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"reeled" poems
it was a dark dance of an immovable body as she was taken by the throat, death, causing stupendous distortions and entrancements of lunar landscapes she reeled pirouettes between smothering and seeing through a miraculous inner eye deepening her sense of nothingness as if pickled in a jar,  suspended in formaldehyde held buoyant where there is no reason for anything moveless in a veiled corridor inhabiting innerness, a raven fog her ******* wet with the scent of fear and *** she fell through the earth into the infernal arms of Hades his tremulous kisses a thousand glittering eyes she could see through
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 10:35 AM UTC
Persephone
that feeling when (your) finger tips clutch (my) bare skin veiled in casual apathy we watch the screen in silence not knowing what to say i don't know what went on behind your flickering eyes as for me, the moment of contact sent jumpy tingles up my spine unexpectedly my mind reeled forward to unspent nights in dance clubs or backyard barbecues; the way your hands felt in mine when we leaned in lips still intact-- unbroken
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:51 PM UTC
it's called electricity
all real and vivid as it seems to be none of it can be felt completely a fluffy vision being reeled to our consciousness suddenly evolving into a great nightmare *** human voices always ruining the good dreams yet are life-savers when we have our worst nightmares
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 9:15 AM UTC
good dreams and nightmares (preview)
Far narwhaled silly monkey speared aquatic creature cucumbered another mammal tonight On the fishing boat, they reeled in both bodies the monkey frozen solid narwhal flapping harmlessly They asked the monkey how it happened his reply was this: So they took his wide-eyed frozen stare as for an admission of guilt. his shock spoke volumes like a speaker being blown out. Tonight, the sailors drink moonshine.
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 12:12 AM UTC
Glacier
i. the poem has a beginning exactly as you’d expect it: pa in sweatshirt, ma with purse; the funny thing is i never used to call them those names: “pa,” “ma,” always found them too cowboy-ish, too un-me, un-like us: who held chopsticks before dinner time and shared stories of how grandpa came over from china. ii. (at the dinner table) there is no symbolism here. there has been none for a while now. this household eats and eats in quiet. my grandmother is a poet but their books all burned down back in ’45 when mao stormed into fujian and all her uncles could eloquent on was that “the communists were coming!” “the communists were coming!” and instead of poems took with them their children, and their gold to pawn and their clothes on their muddy mortar-stained backs and the japanese iii. my grandfather now comes twice a week to the hospital for chemotherapy. it is a nice hospital. good view of the cleanest part of our ***** city. there are lights and white folks now. two things my dad said did not used to be there. they used to be spanish. they tilled our rice fields and spent the money on living rooms with lots and lots of space to sleep. we on the other hand, worked. he claims. your grandfather and his grandfather and i iv. awake every sunday morning at precisely 8:30. made to go down to the temple in kalesas and told to fetch the office paper for noontime reading. see we weren’t spoiled: grew up just next to the pasig river which back in the 70s did not smell as bad as sin only sweatshirts and the sweat we soaked them in we reeled along steamed fish heads and chopsticks for picking at them with and bowls of rice we never really ate with spoons. v. (back at the dinner table) i listen to my mom and dad sweat profusely in the evening heat only we can have here he in his sweatshirt and she with her golden purse, preparing to leave - a wedding party awaits - an jacket draped over his shirt just like grandfather used to do it in a sense, but gripping the chopsticks delicately for all us to see: “pa,” “ma,” v. it is not cowboys that give us our names.
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 11:55 AM UTC
Pa wears a sweatshirt, ma carries a golden purse:
i. the poem has a beginning exactly as you’d expect it: pa in sweatshirt, ma with purse; the funny thing is i never used to call them those names: “pa,” “ma,” always found them too cowboy-ish, too un-me, un-like us: who held chopsticks before dinner time and shared stories of how grandpa came over from china. ii. (at the dinner table) there is no symbolism here. there has been none for a while now. this household eats and eats in quiet. my grandmother is a poet but their books all burned down back in ’45 when mao stormed into fujian and all her uncles could eloquent on was that “the communists were coming!” “the communists were coming!” and instead of poems took with them their children, and their gold to pawn and their clothes on their muddy mortar-stained backs and the japanese iii. my grandfather now comes twice a week to the hospital for chemotherapy. it is a nice hospital. good view of the cleanest part of our ***** city. there are lights and white folks now. two things my dad said did not used to be there. they used to be spanish. they tilled our rice fields and spent the money on living rooms with lots and lots of space to sleep. we on the other hand, worked. he claims. your grandfather and his grandfather and i iv. awake every sunday morning at precisely 8:30. made to go down to the temple in kalesas and told to fetch the office paper for noontime reading. see we weren’t spoiled: grew up just next to the pasig river which back in the 70s did not smell as bad as sin only sweatshirts and the sweat we soaked them in we reeled along steamed fish heads and chopsticks for picking at them with and bowls of rice we never really ate with spoons. v. (back at the dinner table) i listen to my mom and dad sweat profusely in the evening heat only we can have here he in his sweatshirt and she with her golden purse, preparing to leave - a wedding party awaits - an jacket draped over his shirt just like grandfather used to do it in a sense, but gripping the chopsticks delicately for all us to see: “pa,” “ma,” v. it is not cowboys that give us our names.
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The man to my right was more than eight feet away. I was going to have to move closer to him to catch my limit of four trout. I halved the distance between the two of us and noted the sideways glance he shot me. I apologized immediately and asked if I was crowding him.      “No, you fine,” he replied within a thick Serbian accent.      “You’re with them?” I asked, pointing to the crowd of people on the bridge some 30 feet upstream from us. I had heard the crowd of eastern Europeans talking earlier, and their accents were unmistakable to me. He nodded and we continued fishing.      With my new angle I was better able to pick my fish in the water, so that’s what I did. I spied one and tossed my jig toward him. It took five casts but eventually, he took the bait. As I netted it in the swift, ice-cold spring water the man beside me congratulated me on the catch. I thanked him and added it to my stringer. This made three, and I only needed one more.      “What’s your name?” I asked him.      “Ivan”.      “Have you been in the states long?” I asked, after the pause following his short reply seemed to invite more questions.      “Since ‘96, my family live here. It is good.”      “You like living here?” I wondered aloud.      “Yes, the fishing is good. It is like back home in Serbia, or in Germany. We have this fishing there.”      “You mean trout?”      “Yes, trout...and some other fish like these, in water like this, but I can’t go home now.” He looked away momentarily. His lips pursed, and his brow furrowed. I pulled my line in, wanting to ask him more and not wanting to be distracted.      “Were you in the war?”      “Yes, I was in the Serbian police force.” My heart pounded. “When I was in the Serbian police force, we did what you see on the news. We went into villages and we killed them. We killed them all.”      I cast my line back into the water, spying another trout. Ivan shrugged and cast his own line. I couldn’t tell what he was using but it looked like cheese of some kind. “I was drafted in Serb police when I was 15. I had no choice. If I refuse, they **** me. I did what I had to do.” I nodded, and ****** my line, missing a fish. “Before the war, I fished. After the war, there were not so many people, so fishing was very good.”      The air around me was alive. The trees were greener, the water was colder and clearer, the sun was brighter, and the sky was bluer.      “I’ve been fishing for a long time as well,” I responded. My father used to bring me here as a child. He nodded and continued.      “After the war, all the fish come back, no one fished during the war, so there were many of them. You just had to be careful of the mines.” He grunted and gazed skyward.      “The mines?”      “Yes, during the war they mined the water.”      I watched trout number four take my jig and I carefully reeled him in. Ivan congratulated me a second time, and I thanked him in return. “You’re a good fisherman,” he said turning back to his own pursuit of the four-trout limit, as I left the water to clean my catch.
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Sep 21, 2019
Sep 21, 2019 at 8:33 PM UTC
Fishing
The man to my right was more than eight feet away. I was going to have to move closer to him to catch my limit of four trout. I halved the distance between the two of us and noted the sideways glance he shot me. I apologized immediately and asked if I was crowding him.      “No, you fine,” he replied within a thick Serbian accent.      “You’re with them?” I asked, pointing to the crowd of people on the bridge some 30 feet upstream from us. I had heard the crowd of eastern Europeans talking earlier, and their accents were unmistakable to me. He nodded and we continued fishing.      With my new angle I was better able to pick my fish in the water, so that’s what I did. I spied one and tossed my jig toward him. It took five casts but eventually, he took the bait. As I netted it in the swift, ice-cold spring water the man beside me congratulated me on the catch. I thanked him and added it to my stringer. This made three, and I only needed one more.      “What’s your name?” I asked him.      “Ivan”.      “Have you been in the states long?” I asked, after the pause following his short reply seemed to invite more questions.      “Since ‘96, my family live here. It is good.”      “You like living here?” I wondered aloud.      “Yes, the fishing is good. It is like back home in Serbia, or in Germany. We have this fishing there.”      “You mean trout?”      “Yes, trout...and some other fish like these, in water like this, but I can’t go home now.” He looked away momentarily. His lips pursed, and his brow furrowed. I pulled my line in, wanting to ask him more and not wanting to be distracted.      “Were you in the war?”      “Yes, I was in the Serbian police force.” My heart pounded. “When I was in the Serbian police force, we did what you see on the news. We went into villages and we killed them. We killed them all.”      I cast my line back into the water, spying another trout. Ivan shrugged and cast his own line. I couldn’t tell what he was using but it looked like cheese of some kind. “I was drafted in Serb police when I was 15. I had no choice. If I refuse, they **** me. I did what I had to do.” I nodded, and ****** my line, missing a fish. “Before the war, I fished. After the war, there were not so many people, so fishing was very good.”      The air around me was alive. The trees were greener, the water was colder and clearer, the sun was brighter, and the sky was bluer.      “I’ve been fishing for a long time as well,” I responded. My father used to bring me here as a child. He nodded and continued.      “After the war, all the fish come back, no one fished during the war, so there were many of them. You just had to be careful of the mines.” He grunted and gazed skyward.      “The mines?”      “Yes, during the war they mined the water.”      I watched trout number four take my jig and I carefully reeled him in. Ivan congratulated me a second time, and I thanked him in return. “You’re a good fisherman,” he said turning back to his own pursuit of the four-trout limit, as I left the water to clean my catch.
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shirelles monday night alone in a big house light the candles another one of my rituals born one hour, dead the next to make room for other prayers postures pen tips but the way candles flicker in the sweet soul is not another ritual warm life to the tune of golden notes swimming through once bleak      once empty once impure        air and suddenly, I am baptized more than I ever was in that sterile, dead chlorine     more than spent hymns in drafty cathedrals        so, the sound lives. my bed would tilt            at twelve years old I'd wake                startled of the                        psychic death spread like bodies after             a paid for war I'd scream like the cats               fighting by the window at my aunts house                I would huddle with my childhood                      hiding from the puberty that stalked me like a jungle cat                the mind reeled with my spent pulse and                  at night                         under shamed                    covers                                  bitten fingertips the white light            on the street                               looking on
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Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015 at 2:30 AM UTC
rituals
He was lonely, as was his heart, carver Of wood, he searched upon forest & Glade till before his eyes laid sight of a masterpiece, Home he hurried Carving,   Smoothing, Varnishing Not noticing or ignoring the black knot But unbeknown, this was a deeper Problem. Rotten, decayed black festered Within not showing on the outside, But things are missed in joy, Things that will haunt, but he was finished His boy of wood stood before His so tearful eyes, your only wood Only inanimate, sitting before my weeping eyes. Heard where his whispers Upon a night were they asked back, "You are of sound heart" "You are of compassion" "You will have a son of wood with life in his heart" As he looked upward, A sight befell his reddened eyes "FATHER" Words fell forth unto his ears, "Did you just speak?? "Father" He hugged upon wood given life, "Son" "Son" "A boy of my own given life" "I love you son" "I love you father" His nose grew, leaves sprouted forth, "Aaghhhhh" As Pinocchio snapped what grew forth, And throw it upon the floor, In pain he reeled, "Son be calm" For lies will be greeted by growth Shall a lie be told, only good boys And girls realise that honesty will be rewarded. With that he cuddled his father, you know Not love but I will show you unconditionally Till you understand honesty also love, Upon those words both bedded For the night was late and father was old, But he never slept, upon the floor Part of him that broke off, Now tainted black, As it had succumb to its chosen fate, As he fashioned upon tools A living weapon, "Blackest as night" He felt connected They were apart but one. Into the bedroom he crept, "Father" "Father" "Awaken" Startled old eyes widen, I have a gift, As he plunges it forth, Son whhhhy I loveeee youuu "I am but wooden given life" "Blackness rots inside" "It must feed" For without it I will cease, When I was just cold It was my end no difference to any one. And now given life That is all that matters this night, And with that he ****** into his "Fathers heart" He felt relief inside no more ties But he cried splintered tears upon his Blood they mixed upon the floor He had extinguished his first life. He needed to stem the flow as He felt the veins rooting further Life was his not easily given up, The town fell silent that night, As he fed well, he charred his Finger tips black upon once so tanned, So to feed with both knife and hand. He would travel the world, death in his wake All thought "How unique" "How harmless" "How sweet" But when the hunger craved, Life was bled,  life was ceased All for the rot to not **** this wooden boy "Rotten core in a boys shell" Prey his nose does not grow just a little Because your time in life will be up.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 4:32 PM UTC
Pinocchio (Twisted Fairytales)
He was lonely, as was his heart, carver Of wood, he searched upon forest & Glade till before his eyes laid sight of a masterpiece, Home he hurried Carving,   Smoothing, Varnishing Not noticing or ignoring the black knot But unbeknown, this was a deeper Problem. Rotten, decayed black festered Within not showing on the outside, But things are missed in joy, Things that will haunt, but he was finished His boy of wood stood before His so tearful eyes, your only wood Only inanimate, sitting before my weeping eyes. Heard where his whispers Upon a night were they asked back, "You are of sound heart" "You are of compassion" "You will have a son of wood with life in his heart" As he looked upward, A sight befell his reddened eyes "FATHER" Words fell forth unto his ears, "Did you just speak?? "Father" He hugged upon wood given life, "Son" "Son" "A boy of my own given life" "I love you son" "I love you father" His nose grew, leaves sprouted forth, "Aaghhhhh" As Pinocchio snapped what grew forth, And throw it upon the floor, In pain he reeled, "Son be calm" For lies will be greeted by growth Shall a lie be told, only good boys And girls realise that honesty will be rewarded. With that he cuddled his father, you know Not love but I will show you unconditionally Till you understand honesty also love, Upon those words both bedded For the night was late and father was old, But he never slept, upon the floor Part of him that broke off, Now tainted black, As it had succumb to its chosen fate, As he fashioned upon tools A living weapon, "Blackest as night" He felt connected They were apart but one. Into the bedroom he crept, "Father" "Father" "Awaken" Startled old eyes widen, I have a gift, As he plunges it forth, Son whhhhy I loveeee youuu "I am but wooden given life" "Blackness rots inside" "It must feed" For without it I will cease, When I was just cold It was my end no difference to any one. And now given life That is all that matters this night, And with that he ****** into his "Fathers heart" He felt relief inside no more ties But he cried splintered tears upon his Blood they mixed upon the floor He had extinguished his first life. He needed to stem the flow as He felt the veins rooting further Life was his not easily given up, The town fell silent that night, As he fed well, he charred his Finger tips black upon once so tanned, So to feed with both knife and hand. He would travel the world, death in his wake All thought "How unique" "How harmless" "How sweet" But when the hunger craved, Life was bled,  life was ceased All for the rot to not **** this wooden boy "Rotten core in a boys shell" Prey his nose does not grow just a little Because your time in life will be up.
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Is my heart a petty thing You are a petty crook You steal glances at me My heart is one of many you took Goodnight used to have luster When it was shared between our lips Now you fall to her Her seductive smile; the curve of her hips Is my trust a petty thing Or have I mistook The truth we shared the lies she told You reeled me in on a hook Love her but remember me One day you'll be wishing To know where I'll be I'm long gone on daybreak dawn Nowhere to be seen
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 11:56 AM UTC
Daybreak Dawn
Wobbling three legged tables where the bearded bald men are sitting upon the legs of standing chairs while telling local tales heard abroad recalled from memories long forgot Like stories from a ******** genius's journal read in public by the town's blind doctor clearly translated by a girl who was mute to a man listening with old deaf ears Or the one of the parched fisherman drowning who was seen from a distance by a nearsighted man that sent his lame messenger running to get help and was reeled in by the fish he had caught on his line. But none were as simply complicated as the one of the bearded bald men whose sitting stools stood tall as they sat and whose three legged table wobbled.
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May 31, 2010
May 31, 2010 at 7:00 PM UTC
The Bearded Bald Men
One of his sick molars was jarring, crying foul, the root canal treatment she did, the first, on him made it quiet,it touched exactly the love nerve. Love sprouted,got rooted between the curvy dentist and him in exactly five sittings; the soil was fertile. The  romantic dentist seized his pining heart too quick, the causes and effects of that pain, she whispered, was similar to what she felt , when he whimpered leaning his head on her full ******* No reason he had, not to surmise she didn't do everything she should, to make his ailing tooth perfect. Coochiecooing to her, he even called her" the tooth fairy's baby girl" overwhelmed she gifted him a smooch. Each  sitting fallowed soliciting  that rare,tender dental care, on her cozy swiveling chair, brought them closer to bouts of  necking and things more adventurous, (may the medical ethics, pardon the pair!) Vigorous  narratives she breathlessly reeled off, on the state of his each tooth brought her more closer to the chair than what professionally was expected, her perfumed warm presence brought aches, not necessarily dental. A stinging pain on a root repaired at a time his 'root canal sweet heart' was away compels him to explore for a new chair. The horror of horrors, it was revealed here, a piece of broken iron implement his sweet heart, has left within the root; a  cover up as she couldn't retrieve it with her skills inept, it did aggravate, caused the pain! Isn't the  betrayal of the kids, in the name of tooth fairy,non existent   far less heinous, than a cheating like this! could any one blame him for this, to escape a bad tooth future,  he did the best one could; the comely tooth fairy that found the fault and mended it shows him his place in the swivel chair of her heart these days!
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Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 9:02 AM UTC
The Root Canal Sweet heart
One of his sick molars was jarring, crying foul, the root canal treatment she did, the first, on him made it quiet,it touched exactly the love nerve. Love sprouted,got rooted between the curvy dentist and him in exactly five sittings; the soil was fertile. The  romantic dentist seized his pining heart too quick, the causes and effects of that pain, she whispered, was similar to what she felt , when he whimpered leaning his head on her full ******* No reason he had, not to surmise she didn't do everything she should, to make his ailing tooth perfect. Coochiecooing to her, he even called her" the tooth fairy's baby girl" overwhelmed she gifted him a smooch. Each  sitting fallowed soliciting  that rare,tender dental care, on her cozy swiveling chair, brought them closer to bouts of  necking and things more adventurous, (may the medical ethics, pardon the pair!) Vigorous  narratives she breathlessly reeled off, on the state of his each tooth brought her more closer to the chair than what professionally was expected, her perfumed warm presence brought aches, not necessarily dental. A stinging pain on a root repaired at a time his 'root canal sweet heart' was away compels him to explore for a new chair. The horror of horrors, it was revealed here, a piece of broken iron implement his sweet heart, has left within the root; a  cover up as she couldn't retrieve it with her skills inept, it did aggravate, caused the pain! Isn't the  betrayal of the kids, in the name of tooth fairy,non existent   far less heinous, than a cheating like this! could any one blame him for this, to escape a bad tooth future,  he did the best one could; the comely tooth fairy that found the fault and mended it shows him his place in the swivel chair of her heart these days!
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*WHEN I first discovered the *"BEND IN THE RIVER" * , , , I had No Idea what was in store for those who BELIEVE There's a LOT more to this Flesh and Blood Body than Meets the Eye!! IT'S a Brand New World, , , That I've been instructed to "SHARE" with those who also believe *That the SPIRIT given to us,,ALLOWS "ADVENTURES" beyond explanation. "For Example"; I uncovered a Mystery that has been kept from man for Centuries!! "Such As Follows". Am I a fool to fish with an Unbaited hook?? Even though I did Caste it out "Very Far". Will the FLASHING of it being Retrieved ever so FAST, be enough to Attract the Hungriest of Those Looking for a New treat? What,Oh What could be a "BETTER BAIT" than that which I reeled in at a "Break-Neck" speed?? Was there No Deliciousness coming Off that Rapid return? PERHAPS,,a Tasty Morsel, a Yummy TidBit be attached to the very Tip.. AND * YES Put below a Cork about 30"ABOVE!! YES,,Gently,, Persuasively,, Moving in the Smooth currents of "LIFE"!!! Is this "BETTER BAIT" always available? * I BETTER "RUSH" TO FIND OUT!! "Are YOU with me??"
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 3:38 AM UTC
*" THE BETTER BAIT"* (#23)
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismayed? Not tho' the soldiers knew Someone had blundered: Theirs was not to make reply, Theirs was not to reason why, Theirs was but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there, Charging and army, while All the world wondered: Plunging in the battery smoke, Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reeled from the sabre-stroke Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not-- Not the six hundred. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that fought so well, Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of the six hundred. When can their glory fade? Oh, the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred!
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The Charge Of The Light Brigade
I want to fall in love with you today tonight and tomorrow I want to shy away from your touch only to bring you back home with me I want to lay down by your side late evening on the livingroom carpet And tell you all the ways in which you are beautiful, you are beautiful, you are I want to eat dinner with you and breakfast, too I want to connect with your mind, your words and your skin I want you to look at me like it's the first time I want to love you enough without pushing you away It seems your absence draws me nearer I want our love to live in videotape Our memories reeled in red, blue, green Red, blue, green I want to be the great strange dream That you are much too fond of for letting go
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Jun 30, 2013
Jun 30, 2013 at 8:08 PM UTC
**** .
I cast my line and reel in my bait I cast my line and it's a snake I cast my line, a reprobate How much longer till I break Patience is not a lesson I care for I like waiting even less I say, "that's enough", You say, "there is more" - I'm breaking, I must confess Vice on my heart, squeezing out tears Thoughts are swirling all of my fears Ripples in the pond spread out from my float All goes still, there is a lump in my throat Chin in my hand Slumped and alone My pole, unmanned Heart's monotoned I have cast in shallow waters And reeled in dregs Wandered forbidden corridors And near lost legs How much longer must I wander? I trust You not to tip my boat Believe You've brought me where I float You've kept my rod from breaking But not my hands from aching It's the catch that I doubt It's all one endless bout I'm trying to practice trust Though my heart's dusted with crust Fishing, endless fishin' Waiting on fruition Fishing, oh, endless fishin' Perhaps I'll reposition
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Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 9:53 PM UTC
Fishing
her hair shines like the sea glimmering in the sun flawless, radiant skin with a beaming smile her eyes are like a trap, once you're reeled in all you can do is stare in awe how i wish i could be her boys treat her with respect, that's for sure effortlessly gorgeous they say, even when she wakes up in the morning she's the girl who everyone stops to stare at how i wish i could be her i see the way they talk about her the respect and humility they have whenever they're in her presence especially the way he looks at her, for some reason i envy how i wish i could be her she calls herself ugly but i never will understand why she's perfect in every way oh how i wish i could be her
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Apr 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021 at 11:14 PM UTC
i shouldn't be jealous
Humming a soft tune came down the wind With airy fingers, it tousled my hair Rubbing its cold cheeks on mine, tickling me, it reeled round tugging at my skirt like a naughty kid and amorously lifting it up like a lover Like soft tendrils it coiled all around me inviting me for a waltz Between hushed breaths and murmured tones it talked to me endless whispering sweet nothings in my attentive ear I felt love pouring down on me I wished to cage it to enjoy its sweet company But like an apparition, it disappeared into thin air! I couldn’t follow its trail but as it passed, I saw a tumbleweed tremble far above the ground!
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Mar 21, 2017
Mar 21, 2017 at 6:11 AM UTC
The Wind's Trail
You found me Heart of abuse turned peaceful Eyes of disgust enlightened You winged me into security, then played off my vulnerability like a scavenger Peeling my walls down like flesh from a carcass You reeled me in like the catch of the day hook attached, you left me dangling with the hope of repair As you caught a one way to California The days that followed brought your beasts with them Gloomy deceitful minions of broken trust Your "love" had evaporated just as quick as the oregon wind blows Making me regret every ounce of compassion I'd given you despising the sincerity I had offered Regurgitating every lie you'd bestowed upon me However, with every passing day my memory of you fades No longer do I cry over your cowardly decisions There is no hate or grudge held within my soul Soon enough I realised I'd never loved you I was faking contempt with every kiss, every hug, every word & my heart secretly craved your absence months have passed without heartache I've doused my wounds in gasoline and set your memory ablaze regained that fire in my eyes that you once so carelessly saturated with tears There are many that patiently waited for my return Finally my golden emeralds are cleaned of deceit and deception I'm done searching, waiting, and hoping for my happily ever after I am my happy ending I'm the best architect and gardener I know Continuously rebuilding myself after demolition & Replanting my roots to fit my desires Repairing cracks, sowing holes, stemming leaves from ashes I've been reborn.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 6:20 PM UTC
the burden of trust
You found me Heart of abuse turned peaceful Eyes of disgust enlightened You winged me into security, then played off my vulnerability like a scavenger Peeling my walls down like flesh from a carcass You reeled me in like the catch of the day hook attached, you left me dangling with the hope of repair As you caught a one way to California The days that followed brought your beasts with them Gloomy deceitful minions of broken trust Your "love" had evaporated just as quick as the oregon wind blows Making me regret every ounce of compassion I'd given you despising the sincerity I had offered Regurgitating every lie you'd bestowed upon me However, with every passing day my memory of you fades No longer do I cry over your cowardly decisions There is no hate or grudge held within my soul Soon enough I realised I'd never loved you I was faking contempt with every kiss, every hug, every word & my heart secretly craved your absence months have passed without heartache I've doused my wounds in gasoline and set your memory ablaze regained that fire in my eyes that you once so carelessly saturated with tears There are many that patiently waited for my return Finally my golden emeralds are cleaned of deceit and deception I'm done searching, waiting, and hoping for my happily ever after I am my happy ending I'm the best architect and gardener I know Continuously rebuilding myself after demolition & Replanting my roots to fit my desires Repairing cracks, sowing holes, stemming leaves from ashes I've been reborn.
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ROBBED BY TIME Once upon a time, A friend in need at all times, Time was such my best friend And so we hopped till the end. To my castle he'd come, For he was always welcome Any time he ever wanted to, Something my queen loved too. We'd ramble woodland paths together As he reeled off one story after another, All day long having a good time Till when castle bells could chime. Time was not of this world, But a great war lord Of a very far away land, King unto the realm of fairy land. He who had a novelty crown Bestowed upon him by a fairy clown, A crown not of gold but of palest silver, A precious gem from the fairyland silva. With lurve in the air one morning, My friendship with Time died aborning When he chose to do something frivolous Just when the Sun's rays were so glorious. Time emblazed my heart, Something that didst hurt When he smiled unto my wife, Such a great shock unto my life. He gravitated towards her after a deep sigh, Like a whirlwind, my mind whirled high. He thus gallantly asked her for a dance, And was granted a golden chance. Keenly I watched this flint-hearted boy, Thought him skint but feared not nor coy. With alacrity and in broad day light Together they cwtched in delight. He whom I always enjoyed with the wine, There enjoying with a queen of mine Whilst committing mischief; This friend of mine such a thief. Time whispered thus into my Queen's ear, Whispers I could hardly hear: Alas! He promised her the moon For they'd eloped by noon, To places strange I might never have a clue, To where mortals have never dared walk to, All the way to the realm of fairy land, Such, such a very far away land. ©Kikodinho Edward Alexandros 10th Aug 2016.
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Aug 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM UTC
ROBBED BY TIME
ROBBED BY TIME Once upon a time, A friend in need at all times, Time was such my best friend And so we hopped till the end. To my castle he'd come, For he was always welcome Any time he ever wanted to, Something my queen loved too. We'd ramble woodland paths together As he reeled off one story after another, All day long having a good time Till when castle bells could chime. Time was not of this world, But a great war lord Of a very far away land, King unto the realm of fairy land. He who had a novelty crown Bestowed upon him by a fairy clown, A crown not of gold but of palest silver, A precious gem from the fairyland silva. With lurve in the air one morning, My friendship with Time died aborning When he chose to do something frivolous Just when the Sun's rays were so glorious. Time emblazed my heart, Something that didst hurt When he smiled unto my wife, Such a great shock unto my life. He gravitated towards her after a deep sigh, Like a whirlwind, my mind whirled high. He thus gallantly asked her for a dance, And was granted a golden chance. Keenly I watched this flint-hearted boy, Thought him skint but feared not nor coy. With alacrity and in broad day light Together they cwtched in delight. He whom I always enjoyed with the wine, There enjoying with a queen of mine Whilst committing mischief; This friend of mine such a thief. Time whispered thus into my Queen's ear, Whispers I could hardly hear: Alas! He promised her the moon For they'd eloped by noon, To places strange I might never have a clue, To where mortals have never dared walk to, All the way to the realm of fairy land, Such, such a very far away land. ©Kikodinho Edward Alexandros 10th Aug 2016.
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. W.B. YEATS * * * * * * My soul looked down from a vague height, with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth, Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe, And pitted with great pocks and scabs of plagues. Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire, There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled. It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed. By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped Round myriad warts that might be little hills. From gloom's last dregs these long-strung creatures crept, And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes. (And smell came up from those foul openings As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.) On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings, towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire. Those that were gray, of more abundant spawns, Ramped on the rest and ate them and were eaten. I saw their bitten backs curve, loop and straighten. I watched those agonies curl, lift, and flatten. Whereat, in terror what that sight might mean, I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, bur crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. W.B. YEATS * * * * * * My soul looked down from a vague height, with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth, Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe, And pitted with great pocks and scabs of plagues. Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire, There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled. It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed. By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped Round myriad warts that might be little hills. From gloom's last dregs these long-strung creatures crept, And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes. (And smell came up from those foul openings As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.) On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings, towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire. Those that were gray, of more abundant spawns, Ramped on the rest and ate them and were eaten. I saw their bitten backs curve, loop and straighten. I watched those agonies curl, lift, and flatten. Whereat, in terror what that sight might mean, I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, bur crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head
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dismay is felt when opening the newspaper to read Athena's astral charts on many occasions her predictions are well out which tend to make the readers doubt to-day she stated that all Geminis were in for an adventure but she failed to also mention the possibility of a misadventure Taurus individuals supposedly are going to win a truck load of cash they'll be disappointed should they not collect a stash she said all Virgos would be bidding their time but how would she know as few of them can march to a rhyme this pronouncement she had written large which told of a Capricorn who'd fly to Mars yet this person hasn't got a rocket which can propel him to Mars here was one that reeled me in she spoke of a Pisces eating a dog her info was well out of kilter we all know that all fishes prefer a frog Athena was glowing in her outlook for those Cancer folk saying they'd find a bloke though none of them are in the market for finding a bloke she put in a good line for Scorpios to be careful whilst using the hose as they might get the nozzle stuck to their nose Libras were given an Athena heads up not to take their dreams too far   why would she say that when we all know that a Libra dreamer always makes par she stated that Sagittarius ladies needed to buy a spring party dress though they've all got wardrobes full of lovely floral brightness what do you think of her Leo chart for November and December during these months will they have a holiday to remember she made mention of Aquarius souls by way of Rock and Roll few of those sixties baby bombers have the legs to now Rock and Roll finally her is what she telegraphed for our Aries cousins in Perth they'd all be reborn on planet Earth yet none are seeking a rebirth Athena's predictive Astrology page is one we'll all need to thoroughly gauge
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 10:54 PM UTC
Athena's Predictive Page
dismay is felt when opening the newspaper to read Athena's astral charts on many occasions her predictions are well out which tend to make the readers doubt to-day she stated that all Geminis were in for an adventure but she failed to also mention the possibility of a misadventure Taurus individuals supposedly are going to win a truck load of cash they'll be disappointed should they not collect a stash she said all Virgos would be bidding their time but how would she know as few of them can march to a rhyme this pronouncement she had written large which told of a Capricorn who'd fly to Mars yet this person hasn't got a rocket which can propel him to Mars here was one that reeled me in she spoke of a Pisces eating a dog her info was well out of kilter we all know that all fishes prefer a frog Athena was glowing in her outlook for those Cancer folk saying they'd find a bloke though none of them are in the market for finding a bloke she put in a good line for Scorpios to be careful whilst using the hose as they might get the nozzle stuck to their nose Libras were given an Athena heads up not to take their dreams too far   why would she say that when we all know that a Libra dreamer always makes par she stated that Sagittarius ladies needed to buy a spring party dress though they've all got wardrobes full of lovely floral brightness what do you think of her Leo chart for November and December during these months will they have a holiday to remember she made mention of Aquarius souls by way of Rock and Roll few of those sixties baby bombers have the legs to now Rock and Roll finally her is what she telegraphed for our Aries cousins in Perth they'd all be reborn on planet Earth yet none are seeking a rebirth Athena's predictive Astrology page is one we'll all need to thoroughly gauge
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one thousand shards, my crown was built. not of thorns. but bubblegum legos, saturday morning stuck to the carpet & days gone by. crept out of fold and gut/   kid living & watched by trees. autumn watches us fall like leaves, born of the belly and the mother. mom quiet/ dad loud/   men hid behind blisters and god.   men hid behind tall towers and the bomb.   men bled for immortality,   warred and ****** resource for more, the door   to an endless life. dad taught me how the heart and brain behold blood, & how the body manifests it/     moves it/ follows the sun. son follows father follows god follows ghoul. dad taught me about the machete.            about how “our fates will dominate us blind.                                so man dominates the jungle.” he told me a story of love and more glory. of poor men and dead men. machete theories. he carved wooden chairs. built a lodge. fished the river,     & reeled to forget the war. harpoon the river gods. the heart and brain behold blood, & the body manifests it.
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 12:57 AM UTC
machete theory
The ghost of Christmas past dropped in You see. he was completely out of wine He had two stops to make by three so, he borrowed some of mine He asked me how i was getting on since, he came around that night with Jacob and the other two and took me on that flight i told him i was doing well but, i thought he had to know i was succeptible to pnuemonia now since they dragged me through the snow it's just the nature of the beast that you may get a cold the younger ones, not quite so much it's just that you were old i asked him where he had to go and who he had to see he told me , Ebby you know the rules but, i can give you guesses...three the first place that i'm off to now is really not that far this one, used to be a beatle peace and love is for this starr i was surprised that it was Ringo he said, he had to be reeled in his ego grew a little bit and to his boss that was a sin The second place he had to go he needed wine for the bar because he was going out to celebrate and he brought a good cigar He said this one, he's off his head He's gone back fifty years There's a lot of things he needs to see So, with your wine, I'll need some beers If everything goes as we hope And he can make amends He plans on calling Cuba And saying...it's time that we were friends
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
Ghost of Christmas past is back