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"mothered" poems
~*for M. both a living one, and imagined, too*~ 10/5/25 just woke up and began to work; the muses are cofuse-ed they think when head hits pillow. it is there then the~moment to refill my head with verses glorious, alas, alack, into the sub-subconscious furnace they go to melt, meld or even die iron of ironies; 90% of these words, were adrift in my head when I to bed, "for to be repaired" last night, and only came to be recalled @ 2:34 am when them muses and you guru, woke me to 'get outta bed', and you    who bids me sleep, this clashing arousal, starts engine's cylinders to begin live~composing, stoking and stroking, to awake, create, reassemble and uncover the poetic notions trans~versing my head one-day, someday they will depart, for cleaner, greener Champs-Élysées, where reborn poets speak all languages with equal fluency, eagerly awaiting my spouting in Hindi (already ✅), in Hebrew and any/all dialecticals this god earth ever mothered And there you have it, my FPOTD, dear m., SUNday 10/5  & writ in the city where I am alive in the Den of Writing, where the muses like to hang out with their old companion, until such time they will come to inhabit a younger, well rested, equally restless, a not-my-mine mind <nml>
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM UTC
FPOTD: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined
Olwen grew after mid-winter's passing the wind had sung her a child's name she knew her time was now come the man she picked was strong and wise and she had seen his death was anigh the great gift she would give him a girl child she would carry, birth and teach her first word would be the name of him who was to fall in the cattle raid to Seisysllwg no man to own her or claim her Olwen mothered a world of dreams a world of knowing she knew the seasons and the schemes of life growing hares and foxes would sleeep at her feet enemies before her would not fight but retreat Olwen's way was of care and of love her power of the earth and skies above no denizens of dark and deepest hate would stand her eyes that saw their fate fast eye clear sky brown flash passes by beast or bird we cannot see good Olwen watching over thee The child came in the autumn months gold- clad meadows bear the last of mother's bounty as she came into the world scythes cut the last bushel weak with the birth she carried the child to the stone on plynlimon's east side "let the source of the five feel the spirit of this child carry her through her life with power and love..." When Cariad was five she took her to the great marsh south of the Dyfi and watched as the child threw her father's sword back to his spirit further than any man could throw ask not for power for your arm ask for strength in your heart ask not for dominion over men seek love for the world ask not for thyself anything you would not give away freely no shadows came to dwell in the hills and vales where peace eternal dwelt with power of hearts Olwen slept after one mid-winter's passing She died when the spirits asked for her Cariad bore her to the Plynlimon stone where all wise women's bones will lie The rivers remember her eyes The trees remember her wisdom The birds remember her song The stars remember Her dreams The Stones of Deheubarth remember their Wise-Woman when Moon and Sun rise and the shadows flee
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Feb 20, 2011
Feb 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM UTC
Olwen of Deheubarth
Olwen grew after mid-winter's passing the wind had sung her a child's name she knew her time was now come the man she picked was strong and wise and she had seen his death was anigh the great gift she would give him a girl child she would carry, birth and teach her first word would be the name of him who was to fall in the cattle raid to Seisysllwg no man to own her or claim her Olwen mothered a world of dreams a world of knowing she knew the seasons and the schemes of life growing hares and foxes would sleeep at her feet enemies before her would not fight but retreat Olwen's way was of care and of love her power of the earth and skies above no denizens of dark and deepest hate would stand her eyes that saw their fate fast eye clear sky brown flash passes by beast or bird we cannot see good Olwen watching over thee The child came in the autumn months gold- clad meadows bear the last of mother's bounty as she came into the world scythes cut the last bushel weak with the birth she carried the child to the stone on plynlimon's east side "let the source of the five feel the spirit of this child carry her through her life with power and love..." When Cariad was five she took her to the great marsh south of the Dyfi and watched as the child threw her father's sword back to his spirit further than any man could throw ask not for power for your arm ask for strength in your heart ask not for dominion over men seek love for the world ask not for thyself anything you would not give away freely no shadows came to dwell in the hills and vales where peace eternal dwelt with power of hearts Olwen slept after one mid-winter's passing She died when the spirits asked for her Cariad bore her to the Plynlimon stone where all wise women's bones will lie The rivers remember her eyes The trees remember her wisdom The birds remember her song The stars remember Her dreams The Stones of Deheubarth remember their Wise-Woman when Moon and Sun rise and the shadows flee
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She had been at sea for three decades her first voyage at age eighteen a week after her marriage in the year of our Lord 1883 She married a sailing man captain of his own ship handsome, bearded and tall a fine commander of his men as they searched the sea for whales She loved life at sea and could imagine no other the motion of the ship the sounds of the rigging and the sails the quiet companionship with her husband every evening She was beloved by her husband’s men whom she mothered well having had no sons of her own but nurtured and healed patched and sewed bloodied and broken hearts and men Often she came out on deck for she knew when they would find them and though she was in the stern and the lookout was high in the crow's nest she saw many whales they missed She thrilled each time she saw them awed by their sheer size marveling at their strength humbled by their beauty careful to hide her feelings Sometimes she could feel when a whale would blow and she would call to the first mate so the men looked at her as the whale passed unseen Most times she silently prayed willing the lookout to search the wrong spot of ocean and felt again the pang of disloyalty to her husband for he commanded a whaling ship But then the lookout's call came "Thar she blows!" and the men sprang to action taking after the whale in longboats while she escaped below She had seen before the killing she would not watch again too many whales succumbed to exploding harpoons and a death horrifyingly cruel And she wondered what would happen if only whales could scream . . .
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 6:49 AM UTC
The Whaling Captain's Wife
She had been at sea for three decades her first voyage at age eighteen a week after her marriage in the year of our Lord 1883 She married a sailing man captain of his own ship handsome, bearded and tall a fine commander of his men as they searched the sea for whales She loved life at sea and could imagine no other the motion of the ship the sounds of the rigging and the sails the quiet companionship with her husband every evening She was beloved by her husband’s men whom she mothered well having had no sons of her own but nurtured and healed patched and sewed bloodied and broken hearts and men Often she came out on deck for she knew when they would find them and though she was in the stern and the lookout was high in the crow's nest she saw many whales they missed She thrilled each time she saw them awed by their sheer size marveling at their strength humbled by their beauty careful to hide her feelings Sometimes she could feel when a whale would blow and she would call to the first mate so the men looked at her as the whale passed unseen Most times she silently prayed willing the lookout to search the wrong spot of ocean and felt again the pang of disloyalty to her husband for he commanded a whaling ship But then the lookout's call came "Thar she blows!" and the men sprang to action taking after the whale in longboats while she escaped below She had seen before the killing she would not watch again too many whales succumbed to exploding harpoons and a death horrifyingly cruel And she wondered what would happen if only whales could scream . . .
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we ate government cheese that came in a dull brown box we were too young to understand what welfare and food stamps meant, our empty bellies never protested at the salty orange blocks in front of the bodega, we saw a woman introduce a hammer to a drunk tyrant’s skull his blood pooling on the streets was too red for new eyes we watched hypodermic needles bloom on stoops cling to life on curbs the graffiti on abandoned buildings was our Louvre, our Salon de Paris sweltering streets our baseball diamonds prostitutes, black or brown or both mothered us between shifts we grew up in projects, that sheltered drab lives and senseless brutalities gunfire, sharp and immutable punctured lullabies we were small boys watching life unfold the way one stares at an accident detached and mildly curious eyeing cooly the despair and impossible hopelessness of growing up poor in Brooklyn
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 10:40 PM UTC
Growing Up Poor in Brooklyn
Bugles sang, saddening the evening air, And bugles answered, sorrowful to hear. Voices of boys were by the river-side. Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. The shadow of the morrow weighed on men. Voices of old despondency resigned, Bowed by the shadow of the morrow, slept. ( ) dying tone Of receding voices that will not return. The wailing of the high far-travelling shells And the deep cursing of the provoking ( ) The monstrous anger of our taciturn guns. The majesty of the insults of their mouths.
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But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars
Safe from stormy icy cold from stars sheltered too below a wish I am to my captive be all this thou provideth me The ice breaker tows us in sweet lies lavished beneath our skin mothered fathered dear!!! Dear ravaged bitter sweet lovingly deceived tucked into sheets from teddy bear to milky squeezed thigh soothing the life that's oozing **** a doodle screeching out in fright of little egg earnest yearning heeding calling of thee other will spontaneity river spawning No time for times sake Not a one would be mistaken Only the shrunken fear forsaking Run hare run way out out beyond sight of the knowing knowing though scent lingers in the nose of the tortoise and tortoises whom are stalking Run run has gotten far hid from heaven spinning faulty stars heathen tales of yore which simply just keep moving But delight is a wedding cake in a heart you can see taste taste the spin of spinning me Dance too to the rhythms and beatings of sticks ****** quick to the depths of your last breath of the last breathing Our hearts the rhythm Ones soul The beating of skin On our drums
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Jun 10, 2012
Jun 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM UTC
Dubbed Drumming
in love, in lust in bed, in dust we lie together blind and deaf mere sheep till the day of death............ tell them i'm government that i did came only peace and virtue flow from my name and if you don't listen it's a god ****** shame far from fame i cure thy lame the youth i'll train to die to fight to pillage to plight with pen with knife from darkness til light to believe and receive to **** that which you conceive with anger and greed an unstoppable seed drug and arm these streets the bass and the beats under the cadillac seats next to the stamps with which you eat............ god is online a friend of mine in a lighted box with airwaves of angels joining both you and me why can't you see the ******** they feed the bulletins and tickers lollipops and stickers flashes and flickers of truth but we don't see for our eyes are covered when we are mothered by them.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 1:55 PM UTC
the shipwreck is remembered only by the sea
This plot of ground facing the waters of this inlet is dedicated to the living presence of Emily Dickinson Wellcome who was born in England; married; lost her husband and with her five year old son sailed for New York in a two-master; was driven to the Azores; ran adrift on Fire Island shoal, met her second husband in a Brooklyn boarding house, went with him to Puerto Rico bore three more children, lost her second husband, lived hard for eight years in St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, San Domingo, followed the oldest son to New York, lost her daughter, lost her “baby,” seized the two boys of the oldest son by the second marriage mothered them—they being motherless—fought for them against the other grandmother and the aunts, brought them here summer after summer, defended herself here against thieves, storms, sun, fire, against flies, against girls that came smelling about, against drought, against weeds, storm-tides, neighbors, weasels that stole her chickens, against the weakness of her own hands, against the growing strength of the boys, against wind, against the stones, against trespassers, against rents, against her own mind. She grubbed this earth with her own hands, domineered over this grass plot, blackguarded her oldest son into buying it, lived here fifteen years, attained a final loneliness and— If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out.
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Dedication For A Plot Of Ground
And he saw it now and then the lamp lit row of houses that stretched beyond the eye houses where men who dug black slept and drank when they could ageless cobbles pried on men who fought in the street over want, women and work while little men sons played foolish games of childhood daughter women with prams mothered their plastic dolls and the wives gossiped about young Sally who had a belly by John Stout the butcher boy the reverend Ellis knew all the stories and chapters of life in this coal dust street he birthed them baptised them married and buried them and the street was quiet no vehement voices tonight as the deed of death slipped over the cobbles and gripped a sleeping soul.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
COAL DUST STREET
Ego Eccentric, Collective hysteria A mind of madness,Compassionately cruel Do or die Black or white Comprised carefully of duality We are presented a human life The thinker thinks but will never know Think as much as you can As much as you'd like Ahh a thinker, For he is one far and few between He cringes at the tabloids Glamorized ****** flashes upon the big screens Fear mothered slave state Is where he sighs home A pattern to repeat An average man's prison One of which He's carefully constructed himself Barring his own windows Processing his own food And his own paperwork Jail keeper sounds The morning alarm "Wake your body!" Mind stays in slumber "It's time to make money" Yet no real wealth Another day on repeat Constructing his "self" Identifying carefully With devised roles. The play begins "Curtain call!" "Places everyone!" The lights dim Going back to pretending again -KaitValentine
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 2:33 AM UTC
Hysterical duality
Calm was the air did its breath of slow utter Slight given was the pressure against the trees' clutter The tide gave toward the shore a bathing of fond A raindrop tapping the ripple in the water's pond Nature was it mothered to be the earth of pure Land, air, and water were the children of cure Howbeit born was the arrival of human error For Nature a victim she became of this polluting terror All content of luxury became poison when left forgot Expense became the drain of Nature when industry was begot Slave did she become with the negligent torture by all synthetic Water was it forced to swallow hard all fluids of hectic Land was it diagnosed with a cancer of slow plague in the cell Air did bleeding of all fresh had it become from the settled hell Human destined were they to rule yet abuse emerged their ego Dying may be Nature but reaction will not treat with regal Beware be the responsible for their prisoner has power of destructive No longer shall Nature absorb mankind's terror with constructive Balance of all earthly condition does support root from the wind Tool of value has it forever been used to course the planet's skin But in addition can poison fuel the wind's vehicle to maximum Point of breaking can wind unleash Nature with the pendulum Quiet will no longer be Nature idle in standing by Foresight will come with the storms to punish those with might A tower of gales shall it tear apart all houses of mankind Tides will erupt with anger to wash all those to the bind Burn shall explosion cooperate with volcanoes for the share Extrapolated be all ends of the heat spectrum beyond repair Survival can longer not it be for the humans to this breeze Nature wages the unmatched war till gone be the disease Launching from her fissure shall come the monsters' end For her ally of wind will one make the closing amend
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 7:59 PM UTC
Winds of Vengeance
Calm was the air did its breath of slow utter Slight given was the pressure against the trees' clutter The tide gave toward the shore a bathing of fond A raindrop tapping the ripple in the water's pond Nature was it mothered to be the earth of pure Land, air, and water were the children of cure Howbeit born was the arrival of human error For Nature a victim she became of this polluting terror All content of luxury became poison when left forgot Expense became the drain of Nature when industry was begot Slave did she become with the negligent torture by all synthetic Water was it forced to swallow hard all fluids of hectic Land was it diagnosed with a cancer of slow plague in the cell Air did bleeding of all fresh had it become from the settled hell Human destined were they to rule yet abuse emerged their ego Dying may be Nature but reaction will not treat with regal Beware be the responsible for their prisoner has power of destructive No longer shall Nature absorb mankind's terror with constructive Balance of all earthly condition does support root from the wind Tool of value has it forever been used to course the planet's skin But in addition can poison fuel the wind's vehicle to maximum Point of breaking can wind unleash Nature with the pendulum Quiet will no longer be Nature idle in standing by Foresight will come with the storms to punish those with might A tower of gales shall it tear apart all houses of mankind Tides will erupt with anger to wash all those to the bind Burn shall explosion cooperate with volcanoes for the share Extrapolated be all ends of the heat spectrum beyond repair Survival can longer not it be for the humans to this breeze Nature wages the unmatched war till gone be the disease Launching from her fissure shall come the monsters' end For her ally of wind will one make the closing amend
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I was mothered by A *** slave And a servant She never had A life of her own She was Crippled By Irish Catholic Crap He taught me much, All that he knew Of poetry And misogyny I am still Extricating myself From silly Inherited habits No wonder I live alone! All the women Have known In their bones Sean Hunt Windermere Jan 22 2016
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM UTC
No Wonder
A process in the weather of the heart Turns damp to dry; the golden shot Storms in the freezing tomb. A weather in the quarter of the veins Turns night to day; blood in their suns Lights up the living worm. A process in the eye forwarns The bones of blindness; and the womb Drives in a death as life leaks out. A darkness in the weather of the eye Is half its light; the fathomed sea Breaks on unangled land. The seed that makes a forest of the **** Forks half its fruit; and half drops down, Slow in a sleeping wind. A weather in the flesh and bone Is damp and dry; the quick and dead Move like two ghosts before the eye. A process in the weather of the world Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child Sits in their double shade. A process blows the moon into the sun, Pulls down the shabby curtains of the skin; And the heart gives up its dead.
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A Process In The Weather Of The Heart
We circle around you in absolute awe Adoring your every murmur Loving you so completely, almost jealous Wishing we could be so fresh. I gather you in my hands, an infant saint You embrace me with innocent reciprocation Finding sleep easy in my trusted arms. Not by genetics, but by love, I guard you Playing mother for the needs you cannot speak. Now is your beginning, the slow decline of your novelty. More perfect now than you ever will be, Rolling around softly in your untried possibilities Smiling laughing at nothing, everything You stare out at us whole hearted with wonder. But one day, you will no longer need to be mothered. You’ll stretch out your limbs to leave, Learn the words to wish me goodbye. We’ll ship you out, a predestined bundle of reeds Out to float the river, and find a wife to replace me. It stings to imagine you then, heavy with age. I wish you would forsake tradition And remain a tiny ornament of this family An emblem of purity against the contemporary. I know you will outgrow your nurturer But someday I will be the one in need, helplessly tired And then you will be to me, what I once was to you The child will become the giver, the plant become the seed.
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 2:43 AM UTC
As Your Surrogate
listening to the clacking rounds of traffic skipping beats...bridging storms overhead. watching her water below, break a tide. we're flowing together, she's never the same--as i am not. we both know when to leave each other be, and when not. a wind falls and spreads her many faces today--and i keep mine as straight as death. we keep at our reasons, till we spit them out. she's unsheathing a shimmering sword across the Manhatten/Bronx skyline... and she's telling me it's a **** good fight. i lower my head, and make intermittent eye contact with a respect that bears the brunt of being Mothered~ i spend more and more time at her feet... because she courses no return.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 12:22 AM UTC
Whitestone Bridge
To the middle school English teachers that simplified Shakespearean plays to the last syllable, feeling like the same dagger of odd epiphanies. The distinct powdery paint stained floors, acrylic smudged tables and the coffee aroma by 09:03. An art class educated by a poetic tongue, flicking through all art movements like he existed eloquently in each. Our engineering & graphics teacher who simultaneously mothered us as her own from the isolated section of block D. In the background, a blackboard with  meticulously drawn site plans of the highest precision. Her shouts were just as sharp. To my spontaneous IT teachers that taught me how to maneuver through binary dilemmas and store any distress in random access memory. Or to the person who found my wallet with my ID and bank cards but had no idea where my cash disappeared to. The aloof B15 bus driver constantly arriving before the last bell, especially on rainy pastel gray days. The far too kind Mrs Sharon. I've never met you personally. However, your positive impact on my grandparent's life rolled both from their tongues and into my life. Thank you.
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Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 at 1:52 AM UTC
Thank you
As great as they were, I am too. You are.  We are. Realisation of truth. Fore-fathers and great-mothers, Lives infinite in pages, parting for us their conquests, from all historic ages. Battles of brute, battles of soul. Stories of warmth and  stories of cold. I see them now, coming from the corners of every earthly crevesse, they come in their millions, where human life is bound perfectly like the threads of a dress. He who has devoted, he who has fought. She who has mothered, she who has taught. He who had not a roof, not an apple, not a home, he sang music. She who had comfort, had books, had health, she rode horses. They, who have left us their stories in billions, their unimaginable challenges to their greatest triumphs, I can feel them now. As I meditate through  clouds of metamorphic memories of distant and current lives alike, I start to envisage an ocean of quests indicipherable in quantity. So many things happen, so many an absurdity. But that which is the beauty of 'the absurd' , is also its curse. Defining the roads of our lives, as it plays with our fate. The notion 'absurd' depicting the occurance of anything can happen to anyone, at anytime, regardless of what is on your plate. Man, woman, adult, child, good, evil, all similar. Breathing the same air, Living under the same atmospheric roof, Even after we are gone, We are one.
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
One in an Absurd World.
“He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure after day, Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. About this time Town used to swing so gay When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim, —In the old times, before he threw away his knees. Now he will never feel again how slim Girls' waists are, or how warm their subtle hands, All of them touch him like some queer disease.”
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Jul 9, 2020
Jul 9, 2020 at 1:23 AM UTC
Disabled
I. I awoke with different eyes today; What felt like the eyes of Antares; A lucid frenzy orbiting ambrosial crimson dahlias, Laughing. You bore witness to the opening of my ribcage That I have solemnly manifested for your mind only. I have opened my rib cage for you, yes, Like a weeping delicate bloom, Birthing in the winter desert, travail. This is your virginity Mothered by my violent torn hands; My bones shudder; Vibrations of prophecies, Oracles of each single atom Bursting within the cosmos, singing— I prostrate; Submissive to your fragility. You colored my skin With the shade of your rouged lips, And like the moon, my branched bones became Spring By your mouth Entombed beautifully in the garden of our creed. Don’t you know that your hands, Your hands are flooded With sins? the sins you have encountered with your victims; Like me, your victim; Our veins flow from the rivers of mother earths chest. Nymphs with there pale skins; They bathe in your hidden ocean of blood That has yet to burst forth Held behind the enshrined gates of virginity. I hold you above my head, I humbly wear you as my crown. II. I awoke with different eyes today Perhaps the eyes of the black cat Dying her ninth death. I devise these things, And I can tell you The pleasure of feeling Nothing. III. I awoke with different eyes today Half life, half death. I have gazed at life And cried. I have conversed with death And laughed; And by all means Analogies have never seemed so bona fide as the affairs of the sun and the moon. IV You awoke with new eyes this morning, A woman. You are now a woman. This is the only difference. forgive me for my words. -Arizona
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:30 AM UTC
A Man Is Not A Man Until He Is A Woman
I. I awoke with different eyes today; What felt like the eyes of Antares; A lucid frenzy orbiting ambrosial crimson dahlias, Laughing. You bore witness to the opening of my ribcage That I have solemnly manifested for your mind only. I have opened my rib cage for you, yes, Like a weeping delicate bloom, Birthing in the winter desert, travail. This is your virginity Mothered by my violent torn hands; My bones shudder; Vibrations of prophecies, Oracles of each single atom Bursting within the cosmos, singing— I prostrate; Submissive to your fragility. You colored my skin With the shade of your rouged lips, And like the moon, my branched bones became Spring By your mouth Entombed beautifully in the garden of our creed. Don’t you know that your hands, Your hands are flooded With sins? the sins you have encountered with your victims; Like me, your victim; Our veins flow from the rivers of mother earths chest. Nymphs with there pale skins; They bathe in your hidden ocean of blood That has yet to burst forth Held behind the enshrined gates of virginity. I hold you above my head, I humbly wear you as my crown. II. I awoke with different eyes today Perhaps the eyes of the black cat Dying her ninth death. I devise these things, And I can tell you The pleasure of feeling Nothing. III. I awoke with different eyes today Half life, half death. I have gazed at life And cried. I have conversed with death And laughed; And by all means Analogies have never seemed so bona fide as the affairs of the sun and the moon. IV You awoke with new eyes this morning, A woman. You are now a woman. This is the only difference. forgive me for my words. -Arizona
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Born in blue ,died in white. From far off seas she cried. Fathered by winds from tropical hills. Mothered by artic tide. So off she set ,sisters in tow. They dance, they chase ,they play. Fishermen fear their shouts and their cheers. Their boats they shake and sway. And as i float not far from shore. My paddle close to hand. With one last breath. I hear her voice. As she sings to bag-n-bun sand..
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Jan 24, 2010
Jan 24, 2010 at 7:49 AM UTC
The wave
The wicked, they come In a cerulean dream. The cellar door opened, With an opposable thumb. A disposable past And no ties in the future, They live within ****** And die through their caste. Oh, Ford! They cry out For all of their blessings. Oh, Ford! I cry too, To drown silent doubt. “Take me to your room.” She breathes, voice coppered, She conducts me. Unzips in One movement, fit to bloom. “Lenina,” I call, Eyes blinded by her colour. In a world so built and grey, I live only in her sprawl. We finish, my heart descending. She nicks her lips to my ear, Then reminds me thus; “Ending is better than mending.” To bed we fall; once, twice, thrice. Each time I cling longer, Wrap her in bedsheets, ‘Till she feels our ****** splice. With no use, she’s gone To some other embrace. Some cold shouldered support, Then to the salon. She’ll tell all to her friends, A gaggle of giggles. And he’ll speak of her, Like some means to an end. “Pneumatic,” is she, He’ll say with no stutter, “You should have her,” he’ll offer, Like the fruit from a tree. No, like meat, like meat, She is passed around. Like animals, the Alphas Bruise, **** and maltreat. Community. Snake-like, It moves as if one. Each person a muscle, Not separate but a part. Identity. It blurs, ‘Till I forget the use Of my name. Push it out, Repeat in my dreams. Stability. It comes, A two-gramme holiday. A superficial guffaw That veneers my face. Oh, Soma! Come take me, From where I don’t belong. To where passions are birthed Far from the hatchery. To where feelings are heartfelt, Not found in a pill. Where waistlines aren’t throttled By a Malthusian belt. A savage I am, In my pursuit for more. When I long for freedom, And not another half-gramme. Gaia, she held us in her womb. From fish to ape, she mothered too. Now all that’s left is this soulless gloom Where man is born only to consume.
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Sep 25, 2013
Sep 25, 2013 at 11:08 AM UTC
Brave New World
The wicked, they come In a cerulean dream. The cellar door opened, With an opposable thumb. A disposable past And no ties in the future, They live within ****** And die through their caste. Oh, Ford! They cry out For all of their blessings. Oh, Ford! I cry too, To drown silent doubt. “Take me to your room.” She breathes, voice coppered, She conducts me. Unzips in One movement, fit to bloom. “Lenina,” I call, Eyes blinded by her colour. In a world so built and grey, I live only in her sprawl. We finish, my heart descending. She nicks her lips to my ear, Then reminds me thus; “Ending is better than mending.” To bed we fall; once, twice, thrice. Each time I cling longer, Wrap her in bedsheets, ‘Till she feels our ****** splice. With no use, she’s gone To some other embrace. Some cold shouldered support, Then to the salon. She’ll tell all to her friends, A gaggle of giggles. And he’ll speak of her, Like some means to an end. “Pneumatic,” is she, He’ll say with no stutter, “You should have her,” he’ll offer, Like the fruit from a tree. No, like meat, like meat, She is passed around. Like animals, the Alphas Bruise, **** and maltreat. Community. Snake-like, It moves as if one. Each person a muscle, Not separate but a part. Identity. It blurs, ‘Till I forget the use Of my name. Push it out, Repeat in my dreams. Stability. It comes, A two-gramme holiday. A superficial guffaw That veneers my face. Oh, Soma! Come take me, From where I don’t belong. To where passions are birthed Far from the hatchery. To where feelings are heartfelt, Not found in a pill. Where waistlines aren’t throttled By a Malthusian belt. A savage I am, In my pursuit for more. When I long for freedom, And not another half-gramme. Gaia, she held us in her womb. From fish to ape, she mothered too. Now all that’s left is this soulless gloom Where man is born only to consume.
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her first cry never   teared your eyes her first smile never   dimpled your cheeks her first giggle of joyous recognition never   mothered your heart her first word never   tickled your ears her first step never   reached your arms almost a prayerful pause ~ spindles time through its aperture ~ she has your eyes ! ‘tho a minutest inflection ~ you see your face ! what joyous recognition ~ self ~ in-dwelt her flutter ~ divinely felt You named her   Grace gv 18.29.3  18a
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 6:23 PM UTC
Choosing Grace
All other seasons usher their expectant Mother-- lay her down, and let her be. Her's is a great birthing...paean of the eleventh hour. Air blown lukewarm, honeyed...showers soft as tears that place the face of growing significance. Inbreaking rumors of life to be, the exultant charge, moment of creation split green, thus created to divide but moment ago where none was. Early fires of greenery...the irony lost on nothing-- the harshest season precedes the gentlest. Analogous to the truth of hope, where from the dead of winter...a flower. Broken open its color as tangible light, to it--the bee's figure eight prayer, partaking thereof. The rampant crisis of consciousness creature to newborn creature, all immersed in the golden wave of renewal. It's as if a standing ovation burst in a monastery... what's been withheld in the making is withheld no more, Mothered by Spring.
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 11:33 AM UTC
Auguries of Spring
In the Beginning there was Nothing. Then Matter appeared. Movement Mothered Time. Our Universe Expands. But wait! How could there be a “beginning” if there was nothing? For if there was nothing there would be no time. And if there was no time there could be no beginning, or “end” for that matter (excuse the pun). So, the “Beginning” came about only when Time began. And Time began only when Matter appeared and Moved. The moment when Matter appeared and when Existence began we have termed “Creation” or “The Big Bang”. The latter implies some “Accident”, some cataclysm that just happened “out of the blue”. Or rather, The Big Bang occurred from Nothing. “Creation” implies that some “Intelligence” made the Big Bang happen or otherwise designed our Universe (or Multiverse or Whatever). Some would call this Intelligence “God”. But who Created God??? Surely we have to Begin with An “Accident”. Could we really Start with God? Start with an Intelligent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Immortal, Sentient Being?   Out of Nothing? From Nowhere. Nowhen? It would seem unlikely. Humbler beginnings seem more feasible. An Accident indeed. A tiny accident that leads to greater things: much, much Greater. To the Evolution of God perhaps. (It is possible that God hasn’t even Evolved into existence yet. Maybe We are taking part in that very Evolution). But then we arrive back where we started. Back to the same problem. How was there a Beginning without any Time. How was there a Nothing without a Something (indeed without Existence)? How did Matter just Appear from a Nothing which couldn’t Exist because there wasn’t an Existence, wasn’t a Something? I just Don’t Know. Seems the Universe is expanding into Space. For there to be space there must be Something that defines that space, something surrounding that space! Is our Universe in a test tube? Or perhaps space is created once matter appears, such as that which constitutes our universe. Space must be infinite. I cannot imagine matter being infinite, even containing spaces. Space must be more than “Nothing”. Space has to be infinite, Otherwise we would have to ask, What is beyond space? Infinity. Eternity. In short, Existence, Life and Everything: It’s Impossible. Paul Butters
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM UTC
Genesis
In the Beginning there was Nothing. Then Matter appeared. Movement Mothered Time. Our Universe Expands. But wait! How could there be a “beginning” if there was nothing? For if there was nothing there would be no time. And if there was no time there could be no beginning, or “end” for that matter (excuse the pun). So, the “Beginning” came about only when Time began. And Time began only when Matter appeared and Moved. The moment when Matter appeared and when Existence began we have termed “Creation” or “The Big Bang”. The latter implies some “Accident”, some cataclysm that just happened “out of the blue”. Or rather, The Big Bang occurred from Nothing. “Creation” implies that some “Intelligence” made the Big Bang happen or otherwise designed our Universe (or Multiverse or Whatever). Some would call this Intelligence “God”. But who Created God??? Surely we have to Begin with An “Accident”. Could we really Start with God? Start with an Intelligent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Immortal, Sentient Being?   Out of Nothing? From Nowhere. Nowhen? It would seem unlikely. Humbler beginnings seem more feasible. An Accident indeed. A tiny accident that leads to greater things: much, much Greater. To the Evolution of God perhaps. (It is possible that God hasn’t even Evolved into existence yet. Maybe We are taking part in that very Evolution). But then we arrive back where we started. Back to the same problem. How was there a Beginning without any Time. How was there a Nothing without a Something (indeed without Existence)? How did Matter just Appear from a Nothing which couldn’t Exist because there wasn’t an Existence, wasn’t a Something? I just Don’t Know. Seems the Universe is expanding into Space. For there to be space there must be Something that defines that space, something surrounding that space! Is our Universe in a test tube? Or perhaps space is created once matter appears, such as that which constitutes our universe. Space must be infinite. I cannot imagine matter being infinite, even containing spaces. Space must be more than “Nothing”. Space has to be infinite, Otherwise we would have to ask, What is beyond space? Infinity. Eternity. In short, Existence, Life and Everything: It’s Impossible. Paul Butters
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