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"intervening" poems
You don't know her She is always forgotten In your memories but soon your lips will only describe her as nondescript The script of her life How did she go from being so sweet to rotten From just nightmares to sleep walking Sweet ole her Innocent and pure Now she is impaired In the need of refinement But she doesn't have the strength to try it You see she is chained to the past Barely saw her dad He was mean Always got the last word Drunk and abusive Her mom was an unbloomed tulip Looked kind but was bitter to her daughter They'd fight and she would cry at night She was ashamed of and had extreme anger for mother How can you watch as she takes hits Instead of intervening Police bust down the doors and drag dad to jail To the homeless shelter we go No money, no home It is cold I barely knew what was going on around me Refuse to talk to adults because they were all so confusing And honestly my questions only led to answers that were lies I had fear in my eye The things that I had seen The smoke filled air I'd breathe Let's not forget the bullies That talk stuff because I was so "imperfect" Never had the latest brands Because mom had no bands Let's not forget how dad was back again All hope was drained She had thoughts of suicide and then a boy came Walked his way in She spilled her ink onto his page He left anyways Guess her story was too boring You don't know her You did at a time She is nothing but rotten And only meant to be forgotten
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 5:04 PM UTC
Forgotten
eye sometimes go to bed wearing an old hoody. It has a metal zipper  to close the front and the zipper is always cold, unpleasantly so, on my bare skin.  After awhile though, my body temperature warms the metal just enough, that it is no longer a cause of discomfort though the metal still remains inherently cool to the touch While science can easily explain this I guess, I felt this to be a major miracle.  That flesh pliable and heart-heated to 98 degrees could conquer the molecules of metal that were made in China struck me as extra ordinary (always two words, please!) and nothing short of a personal intervention by a personal deity When I put the hoodie on at first I would think ******* (that's cold) When I awoke, cosy and warm, I would think ******* (that's so cool) having studied philosophy in Cleveland, I knew that the logic of the situation, what I had experienced was not an interregnum, but the invisible intervening handiwork of god, who, also knocked my glasses from the nightable to the floor, just cause she/ he was in a bad mood, on account of having to come such a long way, just, to reheat me one more time.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 9:38 AM UTC
How my hoodie made me believe in god
The ice sifting in my glass melts as the full moon sets Another vice, constricting, like a tightly wound corset I can't be around so many people in such familiar atmospheres without a mixed drink and a cigarette intervening through my beers On her phone, at the table She seems alone but not ashamed I wonder if a single person here could even guess her name For a little liquid courage I finish up my drink I transfer to a closer chair and ask on what she thinks "I've got a past consumed by lovers and a future filled with death But the only thing I've ever wanted was someone else inside my head I want to hear somebody understand that I don't always feel so fine" I think I start to fall in love as she pirouettes her glass of wine She tells me how she grew up on shattered hopes and dreams Yet everything she's ever needed has been well within her reach The scars that she has they paint a vivid history A reminder of the past A tour guide, makeshift, just for me We talk a little longer We joke and we sing Halfway through her bottle her ride informs us she's leaving She says "I think I'm gunna miss you when I'm alone laying in bed Unless you want to take me there and tuck me in instead" We head out to the main street where I hail us a taxi She says she wants to split my headphones and hear something relaxing So we listen to Alcoa Cab Rides & Cigarettes I never knew that such a sad song Could evoke such an affect I dropped her off and left But I'm glad that we had met
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 11:34 AM UTC
Cab Rides & Cigarettes
The ice sifting in my glass melts as the full moon sets Another vice, constricting, like a tightly wound corset I can't be around so many people in such familiar atmospheres without a mixed drink and a cigarette intervening through my beers On her phone, at the table She seems alone but not ashamed I wonder if a single person here could even guess her name For a little liquid courage I finish up my drink I transfer to a closer chair and ask on what she thinks "I've got a past consumed by lovers and a future filled with death But the only thing I've ever wanted was someone else inside my head I want to hear somebody understand that I don't always feel so fine" I think I start to fall in love as she pirouettes her glass of wine She tells me how she grew up on shattered hopes and dreams Yet everything she's ever needed has been well within her reach The scars that she has they paint a vivid history A reminder of the past A tour guide, makeshift, just for me We talk a little longer We joke and we sing Halfway through her bottle her ride informs us she's leaving She says "I think I'm gunna miss you when I'm alone laying in bed Unless you want to take me there and tuck me in instead" We head out to the main street where I hail us a taxi She says she wants to split my headphones and hear something relaxing So we listen to Alcoa Cab Rides & Cigarettes I never knew that such a sad song Could evoke such an affect I dropped her off and left But I'm glad that we had met
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Two hundred years ago and yesterday a sailor wrote a letter in longhand, entrusting it to the road back to his beloved, where dawn was breaking at the closest port of call. A century ago, a shy and lovely mail order bride wrote to the man who would be her husband, in a land entirely different from her own. In her delicate, sincere questions, from a heart wrapped in ornate brocade layers of kimono silk, she hoped to begin to know him. Relationships formed gracefully, over time, an ocean of water and thought intervening. Water and air may be there keeping souls apart, until they are meant to be united.   Now, two beloved young friends have found in each other a twin flame, first seen shining in the virtual world of today. With only letters, or flares or morse code, these two would have seen, and known, that light within one another. Souls destined from very early on. My loving eyes have seen them, decades from now, leaning into one another, silver hair entwined as they rest their heads together on one more journey. I defy anyone who might challenge me, seeing these two blossoming in love from a virtual, chance encounter,  to say that life is any less real in the ways that matter most, when it is born in abstract space, in this manifestation of a reality that is in itself a metaphor for Reality. Reality, is living, deeply living, the inexplicable, unfathomable, exquisitely simple complexity, of being fully human.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 5:45 PM UTC
Virtual Reality, Then and Now
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line corresponding to a societal system in which each person is identified with their matriline;              – their _mother's_ image – and which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline is                                      a line of descent from a common female ancestor to a descendant of either *** in which the individuals in all intervening                           generations are mothers – in other words, a "mother line". In matrilineal descent,                           individuals belong to the same group as their mother.                                                      The matriline of historical nobility was also called the _enatic_ or     _Uterine_ ancestry; From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”),              Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”).
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 10:37 PM UTC
Matrilineality [for Uterinism]
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line corresponding to a societal system in which each person is identified with their matriline;              – their _mother's_ image – and which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline is                                      a line of descent from a common female ancestor to a descendant of either *** in which the individuals in all intervening                           generations are mothers – in other words, a "mother line". In matrilineal descent,                           individuals belong to the same group as their mother.                                                      The matriline of historical nobility was also called the _enatic_ or     _Uterine_ ancestry; From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”),              Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”).
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Two souls alone so far between only nights are calling Shinning stars pointing the way an affection so enthralling Shimmers over tranquil pools the crescent moonlights falling Meetings of two lovers hearts before the mornings dawning The anguish of a waiting heart the flutter of a wing Beauties small enchanted voice hearing the Fairy sing Dreams of love's compulsion, her song the wolf will bring Within two hearts both shall meet on silvers entwined ring A curse that's placed is broken a drink of pure tranquillity The Spirit of the Wolf is called upon a test of his nobility Flight of the fairy's soft élan her grace and her gentility Brake the curse before the dawn the tranquil pools ability Moonlight shines through the night sky a twinkle in a star Sparkles touch the waters edge those loves that leave a scar Both must drink before the light love's lost forever far Glimmers of hope a small sip Wolf's howl at what they are Transformations will occur love will always intervene Magical flickers catch the light and wherever it is seen Once a fairy fluttering now she's a proud Wolf queen Wolf's are always calling where tranquil pools have been The souls of two true lovers, will never be apart Differences are overcome, from Loves intervening heart Tranquil pools compulsive dreams, those feelings from the start When two hearts are intertwined, that's true loves unique art
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Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 7:23 AM UTC
The Calling (new ending 24th February 2019)
A Jurassic forest - a tense moment watching my T Rex, grazing lightly on the jugular vein of some docile lizard, with a toothy grin, when Alan's mum stomped into the room bellowing dinner time and the intervening million years or so turned in a whirl of pages, tumbling legs and screaming kids, and a jumble of Alphabetti Spaghetti tubes, limp in their bloodied ketchup pool, clearly out-flavoured the remembrance of things past.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 2:53 PM UTC
The Food Chain
Trying to figure out why a ***** tried to stunt on me. While my homie fronts on me. Triggered lie’s blasting out like bullets into your chest, golly! Vigor dying whilst family crying that left me locked up now in a little celly. Why did I pour out my heart to that ***** named shelly? **** got me melancholy, casting out poxy curses. My proxy is dropping down which got me feeling worthless. Growing up in projects where one survives by snatching purses and killing snitches. While society bides their time by tying nooses. Rigged games yet we are told to give no excuses. So, a minority got no choice but to role with the punches. But with darker skin colour most don’t or won’t notice the bruises. Vile nobility just loves hunting gooses. Stark contrast idly confides and resides Inside institutionalized nuances. Some people can be such nuisances. Got me feeling like tony roaming through the different cosmoses. Lonely sinking feeling, with my hope which was once flickering but is now slowly fleeting. Reciprocal tensions pokes through my barriers like an unwelcomed greeting. Typical tropes of under-achieving maybe it’s time I let God start intervening? However, I’m doubtful on whether spirituality is real or nothing more than Kris Kringle. Jingling jester choirs who always be harping on my people. Which makes me ponder whether or not God’s supposed love is fickle. Or if supposed believer’s have actually ever read the bible? Religious pharisee’s not seeing the irony of praying to their falsified idols. With their heads so far up their own *** That they don’t even realize that they’ve actually been worshipping the devil.
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Feb 6, 2019
Feb 6, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
Madvillian
Trying to figure out why a ***** tried to stunt on me. While my homie fronts on me. Triggered lie’s blasting out like bullets into your chest, golly! Vigor dying whilst family crying that left me locked up now in a little celly. Why did I pour out my heart to that ***** named shelly? **** got me melancholy, casting out poxy curses. My proxy is dropping down which got me feeling worthless. Growing up in projects where one survives by snatching purses and killing snitches. While society bides their time by tying nooses. Rigged games yet we are told to give no excuses. So, a minority got no choice but to role with the punches. But with darker skin colour most don’t or won’t notice the bruises. Vile nobility just loves hunting gooses. Stark contrast idly confides and resides Inside institutionalized nuances. Some people can be such nuisances. Got me feeling like tony roaming through the different cosmoses. Lonely sinking feeling, with my hope which was once flickering but is now slowly fleeting. Reciprocal tensions pokes through my barriers like an unwelcomed greeting. Typical tropes of under-achieving maybe it’s time I let God start intervening? However, I’m doubtful on whether spirituality is real or nothing more than Kris Kringle. Jingling jester choirs who always be harping on my people. Which makes me ponder whether or not God’s supposed love is fickle. Or if supposed believer’s have actually ever read the bible? Religious pharisee’s not seeing the irony of praying to their falsified idols. With their heads so far up their own *** That they don’t even realize that they’ve actually been worshipping the devil.
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What I did, intervening with your life was wrong I'm old but I pretended I was young And you've played along, treating me like a sister and a friend I'm horrible but that's something you refuse to comprehend. I don't think you love me cause you still don't understand That despite my past and failures, I am still a man And I don't want your love any other way except unconditional I don't yearn for pity because I'm unforgivable. You should have left me ages and ages ago But then I would have left you too. There's no way you could warm my stubborn old heart With no flame in your eyes, not even a spark. I don't think you love me cause you still don't understand That despite my past and failures, I am still a man And I don't want your love any other way except unconditional I don't yearn for pity because I'm unforgivable. You should have kicked me out ages ago Now I constantly feel guilty and ungrateful. You always treat me like a sister, daughter, friend I'm a man and that's something you refuse to comprehend. I don't think you love me cause you still don't understand That despite my past and failures, I am still a man And I don't want your love any other way except unconditional I don't yearn for pity because I'm unforgivable. Don't give me pity because what I did was unforgivable. 12th May 2016
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May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016 at 5:59 AM UTC
I'm Unforgivable
We share the bliss; the leaves fall to the floor. Then we kiss, who knows what for. It’s now a quarter till four . We dismiss the screaming ***** who left her litter for us to ignore. Tonight, She feels lucky, standing outside of Ricky Jay’s bar. As she waits beside a stranger’s car , little does she know, He’s not into infidelity. The asphalt absorbs the neon glow. The ***** adores the white alley cat. We wonder how she got here We imagine her story. She was strong like a bear , but is now a short term circuit Dory. We fell for the despair of her misfortune. The town drunk passed on the close margin. We left and took the moon out for a walk I began to talk, “Will that be us when we’re 33?” She took a moment to ponder She faced me and replied with an upside down smile     , “I’m no fortune teller, but we would have  been far better off if you didn’t break my heart.” She said enough. Thankfully she did… I had to **** I let you have your head start I then followed after you I found you hiding in an abandoned  canoe. With a gaping hole intervening the lost canoe Nowhere near a reflecting stream. She wiped off her ****** cream The puncture wound , separates  us from common ground. I sat across from her, We began to reminisce about Denver On that cold night last November Taking a break from the big tour Sharing one bed in a hotel room We kept our luggage packed Thinking we may never go back We held each other warm and tight. Now under the pale blue moonlight Back in the canoe, Autumn’s early breeze Sends shivers through our knees. Gazing at you, I wish to give something true. Holding your hand whispering, “Finally, near to a full year. I overcame the fear , here’s to you kid. I feel the same way you did these same exact words; now transparently clear that you  whispered in my ear. On a cold night in late November. TJW2013
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Oct 21, 2013
Oct 21, 2013 at 1:42 AM UTC
The Abandoned Canoe
We share the bliss; the leaves fall to the floor. Then we kiss, who knows what for. It’s now a quarter till four . We dismiss the screaming ***** who left her litter for us to ignore. Tonight, She feels lucky, standing outside of Ricky Jay’s bar. As she waits beside a stranger’s car , little does she know, He’s not into infidelity. The asphalt absorbs the neon glow. The ***** adores the white alley cat. We wonder how she got here We imagine her story. She was strong like a bear , but is now a short term circuit Dory. We fell for the despair of her misfortune. The town drunk passed on the close margin. We left and took the moon out for a walk I began to talk, “Will that be us when we’re 33?” She took a moment to ponder She faced me and replied with an upside down smile     , “I’m no fortune teller, but we would have  been far better off if you didn’t break my heart.” She said enough. Thankfully she did… I had to **** I let you have your head start I then followed after you I found you hiding in an abandoned  canoe. With a gaping hole intervening the lost canoe Nowhere near a reflecting stream. She wiped off her ****** cream The puncture wound , separates  us from common ground. I sat across from her, We began to reminisce about Denver On that cold night last November Taking a break from the big tour Sharing one bed in a hotel room We kept our luggage packed Thinking we may never go back We held each other warm and tight. Now under the pale blue moonlight Back in the canoe, Autumn’s early breeze Sends shivers through our knees. Gazing at you, I wish to give something true. Holding your hand whispering, “Finally, near to a full year. I overcame the fear , here’s to you kid. I feel the same way you did these same exact words; now transparently clear that you  whispered in my ear. On a cold night in late November. TJW2013
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I chained myself to the earth I planted the seed that grew into many I chose not the stars not the heavens but land and gravity when you're bigger than the universe smaller than an atom made up of matter and empty space what's the point in floating around? when there's no one to float with you tend to be grounded now it's not like that I now feel clustered and confused now I want to float and fly away You have to take the bad with the good though once you start something and let it's will be free you no longer have control of the outcome which made it all new and fresh though I see redundancy and monotony in the flesh repeating the same **** mistakes and learning nothing have I gone mad? Or has the world that came from me done so? I guess that's why intervening now and again breaking through unnecessary barriers challenging faith and shedding light on a few things, helps the cause I can't do it all though, well if I did, then many would lose purpose that's why I just float so long as it all goes accordingly unplanned and undefined it's the point we shall evolve to funny for one to think life is complicated it is if there's no purpose When the time comes those who went through all the trouble those who were searching with their minds are going to realize that the mind only seeks the heart answers we let our shells rule ourselves sometimes but the shell only shows what the heart bleeds for I will admit that it would be complicating to try and understand all that is but you didn't make it, so how can you know what the artist felt when they were in the process of creation? there were some points where it was complicating even for myself, but that was when I got closer to the finish line which did I mention? It doesn't exist. All in all we all evolve to resolve from one into many and many into one you can look at a puzzle when it's all together and see beauty but after you take apart the pieces and understand each piece's purpose for it's shape you then not only see beauty, but beauty with experiential wisdom I was a void to fill now I'm full to burst the void now has a void for it no longer thirsts the cycle shall carry on with miracles along the way that's the way it is and it will never stay the same contradiction you may think but I bring balance in a blink I chain myself to break the chains I break the chains to find freedom in new links until the day when only scars remain and the spirit of a star reigns
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Aug 1, 2011
Aug 1, 2011 at 2:24 AM UTC
Temporal causality loop (Can you see what I see?)
I chained myself to the earth I planted the seed that grew into many I chose not the stars not the heavens but land and gravity when you're bigger than the universe smaller than an atom made up of matter and empty space what's the point in floating around? when there's no one to float with you tend to be grounded now it's not like that I now feel clustered and confused now I want to float and fly away You have to take the bad with the good though once you start something and let it's will be free you no longer have control of the outcome which made it all new and fresh though I see redundancy and monotony in the flesh repeating the same **** mistakes and learning nothing have I gone mad? Or has the world that came from me done so? I guess that's why intervening now and again breaking through unnecessary barriers challenging faith and shedding light on a few things, helps the cause I can't do it all though, well if I did, then many would lose purpose that's why I just float so long as it all goes accordingly unplanned and undefined it's the point we shall evolve to funny for one to think life is complicated it is if there's no purpose When the time comes those who went through all the trouble those who were searching with their minds are going to realize that the mind only seeks the heart answers we let our shells rule ourselves sometimes but the shell only shows what the heart bleeds for I will admit that it would be complicating to try and understand all that is but you didn't make it, so how can you know what the artist felt when they were in the process of creation? there were some points where it was complicating even for myself, but that was when I got closer to the finish line which did I mention? It doesn't exist. All in all we all evolve to resolve from one into many and many into one you can look at a puzzle when it's all together and see beauty but after you take apart the pieces and understand each piece's purpose for it's shape you then not only see beauty, but beauty with experiential wisdom I was a void to fill now I'm full to burst the void now has a void for it no longer thirsts the cycle shall carry on with miracles along the way that's the way it is and it will never stay the same contradiction you may think but I bring balance in a blink I chain myself to break the chains I break the chains to find freedom in new links until the day when only scars remain and the spirit of a star reigns
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say something or just keep on makin' ghost-patterned, intervening silences, singing or half-murmuring verses, those ones from slow songs under low light, the same refrain that runs between all the others, through the passage of weeks, stained tobacco sweet by eleven-thirty iterations; * [post-meridian or particulate matters only, of course, it's hard to wake before noon anymore.]* with the way these rhythms keep us down and out, counting the methods- the summations of potential miseries, and the probabilities that all would or could turn around, before the end of the week. or the next one. and, outside the door, the one after that, over the acres of concrete and pale shade, streetlit likenesses hushing air through melting neighbourhoods, I make imaginary footprints, wondering which, of the field of household starlit comforts, is the blade of grass you cast seeds from to inadvertently germinate and sprout a well of aspiration, the wind in a stranger's ribcage, continually growing, hiccoughing leaf litter, with every last breath.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM UTC
after the Jacobean epoch of gardening began:
. . . go out into the evening,     leaving your room, of which you know each bit,     your house is the last before the infinite, . . .     (from Rainer Maria Rilke's "Eingang", MacIntyre translation)    The light which strikes my retina as I look at the Great Galaxy in Andromeda left there two million years ago. (Hominids made tools from stone then, but had not yet         learned the use of fire. Genetic material from certain of these hominids has been passed from one being to another and now is in my own body.)    Millennia from now, humans who have colonized the farthest reaches of our galaxy, laboriously creating and maintaining Earth-like atmospheres, will marvel that there once was a place so perfectly suited to     human life that such labor was unnecessary. (Just as we marvel that orchids, whose precise temperature and humidity requirements would seem to necessitate a greenhouse, grow wild in the Amazon.)    I cannot believe in a personal God, intervening in human affairs, but stand in awe of the terrible force which set the stars and galaxies in motion --strewing them like so much confetti--; the life-force running through each living creature,                                               as straight and true as a ray of light from that galaxy in Andromeda, willing us to live, grow and be fruitful.
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 4:04 PM UTC
In The Fullness Of Time
He talks to me, In dreams, When I wake up, When I sit at the writing desk, Quill in my hand. He made me feel safe. Who are you? I am Hyde. Why are you in my head? To guide you. To help you. To love you. He spoke to me everyday, His deep and subtle voice lingering In the back of my mind, Never interrupting when I spoke, Never intervening in my actions. I felt compelled to keep him close, To drag him from the dark confines Of my subconscious and let him Perch behind my eyes so he could see what I see, Behind my mouth so he could say what I say, Behind my heart so he can live like I live. We became one. But one day he changed. He grew stronger, Louder, I felt his phantom presence Fuse with my bones, Wrapping his fingers around my ribcage, Cutting off the air in my lungs. It was suffocating, Letting him take over me, To overpower me. I tried to send him back to Hell, Back to the dark confines That I so willingly and half-heartedly Pulled him from, But I was weak and I was foolish. I felt the sinister urges boil beneath my skin, Felt the need for destructive satisfaction with each pulse, He didn't want to hurt people, I did. I gave myself to him, And now I am his puppet. A tragic love story between A troubled body And a chaotic mind.
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM UTC
Jekyll and Hyde: A Love Story
Perhaps I should take blame for not laying specifics. Or perhaps, for not in the moment doubting her loyalty and intervening. In the game of dares, she to kiss another, and, regardless of gender, not me. I had said before, "our physical embraces and emotional turmoil boiled into heated enamor stays in our love, our bond, our tie." I believed honestly that she would be wise enough or calm enough to say "No, I refuse it." I believed she loved me enough to know the boundary is real and that when I said, "No", I lacked sarcasm. Or, I was not open enough to list the specifics of what not to do and instead left too much open to her imagination. In that moment, as the group of friends were amazed at her polyamorous behavior lubricated with ***** the fog of the mind, and they laughed and sent cheers outward, I burned into the deepest rage humanly possible. For that split second, I debated leaving the party: but, I was drunk, and the drive wasn't worth such risk. I debated yelling: but it was her party to lead, not mine to destroy. Instead, I sat in self-loathing, hating myself so purely, but I couldn't bring myself to be mad at her, I don't think. Again, the fog was floating. I wanted to explode, but instead imploded. I wished for nothing but to leave, to drink more to forget, but instead I sit in rest without sleep, concentration, peace, but instead sit in pure hatred: of what? Not her, not the girl, but myself, for not doing enough, not mattering enough.
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 11:37 PM UTC
Too Mad for Patience: Too Patient for Madness
Summer field at rest; alive. We stopped haying twenty-five years past. Birds and bugs, golden rod and asters and Worts, spiders, voles make it their home. We mow Once a year. And it breaks my heart. Good-by flowers for Honey bees. Cover for warblers, Mama turkeys and broods. Bedroom for deer. Hidden lunch room for ground hogs Until Jack Russell breaks their necks, At least of the little ones. Old hog mama requires my intervening shovel. Otherwise she'd shred Jack's face. 9/23/2012
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 12:59 PM UTC
Summer Field At Rest
I've got the rhythm, but don't look anythang like a Nashvillian soul     Been living on the streets, so I ain't been on any **** census role     I'm not my mother's natural birth child, without any apology     But I’m god’s chosen and gifted, finger picking, guitar prodigy         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         My Mama once said, just do your music or do something else     So, I'm legally insane and uncomfortable to be with, I guess     I don't actually see myself living anywhere forever     But, how'd ya know, that you've actually arrived, wherever         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         If they don't ever remember the month or day, since leaving     Families gettin' together, telling lies, now police intervening     I sometimes have to forget that I wrote it, to be able to like it     As long as fans think dope of it, why bother to disable the ****     Hoed fresh corn all day, everyday, been up since the crack of dawn     Pretty plenty of backyard swamp talkin' catfish, have since been born         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         He'd hit a rabbit a sittin' and killed it with the barrel of his gun     While the dang hammer was a peckin' a wild hog to death     Like gettin' outta control and hardly takin' a shot of breath     Or being a drunken redneck, on a 7 day weekend hillbilly whiskey run.
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Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 at 10:48 PM UTC
Think Dope Of It
I've got the rhythm, but don't look anythang like a Nashvillian soul     Been living on the streets, so I ain't been on any **** census role     I'm not my mother's natural birth child, without any apology     But I’m god’s chosen and gifted, finger picking, guitar prodigy         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         My Mama once said, just do your music or do something else     So, I'm legally insane and uncomfortable to be with, I guess     I don't actually see myself living anywhere forever     But, how'd ya know, that you've actually arrived, wherever         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         If they don't ever remember the month or day, since leaving     Families gettin' together, telling lies, now police intervening     I sometimes have to forget that I wrote it, to be able to like it     As long as fans think dope of it, why bother to disable the ****     Hoed fresh corn all day, everyday, been up since the crack of dawn     Pretty plenty of backyard swamp talkin' catfish, have since been born         Sun lights up the whole **** town, whilst it's still night-time     So, save your smoke doping act, 'til the dark of the daytime     CUCKUK, CUCKUK, cruisin' down some unnamed highways     That's what y’all be not knowin', 'bout da Tennessee ways         He'd hit a rabbit a sittin' and killed it with the barrel of his gun     While the dang hammer was a peckin' a wild hog to death     Like gettin' outta control and hardly takin' a shot of breath     Or being a drunken redneck, on a 7 day weekend hillbilly whiskey run.
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dedicated to all of the women~poets here I love not-so-secretly early to bed, early to rise, stunned to sleep by a superhero trio, sunset extraordinaire, food and drink, but, nonetheless  I am awakened by a poem birthing, water breaking, now in full labor, burning borning, inside a man's womb full wattage, thus empowered, the moonlight nudges me awake at 300am with something real halfway between a slap and a tonguing kiss of pure white ****** light This night sun has an entourage clouds in attendance, attend-dance, exactly, so many fawning, that the bright light upon the water, normally a claro path, tonight, but, just, a moon spot smudged by the shapes of cloud interlopers intervening tween me and she... (nature is female, everybody knows that!) yet, the night sun is so overwhelming bright that everything is perfect outlined edged sharp in relief, the stand of six, our bedroom guardians, six oaks strong, are quiet, at-attention still, their leafy dress uniforms perfectly pressed, as I am too, at full attention now I understand why soldiers award themselves oak leaf clusters as medals of decoration, bravery poor man's mind weak with admiration, plots alternative W courses, a. Walk on water as invited b. Wake her with your tongue, in order to put her back to sleep,                                        (with your tongue) c. Write a poem with eye light d. W-all of the above unable to decide, no, that's wrong, incapable of decide, I do the bravest act, self-decorate myself with a white badge of courage, go back to sleep, thinking I should not drink so much wine on weekends, but write of love and desire, moons in July not June, like the inner kid wants to and I look at the title this poem gave itself, Full Moon Woman Life wondering where the commas should be placed, then realize it is all one word
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 4:40 AM UTC
Full Moon Woman Life
dedicated to all of the women~poets here I love not-so-secretly early to bed, early to rise, stunned to sleep by a superhero trio, sunset extraordinaire, food and drink, but, nonetheless  I am awakened by a poem birthing, water breaking, now in full labor, burning borning, inside a man's womb full wattage, thus empowered, the moonlight nudges me awake at 300am with something real halfway between a slap and a tonguing kiss of pure white ****** light This night sun has an entourage clouds in attendance, attend-dance, exactly, so many fawning, that the bright light upon the water, normally a claro path, tonight, but, just, a moon spot smudged by the shapes of cloud interlopers intervening tween me and she... (nature is female, everybody knows that!) yet, the night sun is so overwhelming bright that everything is perfect outlined edged sharp in relief, the stand of six, our bedroom guardians, six oaks strong, are quiet, at-attention still, their leafy dress uniforms perfectly pressed, as I am too, at full attention now I understand why soldiers award themselves oak leaf clusters as medals of decoration, bravery poor man's mind weak with admiration, plots alternative W courses, a. Walk on water as invited b. Wake her with your tongue, in order to put her back to sleep,                                        (with your tongue) c. Write a poem with eye light d. W-all of the above unable to decide, no, that's wrong, incapable of decide, I do the bravest act, self-decorate myself with a white badge of courage, go back to sleep, thinking I should not drink so much wine on weekends, but write of love and desire, moons in July not June, like the inner kid wants to and I look at the title this poem gave itself, Full Moon Woman Life wondering where the commas should be placed, then realize it is all one word
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My heart may be just, but it keeps on filling. With love by my side, I'm more than just willing. But what is love, and even better, it's meaning? Whatever it is, it shan't see intervening. For without I am lost; a user with no drug. Nothing else can compare to the almighty lovebug.
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Oct 29, 2011
Oct 29, 2011 at 2:21 AM UTC
"Forever Bitten"
I was on the edge of jumping to my fate but there You were sitting in the sunrise, so late… between the rays of grace sitting and staring upon Your face You saved me You saved once again the false and broken strings of this melody I can no longer ignore my heart it felt so dizzy broken between the waves of what would seem like a fast approaching door a fast approaching floor… but then I felt a feather dusting at my heart lighter than my body weight would feel in mid air… it was Your Love, your neverendin’ love, intervening- Bridging my way back to life jumping my way back to life.
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Jul 5, 2016
Jul 5, 2016 at 4:05 AM UTC
ON THE EDGE (of a bridge)
‘tis almost a full moon yet again, the sands of time slip-slide away leaving her to contend with a plethora of gray. as the sunset glow lingers drifting across a blue sapphire sky, loneliness yearns company. this wine has softened during these intervening years, laced with a maturity that now speaks the language of wisdom. © 2021
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Aug 21, 2021
Aug 21, 2021 at 1:30 PM UTC
the downtown chronicle
my pointer finger caresses her knuckles, intervening between her fingers, soft shell teasing, sliding off her manicured fingernails, in order that I return here to lay down copious notes I re-land inside the palm of her hand, warm, a Caribbean beach smooth breezy sensation, she wraps up my instrument of exploration with a four finger grip, a signal fire to escape, travel north up her arm to the pause point of her bare shoulders, where her body finally speaks, why oh why, stop here, skip, skip to my lou, lips, my ******* jealous, the ******* no less, now restless, the rest of me requires two hands, if, you can, still caress with the best, while typing with the pointy tip of your nose?
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May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 at 10:01 AM UTC
my pointer finger dilemma