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"wobbling" poems
Everyone is staring You're trying so hard to stay standing But your heart is racing Instead of walking straight You start wobbling Your eyes begin to strain You start feeling as if you just gained a lot of weight Your heart sinks as you run away You have to hide You musn't let them see The you that is scared to be seen You feel like you can't even breathe Your lungs are tightening As you sink down against a wall and take into the fetal postion Just cry, maybe someday it'll be alright.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 3:04 AM UTC
Anxiety
i’d rather write about the freckles on your back than think about all of the ways in which you quite possibly don’t love me. i feel sick at the very thought of you picking me apart the way you did; fingers grabbing and stroking in a catastrophic symphony of skin and vulnerability. let’s read between each other’s lines; share my sentences and punctuate my paragraphs with your mouth; because i can breathe easier on the mornings where i wake up wrapped around you. because my moods change like the ******* seasons and the spinning in my head doesn’t want to stop.                                          you tell me that i should probably get a therapist because no one that thinks about all the ways in which they could **** themselves has an ounce of mental stability.                                           i tell you that i have been to four.                                           names faded into a blur with hazy snippets of conversation remaining. 20mg.                     30mg. you tell me that trust issues and scars aren’t endearing and i tell you that neither is counting up the potential number of pills needed to dissolve your body into the living room carpet. let me sink inside your skin and make a home in your flesh; i tell you about the nights where i lay awake in the bath turning the water red.                        tragic, isn’t it. you tell me that this isn’t how my head should work and i tell you that i already know. everything you could possibly tell me i already know. i know that 400 calories a day isn’t normal, and my hands shouldn’t shake all the time.                                              i know. please let me stitch myself into you, even just for a while; until i no longer feel dizzy and my world stops spinning. i don’t need you to tell me that it will be okay, because honestly i don’t think it will be and, that in itself, is okay.                                                                                  let me stitch myself into you, because my own skin can’t take it anymore. let me call you back when my voice stops wobbling and my vision straightens out, but honestly, i’m terrified that it never will. what if this is it. headaches and tears and shaking and blood.                                              and the debilitating, gut-wrenching feeling of pure and euphoric emptiness.                                               tragic, isn’t it.
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Apr 4, 2018
Apr 4, 2018 at 2:41 PM UTC
stitches.
i’d rather write about the freckles on your back than think about all of the ways in which you quite possibly don’t love me. i feel sick at the very thought of you picking me apart the way you did; fingers grabbing and stroking in a catastrophic symphony of skin and vulnerability. let’s read between each other’s lines; share my sentences and punctuate my paragraphs with your mouth; because i can breathe easier on the mornings where i wake up wrapped around you. because my moods change like the ******* seasons and the spinning in my head doesn’t want to stop.                                          you tell me that i should probably get a therapist because no one that thinks about all the ways in which they could **** themselves has an ounce of mental stability.                                           i tell you that i have been to four.                                           names faded into a blur with hazy snippets of conversation remaining. 20mg.                     30mg. you tell me that trust issues and scars aren’t endearing and i tell you that neither is counting up the potential number of pills needed to dissolve your body into the living room carpet. let me sink inside your skin and make a home in your flesh; i tell you about the nights where i lay awake in the bath turning the water red.                        tragic, isn’t it. you tell me that this isn’t how my head should work and i tell you that i already know. everything you could possibly tell me i already know. i know that 400 calories a day isn’t normal, and my hands shouldn’t shake all the time.                                              i know. please let me stitch myself into you, even just for a while; until i no longer feel dizzy and my world stops spinning. i don’t need you to tell me that it will be okay, because honestly i don’t think it will be and, that in itself, is okay.                                                                                  let me stitch myself into you, because my own skin can’t take it anymore. let me call you back when my voice stops wobbling and my vision straightens out, but honestly, i’m terrified that it never will. what if this is it. headaches and tears and shaking and blood.                                              and the debilitating, gut-wrenching feeling of pure and euphoric emptiness.                                               tragic, isn’t it.
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When I was little my mother put me in several ballet classes in hopes to bring some grace to my stumbling gait. I grew up walking on eggshells, wobbling to keep my balance on a tightrope that never really ended.  My instructor pinched my thighs and shook her bony finger at me every tuesday and thursday for three and a half years. 4 am, I'm still tiptoeing around the creaks in the stairs as if anyone would notice an empty bed.  This Christmas I came across the broken reminents of the ballerina ornaments my younger sister used to play with. I never did master the delicate posture I was expected to adopt. My feet fell a bit too heavy, I suppose, on the ice tonight. I'm not cold anymore, just exhausted from attempting to balance the wrong things for too long. My life is flashing before my eyes, but all I see is a younger version of myself practicing Grand Battements on thin ice while everyone slept.
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014 at 3:18 PM UTC
Ballerina
MS Multiple Scleriosis Aka Miserable Self "Listen to your body" Says MS nurse Your mind keeps going Burning sensations intermittent Stabing and shooting in arms and legs Crawling in your head Numbness in your *** Forget fullness Wobbling  stumberling Fear Pregablin ***** Dampening your fuesed nerves Limping dragging "rest" Says MS nurse Mind keeps going Days are half days Taken up by sleep Fear Weakness Dropping Numbness "pace yourself " says MS nurse Mind keeps going job half done Delegate Let go "Use your alternative technology " Says MS nurse Mind keeps going Stick Mixer Steamer Robotic vacuum cleaner Hose Wheelchair Automatic car It's challenging Managing Self Be kinder to yourself Kindness rules
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Nov 12, 2016
Nov 12, 2016 at 6:38 AM UTC
It's challenging managing
Teetering on her baby legs A newborn with a Solo cup bombastic red with a few undulating ribs Held firmly in her hand Is this her first or her third? Somnambulant yet eager And just a little out of place In a foreign territory On newly contested lands She stumbles through a raucous crowd Or was it just white noise? She’s lost her companions Somewhere Although they could very well be close at hand In the distance she can make out Laughing faces Bodies moving to and fro Spilling forward, little messes Throwing back cheap libation She passes through a room and out the door Into the out-of-doors Someone following her unbeknownst Watching her cautious, curious steps And when she turns and sees the blur standing She greets it “Hail Fellow!” Bouncing from variable to variable Frequency to frequency Confident and in command Of a seemingly controlled chaos He approaches smiling and holds out his hand Anonymous Having drawn her attention from the stars That she could not find above Leaning against the garage’s eastern wall She takes it awkwardly Tentative she smiles back reassured Wobbling she returns standing alongside him Or was she in front? Purposeful and en route Emboldened by his presence And how the way was parted before her Just by his being there. By being so close. She felt vaguely special it showed in her half-smile Cloaked in bangs She held her head just a little bit higher The co-conspiratorial glances Met by boys eyes And shes Went unseen by the girl with the Solo cup One of tens upon tens upon tens A coven would have known It’s better not to However. She was shown a seat to rest And her cup refilled She takes a sip and smiles again She takes another and then a gulp That spills He takes the cup away And places it on the low table Suggests she go to the restroom upstairs and get herself Sorted Embarrassed she is relieved for direction Someone knows what’s going on And his caring Taking the time His kind eyes She’s usually alone She waddles up the stairs to find a toilet and a mirror God she thinks I look a mess She tries to fix it The hair The eyes The lips The dress The stomach The ******* The thighs She shrugs her shoulders at her reflection Exhales and steps out again To find him standing there waiting for more. She wants another cup. She’s missing her cup. I’ll get you the cup he says In just a second. Come.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 3:53 PM UTC
Solo Cup
Teetering on her baby legs A newborn with a Solo cup bombastic red with a few undulating ribs Held firmly in her hand Is this her first or her third? Somnambulant yet eager And just a little out of place In a foreign territory On newly contested lands She stumbles through a raucous crowd Or was it just white noise? She’s lost her companions Somewhere Although they could very well be close at hand In the distance she can make out Laughing faces Bodies moving to and fro Spilling forward, little messes Throwing back cheap libation She passes through a room and out the door Into the out-of-doors Someone following her unbeknownst Watching her cautious, curious steps And when she turns and sees the blur standing She greets it “Hail Fellow!” Bouncing from variable to variable Frequency to frequency Confident and in command Of a seemingly controlled chaos He approaches smiling and holds out his hand Anonymous Having drawn her attention from the stars That she could not find above Leaning against the garage’s eastern wall She takes it awkwardly Tentative she smiles back reassured Wobbling she returns standing alongside him Or was she in front? Purposeful and en route Emboldened by his presence And how the way was parted before her Just by his being there. By being so close. She felt vaguely special it showed in her half-smile Cloaked in bangs She held her head just a little bit higher The co-conspiratorial glances Met by boys eyes And shes Went unseen by the girl with the Solo cup One of tens upon tens upon tens A coven would have known It’s better not to However. She was shown a seat to rest And her cup refilled She takes a sip and smiles again She takes another and then a gulp That spills He takes the cup away And places it on the low table Suggests she go to the restroom upstairs and get herself Sorted Embarrassed she is relieved for direction Someone knows what’s going on And his caring Taking the time His kind eyes She’s usually alone She waddles up the stairs to find a toilet and a mirror God she thinks I look a mess She tries to fix it The hair The eyes The lips The dress The stomach The ******* The thighs She shrugs her shoulders at her reflection Exhales and steps out again To find him standing there waiting for more. She wants another cup. She’s missing her cup. I’ll get you the cup he says In just a second. Come.
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Caught -- the bubble in the spirit level, a creature divided; and the compass needle wobbling and wavering, undecided. Freed -- the broken thermometer's mercury running away; and the rainbow-bird from the narrow bevel of the empty mirror, flying wherever it feels like, gay!
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Sonnet (1979)
the fingertips hurt the best kind of pain beautiful music in my ears the guitar strings vibrate word come wobbling out of my mouth sometimes they make sense and sometimes they do not sometimes they're nonsense feelings have no reason just wants to be expressed comes and goes with the seasons makes me feel both sad and blessed
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Jan 1, 2016
Jan 1, 2016 at 3:24 PM UTC
feelings through the guitar
We’re reeling, thundering, flying. We’re racing down the hill. We’re sweeping along the pavement. I will carry you; I’ll take you where ever you want. We’re wobbling, swaying, tilting. We’re blown and knocked; uneasy. We’re pushing into the wind. I’ll try to be steady; try my hardest to never let you fall. We’re bumping, pounding, jolting. We’re kicking up leaves. We’re skidding along the track. I’ll weave between every tree, don’t worry, my love. We’re gliding, sprinting, whizzing. We’re brushing by the hedge. We’re crunching along the stones. I shall trundle with you, gently down the towpath. We’re moseying, wandering, meandering. We’re stopping, choosing some lunch. We’re pacing through the lanes. I’ll wait when you’re gone, wait to take you home.
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Mar 7, 2012
Mar 7, 2012 at 9:42 AM UTC
Bike
It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
Sunday Morning
It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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Do you ever get frustrated? Tired of the fight. You're sick of wobbling at the edge, with nothing going right. The moon is tugging you once more and you feel you must take flight. Even if it means your fall to doom. Oh God, let me find freedom soon. The freedom to scream, as loud and as pained as blood, dripping freely from the chest, the successive scratch marks of my mind free to air their wounds at last. There you go everyone, there is my real past. It's disgusting and it's vile, and still has the ability to rip the smile from my face. I feel like I'm in a constant race. Who can reach her brain first? Can she really keep reign the bad, when we provoke the beasts of her destruction? Can we quicken her heartbeat and limit her air? How about, if we tie her hair to spiders? Watch them scuttle closer in, wriggling and spinning, trying to reach inside her. Let's watch her play "find the sin" The sins we hid within, which are not hers but others. We know she won't want to cause a bother, she won't dob us in. She'll hide them like she does her soul. Honestly, she sometimes wonders if it's worth it after all. She feels enclosed, compressed, constricted, a claustrophobic who finds solace in small spaces fears suppression of emotion, the heavy tread of life, can sometimes be quite weary. But it'll be alright, she'll always find the energy to do that which is right. She'll once more start to fight She'll find solace where she can, and cradle ***** of light, she'll find a way to free herself by flying like a kite; string holding her down, but wind taking her high. She'll dance and laugh and twist and turn and dive high up in the sky Free as a bird, but secret silent as a sigh, not the least offended, if people pass her by. If they can't accept her, she'll happily flip them off with a cry of contentment, that she can finally be free of living with resentment. Her Girl, Lady, Woman firmly by her side, together they will glide and ride the tides of life. "We're flying!" They will cry, laugh and love forever eternally. Their quirks in constant harmony And when they lie to rest together, the girl will whisper: "We will never die I'll live so safe in your heart and you will be in mine" "I promise, and I know, our love can only grow" So I'll never give up. Ever Because, I love you so.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 3:07 PM UTC
Falling, to get back up again.
Do you ever get frustrated? Tired of the fight. You're sick of wobbling at the edge, with nothing going right. The moon is tugging you once more and you feel you must take flight. Even if it means your fall to doom. Oh God, let me find freedom soon. The freedom to scream, as loud and as pained as blood, dripping freely from the chest, the successive scratch marks of my mind free to air their wounds at last. There you go everyone, there is my real past. It's disgusting and it's vile, and still has the ability to rip the smile from my face. I feel like I'm in a constant race. Who can reach her brain first? Can she really keep reign the bad, when we provoke the beasts of her destruction? Can we quicken her heartbeat and limit her air? How about, if we tie her hair to spiders? Watch them scuttle closer in, wriggling and spinning, trying to reach inside her. Let's watch her play "find the sin" The sins we hid within, which are not hers but others. We know she won't want to cause a bother, she won't dob us in. She'll hide them like she does her soul. Honestly, she sometimes wonders if it's worth it after all. She feels enclosed, compressed, constricted, a claustrophobic who finds solace in small spaces fears suppression of emotion, the heavy tread of life, can sometimes be quite weary. But it'll be alright, she'll always find the energy to do that which is right. She'll once more start to fight She'll find solace where she can, and cradle ***** of light, she'll find a way to free herself by flying like a kite; string holding her down, but wind taking her high. She'll dance and laugh and twist and turn and dive high up in the sky Free as a bird, but secret silent as a sigh, not the least offended, if people pass her by. If they can't accept her, she'll happily flip them off with a cry of contentment, that she can finally be free of living with resentment. Her Girl, Lady, Woman firmly by her side, together they will glide and ride the tides of life. "We're flying!" They will cry, laugh and love forever eternally. Their quirks in constant harmony And when they lie to rest together, the girl will whisper: "We will never die I'll live so safe in your heart and you will be in mine" "I promise, and I know, our love can only grow" So I'll never give up. Ever Because, I love you so.
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. Henry VIII was a deluded monarch, he could never have ruled the Earth, for he hasn't seen his **** for years, hiding beneath the bulk of his girth. And wobbling onto the battle field is not the behaviour fit for a King, he would have to sit nursing his cysts and hoping the ointments don't sting. His eating excess was cause for concern but his syphilis remained largely unseen, and one really has to feel so sorry for whomever it is that is currently Queen. His penchant for young and younger Ladies made him a stranger to baths and soap, and his bed hopping antics to sire a son bought him much trouble from the pope. © Pagan Paul (09/12/18)
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018 at 5:13 PM UTC
Henry VIII
A little guilt goes a long way Even the sturdiest oak can be made to sway Figments of people duped by atavistic views Waking up from bouts of fervor A most sadistic snooze They repose like overgrown fountains of youth Their dreams rusted, forgotten and that’s the truth In a lonely forest, oaks fall with the loudest screams A somberness aided by clouds and defective sun beams My soul has finally given in to moralistic cracks For now it’s about as clean as mud pies and tire tracks I’m wobbling down my lifetime from crutch to crutch Wondering when to finally whisper **** I’ve seen too much” So please, return me home, send my spirit way down below To lands of rusted dreams and toss-turned pillows
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May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 at 4:23 PM UTC
Flora Diaspora
The casket was coming up, swaying and wobbling Like a novice skater’s layover spin, The workings proceeding apace, The stillness of the August heat Punctuated by disinterested growl of the backhoe, The occasional out-of-place jocularity by the excavators The creaky jingle of the chains holding the muddied box As it proceeded skyward in its clumsy poor-man’s Resurrection. The affair was being observed by an elderly couple, Old enough to be of no particular age.   Their car had Carolina plates, But their inflections, their casually-tossed idioms They noted that ruefully The grass needs mowed) Marked them as natives. They’d returned (Last time, most likely, The wife uttered mournfully) To take their son with them; he’d drowned when was five? six? (The years will do that to a body, apparently) In Kinzua Creek some half-century ago, Back when little boys weren’t under a mandate To be safe from themselves, as it were.   He was our boy! We’ve never forgotten him! The old man said, the words snapping off In a manner that spoke of something else altogether, How the whistle at the Montmorenci Went off at three and eleven for second shift, And your *** had better be there, As those were good jobs that didn’t wait for bereavement leave, Because there was always someone Just itching to take your spot on the line, And anyway life went on, At least in the sense that television screens went all to snow And tires went flat and fuses blew And eventually a dead child Is not always in the forefront of your thoughts, Only tiptoeing in when the Press ran a picture Of the Montmorenci Area Class of whenever, Or there was an item about some other family Who opened their front door To a grim sheriff’s deputy with his hat in his hand.   Eventually, after some time And in defiance of both the odds and gravity, The casket was settled into the back Of the undertaker’s huge old black Caddy, And the couple cane-toddled back to their car, Following out the through the old spider-like gates And onto the main road. The brief procession fading from sight, Until there was nothing left to see Save the hillsides covered in old growth pine.
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC
the disinterment
The casket was coming up, swaying and wobbling Like a novice skater’s layover spin, The workings proceeding apace, The stillness of the August heat Punctuated by disinterested growl of the backhoe, The occasional out-of-place jocularity by the excavators The creaky jingle of the chains holding the muddied box As it proceeded skyward in its clumsy poor-man’s Resurrection. The affair was being observed by an elderly couple, Old enough to be of no particular age.   Their car had Carolina plates, But their inflections, their casually-tossed idioms They noted that ruefully The grass needs mowed) Marked them as natives. They’d returned (Last time, most likely, The wife uttered mournfully) To take their son with them; he’d drowned when was five? six? (The years will do that to a body, apparently) In Kinzua Creek some half-century ago, Back when little boys weren’t under a mandate To be safe from themselves, as it were.   He was our boy! We’ve never forgotten him! The old man said, the words snapping off In a manner that spoke of something else altogether, How the whistle at the Montmorenci Went off at three and eleven for second shift, And your *** had better be there, As those were good jobs that didn’t wait for bereavement leave, Because there was always someone Just itching to take your spot on the line, And anyway life went on, At least in the sense that television screens went all to snow And tires went flat and fuses blew And eventually a dead child Is not always in the forefront of your thoughts, Only tiptoeing in when the Press ran a picture Of the Montmorenci Area Class of whenever, Or there was an item about some other family Who opened their front door To a grim sheriff’s deputy with his hat in his hand.   Eventually, after some time And in defiance of both the odds and gravity, The casket was settled into the back Of the undertaker’s huge old black Caddy, And the couple cane-toddled back to their car, Following out the through the old spider-like gates And onto the main road. The brief procession fading from sight, Until there was nothing left to see Save the hillsides covered in old growth pine.
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Purple Yellow Orange I was thinking of so many things While the sun was painting a backdrop I wished to hold onto that order Purple Yellow Orange As if nothing else mattered Purple Yellow Orange I was in the mountains again But now the birds sang And my ankles were boney Wobbling against the war-zone of stones Purple Yellow Orange The snow wasn't stuck to the grass anymore But melting away lone piles of it slumped against, wasted rocks That the mountain had decided to toss away Purple Yellow Orange I wished to stay here up on the hill, watching the sun shimmy down through its peaks. Purple Yellow Orange Like the way I lined up my socks Sometimes the purple ones mate would go missing It's pair left to sit lonely in the sock drawer Purple Yellow Orange I walked the hill alone My stomach empty, my head in control The sun seemed to dangle in the sky, as if held up by one string Waiting for the world to blink asleep But the birds kept chirping Purple Yellow Orange I know how the sun feels I feel strung up as well My subconscious pulling the strings While I'm only left to follow Purple Yellow Orange The mountains make me miss the sea I miss the beach Take me back, back to when we walked the waterfront, salty ocean air cutting through the heat. Purple Yellow Orange Maybe I should've jumped when you told me we could escape "We could go far, into the sea," you told me. I think that's when i realized, Purple, Yellow and Orange are nothing like the waves of Blue and Green.
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 11:36 AM UTC
From the Mountains, Into the Sea
Purple Yellow Orange I was thinking of so many things While the sun was painting a backdrop I wished to hold onto that order Purple Yellow Orange As if nothing else mattered Purple Yellow Orange I was in the mountains again But now the birds sang And my ankles were boney Wobbling against the war-zone of stones Purple Yellow Orange The snow wasn't stuck to the grass anymore But melting away lone piles of it slumped against, wasted rocks That the mountain had decided to toss away Purple Yellow Orange I wished to stay here up on the hill, watching the sun shimmy down through its peaks. Purple Yellow Orange Like the way I lined up my socks Sometimes the purple ones mate would go missing It's pair left to sit lonely in the sock drawer Purple Yellow Orange I walked the hill alone My stomach empty, my head in control The sun seemed to dangle in the sky, as if held up by one string Waiting for the world to blink asleep But the birds kept chirping Purple Yellow Orange I know how the sun feels I feel strung up as well My subconscious pulling the strings While I'm only left to follow Purple Yellow Orange The mountains make me miss the sea I miss the beach Take me back, back to when we walked the waterfront, salty ocean air cutting through the heat. Purple Yellow Orange Maybe I should've jumped when you told me we could escape "We could go far, into the sea," you told me. I think that's when i realized, Purple, Yellow and Orange are nothing like the waves of Blue and Green.
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I fell asleep To the smell of antiseptic, Sterilizer, biogesic, And the cold touch of metal Rods that only seem To grow colder With the touch of hospital Left in the student's Ward - a whistle Permeates the silence Of seniors Painlessly sleeping away Hours upon Hours until graduation - A coming of age - An escapism from past papers And teachers who have Themselves given up On them. And the lights you See are as bright And as empty as those blinking Feebly In that of the school doctor's Office, one not really Blinking more of Washed, and supported Wobbling by daylight Seeping in through peeling blinds, Unable to see too much - The headaches and stomachaches Have rendered him numb To the feeling. And lunch comes And out blows the whistle to Signify the end Of playtime for The young ones, start Of playtime for The older ones, Whistle blowing muffled By the septic tank glass Doors of this sacred outhouse, Wards muffling the cries of children As they flee the quadrangle, Once mad, twice elated, Still innocent, untired, Not needing to fake sick And rest their heads softly Upon thin soft beds with Towels wrapped haphazardly Behind their backs, Nostalgia, it was Laughter, I swear it was louder When we used to run, When our eyes lit up like The sun petering in through The doctor's orifices, When our bruises and bumps Smelled like betadine, Not sleep And cups of sterile water downed To mask the scent of Fake cough syrup, And cuts gotten from fiddled syringes, Bruised ankles Bent over undersized beds, And not running over Uneven pavement, Ankles brushing tablecloth, Schoolbag, Basketball and frisbee, And the screaming. Oh, how I miss The screaming.
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM UTC
Infirmary, Cutting Business Class
I fell asleep To the smell of antiseptic, Sterilizer, biogesic, And the cold touch of metal Rods that only seem To grow colder With the touch of hospital Left in the student's Ward - a whistle Permeates the silence Of seniors Painlessly sleeping away Hours upon Hours until graduation - A coming of age - An escapism from past papers And teachers who have Themselves given up On them. And the lights you See are as bright And as empty as those blinking Feebly In that of the school doctor's Office, one not really Blinking more of Washed, and supported Wobbling by daylight Seeping in through peeling blinds, Unable to see too much - The headaches and stomachaches Have rendered him numb To the feeling. And lunch comes And out blows the whistle to Signify the end Of playtime for The young ones, start Of playtime for The older ones, Whistle blowing muffled By the septic tank glass Doors of this sacred outhouse, Wards muffling the cries of children As they flee the quadrangle, Once mad, twice elated, Still innocent, untired, Not needing to fake sick And rest their heads softly Upon thin soft beds with Towels wrapped haphazardly Behind their backs, Nostalgia, it was Laughter, I swear it was louder When we used to run, When our eyes lit up like The sun petering in through The doctor's orifices, When our bruises and bumps Smelled like betadine, Not sleep And cups of sterile water downed To mask the scent of Fake cough syrup, And cuts gotten from fiddled syringes, Bruised ankles Bent over undersized beds, And not running over Uneven pavement, Ankles brushing tablecloth, Schoolbag, Basketball and frisbee, And the screaming. Oh, how I miss The screaming.
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The awake hummingbird flits, At speeds beyond imagination over dark daisies and roses, Little Pearls unerringly grow in deep ocean sands, Concealed behind deceiving waters from the times of Moses. A wobbling chair shifts on the glistening porch, By the sands that move with the soul of the azure sea, Where Calypso sits nestling the locket of the man she will lose tonight, All of creation moves with her sobs in perfect harmony. In the vistas of far reaching coconut trees, The wind rushes to and fro, Concocting a strange chilling melody, A song that the seagulls forgot; that now only the ancient spirits know. These notes that precede and proclaim the farewell that is to come, Once again trapped within the confines of her paradise, Calypso will cry once more when the man she had loved would have to go, Deep within her aching heart without any comfort, her tears would have to suffice.
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 6:17 AM UTC
Calypso's Sorrow
Dark limitless halls Chair wobbling, sitting strategically Not dead Nor alive In the middle comprised Scattered thoughts Hate, frustration, paranoia Confining Self -reliance Life of defiance "Why must I suffer," ready to die Creation made for a different environment A voice whispering, "Look up there is a sky" Baffled, she now remembers her grace A new place A world Universe in the making The black was only the beginning
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May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 5:55 PM UTC
Lost is not
there's something about her you just cant figure out she runs with her legs slightly wobbling she comes last in her whole year yet she smiles like shes won the olympics she falls over she runs into trees and falls over while scraping her knees and despite the sting she grins she gets back her maths test and came last in the year yet she is laughing with stitches in her sides her mother just yelled at her for something that happened at school with some girls kicking her when she hit back she was the one who got detention yet she sits in her room giggling about a boy in her year with her best friend on the phone she laughs she smirks she grins and chuckles at life around her did anyone notice the red stains on her sleeves?
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 5:46 AM UTC
something about her
Wobbling three legged tables where the bearded bald men are sitting upon the legs of standing chairs while telling local tales heard abroad recalled from memories long forgot Like stories from a ******** genius's journal read in public by the town's blind doctor clearly translated by a girl who was mute to a man listening with old deaf ears Or the one of the parched fisherman drowning who was seen from a distance by a nearsighted man that sent his lame messenger running to get help and was reeled in by the fish he had caught on his line. But none were as simply complicated as the one of the bearded bald men whose sitting stools stood tall as they sat and whose three legged table wobbled.
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May 31, 2010
May 31, 2010 at 7:00 PM UTC
The Bearded Bald Men
We sat outside the coffee shop next to a fire, watching the sun set behind decrepit buildings. I lamented over the lack of a roller rink in the area, reflecting on memories of wobbling around in circles with dizzying lights and blaring speakers ejecting Pink, Daft Punk, and Eiffel 65 onto my critical youth. I felt like a king. We finished our smoothies and retreated to an empty hotel parking lot, where I taught her to skateboard. One foot over the front bolts, the back foot over two of the back bolts but resting over the tail, kick, push, it's in the ***** of your feet-- weight distribution. Tic, tac, scrape, thud-- she falls repeatedly and gets back up. I admire her resilience and perpetual smile-- This is what skateboarding is all about. We roll around the hotel parking lot, our endpoints being a lone luminescent lamppost and a telephone pole beleaguered by a plot of shrubbery that demarcates itself from the pavement. We circle around the poles for hours, forming an imaginary oblong track between the two, our laughs carrying into the cool summer night lullaby that sang the drowsy small town to sleep. The fading throb of the wedding reception at the bottom of the town square by the wharf, carrying over to us. The stores closed up hours ago, silent empty windows reflecting the lonely streetlights and our ambulance back at us. We skated on unperturbed into the night hour. A man walks outside the hotel to have a cigarette on the sidewalk-- I imagine he is watching us and admiring our glee. Rolling between this telephone pole and lamppost, the glare and reflection of the empty silent windows, the soundtrack singing above our heads, our laughs, and the tic-tac of skateboards and groaning of wheels over stubborn pavement bringing my melancholic reverie to a halt, recognizing and understanding happiness in the present moment-- This is my roller rink.
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Jun 12, 2016
Jun 12, 2016 at 1:13 AM UTC
Roller Rink
We sat outside the coffee shop next to a fire, watching the sun set behind decrepit buildings. I lamented over the lack of a roller rink in the area, reflecting on memories of wobbling around in circles with dizzying lights and blaring speakers ejecting Pink, Daft Punk, and Eiffel 65 onto my critical youth. I felt like a king. We finished our smoothies and retreated to an empty hotel parking lot, where I taught her to skateboard. One foot over the front bolts, the back foot over two of the back bolts but resting over the tail, kick, push, it's in the ***** of your feet-- weight distribution. Tic, tac, scrape, thud-- she falls repeatedly and gets back up. I admire her resilience and perpetual smile-- This is what skateboarding is all about. We roll around the hotel parking lot, our endpoints being a lone luminescent lamppost and a telephone pole beleaguered by a plot of shrubbery that demarcates itself from the pavement. We circle around the poles for hours, forming an imaginary oblong track between the two, our laughs carrying into the cool summer night lullaby that sang the drowsy small town to sleep. The fading throb of the wedding reception at the bottom of the town square by the wharf, carrying over to us. The stores closed up hours ago, silent empty windows reflecting the lonely streetlights and our ambulance back at us. We skated on unperturbed into the night hour. A man walks outside the hotel to have a cigarette on the sidewalk-- I imagine he is watching us and admiring our glee. Rolling between this telephone pole and lamppost, the glare and reflection of the empty silent windows, the soundtrack singing above our heads, our laughs, and the tic-tac of skateboards and groaning of wheels over stubborn pavement bringing my melancholic reverie to a halt, recognizing and understanding happiness in the present moment-- This is my roller rink.
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~for Jackson C. Frank It seems almost too far fetched really, too difficult to believe. This unassuming moon shining like a copper plate. These milkcrate blues. This soft trellis of sound wobbling through the wind as if pouring out from the window of some lonely house on the hill. How beautiful it is, the ghost of your voice, haunting this empty valley.
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The Blues Are All The Same
I love the closed system of rain How much time it takes a drop to get here A million or more years old A water molecule evaporated up from the Atlantic Rained down in Egypt thousands of years ago Running with the Nile Washing the sweat off of slaves who built pyramids Then south to Ethiopia Later to come up in a village well Where someone used it to water a barley plant Evaporating again to be swept up by a front That poured on Bangkok Before running off into the South China Sea Wobbling along the Tropic of Cancer Over to the North Pacific Following the northeast trade winds Then back again to the Atlantic Rising only to fall and land Smack dab between the ears of My sweet mutt Daisy r~ 22Jan14
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 8:24 PM UTC
Wet Dog
...Frankenstein...dear Frank--green with disparity, confusedly amongst parts that were sum...O Frank--never a creature under no sun could sow dark's reaping so. Yours is a terrible Art...meat thrown to a black and white world. Towering clumsily...wobbling that meat before a black and white world...you're already spoken for by the precedent of your freakdom. Your wear is worse than the ******* child moon wearing the sun's clothing... O Frank! Your awkward beauty...is as winter's very struggle towards spring--only to die upon your feet while thawing. You were never cerebral enough to have a clandestine affair with nothingness in motion... your body's your confession. You were struck alive...not dead...ALIVE...ALIVE--thunderously so, called an: IT! Runaway automata...the collective unconscious of humanity's hypnotized waddle-- O Frank...where is your Heaven...where is your Hell? You can neither be showered by, nor Fall from grace. The longest-drawn pity to never be taken...O...the duration of your life...YOUR LIFE! ..."ALIVE"..."ALIVE"...cried your euphoric namesake...God taken step of, to play God to thee-- as such...yours is a terrible Art. One of living-death...O Frank! Konstantinos Mark
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC
Frankenstein
and the unconditional love and the humility that it takes, to stand naked with **** erected and to be whipped,long and hard and loveingly, with a custom 3 foot signal whip. The welcome 500 to 700 lashes laid upon my naked back and buttocks, vigoriously and lovingly by my twin flame, that take me beyond any adrenal blockage imposed by mind and conditioned identity. Ah the warm comfort of ****** "Just warming up" she giggles, then takes her custom 2 foot bullwhip and give the shaft of my stiff wobbling and bobbing **** 65 carefully aimed and oh so stinging strokes, the tip of the whip painfully flicking my shaven ***** on each stroke, and like a proper slave I say"thank you Mistress" after each stinging burning stroke. And then I slide the full length of my stiff and burning shaft into the unconditionally loving cool and soft fragrant moisture of her beingnesss and am absorbed instantly  without a trace. I burn in multi colours. I am two in one. I am one in two. I am a Lava Lamp!!!. Do you have the discipline to deep nasally breathe your way into the maximum Adrenalin flow that comes as a result of the sadomasochistic ****** way of breaking your lifelong Adrenal suppression?.
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 4:06 AM UTC
do you have the discipline
~ dark early pre-dawn body suspended between the-dark ochre earth tones of night, and the teal pealing notes of warning of an impending morning, signs aborning, me rising with urgency of the leaden half deaden, torn from the bed casket to venture into a different kind of twi-lights, nature demanding both intake and outtake, a restoration of balance but first a bumbling wobbling, the body as carnival bumper car, installing soon-to-be-bruising for later examination-exhumation, lurching from handhold crevices in the walls like crazy cliff climbers, my balance disturbed, eyes try  tearing apart the sticky glue of night, my sense of direction keeping me from free falling into green glass edges of glass tables, barely, and not always, red cuts evidentiary “my balance disturbed” words fresh formed, and a poem expulsion required to balance the unjust scales of spirit soul and the body cage, patch an negotiated agreement between warring cousins, just a twenty four hour ceasefire to retrieve the wounded and the corpses unfounded in the small copses of false shelter, like my ancestors expelled from Spain, making escape to be strangers in strange lands, or remain hidden in place neath disguises of clothes of new poems, prayers for old and new gods this new poem comes quick like a young man making first love, for the poem has been written by thousands nights of practicing, so ready for quick retrieving in a smattering of a few minutes, expulsion expulsion what a perfect verbiage to capture the night terrors, the differentials, the procession path between what was and what will be, when my balance restored and this poem’s completion installation in the body of my work, as a nail disguised in the works of my body, entering by command of the pitch black gods
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 8:42 AM UTC
my balance disturbed, night terrors
~ dark early pre-dawn body suspended between the-dark ochre earth tones of night, and the teal pealing notes of warning of an impending morning, signs aborning, me rising with urgency of the leaden half deaden, torn from the bed casket to venture into a different kind of twi-lights, nature demanding both intake and outtake, a restoration of balance but first a bumbling wobbling, the body as carnival bumper car, installing soon-to-be-bruising for later examination-exhumation, lurching from handhold crevices in the walls like crazy cliff climbers, my balance disturbed, eyes try  tearing apart the sticky glue of night, my sense of direction keeping me from free falling into green glass edges of glass tables, barely, and not always, red cuts evidentiary “my balance disturbed” words fresh formed, and a poem expulsion required to balance the unjust scales of spirit soul and the body cage, patch an negotiated agreement between warring cousins, just a twenty four hour ceasefire to retrieve the wounded and the corpses unfounded in the small copses of false shelter, like my ancestors expelled from Spain, making escape to be strangers in strange lands, or remain hidden in place neath disguises of clothes of new poems, prayers for old and new gods this new poem comes quick like a young man making first love, for the poem has been written by thousands nights of practicing, so ready for quick retrieving in a smattering of a few minutes, expulsion expulsion what a perfect verbiage to capture the night terrors, the differentials, the procession path between what was and what will be, when my balance restored and this poem’s completion installation in the body of my work, as a nail disguised in the works of my body, entering by command of the pitch black gods
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