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"shuddering" poems
This is how it goes your hands will be proxy for mine my hands will be proxy for yours your fingers my fingers and my fingers yours what I describe, you enact told in detail so exact Just to begin I squeeze your ******* knead and pinch tweak a ****** give it a tug Stroke your tummy work over your thighs move up the inner where skin is smooth circle around, moving in till soft contours are caressed through pants that burn to be removed that pain you to wear and I see in my mind as you describe the spreading, darkening patch that fills the gusset Now they're pulled down removed quickly, completely and you are revealed spread, opened, shameless Gentle fingertips tease dance in circles, barely touching yet the fire within grows back and forth, round and round dance the fingertips as both reciprocate with growing pace and firmer touch I hear you gasp down the line and your breathing quickens as you hear mine as your excitement fuels mine as mine fuels yours in our feedback loop of lust And I tell you how my fingertip would give way to tonguetip if I could that I can taste you in my imagination fragrant, salty sweetness with musky undertones the tip of my tongue now circling then flicking back and forth beating out the rhythm that you best harmonise with bringing forth your moans Then darting down, back between wet, glistening folds exploring each ridge and valley working remorselessly Breathing faster now with animal grunts and moans directions of pleasure gasped breathless down the phone As fingers again take the lead find the opening slip readily within probe, explore, **** find that place on your front wall yes, just that spot that's a little rougher and feels sooo goood Add a second finger working and ******* licking and rubbing moaning and gasping barely intelligible now ...yess...more...yess...ohhh are all that have meaning Finger three joins one and two then the pressure builds demanding release and shaking and thrusting grows to shuddering and...yes...yesss...sooo clooose ******* faster furiously till we both explode hearing each other's voicing of our ecstasy in language intelligible only in this one context Brains and voices return as we bask in the afterglow and what passes between us then in those moments is the deepest intimacy of all Cynthia Pauline Jones 01/02/2014
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 7:31 AM UTC
Phone ***
This is how it goes your hands will be proxy for mine my hands will be proxy for yours your fingers my fingers and my fingers yours what I describe, you enact told in detail so exact Just to begin I squeeze your ******* knead and pinch tweak a ****** give it a tug Stroke your tummy work over your thighs move up the inner where skin is smooth circle around, moving in till soft contours are caressed through pants that burn to be removed that pain you to wear and I see in my mind as you describe the spreading, darkening patch that fills the gusset Now they're pulled down removed quickly, completely and you are revealed spread, opened, shameless Gentle fingertips tease dance in circles, barely touching yet the fire within grows back and forth, round and round dance the fingertips as both reciprocate with growing pace and firmer touch I hear you gasp down the line and your breathing quickens as you hear mine as your excitement fuels mine as mine fuels yours in our feedback loop of lust And I tell you how my fingertip would give way to tonguetip if I could that I can taste you in my imagination fragrant, salty sweetness with musky undertones the tip of my tongue now circling then flicking back and forth beating out the rhythm that you best harmonise with bringing forth your moans Then darting down, back between wet, glistening folds exploring each ridge and valley working remorselessly Breathing faster now with animal grunts and moans directions of pleasure gasped breathless down the phone As fingers again take the lead find the opening slip readily within probe, explore, **** find that place on your front wall yes, just that spot that's a little rougher and feels sooo goood Add a second finger working and ******* licking and rubbing moaning and gasping barely intelligible now ...yess...more...yess...ohhh are all that have meaning Finger three joins one and two then the pressure builds demanding release and shaking and thrusting grows to shuddering and...yes...yesss...sooo clooose ******* faster furiously till we both explode hearing each other's voicing of our ecstasy in language intelligible only in this one context Brains and voices return as we bask in the afterglow and what passes between us then in those moments is the deepest intimacy of all Cynthia Pauline Jones 01/02/2014
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They cut it down, and where the pitch-black aisles Of forest night had hid eternal things, They scaled the sky with towers and marble piles To make a city for their revellings. White and amazing to the lands around That wondrous wealth of domes and turrets rose; Crystal and ivory, sublimely crowned With pinnacles that bore unmelting snows. And through its halls the pipe and sistrum rang, While wine and riot brought their scarlet stains; Never a voice of elder marvels sang, Nor any eye called up the hills and plains. Thus down the years, till on one purple night A drunken minstrel in his careless verse Spoke the vile words that should not see the light, And stirred the shadows of an ancient curse. Forests may fall, but not the dusk they shield; So on the spot where that proud city stood, The shuddering dawn no single stone revealed, But fled the blackness of a primal wood.
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The Wood
stranded in the beauty of her throat shunted her preference a short drop in a bulwark twisting knot a hanged ghastly pendent her feet arching desperately in search of a floor they will never find obedient! yet her face a hideous insubordination she dissolves like tropical butter a screaming silence a falling prayer shuddering with downward sloping limbs she blue hemorrhaging eyes wobbled bulging to break into paradise tumbling like a dizzied cyclops as numb lipped jutting howls turn cement always willing to help he scums for her in pulsing heaves of beatific gush
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
Stranded
worldly belongings paper pencils pillows pretzels bedtime things blankets pillows secrets sighs shuddering words chill moist blossom cinder seashell emptiness can you hear the ocean?
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Dec 31, 2011
Dec 31, 2011 at 11:27 PM UTC
Conversation
“what are your special skills?” well— lately i have mastered the art of silent tears and wordless crying, shuddering breaths instead of wracking sobs. my eyes don’t even get red. if i do it right, i have the exclusive ability to break down in a full room without anyone noticing. also, i can brush my weak gums in front of the mirror and watch blood drip onto my uneven teeth without flinching. last, i can give the best i have every time and still my brain can convince me— worthless.
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Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 2:23 AM UTC
talents
On the bank of a rushing brook I sat for hours watching its course. Peered into the clear gurgling mass That cascaded down from a mountainous source Like a slithering snake, it slinks and slips It babbles downhill night and day Rolling and gliding through plains and dales It winds its way to the wider bay. Dipping my fingers in its icy chill How my hand got repelled as from a shock! In its ripples stirred by the kissing breeze, I saw trees, clouds and the jutting rock- All floating in queer, fanciful shapes, Shuddering, trembling and standing still And the fishes leaving zigzag trails, Swishing and swimming in the winding rill. As I quietly watched her speedy flight With her ***** rising in mournful heaves, In my ears fell her whispering soft Orchestrated by the rustle of quivering leaves I hardly knew the time speeding by Nor noticed the birds’ homeward flight Or the Sun moving to the west end side And the Sky reddening at his sight As the brook thus continued her headlong ride To be mingled finally with the ocean wide I walked, brooding over man’s relentless stride To be merged eventually with the Cosmic Guide.
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May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM UTC
By the Side of a Brook
how sad to be misunderstood to be evicted from life to have the full tenure of a torrid human existence gesture horribly at you in faultless reputation like that of a rancid rage over a lost trinket or to be quarantined while fingerless skin scolds and noiseless voices are raised in a donated generosity of savage ignorance striving to make copious amends in vain efforts to regrettable slow acting poison that boils the mind oh how sad to be misunderstood such varicose viciousness oh it’s sad quite sad to be misunderstood to live through and inoculated hour glass giving limitless time to a wildfire of idiocy and when your breath speaks they laugh black laughter that shatters wet umbilical truths shudders knowledge gestures to smoking nostrils oh how sad, how sad it is to be misunderstood to be drenched in the rain but not get wet in which antiquity rests with its mythologised stupendous ill effects getting vivid shadows massed all around oh how sad it is to be misunderstood until dactylic, hexameter, elegance completes and slithering syllables by their antiquity focus a shuddering shriek that sends an exploding heart through your chest
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 4:56 PM UTC
how sad to be misunderstood
It’s early Friday afternoon and, over plates of greasy spoon dinner, the musician and the businessman repeat their weekly ritual. The businessman has his problems at home and spills his guts to his musician friend. “It’s been a real long time coming, but she’s still been such a bitter ***** They’ve met this way since their college days and nights spent studying the bottoms of whiskey bottles. And, as usual, the businessman’s hair sits sprawled on his head like a rag, and his tie is loosened. The musician doesn’t understand divorce: “You look like hell. You know, if you need a place to stay, Helen and I and the boy can always make some room for you.” They light a pair of cigarettes and wait for a waitress to kick them out. Into the haze of a Lower East Side crowd the musician and his band play his newest pieces, riffs on the happy swagger of the Duke. His critics— and he has many— write that his jazz sings the inescapable *********** of suffering through the life of every oblivious body, which makes the musician’s music sound more like the blues than jazz. But it’s jazz all the same and perhaps it was the intensity of the growling bass that shot spirits down the throats in the audience, reeling drunk in time to the beat of the musical suffering. The weekdays die and it is Friday again. He has a big view of midtown, the businessman, and though the window the falling sun horizons over his socked toes, parked on his desk in triumph over all those stockholders. It’s a pain to lose your family, but the businessman puts on a good face, and drinks. This Friday, the musician and the businessman are not in the mood for talking. But a scotch thrown down, and the two are tighter than thieves. The businessman complains of life at home and the musician’s eyes cross. That night, the musician skips his performance. His wife cries in their bed, shuddering with worry and asking him what makes him so distant? she asks— it’s a mystery even to himself. He is sweating whiskey— which suits him fine— and he spends his night on the bridge. One week later and it is Friday, finally. Today, the businessman will see his children at his former home for the last time for a handful of months at best. The musician has not been home for three days. He stays at a friend’s apartment, puts on his ***** blazer and a record of the Duke’s before he throws himself down the airshaft. The businessman jumps on the 5:44 out of town and calls his friend the musician to cancel their usual Friday meeting, but his phone keeps ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing.
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Apr 12, 2010
Apr 12, 2010 at 10:01 PM UTC
The Musician and the Businessman
It’s early Friday afternoon and, over plates of greasy spoon dinner, the musician and the businessman repeat their weekly ritual. The businessman has his problems at home and spills his guts to his musician friend. “It’s been a real long time coming, but she’s still been such a bitter ***** They’ve met this way since their college days and nights spent studying the bottoms of whiskey bottles. And, as usual, the businessman’s hair sits sprawled on his head like a rag, and his tie is loosened. The musician doesn’t understand divorce: “You look like hell. You know, if you need a place to stay, Helen and I and the boy can always make some room for you.” They light a pair of cigarettes and wait for a waitress to kick them out. Into the haze of a Lower East Side crowd the musician and his band play his newest pieces, riffs on the happy swagger of the Duke. His critics— and he has many— write that his jazz sings the inescapable *********** of suffering through the life of every oblivious body, which makes the musician’s music sound more like the blues than jazz. But it’s jazz all the same and perhaps it was the intensity of the growling bass that shot spirits down the throats in the audience, reeling drunk in time to the beat of the musical suffering. The weekdays die and it is Friday again. He has a big view of midtown, the businessman, and though the window the falling sun horizons over his socked toes, parked on his desk in triumph over all those stockholders. It’s a pain to lose your family, but the businessman puts on a good face, and drinks. This Friday, the musician and the businessman are not in the mood for talking. But a scotch thrown down, and the two are tighter than thieves. The businessman complains of life at home and the musician’s eyes cross. That night, the musician skips his performance. His wife cries in their bed, shuddering with worry and asking him what makes him so distant? she asks— it’s a mystery even to himself. He is sweating whiskey— which suits him fine— and he spends his night on the bridge. One week later and it is Friday, finally. Today, the businessman will see his children at his former home for the last time for a handful of months at best. The musician has not been home for three days. He stays at a friend’s apartment, puts on his ***** blazer and a record of the Duke’s before he throws himself down the airshaft. The businessman jumps on the 5:44 out of town and calls his friend the musician to cancel their usual Friday meeting, but his phone keeps ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing.
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The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering gale, A spill of molten ice, smoking snow, Pours into its steel. At white heat of numbness it stands In the aimed hosing of ground-level fieriness. It defied flesh and won't start. Hands are like wounds already Inside armour gloves, and feet are unbelievable As if the toe-nails were all just torn off. I stare at it in hatred. Beyond it The copse hisses - capitulates miserably In the fleeing, failing light. Starlings, A dirtier sleetier snow, blow smokily, unendingly, over Towards plantations Eastward. All the time the tractor is sinking Through the degrees, deepening Into its hell of ice. The starting lever Cracks its action, like a snapping knuckle. The battery is alive - but like a lamb Trying to nudge its solid-frozen mother - While the seat claims my buttock-bones, bites With the space-cold of earth, which it has joined In one solid lump. I squirt commercial sure-fire Down the black throat - it just coughs. It ridicules me - a trap of iron stupidity I've stepped into. I drive the battery As if I were hammering and hammering The frozen arrangement to pieces with a hammer And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly Into happy life. And stands Shuddering itself full of heat, seeming to enlarge slowly Like a demon demonstrating A more-than-usually-complete materialization - Suddenly it jerks from its solidarity With the concrete, and lurches towards a stanchion Bursting with superhuman well-being and abandon Shouting Where Where? Worse iron is waiting. Power-lift kneels Levers awake imprisoned deadweight, Shackle-pins bedded in cast-iron cow-shit. The blind and vibrating condemned obedience Of iron to the cruelty of iron, Wheels screeched out of their night-locks - Fingers Among the tormented Tonnage and burning of iron Eyes Weeping in the wind of chloroform And the tractor, streaming with sweat, Raging and trembling and rejoicing.
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Tractor
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering gale, A spill of molten ice, smoking snow, Pours into its steel. At white heat of numbness it stands In the aimed hosing of ground-level fieriness. It defied flesh and won't start. Hands are like wounds already Inside armour gloves, and feet are unbelievable As if the toe-nails were all just torn off. I stare at it in hatred. Beyond it The copse hisses - capitulates miserably In the fleeing, failing light. Starlings, A dirtier sleetier snow, blow smokily, unendingly, over Towards plantations Eastward. All the time the tractor is sinking Through the degrees, deepening Into its hell of ice. The starting lever Cracks its action, like a snapping knuckle. The battery is alive - but like a lamb Trying to nudge its solid-frozen mother - While the seat claims my buttock-bones, bites With the space-cold of earth, which it has joined In one solid lump. I squirt commercial sure-fire Down the black throat - it just coughs. It ridicules me - a trap of iron stupidity I've stepped into. I drive the battery As if I were hammering and hammering The frozen arrangement to pieces with a hammer And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly Into happy life. And stands Shuddering itself full of heat, seeming to enlarge slowly Like a demon demonstrating A more-than-usually-complete materialization - Suddenly it jerks from its solidarity With the concrete, and lurches towards a stanchion Bursting with superhuman well-being and abandon Shouting Where Where? Worse iron is waiting. Power-lift kneels Levers awake imprisoned deadweight, Shackle-pins bedded in cast-iron cow-shit. The blind and vibrating condemned obedience Of iron to the cruelty of iron, Wheels screeched out of their night-locks - Fingers Among the tormented Tonnage and burning of iron Eyes Weeping in the wind of chloroform And the tractor, streaming with sweat, Raging and trembling and rejoicing.
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The music drifts my mind away Each beat shuddering through my whole presence Making my heart thump and my blood frantically flow through my veins The city lights hide the dark shadows of the night Bringing warmth and safety to the room Like a big blanket that protects you from the things scaring you People huddle in groups, all enjoying the ebullience in the air Smiles and laughter could be heard from miles away Not a trace of unhappiness on this beautiful night I look around me, my eyes shining as bright as the stars Smiling at the sight surrounding me My stomach fills with butterflies and goosebumps trail my arms and legs And a warm feeling ignites within me This is a night, a moment I’ll never forget.
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Jun 28, 2017
Jun 28, 2017 at 10:38 PM UTC
Moment
. *Links in the chemist chain laced in a double helix defy the laws of the universe, and the atavistic resurgence creates isotopes of dream passion.      Elements conspire in panic      with a symmetry of casual chaos      that mimics an atomic bomb,      destroying its own creator      in a cruel parody of birth paradox.           Arresting the Iris of Dissolution           with cuffed anxiety drowning           in a pond of helium ore,           carelessly drifting on acid flesh,           coagulating in a soup of memory.* And the paradigm shifts again, reality unfocussed clears, strains, revealing your shuddering form, next to me, keeping me warm. Lids flicker and you open your eyes, shining, smiling in cute surprise. Moving my finger up to my lips whilst I gently untangle our hips.      *Do you remember this night?      Last night, tonight, tomorrow night?      Time begins to slowly rewind,      on the night you blew my mind.* My essence is filled with your heart, a love I have yet to discover. Whilst you wander between the stars, my universe starts to recover. So please don't break this silence now. Please don't shatter this moment long, I want this post ****** memory to remain in the morning when you have gone. © Pagan Paul (04/11/17)
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Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 7:59 AM UTC
Love Remains Elusive
Shh, listen. Did you hear it? Its disturbing echo inching down your spine. Its chilling breath at the nape of your neck.   Snaking through my mind, creeping in like fog. Seeping through the floor, spilling secrets like blood.   Sounds of a clock muffled by cotton. Cloaked, it hammers growing louder.   Can’t you hear it? The thumping it emits. Shuddering through my frame, suffocation, blame!   It’s growing louder! Uttering secrets only I know. Acute are the senses that hear its woe.   Pounding away all thoughts, persistent, Its haunts. Shattering midnight it stalks, nightmarish pillow talk.   It grows, my skin pales. louder and louder it wales! A dead man’s heart yells, telling its tale.   Say that I am mad, do you? If only you knew, I hear things in hell, it’s true. Don’t you hear it too?
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 4:24 PM UTC
“A sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”
**** men predatory *** hounds chasing skirts and tights aching **** idiots disciples of Eros Christs of fetish reconciling nothing veiling that principled demeanor of feminist culture "of don't objectify me".....translation sensual form is not natures ruse machine Eve must override override override well the id does not negotiate the superstructure of affected political tele-reality starring the liberal chattering class who speculate male motives to be some vainglorious power trip while corporatized media personalities feign out of control lust as a mental disorder and sit up like shuddering Pekingese yessing the lascivious as a fiction no ladies its not just power theories are not testosterone it is pure unadulterated relentless irreducible urge to merge like the beluga **** channel sea world as you've never seen it before where male dolphins batter and gang bang the weaker *** in search of feral harmony in an overbuilt society yet to become a civilization are we scissored between a wild ****** id of the damed and the Victorian sacred of the damed oh you silky damsels makin men moody and humid pure **** heroine a poison ivy of *** like a rash givin men folk the itch cant stop the twitch rubber ******* in a rubbing frenzy from your soaking heat and odor we are  a rumbling of muttering torments for the forbidden taste of you oooow oooow we are pan in a mad dance for glistening shanks and buttery kisses we are the early bird looking for the worm hunters decreed by the liturgy of heaven and hell a constellation of infatuation and lechery mad with adoration love slaves in a raging furnace of desire *** addicts that just say yes turgid dogs hole sniffers voluptuous monsters all johnny apple seed and sometimes your salvation as you are ours knowing that sometimes real eroticism eclipses morality and yes my darlings* NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER
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Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 at 12:55 PM UTC
THE TERROR OF WOMEN
**** men predatory *** hounds chasing skirts and tights aching **** idiots disciples of Eros Christs of fetish reconciling nothing veiling that principled demeanor of feminist culture "of don't objectify me".....translation sensual form is not natures ruse machine Eve must override override override well the id does not negotiate the superstructure of affected political tele-reality starring the liberal chattering class who speculate male motives to be some vainglorious power trip while corporatized media personalities feign out of control lust as a mental disorder and sit up like shuddering Pekingese yessing the lascivious as a fiction no ladies its not just power theories are not testosterone it is pure unadulterated relentless irreducible urge to merge like the beluga **** channel sea world as you've never seen it before where male dolphins batter and gang bang the weaker *** in search of feral harmony in an overbuilt society yet to become a civilization are we scissored between a wild ****** id of the damed and the Victorian sacred of the damed oh you silky damsels makin men moody and humid pure **** heroine a poison ivy of *** like a rash givin men folk the itch cant stop the twitch rubber ******* in a rubbing frenzy from your soaking heat and odor we are  a rumbling of muttering torments for the forbidden taste of you oooow oooow we are pan in a mad dance for glistening shanks and buttery kisses we are the early bird looking for the worm hunters decreed by the liturgy of heaven and hell a constellation of infatuation and lechery mad with adoration love slaves in a raging furnace of desire *** addicts that just say yes turgid dogs hole sniffers voluptuous monsters all johnny apple seed and sometimes your salvation as you are ours knowing that sometimes real eroticism eclipses morality and yes my darlings* NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER NO MAN SHOULD EVER TRANSGRESS ANOTHER
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Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and ***** Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. Shining like the morning star, Like the twilight shining, Haunted by a calendar, Miranda is a-pining. Silly girl, silver girl, Draw the mirror toward you; Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you. Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman? Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then-- How old is Spring, Miranda?
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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't seem to miss him if he stayed away. And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering and aghast, With anguish smarting? And cannot friends be firm and fast, And yet bear parting? And must I then, at Friendship's call, Calmly resign the little all (Trifling, I grant, it is and small) I have of gladness, And lend my being to the thrall Of gloom and sadness? And think you that I should be dumb, And full DOLORUM OMNIUM, Excepting when YOU choose to come And share my dinner? At other times be sour and glum And daily thinner? Must he then only live to weep, Who'd prove his friendship true and deep By day a lonely shadow creep, At night-time languish, Oft raising in his broken sleep The moan of anguish? The lover, if for certain days His fair one be denied his gaze, Sinks not in grief and wild amaze, But, wiser wooer, He spends the time in writing lays, And posts them to her. And if the verse flow free and fast, Till even the poet is aghast, A touching Valentine at last The post shall carry, When thirteen days are gone and past Of February. Farewell, dear friend, and when we meet, In desert waste or crowded street, Perhaps before this week shall fleet, Perhaps to-morrow. I trust to find YOUR heart the seat Of wasting sorrow.
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A Valentine
Straying leaves upon the trees, the lightning thundering free. The light escaped the shuddering shadows, as the only thing that matters is the soft patter. Fleeing free, as swift as light. The shadows seem to gleam throughout the night.
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 10:48 PM UTC
Straying Leaves
Above my home where the dark clouds curl into the sky clinging for a home to rest their sleepy depiction, shadowed trees hum sweet lullabies, lonely leaves breathe in the sad song of fallen dimensions, letting its lifeless view roll upon their frame, the chilled breeze sailing in the skyline, as I scramble my way out of a filthy dumpster, a mountain of disintegrating mess covering my broken body, hovering flies surrounding sticky strips of spaghetti, moldy mashed potatoes, and moldy chicken *** pies, while my mind sunk into traveled thoughts, bruised hands pressed against the creases in my forehead, allowing my existence to feel the stranded scars streaming in various mazes, dull eyes flushed with a burning disorder, aching cheeks and chests nestled in darkening chamber corners, buried hips and thighs uprooting in somber blades of grass, thorned, torn, and destroyed in different worlds.  As I stood on the slippery pavement staring at the ruffled scenery in my sight, spinning streetlights thickening into slouched positions, screaming sidewalks spilling sadness and madness in the drenched air, razor-edged buildings inching into crushed centimeters, jumbled meters, ****** yards.  I replayed the sober images in my head, the way my young brown-skinned mom said I would never amount to anything, how I could hear the raged noun ****** sift into the distance, its flaming mechanics accelerating into screeching sounds, the way she hurled her fists at my smashed face, every vibrant language breaking apart, slamming shut into closed infinites, snagged contractions and gerunds diverging into shuddering double spaced negatives, the way she threw my lingering body inside the trash dumpster, her sharp scarlet words, You are no son of mine, ricocheting off savage surfaces, sparking my soul in a calamity of choking diction.
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 1:04 PM UTC
You Are No Son Of Mine
Above my home where the dark clouds curl into the sky clinging for a home to rest their sleepy depiction, shadowed trees hum sweet lullabies, lonely leaves breathe in the sad song of fallen dimensions, letting its lifeless view roll upon their frame, the chilled breeze sailing in the skyline, as I scramble my way out of a filthy dumpster, a mountain of disintegrating mess covering my broken body, hovering flies surrounding sticky strips of spaghetti, moldy mashed potatoes, and moldy chicken *** pies, while my mind sunk into traveled thoughts, bruised hands pressed against the creases in my forehead, allowing my existence to feel the stranded scars streaming in various mazes, dull eyes flushed with a burning disorder, aching cheeks and chests nestled in darkening chamber corners, buried hips and thighs uprooting in somber blades of grass, thorned, torn, and destroyed in different worlds.  As I stood on the slippery pavement staring at the ruffled scenery in my sight, spinning streetlights thickening into slouched positions, screaming sidewalks spilling sadness and madness in the drenched air, razor-edged buildings inching into crushed centimeters, jumbled meters, ****** yards.  I replayed the sober images in my head, the way my young brown-skinned mom said I would never amount to anything, how I could hear the raged noun ****** sift into the distance, its flaming mechanics accelerating into screeching sounds, the way she hurled her fists at my smashed face, every vibrant language breaking apart, slamming shut into closed infinites, snagged contractions and gerunds diverging into shuddering double spaced negatives, the way she threw my lingering body inside the trash dumpster, her sharp scarlet words, You are no son of mine, ricocheting off savage surfaces, sparking my soul in a calamity of choking diction.
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I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? That long sad monotone - the same - the same - Matching the mute insatiable sea That throbs with life's bewitching agony, Too long to measure and too fierce to tame! An hurtful joy, a fascinating shame Is this great ache that grips the heart of me. Even as a cancer, so this passion gnaws Away my soul, and will not ease its jaws Till I am dead. Then let me die! Who knows But that this corpse committed to the earth May be the occasion of some happier birth? Spring's earliest snowdrop? Summer's latest rose? II Thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth In the white breast that trembled like a flower At thy name whispered. thou hast marked how hour By hour its poison hath dissolved my youth, Half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe This passion ineluctable, this power Slave to its single end, to storm the tower That holdeth thee, who art Authentic Truth. O golden hawk! O lidless eye! Behold How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold! Still I will strive! That thou mayst sweep Swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep - And the unutterable word by spoken.
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The Mantra-Yoga
BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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Clowns' Houses
BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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Tiny buds push up Popping their heads out to ask, "May we come to play?" Louisiana Distinction between seasons Almost unnoticed Perfection now, but mosquitoes will swarm us soon. Spring is oh too short The world is melting Shuddering off her top coat To display her skin Spring-so colorful But you want to know the truth? Winter's more my style.
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 4:14 PM UTC
Spring Haikus
I am lost In the wilderness of my youth I fight with every ounce of my might To keep the dark forest of desires away from haunting me I try to flee To the right path, I see but thorny branches of nightmarish trees grab me so maliciously And reach my heart To pour some venom I sink Into a shuddering oblivion The soulless devil invites me to his enmity I refuse As I hearken the sanity My Lord had provided me And I cling to it like ivy Indeed, My Lord helped me to seek Him Before the devil and the sinful hankerings sought me
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 7:19 AM UTC
Lost in the Wilderness
I gasp, for breath...fading away, below you helpless, beneath the deluge, of you. Heat rises, and steams, a rosy flush, into pale, cold cheeks... as you waterfall above me, and I turn my face up to you, in gratitude. I am a dry...arid flower... dominate me, with your downpour. Keep me moaning, in little, breathless gasps... drunk, on your deluge, lusting, for the gentle, seething weight, of your measured, eager touch... so thirsty, for your rain, as you slick parted lips, in waves. Slowly...almost painfully I ache, and writhe as you pour over me, and I gulp, hard, against your hot embrace. Mmmmm...lover...caress my bare skin stream, relentlessly across the peaks, and valleys of my dripping, naked body. I'm so wet, beneath you. Every dance of droplets, across these spreading hips, and long, feminine legs... every prolonged, whispering touch... every sweet, steaming kiss, steals my breath away, and leaves me shuddering, quivering, groaning, helplessly, beneath the lick of your warmth across these rounded, fleshy cheeks. I die, a little more, each time you wash over me, As I drink you in ...unashamed of the little pool, you've got forming beneath my bare feet, and tightly curled toes. I'm...drenched, tingling, from my head, to my toes... soaked, but satisfied, beneath the incredible force, of you. ...I just can't get enough, of you.
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Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM UTC
Wet (Adult)
Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 1:29 AM UTC
Of
Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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So fine, the slender votive silence of palms, open to the torn banners of rain, so tender, such surrender in the gesture of hands... You pour so much of your red earth, to soothe and loosen the tongue from its leather tomb and adorn me with a lighter burden, too much mine, at one with the dark, lavish earth in all its sorrow, spun of the sleek commotion of silk and vanilla linens... I leaned into the ******* of my wings, honed from those muscular fairy-tale dreams... My mouth, learned solely on a valentine's shiny white kiss of hemlock, humming into the cells of the spellbound body, quelled by vigilance, your lips teach me now, how to go softly over the red earth of dahlias, in all their everlastings, your hands deep in the soil, reap... The resonating grail of memory, kept in its rich loam and coals spread over my mouth of red, red clay, so swells its golden hue of rose and rhododendron, too much mine, rising its fevers in the fawn brown of eyes, closed ... Over this long, shuddering quiet, you come in all your calico to calm the votive silence of palms, cupped in the earth of your hands, so much mine....
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 12:47 PM UTC
Votive Silence:
Short, quick bursts thrum through the night, punctuated by longer, deeper blasts that shiver all the way down to my toes. The steamy July air crackles with energy and excitement as anticipation of the grand finale hums through every nerve ending.  The blasts come closer and closer together, until at last a glorious explosion of shuddering brilliance illuminates all, leaving us shaking and filled with breathless wonder. And then we decide to go watch the fireworks.
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Jul 6, 2015
Jul 6, 2015 at 2:55 AM UTC
Fireworks