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"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
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Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 11:31 AM UTC
Who will judge?
***“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
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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.
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 2:05 PM UTC
those nameless boys
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
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Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM UTC
Creation of Man : Section Sistine Chapel : Michelangelo: Ekphrasis Poem
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.
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Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017 at 8:11 PM UTC
Movie House Romance
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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A. E. F.
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
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Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM UTC
Dislocation
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.
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
study for abortion
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.
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 12:59 PM UTC
Dogma
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.
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Dec 27, 2020
Dec 27, 2020 at 2:09 PM UTC
Galatea: She Who is Ivory
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.
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Feb 28, 2016
Feb 28, 2016 at 9:47 PM UTC
Months
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.
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Jun 26, 2013
Jun 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM UTC
This one will not pass quietly
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.
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 11:46 PM UTC
Silence Slowly Shifting
- 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 .
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Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021 at 6:47 AM UTC
unfinished skies
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
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 2:27 AM UTC
the experienced ******
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
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
08.15.2018
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.'
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Jan 10, 2015
Jan 10, 2015 at 9:58 AM UTC
Indelible
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!
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Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 3:09 AM UTC
Jack
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.
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Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014 at 3:57 PM UTC
River Island
*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... **
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 4:39 PM UTC
Loveee
"Forefingers are small, don't you worry about it," she says to an ant.
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Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
Ant
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?
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Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC
I’d think of a catchy title but I don’t write enough poems, so...