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Don Bouchard Aug 2018
Cicadas whine metallically
In trees along the sweltered streets;
Wasps and hornets arc angrily
Enough to cause me fear.
Late summer’s not my favorite time of year.

Flowers nearly done;
The tulips, irises, and poppies
Long since seeded out;
They’ve had their fun.
Bedraggled day lilies remain,
This is the beginning of the mums.
Bees seek latent nectars
Or tap into their golden stores
To supplement their bumbling runs.

Lawns foist a burnt but stubborn edge
While only thistles still refuse
To bow to August's incessant heat;
Their spikes sprout poisonous defiance.
The dog’s left yellowed pools of dying grass;
I admit the neighbors’ lawns surpass.  
I suppose the time to gather
Drying excrement’s returned, alas....

Keeping up appearances is hard at summer's end.
Ennui of season full and just past ripe  
Leaves tired old men like me
A chiding cause to gripe.
Morning thoughts August 17, 2018
Griffin Schapp Aug 2014
The fabric of my silken dress slips around my hips

The ocean blue of my bangles clink metallically

Rattling my arms to the music

My long, loose hair flies free as the ribbon binding it slips off

My bare feet thump the warm forest dirt

Rhythmically they fly across the ground

The sweet magic

of my dance swirls around me as I swing

the end of my song is nearing

My heart raps against my chest

the final notes soar around me as I launch myself towards the treetops

the last jump of my dance encases me in joy, only the gravity of my landing brings me back

I hit the ground

Then the next song starts.
Anais Vionet Jan 11
We moved back into the residence yesterday - we were jubilant - and had a slumb-over last night, to celebrate our reunification. We woke up joyous, on the right side of the same bed (slumb-over), and we’ve been bouncing off the walls ever since.

We’re in the ‘settling in’ phase, restocking our Keurigs, getting our same-’ol furniture in the same-’ol places, picking up our books. In this liminal space, between sugarplums and sutures, our shrinking free-time will sag with increasing weight. Even last night’s normally fabulous martinis began to taste metallically laced with formaldehyde.

Once we’re settled in, our leisure will begin to have the tight, mangled fit of a borrowed jacket. “We’ve got to gear up.” Lisa said, just this morning and even as I type this, my eyes are flitting between my dog-eared copy of Gray's Anatomy and the mcat prep hub.

Classes start in 5 days. Free days burn bright, but disappear in a blink. Time is a precious coin.

slumb-over = slumber party.
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: mangled: somehow tattered and damaged.
Travis Green Apr 2023
Vivid and expressive dreams of him
Makes me feen for him
To be taken down by him
To feel him stream in my veins
Bring me to the brink of ecstasy

His hungry, lustful lips
Travel all over my irresistible
And lickable geometry
Entrance me, manhandle me
Take me into the deepest parts
Of his crash-hot meat department

Serve me with an overdose
Of ferocious overbold pole
**** my mouth, arouse my throat
***** me, smoke me, overpower me
Make me so **** addicted to his ****

Feeling and kissing his deliciously dreamy bean bag
Worship him more than ever
Show him that I am in it to ******* it
To choke on it, groove on it, spit on it
Cherish it, slurp it, search into supremely sensual sweetness

Make wild, uncontainable love to it
Let it take over my entireness
Become unequivocally dickmatized
Down for anything, consumed with desire
For his legit unbeatable game

Tongue it just the way he likes it
Look at him with my ****** chocolate eyes
While he cops my stunningly monstrous mounds
Bite into my perky peaked tips
Tune in to the ultra surround sound of my moans

Grab my attention again and again
Make me need only him
Make me feel everything within him
See him with his brutal breezy grin
So ******* alive and dangerous

The kind of metallically mad hot kryptonite
That changes my life, that has his powerful
Triumphant pipe so deep in my throat
That causes me to be highly tongue-tied
Giving him everything I got

Knowing that this is the moment
Where smooth, lustrous dreams begin
Where I don’t want them ever to end
Keep it extra lit with a searing hot fire burning in my belly
So enamored by a tasty tight dream guy

He motions for me to get ready
Flexes his chillin’ brick physique
Make me so incredibly weak in the knees
As he ejects his rich, thick milkshake
All over my sleek eager face
will19008 Jan 2020
It was a fine white linen tablecloth the size of Sevastopol
and I smoothed out the slightest wrinkles one by one, flicking away
tiny—almost imperceptible—crumbs

Front-end loaders delivered the silverware, crate after crate, and
wave upon wave of thundering Chinooks dropped parcels of pleated,
excruciatingly well-starched dinner napkins

An army of kid-gloved waitstaff painstakingly unwrapped a myriad
of fragile place-settings and carefully laid them straight, bristling with
an anticipation heretofore unknown

A steady scarlet stream of hosed fire engines rumbled past to fill each
finely-stemmed water glass around shards of ice chainsawed, ton by ton,
from the diminishing glaciers of Greenland

The steamy aroma of luncheon filled the atmosphere enveloping most
of the entire Eastern seaboard as the sound of tongs metallically clattered
amidst the hiss of the multitudes of grills

All appeared in readiness as I surveyed this near-perfect hall, the size of
Barcelona, and murmuring voices of those waiting mingled with sunlight
passing through the sheer, breezy drapery

I smiled wryly to myself for today I would be supping with those who
have also experienced the loneliness I often feel inside
Shall I expect you?
Travis Green May 2022
Tall, strong, above-mentioned, and extraordinary black man
Well-bred, charming, conscientious, steadfast, and judicious
Faithful, royal, gentle, noble, venerable, and hard-working
Magnificently black-bearded, warm-hearted, and high-minded
Serene, wonderful, dreamy, and knowledgeable
Smooth-spoken, glowing, and remarkably whole
Aesthetically prepossessing, well-dressed, and incredible dopeness

He is an artistic, majestic, and poetic man of many attributes
A sweet, loving, and the most enlightened dream king
A dazzling, fragrant, and refreshing spectacle
His flex game is the fiercest and most mesmerizing
Thing I have ever seen, a beautifully punctual and trustworthy marvel
A state-of-the-art and ardent rarity, sleek and lustrous
All-powerful, complex, flawless, and electrifying
Incomparably macho, magical, and mantastic

His supple sculpted frame is an immense, impenetrable, and
Never-ending forest of gorgeousness
He gets me carried away with his insurmountable dynamism
How he handles himself in the presence of danger
With staggeringly stupendous and potent energy
His masculinity is the most significant and supreme sight to be seen

There is an absorbingly glorious and far-reaching story
In the way he walks and talks, in the way he stands
As a loyal and formidable warrior, cunning and skillful
Keen and observant, a desirable mountainous force
A dark chocolate prodigy, an astonishing charming phenomenon
An immeasurable, heavenly, and ebony majesty

He shoulders the world on the roadmap of his massive strapping back
He knows his ancestral roots, how deep the color
Of his brightly colored, smooth, and pliant skin transcends
What it means to be a distinguished black man
In a world where the law tries to rob them of their glory
Where the norm attempts to destroy their character

But no matter the odds, he continues to stand tall
And endure beyond, knowing that he is meant to prosper
Built to last, to rise above his adversaries on the path to success
Every sweat on his flesh is a measure of perfection
Expressing how deeply dedicated he is to bettering himself
A precious spectacular treasure, a timeless lionized divineness,
Gleaming for the world to see, more than a diamond in the rough

He is a rare, picturesque, and grand-looking wonder
Unstoppable, uncopiable, and unhchartable unconquerableness
With a highly profound, philosophical, vigorous, discerning, and
Keenly logical mind, he is the epitome of incredibleness
More matchless, breathtaking, towering, and rugged than a mountain
The mightiest and most extensive sea of ever-changing stellar dreams
A flaming game-changer, seamless relentless hustle
With a broad, blissful, and metallically brilliant smile
He is undoubtedly a prominent black king
Who knows where he stands in the universe
Travis Green Oct 2022
Your hairy heart-stopping marvelocity
Makes me want to do freaky things
To your remarkable rock-hard body
Saucy, steamy, and dreamy charmer
Striking top-of-the-line kryptonite
Stylish, finely detailed delight
Exciting eye-grabbing enticingness

Your metallically masculine majesty
Gets me carried away in the greatest way
Your broad, oiled-up chest
Drives me to the most intensely
Intoxicating urges of immersing myself
In your seamless shimmering perfection
High-powered divine eye candy

You are a sweet visual wonderment
Fraught with universally ardent hotness
Your unconquerably charming
And stalwart machoness has me
Drifting deeper into your flexing
Treasured incredibleness
Smooth, luscious hot stuff

You govern my good-looking grounds
Propel me to present my homosexualness
To your deliciously tender dreaminess
Marvel at your creamy adventurous wonderland
The way you move your ***** lush limbs
How you open your mesmerizing mouth
The way your dark, gorgeous orbs stare me down
So electric, expressive, and dancing, they are

I am confined to your wild shining dynasty
Lost in your bewitching and teasing virility
Commanding penetrating entrancingness
I listen to your deep, compelling voice
And you turn me on more
Make me long to ride for months on end
In your crowning muscle-bound paradise
Let you punish me however you see fit

— The End —