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"denuded" poems
In a playful vision sent Your ****** homologue Of amber shins and pale phalanges Weaves four-leaved clovers. In response, ***** spurs And protean winged descent To float into your kaleidoscopic star: Gliding, Freely falling, To rest in lace extremities. There in our bed of sensual feet, Sunflowers breath, Whose burnished rotating petals Gather me in wisps, Each spiral frond, Gyring Before death's voids Is drawn in purls. And in pleasures held, Cossetted in latticed limbs, A ***** lustrous rich embrace; Denuded and alive! And with abandon kissed:     Bony toes     Tendons     Deep arches     Shins     Ankles,     Sweetmeats,     Light and delicate. As here between pretty shins And fleshy silken feet Our ascent begins Rising, From low regions, To scale new night, And crown our heights. This lovers' leap into prismatic reproduction In the empty Cosmic wastes      In a web is caught! Where feet and toes inspire Continuity for pointed stars. As material possibilities collide The lust for life Is born in non-existence: So in our nest of feet, Mating in the game With heads thrown back, Of lust drink deeply we.
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Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 5:11 PM UTC
Kaleidoscopic Feet
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Fortunately it resuscitates
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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It was a restless night denuded of sleep So since it was warm and windless I hit the streets Walking under ancient oaks draped in Spanish moss My path inevitably led to where Everything was at a complete loss Crescent Moon Memorial Cemetery For the dead Where all lie below earthly care Was where my feet had somehow led Row upon row of forgotten names In all of their endeavors Have been eased of their earthly pains And now as I trudged by at a quarter to three A low chorus and chords of music Through the mists came floating to me It startled and intrigued What now is this ? So I had to go see for myself And I silently crept to where came the origins of bliss In a circle of bench seats and monument stones The strangest thing I saw , that of the unborn Ghosts and skeletons playing with bones and singing in moans A see through piano , trombone , bass , saxophone and a silver cornet And one wailing guitar completed the set On the translucent petal bass drum Was the name of the ethereal band And to a catchy tune I began to hum Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band The epitaph on the vaporous drum stated And I soon found myself a loyal fan What seem like a lifetime they continued to play Quaint rthyms and lyrics now made my day . . . and night ! As the sounds drifted across the river out onto the bay But far off I heard the mornings cock's call Then phiff . . . vanished all into the fog Not a trace as if covered by an invisible pall And then a ray caught the gleam in my eye And I knew that when the time comes Here's where I want to be placed after I die
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 8:38 PM UTC
Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band
It was a restless night denuded of sleep So since it was warm and windless I hit the streets Walking under ancient oaks draped in Spanish moss My path inevitably led to where Everything was at a complete loss Crescent Moon Memorial Cemetery For the dead Where all lie below earthly care Was where my feet had somehow led Row upon row of forgotten names In all of their endeavors Have been eased of their earthly pains And now as I trudged by at a quarter to three A low chorus and chords of music Through the mists came floating to me It startled and intrigued What now is this ? So I had to go see for myself And I silently crept to where came the origins of bliss In a circle of bench seats and monument stones The strangest thing I saw , that of the unborn Ghosts and skeletons playing with bones and singing in moans A see through piano , trombone , bass , saxophone and a silver cornet And one wailing guitar completed the set On the translucent petal bass drum Was the name of the ethereal band And to a catchy tune I began to hum Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band The epitaph on the vaporous drum stated And I soon found myself a loyal fan What seem like a lifetime they continued to play Quaint rthyms and lyrics now made my day . . . and night ! As the sounds drifted across the river out onto the bay But far off I heard the mornings cock's call Then phiff . . . vanished all into the fog Not a trace as if covered by an invisible pall And then a ray caught the gleam in my eye And I knew that when the time comes Here's where I want to be placed after I die
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An Amish elder named Mullet, And some of his ****** clan, bore hatred deep in their gullets for their Amish fellow man. ****** seemed out of the question, It’s rare among Amish, folks say, (It may be that a horse and a carriage doesn’t make for a quick getaway.) So Mullet and some of his minions Invented a new sort of crime: Shaving their bearded opponents one Amish man at a time. Losing one’s beard among Amish- A disgrace before God, it’s been said. Mullet spared no woman either choping the hair from their heads. His victims are speechless with anger, denuded of both beards and hair. Leave it to someone named “Mullet” To offend using a Barber’s chair. Mullet’s in Federal custody; charged with a crime, not a sin. He refuses to answer the charges By the hair of his chinny chin chin.
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:29 PM UTC
An Amish Hate Crime
Rain showers, mazes uncovered Dancing like a little child with a toy Reclaimed as the drizzles recovers Pouncing  jumps like a kangaroo The winter burns as the fire blaze Warmed by the ambience of the logs Reflections denuded, secrets unearthed Times lost bouncing like a ball Bare and **** in the cool mist and fog A shadowy phantom arises me An Orion exhibit, my alpha constellation Carving me out of the hidden cave
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 3:38 PM UTC
Orion Phantom
Verdant eyes, translucent pearls speak in silent witness, wounds unfurl meaning revealed, interrupted girl. Safe in solidarity prolific eccentricity, the scandal of particularity. Pouting mouth grief - filled lips alluring, set sail a thousand ships; tempt me to leave harbor. Arousing euphoria as such, resistance, amity and distance amour sans touch her sense of humor transcends, appeasing the mind’s thirst a vogue sultana, seasoned swagger hair resplendent flame, alternating cool, black asymmetrical coiffure; nonconforming demure the renegade metaphor - singular for sure, no cure. Muted vanity, bathos piercing the jaded circumference of banality; pale protagonist servitude the sapient palaver of the urbane, covered patina of pretense, induced coercion, the commodity self appearing abased wearing lesions of lassitude. Artistic chattel - eminent domain preempting genius, subsidiary of consuming narcissism external locus of control; surrender to the tentative, fettered pendant, Venus in chains arrested visionary bane sterile savant, edifice of pain. The soubrette, dubious incarnation gravid ingénue of prevarication imperceptible venue - theatre of the absurd; withdrawn siren, solitude of necessity - skin - slender veil of shame, nearness loitering redemption; moments envisage the appointment with the soul; ambiguity eschews clarity awareness; ineluctable anxiety, imago - centric confession sacred pardon, seraphic venation intravenous textures presume, the tactile margins of liberty. Therapeutic retrieval, Sanguine, beneath the portico of individuation; Your smile I hear, recovered autonomy blessed emancipation, The scandal of particularity; peculiar treasure ironically captured film, canvas, prose profundity. Ciphering as an ambling book, I peruse you, rendered captive hypnotic avant-garde fiction, spectator of denuded opacity analogous reflection, I Mirror you. A modest proposal - pontificate the imperative, forgo the disposal, adapt your narrative, the scandal of particularity - resonate the echo, cogitate our propinquity Love, imagination and destiny. ©2008 & 2011 W.S Warner
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Sep 9, 2011
Sep 9, 2011 at 1:20 AM UTC
The Scandal of Particularity
Verdant eyes, translucent pearls speak in silent witness, wounds unfurl meaning revealed, interrupted girl. Safe in solidarity prolific eccentricity, the scandal of particularity. Pouting mouth grief - filled lips alluring, set sail a thousand ships; tempt me to leave harbor. Arousing euphoria as such, resistance, amity and distance amour sans touch her sense of humor transcends, appeasing the mind’s thirst a vogue sultana, seasoned swagger hair resplendent flame, alternating cool, black asymmetrical coiffure; nonconforming demure the renegade metaphor - singular for sure, no cure. Muted vanity, bathos piercing the jaded circumference of banality; pale protagonist servitude the sapient palaver of the urbane, covered patina of pretense, induced coercion, the commodity self appearing abased wearing lesions of lassitude. Artistic chattel - eminent domain preempting genius, subsidiary of consuming narcissism external locus of control; surrender to the tentative, fettered pendant, Venus in chains arrested visionary bane sterile savant, edifice of pain. The soubrette, dubious incarnation gravid ingénue of prevarication imperceptible venue - theatre of the absurd; withdrawn siren, solitude of necessity - skin - slender veil of shame, nearness loitering redemption; moments envisage the appointment with the soul; ambiguity eschews clarity awareness; ineluctable anxiety, imago - centric confession sacred pardon, seraphic venation intravenous textures presume, the tactile margins of liberty. Therapeutic retrieval, Sanguine, beneath the portico of individuation; Your smile I hear, recovered autonomy blessed emancipation, The scandal of particularity; peculiar treasure ironically captured film, canvas, prose profundity. Ciphering as an ambling book, I peruse you, rendered captive hypnotic avant-garde fiction, spectator of denuded opacity analogous reflection, I Mirror you. A modest proposal - pontificate the imperative, forgo the disposal, adapt your narrative, the scandal of particularity - resonate the echo, cogitate our propinquity Love, imagination and destiny. ©2008 & 2011 W.S Warner
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We see it As a victory Of the human spirit, Tales of glory That makes us proud. But it’s a pity She’s denuded bare, Ravaged her virginity, And up there There’s a crowd. The height is made to pale, They’re dwarfing the peak, Adventurers on glory’s trail Litter the path they scale. We take it as a test Of man’s superior might That would not rest Till it scales the greatest height. But the mountain is no more clean, Tons of wastes scar its air, She’s turned into a dustbin By the crowd going up there. Should we feel proud, And not hear the warning bell, As the mountain is trodden like hell By the mindlessly adventuring crowd?
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 2:36 AM UTC
Everest
**Within the mind there is a place where dwells the demon's brood. As Halloween gets nearer yet, it's gates become unglued. The seal begins to strain and squeal. The hinges start to swell As creatures strive to come alive and leave my mental hell. The moon is full and scudding clouds give credence to the tale That at the time of Hallow's Eve our courage starts to fail. I see the shadows of the trees, denuded of all their leaves Imagining the snapping claws imagination weaves. I peer in darkened places where the moonlight fails to reach And think I see a movement and my mind begins to screech. My heartbeats race with every step. Was that a howl I heard? Or was it just a "Nevermore" from Edgar Allen's bird? My nerves begin to fray and itch, my feet begin to dance. My dreams awake me in a sweat at Frankenstein's romance. How eerie is the human mind where fears and horrors lurk! Sleep well tonight, just a few more days, til monsters go BERSERK!**
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Oct 26, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 at 11:36 PM UTC
the Seal Begins to Breaks
He looked at me with luscious devious eyes so, I winked asked him did he want some action; his look was of a fatal attraction and his mind locked me in ******* his eyes denuded my flesh as he suckled my breast, I coiled in pleasured duress He licked his lips as I submitted to his lustful toying, moans acknowledge my attraction to his lascivious actions and he salivated ensnaring nakedness in roped interaction As his appetizing admonishment began; I wickedly grinned and to his chagrin; tightened my bonds, splayed cheeks coaxing me to seep as his tongue licked in calculated dips and I shuddered in satisfaction with each sip Wet lips began to quiver; each taunt delivered, hands slid behind back with another toy he attacked, eight inches long in & out, I began to sing a song as pleasure surged, wracking my body; begging for more each time its full measure dipped into my treasure I looked up as he turned me over dripping wet, I smiled, winked again with another wicked grin, fore, he had no idea what he'd gotten into; he tied up the wrong nymph, thought I was just a sweet kitten; had him smitten after gettin' a taste, as if, he'd lost his mitten playing with this sultry kitten
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Jun 29, 2012
Jun 29, 2012 at 4:50 AM UTC
Fatal Attraction
i can't know my artifice of kneeling doesn't change the fact at Delphi gasping words from wide silken eyes mating doubt and trust in seizmic gnosis fissures claim even olive sky freefalling streambeds tossed chests of gold heave spill with ******* lovers mingle debts and portents laid denuded over cool marble shimmered under earthquake suns === ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα     Hèn oîda hóti oudèn oîda     "I know one thing, that I know nothing"     Socrates, paraphrased from Plato's Apology. ===
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:11 AM UTC
oracular
Years later muffled like new snowfall this ash permeating teeth and skin. Back then, I was still naive enough to trust Old Jimmy when he offered to fly me over the blast zone in his beat-up Cessna the words Scenic Tours peeling off its purple tail. His latent appetite would later manifest on the ride home in his musty Cadillac the passenger door dented shut preventing an easy exit. That day gray extended as far as eyes could see denuded trunks laid to rest in perfect unison we flew for miles and miles over nothing living just ash permeating teeth and skin fallen matchsticks and men.
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 9:12 AM UTC
Matchsticks
Animated patterns of light and dark, quavering here on the wall beside me. Through this window glass from another century, denuded branches dance -- But only apparently.
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Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015 at 8:43 PM UTC
Maya... The Motionless Dance...
*Freezing cold, a  strange night of rain and thunder, it got registred deep in his consciousness, as a squiggling liquid presence; an abstract painting, taken in, with layers of meaning, a deluge, the result of injustices heaped against the female principle. The rain lashed out, in the flashes of lightning in between, through the window sills when the curtains where swept aside by a subversive wind, painful face of a frightened girl was visible, at the window of a highrise building, shameful secrets kept concealed peeped out yelling out "HELP"in the shocking words of silence. That night was difficult for an exile from life like him to endure, subconscious echoed terror filled cries; sewer water flowed, towards oblivion, carrying embryos, not fully formed from terminated pregnancies, he heared tree toads speaking in strange tongues, like jilted women seeking vengeance, coyotes hunting in packs with blood thirst howled in delight. In his nightmare, blood dripped from wet trees, "who will rescue our bloodied orphaned planet?" his heart with a collective guilt , beyond words wailed. From denuded mountain slopes, muddy red water copiously gushed  downhill, nature's menstrual flow out of cycle, devastated hillsides cleaving gashes, like scorned woman's fury baring long sharp  fangs- landslides opened gaping wounds. Liquid's rule took over the space of night, lying awake on his bed, he became conscious of the burden of women, who moved around with invisible bridles pretending free, nervously smiling. Swimming in the amniotic fluid of the past he is forced to recount the past sins, nature and women have endured and ask for forgiveness seeking salvation.*
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 2:46 PM UTC
Sin and salvation
*Freezing cold, a  strange night of rain and thunder, it got registred deep in his consciousness, as a squiggling liquid presence; an abstract painting, taken in, with layers of meaning, a deluge, the result of injustices heaped against the female principle. The rain lashed out, in the flashes of lightning in between, through the window sills when the curtains where swept aside by a subversive wind, painful face of a frightened girl was visible, at the window of a highrise building, shameful secrets kept concealed peeped out yelling out "HELP"in the shocking words of silence. That night was difficult for an exile from life like him to endure, subconscious echoed terror filled cries; sewer water flowed, towards oblivion, carrying embryos, not fully formed from terminated pregnancies, he heared tree toads speaking in strange tongues, like jilted women seeking vengeance, coyotes hunting in packs with blood thirst howled in delight. In his nightmare, blood dripped from wet trees, "who will rescue our bloodied orphaned planet?" his heart with a collective guilt , beyond words wailed. From denuded mountain slopes, muddy red water copiously gushed  downhill, nature's menstrual flow out of cycle, devastated hillsides cleaving gashes, like scorned woman's fury baring long sharp  fangs- landslides opened gaping wounds. Liquid's rule took over the space of night, lying awake on his bed, he became conscious of the burden of women, who moved around with invisible bridles pretending free, nervously smiling. Swimming in the amniotic fluid of the past he is forced to recount the past sins, nature and women have endured and ask for forgiveness seeking salvation.*
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denuded of cover she stands all alone without a leaf upon her timbered bones above in sombre grey skies an uncaring sun hides winter's whipping wind lashes her hide there she shivers for want of warm light there she quivers through the gelid days and nights the bitter iciness ever staying with the freezing vetch so cruelly parlaying the end doth call she dies she dies she dies in winter's cold pall
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 8:28 PM UTC
Winter Tree (Metaphor Poem)
i. dear poetry, we met when i was four, you were count lestat, and it was love at first sight. you were made of bone and bane, and razors, i was a mosochist and you were a black widow, i would know, i was there, trying to pry open all of your eight legs, looking for the amrita. ii. dear poetry, if i were to answer all of the thirteen questions you have ever asked me, the answers would be, no, no, yes, march the thirty second, "how frail a human heart must be -", diacetylmorphine without the butterfly, mother, yes, barely, jolene, you don't love me, contractility, and no. iii. dear poetry, you have pretty legs. iv. dear poetry, i am an ugly archetype of denuded adolescence and i think you smell like teenagers and a leather hacked smothered in *** and black labels and ck perfume, and a pound of god. v. dear poetry, if sleep is the brother to death, where does my mother lie, before ribbons of aubade seek the flower in the sky? vi. dear poetry, today i don't think i love you anymore. vii. dear poetry, if you were humanised, you would be ugly. you would be defleshed, you would be ugly. you would be marked constantly by ugly people and you would bleed ugly people. viii. dear poetry, today i might ********** my muses, i might make them wear fishnet leggings, with ****** heels, i might give them ***** to suit others that **** them better than i do, and it is all your fault. ix. dear poetry, i promise myself i would not speak to you anymore, at least not in words, but we both know poets are nothing but liars, don't we? x. dear poetry, i am not a poet, all the poets are dead. they died for you. xi. dear poetry, i am writting you thirteen letters a year, they are ugly, like i am, they spell an ugly word you would never speak of. you will be anatomised, i will stuff you with consangunuty, i will re-invent you. xii. dear poetry, you are older than me, i am twenty, but you are only ten, i am ripe, bruised, plucked from purple lips, nothing is ageless. xiii. dear poetry, i am going to break you, grind you in a mortar, roll you up, into a blunt, and i am going to smoke you along with the angels.
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Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 at 5:27 AM UTC
thirteen
i. dear poetry, we met when i was four, you were count lestat, and it was love at first sight. you were made of bone and bane, and razors, i was a mosochist and you were a black widow, i would know, i was there, trying to pry open all of your eight legs, looking for the amrita. ii. dear poetry, if i were to answer all of the thirteen questions you have ever asked me, the answers would be, no, no, yes, march the thirty second, "how frail a human heart must be -", diacetylmorphine without the butterfly, mother, yes, barely, jolene, you don't love me, contractility, and no. iii. dear poetry, you have pretty legs. iv. dear poetry, i am an ugly archetype of denuded adolescence and i think you smell like teenagers and a leather hacked smothered in *** and black labels and ck perfume, and a pound of god. v. dear poetry, if sleep is the brother to death, where does my mother lie, before ribbons of aubade seek the flower in the sky? vi. dear poetry, today i don't think i love you anymore. vii. dear poetry, if you were humanised, you would be ugly. you would be defleshed, you would be ugly. you would be marked constantly by ugly people and you would bleed ugly people. viii. dear poetry, today i might ********** my muses, i might make them wear fishnet leggings, with ****** heels, i might give them ***** to suit others that **** them better than i do, and it is all your fault. ix. dear poetry, i promise myself i would not speak to you anymore, at least not in words, but we both know poets are nothing but liars, don't we? x. dear poetry, i am not a poet, all the poets are dead. they died for you. xi. dear poetry, i am writting you thirteen letters a year, they are ugly, like i am, they spell an ugly word you would never speak of. you will be anatomised, i will stuff you with consangunuty, i will re-invent you. xii. dear poetry, you are older than me, i am twenty, but you are only ten, i am ripe, bruised, plucked from purple lips, nothing is ageless. xiii. dear poetry, i am going to break you, grind you in a mortar, roll you up, into a blunt, and i am going to smoke you along with the angels.
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The red flower centered between exotic curled lines evokes the smell of old Jaipur the Hawa Mahal ~ Palace of the Winds where the maharaja’s women once peered from pink honeycombed windows above streets overflowing with painted elephants, camels, turbaned men. A river of color, movement, sound from red-dust shrouded sunrise to ember scorch at the horizon line the desert broken only by the organic rise of dung and mud-bricked houses sheltered by one denuded tree, a mirage of shade. A cobalt hurricane spiral or vine’s end worn smaller than its origins its story, the shelf on which it sat perhaps a fragile immigrant, hand-carried from the old country by someone’s mother’s mother. Whole and admired for a century before its demise, told with regret-laden mouths mother to daughter, daughter to mother *Oh, I wish we still had that blue bowl great grandmother dropped when she heard about Roy* a circle of memory, come to rest on this distant curve of beach. The cream and blue striped shard could be my grandmother’s coffee cup rimmed brown and lipstick stamped sip, then drag on the Raleigh cigarette always attached to electric-tipped fingers. The cup was most likely broken in the war that raged until death parted my grandparents maybe it sailed harmlessly past my grandfather’s shiny head and hit a rock near the creek, exploding into pieces a small token of their shattered marriage a lifetime of regrets carried to the sea grievance-scrubbed, muted by the journey this sliver must be handled with care. The largest fragment found tangled in the eelgrass at my feet delivered on a tide of need at the ebb of an unexpected storm a perfect cross, soft edges raised on a rough slab of terra cotta. The fragile sun had warmed the worn shape nesting in my palm like a missing piece as my restless fingers traced down and across, across and down asking questions, seeking answers.
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Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 at 11:02 AM UTC
Shards
The red flower centered between exotic curled lines evokes the smell of old Jaipur the Hawa Mahal ~ Palace of the Winds where the maharaja’s women once peered from pink honeycombed windows above streets overflowing with painted elephants, camels, turbaned men. A river of color, movement, sound from red-dust shrouded sunrise to ember scorch at the horizon line the desert broken only by the organic rise of dung and mud-bricked houses sheltered by one denuded tree, a mirage of shade. A cobalt hurricane spiral or vine’s end worn smaller than its origins its story, the shelf on which it sat perhaps a fragile immigrant, hand-carried from the old country by someone’s mother’s mother. Whole and admired for a century before its demise, told with regret-laden mouths mother to daughter, daughter to mother *Oh, I wish we still had that blue bowl great grandmother dropped when she heard about Roy* a circle of memory, come to rest on this distant curve of beach. The cream and blue striped shard could be my grandmother’s coffee cup rimmed brown and lipstick stamped sip, then drag on the Raleigh cigarette always attached to electric-tipped fingers. The cup was most likely broken in the war that raged until death parted my grandparents maybe it sailed harmlessly past my grandfather’s shiny head and hit a rock near the creek, exploding into pieces a small token of their shattered marriage a lifetime of regrets carried to the sea grievance-scrubbed, muted by the journey this sliver must be handled with care. The largest fragment found tangled in the eelgrass at my feet delivered on a tide of need at the ebb of an unexpected storm a perfect cross, soft edges raised on a rough slab of terra cotta. The fragile sun had warmed the worn shape nesting in my palm like a missing piece as my restless fingers traced down and across, across and down asking questions, seeking answers.
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Meze *Meze or mezze /ˈmɛzeɪ/ is a selection of small dishes served in the Middle East and the Balkans as breakfast, lunch or even dinner. -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's a meze day, Many small poems arrayed, A tasting menu, Hummus and babaganoush, Small observations, Pita dipping, Long writs tabled, Unless dragged out from the wine cellar, For another meal, Another mood. They'll keep, or not. The bay and beach have been traded in, For Western Mass. mountains, The highland region, The Berkshires, the Green and the Taconic Mountains, Formed over half a billion years ago When Africa collided   with North America. (Just for a weekend, a traitor, I'm not.) *Different insects checking me out, Crash landing in my chest hair jungle To get a taste of a Long Island salt air, Fresh blood and poetry from a foreign tongue. Mount Greylock asks me what I got to say. I said I got grey locks older than you, friend. I am a billion years old, son of the copulation Tween the Sun and and a passing comet, The Atlantic, My amniotic fluid birthstone unevaporated.. Greylock sniffs, mumbles, just another New Yorker. *The clouds different, thick slabs, bank-heads keeping My sun-father from showing his true colors, My skin seeks his restorative powers, Burn the strain, the stress, the black circles from Within and without, but this is a partly cloudy day. Sooner than me, the leaves will be red and gold, The season of long sunnier days forgotten, The trees that Fill the panorama, Point their soon-to-be Denuded branch fingers at me Accusingly, L'etranger, You brought winter's chill, A lie but perhaps not, For they are sensing the Inhabiting cold in me. A strange day, every asking, passing thought Thrown back in my face, And stewed, stir fried up All in vain attempts to keep warmer Just a little bit Longer.*
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 1:23 PM UTC
Meze
Meze *Meze or mezze /ˈmɛzeɪ/ is a selection of small dishes served in the Middle East and the Balkans as breakfast, lunch or even dinner. -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's a meze day, Many small poems arrayed, A tasting menu, Hummus and babaganoush, Small observations, Pita dipping, Long writs tabled, Unless dragged out from the wine cellar, For another meal, Another mood. They'll keep, or not. The bay and beach have been traded in, For Western Mass. mountains, The highland region, The Berkshires, the Green and the Taconic Mountains, Formed over half a billion years ago When Africa collided   with North America. (Just for a weekend, a traitor, I'm not.) *Different insects checking me out, Crash landing in my chest hair jungle To get a taste of a Long Island salt air, Fresh blood and poetry from a foreign tongue. Mount Greylock asks me what I got to say. I said I got grey locks older than you, friend. I am a billion years old, son of the copulation Tween the Sun and and a passing comet, The Atlantic, My amniotic fluid birthstone unevaporated.. Greylock sniffs, mumbles, just another New Yorker. *The clouds different, thick slabs, bank-heads keeping My sun-father from showing his true colors, My skin seeks his restorative powers, Burn the strain, the stress, the black circles from Within and without, but this is a partly cloudy day. Sooner than me, the leaves will be red and gold, The season of long sunnier days forgotten, The trees that Fill the panorama, Point their soon-to-be Denuded branch fingers at me Accusingly, L'etranger, You brought winter's chill, A lie but perhaps not, For they are sensing the Inhabiting cold in me. A strange day, every asking, passing thought Thrown back in my face, And stewed, stir fried up All in vain attempts to keep warmer Just a little bit Longer.*
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Quietness reigns this golden morning, ensconced in my glass tower. All around on the ground below these eyes, the world crawls. Like beetles, almost, in my power. This moment in time sonorous in its silence seemingly tranquil. I await the oncoming storm, serene, etiolate denuded of fear.
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Jun 20, 2010
Jun 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM UTC
Glass Tower
Someday you feel as though you are the last leaf of the autumn’s being And, the slightest whiff of the wind would ruin the season for all. You feel that the entire world is woven in the designs on your skin So intricate, so compact and yet so burdensome, you’d fall. Grimy, wilted, the worn-out leaf You were picked upon by the birds on the tree. Severed as you jump out of the lap of the once lush green, Floating in the dusty gust was another misery. Rueful yet rebellious, you longed for wings. Cos waiting for you in a dark, far-off corner was the gorgeous spring. Denuded lands could offer only so much cover. So as the days grew darker, fearful became the vernal queen. On your tiny back you bear the brunt of sins of your land Your gait exudes the weariness, the heart exudes the desire. The infallible falls but never does he fail. From the endless scars on your body leaks the vengeful ire.   You were after all, the last leaf of the fall, the last synapse to sanity, the curtain to the wonderful show. Your pace slowed down, and each time the mercury rose, Spring died a little.
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 6:29 AM UTC
Last Leaf of the fall
Like this morning for instance Hot February and dry cracked skin of my shadow which sometimes seems to look at me and move w/out me and I, w/out it. Sometimes I see the flicker of a dark soul jeer; a savage dance, right in front of me, or in the corner of my eye when my head is tilted. The other day at my friend’s I felt like I was, briefly, in the sunflower courtyard of this ol’ dark underwater museum full of mirrors that float adrift. Angles that perpetually gyrate and shift….. I hear the sound of a whale submerged in a highway crying with striving despair at night and I'm sad because his lovers reply sounds so distant and it sounds as if it comes from a cavern w/in an ocean below a sun I hope he finds her and dies happy in the warmth of her flippers.... I miss the panther-warm wine & cream Was it worth it Is this worth it Cold violet city vacant warm lobbies at night desolate allies and dogs in such deep slumber they cant even wake to bark at impending footsteps The musty brown cars whose aura of mothballs and pipe smoke reminds you of a childhood irretrievable   I smiled back at the rocks that snickered Beside the fence which stood firm In caring vigilance Cold verdure within Misery mixed with Getting bored w/ absorbing it There’s a strange saloon w/ hotel attached at the center of Melancholy where flames are lit music is played bodies are slowly denuded and silver knives are thrown I can show you… (Long ago it seems I bit and kissed and became aquatinted w/ the bark of the root of delirium Recently even I’ve spoken to the heart of delirium itself from within w/ no reply but I can remember all my memories were hallucinations)
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 1:27 PM UTC
BLUISH GREENISH BLACKISH GOLD
Like this morning for instance Hot February and dry cracked skin of my shadow which sometimes seems to look at me and move w/out me and I, w/out it. Sometimes I see the flicker of a dark soul jeer; a savage dance, right in front of me, or in the corner of my eye when my head is tilted. The other day at my friend’s I felt like I was, briefly, in the sunflower courtyard of this ol’ dark underwater museum full of mirrors that float adrift. Angles that perpetually gyrate and shift….. I hear the sound of a whale submerged in a highway crying with striving despair at night and I'm sad because his lovers reply sounds so distant and it sounds as if it comes from a cavern w/in an ocean below a sun I hope he finds her and dies happy in the warmth of her flippers.... I miss the panther-warm wine & cream Was it worth it Is this worth it Cold violet city vacant warm lobbies at night desolate allies and dogs in such deep slumber they cant even wake to bark at impending footsteps The musty brown cars whose aura of mothballs and pipe smoke reminds you of a childhood irretrievable   I smiled back at the rocks that snickered Beside the fence which stood firm In caring vigilance Cold verdure within Misery mixed with Getting bored w/ absorbing it There’s a strange saloon w/ hotel attached at the center of Melancholy where flames are lit music is played bodies are slowly denuded and silver knives are thrown I can show you… (Long ago it seems I bit and kissed and became aquatinted w/ the bark of the root of delirium Recently even I’ve spoken to the heart of delirium itself from within w/ no reply but I can remember all my memories were hallucinations)
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dead...that's what you are... dead...for all, you are... clumsy hands are all that are left for you... mutatis mutandis, praemonitus, praemunitus eris sed qui me dixit moritum est hominibus? qui me dixit, non est, sed somnum habere? and that waking up was a thing that just wasn't there... but I WAS to believe... yahweh...blasphemous..."jehovah's" children... yahoo!...is yet, the talk of the times... sitting idyllic on the brick wall...denuded...red all over... are you out of your mind?...what's the matter? ...and the hose-pipe is set...the thoughts gush out...smothering you... it's been the dark night's work...and I am sitting all alone... thinking 'bout you...you, who's not there... and never to have known you with days passing by... I probably will never commit... there's so much do now and such little time... that I cannot forget... what you were...you are...
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Jan 10, 2010
Jan 10, 2010 at 2:56 AM UTC
Time stands still
The first taste of Fall made the young sapling fret. “My leaves, once were green, Now the cold turns them red.” “Now look, how they fall, How they clutter the ground. and now I’m bare naked My leaves are all down!” I sympathize tree, really, I do. I once had a full head of hair much like you. First it went grey when it used to be brown. Then I, too, got denuded And now sport a bare crown. But you, by this Spring, Will be back in your glory, But the hair I once had? That’s a much different story.
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Oct 4, 2013
Oct 4, 2013 at 8:36 AM UTC
The Distraught Maple
You are whispering to me that you love me like: - sinking into sleep - mornings - hot chocolate on a minus ten degrees - the first touch - the immersion of bare feet in warm summer sand - the dance of fireflies in June - a breather between two ******* - a sincere smile between two denuded people I write you a note on a slip of paper, as if I was a kid. That I love you Like a quilt on a minus fifteen degrees. Like a inspiration. Like a inception of the will. Like a"Jaffa" biscuits and restful sleep. Like a flowering cherry tree and glowing nut from a wild chestnut tree. Like a sudden wonder. You're asking me whether you are my sudden wonder. Little, ragged wonder. Yes, you are, I answer. You love being my little ragged wonder. You are asking: For my nape and chin. Top of my head and lips. Embrace of a careful lumberjack. You want chin-caress. For five minutes. Intensively!
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 7:38 AM UTC
Little ragged wonder
Traitor collect these impoverished energy vibes vibrating in your endless orbits of your hollowed spring time woods While I… in these freezing December dusks gather fragments from my shadows (expanding or shortening I am past caring ) Come Summer and I will trample those verbs which you penned with your malignant ink on my vulnerable soils But I just wonder… Can the shimmering Sun really dry the solitary tear resting on the skin of the denuded Autumn tree…?
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Dec 30, 2010
Dec 30, 2010 at 4:14 AM UTC
Rage ...
I was born to love YOU, a prayer answered A wish exhaled A dream realised. My soul recognized yours Rekindling forgotten memories My heart Yearns your joy Hears your thoughts Dances your words so familiar Yet forever known. Loving fearlessly YOU are in each exchange i whisper breath i inhale, sigh i expel. Tear i spill Quiver I feel, Laugh i trill. Breeze borne, Your name caresses my frame. In sunlight your kisses In rainstorms your heartbeats. Heaven is Denuded of stars, ‘Coz they’re in my eyes for you!
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Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2016 at 8:48 AM UTC
You!