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"tapered" poems
This little man that I know with money in his sockets and routine in his pockets has self proclaimed that he is a tight *** When I envision a *** such as this, I imagine a bundle -- of securely aggregated, perfectly sharpened number two pencils. The businessman just shy of adulthood and too tired to remember –even the beginning of his of disclosure, denied his struggle to acclimate a multifarious lifestyle, appropriately suggested in the form of a triangle, and a circle, both of which embody polar opposing adaptations of humanistic routine. The two shapes: The circle, denies the break in motion by imposing a constant cycle of diligent compression, there is no room for pause only steady flow and relentless drive. This influence of life impression slows down the heart, body, and soul while speeding up time. This particular commitment accommodates the dry colorless beings that embrace and accept boxed imprisonment. Traditionally, the triangle denotes rhythmic patterns that elevate and drop to a point in which imposes a healthy reflective pause: progression, reflection, balance. As stated, as a provincial approach, a regular triangle flat on its base, peaking at the top represents a healthy, solid life routine. In contrast, the triangle can be flipped upside-down introducing an entirely new dynamic, composed of flat-lined monotony, tapered off to a regressed realm of destruction, regret and disorder. Despite the uniqueness of the standard triangle model to the man in question, it is important to compare the negative reflection, for it applies to the entirety of this investigation. We used to be lovers, he and I. We shared my giant pillow-top that I bought on the black market for a meager two-hundred fifty. -- A mere steal at that rate. We occasionally exchanged ideas, mainly about ethical concerns related to globalization and the environment. I attempted to give him a cooking lesson once, but that failed, indefinitely. The bust was not my doing, but simply, a great disinterest on his part; or better yet an inability of not being better than me at something. Everything has gotten so crowded.
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Jan 18, 2010
Jan 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM UTC
something that happens.
This little man that I know with money in his sockets and routine in his pockets has self proclaimed that he is a tight *** When I envision a *** such as this, I imagine a bundle -- of securely aggregated, perfectly sharpened number two pencils. The businessman just shy of adulthood and too tired to remember –even the beginning of his of disclosure, denied his struggle to acclimate a multifarious lifestyle, appropriately suggested in the form of a triangle, and a circle, both of which embody polar opposing adaptations of humanistic routine. The two shapes: The circle, denies the break in motion by imposing a constant cycle of diligent compression, there is no room for pause only steady flow and relentless drive. This influence of life impression slows down the heart, body, and soul while speeding up time. This particular commitment accommodates the dry colorless beings that embrace and accept boxed imprisonment. Traditionally, the triangle denotes rhythmic patterns that elevate and drop to a point in which imposes a healthy reflective pause: progression, reflection, balance. As stated, as a provincial approach, a regular triangle flat on its base, peaking at the top represents a healthy, solid life routine. In contrast, the triangle can be flipped upside-down introducing an entirely new dynamic, composed of flat-lined monotony, tapered off to a regressed realm of destruction, regret and disorder. Despite the uniqueness of the standard triangle model to the man in question, it is important to compare the negative reflection, for it applies to the entirety of this investigation. We used to be lovers, he and I. We shared my giant pillow-top that I bought on the black market for a meager two-hundred fifty. -- A mere steal at that rate. We occasionally exchanged ideas, mainly about ethical concerns related to globalization and the environment. I attempted to give him a cooking lesson once, but that failed, indefinitely. The bust was not my doing, but simply, a great disinterest on his part; or better yet an inability of not being better than me at something. Everything has gotten so crowded.
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The room was dank and dreary The past hung in the air There was a scent of mildew A smell of history was there The paint was old and faded With stains all dark and brown The wallpaper too was dated And it needed to come down It was a home for 50 years That stood so strong and proud It comforted all of our fears Far from the madding crowd We stripped away the paper first Each layer a strip in time It showed the old room at her worst It really seemed a crime To tear it down, and think of when Each layer was first applied The walls that seemed so tall again I just stood there and cried I thought about the birthdays Celebrated in this room Of getting covered all in glaze That we cleaned off with a broom The roses were much redder Than I remembered them to be In fact it now looked better Than it did when I was three I remembered Mother loved this And of how it made her smile And she gave Father a light kiss After toiling all the while The next layer though was not as nice "Twas beige and a sort of lime It made the room feel cold like ice It spoke of another, somber time I looked at the wall and I noticed the lines Marking our heights as we grew This was on a paper all covered in vines Mom loved this one, we knew It seemed surreal that Mom was not here To see these passages pass But we knew in our hearts that she was stil near As we looked at paper covered with Bass That was from when Unlcle Jim came to stay And our folks gave up their room To help out a brother who I still love to this day One who can always help brighten my gloom They changed the wall just for him To make it seem more like it was his They put their life on hold for Jim And the wallpaper choice was his The years pass by more quickly now The paper doesn't change too much Jim moved out and that is how The paper changed just a touch Mom got sick and Dad quit work He did the room in flowers for our mom It was at this time we noticed the rooms quirk One of those things that made you go hmmm Far up in one corner behind a section of curtain Dad had left a small square showing the years worth of papers we were certain It was to help mom with her tears Now as we finished we looked to the man Sitting alone in the old corner chair He smiled at us as best as he can But I don't think he knew we were there I handed him some paper and I looked in his eyes He stared clear on through me And then he started to cry This was the last of this paper he'd see Dad and the house now have gone into dust The years get short and have tapered But to go back in time I know all I must Do, is look at my small square of paper.
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 3:08 PM UTC
Wallpaper
The room was dank and dreary The past hung in the air There was a scent of mildew A smell of history was there The paint was old and faded With stains all dark and brown The wallpaper too was dated And it needed to come down It was a home for 50 years That stood so strong and proud It comforted all of our fears Far from the madding crowd We stripped away the paper first Each layer a strip in time It showed the old room at her worst It really seemed a crime To tear it down, and think of when Each layer was first applied The walls that seemed so tall again I just stood there and cried I thought about the birthdays Celebrated in this room Of getting covered all in glaze That we cleaned off with a broom The roses were much redder Than I remembered them to be In fact it now looked better Than it did when I was three I remembered Mother loved this And of how it made her smile And she gave Father a light kiss After toiling all the while The next layer though was not as nice "Twas beige and a sort of lime It made the room feel cold like ice It spoke of another, somber time I looked at the wall and I noticed the lines Marking our heights as we grew This was on a paper all covered in vines Mom loved this one, we knew It seemed surreal that Mom was not here To see these passages pass But we knew in our hearts that she was stil near As we looked at paper covered with Bass That was from when Unlcle Jim came to stay And our folks gave up their room To help out a brother who I still love to this day One who can always help brighten my gloom They changed the wall just for him To make it seem more like it was his They put their life on hold for Jim And the wallpaper choice was his The years pass by more quickly now The paper doesn't change too much Jim moved out and that is how The paper changed just a touch Mom got sick and Dad quit work He did the room in flowers for our mom It was at this time we noticed the rooms quirk One of those things that made you go hmmm Far up in one corner behind a section of curtain Dad had left a small square showing the years worth of papers we were certain It was to help mom with her tears Now as we finished we looked to the man Sitting alone in the old corner chair He smiled at us as best as he can But I don't think he knew we were there I handed him some paper and I looked in his eyes He stared clear on through me And then he started to cry This was the last of this paper he'd see Dad and the house now have gone into dust The years get short and have tapered But to go back in time I know all I must Do, is look at my small square of paper.
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Fervour tapered lingering On that ******* precipice Of alleged possibility Devoured by the jaws of silence The soul no longer raged A nothingness that knew no words Agony’s cold grip Winter in December I knew not what to with these hands Their weightlessness Weeping willows drowned out sound Perfected in my dead Loosening the grapple on the promise Of a hazy tomorrow.
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 11:52 AM UTC
Chains not wind chimes
O Lord, please let Your Light shine, -in and through me- hot and brightly; my Life is Yours and I don’t mind following Your divine directives; with The Word, I hope to wick away Wisdom for a disciplined perspective. I’ve embraced the idea of transparency, where my lifestyle is straight, tapered and upright- with genuine integrity. Disperse the World’s ongoing darkness, that seeks to envelop my existence, with a vibrant flame of Your holiness. With Your assistance, I will handle any and everything that comes my way, while I’m blazing… as a human candle. . . . Author Notes Inspired by: Psa 18:28; 1 John 1:5-7; Prov 20:27 Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://amzn.to/1ffo9YZ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2015, All rights reserved.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 2:26 PM UTC
Poem: Human Candle
Now, there is the contour of her upturned forehead nosetip kissed by the moonlight and shadows frame the shape of her eyes soft wrinkles at their tapered corners And my god, the color of them I stare, squint A misty night, but they are distinct even in the dark: bronze beads nestled into slight furrows gossamer, reflecting starlight. The sweep across the peppered sky that we stand beneath Chestnut disks floating in milky spheres unmistakably hers full and round, soaking in curiosity handsome mahogany irises bound by the gold tracing their edges. The way the light makes those disks look glassy Semitransparent in the moon’s glow How they shed their boundaries shifting, swimming layers on the eyelid horizon They shimmer, and stir. And now, they rest their gaze on me. I inhale dare to step closer The bustle in the back of my brain— A hum, and the purr of pleasure at her beatitude.
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Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM UTC
She Was So Beautiful
That brief moment Walking into the shaded apartment to find you reading in flannel And everything in me jumps The camera obscura of my iris snaps, Suspending you in amber light. The tapered elegance of your fingers across a page A glint of Versailles blue-gold eyes And fortified ramparts of your shoulders. I will carry this vestige with me In a petticoat pocket Until we are old And your arms do not lift me as you just did The last strand of your hair is silver And your cheeks sink with age like your father’s. These small gems of youth Of promise To keep in a sleeve until they are needed And the mirrors show reflections we cannot change
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Aug 23, 2021
Aug 23, 2021 at 9:11 PM UTC
Camera Obscura
i. unfiltered asiatic plaything seeks hypoactive cradle technocrat evicting meaningful poach, mendacious transcripts of past events found in his memoryless playhouse. poplar crowd scribbles observations outbound punch of laughter sighs to the scrambled, ethnic postgrad nation. microfiche telegram exploits meaning to deeper courtesies current surrendered upon entry. ii. psychotropic sustenance fizz thru ***** vein corridor secret mission lifestyle learning fast in enormous packs of tiny lies. spew logic chagrin mediated bloodstain; cerebus twitching outside of beingself. iii. heart ceases, sacred whitepaint moans. o infidel, strike thrice; a chord binding us- nasty, ***** beads bleeding rich. cloaked bushes tasting, hisses cured human oaks; tapered horns that sob, casting waved heels. iv. dawn fallen, only concrete possible now. separated by thousands of what is not, shocks disintricate; undwindling patriots mailing lessness, laughter sounds fetching offband pitch.
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Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010 at 7:11 AM UTC
iv
Were you alive when the bricks began to crumble beneath our hand-held, picket line across the parking lot in front of some school that no one bothered to name? Our exhaustion-mumbled whispers skipping across lips dropping to the street that tapered ladders on gargantuan gadflies as the summer heat etched the tear lines into mud tracks against our ruddied faces. Cohorts torn into flip stands layered toward standing political sores -- tell me how to cross my t’s and fill in scantron circles before the suits step over brown-bag lunches to stretch the yawning yellow tape over the students’ lockers. We were strung up the flag pole, almost posted as decapitated heads for the public. The political analysts call this “The biggest school closing in decades.” Under teeming hammer-strikes : glasses shred to paper-splinters before a young boy’s diploma crying white chalk bricks from university’s doors instead on to prison yard orange jumpsuits. Can we call this a school improvement project or can we call this the Same Salem Witch Hunt As unwashed teachers and students alike deck the sidewalks like Either Christmas decorations on Michigan Avenue or Inmates on the gallows platform I’m completely unable to read the television marquee that told the neighborhood that City Hall was too stuffed with paperwork to defend the mothers and invisible fathers. I’m completely unable to write out of respect for these children’s already-carved in stone pathway to the gutter, graveyard, and/or prisons. In the first wink of dawn We will all scatter To our respective positions Carved out in concrete before the barricades fall to flood the street.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 3:52 AM UTC
2013 CPS School Closings
Were you alive when the bricks began to crumble beneath our hand-held, picket line across the parking lot in front of some school that no one bothered to name? Our exhaustion-mumbled whispers skipping across lips dropping to the street that tapered ladders on gargantuan gadflies as the summer heat etched the tear lines into mud tracks against our ruddied faces. Cohorts torn into flip stands layered toward standing political sores -- tell me how to cross my t’s and fill in scantron circles before the suits step over brown-bag lunches to stretch the yawning yellow tape over the students’ lockers. We were strung up the flag pole, almost posted as decapitated heads for the public. The political analysts call this “The biggest school closing in decades.” Under teeming hammer-strikes : glasses shred to paper-splinters before a young boy’s diploma crying white chalk bricks from university’s doors instead on to prison yard orange jumpsuits. Can we call this a school improvement project or can we call this the Same Salem Witch Hunt As unwashed teachers and students alike deck the sidewalks like Either Christmas decorations on Michigan Avenue or Inmates on the gallows platform I’m completely unable to read the television marquee that told the neighborhood that City Hall was too stuffed with paperwork to defend the mothers and invisible fathers. I’m completely unable to write out of respect for these children’s already-carved in stone pathway to the gutter, graveyard, and/or prisons. In the first wink of dawn We will all scatter To our respective positions Carved out in concrete before the barricades fall to flood the street.
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I want a nobody. A faceless commuter swearing as the machine ignores his credit card. Or the guy two tables to the left who isn’t checking his watch because he isn’t waiting on someone. Any hoodie-wearing, adidas-laced, prospective english major rambling along the sidewalk. I want a nobody. ‘Cause there’s never a somebody that won’t say “I love you” because it’s numbed by too many mouths that don’t form their lips the right way. The somebodies slide it off their careless tongues— because little words are pennies in tip jars. But Nobody, he’ll say I love the way you put on a jacket like some kind of whip-snap in the lapels and collar tipping your chin up and hooking your silver-ringed thumbs in the pockets and I love how you flip through books eager to break the spine but not fold the pages holding your breath to hold the focus propping open a paperback between long tapered fingers and how the barista at the coffeeshop knows your face! and blush rises like foam on your cheeks because it’s so ******* incredible how when you drum your fingers you don’t drum you press into a phantom piano the treble clef of Linus and Lucy or The Entertainer or, if your eyes have already gotten deeper —in a mossy well of thought— it’ll be Augustana’s Boston dancing C-E-C-E-G-E-C-E in the jumping tendons of your right hand. * oh darling, I’m in love with your clumsy movements when you fall into bed wrapping a thick comforter over your bare shoulders curling your legs as you settle on your side hair fanned out on the bedsheet because the pillow’s too close to the wall but lovely, I don’t love you because I’m not real at all
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 10:23 PM UTC
A Pantomime
I want a nobody. A faceless commuter swearing as the machine ignores his credit card. Or the guy two tables to the left who isn’t checking his watch because he isn’t waiting on someone. Any hoodie-wearing, adidas-laced, prospective english major rambling along the sidewalk. I want a nobody. ‘Cause there’s never a somebody that won’t say “I love you” because it’s numbed by too many mouths that don’t form their lips the right way. The somebodies slide it off their careless tongues— because little words are pennies in tip jars. But Nobody, he’ll say I love the way you put on a jacket like some kind of whip-snap in the lapels and collar tipping your chin up and hooking your silver-ringed thumbs in the pockets and I love how you flip through books eager to break the spine but not fold the pages holding your breath to hold the focus propping open a paperback between long tapered fingers and how the barista at the coffeeshop knows your face! and blush rises like foam on your cheeks because it’s so ******* incredible how when you drum your fingers you don’t drum you press into a phantom piano the treble clef of Linus and Lucy or The Entertainer or, if your eyes have already gotten deeper —in a mossy well of thought— it’ll be Augustana’s Boston dancing C-E-C-E-G-E-C-E in the jumping tendons of your right hand. * oh darling, I’m in love with your clumsy movements when you fall into bed wrapping a thick comforter over your bare shoulders curling your legs as you settle on your side hair fanned out on the bedsheet because the pillow’s too close to the wall but lovely, I don’t love you because I’m not real at all
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our skin so delicate, so crude we lie; beside each other & to each other two tempered minds, wounded skins on the Amsterdam skinny bridge letting the night to devour us into the darkness of its sky hurt, tapered, and used but we still are news to each of our owns
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 10:52 AM UTC
ripped
He said “Cult of Simultaneity” in such a sultry way it made we want to kiss him in that “Gay guys are attracted to me” sort of way. An English major taking an upper level history course as an elective— When he smiled at you in one-on-one conversation his Irish emerald eyes gleamed between slits (as he squinted his eyes in a merry, amiable way). He wore silk dress shirts and vests every day with pressed tapered black dress pants and gleaming black oxfords. His well-trimmed red beard enwreathing the doorway to his mouth made his lips (full, lush; I swear they were glossed)— evermore tantalizing. I gave him a cute nickname that was just his name shortened but with a y, like Jimmy and Bobby and I hope he liked it— He spoke with such finesse carefully enunciating every syllable running his tongue smoothly across his teeth lips and the roof of his mouth free of spit and stutter— every phoneme imbued with his placid charm, I ate every crumb with my eyes glued to him across the classroom— Vain and straight, straight in vain.
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Jun 7, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 at 5:11 PM UTC
Straight/Vain
I wanted to kiss her knee-- a sharp edged, angular, comic book, superwomen clean cut, streamlined down to tapered calf, to pointing toe-type knee. Hers wasn't a square worker's padded joint for kneeling down. Under sheet and pillow I once found it giggling with spastic warnings! Her knee was ticklish! My heart never did smooch her there, fearing some reflexive, paroxysmal laughter would kick me in mouth. Ouch. No kisses on the knee.
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 11:01 PM UTC
On the knee
Up early Thinkin bout my girly N her nice curls How she was made for me Like God knew how much I like curves With thighs like Mya So good I think I might die Eyes so lovely I think I know why Cuz they lookin at me Like I'm someone or Somebody Got me feelin fire Now I'm tryna beat Like karate I'm deep in thought Bout bein on top Her tellin me To keep goin instead of stop Wrappin her hands round my neck Kissin n bitin me Lips n teeth send electricity And tingles that lighten me She wanted compliments Well these are free Complimentary I glimpsed ya legs last night When you were shining that light They looked lovely to me Just how I like I love ya smile when I can make it widen But it's ya lips that make me stiffen Thoughts of them kissin n lickin Every muscle on my body While those sweet fingers Tapered to perfection Slowly stroke and pull the choke on my ******** Face me or face away Just so long as you came to play
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May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013 at 1:49 AM UTC
Soft Pillows
I awoke as I often do from the depths of sleep immediate and startled as if escaping a nightmare yet the dream is always tranquil I don't like complete darkness a slight crack of the door allowing in a bit of hallway light is just enough to make out the room I check the alarm clock and see that it is 3:33 a time often repeated as I am called to consciousness from peaceful rest this happens quite often so often in fact that I keep a recorder bedside to turn on before returning to sleep I spot something in the far right corner two small pale orbs about a foot off the floor slowly, almost imperceptibly moving upward the crack of the door begins to close there is no light save for the two... wait...these are not orbs they are eyes and they are fixed on me and they are no longer moving upward but towards me ever so slowly...methodically I vaguely see the outline of it's head long and narrow with a tapered chin I cannot only feel, but literally hear my heart pounding everything becomes intense the darkness, the quiet, the fear like a child I bury myself beneath the thick down comforter and begin to pray but before I can whisper 'Our Father who art in Heaven...' I feel the comforter being slowly pulled from just beyond my feet I manage a weak scream and a final whispered plea before the pounding stops "Who are you?" there were no signs of a break-in or struggle no items taken yet the police have no explanation for what they heard on my recorder... "I am death"
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Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022 at 1:34 PM UTC
I am Death
Dressed in a robe of A startling white Tinged with blue. Eyes rimmed with dark lashes and kohl. Desert eyes. Lips curled in amusement, Long hands resting on the latest SUV, Long, tapered fingers tapping the door. An abaya and the arrogant head turns. Two flickers. One in the eye, for the slim figure and the body stands Straighter; taller. A pretty face, Unveiled but heavily concealed by Layers of foundations, shades too light. The other is a point of light Through the ear. Yes. Through the hole in The ear. His ear. A djinn slips through On the cool, night, sea breeze. I ignore the girl in black and Slide into the SUV, as easily As he slipped into my life, as Easily as the djinn blew through his ear. I eye the ear. Clean and perfect To me, despite the gap in his pinna. Each member of his tribe bears This inexpert removal. To let the djinn pass through the Ear. Else they burrow through the Canal into the brain, Trapped by the ear. Djinn travel with the wind, You see? We wouldn't want Madness in the desert. Djinn, Trapped behind those eyes. Khol eyes. Arrogant eyes. Reduced to madness? No, He wouldn't allow that. Rather a small imperfection. He starts the engine. The pretty face above the Abaya appears in his line of Sight again. Mouth's curled no more. He is uninterested. The Car roars, slips out, Joins the highway and We speed into the night. I look out the window. The Djinn travels beside us. It glitters under the street Lamps and car headlights As they move aside, To let us pass. Desert dwellers on either side. One within. One without.
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 1:08 AM UTC
Djinn
Dressed in a robe of A startling white Tinged with blue. Eyes rimmed with dark lashes and kohl. Desert eyes. Lips curled in amusement, Long hands resting on the latest SUV, Long, tapered fingers tapping the door. An abaya and the arrogant head turns. Two flickers. One in the eye, for the slim figure and the body stands Straighter; taller. A pretty face, Unveiled but heavily concealed by Layers of foundations, shades too light. The other is a point of light Through the ear. Yes. Through the hole in The ear. His ear. A djinn slips through On the cool, night, sea breeze. I ignore the girl in black and Slide into the SUV, as easily As he slipped into my life, as Easily as the djinn blew through his ear. I eye the ear. Clean and perfect To me, despite the gap in his pinna. Each member of his tribe bears This inexpert removal. To let the djinn pass through the Ear. Else they burrow through the Canal into the brain, Trapped by the ear. Djinn travel with the wind, You see? We wouldn't want Madness in the desert. Djinn, Trapped behind those eyes. Khol eyes. Arrogant eyes. Reduced to madness? No, He wouldn't allow that. Rather a small imperfection. He starts the engine. The pretty face above the Abaya appears in his line of Sight again. Mouth's curled no more. He is uninterested. The Car roars, slips out, Joins the highway and We speed into the night. I look out the window. The Djinn travels beside us. It glitters under the street Lamps and car headlights As they move aside, To let us pass. Desert dwellers on either side. One within. One without.
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Beyond the darkness Shades of painted corners face these inward fears Now drenched in lost endeavors and flat as the cornerstone of suffering Caught within boundaries along wasting moments, crying blanket feelings, pounding on the walls of despair “leaving fist prints like so many discarded roses” Calling out to the endless deafness “Time it does not heal, scars merely cut deeper”, echoes among the tapered dreams Fog engulfs the melody…slowly chasing after poetic symphonies playing in a westward direction “horizontal compass points from this to that” This weary hand trembles violently as it reaches, pleads Where the monochrome sun sets, beyond the chosen horizon in heart shaped vistas and opened arm landscapes Trust in amber glowing beacons wave banners of solitude “free flowing fabric beckoning in rhythmic motions” Forcing the stoic front door…open Creaking hinges scream, your fears cup beneath your chest Breathing in the stench of life but lured by the fragrance of the future Where sorrow drowns in cascade pools, pain hides where it can not be found and he waits to lift you…beyond the darkness “and you find you have wings, shimmering in this golden friendship”
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 8:11 AM UTC
Beyond the darkness
His hair was dark as pitch, night dripping from the ends of the long strands. His eyes were bluer than that of the sky, clearer than the ocean and more crystal than a diamond underwater. His lips, full and ever-smiling, crooked and wicked. Pale rose with teeth white in between and a tongue that teased with a simple flick over his lips. The line of his jaw was strong, the angles of his cheekbones and nose chiseled fine enough to cut. He had the face that you would want to see last before you died, or fell asleep so that the imprint was left behind your eyelids. His hands were slender, long fingers tapered to slim tips that could caress you into dreams deeper than that of the universe. His wrists were small but not so much that you could break them, and they grew into wiry muscled arms, strong enough to embrace you and lull you to love. His chest, wider than his hips which were slim, the kind that jeans hung onto and slid off of. His waist was trim, and his abdomen carried a lank pack of abs. His legs, lean and long drifted over the ground when he ran to talk to you with his smile all off center. He moved like a gazelle, graceful like the wind that whipped a flag into a frenzy. He could hurdle in track like he hurdled my heart, just barely but enough to skim it with the toe of his left foot. He caught me between the tread of his hand and the material of his skin. He listened to me as intently as a rabbit listening for a fox, but with much more movement than an ear twitch. He cried with me, laughed with me, sighed with me. He huddled me between the wall and his chest and stilled my shivers caused by the monsters under my skin and the closets in my mind. And he loved me enough to make me whole again, squeeze me back together with the glue of his adoration. I fixed him, too, fitting him into place among my missing puzzle pieces that I had lost long ago. Never did I know that more than one person fit my edges. And he isn’t real yet. But I feel as if he will come along, meet my eyes, match my timid smile with a full blown grin and grab my heart in both of his cupped palms.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 11:04 AM UTC
Fan-tasy
His hair was dark as pitch, night dripping from the ends of the long strands. His eyes were bluer than that of the sky, clearer than the ocean and more crystal than a diamond underwater. His lips, full and ever-smiling, crooked and wicked. Pale rose with teeth white in between and a tongue that teased with a simple flick over his lips. The line of his jaw was strong, the angles of his cheekbones and nose chiseled fine enough to cut. He had the face that you would want to see last before you died, or fell asleep so that the imprint was left behind your eyelids. His hands were slender, long fingers tapered to slim tips that could caress you into dreams deeper than that of the universe. His wrists were small but not so much that you could break them, and they grew into wiry muscled arms, strong enough to embrace you and lull you to love. His chest, wider than his hips which were slim, the kind that jeans hung onto and slid off of. His waist was trim, and his abdomen carried a lank pack of abs. His legs, lean and long drifted over the ground when he ran to talk to you with his smile all off center. He moved like a gazelle, graceful like the wind that whipped a flag into a frenzy. He could hurdle in track like he hurdled my heart, just barely but enough to skim it with the toe of his left foot. He caught me between the tread of his hand and the material of his skin. He listened to me as intently as a rabbit listening for a fox, but with much more movement than an ear twitch. He cried with me, laughed with me, sighed with me. He huddled me between the wall and his chest and stilled my shivers caused by the monsters under my skin and the closets in my mind. And he loved me enough to make me whole again, squeeze me back together with the glue of his adoration. I fixed him, too, fitting him into place among my missing puzzle pieces that I had lost long ago. Never did I know that more than one person fit my edges. And he isn’t real yet. But I feel as if he will come along, meet my eyes, match my timid smile with a full blown grin and grab my heart in both of his cupped palms.
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When I consider, pro and con, What things my love is built upon-- A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist; A questioning brow; a pretty twist Of words as old and tried as sin; A pointed ear; a cloven chin; Long, tapered limbs; and slanted eyes Not cold nor kind nor darkly wise-- When so I ponder, here apart, What shallow boons suffice my heart, What dust-bound trivia capture me, I marvel at my normalcy.
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The Searched Soul
I'm so unique nobody could be me. The words I say reflect what I see. I know you; I know what you're thinking. I see the light, but I don't know why it's shining. Sometimes, I know, I get too upset When wrestling with the puzzles that are in my head. My heart could love, if not for the dread. It's like a blade that's doing me a chining. But I can't blame it on the rock-and roll, It's the only thing that keeps me whole, Lord knows, it's the only, only thing that's holy. No you can't say I'm like the other guys, I was living large before it was fashion wise. You know, the angels treaded far behind me lightly. The gossamer was endless and nestling to all it neared. The tingling within the earth let usher forth a worthless beauty to every person of it's time; but which was to be unknowingly priceless to the lives yet to come. And the prophet cried before the day he realized he was to die, the hour before he was to find... Relief. The automatic writing happens when you give it up, And you never even know the meaning til it comes to pass. But divination is a gift, even as the gossamer blinds your eyes. And the fiber dissolves into the nullity. When then spasm has become as the tapered wind, there is left but nothing.
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 3:20 AM UTC
Automatic Writing
Round the path these wraiths walk paced to keep the gears turning save for a few this is Lady Justice her arms holding even the smallest souls sounds of buzzing and locks clanking dominate above the incessant chatter backyard handshakes hidden from prying eyes dogged deals shaping these shatter lives and the word of the day is always "waiting" taking one last look at the hands of time before that dreaded voice bellows through then its the cold slap of flash on cement these veal on twenty three hour lockdown spinning their tales these jailbird tailors lying to each other for stolen smiles each in a different stage of the same life bathing in the omnipresent light of fireflys dreaming of a wisp of smoke or a hand stroke whichever waits for them on the outside they'd believe in the patience of the buddha if religion were on their tapered tongues as it is there's always faces against the glass eyes peeled to savor the brief passing drama apathetic to the other prison dog's plight drooling for the next passing hour as they count them like sheep herding sleep cleansing their conscience in the communal rainshower everyone praying for the wings of freedom to fly them from these sullen gates the others still suspended in solitude letting one man tell them when to eat and wake their voices becoming mere whispers of wind poets robbed of their rhymes and words grown accustomed to breathing processed air measuring their time in months, weeks, and years locked away with the shadow of their fears
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Nov 13, 2011
Nov 13, 2011 at 9:50 PM UTC
Jailbird Poet
Round the path these wraiths walk paced to keep the gears turning save for a few this is Lady Justice her arms holding even the smallest souls sounds of buzzing and locks clanking dominate above the incessant chatter backyard handshakes hidden from prying eyes dogged deals shaping these shatter lives and the word of the day is always "waiting" taking one last look at the hands of time before that dreaded voice bellows through then its the cold slap of flash on cement these veal on twenty three hour lockdown spinning their tales these jailbird tailors lying to each other for stolen smiles each in a different stage of the same life bathing in the omnipresent light of fireflys dreaming of a wisp of smoke or a hand stroke whichever waits for them on the outside they'd believe in the patience of the buddha if religion were on their tapered tongues as it is there's always faces against the glass eyes peeled to savor the brief passing drama apathetic to the other prison dog's plight drooling for the next passing hour as they count them like sheep herding sleep cleansing their conscience in the communal rainshower everyone praying for the wings of freedom to fly them from these sullen gates the others still suspended in solitude letting one man tell them when to eat and wake their voices becoming mere whispers of wind poets robbed of their rhymes and words grown accustomed to breathing processed air measuring their time in months, weeks, and years locked away with the shadow of their fears
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by Sharon Olds As soon as my sister and I got out of our mother's house, all we wanted to do was **** obliterate her tiny sparrow body and narrow grasshopper legs. The men's bodies were like our father's body! The massive hocks, flanks, thighs, elegant knees, long tapered calves– we could have him there, the steep forbidden buttocks, backs of the knees, the **** in our mouth, ah the **** in our mouth. Like explorers who discover a lost city, we went nuts with joy, undressed the men slowly and carefully, as if uncovering buried artifacts that proved our theory of the lost culture: that if Mother said it wasn't there, it was there.
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 2:24 PM UTC
The Sisters of ****** Treasure
What do u know of loss? W ur ******* Nirvanna shirts Did u ever love a crackhead Or cry toiletless room?. What do u know w ur dull razors Colred hair, tapered pants Nothing. U only imagine kisses Against ***** lips on nov 1st
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 5:57 AM UTC
u *****
Were you alive when the bricks began to crumble beneath our hand-held, kiss puppets? Our mumbled whispers that tapered ladders on gargantuan folds and slung-held boy-grips. Cohorts torn into flip stands layered toward standing sores -- tell me how to cross rapid waters of social trends. We were strung up the flag pole, almost posted as decapitated heads for the public. Under teeming hammer-strikes : glasses shred to paper-splinters before a car crying white chalk bricks onto saran-wrapped concrete. There were antennas perched like speckled, mangy feathers, poised, reflecting defiance toward the wool-ashed sky. With dirt-trekked journey marks, there were trees growing silver hair outside the grocery store -- and frown-marked women -- that skin-folded war paint -- yelled at their daughters to pay attention.
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Dec 22, 2011
Dec 22, 2011 at 9:30 PM UTC
Occupied and Empathized
Next to nowhere She lays Still bitten with the rage Of the still torn pages inside The left look behind She saw 12 Hundreds in gathering to see a masterpiece To see a great feast take place Inside the belly of the beast we embrace We brace for 10 until later our velvet skin was torn It was not a book she was reading Life admits it to be true Things only seem as they seem to you As they are As we are 8 left We read from the dead to find the meaning of life Still hidden from Foreign to the match tip burns Rage to the night Rage to all the ends of the strings tied to the ropes we bleed from Free fall to the once forgotten song We sing We breathe in again Within minutes of each other The numbers fall 6 legs on this chair Holding each one Carefully in the air Not the slightest ripple From even the slow moving and inconvenient We all crawl as one A notebook drawn by the sun With the letters as colors and pages as numbers We will all learn to see when it's raining We will learn to be forgiven For what has happened 4 steps to the partially broken door hinge Lay Waste to the less fortunate For I have come without a hood to cover my ears Up the elevator we climb To the tip of the mountain we press This is not a test 2 questions unanswered Wrong We must learn to run before we crawl the voices say To follow your heart From every beat And from every start There will be a finish A tapered trip to an answer well lived to be heard Hear all what you want to see like And say all that you wish to breathe like
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 2:43 PM UTC
We All Crawl As One
Next to nowhere She lays Still bitten with the rage Of the still torn pages inside The left look behind She saw 12 Hundreds in gathering to see a masterpiece To see a great feast take place Inside the belly of the beast we embrace We brace for 10 until later our velvet skin was torn It was not a book she was reading Life admits it to be true Things only seem as they seem to you As they are As we are 8 left We read from the dead to find the meaning of life Still hidden from Foreign to the match tip burns Rage to the night Rage to all the ends of the strings tied to the ropes we bleed from Free fall to the once forgotten song We sing We breathe in again Within minutes of each other The numbers fall 6 legs on this chair Holding each one Carefully in the air Not the slightest ripple From even the slow moving and inconvenient We all crawl as one A notebook drawn by the sun With the letters as colors and pages as numbers We will all learn to see when it's raining We will learn to be forgiven For what has happened 4 steps to the partially broken door hinge Lay Waste to the less fortunate For I have come without a hood to cover my ears Up the elevator we climb To the tip of the mountain we press This is not a test 2 questions unanswered Wrong We must learn to run before we crawl the voices say To follow your heart From every beat And from every start There will be a finish A tapered trip to an answer well lived to be heard Hear all what you want to see like And say all that you wish to breathe like
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. When I fell, from you, Into loves' violet eye, Sea spray in my ears, I was on the strands, By the creeping seas. Sky called, a tannoy, Screed from seabirds And the sands sunken, Tapered me by footfall, Such recurring dreams, Air howling our names, The horizon lit in flame, We were twined in kelp And arms rail embrace On strands where I fell.
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Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016 at 2:42 AM UTC
On The Strands