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Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet contained you, one song, one man, you are choral, gregarious, at the least, you must be shared. At times you feed on mortal memories; your wave carries us from tomb to tomb, stonecutter of icy sepulchers, and we weep transitory tears; your glorious spring dress is different, blood rises through the shoots, wind incites the day, nothing is left of your immutable soul. Wine stirs the spring, happiness bursts through the earth like a plant, walls crumble, and rocky cliffs, chasms close, as song is born. A jug of wine, and thou beside me in the wilderness, sang the ancient poet. Let the wine pitcher add to the kiss of love its own. My darling, suddenly the line of your hip becomes the brimming curve of the wine goblet, your breast is the grape cluster, your ******* are the grapes, the gleam of spirits lights your hair, and your navel is a chaste seal stamped on the vessel of your belly, your love an inexhaustible cascade of wine, light that illuminates my senses, the earthly splendor of life. But you are more than love, the fiery kiss, the heat of fire, more than the wine of life; you are the community of man, translucency, chorus of discipline, abundance of flowers. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Drink it, and remember in every drop of gold, in every topaz glass, in every purple ladle, that autumn labored to fill the vessel with wine; and in the ritual of his office, let the simple man remember to think of the soil and of his duty, to propagate the canticle of the wine.
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Ode To Wine
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet contained you, one song, one man, you are choral, gregarious, at the least, you must be shared. At times you feed on mortal memories; your wave carries us from tomb to tomb, stonecutter of icy sepulchers, and we weep transitory tears; your glorious spring dress is different, blood rises through the shoots, wind incites the day, nothing is left of your immutable soul. Wine stirs the spring, happiness bursts through the earth like a plant, walls crumble, and rocky cliffs, chasms close, as song is born. A jug of wine, and thou beside me in the wilderness, sang the ancient poet. Let the wine pitcher add to the kiss of love its own. My darling, suddenly the line of your hip becomes the brimming curve of the wine goblet, your breast is the grape cluster, your ******* are the grapes, the gleam of spirits lights your hair, and your navel is a chaste seal stamped on the vessel of your belly, your love an inexhaustible cascade of wine, light that illuminates my senses, the earthly splendor of life. But you are more than love, the fiery kiss, the heat of fire, more than the wine of life; you are the community of man, translucency, chorus of discipline, abundance of flowers. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Drink it, and remember in every drop of gold, in every topaz glass, in every purple ladle, that autumn labored to fill the vessel with wine; and in the ritual of his office, let the simple man remember to think of the soil and of his duty, to propagate the canticle of the wine.
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The epidemic of conformity consumes all Children play by board game rules Stifled by the world to paint a proper picture They draw flowers of red with stems of green Fields of wildflowers viewed as weeds enveloped in insecticides Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet That is a rainbow, in that order alone We are taught to live by the colors in a box of eight crayons But even so, those colors cannot make a proper rainbow A rainbow should be praised if drawn in mixed-breed hues That field of flowers, natures pallet We should begin with a box of 124 and grow infinitely Where lilac dragons can live in cherry trees Where those waist-high weeds hide the predator from the prey For where would we be without cops and robbers, or hide and seek In a world where out of sight incites widespread panic Children's laughter in the sun is slowly silenced by the rules Instead, embrace the joy and encourage creativity We should harbor imagination and develop unreality For it is there that is born the ideas that will form the future
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Oct 22, 2011
Oct 22, 2011 at 10:59 AM UTC
Conformed to a Rainbow
Spent all my money on comfy camo clothes Diors and Docs and none of them have pockets for you would’ve spent it trying to get to you, get me out the friendzone but i’m good, the gleam of spring rain incites the wetness and half drear to outshine but i’m doing me and making each day mine
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 3:22 PM UTC
F You Money
The handcuff bites my wrist as teeth sink, searing flesh. A breath, a scent too familiar to forget. Blind. Massive palms, razor point carving canyons down my spine, blood is the wine. The burn of beard feigning consent. Fistfuls of hair conquering words. A corpse to rob me of life, the press of perversity against satin. Fighting, writhing satisfaction. Pain swells in every limb the wet swell reveal my sin. Slaps stinging awake every fiber of clothing still keeping me safe. The drive of possession splitting secrets wide, fingers around throat clenching tight. Sweat running red, the rising growls growls resonate in my head. The raw force bruising like claiming a slave, body & mind consuming. Ferocity leads to frenzy, my senses rage against me, The thickness rips, devours, conquers my body for paradise. And I scream in the ecstasy taken. A clenching incites eruptions, the pulsing beast flooding. My purpose awakened.
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Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 4:10 PM UTC
Taken
A taste of my own medicine, Incites a spasm, Convulsion, Remembrance, The pill was sudden, Hard to swallow, And it stung the whole way down, My antidote became my venom, And an old color was spilled, A scar torn open, No regrets. -May 24th 2013
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 6:44 PM UTC
Pharmacy
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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There she is My greatest fantasy realized Wild hair in mermaid curls Waiting to be woven through wanting fingers..once again The sheet delicately balanced on the swell of her ******* My tongue still tasting Her As I stand there and watch as she watches me soak her in I touch my lip lost in the sight of Her In the truth of Her In the need of Her Golden skin on a bed of white A Goddess, My Goddess in all things Standing bare My desire leads me straight to Her The heat of Her hits me I breathe Her in, absorbing the warmth Grazing her skin My hands are insatiable Soaking in love through her very flesh Parched, unquenchable Drawn to discover every inch of Her I acquiesce My heart is hers My soul she commands My body's sole purpose is to bring Her pleasure To please Her is my joy I see the garden And follow the scent of  honeysuckle As I taste the nectar of the Gods A breath catches in her throat As sounds escape from the depths of her passion My music is the rythm of her moans As I dance for her on velvet petals In a performance made to ripen the fruit And produce the sweetest wine One drop incites a fever A compulsion An empassioned blur in the middle of Heaven She is the essence of my addiction Both satisfied and hungry The craving overcomes She pulls me to her Devouring me in a kiss Nails bite skin and fuel the flame That burns solely for Her So I plunge my love to Her depths And pour myself into Her As Her deluge seeks refuge Coating every surface Basking in the cool air A reminder of my greatest fantasy realized I breathe her in as she sleeps Sated at last Safe in my arms I am ever at her feet Blessed for the opportunity To worship at her alter
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 7:13 PM UTC
how i love Her (a Jude Allen/PrttyBrd Production)
There she is My greatest fantasy realized Wild hair in mermaid curls Waiting to be woven through wanting fingers..once again The sheet delicately balanced on the swell of her ******* My tongue still tasting Her As I stand there and watch as she watches me soak her in I touch my lip lost in the sight of Her In the truth of Her In the need of Her Golden skin on a bed of white A Goddess, My Goddess in all things Standing bare My desire leads me straight to Her The heat of Her hits me I breathe Her in, absorbing the warmth Grazing her skin My hands are insatiable Soaking in love through her very flesh Parched, unquenchable Drawn to discover every inch of Her I acquiesce My heart is hers My soul she commands My body's sole purpose is to bring Her pleasure To please Her is my joy I see the garden And follow the scent of  honeysuckle As I taste the nectar of the Gods A breath catches in her throat As sounds escape from the depths of her passion My music is the rythm of her moans As I dance for her on velvet petals In a performance made to ripen the fruit And produce the sweetest wine One drop incites a fever A compulsion An empassioned blur in the middle of Heaven She is the essence of my addiction Both satisfied and hungry The craving overcomes She pulls me to her Devouring me in a kiss Nails bite skin and fuel the flame That burns solely for Her So I plunge my love to Her depths And pour myself into Her As Her deluge seeks refuge Coating every surface Basking in the cool air A reminder of my greatest fantasy realized I breathe her in as she sleeps Sated at last Safe in my arms I am ever at her feet Blessed for the opportunity To worship at her alter
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Commitment I don't know how this works This commitment thing is new for me I went down in flames the first time Who's to say it's not going to happen again? Will I hurt you like I hurt the last? Will I start over this never ending cycle? Commitment That word is both terrifying and beautiful It signifies everything I want But those are the things I fear Can I give myself to someone so wholly that they are part of my being? Can I trust someone with that? Can I truly even love? Commitment Oh Lordy That word incites fear once again, but I'm getting there I'm coming to terms with it but that nagging won't stop Will it actually work out? Commitment I will commit At least that's what I'm going to tell myself And I will not hurt them Commitment I'm ready for you
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 3:41 AM UTC
Commitment
evil homestead with wicked doors creak a sound developed to make strong weak incites adrenaline, a sprint, a leap fluid unto your place of sleep nothing to be afraid of, of course. except for the biting coldness, the source unknown... bed as your safehaven you lay and turn and with silken walls you let down your guard eyes drift shut but thoughts sporadic you dream a dream, a dream of habit in this dream you have no voice and where you stay is not your choice. pushed and moved throughout your lifetime a little creak; your angry punchline.
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
inanimate spite
Who is that yet that does not ask the question? What creates the soul within, what makes us yearn, What transfers through without a single mention Yet incessantly incites our heart to burn? A willowy waver of the neck and head, A vibration that travels the length of me, And a mind enlightened by the words you said; Yet I feel that your brilliance, you're blind to see. So, I hope, only that I'm allowed to say All that my voice can find the courage to speak. I'll sit and dream about my life for today-- But tomorrow a new beginning I seek. A key to find the piece to complete your whole: A positive introspection of your soul.
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Jul 30, 2012
Jul 30, 2012 at 8:51 PM UTC
Calming Noise.
It is another one of those early mornings when hatred spews out of my body and aims for itself, I never miss. I have always been good at reaching targets, even better when I myself am bullseye. I shoot directly for the mirror. Into my thighs, my chest, this mountain range of a body. I send my angry in a direct path towards my folds, my stomach, my skin, in all that is human. I launch bombs on my own territory like it's what I've been sent to do, like I was made to destroy what I have spent my whole life building. I ask why it so easy to rip apart the things I've put together myself. I ask why it feels so normal to want to break down the rafters of the only shelter I will ever be able to use for protection. I blame everything else before I blame me. I blame the girls with bodies like sunsets, that contrast my mid-day average sky of a figure. I blame the dresses that I cannot fit into, the way they **** the life out of me every time I can't stretch them past my hips. I blame genetics with absolutely no knowledge of science behind me. I want to blame society for the hate that has been multiplying inside of me but at the end of the day I am still the one who does the math. It is still me who pours self-deprecation over my head to shower in all of the things I cannot wash out. It is still me who incites hurricane upon every part of myself that is impossible to change by nature. I am the one who detonates my disappointments like the explosion will somehow change the way I look, like the aftermath of destruction will leave me with anything but empty and wreckage. I often forget that it is me who spoon feeds myself memories of failure at every meal. It is me who hands over guilt every time I reach for the snooze button to fall back asleep. I even shove myself in fault to depression, cover myself in darkness and then wonder why there is no light to be seen. I am the culprit in it all. In the mornings when my mind is still circling to figure out where it left off, I point it in the direction of negative. I take all of the crooked and pile it up to remind myself of the mismatch. When I take aim at my reflection, I never miss. I direct the ****** of my mistakes, vulnerability and insecurity directly towards my image. I have become the hitman of my own assassination. My fall into disaster is wholeheartedly my own doing. I am the best of the best when it comes to this form of damage. I never miss.
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 3:05 PM UTC
Aim
It is another one of those early mornings when hatred spews out of my body and aims for itself, I never miss. I have always been good at reaching targets, even better when I myself am bullseye. I shoot directly for the mirror. Into my thighs, my chest, this mountain range of a body. I send my angry in a direct path towards my folds, my stomach, my skin, in all that is human. I launch bombs on my own territory like it's what I've been sent to do, like I was made to destroy what I have spent my whole life building. I ask why it so easy to rip apart the things I've put together myself. I ask why it feels so normal to want to break down the rafters of the only shelter I will ever be able to use for protection. I blame everything else before I blame me. I blame the girls with bodies like sunsets, that contrast my mid-day average sky of a figure. I blame the dresses that I cannot fit into, the way they **** the life out of me every time I can't stretch them past my hips. I blame genetics with absolutely no knowledge of science behind me. I want to blame society for the hate that has been multiplying inside of me but at the end of the day I am still the one who does the math. It is still me who pours self-deprecation over my head to shower in all of the things I cannot wash out. It is still me who incites hurricane upon every part of myself that is impossible to change by nature. I am the one who detonates my disappointments like the explosion will somehow change the way I look, like the aftermath of destruction will leave me with anything but empty and wreckage. I often forget that it is me who spoon feeds myself memories of failure at every meal. It is me who hands over guilt every time I reach for the snooze button to fall back asleep. I even shove myself in fault to depression, cover myself in darkness and then wonder why there is no light to be seen. I am the culprit in it all. In the mornings when my mind is still circling to figure out where it left off, I point it in the direction of negative. I take all of the crooked and pile it up to remind myself of the mismatch. When I take aim at my reflection, I never miss. I direct the ****** of my mistakes, vulnerability and insecurity directly towards my image. I have become the hitman of my own assassination. My fall into disaster is wholeheartedly my own doing. I am the best of the best when it comes to this form of damage. I never miss.
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High ground I concede to you in the disproportion of a time allotted to you for the choice of robe to grace a glorified cameo around your flesh like a sheet designated for an overthrowing in an honorary statue's unveiling Liturgy is looming in the bathroom already hot-boxed in the metal waterfall's mist of moisture and the mountain range of bubbles I have settled comfortably into in wait High ground awaits your hallowed prance into the concealed languish of your man's dangling imagination I salute you with incentive through a lowering of eyes made necessary by your towering above my horizontal soak I'm beseeching you to wield royal sway over the humility of my reclined posture with the hidden scepter of your body fated to dictate the pace of my anticipated knighting The gentle thud of fabric on linoleum incites a turning of my head to take in the litany of parts available to my frenetic feels and jumbled focus Stationary in your naked smile of proximity you extend to me excessive time to entertain options as I coat myself in lukewarm opportunities and rise to meet you for a bathing in my excess wetness I accelerate my exit to negate the bubbled tribuataries sliding to the floor to meet the remnants of your mystery The wall is cold and you protrude haplessly to meet the rapid chilling of my undried frame Warmth is of the essence Fingers split your hair in celebration of our uniform heights and I feel you slouch signalling our first hint of friction and a twitch in my diviner of your cradle of essential warmth Do you realize you now rescind creative license? Or have you filled the snare of your intentions? Now your balance shivers in the mercy of my curled leg of leverage and an coiled arm collecting your ambrosial attributes like an ice cream scoop Uniform heights allowing eye contact makes optional the visual acknowledgment of my elastic hunting in the smooth field of your breast with a dancing thumb I connect and latch onto what is now our binding axis and shuffle eye contact with the universal rhythm of a pelvic power ballad
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 10:54 PM UTC
HOW TO FIND PERSONALITY INSIDE A UNIFORM
High ground I concede to you in the disproportion of a time allotted to you for the choice of robe to grace a glorified cameo around your flesh like a sheet designated for an overthrowing in an honorary statue's unveiling Liturgy is looming in the bathroom already hot-boxed in the metal waterfall's mist of moisture and the mountain range of bubbles I have settled comfortably into in wait High ground awaits your hallowed prance into the concealed languish of your man's dangling imagination I salute you with incentive through a lowering of eyes made necessary by your towering above my horizontal soak I'm beseeching you to wield royal sway over the humility of my reclined posture with the hidden scepter of your body fated to dictate the pace of my anticipated knighting The gentle thud of fabric on linoleum incites a turning of my head to take in the litany of parts available to my frenetic feels and jumbled focus Stationary in your naked smile of proximity you extend to me excessive time to entertain options as I coat myself in lukewarm opportunities and rise to meet you for a bathing in my excess wetness I accelerate my exit to negate the bubbled tribuataries sliding to the floor to meet the remnants of your mystery The wall is cold and you protrude haplessly to meet the rapid chilling of my undried frame Warmth is of the essence Fingers split your hair in celebration of our uniform heights and I feel you slouch signalling our first hint of friction and a twitch in my diviner of your cradle of essential warmth Do you realize you now rescind creative license? Or have you filled the snare of your intentions? Now your balance shivers in the mercy of my curled leg of leverage and an coiled arm collecting your ambrosial attributes like an ice cream scoop Uniform heights allowing eye contact makes optional the visual acknowledgment of my elastic hunting in the smooth field of your breast with a dancing thumb I connect and latch onto what is now our binding axis and shuffle eye contact with the universal rhythm of a pelvic power ballad
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Baffled this was a question you’d have to ask, I sat tremulous.  I’m insular; I’d be enamored with even the most amorphous love, but I’m not inept, and won’t preclude that answering the question is salient.  And although I’m not taciturn, I’m rarely extemporaneous, so please excuse my need for verbose prose in answering said question. You’re attractive.  Your strong jaw, small chin and cheekbones were sculpted to make your own eyes glow and an artist’s eyes expostulate dreaming of anything else. Don’t dismiss this as delirium, but rather relish this recondite fact—my first crush came in the fifth grade.  It was on a diminutive, outspoken girl, and I was enormous and timid, which developed into a village girl vs. Mowgli, me Tarzan you Jane, King-Kong-Ann Darrow complex.  And although I believe with zealous fervor in your strength, your size still incites the young jungle boy inside me.  And I hope I can say, without being terse, I’m afflicted with a mysterious affinity for red-hair.   Although I could dwell in the obvious all day, I’ll redirect from the blasé. Abandon beats within us both like hearts to the same pulse, we don’t coax smiles, we let them slip, we aspire to happiness like falling of a log. I have to pry open time’s lockbox and plunder the night just to relegate the dawn.  Bliss becomes a tangible ****** making even the most existentially exasperated docile.  Knowledge that every other thought is dominated by one another without it attenuating the magic. Knowing that if all I have to say is it’s raining outside, you want to hear it.  Twenty-one years of my life I thought I’d have to hunt love with a knife but you showed me roaming where you like to wander can wake the irreverent gods.  It’s your superlative honesty that’s only for me; that virile smile in your eyes that bid doubt vacate my mind Knowing that if I went catatonic, one reproving look from you would cause my heart to break and force my hands to put the pieces back before I stopped breathing.  If I could, I’d dawn you like a blanket before every dinner, dusk and dream.  And most importantly, we both like crowns.
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Jun 10, 2011
Jun 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM UTC
What is it about me, besides my vocabulary?
Baffled this was a question you’d have to ask, I sat tremulous.  I’m insular; I’d be enamored with even the most amorphous love, but I’m not inept, and won’t preclude that answering the question is salient.  And although I’m not taciturn, I’m rarely extemporaneous, so please excuse my need for verbose prose in answering said question. You’re attractive.  Your strong jaw, small chin and cheekbones were sculpted to make your own eyes glow and an artist’s eyes expostulate dreaming of anything else. Don’t dismiss this as delirium, but rather relish this recondite fact—my first crush came in the fifth grade.  It was on a diminutive, outspoken girl, and I was enormous and timid, which developed into a village girl vs. Mowgli, me Tarzan you Jane, King-Kong-Ann Darrow complex.  And although I believe with zealous fervor in your strength, your size still incites the young jungle boy inside me.  And I hope I can say, without being terse, I’m afflicted with a mysterious affinity for red-hair.   Although I could dwell in the obvious all day, I’ll redirect from the blasé. Abandon beats within us both like hearts to the same pulse, we don’t coax smiles, we let them slip, we aspire to happiness like falling of a log. I have to pry open time’s lockbox and plunder the night just to relegate the dawn.  Bliss becomes a tangible ****** making even the most existentially exasperated docile.  Knowledge that every other thought is dominated by one another without it attenuating the magic. Knowing that if all I have to say is it’s raining outside, you want to hear it.  Twenty-one years of my life I thought I’d have to hunt love with a knife but you showed me roaming where you like to wander can wake the irreverent gods.  It’s your superlative honesty that’s only for me; that virile smile in your eyes that bid doubt vacate my mind Knowing that if I went catatonic, one reproving look from you would cause my heart to break and force my hands to put the pieces back before I stopped breathing.  If I could, I’d dawn you like a blanket before every dinner, dusk and dream.  And most importantly, we both like crowns.
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In the forest, there grows a flower That the night loves with starlit showers. How it blossoms near the tree beneath the moon! Its petals are a vibrant indentation Which, with its beauty, betokens the wilderness. Rapacious and beguiled Become the seekers of the bloom. Ravenous are they for its syrupy nector, And greedy for its savory and intoxicating effect, Which is delusive to those who would otherwise be able to reckon. Its glamour incites a yearning That, not sated, becomes a burning Which leaves a hollow place where the logic used to be, And tangles the chords of one's emotions. Not everything that is enticing is worth the bill of fare, Even if it thrives freely throughout the land.
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Jul 16, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 at 1:51 PM UTC
The Flower
The Jungle Cat and his mate, Captain Hectic, tell me I am no longer a player in this game, I have stepped back and I am now... An overseer? A witness?! A referee even? Or just above or beyond it all? Yet still he sits at The Vipers House, Being eaten alive by invisible sharks Of one who has been in the game Far longer than he One who bats her lashes And incites guilt from housewife hospitality.    And all these many, merry men, How They do flock and flutter Like moths to a flame, that is just more darkness ****** in by neon lights and fake bluster.    Roundabout, So here we go again, Sweeping up any evidence of this deal Baggies, pins and needles, a twisted array of steel, Tiny shards of Zero Left out for The Key To clean She will hold her heart So Tight inside now,   She does Lock it till the chains ****** her skin This screaming pain, The vicious words    just too much For one dissociative to bear. Can't feel the brutality Of the words, Like knives, one upon another Straight into her heart,    No she can't feel it, won't feel it, Just turns her head away,    Switches her heart to off... She won't be hurt anymore....
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Aug 13, 2012
Aug 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM UTC
To be continued...
Father, You know what each day brings, You know my thoughts before I think; can you hear my heart? It sings! my joy is filled, up to the brink. I praise Your name with much thanksgiving, for the sunshine of each day; for the graciousness of living, to follow God's sweet, wondrous way. All the beauty, stems from Your mind, all of the world's great, vast array; all humans of a varied kind, at work, at leisure and at play. Give me wisdom and compassion, to seek out the best of You; fill me now, with love and passion, make me Yours, before You're through. I acknowledge my Creator, I am blessed, because of Him; keep from the instigator, who incites the thoughts of sin. Give me peace and understanding, give me shelter from each storm; give me insight in my planning, by Your fire, keep me warm.
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 11:33 AM UTC
Praise poem
I've never heard a downpour stomp so loud as the moisture above us incites rampage droppin' bombs from celestial once neutral clouds. the gods stamp their feet while the godesses pout; eternal beings acting young for their age. I've never heard a downpour stomp so loud. With tents full of water and glasses full of stout, my overdue almanac cries out to the mage droppin' bombs from celestial once neutral clouds. the drizzle it dropped but the encore soaked the crowd the mud grew new flowers as hands mopped the stage. I've never heard a downpour cheer so loud. Drenched to the bone and wanderin' about our level of wetness cannot be guaged, droppin bombs from celestial once neutral clouds. No refuge for masses sprawled under the spout; bad acid, good music, free love makes us stay. I've never heard a downpour stomp so loud droppin' bombs from the celestial once neutral clouds.
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Jun 30, 2012
Jun 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM UTC
Woodstock
Startoucher says things like 'thanks man', Vic says 'roller-coasters are fun', D.E offers wisdom and hope for us all, Destiny speaks to us in rhythm and rhyme, Donie could win the Triple Crown, Unknown follows me, Even if I'm not around, Bala is the father I wish I had, Vircapio Gale is a love unfound, Shaqila incites a riot in me, Francisco DH is a poet unbound, Destiny scares me, so touches the heart, P.G is awesome with opinions that smart, Olga V. Is the first one I followed, 'I cannot hurt if I don't know tomorrow', If anyone is missed, It is not by intent, For all have provided, My soul nourishment, So I can say, I grieve in that sorrow, As all of you've said, I don't lend, I just borrow.
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May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013 at 6:13 AM UTC
for those that follow and enlighten
Hope, at times for them Is a once-great passenger ship Breeched and sinking fast This vessel is one that sees the Mississippi, Floats on it for a brief period But has no idea that it's being dominated By the mighty, muddy beast In these instances responsibility Becomes government reports that are long, Arduous and too thick to be stapled "Many people will die." they say, "200,000 people will be displaced." This incites the mantra, Home is where the water is not The ship that was a home is made of steel Neither black nor white Its grey, so grey that it is without true color It finds itself trapped in the womb of the dense, delta mud The people; The brave, the bold, the idiots, waiting for their ship to come Sit on top of their roofs, Now islands where they can soak up Indian Summer Sun For the abandoned, perseverance is a suntan "THE WATER IS RISING PLEAS…" Words spray-painted white on black shingles The rescuers, government, American people Are suddenly illiterate Federal law states: Energy (money) cannot be created Nor destroyed But the ship is gone, The people are in watery graves The City is a large crescent with greedy bites taken out of it 6 years later the laws of the universe are disbanded Ferrel dogs rule the day And love is never having to say you care
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 4:03 AM UTC
Hope Is A Ship (Drew Brees For President)
As a child I did not know whether it was the act itself or the knowledge that I was the receptacle for malevolence and cruelty that made me so vulnerable. At first I thought it was God's punishment for something I had done. I took an inventory, desperately seeking the deed that triggered the retribution. But I could not identify a single act. Even my accumulated errors, transgressions and unkindness’s did not exact the cost. Then I understood: if I could not isolate a deed, or pattern of deeds, commanding the punishment, it must be me. It is not what I did. It is who I was...a fundamentally, intrinsically and irredeemably bad little girl. I negotiated my adolescence and early adulthood with the mathematical symbol for "less than" (<) attached. I would like to be able to write that I am no longer negotiating my adulthood with the same mathematical symbol attached. But that would be a lie. It is pervasive. It is formidable. And if I do not keep it contained, I am so afraid it will be debilitating….I've been down that road a time or two. At times it has enveloped me, penetrating my pores and drowning everything essential and vital inside. Undisturbed, it is docile, sated. But aroused by even the slightest hint of beauty or strength or grace it is a painful reminder that I am...somehow...contemptible...that I am still fundamentally, intrinsically and incorrigibly...what? Flawed, imperfect & bad? You may say, "But we are all flawed and imperfect. And our flaws and imperfections make us more interesting...more truly beautiful...more human." And perhaps you are right, but this inexorable deprivation makes me somehow subhuman... less than human...permanently broken. I am a receptacle for malice. I skillfully deflect praise directed my way, an effort to soothe the inescapable conflict inside. Moderate praise induces a subtle twinge of embarrassment; more effusive praise incites the consuming and agonizing feeling that I am irreparably damaged, hopelessly broken. It has contaminated, compromised and diminished every accomplishment, soiled every success. People sometimes tell me that I am humble and that it is an admirable trait. But the modesty and humility they identify helps me to mask the mortification stirring inside. I have gotten so good at hiding it from others that I have nearly learned to conceal it even from myself. At least that is what it feels like...right now.
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Oct 20, 2013
Oct 20, 2013 at 8:21 PM UTC
It is not what "I" did...it is who "I" was...
As a child I did not know whether it was the act itself or the knowledge that I was the receptacle for malevolence and cruelty that made me so vulnerable. At first I thought it was God's punishment for something I had done. I took an inventory, desperately seeking the deed that triggered the retribution. But I could not identify a single act. Even my accumulated errors, transgressions and unkindness’s did not exact the cost. Then I understood: if I could not isolate a deed, or pattern of deeds, commanding the punishment, it must be me. It is not what I did. It is who I was...a fundamentally, intrinsically and irredeemably bad little girl. I negotiated my adolescence and early adulthood with the mathematical symbol for "less than" (<) attached. I would like to be able to write that I am no longer negotiating my adulthood with the same mathematical symbol attached. But that would be a lie. It is pervasive. It is formidable. And if I do not keep it contained, I am so afraid it will be debilitating….I've been down that road a time or two. At times it has enveloped me, penetrating my pores and drowning everything essential and vital inside. Undisturbed, it is docile, sated. But aroused by even the slightest hint of beauty or strength or grace it is a painful reminder that I am...somehow...contemptible...that I am still fundamentally, intrinsically and incorrigibly...what? Flawed, imperfect & bad? You may say, "But we are all flawed and imperfect. And our flaws and imperfections make us more interesting...more truly beautiful...more human." And perhaps you are right, but this inexorable deprivation makes me somehow subhuman... less than human...permanently broken. I am a receptacle for malice. I skillfully deflect praise directed my way, an effort to soothe the inescapable conflict inside. Moderate praise induces a subtle twinge of embarrassment; more effusive praise incites the consuming and agonizing feeling that I am irreparably damaged, hopelessly broken. It has contaminated, compromised and diminished every accomplishment, soiled every success. People sometimes tell me that I am humble and that it is an admirable trait. But the modesty and humility they identify helps me to mask the mortification stirring inside. I have gotten so good at hiding it from others that I have nearly learned to conceal it even from myself. At least that is what it feels like...right now.
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I had someone ask me once A stranger befuddled Why are all your writings *** grime or death I replied quite honestly, For a strangers questioning, 'Because those are the most honest things in the universe Because I don't believe in unimagination Id rather read of feeding on entrails beautifully written Than the wet smell of new love We'd rather see gods creatures splayed red and pink on the sides of highways Than to live without cars and roads I'm not sure if that's relevant or poetic but who really cares anyway I'm certain that fire raining from the sky incites more passion than a newly born anything The most fun I've ever had I'm sure I was unclothed And I don't know about you, consumer, but sweaty ****** vicious *** is more pure than the most heartfelt love I've ever felt If that means I'm damaged - I don't think I mind it If that makes you pity me - don't These are just the darkened folded alleyways of my curly brain I can't relate to normalcy but I've heard that's nothing to be ashamed of Your glass words cut my face and guts sharply but I'm certain I can't feel it And I am not bothered by your gore - I feel contented by your devils And I'd like to know who's with me in this all too descriptive sickness'
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
i was not made - to be understood
I don't understand, but your tone incites. Is this ignorance or bravado Is love and hate the same when the day of fated relations stays mocking on the morrow Are the planted dead standard Pentagram repenting it's whistles to the waifs Who captivates plenty yet scrape for their dinner pennies like dog scraps. Why am I still beneath this lake?
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Nov 4, 2020
Nov 4, 2020 at 10:01 PM UTC
Cliche poetry is ********
Poem number forty-eight Does practically nothing to abate The current unemployment rate Or the budget deficit of this state Poem number forty-eight Incites no reactions at any rate Is neither a subject of public debate Nor a reflection of the people’s psychological state Poem number forty-eight Carries absolutely no moral weight It doesn’t shed light or illuminate Or trigger one’s desire to contemplate Poem number forty-eight Really isn’t all that great Because I've nothing to update I guess you will just have to wait
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Mar 1, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 at 12:46 AM UTC
Poem #48
Dear Poet: Your poetry throbs amuses delights irritates stimulates sometimes incites Mystifies startles unnerves and excites Perfectly lofty exquisitely right dynamic thrilling burning bright brilliant heartwarming whimsy in flight Provocative magical forever true magnificent moving engaging too So now I'll close my letter with a plea: Keep writing. Take care. Sincerely, Me
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 2:21 PM UTC
Letter to Myself