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"teasingly" poems
His bicycle let out a little yelp as he slowed to a stop, The lady was dressed the same as the night before. He could have cycled on but he had intentions he would not drop, For he had heard stories of such beings from old wives' lore. It was important for him to address this spectre. Motivated by the advice he had received from his dad. To never succumb to fear if a spirit he should ever encounter, For the fear would consume and eventually drive him mad. He was brimming with confidence as he spoke, "Hello there again, I see that you are still in a fix". He was determined not to be made again the joke He had sworn to not be taken in by the imp's mischief and tricks. A sweet fragrance lingered in the air, Teasingly inviting him to greedily inhale it all in. A gentle gust blew, caught and played with the strands of her hair... Enamoured by her visage, he secretly gasped as if the air grew thin. Her face was still partially obscured by her black flowing hair. She turned to him before she gave her reply, *"Would you please give me a lift, dear sir...kind and rare... I do not wish to be stranded alone, unsheltered under the moonlit sky"*.
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 7:25 AM UTC
"We Meet Again..." (V)
Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM UTC
a love poem ~ veal chops and the ballet
Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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I envy the stylish model her styrofoam perfect ******* those legs that never need shaving the sweet smile that needs no rest the hair that’s always behaving the pose that teasingly arrests she’s a icon of current fashion a flower neatly pressed but no love will ever find her no one cares if she’s undressed she’ll never accomplish anything never mind - I’m not impressed
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Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021 at 6:17 AM UTC
mannequin
Would you Allow me To sip From your succulent lips As night Seductively slides Against a crimson stained sky? Would you Allow me To trace The contours of your aching body As moonlight Tempting highlights Your passion filled form? Would you Allow me To teasingly ****** You Until... We're both exhausted? © 2013-2014 Peach
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 9:51 AM UTC
Questions
Your glances in my direction are ants under my shell- they tingle and make me more aware of every inch of my skin and just when I think they are teasingly flirty they bite.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 4:55 AM UTC
itch
comely, maybe but not beautiful my features are as round as vowels and I carry the moon in my hips I am an unpolished beauty smooth pebbles resting at the bottom of a cold clear stream with an empty purse imagination my only currency in this world I am a shrinking violet occasionally a rose february-white caught in your button-loop long-stemmed red roses stalk runways hollywood bombshells are bubbly as champagne and full of flesh and light but *** sans love is still an empty bathtub whatever happened to pin-up girls long cigarette holders and muted photographs? I am distorted in the fish-eye view of the modern lens in my fantasies I am no longer sand and loam I glow like a tall slim candle though I am often numb and dumb and my girls are as absent as long lost unicorns I am the bohemian princess I travel through foreign lands clothed in exotic costume a jewelled headdress, and indian pyjamas coloured sapphire, turquoise and cayenne-red my feet are near bare and my hippie hair is a mass of blonde curls I take a sojourn in southern california warm desert air soft against my skin I surf in the salty sea held buoyant by the waves a sunset stains the sky tangerine the palm trees black against the orange light click teasingly in the breeze
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 9:27 AM UTC
In My Fantasies
Tomorrow I shall see the birth of the awaited dawn Today it seems I am locked in a midnight zone Tomorrow I will not walk into the dread of the night But shall be led by the blazing light Tomorrow I will carry my yoke manfully And never recite the litany of my woes mournfully Tomorrow I shall slow down and stop by the mountain side And watch the silvery stream joyfully down way glide Tomorrow I shall seize every chance that comes my way And never wait for them to fall on another day Tomorrow I shall be out of my prison cell with discord round And shall enter a palace with joys abound Tomorrow I shall willingly partake of another’s grief And never seek solely my own relief Tomorrow I shall wait for the calm that follows the storm And not grumble in haste that life is a withering dream Tomorrow I shall look beyond the clouds of gathered gloom And see for myself the beauty of stars that in hundreds bloom Tomorrow amid hostilities I shall keep alive the sparks of friendship And never mourn the absence of anyone for companionship Did I hear someone teasingly say to my utter surprise “Your resolutions sound so good! But what if tomorrow doesn’t arise?”
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Aug 11, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM UTC
Tomorrow...... Tomorrow
**A walk through thirsty land Breathe... step... breathe... step Dunes of towerring, rusty sand With each step, breathe... step No rules, no lanes... no need to 'keep left' Or walk in any particular direction... but that which you choose Too hot by day to play, by night... too cold to snooze It is beautiful, in an evil way Impressive, but can **** It giveth less than it taketh away That bone piercing, nightly chill It's getting closer, time grinds teasingly on The dunes seem to get taller, teasing the sun Whose heat, direct from sky to forehead Squeezes my pores... Breathe... step... breathe... breathe... step And robs my body of its last bead of sweat Breathe... breathe... breathe... step Attempt to swallow saliva... feel like I'm gurgling on glass Breathe... stop No tree... open land... sea of sand... parched Breathe Try to reassure myself, in a raspy monotone Wish for one thing right now, not water... chlorofoam So I can pass on, and not feel it The desert's friends are up and about in the dark, cheering **** it! **** it!" I try to ill will it... try to hold on But this warrior of nature's choke hold, grip... proves too strong To fight So... tonight I decide "It's over, I'm gone" I can hear the afterlife call Out to me Pick myself up... Breathe... step... stumble... fall.**
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Jun 30, 2010
Jun 30, 2010 at 11:33 PM UTC
The end of the desert.
"Hey Arya, want to go see that new movie that JUST came out? Ya know the one about the ******* "Maybe tomorrow Melodric. I'm kinda tired right now, kay?", Arya replies "oh...okay, Tomorrow then, i'll hold you to that you know!", Melodric replies teasingly Arya laughs, "Yeah, Yeah, anyway, I'm headed home, night Mel" "Night Arya, uh, hey, want me to walk you home? i heard that the crime rate has gone up in town recently, Ya never know their next target." "I'll be fine Mel, go home dufus!" "ok,ok...See ya Tomorrow" "yeah, tomorrow" **** "That the girl we after?" "Sure is" "like the rest?" "yup." "hehehehe...Lets get'r" **** "Rain, Rain, go away, plaese don't come back another day!", Arya giggles then freezes as a black van suddnely pulls up beside her and she watches two men quickly hop out and start towards her. Arya ran She didn't get far... The two men grab her as she tries to scream, but one places their hand over her mouth. She feels the ***** of a needle in her neck. Her last thought was, 'Mel..Help...Me.' **** Melodric checked his watch, "it's 7:00, where is she?" He had been waiting at the school courtyard for half an hour now for her. "It's not like her to be late...maybe her alarm never went off?" A fellow student noticed him sitting on the school steps and says, "Hey Melodric, class is about to start, why aren't you heading in?" Melodric replies, " I'm waiting for Arya, she hasn't showed up yet...though that's the odd thing, she's never late, ya know anything about that?" "you mean no one has told you yet?" "told me what?" "Arya was found dead laying in a pool of her own blood at 1:00 this morning." "A...Arya's dead?" "yeah...you never knew?" "n-no...i...we where supposed to watch a movie today. The Newest release. he told me yesterday that Tomorrow was when she'd go with me...and i said...i said that i'd hold her to that." "Melodric-" "She always used to say, 'There's always Tomorrow'...but now...there wont BE a tomorrow..not for her...not anymore..." "Melodric, hey...i'm...I'm sorry man. Sorry you found out like this, and about Arya, i knew you where close with her." " 'There's always Tomorrow' I can go mourn tomorrow..right?" "yeah, tomorrow." *** "There's always Tomorrow Melodric!", Arya laughingly said in Melodrics mind 'But sometimes...There's not always a Tomorrow', Melodric replied, 'There'll never be a Tomorrow...Not anymore' *** "Dude did you hear the news last night? that kid, uh, melo...dic? no Melodric! He apparently shot himself after leaving a note saying, 'I don't want to spend another Tomorrow without Arya.' how Pathetic is that?" "C'mon man, chill out. Those two where always hanging around one another, doesn't surprise me he wanted ta be with her. who wouldn't?" "ya, you're right, hey wanna go see that new movie that came out?" "Maybe Tomorrow. I'm kinda tired." "Ok, Tomorrow then. Don't forget!"
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 11:54 PM UTC
Sometimes, There's not always a Tomorrow
"Hey Arya, want to go see that new movie that JUST came out? Ya know the one about the ******* "Maybe tomorrow Melodric. I'm kinda tired right now, kay?", Arya replies "oh...okay, Tomorrow then, i'll hold you to that you know!", Melodric replies teasingly Arya laughs, "Yeah, Yeah, anyway, I'm headed home, night Mel" "Night Arya, uh, hey, want me to walk you home? i heard that the crime rate has gone up in town recently, Ya never know their next target." "I'll be fine Mel, go home dufus!" "ok,ok...See ya Tomorrow" "yeah, tomorrow" **** "That the girl we after?" "Sure is" "like the rest?" "yup." "hehehehe...Lets get'r" **** "Rain, Rain, go away, plaese don't come back another day!", Arya giggles then freezes as a black van suddnely pulls up beside her and she watches two men quickly hop out and start towards her. Arya ran She didn't get far... The two men grab her as she tries to scream, but one places their hand over her mouth. She feels the ***** of a needle in her neck. Her last thought was, 'Mel..Help...Me.' **** Melodric checked his watch, "it's 7:00, where is she?" He had been waiting at the school courtyard for half an hour now for her. "It's not like her to be late...maybe her alarm never went off?" A fellow student noticed him sitting on the school steps and says, "Hey Melodric, class is about to start, why aren't you heading in?" Melodric replies, " I'm waiting for Arya, she hasn't showed up yet...though that's the odd thing, she's never late, ya know anything about that?" "you mean no one has told you yet?" "told me what?" "Arya was found dead laying in a pool of her own blood at 1:00 this morning." "A...Arya's dead?" "yeah...you never knew?" "n-no...i...we where supposed to watch a movie today. The Newest release. he told me yesterday that Tomorrow was when she'd go with me...and i said...i said that i'd hold her to that." "Melodric-" "She always used to say, 'There's always Tomorrow'...but now...there wont BE a tomorrow..not for her...not anymore..." "Melodric, hey...i'm...I'm sorry man. Sorry you found out like this, and about Arya, i knew you where close with her." " 'There's always Tomorrow' I can go mourn tomorrow..right?" "yeah, tomorrow." *** "There's always Tomorrow Melodric!", Arya laughingly said in Melodrics mind 'But sometimes...There's not always a Tomorrow', Melodric replied, 'There'll never be a Tomorrow...Not anymore' *** "Dude did you hear the news last night? that kid, uh, melo...dic? no Melodric! He apparently shot himself after leaving a note saying, 'I don't want to spend another Tomorrow without Arya.' how Pathetic is that?" "C'mon man, chill out. Those two where always hanging around one another, doesn't surprise me he wanted ta be with her. who wouldn't?" "ya, you're right, hey wanna go see that new movie that came out?" "Maybe Tomorrow. I'm kinda tired." "Ok, Tomorrow then. Don't forget!"
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Introduction _____________ some words chase you around infiltrating and winking, in emails and poems to your attention dispatched undeniably messaging a wanting to be realized, completed, teasingly speaking you know a poem newly birthing in your left brain, tender pleading, love me already, just write me like you would make love to a woman!" messages from others employ the self-same word r e p e a t e d l y, you start to get the hint very very v i g o r o u s l y the rumbling, the back-seat tumbling, you're driving bipedal composing, guitar and piano gas and brake pedals to the mettle, and the speed limit was 15 mph under where your brain is fermenting all tuning you up to meet the guild's product quality standards, yet unlike an automobile, a poem, like a life, has a unique DNA, cannot just be recalled, for repair and additional tinkering, jes' because once it is out there, it has been outed sure enough in my my "started but *** file, a lazy layabout, overlooked and undercooked, the poem below, a dabble and a muddle, so ignored, so berefted for so long it got this special introduction by way of an apology.... Incarnate She is my poem incarnate She is the carne of my body She is the innate of my soul She is my woman incarnate she is all I need in form realized and invisible imagined, angel and thank god, devil as well...
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM UTC
Incarnate
She looks at you, feathers still protruding from her mouth. She's handing you a ticket to her way of thinking. If you take it, you're in. You have access to her mind; unadulterated access. Just renounce your humanity. She's looking for a partner, another wolf to connect with. Be it for her. She looks at you teasingly. Take it. Be one of her, and she will give you everything. She wants to dine with you on the flesh of the living. She wants you to play with her. Take it. She looks at you, feathers still protruding from her mouth.
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Dec 9, 2010
Dec 9, 2010 at 7:28 PM UTC
Dining On Canaries
En route from Dharmapuri To Krishnagiri Amid the tamarind trees There goes a flock of sheep Shaking heads Jumping merrily Hither and thither Behold! there, one man becomes A flock of sheep Evolving in to A black little lamb, A mother sheep munching on paper And a goat kicking another one Among the group There! a flock of sheep That has turned in to a man! Where on earth Are you? Wails the flock of sheep Bleating be..........be......teasingly Tongue brushing ear lobes with ruminating saliva Beside that flock of sheep, Dragging along a wounded right leg, Staring at the sky Standing transfixed, The shepherd was the other person He was a memory Of having been a flock of sheep once... On each path he treads A thousand flocks of sheep passes In joy and mirth Despite being poor at herding The one who happened to stop by Bumping on a lamb that fell down The photostat of a goat With burned legs Lying in the womb of a pregnant sheep He is sleeping... Looking at each bird That flew across the sky He laments That they are his lost sheep Beckoning the crows, sparrows and parrots The birds in turn fly away Frightened As though seeing a hunter The stick he held Was mistaken for an arrow Piercing the ground His prayers, Not to let them fall In to the lakes of the sky Was blocked by the clouds... En route from Dharmapuri To Krishnagiri Amid the tamarind trees There, goes a flock of sheep There, a shepherd !
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 6:35 PM UTC
FLOCK OF SHEEP AND THE SHEPHERD
*Seven New Poems For Seven Days # 5: Summer Girls In Their Summer Clothes Oh yes! The streets of Manhattan, jewel dusted, Summer girls in their  summer clothes, Bedeck the streets and make men say, Thank You! To their creator. Little black dresses, previously immortalized^, Seasoning and sauces, halter tops and jeans cutoff, Give thanks for the tanks, revel in the revelations, For God created man and women in his/her teasingly bare image. *Yo! Dude!  This is number 5 in the series, Of sad and somber, re dad and mother, *** Have you lost perspective, not read the directive, You're in mourning, time to be introspective, Not dis-respective! My mother was a beautiful women. Till the day she died. Yes, physically beautiful at 98. She, was a poem. For her exterior was suffused, burnished, By the spirit residing within her body I ask myself, why not judge a book by its cover? Her cover was exquisite, but what gave her a glow, A radiance, was her modesty, her love of humanity. What's under our cover?
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 1:11 AM UTC
Seven New Poems For Seven Days # 5: Summer Girls, In Their Summer Clothes
Ditty This, Little Boy: Venerable Auntie My Gf's nephew came for a visit, Teased her that night, Bowing ceremoniously, In the Chinese manner, Addressing her slyly, impishly, Oh hell, teasingly, as, Venerable Auntie She smiled, but said little, The next night, When to Argentine Tango dance she must, In the Chinese manner, Wore a dress tight fitting, Her poem, she called it, With slits up the sides, To facilitate her swoons and slides, Leaving the imagination to take care of the rest As she left, o'er shoulder she called out, (To me) Good night little boy, Don't wait up for my return, Auntie has gone to play she won't be back till Her bad boys have venerated her, Sufficiently... 6:10 AM June 11, 2013
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
Ditty This, ***** Little Boy!
Light me up, baby. Spread your sunshine over my dark sky. Ward these sinister clouds away, please! I need you, my rainbow, glimmering before my eyes. It’s a white, plain piece of paper, This dull life of mine, It needs the ink of your passion to write over it, The colorful story of our union, sublime. So mix into my insipid existence, Some of your sugar; it needs your flavor. Sweeten it with a smile, and the twinkle of your eyes, Wouldn’t you do me this little favor? I wander, like the solitary stream of water In the mountains, searching frantically for the river. Like the tide trying each night, to reach for the moon, My soul too restlessly thrashes hither and thither. Like the still boat floating in the silent, dark waters, In solitude and quiet, I want to lie with you. Like the green grasses awaken, glittering in the morning, I want to wake up with the glow of being enamored by you. Embrace me, like the orange-hued sky Caresses, at the horizon, the lonely sea. Like the rustling leaves that whisper to each other in the breeze, Lean in and speak softly, sweet-nothings to me. Come to me now, let all of time converge into that one moment, When your lips will, for a second or two, over mine, teasingly hover, Then kiss me for an infinity, and let me melt into the arms, Of you- my hero, my paramour, my eternal lover.
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 4:17 PM UTC
My Eternal Lover
i remember the first time bryn brought a boy for christmas his name was chris and we had to distinguish between him and my cousin chris so we called him gay chris because he had lots of pockets and he always looked better than my cousins who hardly ever tried to look presentable. i remember last christmas how damon gave elise sweaters from a thrift shop and fleetwood mac records and how happy she was. i never wanted to be allie from the notebook, and i never wanted you to be noah. in the 8th grade, hidden between shelves of a torn-down library where i'd sit for hours, was a short, thick book with pages of romanticized post-it notes and the smell of sawdust. dash and lily's book of dares was all the things i'd been dreaming about. the first-glance feelings in the middle of new york, the warm feeling melting through your bones with an even warmer drink. i've always wanted a chris or a shaina or a natasha. i've always imagined thanksgiving day going differently for once in my life. when my uncle asks me if i'm texting my boyfriend, i want to say "yes, actually" and i wanted to find a boy to take to my grandmother's house. i wanted to show him how tristan would pay me to go sneak him cookies, and the way we fought over couches. but now we took all the couches out of the basement, and i think someone else is living in that house. but there's still thanksgiving, there's still an extra seat at the table, and i'm not sure but i think justin is bringing maya this year. so when it is my turn to go around the house and say hello to everyone, and my uncle asks, "how many boyfriends do you have?" teasingly, i can smile and say "just one" and it can be you.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 8:37 PM UTC
holidaze
i remember the first time bryn brought a boy for christmas his name was chris and we had to distinguish between him and my cousin chris so we called him gay chris because he had lots of pockets and he always looked better than my cousins who hardly ever tried to look presentable. i remember last christmas how damon gave elise sweaters from a thrift shop and fleetwood mac records and how happy she was. i never wanted to be allie from the notebook, and i never wanted you to be noah. in the 8th grade, hidden between shelves of a torn-down library where i'd sit for hours, was a short, thick book with pages of romanticized post-it notes and the smell of sawdust. dash and lily's book of dares was all the things i'd been dreaming about. the first-glance feelings in the middle of new york, the warm feeling melting through your bones with an even warmer drink. i've always wanted a chris or a shaina or a natasha. i've always imagined thanksgiving day going differently for once in my life. when my uncle asks me if i'm texting my boyfriend, i want to say "yes, actually" and i wanted to find a boy to take to my grandmother's house. i wanted to show him how tristan would pay me to go sneak him cookies, and the way we fought over couches. but now we took all the couches out of the basement, and i think someone else is living in that house. but there's still thanksgiving, there's still an extra seat at the table, and i'm not sure but i think justin is bringing maya this year. so when it is my turn to go around the house and say hello to everyone, and my uncle asks, "how many boyfriends do you have?" teasingly, i can smile and say "just one" and it can be you.
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nightsong/fallsong nippy nightfog, dark drive (solo) breathy windshield, elmvale driveway defog, a naked girl/thru the house panes whose bareness is shown teasingly. (full aware) homestead. lamplight, "goodnight!", golden readlight. bowl of noodles -- broccoli, darkly pacing silent upstairs/eight-track recorder loudsound (genesis/trick of the tail) weedpipe outside cold fresh nighttime. outdoor pissing/rockwall/hosetap, posters/scotchtape/pins (troilus & cressida pages taped to th'wall) alone with thinkcap, lady dreamin' (that ass!---ahh!) (sighs) ragged joint thru windowscreen . . . baked-up mouth pasted---ice tea sippin' (glorious) warm blankets & an empty bed; need to get out of this ****** old town empty; lonesome songs. ---but, think better . . . this pre-spain hometown transatlantic waitin' sadness won't last forever. & tripping gets you nowhere. (snoop dogg) smoke again and maybe put on more genesis. . . . *(tho it is fleetwood mac instead that i slap on/toss myself into bed.)*
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Oct 20, 2011
Oct 20, 2011 at 4:06 PM UTC
untitled #3 (re: september nights)
In the end we ended up in the pub - now there’s a surprise. Fifteen nights out of thirty, at least. Cheap grub and we knew the owners, mates of my folks. ‘All right pal?’, he said. ‘Not bad’, I said back. Our feet ached, my arms cracking like conkers as I stretched, got comfortable. And then you mentioned the C-word again. ‘But in a few years.’ A nod. A sip. The cool slither of lager down my throat. We’d talked, of course, about it before. People expected, assumed a kid was the next step. You didn’t like my quietness on the matter - you’d kick my leg, teasingly, as if kicking the answer into my body, my mouth. Honestly? I hadn’t given it much thought. A sure thing was my regular line of choice. *'You know, I fancy you so much right now.'* OK, so I don’t know what made me say that, but it had already zipped across the table, buried in her ears before I clocked on. I really meant it though. I think your cheeks went cherry red - there was a kiss, I remember. I’d answer properly later on, the pub a foggy memory and that night, I slept knowing I’d fancied you from the first second we met, and that the C-word wasn’t as horrid as I always used to believe.
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 2:54 PM UTC
The C-Word
the woven intercept *the crescendo soft ascending, commandeers our riveting, we do not surrender, taken, nonetheless, our deference to an elegant wand wave, combo hopeful and all encompassing, the helplessness both well understood the progression higher, steady on, a rapture going to a defined ending, concluding voyage occluded, for now, but the setting sun rays us a plan, a path, teasingly, soto voce lips moving, “this way” follow on the unsteady water restraining resistance failing, flailing weakly, it is both early morning and late afternoon, the light warms, but each, a timbre different, the pitch and intensity tho one and the same, yet, order confused, still, we are given-in giving in unwillingly absolution unrequested, but awarded anyway, shelter from the storm of safe and warm, children begin first school day, but adults know better, beginnings full of risks unforeseen, the season changes, normalized, but would be refused if we could the waiver offered, the woven intercept read, emotional intelligence so fragile, on and on, sidekicks, lovers, connected by a dotted line highway, the space between permitting anything we want, but contradictories say, wanting everything, impossible but the viable solution singular how do we leave it then? we leave it thus, clarified, separation is a kind of attachment, voidable, when, kissing comes calling, from all around the world, the crescendo ends, we each have read the intercept, it concusses, interpretations differing, yet we don’t care lying through embracing lips* our tune is a mismatched matching, a vision ending and yet anew hatching, this is love, understanding, undefinable, undefeated, a changeling definition, paths possessing multi-endings, loving is the unceasingly, desirable imperfect struggling unique, singular just like everyone else’s 9/4/19 9:07am nml (she'll know)
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Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 2:14 PM UTC
the woven intercept
the woven intercept *the crescendo soft ascending, commandeers our riveting, we do not surrender, taken, nonetheless, our deference to an elegant wand wave, combo hopeful and all encompassing, the helplessness both well understood the progression higher, steady on, a rapture going to a defined ending, concluding voyage occluded, for now, but the setting sun rays us a plan, a path, teasingly, soto voce lips moving, “this way” follow on the unsteady water restraining resistance failing, flailing weakly, it is both early morning and late afternoon, the light warms, but each, a timbre different, the pitch and intensity tho one and the same, yet, order confused, still, we are given-in giving in unwillingly absolution unrequested, but awarded anyway, shelter from the storm of safe and warm, children begin first school day, but adults know better, beginnings full of risks unforeseen, the season changes, normalized, but would be refused if we could the waiver offered, the woven intercept read, emotional intelligence so fragile, on and on, sidekicks, lovers, connected by a dotted line highway, the space between permitting anything we want, but contradictories say, wanting everything, impossible but the viable solution singular how do we leave it then? we leave it thus, clarified, separation is a kind of attachment, voidable, when, kissing comes calling, from all around the world, the crescendo ends, we each have read the intercept, it concusses, interpretations differing, yet we don’t care lying through embracing lips* our tune is a mismatched matching, a vision ending and yet anew hatching, this is love, understanding, undefinable, undefeated, a changeling definition, paths possessing multi-endings, loving is the unceasingly, desirable imperfect struggling unique, singular just like everyone else’s 9/4/19 9:07am nml (she'll know)
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Your sweet-smelling hair Satin-smooth and rain-damp It's the tall, cold, moist wine glass Cradling the repressed cocktail made up of Hush-soft lips that melt in my mouth The fluid tenderness of your tongue Pillow-cheeks, gentle to clash against When I'm teasingly nibbling on the cherry garnish That is your ear, every curve, every dimple Finished off with a neck Like a tall tower of Irish cream Buttery, rich, velvety and extremely intoxicating Firewater, with a striking & a bitter kind of hangover: A knowing smile for a secret shared, And the throbbing pain of reality When the fantasy finally fades away
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
Veisalgia
Realizing a fresh life growing inside, What thoughts coursed through my mother’s mind? Did she gleefully welcome the news? Or respond to it with a violent shock? So sure, right away after her fourth baby With four little kids still needing care Like chicks in a coop, carrying once again Might not have been in her scheme of things Thus at a time when she expected it the least, Could she beckon the new life growing inside, With a pleasant nod of head in assent Or with a suppressed moan of fright, I wonder! When from nausea she started to suffer And threw up each time when she ate Did she curse her man in silence? Or grow mad with her children and her fate? Slogging through those weary days With no respite from her routine chores Did she get enough rest or care? Or did she languish without a hand to assist? Seeing her with an extended waist line Did some nosy neighbors behind her back Teasingly utter in hushed whispers ‘Oh, she has done it again!’ Once when I started kicking inside Was she tickled or greatly annoyed? When she heard the first ‘lub- dub’ of my heart Did she feel as two hearts singing in harmony? As her tummy grew bigger everyday And sleepless in bed as she tossed Was she haunted by nightmares bleak? Or was she visited by dreams of delight? Travelling closer and closer to those final days Did she curse herself seeing her in the mirror Woefully bloated and ripened into a bulge Or did she wait my arrival in blissful expectation? Then suddenly one day when the earthquake began In mild tremors first, then gaining in force Did she scream mad or cry aloud? Or did she endure the pain in austere silence? Then abruptly when I showed myself up Did she feel any remorse over my *** And see me as another liability Added up to the girls already in line No, I am sure she must have cuddled me close And locked me in the warmth of her ***** For she was such a rare gift sent from heaven A mother nonpareil in self effacing love
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 5:08 AM UTC
I Still Wonder
Realizing a fresh life growing inside, What thoughts coursed through my mother’s mind? Did she gleefully welcome the news? Or respond to it with a violent shock? So sure, right away after her fourth baby With four little kids still needing care Like chicks in a coop, carrying once again Might not have been in her scheme of things Thus at a time when she expected it the least, Could she beckon the new life growing inside, With a pleasant nod of head in assent Or with a suppressed moan of fright, I wonder! When from nausea she started to suffer And threw up each time when she ate Did she curse her man in silence? Or grow mad with her children and her fate? Slogging through those weary days With no respite from her routine chores Did she get enough rest or care? Or did she languish without a hand to assist? Seeing her with an extended waist line Did some nosy neighbors behind her back Teasingly utter in hushed whispers ‘Oh, she has done it again!’ Once when I started kicking inside Was she tickled or greatly annoyed? When she heard the first ‘lub- dub’ of my heart Did she feel as two hearts singing in harmony? As her tummy grew bigger everyday And sleepless in bed as she tossed Was she haunted by nightmares bleak? Or was she visited by dreams of delight? Travelling closer and closer to those final days Did she curse herself seeing her in the mirror Woefully bloated and ripened into a bulge Or did she wait my arrival in blissful expectation? Then suddenly one day when the earthquake began In mild tremors first, then gaining in force Did she scream mad or cry aloud? Or did she endure the pain in austere silence? Then abruptly when I showed myself up Did she feel any remorse over my *** And see me as another liability Added up to the girls already in line No, I am sure she must have cuddled me close And locked me in the warmth of her ***** For she was such a rare gift sent from heaven A mother nonpareil in self effacing love
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i stole a cigarette. no, this isn't a metaphor. there's just times where I feel like I deserve to be what falls in the ash tray. I don't know why I keep trying to harm myself, If things are going okay... It's like, I'm so used to the torture and pain, I don't ever want it to go away. No wonder I had clung to my razor blades No wonder I had clung to the trauma No wonder I developed depression and look at me now, stealing cigarettes. Desperately trying to find a way to destroy myself Fill my lungs with smoke A stench that is more than just stuck on clothes. It's the past, coming back to life inhale inhale inhale more cough You want to smother these thoughts Lose them in this smoke and fog But no, there's no escape Not even when the cigarette is done The scars still string your skin The pain woven deep into your veins The ****** scabs you keep picking at It's a coping mechanism Or a way to slowly die Is it that... I need to feel something, always? Is it that... I have fallen in love with Death? The couple of times, where he teasingly came close to... give me a fatal kiss. Is this what I lust over? Is this... what I want to feel? ... In any case... this cigarette is still lit up. Drifting me more out of myself. And I disappear like the smoke in the wind.
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Jul 14, 2018
Jul 14, 2018 at 12:51 AM UTC
Stolen Cigarettes
the fat boy with the ruddy red cheeks waddled to the front of the counter eyes shining with the reflection of the brightly lit menu board above him, he handed the cashier his crumpled dollar bills and ***** pennies and eagerly awaited the arrival of his beloved it came on a tray, wrapped in thin yellow paper breathing in the saucy aroma he felt the corners of his mouth begin to water with lust seating himself at a hard plastic booth he began delicately ********** his greasy lover slight wisps of steam danced before him as he surveyed the beauty that lay seductively on the tray in between those light tan buns was charbroiled meaty delight blanketed by melted yellow cheese with ketchup and mayo dribbling down the sides tangy onions and pickles shyly hid themselves teasingly peaking out here and there his thick fingers wrapped themselves around the warm soft buns bringing that juicy creation to his wide open mouth with a grunt and two large bites it was gone his square teeth tore it apart the chomping and chewing an opera he breathed loudly his eyes were slits of pleasure as juices escaped and stained his pants licking his fingers and sighing with satisfaction the fat boy crumpled up the yellow wrapper and tossed it in the trash exiting the scene of his fast love.
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Jul 19, 2012
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:51 AM UTC
#6