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"nuanced" poems
Most days, you're not a woman developer, you're a developer. You work just as hard, You (try to) talk just as fast You keep your feelings under the surface (barely) Actually, scratch that You're always a woman developer. you're just so used to internalizing these habits Trying to have confidence in your skills despite the impostor syndrome pulling you down each time slowly, like quicksand Trying to make up for the confidence you never had compared to someone who always had it all Trying to not cry in the kitchen because god who is allowed to have feelings Trying not to talk about men who made you uncomfortable because oh my god for the fact that people call women overreacting most men seem to make every little statement about them, have you noticed? oh wow, isn't this just reverse sexism? oh wow, can I even talk to women? Being so vocal about being queer and Indian but if you make one noise one sound one phrase about your experience as a woman because in such welcoming company you subconsciously thought why not You let down your guard But There goes the shattered glass as the topic of gender-based discrimination is finally broached There goes the thing nobody ever talks about There starts the debate you did not want to participate in "Oh wow you're so harsh to these guys" "We were just slamming what they were doing, you slammed their actual personality wow" "I just said they sounded like a brogrammer" "sure if you say so" "Isn't that just an arbitrary description" How do you explain How do you describe every nuanced experience about Every male in your life who have been exactly like this to you How do you explain the light discrimination The harsh discrimination The systemic problem as a whole How can you condense all this into a workplace environment talk Where you don't usually talk about this? Where you don't know if you can actually talk about this Where you know that you ultimately don't want to talk about this cuz how can you explain these feelings that they can never understand You shut up and move on with coding. But inside, you're conflicted with ideas of presentations to express the fact, or never speak about this again Because in the end, You're just a developer, not a woman developer to them.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 10:42 AM UTC
An Arbitrary Description (not really)
Most days, you're not a woman developer, you're a developer. You work just as hard, You (try to) talk just as fast You keep your feelings under the surface (barely) Actually, scratch that You're always a woman developer. you're just so used to internalizing these habits Trying to have confidence in your skills despite the impostor syndrome pulling you down each time slowly, like quicksand Trying to make up for the confidence you never had compared to someone who always had it all Trying to not cry in the kitchen because god who is allowed to have feelings Trying not to talk about men who made you uncomfortable because oh my god for the fact that people call women overreacting most men seem to make every little statement about them, have you noticed? oh wow, isn't this just reverse sexism? oh wow, can I even talk to women? Being so vocal about being queer and Indian but if you make one noise one sound one phrase about your experience as a woman because in such welcoming company you subconsciously thought why not You let down your guard But There goes the shattered glass as the topic of gender-based discrimination is finally broached There goes the thing nobody ever talks about There starts the debate you did not want to participate in "Oh wow you're so harsh to these guys" "We were just slamming what they were doing, you slammed their actual personality wow" "I just said they sounded like a brogrammer" "sure if you say so" "Isn't that just an arbitrary description" How do you explain How do you describe every nuanced experience about Every male in your life who have been exactly like this to you How do you explain the light discrimination The harsh discrimination The systemic problem as a whole How can you condense all this into a workplace environment talk Where you don't usually talk about this? Where you don't know if you can actually talk about this Where you know that you ultimately don't want to talk about this cuz how can you explain these feelings that they can never understand You shut up and move on with coding. But inside, you're conflicted with ideas of presentations to express the fact, or never speak about this again Because in the end, You're just a developer, not a woman developer to them.
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I just want to go 200 on the interstate and see if the world still wants me My skill is wasted on slowness Underappreciated and mistaken for arrogance Behind the wheel I am confirmed Decisions here are not the customs of monotony But a nuanced puzzle of physics I am a navigator in an ocean of outcomes The engine is roaring with me We were made for exploding
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Aug 24, 2014
Aug 24, 2014 at 10:43 PM UTC
What you need to understand about speeding...
The anxieties are there about meaningless things and the meanings behind them Time is spent wondering What he's thinking? What he's doing? What he remembers and holds on to? If any? If all? Why he's with her? If he thinks about me like I think about him? If he thinks about my touch like I think about his? If he yearns for me? If he wants to taste my kiss and all of me again? So many musings driven by curiousity by desire by a muse, in every sense of the word Awakening something deep within me deeper than lust deeper than longing An intensity that's intoxicating addicting terrifying An insatiable hunger to search and swim within his soul one touch, one moment at a time Only felt never acknowledged, engulfed in secrecy engulfed by secrecy Drinking each other in between nuanced subcontext one moment at at time Setting each other on fire.
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Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018 at 5:47 PM UTC
I'm on Fire
I live dream die to create complete each letter word turning phrase and thought-out straightaway You read breathe digest every syllable letters strung like a popcorn necklace fingerpainted fragment sentences authoritatively artistic and defended in brazen resolve my keeper of the slight, the nuanced, softly sung, down-quilted gerunds: holding, brushing, sweeping tasting, loving There is no sound in space. No quiet nothings whispered. The sunlight on my face now scorching, cracking, blistered, Starvation comes quickly when the cook's not around; so when the words stop if need be, feast on me.
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 2:18 AM UTC
Verbivore, pt 1
The Picture Window The vista view never changes but daily. The naked eye, registers the same distances, resting objects unmoved, modest alterations by wind and water are noted, but for intent, for purpose, the watercolor one would paint be invariably unvarying as a Swiss Alp. The  subtle nuanced worldview, where the sky stretches from ceiling to a foot above ground, as I lay prone neath the coverlet, vista always subtly differing, from its prior reincarnation, self-reflection demands to know. Alive & Awake? Yes. Breathing steady? Yes. Toes? Still can wiggly to & fro. My soul? Presumably ok, as I write, because I write, the picture window into to my insight, though oft blurry, yet intact, making discernible the changes in light, temperature  and heart rate, as the body/soul contraption modulates, just as the gradient of daylight shifts lighter and higher, with a rising sun bringing more clarity to our interactive encounters with our environments.. The picture window internalized, much the same,as the vista, subtle modest changes, colorations variegated, are registered. Today is mostly cloudy overcast, and shall remain so for the foreseeable future, which be about two days hence. Not unsurprisingly, methinks, the future tends to be cloudy. Beyond that peripheral, no one can say, our macular envisioning only gets weaker,time is a tough taskmaster and uncertainty is it’s own principle. But I can say, forecast from well under the comforter, that more than less, where less is more, this picture window, ex and in, shall remain, unchanged for the remainder of my years that fortune shall provide, and will & would grant me awakenings to the ex-sight and in-sight of a sculpted landscape, of negative entropy,  where disorder minimal. My musings end here, unless you still wish, come the morrow, what the marrow the day reveals, what the window will spill, new and exciting, subtly unchanged, and always different. Caution: The injection of caffeine may dramatically alter the windows perspective, as the exogenous always trumps the endogenous. 5:50 AM P.S. Making coffee clarifies: If the vista in +/- unchanging, then, all my personal, own horizons are immortal as well.
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Jun 4, 2023
Jun 4, 2023 at 6:34 AM UTC
The Picture Window
The Picture Window The vista view never changes but daily. The naked eye, registers the same distances, resting objects unmoved, modest alterations by wind and water are noted, but for intent, for purpose, the watercolor one would paint be invariably unvarying as a Swiss Alp. The  subtle nuanced worldview, where the sky stretches from ceiling to a foot above ground, as I lay prone neath the coverlet, vista always subtly differing, from its prior reincarnation, self-reflection demands to know. Alive & Awake? Yes. Breathing steady? Yes. Toes? Still can wiggly to & fro. My soul? Presumably ok, as I write, because I write, the picture window into to my insight, though oft blurry, yet intact, making discernible the changes in light, temperature  and heart rate, as the body/soul contraption modulates, just as the gradient of daylight shifts lighter and higher, with a rising sun bringing more clarity to our interactive encounters with our environments.. The picture window internalized, much the same,as the vista, subtle modest changes, colorations variegated, are registered. Today is mostly cloudy overcast, and shall remain so for the foreseeable future, which be about two days hence. Not unsurprisingly, methinks, the future tends to be cloudy. Beyond that peripheral, no one can say, our macular envisioning only gets weaker,time is a tough taskmaster and uncertainty is it’s own principle. But I can say, forecast from well under the comforter, that more than less, where less is more, this picture window, ex and in, shall remain, unchanged for the remainder of my years that fortune shall provide, and will & would grant me awakenings to the ex-sight and in-sight of a sculpted landscape, of negative entropy,  where disorder minimal. My musings end here, unless you still wish, come the morrow, what the marrow the day reveals, what the window will spill, new and exciting, subtly unchanged, and always different. Caution: The injection of caffeine may dramatically alter the windows perspective, as the exogenous always trumps the endogenous. 5:50 AM P.S. Making coffee clarifies: If the vista in +/- unchanging, then, all my personal, own horizons are immortal as well.
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humans born a mess, messengers carrying blank notepads, sheet music, brought from within to the without a baby-sized handful of historical residues retained, garnered from all too brief a prelim existence, arriving possessing hints of what may be most emerging crying, crying over loss of the womb security, for seers all, all see unaccountable futures clouded by an inevitable chance of rain and death all of us, no one excepted, covered for months in **** stained fluids , a holy, ***** combination of amniotic nourishment, and our own waste a hint of what is to come? human then spends the rest of life cleaning up after himself, mostly with tasks of addition, punctuating by the occasional cleansing of elimination subtraction making room for the next love, labored birthing of a baby poem, from your womb, midwifed, haunting ghosts of three note tunes, begging for a set of lyrics and a great chorus everybody can sing, a completion competition going along, all along, to the goings on, all our routes preternatural crooked, lived a life of pretense, a straightened out life, which is the nuanced, connected summary of our components which are all curves, dots on a line and the composition source, the secret chords employed, tech installed just prior to birth, effacing glorious sadness, glorious joy, the human building blocks, with the certainty that *everybody knows, that's how it goes everybody knows,* only fools believe, you'll live forever but live at least long enough to sing and write of a man cleaning up his own life's messes, and perchance, after our absence, leaving the world better for it
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Jan 7, 2017
Jan 7, 2017 at 10:49 AM UTC
For Leonard: A Man, Cleaning Up After Himself
humans born a mess, messengers carrying blank notepads, sheet music, brought from within to the without a baby-sized handful of historical residues retained, garnered from all too brief a prelim existence, arriving possessing hints of what may be most emerging crying, crying over loss of the womb security, for seers all, all see unaccountable futures clouded by an inevitable chance of rain and death all of us, no one excepted, covered for months in **** stained fluids , a holy, ***** combination of amniotic nourishment, and our own waste a hint of what is to come? human then spends the rest of life cleaning up after himself, mostly with tasks of addition, punctuating by the occasional cleansing of elimination subtraction making room for the next love, labored birthing of a baby poem, from your womb, midwifed, haunting ghosts of three note tunes, begging for a set of lyrics and a great chorus everybody can sing, a completion competition going along, all along, to the goings on, all our routes preternatural crooked, lived a life of pretense, a straightened out life, which is the nuanced, connected summary of our components which are all curves, dots on a line and the composition source, the secret chords employed, tech installed just prior to birth, effacing glorious sadness, glorious joy, the human building blocks, with the certainty that *everybody knows, that's how it goes everybody knows,* only fools believe, you'll live forever but live at least long enough to sing and write of a man cleaning up his own life's messes, and perchance, after our absence, leaving the world better for it
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fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 6:54 PM UTC
For the Sin
fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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perfect poise between diction imagery and tone measured rhythms and true fine feelings that fall like soft rain to mirror humans in tender moments and coarse grim cameos of things best forgotten things nuanced and bitter this vast field of experience is the business of poetry the art of aptness the art of compactness and incredible depths leading to damp squibs we search nevertheless for unique form and content that exercise in futility till at last we rest from our labours and we understand at last poetry like life is a bitter-sweet  illusion
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Mar 27, 2016
Mar 27, 2016 at 1:37 PM UTC
the search
I find innocuous corners in the unfathomable depths of humanity. Then I weave a silken web of lies against the tapestries of fate. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction, peppered both with illusions and realities. For the greatest illusion is the one most rooted in truth. I have no need to chase; my patience is as consummate a force as any; I wait for my prey to come to me on their own, And then I ensnare them, injecting them with venom, Rendering them unable to escape. The web is an extension to my soul. To my spirit. It is me, and my weapon. Its substance is known to me. My webs are lies mixed with truths, despair colored with hope. They are a crawling infinity of colors, An eternal tribute to orderly and savage chaos. Each strand, which links me to my prey and my predators, Each one resonates under the steps of the dancing mad god, Vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery or cowardice, Satiation or hunger, Destruction or architecture, Blabber or argument, Each strand carries my reaction to everyone who is connected to me. Every intention, interaction, motivation that I have been plagued with, Every color, everybody, every action and reaction that I have endured, Every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, Every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, Every possible thing that ever was, ever is and ever will be with regard to me, Woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is not a weapon. It is a trap. A trap, one to which I fall every single time. Infinitely bitten, never shy. I can renounce the world again. I can turn away once more. But it never lasts. The web is too spread out. There are other spiders on it, Spiders, which have tethered me to this plane of reality, With their own silken threads. It is too late. Too late to draw the strings close. It is too late. Too late to destroy my prison, too late to destroy my weapon. Too late for everything.
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 10:55 AM UTC
Silken Strands
I find innocuous corners in the unfathomable depths of humanity. Then I weave a silken web of lies against the tapestries of fate. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction, peppered both with illusions and realities. For the greatest illusion is the one most rooted in truth. I have no need to chase; my patience is as consummate a force as any; I wait for my prey to come to me on their own, And then I ensnare them, injecting them with venom, Rendering them unable to escape. The web is an extension to my soul. To my spirit. It is me, and my weapon. Its substance is known to me. My webs are lies mixed with truths, despair colored with hope. They are a crawling infinity of colors, An eternal tribute to orderly and savage chaos. Each strand, which links me to my prey and my predators, Each one resonates under the steps of the dancing mad god, Vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery or cowardice, Satiation or hunger, Destruction or architecture, Blabber or argument, Each strand carries my reaction to everyone who is connected to me. Every intention, interaction, motivation that I have been plagued with, Every color, everybody, every action and reaction that I have endured, Every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, Every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, Every possible thing that ever was, ever is and ever will be with regard to me, Woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is not a weapon. It is a trap. A trap, one to which I fall every single time. Infinitely bitten, never shy. I can renounce the world again. I can turn away once more. But it never lasts. The web is too spread out. There are other spiders on it, Spiders, which have tethered me to this plane of reality, With their own silken threads. It is too late. Too late to draw the strings close. It is too late. Too late to destroy my prison, too late to destroy my weapon. Too late for everything.
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You Are beautiful. You Are funny. You are dynamic, and nuanced. No one knows how to see the world The way you do. You don't give yourself Credit. You don't think you're Worthy Of good things. You believe, And heaven forbid these words, But you believe (Whether in some immense degree or a smaller, subtle way) That you Are Worthless. Oh, my beauty. Oh, my dazzling darling. You are more than you think. You are so much more Than you have let yourself Become. It's not too late. Drop those weights, Those heavy, dark thoughts. And remember who you knew you were when you were too young to lie to yourself. You are amazing. You have flaws and they Are wonderful. You are not a magazine. You are not a Barbie doll. You are you. And that is what makes You So very, very Perfect.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 1:33 PM UTC
If you need these words, they are for You
Picasso had it right, you know... there is no such thing as perfect. Yet, there is gratitude in the flaw; there is hope in the falsehood. She appeared to me as the manifestation of a fantasy. I thought that the perfection within her blossomed her appearance as symmetry. The madness of my obsession cemented upon her scent. The string instrument vibrations of my heart so nuanced, so rare, yet, so familiar a dream as to be recollections of heaven. If she, living, tastes like love, do delicious pastries taste like death The more I knew of her, the less I knew pain, until... From our love, so robust in its ripeness, time gormlessly gorged upon us, and we decayed, like seeds in the apple trapped and never to be free. It was then that I saw her flaws and it seemed they were "real" The distortions grew numerous and each beauty lost appeal, peeling away to slowly reveal the scars that Frankenstein couldst never, ever heal, for his monster's myriad scars are the pillars of its humanity... Picasso measured the conflicted angles, and saw perfection would rob them of life. It is the awkward jostling of misshapen things that gives them movement, as they ever so try to shift into place, but if they were to do so, they would be as the yonder rock, or the caged boiling soup of ancient fuel all perfection will be ... So I let her go; I freed myself of the death I refused to become. And when she broke, I told her, "When you are whole, you will be happy to break, again." Break bread with love.
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 5:06 PM UTC
A Subtracting Symmetry...
Picasso had it right, you know... there is no such thing as perfect. Yet, there is gratitude in the flaw; there is hope in the falsehood. She appeared to me as the manifestation of a fantasy. I thought that the perfection within her blossomed her appearance as symmetry. The madness of my obsession cemented upon her scent. The string instrument vibrations of my heart so nuanced, so rare, yet, so familiar a dream as to be recollections of heaven. If she, living, tastes like love, do delicious pastries taste like death The more I knew of her, the less I knew pain, until... From our love, so robust in its ripeness, time gormlessly gorged upon us, and we decayed, like seeds in the apple trapped and never to be free. It was then that I saw her flaws and it seemed they were "real" The distortions grew numerous and each beauty lost appeal, peeling away to slowly reveal the scars that Frankenstein couldst never, ever heal, for his monster's myriad scars are the pillars of its humanity... Picasso measured the conflicted angles, and saw perfection would rob them of life. It is the awkward jostling of misshapen things that gives them movement, as they ever so try to shift into place, but if they were to do so, they would be as the yonder rock, or the caged boiling soup of ancient fuel all perfection will be ... So I let her go; I freed myself of the death I refused to become. And when she broke, I told her, "When you are whole, you will be happy to break, again." Break bread with love.
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What’s the connection?—         a secret kept best between plug and socket.                Prophet man gone the old electric way, [and durn’ an election year, no less]. Epigrammatic burps, and occasional flatulence, of intellection,       I can’t help but admire my own kindofbouquet, it ain’t easy— when Christ was crucified like gas… …There’s a million and more clichés I could toss around as mud and dirt;        Alas!,                          I’d rather speak in terms of glass, [plateglass, stainedglass etc.,                germs and love, and guns and lovely lovely ca-sh, today’s math; burnt and sad, self—Walking [my] small town streets, sure to stray faraway of dense windows,         and passerby's in ugly masks, with karaoke mouthpieces,                        Ballads of boredom on precipitate tongues, Shoo!—away and blow apart minstrel clouds.         No taxis, [ever]         just men and women in ordinary cars, pedestrians,                    in obvious shoes,sporting unconscious denim,northeastern scowls —fashionable scowls,          nuanced grays that distract from the spots of ill sun [hostage winter sun;]                  scowls like Northeastern sky herself. “I’ve surely lost my perspective”                  [An empty phrase, really. A neat vaguery, I submit.]         I had a perspective, I still got it;         Though not much use it does me being how singular it is,                                        Optics and all, no shades of reflection, Dense windows of thought, so dense,        —it’s now a microscope! Hell, all i can make out is a loose collection of colors, A broken box of loose wires           and some kinda bang-up dodgy liberty, those frayed connections, too.                 Nothing as tidy as plug and socket,         however,enough                 to keep the lights on.
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 8:47 PM UTC
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What’s the connection?—         a secret kept best between plug and socket.                Prophet man gone the old electric way, [and durn’ an election year, no less]. Epigrammatic burps, and occasional flatulence, of intellection,       I can’t help but admire my own kindofbouquet, it ain’t easy— when Christ was crucified like gas… …There’s a million and more clichés I could toss around as mud and dirt;        Alas!,                          I’d rather speak in terms of glass, [plateglass, stainedglass etc.,                germs and love, and guns and lovely lovely ca-sh, today’s math; burnt and sad, self—Walking [my] small town streets, sure to stray faraway of dense windows,         and passerby's in ugly masks, with karaoke mouthpieces,                        Ballads of boredom on precipitate tongues, Shoo!—away and blow apart minstrel clouds.         No taxis, [ever]         just men and women in ordinary cars, pedestrians,                    in obvious shoes,sporting unconscious denim,northeastern scowls —fashionable scowls,          nuanced grays that distract from the spots of ill sun [hostage winter sun;]                  scowls like Northeastern sky herself. “I’ve surely lost my perspective”                  [An empty phrase, really. A neat vaguery, I submit.]         I had a perspective, I still got it;         Though not much use it does me being how singular it is,                                        Optics and all, no shades of reflection, Dense windows of thought, so dense,        —it’s now a microscope! Hell, all i can make out is a loose collection of colors, A broken box of loose wires           and some kinda bang-up dodgy liberty, those frayed connections, too.                 Nothing as tidy as plug and socket,         however,enough                 to keep the lights on.
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As we spoke and I found myself safe in your eyes I suddenly saw what you have given me *His hands link with mine, our arms create a matching line, his patterned lightly by freckles, and we're sitting on the summer porch at dusk. He loves me.* but only because you showed me the secret I had kept from myself: that my eyes can see into souls my laugh can turn hearts my smile can make blood race. that my words, my thoughts, my loves and hate, my passion and fire and tears, my temper and my gentleness, my utter ridiculousness and my absolute poise, my total seriousness and surprising propensity for laughter, my complex flaws and nuanced perfections, that I, me, everything I am and all I will ever be is worth something. And could be someone's everything. This is the secret you have pulled from the depths of my maybe not-so-broken soul, cupping it in the careful curve of your hands, holding it out to me, fragile like a newborn but growing stronger all the time. And I'll take it in my nervous palms and the warmth will fill me and I will live like new because of this precious truth that only you could have extracted from the labyrinth of a deep and winding heart, that only you could have known well enough cared for deeply enough to traverse the dark passages long enough to find my lonely light.
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 10:40 AM UTC
the other night.
There was never a doubt because she let me know In every unspoken. Term. Every nuanced  flutter. Deep ****** free fall that I craved and flew across the city The cities my love At the end of the week breaking the limit. Navigating the Madness. Every stoplight was my sworn enemy. Every Hindrance was anxiety past bearing. The countdown. By miles By minutes. By block By street. My fix was ever near . With shaking hands I climbed the stairs two for one.   I could see every loving sweep and curve of her neck. The tilt of her head. The space between her brow. Now. Just a hearbeat or two. Just ring the bell. Wait anticipate. Sharpen the pain. Hieghten  the pleasure .Oh my love if you only knew. Though I. Have professed my love in every way and still. My words just can't say what my heart knows. Anything that can be done I have done And will continue to do .You see. I Listen keenly for the every request of Your heart. Your body. Your body language is well spoken and I listen keenly. Required to anticipate . Your hands my love Your arms my love. Your sway my love The pulsing of your heart. Sends me to The smooth expanse of you as you recline all over my mind. Now the moment of truth sharpens my senses as you Part your lips to speak a melody. Symphony. UN Bearable. This is my purgatory my love.Sure as night finds day You will go away and I cannot stay. We were never meant to be. Poison is what you are to me With no malice or intent. Cry and then repent this stolen love. Never to be Not to be Can never be. So drown me in your love my sweet Make my useless life complete And give me all of you now and forever Stay in my soul. That is what I. Need to last a lifetime without you.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 4:42 AM UTC
Sublime
There was never a doubt because she let me know In every unspoken. Term. Every nuanced  flutter. Deep ****** free fall that I craved and flew across the city The cities my love At the end of the week breaking the limit. Navigating the Madness. Every stoplight was my sworn enemy. Every Hindrance was anxiety past bearing. The countdown. By miles By minutes. By block By street. My fix was ever near . With shaking hands I climbed the stairs two for one.   I could see every loving sweep and curve of her neck. The tilt of her head. The space between her brow. Now. Just a hearbeat or two. Just ring the bell. Wait anticipate. Sharpen the pain. Hieghten  the pleasure .Oh my love if you only knew. Though I. Have professed my love in every way and still. My words just can't say what my heart knows. Anything that can be done I have done And will continue to do .You see. I Listen keenly for the every request of Your heart. Your body. Your body language is well spoken and I listen keenly. Required to anticipate . Your hands my love Your arms my love. Your sway my love The pulsing of your heart. Sends me to The smooth expanse of you as you recline all over my mind. Now the moment of truth sharpens my senses as you Part your lips to speak a melody. Symphony. UN Bearable. This is my purgatory my love.Sure as night finds day You will go away and I cannot stay. We were never meant to be. Poison is what you are to me With no malice or intent. Cry and then repent this stolen love. Never to be Not to be Can never be. So drown me in your love my sweet Make my useless life complete And give me all of you now and forever Stay in my soul. That is what I. Need to last a lifetime without you.
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And the knowledge of the hedgerow plant, I found embedded in leaf veins ... like in mine, etched along blue lines of a notebook. In the ripples on the remnants of water that pooled, before the mudflats claimed them are the striations of  ol'butot near  Naivasha. His stories tell of caves, a gleaming obsidian of a pre historic introspection. Do forty day fasts suffice to exorcise the springs of sulphur or the forced baptism of a flash flood washing six souls to Hades ? The sun glinted at me through a narrowness of fate, a gorge of interminable seconds and I marvelled at the strata of time in a warp, for it blurted out a moan. Love spoke in nuanced layers of molten flow that crawled to stillness. Can I not say that stone speaks? A couple of hundred years back in time, self titled discoverers  had seen land that had not been unseen by the thousands who lived for thousands until then. So yes, the strata spoke to me, like the striations in the leaves and the lines that were everywhere telling stories of interminable seconds. Time grooves like a death valley in an engraving, etched like a memory of that which has never been, ripples on sand, circles on water,
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Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 10:49 AM UTC
Lasting Ripples
I like to get lost in words, in the lush lines of prose, the lingering liberation of free verse, poetry. Each letter a rosary bead, possesses its own note, as tobacco, in a blue bottle of perfume, nuanced, warm, stingy; the code for describing, lovers on an mid-autumn evening, drinking black coffee. But the anthology of words, capturing my heart whole, are the small, lace journals, wrapped, in thumb worn, brown leather, in the back of a little drawer, sound asleep, hidden from the world. Trace a finger along the spine, open them to a maze upon maze of letters- paragraphs-thoughts-dreams-events; my life, all swathed, in thumb worn, brown leather. I write them. leave them. read them months, years later, losing myself in, my own mid-autumn evenings, and word worthy moments of my existence. Why? For I am able to say, “look how far I've come."
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Dec 12, 2012
Dec 12, 2012 at 7:50 AM UTC
Leather Swathed
Rubber soled trainers broke the brick Like the boom of the people tether the streets Tight strapped caps wander and roam Strolling the daylight for a place of their own Screeching and whirring filling the room Monoxide smog frogs that cling to their moulds We the people; hardened in soul A splash in the distance tearing a hole Enoch and Edna turn in their grave Darkened cobble flattened; all glazed Mirrors and cladding click into place A village that weeps, constant refined Express the formidable now done and alone Never your own EST marks the alleys; so nuanced, so cool If you knew the truth; that's a tenner! You fool
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Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020 at 5:18 AM UTC
Bulldozer
Desire has a nuanced way Of rearing its ugly head Disguised in a pretty red wig A cinnamon girl, a wild mare Racing a hot summers night And I, a king of trash, lost Deep in the ocean of vulnerability That glimmers behind your eyes Sinking, swimming, submerged It's hard to stay afloat When you're ten feet above water And you can't breathe When your lungs are full of lust But maybe just for tonight Among the places we've drank The cars taking us here to there The cigarettes, tequila, and drugs The warming sensations The stupid decisions The too close conversations A longing gaze, a hand on thigh Your beauty closes in on mine And our lips would touch Igniting a flame, burning me Embers to ashes, dust to pain For we'd only exist this night A memory in the making A heart of broken shame A possibility too perfect The product of fantasy Something I'd wish for But never come to fruition Intuition screaming at me *Don't kiss the girl Leave before you **** yourself up* And in comes the reaper Here to collect my debt Of too much ingested I feel sick, losing control Get me the hell out of here I want to go home.
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Jun 3, 2016
Jun 3, 2016 at 9:29 PM UTC
Pink Phosphorescence (or "how I avoided a broken heart at the Lash")
He was a simple man of simple words, or high-school girl with broken heart who thought they had a message, or a call, or not. Arriving with a sense of the absurd, a bittersweet purview on life and love, together with a gift for nuanced phrase, appreciating how the language plays upon the mind and tongue, they rise above the well-worn similes, the tired cliches for days, perhaps for weeks. Then comes the time when human ugliness shows up to flay the budding poet. The evidence of crimes committed: smoky circles, nameless gray reminders of whose gifts they took away.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM UTC
In Memory of Cayman Whent
I've tried to write you a sonnet so elegant but like daggers my words are too sharp, too harsh. Crumpled pages liter the floor and all of my ink is spent from my attempt to twist phrases into proper English. Nothing can better describe your eyes but the color blue. Perhaps the ocean or the sky? Every metaphor is too cliché. I can’t capture the rich color with words as I see it on you, everything I want to say defies the rules I’m to obey. Sure, I could compare you to a vast and cloudless sky but I’d be missing all of the nuanced details of your face as you send a silent wink and an expressive smirk my way. My inability to describe your eyes has made me into a mental case! I've tried cyan and azure, turquoise and sapphire too, but nothing compares to the beauty I see deep in you.
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Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM UTC
The Color I Wouldn't Dare Compare
I couldn’t put this must-read down, nor yet Its many woven layers of tapestry (Or maybe layered weavings of mystery?) - This book seethes with passion; much blood is let Beautifully crafted in the tradition of A riveting re-telling all gritty Wild, bold, and haunting, nuanced and witty A daring, different tour-de-force of love Lyrical, satirical, and compelling And when the heroine’s not whispering                                      she’s yelling
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 4:02 PM UTC
I Could not Put Down this Unputdownable Flying-off-the-Shelves Must-Read Book That Defines a Generation
whenever you feel inconsequentially small remember one thing: the period. a dark pixel a tiny nuanced dot that manages to transform everything. "I'm fine" becomes "I'm fine." "Okay" becomes "Okay." but perhaps the most painful of all is to see "goodbye" change into "goodbye."
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 3:00 AM UTC
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Holy hell, this show is insane, riveting, complexed, nuanced, compelling, captivating, addictive, he proclaimed on Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, wondering where the days went, wondering what unforeseen abyss swallowed him whole.
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Oct 30, 2017
Oct 30, 2017 at 1:58 AM UTC
Binge Watch
death, apparent, or... apparently so... was never a concern to concern oneself with the debate between a man, and a god.... i,e.? funny...    the little **** sleeps like a baby... little **** a maine **** cat, male, extracted testicles... falls asleep listening to the dead can dance... only album favorite....    my cat favored to fall asleep in half the time it took to listen to the track... you can state your Apocalypse Now! counter in half the time... beginning with.... now!            i'm done begging, i'm imploring you... added minutes?!   michele campanella... WAGNER's        walhall from,      das rheingold... such esteemed people! such awaiting people! such... nuanced... of what could be claimed as... people...             what wonder! what ignominious    ingenuity of retraction!        to, have, fathomed!       the last of what ia esteemed to be deemed, the, *least"...               finest upon the finest, and, supposedly, no more, that a utility of a hammer, for whatever came the observation, to make comprehension of... the noun: nail, and the adverb... nailing it... with the verb and noun of final utility of: hammer... dear... prospect... of whatever was inclined by your stressed ingenuity of fault... how have you.... my... oh my...           your creation wss supposed to be more stupid than the people you already deemed stupider, and already demanded yourself to, despise?          and your intelligent "creation"... wasn't supposed to notice this, discrepancy? now ensure you retell this narrative... 'mother...' 'yes, David...' 'play me... the raconteurs' old enough.' mother knows, best.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:36 PM UTC
make my time: yulunga
death, apparent, or... apparently so... was never a concern to concern oneself with the debate between a man, and a god.... i,e.? funny...    the little **** sleeps like a baby... little **** a maine **** cat, male, extracted testicles... falls asleep listening to the dead can dance... only album favorite....    my cat favored to fall asleep in half the time it took to listen to the track... you can state your Apocalypse Now! counter in half the time... beginning with.... now!            i'm done begging, i'm imploring you... added minutes?!   michele campanella... WAGNER's        walhall from,      das rheingold... such esteemed people! such awaiting people! such... nuanced... of what could be claimed as... people...             what wonder! what ignominious    ingenuity of retraction!        to, have, fathomed!       the last of what ia esteemed to be deemed, the, *least"...               finest upon the finest, and, supposedly, no more, that a utility of a hammer, for whatever came the observation, to make comprehension of... the noun: nail, and the adverb... nailing it... with the verb and noun of final utility of: hammer... dear... prospect... of whatever was inclined by your stressed ingenuity of fault... how have you.... my... oh my...           your creation wss supposed to be more stupid than the people you already deemed stupider, and already demanded yourself to, despise?          and your intelligent "creation"... wasn't supposed to notice this, discrepancy? now ensure you retell this narrative... 'mother...' 'yes, David...' 'play me... the raconteurs' old enough.' mother knows, best.
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