"medusas" poems
Rodando a goterones solos,
a gotas como dientes,
a espesos goterones de mermelada y sangre,
rodando a goterones
cae el agua,
como una espada en gotas,
como un desgarrador río de vidrio,
cae mordiendo,
golpeando el eje de la simetría, pegando en las costuras del
alma,
rompiendo cosas abandonadas, empapando lo oscuro.
Solamente es un soplo, más húmedo que el llanto,
un líquido, un sudor, un aceite sin nombre,
un movimiento agudo,
haciéndose, espesándose,
cae el agua,
a goterones lentos,
hacia su mar, hacia su seco océano,
hacia su ola sin agua.
Veo el verano extenso, y un estertor saliendo de un granero,
bodegas, cigarras,
poblaciones, estímulos,
habitaciones, niñas
durmiendo con las manos en el corazón,
soñando con bandidos, con incendios,
veo barcos,
veo árboles de médula
erizados como gatos rabiosos,
veo sangre, puñales y medias de mujer,
y pelos de hombre,
veo camas, veo corredores donde grita una virgen,
veo frazadas y órganos y hoteles.
Veo los sueños sigilosos,
admito los postreros días,
y también los orígenes, y también los recuerdos,
como un párpado atrozmente levantado a la fuerza
estoy mirando.
Y entonces hay este sonido:
un ruido rojo de huesos,
un pegarse de carne,
y piernas amarillas como espigas juntándose.
Yo escucho entre el disparo de los besos,
escucho, sacudido entre respiraciones y sollozos.
Estoy mirando, oyendo,
con la mitad del alma en el mar y la mitad del alma en la tierra,
y con las dos mitades del alma miro el mundo.
Y aunque cierre los ojos y me cubra el corazón enteramente,
veo caer un agua sorda,
a goterones sordos.
Es como un huracán de gelatina,
como una catarata de espermas y medusas.
Veo correr un arco iris turbio.
Veo pasar sus aguas a través de los huesos.
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A snake doesn't just throw shade
We thrive in the shadows
Stalking our prey,
Think you've got what it takes
We'll swallow you whole.
I dare the kittens birdys & roadkill
To make a mistake
You really think your house spits
poison Better than a snake?
Our Partsel tongue is "forked for her pleasure"
Each time we seal a letter
witches get wetter
other houses cringe at our fame
cold blooded killers
don't buy it? Just wait.
Our Snakeoil salesman
Will Have you beggin' for change
You dare to stand against a python?
You don't even know code
I can't pull punches
if I don't have hands, Bro.
Like medusas hair dresser
Expect-to petrify
Better call Cobra
Get insurance for your life.
What's the matter
Gonna cry?
Because We can't.
Ask science.
I dare you to challenge
My Reptilian brethren
We're Unhinging our jaw
getting fed like it's league of legends.
Jun 30, 2017
Jun 30, 2017 at 4:42 PM UTC
Cleopatra's Boom, as worn as earth as economy, salivating stone-head medusas turning Hercules to stone mending torn shirt-sleeves as it's posterity's sign of decay when nostalgia melts like an old bucket of icecream, not empty—but gooey sticky sugar-salt in mist of phosphene glare from a quarter of the deserts heat. You can see 64% of the picture. The other 36% is forever lost in the splattered blindspot dots of your diamond optical nerves, an eternal mismatch eternity—the parts you won't notice when your stomach aches after three consecutive cigarettes for breakfast. Cleopatra's Boom, belittled like oceans, always so alien tho it makes up 71% of our global entirety—thoughts find external storage on disc drives, in water—there's a mouth out there with a saltier kiss than the Pacific, one that caws like seagulls in exodus, announcing to the Peace Arch: “I American. I need a greater space to spread my legs.”
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
Plan on holding my hand
I’d endure the wrath of raspy snake tongues and burning bites so you
Can be a little happier today,
My darling
I’d take on every wild creature with yellow
Eyes
Poison on medusas finger
Inside of my brain
I’d shake and shake
Shake and shake
The sky a vibrating landscape of your
Emptiness and no phone calls back
I’d shake amongst the choreographed reeds
And die
Die for you
My darling
And if it isn’t enough
I’m sorry I made a bad estimate
Of what was in the jar
If it wasn’t enough
I’d find a way underneath the windowsill glued tight with the obstinate no’s and the moons idle hands moth cadavers and fits of frostbite blues
Inside of your room where no sound bold sunflowers pink sundresses the incessant chitter chatter of chastising chumps ever finds it’s way into your abode of sadness my
Darling
I’d brush the rectangular flesh that sits gracefully, sadly, atop your
Handsome cheek
and
I’d kiss you my darling until
Death discovers my sheets cold and
The devil flushes with purple rage
Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM UTC
Hubo tantas veces que casi me ahogué cuando era niño, durante lecciones de natación, fiestas de cumpleaños. Así, me da miedo aún bañarme en las piscinas, las playas, los lagos. Me da vergüenza enseñar al mundo mis escamas dolorosas, la piel que teme el calor de la arena, los rayos del sol como si fueran medusas que queman con sus besos. Es que mis heridas, debajo de cuyas cicatrices, siguen ardiendo...
Quisiera que de agua yo fuera hecho. En Manila, cuando era estudiante universitaria, y tomaba el bus que por el boulevard Roxas pasaba, podía olvidar de mis problemas, del caos, solo con una mirada a la bahía. Y siempre me preguntaba, ¿podría ser que al mar le doliera su piel de agua?
Me acuerdo de cuando en silencio sufría, contra ondas como orilla padecía: el abandono de un amigo a quien quería en secreto, padecía el rechazo de las obras que había escrito, padecía la soledad en esta cruel ciudad... en aquellos momentos pensé en caminar, con piedras pesadas en mis bolsillos y zapatos, despacio, despacio hacía el mar, hacía el fondo... para que por fin se cumpliese mi destino de morir en el agua y su abrazo...
Pero a ella, nunca he aprendido odiarla. Y he llegado hasta mares gallegos, hasta Coruña y sus cristales, donde cada mañana le escribo canciones de amor y promesas al océano atlántico. Al agua, un día regresaré, un día en ella, me habré disuelto, sí, yo a mí mismo.
Porque es mi destino, yo que llevo alma azulada, el alma de aquel pez anciano que se hizo humano. Cuando un día me pregunte, "¿de dónde vienes?" un amante gallego, le diré que tierra yo no tengo, le diré, "amor, mírame los ojos, su blancura viene de las espumas de los mares filipinos"... y la noche en que me bese los labios y luego la piel, le diré, "amor, sigue, porque las escamas ya no me duelen, ves que del agua ya estoy hecho, de los aguas quietas, ya estoy hecho..."
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023 at 9:31 AM UTC
Birds flew stagnant wings did stay there
Course, frozen gazes like medusas stare
As whispers became silent up stared.
Upon did the phoenix burn, and all was
Ash and fire. Screams of unknown were
Swallowed in moments and silence birthed.
Wings did perch to another place, but
Screams did pierce the silence, as this bird
Now illuminated and embers again fell.
An angel fell, so many did, gracing air now
Pain unfelt. Freedoms innocence did crumble
Did fall pillars fragmented downwards.
Day turned in to a perpetual grey night,
All was consumed in the fallen, swallowed
Was all silence, voices, people consumed.
All were the same that moment, what stood
Tall like the phoenix now ash fell, covered
In what was inanimate, lives severed gone.
A moment Frozen, sealed in memory, in an
Occasion that history will never forget remember
Those gone, as towers and lives descended down.
Jul 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015 at 3:23 PM UTC
god is a woman
and she is angry.
her tongue is a serpent,
medusas mouth,
and her fists are vultures.
seven eyes,
seven horns,
seven doors.
the angels are women too
because only a woman
can weep so much.
someone unfurl her wings,
break the lock.
she is a dove and this
is her olive branch.
in the catholic church only men
can be priests.
but this church,
this gold and silver church,
was built from the bones
of sleek coated mares,
of birthing cows,
of cream skinned ladies in
veils and jewels and wine stains.
ask delilah of samson.
ask jezebel of ahab.
salome of john,
mary of joseph
and magdalene of jesus.
ask the moon of the sun.
ask god about her daughter,
the one still nailed to the cross,
still awaiting birth in bethlehem.
the carpenters daughter
with a wooden stake at her neck.
ask god about her other daughter,
the one in nazareth
still breathing desert air.
ask god about her sons,
sweet lazarus and wild lucifer,
stepping on hot coals
like summer asphalt.
ask god about the forget me nots
pressed to gravestones
in the heat of august.
ask god about the magnolias
wilted against gravestones
in the bite of december.
ask god about the lions,
the goats,
and the lambs.
ask about yourself,
if youd like.
god is a woman
and hell hath no fury
like a goddess scorned.
Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 4:04 PM UTC
I only realize I’m late once I notice that the woman with
Medusa’s curls isn’t at the platform.
People as units of measure.
The clock of the world.
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020 at 10:30 AM UTC
When I was younger
I had this idea of love
As being a prewritten script
I’d spot you on the dancefloor
Our eyes would meet
You would smile
I would smile
We would dance the night away
All of a sudden you would have to leave
It’s okay though
You would leave your slipper
That way I could return it
So that you could be my princess
What I didn’t know is that dancefloors aren’t meant for lovers
Or that your eyes would be like medusas
Turning my soul to stone
And that when you left
You shoe would stay on your foot
Leaving me with an idea of love when I was a little older
Love was my dad in the navy
My mom the traveling nurse
Meeting in Hawaii
Getting married in a church
Her waiting while he was away
They’d love each other forever
After all, they had me.
But sometimes mom and dad fight
And sometimes mom and dad cry
Because let’s face it
Mom and dad had this idea of love
When they were younger
And this wasn’t what they had in mind
When I was a teenager i had this idea of love
She had freckles and green eyes
One half Irish
One half Indian
She had all of my heart
She told me to write down my feelings
And to trust in love
Love way talking on the phone till 2am
And holding hands in public
But no one told me that love could have a father
And that sometimes dads drink
And go missing for a few days at a time
Or that love could leave for 6 weeks
And that talking on the phone till 2am
Could turn into never sleeping
Because love wasn’t there
No one had warned me that love’s letters sometimes have misspellings
And that when love returns home she wouldn’t feel the same
And she never did
Four years later
Sometimes I think about love
But not too much
I am kind of done pretending
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 8:46 PM UTC
My encaged still feet begin to grow restless at a pace ever so rapid
My enraged heart squeezes my lungs breathless, a feeling so vapid
Choice is thrown in the trash when you have a need to move like a magnet
Voice and tone cause a splash, as water will concede to avoid being stagnant
Rejoice, grown from the crash, imagination starts to bleed another fragment
Do you know what it's like to never truly know a real home?
Except for when you"re on the road again ever ready to roam?
So many wild oats waiting for their fateful needle to be sewn
Medusas eyes are the only way I'd lay as motionless as a stone
Remind me please with a cleansing sneeze of my allergies
I'm allergic to dying
Bare feet on the gravel, I must travel or my soul will unravel
My existence, is trying
To deprive me of my drive would mean I am no longer alive
Feb 18, 2013
Feb 18, 2013 at 6:34 PM UTC
Im out of words to say
The raw emotion I've put into words
Have ceased to come out of my mind
I no longer have anything of value to say to you. I no longer wish you were here next to me. I no longer long for your touch upon my skin. The statue is finally starting to feel life medusas gaze has touched another broken hearted boy.
My cocoon has broken and I am spreading my wings flying as high as they will allow me. Soaring against the roaring winds breaking bad again. Life feels so good but soon one day I'll fall in love again and the grey skies will creep back up. Happiness always comes with a price. What will you give up? What will be taken away? Keep the TV on and stay tuned.
Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 12:51 AM UTC
Dancing with the mermaid upon the sandy shore.
She flicked and tripped her feet away.
Played the scales upon her tail.
With a teaspoon.
Perfectly in perfect time.
Her ******* be bare.
Save for concealment by her neatly placed golden hair.
Of which not a strand fell out of place.
Curling as if medusas' snakes.
He surveyed her.
Closer than he should have done.
A pillar of stone crumbled into pebbles on a sunlit shore.
The mermaid with the fateful allure.
His wife walked the children on the beach.
Skimming flat stones into the foamy brine.
He once was her true love.
Now he is mine.
Wondered what became of her lover.
The one who sold his soul to the striking sea.
(c)Livvi
Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 6:43 AM UTC
I wonder past its infectious glaring, its wanting
to have me linger within its tapestry. I'm diminished
within it presence, its vision attuned to my passing.
"What do you want, as its lips sink into mine, repetitive
***** But as I stand in medusas lingering eyes, I see
repercussions of an ill fated assumption that I safe.
She attains what was desired, I am absorbed in this
moment delirious of her actions. I watch as she grabs
the broken glass from my vanity mirror, she smiles.
My palm is a signature on the mirror of what has
blemished this moment, as finger touch's hers and
we die in reflection, my lips still, her smirk just lingers.
Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 12:58 PM UTC
Suspended in plankton waters
Penetrating silence renders neutrality
This shell, a cloak that covers me
I sometimes wish could not be seen
A drifting vessel
I seek peace behind formations
Ominously engaging, yet silently stand.
Crashing waves roll above
The bravado of Mahlerian timpani
Perched yet unassuming
I am the unthreatened spectator
In this subaquatic symphony
Illusory projections
Inverted medusas glide past
Graceful tendrils in tendu
Ballerina specters
Synchronized in adagio and ballon
A momentary desire overwhelms
To move within their majesty
Omnisciently connected by design
But mine is a different course
A willing and solemn stride
To waters of another intention
Nov 27, 2016
Nov 27, 2016 at 6:08 PM UTC
El silencio del mar
brama un juicio infinito
más concentrado que el de un cántaro
más implacable que dos gotas
ya acerque el horizonte o nos entregue
la muerte azul de las medusas
nuestras sospechas no lo dejan
el mar escucha como un sordo
es insensible como un dios
y sobrevive a los sobrevivientes
nunca sabré que espero de él
ni que conjuro deja en mis tobillos
pero cuando estos ojos se hartan de baldosas
y esperan entre el llano y las colinas
o en calles que se cierran en más calles
entonces sí me siento náufrago
y sólo el mar puede salvarme.
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Not empty, but vacant.
Gravel crunched on chilly slabs.
Snakes curl from Medusas head.
Emotionless wreck, not far from dead.
The roses scattered on the floor.
Once were black, they are no more.
They are blue, pale blue.
Knowing you are not to blame.
But somehow I still do.
Caught like a wriggling fish,
After fly fishing.
Fisherman, you are just for eating and you landed here upon my dish.
Eating is all you are good for.
Not worth loving any more.
Pile on the chips,
Just a little down.
Bring on the salt and vinegar,
And a chip fork with a tongue!
(c)Livvi
Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 4:28 AM UTC
Wibble Wobble Jellyfish, upon the sand an opaque dish.
With spokes so fine, it brings to mind the iris of an eye.
Or a precious gem, with a scalloped hem, catching the evening sun.
The receding tide it could not ride, it settled one last time.
It’s beauty as it lies still, is all apparent and without thrill.
The Medusas' movement quenched, without it's soupy brine.
Above the grains of a sandy shore, it’s year of life is now no more.
How does it feel to dry so slow. Is there pain I'd like to know.
It's pulsing movement’s at its best, are over, it has comes to rest.
Will it be aware, on the turn of the tide, it's form will take its last ride.
It's billowing cloak and slick design shall not flutter another time
Lions mane so long you say, for another year you flow away.
Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021 at 5:13 AM UTC
medusas eyes are vibrant lights;
they turn me to stone.
incandescent slits speak
incantations wrapped in moans.
her head of snakes
their tongues that rake
my dead skin from its bone.
her garden breathes my nakedness;
we touch when we're alone.
her flowers lift their heads
and wrap us tight
as we are sewn.
together we are sewn.
Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 1:35 PM UTC
En la eropsiquis plena de huéspedes entonces meandros de espera ausencia
enlunadados muslos de estival epicentro
tumultos extradérmicos
excoriaciones fiebre de noche que burmúa
y aola aola aola
al abrirse las venas
con un pezlampo inmerso en la nuca del sueño hay que buscarlo
al poema
Hay que buscarlo dentro de los plesorbos de ocio
desnudo
desquejido
sin raíces de amnesia
en los lunihemisferios de reflujos de coágulos de espuma de medusas de arena de los senos o tal vez en andenes con aliento a zorrino
y a rumiante distancia de santas madres vacas
hincadas
sin aureola
ante charcos de lágrimas que cantan
con un pezvelo en trance debajo de la lengua hay que buscarlo
al poema
Hay que buscarlo ignífero superimpuro leso
lúcido beodo
inobvio
entre epitelios de alba o resacas insomnes de soledad en creciente
antes que se dilate la pupila del cero
mientras lo endoinefable encandece los labios de subvoces que brotan del intrafondo eufónico
con un pezgrifo arco iris en la mínima plaza de la frente hay que buscarlo
al poema
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