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"stacking" poems
Yogurt. "I begin the day buying yogurt in a small favorite grocery store." Not pizza, nor gatorade. Bananas although they are imported from afar and grown in monocultures. Attract fruit flies in August. Peaches locally grown with rainwater. I ate all the farmer's peaches alone stacking them by the railroad tracks. Water -- rainwater, tap water, distilled water, carbonated water, spring water –-- deep gulps, infinite sips. Nuts in moderation, or not, unsalted, raw, replacing chips. His bowl of filberts, almonds, walnuts quiet weekday mornings. Edible plant parts -- roots, leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, buds. In olive oil or butter. Potatoes -- look online how best to prepare. Baked or fried. With a little fish or meat. Tea and honey, play and prayer. Swimming and running, talking quietly. Bread? Bread's possible as the Bible. Each is liable to bloat us. Wine and dandelions. Dandelion wine's Ray Bradbury's story. Cans in a pantry, books on a       shelf to the end of time. Pasta we used to call spaghetti, never noodles. I wonder if I can remember       how to make grandma's sauce. Tomatoes -- cherry, grape. Grab God's eye going by.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 11:34 AM UTC
Yogurt and Honey
Thats all you are, From your hair to your hips It makes me want to do flips These demons make me not care These demons make me... want to tear your clothes apart Something about your smile Something about your legs Its like your stacking pegs Getting no where because caring is something that isn't their I love the way you look at me when were done I love the way your body looks when your on top I love the way you look I love the way I love the I love No! I lust
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 12:11 AM UTC
Lust
I can tell he wants me to show him around, take him out and show how him how I get down. He wants me to smile but my face is stuck in a frown. Boy didn’t you notice when I tried taking you out on the town? When we rode with my girl C, you brought your boy V Then the time I got into a fight that nobody even got to see My girl didn’t like you I wonder, how could that be?? Once upon a time you were down to do anything. Rain or shine. Doesn’t matter what we do as long as youre mine. Lately it feels like youre wasting my time. Feels like a one way street. All of a sudden you don’t make me feel like a treat You see I’ve Taken you out You know the life I’m about. Yet we still scream and shout cause now we never seem to get out At least not enough I know at the moment Life feels a bit rough But we can’t be consumed Part of us died Let it be exhumed Dust off our shoulders and hit resume Let’s start living & forgiving Then start stacking up it to the ceiling I thought you were my back up But it’s me that you’re killing We don’t need to go hard or spend money at the bar We don’t even need to go far Let’s go to guitar center and pretend to be stars Im sorry for my ****** mood But if you don’t try We’re *******
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
Reciprocity
Your advice Is my vice And you continue to add vices And you swim like mad pisces Through my stream of thoughts With all the lessons you taught From all the advice you brought So I avoid your glance To not give you the chance To see the results of our fishdance Or how much my life has been enhanced Until I begin to flounder As those pisces become piranha Feeding on other considerations And growing colossal Until your kraken is in my mind Cracking up my mind Stacking up the time It takes to get out of bed As I trust the tentacles that tie me down To a life floating on the surface Of an ocean Where the fish burn like a furnace And I watch the water evaporate Like the advice on which you elaborate As the advice that was once there Is currently water vapor in the air As I start to think of us as a pair From inside my secret underwater lair That is the cavern of my mind Where a school of fish Teach me how to live and die
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Aug 4, 2017
Aug 4, 2017 at 7:49 AM UTC
Fish
As a uniform, he always wore the grey ironmonger's coat immaculately pressed and bore clipped hair neat as well as a close shave. Mr. Cornthwaite (all of us minions called him only Mr.) was no "Do It 'Cos I Say So" boss but with patience would teach and preach retail folklore: Cooks' staples stored well inside our mini-market shop advanced for its 50s' existence; shelf-stacking to re-arrange for early use-by at the front; fast-moving lines checked hourly if not sooner; trusted staff becoming the Tasting Squad for new fresh produce being considered for supply - The Cornflake (never uttered in his hearing) circulating to ensure not only that his ever-clear commands were reflected in full shelves but also that staff were coping not rushed or overwhelmed. The best Warrant Officer cares just as much commands as my de-mobbed Warrant Officer father used to tell me when I asked. (c) C J Heyworth
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 7:49 AM UTC
Thank You Stanley Cornflake
Fat; Bubbly lipids gathering and stacking in a fashioned order. Fat; It was not so "fashionista" when she gained and gained. Skinny; She was lost, had no where to run but to the pantry. Skinny; Bones showing, skin glimmering in the sunlight. Fat; Sticking to her bones as paper sticks to glue. Fat; Poking and Prodding at the blubbery material that sits upon her femurs. Unhappy; She will always be.
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 2:18 AM UTC
Fat
Slipping and sliding Back into the past Foolishly buying All the foolishness they've said Stacking me against you Pitting you against me Does it hurt to stretch the truth If the lie is so easy Keeping us under lock and key Mental Slavery Under their thumbs We're being kept Simple pawns In their game of chess We take them at their word This herd of talking heads As we rely on every line That we're being fed Keeping us under lock and key Mental Slavery With the slightest of resistance We feel we should fight back But at our own insistence It's ambition that we lack So we follow along the path Eyes closed to reality Turning us against each other Makes it hard to see Keeping us under lock and key Mental Slavery
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 8:24 AM UTC
Mental Slavery
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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Jul 14, 2017
Jul 14, 2017 at 2:17 AM UTC
Arcturian women
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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I had not been born yet. Still, I can see you at your labor - alone, scouring the meadows for the stones - lifting their gray shoulders from the moist earth - pulling them from the green grasp of briars, goldenrod, and Queen Anne’s Lace. The smell of the earth must have filled you with your own childhood memories - of plowing fields and cold mornings trudging across barn yards mud thick on your boots - promising yourself that someday you would leave and never return. I can hear the pick axe - the sharp strikes against the stones, and the dull thud when the earth swallowed the blade - and the deep exhalations when the stones tumbled into the old wheelbarrow – new then - that now leans rusting against my garden shed. Some of the stones were so large - far too large for one man – how did you move them? I look at the old photographs and you seem so young – so much younger than I am today - and so thin – staring off-frame beyond the camera. What were you looking for in those fields? I can see you sorting the stones, stacking them - building and unbuilding and rebuilding the walls and  terraces until the walls were true and the terraces level and planted with dogwood, birches, soft grass for bare feet, and bordered with roses. Did you know that you were building my castle? That the highest terrace would be my tower and keep? I remember calling out to my knights, my legionnaires, and tribesmen – rallying them in defense of the citadel –  ready for the coming siege. I also remember looking out across that verdant kingdom for the last time - no longer a king or a boy – and miles away, across the river to the west, I imagined the new home that awaited us. I couldn’t know how far away it would be or what it meant to leave. This morning, as I looked out across the garden that I have built, I felt the weightlessness of time and its gravity settling me into place. For a brief moment I had the sensation that I was standing on the shoulders of gathered stones. (for my father, Guy Spencer.) Tom Spencer © 2015
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 12:13 PM UTC
Gathered Stones
I had not been born yet. Still, I can see you at your labor - alone, scouring the meadows for the stones - lifting their gray shoulders from the moist earth - pulling them from the green grasp of briars, goldenrod, and Queen Anne’s Lace. The smell of the earth must have filled you with your own childhood memories - of plowing fields and cold mornings trudging across barn yards mud thick on your boots - promising yourself that someday you would leave and never return. I can hear the pick axe - the sharp strikes against the stones, and the dull thud when the earth swallowed the blade - and the deep exhalations when the stones tumbled into the old wheelbarrow – new then - that now leans rusting against my garden shed. Some of the stones were so large - far too large for one man – how did you move them? I look at the old photographs and you seem so young – so much younger than I am today - and so thin – staring off-frame beyond the camera. What were you looking for in those fields? I can see you sorting the stones, stacking them - building and unbuilding and rebuilding the walls and  terraces until the walls were true and the terraces level and planted with dogwood, birches, soft grass for bare feet, and bordered with roses. Did you know that you were building my castle? That the highest terrace would be my tower and keep? I remember calling out to my knights, my legionnaires, and tribesmen – rallying them in defense of the citadel –  ready for the coming siege. I also remember looking out across that verdant kingdom for the last time - no longer a king or a boy – and miles away, across the river to the west, I imagined the new home that awaited us. I couldn’t know how far away it would be or what it meant to leave. This morning, as I looked out across the garden that I have built, I felt the weightlessness of time and its gravity settling me into place. For a brief moment I had the sensation that I was standing on the shoulders of gathered stones. (for my father, Guy Spencer.) Tom Spencer © 2015
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Theres more in this life than I think I can handle, legos pile around me, hell is becoming more understandable. Every little mistake I've made burns my soul with unending flames, the memories toy with my mind like Lego games.   Building blocks around my heart and shredding the bits of humanity I have left apart. Stacking up the walls higher and stronger to keep the emotions away, if it all falls down the insanity and anger will come out to play. So these Lego games that block out all the hurt need to stand tall, I can't let anything break down or my life will crumble and ***f a l l.***
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
Lego Games
Today's a new. Took a breath, stepped  outside and Ponder upon Paradise Avenue. Most haven’t a clue. Stuck between a hard place and a rock bonded by that encrypted glue. So don’t be rude. Look the other way While I pursue. Get in the way and even you’ll be tighten, fastened and ******* Intrigue or intrude? Acting with passion taking my life wealth of metaphorical food. I'm not in the mood. I came to conclude. The knowledge hidden will soon be removed. Over the covenant stove. Hypnotize lives will be brewed. Ether produced broth of truth I accrued. So in this life of Manipulating strife. Conflict of fundamental issues got me on strike. Take a hike, better yet ride a bike. My mind has been overlapping Triple stacking in the apparent. Trying to come up with my own Patton of satin. I will Manifest anything that’s internally speaking in a Ridicule fashion. I'm rapidly expanding and the abundance is over flowing. Is it me, is it you, is it us, was it he who walked above the sea? Yes best believe. Antiquity relics through Allegory marriage. Helps to see Beyond and above the perished. Come to believe and you will achieve. That’s the hidden recipe.
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 2:11 PM UTC
Today’s a new
After running some tests Injecting needles in your veins ******* blood from you even if it's the only ounce left He says you're sick Holding a pen, he prescripts It's for you to buy, a list of medicines And so you have to try You have no choice but to buy Or else, as per Dr. Quack Quack, you'll die As you take in Your wallet's thinning While the packets of medicines are still stacking Then another symptom came And so you have to visit the clinic again Déjà vu you thought, Dr. Quack Quack greeted you smiling He says you're sick again Holding a pen, he prescripts again It's for you to buy again, a list of medicines Oblivious to you He's preparing his checklist too After traveling to Europe, next stop to Honolulu
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 11:27 PM UTC
Dr. Quack Quack
your boot was turned the wrong way on the post out by the highway - sharp toe pointing to the south away from where you've been you're no stranger to the rangers living dangerously on the edge - sidewinders in the sagebrush whispering to the wind the anasazi built this home stacking stone one by one - far above the canyon of petroglyphs and wrens i knew i'd find you by the fire talking to the ghosts of smoke and drum - in the ruins above the dunes reminiscing with your friends - reminiscing, reminiscing on the blue mesa. r ~ 11/6/14
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
cliff dwelling on the blue mesa
One night I was a werewolf, but that got out of hand. One night you were a peach, but I preferred fresh over canned. The blood scent was strong and on your collar, or was it spaghetti sauce? We meandered in the lost city of angels, but those women in the maternity ward were better shape-shifters. Couldn't see if the moon was full against the polluted skyline, (but I bet it wasn't). Then somewhere down the tracks, the howler (that's you), half a dream away on some deserted block, and flat on your back like a pancake, with the nightmares stacking up, and dripping with strawberry syrup. Or was it blood? (I bet it wasn't).
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Mar 20, 2021
Mar 20, 2021 at 8:28 PM UTC
Where Oh Werewolf!
Stacking up bricks Taking em down Not having the nerve To apply mortar To make em sound Never even Mixed any Cos it would harden While on the ground Stacking up bricks Taking em down.
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Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM UTC
Mortar.
I was scared to give myself to you But now that I have, I'm terrified Explained to you what I'd never explained before And from atop of your wall you said you understood You say time will bring down your wall But I can't help but notice these bricks your stacking The harder I try, the higher your wall seems to be The only time you let me in Is in the solitude of home In public you put your mask on As tho the opinions of others dictated your heart I step back with attempts of strategy Only for you to change your game I've put my love for you on display Only for you to pocket it How can you say you feel the same When you don't show the same Displaying shame Embarrassment Cut your strings Release yourself from this puppeteer And I will catch you Hold you forever Be the man you should have had I'm ready to give you my all Just show me you're willing to receive it
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 2:00 PM UTC
Rapunzel
The weak inherit the Earth The meek inherit their lead Unaware of their life's worth Until after they're dead We are hopelessly trampled by a bullet stampede Inflicted upon us for the wealthy man's greed They sell us death as a commodity While we can only mourn solemnly They are arms dealers We are harm feelers They are life stealers When we can't find healers For the fatal wounds that end our lives so abruptly And the man with the gun has no need to trust me He has placed his faith in Ares His humanity he failed to carry He sold it urgently to feel secure But then his thoughts became impure For whatever reason he cast a death sentence He felt injustice and wanted to get vengeance But to the merchants of wrath He is just math Numbers on a graph They must minimize With blatant lies Businessmen will try to create a need for their product But engendering fear for profit seems like misconduct Because as the bullets are raining And the militants are training Their money is stacking While terrorists are attacking Their nature seems callous When they rely on our malice They see us as a body count They see us as simple trout Swimming upstream to die So they can eat us Convincing us we'll fly With minds of a fetus The bullet burns as it punctures our civilization It fuels our bitter spiteful incubation We sit in the chamber As they utilize our anger The rich get richer We don't see the picture When gunshots scatter crowds And the echoes scatter our thoughts They want the volume to be loud So we'll forget what we're taught That our lives are the price of a gun and a bullet Our paranoid lives become hard to live to the fullest
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 6:34 AM UTC
Gun
The weak inherit the Earth The meek inherit their lead Unaware of their life's worth Until after they're dead We are hopelessly trampled by a bullet stampede Inflicted upon us for the wealthy man's greed They sell us death as a commodity While we can only mourn solemnly They are arms dealers We are harm feelers They are life stealers When we can't find healers For the fatal wounds that end our lives so abruptly And the man with the gun has no need to trust me He has placed his faith in Ares His humanity he failed to carry He sold it urgently to feel secure But then his thoughts became impure For whatever reason he cast a death sentence He felt injustice and wanted to get vengeance But to the merchants of wrath He is just math Numbers on a graph They must minimize With blatant lies Businessmen will try to create a need for their product But engendering fear for profit seems like misconduct Because as the bullets are raining And the militants are training Their money is stacking While terrorists are attacking Their nature seems callous When they rely on our malice They see us as a body count They see us as simple trout Swimming upstream to die So they can eat us Convincing us we'll fly With minds of a fetus The bullet burns as it punctures our civilization It fuels our bitter spiteful incubation We sit in the chamber As they utilize our anger The rich get richer We don't see the picture When gunshots scatter crowds And the echoes scatter our thoughts They want the volume to be loud So we'll forget what we're taught That our lives are the price of a gun and a bullet Our paranoid lives become hard to live to the fullest
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I always wanted to be that random style of writer Writing about things which have no connection In reality but they are connective only by the ingenuity Of his genuflection; the circumvention of his Circuitous routing, his plaintive perturbing petulance Which insists on stacking things of different orders Flying birds together of different species If I could write something of the ticking of clocks Not as though the ticking were of premeditated duration Embedded in metal tracks around perimeters Of prevaricated die-cast hours; but as though the ticking Were only a random fixture of a theoretical day In which random clocks ticking played a minor role During the still life of which a poet happened along And copied it all down dutifully, not caring if Ticking clocks were related to pitchers of Forsythia Or falling off of cliffs into the Aegean; The only task of the poet to capture it all And let the reader sort it out later In the random tracks of his circuitous brain: Whether the pitcher was full of sea Or the sea was stealing into the pitcher One blue, serendipitous drop at a time And where no clocks were keeping time.
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Mar 7, 2010
Mar 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM UTC
Painting of a Drop of Seawater
Once i was seven years old, a dream had told me one day i'd be married under palm trees Once i was seven years old I was a girl with a plan but you thought yours was better You pushed me close to the edge then sent me sweet love letters By eleven i was broken, crying in your sweater Never again would i fall, you couldn't stand the pressure Once i was eleven years old, my brother told me, don't worry 'bout these boys just get your money Once i was eleven years old i always had that dream like my brother before me so i started working, grinding, started stacking money Everyone called me honey, cause i was still so sweet I didn't let the riches change me, never folded in heat Once i was sixteen years old, the parties got old The morning after was always so gloomy Once i was sixteen years old I almost went to jail, almost ruined my future who would want to be around a girl that's so stupid? I had my boys with me, at least that was in my favor Then those same boys went and put my ******* life in danger Once i was eighteen years old, being alone got old I went and found someone who was there at night to hold me Once i was eighteen years old Soon we'll be thirty years old, our story pretty bold We got married barefoot under the palm trees Soon we'll be thirty years old Little ones learning about life, our love is constantly growing I'm so happy as his wife, he's what keeps me going Most of my friends are in jail, dead or close to dying I did my best to save them but they just kept justifying and its so hard to talk to someone when their ego's showing If I reach sixty-years old, then he'll reach sixty-five We'll sit back and reminisce of simpler times When we were young and happy dancing in a waterfall with nothing to lose because we'd already lost it all If I don't reach sixty-years old, will my story be told? Or should i write a book detailing everything? If i don't reach sixty-years old If I don't reach sixty-years old, will my story be told? Or should i write a book so you wont miss a thing? If i don't reach sixty-years old Once i was seven years old, a dream had told me one day i'd be married under palm trees Once i was seven years old Once i was seven years old...
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Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 10:23 PM UTC
Seven Years (Song Rewrite)
Once i was seven years old, a dream had told me one day i'd be married under palm trees Once i was seven years old I was a girl with a plan but you thought yours was better You pushed me close to the edge then sent me sweet love letters By eleven i was broken, crying in your sweater Never again would i fall, you couldn't stand the pressure Once i was eleven years old, my brother told me, don't worry 'bout these boys just get your money Once i was eleven years old i always had that dream like my brother before me so i started working, grinding, started stacking money Everyone called me honey, cause i was still so sweet I didn't let the riches change me, never folded in heat Once i was sixteen years old, the parties got old The morning after was always so gloomy Once i was sixteen years old I almost went to jail, almost ruined my future who would want to be around a girl that's so stupid? I had my boys with me, at least that was in my favor Then those same boys went and put my ******* life in danger Once i was eighteen years old, being alone got old I went and found someone who was there at night to hold me Once i was eighteen years old Soon we'll be thirty years old, our story pretty bold We got married barefoot under the palm trees Soon we'll be thirty years old Little ones learning about life, our love is constantly growing I'm so happy as his wife, he's what keeps me going Most of my friends are in jail, dead or close to dying I did my best to save them but they just kept justifying and its so hard to talk to someone when their ego's showing If I reach sixty-years old, then he'll reach sixty-five We'll sit back and reminisce of simpler times When we were young and happy dancing in a waterfall with nothing to lose because we'd already lost it all If I don't reach sixty-years old, will my story be told? Or should i write a book detailing everything? If i don't reach sixty-years old If I don't reach sixty-years old, will my story be told? Or should i write a book so you wont miss a thing? If i don't reach sixty-years old Once i was seven years old, a dream had told me one day i'd be married under palm trees Once i was seven years old Once i was seven years old...
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You have heard it said that A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose But truly I tell you that I am that I am that I am that I am Dripping with Jehovah and stardust we fell to earth Pieces of atmosphere pieced together And who can trace the mythology of our chemical compositions Or rewrite the narrative of our anatomies? I fell to earth soaked in Yahweh and covered in snakebites Black holes where the fangs sunk into the astronomy of my freckled skin All the galaxies of my body each with their own elliptical orbits Connect the dots to form two wolves in my milky way Romulus and Remus – My ******* bear venom white as the purest lamb Whisper astrology and Remember the day we built Rome by stacking corpses Remember the day when all the stars burned red for us But that was millennia ago and I’m not your Venus anymore – I’m nobody’s ********* Venus anymore It was the age of Pisces and we came out drenched in Messiah You found me picking painted roses on asteroid planets With a blonde-haired child and a fox In the garden green snakes and white roses Thorns and soft pink ribbon-tongues Fangs and velvet petals Two drops of blood in the white sand like Mary, I bore a son and named him Ares I named him Mars I named him Set Boys will be boys will be boys will be monsters, you know that I am that I am that I am that I am. Swim down deep enough into the black waters and you’ll reach the heavens Keep drawing blood from thorn wounds and you’ll drag out the atmosphere Stare out intently into the abyss and the abyss will stare back into you These are the things we knew When we reached the outer boundary of the cosmos And realized how hydrogen is nothing but celestial amniotic fluid We, motionless Smothered by God and Carbon and perfume and poison In this ****** we named universe On this fetus we named Earth I am that I am that I am that I am Truly with you until the end of the age Until the afterbirth of star matter gets tossed out with the baby and the bathwater. You have heard it said A rose called by any other name wouldn’t smell as sweet But truly I tell you A rose is only as beautiful and fragrant as its thorns are sharp And if you want to know what fills the space between protons and electrons The gaps between breaths The light-years between planets Then listen to the sound of your own heart beating Counting down the gestation period of our own reality I am that I am that I am that I am I’m more than a Rose.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 7:14 PM UTC
Soaked in Yahweh
You have heard it said that A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose But truly I tell you that I am that I am that I am that I am Dripping with Jehovah and stardust we fell to earth Pieces of atmosphere pieced together And who can trace the mythology of our chemical compositions Or rewrite the narrative of our anatomies? I fell to earth soaked in Yahweh and covered in snakebites Black holes where the fangs sunk into the astronomy of my freckled skin All the galaxies of my body each with their own elliptical orbits Connect the dots to form two wolves in my milky way Romulus and Remus – My ******* bear venom white as the purest lamb Whisper astrology and Remember the day we built Rome by stacking corpses Remember the day when all the stars burned red for us But that was millennia ago and I’m not your Venus anymore – I’m nobody’s ********* Venus anymore It was the age of Pisces and we came out drenched in Messiah You found me picking painted roses on asteroid planets With a blonde-haired child and a fox In the garden green snakes and white roses Thorns and soft pink ribbon-tongues Fangs and velvet petals Two drops of blood in the white sand like Mary, I bore a son and named him Ares I named him Mars I named him Set Boys will be boys will be boys will be monsters, you know that I am that I am that I am that I am. Swim down deep enough into the black waters and you’ll reach the heavens Keep drawing blood from thorn wounds and you’ll drag out the atmosphere Stare out intently into the abyss and the abyss will stare back into you These are the things we knew When we reached the outer boundary of the cosmos And realized how hydrogen is nothing but celestial amniotic fluid We, motionless Smothered by God and Carbon and perfume and poison In this ****** we named universe On this fetus we named Earth I am that I am that I am that I am Truly with you until the end of the age Until the afterbirth of star matter gets tossed out with the baby and the bathwater. You have heard it said A rose called by any other name wouldn’t smell as sweet But truly I tell you A rose is only as beautiful and fragrant as its thorns are sharp And if you want to know what fills the space between protons and electrons The gaps between breaths The light-years between planets Then listen to the sound of your own heart beating Counting down the gestation period of our own reality I am that I am that I am that I am I’m more than a Rose.
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I don't like being alone. Rays of kitchen light, Beaming down on lime flavored tortilla chips, With mild salsa, That's still, Too hot! Or cheap tea, Flavored with lemon and crystalizing honey, I do not like being alone, Stacking, Molasses cookies, On my shaky finger tips, I do not like being alone! Shaky, shaky, Three, Round plates, Stacked on top of one another, And I'm not saying I have a standard, eating disorder, But when I am depressed, And, Alone, I just, Don't, Get, FULL. No I don't think I'm fat, I love my body, And I'm not over weight, But my stomach, Is the new home, To the black hole in my mind, It's fine, I say, You don't know how many plates today, And it's not every day, But I find myself stealing snacks, The way people steal kisses, Enjoying meals hot or cold, Instead of going in the snow, For if i lept into turning waters, Like people leap for love, Or if my mind, Got that black back, Transferred from my stomach, You, Wouldn't be the only thing crushing.
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Feb 11, 2017
Feb 11, 2017 at 10:51 PM UTC
Food is toxic love.
Sitting home alone in my striped socks Swinging my feet back and forth above my bedroom floor There’s no one but me and my striped socks Looking down over my bedroom floor. Mommy died, Daddy went away, Don’t have any friends that want to play So I think I’ll build my very own castle today In the middle of my bedroom floor. It’s only me and my striped socks Stacking pillows on my bedroom floor I’ve found a friend for me in my striped socks And our playground is my bedroom floor. Lights out, flashlight on We’ll keep playing till the break of dawn Till all the last rays of sunlight are gone In the windows shining over my bedroom floor. I became royalty with my striped socks Built a kingdom on my bedroom floor Addressed all my subjects and my striped socks In the dark on my bedroom floor. So if you ever chance to open my bedroom door, This is what you’ll find: A fairy queen in glory on her courtroom floor, Remembered in no one’s mind. *She was left alone on the cold asylum floor, With her striped socks on and far from fine.*
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Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 8:43 AM UTC
Striped Insanity
Words are a fickle thing. They claim those faint of heart, Destroying those heathenish men, Who dare try to control the world Through the power of words. Those who try are instantly conquered By the omniscient dictionary, Destroyed by their constant use of a thesaurus, And taken over by attempting mimicking another man’s voice, Instead of trying to find their own. They fail because they write for the wrong reasons. They fail because of their selfishness. They fail because they want fame. They fail because their words are… Lifeless…. Hopeless... Stubborn… Their words refuse to conform to their ideas. Their words punish their minds with sleepless nights, Over their horrid word choice. Crush their dreams with metaphor upon metaphor. Win over their imaginations by continuous simile stacking. Imagine if you would, Attempting to perform heart surgery, With a sledge hammer, While a hungry lion is in the room, And you’re in your underpants. That is the challenge that these miserly men face When they sit at their desks, with their pens twirling, And their minds racing, asking why their characters Are like puppets with no puppeteer. Why their poems have no reason. Why their words truly have no power. When you write, think not about what you want to accomplish. Don’t think about what will make people stir. Think about what you feel. Feel your heart pound and your soul quake. When your words make you want to dance, That’s when you know that you wrote something worthwhile. Because it made sense to you, someone else will feel it. Someone else will know exactly what you mean. Always remember that your first draft comes from the heart.
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 4:19 PM UTC
Words are Fickle
Words are a fickle thing. They claim those faint of heart, Destroying those heathenish men, Who dare try to control the world Through the power of words. Those who try are instantly conquered By the omniscient dictionary, Destroyed by their constant use of a thesaurus, And taken over by attempting mimicking another man’s voice, Instead of trying to find their own. They fail because they write for the wrong reasons. They fail because of their selfishness. They fail because they want fame. They fail because their words are… Lifeless…. Hopeless... Stubborn… Their words refuse to conform to their ideas. Their words punish their minds with sleepless nights, Over their horrid word choice. Crush their dreams with metaphor upon metaphor. Win over their imaginations by continuous simile stacking. Imagine if you would, Attempting to perform heart surgery, With a sledge hammer, While a hungry lion is in the room, And you’re in your underpants. That is the challenge that these miserly men face When they sit at their desks, with their pens twirling, And their minds racing, asking why their characters Are like puppets with no puppeteer. Why their poems have no reason. Why their words truly have no power. When you write, think not about what you want to accomplish. Don’t think about what will make people stir. Think about what you feel. Feel your heart pound and your soul quake. When your words make you want to dance, That’s when you know that you wrote something worthwhile. Because it made sense to you, someone else will feel it. Someone else will know exactly what you mean. Always remember that your first draft comes from the heart.
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time changes and I realize the world needs my LOVE. so I want to write more love poems and infect heartstreams, bursting valve seams, repairing flows. carrying capacities need expanding, deep breath felt. simplicities stacking, and all else is. decension, the reflection of ascension, is being dug. the perspective has always been from above. time to root down, bury down, dig deep in the ground and bring the LOVE down. in the darker side, where light struggles sometimes, here, this minor level, that many feel is real, this place needs the panting of love to be rained down. souls duped to believe evil is abound. cycles are always dark and light and layers are thin. pay closer attention to the place where to the two meet again, that point, moment, peace. listen to its speech, the flow of a new sprout on a tree, the fungus sprawl through its wood. stretching its love from underground, above, to feed and seed and heed the lessons here. biodiversity, nourishment, interdependence, just being loving. nurturing, to      your     self, the total inclusiveness... our carry capacity for LOVE is infinity. eights will flow infinitely, so we just let it be, walk easily, stop and discover those on our path. discover the magic of home.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 4:34 PM UTC
capabilities
Who said that watch the moon but can't touch? Truly a full moon picture broke the mirror. Stacking all of it the sky fills the full jar. Empties it though sparing a piece to every shining star. Yet a full moon Kohinoor eyes on all the stars no one can touch!
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Aug 31, 2022
Aug 31, 2022 at 8:44 PM UTC
Full Moon Kohinoor