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"shamelessness" poems
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will no longer Find myself in life as in a strange garment Surprised at the earth And the love of one woman And the shamelessness of men As today writing after three days of rain Hearing the wren sing. and the falling cease And bowing not knowing to what
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For the Anniversary of My Death
****** means "sheath". Oh, how tiresomely sexist, this utility. **** is a sharp word, but it will only ***** you if you so insist. And ********** means "to stand in for the Goddess" -- both Mother and ***** Fertility cults of Babylon hailed Ishtar, the young Sophia. In Sumerian times they did call Her Inanna, who shed Her jewels. Solomon the Wise did wed Her in his temple, and wrote Her a Song. At Her temple gates await the harlots, smiling: yours for but a coin. Sacred silver thrown, a rite of passage. Some wait. Some wait longer still. Wisdom works through them. The hierodules of Heaven beckon, honeysweet. "Come to the temple, let us dance the timeless dance, my Lord Dumuzi!" Rosy cheeks and lips, shamelessness in Her power. Passion at its peak. Too **** for words. Men feared Her and wrought cages, misdirected blame. Mary, the chaste one, is an abomination. Half, and the lesser. A neutered Mother with a ****** for swords, a scabbard for men. The Grail was stolen from between Her holy thighs. Paul was such a **** A **** who feared Her, Mystery of Death and Blood. Much more than a sheath.
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 8:44 PM UTC
Sheath
Being silent was best Ham is strong and he threatened me with a fatal accident Then there was a child Oh, my dear husband the tireless naturalist of the fermented juice of sweet grapes His old age has been tarnished by that made-up anecdote which hid the rapes under a moment of shamelessness But the punishment betrays it anyway, the eternal curse from the first scream of the baby, innocent Canaan, my youngest son His generations to generation subjugated and squeezed to death in the purple lowlands
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Jun 19, 2022
Jun 19, 2022 at 3:55 AM UTC
Emzara's complaint
So Im alive, But I died a little inside. Because I am dead And now alive and reborn Into a thousand words never written, I will become no one again. Did you metaphorically cry? Sad as thinking how well You truly knew me? " But we were poets!" And so you live and die by the Stroke of the passionate lie That are the words that well Up inside like a brutal indignity, Outraged at my shamelessness Did I ever truly puncture your heart? I am Ded inside, And I dont know you, But I just love your poetry! So we sever the ties from reality And divorce the facts In a hopeful serenade to the deaf, See how I magnify the ignorance With brazeness? Such splendid grandoisity! And a poem is just a word, There is no poem without action. I am me, No metaphor needed, Just who the hell do you think You are?
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Nov 28, 2015
Nov 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM UTC
Confession of a Narcissistic Sociopath
Cheers to the race that doesn’t have a heart, No reasons, no morals, no souls, no scruples, But piles of lies, tons of deeds, all perfectly unabashed and splendidly aghast. Cheers to their courage to walk unhesitantly in the crowd, To stand with a stride and to converse with a pride, And just in case their secrets revealed, to their dignified admittance clear and loud. Cheers to their score that keep augmenting every day, To their pleasures, to their amusement emerging from despair, To their delight, to their bliss, to their ability to rejoice every time one cries in pain and dismay. Cheers to their shamelessness, cheers to their sins, Cheers to their disrespect for fellow human beings, Cheers to the vanished humanity in their souls, To the way their conscience has drifted in black hole, And cheers to their skill of turning hearts into stones, To their abhorring thoughts and to the way they never atone, Cheers to the way, in this world, they sustain, Cheers to those monsters, cheers to those beasts, cheers to those incredible demons again.
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM UTC
CHEERS TO THE DEMONS
I was never the period to your story.                                 A pause, a storm before your glory.                                    Our part now history,                                                             the ifs to our theory. You’re what a woman should be,                                       No shamelessness, no indecency.                                       But I couldn’t give up my religion.                                       We knew the risk, ‘twas my decision.                                  I’ll forever cherish our time together.                                 The nights, days, drives I’ll remember.                               Months felt like a lifetime with you.                                   A life we both outgrew. What a lucky guy he is. Tying the knot is what you wished. I’m happy for you.   You deserve happiness, it is due. You’ll never get to read this, But if you somehow see this.. I want to say that I’m glad you’re happy. Wish you the best, a life without worry. This is the last poem for and about you. Best wishes! Goodbye and thank you.
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Jul 13, 2022
Jul 13, 2022 at 8:08 AM UTC
Happy for you!
I was never the period to your story.                                 A pause, a storm before your glory.                                    Our part now history,                                                             the ifs to our theory. You’re what a woman should be,                                       No shamelessness, no indecency.                                       But I couldn’t give up my religion.                                       We knew the risk, ‘twas my decision.                                  I’ll forever cherish our time together.                                 The nights, days, drives I’ll remember.                               Months felt like a lifetime with you.                                   A life we both outgrew. What a lucky guy he is. Tying the knot is what you wished. I’m happy for you.   You deserve happiness, it is due. You’ll never get to read this, But if you somehow see this.. I want to say that I’m glad you’re happy. Wish you the best, a life without worry. This is the last poem for and about you. Best wishes! Goodbye and thank you.
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we are the insects trapped inside homemade fly traps glued on at the roof of the mouth underbelly, I run around looking for trouble trailer park princess, bar-fights in every space between my teeth I'm a child of a child I beat my paper wings against the shamelessness Dance like the cigarette breaks are forever Swisher blunts for the forget-me-not flowers inside backseats of cars, cabs, stolen automobiles Revenge, locked jaw police officers like the fathers that never let you hold a gun so you become one Taste blood, tongues, beauty in chaos loose lips, stolen drugstore mascara and no more bruised knees Boys like soft but you're the ******* Armageddon, knuckle-ring gods and all so the men want to be kings and you grow up a feral cat sleeping in twin sized beds with a mouthful of curse words Lord of the flies, lot lizards and truck-stop races gritty bathroom graffiti is the cathedral but prayers never stop Taverns with your name and the angels that spit The television static never ends here, cicadas   Doors with mosquitoes held hostage, home for supper wasted by dessert Down in the dirt, grimy bathtub I unearth all the things I couldn't drink away; all the motel fantasies, cum-stained skirts and the neon lights waiting for the swarm
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 5:36 AM UTC
Beelzebub
The Ummah is sweltering with the heat of sins and immodesty. When will it transfer into an oasis of humanity? When will there be a loving bond like one between the Ansaar and Muhajireen? When shall shamelessness be shunned away?
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 7:07 AM UTC
A Sweltering Ummah
You were that devastating thunderstorm which, was the most beautiful tragedy happened to me we are not together now, as it was never on the cards. nothing is fine and I am worst without you I don't want you anymore (I say) I need you, in every step (I know) You were that endless joy which is now endless pain I tried to forget all the moments spent with you and, ended up in, remembering you all the times those also were tears which never came out from my eyes the pain was also that which I never told. I remember all those dreams which, we wove together they were lovely. I remember the soft touch of your lips, that naïve shamelessness   I remember everything I remember all that happened I remember all the things I remember that rain in which, we got drenched together there was a flame inside us while we were soaked (In the droplets of rain) what was that carelessness, In those moments spend together which passed, yet not passed I remember such evenings (we spent together)   when you slept by my side I kept looking at you, I remember everything I remember all that happened I remember all the things I am that broken glass which never binds
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Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018 at 7:07 AM UTC
BROKEN
you are no one darling i'm lost you are the only one that has my back and you are no one I hear the echoes of all the laughter of these times i forgot to enjoy in every half-step between breath and anxiousness. I know you will remember that i loved you all until it hurt and that helps to alleviate the guilt of making it my aim to miss. I can't help felt, i crash standing up between the spaces of my grace and shamelessness I have left up to my haphazard luck and you are no one a howl in the night maybe you are a ghost that only whispers in my ear when i've lost all sense of self-control and i've become no one you know I know you did it darling i'm drunk and i know you know i'll just forget it because we are no one
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 4:45 AM UTC
ghosts are real.
Your worth is not in other people. It is not when you look most beautiful, or in the thank yous disguised as apologies. Your worth is in the days you pick up the pieces even as they slice your fingers. It is tucked away in poems you'll never share because they are too painful, and smuggled past the battles you win benownst to none. It's in the tiny victories, and the small moments that mean ever so much. Your worth is in the size of your heart whether or not others can expand enough to contain it. It exists in the tears you choose to give the world, for they are gifts of the care you hold within you. Your worth is in the sparkle your eyes hold when nothing can stop you.   It shines in your shamelessness and in your effervescence. For nothing can take away your worth when you are priceless.
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Aug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020 at 10:38 AM UTC
Where it really is
Hurtled through love, Dark, robust, romantic Violent memories Tearing through a moonless night Hooting and growling through a treatise A spiritual rebirth, heaved into heartbreak Ever revving metaphor Shake it Out I am done with my graceless heart, So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and restart Melodrama vastly inflated Turbulent ballads, booming drums The wind chorales howling melodies Hopeless romantic separating rapture from disaster Love is a vast and violent force Overflow of iconoclastic shamelessness Leave my Body Midnight-on-the-moors Oh my love don't forget me
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Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM UTC
Ceremonials
I always new this time would come when we depart our lives as one that smile you wear, is worn out by fear and that says it all but could it be your missing me in all your wildest fantasys and realize its not a dream that i have forgotten you I chose to refuse your memories the residue of this love affair lie strewn across the floor the shamelessness and greed collects in the corners of this room a restless heart will never rest as it looks for new blood for it's life and when the heart stops there is peace
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Jan 27, 2014
Jan 27, 2014 at 8:56 PM UTC
departed love affair
*The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.* Carl Rogers my hands can be so prosaic uninterrupted in the mechanism of gestures mindless, blinded, tired of polishing the edge of the world your hands and their delicate shiver are used to behaving trying to learn how to grasp the meaning, the contours of the void in daylight or why haters hate (was it your fault or theirs?) you are an unfinished landscape of breaking points and hopeless moans, oases of quietness,  turning points and electrical paths, buds of mystery I know nothing about still, there’s something  teasing written in between such is coherence:  a paradox -two interlocking  unwittingly- irrational at one level imaginatively reasonable at another -reality is framed by negotiation with a god of silence- two singularities conversing, filling the air with space   : it is me⁢ is you Like when you erase me perfectly with a blink of an eye tired or cynical with yourself, or when I crush you like a manic avalanche in midsummer day -there is some madness in between- after all shame and shamelessness cannot be understood in binary codes while humility and pride are two faces of the same coin it’s been written  since day one this matching choreography of turmoil inside or just the pursued birth pains of self -switch, twist, push, turn, run, hide, split, break, slip, cut repeat, repeat, repeat – the vertigo of life rhyming imaginary possibilities new gestures, new proportions of light and darkness in the power of my hands in the clarity of your voice we approximate the truth of our last breath grow old in stories within stories within the story we tell ourselves to survive the crack of dawn and so it goes: the hero decrypting sunset deepens the story looking for some freedom to be and I cannot look at you without the sonorous light bearing tenderness within I set you free in my blood without knowing if you stay for today
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
within without
*The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.* Carl Rogers my hands can be so prosaic uninterrupted in the mechanism of gestures mindless, blinded, tired of polishing the edge of the world your hands and their delicate shiver are used to behaving trying to learn how to grasp the meaning, the contours of the void in daylight or why haters hate (was it your fault or theirs?) you are an unfinished landscape of breaking points and hopeless moans, oases of quietness,  turning points and electrical paths, buds of mystery I know nothing about still, there’s something  teasing written in between such is coherence:  a paradox -two interlocking  unwittingly- irrational at one level imaginatively reasonable at another -reality is framed by negotiation with a god of silence- two singularities conversing, filling the air with space   : it is me⁢ is you Like when you erase me perfectly with a blink of an eye tired or cynical with yourself, or when I crush you like a manic avalanche in midsummer day -there is some madness in between- after all shame and shamelessness cannot be understood in binary codes while humility and pride are two faces of the same coin it’s been written  since day one this matching choreography of turmoil inside or just the pursued birth pains of self -switch, twist, push, turn, run, hide, split, break, slip, cut repeat, repeat, repeat – the vertigo of life rhyming imaginary possibilities new gestures, new proportions of light and darkness in the power of my hands in the clarity of your voice we approximate the truth of our last breath grow old in stories within stories within the story we tell ourselves to survive the crack of dawn and so it goes: the hero decrypting sunset deepens the story looking for some freedom to be and I cannot look at you without the sonorous light bearing tenderness within I set you free in my blood without knowing if you stay for today
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We all hide our shamelessness behind curtains, hoping the curtains are never drawn. Lying to passersby, about its lack of importance, but ultimately, We lie to ourselves, because it does matter, the things we do, the things we hide, The lies we tell, the truths we don't.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 3:33 PM UTC
Curtains
tinted poetry poetic in my own utter for trying to grasp something that is close to reaching the sun with my shoulders my heart touched the sun when It encountered your reluctant fire. Nights where I felt as if love would suffocate me with madness that was to good to be true and you held me with the veins of your mind and tugged at me with the strings of your eyes gripping onto you when we would walk let it be that everyone knew that you belonged to my hands and my hands ran over you body just mine you took my blue stones blue stones and set them on fire with your demonic lips of shamelessness given to you by your manhood a kind that was all too good to be true skin full of color that wasn't there when you where born a body composed of pure art and gesture permanently scared your neck sang and your pelvis cracked against my hip when the sand dunes went in too deep the earth eroded and our universe collapsed between our two separate places and after everything was gone dead we breathe in and out so so slowly soft laughter sighs what are you doing tomorrow like questions float in the heavy air around us and all I know for certain is that this will end
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Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010 at 7:51 PM UTC
Blue stones
tinted poetry poetic in my own utter for trying to grasp something that is close to reaching the sun with my shoulders my heart touched the sun when It encountered your reluctant fire. Nights where I felt as if love would suffocate me with madness that was to good to be true and you held me with the veins of your mind and tugged at me with the strings of your eyes gripping onto you when we would walk let it be that everyone knew that you belonged to my hands and my fingerprints ran over you body just mine you took my blue stones blue stones and set them on fire with your demonic lips of shamelessness given to you by your manhood a kind that was all too good to be true skin full of color that wasnt there when you where born a body composed of pure art and gesture permanently scared your neck sang and your pelvis cracked against my hip when the sand dunes went in too deep the earth eroded and our universe collapsed between our two sepearte places and after everything was gone dead we breathe in and out so so slowly soft laughter sighs what are you doing tommorow like questions float in the heavy air around us and all I know for certain is that this will end
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Nov 1, 2010
Nov 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM UTC
Happily ever after.
I want to be everybody's darling Everybody's literary delight I want to be America's sweetheart Like a neon light I want to be a lady Who imprints you like a magnet One in whom once you meet You shall never forget I don't want much, you know But only constant applause Forgive my bold shamelessness For, perhaps, I am love starved
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Mar 11, 2012
Mar 11, 2012 at 1:58 PM UTC
Everybody's Darling
Those magnetic moments leave me clammy with guilt and yet beading with the shame of shamelessness. Can we kiss out the heat between us? as though passion were a black plastic lighter and each kiss burns a "click" of butane, in hot succession until just firefly sparks remain. No this heat is doused with salt water, inciting a satin catharthis.   Unrelenting these fat tears turn the flames to smoke. I am strangled, gasping for a hint of sweet relief and begging for the air I waved off, thinking it had grown stale.
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 11:00 PM UTC
Shame/Shameless
The Non-Subliminal Criminal High Priest of Hypocrisy The Diplomat of Draft Dodgery The Great Example of Paying Test-Takers The Loudmouth of Wealthy Fakery The Main Proof of Miseducation The Nanocrat of Non-Payment Potentate of *********** Sultan of **** Patronage The Grand Poobah of Poopoo The Big Wheel of Blather The Salesman of Bull-puckey High Lama of Skullduggery The Master Purveyor of Inaccuracies The Pride of Misrepresentation The Scion of Misdirection and Nepotism. The Black Knight of Spite. The Grand Lizard of Hate and Bigotry The Fomenter of Torment. The Master of Catastrophe The Master of the Quick Disaster The Worshipper of War by Proxy The Lover of Lies and Liars The Promiser of Pusillanimity The Handmaiden of Bribery The Worshipper of Massive Greed The Purchaser of Fake News The Dandy With Unseen Clothes. The Undead Ghost of the Capitol The Horrible Haunt of the Presidency The Embodiment of Embarrassment. The Shamelessness of Gross Shuckery.
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 6:11 PM UTC
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Death begins the day the newborn cries Not its choice, grew up believing Clinging to futility on death's bed As if another life brings the dead to life Affirmed as gods, life stroked, seduced Painful dissonance yet believing Chance is king but Will supreme Striving to the death for one more chance Failures chastised, pride conceals, boastfully Offering ashes, gods obliged, believing Truly only Money matters, Chance ******* Life ransomed too, not today, surely tomorrow Love or transactional *** legal or not Life's answer or preachers' lies believing Perhaps only masturbatory self love is true Justified indulgence entirely in one's own hands Meaninglessness, life’s honest and brave end Else denial and delusion, make believing This moment till death has despair to work Alas many flail cowardly, ironic futility grasping Will strong, flesh betrays, in hypocrisy Peter wept, shamelessness hardens believing Death discerns not its own stench Life's fragrance repulsive and offends Life imposed freely from the beginning Conned and chose to pay for believing A shadow of what will be but tempted to be And the Accuser justified and God ******
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Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 11:31 PM UTC
Believers
and they write confessional poems, and they're scared when it happens to be too authentic and they never bother personae poetry and a shamelessness about it - as if imitating someone and able to distance yourself from the adequate metaphorical word schizoid - the personae principle of poetry - the poet disguised within many people - and indeed as poetry goes, the crude oiling not represented by stiff-collar fictive outputs of he said, she said, "quote", and the out-of-body experiences - but then, that wouldn't be poetry, would it? what it would be would be jane austen, or anna karenina.
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:00 AM UTC
the personae principle
Oftenly a thought Strikes my mind Its better to be A Pornstar than a Poet really by name or fame! will excel a lot What would I get? Except criticisms & insults! A l'll shamelessness Can bring more prestige-Written on 13.07.2012,Friday
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Jul 15, 2016
Jul 15, 2016 at 2:55 PM UTC
PornstarPoet
Obscure eyes of Shameless sin Subconscious Evolution Stalls again Conjured myths Bringing Hopeless fears Superstition Fallen upon Mindless ears Love in a name War in the same Shamelessness Cannot be Contained Next generation looking for peace Teach them well Or feed the beast ....
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 7:08 AM UTC
TEACH THEM WELL
Darkness, Inflation, Bigotry, Nepotism; Unemployment, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Medical tourism; Miseducation, Ethnic cleansing, Mediocrity, Tribalism; Unease of doing business, Multiple taxation, Weak currency, Egotism; The shamelessness in high places, The sycophancy along those corridors of power, The visible aloofness to pressing needs among the masses, The sheer policy of deliberate regional disempowerment; Everything points to worse times, Only the dead need not worry, For the living, deafening chimes, A worrying state of statelessness.
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Apr 17, 2021
Apr 17, 2021 at 6:09 AM UTC
CON. TEE. NEW. HEAT. HEE!