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"muzzle" poems
there is a wolf waiting outside the door for you it has an eye tooth snarl ready to muzzle you and everything is on fire but you
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May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 11:54 AM UTC
There is a wolf waiting outside
*A coarse, yellow coat with dark spot aplenty Lean as a greyhound with limb long and lengthy, Faster than hare from a cold standing start Impossibly glimpsed in tall grasses that part. Crystaline jewels in two huge hazel eyes With the svelt of a feline’s cold killing surprise, Explosively quick with an elegant gait And a murderous jaw full of canines that wait For a fleeing gazelle or a springbok at speed Then a launch that would emulate bullet, when freed. Incredibly smooth with a fast loping stride That would tax any racehorse an envious ride, Snapping manouvers to left and to right That mirror a quarry’s evasions of flight. A blur in a frantic explosion of dust Then the life blood erupts, splashing red as the rust. Heaving great flanks after thrill of the chase Wide open muzzle and gore on the face, Guarding the game till the kittens locate Then the spoils of the chase will make portions dictate.* Marshalg Serengetti Plain Central Africa 30 November 2012
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM UTC
Cheetah
He filled his week bag with quick picks from the commissary cover blades and skull cap canned goods and half stated pearl liquor bills and bleeders for the flight of weary Into the ****** bunks of the western front past sivana and nurture sage past the pomp and ceremony out of robes and into jumpers and casings and masks of gas Light infantry and yelling men muscled and scorned fly boys high in 3 wing flight mounted gunners filling the night in hawkers and packards and scabbard chape Tarrant tabers and camels dodge the vicker gun skeleton hands grease the mill trap carnage makers mark the rhineland (buried in bunkers and pile bags and earth pack) Trench helmets and metal back under machine fire minefields burn in muzzle and coil deep in the shadows and shrapnel and spear the razor wire and dead cold despair Slouch hats and burning rats kerosene lamps and droopers the soldier stares down the broken lines and limbs a ****** holds steady (shelved at a distance) on ripped and rolled pipe and beam It was an all in end game a grapple for the ages; *** in the fokker pursuit over rolling hills and fallen comrades into the bishop bullet (and sporadic cheer) which sealed the deal in an empty field off the brae corbie road
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 6:50 PM UTC
**** Shot
I know the flowers better everyday their twisting stems their curtain petals their floating spice I know the flowers better everyday their capillary roots their plum faces their purple stamens I know the flowers better everyday their shaking seeds their modest thorns their unabashed lust for the sun I know the flowers better everyday I know the sun will rise I know the clouds will rain I know my daughter will laugh I know the flowers better everyday I’ll draw a fence for flowers I’ll draw a muzzle for the sheep I’ll draw a number for the man to crunch I know the flowers better everyday I know how lovely it is to feel grass in between toes the breath of a boa the embrace of home I know the flowers better everyday I am forty I am a mother I love fearlessly
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Feb 28, 2016
Feb 28, 2016 at 6:10 PM UTC
voice
(Interlude) My eyes in 1910 never saw the dead being buried, or the ashen festival of a man weeping at dawn, or the heart that trembles cornered like a sea horse. My eyes in 1910 saw the white wall where girls urinated, the bull's muzzle, the poisonous mushroom, and a meaningless moon in the corners that lit up pieces of dry lemon under the hard black of bottles. My eyes on the pony's neck, in the pierced breast of a sleeping Saint Rose, on the rooftops of love, with whipers and cool hands, in a garden where the cats ate frogs. Attic where old dust gathers statues and moss, boxes keeping the silence of devoured ***** in a place where sleep stumbled onto its reality. There my small eyes. Don't ask me anything. I've seen that things find their void when they search for direction. There is a sorrow of holes in the unpeopled air and in my eyes clothed creatures - undenuded!
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1910
Brass plays a sad tune Over the motors of the pontoon. I was lost; now I'm found Rescued from The dog pound Mama! Mama! Go get a doctor! Send forty days of rain And a kettle of copper. Ride that train! Hurry uptown! That ol' blue norther's pourin' At the dog pound Well, it's hard to be humble In this land by the sea But it's so easy here to stumble, Ain't it hard livin' free? Hear that train? How sweet the sound... That Burlington's a-blowin' At the dog pound Rally! Rally! Creepin' up the alley! Rope that heifer! No slack on the dally! Make her now become a cow And milk the puppies At the dog pound And with the storm well on its way, Back and forth the breakers sway; Fools rush in, makin' their rounds, But the muzzle has 'em puzzled At the dog pound
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Aug 31, 2017
Aug 31, 2017 at 10:48 PM UTC
Dog Pound
My good morning was followed by a statement In which she said "I stank." It was the cigarette stank That made her utter the obvious complaint. She doesn't know my struggle. A mind of potential with the heart of a saint. Yet bound by demons And voices that say "I can't". I wish to tell her. How they help my mind go blank And away from the thoughts That are as loud as voices. How they help me think straight sometimes And give me the courage To make the right choices. It's just remnants of my fall From when my mind Hit rock bottom and I was unable To make the right choices. All of my demons, I've fought them And this is the smoke from the battle In which they are engulfed In its flame. The ending of the cant's and aint's. The smoke from this cigarette. So please excuse, my cigarette stank. Oh How her complaint Will echo through my mind And never become faint. I can't take this So when I get the chance I will light another cigarette To forget all about this And make me become correct. **** I hate that I have to smoke another cigarette. My good afternoon Was followed by a glare. A glare that married women Should never think to dare. She could see into my soul And knew that all isn't fair. Her beauty was one That I could never compare. So right back I would stare Until something broke my attention And again I begin to stare. Until I pictured her bare And being lost in lust Covered in each other's hair. Her eyes were flames of a flair Flickering off in the distance and Shining through the night air. I want to reach you And see what's up with that glare But life isn't fair. It has lead us to where we both Are a separate pair. Attempts to become close Will be followed by no's or I can't And how our meeting was too late. Which will be her complaint. The agony, I can not bare So I will let it fade away with The smoke from this cigarette. So please excuse, my cigarette stank. Oh How her complaint Will echo through my mind And never become faint. I can't take this So when I get the chance I will light another cigarette To forget all about this And make me become correct. **** I hate that I have to smoke another cigarette. Another cigarette Another cigarette **** I have to smoke another cigarette. My good evening Was followed an expression In which it looked like I stank. Her face was the face that God makes when we all sin. Disappointment cloaked in forgiveness And love. She smiles as she gives me a hug. I look at my daughter And even with her I can feel the love. When I'm alone I sigh. My mind is a puzzle And my true thoughts are shielded with a muzzle. So I let them fade away with The smoke from this cigarette. I just hope they excuse, my cigarette stank.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 12:11 PM UTC
"Cigarettes"
My good morning was followed by a statement In which she said "I stank." It was the cigarette stank That made her utter the obvious complaint. She doesn't know my struggle. A mind of potential with the heart of a saint. Yet bound by demons And voices that say "I can't". I wish to tell her. How they help my mind go blank And away from the thoughts That are as loud as voices. How they help me think straight sometimes And give me the courage To make the right choices. It's just remnants of my fall From when my mind Hit rock bottom and I was unable To make the right choices. All of my demons, I've fought them And this is the smoke from the battle In which they are engulfed In its flame. The ending of the cant's and aint's. The smoke from this cigarette. So please excuse, my cigarette stank. Oh How her complaint Will echo through my mind And never become faint. I can't take this So when I get the chance I will light another cigarette To forget all about this And make me become correct. **** I hate that I have to smoke another cigarette. My good afternoon Was followed by a glare. A glare that married women Should never think to dare. She could see into my soul And knew that all isn't fair. Her beauty was one That I could never compare. So right back I would stare Until something broke my attention And again I begin to stare. Until I pictured her bare And being lost in lust Covered in each other's hair. Her eyes were flames of a flair Flickering off in the distance and Shining through the night air. I want to reach you And see what's up with that glare But life isn't fair. It has lead us to where we both Are a separate pair. Attempts to become close Will be followed by no's or I can't And how our meeting was too late. Which will be her complaint. The agony, I can not bare So I will let it fade away with The smoke from this cigarette. So please excuse, my cigarette stank. Oh How her complaint Will echo through my mind And never become faint. I can't take this So when I get the chance I will light another cigarette To forget all about this And make me become correct. **** I hate that I have to smoke another cigarette. Another cigarette Another cigarette **** I have to smoke another cigarette. My good evening Was followed an expression In which it looked like I stank. Her face was the face that God makes when we all sin. Disappointment cloaked in forgiveness And love. She smiles as she gives me a hug. I look at my daughter And even with her I can feel the love. When I'm alone I sigh. My mind is a puzzle And my true thoughts are shielded with a muzzle. So I let them fade away with The smoke from this cigarette. I just hope they excuse, my cigarette stank.
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Not an amulet, an off white vertebrae; bone. Brass wire, a loop at one end. It bends as to make sure this will fit. A gauge that measures mesmerization, And we both must get along, but Not because we're not tough enough: Most of us aren't soft right yet. So many stiffs, folly after folly. The whole carful of loose cadavers, Dangling, their feet hang with wet snow And carnage, Not even musk deer pop up, They've all gone. Roosting in a parabol, With X's sprayed to their groins. Burning pop couples Doing it like laboratory mice. Capybaras Hiss, my own burnt blood is also Flocculating. Turn the cup upside down and See the fire's balmy lachrymal opaque Moss while it does not drip. This is the story of man you asked me about; Devoid of a muzzle, fur onto his chest; coarse Hair in a garland. It is the God of a tool that buzzes into the night. A plateau for this most sensible study. We feel another coming. And when you awoke, your larval tongue My eye mush, a song of verse and melancholy. This half list of greatness, a tally we both wish to see.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 4:38 AM UTC
those mice
I live in the wilderness The Sun shines on the trees and through the leaves Warmth envelopes my sanctuary Until darkness approaches like a fog The darkness is pregnant with sounds I hear animals snarling while bones are breaking Whimpers turn into blood curdling gargles As the darkness renders invisibility among predators And the darkness engenders vulnerability among prey I desperately want to help but there is a darkness barricade The darkness follows everything The darkness swallows everything I can hear planes crash And the passengers scream From within the darkness I can only see muzzle flash And the barrel's steam Creating hardship The darkness converts men to shouts of agony and rage The darkness blinds us from the writing on the page The darkness makes us believe That it's our reprieve Darkness has us in it's sight When we choose to live in light Even when we do what is right Darkness takes flight Becoming our plight We try to fight back with futility The darkness' bite has more utility We are engulfed by negativity As we lose all connectivity And our mouths begin to foam When the darkness is our home
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Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017 at 3:03 AM UTC
Darkness
A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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Brother Bruin
A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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I was doing something when a flash smashed out to every corner of the room. It came like ominous bolts of lightning had leapt from the light bulb bursting inside, as though storms had been brewing slowly under a muzzle of glass frame. I regarded how strange it was to be fed up to a thrum of 75 watts in its lifetime, to finally break its broadcast. I look to a tungsten tongue, see the ember flick into the dark and say, I lost my religion.
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM UTC
The Light Bulb
The honey in the lion sounds like a delicious thing–– a gentle balm capable of subduing the cruellest of monsters. According to the stars and tattooed, you fancied yourself king of the jungle–– lazy in hot African afternoons. Golden and tawn with sleepy sun-gold eyes, shaggy mane, muzzle red with the blood of a gazelle. Did you think me such easy prey? Or was I so much fermented honey, only a sweet intoxicant. Sun warmth seeps from jungles of cold concrete. I mistook your gargoyle wings for those of a guardian angel’s. I overlooked your rough skin, your crooked hawk nose and your skinny ribs, and assigned fine things in you that didn’t exist. So duped, I acquiesced to your slimy kiss. Your mouth a neglected cemetery, teeth a row of mossy tombstones. Vampire. Incubus. Your seduction like grotesque death. You named me tempest in a teacup, but I was the eye of the storm. Until the night the eye was eradicated, and the storm blew in, striking me dumb with your sound and fury. But no spattered blood and no spreading bruise to be found in the pattern of the kaleidoscope. No cause for alarm. Today I am lost in a picture show, a beautiful world coloured by nostalgic past. Women’s lips the vivid red print of a velvet valentine. Head in the Clouds, I fantasize about a certain scene. Because you think violence is **** retaliation – ********** in my dream. Give me an eye for my eye, for all the eyes you plucked, from women and breadwinners. Give me blood running down your back, sweet as honey.
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 5:37 PM UTC
The Honey in the Lion
The honey in the lion sounds like a delicious thing–– a gentle balm capable of subduing the cruellest of monsters. According to the stars and tattooed, you fancied yourself king of the jungle–– lazy in hot African afternoons. Golden and tawn with sleepy sun-gold eyes, shaggy mane, muzzle red with the blood of a gazelle. Did you think me such easy prey? Or was I so much fermented honey, only a sweet intoxicant. Sun warmth seeps from jungles of cold concrete. I mistook your gargoyle wings for those of a guardian angel’s. I overlooked your rough skin, your crooked hawk nose and your skinny ribs, and assigned fine things in you that didn’t exist. So duped, I acquiesced to your slimy kiss. Your mouth a neglected cemetery, teeth a row of mossy tombstones. Vampire. Incubus. Your seduction like grotesque death. You named me tempest in a teacup, but I was the eye of the storm. Until the night the eye was eradicated, and the storm blew in, striking me dumb with your sound and fury. But no spattered blood and no spreading bruise to be found in the pattern of the kaleidoscope. No cause for alarm. Today I am lost in a picture show, a beautiful world coloured by nostalgic past. Women’s lips the vivid red print of a velvet valentine. Head in the Clouds, I fantasize about a certain scene. Because you think violence is **** retaliation – ********** in my dream. Give me an eye for my eye, for all the eyes you plucked, from women and breadwinners. Give me blood running down your back, sweet as honey.
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*After five good years of drought It rained kisses and warming hugs After my heart emaciating from rejection I have experienced a resurrection She kissed me wholly and deep She sowed and had to reap Could not recall the feminine grip Even how to undo a lady zip She kissed my upper and lower lip Then around my body took a trip Tore my favorite shirt,no time to unbutton She ate my skin softly hard as a glutton Not sure it was her mouth on my *** Cause I couldn't open my eyes as she did it She passed her soft fingers on my chest Luckily I hadn't on my fitting vest Crawled about my belly like a worm While my ****** heart beat loud as a drum She said something I didn't hear Because passion had blocked my ear She then undid my belt and my trousers Quicker than all internet browsers Then...then put the muzzle in her mouth Was she aware of the bullet, I doubt She cleared all the rust through the years While in pleasure I cried happy tears She knew how to hold the whistle and blow Between where she knelt down low Her palm around me was a soft tight glove Felt she's the one that I deserved Like a snake she crawled back up And astride the volcanic plug sat Asap Not afraid of the sharp edges causing harm She kissed me violently and hurt my gum I just couldn't care less at such a moment Of a soothing ride, a welcome torment Soon overtaken by my inner animal I realized I could not take it anymore And took charge of the walk to heaven While the clock alarmed, think eleven She arched tout like a hunters bow And her eyes brightly seemed to glow My journey deep was careful and slow But the return as swift as Pacman's blow I loved the way she clawed her nails Into me, she reopened all my wells I wanted to take her for a longer ride But the wave of passion killed me,I died Even when we were done I remained inside Watching her skin as pale as transfiguration Out of the joy we had shared, I'm glad I received my emotional resurrection*
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 5:03 PM UTC
MY RESURRECTION
*After five good years of drought It rained kisses and warming hugs After my heart emaciating from rejection I have experienced a resurrection She kissed me wholly and deep She sowed and had to reap Could not recall the feminine grip Even how to undo a lady zip She kissed my upper and lower lip Then around my body took a trip Tore my favorite shirt,no time to unbutton She ate my skin softly hard as a glutton Not sure it was her mouth on my *** Cause I couldn't open my eyes as she did it She passed her soft fingers on my chest Luckily I hadn't on my fitting vest Crawled about my belly like a worm While my ****** heart beat loud as a drum She said something I didn't hear Because passion had blocked my ear She then undid my belt and my trousers Quicker than all internet browsers Then...then put the muzzle in her mouth Was she aware of the bullet, I doubt She cleared all the rust through the years While in pleasure I cried happy tears She knew how to hold the whistle and blow Between where she knelt down low Her palm around me was a soft tight glove Felt she's the one that I deserved Like a snake she crawled back up And astride the volcanic plug sat Asap Not afraid of the sharp edges causing harm She kissed me violently and hurt my gum I just couldn't care less at such a moment Of a soothing ride, a welcome torment Soon overtaken by my inner animal I realized I could not take it anymore And took charge of the walk to heaven While the clock alarmed, think eleven She arched tout like a hunters bow And her eyes brightly seemed to glow My journey deep was careful and slow But the return as swift as Pacman's blow I loved the way she clawed her nails Into me, she reopened all my wells I wanted to take her for a longer ride But the wave of passion killed me,I died Even when we were done I remained inside Watching her skin as pale as transfiguration Out of the joy we had shared, I'm glad I received my emotional resurrection*
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His hands are large and strong I knew this all along Strong enough to hold me down Smiles are contagious His are crooked and malicious Watching me squirm, crying My daddy is not safe I know now because he was taken away But I thought this form of love was ordinary I didn't mean to get him in trouble But I was afraid when his hand was my muzzle Now everyone looks at me like I'm made of glass My mom says I can't talk to him But I just don't get it He said he wouldn't hurt me My daddy wears orange Mom answers his phone call with a look of warning His clothes are in boxes down in the basement There's a stack of papers on the counter That mom's been staring at for the past hour I think I need to help her with her homework We make the bed with stains across the mattress I don't think I can keep up with this practice I pretend I don't see the guilt in mom's eyes My mom and I sleep next to each other at night Because we're both afraid he'll appear in the morning light Looming over us with his hungry eyes
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 1:07 PM UTC
Daddy Wears Orange
My Heart is a drunken bipolar maniac with masochistic tendencies . My Heart does not care about your feelings, or the fretting of my apologetic Mind. It is ravenous and deranged; it will devour your succulent hopes and spit out the bones. My Heart is one mean ************ it is a rabid wolverine with a hangover who ate razor-blades for breakfast, and no, it does not want to go steady or hold hands. It wants to rip the soft white throat of your infatuation and watch your eloquent offerings pool around your feet. Unless, of course, you do not want me. For met with that alluring indifference, my unhinged pit-bull of a Heart will curl at your feet with doe-eyed meekness and follow you from room to room in an agony of adoration while Self-Respect and Dignity sulk in some dusty corner, thinking "Please God, won't somebody muzzle that crazy *****
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May 25, 2013
May 25, 2013 at 7:45 AM UTC
My Heart is a Drunken Bipolar Maniac
GRANDMOTHER A singing, child, a singing about the great stallion, who would not drink the water, the water in its blackness, in among the branches. Where it finds the bridge, it hands there, singing. Who knows what water is, my child, its tail waving, through the dark green chambers? MOTHER Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying. His legs are wounded, his mane is frozen, in his eyes, there is a blade of silver. They went to the river. Ay, how they went! Blood running, quicker than water. MOTHER Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying. MOTHER It would not touch the wet shore, his burning muzzle, silvered with flies. He would only neigh, to the harsh mountains, a weight of river, dead, against his throat. Ay, proud stallion that would not drink the water! Ay, pain of snowfall, stallion of daybreak! GRANDMOTHER Do not come here! Wait, close the window, with branches of dream, and dreams of branches. MOTHER My child is sleeping. GRANDMOTHER My child is silent. MOTHER Stallion, my child has a soft pillow. GRANDMOTHER Steel for his cradle. MOTHER Lace for his covers. GRANDMOTHER A singing, child, a singing. MOTHER Ay, pround stallion that would not drink the water! GRANDMOTHER Don't come here! Don't enter! Go up to the mountain through a sombre valley, to where the wild mare is. MOTHER gazing My child is sleeping. GRANDMOTHER My child is resting. MOTHER (softly) Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER (rising, and very softly) Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying.
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A Singing (From Blood Wedding: Act I)
GRANDMOTHER A singing, child, a singing about the great stallion, who would not drink the water, the water in its blackness, in among the branches. Where it finds the bridge, it hands there, singing. Who knows what water is, my child, its tail waving, through the dark green chambers? MOTHER Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying. His legs are wounded, his mane is frozen, in his eyes, there is a blade of silver. They went to the river. Ay, how they went! Blood running, quicker than water. MOTHER Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying. MOTHER It would not touch the wet shore, his burning muzzle, silvered with flies. He would only neigh, to the harsh mountains, a weight of river, dead, against his throat. Ay, proud stallion that would not drink the water! Ay, pain of snowfall, stallion of daybreak! GRANDMOTHER Do not come here! Wait, close the window, with branches of dream, and dreams of branches. MOTHER My child is sleeping. GRANDMOTHER My child is silent. MOTHER Stallion, my child has a soft pillow. GRANDMOTHER Steel for his cradle. MOTHER Lace for his covers. GRANDMOTHER A singing, child, a singing. MOTHER Ay, pround stallion that would not drink the water! GRANDMOTHER Don't come here! Don't enter! Go up to the mountain through a sombre valley, to where the wild mare is. MOTHER gazing My child is sleeping. GRANDMOTHER My child is resting. MOTHER (softly) Sleep, my flower, the stallion is not drinking. GRANDMOTHER (rising, and very softly) Sleep, my rose, the stallion is crying.
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There once was a little pug Who's fur was soft and amber. We got the little thing On the fifth of November. Her grumbling so sweet Muzzle so scrunched We stared at her face Even as she ate our lunch!
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Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014 at 3:46 PM UTC
Sweet little pug
Who am I? Who am I? A question I always find myself asking and yet I have no idea why. Almost as if I expect the answer to fall right out of the sky. But seriously, do you know who I am? I pretend that I don't give a **** When really it's an act; a sham. Feeling like you do not fit. Honestly it feels like pure **** I don't fit into society's giant puzzle. If my opinion is outside the majority, well let me put it this way, if I were a dog they would force upon me a muzzle. Freedom of expression. Really? I think they mean repression. Do this! Do that! She's too thin! He's too fat! He must go here! Now put her there! All we seem to receive are your endless commands. Expected to follow at clicking of your fingers or the clapping of your hands. Did you ever stop to think that maybe we have other plans? Have you turned me into some kind of drone? Is my mind no longer my own? Are my individual and unique thoughts not allowed to be known? Somehow this hierarchy needs to be overthrown.  We need to let our shining personalities be shown. Celebrate Individualism! Let us express, share and have optimism! And even scepticism! Being ourselves is a basic human right! Thank you and good night!
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Jan 4, 2015
Jan 4, 2015 at 7:25 AM UTC
Who Am I? !#WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE#!
oh, **** i'm so full of love it's spilling out of me like bullet wounds, like i've been court martialed, like i'm the pinpoint of a broken sheet of glass, the part from which everything else shatters; of course i'm the centre of the universe, who else would be? who else could love this way, fierce and terrible and hating? who else other than me could break the universe for another chance at hello or at two thousand and nineteen? which isn't to say i'm manic. which isn't to say that i don't cry in the shower and scream in the car. i do. but when i do, i'm the main event; nobody booked tickets to see anybody but me here. don't kid yourself, world. don't make me laugh. don't act like everything is okay when i'm breaking the baby-bird bones of my fingers every time someone else talks. me, the human stress ball. me, twenty stories tall and universe-filled with love, nothing else can even come close. i'm ******* godzilla, i'm interplanetary, i'm that giant ******* marshmallow man from ghostbusters getting shot at by the heroes. maybe there's just too much of me to love the way i need to be loved; completely, obsessively, like an illness. oh, god, i want to be loved like i'm sick. not just another hospital bed but the whole **** ward all for me. all eyes on me. nobody looking anywhere but me and *oh, please, i'm fine, really, i don't need all this attention.* like i'm daring the world to divert it away. a birthday list of gifts: - a fifth of whiskey - a gun with one bullet - the attention that people get from the crowd below before they jump off a building i don't think i'm asking for too much here. i feel like i'm one of those unlucky ******** born on christmas day who get half the presents for twice the occasion. how cruel must god be to birth me anywhere but eden, into a world where other people exist, where we have jobs and say hello to store cashiers and divide up our attention like slices of mandarin. so where's this revolution i ordered? where are the people making me important? i need a cause to lead and a muzzle for my heart, and i'll burn on and out, not like a star, but like the end of the ******* universe itself. and here i am, acting like i matter when i really only want to matter to you. i don't care how you want me to revolve as long as i'm a lone moon. as long as the tides are all mine; see, it's a lot more complex than me playing easy villain or anti hero. it's not been about me this entire time. but i can't write poems about any other subject.
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Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020 at 8:13 PM UTC
prince rupert's drops
oh, **** i'm so full of love it's spilling out of me like bullet wounds, like i've been court martialed, like i'm the pinpoint of a broken sheet of glass, the part from which everything else shatters; of course i'm the centre of the universe, who else would be? who else could love this way, fierce and terrible and hating? who else other than me could break the universe for another chance at hello or at two thousand and nineteen? which isn't to say i'm manic. which isn't to say that i don't cry in the shower and scream in the car. i do. but when i do, i'm the main event; nobody booked tickets to see anybody but me here. don't kid yourself, world. don't make me laugh. don't act like everything is okay when i'm breaking the baby-bird bones of my fingers every time someone else talks. me, the human stress ball. me, twenty stories tall and universe-filled with love, nothing else can even come close. i'm ******* godzilla, i'm interplanetary, i'm that giant ******* marshmallow man from ghostbusters getting shot at by the heroes. maybe there's just too much of me to love the way i need to be loved; completely, obsessively, like an illness. oh, god, i want to be loved like i'm sick. not just another hospital bed but the whole **** ward all for me. all eyes on me. nobody looking anywhere but me and *oh, please, i'm fine, really, i don't need all this attention.* like i'm daring the world to divert it away. a birthday list of gifts: - a fifth of whiskey - a gun with one bullet - the attention that people get from the crowd below before they jump off a building i don't think i'm asking for too much here. i feel like i'm one of those unlucky ******** born on christmas day who get half the presents for twice the occasion. how cruel must god be to birth me anywhere but eden, into a world where other people exist, where we have jobs and say hello to store cashiers and divide up our attention like slices of mandarin. so where's this revolution i ordered? where are the people making me important? i need a cause to lead and a muzzle for my heart, and i'll burn on and out, not like a star, but like the end of the ******* universe itself. and here i am, acting like i matter when i really only want to matter to you. i don't care how you want me to revolve as long as i'm a lone moon. as long as the tides are all mine; see, it's a lot more complex than me playing easy villain or anti hero. it's not been about me this entire time. but i can't write poems about any other subject.
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Bored of beauty. **** and *** blizzard white teeth insertable parts switched out like lego blocks. Inching away from this faulty form with which I was imbued in genesis. Long live that junk, ****** Gimme those thighs! Let free that emotional magma boiling up from beneath, ready to burn this world or at the least leave your laces singed. The tip of this iceberg will bring you all down so ready the life-rafts. Gimme that. Don’t give me blizzard teeth, silent in a quaffed muzzle. Be the jaws, the howl, the tender tongue on young necks. Great stories don’t read “one day I was beautiful” they say “the world seized me and tore off my limbs, and I toppled end over end til I came to rest between the legs of the Colossus and that’s when it got interesting.”
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Jul 30, 2015
Jul 30, 2015 at 3:36 PM UTC
Bored of beauty
Become medieval when the rain starts – put coins in my corset, they are pure gold & evil and show the men using my Thanatos drive: I could not care if they want me, I could not care if they hated me alive. Rather the leaf upon dress-breasts much as a muzzle, came from a box of cardboard slits opening like lady-legs. I bribe the thrash with my whispers & wheels, promise to soak up sky’s tears but she certainly prefers the black ash haul. I bring myself to the top of a volcano, its arc, convinced that it cannot soot me, not in the rain: such scorch is unreachable. There is this protruding spiral in the center, going dark, a pupil. It eats my hair-ribbon and I sweat, but I am upon all terrains of the Earth prepared to fall into a clutch, the gold stain my skin before peeling by storms, how plague-like I seem. Could be on my back when it implodes – though my skirt would not appreciate the mess, I think the idea fine. I am already pink, red’s better. Wires and flushed cheeks will be what they find, the men, knowing that I could not care. And I did not; it was not less than a shot of lightning stuck under a petticoat, frilled for nobody but the volcano who turns ********* to embers. the rain that beasts eyelashes to amputees.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM UTC
thanatos
Thick dirt matted fur, A warning snarl from between razor sharp teeth, Head lowered to the forest floor, littered with brown leaves, and fallen branches, eyes glowing with a beckoning challenge, hair raised, ears perked, senses alert, This wolf will not back down, a threat obvious, As the hunter points the gun at the snarling snapping wolf, hiding behind his man made power, but tonight this hunter will fall, and will not rise again, from behind, the wolfs mate emerges from the foliage, teeth exposed and a determined sway in her pursuit, with a hurried lunge, the hunter swirls, a bang in the nights air, A gurgled scream, a agony filled howl, The wolfs mate lay twitching, holding onto her last few breaths, muzzle to muzzle, they lay together, An alpha and his dying female,
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 11:22 PM UTC
Wolf
They profit on your silence, and foster insanity To reef your identity, and fade you to normality Control is an abortion of instinctual fundamentality They blind us with a bleach of hypocrisy to fade us to their normality Gather once in number, to support the dismantling Fate of compassionate and empathetic rationality, is threatened by a lie of social justice in pronouns and prejudice This is an infection of our political mentality, to allow other views to be heard only if they align within sheepish bounds of radicality ******* Ideology. What insanity Can’t let it fester, or our dignity will be the fatality Disgusting to muzzle those who believe differently As long as it’s not hate, preach what you practice
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Feb 3, 2019
Feb 3, 2019 at 2:29 PM UTC
Hypocrisy of our Political Toleration
How do I tell someone something that I don't wanna say... I mean I could but then I will put myself out there Vulnerable Open to be hurt Uncertainties about what the other person may say or feel Oh my goodness my heart is racing cuz even when I think about them I smile It's like riding along the Nile w/ a nice cool breeze Simple full and free A wonderful cadence of your voice moves my eardrum Seeing your face gives me unspeakable happiness I mean some may think I'm a ********* Nah I may jus have a special place for this person in my heart But all these untold vulnerabilities keep creeping up on me I don't wanna be seen as a ****** But u tho R a beautiful melody to a perfect song And maybe I'm wrong But all these untold vulnerabilities may creep out into the light Maybe with a fight Maybe with a struggle Maybe even with a muzzle But I will put the pieces to the puzzle together And maybe it will all come out w/ me being w/ you Foot in the right size shoe Cuz they say if the shoe fits wear it But I don't know if you think you can bear the strength of my love So we both lay w/ some untold vulnerabilities
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 2:49 PM UTC
Untold Vulnerabilities