"forefingers" poems
***“Who will judge, as many trudge
through mud, mucking up the rug,
a coating of clay formed by God on a particular day.
Yet talent is ingrained, whether sane or insane,
and verse is treasure or a curse, unrehearsed, dispersed for all to see,
will they applaud or disparage, this marriage of mind and rhyme,
by design aligned, a sign of the times...”***
ms. patty m
~~~
once again a thunderbolt command hits between the eyes, on-right
the precise spot where the head aches with desire to fulfill the write!
but to what can I add to this encompassing question already
better answered by the questioner?
who will judge indeed!
all the time and far too often,
the flotsam rises to the surface, when better left ignored,
while the jetsam jets nowhere, buried deep though breathing yet,
on unseen sea bottom of ignorance,
luck of the draw by one who designs, who aligns,
a capricious starscape in the firmament
as well as
the infirmity & ignominy of caskets lying quiet in sea trenches
that the answer herein contained, a supposition,
a poor poets speculation, a soul’s lactation,
the very question is a cyclone bomb by competents
who are blinded+bound+blessed by
incomprehension
the only judge and jury is
your forefingers tip,
if it tremble a-slight
when caressing the key called send,
your cellular fiber
has adjudged worthy,
and no dare disagree
talent and distinction
randomly and irrationally distributed,
but the courageous caress of a send key pressed,
is all that is needed
to impress the only judge and jury
that
authorized you
in advance to
love yourself insanely well enough
to write
and
to send for
a request for sentencing
Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 11:31 AM UTC
they make goodbyes
sound easy
when they're at your door
late at night
and they scream your
name like a warning
from the bottom
of the staircase
you leave them,
until apologies make
your tongue as raw as
saw-dust
those nameless boys
the one's with
smoky breath,
they write your name
to the skies
constellate it to their
forefingers and cross it
over their forehead
like a baptism
those boys with hands
that eat like worms
at the dying heart
of your feelings
no, they don't love you
only death can
love you,
nameless girl
with the
countless faces.
May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 2:05 PM UTC
GO ! BELOVED MAN ~ go c r e a t e
YOU are the CENTRE OF CREATION
see these children in my embracing protection
I will send them when you are ready
we all float flying together confidently
but now you must L E A V E, descend
our forefingers are disengaging, a pattern paternal, forever humanity will remember
this gesture, TWO IN ONE, a HOLDING
and LETTING go, sign of
GRACEFUL DIVINE INSTRUCTION
I birth your progeny, birthing ALL WORLDS
this teen your son says : “BE not afraid”
he becomes angry
as you lounge hesitant, question or plead
he is impatient to elevate what you will manifest
but wait he must ~ ONLY I control TIME
I s t r e t c h Y O U, SON
I O P E N S K Y in the eternal Now
immersing myself in my creations
then letting them GO
this is NO FALL call it ART ~ MY COMMAND FOR YOU IS RISE then F ~ L~ Y
You are my CHOSEN
EYES to eyes
THE TIME IS NOW
recline no more in cloud beauty
endurance is your hallmark
ferocity tangos with LOVE
I will not forsake you
you will soar on my winds
they will carry your shapely limbs
ready groin will create at my bidding
your elegant strong fingers will caress
Question not MY IMAGE
man of man, woman of woman
curved ears hear, wide nostrils breathe life
Heart pumping into infinity
food will flow from hair to toe tip
ACT and RELAX, written into ****** constitution
Forever MICHELANGELO, Sculptor
humble Genius I saLute you, My own Creation
Son of Marbled Art
Yours sincerely, GOD
Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM UTC
Our fingers dance around each other
doing the cha cha on faded jeans instead of shiny floors,
picking popped kernels once in a while -
processed butter on the tips of our ballroom thumbs and forefingers.
Let me take a sip of your flat sugar laden drink,
taste it on my lips in a little while.
Hey!
It tickles when you draw question marks on my thighs,
just let your hands make knots with mine.
Train our eyes on the giant screen
where the heroine makes one mistake after another
and isn't that real life?
Blunders and I'm sorry's and
chance meetings and vivid colors
and the boy beside me--
Real. Life.
Maybe we should stay in the flimsy seats
while the credits roll,
pick apart the moving pictures
reminding us of first love and first fears.
Of forgotten dreams and words we lost.
Maybe we should examine the best narrative yet -
you in your soft sweater,
me in my mud-caked shoes.
Hold my hand while we descend the steps;
shadow swallows the bottom,
reminding me of movie monsters and white faced ghosts.
Usher me into the light.
Although, I have to admit,
I see you better when it's dark.
Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017 at 8:11 PM UTC
THERE will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.
The trigger and the range-finder, they too will be rusty.
And no hands will polish the gun, and it will hang on the wall.
Forefingers and thumbs will point absently and casually toward it.
It will be spoken among half-forgotten, wished-to-be-forgotten things.
They will tell the spider: Go on, you're doing good work.
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Tonight I’m playing snakes and ladders with my pleas.
My forefingers massage the temples on my forehead.
My eyes are shut tight; even the moon is too bright.
I’m bowing my head to the stars to hide the shame
covering my skin. Each shooting star highlighting
the scars you left on me. I’m begging the night *please
let me go.* I’m rubbing my eyes. I’m picking mascara
off my eyelashes. I’m pleading with my heart *please
stop loving her.* My hands move around my neck,
they’re choking me. It stops my heart. It stops my
heart beating for just a few moments. I gasp!
And then, it’s the grasping and grappling of my
finger tips digging into my collar bones.
I’m tightening my grip. I’m holding; I’m holding
so tight, I’m bruising my skin, and my finger nails
are piercing my skin. Now, I’m clawing.
There’s nothing left in me. Even my shoulders cave
in; my collar bones rungs on the ladder. My
grip loosens and I drop to my chest bones,
letting my feet rest on my ribs.
Tonight I am playing snakes and ladders with my pleas.
*If I fall any further down the snake of my spine, my
only hope is gripping the vertebrae and climbing back up.*
© Sia Jane
Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM UTC
like the
Rialto, the Grand Canal flows underneath me.
Even as I hold my back
in my hands, I can no longer support my discretions.
Sixteen.
Twenty-one.
Thirty-three.
How
did I have the space?
You would think it would be engraved across my pelvis:
“wrap it up”
before you
hold me down
I ran with lit matches as a girl,
waiting until the flame kissed my thumb and forefingers
puckered pink under the surface.
I enjoy the boils left
behind by my recklessness:
every bruise from a fence **** and
every pebble-sized bump from my head
hitting the roof of a Camaro
sat underneath my skin,
just like Lil’ A
B
C
and I can lie flat
as the canal rushes over.
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
Some people think I worship the Devil.
If Lucifer was to walk in right now,
I wouldn't be on my knees
-some people would bow to Christ-
they would be shaking,
but I would still fumble with speech
while I would shake his hand,
I would not shake him for questions-
besides that of will he **** the joint
weakly shaking in my forefingers.
I would respect Abaddon,
for he could destroy everything I
-just as godlike in explanation-
have created with the will of love.
Mammon; I would be wary of
for he could create anything In
-an a attainable sort of nature-
because if He and greed
were to take over my steps
and breath, I would have
everything material that I
Wanted; someone to understand
I do not worship the demons
but I do not doubt they exist
but then again, I dont say
their names aloud
too often.
so I to say
Do you worship the Heirophant?
the man more connected than you, to God?
would you shake his hand-
or shake him with questions&
Do you worship the Television?
that you need to make it home to
too often.
Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 12:59 PM UTC
Once again
I am captured
Struck by the rose,
enraptured by the thorn.
I see your reflection in
ivory paper,
and the crown of your sweet head
like a blanket of fallen snow.
Does it matter, I wonder,
if you were truly alive or truly living?
For in these pages I can see your image
as truly as if it were a branding in my head.
The gentle slope of your shoulders,
the dark and twisted curls-
Now see, you begin to see her too-
the small & delicate hands,
with crooked ring fingers,
the intuitive eyes.
And perhaps if I call Aphrodite,
down from the sea foam
and have her fair lips kiss these words,
I can have you materialize in my breath
and echo into my arms,
a statue no more.
Or perhaps I will lie a fool
my thumbs and forefingers obscured by ink
and your skin that of clay
detached and resolute.
Dec 27, 2020
Dec 27, 2020 at 2:09 PM UTC
Time wasted neck-deep in
idolatry, pretty bottles of
pretty liquids, light gold,
amber, charred oak brown
soaking vanillin and wood
which warms the tongue
perfectly.
I pop my pinky finger in
funny ways, relegating
flow of blood to necessary
extremities only, thumbs
or forefingers or whiny
joints screaming loudly for
sustenance.
There are days in my past
I wish I had skipped,
accidentally sleeping past
my alarms and the sirens
and noises of cars passing
past my window in whichever
home I find myself to wake.
There are days more recently
I have skipped, my mind
spending hours drunkenly
slipping from action to act,
poor me and my problems,
always worthy of an award,
a statuette of broken glass.
Feb 28, 2016
Feb 28, 2016 at 9:47 PM UTC
I need a toothbrush or two forefingers
long enough to coax your love from my throat.
This one will not pass quietly.
I sing our song to the music of drums and chandelier splinters/
of thousand-year oaks yielding to the wind.
Have you ever heard your heart break clearly?
It is less like 808s and more like breathless tears.
Jun 26, 2013
Jun 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM UTC
The silence between us is an intricate detail. One apparent in all of our conversations. Its a detail woven in to our relationship, won by quarrels the heart rages. Nerves chattering over raging pulses. Things you hear better in the silence.
The silence we do so well.
In it we sit still with all the tiny variables, shifting and consuming the minutes.
Our atoms shift between compressed palms and we calm our nerves.
The silence gives in to the pressure of pleasure and in the still air,
We feel forefingers following follicle outlines,
Sense skin slipping,
Softly setting sculpted
Hands.
Softly and
Its silent.
Like we do so well.
Eyes lock and dread,
Knowing the silence speaks millions of moments all at once and
Dreading,
The moment the silence breaks.
When we split for now and feel the air alone and heavy.
Funny how we do it so well,
Because when I leave I feel that silence still, lingering over me.
I feel those eyes on me, those fingers and those arms holding me.
For a few minutes I'm still lost in that haze, never really wanting to leave,
And always wanting to go back.
Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 11:46 PM UTC
-
i lie here beneath unfinished skies,
watching a rainbow evaporate
into shadows of daylight
my intellection suggests they are
made from billions of thumbs and
forefingers holding tiny mirrors
between me and my beyond,
lying to us with images of ambiguous
white columns in a gigantic panorama
of shape-shifting mistakes that constantly
reposition to hide the flaws
but i can easily make out these errors,
committed upon sensing inadequacy–
adjusting abstract creativity mapped
with ill-conceived perfection
which is likely what blew
this rainbow apart ,
the precipitation here was
so immense !
and somewhere—
droplets rise to form a tremendous new arc,
glimpsed now by a humble roofer
who wishes only that the sun
would hide once again...
s jones
2021
.
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021 at 6:47 AM UTC
i long to feel the ******* of love in my hands
to encompass the soul with my heart and show
what these hands what this mind is capable of doing
to allow the one of my dreams to join my soul and wonder off
Her body is like a temple and is apart of everything
like an acceint goddess I yearn to conquer her'
Too merge two clumsy souls into but one lover
locked in together at the hips and engaged in the magic of touch
oh how i yearn to flow into her mystical being
to infiltrate her body and become her to know her mind
to learn her weakness and her strengths and make them my own
and to work together like a well oiled machine for eternity
The movment of hands clasped and exploring new worlds on hot skin
A kiss moves through all caverns of mystery melding to my will
A bond so scared that our every being is rejoicing in a comsic dance
Moaning our voices in estacy leaving no refrain nor surprise just now
and we surge together with confidence and pride into this abyss
this unescabable curse we live in and our strived by
we live by this desire to please ourself with the touch of our forefingers
we want this delicacy that the rich and poor posess
The tension fuses into one fluid action no thought left in the world
only the abilty to do not to make dreams or false hope but to experience
feel touch taste and sound form a song so sweet its like a birds singing
Sizzling with unwitting compassion but burning inside true feeling
Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 2:27 AM UTC
i; megalomaniac
my ego so wrung with pride
my psyche, broken psyche
swallowed by hell- but still mine
a string of hazy days, my days
shattered yet sublime
convinced god has touched me
with his forefingers on my forehead
bestowed some sort of end to me
an aim to follow till i'm dead
filled my eyes with dreams
set greatness on my head
Olympus holds my dreams for me
in great heights, in silver light
but i a river Styx, am drowned
i cannot see wrong from right
so every dream of mine is pain
and never seems quite right
i, great egotist
delusion gone so far
that i would think myself a giantess
eighty eight hundred feet tall
i yell upon the mountain
tears streaming as i bawl
high up in the clouds i be
thus longer is my fall
Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Well then, Jyuss swee Charlie, I suppose.
I hope your French is better than mine, dearest reader.
And I hope you can draw better than me,
so Scribble on dearest reader.
If all the world were paper, there would be no grip stronger than that of thumb and forefingers.
If the world be paper, say with me, reader,
'Come the three corners of the word in arms,
and we shall shock them.'
Jan 10, 2015
Jan 10, 2015 at 9:58 AM UTC
Your love
warms my heart
when it feels
torn apart
I can't wait to see you
but you can't wait to see me too
You lay your head in my lap
and look up at me
you kiss me and I go
Yuck!
because you haven't brushed your teeth
still you have no forefingers
so your forgiven
just to love others you are driven
Except maybe the mailman
for him you disdain
I think in a different world
he caused your species pain
Oh, little jack Russell
some say you need a muzzle
I love your little rough and tumble
my best friend
my jack Russell
Caper
the baper!
Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 3:09 AM UTC
I was walking in the desert.
The shadow was long
when the dunes went silent
and I sank to my knees
staring at the skies.
Past an abandoned drum
wailing in the winds,
where a half-buried mask
peeps out of the sand.
When the rain came
it poured out in torrents
and I had no place
to hide my soul.
Forefingers to thumbs,
I strain my eye to look through
the rummage of life.
Or on the tree
in the river island?
But it is like the song
that you know you remember
but can't put words to:
looping in and out,
Where did I leave my heart?
It's hard to tell,
when the love dried up
like the river in the desert.
Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014 at 3:57 PM UTC
*Excuse my ignorance
or pardon me for my damns
for when I wrote that letter
your breath was still in my lungs
your kiss wound into my tongue
etched into my forefingers
your presence twirling around me like smoke
emasculating freedom of thought
taking over like a low swooping cloud
casting shadows upon thy back
And so when I said I love you
I was misguided
I mistook it for infatuation
like chocolate
pure bliss within the moment
love is not the paper
burning fast and bright for but a second
love is the one that lingers
love is like the hot coals
where a fire has burned
love makes people run
it made you run
for some reason it comes as a burden
to the heart
a heavy sinking anchor.
but to me love is not anything of that sort
it is light and free
it is a songbird
in the early hours
what you felt was fear,
that is the anchor,
now...
release... **
May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 4:39 PM UTC
"Forefingers are small,
don't you worry about it,"
she says to an ant.
Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
It’s a windy day, and you’re boomerang in my mind, or rather a yo-yo back and forth, incessant mayhem, never lost.
Although to and fro I still search for you;
I still check the tree where we carved our initials to see if it burns with the same passion we once shared. All the while reminiscing, giggling about the prospect we told, about sharing our finite eternity together.
I still place my forefingers on the left side of my chest and the underside of my chin (the familiar one, which your hands couldn’t bear the urge to explore) and wonder if our hearts have remained in sync.
I still flick through the photos we took, negating me, so my eyes could hold you solely as the centrepiece. And as you encapsulate my peripheral, your statuesque looks through me, my attempts to meet her gaze are done with unfound desperation.
Now I peel the bark from the tree to unearth the truth, the once tree of life is now cold. Gone.
I need not check the rate of your pulse, as mine exists in irregularity when my thoughts are of you, and yours remains a constant “Ba-dum”, with no reason for variation.
Alas, as the “what’s” turn into “when’s” and the “where’s” transpire into the “why’s”.
A “who” is never uttered, for who else but you?
Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC