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"jarred" poems
Midnight! Midnight! Midnight! The burning sensation of those word were hard to digest Sorrow, Tear, How ugly can I be Black is Beauty I say…to whom they say Midnight! Midnight!.. you are as dark as Midnight I'm haunted by those words, As they stuck to me like fresh sap from a tree.. I’m drowning, I’m drowning, I can’t get free, those words will forever trail me.. They trailed me; they jarred me, Blackie Tutu! Blackie Tutu! How can kids be so cruel using skin color as a tool I held my own and stayed cool for I knew has long I was in this school my fate was doom. Pickey-Pickey head! was the melody of the song I listened allowing the word to sink into my soul The beat made me sick and I knew this one would also stick I Looked up to the sky wondering why No! No! No! Woman don’t cry Be an African and hold your pride… Hands by my side, I held my head up high I found the fight within me, Stone faced Killer bee I faced the music and it set me free On the attack I had them flee…using word to conquer thee I carried on knowing freedom wasn’t free and then Like bolt of lightning it occurred me   To defeat them I had to BELIEVE in ME
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Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018 at 8:16 AM UTC
MIDNIGHT-MIDNIGHT by Amoy
Take what is left of mine Something buried and something wound a jarred melody of a song most dear and hang it upon a river of self-doubt to let it float in a pond of that overrated emotion. They had always said                                                          in LOVE nothing should really matter. Never told us about the different ones.                   don't they need it too?
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Jun 10, 2012
Jun 10, 2012 at 2:01 AM UTC
Infiltrating Valhalla
351 I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there— I held my spirit to the Glass, To prove it possibler— I turned my Being round and round And paused at every pound To ask the Owner’s name— For doubt, that I should know the Sound— I judged my features—jarred my hair— I pushed my dimples by, and waited— If they—twinkled back— Conviction might, of me— I told myself, “Take Courage, Friend— That—was a former time— But we might learn to like the Heaven, As well as our Old Home!”
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I felt my life with both my hands
~ In ode to all who succumb through wayward passages lined of scribble notes dripping ink’s savagery, staining cursive patterns in Sylvia-like depressions Jarred bells ring down lost tunnels around each dark corner…clang from steeples we chase and beds we lie draped in sadness and shapes of poetic happenstance Tear drop vinaigrette spiced of leftover lifetimes drizzled on leafy desperation bids a tired farewell before time collects the deserved rewards
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Aug 6, 2015
Aug 6, 2015 at 1:10 PM UTC
Deserved rewards
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I’ve seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch that trembled while I stood Bent o’er its wall to watch the dashing spray As their old stations would be washed away Crash came the ice against the jambs and then A shudder jarred the arches—yet once more It breasted raving waves and stood agen To wait the shock as stubborn as before —White foam brown crested with the russet soil As washed from new plough lands would dart beneath Then round and round a thousand eddies boil On tother side—then pause as if for breath One minute—and engulphed—like life in death Whose wrecky stains dart on the floods away More swift than shadows in a stormy day Straws trail and turn and steady—all in vain The engulfing arches shoot them quickly through The feather dances flutters and again Darts through the deepest dangers still afloat Seeming as faireys whisked it from the view And danced it o’er the waves as pleasures boat Light hearted as a thought in May— Trays—uptorn bushes—fence demolished rails Loaded with weeds in sluggish motions stray Like water monsters lost each winds and trails Till near the arches—then as in affright It plunges—reels—and shudders out of sight Waves trough—rebound—and fury boil again Like plunging monsters rising underneath Who at the top curl up a shaggy main A moment catching at a surer breath Then plunging headlong down and down—and on Each following boil the shadow of the last And other monsters rise when those are gone Crest their fringed waves—plunge onward and are past —The chill air comes around me ocean blea From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread Strange birds like snow spots o’er the huzzing sea Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled On roars the flood—all restless to be free Like trouble wandering to eternity
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The Flood
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I’ve seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch that trembled while I stood Bent o’er its wall to watch the dashing spray As their old stations would be washed away Crash came the ice against the jambs and then A shudder jarred the arches—yet once more It breasted raving waves and stood agen To wait the shock as stubborn as before —White foam brown crested with the russet soil As washed from new plough lands would dart beneath Then round and round a thousand eddies boil On tother side—then pause as if for breath One minute—and engulphed—like life in death Whose wrecky stains dart on the floods away More swift than shadows in a stormy day Straws trail and turn and steady—all in vain The engulfing arches shoot them quickly through The feather dances flutters and again Darts through the deepest dangers still afloat Seeming as faireys whisked it from the view And danced it o’er the waves as pleasures boat Light hearted as a thought in May— Trays—uptorn bushes—fence demolished rails Loaded with weeds in sluggish motions stray Like water monsters lost each winds and trails Till near the arches—then as in affright It plunges—reels—and shudders out of sight Waves trough—rebound—and fury boil again Like plunging monsters rising underneath Who at the top curl up a shaggy main A moment catching at a surer breath Then plunging headlong down and down—and on Each following boil the shadow of the last And other monsters rise when those are gone Crest their fringed waves—plunge onward and are past —The chill air comes around me ocean blea From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread Strange birds like snow spots o’er the huzzing sea Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled On roars the flood—all restless to be free Like trouble wandering to eternity
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You said you're innocent and that all was just coincidence I sneered "Oh, such confidence.." I feigned my courage but how could I manage to taste this cold spoilt porridge? Why does it hurt more when you say this? Why does your tears feel like acid on my skin? Do you see these wounds? They never healed You scratched my scars All those times you pleaded You twisted the knife you once stabbed You drilled your nails as I watch it jarred to my flesh And what else? Drenched them with brine of memories But where were you all those years? When this girl cried buckets Drowned with her own tears? How I wish You can put her arms back to their sockets Maybe then She will forget how you made her feel And once again Hold you like everything was just a dream. -Twist The Knife, Margaret Austin Go
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Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 5:18 AM UTC
Twist The Knife
the night was already crazy-wild by the time we arrived at Jarred's pool. he had a big house but we never went in 4 teens, teen dream, a dream team; but I knew deep down just what it was we snuck out for. a "transform-optional" rite, this hollow night. but I still had doubts... as Jarred offered me an aluminum can of something and I nervously said, "no thank you", the moon had proudly jut out he had a big house but we never went in. I hadn't noticed, without the moonlight, just how sharp Jarred's teeth and fingernails were. canines, ivory & sporadic. looking at me I hadn't noticed how reptilian our 2 friends were The fangs and dislocating jaws, tendrils & scales. Man-o-war for a head, giant earthworm for an arm She looked scarier than he. Those 2 went at each other in a murderous way A blood sport of sorts. Confusing to me. She spread her jaws wide - a parachute with teeth And bit down hard between his legs. Blood everywhere. Blood spattered on her face She looked ****** god-awful by then. The meat of his dead body then re-animated And assimilated with hers. Anabiosis + Differentiate Jarred, a werewolf or something like it, approached me. He had a big house but we never went in. we chatted poolside for a while he'd go harmoniously from monster to human, human to monster. Boiling cancerous growths under his fur Grew angry eyes that glared at me. clawhand on the back of my neck, he went in for a kiss (or a bite) with a puckered face and bared teeth. This is it. I finally felt a grossness so profound that I, without thinking, jumped in the pool to splish-splash, cool, to escape, whatever I opened my eyes and just floated there for a bit. hanging in the stillness trying to forget those alien freaks staring up at the moon from the bottom of a pool.
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Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
Jump In the Pool
the night was already crazy-wild by the time we arrived at Jarred's pool. he had a big house but we never went in 4 teens, teen dream, a dream team; but I knew deep down just what it was we snuck out for. a "transform-optional" rite, this hollow night. but I still had doubts... as Jarred offered me an aluminum can of something and I nervously said, "no thank you", the moon had proudly jut out he had a big house but we never went in. I hadn't noticed, without the moonlight, just how sharp Jarred's teeth and fingernails were. canines, ivory & sporadic. looking at me I hadn't noticed how reptilian our 2 friends were The fangs and dislocating jaws, tendrils & scales. Man-o-war for a head, giant earthworm for an arm She looked scarier than he. Those 2 went at each other in a murderous way A blood sport of sorts. Confusing to me. She spread her jaws wide - a parachute with teeth And bit down hard between his legs. Blood everywhere. Blood spattered on her face She looked ****** god-awful by then. The meat of his dead body then re-animated And assimilated with hers. Anabiosis + Differentiate Jarred, a werewolf or something like it, approached me. He had a big house but we never went in. we chatted poolside for a while he'd go harmoniously from monster to human, human to monster. Boiling cancerous growths under his fur Grew angry eyes that glared at me. clawhand on the back of my neck, he went in for a kiss (or a bite) with a puckered face and bared teeth. This is it. I finally felt a grossness so profound that I, without thinking, jumped in the pool to splish-splash, cool, to escape, whatever I opened my eyes and just floated there for a bit. hanging in the stillness trying to forget those alien freaks staring up at the moon from the bottom of a pool.
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The truck was full, its open back heaped black, and there a leg, an eye; daylight thickened on the sweating stack and blurred the further sky. Ten feet away I pulled the key and let the engine jolt and choke, the CD skipped, an old riff jarred, a line of meaning stopped and broke and something in that silence straightened, left a splintered ****** mark, I closed my eyes and felt it there, hating in the blinded dark.
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Nov 20, 2011
Nov 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM UTC
The Chicken Truck
The poets became the underwear sale men They tried to sell their poems to the optimist Whereas an Queen of African Pop singer exposes her body on stage While belting out loud outrageous lyrics, because she was a crowd pleaser Long poems, short poems Old century poets, modern contemporary poets We all have the right to sermonize your words into magical dust, The contemporary poets stood on the balcony reciting, Some onlookers’ claps and some Jarred Today’s youth is being waste away faster than their elders Chanting, raving ranting rapping lyrics from the balcony making a mockery of the old century poetic poets The poets became the underwear sale men as they tried to sell their poems to the optimist
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 7:12 AM UTC
When Poets Becomes The Underwear Sale Men
Ten years ago if you would've stopped me on the street and said that I'd be stuck at a dead end job, divorcing my husband of fifteen years, and dividing three kids between two houses and twenty miles, I would've spat in your face with laughter. We never intend to have our life's plans crumble before us, watching our spouses change into different people and our children pick themselves apart because all the words their parents say are fights disguised in jabs and cracks at each other: the time they don't have, the money they don't have, the love they don't have. And in ten years, two people can fall apart the way a river branches into separate streams, continuously flowing away from their source, navigating bends and crossing the silted mud of life together until they split up. And everything we take for granted, those necessities of life, are broken down into their basic elements. Water is merely hydrogen and oxygen. A marriage is but two people who can be divided, simplified, classified, jarred up, studied, separated. *Two streams diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not see this coming.* It just happens that way. Life just happens that way.
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 8:45 PM UTC
10 Years Later
The message is simple, the delivery hard, even as his eyes cut holes for it to enter. White rims that flash, like beasts that spar Natural strobes flicker, to thicken the black center. When intent is replied with padded knuckle intent Ungraceful, his neck turns past comforts vector. I turn away to close a window from the storm. Thought pathways like drunken footprints stepped but a spark in the cloud of numbness replies. My clenched thumb releases his bicep And the arthritic cogs inside us violently un-subside. Those muscle strings in my handwriting to the letter the red bull replies, but rain breaks my gaze to the window. Knuckles like bruised alps in formation; the boy’s got blood lightning in his eyes, And so have I. ***** in the sockets I’m pushing on, to revel in colors of my ****** mind’s sky. I hurt myself to try telling that one ****** idea. Tasting the punch, spitting iron, my Boxer I despise. The classic writer’s hand ache makes me relinquish my pen. Those axons, which lead to nothing, they have now reached it. Flayed to the winds. The eye’s blinds closed completely. In darkness, rasping breath resounding and the lungs like strained gluttons for life are clearly mocking the hearts desperate beating. I put the pen horizontal to the desk. It possesses all the use of a dead man’s organs. But the sway, rains sweat from hair down to skin, Then to polish the padded domes of pain. When flesh rolls like thunder, bones crack like lightning. His legs, my pen and both our minds are jarred from this refrain. And upon the strike, I’ll polish words and pad their meaning, Punch the reader, And enjoy the force that they contain.
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Aug 25, 2013
Aug 25, 2013 at 7:18 PM UTC
The Boxer
The message is simple, the delivery hard, even as his eyes cut holes for it to enter. White rims that flash, like beasts that spar Natural strobes flicker, to thicken the black center. When intent is replied with padded knuckle intent Ungraceful, his neck turns past comforts vector. I turn away to close a window from the storm. Thought pathways like drunken footprints stepped but a spark in the cloud of numbness replies. My clenched thumb releases his bicep And the arthritic cogs inside us violently un-subside. Those muscle strings in my handwriting to the letter the red bull replies, but rain breaks my gaze to the window. Knuckles like bruised alps in formation; the boy’s got blood lightning in his eyes, And so have I. ***** in the sockets I’m pushing on, to revel in colors of my ****** mind’s sky. I hurt myself to try telling that one ****** idea. Tasting the punch, spitting iron, my Boxer I despise. The classic writer’s hand ache makes me relinquish my pen. Those axons, which lead to nothing, they have now reached it. Flayed to the winds. The eye’s blinds closed completely. In darkness, rasping breath resounding and the lungs like strained gluttons for life are clearly mocking the hearts desperate beating. I put the pen horizontal to the desk. It possesses all the use of a dead man’s organs. But the sway, rains sweat from hair down to skin, Then to polish the padded domes of pain. When flesh rolls like thunder, bones crack like lightning. His legs, my pen and both our minds are jarred from this refrain. And upon the strike, I’ll polish words and pad their meaning, Punch the reader, And enjoy the force that they contain.
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Laughter, Rib Punching, Bone Popping, Innocent Laughter, The Purest Form Of Happiness, Jarred Inside My Soul, Packed For A The Trip I'll Make Someday, As I Go Up A Yonder, I Will Release This Music, Like A Million Balloons, Sound Made From The Cello Of Love Smiling, Eye Squinting, Cheek Bursting, Perfect Smiles, The Purest Form Of Any Type Of Love, Slow Motion, The Strings On The Violin Of Life, Strum A Steady Heartbeat Thinking, Head Grasping, Stinging Thoughts, Swarm My Mind, Our Future, Our Path On This Ever Stretching Road, The Bass, The Harmony Of Our Actions, The Layout Of Our Life Words, Peacemaking, Heartbreaking, My Drug, My Addiction, I Love Hearing Your Voice Responding To Mine, I Can Pick Your Voice From A Crowd, If You Are Afraid To Be Loud, Whisper, I Can Still Hear The Viola, The Viola Of Life's Orchestra, Each Word, Each Note, Deciding The Fate Of Our Song You Are My Companion, My Family, You Are The Music Of My Life, And I Never Want To Hear, The Silence, Ever Again
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Oct 5, 2012
Oct 5, 2012 at 10:12 PM UTC
The Sound Of Life's Orchestra
The silenced weep on pastel colors While rainbows pass through windowed thoughts Deep within my mind is a trail leading to a universe Stellar happiness draped upon rivers of joy Going out on a limb, to jump from dreams Onto pages of hopes written ravishingly Imagination runs away from me wildly Remaining intact with its childlike ways Jumping into puddles of mirages Swimming in pools of fantasy Hallucinating on what may come Imaginary imagery dancing upon moonbeams Jarred in glass jars held upon windowed shelves Closing eyes tightly around the glimpses of sweet serenades While musical tones create beautifully painted canvases Once blank without any reflection Mirrored images of the future grants introduction While paintbrushes meet color tones in seduction Secluded rendezvous leading into ****** sensation Alluring lust into temptation, leading away from separation An everlasting desire of dreams entering reality When morality grows a deepened mortality A work of art is born on vacant sheets As contentment drives on desolate streets Harmonious melodies playing through radio beats Creating muffled brightness through dusk’s doorway Sun shining in through my mind in a magical way A beginning to a brand new day Has started, Today!
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Apr 9, 2010
Apr 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM UTC
Phantasmal ******
In The Universe's Palm Lays A Rose, With An Inviting Door Closed, Black On White, Dark To Light, Words Slipped Through The Fence, Penetrating Resistance, Like A Grape Vine, Forces Lost And New Ones Combined, An Eagle Holds My Hand Through The Pain, Warms Me With Wings In The Freezing Rain, Kisses The Crown Of My Cranium, Tells Me It'll Be Okay, His Words Verbatim, Then Flies Away, Forges A Path Leading Me Past The Flames, A Silly Game Played, Millions Of Mirrors Showing My Reflection, Oh The Curse Of Visual Preception, Green Eyes A Watery Mess, The Labored Heaving Of My Chest, My Soul Speeding Past Life's Stop Sign, My Heart Broken But Rebind, Maybe The Meaning Of Life Would Be Clearer, If My Vision Was Not Blurred With Endless Tears, Red Nails Aren't Even Painted, My Meals Poisioned And Tainted, Smiling To Myself, Everyone Jarred And Set On The Top Shelf, My Gardian Eagle, Sits By Me So Regal, My Celestial Hero, Blocking Every Arrow, Which Try's To Knock Those Shelves Down, Who Try's To Make Me Frown, He Will Never Let Me, Lose My Crown
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:54 AM UTC
Celestial Eagle
There's some sort of magic between the eyes of a resting jaguar. Their languid yawn, opening the gaping maw that lies between their strong teeth, more energetic than their tired paws. Still and regal, wearing muscles like fine silks, their fur like that final kingly cape and their ears their crown. A zoo jaguar once met my eyes and in a deadlocked stare, saw the camera in my hands, and turned his head to pose. A prince always knows when to please his peasantry. As a pleased peasant, I snapped pictures and nearly cried at his serene posture behind a wall of glass. There was some sort of uncharted beauty in the way he spoke without words oversaturating his meanings. It was a way I wished to speak. He was a comrade behind glass, silent yet observant and knowing. Though my head might be a good fit for a maw, I nearly wanted to keep him close company. The dark spots that adorn his body are the only betrayers of the fierce undertones of his monarchy. Well, except for the teeth, of course. Though I try to unlock my gaze and detach from the gossamer threads that were beginning to tie, the jaguar eyes and jaguar prince incessantly seep into my brain, for when I close my eyes all I can see is theirs staring back at me. All I want is just one hand, a single touch, a gift to feel their crowns and robes, to experience the powerful royalty beneath their quiet eyes, even if being taken by their maw may end up being the price. My affection becomes jarred by the human hand jostling my wrist, and I blink for the first time since seeing the posing feline prince. My head turns, trance averted, and I'm looked at with perplexion as my body has sidled up to the glass, and the Jaguar, now alert, is swinging its tail and staring in wonderment at me. My eyes magnetize back to their rightful place, his green eyes on my green eyes, and I wonder what lives we would live like if I could see into his mind and know what's he's like. Perhaps we would be friends, or family, or hunters, or partners, in that other life. Or, perhaps he'd want to eat me nonetheless. One more camera shot of my jaguar prince, and a silent nod as he situates himself back to his pose. Restful, regal, serene. Turning away, I feel myself leave a part of me that always stays with him and taking that part of him that stays with me. Every wild eye does, and our secret we will keep.
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Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 10:53 AM UTC
Jaguar Eyes
There's some sort of magic between the eyes of a resting jaguar. Their languid yawn, opening the gaping maw that lies between their strong teeth, more energetic than their tired paws. Still and regal, wearing muscles like fine silks, their fur like that final kingly cape and their ears their crown. A zoo jaguar once met my eyes and in a deadlocked stare, saw the camera in my hands, and turned his head to pose. A prince always knows when to please his peasantry. As a pleased peasant, I snapped pictures and nearly cried at his serene posture behind a wall of glass. There was some sort of uncharted beauty in the way he spoke without words oversaturating his meanings. It was a way I wished to speak. He was a comrade behind glass, silent yet observant and knowing. Though my head might be a good fit for a maw, I nearly wanted to keep him close company. The dark spots that adorn his body are the only betrayers of the fierce undertones of his monarchy. Well, except for the teeth, of course. Though I try to unlock my gaze and detach from the gossamer threads that were beginning to tie, the jaguar eyes and jaguar prince incessantly seep into my brain, for when I close my eyes all I can see is theirs staring back at me. All I want is just one hand, a single touch, a gift to feel their crowns and robes, to experience the powerful royalty beneath their quiet eyes, even if being taken by their maw may end up being the price. My affection becomes jarred by the human hand jostling my wrist, and I blink for the first time since seeing the posing feline prince. My head turns, trance averted, and I'm looked at with perplexion as my body has sidled up to the glass, and the Jaguar, now alert, is swinging its tail and staring in wonderment at me. My eyes magnetize back to their rightful place, his green eyes on my green eyes, and I wonder what lives we would live like if I could see into his mind and know what's he's like. Perhaps we would be friends, or family, or hunters, or partners, in that other life. Or, perhaps he'd want to eat me nonetheless. One more camera shot of my jaguar prince, and a silent nod as he situates himself back to his pose. Restful, regal, serene. Turning away, I feel myself leave a part of me that always stays with him and taking that part of him that stays with me. Every wild eye does, and our secret we will keep.
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Wondering about what I'm doing here, Thinking of the stars and their light I miss doing that with you I'm like this astronaut wannabe like two cats in a tree, being so far from you; it distresses me I've always wondered, Maybe if I had changed
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Mar 24, 2012
Mar 24, 2012 at 9:11 PM UTC
Jarred
Sara not so plain and not so tall Daydreaming in the shopping mall As blond as a summer day Speaking of herself in a peculiar way: "I'm pretty, yes, but I wish to be better; To be the admiration of a love letter." But her beauty is the kind that lasts And makes your heart beat especially fast. Finland born but London found, Lovely, sure, but greatness bound. And the nights grow more tiresome, as her chest beats a tattered drum. Her mood too dreary for speckled eyes that will dim if night blurs into sunrise. "Sleep why do you run from me, as my memories grow. Eyelids, be a blanket, And melatonin, a pillow." Victoria Lucas in her head, as the bell does ring until fed by the words that sound soft to us but are actually strong and thus she is misunderstood-lips are red- Like Greenwood inspired, kissed dread: She can save herself before jarred, Before feathered, before tarred. And it is my faith that lets me know, That her happiness will one day grow Because Sara not so plain and not so tall Is the strongest of them all
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 1:51 PM UTC
Sara Not So Plain and Not So Tall
*** 101 by Michael R. Burch That day the late spring heat steamed through the windows of a Crayola-yellow schoolbus crawling its way up the backwards slopes of Nowheresville, North Carolina ... Where we sat exhausted from the day’s skulldrudgery and the unexpected waves of muggy, summer-like humidity ... Giggly first graders sat two abreast behind senior high students sprouting their first sparse beards, their implausible bosoms, their stranger affections ... The most unlikely coupling― Lambert, 18, the only college prospect on the varsity basketball team, the proverbial talldarkhandsome swashbuckling cocksman, grinning ... Beside him, Wanda, 13, bespectacled, in her primproper attire and pigtails, staring up at him, fawneyed, disbelieving ... And as the bus filled with the improbable musk of her, as she twitched impaled on his finger like a dead frog jarred to life by electrodes, I knew ... that love is a forlorn enterprise, that I would never understand it. Keywords/Tags: first, love, *** lust, passion, desire, school, bus, foreplay, ********* odor, musk
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Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020 at 4:29 AM UTC
*** 101
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead sun's last glimmer. Far and vast The Sausalito lights burned suddenly In little dots and clumps, as if a pen Had scrawled vague lines of gold across the hills; The sky was like a cup some rare wine fills, And stars came as he watched -- and he was free One splendid instant -- back in the great room, Curled in a chair with all of them beside And the whole world a rush of happy voices, With laughter beating in a clamorous tide. . . . Saw once again the heat of harvest fume Up to the empty sky in threads like glass, And ran, and was a part of what rejoices In thunderous nights of rain; lay in the grass Sun-baked and tired, looking through a maze Of tiny stems into a new green world; Once more knew eves of perfume, days ablaze With clear, dry heat on the brown, rolling fields; Shuddered with fearful ecstasy in bed Over a book of knights and ****** shields . . . The ship slowed, jarred and stopped. There, straight ahead, Were dock and fellows. Stumbling, he was whirled Out and away to meet them -- and his back Slumped to the old half-cringe, his hands fell slack; A big boy's arm went round him -- and a twist Sent shattering pain along his tortured wrist, As a voice cried, a bloated voice and fat, "Why it's Miss Nancy! Come along, you rat!"
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Going Back to School
The HUM-BUZZIN' 0f a newspaper flywheel-press What jarred up BUZZIN' slanders will these stories hold? On Newspaper traps where tortured minds are stuck and sold! Where lowered human beings are treated less On almost every city corner news is sought Those ugly outhouse lookin' shacks disperse, Smelly rotten things not found in beauty verse The sensation of broken wing-ged offical caught Garbage boy, toss my garbage at my door, maggot level I will bend, And claw-fetch the news of bitter end And saaaavoooor the nasty things in store
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 3:11 AM UTC
Fly Food or LoViN' My GaRbAGE
I first tried an oyster at a seafood bar in Melbourne, and it jarred in that far-away place. Oysters, so intimate, were meant to find me at home, And they did. In the crowds of Borough Market, A barnacled Titan plunged his pickled hand into ice-water, And presented me with a real beauty; Lustrous, mother of pearl shell,   And at the centre, A sea-fairy, glittering, Living, existing for consumption. A tickle of tabasco, and down he went, An ocean in my mouth. I could have been a mermaid at Neptune’s banquet; So briny and life-giving, My mollusc revelation. An image for you; A man and a woman, very much in love Feast on two dozen at an oyster and porter house, also at the market. Glowing in the light of a dripping white candle, They sit at the corner of the counter, A perfect white wine clinking in their glasses. Two years ago, an anniversary oyster-fest, Look how happy we are… This is the best table in the house. Now, if we returned, We might complain about people pushing past, And the arrogant city-types, drunk and dropping crab shells, But…That night, it was just us, though busy, it might have been deserted, Our eyes and the slide of the oysters down our eager throats Made promises, later to be kept.
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Sep 12, 2013
Sep 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM UTC
Tales from Borough Market, part 2
A universal force leading you to the crossroads To sell your soul and finally live within potential Or pass it by, blinking lashes blocking dust and truth It takes three things and only those three Everything else is fluff You gotta be ugly - you gotta be blind Can't see or fathom the linear substance The concrete holding, your bricks in the wall Either in a literal sense or on the inside Prominent features surpassing character hard to look at but don't you worry You gotta be blind so it's no concern to you. Next you gotta depart with your core Strip away hope, a skinning between body and soul No longer will it be yours but if you're lucky, you may get to keep it through layaway There's always a price though, hidden fees Steep, unsubtle , a fat moon face hiding behind a child's mask I wonder though, was it really ours, this soul, to begin with? To sell? Self entitlement lingers second thoughts That's the biggie though. Ultimate collateral, this soul you carry. Finally, I'll only touch the tip. Driving, animal instincts seeking warm comfort You gotta answer to a new title, a southern anatomy most of of the species glorifies. it dominates in a protruding and brute external hang A tangent but have we considered this tender piece to be the answer to vulnerability instead of historically jarred ********** of wit and wealth? That's all it takes, folks. At that fateful railing Get used to hot, sticky and sweet breath Always chasing, caressing the back of your neck. The void in the center where you had it The soul you had before you sold it.
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Aug 19, 2013
Aug 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM UTC
Trails of Hounds in Hell
A universal force leading you to the crossroads To sell your soul and finally live within potential Or pass it by, blinking lashes blocking dust and truth It takes three things and only those three Everything else is fluff You gotta be ugly - you gotta be blind Can't see or fathom the linear substance The concrete holding, your bricks in the wall Either in a literal sense or on the inside Prominent features surpassing character hard to look at but don't you worry You gotta be blind so it's no concern to you. Next you gotta depart with your core Strip away hope, a skinning between body and soul No longer will it be yours but if you're lucky, you may get to keep it through layaway There's always a price though, hidden fees Steep, unsubtle , a fat moon face hiding behind a child's mask I wonder though, was it really ours, this soul, to begin with? To sell? Self entitlement lingers second thoughts That's the biggie though. Ultimate collateral, this soul you carry. Finally, I'll only touch the tip. Driving, animal instincts seeking warm comfort You gotta answer to a new title, a southern anatomy most of of the species glorifies. it dominates in a protruding and brute external hang A tangent but have we considered this tender piece to be the answer to vulnerability instead of historically jarred ********** of wit and wealth? That's all it takes, folks. At that fateful railing Get used to hot, sticky and sweet breath Always chasing, caressing the back of your neck. The void in the center where you had it The soul you had before you sold it.
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I once wondered what the Devil reads before he goes to sleep in Prada sheets I found he wears white but feeds the least hungry Go ahead and eat he told me, it’s food for thought food for death I can’t catch my breath or brain they brought me here One dance with the Devil done by 12 I feel so lucky My bet with Judas just jarred the line call the ****** He stabbed the Devil’s back too but this time for a quid We left to ***** and loot like teens with stolen credit cards Maxed out and blacked out murderers with no trust **** I must be Satan’s rebellious son. Now reigning in the fire I bring the flames higher Than they’ve ever been but my back wont be stabbed like his.
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 11:48 PM UTC
Beelzebub’s Brain Food
you're the cream of the crop. mom and dad are proud of you. this is the day you've been waiting for. i don't claim to understand you, but i can't honestly say i'd like to. the blue gown that means so much to everyone around you whispers of the things you gave up, the opportunities you've missed, to be here today. the whispering cloak falls victim to the applause that breaks out as you claim your place at the podium top of the class. you've worked hard. there's no doubting that. you're a multi-faceted gem of talent and intellect. which in reality is subservience and obedience. i don't doubt that had you not urinated on your passion i might have respected you some day. but honestly. i'm happy for you. the diploma will look stunning on your wall next to all of your other shining achievements along with your jarred "talents" and canned pleasantries
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Jul 3, 2010
Jul 3, 2010 at 2:19 AM UTC
Disgusting
He is like those grains in the sand those that disperse and get blown away in unsteady stances, unfair hunches and the point is.... "you don't turn my mind" in the caskets of your stored emotional where a connection is jarred and jammed such a physical distaste and stirred responses and besides that, the gods must be in the know ohh...may be the wind that turn into the spring will turn me on to a mountain of dreams then the rains will wash and touch me deep until my feelings tickle me to the flow that’s the time I would be free to make love holding hands by the dimmed candle lights kissing under the bloom of the weeping willow tree beside other lovers who will be mesmerized by the flight of the need, the fight as agreed and the season will capture the realness of love
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
Under the Willow Tree