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"lullabyes" poems
Please come and find me. Playful whispers in the dark. Who am I calling? I suppose... My baby, Can I call you baby? O sweet lullabyes in the night, Hold me in mild constriction. Squeeze a little bit tighter, love. I don't know how much time I have left. Delusional! Alone on the vacuum. Scratching at air for any oxygen my depraved lungs can find, Suffocating on your love, Choking on your divinity. Oh darling, My sweet crimson lover Dancing on the bridge of death at the break of dawn, You swing me in your arms, Tight tongue behind your violent grin, Your hair grows stars, and your arms bend time, my fatal partner in a tango to the edge of the earth. Heartless as you torture me, Wrench my soul playfully, Foolishly and ignorantly, Pulling my strings. Enacting autopilot daydreams Painting mindless patterns On an inky black sky, Orange slices on existential beach Sparkling warm coast, The cosmos like a bright sunny day above. Bitter ashes mix and churn with the sand, I'm sinking, Quickly, Help me! But you just watch. And I sink until I hit the bottom And there I lie, Falling asleep to as my grief fills the ocean. The zodiac locked fate, Fish and Virgins! Fish and Virgins! Poets and failures, Academics and frauds, Spring and summer to autumn and madness, My eternal indigo diary, My blueberry lipstick, My lavender kiss. Leaving light stains on my love-lorn letters, Mailed to you on Sunday, Delivered along the Milky Way. Waiting emptily, In an empty white asylum, With an empty mind, Waiting for you, My answer, My meaning, My red and blue jumper. Not standing up to stretch, But sitting still, Letting my bones grow stiff, To creak under my weight, Like an old back porch, Made for a pair of old lovers, Desolate, Withered by neglect, Empty. A pointless pray for solace, In hope you will come, My prince of waves, My fifth science, My escape from this never ending sporadic spiral down into the murky, dusty, purple fog of asinine and inane. My peace of mind. My baby. Can I call you baby?
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Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 8:51 PM UTC
My goodbye letter, my magnum opus, my grand canyon, my final destination
Please come and find me. Playful whispers in the dark. Who am I calling? I suppose... My baby, Can I call you baby? O sweet lullabyes in the night, Hold me in mild constriction. Squeeze a little bit tighter, love. I don't know how much time I have left. Delusional! Alone on the vacuum. Scratching at air for any oxygen my depraved lungs can find, Suffocating on your love, Choking on your divinity. Oh darling, My sweet crimson lover Dancing on the bridge of death at the break of dawn, You swing me in your arms, Tight tongue behind your violent grin, Your hair grows stars, and your arms bend time, my fatal partner in a tango to the edge of the earth. Heartless as you torture me, Wrench my soul playfully, Foolishly and ignorantly, Pulling my strings. Enacting autopilot daydreams Painting mindless patterns On an inky black sky, Orange slices on existential beach Sparkling warm coast, The cosmos like a bright sunny day above. Bitter ashes mix and churn with the sand, I'm sinking, Quickly, Help me! But you just watch. And I sink until I hit the bottom And there I lie, Falling asleep to as my grief fills the ocean. The zodiac locked fate, Fish and Virgins! Fish and Virgins! Poets and failures, Academics and frauds, Spring and summer to autumn and madness, My eternal indigo diary, My blueberry lipstick, My lavender kiss. Leaving light stains on my love-lorn letters, Mailed to you on Sunday, Delivered along the Milky Way. Waiting emptily, In an empty white asylum, With an empty mind, Waiting for you, My answer, My meaning, My red and blue jumper. Not standing up to stretch, But sitting still, Letting my bones grow stiff, To creak under my weight, Like an old back porch, Made for a pair of old lovers, Desolate, Withered by neglect, Empty. A pointless pray for solace, In hope you will come, My prince of waves, My fifth science, My escape from this never ending sporadic spiral down into the murky, dusty, purple fog of asinine and inane. My peace of mind. My baby. Can I call you baby?
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The moon she flies through star lit skies her journey never done she seeks the love of one above with whom her race is run Her pale eyes weep lullabyes to lover's watching on and her heart grieves for she believes she'll never meet her one For he is day and she is night where she is dark he's always light and so these starcrossed lover's form the seasons change the tides the storm Until one day when without warning night brought face to face with morning two skies made one by an eclipse meeting of world, meeting of lips So moon she flies through summer skies the sun touches the stars and love at last her arrows cast and healed these lover's scars.
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 11:07 PM UTC
Sun & Moon
Little dormouse, nun trying leather, desperately cleans up her stigmata. I hear you whisper prayers, I see you twitch to stop yourself to sign the cross and I feel your foreign fear. Little dormouse, can you only muster a half-riot, a part-furore? Do you need a bit of blasphemy to wash in dirtily in order to be forgiven again? And know, When you’re an angel, floating up to live with the lullabyes, will you grip your shoes with your little toes? Little dormouse, moving your lips slow, to look better to the snake. To be new-born, translucent In the half-light. Such sanguine wine, your flesh and your offer is. The drugs and our pleasure the pressure of our nature, which we will not bow to. Little dormouse wants a bad habit, not a good man. Wants to understand, things forbidden to think. Wants an unhealthy metaphor, not enough, she wants to want more. Under smiles, there's proof the world is anything, you’ll find whatever you look for, but not the love.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 4:02 PM UTC
Little Dormouse
Excuse me, if you must, as the spinning causes seasickness. Open the clouds as you continue on in an aeronautical sarcophagus, thirty-thousand feet above broken land. Grab your lover’s hair, last resort to prepare for the emergency crash landing into mother earth’s disease, or are they simply parting the seas, causing darkness to spread from the unfilled hole in their chest? Stomachs turn as the broken wings and sails fall upon the shores. An ocean of rage delivers waves of hatred embraced. The surf clears, exposing pain and the premonition of a cleansing blood red rain. Shrieks of the banshee and the howls of the hurt rise to meet the clouds seeking to brighten the days afar. As thousands flee in terror we make a toast in the French Quarter. The chariots gain speed and the wake gains mirth, laughingly applauding the approaching dark comedy. The newly arrived antagonist has forced the hero’s hand and now she births forth a wave of healing epidemics. The wake’s in the wind and the funeral’s imminent. Its population’s been soothed into a sedated slumber, but our character has issued too many warning, and strikes deep at the heart of this sinful city, breaking apart the basin’s barrier, and lulls its children back to sleep with bloodstained lullabyes.
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 1:13 PM UTC
Bloodstained Lullabyes
his voice syllabic brushes against canvas whispering lullabyes within dreams, lingering... his musky fragrance flush upon flesh, dallying like verbs still whispering between folds of rumpled sheets... every noun a soft whimper uttered. lips openly inviting; stirring tenderly like a breeze echoing poetry with passion... ensnaring heart in web of his muse; each beat looms copulative, sliding seductive, awakening senses... abandoned ache slips and I pirouette, rippled within his verse; succumbing to his poetic thirst... still whispering lush verbs while easing between silken sheets and breath quickens... as ****** of tongue licks nouns of passion, sipping spills as labials quiver against tongued invasion... and he softly murmurs across brined flesh, touching, nibbling trembled aches; inflaming naked desire as each stanza seduces me again and again... drawn to masculinities tease verse by verse...
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 8:33 PM UTC
Drawn Verse By Verse
the sea made Henry knot a fishline 'round his ring, tie one end to his wrist and throw the package in the water as he stood there, he sang lullabyes to the ocean tugging often at the line to make it sparkle but elusive: "There are no hooks to catch them with There is no catch for me to keep I tempt them with a promise and a song Once sung to me."
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Jan 30, 2010
Jan 30, 2010 at 1:03 PM UTC
vengeance
Life is a manor haunted by doors All of its rooms bore my tread Life is a manor haunted by doors but there is this door, she said Dolores paced al-through the nights with dread in front of the door Dolores paced al-through the nights this ill-fated dark Dolor No lullabyes can lull her to sleep some mornings bereft of light No lullabyes can lull her to sleep for there is a door, she said *My darling, darling, darling girl daughter it’s all in your head My darling, darling, lov-ed girl your mother weeps in her bed Oh mother mine allay your tears to-morrow shall find me fled This manor with rooms a-plenty to yield but there is this door, she said.*
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Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 10:58 PM UTC
Ballad of Dolores and the Door
separate the petals from the cobwebs on the floor, and grow roses from the life that remains; but if their lullabyes have faded, leave them be to eat the sunshine crawling through the cracks in your window- ***** with handprints of laughing children “they don’t come around anymore”- maybe, the petals could grow stems of longing, growing orchids in your field of ashes.
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Apr 1, 2010
Apr 1, 2010 at 11:41 PM UTC
Your Rotting Garden
Today I wore pink And all through the hours I felt wide - expansive, Like a Sahara of embarassment, The blush of recycled shame. The color made me think of you, And how you purred over the shade When she inked it into her hair, A blonde head turned to bubblegum filth; How you smiled and fell in love With everything but me. You used to carry sweet words In the pocket of your cheeks, ******* them like peppermints, Tumbling them like a dryer Until your teeth turned red And then your tongue went sour And your mouth grew mad, Spitting sparks and catching my skin on fire. She wasted you, with her cotton candy highlights And that incessant, stupid need to be free. She wasted you, and made you new For everyone but me. My mind is a carousel, and my thoughts are Bumbling to catch one another, Waltzing and reeling in spirals, And dizzying the dance with canned lullabyes. The girl at the bookstore has a smile That's all teeth and pink gums. She's pink, if pink were living, And she's following me like a lost silhouette. He asks me if I'm okay and I Nod my head and feed him excuses. He doesn't spit them up; its easy. Truth is, I'm a whirlwind, A pink whirlwind, and the color makes my stomach knot. The muscles in my chest are whining, And going stiff with self-disgust. I'm starting to think I'm only happy When I'm torturing myself with you.
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Aug 24, 2011
Aug 24, 2011 at 6:07 PM UTC
pink.
i spent the back half of freshman year as a ghost, drifting through these halls without ever touching anything, haunting my own bones with nothing more under my skin than an echo, watery lungs and glassy eyes that couldn’t see past my own transparency. floating. i don’t like to talk about it. i spent the start of sophomore year as a zombie, revived but not quite alive again, less like glass and more like porcelain, trailing my hands along the murals and trying to feel again. i existed, but i was still searching for existence. in january i found pieces of myself in a meteor, and in amethyst geodes and lunar eclipses i found that i was less undead and more E.T. either way i didn’t feel quite human, like i was off by two shades, so i doodled UFOs into the corners of all my notes and wrote poems about people who smiled like stars in the halls, whose laughs made me feel like i was finally home. i’ve spent all of junior year driving. nothing feels okay in the same way that leaving does. highways sing lullabyes with road signs, other late-night cruisers sending Morse code messages to the helicopters overhead. i don’t have to think. i’ve spent all of junior year side-stepping every single pestering question about what i’m doing with the next ten years of my life, signing away my soul to banks for student loans, all for a degree that statistically i won’t even need down the road for anything past sharpening my job resumes, like “hey, look, i’ve got all this debt in the pursuit of a higher education, please hire me.” i’ve spent my junior year catching up on breathing. i’ve spent my junior year catching up on sleeping. i spent the first two years of high school half-dead and fully awake, chugging along like a train destined for nowhere, nothing. i want to spend my senior year moving. i want to spend my senior year running. i want to spend my senior year finding life through expelling the ghosts in my bones and burning the skeletons that always left dust on my conscious whenever i reached past them to get t-shirts out of my closet. i want to spend my senior year shouting. i want to spend my senior year knowing that i am already everything i ever will be combined with everything i already was. i want to spend my senior year forming galaxies with my fingertips. i want to end my high school career knowing that there is a universe of possibilities inside of me. i spent freshman year as a ghost, but ghosts are best used as metaphors for memories, and something i’m best at is forgetting. there are days where i still feel like a zombie, but who doesn’t feel like that at least every single monday morning?
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Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016 at 1:14 PM UTC
reflections
i spent the back half of freshman year as a ghost, drifting through these halls without ever touching anything, haunting my own bones with nothing more under my skin than an echo, watery lungs and glassy eyes that couldn’t see past my own transparency. floating. i don’t like to talk about it. i spent the start of sophomore year as a zombie, revived but not quite alive again, less like glass and more like porcelain, trailing my hands along the murals and trying to feel again. i existed, but i was still searching for existence. in january i found pieces of myself in a meteor, and in amethyst geodes and lunar eclipses i found that i was less undead and more E.T. either way i didn’t feel quite human, like i was off by two shades, so i doodled UFOs into the corners of all my notes and wrote poems about people who smiled like stars in the halls, whose laughs made me feel like i was finally home. i’ve spent all of junior year driving. nothing feels okay in the same way that leaving does. highways sing lullabyes with road signs, other late-night cruisers sending Morse code messages to the helicopters overhead. i don’t have to think. i’ve spent all of junior year side-stepping every single pestering question about what i’m doing with the next ten years of my life, signing away my soul to banks for student loans, all for a degree that statistically i won’t even need down the road for anything past sharpening my job resumes, like “hey, look, i’ve got all this debt in the pursuit of a higher education, please hire me.” i’ve spent my junior year catching up on breathing. i’ve spent my junior year catching up on sleeping. i spent the first two years of high school half-dead and fully awake, chugging along like a train destined for nowhere, nothing. i want to spend my senior year moving. i want to spend my senior year running. i want to spend my senior year finding life through expelling the ghosts in my bones and burning the skeletons that always left dust on my conscious whenever i reached past them to get t-shirts out of my closet. i want to spend my senior year shouting. i want to spend my senior year knowing that i am already everything i ever will be combined with everything i already was. i want to spend my senior year forming galaxies with my fingertips. i want to end my high school career knowing that there is a universe of possibilities inside of me. i spent freshman year as a ghost, but ghosts are best used as metaphors for memories, and something i’m best at is forgetting. there are days where i still feel like a zombie, but who doesn’t feel like that at least every single monday morning?
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The Slobber Mouth lives deep down south, hunting the Ner' do wells. with candy canes and wooden trains, with buzzers and with bells. With fur of green, that's never clean, and eyes so big and red. Four filthy paws with unclipped claws, he fills the woods with dread. Spiked tail and horns and teeth like thorns, fixed in a scarey smile. A big black nose and ragged clothes, make up his unique style. Baiting his traps with midday naps, false promises and lies. with wasted hours and April showers, and soft spoke lullabyes. Dust bunnies hop but never stop, and never are they caught. For they are wise to slobbers lies, and all the gifts he's brought.   The Mites and Motes in winter coats, so quickly scurry by. for they too know never to go, where Slobbers presents lie. The feather bed floats over head, the carpet thick with fluff. He stamps his feet knowing he's beat and screams enoughs enough. He packs his sock and checks the clock, so soon the house will rise. Stomping away to sleep all day, and hide from prying eyes. Beneath your bed this sleepy head, sits down to scheme and plan. Tomorrow night if all goes right, I'll catch the Bogeyman. On tippy toes in bedtime clothes, his teddy in his hand. He waves goodnight to all in sight, and leaves for faery lands.
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Feb 22, 2012
Feb 22, 2012 at 7:11 AM UTC
Monster Beneath The Bed
I wish I could say it all smooth, blue skies and butterflies, peaches and cream, sea glass gliding the edge of the tide and the moon's soft glow steadying our fragile night. But the world is too sharp, darling, and the lullabyes we whisper before morning dew are dashed to pieces by noon, the promises we make suspended somewhere unreachable. Slashed and stitched but the scar is elusive. Tenuous. Till then we conspire.
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Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 at 2:01 AM UTC
s-k-g
I by fate and tragedy, have been appointed to the childrens keeper. We pass through empty streets, the city in ruin around us. We search, salvageing what food we can. We live in fear that destruction will return. Wild dogs run about, baring yellow teeth, threatening to attack. We take refuge in a tall building constantly keeping watch. We can not be the only survivors. Someone will come for us. Where has everyone gone? It is just I, and to many children to count. Sobbing tears, that I wipe away with hopeful kisses. Restless dreams, that I banish with sweet lullabyes. I can not repair the damage that's been done, but I can give them love, hope, comfort and warmth. I by fate and tragedy, have been appointed the children's keeper. A task I accepted. Now these children of ashes are my own. They are my life, my everything.
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 12:19 AM UTC
The Childrens Keeper
Whorepaint does not do her justice So much prettier than her disquise As she paints the sound of beauty in her voice Singing love's lullabyes
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:08 AM UTC
Baby From Westside
My pillowy lips that you love so much, I'll use them to kiss where it hurts so much.  This rosy pout that you adore so much,  Will sing you lullabyes that you need so much.  This full lip that I bite so much,  Is caused by your desire I can't resist too much.  I say no never,  I'm sane no longer,  My Sweet Monster,  I'm yours Forever.
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Aug 19, 2012
Aug 19, 2012 at 2:58 PM UTC
The One With My Heart
Sweats flowing like falls She fell She fell- inlove at first sight From that day on you became her kryptonite Your cries made her petrified Your smiles became her home at the westside Sundown. Dark town. Beneath the twinkling stars She craddled you in her mystic arms Singing lullabyes of rainbows and charms 12 in the midnight Child, don't be terrified This is not Cinderella's tale The magic won't be gone Lift up the dress's veil You'll see - the one who fell Your lady in shining armor - the fairy god mother The one who stays lifelong till the hourglass breaks She'll be there forever
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May 8, 2021
May 8, 2021 at 11:44 PM UTC
Not a fairy tale
Summer creases Memories in pieces Undisturbed lullabyes Drifting away Earthquake wide awake Moving in sound dancing Not in the air but on the ground Stained pages drip's of Sages drink spilled On letters not in ink But lead Keeping starshine Wears it on my sleeve Catches my collar And so you leave It sounds like a beach Nights without sleep Stayed awake Grazing memories within My mind's eye I'm in love with my sadness We have an affair On again Off again But it lingers in the still air Still there, Budweiser Oh nicotine! What wars with white sails And blue oceans were fought for You, Marlboro Only to give me headaches California California California ( Don't talk, speak ) The need to move That need to sit still Periforate the fabric of My design It brings me to tears Some nights Thinking about those highway Roads and street signs Miss the ocean I miss the pier Miss the salt in the air
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Dec 8, 2015
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM UTC
Nirvana
I once knew a man, One who played all the instruments, And sang all the tunes, And cried with the lullabyes when children bedded down. And when I last met him, On Father's High Hill He told me, "Music is the only language you are born with." I once knew a lady, One who met with all the people And loved with all her heart And laughed when she saw the children run. And when we last spoke, In the summer's suburbs, She told me, "We live to await the next emotion." I once knew a couple, One who lived with all their might, And climbed every cliff, And carried all the children in thier shoulders. And when we last past, In Leconte's thickened forest, They told me, "Trying times are not the times to stop trying." I once knew all of those people And sang and loved and lived, And played with my fellow children. And when I last saw them, Through the course of my life, I would reply simply, "That's a truth to live by."
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 5:45 PM UTC
A Few Truths