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"searchlights" poems
With every set, my anxious heart beats with silver Each of the beats, counting away the reign of the sun Before finally taking my shift as guardian of the night sky In my entirety, pulses of incandescent blood does run As the sun leaves, I rise and and take my rightful place I'd find my usual nook on my bed of black Surrounded by familiar friends scattered all over A million jewels spilling out of heaven's sack I'd silently watch the earth, reaching with gentle translucent fingers Silver searchlights scour the lands, I harvest all in view But my beams were never meant for others Do believe that... I've saved them only for you Amongst the sea of hopefuls, I'd always find yours Looking up with my reflection branded into those eyes Let us merge our dreams of mercury and red Rest in the cradle of my light, as I soothe all your cries Dear Moongazer, it's been a few nights now Bound by my predestined orbit, I can't help but turn away Believe that I am resisting with all that I have in me Unseen defiance in this futile fight so that longer I'd stay Several more had passed... I feel the promise of fate encroaching The crushing weight of universe's anvil bearing down Tearing a little at a time, leaving me lesser than whole Now I'm half draped in darkness' gown As the nights go by, I've long been eaten I peer from my side as I float a slim silver crescent The time has arrived, my love, I shall leave you in the company of the stars They will keep you safe even if they seem indifferent Fully turned away, I now see only fresh new hearts They all sing the same but none like you Still I glow to rekindle their hopes and dreams But what I long is for this tour to be through After what seemed like an eternity, I'm coming back round Looking for your beacon as I shine bright and clear Let our entities intertwine as the moon and her gazer *I am your lunar love...                                     and I am here...* .
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Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014 at 1:32 AM UTC
Lunar Love
With every set, my anxious heart beats with silver Each of the beats, counting away the reign of the sun Before finally taking my shift as guardian of the night sky In my entirety, pulses of incandescent blood does run As the sun leaves, I rise and and take my rightful place I'd find my usual nook on my bed of black Surrounded by familiar friends scattered all over A million jewels spilling out of heaven's sack I'd silently watch the earth, reaching with gentle translucent fingers Silver searchlights scour the lands, I harvest all in view But my beams were never meant for others Do believe that... I've saved them only for you Amongst the sea of hopefuls, I'd always find yours Looking up with my reflection branded into those eyes Let us merge our dreams of mercury and red Rest in the cradle of my light, as I soothe all your cries Dear Moongazer, it's been a few nights now Bound by my predestined orbit, I can't help but turn away Believe that I am resisting with all that I have in me Unseen defiance in this futile fight so that longer I'd stay Several more had passed... I feel the promise of fate encroaching The crushing weight of universe's anvil bearing down Tearing a little at a time, leaving me lesser than whole Now I'm half draped in darkness' gown As the nights go by, I've long been eaten I peer from my side as I float a slim silver crescent The time has arrived, my love, I shall leave you in the company of the stars They will keep you safe even if they seem indifferent Fully turned away, I now see only fresh new hearts They all sing the same but none like you Still I glow to rekindle their hopes and dreams But what I long is for this tour to be through After what seemed like an eternity, I'm coming back round Looking for your beacon as I shine bright and clear Let our entities intertwine as the moon and her gazer *I am your lunar love...                                     and I am here...* .
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I’m a Polyglot Polymath, Microphone’s a Polygraph, Manners of a Sociopath-Rhymin’ keeps me on the path, Else I’d be hackin you up like a cannibal, Pullin the Chianti out-serve you up like Hannibal, Words heavier than Elephants invading cross the alps, Under Armour over Body Armour-waistline fulla scalps, From the Belt o’ the Celt o’ the Schizophrenic Sandman, You’re triple teamed by -EC- Raps new Xmen. I broke me chains,some say I went insane, But it’s simple,all I went and did was grow a brain. be the Bane of your life,while Mal plays Dark Knight, A rhyme Super Villain with a verse of Dark Light, The searchlights on-watch the cockroach scatter, We speak Dark Matter while your brain gets battered, batten down the screws-worldviews get skewed, Mal and Sandman's Positively Mental Attitude. It’s the original Irish OG rough rugged and ready, Battling me is futile keep your hands steady, I’m no pacifist,and if you take the **** I’ll clap you with a fist like an obelisk, That’s a grave warning,-global warming, The Dragon of Eire ,skies look stormy… Since cassettes and disks I’ve been spittin **** That makes wannabee’s wanna slit their wrists, The Sandman’s calling,come in and take a mauling, Rappin since clappin one two and yes y’allin, from New Aulins to saint Pauls my kin, Are gathering for the quickenin,pulse races,air thickenin' Highlander in a land cruiser,take your teeth out like a dentist E.C’s BRUISER. batten down the screws-worldviews get skewed, by Mal and Sandmans Positively Mental Attitude.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 1:36 PM UTC
Positively Mental Attitude.
I’m a Polyglot Polymath, Microphone’s a Polygraph, Manners of a Sociopath-Rhymin’ keeps me on the path, Else I’d be hackin you up like a cannibal, Pullin the Chianti out-serve you up like Hannibal, Words heavier than Elephants invading cross the alps, Under Armour over Body Armour-waistline fulla scalps, From the Belt o’ the Celt o’ the Schizophrenic Sandman, You’re triple teamed by -EC- Raps new Xmen. I broke me chains,some say I went insane, But it’s simple,all I went and did was grow a brain. be the Bane of your life,while Mal plays Dark Knight, A rhyme Super Villain with a verse of Dark Light, The searchlights on-watch the cockroach scatter, We speak Dark Matter while your brain gets battered, batten down the screws-worldviews get skewed, Mal and Sandman's Positively Mental Attitude. It’s the original Irish OG rough rugged and ready, Battling me is futile keep your hands steady, I’m no pacifist,and if you take the **** I’ll clap you with a fist like an obelisk, That’s a grave warning,-global warming, The Dragon of Eire ,skies look stormy… Since cassettes and disks I’ve been spittin **** That makes wannabee’s wanna slit their wrists, The Sandman’s calling,come in and take a mauling, Rappin since clappin one two and yes y’allin, from New Aulins to saint Pauls my kin, Are gathering for the quickenin,pulse races,air thickenin' Highlander in a land cruiser,take your teeth out like a dentist E.C’s BRUISER. batten down the screws-worldviews get skewed, by Mal and Sandmans Positively Mental Attitude.
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*Elemental Metamorphosis & Transcendental Milestones, Sempiternal Origamis Of Her Temperamental Clones, Spiraling Perpetuities & Her Sacrosanct Fortitude, Procreating Tipsy Ruptures In Her Permeating Solitude, Perplexed Momentum & Her Outlandish Constellations, Nuclear Decay Of Her Masked Radiations, Verbal Shadows & Her Tranquil Ascendance, Encasing Her Tears In Liquefied Transcendence, Yearning Oddities & Entropic Oceans, Vitalizing Inexorable Emotions Into Phosphorescent Potions, An Hourglass Existence Of Her Fabricated Virility, Dwelling In Quantum Ascents Of Ardent Agility, Silver Ghosts Of Her Prismatic Abyss, Convicting Glass Houses In Her Ecstatic Bliss, Telepathic Shades & Hollow Palisades, Detrimental Novelists On Uncharted Crusades, Pernicious Scars In Her Profound Gaze, Erupting Genesis Inside Her Dimensional Maze, Perplexed Periphery & Digital Fictions, Annexed By Her Hourglass Depictions, Breakdown Sanity & Her Concealed Screams, Lifelike Dewdrops In Her Visionary Dreams, Satellite Searchlights & Love//Less Progenic Mutation, Paralyzed Sunlight Sparking Genetic Alteration, Monochromatic Streams & Cinematic Realms, Static Screams Of Her Toxic Schemes. - 05:43 AM -*
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 11:18 PM UTC
Elemental Metamorphosis & Transcendental Milestones
If you drive down route 235, the lonely parallel line of route 5, running through St. Mary's County, Maryland, between the intersection of Old Three Notch road and St. Andrew's Church road, and the liquor store at the corner of Mattapany-- you must do so with a fat wallet, and a growling stomach, who barks at the flashing signs of the sparkling chain restaurants-- wafting their familiar scents out the windows and onto the busy street. Utterly beleaguered every which way by these olfactory factories, your mouth waters and your wallet lightens as the tantalizing sensations permeate your vehicle. So you cave; another lost soul vacates the street at Restaurant Alley, under the prowling searchlights and the intoxicating smells lingering like a dense fog; You linger in your purgatory with glee. You exit satisfied, patting your abdominous belly and lifting your smiling face to the sky in thanks to the gluttonous gods who rain down these chain restaurants from the heavens. A satisfied sigh seeps out of loose lips, barely hanging on to your fleshy face, so ruddy and fat. You act like your stop was something novel, like it wasn't routine to acquiesce to these temptations; you return to your car to continue your roamings down restaurant alley. Sadly, a full stomach won't stifle a querying nose, and your senses are soon at it again; just as the waiters and waitresses, cooks and busboys-- are back at the window, leaning outside with their clamorings and bustlings and cookings-- You pretend to entertain willpower as your copilot, but even if that were so, your senses would still be at the wheel, with your mind bound and gagged in the trunk. Restaurant Alley goes on for miles and miles and miles, seemingly endless in the permeating fog of burgers and pancakes and pasta and chicken and fries and burgers and soda and ice cream and beer and pasta and wine and America and pancakes and steak and appetizers and desserts and entrees and specials and kids menus and burgers and chicken and pasta and fries and burgers and ice cream and salad and burgers and soda and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat! There's nothing to eat; there's nothing to do but eat in Restaurant Alley, on route 235 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So fasten your seat belt, and loosen your waist belt, and take a doomed trip down the endless roadway-- where you are dragged, shackled to food chains that haul you from the perdition that is the lobby's waiting room to be seated with loved ones at the mercy seat of Ambrosia.
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Mar 5, 2016
Mar 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM UTC
Restaurant Alley
If you drive down route 235, the lonely parallel line of route 5, running through St. Mary's County, Maryland, between the intersection of Old Three Notch road and St. Andrew's Church road, and the liquor store at the corner of Mattapany-- you must do so with a fat wallet, and a growling stomach, who barks at the flashing signs of the sparkling chain restaurants-- wafting their familiar scents out the windows and onto the busy street. Utterly beleaguered every which way by these olfactory factories, your mouth waters and your wallet lightens as the tantalizing sensations permeate your vehicle. So you cave; another lost soul vacates the street at Restaurant Alley, under the prowling searchlights and the intoxicating smells lingering like a dense fog; You linger in your purgatory with glee. You exit satisfied, patting your abdominous belly and lifting your smiling face to the sky in thanks to the gluttonous gods who rain down these chain restaurants from the heavens. A satisfied sigh seeps out of loose lips, barely hanging on to your fleshy face, so ruddy and fat. You act like your stop was something novel, like it wasn't routine to acquiesce to these temptations; you return to your car to continue your roamings down restaurant alley. Sadly, a full stomach won't stifle a querying nose, and your senses are soon at it again; just as the waiters and waitresses, cooks and busboys-- are back at the window, leaning outside with their clamorings and bustlings and cookings-- You pretend to entertain willpower as your copilot, but even if that were so, your senses would still be at the wheel, with your mind bound and gagged in the trunk. Restaurant Alley goes on for miles and miles and miles, seemingly endless in the permeating fog of burgers and pancakes and pasta and chicken and fries and burgers and soda and ice cream and beer and pasta and wine and America and pancakes and steak and appetizers and desserts and entrees and specials and kids menus and burgers and chicken and pasta and fries and burgers and ice cream and salad and burgers and soda and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat! There's nothing to eat; there's nothing to do but eat in Restaurant Alley, on route 235 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So fasten your seat belt, and loosen your waist belt, and take a doomed trip down the endless roadway-- where you are dragged, shackled to food chains that haul you from the perdition that is the lobby's waiting room to be seated with loved ones at the mercy seat of Ambrosia.
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Spirituality without religion, politics without opinion My knowing soul blinks into the ebbing light Outrunning the plodding clockwork: My inner intrepid sprints into the hazy night All at once, the arc slits the velveteen, The searchlights are pounding Their harsh silence crashes in my ears, My beatnik – she’s drowning The magician holds a rope ladder Spun of parotted truths and ink print thoughts: My knowing soul blinks, And stays its lonely course
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 6:24 AM UTC
Wander(lost)
At night, against the pulsing embryonic black which could Squeeze any number of untold horrors from it’s voided heft, There sits a door; bright searchlights unmoving, having forever Ago found and revealed the menacing target of their feverish hunt. The lights, beacons of vision and revelation stay still, Afraid to ever lift their gaze from the door. The door; a crimson sentinel of conformity’s’ demands. A gate To a finite space of infinite secluded terrors. It’s mocking facade, Not the true foundation of the haunting visage, but it’s chosen Illumination against the choking nothingness around it. There is nothing else but it, and if the lights lose Their oppressive gleaming, there will be nothing. Would it not be better for the deep to win the ever waging war Against our struggles to find hints of sight and recognition? If the door were to vanish from the othering out there, then it would be impossible to not turn inward. A forced reflection, a mirror that’s presence is known, existence felt, but is unseen, only available when the absence is absolute. Nonplussed, the bastion remains, a gravity well pulsing In and out the night, as if the darkness centered around Maintaining the illusion of safety from knowing ourselves. Do not be afraid, you will not be forsaken or alone with anything Other than the beating of your quickened pulse, the edges Of your vision shrinking until all that you are Is mirrored in that crimson sentinel.
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Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 at 9:28 PM UTC
Crimson Sentinel
this love is now & new & once again stabbing @ me like durga-like diety with sweet golden daggers an essential togetherness teasing out of these odd surroundings I was listening to Jack Kerouac on the way home in his mad bop rhapsody apocalypse streaming out my speakers while familiar streets crawl past once again I'm thinking as the day old glum spread over me & out to envelop all I see how little different to be watching seeing street signs all opening into cul-de-sacs and open storefronts paraded in the endless traffic flow now bent slow over feeding my cat crab cakes that my mother made myow myow, he goes & I acknowledge myow myow, he goes & I answer what? what in god's name is the matter with you? myow myow his solemn reply licking @ a piece of exposed claw meat nestled among old bits of dry brown kibble how about this soul? how about this life? this sickness? how about this always seeking I? how about he music of my mind in untraceable car rides alone? wherefore to I wander ceaselessly in search of what wonders where I might be born on the road of least descent cat paws, grabs @ bottle caps on grained wood table my media fizzles & searchlights in my window there is something I'm not facing something inescapable, my love like you born of locusts in the dust, my love like you my weary dune-mother how solemn are the tunes that run thy face, o' mother and thy will how broken are the lines upon thine shining brow in bedroom windows open to the world like peace stolen in the sad glance I gaze @ everything stolen is the cup I fill @ leaking kitchen sink pipe strands of scent or bark of neighbor dogs amusing grass flow weather flowers under well I'm never knowing what--I never will no matter, all is well another's all is nothing now where knock goes streaming crashing loud like anvils in the rain it's only me how now, my dear contender? like a shadow fallen into sound how now the planets unwatered? how now the roots are killed? we all inhabit the same fears how rabbit hides his smear to give me a surprise for me, none so dear than the mystery & April dies today
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May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 1:54 AM UTC
This Love
this love is now & new & once again stabbing @ me like durga-like diety with sweet golden daggers an essential togetherness teasing out of these odd surroundings I was listening to Jack Kerouac on the way home in his mad bop rhapsody apocalypse streaming out my speakers while familiar streets crawl past once again I'm thinking as the day old glum spread over me & out to envelop all I see how little different to be watching seeing street signs all opening into cul-de-sacs and open storefronts paraded in the endless traffic flow now bent slow over feeding my cat crab cakes that my mother made myow myow, he goes & I acknowledge myow myow, he goes & I answer what? what in god's name is the matter with you? myow myow his solemn reply licking @ a piece of exposed claw meat nestled among old bits of dry brown kibble how about this soul? how about this life? this sickness? how about this always seeking I? how about he music of my mind in untraceable car rides alone? wherefore to I wander ceaselessly in search of what wonders where I might be born on the road of least descent cat paws, grabs @ bottle caps on grained wood table my media fizzles & searchlights in my window there is something I'm not facing something inescapable, my love like you born of locusts in the dust, my love like you my weary dune-mother how solemn are the tunes that run thy face, o' mother and thy will how broken are the lines upon thine shining brow in bedroom windows open to the world like peace stolen in the sad glance I gaze @ everything stolen is the cup I fill @ leaking kitchen sink pipe strands of scent or bark of neighbor dogs amusing grass flow weather flowers under well I'm never knowing what--I never will no matter, all is well another's all is nothing now where knock goes streaming crashing loud like anvils in the rain it's only me how now, my dear contender? like a shadow fallen into sound how now the planets unwatered? how now the roots are killed? we all inhabit the same fears how rabbit hides his smear to give me a surprise for me, none so dear than the mystery & April dies today
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Just down by the lights at brokenland there is a small patch of wilderness and a park, where three cats roam. The first is white with big splotches of grey as if it built its camouflage betting last winter would never end now an easy spot amongst the hill of green. The second was a dark grey the color of the shade under a pine tree on a partly sunny day or a storm cloud ready to light up the sky. The third was black head to toe, body slim like that of a dancer, and eyes of bright amber that shined like searchlights even with a sky full of clouds. The first I saw on high alert nose up high, ears pointed, standing tall a dog down the hill of unkempt grass it’s owner leashed and in tow. The second I saw on the hunt, weaving in and out of wildflowers leaping and pouncing gracefully, steadily and quickly traversing the hillside. The third I saw leisurely sitting by the road, legs folded underneath it on a rotting log watching traffic like a king on its throne yet in seeming awe of its steady flow. I have seen each cat only once always when I am moving boxes to the new house and I wonder if they have an owner among the white row houses off Little Patuxent.
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 9:39 PM UTC
Little Patuxent Cats
I was born on a Sunday, But this happened on a Thursday I was looking for words So I went for a walk Down to the corner Tonight there would be songs So I said I’d join She spoke soft Quiet I was an orange amongst the apple trees She wore camo pants And you wouldn’t understand Until she got up and sang No-ones fool She was a rebel with a cause A rebel with a mind The words to my Revolution song She was only 17 She put her little hand in mine We’ve been chasing those Quiet wells The mighty ones The evergreen ones With our searchlights Lights that want to push walls with outstretched hands It’s been a global fight, from inside From the dawn and well into the night Looking for peace, for god, for answers, reflections For things that can’t be denied So don’t even try She wore camo pants And you wouldn’t understand Until she got up and sang She was a rebel with a cause A rebel with a mind She was the words to my Revolution song She was only 17 She put her little hand in mine I was born on a Sunday, But his happened on a Thursday
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Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 8:01 PM UTC
Rebel
This floatation device doesn't work so well anymore, not now that night is falling and the chill sets through my marrow. Currents were made to drift, and so they do. In and out the tides swell like lovers falling into and out of bed. All the rocking has made me dizzy, and the seasickness and nausea pools in the water like shark red undercurrents and skies at dawn. The rain is usually an indication that you're entering the eye, where it is calm for seconds, fingertips tingling, twitching, waiting for the explosion that rips the sails from above you, and sends you plunging into an eddy. And when you are tossed overboard, watching your ship thrashed between the waves and weather; waiting for the searchlights; don't set off your flare at the first sign, or you'll lose your S.O.S to the sea.    This floatation device doesn't work so well anymore, not since you left with what's left of my wreckage, and the farther we drift apart, the more I feel like dying.
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Sep 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011 at 1:58 AM UTC
Sailor's Delight
*Through Prismatic Stairways & Monochromatic Sways, Under Cinematic Rays, She Twinkles In Ecstatic Daze, In Her Promiscuous Silence, With Spatial Violence, She Enlivens My Sins In Her Aphrodisiac Vehemence, Her Fake Plastic Smiles, Under The Vienna Skies, In Blank Reflections Under Disguise, With Her Wings Of Destiny, She Sensationalizes, With Her Spectral Prayers & Kryptonite Searchlights, She Rains Her Ethereal Affairs, Painting Satellite Twilights, Her Effervescent Fantasies, Orchestrating Crescent Intimacies, Verses Perpetuating Into Iridescent Complexities, A Stellar Starlight Dazzling In Stardust, Like An Astral Butterfly She Flounces In Lusts, On Her Audiotronic Escapades, Serenading Under The Symphonic Shades, She Transmutes Into An Iconic Mermaid. - 02:32AM*
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May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017 at 5:05 PM UTC
Cinematic Rays & Ecstatic Daze
*Sapphire Eyes Of An Astral Mermaid, Perpetual Eternities & Her Sundrenched Serenades, Myriad Odysseys & Spellbound Fairytales, Veiled In Elysian Elegance Of Her Harmonious Tales, ****** Landscapes & Electric Fire, Stellar Cloudscapes Of Her Ecstatic Desires, Spatial Matrix Of An Emerald Queen, An Ethereal Butterfly Perpetually Serene, Colored Screenshots & Blue Moon Foundations, Wrecking Overdose Of Her Summer Seductions, Synthetic Transformations Of Her Sun Caged Maze, Interstellar Canvas Painted In Her Galactic Sage, Searchlights Trapped In Her Floral Vortex, Eternal Burns Streaming Spectral *** Supernova Charades & Her Uncharted Palisades, Dewdrops Verses Drenched In Her Toxic Shades, Restrained Insanity & Crystal Heartbeats Stained Perspectives Of Her Intimate Deceits, Phantasmal Radiance To Her Billion Dreams, Enigmatic Raves Blossoming Into Epiphanic Realms. - 05:47 AM -*
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Apr 10, 2017
Apr 10, 2017 at 8:32 PM UTC
Princesse Du Soleil
The national pride is nullified by the constant buzz of shores being broken down and beaten with patrol boats scouring the waves for lame boats carrying malnourished passengers to a land of plenty. With searchlights and stern rugged faces blue uniformed and well fed, border patrol scout out the weary travellers braving the high seas and sharks to find a safe heaven in some hidden cove. Pest control is serious business. Unlucky to be caught and housed in centres with rationed food and worn clothes herded into bare camps, often deported back to home turf, the pest control cycle continues. Take heed. A nation is built on pests., working hard, saving every cent, running against the clock, against government agencies, starved and poor, defeated in justice, welfare, community, papers, education and livelihood, slinking through alleyways of paper networks, low paid, often beaten and bruised packed in housing crates, stacked storeys high, nation building begins at the journeys first step away from regimes too busy amassing wealth and wonder for themselves. Nation builders are the pests you want. The pests you spend your money to keep away from your own backyard for a vote for safety. Pin up a country that did not grow without these masses of refuge pests? Not one. Author Notes Migrants are nation builders. Check it out. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 2:53 AM UTC
Pest Control.
Spaceships flying eternally, beauty lost within our sleep's breadth. Never room, out in to night. With you, machine glow diving Searchlights clean the monsters. This is a light shower. Man is kind, mankind. Indigo stained glass cathedral dreamscape, lovely. The girl is trembling by your side what we should not know calmness asked by those whose light shines beyond the cold dark rocks, deeper still, bells toll underwater, asking, begging Mastodons in the distance? Year zero. Year zilch. Yearly the funds caress my alpine ******* as the budget increases. We dream of drains and hairy ones at that. Massive ketamine high bulges footsteps in the distance.
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Jul 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 at 1:59 AM UTC
whatever you want
Strobe-lights flashing rhythmic patterns; alternating red and blue. Searchlights arcing across the earth; they will find you.
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Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014 at 3:19 PM UTC
Parannoyed
Redolence by Michael R. Burch Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; and night bends near, a deepening shade of gray; the bass concerto of a bullfrog fills what silence there once was; globed searchlights play. Green hanging ferns adorn dark window sills, all drooping fronds, awaiting morning’s flares; mosquitoes whine; the lissome moth again flits like a veiled oud-dancer, and endures the fumblings of night’s enervate gray rain. And now the pact of night is made complete; the air is fresh and cool, washed of the grime of the city’s ashen breath; and, for a time, the fragrance of her clings, obscure and sweet. Published by Poetry Magazine, Poetic Reflections, The New Formalist, Carnelian, Little Brown Poetry, Poetic Ponderings, Poem Kingdom, Net Poetry and Art Competition, The Best of the Eclectic Muse 1989-2003, Romantics Quarterly, Sonnetto Poesia, Poetry Life & Times and Trinacria Keywords/Tags: Sonnet, night, darkness, violet, hills, rain, fresh, cleansing, fragrance, perfume, clings, clinging, obscure, sweet, concerto, dance, dancer
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Mar 16, 2020
Mar 16, 2020 at 11:16 PM UTC
Redolence
Heat Lightening by Michael R. Burch Each night beneath the elms, we never knew which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance, then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . . Quiescent unions . . . thoughts of bliss, of hope . . . long-dreamt appearances of wished-on stars . . . like childhood’s long-occluded, nebulous slow drift of half-formed visions . . . slip and bra . . . Wan moonlight traced your features, perilous, in danger of extinction, should your hair fall softly on my eyes, or should a kiss cause them to close, or should my fingers dare to leave off childhood for some new design of whiter lace, of flesh incarnadine. NOTE: The title is not a typo but a double entendre. Keywords/Tags: sonnet, rhyme, love, lust, desire, *** petting, necking, parking, date, dating, lovers' lane
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Oct 24, 2020
Oct 24, 2020 at 8:34 PM UTC
Heat Lightening
Johnson, go ahead and holster your weapon: The threat here is long gone. My body used to be a temple, Now it's more like a time bomb. My words are honest outbreaks, ...My list of fears is long. And after-hours of outtakes Lead me to this song... There are days when I want to be you Days when I don't want to be, there are Long nights of lonely reminders Of what you mean to me. There are times when I freeze myself to the bed-frame And convince myself I'm free And sometimes it seems convincing: The idea of you leaving. No. This is not the end, I fear, my love. No. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Yes. And when the tears begin to pile up. I will give you this friendly reminder: I've dropped all sorts of crutches, I've had all sorts of dreams I've felt the tension in you when you resented me. Threw my brain at all my problems and now I'm truly free. Free to be alone when I don't want to be: I painted this for you. I painted this for me. This glass is like a mirror defining unity. No more shaking heads, just laughing silently... I won't put out these searchlights. I love you, still, Dear, E.
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Jun 16, 2011
Jun 16, 2011 at 6:56 PM UTC
Post-Script 2
*Darling, My heart beats for you Like the fists of Policemen outside our door. They have the Building surrounded, Much like our love In the winter air. They're in search For the fugitive Who stole your heart Held up for ransom. Honestly, you still shine Brighter than every Beam of searchlights Peeking through the blinds. But i'm not just a thief Lying through his teeth, So don't let me breathe The fume that you leave me To believe is your love. Just hear me out, Before the men in blue Place me in the black and white With those silver bracelets; I plead guilty of theft, So let us **** The time that we have left With one last kiss Before we're split apart, Because My love for you Is a crime that I'm willing to commit.* - (A.F)
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 4:46 AM UTC
Lovely Words In A Life Sentence
These buildings have fallen. This earth is rotten. Dust devils are really it, Just a long, deserted highway... Tumbling. I miss everything we did, the way we held hands And clasped legs And lie there as if we had been married for years (when I had known you for weeks) Covered by our safe and stable concrete Between deep breaths. Biding our time before we go back out onto the grass The only grass in the entire world. We will make fireworks and nuclear explosions For generations to come No one will remember our faces after this. It's perfect. How I wish you and I could simply fall in love. Could be pure, could be simple again. Could love the skin, the subtlety, the grace Between stepping closer and closer Trying to delay the touch, delay the kiss. Then the dance, where our bodies become one. Let these god forsaken people never, ever know That these bombs fell for us. Take these pleasures to the grave. Curse the day the people know we set off these fireworks. But if you ever need a lover, and if you are still Out There... in this Wasteland... These searchlights in the sky are for you. Love, R.
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM UTC
Dear, E.
Jimi moans and wails, the door crashes as dad arrives all anger & growls, I look up all a might stunned beneath the grinning & rolling, oh dad you made it, & I love you y'know. my eyes like dark voids ... searchlights, his face ... bewildered.
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Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 1:59 PM UTC
Hendrix at 1 a.m.
I no longer wear hats or drink from cups the eyes of cats are searchlights and curiosity is killing us
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 7:04 PM UTC
Stealthy Moods
All about the geometry, getting tangled in her sorcery when the Angels want you too. Muse. And I use Chanel to attract, my lips are dry and cracked so I ladle on some balm, calm? nope, but I live in hope as most of us do. The low down on the cosine is a sign for me to come up and see her sometime and I've heard that one before. These are the searchlights. Flares that bring night down and candles to warm Saki. Back at the Inn Ingrid deigns to let me enter and pin my colours to her mast, happiness. That's all a man can ask unless he's an absolute cad and although I'm a bounder I've never been that bad. At Andrews, we are back to the base counting to ten with mud on my face, flying to Dallas and all of us laugh wildly at the child that's inside of me, but I know he left years ago and is still on the way.
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 5:03 PM UTC
All roads remember
Like searchlights in skies,those pretty blue eyes make my days come alive I arrive at confusion when putting my shoes on to go out and play wondering if I should stay with you spend the whole day in wandering through with you the wonder I see in you. I have the recipe but she makes the dish I wish I wished and my wishes came true if you wished hard too it could happen to you.
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Nov 28, 2013
Nov 28, 2013 at 5:20 AM UTC
Unrestricted
True decadence envelops me (No) Need to breathe Floating on pillow seas (No) Need to dream Searchlights flash on, scanning For the evidence That this is real Thoughts all scattered, brain Tangled in labyrinths This I feel Swept away from the sands Of experience, into new bliss Falling down from the tower I have built, just to start again On something more beautiful Grandiose gleaming heart We create our own constellations Spirits drawn into the clouds Bodies burst from the pressure Gravity pulls the particles Stardust becomes marvelous All is filled with light The heavens birth delight
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC
Birth Of A Star