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"dallying" poems
Like ******* a **** and you can't get hard, Like rolling a blunt that's full of glass shards, Like a bowling stunt where the pins are yards, Away and you must stay put loaded with gin and not on guard, While there's jaywalkers walking cross the alley and snipers far, Up both sides, moss covered camouflage dilly dallying, Falling comets, planets and stars while you ***** black tar out your scars, Sick spurting **** out the pit of your face and tripped on a lace falling down along with Mars. Faster than my **** grows when I'm hitched, race-cars, bullets, and the suicide of a suicidal emo ***** with a mullet, grab the **** and pull it off and roll it up like the glass when you rolled it in the paper faster than a rapers hips going twitch twitch twitch, ***** you know it, she's on the list. But you're soft and no fist can fit and what the **** is this about, just **** I coughed up and spout out my mouth, if it makes sense, even a little, I am not dense with my rhymes, raps, and riddles, there's meaning to it all, whether its beaming or dull, but I guarantee it's full and fits and flows when I say it to a T, you say my **** blows, well that's just mean, you say it's great, my confidence ovulates, so use it as bait as I eat off this plate, this 5 star rated treat elevated to six star cuisine meat. I'll continue later in few poems that are greater and like haters, I won't stop planning and plotting out **** like these lyrics, I'm a creator.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 8:17 PM UTC
I'm A Creator
I met a man the other day-- A kindly man, and serious-- Who viewed me in a thoughtful way, And spoke me so, and spoke me thus: "Oh, dallying's a sad mistake; 'Tis craven to survey the morrow! Go give your heart, and if it break-- A wise companion is Sorrow. "Oh, live, my child, nor keep your soul To crowd your coffin when you're dead...." I asked his work; he dealt in coal, And shipped it up the Tyne, he said.
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To Newcastle
Insecure, was the sign on your door, The door was always unlocked You were quick to answer with every knock Your back pocket held a mirror, it is for protection you said. A faint replication of self worth Would stare back at you. On stainless steel tear stained water spots left paths tracing back to your regrets A slice of the world reflected in the pointed mirror everything was more burnished, but inverted. You used it to cut through the ****** tension Between you and your frivolous guests, with slick, quick witted flirting. So sharp, you penetrated through Leaving a piece of yourself inside their hearts. No exit wounds. When you stare at it in your clutch it points north, Towards the star that is always there For you, that will guide you home But the magnetic attraction towards your thirst for drama, Sidetracks you. Like a deflecting needle That is no longer running on its axis Free will, bouncing thoughtlessly With the world no longer holding it captive Not moving in accordance To what keeps the world balanced, What a thrill, You like the way the world looks So limiting, so manipulative When it is reflected on the narrow surface Wrong side up. You grip the knife, carelessly Until you overstep the boundary Of right and wrong And you trip on the tight roped tension That you had strewn across between you and the other side And you stumble, your canny dallying discourse slips away, hitting hard, landing straight in the back of the one who loved you for your innocent eyes who didn’t come in through the door with the sign but instead came in, through the window of your soul.
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 11:20 AM UTC
Shiny Sharp Shame
Insecure, was the sign on your door, The door was always unlocked You were quick to answer with every knock Your back pocket held a mirror, it is for protection you said. A faint replication of self worth Would stare back at you. On stainless steel tear stained water spots left paths tracing back to your regrets A slice of the world reflected in the pointed mirror everything was more burnished, but inverted. You used it to cut through the ****** tension Between you and your frivolous guests, with slick, quick witted flirting. So sharp, you penetrated through Leaving a piece of yourself inside their hearts. No exit wounds. When you stare at it in your clutch it points north, Towards the star that is always there For you, that will guide you home But the magnetic attraction towards your thirst for drama, Sidetracks you. Like a deflecting needle That is no longer running on its axis Free will, bouncing thoughtlessly With the world no longer holding it captive Not moving in accordance To what keeps the world balanced, What a thrill, You like the way the world looks So limiting, so manipulative When it is reflected on the narrow surface Wrong side up. You grip the knife, carelessly Until you overstep the boundary Of right and wrong And you trip on the tight roped tension That you had strewn across between you and the other side And you stumble, your canny dallying discourse slips away, hitting hard, landing straight in the back of the one who loved you for your innocent eyes who didn’t come in through the door with the sign but instead came in, through the window of your soul.
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chilly morning wind awakens my skin her mystical electric blue cat dances in the daylight me green fox spirit yogas on the hill dilly-dallying licking air droplets dreaming of a sacred light, the mirror meadow is a sphere of reflection, A rasta moose and a few gnostic bunnies sit in a drum circle hashing and workin out a rhythm for the dawn.... Bebop bear bares it's soul in the lapis lake, meditating on his thankful Mother Nature and her blacklight berry provisions, Technicolor roses nuzzle together by the water, velvet vines hug willow trees created of patched fabric as prink energy embraces the wise tai-chi eagles atop the ruby mountains. Serene gardens brush away dirt blankets fire flowers, light flowers lilac compassion illuminate the shade autumn leaves of time flutter toward sky horizons ...... watercolored wickiups and spray-paint thipis rest closeby as the timeline continues to be sewn.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM UTC
Day-wake on Dimension Emerald Pyramid 27a.5-L
his voice syllabic brushes against canvas whispering lullabyes within dreams, lingering... his musky fragrance flush upon flesh, dallying like verbs still whispering between folds of rumpled sheets... every noun a soft whimper uttered. lips openly inviting; stirring tenderly like a breeze echoing poetry with passion... ensnaring heart in web of his muse; each beat looms copulative, sliding seductive, awakening senses... abandoned ache slips and I pirouette, rippled within his verse; succumbing to his poetic thirst... still whispering lush verbs while easing between silken sheets and breath quickens... as ****** of tongue licks nouns of passion, sipping spills as labials quiver against tongued invasion... and he softly murmurs across brined flesh, touching, nibbling trembled aches; inflaming naked desire as each stanza seduces me again and again... drawn to masculinities tease verse by verse...
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 8:33 PM UTC
Drawn Verse By Verse
In biting bitterness, in splitting Spleen. Swinging like a shuttlecock, Back and forth, upon a furry hammock: Visited by horror dreams, scaring Vision. Insomnia is torture! And the rooster hath a line drawn Against the dallying, dragging dawn.
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Feb 15, 2014
Feb 15, 2014 at 10:10 AM UTC
Insomnia
You bring a fire unexplainable in burning words that blow the inextinguishable simmers and as I lay on my childhood bed dallying the unexpected tunes tones that can never set me free neither radiate the hope to have You make me watch the shadows follow their mellow patterned vibes as the sky shelters in its light rightly when loves zooms in and out so untouchable and unreachable blinded as the judges disagree numbed by the passing wind Goodbye all my past lovers few to count in fainted dreams as the hymns lay forgotten in graves no more nights or treason to vision neither times of love to harvest as thunders and currents of pain dissipate and are drawn to a close
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 12:46 PM UTC
Goodbye past lovers
I find myself far gone, drifting alongside the beach of some nubian kingdom A sharp inhale of starlight and cutting holes of awe, she's there for me. but, Not in presence, Red clouds limping through my comfort, keeping me safe far far off, in its tempered perfection. Writing my fiction, one word at time, biting into my rotten ear, cracked surfaces of sugar lined castle spires pointing downwards, In the paradox named perception. Release! Stretched out in our isolation. yet I'm alone, becoming longer, wandering, raiding into an artificial night Where no time appears to pass. Encroaching on the expectation. for food, be it wanted or difficult, for lips, ink nor illness. The coast brings in an ease that I drink from, when dilly-dallying, along the mad irreverence of a random bed that you dream of each time you wake, each time you sleep, There is no content in your bed sheets. Spiralling in and out of information infection, Oh how? Oh how can I sleep, when I stand with my back to space? Splaying limbs as they exert the last beams of recklessness - reverting to old habits, obsession with erratics, no form and no care. Riddled with a chaotic mop head of stringed stupid. How cute. Juiced from his tender prospects, intent on separation entering use **** bored and loose Frothy white moaning flow, tenderly crushing Contingency. I avoid moving inland, for fear of peace of mind Combing the canal with the brisk jaunt of my limping legs, unsure of themselves in amidst, the warmest blanket on the coldest day. An old kingdom, founded on consumption, tradition and extraction. We keep our distance, I keep my distance. Cold water minces around my feet. Pith/Medulla. Falling to earth, beneath the sedge.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 2:56 PM UTC
Neolith On The 4th Floor
I find myself far gone, drifting alongside the beach of some nubian kingdom A sharp inhale of starlight and cutting holes of awe, she's there for me. but, Not in presence, Red clouds limping through my comfort, keeping me safe far far off, in its tempered perfection. Writing my fiction, one word at time, biting into my rotten ear, cracked surfaces of sugar lined castle spires pointing downwards, In the paradox named perception. Release! Stretched out in our isolation. yet I'm alone, becoming longer, wandering, raiding into an artificial night Where no time appears to pass. Encroaching on the expectation. for food, be it wanted or difficult, for lips, ink nor illness. The coast brings in an ease that I drink from, when dilly-dallying, along the mad irreverence of a random bed that you dream of each time you wake, each time you sleep, There is no content in your bed sheets. Spiralling in and out of information infection, Oh how? Oh how can I sleep, when I stand with my back to space? Splaying limbs as they exert the last beams of recklessness - reverting to old habits, obsession with erratics, no form and no care. Riddled with a chaotic mop head of stringed stupid. How cute. Juiced from his tender prospects, intent on separation entering use **** bored and loose Frothy white moaning flow, tenderly crushing Contingency. I avoid moving inland, for fear of peace of mind Combing the canal with the brisk jaunt of my limping legs, unsure of themselves in amidst, the warmest blanket on the coldest day. An old kingdom, founded on consumption, tradition and extraction. We keep our distance, I keep my distance. Cold water minces around my feet. Pith/Medulla. Falling to earth, beneath the sedge.
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Ambiguously, he was boggled, beguiled by garbled goggles while giggling out the squiggles, to wiggle the signals free. Deliberately dallying in the Plato piety of proprietary philosophies, he, dastardly deemed, disaster to be, damaging, to the laughter in the chatter of the baggage handlers to another plane. Manhandler of a plastered paradise, partly in slices, of silly little vices of sacrifices, that shall suffice with vice grips on the lips of the negative with the spices of nicety. Lavished in lividly living uP the misgivings of lesserly lessons, blessing the blasphemy, in passionate tuck ins, snuck in, upon drunken hunkering in the bunkers of spunkier spiels. Languid longevity's of luscious lettering, lest will we, count our kills, never ever to leave a life festering in lectured structuring, besting the busy debuts, of flukless frugality, lucidly, counting the calories of calamity, and randomly rhyming without reason in season-less rain clouds, only allowed to put the umbrella away, and fade in play to the part, where we impart patience on the persona from the coma of commonality. Immaculately conceived, perceived as a ***** who adores hollow hearts, as we, haphazardly heap on the hilarity, in hepatidal waves, through fazes of the common wealth. Smile in stealth, love no one else, but self and end up in health, at a lonely age in staged stimuli, reminding me why i'm alive, and not allowed to die, while on rewind through the hard times, to smile on the last lines of laser driven lifelines, laughing at the fragile signs on the finer wines, as they break on the bowes of holy boats in bouts against the sea. Spewing randomly, he, finds satisfactory solutions to the strengthening of his constitution in loosened blue spells, to dispel his ruthless tendrils from your ears. The fears fueling the finality in his fractured mentality of maniacal travesties laughing at me. Its just me, unjustly adjusting for the combustion of the build. Its lovely here. Laughing in the lashes. Signing my entrapment's. Lapsing out the masses and forming from the ashes of smashed happiness, as it unclasps before my eyes. Sometimes It just feels right to be alive.
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Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 2:26 AM UTC
Flipwordly Fiasco
Ambiguously, he was boggled, beguiled by garbled goggles while giggling out the squiggles, to wiggle the signals free. Deliberately dallying in the Plato piety of proprietary philosophies, he, dastardly deemed, disaster to be, damaging, to the laughter in the chatter of the baggage handlers to another plane. Manhandler of a plastered paradise, partly in slices, of silly little vices of sacrifices, that shall suffice with vice grips on the lips of the negative with the spices of nicety. Lavished in lividly living uP the misgivings of lesserly lessons, blessing the blasphemy, in passionate tuck ins, snuck in, upon drunken hunkering in the bunkers of spunkier spiels. Languid longevity's of luscious lettering, lest will we, count our kills, never ever to leave a life festering in lectured structuring, besting the busy debuts, of flukless frugality, lucidly, counting the calories of calamity, and randomly rhyming without reason in season-less rain clouds, only allowed to put the umbrella away, and fade in play to the part, where we impart patience on the persona from the coma of commonality. Immaculately conceived, perceived as a ***** who adores hollow hearts, as we, haphazardly heap on the hilarity, in hepatidal waves, through fazes of the common wealth. Smile in stealth, love no one else, but self and end up in health, at a lonely age in staged stimuli, reminding me why i'm alive, and not allowed to die, while on rewind through the hard times, to smile on the last lines of laser driven lifelines, laughing at the fragile signs on the finer wines, as they break on the bowes of holy boats in bouts against the sea. Spewing randomly, he, finds satisfactory solutions to the strengthening of his constitution in loosened blue spells, to dispel his ruthless tendrils from your ears. The fears fueling the finality in his fractured mentality of maniacal travesties laughing at me. Its just me, unjustly adjusting for the combustion of the build. Its lovely here. Laughing in the lashes. Signing my entrapment's. Lapsing out the masses and forming from the ashes of smashed happiness, as it unclasps before my eyes. Sometimes It just feels right to be alive.
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In the instant a second presented itself It dissolved, shrunk to the second...past Out, gone.....a single thought could not be reinvented For it was a second too late to squeeze the beginnings With elementary mood breakers Could the second have been different, thereby Creating the onset of a brand new colour pallet Drifting off, a direction lost to us, unable to pick Up the tracking device of the rudamtary subliminal Message, distorted by sleeping particles stored Latently....dulled to the jazz tones of deaf ears Identification slaves fired, packed up and rolled out Partners squabbling, second '2'.... demise Precious seconds lost, creating 3rd and 4th second Lapses, prisoners of the past, what was and is no longer Do we grasp the very second, conscious of the sound of ‘NOW’, cleansing our minds eye, rinsing our field of vision The seconds may escape, existing in fornever land Damaged as they trip and stumble in their two legged Race to the realm of nowhere, continually stepping out of Time with themselves, soaking up the spoils of ‘None of their business' lifestyles, dallying In the lanes of borrowed lives, unrecognising The empty shell of their own............
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 7:02 AM UTC
Second by Second
Ambiguously, he was boggled, beguiled by garbled goggles while giggling out the squiggles, to wiggle the signals free. Deliberately dallying in the Plato piety of proprietary philosophies, he, dastardly deemed, disaster to be, damaging, to the laughter in the chatter of the baggage handlers to another plane. Manhandler of a plastered paradise, partly in slices, of silly little vices of sacrifices, that shall suffice with vice grips on the lips of the negative with the spices of nicety. Lavished in lividly living uP the misgivings of lesserly lessons, blessing the blasphemy, in passionate tuck ins, snuck in, upon drunken hunkering in the bunkers of spunkier spiels. Languid longevity's of luscious lettering, lest will we, count our kills, never ever to leave a life festering in lectured structuring, besting the busy debuts, of flukless frugality, lucidly, counting the calories of calamity, and randomly rhyming without reason in season-less rain clouds, only allowed to put the umbrella away, and fade in play to the part, where we impart patience on the persona from the coma of commonality. Immaculately conceived, perceived as a ***** who adores hollow hearts, as we, haphazardly heap on the hilarity, in hepatidal waves, through fazes of the common wealth. Smile in stealth, love no one else, but self and end up in health, at a lonely age in staged stimuli, reminding me why i'm alive, and not allowed to die, while on rewind through the hard times, to smile on the last lines of laser driven lifelines, laughing at the fragile signs on the finer wines, as they break on the bowes of holy boats in bouts against the sea. Spewing randomly, he, finds satisfactory solutions to the strengthening of his constitution in loosened blue spells, to dispel his ruthless tendrils from your ears. The fears fueling the finality in his fractured mentality of maniacal travesties laughing at me. Its just me, unjustly adjusting for the combustion of the build. Its lovely here. Laughing in the lashes. Signing my entrapment's. Lapsing out the masses and forming from the ashes of smashed happiness, as it unclasps before my eyes. Sometimes It just feels right to be alive.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 11:37 PM UTC
Flippwordly Fiasco
Ambiguously, he was boggled, beguiled by garbled goggles while giggling out the squiggles, to wiggle the signals free. Deliberately dallying in the Plato piety of proprietary philosophies, he, dastardly deemed, disaster to be, damaging, to the laughter in the chatter of the baggage handlers to another plane. Manhandler of a plastered paradise, partly in slices, of silly little vices of sacrifices, that shall suffice with vice grips on the lips of the negative with the spices of nicety. Lavished in lividly living uP the misgivings of lesserly lessons, blessing the blasphemy, in passionate tuck ins, snuck in, upon drunken hunkering in the bunkers of spunkier spiels. Languid longevity's of luscious lettering, lest will we, count our kills, never ever to leave a life festering in lectured structuring, besting the busy debuts, of flukless frugality, lucidly, counting the calories of calamity, and randomly rhyming without reason in season-less rain clouds, only allowed to put the umbrella away, and fade in play to the part, where we impart patience on the persona from the coma of commonality. Immaculately conceived, perceived as a ***** who adores hollow hearts, as we, haphazardly heap on the hilarity, in hepatidal waves, through fazes of the common wealth. Smile in stealth, love no one else, but self and end up in health, at a lonely age in staged stimuli, reminding me why i'm alive, and not allowed to die, while on rewind through the hard times, to smile on the last lines of laser driven lifelines, laughing at the fragile signs on the finer wines, as they break on the bowes of holy boats in bouts against the sea. Spewing randomly, he, finds satisfactory solutions to the strengthening of his constitution in loosened blue spells, to dispel his ruthless tendrils from your ears. The fears fueling the finality in his fractured mentality of maniacal travesties laughing at me. Its just me, unjustly adjusting for the combustion of the build. Its lovely here. Laughing in the lashes. Signing my entrapment's. Lapsing out the masses and forming from the ashes of smashed happiness, as it unclasps before my eyes. Sometimes It just feels right to be alive.
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I’m waiting waiting through my day for a poetic idea to come my way to waft on by and hopefully catch my eye I’m waiting daydreaming dilly-dallying doodling my time away waiting for my brain to go astray if a poem happens my way it’s never a wasted day
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 1:02 PM UTC
Dilly-dallying
Because every now and then, Someone slips away, Passes on to never walk the earth again. Makes you wonder, how every blessing Needs counting, and each moment treasured. You are here for what counts, Time, An unsung song for receding tides. A breath, a whisper, before you know it you're gone. Walk the face of earth, A passing wind that kicks up a storm, Or a silent contender for a game we call life. Shallow desires, our selfish deeds and dallying with a price. The shadows call, can you hear their song? We dream too much to never know the day, A day when your eyes open to the darkness, Give in to the voices that call our names. Will you ever wonder of the song you left? Joyful or as silent as the beating of your heart? Will they sing of you, a song of pride and respect? Because like everyone that deserved to live their life thru, You were a breath, a whisper, A dreamer, a believer, And now you're gone too.
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM UTC
Into the Light
to the fore, no dilly dallying, no words wasting, I don't write nursery rhymes, just relay tales re the peoples I have met journeying on this natural good earth I know, I have met, Little Bo-Peep, no fiction she, she has counted my sheep and I, hers she pins and pylons, her tales on my heart, beetles, bugs and little boys, crumbs in the bed, no bleeding hearts here, maybe a bandaid on a boo-boo'd finger this shepherdess tends her flock and records their history, the little foibles that make life's little tantrums into loving poetry when I think of her escapades, I recall well that old Yiddish proverb: *God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers...* and when not tending her babes, she can bake one hell of a good word cake, on her island~continent kingdom
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 11:19 PM UTC
Little Bo-Peep
Light emanating from distant ***** of burning gas are intimidated from the children’s vision by the unruly, central licks fluffing about their little fire. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The wind, streaming in from the warm side of the nearby ocean, picks up waves of genuine laughter and stunning, off-key voices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A bloodline of salt water curls the group into a circular haven where there is no need for corners to shadow defensive secrets. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a time of absolute purity as the children’s minds drift to Never-never land and their hearts float within the red wine spilling into their mouths. =============================================================== They are all the happiest that they have ever been - on the seams of their spines, dallying until the currents will overtake them someday to bury their bodies at the bottom of the sea. =============================================================== Darkness thickly pastes the surrounding beach, longing for the fleecy little fire to cease its bravado so that the children can fall deeply into sleep. ===============================================================
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM UTC
Comfortable Ending.
He was a fine broth of a man And I loved dallying with him In afternoons of sun and breeze My lovely one-man harem. Such a delightful odalisque, I suspended thoughts of time. I greedily took up my guitar And seduced him with rhyme. As we fed each other sweets And made coffee by the jug We laughed and smoked *** Together naked on the rug. We told each other stories Of places we had been And astounding miracles Each of us had seen. We talked of **** dancers And clever men of magic And how the loss of innocence Was not altogether tragic Because we got to learn And could use it to grow And understand the secrets We recently did not know. He taught me how to love, This man of many stories. I learned to welcome mystery And search in it for glory. He showed me how to look And see people as unique And not some mass idea. I grew up from that peek. That simple time of learning And laughing with a man Who had the gift of sharing The way to understand. He took me from my childhood And showed me how to live. He gave me a gentle heart. The best thing one can give.
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Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 8:02 AM UTC
MAGI
It was back in those days, the elementary school days, when we were all friends, characters to one anothers plays of nonsense. When we reigned over puddles with galoshes or brightly coloured gumboots. When we wore capes and knew all the sing along songs. And yes, I do recall, fondly so, that big park. We were all there, whether in soul or in spirit,we explored the butterfly gardens, our parents and teachers were there too, a school trip of sorts? Just a vivid  but fotgotten dream? Who may answer these questions but ourselves by eventually succumbing to the universes natural way and forgetting the questions and finding and accepting the universes other answers. The flowers of the light May day were in full bloom and that glass greenhouse, the one that intrigued me so, stood just like a castle. After lunch, when the children were running throuhg green grass or wiping sticky hands from oranges upon the damper grass of the shade and while our parents and teachers sat on their coats dilly dallying, I stopped. Stopped from my playing like a bunny caught in someones eyes. Was it a hand that grabbed mine or mine that reached out? Lead to a rivers edge, a little stream or pond. Ducking under willow and stepping over bushes and creeping through imagined dens of foxes or coyotes. My companion, my little friend, the face on the memory is blank, perhaps we had even more company. We held hands. We held hands like friends in our childhood innocence, before the concept of cooties, before the playground held terror. We sat hunched up by the pond poking sticks and reeds into the stream. Poking at the river flies and mud. Lost in a mystic realm of childhood unknowingness. And then it caught me. A glimpse that magnified. The little water spider, gliding on the surface as though the surface were glass. Oh water bug, from my bright eyes  and blurred warm memeory you stood out to me. Majestically skating in the reflection of my face. As though you were that man mentioned in grandfathers stories from the book he said he beleived in, that man himself, walking on water. Such grace and beauty in you're perfectly casual stride, a quality I later noticed and looked for in people. Oh water bug, slipping your little bug fingers through glassy streams like a figure skater on an ice pond. Do you remember me little bug? I was the one, the one with the little hands reaching out. I tried to hold your magic in my hands. I was the one that in awe reached out But like a snap dragon, in a blink, you were gone.
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 7:14 PM UTC
To a Water Bug
It was back in those days, the elementary school days, when we were all friends, characters to one anothers plays of nonsense. When we reigned over puddles with galoshes or brightly coloured gumboots. When we wore capes and knew all the sing along songs. And yes, I do recall, fondly so, that big park. We were all there, whether in soul or in spirit,we explored the butterfly gardens, our parents and teachers were there too, a school trip of sorts? Just a vivid  but fotgotten dream? Who may answer these questions but ourselves by eventually succumbing to the universes natural way and forgetting the questions and finding and accepting the universes other answers. The flowers of the light May day were in full bloom and that glass greenhouse, the one that intrigued me so, stood just like a castle. After lunch, when the children were running throuhg green grass or wiping sticky hands from oranges upon the damper grass of the shade and while our parents and teachers sat on their coats dilly dallying, I stopped. Stopped from my playing like a bunny caught in someones eyes. Was it a hand that grabbed mine or mine that reached out? Lead to a rivers edge, a little stream or pond. Ducking under willow and stepping over bushes and creeping through imagined dens of foxes or coyotes. My companion, my little friend, the face on the memory is blank, perhaps we had even more company. We held hands. We held hands like friends in our childhood innocence, before the concept of cooties, before the playground held terror. We sat hunched up by the pond poking sticks and reeds into the stream. Poking at the river flies and mud. Lost in a mystic realm of childhood unknowingness. And then it caught me. A glimpse that magnified. The little water spider, gliding on the surface as though the surface were glass. Oh water bug, from my bright eyes  and blurred warm memeory you stood out to me. Majestically skating in the reflection of my face. As though you were that man mentioned in grandfathers stories from the book he said he beleived in, that man himself, walking on water. Such grace and beauty in you're perfectly casual stride, a quality I later noticed and looked for in people. Oh water bug, slipping your little bug fingers through glassy streams like a figure skater on an ice pond. Do you remember me little bug? I was the one, the one with the little hands reaching out. I tried to hold your magic in my hands. I was the one that in awe reached out But like a snap dragon, in a blink, you were gone.
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I should lie to tell you the stars shine to catch a glimpse of her eyes. That they wake million year dreams to gaze for brief time, dreams of never waking up to never vividly see. I should yell to grandfather light warming closer moving steps incubating fetal positions inside feet splashing cracks across arching pavement ways. Intentionally broken back, Mothers’ spinal chord seeps ***** through cracked nerves, solicitous beads fornicating under lamps flaming orange currents. Your saliva spins images of laughter for me to see in cloudless nights over rivers swimming oceans’ way. Capillaries open across my eyes crawling towards the ground, fractured concrete searching nurture, natural born life steeping into my blood stream upon sleeping. Legs carry dallying moments, lagging steps tripping closer to never missing cracks in stone encrusted fallopian tubes. I want to touch your skin, fingers pulling back layered wind sharpened capsules reach sprouting seedling under shoes bouncing soul to toe and back again. Our words feed; sketches of moon-tide engravings upon carbon traces, molecular hair catching my eyes. We smile at each other.
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Jun 18, 2010
Jun 18, 2010 at 3:29 PM UTC
fragments
It came slowly Like a languid Dallying summer breeze So that the world felt no less sweet When the wind slipped over. And like it came it went Into the scorching heat of summer Into the peril of fall And finally into the tragedy that is Winter But it left so slowly that the seasons Blended into one another And later it could not be told where it Was summer or winter in which It happened It was more that almost Fall and almost winter and almost spring Were just interchangeable place marks On the grueling, Slow road of loss
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 6:00 PM UTC
Untitled No. 1
it is time my friend to put my thoughts on paper... to write you what my tongue denies what my heart screams in the middle of the night it is time to speak in the words etched upon my bones to give light to this seed with in my soul even as the ink blots the paper my fears rise, and my courage quivers to give this entity the substance of words is to give it the power of freedom or destruction but I am weary, so weary from carrying its burden through this long peroid of gestation, I am beyond beyond trying to carry this thing with grace and have now become a lumbering leviathan treading heavily through each day,not evolving or creating, just barely exsisting So, if it be freedom, there will be relief if it be destruction there will be release No more dallying, No more delay You left, You died leaving us behind no recompense no answers just a ***** room and unpaid bills You, You, walked out of life, without finishing the conversation without any explanation without care for others without thought for self You told us nothing You hid your hurt till it was to late till...it..was..too..too late And tho I WILL LOVE YOU til the end of my days Now, I hate.... I hate you are not here I hate that I did not see I hate that you did not ask I hate the incompleteness of it all So my friend, I write this to you... then make it into a paper boat that I set on the waters before lighting it afire in the hopes it will bring freedom
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 3:22 AM UTC
Dear......
*I am wine in a jack-in-a-box cellar Wonderlands, neverlands propelling in a boomerang war Exalting stubborn as weeds in the gardens of well-tended graves As far off as the most withered waves* **I'll drop my roses of singularity And let the world leap topsy turvy** *Eyes turned upside down like folded floral peels before a fallen angel Rubbing errant pointed brushes against an airy easel The teapots are now dancing round rainbow tornadoes Clocks reverse themselves in a scourge of a prose* **I'll drop my roses of singularity And let the world leap topsy turvy** *Singing horses dallying kings and queens with whips of cod Skinny, scorned nutcrackers lolly gagging for a later maraud Spoons racing Jack and Jill down a spiny valley of prats I'd shut them off, they come alive with vicious spats* **I'll drop my roses of singularity And let the world leap topsy turvy** *My trappings with all things mad Wafted me ajar a silvery smoke of sad I breathe the clouds of my helter skelter As if in every catatonic whir it flutters rises an answer* **I'll drop my roses of singularity And let the world leap topsy turvy**
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Aug 30, 2015
Aug 30, 2015 at 2:10 PM UTC
#18
~for my naturalist, Victoria~ *the poems all end up in midfield, yellow carded, the game a tied up, 0 - 0 unsatisfying affair, all the shots way wide of goal as I search for the perfect phrase to capture my *twiddling and twaddling, fussing and haranguing, harrumphing and bemoaning, my very own Brexit, postponed, the hard answers terrifying, the soft ones, humbug and ******* incapable of lifting a mighty pen, or a fully worn down pencil scrap, seen better days, but now, all leaden ashes, all fall down, my natural pointer taps only gibberish in my plain manila actuality folder, the cut off dates, ignored, so they cut me off too for good measure, plenty good bills to due in there, plenty good ‘orrible poems for company the pile of to do’s forming a party, social, democratic, and anti-septic or skeptic or semitic, perhaps all three, as they are two jowls or two cheeks, too many to the windy all this shilly shallying, or is it dilly dallying, is quite simply to say that my rooted U.K. naturalist a Sherlockian moors, traversing specialist cuts to the shortest quick, by jove, there it is, succinctly red beeping, in my garden, awaiting a good boiling I too exhausted from all the “scrabbling with the day to day” she so easily summarizes, though my poetic ego demands an Ameddican textual emendation* “hard scrabbling with the day to day” or just an all encompassing globalism “ditto” ah, Victoria
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Jul 4, 2019
Jul 4, 2019 at 7:04 AM UTC
“scrabbling with the day to day”
Effulgent my future now unfurls before me As dallying dawn doth soon become day Ere long, these fair dreams, radiant beams will in darkness be drenched and in anguish decay      Effluent my past is recast, and alas!      Each saccharine fiction soon follows      The brain my pen gleaned      Towards tumult hath leaned      Once brazen, my hope is thus      By despair swallowed
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 7:02 PM UTC
Hope
Weave and weave and weave You shall never leave We can start! here, behold my artistry! Isn't that a beautiful tapestry? Oh, I love me a captive audience! Won't you agree that Athena never stood a chance? Well? Don't you think? Okay, okay, enough dilly-dallying! Final rating! Five? Oh, how thoughtful! I wonder why others think I'm awful Must be those jealous songs that some bards sing I know, times up! Now you'll feel a sting Have to make you rest! Hope you'll enjoy the visit of my nest! Weave and weave and weave You shall never leave
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Jun 4, 2021
Jun 4, 2021 at 6:18 AM UTC
Arachne