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"glaze" poems
I listen to them as they mouth your name; and I see how deluded, how hypnotic, how enchanted and consumed they talk of your ways and, how the stars in their pupils beam with a radiance of such pure awe. Your words hang loose off the tops of their tounges and their lips drool in your glaze. Your lazy features,  your so electric but so infuriating charm - sends them mindless, locks them in your illusion. So it’s then I try to burn every sheet of paper which ink prints your presence, inside these desperate  shelves which fold upon each heartstring. My ears attempt to block it out. Instead they replay every song that has ever left your lips. And my eyes deceive me as they scatter a particle of you on every surface of life I encounter. My mind echoes every laugh you created in my streams. Then I paint every colour you ever erupted within me, in thick black. As they mouth your name, every trace of you with anyone but me, causes my hands to pull through my gut, and hammer down any of these ******* deceptive daydreams that you have me  trapped me in. And then so easily, one by one, debris of my heart crumble like rain down your window, down each vein.
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Apr 7, 2018
Apr 7, 2018 at 6:45 PM UTC
when your name leaves their lips
The girl with purple hair is sitting at my bar again. I think she is beautiful. And not in a way that I wanna have awesome *** with her but in a way that I want to drink chocolate martinis with her and go shopping for christmas vests that have tinkly bells and possibly polar bears with hats on them. She is having a full-body cry. I am the worst bartender, simply because I don't know how to counsel people without crying back at them. She is crying about the state of women. I know that we come from the same rotting wood, so all I do is nod. "How is it that three quarters of the women I know have been ***** or molested? What does that say about the men that I know? **** is not a man behind a bush with a knife, she laughs It's kissing you on the mouth like whiskey at a nice bar." The girl with purple hair and I are holding hands now, "I only wanted an apology, an acknowledgement of what occurred." Grappling as artists, as girls, as ships in bottles, how do we change any of it? I tell her I am going to write a poem. She says no one wants to hear a **** poem. And I know she's right. Have you ever seen a stampede of horses? Do you wonder what the hooves look like from underneath? Have you ever tasted the blood from biting your own lips because you couldn't say no enough? "I never fought back. I kept my thighs tight and closed, but once he's inside you, you wish you were the streetlamp, the store clerk, a street lamp, a bed of calla lilies- anything but a woman. In that moment, our eyes glaze over, and they stay that way for years. That's when you've lost.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM UTC
Epidemic (by Mary Lambert)
The girl with purple hair is sitting at my bar again. I think she is beautiful. And not in a way that I wanna have awesome *** with her but in a way that I want to drink chocolate martinis with her and go shopping for christmas vests that have tinkly bells and possibly polar bears with hats on them. She is having a full-body cry. I am the worst bartender, simply because I don't know how to counsel people without crying back at them. She is crying about the state of women. I know that we come from the same rotting wood, so all I do is nod. "How is it that three quarters of the women I know have been ***** or molested? What does that say about the men that I know? **** is not a man behind a bush with a knife, she laughs It's kissing you on the mouth like whiskey at a nice bar." The girl with purple hair and I are holding hands now, "I only wanted an apology, an acknowledgement of what occurred." Grappling as artists, as girls, as ships in bottles, how do we change any of it? I tell her I am going to write a poem. She says no one wants to hear a **** poem. And I know she's right. Have you ever seen a stampede of horses? Do you wonder what the hooves look like from underneath? Have you ever tasted the blood from biting your own lips because you couldn't say no enough? "I never fought back. I kept my thighs tight and closed, but once he's inside you, you wish you were the streetlamp, the store clerk, a street lamp, a bed of calla lilies- anything but a woman. In that moment, our eyes glaze over, and they stay that way for years. That's when you've lost.
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Tired eyes awaken and be at the ready... For today has come with all of yesterday's debris. Tired eyes you try but can't successfully conceal. What the beating heart is dying to reveal. Tired eyes glaze like you can't take anymore. Filled to the brim; these sullen windows to my core. Tired eyes give tears like you do effortlessly. You seem so lifeless save for the drops you carry. Tired eyes you say so much but yet the words are unspoken. I know you quietly wish for a miracle to happen. Tired eyes you reach but your arms are broken. I know you scream out silently; all that's been forgotten. Tired eyes why are you wide open but still you do not see... See the sun rising, revealing all your wants splendidly. Tired eyes I know you are but only waiting. For the picturesque view of your heart's secret painting. Tired eyes it's time and it's the end of a work day. Don't anticipate tomorrow's load; just rest as I lay. Tired eyes I am aware of sweet solace that you truly seek. Tired eyes rest now so that tomorrow you might speak...
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 1:31 AM UTC
Tired Eyes
the double-glaze and blackout curtains shield me from the world's uncertainty. the panes of glass so sure not to allow its overside to retreat and seep its liquid coldness to reach me. it's neither cold nor warm at the touch, unlike me. i am protected by the double gaze and blackout curtains but some force that differs from the one that is currently causing the tree outside sway dangerously close to my perch is causing my mind and body to be insulated by a layer of ice. goosebumps prickle and my arm and leg stubble raise themselves. but my mind does not provide for itself thermoregulatory reflexes, i must withstand the shiver of my memories.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 2:17 PM UTC
bedroom
You’re a poisoned rose in a wedding band, A glad eye with a stabbing hand, A tumour ,vicious rumour surrounds you, BP Exxon -death abounds you, I first found you amusing and witty, cutting remarks a stick with both ends ****** Gutter scumbag with a glaze of charm, Only interested in doing harm, A sociopath with a crocodile smile, always had the last laugh,- real fight? Run a mile, Backstabber Judas priest,but **** was I deceived, Each Lie you sold I truly believed. I stood by you ,defended you til the bitter end, Bitter irony I know,with you as a friend, Who the **** needs enemies, its all a front, An affront to my instincts,get out of my life you **** chorus "My toxic friend this is the end get out of my life for good, Every time you smile a child dies you’re up to no good, Don’t call me-text me unfriend me before you end me, You’re the epitome of the new word-Frenemy." Now I hear you’re spreading rumours behind my back, Bad move,wrong play better stand back, Your malicious manouevery no longer stands, I’m two steps ahead your end is planned. You better watch your back,you’ve got no back up and no spine, Juggling hedgehog maze lies through a field of land mines, I’ve got my eye on you ex pal,don’t worry your time’s come, we’ll see who can outrun the .45 from a gun, That you’ve been begging for for years no tears at your end, You’re a poxy oxymoron my toxic friend. So come out to play my way and see who draws first, I guarantee you a surprise not my blood burst, Flying in the air like a hose god only knows, You’re a fly in my eye a burr under my skin so out she goes, The left that hits your jaw will saw your head from your neck You talk a good fight,good night,I’ll leave ya wrecked. chorus "My toxic friend this is the end get out of my life for good, Every time you smile an angel loses wings you’re no good, Don’t call me-text me unfriend me before you end me, You’re the epitome of the new word-Frenemy."
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Mar 27, 2016
Mar 27, 2016 at 2:44 PM UTC
My Toxic Friend.
You’re a poisoned rose in a wedding band, A glad eye with a stabbing hand, A tumour ,vicious rumour surrounds you, BP Exxon -death abounds you, I first found you amusing and witty, cutting remarks a stick with both ends ****** Gutter scumbag with a glaze of charm, Only interested in doing harm, A sociopath with a crocodile smile, always had the last laugh,- real fight? Run a mile, Backstabber Judas priest,but **** was I deceived, Each Lie you sold I truly believed. I stood by you ,defended you til the bitter end, Bitter irony I know,with you as a friend, Who the **** needs enemies, its all a front, An affront to my instincts,get out of my life you **** chorus "My toxic friend this is the end get out of my life for good, Every time you smile a child dies you’re up to no good, Don’t call me-text me unfriend me before you end me, You’re the epitome of the new word-Frenemy." Now I hear you’re spreading rumours behind my back, Bad move,wrong play better stand back, Your malicious manouevery no longer stands, I’m two steps ahead your end is planned. You better watch your back,you’ve got no back up and no spine, Juggling hedgehog maze lies through a field of land mines, I’ve got my eye on you ex pal,don’t worry your time’s come, we’ll see who can outrun the .45 from a gun, That you’ve been begging for for years no tears at your end, You’re a poxy oxymoron my toxic friend. So come out to play my way and see who draws first, I guarantee you a surprise not my blood burst, Flying in the air like a hose god only knows, You’re a fly in my eye a burr under my skin so out she goes, The left that hits your jaw will saw your head from your neck You talk a good fight,good night,I’ll leave ya wrecked. chorus "My toxic friend this is the end get out of my life for good, Every time you smile an angel loses wings you’re no good, Don’t call me-text me unfriend me before you end me, You’re the epitome of the new word-Frenemy."
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melancholy eyes glaze over the old honeycomb wallpaper pattern and the mottled ceiling, paint peeling noting every crevice in your new apartment my consciousness dips in and out of every nook and cranny, catching fragments of the conversation. you should always be the centre of attention. i'd tried to entertain the notion, you'd noticed my eyes in the ceiling and ushered me back to the boring evening tea room with a gentle fingertip or two pressed to my wrist. do you wish you were somewhere else? would you read my tea leaves and tell me, what does the future hold for us?
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Sep 25, 2017
Sep 25, 2017 at 2:48 PM UTC
read my tea leaves
Inspired by a vintage ****** postcard from the 1920s - 30s: The Muse sits resplendent caressed in sepia tones and pastel cream gilded with the glaze of a bygone era her silk Charleston negligee worn proud like a vintage ornament perched on an aesthetically pleasing shapely pert insolent ***** blossomed with tiny beads of sweat the heat of such anticipation entices the pearls of the ****** to pamper and pleasure their perversions etched as if in a radiance of candlelight the flickering limbs pulse their bloom nimble fingers of dancing shadows cupping the feline curves of a chaise longue the purposefully out of place set piece the fantasy of a gentleman's reading room caked in casked sherry and Nat Sherman cigar infused aromas her elegant pose sumptuous reclining elbow length satin gloves sensually wrapped in wanton desire two fingers clasp a Sorbranie Black Russian smoked like a sultry gypsy with a fervent demeanour from a silver opera cigarette holder beckoning with the cats eyes of mischief over Pinced nez eyeglasses with a fascination imbibed in the praxis of passion the peach skin of refulgent youth directs the viewer downwards, slowly survey each contour of olive skin and stroke every hidden cleft of fabric to glimpse the nubile thighs of grace leading the eye to the arch of an ankle slipped like a fitted glove nestled in the cleavage of her calf and the chastity of future wonderment the forgotten photograph captures a period in time the memories of the muse now in motionless existence a demure allure forever frozen once lost, but now never forgotten
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 2:40 AM UTC
Decadence of a Muse
Inspired by a vintage ****** postcard from the 1920s - 30s: The Muse sits resplendent caressed in sepia tones and pastel cream gilded with the glaze of a bygone era her silk Charleston negligee worn proud like a vintage ornament perched on an aesthetically pleasing shapely pert insolent ***** blossomed with tiny beads of sweat the heat of such anticipation entices the pearls of the ****** to pamper and pleasure their perversions etched as if in a radiance of candlelight the flickering limbs pulse their bloom nimble fingers of dancing shadows cupping the feline curves of a chaise longue the purposefully out of place set piece the fantasy of a gentleman's reading room caked in casked sherry and Nat Sherman cigar infused aromas her elegant pose sumptuous reclining elbow length satin gloves sensually wrapped in wanton desire two fingers clasp a Sorbranie Black Russian smoked like a sultry gypsy with a fervent demeanour from a silver opera cigarette holder beckoning with the cats eyes of mischief over Pinced nez eyeglasses with a fascination imbibed in the praxis of passion the peach skin of refulgent youth directs the viewer downwards, slowly survey each contour of olive skin and stroke every hidden cleft of fabric to glimpse the nubile thighs of grace leading the eye to the arch of an ankle slipped like a fitted glove nestled in the cleavage of her calf and the chastity of future wonderment the forgotten photograph captures a period in time the memories of the muse now in motionless existence a demure allure forever frozen once lost, but now never forgotten
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Moisture permeates the air, a wet haze. Stillness with anticipation, or tension. Fresh air containing an aroma. Natural and earthly, Like giving into original temptation. Through the fog she awaits my consumption. Her taste lovely, like if love had a flavor. An oozing box of sweet glaze, stands within a wet haze.
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 1:05 PM UTC
THE FOG
boo croon the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay this garden was not tended to and when it was, it was done with bitter blisterless hands the weeds are creeping out now and thickening stalks and they move out out out goes any sense trust we grew in this garden. and out out out goes my frothy yellow blood into the humid grounds of the garden and you mop it up and glaze over my barkless parts boo croon the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay the hose to feed me was bent at angled corners and the water shrieked its way through to come out a subtle flaccid drop by drop by drop on my parched cracked tan sun slapped skins and i was angry that you never felt the need to untangle the hose because you turned the faucet to full volume so you assumed that was all the water you could give and i needed boo croons the sunflowers and **** squeaks the jay the garden is all sand colored and tired and you don’t feel guilty you looked at it every day and squirted what you could on it and picked whatever weeds you saw but you never went beyond what looked pretty to visitors and you let the roots rot across the summer and now that the winter’s fallen in there’s not enough water to keep the garden beating and all the melted snow in the world won’t make up for it
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Jul 12, 2010
Jul 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM UTC
boo croon the sunflowers
Surfing across the glaze of light Multiverse into one, this universe shines bright Condensed energy upon my sight Mystery upon this 'life' All is multiverse stitched into one universe All universes stitched upon each other Tension upon layer and layers Heaven, Hell, reincarnation, all are bound by makers One moves upon a series of 'matter' or vibrations after the shell is removed or gained However rather low, high, negative, or positive energy, all is remained Logic A mere barrier designed and captivated by a mind Grasping your vision, your perception, your multiverse Either a hinder or power surge Forming pieces of ones quilt to converge A poisonous psychedelic The rarity of an ancient relic It is yours, whatever it may be Hold close, as it is all you may have As the 'universe' of the multiverse leans and meets according to so Then raving within your conscious, you see a brighter glow You pursue, you make the most Using the now gleam to move upon the multiverse you hope to have Doing all in reality in order to keep the spark alive What seems to be drab What seems to strive All according to the beholder We keep these lights seemingly closer Whatever they maybe Whomever they maybe What has never begun to start will never be over
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM UTC
Prison of Beauty
The room was dank and dreary The past hung in the air There was a scent of mildew A smell of history was there The paint was old and faded With stains all dark and brown The wallpaper too was dated And it needed to come down It was a home for 50 years That stood so strong and proud It comforted all of our fears Far from the madding crowd We stripped away the paper first Each layer a strip in time It showed the old room at her worst It really seemed a crime To tear it down, and think of when Each layer was first applied The walls that seemed so tall again I just stood there and cried I thought about the birthdays Celebrated in this room Of getting covered all in glaze That we cleaned off with a broom The roses were much redder Than I remembered them to be In fact it now looked better Than it did when I was three I remembered Mother loved this And of how it made her smile And she gave Father a light kiss After toiling all the while The next layer though was not as nice "Twas beige and a sort of lime It made the room feel cold like ice It spoke of another, somber time I looked at the wall and I noticed the lines Marking our heights as we grew This was on a paper all covered in vines Mom loved this one, we knew It seemed surreal that Mom was not here To see these passages pass But we knew in our hearts that she was stil near As we looked at paper covered with Bass That was from when Unlcle Jim came to stay And our folks gave up their room To help out a brother who I still love to this day One who can always help brighten my gloom They changed the wall just for him To make it seem more like it was his They put their life on hold for Jim And the wallpaper choice was his The years pass by more quickly now The paper doesn't change too much Jim moved out and that is how The paper changed just a touch Mom got sick and Dad quit work He did the room in flowers for our mom It was at this time we noticed the rooms quirk One of those things that made you go hmmm Far up in one corner behind a section of curtain Dad had left a small square showing the years worth of papers we were certain It was to help mom with her tears Now as we finished we looked to the man Sitting alone in the old corner chair He smiled at us as best as he can But I don't think he knew we were there I handed him some paper and I looked in his eyes He stared clear on through me And then he started to cry This was the last of this paper he'd see Dad and the house now have gone into dust The years get short and have tapered But to go back in time I know all I must Do, is look at my small square of paper.
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 3:08 PM UTC
Wallpaper
The room was dank and dreary The past hung in the air There was a scent of mildew A smell of history was there The paint was old and faded With stains all dark and brown The wallpaper too was dated And it needed to come down It was a home for 50 years That stood so strong and proud It comforted all of our fears Far from the madding crowd We stripped away the paper first Each layer a strip in time It showed the old room at her worst It really seemed a crime To tear it down, and think of when Each layer was first applied The walls that seemed so tall again I just stood there and cried I thought about the birthdays Celebrated in this room Of getting covered all in glaze That we cleaned off with a broom The roses were much redder Than I remembered them to be In fact it now looked better Than it did when I was three I remembered Mother loved this And of how it made her smile And she gave Father a light kiss After toiling all the while The next layer though was not as nice "Twas beige and a sort of lime It made the room feel cold like ice It spoke of another, somber time I looked at the wall and I noticed the lines Marking our heights as we grew This was on a paper all covered in vines Mom loved this one, we knew It seemed surreal that Mom was not here To see these passages pass But we knew in our hearts that she was stil near As we looked at paper covered with Bass That was from when Unlcle Jim came to stay And our folks gave up their room To help out a brother who I still love to this day One who can always help brighten my gloom They changed the wall just for him To make it seem more like it was his They put their life on hold for Jim And the wallpaper choice was his The years pass by more quickly now The paper doesn't change too much Jim moved out and that is how The paper changed just a touch Mom got sick and Dad quit work He did the room in flowers for our mom It was at this time we noticed the rooms quirk One of those things that made you go hmmm Far up in one corner behind a section of curtain Dad had left a small square showing the years worth of papers we were certain It was to help mom with her tears Now as we finished we looked to the man Sitting alone in the old corner chair He smiled at us as best as he can But I don't think he knew we were there I handed him some paper and I looked in his eyes He stared clear on through me And then he started to cry This was the last of this paper he'd see Dad and the house now have gone into dust The years get short and have tapered But to go back in time I know all I must Do, is look at my small square of paper.
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Deep brown color, messy as it’s eaten. Like something that failed to crunch. Brittle yet soft, rough and delicate. It can be fudgy, chewy or cake-like, topped with walnuts or apricot glaze. A heavy horse failing to hike the high mountain of crisp. Hard on the outside, but not as taut as chocolate-chip cookies, or M&M;’s, A fragile strength that breaks with subtle touch. Smooth and moist inside, melted chocolate held together. Created solely for a royal’s mouth to taste, Slowly dissolving, sea foam ****** by the damp sand, A guilty pleasure I cannot live without. The brownie becoming a beautiful bouquet blossoming In my chocolate tinted mouth. It cures whatever ails you, The flavor empowering any mist of dullness or bitterness. Forgetting about everything, as he mixed the batter Creating the perfect combination of smoothness, sweetness, And the creamy after-taste. Our favorite thing to bake together. Friday evening we scurried to the kitchen, creating our own baking contest. His hazel eyes, swirling with the batter poured in circles, His lips, whistling to the beautiful sight of brownies, plumping as they bake. Days later, we would come back to that kitchen, With the scent of freshly baked brownies still lingering in the air. We would look at each other’s deep brown eyes Like the brownies we baked and enjoyed together. His lips, a wallop of sweetness.
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM UTC
Brownies
My Queen your throne awaits you Come take a seat on my face You don’t want to be no place else Climb up on it and make yourself comfortable You won’t be going anywhere for awhile After I’m done you won’t feel your legs You hang my prize above me and out of reach Teasing me as your juices soak through your ******* I peel them off and pull you down Don’t try to fight it I’ll make those moans slip out As I put my mouth on you coaxing out every cry I don’t care who hears I’m all ears Ears that are currently being crushed between your thighs Kissing and licking on your sweet spot ******* on your **** got you clutching my head Pleasure taking over as you guide me to your destination Legs shaking with elation Eyes lidded with glaze Drunk off your taste as I clean you up From all the mess you made.
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Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM UTC
Queening
When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens, And cups are freshly cut, and birdies sing, Triumphantly the stifled golfer preens In cleats and slacks once more, and checks his swing. This year, he vows, his head will steady be, His weight-shift smooth, his grip and stance ideal; And so they are, until upon the tee Befall the old contortions of the real. So, too, the tennis-player, torpid from Hibernal months of television sports, Perfects his serve and feels his knees become Sheer muscle in their unaccustomed shorts. Right arm relaxed, the left controls the toss, Which shall be high, so that the racket face Shall at a certain angle sweep across The floated sphere with gutty strings--an ace! The mind's eye sees it all until upon The courts of life the faulty way we played In other summers rolls back with the sun. Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade.
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The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring
Hopelessness is swallowing me. For all my life I've been it's prey. Sometimes strong, sometimes weak, I've always managed to hold on, but my grip is loosening. My dreams have been squelched and my imagination is fading. I'm tired of pushing boulders uphill only to watch them roll back down. My shiny glaze of compassion has dulled. Flaccid are my heartstrings, flying ramdomly like torn ribbons on a misguided kite. Where can I escape and become someone else somewhere else?
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM UTC
Hopelessness
The proudest thing I think I've ever done, Such artistry, such skill I have attained! The semi-glaze reflecting of the sun, The richness of the blue, so lightly stained; So perfect is the pointed pouring spout That sits upon a rim of gold emboss, And proudly do the handles both stick out, Exquisite is the painted Celtic cross; I toiled and slaved for oh so many years, My fingers ever wet and moist with clay, But now at last I'm free of all the fears And doubts that clouded me until this day;         I know you'll all be very pleased for me,         So thanks, my friends, on Hello Pottery!
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 6:50 PM UTC
The Proud Potter
Lay rest your flashing glaze of wishes Down received for a moment Breathy bow lifts to hold and waver across few measures Sienna and topaz Sienna and topaz Singe and simmer Shine and glimmer against All the thoughts born and dead What makes you eager to rise If it is not sensing gone away stories or nursing the aches that lunge through anywhere else but here While you replay and delay all creation the blossoming goes unseen She, the maiden is reigning Une palais à remplir Une palais à remplir where she is her own queen Her oceans made of no time channel open mouths flooding its spill She waded into The archer Downed in his own vessel he mistook himself the pilot of He, marooned in the surrender of damp and fertile places where in Death he is still recovering Soldiering and sullen Soldiering and sullen He is choking, and can not stop to see or savor the blossoms rising from his own till
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Jan 5, 2022
Jan 5, 2022 at 9:03 PM UTC
Remplir
I contemplate these crossings illuminated by clouds between a shape of thought and its veils we didn't invent a screen-reality it was already there, in the scriptorium of mind I contemplate this geography known only by fingertips unworded broken lines in tense bodies I wonder about the lineage of tears, of hopes how we grow old in this ardour, in the burning of bridges I nod, I frown at the glaze of time I move to the center of seeing like a novice I gaze at the poliphony of being at our Janus faced trade with flames I say to myself it's good to decenter the "I" in this poem however,  there is no purity of words height after height and depth after depth we betray a simple evidence: we belong to the same air will we regret our rush towards the malaise of thought, will we be rowing over the theft of light? an invisible will is building up, an antifragile declamation, the soul's defamation
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Sep 23, 2025
Sep 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM UTC
will
A few years back, I used to look like a hag, Dark circles, Plain cheeks, Messy long hair, No sleek, Shaggy clothes, All creased, Now, penciled eyes, Powdered face ( not literally ), Short hair, Neat ponytail ( I'm almost there ), Branded clothes, Gucci, Dior, Chanel and many more, Red lips, Ready to glaze, Trendy clothes in my closet, Still yearning for more, Shoes of all kinds, Heels, sneakers and boots, How time passes, Transforming into puberty.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 5:43 AM UTC
Puberty
I feel like going back to those days, when I could feel and not fear it. When I didn't know the world's ways and I didn't yet need my fighting spirit. When I could simply have a romance, nothing complicated or categorized, that would come up by happenstance with no limits needing to be devised. I miss those days, I could awaken find another body next to mine, and not even be mistaken in thinking this won't be the only time. I miss those days with a passion, too often I feel like I'm crashin' straight through the mud and the dirt all the pain and the hurt. I render my poems inert, when I stare in the mirror, see myself crying and dying, insanity getting nearer. I one day hope to rise from it all, stand from the ash, proud and tall, but I know that after I do I'll eventually once again fall. I miss those days in more than a million ways. Watching my eyes glaze over thinking about days over again. I flow my heart into this pen put my soul into what I write now and then. I know I'll be that happy once more, I've got that joy kept in store, for a future when I suture this wounded pride and mind. I've got a stride in mind, for when I return. See the surprise in their faces, I bet they thought I would burn up in the anger like butane. I'm just too hard to contain and I walk through cold rain, thinking about once upon a time, through sweat and grime, You were mine, I was yours, now it's vice versa.
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
I Miss Those Days
""I cannot avoid the pensive glaze nudged off the percipience days blood so clean under the artificial moons releasing into my toxic dreams the nameless face, and the withered heart unable to break chains of past go away, let me rise...."" Debbie Brooks
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
Toxic Dreams..
NOTE  -  The largest animal in Great Britain, a red stag named Emperor who stood over 9ft tall, was last night shot dead by a trophy hunter. The antlers of the majestic deer are highly prized, and after pictures of the stag appeared in the national press last week, the animal was tracked and killed in Exmoor, Devon. These mist covered mountains of the highlands, ‘twas here that I once freely wandered upon nature’s pasture grounds, Now I lie shrouded in the mournful fog of the lowlands, ‘twas here that I was met by a pack of bone breaking hounds. The fresh dew upon the harvest of autumn’s final flowering, ‘twas here that I chewed the grass of sweet nature’s offering, Now I grow cold upon the ground where I was stalked by dark doom, ‘twas here that I left life’s rocky way under a hunter’s moon. The air of the early morn moor with the sky above my dome, ‘twas here that I ran and with joy loved and royally roamed, Now my legs will nevermore click or clack over my domain fenced with tree gates, ‘twas here that I wooed and won my shy majestic mate. She, my queen of the green woodlands, she was my wife and my empire, ‘twas here that we romanced in the fading summer’s fire, Our charming child, my princess of these grassy hills now cloaked in shade, ‘twas here that she saw her father the monarch in death finally fade. In the chorus of the dancing dawn awakening upon the horizon’s golden rhyme, ‘twas here that I sang the tune that will drum till the end of nature’s time, They will come with stakes and wood and cross and bow me to the beams, ‘twas here where they hacked and tore off my enchanted crown of weeping dreams. The scent of the freshly mown grass mingles with the green pine, ‘twas here that I drank the perfume and nectar of the divine, My eyes glaze, my breathing falters, my clay chills, my soul no more sings, ‘twas here that I finally returned to the hands of my Beloved, the eternal King. *"...I shall now graze upon the sacred acres of my Creator, I shall frolic and run free in the tender fields of endless splendour..."* ©Rangzeb Hussain
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Oct 27, 2010
Oct 27, 2010 at 3:08 AM UTC
Upon hearing of the death of the Monarch of the Moorlands
NOTE  -  The largest animal in Great Britain, a red stag named Emperor who stood over 9ft tall, was last night shot dead by a trophy hunter. The antlers of the majestic deer are highly prized, and after pictures of the stag appeared in the national press last week, the animal was tracked and killed in Exmoor, Devon. These mist covered mountains of the highlands, ‘twas here that I once freely wandered upon nature’s pasture grounds, Now I lie shrouded in the mournful fog of the lowlands, ‘twas here that I was met by a pack of bone breaking hounds. The fresh dew upon the harvest of autumn’s final flowering, ‘twas here that I chewed the grass of sweet nature’s offering, Now I grow cold upon the ground where I was stalked by dark doom, ‘twas here that I left life’s rocky way under a hunter’s moon. The air of the early morn moor with the sky above my dome, ‘twas here that I ran and with joy loved and royally roamed, Now my legs will nevermore click or clack over my domain fenced with tree gates, ‘twas here that I wooed and won my shy majestic mate. She, my queen of the green woodlands, she was my wife and my empire, ‘twas here that we romanced in the fading summer’s fire, Our charming child, my princess of these grassy hills now cloaked in shade, ‘twas here that she saw her father the monarch in death finally fade. In the chorus of the dancing dawn awakening upon the horizon’s golden rhyme, ‘twas here that I sang the tune that will drum till the end of nature’s time, They will come with stakes and wood and cross and bow me to the beams, ‘twas here where they hacked and tore off my enchanted crown of weeping dreams. The scent of the freshly mown grass mingles with the green pine, ‘twas here that I drank the perfume and nectar of the divine, My eyes glaze, my breathing falters, my clay chills, my soul no more sings, ‘twas here that I finally returned to the hands of my Beloved, the eternal King. *"...I shall now graze upon the sacred acres of my Creator, I shall frolic and run free in the tender fields of endless splendour..."* ©Rangzeb Hussain
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If I let my eyes glaze over just right, I get a nice film quality picture. I hover out of my body- like a mad director, evaluating what we've got, I snip the film strips from my memory, franticaly re-piecing together the story. I didn't get the shots I wanted. I feel hollow and sick. Playing and re-playing the scenes where it all went to the dregs. Maybe if I were paying closer attention- I could have gotten it right. I could've rearranged the shot list- so "major life accident" was at the end of the movie- not the beginning.   Sorting through what we're left with, I hear no mellow music scoring my mothers choked sobs. No soft glow to hide the harsh lines of grief described on her face. The bottles of liquor weren't props. And when the sound of silence rendered her breathless- no one was there to yell "CUT"! I grit my teeth and hold back my seething anger at such a **** writer. This is not a sci-fi film. No alien plummets to earth eager to turn back the sands of time because there was a fluke in the configubobulator. Not a romantic comedy, where his smashed body miraculously recovers and my mother, him, and all the kids pursue their dreams as a family of comics on the road- The jackson 5 of stand up! No inspiring action film where the government tests a bionic exoskeleton, connects it to his brains nervous system, and after wild success he dedicates his life to intergalactic vigilante work, as well as a remaining a reliable family man. There's no sending it back for re-writes. There is no 1 hero to lean on. No villain to hate. Only us. I hope one day, it's enough. I hope one day we have a film we can be proud of.
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 7:20 PM UTC
All the magic happens in post.
If I let my eyes glaze over just right, I get a nice film quality picture. I hover out of my body- like a mad director, evaluating what we've got, I snip the film strips from my memory, franticaly re-piecing together the story. I didn't get the shots I wanted. I feel hollow and sick. Playing and re-playing the scenes where it all went to the dregs. Maybe if I were paying closer attention- I could have gotten it right. I could've rearranged the shot list- so "major life accident" was at the end of the movie- not the beginning.   Sorting through what we're left with, I hear no mellow music scoring my mothers choked sobs. No soft glow to hide the harsh lines of grief described on her face. The bottles of liquor weren't props. And when the sound of silence rendered her breathless- no one was there to yell "CUT"! I grit my teeth and hold back my seething anger at such a **** writer. This is not a sci-fi film. No alien plummets to earth eager to turn back the sands of time because there was a fluke in the configubobulator. Not a romantic comedy, where his smashed body miraculously recovers and my mother, him, and all the kids pursue their dreams as a family of comics on the road- The jackson 5 of stand up! No inspiring action film where the government tests a bionic exoskeleton, connects it to his brains nervous system, and after wild success he dedicates his life to intergalactic vigilante work, as well as a remaining a reliable family man. There's no sending it back for re-writes. There is no 1 hero to lean on. No villain to hate. Only us. I hope one day, it's enough. I hope one day we have a film we can be proud of.
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Have you known the winter days? Late February falls like frigid snow Merciless undertow Of evergreen and alpenglow And grey ground pavement walking Like Grocery shopping and weak chai tea Moonlengths from all family And surrounded like strawbury temptation, Late night lamp light contemplation And drowsy-dampened mornings Grey glaze of diluted boring Spattered over every orifice Charcoal eyes, platonic kiss. Pull your bow to shoot and miss Tell me all this is is what it is And I will tell you, “okay” (but you know this isn’t what I wanted) Hide the roadsigns Blur the guidelines This is how I love you Have you known the winter days? Late February fell like fire on hell And shook me from my sleep Ashes cover snow-banked heaps of rubble I slice my wrist on the sharpened stubble Of your half-assed beard (this is how I bleed my dear) This is how I bear my soul ******* smile And dominoes Carnation cults And buried bones (This is how I build your throne) Hide the gravestones Burn the rainbows This is how I love you. And have you known the winter days? Late February fallen like Lucifer to the underworld We both knew I wasn’t altogether that typeof girl But we pretended anyways Alcoholic halo haze And foreign intervention Of somewhat insidious intention And the legitimate logistical question That defined our discourse on fear (this is how I think my dear) This is how I speak my mind All that grey Those missing roadsigns Smoke and soot and Blurry guidelines And Gravestones gone And rainbows ash (and we are never coming back) This. This is how I love you.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM UTC
Fallen-angel February
Have you known the winter days? Late February falls like frigid snow Merciless undertow Of evergreen and alpenglow And grey ground pavement walking Like Grocery shopping and weak chai tea Moonlengths from all family And surrounded like strawbury temptation, Late night lamp light contemplation And drowsy-dampened mornings Grey glaze of diluted boring Spattered over every orifice Charcoal eyes, platonic kiss. Pull your bow to shoot and miss Tell me all this is is what it is And I will tell you, “okay” (but you know this isn’t what I wanted) Hide the roadsigns Blur the guidelines This is how I love you Have you known the winter days? Late February fell like fire on hell And shook me from my sleep Ashes cover snow-banked heaps of rubble I slice my wrist on the sharpened stubble Of your half-assed beard (this is how I bleed my dear) This is how I bear my soul ******* smile And dominoes Carnation cults And buried bones (This is how I build your throne) Hide the gravestones Burn the rainbows This is how I love you. And have you known the winter days? Late February fallen like Lucifer to the underworld We both knew I wasn’t altogether that typeof girl But we pretended anyways Alcoholic halo haze And foreign intervention Of somewhat insidious intention And the legitimate logistical question That defined our discourse on fear (this is how I think my dear) This is how I speak my mind All that grey Those missing roadsigns Smoke and soot and Blurry guidelines And Gravestones gone And rainbows ash (and we are never coming back) This. This is how I love you.
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