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"innermost" poems
Today I decided to write a poem To put words together In such a way As to express My innermost feelings And I lost the words And my thoughts drifted And my computer keys stuck And nothing came forward So Perhaps tomorrow I will write a poem To express my life And for today Perhaps I’ll just go Outside To play
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Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 at 7:58 AM UTC
Writing a Poem
Anom o ly Non-named, never imagined much less realized The left hand can't know what the right is doing, it's a brain matter, grey area, may be a way to imagine your unique. task, yours, not doable from here We can do things as us that we never imagine alone. Is there a need to negate, wait, think, must one do any act? Now, I see, emulating Socrates is thought easier than emulating Jesus. Christ, you know that ain't easy, eh? Death is the friend of being. Things change from time to time but, you know knowledge grows in two directions, the dark part is not evil. evil is as evil does. The roots that ever live in the earth, those roots are required, requirements. Left brain uses the right hand. Don't tell the left-hand that nearly all it's skill in serving and being used right, is used up by the other side. Right or wrong, is not a chiral question,  nor is good or bad. ******** Phillips's head screws with a butter knife is wrong. It can be done right, but not if you turn it the wrong way. Drawing on the right side of my brain has always symbolized a crossroads experience, in my mind. I mean I draw, realistically, with my right hand, left brain. Maybe, brains are no easier to analyze than time in an immaterial medium of messaging. I am certain life wins. Meaning everything you think life means. Do you think evil is required as an activity for life to actively be? I doubt that. Death fixes everything. Fret not. Wait. First make room, what was the Bronte word? Penetrium, no, cut n paste [A]t once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason - Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. From <https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/cloud-of-uknowing> Happiness demands an agreement Joy is in process, I agree, I am happy, haps happen and I notice Note: Bronte was one to tweak fine puns with the word Penetralia: 1. The innermost parts of a building, especially the sanctuary of a temple. 2. The most private or secret parts; recesses: the penetralia of the soul. See Chapter one, Wuthering Heights. ----- From bronteblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/emilys-penetralium_03.html
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 12:12 AM UTC
Anomoly
Anom o ly Non-named, never imagined much less realized The left hand can't know what the right is doing, it's a brain matter, grey area, may be a way to imagine your unique. task, yours, not doable from here We can do things as us that we never imagine alone. Is there a need to negate, wait, think, must one do any act? Now, I see, emulating Socrates is thought easier than emulating Jesus. Christ, you know that ain't easy, eh? Death is the friend of being. Things change from time to time but, you know knowledge grows in two directions, the dark part is not evil. evil is as evil does. The roots that ever live in the earth, those roots are required, requirements. Left brain uses the right hand. Don't tell the left-hand that nearly all it's skill in serving and being used right, is used up by the other side. Right or wrong, is not a chiral question,  nor is good or bad. ******** Phillips's head screws with a butter knife is wrong. It can be done right, but not if you turn it the wrong way. Drawing on the right side of my brain has always symbolized a crossroads experience, in my mind. I mean I draw, realistically, with my right hand, left brain. Maybe, brains are no easier to analyze than time in an immaterial medium of messaging. I am certain life wins. Meaning everything you think life means. Do you think evil is required as an activity for life to actively be? I doubt that. Death fixes everything. Fret not. Wait. First make room, what was the Bronte word? Penetrium, no, cut n paste [A]t once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason - Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. From <https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/cloud-of-uknowing> Happiness demands an agreement Joy is in process, I agree, I am happy, haps happen and I notice Note: Bronte was one to tweak fine puns with the word Penetralia: 1. The innermost parts of a building, especially the sanctuary of a temple. 2. The most private or secret parts; recesses: the penetralia of the soul. See Chapter one, Wuthering Heights. ----- From bronteblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/emilys-penetralium_03.html
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Listening ears don't come easy Most come with mouths harbouring wagging tongues Pouncing on the chance to retell your story Exploiting your need to empty acrid lungs Listening ears, they're indeed very rare Unidentifiable no matter how well you know Lurking behind a mask of concern and care Sweet words employed so your cards you'd show Listening ears could be just a myth An idiom to quench the thirst to confide Listening ears sometimes come with fangs for teeth Hungering and lusting for your trust and pride Listening ear, oh why you come with a mouth so foul Why the cunning trickery and unscrupulous deceit Kindness as bait, when in fact you prowl Many none the wiser until they are bit Listening ear, in you I gave my trust I bared my innermost and gave my all Hoped that you'd soothe my ailing crust Instead you lifted me high only to watch me fall
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 7:51 AM UTC
Listening Ear
In my shyness . . . At times I retreat to my "shell," Clinging to the security of being alone. In my shyness . . . I may attempt to merge with my surroundings-- To be ignored, unnoticed, a silent voice rarely heard. In my shyness . . . I can feel completely alone, Although surrounded by people. In my shyness . . . I'm perceived as having a padlocked soul-- And few try to gain entry into my realm. In my shyness . . . Few will dare venture to really know me-- To hear my quiet voice or to really try to understand. In my shyness . . . I can have a myriad of words to say, Yet, my sealed lips will not release them. In my shyness . . . The words I do speak will at times be jumbled, And I'll feel worse for having spoken them. In my shyness . . . I will be viewed as "stuck up" and unfriendly, Labeled by the presumption of a troubled past. Yet, despite my shyness . . . I will at times emerge from my "shell," And you may catch a glimpse of who I am. And despite my shyness . . . I may put on a good "front," Disguising my innermost insecurities. Despite my shyness . . . A select few will manage to penetrate these "walls," With the sharing of time and the evolving of trust. My shyness . . . Frequently unrecognized, seldom understood-- A shackle, a haven, a veil.
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 3:18 AM UTC
in my shyness
I She exits herself on the Sofa. Blanket, dog, and bits Of a poem on a pad of paper On the table, like a half-eaten Piece of homework. Shades of wine on her sleeping Lips. Exits herself; space-walks Outside that frame of mind she's Been expected to hang herself On the wall within; she knows There is more. There has to be more. II She has to be more. Like so many writers, she falls Asleep working. Sometimes Works to fall asleep. Digging her way through Herself, mining for words, Hacking away at painful pasts, Gathering emerald experiences.   Diamond doubts and ruby Regrets all fuel her poetry. And she reads, spotlight kissed;   Audience adored, Goosebump summoning; hairs On arms and necks stand up as She whispers directly to me. About me. Because of me. In front of everybody. To music, and I've brought a box Of pins, and between each of her Every word, I drop one. And I Swear to the gods, you can hear Them all. Like the unsteady Ticking of a clock too cool to Care. III Poetry jewelry; set with stones From her innermost. Chips of Gold from her heart melted Down to a key pendant she Holds in her hand; chain dangling, Eyes closed, forehead resting Against a door she knows it is Time to open. Key in one hand, Pen in the other, She Enters Herself.
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 6:34 AM UTC
A Clock too Cool to Care
there is a distance between us more than distance something not a wall not impenetrable a fence a security fence easy enough for our words our thoughts to pass through   easy enough to breach from time to time   to allow access to our innermost feelings but so easy to reinforce too easy when things get tough when doubts arise when protection seems more important than communication
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Jan 25, 2016
Jan 25, 2016 at 3:16 PM UTC
fence *
Falling in love can make me vulnerable Vulnerable to rejection, pangs of jealousy, fear of failure I want relationship, but are so afraid of revealing my innermost self and getting hurt if I do so Vulnerability ended me up in shutting down intimacy ...An uncomfortable feeling I tried to appear perfect, strong and in control In truth it's the opposite of my everything What if he sees me weak? Submissive? Easily hurt emotionally? Susceptible to sadness? But if knowing that he sees and loves me for who I am and to see him in all of his vulnerabilities too and still love each other the way we do now.... Then falling in love means having the strength to face vulnerability Then vulnerability means courage and bravery Then vulnerability means willingness to face uncertainty, taking the risk to be fully committed with the man I truly love Vulnerability is inevitable no matter what we do So does falling in love also is inevitable no matter how we avoid it Embracing vulnerability may just be one of life’s most fulfilling experience All the more if it means connecting with the one we love Then, with all of my vulnerabilities, I am willing to embrace my fears for as long as Im taking the risk of loving the man of my dream Because my love for him is stronger than my vulnerabilities
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Jan 5, 2019
Jan 5, 2019 at 3:50 PM UTC
EMBRACING VULNERABILITY
*Poetry moves from within our souls, It's emotions pouring out Covering us in rhymes and flow, Like rain from the clouds* ***Infinite letters, words and phrases In various permutations we play Collaboration between heart and mind Breathed into these pieces that we lay*** *Touching lives with our written form Healing with words, what's poetically true Freedom of expression, thoughts and ideals Crying out in ink, until our sadness is through* ***Similar in thoughts but meander through individual routes We all sing the same but to different rhythm and tunes Inscribe our innermost but to varying worthy causes We all draw inspiration but from the same loyal moon*** *A different form of art, yet art none the same It's in the eye of the beholder, so they say Poetry is life drawn in pen, it's not an erasable game It truly breathes life, looking forward to each new day* ***We proudly fly our diverse flags United under one banner We revel in words of poetry In the hopes they'd last forever***
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
Poetry Breathes Life (Collaboration with The Girl Who Loved You!)
. **............ o|        |o o|        |o o|........|o |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||||** •play me a tune of sweet serenade •sing me a song of wistful melody•recite me the words you would            have said• now whisper me your sighs tenderly•paint me the colours of night and day•write me the poem of your heart•send me your love on which I lay•make me the end to all your starts•strum me the chord of hopeful bliss•compose me a ballad that sets my innermost free•so play me your tune, the one that I would always miss •and keep singing of us in a song, so we'd be immortalised in eternity• .
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 9:28 AM UTC
Serenade
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapurous Bacchanal rite! The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet’s horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth -Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood. I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystic bar That is set for wrath and weeping Against the children of earth; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight : My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light.. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day’s We are wed, we are wild, we are one.
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Dionysus
I imagine myself A few gentle decades older. Finally grasping the cusp Of success. Living in my own apartment In New York City, nonetheless. Wearing an Armani coat (Whatever those look like.) Walking idly yet prestigiously Through winter in the city. Taking care not to laugh too loud, Talk to myself, smile too much. A small, attractive female Has to be serious to get ahead. Customers will buy from a happy girl Only if she is early 20's, at most. That is Marketing 101. I am a small fish in a large sea; The principles of Darwinism Still apply to me. I've learned long ago to succeed, I must stifle the welcoming smile. So along the familiar concrete I stride, Carefully manicured hands In pockets. The Filipinos know better Than to rush on the hands Of a businesswoman caressing A successful career. She tips well and lives well. I walk along with cool calm And feminine grace. I have regained the safety To be feminine once again. The criminals know better Than to infiltrate The Business district And cause trouble To working professionals In Armani coats. I imagine myself a few decades older. Kissing snowflakes unenthusiastically. Yes, I marvel in poetry, in Nature, But I have matured Much like the snowflakes themselves. At the end of a cycle, No matter how beautiful. My actions flow gracefully and delicately. I melt into New York City Like a cell in a body. Pumping fuel into the ***** To sustain the mass. A tumor. I smile subtly as I slosh along. I recall, once upon a time, On my lower-class youth. ***** jokes, crude dancing, And cluttered apartments. I approach the high-rise building I call home and greet the doorman With the obligatory disregard For his innermost being. Poetry truly is in the strangest of places. Even in an enigma like me. I enter the marble floors, Wiping my feet, My rent as sky-high as The building itself. Elevator. Comforting motion sickness. This is success. The pit of my stomach sinks. I tell myself it's the motion sickness. I return to my apartment, With its symmetrical details. My thoughts return to you. You've never stepped foot in my home, But you've always been here with me. I get dinner started. I set out the extra glass, like always. Rituals like these serve As my Sunday mass. I drink your glass with my evening medication. Dare I say like always?
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Dec 16, 2016
Dec 16, 2016 at 6:09 AM UTC
Winter In The City
I imagine myself A few gentle decades older. Finally grasping the cusp Of success. Living in my own apartment In New York City, nonetheless. Wearing an Armani coat (Whatever those look like.) Walking idly yet prestigiously Through winter in the city. Taking care not to laugh too loud, Talk to myself, smile too much. A small, attractive female Has to be serious to get ahead. Customers will buy from a happy girl Only if she is early 20's, at most. That is Marketing 101. I am a small fish in a large sea; The principles of Darwinism Still apply to me. I've learned long ago to succeed, I must stifle the welcoming smile. So along the familiar concrete I stride, Carefully manicured hands In pockets. The Filipinos know better Than to rush on the hands Of a businesswoman caressing A successful career. She tips well and lives well. I walk along with cool calm And feminine grace. I have regained the safety To be feminine once again. The criminals know better Than to infiltrate The Business district And cause trouble To working professionals In Armani coats. I imagine myself a few decades older. Kissing snowflakes unenthusiastically. Yes, I marvel in poetry, in Nature, But I have matured Much like the snowflakes themselves. At the end of a cycle, No matter how beautiful. My actions flow gracefully and delicately. I melt into New York City Like a cell in a body. Pumping fuel into the ***** To sustain the mass. A tumor. I smile subtly as I slosh along. I recall, once upon a time, On my lower-class youth. ***** jokes, crude dancing, And cluttered apartments. I approach the high-rise building I call home and greet the doorman With the obligatory disregard For his innermost being. Poetry truly is in the strangest of places. Even in an enigma like me. I enter the marble floors, Wiping my feet, My rent as sky-high as The building itself. Elevator. Comforting motion sickness. This is success. The pit of my stomach sinks. I tell myself it's the motion sickness. I return to my apartment, With its symmetrical details. My thoughts return to you. You've never stepped foot in my home, But you've always been here with me. I get dinner started. I set out the extra glass, like always. Rituals like these serve As my Sunday mass. I drink your glass with my evening medication. Dare I say like always?
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So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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Mar 15, 2014
Mar 15, 2014 at 8:25 PM UTC
****** (slam poetry #4)
So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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Sometimes I feel **** alien, even in the Most familiar of surroundings. Instead of spinning, pointing, Naming everything Home, I shut myself, and turn inward. Day after day the first one at a New school in a foreign country, As far from a cool kid as the Overweight teacher's pet with a Stutter. I don't even know how to Speak my own name in their Incomprehensible language. Nothing here is for me, and At least E.T. had a home to phone; all I have is the space i possess as I walk Through it, eyes firm on borrowed Footing. No single road leads to my Rome, and somewhere inside the Timelessness of my innermost, the Old, old man watches the young'uns Talking, dressing, adressing, Preferring, doing it all the way Young'uns do, with pale, tired eyes And simply just Can't, -tries, but- just doesn't Understand.
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 10:39 AM UTC
Homeland Foreigner
*Claim freedom from innermost fears Shackles, which binds the heart to tears Mind’s boundaries keep you in confines Courage is beyond, and your act defines*
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 12:49 AM UTC
Freedom
At this point I know it's over They've told us where the plane is heading I've always thought I'd know what to think if something like this happened But I'm lost here I'm not thinking about my beautiful wife Or my daughter My parents who will outlive me Or my friends who are off living their lives I keep thinking about the mailman No really I do How he'll have to go around tomorrow Passing this tale of tragedy Gracing my family with statistics Thousands dead thousands hurt I feel bad for that mailman For he will never truly understand the pain he will bring This mailman does not know my name He does not know my wife, my daughter, The man next to me, My first grade teacher, my first girlfriend He does not know my dog He does not know my true dreams or my hopes My ambitions, my musings, my innermost thoughts No this mailman only knows he is passing out the paper Delivering news to millions who do not want it
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 6:02 PM UTC
The mailman after 9/11
Wrote this eons ago, tonight, once more, spend some human capital, editing... Something to think about as we tuck ourselves in. the young'uns keep on asking me for tips, secrets, to this art, magical poetry gig, as if I had any left unrevealed.   recalled this old'n, from a vintage poetry year, as a suggestion, a stating-starting place, for young poets: do not self-chain, let the words take you where they lead, write them up for the rhyme is waiting, in the heart chest deep down, not on the screen. I read you Goodnight Moon, Falling asleep beside you. <•> People stop rhyming... When first you overcome your fears, And dare to put on paper your tears, Give it up, set yourself free from the shackles, Of thinking a rhyme is a necessity for a Rooting tooting writing of a **** good poem or a barrel of crackles If you feel lost, Want to share the cost, Feel not bossed, By a newbie's need to believe that if it rhymes Everyone will like your poem Just fine And if you get past this stage, And advance to the next page, Do not think that writing down a sentence of Your mind's first up, innermost thoughts, Is something that will make you Less lost, heralded, worthy of a parade, And be blessed with an A   In your Teacher's pet grade book My heart broke. I feel bad. I feel sad Cause my man/woman left me And I hope Someone kicks his or her *** That Ain't No Poem Neither... And if you can't help but complain repeatedly How life ***** and you're feeling blue extremely indiscreetly, Don't make me try on your scribblings intimately indiscriminately, Read a million, even wrote a few myself You think you can write? Then employ a word outside your comfort zone, Go it alone, Write just four sentences that will make The hopeful reader stand up and you, Twice as much, and shout **Hallelujah ******* Work. Poetry is work. Hard work. Don't fret. But, think on it. Let it come easy, then let it rest,. Then spend days editing every comma, And when you love it so much, You are chest busting bursting, Why have you not pressed Send already? Have the sweetest dreams. In the morning, when you but awake, A poem will be aborning in thy mind, And dare I say it, you will find a new freedom In free verse. (I know you will slip in a rhyme or two, I can't help but do it too) G' nite!
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Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM UTC
People, Stop Rhyming...(July 2013)
Wrote this eons ago, tonight, once more, spend some human capital, editing... Something to think about as we tuck ourselves in. the young'uns keep on asking me for tips, secrets, to this art, magical poetry gig, as if I had any left unrevealed.   recalled this old'n, from a vintage poetry year, as a suggestion, a stating-starting place, for young poets: do not self-chain, let the words take you where they lead, write them up for the rhyme is waiting, in the heart chest deep down, not on the screen. I read you Goodnight Moon, Falling asleep beside you. <•> People stop rhyming... When first you overcome your fears, And dare to put on paper your tears, Give it up, set yourself free from the shackles, Of thinking a rhyme is a necessity for a Rooting tooting writing of a **** good poem or a barrel of crackles If you feel lost, Want to share the cost, Feel not bossed, By a newbie's need to believe that if it rhymes Everyone will like your poem Just fine And if you get past this stage, And advance to the next page, Do not think that writing down a sentence of Your mind's first up, innermost thoughts, Is something that will make you Less lost, heralded, worthy of a parade, And be blessed with an A   In your Teacher's pet grade book My heart broke. I feel bad. I feel sad Cause my man/woman left me And I hope Someone kicks his or her *** That Ain't No Poem Neither... And if you can't help but complain repeatedly How life ***** and you're feeling blue extremely indiscreetly, Don't make me try on your scribblings intimately indiscriminately, Read a million, even wrote a few myself You think you can write? Then employ a word outside your comfort zone, Go it alone, Write just four sentences that will make The hopeful reader stand up and you, Twice as much, and shout **Hallelujah ******* Work. Poetry is work. Hard work. Don't fret. But, think on it. Let it come easy, then let it rest,. Then spend days editing every comma, And when you love it so much, You are chest busting bursting, Why have you not pressed Send already? Have the sweetest dreams. In the morning, when you but awake, A poem will be aborning in thy mind, And dare I say it, you will find a new freedom In free verse. (I know you will slip in a rhyme or two, I can't help but do it too) G' nite!
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I love you dow        w            n to your jagged,          dark edges culling smoke                and twisting tides                   your steaming heart               that pulses, in my hands           as you give it- and the pungent tears when they fall          from your eyes I lick up your pain to soothe it smooth its rawness catching        velvet ripples of skin I pull a blanket of mahogany wine over your soul           lacerations that seep out               from the layers within and in that tender of nightfall's darkest foliage I long to calm your monsters' clawing as they gnaw at you from                   the inside out I crave to fill the hollowed-out longing my own hungers writhing       in obscene                       devout For I am all that is sacred and wild the spark has been lit from my innermost rooms I dance to the drums of the woman as child her mystical ways chanting rhythms in runes Demons might dance as you gaze in reflection in the mirror of time, of unfiltered space       but I adore all your sides,           your imperfections discern the divine in the planes of your face You are my galaxy               of dark matter bringing out my            own looking glass                          of vantablack in a feral crown of obsidian                              and onyx as you reach me deep, there's no going back For when you love me like that, plant your tameless,                             hot seed it blossoms within me a tightly-wrapped tourniquet                for when I bleed and if my guts should spill upon                the  floor you will remind me, in glowing of pores            of who I am and how I am whole a lovelight lit in the storm of my soul I will push down deeper until I feel those roots that connect me to my center   to my succulent fruit So slice me open.      Pull me apart. Let the juice run down to heal      your jagged-edged                heart
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM UTC
jagged-edged heart
I love you dow        w            n to your jagged,          dark edges culling smoke                and twisting tides                   your steaming heart               that pulses, in my hands           as you give it- and the pungent tears when they fall          from your eyes I lick up your pain to soothe it smooth its rawness catching        velvet ripples of skin I pull a blanket of mahogany wine over your soul           lacerations that seep out               from the layers within and in that tender of nightfall's darkest foliage I long to calm your monsters' clawing as they gnaw at you from                   the inside out I crave to fill the hollowed-out longing my own hungers writhing       in obscene                       devout For I am all that is sacred and wild the spark has been lit from my innermost rooms I dance to the drums of the woman as child her mystical ways chanting rhythms in runes Demons might dance as you gaze in reflection in the mirror of time, of unfiltered space       but I adore all your sides,           your imperfections discern the divine in the planes of your face You are my galaxy               of dark matter bringing out my            own looking glass                          of vantablack in a feral crown of obsidian                              and onyx as you reach me deep, there's no going back For when you love me like that, plant your tameless,                             hot seed it blossoms within me a tightly-wrapped tourniquet                for when I bleed and if my guts should spill upon                the  floor you will remind me, in glowing of pores            of who I am and how I am whole a lovelight lit in the storm of my soul I will push down deeper until I feel those roots that connect me to my center   to my succulent fruit So slice me open.      Pull me apart. Let the juice run down to heal      your jagged-edged                heart
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Do you care if I don't know what to say? Just lie in y arms and forget that which troubles your mind, I see the unspoken feelings you keep inside, I want to chase away all your fears, And allow you to be the person that I see inside you, All my hopes, fears, and innermost feelings I have placed in you. Please, just stay in my arms forever. Have I fallen in too deep? So many things are uncertain, Never leave me, Never let me go, Show me my faults, What is this feeling that causes me to shake?
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 10:57 PM UTC
Unsaid Feelings
“daddy, why do you love me.” i love how you make me feel bring out the daddy in me to provide protect give you everything you’re so small vulnerable helpless you are his little his baby girl his kitten daddy’s heart softens warms when you hug dote seek his love and attention sit in his lap wrap your arms around his neck you are daddy’s little girl ************************************* “husband, why do you love me.” i love you as a friend a partner, but most of all as a soul mate you’ve made me better given me a sense of purpose grounded me held my hand opened my heart allowed me to express share my innermost feelings shed tears and not judged me ************************************* “that, my wife & little is why i love you so”
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Mar 14, 2021
Mar 14, 2021 at 11:51 AM UTC
“daddy, why do you love me.” 👩❤️👨 (ddlg)
the trouble with poetry (and this poetry site) is its facilitation awoke in a strange bed, my own, in a different city, with my old eyes renewed with, by loving amazement at the beauty of so many souls experimenting with edged, loving, dangerous compo-notions, that make me older than King David, who loved the love of life and this world, for here I am, falling too for the life & love potions of words of my fellow humans across vast oceans and I stoke their and stroke their heated words, pretending that the cool warmth of my tablet is both their gorgeous skin and alluring verbal twists that arouse my innermost, and break my already broken heart, and heals it at the very same time... all too, so easily this communication is at levels that descend, transcend, grips me with passion and consternation at my own desires, my open body & mind stirred, chilled, shaken, stirred and soothed by the busting out contradictions of us, me, so well hidden, so well revealed in the marvy ability of so many to share their essences, their own scents, just by words upon a page, and here I pause... to consider the duality of the word f a c i l e for poetry shared facilitates this burning,   "     "              "            "             "     tumult, and yet comes to me so facile, that I worry, that the words themselves are facile, cheap & easy, but then I am reassured by the very real drops of my body's fluids upon my cheeks, that confirm, that poetry is too so real, so living, and I guess you know me by my real name, my real face, and my realized words here, and wonder if I need cease to wonder why wonderful is... a thing my poetry is written by silent night, or early morn, so very differing, and laugh out loud at myself, for I am a differing man, at differing times, of a potpourri of contagious contradictory conceptions, that I traverse so easy, this facility is my blessing, and poetry my well worn skill at...facilitating this absurd admixture of human~you-man~a man~amen. and here I leave you... for I have left the sunroom too... @ 3:26 am Thu Sep 4 someplace else
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Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM UTC
the trouble with poetry is...
the trouble with poetry (and this poetry site) is its facilitation awoke in a strange bed, my own, in a different city, with my old eyes renewed with, by loving amazement at the beauty of so many souls experimenting with edged, loving, dangerous compo-notions, that make me older than King David, who loved the love of life and this world, for here I am, falling too for the life & love potions of words of my fellow humans across vast oceans and I stoke their and stroke their heated words, pretending that the cool warmth of my tablet is both their gorgeous skin and alluring verbal twists that arouse my innermost, and break my already broken heart, and heals it at the very same time... all too, so easily this communication is at levels that descend, transcend, grips me with passion and consternation at my own desires, my open body & mind stirred, chilled, shaken, stirred and soothed by the busting out contradictions of us, me, so well hidden, so well revealed in the marvy ability of so many to share their essences, their own scents, just by words upon a page, and here I pause... to consider the duality of the word f a c i l e for poetry shared facilitates this burning,   "     "              "            "             "     tumult, and yet comes to me so facile, that I worry, that the words themselves are facile, cheap & easy, but then I am reassured by the very real drops of my body's fluids upon my cheeks, that confirm, that poetry is too so real, so living, and I guess you know me by my real name, my real face, and my realized words here, and wonder if I need cease to wonder why wonderful is... a thing my poetry is written by silent night, or early morn, so very differing, and laugh out loud at myself, for I am a differing man, at differing times, of a potpourri of contagious contradictory conceptions, that I traverse so easy, this facility is my blessing, and poetry my well worn skill at...facilitating this absurd admixture of human~you-man~a man~amen. and here I leave you... for I have left the sunroom too... @ 3:26 am Thu Sep 4 someplace else
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What if we had a skin like that of chameleons? But instead of mirroring our surroundings It would reflect our innermost state. P.S : I wonder what'd look like for those whose feel empty inside.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Skin
Send me nudes, you said I sent you my naked truths instead - An unfiltered and unapologetic glimpse into my heart my innermost self That part of me that so rarely sees the light of day much less the judgement of another soul In the end, staring at my demons, at my fears, and my weakness you failed to see my strengths, my beauty, or my integrity You looked into the abyss of me and blinked
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Jan 14, 2019
Jan 14, 2019 at 10:38 AM UTC
Send Nudes
Pandemonium seeps, swallows, and creeps like a crawling Virus barreling havoc far beneath the innermost psyche Dispatch the strike, angels discern demons alike, appalling The flight of sparrow's circum to children below Consumed within a thoughtless crow All bold to make haste on an hour's race The final shade seeps under all frontiers A foe abandoned in fear Passing tides in the dead of night Shown troubled to the world's delight Such lonesome calls to a stranger Embark on this journey, my ranger ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012 at 4:13 AM UTC
The Unborn Injustice
The blue of my deep ocean my sunrise at dawn the red of my rose. My fiery beauty in the gentle breeze My evergreen earth and missing heaven on the other side of the wood My golden old, present of now and future fairytale The song of my nightingale. The colours of my day lapis lazuli hue of my sky. My graceful white cloud over the rainbow My serene night in the shadow. My golden ratio design My solemn rise for the star over the hashed twilight hill   when the day is done! My love of life My joy my patience My secret made for heaven. My Sun at the peak and my Moon on the other side of the pool. My homemaker above the storm My fluid innermost.
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Aug 28, 2019
Aug 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM UTC
Love of Life
*Have anthologized every cerebration of mine, finding myself snared in dogmatic mysteries of cosmos. My cognitive contents are razing & vitiating, leaving a brobdingnagian lacuna. Striving to surmount it but, incapable of sating the one that domiciliates within my èlan vital.*
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Jul 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015 at 12:01 PM UTC
Innermost Crusade