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"sizzling" poems
Last night I cried myself to sleep thinking about you, the ********** chemistry that we used to share over the midnight campfire, our sleek bodies rising in passion with each bursting flame, deep shifting fingers pressed up against thick sheets, as our ankles and thighs harmonized and smiled, glossy green eyes filled with lust and immense thoughts.  Your soul was calling out to me in the nighttime sky, vibrant skin sifting inside timeless climaxes and rewinds, shimmering lights and hypnotic gleams, an ocean of water and poetry gliding on booming beats.  The world began to sink inside our romance, the horniness of our hot flesh sizzling in sparking temptations, deep designs and glimmering patterns.  And as our nations made music over earth’s creation, brilliant escapes and captivating depths, you were the magnificent star inside my kingdom, the purest existence that could illuminate the fire inside eyes.
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Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 at 11:08 AM UTC
********** Chemistry
Sparkling petals slice through feet of wanderers Dashing hopes and slitting tendons Each day she visits Sprinkling books and soda-filled sponges among the wire vines. The sizzles excited her And she smiles in spite of her sizzling feet Pleased in her harmless sabotage. The suffocated earth shutters beneath Layers of circuit boards, damp and rotting Steam rises from the core And crinkles the pages of Jane Austen Dr. Seuss Kurt Vonnegut. Her mother’s journal from pregnancy.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 12:51 AM UTC
Outlet Garden
Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Guitar Sauce
Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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Anything that makes noise Should not be done on a Sunday. Don’t mow the lawn, Don’t vacuum your home. Respect the stillness that is meant to be. There are but few exceptions (However, your yard work and Home improvement projects are not included). The birds singing, for example. Or the sound of breakfast sizzling Or the whisper of coffee pouring. The loudest thing that should be heard Is the laughter of company. Family and friends are what the day is for. If you don’t have those, then meet a stranger So that next week, you have a friend for Sunday.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 6:05 PM UTC
Sunday
There are fireworks Everywhere. Small & big reminders Of everywhere we’ve been. Above the rooftops, above our Top lips, in tremendous fashion. Spread far, your soul & mine. I couldn’t imagine life Without you. Something out of the blue, Loud & breathtaking. How we’ve inspired each other In quick rocket bursts. If nothing else we’ve learned That in a matter of minutes It can all come to an end. The way you kiss me & The ethos of traveling souls Finding a color to forever live in. I’ve found a place, there are Fireworks everywhere. If nothing else, we’ve learned That in a matter of minutes it can all come to an end. & when it does, I’ll race you To the top & kiss you and Every memory I have of you. The cosmos of left over Gunpowder & shredded paper All combustible in our celebration. With eyes closed, & the sizzling palpitation of my heart. Possibly the biggest reminder. Whenever I see fireworks, I think of you
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Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021 at 11:11 AM UTC
Loud & Breathtaking
Thin, white wrists. Bone white Like china And just as brittle. They make that coarse, scraping sound when they touch one another. The kind of sound that delicate, expensive teacups make when stacked The wrong way. It makes me cringe. Little blue veins kiss the surface of them, Hissing and sizzling when the air gets Too close Like tiny snakes. These wrists Have made promises. They have Borne loads. These wrists have snapped like twigs Under the weight of a heavy, Punishing love. But, pressed back together the way they'd been, They hardened oncemore Like stone And the cracks and fissures Sank inside again And smooth, unmarred, delicate white skin emerged To begin the process over. At night the snakes whisper and murmur against my cheek in their sleep And sometimes, quite suddenly, They sink in their fangs And I awaken with a start, A sharp pain radiating out to my fingertips Like a shock. Last night I felt their strikes by the hour One, Two, Three, more. And this morning a strange... fullness Began in my wrists And seeped out Up along my arms Through my collarbones and down Into my heart. Perhaps it was the venom Working But where it spread I Settled Like an old stone wall. Like the halls of a castle That has seen too much death And too many kings. I sank into myself For the first time And the ground felt heavily solid And I felt Only the hollow hiss Of little blue and green serpents Dreaming inside me And that Was something like certainty, Although of what I still don't Know.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 11:58 PM UTC
Medusa
Thin, white wrists. Bone white Like china And just as brittle. They make that coarse, scraping sound when they touch one another. The kind of sound that delicate, expensive teacups make when stacked The wrong way. It makes me cringe. Little blue veins kiss the surface of them, Hissing and sizzling when the air gets Too close Like tiny snakes. These wrists Have made promises. They have Borne loads. These wrists have snapped like twigs Under the weight of a heavy, Punishing love. But, pressed back together the way they'd been, They hardened oncemore Like stone And the cracks and fissures Sank inside again And smooth, unmarred, delicate white skin emerged To begin the process over. At night the snakes whisper and murmur against my cheek in their sleep And sometimes, quite suddenly, They sink in their fangs And I awaken with a start, A sharp pain radiating out to my fingertips Like a shock. Last night I felt their strikes by the hour One, Two, Three, more. And this morning a strange... fullness Began in my wrists And seeped out Up along my arms Through my collarbones and down Into my heart. Perhaps it was the venom Working But where it spread I Settled Like an old stone wall. Like the halls of a castle That has seen too much death And too many kings. I sank into myself For the first time And the ground felt heavily solid And I felt Only the hollow hiss Of little blue and green serpents Dreaming inside me And that Was something like certainty, Although of what I still don't Know.
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sienna cities sparkling saturn sunrises sangria skyscrapers sublime. you are kaleidoscoped through and through with window blinds, bed sheets, and street signs. they call you modern art and hang you on a wall of white and beige. your color bleeds. you boil and no *** can hold you. you speak and wind chimes cry, ringing into the empty night, morose. a ballerina can only hope to move as gracefully as you do. your eyes light up like tuscan sun cities sizzling sirius sunsets school bus skyscrapers divine. i’m hooked on your city glow brighter than tokyo.
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 1:46 PM UTC
tokyo
like blue blisters in the sun her eyes pierce me through with a fierce reckoning as she looks on "you can't keep me here, I'm long gone" she said. and I smoked the rest of my lit cigarette as I watched her walk passed the wall I had built around myself and out the front door. she walked away with the same sizzling stride the others did and I'm left here with a beer, partially intact, happy with my secret pact to never fall in love with a blue-eyed blonde beauty ever again.
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Jun 9, 2010
Jun 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM UTC
blue-eyed blonde beauty
And finally After time seemed suspended, We looked into each other’s Longing Lusting Eyes and leaned in, Tentative Tantalizing Taking sharp breaths. Every time skin skimmed skin, a sizzling segment was breed from blazing bodies. Each exhale Was inhaled By the other And turned into steam With every kiss, Blood vessels boiled, burst Burning a trail Made of ice and fire Hands shook Fingers trembled Bodies meshed Heads thrown Eyes closed Slowly. Softly. Panting Pleasing Pleasuring Playing We were just toys And we liked it that way.
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
Toys
life is a competition, but no one really wins. we overachieve. set our goals too high. and after all the effort, end up farther back than square one. we pile work upon work for ourselves. we fake it till we make it, but do we ever make it? once the lights go out, black envelops the machine that never stops. not even when we sleep. tears put out the electric fire that burned the socket. and within the blackness that is my mind, you can hear a sizzling sound, until the backup generator kicks in and we begin to run again.
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 10:08 AM UTC
overachievers
Sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking, Is wrapped inside a ball, A small pink ball inside our head, That won't stop till we're dead, Analytical bedrock inside oozing theories, Elemental atoms sizzling logic, The imaginative stranger, One abstracted and eccentric, Walking with shadows, Talking and mocking, Through these theories inside us, Tilting our caps ‘til we’re shaking our heads, Pensive love in storming analysis, Sapiosexually excited, piqued interest, Unemotional and thoughtfully attuned, Absently minded, always condoned, Unconventional and impartially stringed, Weirdly wired in auxiliary functions, Misconstrued and misunderstood, An ****** intelligence bleeding paranoia, Knocking unto me, Into you, inside us all, It’s something we all yearn to be, And when you fail and prevail we laugh, Crickling crickets thinking nothing, Washing down the storm drain, With no thoughts fluidly sliding down my throat, Pop goes no questions into absolute concise words like freshly broken glass, Again shadows await, but different shadows, Blinking at me staring at you, Wondering what’s what, inside this dementia made sense of a lovely afternoon, Inside your sane, autocorrected, predetermined, twitching, little…mind. Inspired by Myers Briggs Personality Test Tyler is INTP... Logician  (Introverted INtuitive Thinking Perception) The drifter, dreamer the absent minded professor! SassyJ is INTJ... Architect  (Introverted INtuitive Thinking Judging) The starry-eyed idealist manoeuvring life as if a giant chess board! What Myer Briggs personality type are you?... See link below It would be great to know.Please comment!! http://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality
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Jan 11, 2016
Jan 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
No.1 Sapiosexual Slapping Inquisition- Collaboration with Tyler James Birabent (#one-a-week-series)
Sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking, Is wrapped inside a ball, A small pink ball inside our head, That won't stop till we're dead, Analytical bedrock inside oozing theories, Elemental atoms sizzling logic, The imaginative stranger, One abstracted and eccentric, Walking with shadows, Talking and mocking, Through these theories inside us, Tilting our caps ‘til we’re shaking our heads, Pensive love in storming analysis, Sapiosexually excited, piqued interest, Unemotional and thoughtfully attuned, Absently minded, always condoned, Unconventional and impartially stringed, Weirdly wired in auxiliary functions, Misconstrued and misunderstood, An ****** intelligence bleeding paranoia, Knocking unto me, Into you, inside us all, It’s something we all yearn to be, And when you fail and prevail we laugh, Crickling crickets thinking nothing, Washing down the storm drain, With no thoughts fluidly sliding down my throat, Pop goes no questions into absolute concise words like freshly broken glass, Again shadows await, but different shadows, Blinking at me staring at you, Wondering what’s what, inside this dementia made sense of a lovely afternoon, Inside your sane, autocorrected, predetermined, twitching, little…mind. Inspired by Myers Briggs Personality Test Tyler is INTP... Logician  (Introverted INtuitive Thinking Perception) The drifter, dreamer the absent minded professor! SassyJ is INTJ... Architect  (Introverted INtuitive Thinking Judging) The starry-eyed idealist manoeuvring life as if a giant chess board! What Myer Briggs personality type are you?... See link below It would be great to know.Please comment!! http://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality
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French Fries Frying, sizzling, greasy, Salty, crispy, oily, potato nastiness French fries are gross They have no nutritional value They're a pile of grease that you can't put down They're a highway to obesity that never ends They just keep sizzling in their pool of oil Coating themselves in a thick layer of fat They're greasy, salty, and down right gross
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 12:39 PM UTC
McDonalds
There is no smell in all the world, None in the North or South, None in the East or West, None in the lowest places, None on the highest peaks, Like that smell filling the air, Filling the house, Filling my senses, That smell of spaghetti frying, Frying in the morning light, The smell so different from when it was first cooked, Moving the senses, Moving the mind, Anticipation in scent, The sauce sizzling, Changing, Changing in the frying pan, As the noodles turn crisper, Crisper, Crisp, With that crispness like no other, The noodles, No longer white, Made yellow, Yellow from the sauce, Fried onto them, One with them, Flavours seeping in, And the sauce, Orange now, Red orange but clearly orange, No longer the bright red it was when it entered the pan, And as the sauce and noodles change, Reach that perfect point, The smell just right, The colour just right, The texture just right, The sizzling reaching the perfect crescendo, Then, and only then, The spaghetti no longer stirring, Evened out, Temperature lowered, And carefully, Slowly, To keep them on the top, The eggs break, White running among the noodles, Filling the gaps, Turning from clear to white as they hit the hot pan, Yolks floating on top where they should be, The perfect drop, And the odours as the white changes, Filling the air with new scents, Mingling with the ones already present, And then the salt, disappearing on the surface, The black pepper, Black flects, Scattered evenly, Perfectly, The smell of pepper joining the egg and spaghetti, And a splash of Tobacco Sauce across the whole, That hot smell, That bright red colour, And the silver lid slips on, Over the top, Hiding, Protecting, Cooking the whole, Until it is done, And the lid set aside, The whole onto a plate, Perfect to the senses, The smell, The colours, The texture, Perfect, And the first bight, Heavenly, Like nothing else on earth, Almost sweet, But still savoury, Strange to those knowing bowled pasta, Strange to those knowing simmered sauce, Strange to those knowing fried eggs, But the tastes, Perfect, Blended, Strange but familiar, Many memories, Images, Experiences, All coming together like the different parts of the fried spaghetti, And the fork through the yoke, As it runs down, Bright yellow into orange and red and black and white, Perfect, Amazing, Done. ~The Smell of Fried Spaghetti by Bethany Davis, June 19, 2015
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Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015 at 12:40 PM UTC
The Smell of Fried Spaghetti
There is no smell in all the world, None in the North or South, None in the East or West, None in the lowest places, None on the highest peaks, Like that smell filling the air, Filling the house, Filling my senses, That smell of spaghetti frying, Frying in the morning light, The smell so different from when it was first cooked, Moving the senses, Moving the mind, Anticipation in scent, The sauce sizzling, Changing, Changing in the frying pan, As the noodles turn crisper, Crisper, Crisp, With that crispness like no other, The noodles, No longer white, Made yellow, Yellow from the sauce, Fried onto them, One with them, Flavours seeping in, And the sauce, Orange now, Red orange but clearly orange, No longer the bright red it was when it entered the pan, And as the sauce and noodles change, Reach that perfect point, The smell just right, The colour just right, The texture just right, The sizzling reaching the perfect crescendo, Then, and only then, The spaghetti no longer stirring, Evened out, Temperature lowered, And carefully, Slowly, To keep them on the top, The eggs break, White running among the noodles, Filling the gaps, Turning from clear to white as they hit the hot pan, Yolks floating on top where they should be, The perfect drop, And the odours as the white changes, Filling the air with new scents, Mingling with the ones already present, And then the salt, disappearing on the surface, The black pepper, Black flects, Scattered evenly, Perfectly, The smell of pepper joining the egg and spaghetti, And a splash of Tobacco Sauce across the whole, That hot smell, That bright red colour, And the silver lid slips on, Over the top, Hiding, Protecting, Cooking the whole, Until it is done, And the lid set aside, The whole onto a plate, Perfect to the senses, The smell, The colours, The texture, Perfect, And the first bight, Heavenly, Like nothing else on earth, Almost sweet, But still savoury, Strange to those knowing bowled pasta, Strange to those knowing simmered sauce, Strange to those knowing fried eggs, But the tastes, Perfect, Blended, Strange but familiar, Many memories, Images, Experiences, All coming together like the different parts of the fried spaghetti, And the fork through the yoke, As it runs down, Bright yellow into orange and red and black and white, Perfect, Amazing, Done. ~The Smell of Fried Spaghetti by Bethany Davis, June 19, 2015
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People keep asking me how I’m doing. If I’m getting better or if I’ve taken the time to process what’s happened. If I’ve sought professional help for the metal percussions induced by my career-ending injury. In all honesty though, professional help is futile. It can’t save me now. I’m walking through hell and sitting in a ring of fire discussing the temperature of the searing flames would be idiotic. Why would I allow the flames to dance along my already seared skin longer than necessary? I know they’re hot. I know I’m in hell. I know the pain I feel every day is real and crippling. Talking about this pain wouldn’t end it. It wouldn’t diminish the heat. It wouldn’t help. I need to keep walking. I just need to keep walking. My crippled body can’t run anymore, but I’ve got to keep walking. Others continue to rush by. Frantic because they’ve never felt the flames. They aren’t familiar with the burn. The idea of being in hell is novel. They are novices.   But life hasn’t been kind to me. These flames are familiar with every curve of my body and they dance around with trained feet. I’ve been in hell for years. People continue suggesting I find the light at the end of the tunnel, but that’s near impossible here. I’m too blinded by the brightness of a vehement flame. Sizzling with an angry vigor for the lack of gratitude I bestowed on my past life. It mocks the speed at which I used to be able to run. It laps sardonically at the feet that used to run cheer-inducing speeds without thanks from their owner. But crowds don’t cheer my name anymore. I now stand on the sidelines and watch my team play. I burn alive for the game I used to breath and as I watch each and every game, the deep breaths of oxygen only continue alighting the fire. There’s no way out it seems, but I will try to keep walking. Because talking is futile. Note: Spinal diseases are crippling mentally and physically. Watching the body you've sculpted for years turn to mush because you can't workout is dilapidating . The despair and helplessness are unfamiliar feelings, feelings that can't be overcome. Disease is disease and sometimes it can't be stopped. Sometimes, it just becomes a burden to bear. And sometimes people aren't strong enough. It's different when careers end after four years of college. An expected end, an anticipated end. But when things you love are taken from you abruptly, before your finished. The pain is exponentially worse. Exponentially. Worse.
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 1:41 PM UTC
Career-Ending Injuries: the collegiate struggle in hell
People keep asking me how I’m doing. If I’m getting better or if I’ve taken the time to process what’s happened. If I’ve sought professional help for the metal percussions induced by my career-ending injury. In all honesty though, professional help is futile. It can’t save me now. I’m walking through hell and sitting in a ring of fire discussing the temperature of the searing flames would be idiotic. Why would I allow the flames to dance along my already seared skin longer than necessary? I know they’re hot. I know I’m in hell. I know the pain I feel every day is real and crippling. Talking about this pain wouldn’t end it. It wouldn’t diminish the heat. It wouldn’t help. I need to keep walking. I just need to keep walking. My crippled body can’t run anymore, but I’ve got to keep walking. Others continue to rush by. Frantic because they’ve never felt the flames. They aren’t familiar with the burn. The idea of being in hell is novel. They are novices.   But life hasn’t been kind to me. These flames are familiar with every curve of my body and they dance around with trained feet. I’ve been in hell for years. People continue suggesting I find the light at the end of the tunnel, but that’s near impossible here. I’m too blinded by the brightness of a vehement flame. Sizzling with an angry vigor for the lack of gratitude I bestowed on my past life. It mocks the speed at which I used to be able to run. It laps sardonically at the feet that used to run cheer-inducing speeds without thanks from their owner. But crowds don’t cheer my name anymore. I now stand on the sidelines and watch my team play. I burn alive for the game I used to breath and as I watch each and every game, the deep breaths of oxygen only continue alighting the fire. There’s no way out it seems, but I will try to keep walking. Because talking is futile. Note: Spinal diseases are crippling mentally and physically. Watching the body you've sculpted for years turn to mush because you can't workout is dilapidating . The despair and helplessness are unfamiliar feelings, feelings that can't be overcome. Disease is disease and sometimes it can't be stopped. Sometimes, it just becomes a burden to bear. And sometimes people aren't strong enough. It's different when careers end after four years of college. An expected end, an anticipated end. But when things you love are taken from you abruptly, before your finished. The pain is exponentially worse. Exponentially. Worse.
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When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood, The rude owl cried like a tell-tale *** I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled Nine-pin down on donkey's common, And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed Whoever I would with my wicked eyes, The whole of the moon I could love and leave All the green leaved little weddings' wives In the coal black bush and let them grieve. When I was a gusty man and a half And the black beast of the beetles' pews (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of ******* Not a boy and a bit in the wick- Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf, I whistled all night in the twisted flues, Midwives grew in the midnight ditches, And the sizzling sheets of the town cried, Quick!- Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal, Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts, Whatsoever I did in the coal- Black night, I left my quivering prints. When I was a man you could call a man And the black cross of the holy house, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of welcome), Brandy and ripe in my bright, bass prime, No springtailed tom in the red hot town With every simmering woman his mouse But a hillocky bull in the swelter Of summer come in his great good time To the sultry, biding herds, I said, Oh, time enough when the blood runs cold, And I lie down but to sleep in bed, For my sulking, skulking, coal black soul! When I was half the man I was And serve me right as the preachers warn, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of downfall), No flailing calf or cat in a flame Or hickory bull in milky grass But a black sheep with a crumpled horn, At last the soul from its foul mousehole Slunk pouting out when the limp time came; And I gave my soul a blind, slashed eye, Gristle and rind, and a roarers' life, And I shoved it into the coal black sky To find a woman's soul for a wife. Now I am a man no more no more And a black reward for a roaring life, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of strangers), Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw-- For, oh, my soul found a sunday wife In the coal black sky and she bore angels! Harpies around me out of her womb! Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
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Lament
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood, The rude owl cried like a tell-tale *** I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled Nine-pin down on donkey's common, And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed Whoever I would with my wicked eyes, The whole of the moon I could love and leave All the green leaved little weddings' wives In the coal black bush and let them grieve. When I was a gusty man and a half And the black beast of the beetles' pews (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of ******* Not a boy and a bit in the wick- Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf, I whistled all night in the twisted flues, Midwives grew in the midnight ditches, And the sizzling sheets of the town cried, Quick!- Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal, Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts, Whatsoever I did in the coal- Black night, I left my quivering prints. When I was a man you could call a man And the black cross of the holy house, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of welcome), Brandy and ripe in my bright, bass prime, No springtailed tom in the red hot town With every simmering woman his mouse But a hillocky bull in the swelter Of summer come in his great good time To the sultry, biding herds, I said, Oh, time enough when the blood runs cold, And I lie down but to sleep in bed, For my sulking, skulking, coal black soul! When I was half the man I was And serve me right as the preachers warn, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of downfall), No flailing calf or cat in a flame Or hickory bull in milky grass But a black sheep with a crumpled horn, At last the soul from its foul mousehole Slunk pouting out when the limp time came; And I gave my soul a blind, slashed eye, Gristle and rind, and a roarers' life, And I shoved it into the coal black sky To find a woman's soul for a wife. Now I am a man no more no more And a black reward for a roaring life, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of strangers), Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw-- For, oh, my soul found a sunday wife In the coal black sky and she bore angels! Harpies around me out of her womb! Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
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We climbed from bedrock to Idyllwild the home of Pines to Palms and Suicide Rocks but not for us only for those poor tired souls for whom the world's gone flat refusing the night threw itself boldly into the fray of winds which blew from storm to calm so this morning we awoke to a placid knap slipping on snowy piste to turn cold snaps hot spiced Nepali tea sipped from ice nipped cups I see promise picks up from backward leaps time forward flips breaking free range igneous into pan piped sizzling congenial song that carries on the tree line like spring water sprung from creeks to go scurrying off with wet socks until pulled up by old school granite skies hanging pools out to dry in sopping blue rinsed sun ahead any bald rocks or hairline fractures are long since dialled in as baseless fears knowing this mobile age can merrily slip like air through numb fingers while baseline hands declare “hold me close to gather” edelweiss echoes gone rappelling through time the route we've chosen's to be tied to each other's peaks in the way of sun and moon come what may be it creases in our skin or crevasses we'll win the battle to slim line any overhanging ridges so I take care to tighten my girth hitch to top notch and hold firmly to both your conviction and reach that setting out to move mountains we call home achieves more than staying home and calling mountains so bright you have me forget all things too trite banal office hype shopworn old hat mowing lawn weekends too dishy to be clichéd you polish off the stereotype slam the Dior on out of shape and dull as ditchwater tripe keeping a victorious secret or two in the slip knot too tranquil shade taking allure to new heights we'll never drop down from tonight
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 11:03 AM UTC
The Climbing Edelweiss of Idyllwild
We climbed from bedrock to Idyllwild the home of Pines to Palms and Suicide Rocks but not for us only for those poor tired souls for whom the world's gone flat refusing the night threw itself boldly into the fray of winds which blew from storm to calm so this morning we awoke to a placid knap slipping on snowy piste to turn cold snaps hot spiced Nepali tea sipped from ice nipped cups I see promise picks up from backward leaps time forward flips breaking free range igneous into pan piped sizzling congenial song that carries on the tree line like spring water sprung from creeks to go scurrying off with wet socks until pulled up by old school granite skies hanging pools out to dry in sopping blue rinsed sun ahead any bald rocks or hairline fractures are long since dialled in as baseless fears knowing this mobile age can merrily slip like air through numb fingers while baseline hands declare “hold me close to gather” edelweiss echoes gone rappelling through time the route we've chosen's to be tied to each other's peaks in the way of sun and moon come what may be it creases in our skin or crevasses we'll win the battle to slim line any overhanging ridges so I take care to tighten my girth hitch to top notch and hold firmly to both your conviction and reach that setting out to move mountains we call home achieves more than staying home and calling mountains so bright you have me forget all things too trite banal office hype shopworn old hat mowing lawn weekends too dishy to be clichéd you polish off the stereotype slam the Dior on out of shape and dull as ditchwater tripe keeping a victorious secret or two in the slip knot too tranquil shade taking allure to new heights we'll never drop down from tonight
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A song comes out of the speeding bhogis, Seeta is the one rendering the song. She chants that her husband has long been dead. Seeta has two sons, just like her ballads. One – Gives rhythm to her song. Other – Rubs a gentleman out of his siesta And asks for a little money. The bhogis gain momentum (Ignores the station master who shows red to stop the pacing male phallus) Long away – A girl lies down, lower than the rails. **** me, **** me, she bangs her head. I will, I will, the rails swell the train song in her ears. Though long away, Though have not heard the girl, As if she has heard something - Seeta stops singing. And her children dash out. Two hobos enter in – As if to sell sizzling peanuts. Just as to give the body a bath – Seemingly not pleased just with the rails – The male train jumps off, Into the wide sea. (Whose ****** is the sea, the breeze hums a song) A thousand crows flutters from – One’s previous birth, To – Another’s next birth. Seeta, having forgotten all her songs – Looks out for her kids. Will arrive shortly, will arrive shortly : Weary, irked and bored - Time waits at a station. (I did remember Rupesh Paul, who drew a simile between the rails and the *** worker’s nights, Anitha Thampi, who wrote about female trains, Latheesh Mohan, who noted down how the train stretches its back, Vishnu Prasad and his poem on the phallus, Prasanna Aryans usage: **** says the wheel and shit-shit , says the rail et al , while writing this poem) (Translated by Sherin Catherine)
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 8:52 AM UTC
The Train: A Huge ***** (The rail, then?)
A song comes out of the speeding bhogis, Seeta is the one rendering the song. She chants that her husband has long been dead. Seeta has two sons, just like her ballads. One – Gives rhythm to her song. Other – Rubs a gentleman out of his siesta And asks for a little money. The bhogis gain momentum (Ignores the station master who shows red to stop the pacing male phallus) Long away – A girl lies down, lower than the rails. **** me, **** me, she bangs her head. I will, I will, the rails swell the train song in her ears. Though long away, Though have not heard the girl, As if she has heard something - Seeta stops singing. And her children dash out. Two hobos enter in – As if to sell sizzling peanuts. Just as to give the body a bath – Seemingly not pleased just with the rails – The male train jumps off, Into the wide sea. (Whose ****** is the sea, the breeze hums a song) A thousand crows flutters from – One’s previous birth, To – Another’s next birth. Seeta, having forgotten all her songs – Looks out for her kids. Will arrive shortly, will arrive shortly : Weary, irked and bored - Time waits at a station. (I did remember Rupesh Paul, who drew a simile between the rails and the *** worker’s nights, Anitha Thampi, who wrote about female trains, Latheesh Mohan, who noted down how the train stretches its back, Vishnu Prasad and his poem on the phallus, Prasanna Aryans usage: **** says the wheel and shit-shit , says the rail et al , while writing this poem) (Translated by Sherin Catherine)
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We spend one day together, in the park and now the sun reminds me of you. It was 29 degrees and the sun still couldn’t match your brightness. 29 degrees and you were still the brightest star in my sky.   I think back to my diary, when I told her we would forge a picnic from the empty living room and yet here we are. The cream carpet, now green grass and my heart melts in your hands. Sizzling air beats down on our pale skin as my heart beats a mile a minute. Sometimes I like to play pretend. Cast myself as the role of your love interest. So during my game I was shocked. When we step foot in your local corner store, when the cashier muttered a “you too, together” I thought I’d alternated reality. Or at least I did for that second and a half. Before you fumbled over your words and tried to find the ones that would break my heart the least. You settled on she’s out of my league, you joked about it once we’ve left. Then I pretended again. I cast myself as your laid back friend, As the girl who has better things to think about then a cashier wrong assumptions. Reality didn’t shift this time. — p.d.e
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 10:09 PM UTC
Parks, Squares and Alleys
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood, The rude owl cried like a tell-tale *** I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled Nine-pin down on donkey's common, And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed Whoever I would with my wicked eyes, The whole of the moon I could love and leave All the green leaved little weddings' wives In the coal black bush and let them grieve. When I was a gusty man and a half And the black beast of the beetles' pews (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of ******* Not a boy and a bit in the wick- Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf, I whistled all night in the twisted flues, Midwives grew in the midnight ditches, And the sizzling sheets of the town cried, Quick!- Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal, Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts, Whatsoever I did in the coal- Black night, I left my quivering prints. When I was a man you could call a man And the black cross of the holy house, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of welcome), Brandy and ripe in my bright, bass prime, No springtailed tom in the red hot town With every simmering woman his mouse But a hillocky bull in the swelter Of summer come in his great good time To the sultry, biding herds, I said, Oh, time enough when the blood runs cold, And I lie down but to sleep in bed, For my sulking, skulking, coal black soul! When I was half the man I was And serve me right as the preachers warn, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of downfall), No flailing calf or cat in a flame Or hickory bull in milky grass But a black sheep with a crumpled horn, At last the soul from its foul mousehole Slunk pouting out when the limp time came; And I gave my soul a blind, slashed eye, Gristle and rind, and a roarers' life, And I shoved it into the coal black sky To find a woman's soul for a wife. Now I am a man no more no more And a black reward for a roaring life, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of strangers), Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw-- For, oh, my soul found a sunday wife In the coal black sky and she bore angels! Harpies around me out of her womb! Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
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Lament
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood, The rude owl cried like a tell-tale *** I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled Nine-pin down on donkey's common, And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed Whoever I would with my wicked eyes, The whole of the moon I could love and leave All the green leaved little weddings' wives In the coal black bush and let them grieve. When I was a gusty man and a half And the black beast of the beetles' pews (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of ******* Not a boy and a bit in the wick- Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf, I whistled all night in the twisted flues, Midwives grew in the midnight ditches, And the sizzling sheets of the town cried, Quick!- Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal, Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts, Whatsoever I did in the coal- Black night, I left my quivering prints. When I was a man you could call a man And the black cross of the holy house, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of welcome), Brandy and ripe in my bright, bass prime, No springtailed tom in the red hot town With every simmering woman his mouse But a hillocky bull in the swelter Of summer come in his great good time To the sultry, biding herds, I said, Oh, time enough when the blood runs cold, And I lie down but to sleep in bed, For my sulking, skulking, coal black soul! When I was half the man I was And serve me right as the preachers warn, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of downfall), No flailing calf or cat in a flame Or hickory bull in milky grass But a black sheep with a crumpled horn, At last the soul from its foul mousehole Slunk pouting out when the limp time came; And I gave my soul a blind, slashed eye, Gristle and rind, and a roarers' life, And I shoved it into the coal black sky To find a woman's soul for a wife. Now I am a man no more no more And a black reward for a roaring life, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of strangers), Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw-- For, oh, my soul found a sunday wife In the coal black sky and she bore angels! Harpies around me out of her womb! Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
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1 + 1  isn't math. It's life and it isn't hard. 1 + 1 is love. A universal concept of criss-crossed hands. Blue eyes to others hugging their gaze.   1 + 1 is war. Two acidic cultures colliding and sizzling at contact. Blood Hot. Black. 1 + 1 is curiosity Glassy eyes on charcoal talons Wrinkled trunk 'round tail of dog Feeble finger ravaged by thousands of legs Paint Africa upon my hands. 1 + 1 are footprints of mud on the porch. Yours between mine. Toes so close and mud still fresh. But for those, who have the most unfortunate pleasure of removing themselves from infinity. 1 + 1 = 2. How sad.
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Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM UTC
On Mathematics
deaf and dumb are the passers by, the visitors as well    gladly would I fill their ears with the wisdom of weary worries, tedious torments, but I fry their meat, smashing it until it screams   the sizzling symphony wafts to my bulb   stirring memories of the steer, the **** the beatific butchering, and the killing fields of my youth while others see only my hunched back   and wait for their greasy grub I ask why there is no atonement no sorrowful song for the slaughter   of young ones in faraway lands who fell under the “noble” knife or the bovine beasts whose skulls were there for the bar, that dropped with sublime indifference as it stilled their magnificent silence
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 11:23 PM UTC
cheeseburger--pepsi--chips
Let my words run down your body, Wrap around you, branding softly. Fingerprint trails, smoke rising thin, Sizzling heat under your skin. Scorching my path, marking the line, Each touch whispers, "You are mine."
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Jan 19, 2025
Jan 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM UTC
Spoken
Chop. Chop. Chop. The colors of the pepper scatter on woodgrain. They sit next to the diced onion that I cut blind- Chop with my face turned to the door. Those are next to the once big trees of broccoli- Chop now small flowers, and there's a potent pile of garlic- Chop ready to be thrown into a shallow pit of heat- the olive oil is sizzling. Stop. Listen to sound of produce. Go! Don't let the smoke rise too far- the noses will come visit and take your dinner away. That's okay... I wasn't hungry anyway.
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 10:54 PM UTC
Produce
The smell. The mouthwatering taste. The crispy crunch. The sizzling in the pan. Bacon! So delicious and fatty. So truly yummy. God, I love it. ITS BACON!!!!!!!
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
BACON!!!!!!
sleeping next to you... (how do i put it?) is the meaning of absolute bliss. like that taste of perfect lemonade on a sizzling summer day. in a state of semi-consciousness turning, to find you next to me with a simple sigh i smile. listen to your breathing feel your chest slowly rise and fall. i trace my fingers over your face hoping they will be forever remembered. if i could have one wish come true i would wish to sleep next to you every night with the sound of our silence be my soundtrack.
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Dec 27, 2011
Dec 27, 2011 at 10:49 PM UTC
sleeping next to you