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"fledgling" poems
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM UTC
A Crowing Lamentation
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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Bound, wound, and tied up all tight With porcelain features, I drowned in her sight Dominant I control her, she submits to my needs I punish and tease her with preferences of sinful greed Bound, wound, and tied up all tight She lashes and thrashes but I control this fight Blindfolded and gagged, aroused from my touch Candle drips between her hips; she loves this so much Strapped to the bed with a fistful of her mane She enjoys pain and pleasure; I love this **** game Bound, wound, and tied up all tight My fledgling fun toy I command her tonight She moans with pleasures and screams when she’s bad Electricity attached, her fears makes me glad Vaginal to **** play, or no *** at all A new ******* kit arrives; I’m bouncing off the wall Bound, wound, and tied up all tight Under the bed restrains, ****** clamps, and leather cuffs in my sight She’s cuffed, restrained, clamped and all ready She needs me it feeds me and keeps me rock steady She gives me her all in suspended animation Together we are driven by a powerful lustful twisted sensation For Bound, wound, and tied up all tight You’re my favorite present, my fix, and my all through the night
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Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 11:03 AM UTC
A **** GAME
So young, He engraved the Law in your fledgling heart, Covering your mind with the depth of His wisdom. Why, no language exists that could translate its art! Hopeless to assess its perfect scale and freedom. The Law is His breast milk you sip fervently, Howl in agony; your stomach digest it not. Fathom submission, son of depravity, To merely **** is short; apply what has been taught. Sets of teeth sprouted in your gums like white pebbles, Overdose with confidence, sleep without a sword. Stars in the woods they seem, Alas! Wild, wild eyes of wolves! Fight the fine fight of faith, shine light on the world. A state of armed conflict, His Law against your Flaw, Just a streak of insanity in the family. Epitome of crossed swords, yet who will win in awe? Glitch in your body, vow in its supremacy."
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Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 10:27 PM UTC
The War of Laws
AMBIGRAM VIII Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened.
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Dec 27, 2011
Dec 27, 2011 at 3:26 PM UTC
AMBIGRAM VIII
AMBIGRAM VIII Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened. AMBIGRAM Recto: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascending as the tethering string is slackened: Verso: Yesterday was Christmas, and the days already start to grow a little longer. In our hand, the new year‘s fledgling, stronger though more fragile too in many ways than this bedraggled, aging crow, its song a sad, repeated phrase among the blackened trees along a river. So sit back and raise your glasses to it, do the conga, auld lang syne, then hit the sack. And And black and white explode, a throng of rainbows—gaze! You‘ll see it, wakened in the morning haze, ascend- ing as the tethering string is slackened.
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He speaks the language of flowers Quietly toiling in his garden Digging, raking and smoothing soil, Gently coaxing nature to match his vision. He knows the bees, spiders, beetles, worms and earwigs Regarding them as friends. He follows seasons, moon and stars As others do people Enthralled at the changes they bring. He listens as the birds sing Watching with joy as Fledgling take wing.
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Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018 at 10:30 AM UTC
He
As our dreams expand We take flight to new territories Soaring higher above the ground Embracing the world between our wingspan Looking down from dizzying heights Once nurtured as a fledgling Lest we not forget the ones who believed in us One day we can soar higher Flying at higher altitudes We can be the ones to give wings to future dreams
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 12:45 AM UTC
Dreams
Promise me, my flesh you'll place 'neath a fledgling willow tree. And as it grows toward blue sky, It's in its grace you'll hear me cry. Laden with the heaviest fears, resembling, reflecting my darkest years. A fragile bone was once my arm, so likened to the willows charm. It's branches delicate, could ne'er do harm. It's soft and fluffy hand like bud, encased in skin, the willow's wood. Hold its hand at branches end. My message, a vibration, to you I'll send. Until the death of said willow tree, reminding you . . . . . . . . . . . always of me. Poetry by Kaydee.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 11:33 AM UTC
Why Willows Weep.
Life has been a rollercoaster since the winter solstice passed. Venturing through tribulations hoping fledgling love would last. Seeking out each others’ dreams and stumbling forth at times (but then) Reaching for the outstretched hand that puts all faith in love again. Learning about one another, lips oft locked and pulses swift. Anchoring steadfast emotions once thought hopelessly adrift. Quiet moments give contentment, hands entwined, so warm and true. Visions of the future me loving the future you.
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Aug 3, 2021
Aug 3, 2021 at 8:59 AM UTC
Us
it is like the many nights sleepless intone of light on the tiled floor and surreptitiously under the influence wringing out poems while looking at 8th and 7th street fondling darkness like virgins on the absolute a mutiny of dead cigar butts on the corner as "kuya Louie" passes by with a wrench half-drunk with "Emperador" half-mad with ars poetica. other sense of self somewhere brash and brazen awash with modern sensibilities as this night deepens whiter like the color of new bones to fledgling movements, just like any other night.
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 1:48 AM UTC
Barangay 187, 8th & 7th
Who knows what stops the heart of a song I take note of tiny thud— robin in the wheel well of my car the limp head of a cat’s prey sigh of wings defrocked by power lines baby starling’s fledgling flight falling short of a pond’s edge The slate morsel unearthed by the tines of my rake …and the world is vacant for a moment Grief ***** a womb of air but how it lives— I cannot say Upended creature of us Stops the throbs that herald life
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 3:24 PM UTC
Raking Under Forsythia
i was reborn, like a phoenix but without all the glory. i didn't set the hospital on fire; i struggled to pull myself from the ashes of a former prodigy, one entwined with madness in all the right ways laced with misery like a noir heroine, so sexily depressing- whereas now i am just empty i did not emerge unscathed, no, not like the fledgling, i am covered in scars and faultlines from where the sorrow tried rip itself from my sorry body and the crimson glue holding me together replenishes itself more diluted each time before i died i swung through technicolor episodes of scarlet, rose, ecstatic white, and the sapphire blue to haunt my dreams waking and at night but the color leached away, the antiseptic began to pervade, refilled my veins and purged me of everything but grey. before my death, i reigned over the darkness, banished it when it did not suit me, manipulated reason, lived in a waking dreamland, in complete control of my life- but now, when i am fragile as eggshell, it's the only place i can hide, a haven where i can act like the lack of light masks an imagined vivacity and not a skeleton in flat black and white, disguises and emboldens me, allows me to be whole again, to forget the borders, my limitations indiscernable in dusk i used to cast my own light- now i am my own shadow and in the dark i fumble for what i used to be, reconnect myself with the world throw myself from the cliff and hope to find my wings again
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 3:41 PM UTC
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I'm sorry to be childish But when you treat me like a child I can't believe you expect All the responsibility of an adult But the obidence of a dog Show where your trust lies That you raised me right Clearly you have doubt in that Have you taught me nothing? Have you learned nothing either? I demand my answers now I am no longer your fledgling child So treat as an adult
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 5:18 PM UTC
Adulthood
*On a sidewalk a fateful fall.. Over this dead one two persons meet: One wishes a disposal quiet and away from trafficking feet.. The other with a kick and quick disregard of this morning moment's sudden dark streak.. A brief encounter two teachers on her path.. Each holding a mirror for the other...*
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May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014 at 11:23 PM UTC
The dead fledgling
Admitted to taking the reduced ruling Fourteen souls accepted what this is after All Of this... Immediately unavailable to face Sunday's showdown at The Stadium. The Titan gave assurances to the souls today. It will not take any further action -Despite the deal- But their identity is still unknown Some suggesting only retired evidence. Hand in hand with sickness, The hound (who is widely regarded) Appears to prove why force In recent years Did indeed highly fancy tomorrow's feature; "The Winner". The hound first knew his fledgling When he could finally be on the road While his empire expanded "I used to hope for the best" Titan tells us. "I used to have a while and I used to get sick. Now I just have to find a way To use up that time. I speak only to the Landlord And his tenants. I only blame myself for the sickness. All I know is where I've come from ...At least, I think so... ...I hope so." "It's a funny thing!"- Hound. *Pressure keeps you honest. Wet, heavy conditions expected tomorrow. So, with everything said, I wish you peace and love. Love is waiting.*
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 7:32 AM UTC
4. Tune Your Ears
Chickens live within a coop Scratch and peck in their own **** Their nests are low down to the earth They scream and squack for all they're worth! Afraid of storms they have no dreams Afraid of everything it seems! Their young are squabs Their eggs are beaten *In the end they are eaten!* Eagles build their lofty nests So their chicks will withstand tests They are made with rugged sticks So in the end they pinch and ***** They line their nests like softest cloud When baby's grown they pull it OUT! The center nest no longer soft Babe sits on edge... AND IS KNOCKED OFF! Should, in flight, the fledgling lack Mom will catch it on her back! The little eaglet has to try So in the end *they learn to fly!* Eagles dream! They are reborn! They will fly into a storm! Eagles wings are built to *soar! They will fly FOREVERMORE!* SøułSurvivør (C) 5/3/2017
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May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017 at 8:46 AM UTC
Eagle or Chicken?
She sings to you, and you know she has returned with food once more. She’d **** herself to throw it back up into your mouth, where it will ruminate in your stomach until you fly. It tastes of love and bile, and you lap it up; there are things in this nest that you cannot name. You try to creak out the word nourishment but the crackle in your throat makes you sing instead. She wants the best for you. And off she goes, her elegance beating hard against the wind, wings angelic, archangel to you as you watch the vultures pry their slick bodies from the shadows. Take them in, their greasy rapture hovering, and you’ve never understood circles, but you know now that you hate them. It’s a relief when she returns, exhausted, stomach full. There’s more ***** and you would think, if you could, of what it must be like to die alone. Then, you fly. You must. You do.
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Apr 15, 2021
Apr 15, 2021 at 7:33 PM UTC
Fledgling Lullaby
i. descend i've lost weight since we last met we fit differently from before- bird-thin, the both of us- but this hollow in your feathered chest is still where i feel most at home- your jade eyes a nest, to cultivate my happiness i've been betrothed to the birds you stayed back, earthbound i fell, a cataract, from the red cliffs you watched me sink, earthbound i was ripped to shreds in the tundra freezing and thirsty and you listened instead to the flowers, drowning me out as i whispered for help they told you sunlight stories when i was trapped in dusk i was an inch from the edge of night and you fled so as to not be consumed. ii. unpend i know what i told myself- i said i shed my mourning veil- but i still weep for the morning lark, your lightening song haunting my brittle nightingale i write you letters every night with a fountain pen slathered in red ink saying what i never could, spilling my regret on the page (wake up with ****** hands) i should have known you were no one to trust you're just a fledgling we're all so naïve. iii. the end i take flight, for brave is the man who would leap from the bluff to prove his worth; for i can take action now- i can say this now, where before i sat on the sidelines i will not wilt in your arms just for a moment i will hold you tight my prisoner thank you for keeping me alive i don't need that anymore thank you for staying by my side when i had eyes set to **** thank you for helping me to ascertain that i’m no phoenix thank you for participating in my stupid guessing games you were the match to ignite my nicotine habits but now i'm the one who's decided to spark and fade green-eyes, i've made a decision and this time i'll stick with it- featherlight now, i will make my escape
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Dec 10, 2012
Dec 10, 2012 at 12:47 AM UTC
of glorious plumage
i. descend i've lost weight since we last met we fit differently from before- bird-thin, the both of us- but this hollow in your feathered chest is still where i feel most at home- your jade eyes a nest, to cultivate my happiness i've been betrothed to the birds you stayed back, earthbound i fell, a cataract, from the red cliffs you watched me sink, earthbound i was ripped to shreds in the tundra freezing and thirsty and you listened instead to the flowers, drowning me out as i whispered for help they told you sunlight stories when i was trapped in dusk i was an inch from the edge of night and you fled so as to not be consumed. ii. unpend i know what i told myself- i said i shed my mourning veil- but i still weep for the morning lark, your lightening song haunting my brittle nightingale i write you letters every night with a fountain pen slathered in red ink saying what i never could, spilling my regret on the page (wake up with ****** hands) i should have known you were no one to trust you're just a fledgling we're all so naïve. iii. the end i take flight, for brave is the man who would leap from the bluff to prove his worth; for i can take action now- i can say this now, where before i sat on the sidelines i will not wilt in your arms just for a moment i will hold you tight my prisoner thank you for keeping me alive i don't need that anymore thank you for staying by my side when i had eyes set to **** thank you for helping me to ascertain that i’m no phoenix thank you for participating in my stupid guessing games you were the match to ignite my nicotine habits but now i'm the one who's decided to spark and fade green-eyes, i've made a decision and this time i'll stick with it- featherlight now, i will make my escape
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...and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? ________________________ My poetry performed— before a crowd of johnny-jump-ups Their faces toward me in unison— they listen Intense, motionless energy Velvet applause of purple and Yellow yelling! Encore of performing in the perfume with a troop of lilacs They will remember me While I— await their return to May through billowing miles of drowsing sachet breathing euphorias between the lingerie of clouds What happens after ecstasy? Grieving in life’s presence? Loss of mind to self-possession? _________________ ...and when my sense of smell gives out I will hold on for a while to the walker of hearing trying not to stumble past the song of thrush beyond me in the blurring leaves once so clearly— crinkled, shiny, and infant green…. _____________ As a child I held on to nothing for dear life I could cup a storm in my hands! Could run with the rhythm of a horse! I could fly in my mind’s eye if the ferns I used were only wings! If I pretended hard enough I could eat my own home-baked mud pies! If only I could be— more than a fledgling of eight so earthbound, clumsy   _____________ But while the lilacs were out of town thunder met the flash and gutted summer! I ran for dear life! from the amazing distance of its echoes pelted by its gentle gift Snagged by growing things— the clinging prattle of their momentous tendrils....   ______________ Lovers run off the path past water lilies along the swollen veins to the river toward a grave and pounding heart The Ancient Flood was jealous.... Now when the wind softens and rain is tossed last, and only from the leaves may their encore be cupped in the hands of some passer-by Remembering— that either because of a trifling wind or the weight of time... a tree fell here clubbing the river’s bank senseless
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 PM UTC
If a Tree Falls
...and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? ________________________ My poetry performed— before a crowd of johnny-jump-ups Their faces toward me in unison— they listen Intense, motionless energy Velvet applause of purple and Yellow yelling! Encore of performing in the perfume with a troop of lilacs They will remember me While I— await their return to May through billowing miles of drowsing sachet breathing euphorias between the lingerie of clouds What happens after ecstasy? Grieving in life’s presence? Loss of mind to self-possession? _________________ ...and when my sense of smell gives out I will hold on for a while to the walker of hearing trying not to stumble past the song of thrush beyond me in the blurring leaves once so clearly— crinkled, shiny, and infant green…. _____________ As a child I held on to nothing for dear life I could cup a storm in my hands! Could run with the rhythm of a horse! I could fly in my mind’s eye if the ferns I used were only wings! If I pretended hard enough I could eat my own home-baked mud pies! If only I could be— more than a fledgling of eight so earthbound, clumsy   _____________ But while the lilacs were out of town thunder met the flash and gutted summer! I ran for dear life! from the amazing distance of its echoes pelted by its gentle gift Snagged by growing things— the clinging prattle of their momentous tendrils....   ______________ Lovers run off the path past water lilies along the swollen veins to the river toward a grave and pounding heart The Ancient Flood was jealous.... Now when the wind softens and rain is tossed last, and only from the leaves may their encore be cupped in the hands of some passer-by Remembering— that either because of a trifling wind or the weight of time... a tree fell here clubbing the river’s bank senseless
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Stars jostling whatever wishes Nets cast upon heedless fishes To do or not to do the dishes Just is what is all this show biz Putting flowers in a vase Something that might give you pause All that is and ever was Much to much such harm caused To be still and to never utter Chrysalis' desire to ever flutter Simple wanting and none the other Bind a dream and watch it smother How should Spring be so cruel? Fledgling discarded as a fool Not all adhere to golden rule Who'll you'll find inferior saccule?
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 11:48 AM UTC
Questioning Spring
a mother bird taking care of her newly hatched fledgling, raising her with love and regurgitation, and a gentle, inevitable push out of familiarity everything the baby bird knew shot up-away, as she was thrown, she threw herself, and the earth pulled her into a world of novelty and insanity and energetic love of change. the baby bird flies to her young fledglings, ready to love and regurgitate, and gently push with love in mind and flight in sight.
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Aug 1, 2010
Aug 1, 2010 at 10:29 PM UTC
our love together
Glass divides where the heart does not, come inside, sit beside me in annex to this fledgling love, spurn the sun, in lieu of its warmth, for the charm of an intimate hideaway, sweet somethings I shall whisper into your ear, until inner vibrations have reached your core, the view from here speaks of gardens, fountains, and holy ground, I give them all to you as trousseau, so long as you agree to dwell with me, within a niche of the imperishable lustre, togetherness.
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Dec 17, 2019
Dec 17, 2019 at 12:50 PM UTC
Oriel Window
This year was different or was it me? same Trafalgar crowds link-armed-laughing pigeons puff-chested gluttons different air full of afterthoughts I could almost touch fluttering away like rusting leaves on winter's breath I waited on our bench dark cold stark old wood lovers kissed shyly birds squawked she laughed eyes wide flushed cheeks Valentine's heart pounding in a fledgling chest I wondered if she were me willing me to remember hugging him close I longed to melt inside her happiness old words, love and burger-boxes where do they go?
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Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 6:19 PM UTC
Old Words, Love and Burger Boxes
Money money money money money ******* money. You think you’ll find happiness there. Happiness doesn’t buy you things, doesn’t take you out to dinner. Happiness doesn’t sit prettily on your finger or hang from your earlobes or rest around your neck. Happiness doesn’t have an engine and four wheels that takes you wherever you want to go. Happiness doesn’t add an extra comma or two to your bank account. Happiness doesn’t buy things to make you look beautiful or feel special. Happiness holds your hand when you feel down. Happiness cooks for you when you can’t be bothered. Happiness tells you jokes and laughs at yours and when you make eye-contact, happiness keeps it and smiles back. Happiness tells you you’ll pull through. Happiness walks hand-in-hand into the darkness with you without any apprehension. Happiness is a seed. You plant it and water it, watch as its roots take hold and the sapling breaks the surface. You nurture the fledgling stem as it grows over time into a huge and beautiful tree. It shelters you from the sun during summer and offers refuge from the snow in winter. It protects you from all the bad things. It gives and gives and gives unconditionally, asking nothing in return. It does not wander off to better climes. You will always find it exactly where you left it. It is your companion in an otherwise barren landscape. But I am a dead tree, useless and ugly. I haven’t produced leaves in years. I offer no shelter, just shadows of possibilities on the ground. I harbour no birds. No deer eat my bark. I will fall and all around no ears shall hear. I am not your happiness nor anyone else’s. Just a mess of sticks, not even any use for firewood.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 7:02 AM UTC
Firewood
Money money money money money ******* money. You think you’ll find happiness there. Happiness doesn’t buy you things, doesn’t take you out to dinner. Happiness doesn’t sit prettily on your finger or hang from your earlobes or rest around your neck. Happiness doesn’t have an engine and four wheels that takes you wherever you want to go. Happiness doesn’t add an extra comma or two to your bank account. Happiness doesn’t buy things to make you look beautiful or feel special. Happiness holds your hand when you feel down. Happiness cooks for you when you can’t be bothered. Happiness tells you jokes and laughs at yours and when you make eye-contact, happiness keeps it and smiles back. Happiness tells you you’ll pull through. Happiness walks hand-in-hand into the darkness with you without any apprehension. Happiness is a seed. You plant it and water it, watch as its roots take hold and the sapling breaks the surface. You nurture the fledgling stem as it grows over time into a huge and beautiful tree. It shelters you from the sun during summer and offers refuge from the snow in winter. It protects you from all the bad things. It gives and gives and gives unconditionally, asking nothing in return. It does not wander off to better climes. You will always find it exactly where you left it. It is your companion in an otherwise barren landscape. But I am a dead tree, useless and ugly. I haven’t produced leaves in years. I offer no shelter, just shadows of possibilities on the ground. I harbour no birds. No deer eat my bark. I will fall and all around no ears shall hear. I am not your happiness nor anyone else’s. Just a mess of sticks, not even any use for firewood.
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I feel his eyes on me Whenever I cross the room. It is mostly when there are others Present and we must share ourselves, Expended over people And places. The spaces Before we fall into our wine stained Non-marital bed. The grape blood reminds me Of my own. On my own, fledgling ******* and acne, Elaborately false ******* Where I would never have my fill. A child-man I forgot. Or remember only as a token, Cardboard textured orange peel In a breast pocket never worn. I forget Most everyone Now that he is In my life. He obliterates All else like light pollution. Not of fluorescent neon or slogans But an exploding star That dims all else In my peripheries. I am Diminished also in his love, Both wholesomely and then in a sense Where I lose my ‘I’. It is in his shadow Where I live. Small comet Hidden in the black of velvet, Licked by the spit of his flames That scald me And bathe me In equal measure. I am more than this I know. Or guess. His tailor hands Though, are efficient and caring. They Do not create me, but he threads himself Into my sides And drops a stitch Only to adulate the rhythm When he enters me. When he enters me I become burgeoned and full and blood fills The rusted roadways That shine blue Through my pasty prism. He finishes. A gloom fills me. Not A gloom, more of a nothing and he is An obliterated star once more And I his aftermath. He has killed me with a kindness, A ghost only when witnessed, kissed. I have long since forgotten whether I have Been taken prisoner Or gave myself up.
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 7:26 PM UTC
A Witness
I feel his eyes on me Whenever I cross the room. It is mostly when there are others Present and we must share ourselves, Expended over people And places. The spaces Before we fall into our wine stained Non-marital bed. The grape blood reminds me Of my own. On my own, fledgling ******* and acne, Elaborately false ******* Where I would never have my fill. A child-man I forgot. Or remember only as a token, Cardboard textured orange peel In a breast pocket never worn. I forget Most everyone Now that he is In my life. He obliterates All else like light pollution. Not of fluorescent neon or slogans But an exploding star That dims all else In my peripheries. I am Diminished also in his love, Both wholesomely and then in a sense Where I lose my ‘I’. It is in his shadow Where I live. Small comet Hidden in the black of velvet, Licked by the spit of his flames That scald me And bathe me In equal measure. I am more than this I know. Or guess. His tailor hands Though, are efficient and caring. They Do not create me, but he threads himself Into my sides And drops a stitch Only to adulate the rhythm When he enters me. When he enters me I become burgeoned and full and blood fills The rusted roadways That shine blue Through my pasty prism. He finishes. A gloom fills me. Not A gloom, more of a nothing and he is An obliterated star once more And I his aftermath. He has killed me with a kindness, A ghost only when witnessed, kissed. I have long since forgotten whether I have Been taken prisoner Or gave myself up.
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Soon, the weight of independence will swat me from my day-dream like a gnat from the sky. For the life in the great beyond is hell for the naive and I am but a fledgling in a lake of swans. What have I learned about being human and what must I still learn before I am ****** into the void of 9-5 and ''car-pooling"? I still dance beside the river and swing in the park. I still stay up to late and sing too loud to old songs from Disney. And now society demands that all of my future endeavors will be decide by some letters that don't evaluate my worth as a human being. My entire life, present and future have become rooted in  knowledge that contributes nothing to my personality, morality, my goals as a person. (or is that no longer a relevant term?) Freedom, Independence, The American Dream. And when I lay in my coffin and reminisce on the adventure that was life, and how I touched lives and solved personal issues, rescued friends from normality. How I fought for the betterment of a minority, I will be glad I learned Pythagorean Theorem, Newton's Law. I will smile coldly in my grave. I shall thank the Lord I went to college.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 2:34 AM UTC
Deprived of Suitable Options, We Are Forced to Seek Higher Education