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All the colours, electric green Rose and violet shades sereine Crimson clover and loyal blue yellow ocher, burgundy too Take up arms- a graceful stance to "Yeah Yeah Yeahs" modern romance Yet all the colours and shades that be, Could never truly release me But prop me up- so I realize the prusuit of art is faithfully wise. Every morning and every night I choose my pallet, scared to fight But still I start for love and duty: Passion and anguish, courage AND  beauty.
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Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 2017 at 6:08 AM UTC
Last Resort
they danced in a dream of bending shadows face down begging *** all hungry back door paradise ankles strapped on a foot worn floor paint faced in whorey nights with pin needle eyes beded blood crimson neon's cut curtains like kissing claws so their bodies wouldn't forget dark pleasures lightening and biting tantra tantrums they swallowed mad ***** blossoms of hell candy breathing the others inhalations foot sniffing ballet arch in fastened Japanese melting red slippers gazing upwards rectums prayer solar eyed insurrection finger by finger clutching wrists like the grave for bloods salty cove an injured landscape a dire pink desert like bogs hold bones a rave for a slave covered in yellow ocher rubber sheets soft on the feet x rated amputee costume made of blood and spit look mommy no arms a bellied tattoo of hennaed homunculi   burning Candomblé Jejé, skull black eyed beauty hissing while accordion throated rip tie tighten another notch please a dizzy ******* down silver fluted gullet in a steamed up bath house party of blotted sockets *** kitten kissed dead girls thighs tremulous and stretched a shimmering serum like wide tubular channels as pontoon edges slit through midnight howls for velvet skinned girl who thrills her head a veiled Jehovah saliva wagging tongue **** a stuttering ****** dance a hula hot momma in rubble slapping hot lipped kisses over starved darkness along telegraphs avenue melting eyes like butter a globed pudding spill ******* drool drops of gold and black river gladiators slaughter lies with every long stroke between cascading squeals paraphilias mausoleum like tumbling eels a scapegoat pulp fiction chiseled in cement ******* rips drip drip drip babbling **** bubbles **** spasms ooze like a hot glue gun fire spats soil cherry clover
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Jan 12, 2019
Jan 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM UTC
*** Kitten and Little Dead Girl....Ero ****
they danced in a dream of bending shadows face down begging *** all hungry back door paradise ankles strapped on a foot worn floor paint faced in whorey nights with pin needle eyes beded blood crimson neon's cut curtains like kissing claws so their bodies wouldn't forget dark pleasures lightening and biting tantra tantrums they swallowed mad ***** blossoms of hell candy breathing the others inhalations foot sniffing ballet arch in fastened Japanese melting red slippers gazing upwards rectums prayer solar eyed insurrection finger by finger clutching wrists like the grave for bloods salty cove an injured landscape a dire pink desert like bogs hold bones a rave for a slave covered in yellow ocher rubber sheets soft on the feet x rated amputee costume made of blood and spit look mommy no arms a bellied tattoo of hennaed homunculi   burning Candomblé Jejé, skull black eyed beauty hissing while accordion throated rip tie tighten another notch please a dizzy ******* down silver fluted gullet in a steamed up bath house party of blotted sockets *** kitten kissed dead girls thighs tremulous and stretched a shimmering serum like wide tubular channels as pontoon edges slit through midnight howls for velvet skinned girl who thrills her head a veiled Jehovah saliva wagging tongue **** a stuttering ****** dance a hula hot momma in rubble slapping hot lipped kisses over starved darkness along telegraphs avenue melting eyes like butter a globed pudding spill ******* drool drops of gold and black river gladiators slaughter lies with every long stroke between cascading squeals paraphilias mausoleum like tumbling eels a scapegoat pulp fiction chiseled in cement ******* rips drip drip drip babbling **** bubbles **** spasms ooze like a hot glue gun fire spats soil cherry clover
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✿⊰✲⊱✿ At the sound of my name, I see the faces turn and smiles of many friends; Queen Sue of Ruikruya in her lilac silks, Queen Sarita of Khaikar in orange silks, Queen Deb of Daegeral in magenta, Queen Kim of Geniael in creams, Queen Robin of Naeneiana in periwinkles, Queen Fawn of Yuamor in red-violets, Queen Dawn of Khesian in dandelion-orange, Queen Jugnu of Enuryn in jade-greens, Queen Yidna of Puhan in indigos, Queen Cne of Phelyra in turquoise, Queen Xaela of Lonusea in peach, Queen Ayumi of Wadia in tan-gold, Queen Sheila of Naizzuzia in cornflower-blue, Queen Stars of Yurithireatha in green-yellow ✿⊰✲⊱✿ King Edmund and his wife in matching forest-greens attires, King Omni of Khaniel in silvers, King Emeka of Ghalali in white, King Devon of Monait in blue-violets, King Fugue of Thavia in blacks, King Yacov of Igrador in olive-green, King Joseph of Eaqellurene in bronze, King Fredrick of Emirinait in mauve, King Rob of Balan in sea-green, King John of Khesian in melon-red, King Aslam of Ikaesa in deep plum, King Brandon of Huarean in ocher, King Kikodinho of Izugalla in taupe, King Jobira of Zavalon in orange-red and many many more. ✿⊰✲⊱✿ And last but not least, King Paul of Luciuscemi himself in emerald-and-gold. He wears his favourite emerald green jacket with ruby buttons, bright gold embroidery of suns and lions; his sleeves stitched with pearls and rubies to match the red sash across his chest; his trousers black as are his boots, but even they have gold laces.
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 6:17 AM UTC
❀❁ тнє gαlα VII (I of II) ❁❀
✿⊰✲⊱✿ At the sound of my name, I see the faces turn and smiles of many friends; Queen Sue of Ruikruya in her lilac silks, Queen Sarita of Khaikar in orange silks, Queen Deb of Daegeral in magenta, Queen Kim of Geniael in creams, Queen Robin of Naeneiana in periwinkles, Queen Fawn of Yuamor in red-violets, Queen Dawn of Khesian in dandelion-orange, Queen Jugnu of Enuryn in jade-greens, Queen Yidna of Puhan in indigos, Queen Cne of Phelyra in turquoise, Queen Xaela of Lonusea in peach, Queen Ayumi of Wadia in tan-gold, Queen Sheila of Naizzuzia in cornflower-blue, Queen Stars of Yurithireatha in green-yellow ✿⊰✲⊱✿ King Edmund and his wife in matching forest-greens attires, King Omni of Khaniel in silvers, King Emeka of Ghalali in white, King Devon of Monait in blue-violets, King Fugue of Thavia in blacks, King Yacov of Igrador in olive-green, King Joseph of Eaqellurene in bronze, King Fredrick of Emirinait in mauve, King Rob of Balan in sea-green, King John of Khesian in melon-red, King Aslam of Ikaesa in deep plum, King Brandon of Huarean in ocher, King Kikodinho of Izugalla in taupe, King Jobira of Zavalon in orange-red and many many more. ✿⊰✲⊱✿ And last but not least, King Paul of Luciuscemi himself in emerald-and-gold. He wears his favourite emerald green jacket with ruby buttons, bright gold embroidery of suns and lions; his sleeves stitched with pearls and rubies to match the red sash across his chest; his trousers black as are his boots, but even they have gold laces.
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Non compartmentalized, thus trenchant... an unbeknownst poetic songbird picked its patch of blue to fly home to. A wet one, soppy...one-offed and kissable sun, monk-ocher... presents its only case...clearly through him...to you.
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 2:28 AM UTC
Songbird
These are the days when my heart can’t speak and my days pass by in a fog. At night I look to the sky for her flame and she shows me, up through the pines, she’s the burning harvest moon tonight. Do you see how she shines like the sun? She shines in the night just for me.                She leads me to the edge and whispers like a lover in the dark, she wants me to burn just for her. My harvest moon she seems so close I reach up to touch her but she’s too far away,  she’s so far away but Oh, how she burns so bright!           Naivety’s gotten the better of me           she’s not the burner she’s the “burnee”           and if we met we’d burn white hot           we’d melt like a ******* supernova           but then we’d die           My beautiful white harvest moon           and I, we know what to do to get by           We know what needs to be done           Shall we close the buckle in the door?           Shall we swallow the white gold and pearls?           No, not likely, instead           run to her at midnight           in the bright white light,           climb upon the rail between           ocher beams on Golden Gate           and look up.           She seems so close.           Look up!           I reach for her slowly           Look up!           I reach for her softly           Look up!           slowly           softly           I step to the edge and fly home.
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
See How She Shines Like the Sun
These are the days when my heart can’t speak and my days pass by in a fog. At night I look to the sky for her flame and she shows me, up through the pines, she’s the burning harvest moon tonight. Do you see how she shines like the sun? She shines in the night just for me.                She leads me to the edge and whispers like a lover in the dark, she wants me to burn just for her. My harvest moon she seems so close I reach up to touch her but she’s too far away,  she’s so far away but Oh, how she burns so bright!           Naivety’s gotten the better of me           she’s not the burner she’s the “burnee”           and if we met we’d burn white hot           we’d melt like a ******* supernova           but then we’d die           My beautiful white harvest moon           and I, we know what to do to get by           We know what needs to be done           Shall we close the buckle in the door?           Shall we swallow the white gold and pearls?           No, not likely, instead           run to her at midnight           in the bright white light,           climb upon the rail between           ocher beams on Golden Gate           and look up.           She seems so close.           Look up!           I reach for her slowly           Look up!           I reach for her softly           Look up!           slowly           softly           I step to the edge and fly home.
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[On my birthday] At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and glare and the boats are dry, the pilings dry as matches. Absorbing, rather than being absorbed, the water in the bight doesn't wet anything, the color of the gas flame turned as low as possible. One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire one could probably hear it turning to marimba music. The little ocher dredge at work off the end of the dock already plays the dry perfectly off-beat claves. The birds are outsize. Pelicans crash into this peculiar gas unnecessarily hard, it seems to me, like pickaxes, rarely coming up with anything to show for it, and going off with humorous elbowings. Black-and-white man-of-war birds soar on impalpable drafts and open their tails like scissors on the curves or tense them like wishbones, till they tremble. The frowsy sponge boats keep coming in with the obliging air of retrievers, bristling with jackstraw gaffs and hooks and decorated with bobbles of sponges. There is a fence of chicken wire along the dock where, glinting like little plowshares, the blue-gray shark tails are hung up to dry for the Chinese-restaurant trade. Some of the little white boats are still piled up against each other, or lie on their sides, stove in, and not yet salvaged, if they ever will be, from the last bad storm, like torn-open, unanswered letters. The bight is littered with old correspondences. Click. Click. Goes the dredge, and brings up a dripping jawful of marl. All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.
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The Bight
[On my birthday] At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and glare and the boats are dry, the pilings dry as matches. Absorbing, rather than being absorbed, the water in the bight doesn't wet anything, the color of the gas flame turned as low as possible. One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire one could probably hear it turning to marimba music. The little ocher dredge at work off the end of the dock already plays the dry perfectly off-beat claves. The birds are outsize. Pelicans crash into this peculiar gas unnecessarily hard, it seems to me, like pickaxes, rarely coming up with anything to show for it, and going off with humorous elbowings. Black-and-white man-of-war birds soar on impalpable drafts and open their tails like scissors on the curves or tense them like wishbones, till they tremble. The frowsy sponge boats keep coming in with the obliging air of retrievers, bristling with jackstraw gaffs and hooks and decorated with bobbles of sponges. There is a fence of chicken wire along the dock where, glinting like little plowshares, the blue-gray shark tails are hung up to dry for the Chinese-restaurant trade. Some of the little white boats are still piled up against each other, or lie on their sides, stove in, and not yet salvaged, if they ever will be, from the last bad storm, like torn-open, unanswered letters. The bight is littered with old correspondences. Click. Click. Goes the dredge, and brings up a dripping jawful of marl. All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.
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a nacreous tossing around at the sides, a dappled silver sunlight if looked one way, an apocalyptic gloam if another, exhaled from a seeming mouth, feeding on what has already eviscerated an unfelt ***** a predator certainly its own prey, a heat certainly poison-breath on a cheek falling when a meretricious lover spouts that spurious hypocorism, and also just a wavering, iridescent puddle— cornered, soft as a liquid steel echo of a futile struggle rolling around, bouncing off a wine glass, and a porcelain table edge, while a listening head shakes, looks down despondently, gloom glowing out the hair, a voice jaded since birth saying some thing about differences, or a helpless slender strap of hope hanging itself on the way two other eyes look at it across checkered watered wings, two swirling god whorls, two effulgent galaxies the color of melting pine bole circling around in living umber striae, pulling its gaze, raising it, as if they, they were blazing truth cased behind lithophane, and it, only an aporetic puddle now of tepid ocher, a mild earth stone placed in a hand, asked what is thought of it and the response: yes, yes of course, before foreign distance splutters its face, and it retreats from its meaning imparted to every thing (with the vulnerable precision of a swaying finger tip) to the baby lanugo of a delicate floating, through human rills, of what is horizon docked, dead, not merely deciduous—forever jilted with breath bulging as when beating a flopping eyeless fish to half-dead, head tilted up a throat trying to pry itself free, trying to live by streaming snagless, airful, without spirant sound of going lost straight from the hands— then a short chop of fullness finally expunged and sputtering like an escaped tuft of shackled wonder soaring up the sky in a puff and soul ring.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM UTC
I in Graffiti Mural
a nacreous tossing around at the sides, a dappled silver sunlight if looked one way, an apocalyptic gloam if another, exhaled from a seeming mouth, feeding on what has already eviscerated an unfelt ***** a predator certainly its own prey, a heat certainly poison-breath on a cheek falling when a meretricious lover spouts that spurious hypocorism, and also just a wavering, iridescent puddle— cornered, soft as a liquid steel echo of a futile struggle rolling around, bouncing off a wine glass, and a porcelain table edge, while a listening head shakes, looks down despondently, gloom glowing out the hair, a voice jaded since birth saying some thing about differences, or a helpless slender strap of hope hanging itself on the way two other eyes look at it across checkered watered wings, two swirling god whorls, two effulgent galaxies the color of melting pine bole circling around in living umber striae, pulling its gaze, raising it, as if they, they were blazing truth cased behind lithophane, and it, only an aporetic puddle now of tepid ocher, a mild earth stone placed in a hand, asked what is thought of it and the response: yes, yes of course, before foreign distance splutters its face, and it retreats from its meaning imparted to every thing (with the vulnerable precision of a swaying finger tip) to the baby lanugo of a delicate floating, through human rills, of what is horizon docked, dead, not merely deciduous—forever jilted with breath bulging as when beating a flopping eyeless fish to half-dead, head tilted up a throat trying to pry itself free, trying to live by streaming snagless, airful, without spirant sound of going lost straight from the hands— then a short chop of fullness finally expunged and sputtering like an escaped tuft of shackled wonder soaring up the sky in a puff and soul ring.
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I have drempt: Lucidly, she dyes the edges clay-colored   Eyeing eye she aligns her body with the North Star She shivers without notice         Ocher eyes alive she speaks in new forms of divination And the weather is in her palm Trick of light    trick of eye Her sigh awakens 9 Ravens      without thought             She is     Caught in the spider web          Spun Autumnal ghost Beneath Harvest moon     swoons at the bark of the dire wolf Without care making eye contact Running fingers through the silver fur   Paying close attention to scars Letting him drink From lips of pink The milk of first-kiss And leads him home   To a palace of bone Humming tunes that only dogs know Her head is light on his chest She listens to his heart beat Beating Eagles wing In time In rhyme A tune Of runes Smooth Aquarius Flowing through the toes Of purple mountains Spilling waterfalls and Filling frigid Black pools rimmed By moss caked stone Leaves scarlet, and hay colored Float aimlessly on the surface of her Peaked Ears Stung and bit of wind She listens whole body tensed bow string face    Sun stained ethereal Enamored swimming in the aphotic Lake of his soul He plays the dulcimer of shadow Next to fire & the light of her blossom exposing Waterfall flow Through snow mountains Piqued His attention When she dances languid To Forgetten tunes that only the owl knows **** she dances star soaked Scarlet tulips pressed Fill every page of her mind Preserved eternal
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 2:22 PM UTC
Dye
I have drempt: Lucidly, she dyes the edges clay-colored   Eyeing eye she aligns her body with the North Star She shivers without notice         Ocher eyes alive she speaks in new forms of divination And the weather is in her palm Trick of light    trick of eye Her sigh awakens 9 Ravens      without thought             She is     Caught in the spider web          Spun Autumnal ghost Beneath Harvest moon     swoons at the bark of the dire wolf Without care making eye contact Running fingers through the silver fur   Paying close attention to scars Letting him drink From lips of pink The milk of first-kiss And leads him home   To a palace of bone Humming tunes that only dogs know Her head is light on his chest She listens to his heart beat Beating Eagles wing In time In rhyme A tune Of runes Smooth Aquarius Flowing through the toes Of purple mountains Spilling waterfalls and Filling frigid Black pools rimmed By moss caked stone Leaves scarlet, and hay colored Float aimlessly on the surface of her Peaked Ears Stung and bit of wind She listens whole body tensed bow string face    Sun stained ethereal Enamored swimming in the aphotic Lake of his soul He plays the dulcimer of shadow Next to fire & the light of her blossom exposing Waterfall flow Through snow mountains Piqued His attention When she dances languid To Forgetten tunes that only the owl knows **** she dances star soaked Scarlet tulips pressed Fill every page of her mind Preserved eternal
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Old Harold lived on the second floor In a darkened room with an old locked door. My cousins and I used to tease him there, And he’d chase us out, give us a scare. I didn’t know exactly who he was, “He’s a mean old man,” said my favorite cos’. “Grandma let him live here after Grandpa died. She doesn’t even like him and we don’t know why.” When he was out we would take a peek. Around the ocher walls and his bed we’d sneak. There was nothing but an iron bunk And a glass-front chest filled with lots of junk. One day Old Harold must have complained About our pestering…we really were pains! But no parent’s lecture could keep us away. And Grandma’s yelling at him not to stay. Old Uncle Harold disappeared for years. We would make up stories for littler ears. But one day my father had news of him. He lived with “a harlot” and his checks she’d skim. I was old enough to know what it meant And asked Dad why uncle Harold seemed bent. “He was gassed in the War in a field at Verdun.” Dad told me in a tone that left me stunned; “And was then sent around to pick up the dead. With the gas and the horror, his mind just went.” Now I recalled all the times we had teased And agonized him when we should have pleased. But now it was too late to apologize, He was so lost, he wouldn’t recognize His grown tormentors, when he hardly Knew my father, the kindly mentor, Who visited him every week, Who paid for anything to make him last, And reminded him of better times past; Telling him of the time he caught a butterfly And brought it to show the girls and guys. How he wanted to let it fly away, But when the boys had killed it anyway. He cried and was called a coward then, And as my father spoke and wept again. Old Uncle Harold died alone In a sterile, cold-floored nursing home. None but Dad came to grieve And I, only an hour away, shunned the feeling and just felt numb, Until Dad called and told me the story Of Harold’s death and only then Could I say, “I’m sorry!” to his ghost. I should have said it long ago; the one who Maddened him least repented the most. If I could say “Sorry” for the times we made him shout. I realised he’d just have yelled, “Get the hell out!”
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Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC
Old Uncle Harold
Old Harold lived on the second floor In a darkened room with an old locked door. My cousins and I used to tease him there, And he’d chase us out, give us a scare. I didn’t know exactly who he was, “He’s a mean old man,” said my favorite cos’. “Grandma let him live here after Grandpa died. She doesn’t even like him and we don’t know why.” When he was out we would take a peek. Around the ocher walls and his bed we’d sneak. There was nothing but an iron bunk And a glass-front chest filled with lots of junk. One day Old Harold must have complained About our pestering…we really were pains! But no parent’s lecture could keep us away. And Grandma’s yelling at him not to stay. Old Uncle Harold disappeared for years. We would make up stories for littler ears. But one day my father had news of him. He lived with “a harlot” and his checks she’d skim. I was old enough to know what it meant And asked Dad why uncle Harold seemed bent. “He was gassed in the War in a field at Verdun.” Dad told me in a tone that left me stunned; “And was then sent around to pick up the dead. With the gas and the horror, his mind just went.” Now I recalled all the times we had teased And agonized him when we should have pleased. But now it was too late to apologize, He was so lost, he wouldn’t recognize His grown tormentors, when he hardly Knew my father, the kindly mentor, Who visited him every week, Who paid for anything to make him last, And reminded him of better times past; Telling him of the time he caught a butterfly And brought it to show the girls and guys. How he wanted to let it fly away, But when the boys had killed it anyway. He cried and was called a coward then, And as my father spoke and wept again. Old Uncle Harold died alone In a sterile, cold-floored nursing home. None but Dad came to grieve And I, only an hour away, shunned the feeling and just felt numb, Until Dad called and told me the story Of Harold’s death and only then Could I say, “I’m sorry!” to his ghost. I should have said it long ago; the one who Maddened him least repented the most. If I could say “Sorry” for the times we made him shout. I realised he’d just have yelled, “Get the hell out!”
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afternoon's glint on the mirror-pond, a whirling specimen of fire, ocher-speckled, Sun's insignia vessels deep into the clammy water; furiously swaying like a pinned down beast reluctant to be held— Makati traffic jostles the silent grieving of the asphalt. simultaneous burst of chrome on the metal bodies, oh, the coming and going, children laughing vibrantly without memory of scathing pasts and boorish origins— tossing coins beckoning the heaven in pursed lips and clenched fists tender with years dwindling along with the turning of the calendar's page, the sudden leap of figure lamenting the absence of language; i walk the street festooned with dried leaves and forlorn seasons, hurling no amaranth to the entire Makati cityscape.
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Oct 31, 2015
Oct 31, 2015 at 2:06 AM UTC
Ruminations By The Koi Pond
reading book with the same title by Stephenie Meyer ... There you stood in the pouring downpour each raindrop dressed in the scent of your damp feral being I gaze long and hard at those hands how beautiful they looked! maybe they were those of a sculptors having sculpted a thousand deaths before with sheer perfection Every time lightening struck the night would morph from gray to black to ocher just like… those eyes of yours (?) those strides promised ecstasy as they advanced towards me only when the fangs dug deep into my fevered flesh could I Smell blood for the first time crunchy…salty and peppery I never wanted the rain to end
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Feb 26, 2011
Feb 26, 2011 at 5:48 PM UTC
twilight
He walks across the great expanse as if a ghost. He walks alone and out of place as two by two the joggers pass and barely glance as if its normal to behold a ghost. What they don’t see defines his life, the tortured demon voice inside his head that taunts and teases all day long and tells him he “ain’t spit” and “ugly is forever”. He’d been neglected all his life but now that he’s become a man he thought the love he sought would save him from the way it was when he was young. His problem now is wrapped around his backward thought that love is his to find and take instead of his to give and share, if only he had learned this in his childhood. He slowly mounts the rail between the ocher beams on Golden Gate and looks at murky water far below. His clothes are black, his hair is long and black, his skin as white as snow. He stands ***** while looking back to see if one might lend a hand but no one does. He smiles a smile and turns around and then as if he’s been cut down he leans, unbending, and falls. *A hundred miles away a mother knows her child is dead.  She bows her head in shame and cries, the why at war with guilt. A part of her is gone, a part she can’t deny or blame as someone else's fault instead she hates herself for never having loved the boy, but even more she hates the hurt. If only she had fought the urge to drink, if only she had loved him half as much as that crazy **** she used to smoke, the **** she called her ‘crystal blue persuasion’. If only she could turn the hands of time and rearrange the things that mattered most.* A flare is dropped to mark the spot where he went in, the flaming red a beacon on a bay of mother’s tears. Another soul engulfed in grief is gone, the deed is done. A crowd is gathered at the rail to point and stare as boats approach the flare where men with hooks will pull him out while mother drinks 100 miles away.
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 6:27 PM UTC
A Bridge Between a Mother and Son
He walks across the great expanse as if a ghost. He walks alone and out of place as two by two the joggers pass and barely glance as if its normal to behold a ghost. What they don’t see defines his life, the tortured demon voice inside his head that taunts and teases all day long and tells him he “ain’t spit” and “ugly is forever”. He’d been neglected all his life but now that he’s become a man he thought the love he sought would save him from the way it was when he was young. His problem now is wrapped around his backward thought that love is his to find and take instead of his to give and share, if only he had learned this in his childhood. He slowly mounts the rail between the ocher beams on Golden Gate and looks at murky water far below. His clothes are black, his hair is long and black, his skin as white as snow. He stands ***** while looking back to see if one might lend a hand but no one does. He smiles a smile and turns around and then as if he’s been cut down he leans, unbending, and falls. *A hundred miles away a mother knows her child is dead.  She bows her head in shame and cries, the why at war with guilt. A part of her is gone, a part she can’t deny or blame as someone else's fault instead she hates herself for never having loved the boy, but even more she hates the hurt. If only she had fought the urge to drink, if only she had loved him half as much as that crazy **** she used to smoke, the **** she called her ‘crystal blue persuasion’. If only she could turn the hands of time and rearrange the things that mattered most.* A flare is dropped to mark the spot where he went in, the flaming red a beacon on a bay of mother’s tears. Another soul engulfed in grief is gone, the deed is done. A crowd is gathered at the rail to point and stare as boats approach the flare where men with hooks will pull him out while mother drinks 100 miles away.
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can we go swimming in Argentina already, and fill our hair with knots and ocean salt? can we walk swaying like the tide, along the damp, moon-lit breast of the beach and fill the empty bottles in our clenched fingers with lavender and red ocher, a pallet of dawn reflecting off glass? can we drink coconut water in beer bottles, and drape ourselves in hanging hammocks under a wide eyed sky? i only want to listen to the distant roar of water attacking sand, like soft, silk whispers in a salt canopied bed, crickets chirping through the night time warmth, and tropical, sleeping breath slowly unleashed.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM UTC
aching
I would humbly put forth the idea, quite prostrate, that it would do us some good if we were to put aside, for a time, our epistemological certainties and archetypal savior fixations and, instead, opt for a more robust, ocher-hued ontological preeminence: putting the what before the why. Only then can one, say, sip hot herbal tea from an old pink bone china teacup and, without thinking about all the things all the time, for once -just- feel the sun's warmth on your aged face as it begins its set over a half-eaten cotton candy sky that is epic af and reminds you of Peter Pan and then Robin Williams and then whywhywhy and then something random and weirrrd, and, in doing so, you can watch the lack of shittogetherness, of which duly occupies the very seat of your character like a bully usurper that hits you bc "he loves you," melt into a very (very) temporary oblivion and revel in what is before you without feeling paralyzing angst that is, usually, soo angst-y that you gotta pronounce that **** in German as if you were Schopenhauerly sitting at some non-descript desk in some non-descript room with your hand stroking your truly descript crazygeniusguy hair that is some kind of proto-Wolverine hairdo (and you wonder if Stan Lee was cryptically tipping his cap to S's philosophical pessimism with this peculiar gesture; consider googling it but don't because you've already googled too much sheeyt today), thinking (or brooding) about how much of a ******** Descartes is with his whole, yuhknow, theory about some ******* secret nanoputian angelic chemist that sits at the pearly gates of the Pineal Gland and performs the sacred transduction of the divine ghost, or whatever. Otherwise you are, like, consumed with analysis, which is a complete ******* bore and - let's face it - a thoroughly transparent attempt to sound smarter than you actually are. This herbal tea I'm currently drinking has "rose hips" in it. Dear botany, that image is fun.
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM UTC
a prosaic and utterly prolix rant that will change your life
I would humbly put forth the idea, quite prostrate, that it would do us some good if we were to put aside, for a time, our epistemological certainties and archetypal savior fixations and, instead, opt for a more robust, ocher-hued ontological preeminence: putting the what before the why. Only then can one, say, sip hot herbal tea from an old pink bone china teacup and, without thinking about all the things all the time, for once -just- feel the sun's warmth on your aged face as it begins its set over a half-eaten cotton candy sky that is epic af and reminds you of Peter Pan and then Robin Williams and then whywhywhy and then something random and weirrrd, and, in doing so, you can watch the lack of shittogetherness, of which duly occupies the very seat of your character like a bully usurper that hits you bc "he loves you," melt into a very (very) temporary oblivion and revel in what is before you without feeling paralyzing angst that is, usually, soo angst-y that you gotta pronounce that **** in German as if you were Schopenhauerly sitting at some non-descript desk in some non-descript room with your hand stroking your truly descript crazygeniusguy hair that is some kind of proto-Wolverine hairdo (and you wonder if Stan Lee was cryptically tipping his cap to S's philosophical pessimism with this peculiar gesture; consider googling it but don't because you've already googled too much sheeyt today), thinking (or brooding) about how much of a ******** Descartes is with his whole, yuhknow, theory about some ******* secret nanoputian angelic chemist that sits at the pearly gates of the Pineal Gland and performs the sacred transduction of the divine ghost, or whatever. Otherwise you are, like, consumed with analysis, which is a complete ******* bore and - let's face it - a thoroughly transparent attempt to sound smarter than you actually are. This herbal tea I'm currently drinking has "rose hips" in it. Dear botany, that image is fun.
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religion in the world is the price of pure evil; cat beings & wives,    feeling Father's gold is for me to talk with careful preparation, the side of the open, In the beginning of the yellow,    clearly This work was taken from the back of the stars with the kid; toss, with it in pieces, female convulsions; Find the edge of smoking it's potential on the bed,  you need to blow the game, It asks for privacy led by his own words the fame of the guys,    & everyone who is in evil, but the guy with a dog, Father's wife, who is a kid at 51; Be it known unto the door, I will find the images, the star in the industry & the skin beauties; in the borders,                                                    give him a drink of albino; & the wild beast, the beast that was itself bad,   & cold & red ocher to paint the gay Barbie is the use of the rock, lady,      to stay a little: The Most High He had already gone be infected mothers in the Russian, this process has, in the six years that I write unto you, Gallus, the water turned brown & not to swim in, the window with this person;   he heard addressing hath cleaved to the choir;    an intimate friend of the mouth, but to take up arms & his ancestors the blind sleep, & the young lady, the name by which the cerebrum is well known,      for society & for the beasts of the yolk is; Barbie has a cold feeling of the hour, make use of the paint; There stood a man child on the tree, Stone is currently carrying out the execution O A vocation always marks, in the republic, is a young, already stained with Russia, & the many mothers eat deep yellow & the smell of smoke; the origin, the secrecy of yours;      the floor or running in the jar for six years, the world has left us, that in me, I shall not write & the very dark to the windows, at the feet of the water, however, Full of weapons & it can be heard that at the friend of his lips, But the Gauls most of all,                      so that was a walk out of the societies of the; There is also a dream,                that is, a blind, as we have seen, that there can be a revolution of the modern girl,                   called yellow brain smoking, Pouring whiskey to the game that belongs to society; brine hard way, the guys did not want to listen to the needs of a dog; & itching, leading to Lawrence's history of ******* The father thought in Pictures
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 5:01 AM UTC
thinking in pictures is the price of pure evil
religion in the world is the price of pure evil; cat beings & wives,    feeling Father's gold is for me to talk with careful preparation, the side of the open, In the beginning of the yellow,    clearly This work was taken from the back of the stars with the kid; toss, with it in pieces, female convulsions; Find the edge of smoking it's potential on the bed,  you need to blow the game, It asks for privacy led by his own words the fame of the guys,    & everyone who is in evil, but the guy with a dog, Father's wife, who is a kid at 51; Be it known unto the door, I will find the images, the star in the industry & the skin beauties; in the borders,                                                    give him a drink of albino; & the wild beast, the beast that was itself bad,   & cold & red ocher to paint the gay Barbie is the use of the rock, lady,      to stay a little: The Most High He had already gone be infected mothers in the Russian, this process has, in the six years that I write unto you, Gallus, the water turned brown & not to swim in, the window with this person;   he heard addressing hath cleaved to the choir;    an intimate friend of the mouth, but to take up arms & his ancestors the blind sleep, & the young lady, the name by which the cerebrum is well known,      for society & for the beasts of the yolk is; Barbie has a cold feeling of the hour, make use of the paint; There stood a man child on the tree, Stone is currently carrying out the execution O A vocation always marks, in the republic, is a young, already stained with Russia, & the many mothers eat deep yellow & the smell of smoke; the origin, the secrecy of yours;      the floor or running in the jar for six years, the world has left us, that in me, I shall not write & the very dark to the windows, at the feet of the water, however, Full of weapons & it can be heard that at the friend of his lips, But the Gauls most of all,                      so that was a walk out of the societies of the; There is also a dream,                that is, a blind, as we have seen, that there can be a revolution of the modern girl,                   called yellow brain smoking, Pouring whiskey to the game that belongs to society; brine hard way, the guys did not want to listen to the needs of a dog; & itching, leading to Lawrence's history of ******* The father thought in Pictures
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*Great Goddess In fertile essence you were shaped Upon your head ambiguous braids were draped; ******* as mountains Belly the great giver of life Monthly cycle an ocher fountain Created from ancestral strife Venus of Willendorf 30,000 year old Archetype Matron of Mother Earth Corpulent bestower Of genesis and birth.* - Amy Green
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 8:40 AM UTC
WILLENDORF
The dawn of October stains my palms how the nicotine stains your teeth. The cinnamon leaves storm about raking your dusty lashes, like stalks of fruit. Ocher crumbs and cocoa seeds besmirch the damp soil, clumsily. You are defined with: pulpy cider hues my slow, chemical solstice. A cornflower symphony hummed by the trees, bare and trembling, the fruitful pining of their inner bark, the ****** that lines my pumpkin patch. I squint at the flaxen sun that drips golden beyond my shoulder, where the sinuous maple tree, gnarled branches and all will breathe your name. Your body is a coal mine me, an irrelevant dilettante I cannot winnow you out like the flame of a match or peel you from my sole.
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Oct 12, 2011
Oct 12, 2011 at 12:23 PM UTC
Gossamer blush.
should he love you, he will not leave. like the spring breeze, intertwining with leaves in trees, your hearts are wound. should she love you, she will not leave. as sure as the waves crash to shore, as the moonlight reflects the water's ocher, she will be there for sure. lovers together are stronger than the gust that separates         the leaves from trees, than the waves that crashes         on the sands of time, even though promises lie broken their hearts still awaken when their other halves are near
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Aug 17, 2015
Aug 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM UTC
Halves
It's near to midnight, and the work week fright, so let's last-raise our glass, and be upstanding, let the words of sleep-steeped prose of a younger poet rest our heads, leading us to wander off to sleep, where we meet and greet our poems borning in their rawest form: *can we walk swaying like the tide, along the damp, moon-lit breast of the beach and fill the empty bottles in our clenched fingers with lavender and red ocher, a pallet of dawn reflecting off glass? can we... drape ourselves in hanging hammocks under a wide eyed sky? i only want to listen to the distant roar of water attacking sand, like soft, silk whispers in a salt canopied bed, crickets chirping through the night time warmth, and tropical, sleeping breath slowly unleashed.*
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
One more for the road
Cradling a handful of Illinois dust, dry residue of sycamore, deer and ancient Mississippians, I splay my fingers like an eagle's claw - releasing it to the fickle breezes. A sudden gust of wind swirls up an ocher cloud - a cyclone dervish of sand and clay. My hand, upraised for a shield ever so briefly vanishes - veiled by the impatient dust. May, 2008
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 6:18 AM UTC
Eternal Dust
bleak darkness and its measure: squandering the light no definitions no spectral haze no inhibitions its onerous labor is one with me. live life at the edge of the fall. holding a hand fallibly. live alone, love alone — these things pulse with strength in singleness, even the glances of prying neighbors are sequestered reduced to sealed shut, hermetic, no sight or hindsight. i'll run to where the sunlight is and wish for the moon, slumber like a dead log adrift in the current. buying myself love and selling its pleasures to defunct markets. trying to repair what is beyond salvation, trying to amalgamate what is perpetually scarred, sundered. clangorous *** of metal, herding jeep and riotous chariots; mad men fill the lines waiting for encumbrance, bardic in the streets of Marilao hungry for something: give me a blank piece of paper and i will try to reinvent the world with impunity and lostness. the world gives back such awry stare and all imperative darkness reigns supreme, mine are all emergencies as shadows are succored not, retained in their caliginous thrones. living alone yet not so much alone. the dog outside does not bark anymore. the well-placed gnome of stone outside stares stonily across the thick space. the nosy neighbor does not meddle through the rusted ocher grills. the old moon wanes outside as the lift of light sways to where there are no disappearances. somewhere in the metropolitan there is a derby of fools and all mirth; i wish myself there and curse my presence right then. work does not fill me anymore, money does me no good. my soul bangs the walls and slams the doors it threatens to leave without auguries, and demands a new sense of necessity. tonight, i will go out, drink at a local pub and crawl towards the ajar door of my father's car. smoke will caterwaul the pressing scenes of the vicinities crumbling at the tremor of clocks; i will open my dresser and discover all books dissipated, some naked in relished pages, others abeyant. the curtain can fall later, and the night too, falter evenly widely spread across the sky. — all is broken.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:49 AM UTC
Lostness Notes
bleak darkness and its measure: squandering the light no definitions no spectral haze no inhibitions its onerous labor is one with me. live life at the edge of the fall. holding a hand fallibly. live alone, love alone — these things pulse with strength in singleness, even the glances of prying neighbors are sequestered reduced to sealed shut, hermetic, no sight or hindsight. i'll run to where the sunlight is and wish for the moon, slumber like a dead log adrift in the current. buying myself love and selling its pleasures to defunct markets. trying to repair what is beyond salvation, trying to amalgamate what is perpetually scarred, sundered. clangorous *** of metal, herding jeep and riotous chariots; mad men fill the lines waiting for encumbrance, bardic in the streets of Marilao hungry for something: give me a blank piece of paper and i will try to reinvent the world with impunity and lostness. the world gives back such awry stare and all imperative darkness reigns supreme, mine are all emergencies as shadows are succored not, retained in their caliginous thrones. living alone yet not so much alone. the dog outside does not bark anymore. the well-placed gnome of stone outside stares stonily across the thick space. the nosy neighbor does not meddle through the rusted ocher grills. the old moon wanes outside as the lift of light sways to where there are no disappearances. somewhere in the metropolitan there is a derby of fools and all mirth; i wish myself there and curse my presence right then. work does not fill me anymore, money does me no good. my soul bangs the walls and slams the doors it threatens to leave without auguries, and demands a new sense of necessity. tonight, i will go out, drink at a local pub and crawl towards the ajar door of my father's car. smoke will caterwaul the pressing scenes of the vicinities crumbling at the tremor of clocks; i will open my dresser and discover all books dissipated, some naked in relished pages, others abeyant. the curtain can fall later, and the night too, falter evenly widely spread across the sky. — all is broken.
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You whispered darkness In my ear In quick urging tones And swore me to secrecy. I craved for lights.. No… …Not the gaudy ocher lamps Flickering on the walls Of Your spring, Sawan Or hail …But the Hesitant greys That lurk somewhere In … twilights Deceptively eternalized by you Yet… …untouched by me You swore me to secrecy… You always did Now you know Why I never did... obey
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Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM UTC
Secret...
✿⊰✲⊱✿ Though we could not see the emblem, we know who eachof the colours belong to Sue's Kingdom of Ruikruya releases lilac paper lanterns, Edmund's Chairis forest-green, Sarita's Khaikar orange lanterns, Omni's Khaniel silver, Deb's Daegeral magenta, Devon's Monait blue-violets, ✿⊰✲⊱✿ Kim's Geniael cream, Emeka's Ghalali white, Robin's Naeneiana periwinkle, Fugue's Thavia blacks, Fawn's Yuamor red-violets, Yacov's Igrador olive-green, Dawn's Khesian dandelion-orange, Joseph's Eaqellurene bronze, Jugnu's Enuryn jade-green, ✿⊰✲⊱✿ Fredrick's Emirinait mauve, Yidna's Puhan indigo, Rob's Balan sea-green, Cne's Phelyra turquoise, John's Khesian melon-red, Xaela's Lonusea peach, Aslam's Ikaesa deep plum, Ayumi's Wadia tan-gold, Brandon's Huarean ocher, Sheila's Naizzuzia cornflower-blue, Kikodinho's Izugalla in taupe, Stars' Yurithireatha green-yellow, Jobira's Zavalon in orange-red and lastly, my Aurelinaea deep blue ,
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 6:39 PM UTC
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