never dies
Shall we pause to consider the shudder of a butterfly's wings that sets the hurricane spinning or the descent of the final raindrop that breaches the groaning levy? Shall we ponder the moment before a chorus of "maybe's" morphs into the vain eloquence of history? Roiling in the broth of chaos a cluster of causes startles the surface - unfurling a queue of effects that dot the timescape like rows of teetering dominoes. Typhoons twist villages to ruins, armies rise to victory or succumb to the despair of defeat, or a medical miracle is born from the agile mind of a doctor conceived in a Chevy's back seat. So here we stand on the ridge of time ourselves both caused and causing, cradling the sphere of chaos in our hands - uncertain what effect will be our being after all our causes are enumerated. Time will surely tell - as soon as we tell time exactly what to say. August, 2013
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 10:23 AM UTC
Out of Chaos
When first I saw you, you were lying on a green bank laughing at the sky as you watched the clouds scud by and you saw all kinds of shapes in those clouds and gasped in awe as the myriad of birds soared and wheeled through the clouds. Your laugh skipped across the distance between us like magical notes from a faery harp. The sunlight lit up your golden hair making diamonds out of the shafts of sunlight as you turned your head to and fro making the sunbeams dance to your tune. And about your head was a halo of white lilies … When next I saw you you were hand in hand with your love walking into the sunlight from the grey stone church. Your brocade of white entwined with golden thread sparkled like a million gems. Your face was bright and alive with smiling eyes and your golden hair fell down around your face catching the sunbeams. And ringing out their joy, the church bells pealed for you. And in your hand was a bouquet of white lilies … I saw you again on that same green bank laughing with joy as your golden child frolicked in the warm summer sun, her childish laugh mingling with your own in angelic harmony. You grasped her up and, wheeling her skyward, faces upturned, letting the sunbeams play around you and then, holding her close, you sank to your knees cradling the babe, letting the love flow out and around you both. And in the child’s small hand was grasped a single white lily … The next time I saw you you were quietly sitting in the late summer sun comfortable in your chair watching the golden sun flame red as it sank below the distant horizon. Your golden hair now not so vibrant and your face etched with the many years of your long life yet when you smiled at the glory of the setting sun, the sparkle of your eyes was not dimmed at all. And around your feet grew a field of white lilies … The last time I saw you I gave you my hand and, with fingers entwined, we walked away from the sombre crowd whose tears flowed like pearls as the stark white coffin was lowered into the ground. And looking into your face I saw you again as you were that first time, your golden hair that fell as rivulets around your now pale, sad face. I took that face in my hands and gently kissed your lips, no more than a whisper, like a gentle spring breeze teasing the blossoms. Still hand in hand, we looked back at the sad scene and then turned and walked into the light. And all about your grave lay white lilies.
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 5:12 PM UTC
White Lilies – a gothic love story
When first I saw you, you were lying on a green bank laughing at the sky as you watched the clouds scud by and you saw all kinds of shapes in those clouds and gasped in awe as the myriad of birds soared and wheeled through the clouds. Your laugh skipped across the distance between us like magical notes from a faery harp. The sunlight lit up your golden hair making diamonds out of the shafts of sunlight as you turned your head to and fro making the sunbeams dance to your tune. And about your head was a halo of white lilies … When next I saw you you were hand in hand with your love walking into the sunlight from the grey stone church. Your brocade of white entwined with golden thread sparkled like a million gems. Your face was bright and alive with smiling eyes and your golden hair fell down around your face catching the sunbeams. And ringing out their joy, the church bells pealed for you. And in your hand was a bouquet of white lilies … I saw you again on that same green bank laughing with joy as your golden child frolicked in the warm summer sun, her childish laugh mingling with your own in angelic harmony. You grasped her up and, wheeling her skyward, faces upturned, letting the sunbeams play around you and then, holding her close, you sank to your knees cradling the babe, letting the love flow out and around you both. And in the child’s small hand was grasped a single white lily … The next time I saw you you were quietly sitting in the late summer sun comfortable in your chair watching the golden sun flame red as it sank below the distant horizon. Your golden hair now not so vibrant and your face etched with the many years of your long life yet when you smiled at the glory of the setting sun, the sparkle of your eyes was not dimmed at all. And around your feet grew a field of white lilies … The last time I saw you I gave you my hand and, with fingers entwined, we walked away from the sombre crowd whose tears flowed like pearls as the stark white coffin was lowered into the ground. And looking into your face I saw you again as you were that first time, your golden hair that fell as rivulets around your now pale, sad face. I took that face in my hands and gently kissed your lips, no more than a whisper, like a gentle spring breeze teasing the blossoms. Still hand in hand, we looked back at the sad scene and then turned and walked into the light. And all about your grave lay white lilies.
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If I am kindling, you must be the spark... Much alive in the darkest dark, lifting all shadows with finesse and flair.      If I am flame,      you must be the air and wind...      Unfettered and free...      Cradling my infancy.      Only to nurture and inspire,      to groom flame to fire. If I am faltering... And almost extinguished, you must be the hand... Bearing the confidence and belief... Awaiting the moment most opportune, to align yourself in rhythm and tune. So we could... Continue to burst forth into light. So we could... Resume our journey forth with might.      Let us be our own deterrent      from the darkness      that comes with morrow's set.      Hand in hand, we must...      Because together...           And only together,    we're...                         incandescent.
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Jan 1, 2016
Jan 1, 2016 at 8:57 AM UTC
Incandescent
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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We didn't have the pleasure of first meeting: The get-to-know you touch of tiny hands, The careful cradling, The inhalation of all scents new, The wonder of a being so tiny, To see if we could find ourselves in you. Never knew your sleepy sigh, Your first smile, The different infant cries: Hunger, anger, fear, Or the fidget-whimpering need for words. Your Mother knew and told your Dad.... They held each other while you grew, Gathering and stretching, A silent wonder in her womb, A sweet surprise, and wanted, If still a little early... Too early yet... Better to wait and make sure.... But always you were awaited With hopeful joy. And then one morning, As though you'd found a better place, You took your leave in silence, Left without a face or name For us to see and know you When we finally meet. You need to know we mourn you, Or perhaps we need you to know... Regret your passing. Strange longing this, For a loved one we have yet to meet, To add someone to the growing list Of those we miss and long to see At Jesus' feet. ---------- But Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:14 Published 9/2/13
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 8:52 AM UTC
Lost and Found
20:00 - Dinner Alone but entertained I like it that way 21:00 - Skype calls Not having talked for four days I've missed her yet the occasional silence is nice 22:00 - Fillers Scrolling through pictures and sharing thoughts A pleasant and calm feeling 23:00 - Rethinking The first hypothetical theories about the day Laughing at the slip-ups to push them away 00:00 - Reflecting Doubting choices throughout the week Faking a small smile 01:00 - Endurance A familiar feeling spreads Downcast eyes and a facade of peace 02:00 - Creative New ideas and thoughts fill up the space Pick and choosing which ones would hurt the most now 03:00 - Idealistic Reading stories about happiness, pain and change Wondering what will become of me 04:00 - Closure Horrible thoughts tearing down the last walls Curling up and crying again 05:00 - End Following a familiar routine before sleep comes Cradling the broken mind
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Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 7:00 AM UTC
Repeat
I miss my cargo green canvas backpack Shredded with the mass of three science textbooks: biology, classical history, chemistry. Not like backpack was meant for several colossal three hundred page hardcover books. When it was empty, it was light, barely anything, tugging on my shoulders; but I insisted the friend come with me. But I used backpack for study, drudgery, play. The linen wore with every use. It was my safety blanket, under loose cloth that contained sacarine orange glucose tablets that I hoped to never need Inside the main large pocket, there was a secret zipper, within held a pack of cigarettes, an excuse, to pardon myself into a realm of aloneness- with little questions asked There were strings that adjusted its position on my back that I would pull down, using tension to fling myself terminal to terminal More than fifteen times, I lost count, of my partner traversing across oceans, gently cradling my laptop and phone- my trusted links with the outside world Nervousness alleviated by the tassels in my mouth, I bite and chew on the cloth, but it holds steadfast as I ponder how to approach what's next, the bittersweet coffee they fell into rehydrates with my salivating mouth, hungry for adventure but a stomach empty knots itself anxious for what's to come My backpack weighs on my shoulders, empty or full, but it's trained my body to carry the load thoughts in my head bring upon me But it yielded to what was to come, the seams at the bottom gave out. Backpack let me know: I needed to learn to carry on without reliance.
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Jun 2, 2015
Jun 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM UTC
R.I.P(ped) Backpack
I miss my cargo green canvas backpack Shredded with the mass of three science textbooks: biology, classical history, chemistry. Not like backpack was meant for several colossal three hundred page hardcover books. When it was empty, it was light, barely anything, tugging on my shoulders; but I insisted the friend come with me. But I used backpack for study, drudgery, play. The linen wore with every use. It was my safety blanket, under loose cloth that contained sacarine orange glucose tablets that I hoped to never need Inside the main large pocket, there was a secret zipper, within held a pack of cigarettes, an excuse, to pardon myself into a realm of aloneness- with little questions asked There were strings that adjusted its position on my back that I would pull down, using tension to fling myself terminal to terminal More than fifteen times, I lost count, of my partner traversing across oceans, gently cradling my laptop and phone- my trusted links with the outside world Nervousness alleviated by the tassels in my mouth, I bite and chew on the cloth, but it holds steadfast as I ponder how to approach what's next, the bittersweet coffee they fell into rehydrates with my salivating mouth, hungry for adventure but a stomach empty knots itself anxious for what's to come My backpack weighs on my shoulders, empty or full, but it's trained my body to carry the load thoughts in my head bring upon me But it yielded to what was to come, the seams at the bottom gave out. Backpack let me know: I needed to learn to carry on without reliance.
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Creating that fallacious intimacy wrapped arm around arm with a nameless body. It's easy to get temporary satisfaction from it. Even though you're chilled and hollow inside. The want of not being lonely can be too strong. Keeping up the exhausting task of costant contact. Never really developing a bond deeper than physical sedation can tire out. It will ash away as soon as you move an inch in that position which is holding unstably present. Distance would be the ruiner of that shallow fantasy. But... to be hundreds of miles and moments away from someone. To be alone and removed from the one who you have a real, unrelenting connection with. To know you are singular in that very moment but not unsupported. Having them somewhere you're not, holding onto your spiritual thread. To achieve real intimate foundation in knowing the body doesn't have to tie you together. That's an ember that, when set to breathe, engulfs you both. Understanding and feeling comfort that when surrounded by faces and being unknown to them is alright. Since that person who lingers in your mind Is a whisper off your lips and is there in that place you left them. They've penetrated inside that fortress of caution and self-preservation and they get you. They are there, hidden and carried with you. With their hands cradling and cherishing your heart like the treasure it is. The enormous responsibility. To be the keeper of warmth and familiarity and home. Even though being separated from one another you are reminded of what exists between you. By concentrating and honing in on the weight which lives there. That love and loyalty and equal respected commitment to take care of what the other is given. The total vulnerable surrender of yourself. That is something worth wanting. That is something to daydream for. That... is what we all crave. © NDHK
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Oct 30, 2012
Oct 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM UTC
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Creating that fallacious intimacy wrapped arm around arm with a nameless body. It's easy to get temporary satisfaction from it. Even though you're chilled and hollow inside. The want of not being lonely can be too strong. Keeping up the exhausting task of costant contact. Never really developing a bond deeper than physical sedation can tire out. It will ash away as soon as you move an inch in that position which is holding unstably present. Distance would be the ruiner of that shallow fantasy. But... to be hundreds of miles and moments away from someone. To be alone and removed from the one who you have a real, unrelenting connection with. To know you are singular in that very moment but not unsupported. Having them somewhere you're not, holding onto your spiritual thread. To achieve real intimate foundation in knowing the body doesn't have to tie you together. That's an ember that, when set to breathe, engulfs you both. Understanding and feeling comfort that when surrounded by faces and being unknown to them is alright. Since that person who lingers in your mind Is a whisper off your lips and is there in that place you left them. They've penetrated inside that fortress of caution and self-preservation and they get you. They are there, hidden and carried with you. With their hands cradling and cherishing your heart like the treasure it is. The enormous responsibility. To be the keeper of warmth and familiarity and home. Even though being separated from one another you are reminded of what exists between you. By concentrating and honing in on the weight which lives there. That love and loyalty and equal respected commitment to take care of what the other is given. The total vulnerable surrender of yourself. That is something worth wanting. That is something to daydream for. That... is what we all crave. © NDHK
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