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"niggling" poems
Today I told someone I loved them, and I ment it more than I could ever describe in words. But there was a niggling thought in the back of my head. "It's too soon," it whispered. "You should have waited. It's too soon." People will judge me. They will think I'm foolish. But who is anyone else to tell me about how I love someone? And since when does falling in love have a set rules? Why should I let society decide that my love isn't real, because they don't belive someone can feel this strongly for somone so soon? It took me eight months to say it to my X. And I can honestly say that feeling was like a drop in the ocean, compared to how I feel now. So yes you can say it's too soon. Frankly I don't give a ****
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Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016 at 4:07 PM UTC
To Soon
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Sitting here, thinking about death, about which death to choose, about which passing of time to write about. I am sweating, like, hold your breath or die sweat. It is hot here, but it isn't the temperature that is making my glands leak, it is the memories, it is the death grip that takes my heart when i remember, when i write about life leaving, silence stealing from the night. Heroine. She's a tuff-tender ***** with soft sleepy skin, the daughter of Morpheus, who takes your breath and holds it inside you. Somniferous, She likes to sit alongside you while you die, she holds your hand and whispers in your ear, allaying fear and slowly she wraps her fingers around your lungs. So tired, of this world, of this life; you think, i'll just close my eyes, nothing new about being on the nod, nothing strange about this tiredness that follows a quick projectile puke in the gutter. Let sleeping dogs lie. Writing about Overdosing. It is a strange thing, a quick story, one minute your blinking, nodding, often murmuring, then asleep. Lucky the dog who runs in a pack. Lucky the man who walks with strangers by his side. I don't remember much of what happened before i closed my eyes. A shot, pin ***** relief, then, quickly/slowly/gone. It is night out, with a dark and steady sky, I am watching the stars through slitted eyes and loving my life, loving my wife; ****** how she makes my heart sing. I am glad to be far from withdrawing, i am happy to be in sin with my lovers, stainless steel turemo picks. It is my first blast for the night and apparently my last. There is no warning, no red flag that appears in my minds eye. Just silence and a world fading away. A heartbeat disappearing. Short shallow breath and a small niggling concern that soon will come the time when i am not high then... I am going. I am gone. I have died. The strangest thing about dying is not dying. The hardest thing about it all is waking up and realising you were finally gone, you were finally done with the rigmorale, the procedure, of living, of life. You had reached the ultimate goodbye. And now you are back. Still high but not high enough to be faced with the living. Narcan gives your lungs back, it breathes back into you what She stole away. Wanting more then ever to ***** but not wanting to puke on the paramedics lap. Fear of police and reprisal, anxiety soars high on the agenda of the recently revived. A trip the hospital, a free ride, then signing out early, i have shots to blast, a past to wipe out, a life to live or die trying.
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Feb 11, 2010
Feb 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM UTC
Die trying.
Sitting here, thinking about death, about which death to choose, about which passing of time to write about. I am sweating, like, hold your breath or die sweat. It is hot here, but it isn't the temperature that is making my glands leak, it is the memories, it is the death grip that takes my heart when i remember, when i write about life leaving, silence stealing from the night. Heroine. She's a tuff-tender ***** with soft sleepy skin, the daughter of Morpheus, who takes your breath and holds it inside you. Somniferous, She likes to sit alongside you while you die, she holds your hand and whispers in your ear, allaying fear and slowly she wraps her fingers around your lungs. So tired, of this world, of this life; you think, i'll just close my eyes, nothing new about being on the nod, nothing strange about this tiredness that follows a quick projectile puke in the gutter. Let sleeping dogs lie. Writing about Overdosing. It is a strange thing, a quick story, one minute your blinking, nodding, often murmuring, then asleep. Lucky the dog who runs in a pack. Lucky the man who walks with strangers by his side. I don't remember much of what happened before i closed my eyes. A shot, pin ***** relief, then, quickly/slowly/gone. It is night out, with a dark and steady sky, I am watching the stars through slitted eyes and loving my life, loving my wife; ****** how she makes my heart sing. I am glad to be far from withdrawing, i am happy to be in sin with my lovers, stainless steel turemo picks. It is my first blast for the night and apparently my last. There is no warning, no red flag that appears in my minds eye. Just silence and a world fading away. A heartbeat disappearing. Short shallow breath and a small niggling concern that soon will come the time when i am not high then... I am going. I am gone. I have died. The strangest thing about dying is not dying. The hardest thing about it all is waking up and realising you were finally gone, you were finally done with the rigmorale, the procedure, of living, of life. You had reached the ultimate goodbye. And now you are back. Still high but not high enough to be faced with the living. Narcan gives your lungs back, it breathes back into you what She stole away. Wanting more then ever to ***** but not wanting to puke on the paramedics lap. Fear of police and reprisal, anxiety soars high on the agenda of the recently revived. A trip the hospital, a free ride, then signing out early, i have shots to blast, a past to wipe out, a life to live or die trying.
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I’m sorry for the things I’ve said or stupid stuff I’ve done, But I truly never wanted to be your one gay son. I know it can’t be easy to hear those words out loud, But I know that you still love me and I hope I make you proud. I couldn’t live a life where all I did was lie, If I couldn’t be honest I think I’d sooner die. To understand it fully, I’m still not at that stage, But to still be in the closet was like being in a cage. To love another guy, to me it don't make sense, And so around my heart I built a little fence. Although as time went on that fence became a wall, Built of solid concrete standing ten feet tall. I try to take it down to let a good guy in, But it always ends in tears I simply cannot win. Then it starts all over and you think you have found one, Until he turns around and says that all he wants is fun. You can’t help who you fall for, it’s not a simple choice, It comes from deep inside you, this little niggling voice. So if you are still hiding don’t just live in fear, For a happy life is worth it, the price of life is too dear. Those who stand and judge me, will never be my mates, Laughing at the fact with guys I go on dates Sure who really cares, we can’t all be the same, It’s like we have thrown a dice in this life we call a game So take a big deep breath, it will be ok in the end Oh hey parents this isn't my college mate, he's actually my boyfriend.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC
Ag Teacht Amach
Standing on the intersection of a Monet, a van Gogh, and a Picasso Nice piece of real estate! Water lilies ~ Charrette de boeuf ~ Tete d'homme Let's start with the lilies: I'm impressionable and I gaze lovingly into the pool I see my reflection slowly unfurl in the shimmer of the pink petals As in a dream ... I float on The watchmaker sends an instruction: rotate clockwise Now an ox cart: I seem to be walking in Poe's imagination Crows flitting about as the ox champions His burden on a drafty day Another instruction from the watchmaker: continue clockwise And now Tete d'homme ~ cubism: My world deconstructs Line by line, shapes and forms Fracture into the subterranean unconsciousness of my mind Leading to another instruction: close your eyes Shift Your Perspective Watchmaker says: open your eyes Uncentre Misalign Unhitch Watchmaker says: ens causa sui: 'a being that causes itself' Now I've got Dali giving me niggling doubts about the nature of time Sartre with a side of Darwin and I'm being and nothingness Ground yourself Mullin! Open your eyes ... this is reality There's Rodin in a battle of good versus evil Munch and no screams! This is good Gaugin sharing his garden view I'm in my happy place again ... That's better And here's Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro Bringing me back into a recognizable reality My eyes and my mind are in alignment here But I can feel that watchmaker winding me back up My iris constricts and my pineal widen Third eye ain't blind Hope someone is around to catch me No worries, I'm sailing with Renoir and I've found A Muse (Constantin Brancusi) Ain't life a musing?
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 10:34 AM UTC
Triangulation
Standing on the intersection of a Monet, a van Gogh, and a Picasso Nice piece of real estate! Water lilies ~ Charrette de boeuf ~ Tete d'homme Let's start with the lilies: I'm impressionable and I gaze lovingly into the pool I see my reflection slowly unfurl in the shimmer of the pink petals As in a dream ... I float on The watchmaker sends an instruction: rotate clockwise Now an ox cart: I seem to be walking in Poe's imagination Crows flitting about as the ox champions His burden on a drafty day Another instruction from the watchmaker: continue clockwise And now Tete d'homme ~ cubism: My world deconstructs Line by line, shapes and forms Fracture into the subterranean unconsciousness of my mind Leading to another instruction: close your eyes Shift Your Perspective Watchmaker says: open your eyes Uncentre Misalign Unhitch Watchmaker says: ens causa sui: 'a being that causes itself' Now I've got Dali giving me niggling doubts about the nature of time Sartre with a side of Darwin and I'm being and nothingness Ground yourself Mullin! Open your eyes ... this is reality There's Rodin in a battle of good versus evil Munch and no screams! This is good Gaugin sharing his garden view I'm in my happy place again ... That's better And here's Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro Bringing me back into a recognizable reality My eyes and my mind are in alignment here But I can feel that watchmaker winding me back up My iris constricts and my pineal widen Third eye ain't blind Hope someone is around to catch me No worries, I'm sailing with Renoir and I've found A Muse (Constantin Brancusi) Ain't life a musing?
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T- Take all his rules and directives on board H-Heed them well or he'll put you to the sword E-Edicts he announces mustn't be ignored S-Stay within the definition of his pit I-Indent it into your mind's memory fit T-Test not his patience nor his fab wit E-Enter good work that will be a great  hit M-Mad as hell he'll become when he sees a bad post O-Ousted you'll be if he doesn't like what you boast N-Niggling him will obtain a certain kind of verbal roast I-Irking his upright position means you'll be put on toast T-Travel within the hallowed guidelines he prefers the most O-Opposing him means debarment at a far flung coast R-Riling him over his rule's will disappear you as a ghost
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 9:41 AM UTC
The Site Monitor (Acrostic Poem)
In the midweek of twelves months I torched blunts and choked on wet smoke and chamomile tea. Fretting the niggling giblets of a queasy disrememberance of a sober stroll through your tossed hair salad. I managed to mangle  the marvelous gross lust of our impending delirium. i farmed bok choy to annoy our local siege. our muskets were polished with misdeeds. our demons barked, all coy and ravenous in the sweet diffuse of our useless aplomb. ginger rockets in our thespian numb. you Dis-Oriental surrogate Mom. You.... flame folding cranes, like a Japanese cancer with opposable thumbs. Unstoppable in the dead wink of an awkward eye upon your heaving ******* You burn regardless.
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May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
The Arcanaeum Of Drudgery And The Unspoken
Love proves inadequate at every turn ****** niggling over stupid **** Shed no tears Ain't like he crying over you
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 1:09 PM UTC
Variations on preach
pebbles over the eyes beautiful vacancies and folded hands our true home land of inanimate flesh gray skin in sunken grave beds and operas theater of mice while tumbled hair still grows we are already dead waiting for the flaming barge necropolis; to shuttle seas raven vanishing point age; a slow erasure the mind still wreathed into the torrents of life morals transmute into desires lost every inhalation a going going gone the only savage kisses; crypt tongues slow unwinding allusions of a destiny abandoned forgotten   from niggling chatter and the price of a chicken bathing in a tide pool abyss of inked black teas i hold fast losing steps a worn animal, waiting till sanctuary comes
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 3:23 PM UTC
Vatic
Sisyphus compelled to roll his boulder, the poet who attempts to reconcile what he knows with what he feels, sensing even in compulsion his stony effort no match for gravity. Knowledge transmuted into feeling, feelings obverted to some new knowledge, a seismic process that rolls in waves, peaks of insight, troughs of mental block, all to foist a new perception upon the world, squeeze perspective from the driest fruits. What devilish irony to be admired, for verse most often misunderstood, philosopher and virtuoso to a tone-deaf audience. Camus concluded Sisyphus was happy with his lot in life, but a poet continues to paint strange landscapes, never content with color schemes, ever niggling for that undiscovered pastel.
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Jul 13, 2012
Jul 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM UTC
Poets
Chamomile lines In a cup filled with sorrow As they swirl, rise and burst your eyes burn on. Ice-blue, yet warm As the morning in winter Feels like I'm breathing dragons and walking through fields of silver. Spider web catches The rays of the sun Rising on the horizon, is it called a horizon because of the rising? Hawks drop and whirl It's all so romantic And it makes me feel sick to my stomach because I'm just a wandering girl... You're a beast in the den You're a wolf in the lair You're the wood for my fire You're the breeze in my hair But I never asked for a den And I wanted the lair for myself And my fire should be burning with coal not wood. And the breeze in my hair? Well that's just annoying The affection you lavish on me feels like cloying Reproaches from some kind of horrible clown All lathered and slathered in wet eiderdown It's leering towards me, its horrible face Lifts into a smile, an ugly grimace And I realise suddenly That my mind is painting grotesque scenes Over the beauty of the one that I love But then how do I stop it? How do I stop it? How do I stop it? You make me feel putrid We laughed when he said that Yet love lies niggling at my insides like a blister That I don't want And yet it's mine Mine All mine And I want to keep it Forever.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 11:00 AM UTC
Chamomile lines
It's the smell of a mild summer evening. The grass, an occasional bloom mixed with overheated lawnmower and gasoline undertones. It's simplicity and classic rock love songs; U2's The Sweetest Thing. It is complete satisfaction overall, with a pang of uncertainty niggling at that fact. It's when the windows are rolled down with the wind blowing in your face, buffeting your hair. It's the sun shining through the trees--blinking and flashing like a strobe light. Hurts your eyes. Look away. Headache. It's hearing beautiful things as if underwater. It's having a great idea but no means When you want to say something, but don't have the words. It's you. It is all of you and thank you.
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 5:28 PM UTC
prose
I'm getting this nagging feeling. I don't know whether it's because in the pit of my stomach, I know you don't approve. Or if it's the fact that you're not responding, and I'm worrying my fears will be confirmed if I call you. Or if it's this niggling little thought that wormed its way into my brain, the same one I desperately hate. You would think I'd learned that this time of year, when I (possibly) gain someone/happiness, I'm destined (doomed) to lose someone/happiness. It's happened a little late this year, Or maybe it just happened a little early last year. I just want you to talk to me. I just want to know you're okay. Normally when you're not, you tell me. But once again, something's changing, and I can't help but feel happy despite my growing shame.
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Apr 19, 2011
Apr 19, 2011 at 6:36 PM UTC
I Don't Know Me Either.
Anger Is a powerful Destructive Wild And irrepressible Beast Threatening to destroy Temper Is a blood-thirsty hound Leaping And snapping Lunging at everything That reminds it Of Anger Threatening to get away Thoughts Are little imps Sly And cheeky Manipulative That populate the little village In your mind They create illusions And images That pester you Incessantly Selfishness And Kindness Are the lion and the unicorn Fighting over the Crown To rule Your actions Or Thoughts Jealousy Is that sour Whiny Voice Niggling you At the back of your head It spreads its propaganda Through your Thoughts And they start To turn Against each other Starting a War With all these Monsters Running through Your mind It’s a wonder At how you can still manage to keep Your sanity At times Or at least Look like It
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Jun 12, 2013
Jun 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM UTC
Your mind
The receding horizon, The fading light of day, Azure taking a livid hue. Pokhran's hot, scorching sand, A lash on our moribund logic. Death and Life, Life and Death- Religion and Atheism, Nobel and Booker, Make us proud and shiver, Make us happy, rob us of gaiety, Shoot all our fragile hopes to artistic acme. Smash all our favourite dreams to smithereens. The Ganga meanders amidst a maze of Ripples, crest and trough- With a dour askance, With a nonsensical exterior, At the dead of night, The hoary-headed ***** rises, To take stock of pelf, He keeps in hiding, Looka yonder, the man with a rice plate in his shack Stirs out of his lumber, in a jiffy, Dawns cracks, leaves rustle, breezes whistles, The nightingale still chirps coo, coo, coo.... Breaking the calm of a nostalgic daybreak. Love buffoonery, antics of sweet urchin, Effrontery, betrayal, self-destructive urge, Blinds love toting niggling details of despair In it's womb. A silver of modernism, none can deny, Gleaning the core of every 'ism' in it's ***** Roads, alleys crisscross, end of tunnel seems dark. At least, a hairpin bend, Across the debris of a fresh landslide, A ray of hope, a shaft of optimism, A changed universe, a reclaimed Utopia. Coming true! -Subhanjan Saha
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM UTC
Whispers of Eternity
you stainless steel stain-maker. a hate-lump of drums, wicked. stick it too your browbeat widget of precise niggling... ink links - to kerosene. and scribe farce for the disabled. but wrap it up in ' what's up ? ' . but get unstuck on other people. sheepskin your grey wolf. and - leap shins and fair maidens. skip **** that's too mythic. reel-in your best wishes. for weak wishes ditch ******* So wish strong; and all day long, you should rob lightning and come wit it ! be exactly the right wrong thing to catch fire most likely. [ so dig it ] hide your feather in your cap where your head might be. and your macbeth has a happenstance for a sequel and a meaning. be in-betweening and lost chapters. [ be these things ] but bring the laughter. last about a day and i got somethin' fo' ya still immaculate. just lean back a bit. and that'll be the bit you're after.
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Feb 6, 2013
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM UTC
JUST LEAN BACK A BIT
The receding horizon, The fading light of day, Azure taking a livid hue. Pokhran's hot, scorching sand, A lash on our moribund logic. Death and Life, Life and Death- Religion and Atheism, Nobel and Booker, Make us proud and shiver, Make us happy, rob us of gaiety, Shoot all our fragile hopes to artistic acme. Smash all our favourite dreams to smithereens. The Ganga meanders amidst a maze of Ripples, crest and trough- With a dour askance, With a nonsensical exterior, At the dead of night, The hoary-headed ***** rises, To take stock of pelf, He keeps in hiding, Looka yonder, the man with a rice plate in his shack Stirs out of his lumber, in a jiffy, Dawns cracks, leaves rustle, breezes whistles, The nightingale still chirps coo, coo, coo.... Breaking the calm of a nostalgic daybreak. Love buffoonery, antics of sweet urchin, Effrontery, betrayal, self-destructive urge, Blinds love toting niggling details of despair In it's womb. A silver of modernism, none can deny, Gleaning the core of every 'ism' in it's ***** Roads, alleys crisscross, end of tunnel seems dark. At least, a hairpin bend, Across the debris of a fresh landslide, A ray of hope, a shaft of optimism, A changed universe, a reclaimed Utopia. Coming true! -Subhanjan Saha
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM UTC
Whispers of Eternity
Vieques Snakes were here by the grace of God, but knowing Him, He set them down while He fiddled with an Egyptian plague, forgetting where He’d left them. The Navy brought mongooses to eat the snakes so they could relax and shell the sunrise coast in peace but mongoose got to eat, as any chicken farmer will tell you. Spain sent Church and State astride the horse, but conquistador and cleric dismounted to take in a sunset from ***** Arenas while the sea breeze whispered soft and sweet to a restless stallion and his starry eyed mare. Ticks in the grass, indifferent to bombs, bitter on mongoose tongue bloated equestrians each every one, blithe captives of nothing but the cold blue Atlantic and the turquoise bath of the Caribbean Sea. Bored by the endless cycle of creation and destruction, inspired perhaps to beauty or by niggling guilt, God unveiled the egret, elegant in its simplicity with a taste for tick and a knack for lazy symbiosis. The Malecón sways with rhythms we won’t bring back in our carry-on’s, a drink down the road from the old United Fruit Company dock, short stroll to sugar house ruins, unhurried drivers nodding to afro-son, waiting for horses to make their way.
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Oct 12, 2016
Oct 12, 2016 at 7:43 AM UTC
Vieques
yes i do love you but talking to you creates this ugly niggling tension in my stomach and my thoughts to get cloudy and i just become so frustrated all i want is to be left alone but then you think something is wrong something is obviously wrong but you are never going to be the right person to talk through it with
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 6:53 AM UTC
mom
barely it was swaying terrifically in cotton wind of sharp niggling wafers that flummox specially the growling infant sea, this lake, where i am by and satting with my soft particular femme who's metal slithers from her very roundest nostrils glinting rather unobtrusive and stubbornly silver. and jousting by in meager dollops college children blatantly. a basic scent of nonsense huddles on the 2's and 3's (or mayhaps more) they slant upon the dappled lazy soil reticent and uncouthly tread upon with flats little souls. their heads are fat with gullible churning knowledge. they farted from the dusted books. that stately chord of mugging music. that lays in bricks and mortared sighs. on the hillest of tops over looking the cordial bay.
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Mar 5, 2011
Mar 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM UTC
WWU 2
Flow in its intricate beauty, in its parabolic slide through an inexact thought, Niggling here and there as it soars through the rough appendage of reason. Flagellating the highs and lows of delight and sorrow, Titivating the realm of ecstasy to thrill the fluttering eyeballs, Brushing mounds of ragged hurt to bruise the tender, tender sensitivities. Then soaring, at once skyward, in a quest for knowing, Scintillating in a spangle of joyous, YES! To land, exhausted and deliriously happy In the knowledge that we two, My mind and I, Have won ourselves a freedom. M. 28 March 2017 On the eve of my 72nd birthday
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Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017 at 12:23 AM UTC
That Awesome Way
Could you see this? Or could you not The empty clouds above Veiling blood and bargains Like a parody Akin to mundane ghosts Hey you gamine This is no place to cry ***** along with me Through the whistling woods of irony Look at The open windows here The sky lights in your eyes Against the shadows and silhouettes We are all nothing But street urchins on this land For we were condemned While we were asleep Deep into the lights and oceans of The superior rule, love Sing along you little one For this day of spring Shan’t be the same You and I will break bread You and I shall be friends You and I shall ride together The giant wheel For the people to know May be just once You are at the acme In a niggling time frame You touch the ground For he, who is from heaven Is for heaven! For all who is gold Will eventually grow old For all who live Shall fall one day I will be here with you I will be around And I will mellow down With the infinite skies and a canopy of rains….
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 3:18 AM UTC
an open parchment
D eath is a gray lady; waiting and. she is whitely quiet but always niggling the bones in our frameless panes. pale cheeks stained onyx rivers or. ash skirt fluttering in no breeze. felt but heard whispering in our. dEath is a solid nothing. or green stems bent withering petals dry under and stiff. blooming never more ever more. a manure tree odoring better than. death is a noise unheard blaring but death isn't your delicate plush perfectly imperfect perfection. in my cleft stunningly dim. death is. waiting and. a silent riot of colourless gardens frozen infinite decay. a notion so sweetly bitter. death is a gray lady!so cometo my sheets and spread your legs and salty tears and feathers gently or. peacefully scream deAth in the rapture of my palms and.
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Jun 20, 2010
Jun 20, 2010 at 11:02 AM UTC
IV
I am the ****** and damaged warrior Mighty presence on an arid plain Waste-land empty and scorch-scarred parched Looking to the dazzling dawn Of another baking, aching, dry day Of another dying, desert year. They watched bold marching Fearful tramping To each pitiful skirmish And every blood-hungry moment Of all the days and nights. They watched corded muscles Spasm and seize With each call to stretch and pull And drag the weary-worn To fight again. Let no man call with shrill-shriek of the owl Across the night-filled silence Let no-one ever whisper in the dark, dearth Across the shadowed chasm I am alone within a purple shade Night-cloaked in cunning strange I am the time-deadened, weary watchman Locked in a forever-circle of despair Manacled with lead, banded with steel Tight twisted and knotted by a skein of silk Woven tightly by the softest hand Strengthened by certainty and pure calm There is no escape to unearth But death Is skirting the edge of existence Picking at the loose threads Teasing and niggling the fraying filaments Laddering and snagging And pulling, pulling out beyond time The winding-sheet, the sack-cloth shroud The only closing choice. © M.L.Emmett
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:23 AM UTC
The ****** and Damaged Warrior
We sit in the still and through tiny buffeted windows watch the stubborn shore arrest the fierce sea. An old clock tocks as slow as winters as we recall the beach of crowded summers The cold wind whispers along the scurrying dunes to throw the sand in abstract arcs against the ice blue sky In large coats, billowed scarves and stout boots we trudge against the bickering wind blustering in its niggling argument far into the sea. I never thought our steps could be this close as we huddle and cower against the wind and in a tiny distance the gale rips up our prints as if no foot had ever trod. Yet behind our watering eyes We know that once two footsteps touched Our shoes kissed in the wild wet and wintry night There will be warmth in the accordion blessed bar with pipe smoke leering to the rafters and yellow light from candled glasses casting tall shadows of the shawled women waiting for the long lost sailors’ return. Shall I be a sailor then to board the narrow boat of your body in all the crash and yaw the swell and deep the thunder and breech the pounding and clamour until in the safe soundings in the harbours of morning we drift like flotsam on the shoreline of sheets. And driving home on a damp Sunday will we marvel at the twisting rain and how the tiny ship of our footsteps survives the howling gales and the all wild wide oceans of our watery ways
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 7:09 PM UTC
The Seaside out of Season