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"flaring" poems
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
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Love Sonnet XI
she loved thunder storms most of all the crackle of white hot bolts ripping through the sky the sheer immensity of power she always thought it was him her beloved God big boy Thor with his flowing blond hair blue aquatic eyes washboard stomach and delicately curved ***** finally a man good enough for her even if he was fly by night when the heavens thickened gray like soggy cotton she could feel atmospheres shift it made her ******* pert her mouth would salivate like a lurid peach her ***** swelled and dampened tears of adoration and enchantment filled her eyes no longer able to contain her self she would strip naked fling off her ******* and run out to the lush verdant meadows calling at the top of her lungs yoooooooooo hooooooooooo as the cool rain descended she ran thrilled to the mud between her toes seeing great claws of white lightening  echo through the sky without hesitation she fell to the cool earth beneath her wallowing in the delicious sloshing ooze positioning her self on all fours head thrown back *** up high calling to the heavens come on, come on big boy ive been waiting for you let me have it good her clitoral lips drooled with anticipation her ****** a pulsating aching the sky rumbled with stretching streaks of fire like a great freight train spanning infinity while the earth shook like a hollow moon she swayed her hips rhythmically to and fro whispering a love song *oh sir i need a man like you wont you love me adorations true i kneel before my sweet Lord Thor where's that hammer come on and score you are so big and im so little how about it God just a tickle hit it now give it to me good kisses baby like only you could* tears of desire cascaded down her pink cheeks as she recited her love mantra her mouth naked wet suddenly a great bolt of lightening shot down from heavens throne entering her ****** splitting her in flames her head turned dark mahogany sent careening fifty yards leaving her mouth a yawning twisted smudge of fossilized obsidian with eyes blackened flaring hollows her tender pink **** a charred flower smoldering like a petite grilled calamari
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Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 at 9:45 AM UTC
*GIRL IN A STORM
she loved thunder storms most of all the crackle of white hot bolts ripping through the sky the sheer immensity of power she always thought it was him her beloved God big boy Thor with his flowing blond hair blue aquatic eyes washboard stomach and delicately curved ***** finally a man good enough for her even if he was fly by night when the heavens thickened gray like soggy cotton she could feel atmospheres shift it made her ******* pert her mouth would salivate like a lurid peach her ***** swelled and dampened tears of adoration and enchantment filled her eyes no longer able to contain her self she would strip naked fling off her ******* and run out to the lush verdant meadows calling at the top of her lungs yoooooooooo hooooooooooo as the cool rain descended she ran thrilled to the mud between her toes seeing great claws of white lightening  echo through the sky without hesitation she fell to the cool earth beneath her wallowing in the delicious sloshing ooze positioning her self on all fours head thrown back *** up high calling to the heavens come on, come on big boy ive been waiting for you let me have it good her clitoral lips drooled with anticipation her ****** a pulsating aching the sky rumbled with stretching streaks of fire like a great freight train spanning infinity while the earth shook like a hollow moon she swayed her hips rhythmically to and fro whispering a love song *oh sir i need a man like you wont you love me adorations true i kneel before my sweet Lord Thor where's that hammer come on and score you are so big and im so little how about it God just a tickle hit it now give it to me good kisses baby like only you could* tears of desire cascaded down her pink cheeks as she recited her love mantra her mouth naked wet suddenly a great bolt of lightening shot down from heavens throne entering her ****** splitting her in flames her head turned dark mahogany sent careening fifty yards leaving her mouth a yawning twisted smudge of fossilized obsidian with eyes blackened flaring hollows her tender pink **** a charred flower smoldering like a petite grilled calamari
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Flirting with dreams and myths a fling with Aphrodite so **** in a bikini lying on the sand with ivory skin finely formed arms swelling ******* slender waist navel sumptuous buttocks flaring hips and convex belly comely thighs on either side with calves and feet perfectly poised the purity of ****** for all eternity.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
Occupational Therapy
Single red tulip nods its lonely head in a light Spring breeze, satin petals flaring open in a last show of beauty. Eileen Auger 5/6/14
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May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM UTC
TULIP
Heat beats down upon the street Birds too hot to fly, Blistered sand you cannot stand Drenched with sweat am I. Cows collect in shadow deep Panting sheep hang head, Goshawk flies in cobalt skies Hills of grass stand dead. Whisp of smoke, a puff of breeze Sirens scream in air, Running men in squads of ten Emerge from everywhere. Now the rising wind takes charge Runs with leaping flame Into crown of eucalypts To rage across the plain. Too late the tenders hoses pour, Too late the fireman’s shout Inferno hot has run amok And all control a rout. Generating mighty winds The fire charges forth Spiralling in furnace air To incinerate for sport. Vanquished men exhausted stand Watch with useless eyes, As raging flames consume their truck, Inside a good mate dies. A live thing in the burnished night It writhes and spirals high Across the flaring treetops Hot, red smoke fills the sky. As sudden as it starts, it stops A wind change in the air. Ravaged forest stark and black Hot ashes everywhere. Hills of cinders smoking now Stock in death’s repair, Homesteads rendered charcoal like Farmers in despair. A silence in the ravaged hills Birdless in the sky, Bushfire horror, death and smoke Enough to make you cry. Marshalg In support of my Australian brethren and their torched nation. 30 January 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 8:16 PM UTC
Bushfire
She has dated boys before. Boys who beat her Boys who ***** her Boys who did nothing wrong at all But still did not feel "right." One of them made fun of her Told her she must be some kind of lesbian (As if that was an insult) If she did not want to have *** with him. She smiled something sad on the outside To deflect To forget To hide behind. She thought And what if I am? What does that make me? It's a question that wanders into the unexplored ruins Of an unkempt mind. A boy meets boy love story is next on the list. They both play football And think that means they must both be "players." Really, they're falling for each other With one swift and concise movement. Boy A cannot tell his parents As he comes from a rowdy and traditional Italian line. Boy B is getting fed up And yet waits, patiently For his one and only to express this flaring emotion A love, unexpressed. Their families, churches and culture Thinks they can change who they are. They use different, cruel tactics. Beat the gay out of him Excommunication *Force her to have *** and she will turn straight* You tell the world that they are an Abomination Atrocity Mutation And yet, I ask this. If the Bible was a Holy deity's, a God's message of eternal love As any good Christian, as I am supposed to be, would proclaim Then how can it be used to justify Acts of such hate and genocide? "I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak" (Matthew 12:36) I hope you are prepared for your Judgment Day.
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 7:27 PM UTC
Love, Unexpressed
She has dated boys before. Boys who beat her Boys who ***** her Boys who did nothing wrong at all But still did not feel "right." One of them made fun of her Told her she must be some kind of lesbian (As if that was an insult) If she did not want to have *** with him. She smiled something sad on the outside To deflect To forget To hide behind. She thought And what if I am? What does that make me? It's a question that wanders into the unexplored ruins Of an unkempt mind. A boy meets boy love story is next on the list. They both play football And think that means they must both be "players." Really, they're falling for each other With one swift and concise movement. Boy A cannot tell his parents As he comes from a rowdy and traditional Italian line. Boy B is getting fed up And yet waits, patiently For his one and only to express this flaring emotion A love, unexpressed. Their families, churches and culture Thinks they can change who they are. They use different, cruel tactics. Beat the gay out of him Excommunication *Force her to have *** and she will turn straight* You tell the world that they are an Abomination Atrocity Mutation And yet, I ask this. If the Bible was a Holy deity's, a God's message of eternal love As any good Christian, as I am supposed to be, would proclaim Then how can it be used to justify Acts of such hate and genocide? "I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak" (Matthew 12:36) I hope you are prepared for your Judgment Day.
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They called me Pluto from afar, and I, Nameless and void, embraced the title With the force of a thousand burning suns, Each one like the star I loved ever so dearly, An immense sphere of fire which had me Helplessly, hopelessly bound by its gravity, Caught in its orbit from the beginning of time. They called me Pluto still from further still, Speaking my name as the orbit of myself And their water world drove us apart, And I gladly, worshipfully rejoiced – I had a name; I was no longer void. I was distant still, but they called me Pluto, And I wore my name like regalia, A crown upon my lifeless skin. They called me Pluto still as they Waded further from the cosmic shore That was their home, sending probes That touched the regolith of Mars – There was life, and light, spreading out from Planet Earth, So I waited, hoping they’d come for me Sooner rather than later, tomorrow and not two centuries from now. They called me Pluto even as they stripped me of my name – I was ‘planet’ no longer, And I grew colder and bitterer as I spun, Because I knew things they did not, Things about the rise and fall of civilizations. They did not see what I had seen, They had not been watching Since the dawn-time. They called me Pluto, And they cried my name As I watched them burn, The light of the flickering candle in the dark That had once been humankind Flaring, more luminous than the sun for one bright, shining moment, Then fading. They called me Pluto in the aftermath, As if I were the God of the underworld, Guarding their lost souls from my far-off perch, Shepherding that which could not be led, But I was not their God, even if I’d once fathomed them as mine. So here I wait, patient, eternal, void and barren, For them to leave me lonely when they no longer Dare to speak my name from the realm I am the supposed guardian of; They called me Pluto.
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Jun 26, 2016
Jun 26, 2016 at 7:46 AM UTC
They Called Me Pluto
They called me Pluto from afar, and I, Nameless and void, embraced the title With the force of a thousand burning suns, Each one like the star I loved ever so dearly, An immense sphere of fire which had me Helplessly, hopelessly bound by its gravity, Caught in its orbit from the beginning of time. They called me Pluto still from further still, Speaking my name as the orbit of myself And their water world drove us apart, And I gladly, worshipfully rejoiced – I had a name; I was no longer void. I was distant still, but they called me Pluto, And I wore my name like regalia, A crown upon my lifeless skin. They called me Pluto still as they Waded further from the cosmic shore That was their home, sending probes That touched the regolith of Mars – There was life, and light, spreading out from Planet Earth, So I waited, hoping they’d come for me Sooner rather than later, tomorrow and not two centuries from now. They called me Pluto even as they stripped me of my name – I was ‘planet’ no longer, And I grew colder and bitterer as I spun, Because I knew things they did not, Things about the rise and fall of civilizations. They did not see what I had seen, They had not been watching Since the dawn-time. They called me Pluto, And they cried my name As I watched them burn, The light of the flickering candle in the dark That had once been humankind Flaring, more luminous than the sun for one bright, shining moment, Then fading. They called me Pluto in the aftermath, As if I were the God of the underworld, Guarding their lost souls from my far-off perch, Shepherding that which could not be led, But I was not their God, even if I’d once fathomed them as mine. So here I wait, patient, eternal, void and barren, For them to leave me lonely when they no longer Dare to speak my name from the realm I am the supposed guardian of; They called me Pluto.
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Come thou, thou last one, whom I recognize, unbearable pain throughout this body's fabric: as I in my spirit burned, see, I now burn in thee: the wood that long resisted the advancing flames which thou kept flaring, I now am nourishing and burn in thee. My gentle and mild being through thy ruthless fury has turned into a raging hell that is not from here. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering, so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs, while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent. Is it still I, who there past all recognition burn? Memories I do not seize and bring inside. O life! O living! O to be outside! And I in flames. And no one here who knows me.
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Death
hidden in the shadows i sit i wait and i hope with this small candle i hold close to my chest t you'll see it in the flashes of light. the flashes that almost blind you to what is mistaken for love, happiness and a happy way of life but under the flaring colors, the luring words and seductive lips sits the sad ones. the ones who wish to extinguish the small flame we had so long ago, the flame i so dearly wish to roar to grow and to consume those who tear us apart in its burning, enclosing embrace. but it is but a mere flicker in the shadows, compared to the flashes of light surrounding you in what i know will be our end
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 9:53 PM UTC
the candle
It's been a while. Since I wrote a poem. But not since I wrote about you. I write about you all the time. Every once in a while, I forget why. Then I remember why. I remember you, Or I see a picture. I see your blond hair. Your blue eyes. You're the reason I have a type. I think of your adventure, And your shyness, And your varying range of emotion. I think of all these Random memories, Floating around in my head. Like ping pong. And capture the flag. Like long flaring lights and computer bags. Like fire escapes, And hiding under tables, Like missing you in winter with eyelashes like a fable. Like long walks in the dark, And hidden dark handkerchiefs with white polka dots. Like plaid checkered jackets, even when it's hot. Like cargo shorts and a white fedora. Gathering under the arch like it's an agora. Hiding that handkerchief between the flora. God, I miss you more and more. Months til I see you, I'm down to only a few before. I almost can't wait, It makes me feel sad. The fact that I'd leave, Just like that. Just so I could see you again. It's Valentine's Day And I'm here without you. And I wish more than anything, For that to not be true.
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 10:05 AM UTC
Finally Down to Five
Searing pain, Flaring, Pins and needles. Pinch Gone Pinch Gone Pinch Never ending cycle Of stitching, Like horrid embroidery Embedded in my skin That will forever be Tattooed Against my bones
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 11:58 AM UTC
Embroidery
365Nectar #42 Don't Be Judging Me Mon. November 4, 2013 8:26 P.M. Volcanic velvet voices vibrate the night like thunder in the distance. Booming Bassmen blaze and burn like ****** fire on a dark corner in the dingiest part of a rumbling city that never sleeps. Sensual saxophones shudder singing prayers of saints and sinners while hot horns hypnotize in perfect high compression swirls tithing in the holy temple of Jazzy Blues. An alluring flutter of silken harmonies. A spine tingling spike of don't be judging me jazz filled blues. Scorching strings splinter melancholy prison walls. Stomping out a seismic sizzle tempermental tones of tickling trumpets torch the menacing hurricanes of life with warm rushes of excitement. A spine tingling spike of don't be judging me jazz filled blues. "Take Me" Vixens tantalize tucked up crowds with thrilling tongue lashes of silken harmonies. A spine tingling spike of don't be judging me jazz filled blues. Full flaring flutes gently ****** with inquisitive fingers and stir a groan like a religious ritual. A playful teasing floating enticingly like a sly fox. Such a succulent piercing of moonstruck madness pulsing mercilessly leaving fields of fire of a funky boogie menace for a wild child. An alluring flutter of silken harmonies. A spine tingling spike of don't be judging me jazz filled blues. Copyright ©2013 Don't Be Judging Me
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM UTC
Don't Be Judging Me
One puts all nature into mourning, One lights her like a flaring sun — What whispers ‘Burial’ to the one Cries to the other, ‘Life and Morning.’ The unknown Hermes who assists The role of Midas to reverse, And makes me by a subtle curse The saddest of all alchemists — By him, my paradise to hell, And gold to **** is changed too well. The clouds are winding-sheets, and I, uncover corpses loved of old; and where the shores celestial die I carve vast tombs against the sky.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 6:13 AM UTC
The Alchemy of Sorrow - Charles Baudelaire
He's up there The lonesome astronaut, with a will to fly, and a skill of flight He and a star that have just collided both dies gracefully Like a flower withering in spring But the star still haughty And so full of itself it explodes Into a supernova He and the star that emits the brightest light And obscures the eyes of whoever that sees As he dies ever so faithfully And the flaring light? Blinds thousands as it emerged in the darkest seven p.m. But we were wildly astonished by the lonesome astronaut who was a dashing astronaut -2018-
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 9:33 AM UTC
A Lonesome Astronaut
I imagine you taking my hand and spinning me Like my daddy did when I was a little girl I imagine my dress flaring like it does when I dance around the kitchen When I remember the night my father showed me how to Waltz And I kept stepping on his feet, I remember how for a few seconds I swore he was you To be brutally honest, It hurts like hell knowing that you aren't here I walk into school every morning without you. Ever since December, Ever since December Sometimes you're A passing dream, Or a fading memory A fading memory Some days I need you more than I need to breathe Somedays I can't breathe without you
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Jun 2, 2014
Jun 2, 2014 at 9:22 PM UTC
Imagination
to hold a photograph in my hand   and believe what is presented,   take is at it already is – why not? if I close my mind’s shuttering eye, will you be as candid as before? unrestricted, unsorted from the hullaballoo, you, freer than what is imagined, closing in like a bullet from yesterday shot out of the sky’s contrived clearing – to hold a photograph in my hand and tug closer by the mouth of the fringe as if to pour water on a broken glass, slithering now, a shadow of moon at the very dull end of my cup; you are closer than any rehearsed moment ready to catch the inner canthus of the eye: this relentless picture-passing, tense and fervent, avid like bankiva to air, water to chrysanthemum: behind thick shrub of crepuscular, an arboreal locomotion shatters loose, your frantic figure. to hold a photograph in my hand and size it down to the dimensions of this home – there is potential in this comparison: flaring out like smoke from where it infinitely burns, I seek an ache and hence place a finger to shush, to hold this photograph in my hand and confabulate a soft blow to the gut and feel it realer than any dagger or berretta held at one’s life-edge: this delusory intimation, a slipshod work of feeling. to feel it rejoin me somewhere I ought to be back again.
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 2:48 AM UTC
To Hold A Photograph
your gusto ripping through my veins 'merican flags trump supporters platinum beer fireworks flaring fires visible atop seedy peeled-paint rvs technicolor lights amped up on edgy recreational vehicles 4000 (BRIGHT BLUE), 6000 (BRIGHT GREEN), 750XR ON-AND-ON-AND covered in dirt and filth eating meat sizzled atop   flames atop charcoal bricks and lighter fluid complimented by krafts brand mac n cheese i am apart of it you know your triumph burns sticky, out of my skin guiltily i came into being birthed inside anthracitic sediments and lighter fluid scratching, writhing, biting at the mercy of a hyper-paint / subtle-death encrusted reality
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Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016 at 8:52 PM UTC
seeking it out of my given flesh
October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood In whose lament I hear a voice that grieves For battle’s fruitless harvest, and the feud Of outraged men. Their lives are like the leaves Scattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blown Along the westering furnace flaring red. O martyred youth and manhood overthrown, The burden of your wrongs is on my head.
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Autumn
your eyes don't glisten like they used to just saying it's not something usual for you *so I guess you're heavily imbued with this crestfallen attitude?* yea I know, I've changed in the same way my own little reverse-breakthrough Risque foreplay with ultramarine Bombay before stepping in to emcee the Devil's soiree And no, you really don't --and honestly never did-- know me; you only knew one of many façades I brazed on my face in the midst of a cliche New Year's day typa haze During the phase of my infamously tempestuous craze I was precipitously *(ignited quite possibly by my own flaring sparks)* set ablaze with praise but my mores seem to be misplaced probably somewhere in the frenzy and hysteria So I guess I'm left to embrace my untraced boundaries *And get my viridian eyes back to glistening on their own viridescent terms Not codependent on the hollowed adulation and sweet-talk from bamboccioni*
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Feb 24, 2018
Feb 24, 2018 at 6:52 AM UTC
Viridian Eyes
i'm not sure what to do with all the distance it's been months that have felt like years i can remember when you came into my life in the winter and I can remember when you left in the summer arrival and departure the distinct difference between the two i'm only at the thin line of division the way my emotions don't add up like miscalculated algebra all to your advantage i kept your love letter the letter where you plagiarized a novel because i wasn't good enough for your own words that was my only closure i wanted desperately to burn the stuffed bears from the carnival i could only part with one when i hold it close to me i feel like how a child would expecting prizes only in fabric and cotton stuffing not words of affirmation or love i almost drove by your house but i knew i would only go mad thinking of who has been touching your new furniture that i helped pick out leaving their fingerprints in place of mine i miss my t-shirts that you still have i hope when and if you wear them you can feel me close my heart beating where yours is sometimes i feel like i miss you enough for you to show up as if my pain could teleport the craving of a complete closure one where i don't need liquor or a lighter others bring up your name as if i'm not in the process of misplacing the letters or dismissing the syllables i've been trying to forget your face your face of sharp bones flaring nostrils and nostalgic lips i've been trying to imagine if that night would have never happened when that veteran couldn't take himself anymore he chose you to be his last interaction it was all in hints he was screaming for help without making a sound how were we supposed to know i still wonder where that blue jay is that he buried behind the building i just couldn't bare to see it now i wish i made a map X marks the spot where our love died i remember when you had to bury your own blue jay you never saw it coming you took the wrong step and it was under your foot just like he said his bluejay was fidgeting and fighting for life i'd like to think it was a sign from him to let you know it's possible to move on and forward so you did you moved on to scabbed skin and worn-out lungs i moved on to scholarly headaches and false pretenses back then i could never fathom my days without you now i find it difficult to recall how we were it feels like our romance was a dream because it only felt real when i was asleep
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Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 1:05 AM UTC
m.c.s.
i'm not sure what to do with all the distance it's been months that have felt like years i can remember when you came into my life in the winter and I can remember when you left in the summer arrival and departure the distinct difference between the two i'm only at the thin line of division the way my emotions don't add up like miscalculated algebra all to your advantage i kept your love letter the letter where you plagiarized a novel because i wasn't good enough for your own words that was my only closure i wanted desperately to burn the stuffed bears from the carnival i could only part with one when i hold it close to me i feel like how a child would expecting prizes only in fabric and cotton stuffing not words of affirmation or love i almost drove by your house but i knew i would only go mad thinking of who has been touching your new furniture that i helped pick out leaving their fingerprints in place of mine i miss my t-shirts that you still have i hope when and if you wear them you can feel me close my heart beating where yours is sometimes i feel like i miss you enough for you to show up as if my pain could teleport the craving of a complete closure one where i don't need liquor or a lighter others bring up your name as if i'm not in the process of misplacing the letters or dismissing the syllables i've been trying to forget your face your face of sharp bones flaring nostrils and nostalgic lips i've been trying to imagine if that night would have never happened when that veteran couldn't take himself anymore he chose you to be his last interaction it was all in hints he was screaming for help without making a sound how were we supposed to know i still wonder where that blue jay is that he buried behind the building i just couldn't bare to see it now i wish i made a map X marks the spot where our love died i remember when you had to bury your own blue jay you never saw it coming you took the wrong step and it was under your foot just like he said his bluejay was fidgeting and fighting for life i'd like to think it was a sign from him to let you know it's possible to move on and forward so you did you moved on to scabbed skin and worn-out lungs i moved on to scholarly headaches and false pretenses back then i could never fathom my days without you now i find it difficult to recall how we were it feels like our romance was a dream because it only felt real when i was asleep
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This is the shape I was given: a violent explosion of brilliance, massive, flaring—a mouth so big that it could swallow a honeycrisp spreading the red skin like peanut butter. 100,000 years it takes to become and I will be dead. star— the harp of the wind.
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May 26, 2017
May 26, 2017 at 1:03 PM UTC
Stellar Wind
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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Pursuit
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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*Another day falling from the crack of yesterday, a patch of pearl burning in the amber west flaring up heaven firing me up in the pains of solitude and poetry. Home beckons through a dark way where hope breathes eternal as lanterns of moonlit leaves. I won't mourn the loss but fill all the void with paper and ink.*
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Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 8:58 AM UTC
Amber West
[haiku] ~~~ full moon creates some flaring lightning bolts through space on a clear black night ~~~ SoulSurvivor (C) 12/26/2015 all rights protected
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Dec 26, 2015
Dec 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
moon through a broken window