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"cursory" poems
Miscommunication serendipity, anticipation, blurred reality - lost in the dialect of a dream, in pursuit of Love find callous irony; subversion of desire what's it all about? to know and be known. Mere seconds of scrutiny inferior, I am shown. Her appraisal eviscerating my warm flesh, her tilted criteria supplanting the interior, voluble with saccharine neologisms and preferences for the exterior. (not mine) Ironic was my attraction to her brain. Lines, features and symmetry, image - the commodity, aesthetics, the currency in this transaction, cursory liaison, incendiary, collapse of the insurgent ego - there was no us in the the affair of nothingness. Bruised in abasement, I'm not the one -   I thought I was. Hyperbole - the center of delusion, a curious diversion - avoid my life. The allure of the illusion, transference, the ordinary to the romantic, the perfect other. Searching, the absorbing project - aquiring wholeness, did she reject me? I rejected me. The escape into fraudulent sadness, to mourn, is to displace, the disowned heart by self is tragic.   Should I not mourn for the one I'm deferring? Inside of me It's safe, to lament the loss of identity - tension is agony without resolve sequestered, in my pain, self-imposed familiar terrain, upon retrieval, awaking in renewal, mystery and destiny providentially, I am free.
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Feb 14, 2012
Feb 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM UTC
Miss Communication
The local mall now has a Spenser’s Gifts; I remember that place fondly as Al and I make our way. It’s where I sneaked a peek at Samantha Fox’s **** for the first time, saw my first **** ring, wondering why anyone would want one. I bought my first Metallica shirt at a Spencer’s; spending twenty of my dad’s dollars. Spencer’s and Record Wear House were sanctuaries; my escape from what my classmates took for normal. I took my son into that store so that he could see the X-Men hats and Deadpool shirts, the banana and pickle pens caught his eye, but I had to point out one more. “What’s that one?” I asked. Alex made a face, but in the end he did what any 14 year old boy should, he chuckled. I took him in that store so that we both could escape. Earlier he walked the mall a good fifteen feet ahead of us. We stopped for ice cream. He chose a soda and wouldn’t sit with us. It took a second, but I figured him out. He was trying his teenaged self out; testing his wings. As we walked, he’d wave at classmates and be either sturdily ignored or given a cursory nod. It was obvious that he wanted so much more. It pained us, my wife and I. So, I took him into Spencer’s gifts in an effort to remove some of his innocence and awkwardness. It may not have been the wisest move, but at least, for a moment, both of us felt peace. -JB CLaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2014
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:17 PM UTC
***** Pens and **** You Hats
i smoke cigarettees too **** much. this is how you know nothing original will be said in this poem. i use cigarettes as a social crutch. i don't know about you but when i'm in the mood to be honest i'll tell you i smoke cigarettes because i want to be 'cool'. because let's be honest: i can't think of a poet a musician an actor an olympic swimmer a hockey player a president a priest a **** a serial killer or a psychiatrist that's worth mentioning that did not smoke yes, i know you can and go ahead, but let me first make a point instead let me be honest, if i can smoke a cigarette and maybe be alone for 5.75 minutes then maybe a thought will occur to me something outside this ******** world and it will be good enough to write down, just maybe. let me be honest i don't need you with your judgemental eyes and your cursory glances walk away from me at a party i don't miss you i am with her. i garauntee if you asked Whitman Hemmingway Freud Phelps Obama about their actual relationship with smoking tobacco they would have similiar descriptions. but go ahead, tell me about the hazardous effects of cigarettes let's talk about the cancer and the tar and the disgusting phlem that i will constantly have to eject from my throat-hole when i'm fifty. go ahead, tell me about ******* people over and ripping their minds out and the sickness and the disease and how it's all so wrong. it's as amusing to me as it is to you. Mcdonald's will **** you. Pall Mall will **** me.
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Nov 5, 2011
Nov 5, 2011 at 12:34 AM UTC
cigarettes
With a cursory press of a key and arco of the strings, They look at each other, Determining when to start through what looks like telepathy, But it is instead the subtle movement of arms and chest. They begin. With the movement of bows bouncing on metal, And the dancing digits upon black and white, Sound reverberates between the audience, With eyes and ears in tandem absorbing the scene. They continue. As they pass over bridges, And draw out waves with their hands, I listen, Swaying and breathing and performing as though I am beside them, Despite being above them, Yet feeling so below. Becoming one with their instrument, And bringing me along, I smile, As just like they pull beauty out of their tools with their soul, They guide joy out of me, For all of us. They end. Then again, they start. With new sounds from a new person, With new intent, And new methods. They change. From haphazard joy and dance, To somber death and confusion, They become one with the music, And follow in its suit. They continue, anew. As the sound changes, So do I. Listening with sharper ears, Hoping to catch a different magic in my ears. They continue, still. As the cello draws honey, The violin; its dew, And the piano waterfalls arpeggios, I am content. They end. Full of the food of life, They stand, To let us feast with them with our hungry hands, Giving our own vibrations to fill our drooling souls. They leave. And so do I. Both of us fed and quenched, From the performance.
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Sep 12, 2022
Sep 12, 2022 at 3:33 AM UTC
A Performance
CECI N'EST PAS UNE ORANGE A Parisian orange lay bang in the middle of the street. I couldn't have avoided it this orange of all oranges lost & stranded but still as big & bold & bright as a new found sun in an unknown solar system. It invisible to all bicycles cars and feet. A cat gave it a cursory glance. The soundtrack of Paris happening just off stage. Now everyone had vanished except me & this orange. Somehow it found its way to my head & unraveled itself in a concentric spiral a swirl of orange peel & white pith like a Can-Can dancer's skirt. I ate it. Oblivious to everything else my first French orange. A Parisian orange lay bang in the middle of the street. I couldn't have avoided it this orange of all oranges lost & stranded but still as big & bold & bright as a new found sun in an unknown solar system. It invisible to all bicycles cars and feet. A cat gave it a cursory glance. The soundtrack of Paris happening just off stage. Now everyone had vanished except me & this orange. Somehow it found its way to my head & unraveled itself in a concentric spiral a swirl of orange peel & white pith like a Can-Can dancer's skirt. I ate it. Oblivious to everything else my first French orange.
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Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 5:04 PM UTC
CECI N'EST PAS UNE ORANGE
(20 minute poetry) Crying air flying where the ocean's spray and the summer days last a lifetime and that's measured by some heavenly hand on my lifeline. I breathe in only to drown. There's a sanctuary somewhere crying air's not allowed there. At thirty seven thousand feet I looked for and forward to meet my maker. More than this the absolute when they shoot you down in flames, more than names on a cenotaph or cursory lines on a graph, more in a laugh than a tear we are all and more.
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 12:20 PM UTC
Ryan's daughter in-law.
<> for the love of friends<> How does one write of one he knew not? the ancillary evidence mounts relentlessly, the double toil and trouble moments edged now, slow vanquished by steady accumulation of the evidentiary a man who lived his life well, will be inevitably, nay, justifiably, deservedly be well remembered... one examines the evidence with eyepiece lenses calibrated to one's own soul, for this is the natural condition of humanity yet wonder, what manner, what scale, does one rightly employ to judge another's   plantings in the soil? rightly judge another? then you hear a woman say, she knew not knew this man Eryc, revealing an honest tertiary, even cursory knowledge of an anecdotal life well lived our shared quandary, yet she solves this judicial issue by asking of herself a question so stunningly elementary, which both asks and answers the double risk you have imposed, to write of one you can never behold, and in doing so, judge thyself... What Would Eryc Do? this crystal rapid current question erodes doubt, the fear to tread where one knows not when a stranger says to another, indeed to many others: heard tell of this young man, and know now to ask myself when I too am junctured, in doubt, What Would Eryc Do? there is no doubt, no juncture, just a provident question a makers's mark of and upon a man, whose future shortened, will live far, far longer than most, if one simple applies a standard to one's own life of What Would Eryc Do?
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 10:12 AM UTC
For TM: What Would Eryc Do?
this old poet, one of the first, to see your wave, when he was playing knick-knack paddy whack on his shoe, the old poet then played two, and said, yes, I will follow you Please imaging-imaging that old poet with a glanceable cursory, a small smile whispered, with entourage of a nod and a wink, stands, knowing he is in the delivery room, a witness, to first steps of a babe starting a new life marvelous miracle by touching a button, a new line written, not crossed but connecting by pressing "Follow" with a finger from a hand, a human fringe, attached to a breathing mind and a thinking heart, the first to follow you, a ceremonial gesture of innovation magic incantation, a new moon blessing, a living person believing, remembering, the longest ago, his first own graceful acknowledgement and eyes speak, yes, I will follow you the new poet, astonished at this induction to the smallest Hall of Fame that they alone own the only key, study that number, that number 1, the first to follow, kinda looking over their shoulder to make sure the old poet still there on the morrow, sure enough there are now two, safe in the back pocket, a tabulation of humans who speak volumes of trust, saying, yes, I will follow you the old poet, imaging-imaging the babe, dancing round the room, invigorated, challenged and the faucets pouring, can't write it down as fast as the trains arriving disgorging, words unique in new combinations and the rush of blood from heart to head to those newly literary fingers bleeding happy creatures of creation as if they are Noah setting sail to save us with verbs and adjectives two by two all for now species unheard of the old poet wants to send cautionary notes, the path strewn with frustrations of no inspiration ditches and inescapable cliches that sound fresh but just aren't, the disappearing satisfaction, the inability to get it just perfect, and so many obstacles to be prophesied, but he does not, these things must be self taught, today let it suffice the initiation, the first crowning of **yes, I will follow you for this the way of the poet 10/16/17 5:09pm**
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 5:22 PM UTC
The First to Follow
this old poet, one of the first, to see your wave, when he was playing knick-knack paddy whack on his shoe, the old poet then played two, and said, yes, I will follow you Please imaging-imaging that old poet with a glanceable cursory, a small smile whispered, with entourage of a nod and a wink, stands, knowing he is in the delivery room, a witness, to first steps of a babe starting a new life marvelous miracle by touching a button, a new line written, not crossed but connecting by pressing "Follow" with a finger from a hand, a human fringe, attached to a breathing mind and a thinking heart, the first to follow you, a ceremonial gesture of innovation magic incantation, a new moon blessing, a living person believing, remembering, the longest ago, his first own graceful acknowledgement and eyes speak, yes, I will follow you the new poet, astonished at this induction to the smallest Hall of Fame that they alone own the only key, study that number, that number 1, the first to follow, kinda looking over their shoulder to make sure the old poet still there on the morrow, sure enough there are now two, safe in the back pocket, a tabulation of humans who speak volumes of trust, saying, yes, I will follow you the old poet, imaging-imaging the babe, dancing round the room, invigorated, challenged and the faucets pouring, can't write it down as fast as the trains arriving disgorging, words unique in new combinations and the rush of blood from heart to head to those newly literary fingers bleeding happy creatures of creation as if they are Noah setting sail to save us with verbs and adjectives two by two all for now species unheard of the old poet wants to send cautionary notes, the path strewn with frustrations of no inspiration ditches and inescapable cliches that sound fresh but just aren't, the disappearing satisfaction, the inability to get it just perfect, and so many obstacles to be prophesied, but he does not, these things must be self taught, today let it suffice the initiation, the first crowning of **yes, I will follow you for this the way of the poet 10/16/17 5:09pm**
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The coffee *** just signalled, Ready, So I pour the cream before the java: A cup of divergent thinking. There are roads running In opposite directions, Sharing points of similarity: A tree, a sign, me. Inside or outside the box of thinking, Using the lower and upper ladder rungs To paint the same wall, Prologues and epilogues to the same story, Lawyers in clown suits, Children using, Kittens chewing slippers, Dogs in litter boxes, Earth cooling, Healing and feeding the masses, Elected monarchies... NO monarchies, Sleeping in or getting up, Cursory letter to family and friends (Though this is coming to an end), Making love while wearing gloves, The moon moves east to west In the blink of sleep, Churches giving alms and unlocking doors, Schools excelling, Parents attending. To juxtapose is divergent, Like sobering up with detergent (You may be clean, but are you dry?). If insurgents were divergent, We'd have more convergence.
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 9:25 AM UTC
Divergent Insurgents
rather than check the forecast for some reason i think it enough to merely look to the sky for a cursory ten or so seconds to observe the drifting of weighty clouds the overwhelming of any strokes of blue that might remain being diminished by the shifting greys of approaching rain before surmising whether or not a coat or umbrella might be needed at some point in the coming hours
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Mar 25, 2023
Mar 25, 2023 at 6:46 PM UTC
the meteorologist
it was a dry mojave afternoon, with crows cursing shrilly the streetlamps bearing broken bulbs and the striped cat sleeping in the sun. the wind drew frantic breaths, exhaling dead leaves over the hill and sending the blackbirds spiraling into the sky. a lizard stirred, somniferous almond eyes gazing lethargically over his rock and at the old man on the porch leaning back- impossibly uncomfortable in his rickety wooden chair. his name was Jackson. gnarled gray hair mixed with gnarled gray beard appropriately framing a pinched, ornery visage and tattered clothes adorned his whisper of a body. it was his sixty-fourth year here in the desert- on the fifty-second he'd lost his wife on the fifty-eighth he'd gained a kitten named him Waldrop and let him **** the mice and lizards. 'sixty four years is a long time,' a thought murmured in the back of his head eyelids peeling back to give a cursory glance to Waldrop who was stalking the reptile watching him. he remembered his twentieth birthday when Edna had first said she loved him and he remembered that glorious July morning where she said she was his forever. he remembered the pain of labor down in the factory, and the camaderie with his fellows chewing tobacco and cursing the bosses. he remembered the time spent weeping, but remembered more the time spent laughing in places miles and miles away that now seemed imaginary. exhaustion echoed through tired bones and he wondered who would feed the cat, drooping eyes closing one last time to await the warmth of sunset.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM UTC
stillness & death
it was a dry mojave afternoon, with crows cursing shrilly the streetlamps bearing broken bulbs and the striped cat sleeping in the sun. the wind drew frantic breaths, exhaling dead leaves over the hill and sending the blackbirds spiraling into the sky. a lizard stirred, somniferous almond eyes gazing lethargically over his rock and at the old man on the porch leaning back- impossibly uncomfortable in his rickety wooden chair. his name was Jackson. gnarled gray hair mixed with gnarled gray beard appropriately framing a pinched, ornery visage and tattered clothes adorned his whisper of a body. it was his sixty-fourth year here in the desert- on the fifty-second he'd lost his wife on the fifty-eighth he'd gained a kitten named him Waldrop and let him **** the mice and lizards. 'sixty four years is a long time,' a thought murmured in the back of his head eyelids peeling back to give a cursory glance to Waldrop who was stalking the reptile watching him. he remembered his twentieth birthday when Edna had first said she loved him and he remembered that glorious July morning where she said she was his forever. he remembered the pain of labor down in the factory, and the camaderie with his fellows chewing tobacco and cursing the bosses. he remembered the time spent weeping, but remembered more the time spent laughing in places miles and miles away that now seemed imaginary. exhaustion echoed through tired bones and he wondered who would feed the cat, drooping eyes closing one last time to await the warmth of sunset.
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Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows. Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. *As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it.* ***Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.***
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM UTC
How to Read a Poem (Hint: Not With Your Eyes)
Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows. Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. *As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it.* ***Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.***
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I was sitting on a train with my pad and a pen, trying to write a poem. I had no title, but I had written down the first line ...I was sitting on a train with my pad... A man sat opposite me. After a minute or so of scanning his paper and throwing cursory looks in my direction he enquiried "What are you writing?" "I'm trying to write a poem about a man trying to write a poem on a train who gets asked by a stranger 'what are you writing'. "Can I be in it?", asked the stranger opposite. "You already are", I replied. The train pulled out of the station.
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Dec 29, 2012
Dec 29, 2012 at 7:18 AM UTC
Trying to write a poem while on a train
Would you like your house cleaned Madame? I promise to do a thorough job My manhood securely locked in my chastity cage Oh dear I do hope I pass the inspection this time! Last month, my mistress determined That I had done a cursory job mopping the kitchen floor And I wasn't allowed an ******** release for a month My manhood strains inside the cage I must take great care to make sure The floors look stunning I live to please my mistress
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 12:53 PM UTC
****** Denial
i am considering buying tickets to a lecture on the cosmos though my thoughts have often dwelt amongst the celestials in one form    or another i know little beyond what was learnt at school; cursory details when the vastness of the universe is considered there is a desire to understand    from where we came    of what made us    how we came to be and    our chances       for a future there is a radiance and pageantry to the stars; an expanse that should incite inspiration    and wonder instead this infinity is a subject dominated by doomsdayers    and       doomsayers without much pity left for the rest of us if i do choose to attend i know that i’ll be lost to the magnificence of the dwarfs    and nebulas understanding at best half of all that is proffered to be honest i’m not sure its worth the £50 plus postage when i think i can predict how it will end; warnings will be given and advice    imparted unfortunately there is no guarantee i will still be listening
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May 5, 2022
May 5, 2022 at 6:04 AM UTC
it's futile
When did feminism become a taboo? When did equality become uncool Men not superior to females Us not superior to them too. When did I become the taboo? When did this become uncool. So I wish we are all square and blue true, it'd make dating difficult but what'd you do, you'd talk to people true *** would be awkward too angles too many rights won't create create the sweetest wrong but at least we'd break the taboo No colour No gender No looks apart from the individuals descriptions Believe: I am female I am male without doing a cursory glance up and down believe: I am intelligent I am creative without checking my pigment or my **** because I am done with it I am tired non-acceptance Snap decisions Stubborn judgements it's nothing personal No, you made it personal You stole a personality Smeared it Said it was wrong Said I didn't belong. So I wish we were square and blue No stereotypes No stigmas No *** cos maybe we don't deserve it yet. If all we see are pigment genitals and stereotypes.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 3:20 PM UTC
When did I become the stigma?
Though I wear no crown of decadent jewels pressed down around my brow, It can be said that I am beautiful. Needing no assistance from a mask of make-up and every hair doing as it pleases, I am told that I am beautiful. Without the burden of corsets, push-ups and garters; no cocktail dress draping my shoulders, I look in the mirror and am satisfied. I wear blue jeans, t-shirts and tank tops; tennis shoes, flip-flops and high-tops, And still my legs are long and lean; my shape curvy and full. And while I walk by, a southern sway in my step, you know you take more than a cursory glance. I have attitude, and bluntness inherited from my line of honest folk. I am country. I am bold. I am ruthless. I am simple in the way that diamonds are simply compressed carbon. I am beautiful in the way that only a southern girl can be. I am a huntress with my 243 across my lap in a camo blind. I am an actress as I smile and say “Bless your heart.” I am a lover if there ever was one. I am a fighter when the chips are down. I am my father’s nightmare and my mother’s dream. See me with my mut from the pound that’s better trained than your frou-frou, AKC registered pom-poo. Join me as I sing the hymns my granny sang with the same tone and inflection. I am educated with my poor country grammar I use only to spite those who think I’m ignorant. I know more about tracking a blood trail than I do about propriety, But I’m studied in the art of being couth. My southern charm is mixed with brazen straight forwardness. I am proud. I am American. I am beautiful.
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM UTC
I am ...
Though I wear no crown of decadent jewels pressed down around my brow, It can be said that I am beautiful. Needing no assistance from a mask of make-up and every hair doing as it pleases, I am told that I am beautiful. Without the burden of corsets, push-ups and garters; no cocktail dress draping my shoulders, I look in the mirror and am satisfied. I wear blue jeans, t-shirts and tank tops; tennis shoes, flip-flops and high-tops, And still my legs are long and lean; my shape curvy and full. And while I walk by, a southern sway in my step, you know you take more than a cursory glance. I have attitude, and bluntness inherited from my line of honest folk. I am country. I am bold. I am ruthless. I am simple in the way that diamonds are simply compressed carbon. I am beautiful in the way that only a southern girl can be. I am a huntress with my 243 across my lap in a camo blind. I am an actress as I smile and say “Bless your heart.” I am a lover if there ever was one. I am a fighter when the chips are down. I am my father’s nightmare and my mother’s dream. See me with my mut from the pound that’s better trained than your frou-frou, AKC registered pom-poo. Join me as I sing the hymns my granny sang with the same tone and inflection. I am educated with my poor country grammar I use only to spite those who think I’m ignorant. I know more about tracking a blood trail than I do about propriety, But I’m studied in the art of being couth. My southern charm is mixed with brazen straight forwardness. I am proud. I am American. I am beautiful.
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Your cruel words are cursory Mean less than null to me Don’t need a PhD Learnt more in nursery Sweet song of ‘helping me’ No more than sophistry Pick out the forgery Lies with no artistry Flowing in, eyeless grin Sugary medicine Gaslighting, infighting Snarl under strobe-lighting Saccharine blathering Indolent flattering Backhanded compliments Heard without inner sense I reject totally Self-slighting sorcery Callous affrontery Bankrupting bursary I have observed more Preserved more Have learned more Deserve more Have value Don't argue Can trust me I must be Enough being just, me So hear me, my dear me, coz now we agree I am worthy
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Nov 3, 2024
Nov 3, 2024 at 5:01 AM UTC
To my inner critic
Where go thee traveler, trailing in broken shadows? Just another poet wandering down a mischievous path of deceit and beguiles. Who be thee? Another shattered soul sauntering in denial? Carry a name I do not, but you may call me whatever comes to your thoughts. Cassandra. Deliverer of delight and heavenly sight, but caustic to those who try to consume her with the allure of night. Cursory charm, a daring attempt to overtake the apex of my harnessed heart. My penchant roars with a persistence that never rests! Audacious lips of mine will eclipse your eyes as deep as an ocean and dark as wine. Let our shadows combine, our fate intertwine to capture a moment of the divine. Arrhythmic and blind your love needs redesign! Otherwise I'll become another infatuation lost in time. Here I stand austere without effrontery to burden our affair. What is it you'll have me declare? First follow me into the infinite abyss. What after I plunge into the nebulous mist? Our hands we'll share in the company of crescent stares
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Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM UTC
Converstations with Cassandra
I found comfort with this ring, Peace as I hear my soul sing; An eternity of song for you and I, Every time I feel you nearby. Nothing compares to how much, I get electrified by a single touch; Even when you are not around, You are in this ring to I am bound. This ring is my profession of our love, This ring is my protection from above, I commit to you again as a year’s past; Vow to you and God, assured to last. … with this ring. There is pleasure when we trust, Being together in prayer saved us; So overblessed for you to be mine, A rib only God set out for me to find. The favor of God covers us both, Through journeys of marital growth; We are rejoice today without cursory, Because God gave us an anniversary. This ring is my profession of our love, This ring is my protection from above, I commit to you again as a year’s past; Vow to you and God, assured to last. … with this ring. Happy Anniversary, Baby.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 7:18 AM UTC
This Ring
“Yes, master.” A shrill groan slithers Across the gray stones Of the tower, spiraling upward Until it is trapped in loftier cobwebs. “The lever is down, master,” And the darkness is whipped by electricity. I beat out these lines with a bare Foot, tapping to every syllable, As the madman donning Green-tinted goggles and A tumbleweed of hair curls Closer and closer to the cluttered lab table. “Need more light, master? I’ll hold the lantern,” And the light begins to praise his smooth hands, Sloping precisely to pink fingernails As the needle dips into his Experiment like an eel Flowing beneath the sea’s wake. “Are you close, master?” Illuminated are the gashes that mar The ridges in my knuckles, The calluses etched into my fingertips, The wiry hairs that strangle My throbbing, grey veins. A life of delicate accomplishment, Filled with a strictly inward turmoil; It has never been mine to choose. “It isn’t fair, master...” And his lips purse in the effort Of affording me a cursory glance. “...That your genius go So unrecognized, Sir.” Grunting satisfactorily, He grins only toward his beloved creation While I continue pondering How a pencil might feel against The paper if I knew how To make the words. “I want to write, master.” “Poetry?” he mumbles to the scalpel, and I nod my head vigorously as His rumbling laughter becomes Smoke that snakes leisurely toward The skylight.
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM UTC
The henchman's cry
to say that i am fed up now would be a gross distortion. blithe ignorance, i can't allow to grow in same proportion as thoughts that now let peons hold onto bold misconceptions that they alone do know this world through cliche-formed perceptions. take heed, blind fool, raise up thy head and know the truth unknowing. in lieu of fables, you'll instead give seed to thoughts through sowing. saddle up, then. take this ride into the fields of fortune where wealth is found to be inside one's own mind's doled self portion. if you shall find that you've not found conceptions worth protecting the cursory heart to own you're bound since base you keep rejecting. i'd liken you to one that's blind t'were that not false relating. at least the sightless seem to find true art through innovating. this path you've wound has been well formed by all who've passed before you the world beyond appears malformed try harder now, eschew all prior trends that formed this square high time you shall contend. ambivalence should you beware now know, and don't pretend.
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 7:18 AM UTC
Identity
Just, how cold? Odd, the thought of passion Should a sky have one to hold Forever is now to fold, a prayer lasting... Life in a walls shadow Circumstance, with a youth's vow Seek, and you shall find, all and know A heart with happiness, only before how... The sound of love... Harried by a salt, a cursory share Of decency, a proud covenant With moments to quietly care... Curious prayer's indeed Means with a psyche, rounder eyes Have the sense to see it, heed A role in heaven, where one more life... Is our's forever, fate in the first place Sweet about, and a whole day to dream Came as we went, from here to infinite praise The truth of a world, taken to seem...
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May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023 at 11:02 PM UTC
The Whistle Of Belief
Wasp addendum More than out of and Quote the finality, well to avoid... A sting that churched a brassy man Wasp substantial Adding the heed, of couth and comparison Does a reach for time, understand arousal? Quiet time searching for youth, that knows the question... Wasp divine Kiss and kindred, the tools of solemn tone? Enchastened with a host, too cursory to be orders vision We hear the spoil of the wind, become a new loan Wasp merciful Craving a thought, to tell a tale kept By the unity we foresaw, a heard bliss still... Was a chance meeting with a yearning fate, bereft? Wasp earthen Where souls intertwine, the taste of home Is a careful wish, foreseen in the earning? Or should might, take the time to intend guidance as done? Wasp witnesses The tow of commonness, in the voice of salutations Memory served, the break of justice in a winds shade Here to fore, timidity is a challenge, for a truer intuition...
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May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023 at 9:29 PM UTC
Marvel With Speed, And Patiences Will Come...