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My curls are everything you wish you knew about me But it won’t reveal my inner mystery My hair means young, it means wild, it means free. My Latina nature sometimes precedes my personality People try to tell me who I am and they whisper, “I bet she…” My curls are everything you wish you knew about me He says, “I know about you Latin girls…” but the only one who can enlighten me about me, is me. To them I’m nothing more than another Jenny from the Block, but I’m not here to entertain you, let me educate you My hair means young, it means wild, it means free. My curls exude confidence, beauty, and *** appeal; they keep secrets, create dreams, and remind me how bright I expect my future to be My hair does define me. But not as you define it, as I do. I am everything I believe my hair means My curls are everything you wish you knew about me Latinas are fierce, they are fire, and they are dangerous. Maybe we’re that way because you won’t let us be. Can I just be me? Why do I have to be the person you want me to be? My hair means young, it means wild, it means free. I’m tired of society’s shackles, so I ignore what society expects me to be I love my curls, I love them when they’re frizzy, unkempt, and unruly. My curls are me. My curls are everything you wish you knew about me My hair means young, it means wild, it means free. ~Karina
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
My Curls
I am the moth, you are the flame. I am blinded in the darkness, Surronded by the cold. I am fragile, weak and fleeting. I am the moth. You are the flame. You burn bright and true, Chasing away shadows with your light. You draw me closer and closer, Enticing me with the heat you exude. I am the moth intoxicated by the flame. You are forbidden, yet irristable. The fire is seductive, untameable, and wild. My desires are undeniable. But to touch is to be burned. I am the moth, killed by your flame.
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Mar 12, 2012
Mar 12, 2012 at 2:08 AM UTC
I Am the Moth, You Are the Flame
Here rests a future Untouched and eager for light Wanting to exude its aromas of which I neither looked nor cared. She handed me the match fresh, burning bright, a new sense in my familiar room. Baffling confusion overtook as I blew her match so stubborn to extinguish in a faint stream of smoke still thinning. Was I the stubborn? Subsequent darkness overtaking Once a sweet home Now a paralyzing loneliness. Match burnt, candle gone future still… Will another offer to light my dark corners --myself willing, with a newfound scent? A day may come to end my night, but I only care to see the one I once hid from.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 10:41 AM UTC
Candle
Mirror by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My era’s obscuring mirror           shattered because it magnified the small and made the great seem insignificant. Dictators and monsters filled its contours.             Now when I breathe its jagged shards pierce my heart and instead of sweat I exude glass. Keywords/Tags: Kajal Ahmad, Kurd, Kurdish, translation, mirror, shattered, magnified, dictators, monsters, jagged, shards, sweat, perspire, leak, bleed, extrude, protrude, glass The Lonely Earth by Kajal Ahmad loose translation by Michael R. Burch The pale celestial bodies never bid her "Good morning! " nor do the creative stars kiss her. Earth, where so many tender persuasions and roses lie interred, might expire for the lack of a glance, or an odor. She's a lonely dusty orb, so very lonely! , as she observes the moon's patchwork attire knowing the sun's an imposter who sears with rays he has stolen for himself and who looks down on the moon and earth like lodgers. Kurds are Birds by Kajal Ahmad loose translation by Michael R. Burch Per the latest scientific classification, Kurds now belong to a species of bird! This is why, traveling across the torn, fraying pages of history, they are nomads recognized by their caravans. Yes, Kurds are birds! And, even worse, when there's nowhere left to nest, no refuge from their pain, they turn to the illusion of traveling again between the warm and arctic sectors of their homeland. So I don't think it strange Kurds can fly but not land. They wander from region to region never realizing their dreams of settling, of forming a colony, of nesting. No, they never settle down long enough to visit Rumi and inquire about his health, or to bow down deeply in the gust- stirred dust, like Nali. Bi Havre (“Together”) possibly the oldest Kurdish poem loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I want us to be together: we would eat together, climb the mountain together, sing songs together, songs of love, songs from the heart, sung from above. I want us to have one heart, together. Many words in this ancient poem are in doubt, so I have excerpted what I grok to be the central meaning. And because Kajal mentioned Rumi, here are my translations of Rumi: Raise your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder. —Rumi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Birdsong by Rumi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Birdsong relieves my deepest griefs: now I'm just as ecstatic as they, but with nothing to say! Please universe, rehearse your poetry through me!
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Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020 at 3:00 AM UTC
Kajal Ahmad "Mirror" translation
Mirror by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My era’s obscuring mirror           shattered because it magnified the small and made the great seem insignificant. Dictators and monsters filled its contours.             Now when I breathe its jagged shards pierce my heart and instead of sweat I exude glass. Keywords/Tags: Kajal Ahmad, Kurd, Kurdish, translation, mirror, shattered, magnified, dictators, monsters, jagged, shards, sweat, perspire, leak, bleed, extrude, protrude, glass The Lonely Earth by Kajal Ahmad loose translation by Michael R. Burch The pale celestial bodies never bid her "Good morning! " nor do the creative stars kiss her. Earth, where so many tender persuasions and roses lie interred, might expire for the lack of a glance, or an odor. She's a lonely dusty orb, so very lonely! , as she observes the moon's patchwork attire knowing the sun's an imposter who sears with rays he has stolen for himself and who looks down on the moon and earth like lodgers. Kurds are Birds by Kajal Ahmad loose translation by Michael R. Burch Per the latest scientific classification, Kurds now belong to a species of bird! This is why, traveling across the torn, fraying pages of history, they are nomads recognized by their caravans. Yes, Kurds are birds! And, even worse, when there's nowhere left to nest, no refuge from their pain, they turn to the illusion of traveling again between the warm and arctic sectors of their homeland. So I don't think it strange Kurds can fly but not land. They wander from region to region never realizing their dreams of settling, of forming a colony, of nesting. No, they never settle down long enough to visit Rumi and inquire about his health, or to bow down deeply in the gust- stirred dust, like Nali. Bi Havre (“Together”) possibly the oldest Kurdish poem loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I want us to be together: we would eat together, climb the mountain together, sing songs together, songs of love, songs from the heart, sung from above. I want us to have one heart, together. Many words in this ancient poem are in doubt, so I have excerpted what I grok to be the central meaning. And because Kajal mentioned Rumi, here are my translations of Rumi: Raise your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder. —Rumi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Birdsong by Rumi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Birdsong relieves my deepest griefs: now I'm just as ecstatic as they, but with nothing to say! Please universe, rehearse your poetry through me!
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Extravagantly exorbitant mentality panacea Pretentious eidetic’s ubiquity mnemonics Extraversion embezzlement extortion mens rea Endergonic laconic cacophony phonics Preterite rendition enclitic equilibrist motion Mystic symbiosis dharma spiritual sky Brusque macabre abjections the gist of the potion Straight up forever ontology on high Obdurately abstruse vituperatively vociferous Juxtaposition apparition myriad avarice Orotund sonorous diction obliquitous Multifariously versatile nefarious nemesis Mirador bartizan phantasmagoria aesthetics Guidon gyration excursion integration Sorcerous alchemizing interstitial endemics   Chaos charisma objectified tribulation Conjurous apothegms clitoral apomixis Exude emote surrogate extrapolation Astral projection littoral hypotaxis Kinetic supremacy homogeneity gravitation Coercible coalescent cohesion dexterities Adjunct conjunction conjecture acuity Platonic pragmatic prosaic austerities Extemporaneous impromptu innuendo fortuity Propinquity habitation harbinger spectra Perplexing paradox tenacity rostra Intensely cogitational abstract mantra Penumbral exigency , umbrage per contra Theoretical incursion grandiloquent ne plus ultra Exogamy of homoplasy sic itur ad astra Quiescent serendipity surreal anestra
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 6:16 AM UTC
Asylum
The sensual glee, that translates as conjugal poetry gently speaks about the pair's  easy, perfect chemistry. Intimate moments exude a rare sense of aesthetics, pointing to an alchemy they could easily spark by their sultry proximity;  minds and bodies, move   in resonance, and the waves of exhilaration brim and flow.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 9:13 AM UTC
The birth of poetry, out of conjugal chemistry
emerald, olive, viridian oh how you perplex me forest, jade, chartreuse why do you tease me so cyan, verdigris, moss such excitement arises to be a word to be a meaning is there such a thing, to have a feeling to see a vision, phthalo, pine, teal are you the same mint, myrtle, laurel you make me envious to be blooming, to be healthy to be young, to be clumsy are you callow, how about credulous? but such a conservationist unquestioning, so trustful, tenderfoot and common the tree, the lawn, the willow though ecological and crude a sage in all but name apple, spinach, pea aren't you scrumptious, lime, kelly, bice are you nature, how about luck you're pungently rotten though with such dark beauty and hope, love and lust ensues you're the jolliness of balance and the creative intelligence; of evil, and decay of money and safety, will you resurrect me, are you immortality? such jealousy arises high goals and honor so so allusive healing and vitality you're calming though fast lush spring stability, abundant generosity, vert vegetation; witchcraft an aphrodisiac I hear, are you youth or fading youth? sunrise and life, growth and fertility sacred ideology, eroticized though shameful so romantic and humble I see the third ray or is the the fifth ray, the third eye are you truth, are you vision it's becoming a science, so much compassion the fourth chakra, the heart, the centre of us all a higher consciousness such a harmonious aura a hunter, a nurse, a solider, an outdoorsman villains and superstition misfortune and prosperity with toxicity, sickness and death, recycle and reuse oh so powerful you exude auspiciousness just a holiday mystical fairies and spirits though also devilish, cancer in the stars a renewal of paradise, biliously tranquil are you refreshingly soothing, peacefully restful, a naive novice, very understanding, is there truly a term for you? what do you really convey, countless representations a definition of name, or do you signify the feeling, the specimen the aspect? though some have no locution for you here I am, stepping around the issue you are you, in any word yet with a different meaning
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM UTC
To be Ao
emerald, olive, viridian oh how you perplex me forest, jade, chartreuse why do you tease me so cyan, verdigris, moss such excitement arises to be a word to be a meaning is there such a thing, to have a feeling to see a vision, phthalo, pine, teal are you the same mint, myrtle, laurel you make me envious to be blooming, to be healthy to be young, to be clumsy are you callow, how about credulous? but such a conservationist unquestioning, so trustful, tenderfoot and common the tree, the lawn, the willow though ecological and crude a sage in all but name apple, spinach, pea aren't you scrumptious, lime, kelly, bice are you nature, how about luck you're pungently rotten though with such dark beauty and hope, love and lust ensues you're the jolliness of balance and the creative intelligence; of evil, and decay of money and safety, will you resurrect me, are you immortality? such jealousy arises high goals and honor so so allusive healing and vitality you're calming though fast lush spring stability, abundant generosity, vert vegetation; witchcraft an aphrodisiac I hear, are you youth or fading youth? sunrise and life, growth and fertility sacred ideology, eroticized though shameful so romantic and humble I see the third ray or is the the fifth ray, the third eye are you truth, are you vision it's becoming a science, so much compassion the fourth chakra, the heart, the centre of us all a higher consciousness such a harmonious aura a hunter, a nurse, a solider, an outdoorsman villains and superstition misfortune and prosperity with toxicity, sickness and death, recycle and reuse oh so powerful you exude auspiciousness just a holiday mystical fairies and spirits though also devilish, cancer in the stars a renewal of paradise, biliously tranquil are you refreshingly soothing, peacefully restful, a naive novice, very understanding, is there truly a term for you? what do you really convey, countless representations a definition of name, or do you signify the feeling, the specimen the aspect? though some have no locution for you here I am, stepping around the issue you are you, in any word yet with a different meaning
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You're not worthless. But your actions exude it, worthlessness... For anyone that could take the gentle, pristine heart, and make it spew purple-black hazes of vengeance, betrayal and loss is unworthy, unhappy, hateful and unwise. But he still is not worthless. I am finer, I am greater, I am better. For you I will not lose my worth. I have forgiven every last of your evils. You violated me. You embarrassed me. You used me. You scared me. And because of the many you's, I am learning my worth. Hopefully someday you'll learn too. That even you, with your heartless, lying, deceiving and scheming low self esteem, you o lost and ignorant soul, you are not worthless.
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 8:24 PM UTC
worthless.
Being a woman is tough We constantly struggle with finding the balance Between strength and vulnerability Sometimes it can be too much Having to exude our feminine power And dealing with masculinity What is a woman to do When she wants to play in a man's world? Does she toughen up and play with the boys Or remain a timid, overly emotional girl? Maybe it's best for a woman To learn both sides of the species She can rule the world being vulnerable and feminine With a dash of masculinity
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 11:13 PM UTC
A Dash of Masculinity
1. Love everything, and everyone. Thank the grass for being a soft place to fall, and those who own the arms of your safe place to crash. Love the girl who taunts you, love the boy who tries too hard. Love the woman who screams that you will never make it, love the man who stares a little too long. Do not waste too much time on loving yourself, for when you exude love you will receive it. You must love those who do not deserve it, and all the while you will receive love you do not deserve. For love is not a feeling, but an action. For love is not restraining, but freeing. 2. When you start to notice your reflection, remember that it does not matter. A soul needs a home, and your home is a fine home. Your body keeps your soul safe, and warm, and fed. So worry more about what you put into your mind than your mouth, and never forget that your soul cares not of the shape of it’s home. 3. When you see someone who is in need of help, they become your obligation. The only true way to understand a person is to love them, and the best way to love a person is to serve them. There is no man or woman who was born undeserved of love, and you ought to give more than you think your heart will allow. 4. When lost, know that you do not have one sole purpose. You have many facets, and many talents. Each day you may have a different purpose, and each day it may not be a grand one, but each day it is an important one. Be open to things you did not think of yourself capable, and know that nobody cares about your embarrassments more than yourself. 5. Every day of your life you will make mistakes, and if you think that you have to right to belittle others because of theirs then honey, I am here to tell you that you are wrong. Unfair judgment hinders understanding, which hinders the most important thing of all: love.   6. Forgive all, but do not trust all. Love all, but do not pleasure all. You are to lose yourself, to emerge yourself in the work and service of others. You are to overwhelm yourself with love and kindness, so much that it spills over. You are to give more than you have, and to take less than you need. 7. Do not worry about being happy. The search for happiness is never ending, and a path that has no destination. Lose yourself, and happiness will find you. Look for happiness, and you will lose it all.
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 4:28 AM UTC
7 Things I will tell my daughter
1. Love everything, and everyone. Thank the grass for being a soft place to fall, and those who own the arms of your safe place to crash. Love the girl who taunts you, love the boy who tries too hard. Love the woman who screams that you will never make it, love the man who stares a little too long. Do not waste too much time on loving yourself, for when you exude love you will receive it. You must love those who do not deserve it, and all the while you will receive love you do not deserve. For love is not a feeling, but an action. For love is not restraining, but freeing. 2. When you start to notice your reflection, remember that it does not matter. A soul needs a home, and your home is a fine home. Your body keeps your soul safe, and warm, and fed. So worry more about what you put into your mind than your mouth, and never forget that your soul cares not of the shape of it’s home. 3. When you see someone who is in need of help, they become your obligation. The only true way to understand a person is to love them, and the best way to love a person is to serve them. There is no man or woman who was born undeserved of love, and you ought to give more than you think your heart will allow. 4. When lost, know that you do not have one sole purpose. You have many facets, and many talents. Each day you may have a different purpose, and each day it may not be a grand one, but each day it is an important one. Be open to things you did not think of yourself capable, and know that nobody cares about your embarrassments more than yourself. 5. Every day of your life you will make mistakes, and if you think that you have to right to belittle others because of theirs then honey, I am here to tell you that you are wrong. Unfair judgment hinders understanding, which hinders the most important thing of all: love.   6. Forgive all, but do not trust all. Love all, but do not pleasure all. You are to lose yourself, to emerge yourself in the work and service of others. You are to overwhelm yourself with love and kindness, so much that it spills over. You are to give more than you have, and to take less than you need. 7. Do not worry about being happy. The search for happiness is never ending, and a path that has no destination. Lose yourself, and happiness will find you. Look for happiness, and you will lose it all.
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Each person i meet , i want to show the true self. The one who knows about the other planets , with purple hues and golden sunlight.. where emotions are free from the necessity of a "divine paradox". Each person i meet , i want  she.. the midnight panther to growl from my lips so they know not to mess with me. Each person i meet i want to show them nothing. Be an enigma. Silent  spill very little. Control.  They call it. Each person i meet , will have their own opinion,  but i want them to leave with an idea.... an idea they have not yet fathomed. because what is the point? If no wisdom moves in our veins, When does man wake up to woman's grace?...... I see so many closed root and sacral chakra sometimes i feel uncomfortable because the energy a man may exude is confused. With lust not respect.
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May 31, 2014
May 31, 2014 at 12:02 AM UTC
When does man wake up to woman's grace?
Desires feeding our souls Gnawing and eating our flesh, until we're a vulnerable flush red Our pores exude the confident strife A conflict that should have never arrived To resurface our skin, bring back the childhood mind I still see the eight-year-old awkwardness, holding a staple makeshift poetry book and pen The young struggling mind, when dying was simple to find Daily I walk into the aroma of the sunlight Intricately snipping roses off their vines, soaking in their beauty as my fingers sting and bleed A decade incomplete She never stopped being a victim long enough to realize her heart was revitalized, made into an equal whole A rose petals thirst satisfied No insignificant being She was now a family
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 5:13 PM UTC
The woman in the flower sundress
~ lover poet friend~ ~~~~ Do with us as you please CONSPIRING UNIVERSE ~RD for angel K~ You aligned us but we the lovers turn the keys to accept or decline even our frantic tantric joy where we rhyme. For too long I shot my doors fearing flinching distance will have the last laugh. ~~~~ then came my love RD and I can touch Raj places no one can and he Mine that much more.   I am over being out of time   Not taking more blows I exude security confidence power value my yes and nos are good I am myself If you must to her go who waits for her younger half green needing wear, Go. And you keep your love and Angel K me on hold;? I rather keep your sword And Z dagger in hearts orb. ~~~ The cosmos needs nothing Why should I? I showed you how my journey can prosper us both and our family! not you and ur other Z. ~~~~ We mirrored each other searching for long lost lovers yet all you see is distance. And your Z. There are so many songs to play many lovely little things to live for yours and mine. Remember make up your mind for our gates to open up your tiny window z must close-respect my freedom of speech. My love and feelings matter Yours matter more to me. We are at crossroads I've been here before ~~~~ Dignity whispers I am disciplined in the art of love and boundaries. I ain't door mat for lovers rainny days. ~~ By Karijinbba.
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Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021 at 9:05 PM UTC
Greener at crossroads
Who said sound is a vibration that travels at a bizarre speed? I saw it softly floating ensconced in bubbles to a celestial gravity that pulls them up to the realm of idyllic bliss. Bubbles exude the brilliant hues of my yearnings, wrap me inside their merino fleece warmth, hold me to their ***** with the tenderness I ever cherish in my soul. Sound nestles in its heart a mesmeric glow of music ordained to play the salute note to augur the birth of a new hankering. The woeful flute of the gypsy maiden soulfully sings a melancholy melody for her lost love to get a phoenix’s wings under the silver mist of the new moon’s splendour.
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Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 12:52 PM UTC
Bubbles of sound that augur a new life
Laboriously beleaguering hypercritically meticulous hypotaxis apomixis strive Rainbow mare aura roan exude emote derive Syntactical propinquity habitation harbinger harangue stoic hive Colloquialism vernaculars prurient adage jargon idiom clichés jive Mirador bartizan panorama stalwart bastion bulwark tableau live Canny cleaver crafty cunning furtive sneaky stealthy connive Poignant cogent piquant ephemeral effulgence  temporal refraction arrive Paradoxical dichotomy greaves gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts survive Hectic mayhem , proximity parameter perimeter peripherals , annihilate rive Zingy zesty zany zenithal azimuth entity zeal alive
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:11 PM UTC
Contiguity Continuities
Her spider eyelashes intensely exude, an irresistible charm though sinister- when they flutter, desire in waves spread, it's gleam, he the hypnotised moth seeks, dashing straight in to her invisible web of deceit, seeking an instant nirvana, only to dissolve in darkness.
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:54 AM UTC
Spider and moth
IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are ****** and their lips are wet.
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Oil And Blood
Write about me Hold the pencil (as if) It were my waist Whisper of your mishaps as if I were a page And as your guilt trips exude the bitterness of your heart... allow me to explain why you're in my thoughts (But) Graphite can decipher yet so little To write about you (Your feelings aloof) Would be the story at minimal So, I hold the Pencil Loosely, without claim I refuse to explain lust ... Next Time I write, It'll be about us
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 5:33 PM UTC
Written Truths
When I walk down Shop Street I shake my *** (Yeah, I do.) I swagger With the confidence That yes I am a foreigner In your country And yeah I say, You’re alright. But I Am a newly awakened goddess. And it took being heartbroken And being drunk five nights out of seven And feeling like the water is going over my head To say WAIT. I am more than this. And when you look at me It won’t be because my *** is shaking (although, that certainly helps) It will be because I EXUDE GREATNESS. And you will want to know me. I’ll be nodding my head from side to side And shaking my hips like it is my God-given right (it is) And Instead of telling you how awesome you are I’ll be telling myself. Because that is the one person whose been neglected from this equation from the start. When I ask DO YOU THINK OF ME? I’ll be asking myself. And I’ll be replying a wholehearted “YES” As I shake my *** Walking down Shop Street.
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Nov 4, 2012
Nov 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM UTC
ass-shaking.
Yes I am an onion; The more you peel away New layers grow in their place; I make many cry and they stop They can’t take the truth I exude; But it’s not just them suffering, Sometimes I do too; Finding out they don’t Have what it takes, And I continue as I am Alone yet not lonely; Independent yet not arrogant, Happy yet not lost in bliss; I learned to play hide and seek Since I was a kid; But I played all by myself, I hid more than me; I buried my true personality, Slowly it’s been peeking out; At least it has with you, So know; this is a steep Mountain I’m climbing And I’m always looking down Not afraid just aware, That you’re the only reason I look up at all… © okpoet
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Dec 29, 2012
Dec 29, 2012 at 11:22 PM UTC
Onion...
A drugstore pallid in waning light, always illuminated in halogen halos. I am earless with music. Black metal loud in clanging sets and blows- foreshadowing the smell of cleaning solution, air freshener and the outside sweet at my back all steeped deep in the rip roaring undertone torrent of cigarette smoke blended with cheap perfume until I cannot tell the difference. There is a limp familiarity to the underlying odor born partially of personal encounter and- nestled in the hive mind of social experience. A distillation of regret and remorse, of lonely, of irrelevance; this black hole swallows my voice the way of my ears, eaten by rust. Four cans of beans, kidneys, in cans squeezed without any power against sagging swells melting into other curves and I swerve close and around guiltily, noting you only as the source of this pungent spring. You are smiling apologies ignorant of my apparent inhumanity- blind to my selfish hands.. Pinioning belly flesh, flattening, reaching and gaining attendance from a better man retrieving every dropped can. I’m retreating, shaken, tense to alternatively slacken. My sweat slippery palms with whitened red sharp fingers feel foreign and I am surrounded by razors then shaving cream, moving from shampoo to conditioner, the whole store is infected with smell. Staring at nail clippers/snipers clipping touch smooth sooth my tense mind- don’t look **don’t look** I can sense little else but dread drawing closer you are now crouched so close I’m gagging, taken forcefully-swept away in an olfactory flood roiling in rot, currents of solitude exude from your smiling sullen appearance when I turn to you fumbling with my electric ears, surfacing in a breath of Amish silence broken with simple request and I want to scream at you that I am not a man to ask opinions of that it does not matter what fake nails she glues to her body that she is excluded and I don’t know why. I choose swirls of cream suspended within watery milk, over childish lady bugs framed by yellow or dots of red alternating to black, an epitaph to a lifelike effigy.
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Dec 10, 2010
Dec 10, 2010 at 1:42 AM UTC
The Inevitability of Human Incongruity.
A drugstore pallid in waning light, always illuminated in halogen halos. I am earless with music. Black metal loud in clanging sets and blows- foreshadowing the smell of cleaning solution, air freshener and the outside sweet at my back all steeped deep in the rip roaring undertone torrent of cigarette smoke blended with cheap perfume until I cannot tell the difference. There is a limp familiarity to the underlying odor born partially of personal encounter and- nestled in the hive mind of social experience. A distillation of regret and remorse, of lonely, of irrelevance; this black hole swallows my voice the way of my ears, eaten by rust. Four cans of beans, kidneys, in cans squeezed without any power against sagging swells melting into other curves and I swerve close and around guiltily, noting you only as the source of this pungent spring. You are smiling apologies ignorant of my apparent inhumanity- blind to my selfish hands.. Pinioning belly flesh, flattening, reaching and gaining attendance from a better man retrieving every dropped can. I’m retreating, shaken, tense to alternatively slacken. My sweat slippery palms with whitened red sharp fingers feel foreign and I am surrounded by razors then shaving cream, moving from shampoo to conditioner, the whole store is infected with smell. Staring at nail clippers/snipers clipping touch smooth sooth my tense mind- don’t look **don’t look** I can sense little else but dread drawing closer you are now crouched so close I’m gagging, taken forcefully-swept away in an olfactory flood roiling in rot, currents of solitude exude from your smiling sullen appearance when I turn to you fumbling with my electric ears, surfacing in a breath of Amish silence broken with simple request and I want to scream at you that I am not a man to ask opinions of that it does not matter what fake nails she glues to her body that she is excluded and I don’t know why. I choose swirls of cream suspended within watery milk, over childish lady bugs framed by yellow or dots of red alternating to black, an epitaph to a lifelike effigy.
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A strange kind of intrusive ambiance; voices in several languages, forced laughter, technological functioning; human activity intermarried with machines. The volume rising perfectly in sync with my cortisol levels, I interrogate  my past for signs of the path that led me here; it remains blurred. I did not dream of working in customer service; but here I am regardless, moments of my life that I will never ponder again; a cascade of  the present moment repeating as long as my employment contract exists. An event-less horizon, memories are stillborn here and true ingenuity stifled. There is much and nothing that has led me here. It is hard not to feel like a horse bred for performance in this place; everything is monitored, quantified, reviewed and collaborated. Performance reports produced with the fervor of medieval scholars translating the bible.  I look to the sky, what else is there to do; only to see smoke alarms and aesthetically neutral lighting arrangements. There is art work on the walls, but is generic, created to defy analysis. The colouring of the walls is chosen to exude a neutral sort of trendiness; on brand for the overarching corporate image.
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 7:32 AM UTC
Office
The soft texture tickled her toes And she was quick to replace her bare foot, Searching for a place free of the Delicate petals That fell from her hands. Twelve more fragile futures fell to the ground, Collecting in an indecisive heap Whose beautiful, red hues Played tricks with the sun, Filling her head with illusions That all will be alright. She slashed at the other flowers Standing tall and proud around her, Dancing with the wind To heart stopping lyrics Sung in a language she could not understand. Tearing them up from the roots, She cursed their peaceful attitude And cold, heartless souls That continued to exude radiance As they teased her fragile heart, Dishing out good and bad news With a lovely toss of their golden center. It began to rain on their flawless figures, Yellow drops burning imperfect circles Through the otherwise perfect surface of their petals. For minutes, it continued to pour on the flowers, The large bottle held in the girl's trembling hand, Marked kerosene, Seemed to never run dry, Drowning the roots in a deadly poison. "He loves me not!" She shouted, Tossing the bottle aside, Only after showering herself in the Polluted rain, Becoming momentarily fixated on the way she reflected the light With dozens of drops clinging to her skin. The lighter was ruby red, Just like the petals who told of such a gloomy future. She had purchased it at the drug store because of its color, Her reflection bathed in red hid her uneven skin tone, Making her for the first time an image of beauty.   Flames took to the parched earth Like a teenage girl to dreams of happily ever after. Petals turned to ashes And skin to a yellow, melted liquid, Which fueled the inferno better than the yellow rain. Blistered fingers still held the lighter, The only thing visible in the dark, Smoky air. She clung to the image of her reflection, Staring at the face that had never been loved, And never would be, Long after flames took her sight.
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 4:42 PM UTC
Yellow Rain
The soft texture tickled her toes And she was quick to replace her bare foot, Searching for a place free of the Delicate petals That fell from her hands. Twelve more fragile futures fell to the ground, Collecting in an indecisive heap Whose beautiful, red hues Played tricks with the sun, Filling her head with illusions That all will be alright. She slashed at the other flowers Standing tall and proud around her, Dancing with the wind To heart stopping lyrics Sung in a language she could not understand. Tearing them up from the roots, She cursed their peaceful attitude And cold, heartless souls That continued to exude radiance As they teased her fragile heart, Dishing out good and bad news With a lovely toss of their golden center. It began to rain on their flawless figures, Yellow drops burning imperfect circles Through the otherwise perfect surface of their petals. For minutes, it continued to pour on the flowers, The large bottle held in the girl's trembling hand, Marked kerosene, Seemed to never run dry, Drowning the roots in a deadly poison. "He loves me not!" She shouted, Tossing the bottle aside, Only after showering herself in the Polluted rain, Becoming momentarily fixated on the way she reflected the light With dozens of drops clinging to her skin. The lighter was ruby red, Just like the petals who told of such a gloomy future. She had purchased it at the drug store because of its color, Her reflection bathed in red hid her uneven skin tone, Making her for the first time an image of beauty.   Flames took to the parched earth Like a teenage girl to dreams of happily ever after. Petals turned to ashes And skin to a yellow, melted liquid, Which fueled the inferno better than the yellow rain. Blistered fingers still held the lighter, The only thing visible in the dark, Smoky air. She clung to the image of her reflection, Staring at the face that had never been loved, And never would be, Long after flames took her sight.
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I find my self bordering between a Brandeis Blue and a Bright Cerulean, Not too brilliant like Turquoise, but yet I don’t find myself as dull as the Cadet shade, nearly Grey. Although, depending on the circumstance I can exude a shade of Chartreuse, Which leaves others a bitter Cal Poly Green, A color which looks terrible on anyone. My favorite shade however, is of bright Ruby Brilliant and fierce in all its color, but can suddenly change in one swift mix. With Black it becomes a tainted ashen Rouge, spoiled and rotten with grief and distaste Bubbling under your skin, turning into a fiery rampage Rather than becoming pinkened with a serene Pearl A complement to the Ruby, flushing it with hearts desire Soothing it too a point of Lavender, then Boysenberry And then finally, Back to my Brandeis Blue.
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Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 PM UTC
Shades of personality
Gently you patted my cheek, with a tenderness piquant, not  known hitherto to us both. Those quivering long fingers exude motherliness,I miss ever after, my mom has gone to her last pilgrimage, And I crave for at moments of pain intense. From the layers of memory darkened by distance,I recover that feeling, to place you instantly at a level higher, than that of a sultry lover to whom desire than anything higher binds together. In to my lackluster eyes, you peer, see the ineptly hidden drop of tear, in the corner shivering plaintively before rolling down to lose forever, it's in the memory of my mother, who rhythmically tapped my back, led me to the cozy cloud of sleep, when outside raged the rain storm, I now gather, to a women I owe when, time after time she takes another avatar, of my mother, momentarily, at times,when earth slips, from under the feet unexpectedly.                          You did see the storm raging inside and the child looking for solace. You hold me close to your ***** and I travel to a world gone by again even when wolves howl refusing to sleep. and let me doze off to wake up in another world!
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 12:50 PM UTC
Surrogate