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"resigning" poems
Imagine being a trapped fly Resigning to a trapped life. Your limbs flail about in despair Your wings buzz in a futile escape attempt. Indignation at first, that rapidly fades Into confusion, anxiety, fear clutching your insides Till you lose all hope, silently wait to die And you realise It's the same scared light you see in man's eyes. Imagine...being a trapped fly Resigning to a trapped life.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 10:30 AM UTC
Imagine a trapped fly
I Peered Out Of The Room Windows, I Was In This Desolate Guesthouse, It Was A Comfortable Rest House, And Here I Was In Anticipation, Angel Or Whosoever Was Awaited, Will She Pop Into My Vision Here Too, Was It Only A Seasick Mind's Illusion? Was All That Really Just An Illusion, Thinking This I Prepared For Bed, Then I Felt A Flute Was Playing, Looked Into Sound's Direction, All I Saw Then Was Foggy Night, My Own Reflection Was Also Visible, Slightly If Not Entirely Can Be Seen. I Recalled The First Night At The Sea, She Did Appear On The Towed Raft, A Beautiful Mermaid I Had Seen, Now I Did Remember It Clearly, My Face Was No Longer Mine, Yes It Was The Beautiful Face Of Hers, She Wasn't Sad As I Did Remember. She Was Smiling So Very Divinely, Her Brown Eyes Stared So Cutely, More Divine Felt She Was Really, I Thought That It Was So Early, My Pocket Watch Showed Three, I Took My Eyes Off And Went To Bed, Then & There She Was Lying For Me. I Again Let My Mind Play Games, Never Did Imagine Turning Mad, Now I Was Not Feeling As Bad, Neither I Wanted To Break It, Nor It Felt Like One Anymore, This Was The Dream I Loved To Live, As If The Boon Was Presented To Me. She Smiled As I Sat On The Bed, I Asked Her, "Are You Real?" "Yes, Just As Your Thoughts," I Then Stared At Her Lips, She Then Touched Me Again, Hands As Soft As That Night At Sea, I Just Felt Like Opposing Her Touch. I Blankly Smiled And Thought, 'My Thoughts Are Surely Real,' Then I Just Let Her Guide Me, The Moon Shone So Bright, It Just Felt Really So Very Right, Resigning I Just Let My Illusion Win, It's Love We Were Sharing, Not A Sin.
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 6:35 AM UTC
Angel Illusion?
I Peered Out Of The Room Windows, I Was In This Desolate Guesthouse, It Was A Comfortable Rest House, And Here I Was In Anticipation, Angel Or Whosoever Was Awaited, Will She Pop Into My Vision Here Too, Was It Only A Seasick Mind's Illusion? Was All That Really Just An Illusion, Thinking This I Prepared For Bed, Then I Felt A Flute Was Playing, Looked Into Sound's Direction, All I Saw Then Was Foggy Night, My Own Reflection Was Also Visible, Slightly If Not Entirely Can Be Seen. I Recalled The First Night At The Sea, She Did Appear On The Towed Raft, A Beautiful Mermaid I Had Seen, Now I Did Remember It Clearly, My Face Was No Longer Mine, Yes It Was The Beautiful Face Of Hers, She Wasn't Sad As I Did Remember. She Was Smiling So Very Divinely, Her Brown Eyes Stared So Cutely, More Divine Felt She Was Really, I Thought That It Was So Early, My Pocket Watch Showed Three, I Took My Eyes Off And Went To Bed, Then & There She Was Lying For Me. I Again Let My Mind Play Games, Never Did Imagine Turning Mad, Now I Was Not Feeling As Bad, Neither I Wanted To Break It, Nor It Felt Like One Anymore, This Was The Dream I Loved To Live, As If The Boon Was Presented To Me. She Smiled As I Sat On The Bed, I Asked Her, "Are You Real?" "Yes, Just As Your Thoughts," I Then Stared At Her Lips, She Then Touched Me Again, Hands As Soft As That Night At Sea, I Just Felt Like Opposing Her Touch. I Blankly Smiled And Thought, 'My Thoughts Are Surely Real,' Then I Just Let Her Guide Me, The Moon Shone So Bright, It Just Felt Really So Very Right, Resigning I Just Let My Illusion Win, It's Love We Were Sharing, Not A Sin.
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Yet, my pretty sportive friend, Little is’t to such an end That I praise thy rareness! Other dogs may be thy peers Haply in these drooping ears, And this glossy fairness. But of thee it shall be said, This dog watched beside a bed Day and night unweary— Watched within a curtained room, Where no sunbeam brake the gloom Round the sick and dreary. Roses, gathered for a vase, In that chamber died apace, Beam and breeze resigning. This dog only, waited on, Knowing that when light is gone Love remains for shining. Other dogs in thymy dew Tracked the hares, and followed through Sunny moor or meadow. This dog only, crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing in the shadow. Other dogs of loyal cheer Bounded at the whistle clear, Up the woodside hieing. This dog only, watched in reach Of a faintly uttered speech, Or a louder sighing. And if one or two quick tears Dropped upon his glossy ears, Or a sigh came double— Up he sprang in eager haste, Fawning, fondling, breathing fast, In a tender trouble. And this dog was satisfied If a pale thin hand would glide Down his dewlaps sloping— Which he pushed his nose within, After—platforming his chin On the palm left open.
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To Flush, My Dog
here is something that mother told me about god complexes: “everyone believes themselves to be gods among men: even that hideous monster from your half-remembered Hellenistic dreams will retreat back to his craggy hideaway and continue with his hedonistic ways. the poor creature: he will don a halo, iconize himself in caricatures pretending that if for a moment his veins flow ichorous that Icarus may have envied when his wings beat in tandem with the footfalls of the sun chariots’ horses. “the sun shines upon hallowed ground, though Polyphemus will avoid Helios’s scornful gaze. he herds sheep––his only acolytes–– an unabashed king in his realm, like a god plays war, or as a child would play house, humming hallelujah, veins running gold-blooded. when moon rises, he will hang his weary shadow at his door and retreat to his fire-pit. perhaps this will be the closest he will be to the gods, basking in the heat of Hestia’s humble hearth. “in the end,” mother said, “Nobody will end up deified. Icarus may have rained down wax and feathers in godlike fury before tilting his head to Helios once more; Polyphemus waded into the sea, eyes clouded in godlike fury before resigning himself to fate, head bowed.”
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 12:24 PM UTC
POLYPHEMUS
******* of suckling cheeks taste of wine gone vinegar left out too long exposed to sunlight twice ways between nowhere we drank a bottle or four before resigning ourselves to defeat we woke so many mornings in drawn shade sunlight with our heads split twain by buzzing we'd never known what it was to taste hurt or defeat until we likened our arguments to chemistry
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Feb 16, 2023
Feb 16, 2023 at 10:52 PM UTC
Chemistry
Man. Sweetest Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having, Quickly should I then control Any thought of waving. But when all my care and pains Cannot give the name of gains To Thy wretch so full of stains, What delight or hope remains? Saviour. What, child, is the balance thine, Thine the poise and measure? If I say, ‘Thou shalt be Mine,’ Finger not My treasure. What the gains in having thee Do amount to, only He Who for man was sold can see; That transferr’d th’ accounts to Me. Man. But as I can see no merit Leading to this favour, So the way to fit me for it Is beyond my savour. As the reason, then, is Thine, So the way is none of mine; I disclaim the whole design; Sin disclaims and I resign. Saviour. That is all: if that I could Get without repining; And My clay, My creature, would Follow My resigning; That as I did freely part With My glory and desert, Left all joys to feel all smart—— Man. Ah, no more! Thou break’st my heart!
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A Dialogue
I'm not going to the pizzeria today Hell no, I'm not going to that pizzeria today To go in and scrub the dishes The bleach is burning my skin And insect crawling on the food While my time is just wasting I refuse to wash another bin or tray I'm not going to the pizzeria today I'm not going on that sinking ship today Forget that, I'n not getting on that sinking ship today We have a sushi place across the street Another pizzeria two doors down They also own the bagel shop between us And when bakery opens, I won't be around I'm sorry, but I certainly can't stay I'm abandoning this sinking ship today I'm resigning from this bad business today That it, I'm done with this bad business today The boss ignored the IRS for months They came, emptied the registers and shut us down Sometimes there's no money in the bank So every now and then all our checks bounce I work for six ours for $8.25, I expect to get paid That's it I've had it with this bad business today I'm giving up on this lost cause today Yes, I'm giving up on this lost cause today It fell apart when they switched hands Two parents bought it for their sons And they plowed it into the ground One's on coke and the others just dumb When they're parents come in they have nothing to say I'm giving up on this lost cause today I'm not going into work today I can not go into work today Where the employees could care less but still try their best And the boss act like two year old Where we get bi weekly pay and everyday is slow And the pizza in the case is cold I'm giving in my two weeks notice and going on my way There is nothing that can make me go to that godforsaken pizzeria today
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 11:55 PM UTC
Dishwasher/Prep Blues
I'm not going to the pizzeria today Hell no, I'm not going to that pizzeria today To go in and scrub the dishes The bleach is burning my skin And insect crawling on the food While my time is just wasting I refuse to wash another bin or tray I'm not going to the pizzeria today I'm not going on that sinking ship today Forget that, I'n not getting on that sinking ship today We have a sushi place across the street Another pizzeria two doors down They also own the bagel shop between us And when bakery opens, I won't be around I'm sorry, but I certainly can't stay I'm abandoning this sinking ship today I'm resigning from this bad business today That it, I'm done with this bad business today The boss ignored the IRS for months They came, emptied the registers and shut us down Sometimes there's no money in the bank So every now and then all our checks bounce I work for six ours for $8.25, I expect to get paid That's it I've had it with this bad business today I'm giving up on this lost cause today Yes, I'm giving up on this lost cause today It fell apart when they switched hands Two parents bought it for their sons And they plowed it into the ground One's on coke and the others just dumb When they're parents come in they have nothing to say I'm giving up on this lost cause today I'm not going into work today I can not go into work today Where the employees could care less but still try their best And the boss act like two year old Where we get bi weekly pay and everyday is slow And the pizza in the case is cold I'm giving in my two weeks notice and going on my way There is nothing that can make me go to that godforsaken pizzeria today
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As a silly  spoilt child Disgruntled I grumble Throughout my blessed life Complaining about my loss That God does not give a toss But abundantly  in my life Scattered in my garden Live deep hidden forests Sacred special spaces Forgotten mossy places Things I can not see   In my soft mossy pastures I am drawn into sound Soft rich earthy ground My meddling hands resigning And my heart softening To the treasures God is bringing As a child I am sometimes still screaming for what I am not receiving   Even though chosen But my loving Father Always refusing to serve me poison But he keeps on giving Life's unexpected gifts Full of presents and parcels An unknown cultivated Karma A forgotten ignored pleasure Actually look at all the treasure Everyday a Christmas tree If I could only look and see So in my adult days I learn to look on In different ways With a mossy heart I nourished and softening receiving parcels tenderly passed down from heaven
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 10:12 PM UTC
MOSS
Words by: Willyam Pax Music by: Daisie Partido Vergara How far would I go to love you? How many times would I dive in River Bayou. Loving you this way seems isn't enough I longed for you to give me a chance, ohh... Would my love be enough for you? Or you'll disregard me for what I have at hand? Would you leave me in shades of black or blue. My love is bare because I care, my love Refrain: Would you give me a little bit of love in advance? Would you give me a chance to see you stay. So much as I breathe your essence like air I was so tired even though I tried my very best Sometimes I feel like giving-up, But resigning wouldn't do anything to stop This heart that beats only for you somehow ask How far would I go to love you? I know I don't have everything For I survive with just some little things, Enough for me to live this kind of life And even my choices are full of strife Refrain: Would you give me a little bit of love in advance? Would you give me a chance to see you stay. So much as I breathe your essence like air I was so tired even though I tried my very best Sometimes I feel like giving-up, But resigning wouldn't do anything to stop This heart that beats only for you somehow ask How far would I go to love you? Original poem: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/willyampax/1346413/"> How far would I go to love you?
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 5:27 PM UTC
HOW FAR WOULD I GO TO LOVE YOU(A song)
They say it's a free world and I have the freedom to speak my mind. I see people on television recanting their lines, reporter's at the door and offenders peeping through the blinds. If speech is free then why do I have to pay? When someone takes offense to the words I say. Now this doesn't sound like freedom to me....more like selective or should I say controlled shutting my voice down like a person on hold.... When I say what I feel, it becomes a problem. Funny thing is......resigning or being fired appears to solve them. Why is it insubordination when i'm using my right that is freely given.....not by man, but the One who has risen. Although, they are free to say whatever they please..... meanwhile...am I really supposed to smile and say "cheese?" ......when I feel like spewing a few obscenities. I've been given a write up and I have a meeting with H.R..... They are only referred to by letters because no one knows who they are. My Facebook has offended many and my Twitter too.....let's not mention Tumblr ....that's a bit much to chew... Where the Hell is the freedom of speech I'm entitled to? No freedom online, offline, not even while I'm standing in line. Some female telling me off because I said something about her behind. She was fine, but had on see through .....I'm checking her out...because you know how guys do. Now my freedom of speech is put on delay, because I can't express what my mind really wants to say: Lovely lady your looking good with more cake than a baker, skin brown like bronze....precious for sure....I don't mind your company...I'm not expecting anything more. You display a touch of cool....thumbs up like the Fonz..... I want to take you home and shine you up like chrome. I'm on my Macaulay Caulkin....I have you home alone. The teller says "Hello sir and is that all?" snapped out of my fantasy and sadly disgusted. When they say freedom of speech those words can't be trusted. I've learned that nothing is free when it comes to man....although freedom can be purchased, so allow the money to secretly fall into my hands. "Freedom of speech.....It's not really free at all."
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 2:21 PM UTC
Freedom of Speech
They say it's a free world and I have the freedom to speak my mind. I see people on television recanting their lines, reporter's at the door and offenders peeping through the blinds. If speech is free then why do I have to pay? When someone takes offense to the words I say. Now this doesn't sound like freedom to me....more like selective or should I say controlled shutting my voice down like a person on hold.... When I say what I feel, it becomes a problem. Funny thing is......resigning or being fired appears to solve them. Why is it insubordination when i'm using my right that is freely given.....not by man, but the One who has risen. Although, they are free to say whatever they please..... meanwhile...am I really supposed to smile and say "cheese?" ......when I feel like spewing a few obscenities. I've been given a write up and I have a meeting with H.R..... They are only referred to by letters because no one knows who they are. My Facebook has offended many and my Twitter too.....let's not mention Tumblr ....that's a bit much to chew... Where the Hell is the freedom of speech I'm entitled to? No freedom online, offline, not even while I'm standing in line. Some female telling me off because I said something about her behind. She was fine, but had on see through .....I'm checking her out...because you know how guys do. Now my freedom of speech is put on delay, because I can't express what my mind really wants to say: Lovely lady your looking good with more cake than a baker, skin brown like bronze....precious for sure....I don't mind your company...I'm not expecting anything more. You display a touch of cool....thumbs up like the Fonz..... I want to take you home and shine you up like chrome. I'm on my Macaulay Caulkin....I have you home alone. The teller says "Hello sir and is that all?" snapped out of my fantasy and sadly disgusted. When they say freedom of speech those words can't be trusted. I've learned that nothing is free when it comes to man....although freedom can be purchased, so allow the money to secretly fall into my hands. "Freedom of speech.....It's not really free at all."
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Does your trust know any boundaries in this seemingly plausible abode of temporal and eclectic uncertainty? I have just satisfied my appetite, yet suffer ambivalence as I contemplate those who surf the waves of marine predictability. I can only present one suggestion: Go to Tradeston and acquire perishable foods in the name of nostalgic self-indulgence. The outer limits of our galaxy recognise multi-directional infinity as the bounce of jazz permeates the atmosphere of resigning perimeters. I have decided to ride the atomic beat and to make something tasty in my adolescent innocence, as we lurch into finality.
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Nov 17, 2013
Nov 17, 2013 at 10:33 PM UTC
A Socio-Cosmological Buffet
I've spent the past decade And then some Drowning. I'm curled fetaly, Cradling the anchor seared Against this inside of my ribs. I've managed to keep my head Above the waves, Even with a tempest Crashing, Beating, Breaking, Forcing It's Way Into My Lungs, If only just barely. There have been so many Failed lifelines, False shore sightings, Ghost ships burning bright on the horizon. But I continue to tread water, Resigning myself to a life of chocking. One day you floated by, Quietly in time with the sunrise, And I felt lighter Simply from your proximity. You stayed a while, And as hours passed I felt myself falling for you. You reached your hand out, Gave me a lifeline, Gave me a handhold With you. Whispered promises In the middle of the night, Hushed attempts to cease my crying, To assure me you wouldn't let me sink, Even as I screamed at you To let me go In the midst of the thrall. I pushed you away, Fervent in the desire To save you, To get you to the eye, So I could drown guiltless. k.f.
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM UTC
There's Comfort in The Bottom of a Swimming Pool
Blossoming jubilee Petals trickle down their symphonies Sharing gold-containing liquids of sweet nutrients Fellow friendly winds carry their children across manmade architecture Hugging onto hoodies and sightseeing before resigning into the soil To patiently grow into personal structures That will repeat the cycle of unified fields of family
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM UTC
Grow
The fear of rejection haunts my taunting soul The eyes of god illuminate through the illusion of hope Silence Misery creeps among the stars Honesty lingers mindlessly around the moon Anxious Reality twists and turns Insecurity starts to flow Outbursts and thoughts dance with one another Thoughts travel From the mind Through the guileless heart Midnight skies thunder in contemplation Omitted while resigning from solitude Lighting beams impressions And strikes unforgettably Remorse Rose are quandary veiled in thorns Glamorized secrets Planted with tulips in the Spring Vibrations spirit forth the branches of trees Fog Masks the anthropomorphic perception Triggers instinct of intuition Rationality halts, wills relish The eyes of god forsake hope Fear taunts thoughts Rejection haunts souls Misfortunes recollect the bitter anima Lightly, the amity surrenders in the panicked streams of night Soundly, Charitably, And Sincerely, Tongue tied she scrupulously riveted Across the room she neglectfully obscured the chair that supported his back Togging on strands of denigrated comfort Grains of sand that endless lay the shore Mindless their eyes gravitated in contact thirty seconds of encrypted reflections Breathless laid rejection She consigned to oblivion Gathered by curiosity he sternly attends the strength “What’s wrong?” Admiration beams from the brims of his eyes Grim of Frustration leak from her ****** expression Hesitated Continuously and distract she roamed away from him his thoughts And admiration Paralyzed by fear Silence drives her composer deeply and thoughtfully she inhaled Breathlessly — “A cup of coffee would sound nice, wouldn’t it?”
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 12:08 PM UTC
five thirty in the morning
The fear of rejection haunts my taunting soul The eyes of god illuminate through the illusion of hope Silence Misery creeps among the stars Honesty lingers mindlessly around the moon Anxious Reality twists and turns Insecurity starts to flow Outbursts and thoughts dance with one another Thoughts travel From the mind Through the guileless heart Midnight skies thunder in contemplation Omitted while resigning from solitude Lighting beams impressions And strikes unforgettably Remorse Rose are quandary veiled in thorns Glamorized secrets Planted with tulips in the Spring Vibrations spirit forth the branches of trees Fog Masks the anthropomorphic perception Triggers instinct of intuition Rationality halts, wills relish The eyes of god forsake hope Fear taunts thoughts Rejection haunts souls Misfortunes recollect the bitter anima Lightly, the amity surrenders in the panicked streams of night Soundly, Charitably, And Sincerely, Tongue tied she scrupulously riveted Across the room she neglectfully obscured the chair that supported his back Togging on strands of denigrated comfort Grains of sand that endless lay the shore Mindless their eyes gravitated in contact thirty seconds of encrypted reflections Breathless laid rejection She consigned to oblivion Gathered by curiosity he sternly attends the strength “What’s wrong?” Admiration beams from the brims of his eyes Grim of Frustration leak from her ****** expression Hesitated Continuously and distract she roamed away from him his thoughts And admiration Paralyzed by fear Silence drives her composer deeply and thoughtfully she inhaled Breathlessly — “A cup of coffee would sound nice, wouldn’t it?”
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petals resigning from a rose turning ground into infinite stretch of liquid sweetness; tub sinking into a pool sinking into a lake sinking into a sea of rose-scented water
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Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018 at 7:39 PM UTC
pink (II)
In moments such as these My skin aches with recollection Of how it was when passions ran high And silence was filled with devious, knowing eyes In moments such as these My mind strains to find a masterpiece Anything that will gather your attention From the mundane distractions its lost within In moments such as these My questions begin in endless ovals Pushing adrenaline and anxiety as I wonder, "Is this really what I'm resigning my youth to?" In moment such as these I lie in silence searching for a revival But now the quiet crushes me And any eye contact is dull, disappointed, and droopy
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 3:16 AM UTC
In Moments Such As These
The Lord knows my needs, my thoughts, my weakness, my strength and even my heart's desire. I only hope he hears my prayers. Through all the troubles and heartaches, betrayals and sorrows...Yes Blessings, more than just a few. After so many years and countless tears...Having abandoned my precious hope, holding just enough rope... Resigning myself to being an Unworthy single man, I set my eyes on him. No longer asking  is it this one? Or her? Just who? Just in time and out of the Blue...the Lord sent me You! His answer to my Prayers.
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:12 AM UTC
Answered
Three shots of Jameson and a few mouthfuls of Publix potato salad in, and I'm ready to write. Or so I thought. And yet, in some sort of cosmic **** somebody with a name out of the past liked a poem on this site. No picture, no poems, no identifying information to speak of. Just a name. I don't even know what I was going to write now. Had some sort of an idea to talk about this job I have and tie that into a metaphor for America, all this very clean plastic and mysterious machines emitting odd beeping noises as I blast Muddy Waters and croone to poor people on the telephone who are far more bewildered than I. But now, oh no, not now. Now I have to reconsider my assumptions, yet again, and this on the heels of finally resigning myself to the demented suspicion that there really is no place for freaks like me who run off of alcohol and a sort of dark throw-back Watergate mentality. But now I have to look up at the tiled ceiling and have a what-the-fuck conversation with the great comedian in the sky....again. I guess that's just the way it is, people coming and going out of life, and me doing everything I can to try and make some kind of sense out of this outrageousness. Ah ***** it, this is the Blues after all, and man oh man, sure makes a good story.
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
A Big Middle Finger From Up In The Sky
create words of worth instead of destruction with your thoughts give your head more room for seeds of hope to bloom and use the dirt they threw to view _new heights of you_ pour your leftover hurt like honey over your cracks see _galaxies of growth_ within the wound-beds you once had when your light is resigning dip into your _waves of abundance_ and spend your time swimming in your sea of silver linings beyond life’s bitter findings we can taste the sweet-embrace of expansion that we’re soon to face by _making space for what’s aligning_
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM UTC
galaxies of growth
Four am. A time…; When the world is complete. Moonlight, now, fades Onto… a new-day’s fog. Salty, …shabby wooden planks; Silent,… serene boardwalk; My delight… Such haze holds the stage; Now, to walk The idles of time. Foggy mist Seeps… onto the rise. Water reaches Then… clings upon moist wet sand. Useless… The struggle; The pull. A resigning white line Bubbles Caressing mist …tingles the flesh. A pervading heart Beats. My… thoughts of you; Such breath gives me Flight. Soothing breeze… lifts tattered wings. To raise above nature’s silent kiss To reach… beyond endless sky. Ascend… above our sea Beloved; Beyond all; Beyond Space; Time; Shadow. To you… Where I fly … free Freedom, Freedom, once more To feel; Oh, my love … to feel Once more. Beauty; Memory; Your arms. The rapture’s of your heart. The touch of your love, The beat …of your heart To fly…, Free, Freedom You Beyond… Reach … Your reach; Your heart; Two hearts Where, No echo… exist. Desire Longing Mist Reaching Reaching Reaching Beyond… But…; Gulls cry! Sunlight Misty fog … burns away Clarity A new day …wakes Once more silence A heart Beats… Alone. Gulls hover … to feast Once more On time’s tide.
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
Widow’s mist
I tasted you the moment we met Our eyes meeting… the tranquil waters of the ocean Our hands touching… strong and worn like the Earth herself Our lips forming words and smiles… a private dance shared between us And then we parted, nothing left but the sweetness to savor You knew nothing, it was my own private taste, my own private moment I was cute, and shy… always “cute” and “shy” You were proud and beautiful… like a mountain that needs nothing more than to be, to display its glory. What hope had I that that single taste would become a feast But I would taste you again, your essence a vivid memory on my tongue And so we did meet again and again, mingling and parting Eyes, hands, lips… all practicing for some other destined occasion And you, becoming a craving, the desired main course for a starving woman After a time, I had lost hope of quenching my thirst of you As your flavor seemed to get lost on my tongue, Nothing more than a vague memory… an aftertaste I began resigning myself to a life of fast food and leftovers Oh, I had tasted… dined… on others But none could compare to your flavor, water to honeyed mead Or perhaps it was your flavor mingled with my own That created some epicurean delight that my senses could not let go of And just as I had reconciled my life to TV dinners and mac and cheese… there you are Eyes, hands, lips, coming to mingle and dance once more Letting me taste you again, and again Floating on my tongue like sweet ambrosia Our meeting, glances and gazes… Our touching, hands, shoulders, backs, thighs… Our dance, the words and smiles, Go late into the night And you remain, the taste becoming an appetizer… a prelude of the dinner yet to come Then a single promise… dance… kiss And as if we had practiced enough, I taste you again… and drink you whole.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 5:22 PM UTC
The Taste
I tasted you the moment we met Our eyes meeting… the tranquil waters of the ocean Our hands touching… strong and worn like the Earth herself Our lips forming words and smiles… a private dance shared between us And then we parted, nothing left but the sweetness to savor You knew nothing, it was my own private taste, my own private moment I was cute, and shy… always “cute” and “shy” You were proud and beautiful… like a mountain that needs nothing more than to be, to display its glory. What hope had I that that single taste would become a feast But I would taste you again, your essence a vivid memory on my tongue And so we did meet again and again, mingling and parting Eyes, hands, lips… all practicing for some other destined occasion And you, becoming a craving, the desired main course for a starving woman After a time, I had lost hope of quenching my thirst of you As your flavor seemed to get lost on my tongue, Nothing more than a vague memory… an aftertaste I began resigning myself to a life of fast food and leftovers Oh, I had tasted… dined… on others But none could compare to your flavor, water to honeyed mead Or perhaps it was your flavor mingled with my own That created some epicurean delight that my senses could not let go of And just as I had reconciled my life to TV dinners and mac and cheese… there you are Eyes, hands, lips, coming to mingle and dance once more Letting me taste you again, and again Floating on my tongue like sweet ambrosia Our meeting, glances and gazes… Our touching, hands, shoulders, backs, thighs… Our dance, the words and smiles, Go late into the night And you remain, the taste becoming an appetizer… a prelude of the dinner yet to come Then a single promise… dance… kiss And as if we had practiced enough, I taste you again… and drink you whole.
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electric — conflated with the doldrum of once ignited feeling on the russet table work and the stringing aroma of flyblown coffee painting the morning something earthenware; i imagine         women lounging and displaying their flamboyant dresses confessing a dull promenade parading their attenuated ***** reveling a queendom on recall and this bane,   merely resolute, gives itself a new meaning as a hand of forgive    men resigning their bags on the corner, grunts, heaves deathly serious disallowing tomorrow's arrival into   a throb of being in place, folding newspapers to a club and smiting fervently along with the endless waiting,       verses lying cold on the froth of the tile and the wind ripening the brew of      contestations — punctuations in their cupboards still and reserved in hermetic    space curating silence, giving dins      their polished ends,    open for all: churlish boys,    naked girls, faith-used women, strife-torn men, usual suspects,      rebels and the overwrought –   never closes like a hand in cold       or a rose, its face occulted by identification sideways torn, inside and out struggling,       scrunched to squint on some pale light through chinks on the battered      wall, sipping coffee,    mmmm, that    morning ripple transcending the          heaviness of the city before me.
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM UTC
Café
I check the clock knowing time,  at least, won't lie— Two hours past 3 And that place down the alley isn’t open The sun shines brighter than ever, The strained pavement is hot and Covered in cigarette butts The garage door is locked  And any sense of sanctuary now locked behind it I turn back, resigning myself to Burying my thoughts alive Deep beneath the workday The time passes, All-too-many pores sweat and my Back hurts like my stomach drops flat I step outside this familiar prison and collapse At the feet of lunar light surrounding me, Bats whirl overhead and My heart races faster and faster Ivory, delicate ivory, Clutching the silly purple sweater That I remember you smiling to see me in Head now down to the floor and This same silly sweater becomes a metaphor  These fabrics of your absence Caress my tired flesh There was a time where I counted Weeks by kisses on the cheek And Not quite butterflies but similar insects, Though they didn’t have wings, Could be felt whirring through my nerve endings, Their presence at the pit of my anxieties, Squirming through the muck But now my feelings fill that space In its current state, damp and muddy Left in the wake of sensations past Something beyond the spoken word Between what is known and unknown A question without an answer, the Suspended seconds before free fall The eye of the hurricane or The voice trapped within a ringing phone Something that exists before it’s realized Chaining two things together Existing only in its own negative space And now A familiar feeling finds me In the midst of my focus fading, Car parked in the same old spot But only now do I realize how foreign this land is, how Impossible it is to reach from where you last smiled at me This silly purple sweater wraps Me tightly with what refuses to exist, I'm drowning in the this feeling of The only time you'll ever hold me These savage fabrics at my lips and throat Smother me with the affection That you never in my half-life will have
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Feb 16, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 at 2:44 AM UTC
half-life
I check the clock knowing time,  at least, won't lie— Two hours past 3 And that place down the alley isn’t open The sun shines brighter than ever, The strained pavement is hot and Covered in cigarette butts The garage door is locked  And any sense of sanctuary now locked behind it I turn back, resigning myself to Burying my thoughts alive Deep beneath the workday The time passes, All-too-many pores sweat and my Back hurts like my stomach drops flat I step outside this familiar prison and collapse At the feet of lunar light surrounding me, Bats whirl overhead and My heart races faster and faster Ivory, delicate ivory, Clutching the silly purple sweater That I remember you smiling to see me in Head now down to the floor and This same silly sweater becomes a metaphor  These fabrics of your absence Caress my tired flesh There was a time where I counted Weeks by kisses on the cheek And Not quite butterflies but similar insects, Though they didn’t have wings, Could be felt whirring through my nerve endings, Their presence at the pit of my anxieties, Squirming through the muck But now my feelings fill that space In its current state, damp and muddy Left in the wake of sensations past Something beyond the spoken word Between what is known and unknown A question without an answer, the Suspended seconds before free fall The eye of the hurricane or The voice trapped within a ringing phone Something that exists before it’s realized Chaining two things together Existing only in its own negative space And now A familiar feeling finds me In the midst of my focus fading, Car parked in the same old spot But only now do I realize how foreign this land is, how Impossible it is to reach from where you last smiled at me This silly purple sweater wraps Me tightly with what refuses to exist, I'm drowning in the this feeling of The only time you'll ever hold me These savage fabrics at my lips and throat Smother me with the affection That you never in my half-life will have
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I drink red wine now by myself but obviously not in the pathetic, lonely sort of way or in the I-have-a-problem way, I promise! I put it in a glass and everything! Just in the unwinding way Sometimes... late at night... It's nice Sometimes... it helps me write... God-awful poems   you know, in the why-can't-I-forget-you way but I only drink in the evening hours and the days aren't so bad and every day I fall more in love with myself honestly, I do. I do! It's just a shame that doesn't make me fall out of love with you And I feel like my poems are never long enough even when my words are dancing in my head and then I get sleepy before they unlock but that could be the fermented grapes or the clock as I continually realize the knock on the door won't be you anymore so there's just me ... and the wine and the whining and resigning   and the pining for what was never mine
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Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017 at 11:49 PM UTC
Maybe Not My Drink