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"wildfires" poems
This is the Last Straw – and Something About Sacred Buckets of Holistic Ice Water ****** predators, human smugglers Starvation in the Sudan, civil war in Syria, mass executions in China Journalists murdered almost everywhere Fashionable infanticide, homelessness Unemployment, urban terrorism Mass ****** school shootings, wildfires, racism An unstable national government Anti-Semitism, border desperation Riots, arson, ecclesiastical corruption **** alcoholism, historical cleansing Skinheads, abuse, Khardassianistas Volcanos, the death penalty, free verse Affluenza, Jerry Springer, The View Herbal tea, antifa, anti-antifa And the soul-sucking existential despair Of inspirational singer-songwriters: Nah, not a bit worried about plastic straws But I must go now; The Voices are telling me To pour a bucket of ice water over my head (As long as it’s not a plastic bucket)
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
This is the Last Straw! And Some Inspirational Singer-Songwriters...
you caused this fire with a dimpled smile and a plane ticket can’t suffocate a blaze with a match petrol running down my legs wanna watch me burn at the stake? 7,000 miles of wildfires called me by your name like a moth drawn to a flame we kissed on the light up floor your fingers inside of me, it was divine to me surrendering my soul to my god left my lipstick scars all over you i ate the apple from the softness of your hand our garden of eden was no holy land i let you knock at the door of my spine no malice in my voice, come inside but baby, you weren’t expecting me to multiply like a moth drawn to a flame i bit your tongue in the break of day wanted to taste your blood for a change nothing like a little emotional devastation to get me through it yell it más, señor til your vocal cords are ****** oath taken in sacred silence tragedy and insanity and is it all a game to you? because you hid while i sought yell it más, señor yell it más and when i told you of the flower blossoming within you cried like a boy for his mother you see, there’s no way we can keep it not for your career and the next day on the 405 my soul wrung empty inside suffocating loneliness, all-consuming 75mph, nearly opened my door told my therapist i wanted the asphalt to eat me alive they took me to the madhouse while you had a pint and a laugh miles from my hospital bed they said “she wants to end her life with a baby inside, oh, what a terrible state she’s in” the doctor watched me as i cried with cigarette breath and roaming hands forced the wand inside of me at the same time i jumped over the ledge and did you know i laid in silence while he whispered in my ear “good girl, it’s a girl”, you see, oh? can’t you feel the joy? of creating something like God herself? like vines sprouting from the soil? but Oceania, so much panic, yeah too far, didn’t wanna come near my ash-strewn wreckage like a moth drawn to a flame blazing light, burned just right i wanted you to suffocate my pain pretended it didn’t exist for our transpacific love games i’ll be Marilyn and you be Errol the actor who can’t survive any longer and the one who devoured a woman whole yell it más, señor oh god i’m bleeding on the bathroom floor so much sacrifice for paradise but isn’t this what it’s for? tragedy and insanity and oh no, it’s all a game, i see yell it más, señor yell it más aliel enaj
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Apr 25, 2022
Apr 25, 2022 at 8:08 AM UTC
multiply (yell it)
you caused this fire with a dimpled smile and a plane ticket can’t suffocate a blaze with a match petrol running down my legs wanna watch me burn at the stake? 7,000 miles of wildfires called me by your name like a moth drawn to a flame we kissed on the light up floor your fingers inside of me, it was divine to me surrendering my soul to my god left my lipstick scars all over you i ate the apple from the softness of your hand our garden of eden was no holy land i let you knock at the door of my spine no malice in my voice, come inside but baby, you weren’t expecting me to multiply like a moth drawn to a flame i bit your tongue in the break of day wanted to taste your blood for a change nothing like a little emotional devastation to get me through it yell it más, señor til your vocal cords are ****** oath taken in sacred silence tragedy and insanity and is it all a game to you? because you hid while i sought yell it más, señor yell it más and when i told you of the flower blossoming within you cried like a boy for his mother you see, there’s no way we can keep it not for your career and the next day on the 405 my soul wrung empty inside suffocating loneliness, all-consuming 75mph, nearly opened my door told my therapist i wanted the asphalt to eat me alive they took me to the madhouse while you had a pint and a laugh miles from my hospital bed they said “she wants to end her life with a baby inside, oh, what a terrible state she’s in” the doctor watched me as i cried with cigarette breath and roaming hands forced the wand inside of me at the same time i jumped over the ledge and did you know i laid in silence while he whispered in my ear “good girl, it’s a girl”, you see, oh? can’t you feel the joy? of creating something like God herself? like vines sprouting from the soil? but Oceania, so much panic, yeah too far, didn’t wanna come near my ash-strewn wreckage like a moth drawn to a flame blazing light, burned just right i wanted you to suffocate my pain pretended it didn’t exist for our transpacific love games i’ll be Marilyn and you be Errol the actor who can’t survive any longer and the one who devoured a woman whole yell it más, señor oh god i’m bleeding on the bathroom floor so much sacrifice for paradise but isn’t this what it’s for? tragedy and insanity and oh no, it’s all a game, i see yell it más, señor yell it más aliel enaj
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She keeps asking what he does, though his answers are recycled: French bulldogs, paintball, a seventh-grade broken nose. The basket of fries between them feels like an interview. She teases about sweat-stuck bangs, neon-laced Docs, his faux leather squeaking when he moves. Her smile forgives empty stories, softens each silence. Condensation slips down her glass, her knee brushes his, a spark he does not catch, his throat working like a valve. The door opens, closes, a draft carries smoke and cedar. distant wildfires. Outside, a truck unloads shrimp. A box bursts on the pavement, pink shells and thawing ice sliding into gutter water. Curses flare into the alley. Engines idle. Hydraulics hiss. The stoplight clicks red to green, green to red, its metronome louder than either of them. Somewhere past Brockway Summit a ridgeline blooms orange.
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM UTC
Idle Engines
I don't need calm - I want stampede in my mind I want sparklers in my soul I want wildfires in my heart I don't need calm - And I wouldn't want calm If the roots of my madness Will be springing from your veins /pc
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 11:20 PM UTC
I Don't Need Calm
The veins in my heart, rooted down to my stomach, and from these roots began to grow a tree, and on its branches caterpillars did roam right there in my stomach, they made their home. yet I was alone. Enter the lumberjack. The caterpillars cocooned, ready to begin the transformation from girl to woman, oh, the sensation! Time ticked on, the lumberjack and I, with that little spark in our eye, from the tree, grew a garden, into woods our love resounding above the forest canopy the feral instincts, the cinders, the shade until finally the Sun no longer shone so the wall of qualms had to go, in the form of trees, one by one. chopped. Yet. the wildfires had sparked and the cocoons were now butterflies and the forest we grew together was ablaze what he didn't chop, my cinders singed, ash by ash life was ceasing to be, and then from the woods, were we forced to flee. and the butterflies flew free the blossoms, the trees, burned but the butterflies flew free, in my stomach, they are free so now a bit of our dead forest lives in me.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 8:58 PM UTC
be wary of the caterpillars
Mother Nature (Poem by Serenus) Mother, Oh Mother You’re such a woman scorn Your children mistreated you And now we’re caught in your storm Your womb, birthed the earth And from the earth, we were born We use to be so close But now we’re just a family torn Smoke stole your sweet scent We scorched your beautiful hair Your skin sealed in cement Suffering from thirst, but we didn’t care We force fed you poison We put a price on your head Taking your gifts for granted And we left you for dead But Mother, Oh Mother You have come back With a vengeance! Your temper is heated With no signs of forgiveness Your touch use to be gentle Tough-love, but modest But your backlash has been brutal The judgment of a goddess Hurricanes, acid rains, Monsoons, tsunamis Droughts, water spouts And quakes that sneak up calmly Blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires And we never cried for you Mommy Now our situation is absolutely dire We are begging for a day that’s balmy To protect yourself from your people You are fighting back And all we can do is stop our evil Reflect-and stand back But Mother, Oh mother Can we be saved? Or have you sealed our fate For the way we behaved? …Before she can be her children’s savor Rescue us, from our own bad behavior She must save herself "first So don’t blame her She’s a mother Protective power Is in her nature She said she’ll get back to us later …First she has to communicate With “The Father”…Her creator
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 7:45 PM UTC
Mother Nature
you draw your self hatred out like a kid draws out small pictures and play double dutch with the hands on a clock, knowing how unsafe it is out there, flirting with death and flicking me off when i wrote out the reasons why you should stay, that this autumn fallout is only a misconstruction of your mind's witching hour, that dystopia won't linger and utopia will be home soon, it will blossom into your lungs and turn the simplicity of your broken soul into something completely quintessential and complex, like an origami rabbit, i fold my sharp edges and twist myself to be malleable and secure for you, maybe i'm not too certain of myself or you, but i'm not too certain on a lot of subjects, i'm worried of being thrown into the arsonist world you started, covering up the sky with black dense fog, the type of fog that would happen only in dangerous wildfires i'm a controlled wildfire, but i let my fire spread just to help control your fire - kra
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 5:23 AM UTC
origami rabbits
it's pathetic how i always compare you to the ocean or the moon when you're actually a wildfire. burning the bushes. burning the bridge. when i first saw you i kept a glass of water in my pocket to keep you away from me, for i knew that you'd be hard to avoid if you got any closer. but then i saw you gently caressing the bushes before eating them alive and i swore i had convinced myself to not fall for you. now that your flame had kissed me, i'm gripping you tightly like i'm afraid you'd burn me. the funny thing is that you're not even as hot as the other wildfires; you're warm. and i've always been cold.
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 6:41 AM UTC
wildfire
God must've painted the sunset in your eyelids and the stars in your eyes he must've made a jungle out of your heart that everyone keeps getting lost in, drowned by a forest of wildfires. he must've tucked sunshine in the corners of your smiles. he must've patterned the oceans and seas with your words -- i keep drowning in them. he must've tried to recreate the softness of heaven in your lips. blackholes may have been named after your eyes -- they keep ******* me in and I can't help but see the birth of stars in their edges. you are a whole universe of your own, and I like exploring the corners of it alone.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 6:14 PM UTC
something about you
in this pocketful of limbo the distance rises in curls of smoke a prairie fire siphoning into crisp edge of forest Inside my uncloaked ventricle primeval forces turn my blood into dusted gold as they pump sacred texts into my oxygen They roll your quintessence upon my fingers, playing inside my psyche's wild ache a spread of orifice in spellbound mantra, as I spit out the hairy thorns, a holy purge of internal engravings Somehow --- like a miracle, I grow ripe seedlings from deep within my womb as I trip into a universe rising I take wisps of your grace as it brushes the jut of my astral collarbone You are always grounding me like this, my tongue tripping over velvet stance of warrior assuaged into silk Without you, I might be whisked off into the periphery of chaos but instead I am simply tied to the urgency of the little novas about to explode While I wait I tend to the wildfires. to make sure they are still burning I keep my honey wet and fresh upon your lips, let my pores drip moonpools into your glistening wet of mouth and only when it is time I let the whole of me burst into the fire -wrapped tips of stars
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Oct 21, 2017
Oct 21, 2017 at 12:56 AM UTC
star-tipped
When you shed that chrysalis of clothing Releasing the dragonfly wings of your longing Wholly among the sanctity of your skystrung ribs Your hips gyrating on the revolutions of the moon The astronomer in my belly burns to look up to the sky And see you spreading yourself among the singing night My fingers, matches skywriting The contours of your body With the lingerings of fire Nails soft scratching the runes of desire Among the hidden temples of your skin A secret language you twistup and rumble In like the sea swallowing a storm Inviting me to wade in your waters Till the lighting comes To reunite you with the heavens Let me lick a long crusade From summit of spine down The long whirling dervish of your legs Relight wildfires only to douse them in all The tsunami of your wet And wash you in the convergence of thunder As it rumbles among the fault lines of your bones Till we rattle the pearly gates loose And quake the caverns of hell Grind yourself upon me into Something so much Sweeter then stardust Break your body open Into a firefly and ignite Upon the rough embers of my wings This friction will elicit a diction Spoken only in vowels and the And in the crescent arch of your spine As we sling ourselves skyward as fireworks To rupture open the night Suffocate me on the whirlwind mane of your hair There is a lioness behind those lips waiting to devour me A sacred hunting upon moonlight to take me in the dark Don’t you see All of this is yours The rumble of the earth The heavy breath of the heavens The match The candle And the sweet rush of the burn
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 8:48 PM UTC
Moth
When you shed that chrysalis of clothing Releasing the dragonfly wings of your longing Wholly among the sanctity of your skystrung ribs Your hips gyrating on the revolutions of the moon The astronomer in my belly burns to look up to the sky And see you spreading yourself among the singing night My fingers, matches skywriting The contours of your body With the lingerings of fire Nails soft scratching the runes of desire Among the hidden temples of your skin A secret language you twistup and rumble In like the sea swallowing a storm Inviting me to wade in your waters Till the lighting comes To reunite you with the heavens Let me lick a long crusade From summit of spine down The long whirling dervish of your legs Relight wildfires only to douse them in all The tsunami of your wet And wash you in the convergence of thunder As it rumbles among the fault lines of your bones Till we rattle the pearly gates loose And quake the caverns of hell Grind yourself upon me into Something so much Sweeter then stardust Break your body open Into a firefly and ignite Upon the rough embers of my wings This friction will elicit a diction Spoken only in vowels and the And in the crescent arch of your spine As we sling ourselves skyward as fireworks To rupture open the night Suffocate me on the whirlwind mane of your hair There is a lioness behind those lips waiting to devour me A sacred hunting upon moonlight to take me in the dark Don’t you see All of this is yours The rumble of the earth The heavy breath of the heavens The match The candle And the sweet rush of the burn
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this is (not) a heartache poem about you or the way your eyes stood glossy and your mouth silent in large crowds of people – your demeanour slowly playing over me time and time again, even when i swore to myself that i would shut you out for good but, like your smile stuck in my brain, it kept coming back. please understand that there is (no) heartache here because this is(n’t) a poem about how i spent my life in paragraphs filled with every beautiful, treacherous word i could think of while you lived in shallow, broken sentences or how i could see you perfectly through the flesh and bone and ******** that nobody else knew about. could you see how much i longed for you to take me in the way i was – speak to me in the carefully rationed words of your stories – anything that could’ve brought me closer to you but instead, only burned inconceivably in the wildfires of all you cared about? did i end up in those fires too? were you so certain that i would just forget how you stopped sending me the texts that i waited oh-so long for? were you so certain that i would have let you slip away so easily after the way you lead me to believe there was something between us? well, i did(n’t), yet, just the thought of it kills me to remember how you were the brightest star in my universe but i was just a mere speck of dust in yours. this will (not) be another poem where i dream about watching every bone in your body cave in or feeling your breath against my ears but (no), trust me, there is (no) heartache that i have for you or anything you ever did in the last seven months we spent together that always left me dreaming on a prayer - but never listened to. i know you didn’t want me. i know you didn’t care. i was just another one to you. this is (not) a poem about how i’m now broken because you left me even though you weren’t mine – for where i am now is(n’t) heartache.
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Oct 25, 2016
Oct 25, 2016 at 4:33 AM UTC
this is (not) a heartache poem
this is (not) a heartache poem about you or the way your eyes stood glossy and your mouth silent in large crowds of people – your demeanour slowly playing over me time and time again, even when i swore to myself that i would shut you out for good but, like your smile stuck in my brain, it kept coming back. please understand that there is (no) heartache here because this is(n’t) a poem about how i spent my life in paragraphs filled with every beautiful, treacherous word i could think of while you lived in shallow, broken sentences or how i could see you perfectly through the flesh and bone and ******** that nobody else knew about. could you see how much i longed for you to take me in the way i was – speak to me in the carefully rationed words of your stories – anything that could’ve brought me closer to you but instead, only burned inconceivably in the wildfires of all you cared about? did i end up in those fires too? were you so certain that i would just forget how you stopped sending me the texts that i waited oh-so long for? were you so certain that i would have let you slip away so easily after the way you lead me to believe there was something between us? well, i did(n’t), yet, just the thought of it kills me to remember how you were the brightest star in my universe but i was just a mere speck of dust in yours. this will (not) be another poem where i dream about watching every bone in your body cave in or feeling your breath against my ears but (no), trust me, there is (no) heartache that i have for you or anything you ever did in the last seven months we spent together that always left me dreaming on a prayer - but never listened to. i know you didn’t want me. i know you didn’t care. i was just another one to you. this is (not) a poem about how i’m now broken because you left me even though you weren’t mine – for where i am now is(n’t) heartache.
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i miss the way fingertips felt against my cold skin the soft touch that only a lover can provide the kind of touch that can melt icebergs and start wildfires i miss the sweet sound of whispered words that could start a revolution and the goosebumps that came with each mumbled "i love you" i miss the feeling of drifting off in a pair of arms that transformed an embrace into a home and made a safety net around me as if protection could only exist within this space between fingertips and other ligaments i miss the feeling that you provided i miss the feeling of being wanted i miss loving something, someone i feel as if i have lost all sense of direction
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 11:38 PM UTC
loveless
They say, the Scarecrow stares straight and never blinks he thinks, but never speaks, just listens to the writhing vines of bindweed: Turn the earth, sweet arteries. They say, the Scarecrow was once a man. He had hands that knew perfect flavor of skin And had red, winding veins of his own. But that was a long time ago. They say, the Scarecrow blistered his tongue on blunderbuss barrels; Spat bullets. Waged war against himself, and lost his speech when the time came to beg for forgiveness. They say, That by August, the Scarecrow's Blood forgot to boil, or simply didn't care anymore. That when he found love fleeting it was indifference, not hate, that desiccated his chest like prairie drought. Dear Hollow Martyr who fears not the white heat of sparks or dry-weather wildfires. Stand devout in your inertia, bleeding apathy like canyons bleed echoes. After all, it's all you've got to offer except dead stillness, they say, so callous it keeps the crows away.
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Nov 17, 2012
Nov 17, 2012 at 9:17 PM UTC
Crow Keeper
Children of Louisiana, Swept away and drowned, In the river’s flood And the ocean surge. Never have recovered Fully from the rain falling down, And of a city that was purged. Ignored by the government And its fellow man, Follow in a long line of sufferers Since the melting, ice age glaciers And even a tsunami in the North Sea That wiped out Doggerland. Dark Ages got darker as people ran And Britain’s white cliffs were sheared. Times got better and then got worse, But the people carried on. Now, the floods are a weekly thing, A blip on a newscast, As lost as the victims in a mess Of other disasters, Of wildfires, droughts and don’t Even mention the quaking earth Or volcanoes! We can’t take credit For causing those! Rich men in their castles, Feasting and clapping each other On their fatty backs, Rolling in the spoils and spills Of oil, on the flaming water of The American plains. Sheikhs in old Mesopotamia Whine about oil pipelines, Promised to them by President Cheney, While the people starve. Bloated oligarchs spread destruction All over the world, from The Congo to Chernobyl, Melting icecaps and raising the sea, Sinking islands where they don’t live, Vacationing in the Maldives, On special rates before those go under. They won’t fix Miami, but let it sink, But not before they plunder The empty towers built on foolish dreams. Of course, they’ll be the last to go, Crammed into mansions up in the Alps, Fighting with the European nobles Over who gets a crumbling palace Now sitting on the last ice floe. A few American cousins round each other up To catch the Dixie Flyer down to New Orleans, Trying to hide from the polar vortex, A dazzling case of ignorance and greed, Only to find the tracks buried in the sea… Down in the mud of the deep, brown sea.
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Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 at 4:26 PM UTC
Katrina
Children of Louisiana, Swept away and drowned, In the river’s flood And the ocean surge. Never have recovered Fully from the rain falling down, And of a city that was purged. Ignored by the government And its fellow man, Follow in a long line of sufferers Since the melting, ice age glaciers And even a tsunami in the North Sea That wiped out Doggerland. Dark Ages got darker as people ran And Britain’s white cliffs were sheared. Times got better and then got worse, But the people carried on. Now, the floods are a weekly thing, A blip on a newscast, As lost as the victims in a mess Of other disasters, Of wildfires, droughts and don’t Even mention the quaking earth Or volcanoes! We can’t take credit For causing those! Rich men in their castles, Feasting and clapping each other On their fatty backs, Rolling in the spoils and spills Of oil, on the flaming water of The American plains. Sheikhs in old Mesopotamia Whine about oil pipelines, Promised to them by President Cheney, While the people starve. Bloated oligarchs spread destruction All over the world, from The Congo to Chernobyl, Melting icecaps and raising the sea, Sinking islands where they don’t live, Vacationing in the Maldives, On special rates before those go under. They won’t fix Miami, but let it sink, But not before they plunder The empty towers built on foolish dreams. Of course, they’ll be the last to go, Crammed into mansions up in the Alps, Fighting with the European nobles Over who gets a crumbling palace Now sitting on the last ice floe. A few American cousins round each other up To catch the Dixie Flyer down to New Orleans, Trying to hide from the polar vortex, A dazzling case of ignorance and greed, Only to find the tracks buried in the sea… Down in the mud of the deep, brown sea.
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really hot days remind me of my home the one across the sea with mangos ripe on the vine and yellowed grass if I close my eyes, i can almost taste the dust in the air feel the warm embrace of my family members that i miss so dearly smell the petrichor off the hot cement floor after a fresh monsoon rain time zones apart feel like worlds apart and they are when your family is dying and there is no way to comfort your aunt because her husband is taking his last breaths there was no chance for her to say goodbye to her father, to her husband, both lay in hospitals continents apart isolated, but not unloved both gone, not even a month apart the borders have been closed for i don’t even know how long there is no physical way for us, let alone her own children, to be present all we do is wait most of my memories are spent on drinking chai on the veranda or dancing in the rain with Papa playing holi with pails of water mixed with “gulal” and water pistols. seeing the smiles of all my family members, together once again. really hot days remind me of my home smoke from the wildfires mimics the smog in the air the sun - a red ball in the grey sky if i shut my eyes real tight i can still get a glimpse of us on the rooftop, celebrating life.
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Jan 7, 2022
Jan 7, 2022 at 11:15 PM UTC
Really Hot Days
♀︎♀︎♀︎ Tornadoes, floods, earthquakes & wildfires. Welcome to the four classical elements, & you probably thought they were quaint old concepts from a dated, medieval antiquity. The fifth element, Ether [Akashic Record]; Woman is puberty, ************ childbirth, & menopause & fifthly, clitoral ****** hm ♀︎♀︎♀︎
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Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 3:09 PM UTC
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Aether
in the landscape of you I am a wandering soul with but my words for protection as I make you my goal in the expanse of your vista, I wear the cloak of our depth your heartbeats in mine as we breathe the same breath I feel your rugged peaks, your valleys that sink your core's wildflower essence that stains me with ink I bathe in its fragrance, a tattooed poet's imprint in the primal spheres in my being enveloping my core all the clearer for seeing and when your rough tempest storms are afar, yet in view I dive straight to their center into the magnet of you for I will water your deserts infuse fresh creeks in your dry I will run through your forests as I call to your wild as I straddle your cliffs, festoon your tundra with blooms steam will rise from your earthcore and fill up my womb Through the dew on our lashes through my lava that flows, the stars in your eyes make my universe glow these geographic measures I take as you let me inside our bloodstreams merging as we get lost in the tides electric pulsed woodlands that spread iced wildfires slaking the loops of floodgates' desire and I will hold you together if you fall, torn apart bonded forever in this map of our hearts
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Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 5:43 PM UTC
geographic measures
It's been raining for months and I can't turn the faucet off – which reminds me: the sea is yours if you want it, and you don't have to be afraid of a little rainwater anymore. When you walk to your car with your shoes off and most of your sanity folded in your jeans, when your feet slap against puddles and you are remembering that you left your jacket on the doorknob, don't ever wonder if I will awaken suddenly, crying because you never stayed long enough for me to write that song to the beat of your hesitant pulse. Your car, evidently can take you farther than my hands can, but no road leading to your house and no street lamp mocking you silently knows that I hang pearls on the threads of your sanity and my stairs groan loudest when you are trying to leave quietly. If you turn around now – if you run back and tell me that you want to be sky to me and nothing else, then I will let you, as long as you promise to bleed the next eighty thousand sunrises; I will stop mentioning you to forests and looking for you in satellites and in smoldering coals, if you promise to murmur my name when the horizon is stretching and prostrating itself across the late evening. I will tell you where the sun goes when the Atlantic swallows her whole, if you tell me about the streams of cirrus clouds backing up your bloodstream. And I never ask you to search for the wildfires under my shirt again, if you give me all of the starlight under yours.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC
In Passing
I have some very destructive tendencies I'm a bad judge of character Whether the the character is my own or not Begs to be determined. I tried the pretty, pleasant method Of letting the venom from my veins But these emotions have succeeded in their task Of rotting me from the inside out. The floor embraced my pen And my ears were lovingly teased I tried to fall into the high from my headset But your passion did not sate me. Elemental damage was never my strong suit As prone as we are to wildfires You'd think the liquid cauterizing me Would hurt less than these god **** thoughts. And tonight the truth made its way to me My shadow understands; his love is pure I'm a cruel, witless ***** a scourge in my own right But he still dries my tears. I can't even pretend I'm not hurt So I'm voiding my lungs tonight Peppered smoke promises relief But I'm soon discerning the lie. We are back to square one but All the pop music these days is too melancholy I've had altitude sickness before, But this time it's different. And I smile, a painful thing that I'm glad there's no evidence of I told you these things are rare, like you This inspiration at the cost of my heart But this is my salvation When you move from prose to poetry That's when I'm done with you. My habits die hard But unlike you, the feelings, the talent, the slow agonizing death by fire, the bad character are all mine.
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 7:49 PM UTC
Flowing
Positive vibes spread like wildfires Return to the world something to admire Forget sorrows to smile at a stranger A smile can make a stranger stay until later They may walk on by They may smile back It might **** a cry It might stop an attack The process will repeat ...and repeat From all of upleft elite To the downright deadbeat
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 2:39 AM UTC
Light A Match
Burnt to ashes how do I spark my flame? Perhaps, embers somewhere still breathe and so I write again? Bonfires and wildfires people see so well but the fire in my heart remains unseen. If you ever come along and empty the sea on me, I'd would still be burning till he came, a drop of tear from his eyes is all I need to douse the raging fire deep inside.
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 10:34 PM UTC
Burning
We are explosive. Two sticks of dynamite waiting for the match. Just one whisper of a spark and we'll go, Dying to impersonate the stars Like fireworks in the night. Fire, you and I But different, if you know where to look. Flames of summer You are wild and destructive, Spreading yourself too thin Like wildfires in the drought Roaring challenges at the sun. But in the cricket-filled cool nights, Bringing comfort and memories to the young at heart Taming yourself for a time beneath stars that bear my sign Burning out in the darkness before sunrise Ready to return at first spark. Pyre of winter, Tamed by the frost and wind Leaning on hearths for strength Keeping vigil in the long night Raging against dark and dusk and death Yearning for what was lost in the fall Waiting for the rebirth of spring Sending up grey prayers to stars that bear your sign Fire, you and I. Born to stars of flame Raging, roaring, writhing At the whim of the wind Waiting For the spark.
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 1:05 AM UTC
Under the stars
Words cut thru swords Spreading far like wildfires I am here standing in dire Dive deeper so you'll discover but I won't meet you there Back on land
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Jun 24, 2023
Jun 24, 2023 at 11:55 AM UTC
Truth Unfolds;
I'm selfish. Hell no I don't want you to be happy with him. I don't even want you to be thinking about him. The only guy I will ever truly want you thinking about is me. Sure I'm selfish for wanting you even though I'm not sure you ever even really wanted me in the first place. Looking back at the nights you asked me to stay but I said no because I didn't want it to happen that way. I didn't want you to be able to blame the alcohol for what happened. Those nights are some of my biggest regrets, all I had to do was say yes, stay with you, have a few more drinks, see what would occur. It could've been nothing, problem is it also could've been everything. All the feelings could've poured from your lips until yours met mine in a kiss that sparked wildfires. Walls and clothes could've been shed as we became one heart and one being for even a minute. Could've been the start of forever between us. The only forever I have ever actually planned on. It could've been nothing, maybe a few more drinks until we both just passed out on the couches, music still playing, dog still bouncing around looking to play. Wake up the next morning heads pounding feeling ***** for all the wrong reasons. Memories are all I have left of you. All these words I've spewed onto these pages. He has you though, in his arms, in his bed, in his heart. I'm selfish. It ****** me off that all I have to hold are the same bottles we held those nights. Not knowing if it would've been everything or nothing makes me hate myself more everyday I wake up alone. I don't care if it broke his heart, sent him in a downward spiral, dropped him into this pit I live in while I rose out of it. Give me one more of those nights. One last chance to make everything happen. Let me justify this selfishness by proving to me it wasn't only me who wanted all of it. Be selfish with me for a night, you could love it almost as much as I do. We could live together selfishly. Who needs him, not me and not you. I have you, you have me, we could live selfishly.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 11:56 AM UTC
I'm selfish
I'm selfish. Hell no I don't want you to be happy with him. I don't even want you to be thinking about him. The only guy I will ever truly want you thinking about is me. Sure I'm selfish for wanting you even though I'm not sure you ever even really wanted me in the first place. Looking back at the nights you asked me to stay but I said no because I didn't want it to happen that way. I didn't want you to be able to blame the alcohol for what happened. Those nights are some of my biggest regrets, all I had to do was say yes, stay with you, have a few more drinks, see what would occur. It could've been nothing, problem is it also could've been everything. All the feelings could've poured from your lips until yours met mine in a kiss that sparked wildfires. Walls and clothes could've been shed as we became one heart and one being for even a minute. Could've been the start of forever between us. The only forever I have ever actually planned on. It could've been nothing, maybe a few more drinks until we both just passed out on the couches, music still playing, dog still bouncing around looking to play. Wake up the next morning heads pounding feeling ***** for all the wrong reasons. Memories are all I have left of you. All these words I've spewed onto these pages. He has you though, in his arms, in his bed, in his heart. I'm selfish. It ****** me off that all I have to hold are the same bottles we held those nights. Not knowing if it would've been everything or nothing makes me hate myself more everyday I wake up alone. I don't care if it broke his heart, sent him in a downward spiral, dropped him into this pit I live in while I rose out of it. Give me one more of those nights. One last chance to make everything happen. Let me justify this selfishness by proving to me it wasn't only me who wanted all of it. Be selfish with me for a night, you could love it almost as much as I do. We could live together selfishly. Who needs him, not me and not you. I have you, you have me, we could live selfishly.
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