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Devised by Cosmic Boss Sourced by parents Aided by obstetrician Nursed by pediatrician Nurtured by nutritionist Counseled by sexologist Treated by orthopedist Stressed by physiotherapist Directed by dietician Nudged by nephrologist Nerved by neurologist Contained by cardiologist Consoled by psychologist Interspersed by dentist, Sighted by ophthalmist Conditioned by physiology Terminated by mortuary The inexorable Lifeline Express Of hospitalized hospitality
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 6:42 AM UTC
Hospitality
One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing.
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One’s Self I Sing
#The Battleground Beneath Her Skin (A Physiology of Light and War) Before it reaches her; even before her breath draws it in, I break myself down..   not as surrender,   but as choice. Each particle stripped bare, each atom exhaled made clean by the reckoning of my own dark, infused with the stubborn weight of light earned, not borrowed. Within the responsibility of what   leaves me, I enter the quiet union— the kneeling choice to align with the hand of God, to let even my smallest fragments carry His capacity to heal. Every airborne particle, accountable, deliberate, refined enough to cross the distance, to enter her without deception. Beneath her skin, a war unfolds. It is not loud, not made of swords, but of smaller things.. things unseen by eyes, but never missed by the marrow, the blood, the quiet trembling of cells that have known both wound   and wonder. Light and dark.. not in theory, but in matter thread themselves through every atom, every strand of her being. Not metaphor, but measurable: *the way shadows lean into the soft chambers of her lungs, the way light, when chosen, can rewrite the blueprints etched into the bloodstream.* This is the battleground.. her body, her breath, her most involuntary places. Where no poetry of seductive manipulation.. no whispered counterfeit can cover what is real. Only substance speaks here. Only intent. Only what survives the fire of accountability earns the right to stay. The particles come; stripped down, atomized, refined.. not by accident, but by the slow, steady grind of volition. They enter her; through breath, through pores.. *through the quiet, relentless openness that even fear cannot close completely.* And inside-- the war begins. ..   ..   ..   .. Mitochondria spark— tiny engines deciding what stays, what burns away. Capillaries widen, rivers branching through her like tributaries willing to carry what is real, what is earned, what is Light. The counterfeit falters here. Pretty words mean nothing to oxygen. False portraits dissolve beneath the chemistry of truth. The cells remember;   they choose. And as the Light infuses the quietest corners of her.. her thighs, her hips, the soft stretch of her waist; there is no seduction, no trickery. Only the hard-won intimacy of substance made pure. Not by the blending of oils, not by the friction of skin, but by the deeper, unseen alchemy of what enters, what lingers, what refuses to bow to darkness. The battleground is hers now. And though the shadows  will not yield easily, they cannot claim her; not where light has been chosen, earned, metabolized. The war is not over, but benea.th her skin, within her blood, *Light has begun to rise.* #
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Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM UTC
Airborne (Part I)
#The Battleground Beneath Her Skin (A Physiology of Light and War) Before it reaches her; even before her breath draws it in, I break myself down..   not as surrender,   but as choice. Each particle stripped bare, each atom exhaled made clean by the reckoning of my own dark, infused with the stubborn weight of light earned, not borrowed. Within the responsibility of what   leaves me, I enter the quiet union— the kneeling choice to align with the hand of God, to let even my smallest fragments carry His capacity to heal. Every airborne particle, accountable, deliberate, refined enough to cross the distance, to enter her without deception. Beneath her skin, a war unfolds. It is not loud, not made of swords, but of smaller things.. things unseen by eyes, but never missed by the marrow, the blood, the quiet trembling of cells that have known both wound   and wonder. Light and dark.. not in theory, but in matter thread themselves through every atom, every strand of her being. Not metaphor, but measurable: *the way shadows lean into the soft chambers of her lungs, the way light, when chosen, can rewrite the blueprints etched into the bloodstream.* This is the battleground.. her body, her breath, her most involuntary places. Where no poetry of seductive manipulation.. no whispered counterfeit can cover what is real. Only substance speaks here. Only intent. Only what survives the fire of accountability earns the right to stay. The particles come; stripped down, atomized, refined.. not by accident, but by the slow, steady grind of volition. They enter her; through breath, through pores.. *through the quiet, relentless openness that even fear cannot close completely.* And inside-- the war begins. ..   ..   ..   .. Mitochondria spark— tiny engines deciding what stays, what burns away. Capillaries widen, rivers branching through her like tributaries willing to carry what is real, what is earned, what is Light. The counterfeit falters here. Pretty words mean nothing to oxygen. False portraits dissolve beneath the chemistry of truth. The cells remember;   they choose. And as the Light infuses the quietest corners of her.. her thighs, her hips, the soft stretch of her waist; there is no seduction, no trickery. Only the hard-won intimacy of substance made pure. Not by the blending of oils, not by the friction of skin, but by the deeper, unseen alchemy of what enters, what lingers, what refuses to bow to darkness. The battleground is hers now. And though the shadows  will not yield easily, they cannot claim her; not where light has been chosen, earned, metabolized. The war is not over, but benea.th her skin, within her blood, *Light has begun to rise.* #
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Magnetizing physics Magnetic chemistry Precise mathematics Bubbling biology Histrionic history Attired economics Refined fine arts Electrifying looks Electronic vision Scintillating psychology Ventilating physiology Tantalizing mechanics Tranquilizing metabolism Dynamic damsel Oh! What a scientific disposition? Kudos to the Big-Bang Beautician.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 6:31 PM UTC
Cosmic Angel
In ant populations Worker ants are blind Follow one another by scent Pheromones are released from their feet Leaving a scent trail from the next to follow A single file line Blindly trusting pheromones Sometimes an ant loses the scent though And wanders off looking for the trail Leading the others off behind him And if he looks hard enough He’ll find the end of his own line And follow the tail of a train He created Subsequently creating what is scientifically known as a Death Spiral For these blind ants are unaware They are following the same path over and over It does not lead anywhere It does not lead home Eventually they walk until They walk no more… Pheromone- “any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.” Originates from the Greek phérein and that means to bear or bring and Hormone Many people say that love Is a chemical reaction A perfect blend of pheromones To produce attraction Affection And in the end reproduction Love was Scientifically disjointed To fit better on a slide Linguistically altered To fit better on paper But isn’t love just pheromones? Like it is to the ants Attractive footsteps We blindly follow Even if they lead us to no good Most times Love leads us home Leads us to prosper Tells us where to go What to do To survive Until it doesn’t… Then our pheromone path Leads us in circles It leads around and around Love can lead us in a death spiral And if we are blind we will not step out Step out of the path: That winding circling path of doom Made up of previous mistake we have made That left attractive footsteps in their wake Footsetps that when we go lost we again found And now we choose to blindly repeat them Over and over In the pursuit of Love Because of Pheromones
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Jan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013 at 6:40 PM UTC
Pheromones and Ants and Love and Really It's all the Same
In ant populations Worker ants are blind Follow one another by scent Pheromones are released from their feet Leaving a scent trail from the next to follow A single file line Blindly trusting pheromones Sometimes an ant loses the scent though And wanders off looking for the trail Leading the others off behind him And if he looks hard enough He’ll find the end of his own line And follow the tail of a train He created Subsequently creating what is scientifically known as a Death Spiral For these blind ants are unaware They are following the same path over and over It does not lead anywhere It does not lead home Eventually they walk until They walk no more… Pheromone- “any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.” Originates from the Greek phérein and that means to bear or bring and Hormone Many people say that love Is a chemical reaction A perfect blend of pheromones To produce attraction Affection And in the end reproduction Love was Scientifically disjointed To fit better on a slide Linguistically altered To fit better on paper But isn’t love just pheromones? Like it is to the ants Attractive footsteps We blindly follow Even if they lead us to no good Most times Love leads us home Leads us to prosper Tells us where to go What to do To survive Until it doesn’t… Then our pheromone path Leads us in circles It leads around and around Love can lead us in a death spiral And if we are blind we will not step out Step out of the path: That winding circling path of doom Made up of previous mistake we have made That left attractive footsteps in their wake Footsetps that when we go lost we again found And now we choose to blindly repeat them Over and over In the pursuit of Love Because of Pheromones
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pap pap pap I can't breath my stomach is bubbling like hot cheese on an fresh oven pizza my legs feel skinny I want to lean into a wall the floor looks spinny the wainscoting is squint my vision is blurry because...tears? Why is there worry in my middle? I feel fine, my mind is sound this fear isn't mine what’s it doing here? What is this panic? Fight or flight I understand, but this is plain manic. I need to go at top speed or maybe hide? Either way, be freed from this distress. pap pap pap Push someone over, human shield that **** reduce my exposure to hyperventilation. Shallow in, shallow out, I feel akin to sprinting Mufasa Pure distress acute discomfort, a proper mental problem. Nonetheless, it’s strange to foresee the diagnosis. It’s as if I’m watching from someone else’s skin as alligator clamps are botching holding my physiology in. A sunburn on my innards, a paperweight within you’d think I’d feel pride for finally having something wrong. Hypochondria being accurate the years of inventing doom, suddenly isn't aberrant those fabrications had substance. Or maybe all these thinks are symptoms in themselves after sifting through piles of shrinks, maybe I can finally get some help. pap pap pap Look at my pretty framed prescription, doctor certified, messy handwriting, this will take some decryption... don’t worry, take your time, this pathoreaction won't go away. I’m told desolation is a temperament set to stay until after eighteen simple payments. I’m inclined to reject treatment of drugs that fiddle with the mind I’d rather stay present, continue inconsistency. I would like to try narration, see how many kilometers I can recall. I can deal with frustration, so let’s talk about my childhood. Public transit without destination sends me on a revere, an absence of crippling desperation. I've found peace before it was between yellow poles, in the outside pocket of a backpack on parole. It smiled at me quietly. pap pap pap Apparently, it’s the small things that help you deal with anxiety.
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM UTC
Anxiety
pap pap pap I can't breath my stomach is bubbling like hot cheese on an fresh oven pizza my legs feel skinny I want to lean into a wall the floor looks spinny the wainscoting is squint my vision is blurry because...tears? Why is there worry in my middle? I feel fine, my mind is sound this fear isn't mine what’s it doing here? What is this panic? Fight or flight I understand, but this is plain manic. I need to go at top speed or maybe hide? Either way, be freed from this distress. pap pap pap Push someone over, human shield that **** reduce my exposure to hyperventilation. Shallow in, shallow out, I feel akin to sprinting Mufasa Pure distress acute discomfort, a proper mental problem. Nonetheless, it’s strange to foresee the diagnosis. It’s as if I’m watching from someone else’s skin as alligator clamps are botching holding my physiology in. A sunburn on my innards, a paperweight within you’d think I’d feel pride for finally having something wrong. Hypochondria being accurate the years of inventing doom, suddenly isn't aberrant those fabrications had substance. Or maybe all these thinks are symptoms in themselves after sifting through piles of shrinks, maybe I can finally get some help. pap pap pap Look at my pretty framed prescription, doctor certified, messy handwriting, this will take some decryption... don’t worry, take your time, this pathoreaction won't go away. I’m told desolation is a temperament set to stay until after eighteen simple payments. I’m inclined to reject treatment of drugs that fiddle with the mind I’d rather stay present, continue inconsistency. I would like to try narration, see how many kilometers I can recall. I can deal with frustration, so let’s talk about my childhood. Public transit without destination sends me on a revere, an absence of crippling desperation. I've found peace before it was between yellow poles, in the outside pocket of a backpack on parole. It smiled at me quietly. pap pap pap Apparently, it’s the small things that help you deal with anxiety.
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let the lying begin first, it's ***** - not *********** don't pretend its scientific, like geology, physiology. It's just *** raw and without boundaries. you watch. you fantasize. you deny. then when your conscience questions, you lie, first and foremost, to yourself. what's your favorite category? got a favorite site? or you like to explore, never satisfied, more? more. Let the hunger games begin. who can lie with straightest face? filter me off of your list, unless you ready to follow me, to where truth rules, no punches pulled, raw is real. *** is raw. real is *** otherwise, why would you still be reading this poem? gotcha.
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 5:50 PM UTC
***** (let the lying begin)
Unable to read your convoluted smile , I trusted you with the undiluted faith of a child. Lightly forsaken, a new fetish of the hour, Yielding to a physiology of morals. Your degenerate love travels though me like influenza. As you fall into your drunken sleep, I’m just a weary dancing girl, Snorting the pieces of my heart for one last high. Regulating my hatred for you, Ill leave it to fates spite, As I walk out the door.
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 6:16 PM UTC
Indolent Lover
Why must my lips speak A melody my fingers can play Must I weaken your ear When I can weaken your knees? Looks and sounds are nice But feelings are beter Why stumble over three words When I can double your pleasure with The featherlight touch of my fingertips Words are so mundane I would rather profane a moment with the Unyeilding touch, the gift Of all I have and have to give To live with you wrapped, no curled (my fingers, your toes), No, gripping my fingers Gasping the same way you did When you were first given life And given again To arch and release, to obscene The silence with the tell tale Whimpering of two and too Pleasurable If there were ever such a thing. I want to bring you to the edge And hold you there, begging with Your eyes, your lips, for sweet release For your hands To search for comforting firmness For something to hold All the while, inexorable circles Of a lover’s touch, driving the point Home like words cannot Your lips and body making an ‘O’ I don’t have to say it, not now Not that it would register, I can give it You can feel it This is spiritual, this is everything The apex of physiology, biology, Of romance Happiness brought in ways we could only Previously imagine Base instincts take over (yet still only third) Curling, my fingers, your toes And it’s so intense, so beautiful The three words seem so childish So understated Compared to this moment Calling for a deity a thousand times What else brings such passion? Certainly not words, sweet as they can be And it’s everything, Anything I feel for you and you for me In one moment One moment One moment Slays three words They’re one and the same I won’t say it, not with my lips (maybe later) But you cannot deny the power of The feelings And what we do and have done And will do A small part of us But for a moment, everything Slayer of words Crumbler of walls Screams and moans Pants and breaths, never to be found Today two years, and a hundred and six days All in one moment Tomorrow should you so choose One hundred and seven The words can’t hold it all Can’t hold what I feel for you But two fingers And many heartbeats can It’s a gift. It’s everything I have for you And I’m giving it to you For a moment, thirty seconds However long it takes For the breaths and the heartbeat And the moans to rise to a ****** And gradually fall Reveling in the moment, the Love We’re not fools No matter what they call it.
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Mar 7, 2010
Mar 7, 2010 at 7:12 PM UTC
********
Why must my lips speak A melody my fingers can play Must I weaken your ear When I can weaken your knees? Looks and sounds are nice But feelings are beter Why stumble over three words When I can double your pleasure with The featherlight touch of my fingertips Words are so mundane I would rather profane a moment with the Unyeilding touch, the gift Of all I have and have to give To live with you wrapped, no curled (my fingers, your toes), No, gripping my fingers Gasping the same way you did When you were first given life And given again To arch and release, to obscene The silence with the tell tale Whimpering of two and too Pleasurable If there were ever such a thing. I want to bring you to the edge And hold you there, begging with Your eyes, your lips, for sweet release For your hands To search for comforting firmness For something to hold All the while, inexorable circles Of a lover’s touch, driving the point Home like words cannot Your lips and body making an ‘O’ I don’t have to say it, not now Not that it would register, I can give it You can feel it This is spiritual, this is everything The apex of physiology, biology, Of romance Happiness brought in ways we could only Previously imagine Base instincts take over (yet still only third) Curling, my fingers, your toes And it’s so intense, so beautiful The three words seem so childish So understated Compared to this moment Calling for a deity a thousand times What else brings such passion? Certainly not words, sweet as they can be And it’s everything, Anything I feel for you and you for me In one moment One moment One moment Slays three words They’re one and the same I won’t say it, not with my lips (maybe later) But you cannot deny the power of The feelings And what we do and have done And will do A small part of us But for a moment, everything Slayer of words Crumbler of walls Screams and moans Pants and breaths, never to be found Today two years, and a hundred and six days All in one moment Tomorrow should you so choose One hundred and seven The words can’t hold it all Can’t hold what I feel for you But two fingers And many heartbeats can It’s a gift. It’s everything I have for you And I’m giving it to you For a moment, thirty seconds However long it takes For the breaths and the heartbeat And the moans to rise to a ****** And gradually fall Reveling in the moment, the Love We’re not fools No matter what they call it.
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I have no choice but to breath this air or do I? I can speak and I can write something about anything, I can witness the hows the whys pro and cons of the daily agenda freedom has a local flavour idealogy a bitter taste discrete pockets of life disjointed I meet them on the streets the social body this rags when policemen rebel against the truth doctors against health teachers against compassion politicians against duty a slaughter house the mind in action we look the other way with a laugh not to see the epidemic of helplessness political physiology gone awry oppression cemented in our deeper minds we carry it in our shoulders like a gun machine waiting to happen the collective focus a borderline land the air itself suffocated by the politics creating despair so that minds have no more sceneries to dream the world into existence or do they?
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Sep 9, 2023
Sep 9, 2023 at 5:46 AM UTC
politics of despair
Magnetising physics Magnetic chemistry Precise mathematics Bubbling biology Histrionic history Attired economics Refined fine arts Electrifying looks Electronic vision Scintillating psychology Ventilating physiology Tantalizing mechanics Tranquilizing metabolism Dynamic damsel Oh! What a scientific disposition? Kudos to the Big-Bang Beautician.
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 6:23 AM UTC
Cosmic Angel
Age 19- 2018 Graduation from High school Age 25- 2024 Graduation for physiology Age 25- 2024 Get a job in physiology, maybe start dating Age 27- 2026 Maybe I’ll get married Age 28- 2027 Maybe we will have a child Age 29- 2028 Maybe we will buy a house with a really heavy mortgage Age 49- 2048 Maybe our kid would move out Age 51- 2050 Maybe we will buy a new house Age 69- 2068 Maybe finally we will be able pay off the mortgage Age 72- 2071 Maybe I could finally retire Age 83- 2082 Maybe I will look back and wonder if I am satisfied with what I have done.
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Nov 21, 2016
Nov 21, 2016 at 5:05 PM UTC
Reflections to the future
A  fool  was thinking  to add  agriculture to  physiology in text  book. He  may  be the  gene of  late king  Mohammad  Bin  Toglak of    India. A brainy was thinking to take ice-hills of North Pole to place into a coastal desert near a growing city. He may be the gene of late king Mohammad Bin Toglak of India.
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Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 at 11:02 AM UTC
Text Book
Throw your face into the bucket full of ice and water. Leave it there for predetermined times based on physiology and psychology. 15 Seconds first, to get your lungs to work. 20 Seconds next, after getting used to holding breathe. Try for 30 Seconds last, that is what they tell me. Then I go for personal bests to make the pain even worse.
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Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 3:12 PM UTC
Ice Diving
Break the silence with your chirping, deep in the trees “Sway dear old tree the winds have blown”, she said It’s not a simple pleasure in my head It’s way beyond basic physiology or probably even possibly Thee only prize I seek, My very own lottery, A blessing wrapped in skin, My own portrait of a perfect skyline painted on YOUR skin, Peaceful waters in your eyes I make sure they never storm, Even the clouds in your hair, puffy in the morning, I love to see them form… So I’m up late night stargazing at your sky, Shining stars over shredded skies, So tender, I stay captivated by your everlasting beauty, I remain amazed, as you start setting off beyond the horizon, And as the sun started rising I could still feel your touch wondering around my atmosphere, The sun was casting golden prisms through an early morning haze, showing the beauty that pierced through the morning light, You where as beautiful as a thousand splendid golden prisms, You were simply magnificent. In my eyes no image could replace that of yours. You are indeed a blessing.
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Aug 8, 2011
Aug 8, 2011 at 5:31 PM UTC
A Beautiful Skyline
She emerged from the mist of a never ending fairy tale that was mistaken as a horror story and spread her wings to breathe death upon all who sort to strip from her the scales that had bought her glory and wrought death and destruction early on roaring I love to wake in the morning to the smell of chicken cacciatore! But the days turned to weeks turned to months turned to forever when they just went on and on and the people she once terrorized died and turned to dust (if they escaped her justice) and she never aged one day over time. She sat back and snorted as her rage curled like smoke from a dying fire and contemplated that all her rage had dissipated and she had lost all her spark with her diminishing ire… So she retreated to her lair deep in the Carpathians to contemplate her too long fate and only ever emerged to hunt (yes, she still ate) Her motto of Meat is fair game never changed, she was Dragon, her physiology stayed the same but she made sure it was a clean **** out of necessity, not borne of fear and went back to her cave to lick her tail while studying her navel and sniffing back the occasional tear On a particularly cold and blustery night, a bard, who was following the latest in season ‘now’ knight lost his way and stumbled into her cave and gave both of them a fright. She recognized his poet heart and he recognized her, from the start and she agreed not to eat him if he carried her musing to the heart of the people… so began a mutual understanding of the words that would be impart She understood that her words would be the water that slaked a raging fire and would show others that she was angry but they had nothing to fear from her in the least and when she spoke and accidently let loose the fire in her heart then she felt contrite but there was nothing she could do about her inner beast. All she wanted was the world to know that she had something to say and it was important that they looked beyond what they saw with their own eyes and ignored her form and looked into her heart. She ate the bard, he was a tasty treat. She realized she was able to speak to the world, without interference because she was otherwise human and could embrace that part. PS: She still occasionally terrifies small children and is partial to animals for a quick snack but she remembers to walk among the village with a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye and knows that her words will give back :)
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Mar 22, 2013
Mar 22, 2013 at 7:42 AM UTC
Bathsheba (a true tale of an emerging Dragon)
She emerged from the mist of a never ending fairy tale that was mistaken as a horror story and spread her wings to breathe death upon all who sort to strip from her the scales that had bought her glory and wrought death and destruction early on roaring I love to wake in the morning to the smell of chicken cacciatore! But the days turned to weeks turned to months turned to forever when they just went on and on and the people she once terrorized died and turned to dust (if they escaped her justice) and she never aged one day over time. She sat back and snorted as her rage curled like smoke from a dying fire and contemplated that all her rage had dissipated and she had lost all her spark with her diminishing ire… So she retreated to her lair deep in the Carpathians to contemplate her too long fate and only ever emerged to hunt (yes, she still ate) Her motto of Meat is fair game never changed, she was Dragon, her physiology stayed the same but she made sure it was a clean **** out of necessity, not borne of fear and went back to her cave to lick her tail while studying her navel and sniffing back the occasional tear On a particularly cold and blustery night, a bard, who was following the latest in season ‘now’ knight lost his way and stumbled into her cave and gave both of them a fright. She recognized his poet heart and he recognized her, from the start and she agreed not to eat him if he carried her musing to the heart of the people… so began a mutual understanding of the words that would be impart She understood that her words would be the water that slaked a raging fire and would show others that she was angry but they had nothing to fear from her in the least and when she spoke and accidently let loose the fire in her heart then she felt contrite but there was nothing she could do about her inner beast. All she wanted was the world to know that she had something to say and it was important that they looked beyond what they saw with their own eyes and ignored her form and looked into her heart. She ate the bard, he was a tasty treat. She realized she was able to speak to the world, without interference because she was otherwise human and could embrace that part. PS: She still occasionally terrifies small children and is partial to animals for a quick snack but she remembers to walk among the village with a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye and knows that her words will give back :)
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I'm wrapped in Black lace. I can see the world around fuzzy lines and I can breathe almost Normally and I can hear Every whisper like a scream. But when I try to Talk the words get Stuck somewhere between My throat and my lips. My tongue is scratching The fabric. I'm finally used to It all So used to it that when I Wake up in the morning I don't even fight The cloth wrapped around me. I just roll over against The wall and look far and wide To all the things I can't see around The corners of my eyes. I can't capture The things I can't see. I used to want a Polaroid camera To pocket every little grain of World around me and now All I want to see is the Subtle darkness of my own Eyelids. That darkness used to be Navy blue but now It's pure black and when I stare at it Long enough my mind Superimposes a white filigree Outline onto it. Have you ever listened to Sad music just to give you The right to feel sad Even if it was for the wrong reasons? Four years ago this week I found myself staring out Plate glass windows at Parked cars The cold air trickling Up my hoodie sleeves. Now I'm staring at Invisible black lace and A lot of life lived between The two vistas Improvement? Debatable Maturity? Non-negotiable. My great-grandmother's shawl Is still hanging in the Back of my closet but I swear It's wrapped around my face sometimes And my old hoodie is Lying on the floor at The foot of my bed but I swear I feel it creeping down my arms sometimes. I never knew my great-grandmother But I doubt she was a terribly pleasant person Judging from the rest Of my family. Yet I doubt that any of my long-lost Relatives ever held as tight a Chokehold on someone as her Black lace has on me. I'm slowly dying inside And when death catches up With my physiology I hope they send my body to the Funeral home and clear out the Weeds around the pond Then have a bonfire Of my notebooks and clothes in the Back field some unreasonably Lovely summer evening. And I hope they burn that ******* black lace with it.
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Jul 27, 2016
Jul 27, 2016 at 2:22 PM UTC
Black Lace
I'm wrapped in Black lace. I can see the world around fuzzy lines and I can breathe almost Normally and I can hear Every whisper like a scream. But when I try to Talk the words get Stuck somewhere between My throat and my lips. My tongue is scratching The fabric. I'm finally used to It all So used to it that when I Wake up in the morning I don't even fight The cloth wrapped around me. I just roll over against The wall and look far and wide To all the things I can't see around The corners of my eyes. I can't capture The things I can't see. I used to want a Polaroid camera To pocket every little grain of World around me and now All I want to see is the Subtle darkness of my own Eyelids. That darkness used to be Navy blue but now It's pure black and when I stare at it Long enough my mind Superimposes a white filigree Outline onto it. Have you ever listened to Sad music just to give you The right to feel sad Even if it was for the wrong reasons? Four years ago this week I found myself staring out Plate glass windows at Parked cars The cold air trickling Up my hoodie sleeves. Now I'm staring at Invisible black lace and A lot of life lived between The two vistas Improvement? Debatable Maturity? Non-negotiable. My great-grandmother's shawl Is still hanging in the Back of my closet but I swear It's wrapped around my face sometimes And my old hoodie is Lying on the floor at The foot of my bed but I swear I feel it creeping down my arms sometimes. I never knew my great-grandmother But I doubt she was a terribly pleasant person Judging from the rest Of my family. Yet I doubt that any of my long-lost Relatives ever held as tight a Chokehold on someone as her Black lace has on me. I'm slowly dying inside And when death catches up With my physiology I hope they send my body to the Funeral home and clear out the Weeds around the pond Then have a bonfire Of my notebooks and clothes in the Back field some unreasonably Lovely summer evening. And I hope they burn that ******* black lace with it.
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They say a torn muscle is forever weaker in its function, even upon healing, and can easily be re-torn in the same area. They also say bones never break in the same place twice. Their breaking point repairs itself to even more immense strength. The heart is a complicated ***** with hollow chambers that pump us full of life. It is made of muscle… But mine isn’t. My heart is fist-shaped, covered in scars and dry blood, and every attack has left a new finger broken, each inhibiting my ability to perform at my best, but when the soreness bids farewell, so does my weakness. People like to tell me that I am strong. I am strong because my heart is always clenched and ready for the next fight. Even those who manage to open the hand will eventually be crushed by my grip. I don’t have any issues with this. As far as I’m concerned, no one will get a chance to start breaking knuckles for quite some time. Maybe by the time I’m risk-ready, I’ll relax just enough for someone to fit their fingers through my heart-spaces. Until then, I’ll keep chipping away at the pieces of blood.
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Jan 31, 2016
Jan 31, 2016 at 11:28 PM UTC
A New Kind of Anatomy and Physiology
Today I laid on the floor of a Somali grocery store and tried not to pass out. I fought the demons of my mind and my heart, which were coming out in the physiology of my body. "This is a new low" I thought, as I tried not to get sick all over the beautiful fabrics on the shelves. To have and to hold, to bloom and to bear, to cherish and to love. "You're in shock, you're in shock, you're in shock" I repeated to myself as I stumbled outside. This is a never-ending nightmare, a hellish dreamscape, a grief unimaginable. "Have grace with yourself, things are not supposed to be this broken" I whispered into the couch. To sting and to bleed, to weep and to mourn, to wound and to dishonor.
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May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 at 3:42 AM UTC
To Bloom and to Bear
They say a torn muscle is forever weaker in its function, even upon healing, and can easily be re-torn in the same area. They also say bones never break in the same place twice. Their breaking point repairs itself to even more immense strength. The heart is a complicated ***** with hollow chambers that pump us full of life. It is made of muscle… But mine wasn’t. My heart was fist-shaped, covered in scars and dry blood. Having each finger broken year after year left it permanently clenched… or so I thought. I gave up at chipping away the blood because I stopped seeing the use in trying to outrun the treadmill of life beneath me. You see, sometimes moving forward is standing still. But while I was distracted, a stranger placed a damp, warm washcloth around me, erasing the dried-up crust of my old wounds and making my scars even more discernible. Blanketed in security, I felt the bone beginning to loosen back into overlapping muscle fibers, easing a grip I previously believed was stuck. Right before I completely relaxed, a gust of cold air enveloped me as the blanket was ripped away, chilling an open hand back to bone. People like to tell me that I’m strong. Maybe my strength comes from deeper within. Maybe my strength isn’t tangible. I guess I was more risk-ready than I thought, and it might be nice to have someone fit their fingers through my heart spaces. Until then, I’ll keep attempting to force my knuckles to bend while re-covering my scars with the specks of dry blood I left scattered on the floor.
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Oct 6, 2016
Oct 6, 2016 at 12:31 AM UTC
A Newer Kind of Anatomy and Physiology
They say a torn muscle is forever weaker in its function, even upon healing, and can easily be re-torn in the same area. They also say bones never break in the same place twice. Their breaking point repairs itself to even more immense strength. The heart is a complicated ***** with hollow chambers that pump us full of life. It is made of muscle… But mine wasn’t. My heart was fist-shaped, covered in scars and dry blood. Having each finger broken year after year left it permanently clenched… or so I thought. I gave up at chipping away the blood because I stopped seeing the use in trying to outrun the treadmill of life beneath me. You see, sometimes moving forward is standing still. But while I was distracted, a stranger placed a damp, warm washcloth around me, erasing the dried-up crust of my old wounds and making my scars even more discernible. Blanketed in security, I felt the bone beginning to loosen back into overlapping muscle fibers, easing a grip I previously believed was stuck. Right before I completely relaxed, a gust of cold air enveloped me as the blanket was ripped away, chilling an open hand back to bone. People like to tell me that I’m strong. Maybe my strength comes from deeper within. Maybe my strength isn’t tangible. I guess I was more risk-ready than I thought, and it might be nice to have someone fit their fingers through my heart spaces. Until then, I’ll keep attempting to force my knuckles to bend while re-covering my scars with the specks of dry blood I left scattered on the floor.
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This ceremonial façade is likened to an ancient folklore which has been dipped in forbidden secretions, even though my arts are sincerely darkened to unfathomable depths of surprised and ambidextrous naiveté. I have constructed the choreography of this metaphysical dance, which lingers on the brink of sociological pronunciations, and where the liberty of gargoyles spew their fluid projections from lofty heights across the four directions of our moralistic city walls, where magnetised needles ***** my soul with the earth-shattering clarification of true north. I love to sit in the dark and to be enlightened, as the eerie silence bellows her validity across trans-national sanctions, where the fallacy of liberation is juxtaposed with a socio-political and fetishistic confinement. I believe that classical infidelity is like a beautiful Gothic cathedral where silent rage has an ebb and flow which is not easily ascertained amongst our sub-cultural and contemporary cohorts, where dynamic equilibrium truly encapsulates the co-existence of opposites, which are said to attract. So, as we gather in the menacing serenity of the dark forests, where geography marks her ancient alignments from sunrise to sunset; can we now pray and give homage to the spirits of history, in this underground finesse of paradoxical equilibrium? I love democracy, as she gyrates her sensual community wantonness on this conveyer belt, where the vital functions of our organism slink into sleepy cessations of universal structures where causality releases her excitatory expressions of organic physiology.
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 3:05 AM UTC
Origins of the Point
This ceremonial façade is likened to an ancient folklore which has been dipped in forbidden secretions, even though my arts are sincerely darkened to unfathomable depths of surprised and ambidextrous naiveté. I have constructed the choreography of this metaphysical dance, which lingers on the brink of sociological pronunciations, and where the liberty of gargoyles spew their fluid projections from lofty heights across the four directions of our moralistic city walls, where magnetised needles ***** my soul with the earth-shattering clarification of true north. I love to sit in the dark and to be enlightened, as the eerie silence bellows her validity across trans-national sanctions, where the fallacy of liberation is juxtaposed with a socio-political and fetishistic confinement. I believe that classical infidelity is like a beautiful Gothic cathedral where silent rage has an ebb and flow which is not easily ascertained amongst our sub-cultural and contemporary cohorts, where dynamic equilibrium truly encapsulates the co-existence of opposites, which are said to attract. So, as we gather in the menacing serenity of the dark forests, where geography marks her ancient alignments from sunrise to sunset; can we now pray and give homage to the spirits of history, in this underground finesse of paradoxical equilibrium? I love democracy, as she gyrates her sensual community wantonness on this conveyer belt, where the vital functions of our organism slink into sleepy cessations of universal structures where causality releases her excitatory expressions of organic physiology.
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I don't stand idle very long. If you disappear, you'll be gone. Yet if I vanish, wait for me. When I come back, you'll see, It'll be like I never left at all. I should practice what I preach. It's different for me when I leave. For you it is an ends to a mean. Wired deep inside your physiology. I go away to keep that sanity.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 10:20 PM UTC
I Have A Problem, But So Do You.
So, what’s up? Well, if you insist; nothing much. Except, Every time I see you, I feel like our destinies collide, Like our souls beam promises, Like a mother and her child, Like the color yellow, Every time my eyes glare, they paint you, Furious and loving, Our bodies frozen, My mind undresses you as you take my hand and ask me: What’s up? You ask me what’s up as if it sums up all the rivers of a nation, As if it tells of sin and the humor of knowledge, As if up is where I’m going and rock bottom isn’t drowning my thoughts, As if my mother still wants me, As if my father thinks the world of me, As if my lover never forgot me, As if you want my answer, What’s up? What’s up with you? What’s ahead of you? What’s above you? Who watches over you? What’s the sky like when heaven is nowhere in sight? When pain eats away at sobriety, When silence cracks minds and noise breaks glass faces, What’s up? I’m just alive, ... Inhale You laugh because you think I said something funny, I can’t tell you I haven’t looked up in a while, I haven’t wondered about fairies and fairytales, About what’s beyond this cloud, this sun, those barriers, What’s up? What’s up isn’t what I know, What I know isn’t up, Ask me once again, Ask me who didn’t leave, Who hears my words, Who saw my tears, When did I grow, When did I fall, Do I prefer tea over coffee, Ask me of a universe I know nothing about, A heaven my feet haven’t touched, A thought that hasn’t crossed my mind, Ask of persons lost, matter gained, Piercings, physiology, my people’s faces, Ask me once more, What’s up?
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 6:46 AM UTC
What’s up?
So, what’s up? Well, if you insist; nothing much. Except, Every time I see you, I feel like our destinies collide, Like our souls beam promises, Like a mother and her child, Like the color yellow, Every time my eyes glare, they paint you, Furious and loving, Our bodies frozen, My mind undresses you as you take my hand and ask me: What’s up? You ask me what’s up as if it sums up all the rivers of a nation, As if it tells of sin and the humor of knowledge, As if up is where I’m going and rock bottom isn’t drowning my thoughts, As if my mother still wants me, As if my father thinks the world of me, As if my lover never forgot me, As if you want my answer, What’s up? What’s up with you? What’s ahead of you? What’s above you? Who watches over you? What’s the sky like when heaven is nowhere in sight? When pain eats away at sobriety, When silence cracks minds and noise breaks glass faces, What’s up? I’m just alive, ... Inhale You laugh because you think I said something funny, I can’t tell you I haven’t looked up in a while, I haven’t wondered about fairies and fairytales, About what’s beyond this cloud, this sun, those barriers, What’s up? What’s up isn’t what I know, What I know isn’t up, Ask me once again, Ask me who didn’t leave, Who hears my words, Who saw my tears, When did I grow, When did I fall, Do I prefer tea over coffee, Ask me of a universe I know nothing about, A heaven my feet haven’t touched, A thought that hasn’t crossed my mind, Ask of persons lost, matter gained, Piercings, physiology, my people’s faces, Ask me once more, What’s up?
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I unblocked you on Facebook and I looked My temperature rose Not in a good way I started to sweat You make me so nervous I don't want to see you again Maybe you got another job Maybe I'm wrong, and you don't cling there like a barnacle But who am I kidding You will be there again Looking, a stare a bit too long, Then, when I need you, absent My goal is not to need you You are my judge, only You will decide my fate next year I wish I liked you, but I don't I never did, my mind played tricks on me It always does Can't go that route again Thinking of you makes my skin crawl It's blood being pulled away from the skin Conserved, so when the Sabre Tooth Tiger strikes there won't be so much blood That's physiology, fight, flight, freeze or I don't know All I know is, I don't want to see you again.
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Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012 at 11:38 PM UTC
Don't Want to See You Again
The moon bled, deep red reflections on the water Yesterday's eve, where madness was only rumors Maybe two streets down, or the cobbler's son Before the priests, before the cross came down Before the fires, which burned cold Frost clawed from oceans depths, undying rise Creatures of horrors, and blight Ripping forth from within, tearing hosts Something formed then, in my father's pride It crept out, changing organs flesh to else Growing within, stretching changing physiology Ready to burst, I can feel it soon Creatures lash about the night, creening Violence against nature, a gift from elder gods A virus, illness budding out of Bon Homme Couldn't what be birthed, stay home? But I could feel it, strengthening Memories of someone else, mother's child Flashes of night, gods falling from the sky Swallowed by the sea, drunken until mad My toes touched, webbing cool I drifted, floating my eyes Clear, studied sky, breath choking Taste the water, breathe the sea Back to the sea, back to the sea A bakers wife, bread no taste for me Husband slaughtered, black priests to see Worship the Sea God, turn or die To me, I found them torn Protecting mine, I cleaved them all My husband's eyes, between taloned nails Drunkened, blood drugged and mad Oh! But I wasn't alone, chaos ruled the eve Worshippers in ****** haze, gore filled the streets Flashing in and out, my mind sane and not Acts became memory, desire fuel All those that fled, unpursued Driven by fear, only half crazed While we devoured the town, each other But dawn found me cowering, changed Now my mind grows, a shadow of my lord My body turns, gills for my lips reach Drinking the salty sea, breathing deep Cleansed and born, anew
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 10:07 PM UTC
Cries, Breaths on the Wind
The moon bled, deep red reflections on the water Yesterday's eve, where madness was only rumors Maybe two streets down, or the cobbler's son Before the priests, before the cross came down Before the fires, which burned cold Frost clawed from oceans depths, undying rise Creatures of horrors, and blight Ripping forth from within, tearing hosts Something formed then, in my father's pride It crept out, changing organs flesh to else Growing within, stretching changing physiology Ready to burst, I can feel it soon Creatures lash about the night, creening Violence against nature, a gift from elder gods A virus, illness budding out of Bon Homme Couldn't what be birthed, stay home? But I could feel it, strengthening Memories of someone else, mother's child Flashes of night, gods falling from the sky Swallowed by the sea, drunken until mad My toes touched, webbing cool I drifted, floating my eyes Clear, studied sky, breath choking Taste the water, breathe the sea Back to the sea, back to the sea A bakers wife, bread no taste for me Husband slaughtered, black priests to see Worship the Sea God, turn or die To me, I found them torn Protecting mine, I cleaved them all My husband's eyes, between taloned nails Drunkened, blood drugged and mad Oh! But I wasn't alone, chaos ruled the eve Worshippers in ****** haze, gore filled the streets Flashing in and out, my mind sane and not Acts became memory, desire fuel All those that fled, unpursued Driven by fear, only half crazed While we devoured the town, each other But dawn found me cowering, changed Now my mind grows, a shadow of my lord My body turns, gills for my lips reach Drinking the salty sea, breathing deep Cleansed and born, anew
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