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Sharina Saad Aug 2014
spotted that petite lady
In our zumba class today
She doesn't look familiar
But I could simply guess her story
In her every moves
In her every curves
She is battling inside
her struggles died slowly
With every zumba beats
Hey zumba lady
Life ***** yeay
Forget yesterdays...
Have funky zumba day with me..
THE RAT AND THE PREGNANT WOMAN


A story poem

BY

Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya;aopicho@yahoo.com)



Dedicated to;
My mother Neddy Nabisino Mayende Kuloba Makhakara
And her mother Maritini Nabengele Nasenya Mulemia Namugugu Ilungu wa Wenwa.
The story telling power of these two ladies is the primary source of my passion and love for humorous and peace bettling stories. I owe them all the recognitions.







OPENING SONG
How do I start telling this story that I got from my
Grandmothers when sited around the fire yard in the evening?
I don’t know how to start surely,
For to day I am very shy; all of your eyes
Are on me, looking at me like ocean of looking organs
But let me embolden my self with the belt
Of a story teller that my grand father gave me
And commanded me to preach peace
Through story telling in every place I go
So my spiritual service to humanity is telling stories
Is to soothe and heal wounds of humanity
By softly telling peaceful stories
Let me then cough to clear my voice and start;

Long time ago, but not very long time
Some where between the centuries of twelve hundred
And seventeen hundred after the death of the other Jewish
Story teller who died without a wife, who died on the cross
But others say he died on the stake, his name was Jesus,
There existed only two kingdoms in land which is known today
As Bukusu land found in the present east Africa or Indian Ocean coastal Africa,
The first occupants of this vast land is the sons and daughters of Babukusu
Or the ones who like selling ironsmith products
And hence the name the people of Bukusu; the people who sell,
The two kingdoms were the Kingdom of muntu and the kingdom of manani
The citizens in the kingdom of muntu were short men and short women
Handsome and beautiful, slender and not assertive in their physical disposition
But the citizens of the kingdom of manani were all cyclopic,
In their everything; the manner of walking, talking farting, micturating
Farming, breathing, snoring, smiling, singing, whispering
Their whisper was a noisy as the tropical thunderclap
They were tall men and tall women, very tall
Their young person was as short as the tallest
Person in the kingdom of muntu,
When one of the citizen of manani snores
All the citizens of Muntu along together with,
Their king Walumoli wa Muntu had no option
But remain awake throughout the night,
Because the cacophony of a snore from
The sleeping courts of Manani was not bearable,

On many occasions Walumoli wa Muntu
The conscientious king of the muntu kingdom
Had arranged to talk to Silinki wa Namunguba
The ostensible king of the Manani Kingdom
About the cacophonous sleep robbing
Snores of daughters and sons in neighbour kingdom of Manani
Only to cow and chicken away in a feat of prudence
Lest Silinki wa Namunguba will suspect him for being
A night runner or a thief of *** perhaps
Who roams his compound during the wee of the night
In hunt of any of Namunguba’s wife maybe
Perchance having gone out for a mid-night *******,
This is how legendary snores of the sons and daughters
Of Silinki wa Namunguba the king of Manani
Has remained unchecked for ever till today,

One time an ugly passer by happened to be seen
Traversing the kingdom of muntu
In the early afternoon some two
Hours after Walumoli the king
Had just cleared the last plate
Of the mid day meal from
His last wife Khatembete Kho Bwibo Khakhalikaha Nobwoya
He always eats her food last in the afternoon
Because it comes on the table steaming youthfulness
He loves his Khatembete wife, the wife of his old age
The wife he married by use and show of the royal regalia
The powers and dignity of the king of muntu
He married her when he his a king, the scepter in his hand,

Going back to the ugly passer by
It was never known where he came from
Not from the east where the Indian Ocean is
Not from the west where the vastness of the land
Of black people of Baganda and Bacongo
Baigbo and Bayoruba or Bafulana of Nigeria
Or the sons of Madiokor Ngoni Diop in the Senegal,
Not from the south from shaka the Zulu and Mandella the wise one
Not from north in the land of Dinka and Nuer, Ethiopian Jewish and the Egyptians,
The passerby was ugly and from no where, in a dress and
A very ***** dress that fumed out a malodorously stenching reek
He was a man in attires of a woman; this was a taboo in the land of muntu
He was left handed and a heavy weight stammerer, with an appalling
Protuberation of   a hunched back, an enormous hunchback
Enmassing entired of his masculine shoulders,
When the wind blew his loose dress followed it
Leaving the man’s thighs and then bossom naked,
Leading bystanders to a strange discovery; he was not circumcised
He was old like any other father, he had beards
But not yet circumcised, his ***** ends in corkscrew of a sheath,
This was a taboo in the land of muntu, in the kingdom of muntu
Which Walumoli wa Muntu the son of Mukitang’a Mutukuika ruled
For the spirits, gods and ancestors as well as foremen of the kingdom
Behooved that all male offsprings of the kingdom of muntu
Whether born in marriage or out of the wedlock
Born the blood or born as a ******* must and must be
Circumcised in the early teen hood
They must be circumcised before they grow the hairs
On the face, on the chest, in the scapula and on the areas
Surrounding the testicles, the **** and the endings of the backbone,
The man again had six fingers on the legs and on the hands
He walks slowly like a porcupine, his dress was in tartars
He was violent to every one he met
Insulting old people and old women with words
Of bad manners not used in the kingdom of muntu,
He terrified and beat young children, including the royal children
And grand children of Walumoli the king of muntu
He again had to beat and chase nine young virgins
Who had come from the palace of Walumoli the king of Muntu
Away from the forest when they picking fire wood
As well as playing a game of hide and seek with other palace lads,
The ugly passer by then chased to get hold of the
Nalukosi the first born daughter of
Khatembete Kho Bwibo Khakhalikaha Nobwoya
The beloved last wife of the king of Muntu
All other virgins ran home, but Nalukosi remained behind
In the inextricable grip of the ugly passer by
She screamed with hysteria of a hypochondriac
She screamed and kicked with her wholesome mighty
The stubborn passer by never left her alone
She gnawed the ugly passer by with
Her girlish claws of her fingernails
But is like the passer by was mentally disordered
He was a ******* of some time
He derived some pleasure and instead
Enjoyed the girlish scratches of his captive,
Before the eight running virgins reached the palace
Together with their companions, the playmate lads
The shrilling scream of the captive Nalukosi
Was sharply heard at the palace, first by King Walumoli
Who called his wife Khatembete Kho Bwibo Khakhalikha Nobwoya
To come out of the hut, the kitchen and help to listen,
Immediately Mukisu wa Mujonji the palace keeper surfaced
His face displayed genuine askance of an adept military man
Whose martial arts have rusted for a week without usage
He confirmed to the king that the cry from the forest
Is of the one from this royal home of your majesty the king
And none other than the ****** princes Nalukosi Mukoyonjo
The pride of her father, the eye of the palace,
Without hesitation the king permitted the wallabying Mukisu ,
Permission to run in a military dint and find out whatever that
Was eating Nalukosi Mukoyonjo the familial heart of the king,
Mukisu wa Mujonji who was clearly known in the kingdom of muntu,
For his swift running like a desert kite, he already twice chased
And gotten single handedly two male gazelles,
Without aid of a dog nor aid of fellow hunters
And delivered them to the king as a present to the palace
Which he achieved because of the speed of his legs,
On this royal permission he unsheathed his matchette
And went away like any arrow from the bow
His shirt trailing behind him like mare’s tail
Or like the flag on the post on a windy day,
Not a lot of time passed.
Mukisu wa Mujonji is at the spot of struggle,
Between Nalukosi and the Ugly passerby
There was no question or talking,
The first thing was Mukisu to sink the Matchette
With all of his mighty into the tummy of the ugly stranger
The bowels of the ugly stranger opened puffwiiii!
He breathed and gasped twice then succumbed to death.
His grip still strong on the leg of Nalukosi Mukoyonjo
The ugly passer by reached the rigor Mortis
When Nalukosi was still strongly gripped in his
Beastly hand, Mukisu wa Mujonji with all the skills
Used a Sharp matchette again; chopped of the hand
Of the ugly dead passer by off, from its torso
At the point of the muscular elbow,
Now Nalukosi was extricated, but not fully
From the grip of the dead ugly stranger,
The chopped off hand is still knotted at her leg
Around her leg, the dead hand also grips.
Nalukosi jumped here and there to throw away
The leg and the dead hand, but it was not easy to throw
The hand still stubbornly gripped around her angle,
*** time passed, each and every one of the kingdom came
Including the king Walumoli wa Muntu himself
And his nine wives, Khatembete Khobwibo Khakhalikha Nobwoya
Came last, as she was energyless due to rudely shocking tidings
Which the escaping virgins and lads had given her
That the ugly passer by had turned into the ogre
And had swallowed her daughter Nalukosi
That he had swallowed her piecemeal without chewing,
People of muntu came and found the ugly passerby dead
The left had chopped off its torso
But still hanging loosely on the leg of Nalukosi
Nalukosi jumping, kicking, screaming
Screaming away the dead hand from the grip of leg
But nothing had forthcame her way,
Walumoli wa Muntu could not afford to see
The hand on the leg of her beloved daughter
What could he tell his wife, is your all know
Dear reader and audience to this song;
Even the mighty and the wise ones
Generously bend when under the pressure of love,
Out of this dint, even before Mukisu wa Mujonji
Could display his next military card
Walumoli wa Muntu grapped the dead hand
That stuck of the leg of her daughter
And pulled it with another force that
No man born of woman has
Never used since the creation of the earth
By the gods and spirits of Muntu,
The hand come off, he throw it
On the cadaver of the ugly stranger,
He clicked and clicked and hissed
With anger like a wild turkey
In the African thorny forest,
He ordered the dead one to be buried
Their without haste, nor ceremony
Mukisu wa Mujonji buried the body
Quickly in a brief moment with precision
As if he was taking notes
From the lines of the poem
OF Pablo Neruda on how
To bury a dog behind the house
This time burying an ugly stranger
Behind the forts of the kingdom,
After all these women, children and men
Of muntu plus their king Walumoli
Went back to their houses hilariously
Broken into a song and a wild *** dance;
Makoe eehe! Makoe !
Nifwe Talangi Makoe !
Talangi!
Khwaula embogo sitella
Nifwe Talangi!
They sang up to midnight before
They all retired to their beds
Respective beds with panting thoraces
From heavy singing and dancing.

There is connection and disconexion between
The living and the dead, the living fear the dead
And dead loves the living,
The dead want the company of the living
For the living to accompany in the land of the dead,
When the ugly stranger was killed
And buried uncircumcised with the hunch
Not plucked out of his back
The gods and the livings dead
In the realm of the ancestors
Of the kingdom of Muntu were not happy,
They never wanted uncircumcised old man
With a hunch back to join them
And worse enough with the six fingers,
The gods and ancestors really god annoyed
That Walumoli wa Muntu has done them bad
He is only caring for the living, the pre-mortals
Especially his last wife and the daughter
But he has neglected the ancestors,
Why trash to ancestors a stark humanity,
They communed among themselves
And resolved to sent Namaroro
The god of dreams, dreams as messages
From the ancestors and dreams from the gods
Namaroro visited Namunyu Lubunda the palace
Prophet in the Kingdom of Muntu to pass
The message vesseling unhappiness of the ancestors
And gods in a blend of gloomy read to execute
A vendetta;
This is when in the wee of the night that Namunyu Lubunda
Dreamed and had a vision of a old man from
The east is warning of the coming long spell of starvation
That will befall the kingdom of Muntu for ten years
                                      That Namaroro told Namunyu Lubunda
As for ten seasons of foodlessness
Behold a begging kingdom
Behold a starving throne,
The scepter of Muntu is a disgrace
To the holder
Then Namunyu Lubunda set forth by dawn
To the Palace to meet Walumoli wa Muntu
In his, palace before any other royal chores come up,
Both good and bad luck combined
Only to have Namunyu Lubunda to get the king at the palace
He got him fresh and relaxed chewing the cup of fortune
In his full ego, all his wives had submitted to the morning dishes
To his dining hall in the palace, he moved his hands from
One plate of food to the other.
Namunyu Lubunda entered with a submissive salutation
To the royal, He bowed and declared the glory of the king
In typical standards of the ethnic composition of the house of Muntu
Walumoli wa Muntu Mukitang’a Mutukuika
Majave Kutusi Mbirira Omwene esimbo ya
Kumukasa,
Walumoli responded with a feat of dignity to Namunyu Lubunda
The palace prophet, as he roared to him; come in
Come in son of Lubunda son of our people,
He did mention the name of Namunyu Lubunda father
As he fears his words may escape with the power
Of his kingdom the scepter of Muntu
To other insignificant families in the kingdom,
Let me announce what brings me here; intoned Namunyu
Go ahead and announce my holiness
s the prophet of this kingdom; responded Walumoli,
Misfortune is awaiting the kingdom
It will eat this kingdom away
Like a ravenous hyena on the ewe’s tail
The ancestors and the spirits of this land
This kingdom of yours the son of Muntu
Are immensely offended with your recent behaviour
In which you commandeered all villages
In your kingdom; from east and west
The **** the innocent passer by
With your owner hands that handle the scepter
You killed and lay to rest the foreigner
A pure omurende to the kingdom of muntu
You buried him uncircumcised without contrite
In the cemeteries of our foremen who asleep and circumcised
Why did you lower the dignity of our forefathers
Who never share a roof with uncircumcised person
To share the ancestral realm; our emagombe
With hunchback foreigner not circumcised?
This kingdom is condemned to all spell of curse of death
Ceaseless hunger famines and starvation
Women dwindle in their reproductive capacity
Rarely will you come across a pregnant woman
Food will be difficulty to put on the table
Even the sweat of your brow will go to naught,
You will not be buried with insignia
Like a pauper you killed will you be buried
The house of your wife Khatembete Kho Bwibo
Khakhalikha no bwoya is a house of no consequences
For even your daughter Nalukosi stands cursed
She will not mature to be wedded into a marriage
She will hover the earth under heavy agonies of hunger,
My assignment is done and over
With or without your permission let me go.









THE FIRST SONG
Our song continues dear brethren
Come join me in arms we sing
Joyous singing of these songs of peace
Telling the world peaceful stories
As we enjoy sitting together around my grandmothers fire yard
Warming our selves to her lovely fire inherent in her good stories,
These songs will sing the glory and success of the king of Manani
It is an irregular Ode to Silinki wa Namunguba the son of Mwangani,
The son of Tunduli, the son of Wajala Njovu, the son of Welikhe, the son
Of manyorori, the son of Chumbe, the son of Kajo, the Son of Mabati, the son of welotia,
The son of sikele sia mulia, the son of Toywa,the son of siruju, the son of Mango, the son of Mulwoni sinyanya Bakhasi, the son of Mbakara , the son of Makhakara wa Nambuya, the son of Mukoye mulala kukhalikha w0nga, the son of Zumba the son of God.
Silinki
Grace Mar 2014
Decisions
Eanie meanie minie mo
one can not decide like so
your past is gone, let it go
eanie meanie minie mo

We think they were childish games to play
yet it tells our future each and every day

Its a 50-50 shot
you could go ether way
But there is no turning back

One step in the wrong direction and you are done for
Because the key was thrown into the ocean that could only open the locked door behind you

Like hot lava
A playground game
If you stumble off the side and landed in that hot firey pit of lava you were done for

That ocean where the key was thrown into has turned into a nasty green
The waves and seaweed churning under the dark stormy sky
This is not a message in a bottle but more of a lost man at sea

Every stepping stone could result in a broken heart
A bruise
A forgotten friend

One wrong decision could cause a prodigy to die

Like ******
His Mother almost got an abortion
Her family told her over and over to just go through with the pregnancy
She probably tossed that decision back and forth in her mind
But her family won the match

If she had decided to go against her family I wonder where society would be today

Would there be dozens of Einsteins?
A million Madonnas?
Would there be a cure for all the cancers?
For the common cold?

Every judgement is a puzzle piece
Every step you take back or turn in the unexpected direction is another step towards your fate

Everything matters
If you had gotten one more gallon of milk you wouldn't have run out so you wouldn't have gone to the store and meet your best friend there so you wouldn't be going to that Zumba class

Then you wouldn't have met five of you new best friends and your husband

All of that for a jug of milk
Chris Slade Jan 2019
Don't be frightened if you hear me at the door...or even if you think you see me at the window. Pretend it's a trick of the light...or another one of those bumps in the night.
The spirit is strong and, I'm finding, quite playful in its first few days, weeks, maybe months... whilst waiting for another 'mission'.
You know...finding my feet - or maybe wings?

But I'm not likely to phone. E-mailing was not my thing! And texting? You’re kidding! I was not a big fan!. All that predictive stuff...If you’re too quick it ends up nonsense...all wrong...not for me.
But I will be sending messages through the wind in the trees or maybe the surf on the rocks and sand. Wherever we walked together listen out for me there. I've always felt that I'd be able to do that.
You know...whilst finding my feet - or will it be wings?

And always, from now on...help spiders out with a glass and a card...
take care not to squash their legs. You never know what happens next. And, anyway, another time, but long ahead I hope, it could be you. Although, I always fancied I would come back a human - like this last time round.

Being me was good. And they say, ...you know...out there...
that you go back to a time when you were at your best.
For me that means being younger, fitter - So, a wander on a sun warmed or breezy beach. A Salsa dance, or this Zumba lark...or doing a painting. I liked that...
But definitely...fit...Before IT... You know...I’m looking forward to finding my feet, my wings.

So...you may see me - out in a crowd, or walking along a country lane, incongruously between villages.
I'm already working at appearing for longer and for being more than just a familiar, fleeting, scent or smell. Until I get the calling to make a full life of it again...I'll maybe pop in and out of your life (to let you know I can) ...just in an incidental, experimental kind of way; but then only from time to time.
It's quite tiring...You know...finding your feet...your wings.
I first wrote this after my Dad passed on and there were some experiences that were difficult to explain which gave me comfort to know that he was OK... on the other side. Pathetic? I can understand why people would think that.
onlylovepoetry Jul 2017
she returns from her classes,
ballet, yoga, core something and Zumba for flavoring,
her hair, an upward, toe pointing cannon of mop mess,
her face glowing flushed,
one look and I know she is both,
morphing high,
wipeout exhausted

a little ritual she performs somewhere between
"it was great and she (the instructor) killed us,"
auto sub conscious,
she looks herself over,
twisting elegantly like the
Argentine tango dancer she is,
in the mirrored closet doors

raising both arms to see (show off)
the sums of her endeavors,
the exoskeletal musculature
she has earned,
a life long effort,
like a prize fighter as he
macho enters the ring,
an alpha male gesture
if ever there was one,
made over to say,
hey boy, look at me!

and the boy looks her over,
always thinking, but never revealing,
that it is her muscles of mindfulness and mercy,
that take his breath away, the ones that are worked out daily,
the ones that surround and work the heart beating,
the lung inhaler of humans in need,
exhaling the richest
oxygen for others to breathe

and the boy does his service,
providing a "wow" or "very impressive,"
only you and he know his real thinking,
and his muscle memories secret,
you to keep, just between us,
and his secret identity, only love poetry...


8:52pm 7/20/17
Quentin Briscoe Feb 2013
Hips, Thighs,
and
Bellies
Dance.

Thank God,
for
Zumba, Zumba
Lucanna Oct 2012
I've drank a thousand beers
I've smoked a million cigarrettes
I've ate at least a hundred Twix bars
I've watched Breakfast at Tiffany's hours on end
I've flirted with every male waiter that brings me
unfulfilling dish after unfulfilling dish
I've bought weekly **** dark outfits
and I've spent my life savings
on beautiful MAC make-up and a new Legacy
and pumps I think you'd like
I've gotten my hair colored every color I can think of
I've tried being an apathetic punk, an upbeat cowgirl,  
a wide-eyed polyanna, a harsh madonna, a ****-you-feline,
an emotionally charged marilyn, and a classy Diane
I've memorized witty jokes, and roasts, and rivetting last lines
I've modeled and sang and became an athlete
I've played hard to get, I've played easy and teasy
And I've twirled my hair and crossed my legs
and learned to walk while swaying my hips
I've ran miles and kilometers and meters and
I've lifted weights and done zumba and yoga and hiked and biked and

****.

There's no comfort                                  and no          getting    to                                        ­                    you.
Aquí los antiguos recibían al fuego
Aquí el fuego creaba el mundo
Al mediodía las piedras se abren como frutos
El agua abre los párpados
La luz resbala por la piel del día
Gota inmensa donde el tiempo se refleja y se sacia

A la española el día entra pisando fuerte
Un rumor de hojas y pájaros avanza
Un presentimiento de mar o mujeres
El día zumba en mi frente como una idea fija
En la frente del mundo zumba tenaz el día
La luz corre por todas partes
Canta por las terrazas
Hace bailar las casas
Bajo las manos frescas de la yedra ligera
El muro se despierta y levanta sus torres
Y las piedras dejan caer sus vestiduras
Y el agua se desnuda y salta de su lecho
Más desnuda que el agua
Y la luz se desnuda y se mira en el agua
Más desnuda que un astro
Y el pan se abre y el vino se derrama
Y el día se derrama sobre el agua tendida
Ver oír tocar oler gustar pensar
Labios o tierra o viento entre veleros
Sabor del día que se desliza como música
Rumor de luz que lleva de la mano a una muchacha
Y la deja desnuda en el centro del día
Nadie sabe su nombre ni a qué vino
Como un poco de agua se tiende a mi costado
El sol se para un instante por mirarla
La luz se pierde entre sus piernas
La rodean mis miradas como agua
Y ella se baña en ellas más desnuda que el agua
Como la luz no tiene nombre propio
Como la luz cambia de forma con el día
Mejor será no regresar al pueblo,
al edén subvertido que se calla
en la mutilación de la metralla.
Hasta los fresnos mancos,
los dignatarios de cúpula oronda,
han de rodar las quejas de la torre
acribillada en los vientos de fronda.
Y la fusilería grabó en la cal
de todas las paredes
de la aldea espectral,
negros y aciagos mapas,
porque en ellos leyese el hijo pródigo
al volver a su umbral
en un anochecer de maleficio,
a la luz de petróleo de una mecha
su esperanza deshecha.
Cuando la tosca llave enmohecida
tuerza la chirriante cerradura,
en la añeja clausura
del zaguán, los dos púdicos
medallones de yeso,
entornando los párpados narcóticos,
se mirarán y se dirán: «¿Qué es eso?»
Y yo entraré con pies advenedizos
hasta el patio agorero
en que hay un brocal ensimismado,
con un cubo de cuero
goteando su gota categórica
como un estribillo plañidero.
Si el sol inexorable, alegre y tónico,
hace hervir a las fuentes catecúmenas
en que bañábase mi sueño crónico;
si se afana la hormiga;
si en los techos resuena y se fatiga
de los buches de tórtola el reclamo
que entre las telarañas zumba y zumba;
mi sed de amar será como una argolla
empotrada en la losa de una tumba.
Las golondrinas nuevas, renovando
con sus noveles picos alfareros
los nidos tempraneros;
bajo el ópalo insigne
de los atardeceres monacales,
el lloro de recientes recentales
por la ubérrima ubre prohibida
de la vaca, rumiante y faraónica,
que al párvulo intimida;
campanario de timbre novedoso;
remozados altares;
el amor amoroso
de las parejas pares;
noviazgos de muchachas
frescas y humildes, como humildes coles,
y que la mano dan por el postigo
a la luz de dramáticos faroles;
alguna señorita
que canta en algún piano
alguna vieja aria;
el gendarme que pita...
...Y una íntima tristeza reaccionaria.
¿Hay algo en esta vida
Toda dolores,
Más tierno que los niños
Y que las flores?
¿Hay símbolo más dulce,
Más elocuente,
Que diga lo que el alma
Callando siente?
Mirad... cierran el campo
Los horizontes;
Son murallas azules
Los altos montes.
En sus cimas se posa
La blanca nube
Que del tranquilo lago
Ligera sube.
El sol quiebra sus rayos
En la cascada,
Y ios vientos suspiran
En la enramada.
Sobre el enhiesto roble
Tosco y severo,
Entre las verdes hojas
Canta el jilguero.
La parvada de tordos
Rauda se aleja,
Y en los lirios azules
Zumba la abeja.
Luce el granado flores
Como escarlata,
Las azucenas fingen
Copas de plata;
Y en naranjos que mecen
Doradas pomas,
Cantoras de la tarde
Son las palomas.
Al son de los arroyos
Murmuradores
Se duelen y se plañen
Los ruiseñores,
Y en los alegres prados
Y en las colinas,
¡Qué alegres van y vuelven
Las golondrinas!
¡Cómo brillan los rayos
Del sol fecundo!
¡Qué jardín tan risueño
Parece el mundo!
Es porque está de gala
Natura entera;
Es porque está reinando
La Primavera,
Y no hay en esta vida,
Toda dolores,
Nada tan expresivo
Como las flores.
Una flor en el pecho
Del ser amado,
Es la llave de un cielo
Siempre anhelado.
Allí encuentra la vida
Que el alma quiere,
Y al fuego de esa vida
Marchita muere.
Que así en amores miran
Los corazones,
Morir como las rosas
Las ilusiones.
En la iglesia más pobre,
Más solitaria,
Es un ramo de flores
Una plegaria:
Que sus hojas que adornan
El templo santo
La fe las humedece
Con tierno llanto;
Y la fe con sus alas
De raudo vuelo,
Oración y perfume
Remonta al cielo.
Cual corona de estrellas
Los azahares
Brillan en blancas frentes
En los altares:
¿Qué diadema más digna
De la belleza?
¿Qué símbolo más tierno
De la pureza?...
¡Ay! también en las tumbas
Las flores crecen;
Ni se cansan, ni olvidan,
Ni desfallecen.
Allí, lejos del brillo
Del mundo vano,
Crecen sobre la madre,
Sobre el hermano.
Que el manto del olvido
La tumba envuelva:
Sobre él tiende sus flores
La madreselva.
La memoria de un muerto
Queda perdida;
La flor es una hermana
Que nunca olvida,
Y de la helada tumba
Bajo el abrigo,
Dice al que duerme solo:
«Yo estoy contigo».
¡Ay! son flores hermosas
Las ilusiones
Que embriagan y adormecen
Los corazones.
Allá en la Primavera
¡Cuántas nacieron!
Unas se marchitaron,
Otras se fueron,
Y sobre elcampo estéril
De los dolores,
Son cardos los recuerdos:
¡Qué tristes flores!
El campo que hoy alegra
La luz del día,
Lo secará diciembre
Con mano fría;
Pero pronto, a ios besos
Del sol ardiente,
Tornará su belleza
Más esplendente.
Y abrirán sus nectarios
En las corolas,
Los lirios, las violetas,
Las amapolas.
Tendrá rumor la fuente,
Aroma el prado,
El jardín mariposas,
Fruto el granado;
Y sonarán los cantos
Dulces, sentidos,
De avecillas que pueblen
Los nuevos nidos.
Así también el alma
Que sufre y llora,
Tras de la negra noche
Tiene su aurora.
A cuántos bellos nombres
Su luz alcanza
Se llama fe, ventura,
Gloria, esperanza;
Que si son cual invierno
Las decepciones,
¡Tienen su primavera
Las ilusiones!
Se llora una esperanza
Que se derrumba,
Y luego crecen flores
Sobre su tumba.
Fecunda el alma humana
Como la tierra,
Gérmenes de ventura
Constante encierra,
Y halla, para consuelo
De sus dolores:
¡La mujer! ¡La más bella
Flor de las flores!
IamMsIves Aug 2014
Who am I kidding?

No subject is worth musing

My mind is as blank as my sheet

Emotions I am deplete

Muse why you have to fail me?

I’m just drifting like a bee

Buzzing, humming, hmm

My mind is staying mum

Words are in jumble

I can’t seem to figure

Oh well, I might as well get up

Put on my shoes,

Fill my dancing cup

Here I come, Zumba

And stop this drama.
I've written this some time ago but decided to re-post as this is what I am feeling right now. I'm full of love and life but sometimes there are things that makes me off. Things that I shouldn't be bothered about but can't help feeling it. Word/s that inadvertently uttered but cuts deep.

Going to Zumba now!
Desde el amanecer, se cambia la ropa sucia de los altares y de los santos, que huele a rancia bendición, mientras los plumeros inciensan una nube de polvo tan espesa, que las arañas apenas hallan tiempo de levantar sus redes de equilibrista, para ir a ajustarías en los barrotes de la cama del sacristán.

Con todas las características del criminal nato lombrosiano, los apóstoles se evaden de sus nichos, ante las vírgenes atónitas, que rompen a llorar... porque no viene el peluquero a ondularles las crenchas.

Enjutos, enflaquecidos de insomnio y de impaciencia, los nazarenos pruébanse el capirote cada cinco minutos, o llegan, acompañados de un amigo, a presentarle la virgen, como si fuera su querida.

Ya no queda por alquilar ni una cornisa desde la que se vea pasar la procesión.

Minuto tras minuto va cayendo sobre la ciudad una manga de ingleses con una psicología y una elegancia de langosta.

A vista de ojo, los hoteleros engordan ante la perspectiva de doblar la tarifa.

Llega un cuerpo del ejército de Marruecos, expresamente para sacar los candelabros y la custodia del tesoro.

Frente a todos los espejos de la ciudad, las mujeres ensayan su mirada "Smith Wesson"; pues, como las vírgenes, sólo salen de casa esta semana, y si no cazan nada, seguirán siéndolo...
¡Campanas!
¡Repiqueteo de campanas!
¡Campanas con café con leche!
¡Campanas que nos imponen una cadencia al
abrocharnos los botines!
¡Campanas que acompasan el paso de la gente que pasa en las aceras!
¡Campanas!
¡Repiqueteo de campanas!

En la catedral, el rito se complica tanto, que los sacerdotes necesitan apuntador.

Trece siglos de ensayos permiten armonizar las florecencias de las rejas con el contrapaso de los monaguillos y la caligrafía del misal.

Una luz de "Museo Grevin" dramatiza la mirada vidriosa de los cristos, ahonda la voz de los prelados que cantan, se interrogan y se contestan, como esos sapos con vientre de prelado, una boca predestinada a engullir hostias y las manos enfermas de reumatismo, por pasarse las noches -de cuclillas en el pantano- cantando a las estrellas.

Si al repartir las palmas no interviniera una fuerza sobrenatural, los feligreses aplaudirían los rasos con que la procesión sale a la calle, donde el obispo -con sus ochenta kilos de bordados- bate el "record" de dar media vuelta a la manzana y entra nuevamente en escena, para que continúe la función...
¡Agua!
¡Agüita fresca!
¿Quién quiere agua?

En un flujo y reflujo de espaldas y de brazos, los acorazados de los cacahueteros fondean entre la multitud, que espera la salida de los "pasos" haciendo "pan francés".

Espantada por los flagelos de papel, la codicia de los pilletes revolotea y zumba en torno a las canastas de pasteles, mientras los nazarenos sacian la sed, que sentirán, en tabernas que expenden borracheras garantizadas por toda la semana.

Sin asomar las narices a la calle, los santos realizan el milagro de que los balcones no se caigan.

¡Agua!
¡Agüita fresca!
¿Quién quiere agua?
pregonan los aguateros al servirnos una reverencia de minué.

De repente, las puertas de la iglesia se abren como las de una esclusa, y, entre una doble fila de nazarenos que canaliza la multitud, una virgen avanza hasta las candilejas de su paso, constelada de joyas, como una cupletista.

Los espectadores, contorsionados por la emoción,
arráncanse la chaquetilla y el sombrero, se acalambran en
posturas de capeador, braman piropos que los nazarenos intentan callar
como el apagador que les oculta la cabeza.

Cuando el Señor aparece en la puerta, las nubes se envuelven con un crespón, bajan hasta la altura de los techos y, al verlo cogido como un torero, todas, unánimemente, comienzan a llorar.

¡Agua!
¡Agüita fresca!
¿Quién quiere agua?Las tribunas y las sillas colocadas enfrente del Ayuntamiento progresivamente se van ennegreciendo, como un pegamoscas de cocina.

Antes que la caballería comience a desfilar, los guardias civiles despejan la calzada, por temor a que los cachetes de algún trompa estallen como una bomba de anarquista.

Los caballos -la boca enjabonada cual si se fueran a afeitar- tienen las ancas tan lustrosas, que las mujeres aprovechan para arreglarse la mantilla y averiguar, sin darse vuelta, quién unta una mirada en sus caderas.

Con la solemnidad de un ejército de pingüinos, los nazarenos escoltan a los santos, que, en temblores de debutante, representan "misterios" sobre el tablado de las andas, bajo cuyos telones se divisan los pies de los "gallegos", tal como si cambiaran una decoración.

Pasa:
El Sagrado Prendimiento de Nuestro Señor, y Nuestra Señora del Dulce Nombre.
El Santísimo Cristo de las Siete Palabras, y María Santísima de los Remedios.
El Santísimo Cristo de las Aguas, y Nuestra Señora del Mayor Dolor.
La Santísima Cena Sacramental, y Nuestra Señora del Subterráneo.
El Santísimo Cristo del Buen Fin, y Nuestra Señora de la Palma.
Nuestro Padre Jesús atado a la Columna, y Nuestra Señora de las Lágrimas.
El Sagrado Descendimiento de Nuestro Señor, y La Quinta Angustia de María Santísima.

Y entre paso y paso:
¡Manzanilla! ¡Almendras garrapiñadas! ¡Jerez!

Estrangulados por la asfixia, los "gallegos" caen de rodillas cada cincuenta metros, y se resisten a continuar regando los adoquines de sudor, si antes no se les llena el tanque de aguardiente.

Cuando los nazarenos se detienen a mirarnos con sus ojos vacíos, irremisiblemente, algún balcón gargariza una "saeta" sobre la multitud, encrespada en un ¡ole!, que estalla y se apaga sobre las cabezas, como si reventara en una playa.

Los penitentes cargados de una cruz desinflan el pecho de las mamas en un suspiro de neumático, apenas menos potente al que exhala la multitud al escaparse ese globito que siempre se le escapa a la multitud.

Todas las cofradías llevan un estandarte, donde se lee:

                      S. P. Q. R.Es el día en que reciben todas las vírgenes de la ciudad.

Con la mantilla negra y los ojos que matan, las hembras repiquetean sus tacones sobre las lápidas de las aceras, se consternan al comprobar que no se derrumba ni una casa, que no resucita ningún Lázaro, y, cual si salieran de un toril, irrumpen en los atrios, donde los hombres les banderillean un par de miraduras, a riesgo de dejarse coger el corazón.

De pie en medio de la nave -dorada como un salón-, las vírgenes expiden su duelo en un sólido llanto de rubí, que embriaga la elocuencia de prospecto medicinal con que los hermanos ponderan sus encantos, cuando no optan por alzarles las faldas y persuadir a los espectadores de que no hay en el globo unas pantorrillas semejantes.

Después de la vigésima estación, si un fémur no nos ha perforado un intestino, contemplamos veintiocho "pasos" más, y acribillados de "saetas", como un San Sebastián, los pies desmenuzados como albóndigas, apenas tenemos fuerza para llegar hasta la puerta del hotel y desplomarnos entre los brazos de la levita del portero.

El "menú" nos hace volver en sí. Leemos, nos refregamos los ojos y volvemos a leer:

"Sopa de Nazarenos."
"Lenguado a la Pío X."

-¡Camarero! Un bife con papas.
-¿Con Papas, señor?...
-¡No, hombre!, con huevos fritos.Mientras se espera la salida del Cristo del Gran Poder, se reflexiona: en la superioridad del marabú, en la influencia de Goya sobre las sombras de los balcones, en la finura chinesca con que los árboles se esfuman en el azul nocturno.

Dos campanadas apagan luego los focos de la plaza; así, las espaldas se amalgaman hasta formar un solo cuerpo que sostiene de catorce a diez y nueve mil cabezas.

Con un ritmo siniestro de Edgar Poe -¡cirios rojos ensangrientan sus manos!-, los nazarenos perforan un silencio donde tan sólo se percibe el tic-tac de las pestañas, silencio desgarrado por "saetas" que escalofrían la noche y se vierten sobre la multitud como un líquido helado.

Seguido de cuatrocientas prostitutas arrepentidas del pecado menos original, el Cristo del Gran Poder camina sobre un oleaje de cabezas, que lo alza hasta el nivel de los balcones, en cuyos barrotes las mujeres aferran las ganas de tirarse a lamerle los pies.

En el resto de la ciudad el resplandor de los "pasos" ilumina las caras con una técnica de Rembrandt. Las sombras adquieren más importancia que los cuerpos, llevan una vida más aventurera y más trágica. La cofradía del "Silencio", sobre todo, proyecta en las paredes blancas un "film" dislocado y absurdo, donde las sombras trepan a los tejados, violan los cuartos de las hembras, se sepultan en los patios dormidos.

Entre "saetas" conservadas en aguardiente pasa la "Macarena", con su escolta romana, en cuyas corazas de latón se trasuntan los espectadores, alineados a lo largo de las aceras.

¡Es la hora de los churros y del anís!

Una luz sin fuerza para llegar al suelo ribetea con tiza las molduras y las aristas de las casas, que tienen facha de haber dormido mal, y obliga a salir de entre sus sábanas a las nubes desnudas, que se envuelven en gasas amarillentas y verdosas y se ciñen, por último, una túnica blanca.

Cuando suenan las seis, las cigüeñas ensayan un vuelo matinal, y tornan al campanario de la iglesia, a reanudar sus mansas divagaciones de burócrata jubilado.

Caras y actitudes de chimpancé, los presidiarios esperan, trepados en las rejas, que las vírgenes pasen por la cárcel antes de irse a dormir, para sollozar una "saeta" de arrepentimiento y de perdón, mientras en bordejeos de fragata las cofradías que no han fondeado aún en las iglesias, encallan en todas las tabernas, abandonan sus vírgenes por la manzanilla y el jerez.

Ya en la cama, los nazarenos que nos transitan las circunvoluciones redoblan sus tambores en nuestra sien, y los churros, anidados en nuestro estómago, se enroscan y se anudan como serpientes.

Alguien nos destornilla luego la cabeza, nos desabrocha las costillas, intenta escamotearnos un riñón, al mismo tiempo que un insensato repique de campanas nos va sumergiendo en un sopor.

Después... ¿Han pasado semanas? ¿Han pasado minutos?... Una campanilla se desploma, como una sonda, en nuestro oído, nos iza a la superficie del colchón.
¡Apenas tenemos tiempo de alcanzar el entierro!...

¿Cuatrocientos setenta y ocho mil setecientos noventa y nueve "pasos" más?

¡Cristos ensangrentados como caballos de picador! ¡Cirios que nunca terminan de llorar! ¡Concejales que han alquilado un frac que enternece a las Magdalenas! ¡Cristos estirados en una lona de bombero que acaban de arrojarse de un balcón! ¡La Verónica y el Gobernador... con su escolta de arcángeles!

¡Y las centurias romanas... de Marruecos, y las Sibilas, y los Santos Varones! ¡Todos los instrumentos de la Pasión!... ¡Y el instrumento máximo, ¡la Muerte!, entronizada sobre el mundo..., que es un punto final!

¿Morir? ¡Señor! ¡Señor!
¡Libradnos, Señor!
¿Dormir? ¡Dormir! ¡Concedédnoslo,
Señor!
Gwen Pimentel Jan 2015
Take risks
Accept the challenge
Grab the opportunity
Test your limits
Push your boundaries
Find the joy in hardships
Find the light in the darkness

Climb that mountain
Take an art class
Learn a new instrument
Take that Zumba class you've been dying to go to
Discover - or rediscover - your passion
Take that leap of faith
For what's standing in between the you now and the you you want to be
is fear

Find your passion*
Because it is *so
important to have something that drives you everyday
Discover your strengths and even your weaknesses
Find your passion and hold on to it and when you find it,
Promise me, you'll hold on to something so precious
because some aren't lucky enough to recognize their passion
Pursue it
Be the best in your field
Be the best you can ever be
Be the best teacher
Be the best chef
Be the best astronaut
And if you fail, it's okay
If you fail again, it's okay
If you fail once more... well, it's still okay
Because what matters is that you stand every time you fall
You get back up and try again
Never let one failure keep you down
Be stronger than the weight pulling you down
Rise to the top
but never step on flowers just to see the sunrise
And I assure you, once you find your passion
And you pursue it
You dedicate every waking moment to it
You will feel better, do better, think better, be more inspired
Use this to inspire others and help them find their passion
Cierra los ojos y a oscuras piérdete
bajo el follaje rojo de tus párpados.

Húndete en esas espirales
del sonido que zumba y cae
y suena allá, remoto,
hacia el sitio del tímpano,
como una catarata ensordecida.

Hunde tu ser a oscuras,
anégate en tu piel,
y más, en tus entrañas ;
que te deslumbre y ciegue
el hueso, lívida centella,
y entre simas y golfos de tiniebla
abra su azul penacho el fuego fatuo.

En esa sombra líquida del sueño
moja tu desnudez;
abandona tu forma, espuma
que no se sabe quién dejó en la orilla;
piérdete en ti, infinita,
en tu infinito ser,
mar que se pierde en otro mar:
olvídate y olvídame.

En ese olvido sin edad ni fondo
labios, besos, amor, todo, renace:
las estrellas son hijas de la noche.
Arriba azul, verde abajo,
Pleno abril, sol esplendente,
Y yo sentado en un puente
Que cabalga sobre el Tajo.
Ara el buey con gran trabajo
La lejana sementera;
Zumba la abeja doquiera;
Cada planta tiene flor;
Los cielos dicen: ¡amor!
Y los campos: ¡primavera!

Vibra en la extensión lejana,
Que el Tajo hirviente recorre,
La voz que en gótica torre
Da a los aires la campana;
Católica y musulmana,
Infundiendo asombro y miedo.
Desde el puente mirar puedo,
Entre mil tintas bermejas,
Cúpulas, torres y rejas
De la ciudad de Toledo.

¡Cómo resaltan, bañadas
Del sol por los rayos puros,
En cornisones oscuros
Almenas desportilladas!
Sobre ramblas aplomadas
Se mira en conjunto vago
El rudo y constante estrago
De los siglos, que han escrito
Su paso sobre el granito
Con ortiga y jaramago.

¡Toledo! rico tesoro
De señoriales contiendas,
De cuentos y de leyendas
Que enaltecen al rey moro:
Te envuelve en nimbos de oro
El sol que tus campos baña,
Y tienes la pompa extraña
De una majestad caída,
Que refleja, ya vencida,
Todo el esplendor de España.

De tus grandezas testigo,
El Tajo a tu voz responde:
Sirte de plata que esconde
Misterios del rey Rodrigo.
En ti buscaron abrigo
Héroes de raras historias,
Cuyos hechos y memorias
Impiden, a extrañas gentes,
Con tus desgracias presentes
Nublar tus pasadas glorias.

Toledo, soñé en mirarte,
Y al fin feliz te contemplo,
Como silencioso templo
De la tradición y el arte.
Vengan otros a estudiarte:
Nunca atizó mi ansiedad,
Ver si pueblan tu ciudad
Almas grandes o mezquinas:
Me basta ver tus rüinas,
Me encanta tu soledad.

Ya sin puente ni rastrillo,
Destrozado el minarete;
Sin lanzas en el almete
Del paredón amarillo,
Semeja el feudal castillo
Mansión de espectros sombría,
Do nunca el rayo del día
Halla, al penetrar ligero,
Ni en la sala al caballero
Ni en las torres al vigía.

Sólo la indiscreta fama
Cuenta que en tiempo pasado
Tuvo el castillo clavado
En la puerta un oriflama;
Fue prisión de hermosa dama
Cautiva en redes de amor,
Y a tanto llegó el rigor
De su infortunada suerte,
Que, por celos, le dio muerte
Con el hacha, su señor.

En angosta saetera
Su nido cuelga el vencejo,
Y crece el duro cornejo
En la inútil halconera.
Encubre la enredadera
El desgastado blasón;
Sin lengua está el esquilón;
La poterna sin cerrojos;
Hay en el glacis abrojos,
Y ortiga en el torreón.

El sillar tosco y plomizo
Llora en el musgo su duelo;
Cruza de tarde el mochuelo
El húmedo pasadizo;
Sostiene el arco macizo
Un pesado corredor,
Que en el ángulo interior
Guarda en piedra mal tallado
Un Cristo crucificado,
Que ya no inspira fervor.

Los altos muros deslava,
Retratando las almenas,
El Tajo, cuyas arenas
Pisó tímida la Cava;
Bajo su lecho de grava
Oculta el undoso río
Todo el pasado sombrío
De historias y tradiciones;
Joyas, armas y blasones
Del gótico poderío.

Con soberbia majestad,
Por la historia consagrados,
Alza sus muros calados
Coronando la ciudad,
El Alcázar que en la edad
De heroísmo sin segundo,
Vio con asombro profundo
Salir de allí, sin mancilla,
Los leones de Castilla
Para dominar el mundo.

Allí el rencor acibara
Bajo sus cotas de acero
A don Pedro el Justiciero
Y a Enrique de Trastamara.
Si cada piedra guardara,
Por mano de Dios escrito,
De la virtud y el delito
Las luchas que ha contemplado,
Lanzara el mundo espantado
Frente a cada piedra un grito.

Mas tan sólo de grandeza
Y ostentación son destello:
Siempre lo grande y lo bello
Vive en la naturaleza.
Hasta en su muda tristeza
Tienen pompa las rüinas;
Defienden secas espinas
Las tumbas de ilustres muertos,
Y en los salones desiertos
Son reinas las golondrinas.

¡Soledad! ¡silencio! ¡estrago!
El tiempo con mano ruda,
Siembra en el alma la duda,
Y en el muro el jaramago.
En vano el mentido halago
De una brillante memoria
Alza recuerdos de gloria
De polvo glacial y leve,
Que sólo levanta y mueve
El huracán de la historia.

Sigue el hombre por la tierra,
Como ayer, triste camino,
Incansable peregrino
Siempre con el mal en guerra.
¿Quién vacila? ¿quién se aterra
Ante tan rudo trabajo?
Arriba azul, verde abajo,
Pleno abril, sol esplendente,
Y al mar empujando hirviente
Sus claras ondas el Tajo.
Matt Jun 2015
I saw a pretty woman
Walkin' up my street

Tight yoga pants
So ****

I look but haven't been intimate
With a woman for 7 years

Women are so beautiful
I saw a gorgeous Zumba instructor

Last night at the gym
Her smile and her body
Man oh man
Geeze

Better not to look
At such beautiful women

They walk in and out of my life
Lol
Dara Brown Jan 2017
The only walls I want are the ones separating the rooms in my house. You know, the ones that divide my rooms and let me know if I'm cooking here,  Netflix and chilling there or simply just sleeping undisturbed .

The only walls I'm interested in are the ones separating the rooms in my house. You know the ones that divide my rooms and let me know this is the space where my daughter plays, this is the space where my husband prays five times a day, this is the space where I wash the grit of the day from my ***** clothes.

The only walls I'm interested in are the ones separating the rooms in my house.  You know the ones that divide my rooms and let me know this is the space where I entertain my friends, the space where I try to Zumba and loose the college 10 that turned into the adult  30, the space where all the corners join and then disappear behind my Christmas tree, where those four corners blend to support the tired leanings of my immigrant family after stuffing their bellies full of my freshly made tamales and leftover pernil

So unless you're taking the tired, the poor, the hungry and building them a respite inside of walls that separate homes, inside of walls that gives shelter, that tell we belong and are safely home
then I have no interest in anymore walls
unless
the wall you build divides you from us the way bathroom walls should keep **** contained to keep your stench from poisoning U.S. and the rest of the house.

Now that is the only wall I can agree on.
somberbitch Aug 2019
I have pleaded for a very long time with you and myself for a solution to the doubts and suspicions you had. I would take them away from you in a heart beat if i could, and that is why i spent 9 months swallowing my dignity and taking hits from your anger, because i understood it came from a genuine place of frustration.

"If you lied because we were in a bad place then you would have no reason to be honest since then."
This statement really confused me because the place we were in that caused me to lie, looking back, would not have caused you to break up with me had i been up front with you before confirming to go on a very random lunch. In my head when justifying myself, we were in a comparably bad place for a meaningless lunch to occupy your mind (and i now know this alone should have caused me to never go from the start, and that i do not have to feel obligated to be nice to people that mean little to nothing to me), because it was not important to focus on while we worked on us. I understand lying was the worst thing to do, but it was because i did not want a distraction from working towards a happy future together. You were all i had. It is not worth the unnecessary pain i put you through, and even if you are ever able to see the truth i will forever know i did this to you because of my poor judgement. I am sorry for this and will be for the rest of my life.

The bad place we are in now is different, with us being in this place because of my poorly decided decision to lie for the better good of what i thought would help us focus. To continue any lie since i told you everything would not help to sustain a real relationship, which is what we are now fighting for now. I am not concealing anything anymore because this is more serious of an issue, which is why it has been 9 months as opposed to the week it usually takes us to sort out things. I lied when i did not think it was meaningful enough to worry about, and with someone i have held so dear to me i cannot afford to not be honest ever again.

I hate addressing details because i have said this all before and it doesn't seem to help, but i want to speak on the discharge. Ever since you have known me i have had discharge and always wore a liner, and i'm sure this is something you have always known unless i dabble with thongs for you. Even my mother is aware of this, and if were sharing everything i have been to doctors for this, but i was told it is normal for my body if it is a daily thing that doesnt change. Just like my period, it is abnormally normal. I had never been sexually active before you, and liners were already a normal daily occurrence for me. Not to give too much detail because i was always insecure about the amount i have had daily since i began my period in middle school, but i change my liner (which i constantly have in my backpack) almost every 4 hours or so.

Normal girls don't usually have a problem with discharge whether they are *****, exercising, or just existing, liners are meant to be used solely towards the end of periods. Changing often throughout my day is a schedule i have had in my mind for years prior to working out, and with working out came more frequency to change it.
I went to lunch after morning zumba and a psych class, and i left in so much of a rush to see you after i finished my meal i was not as **** i as usually am about that kind of hygiene. I was also still wearing my gym clothes that day because we did not sweat as much as usual, which meant it was one of few days i did not shower after zumba. Combine all this with me in a horrible and guilt inducing panic, and you have me with nasty stuff i try so hard to hide from you on a normal day basis. I have no control of my body, and i understand that normally discharge means something ******, but my body has never been strictly like that. No matter what causes the discharge, it will look the same if it has been there for awhile (aka since the morning due to zumba). Been there implies both still inside me and on the liner itself (i know its tmi but it is important you understand, it exits my body when i go to the bathroom or simply just exist throughout the day, or quite possibly when i am ***** to make room for new discharge. These are all reasons as to why i wear liner constantly. That is probably why it was there, given i got very ***** when we were in your room so it got rid of things from my workout that morning. I have had this body and problem since i was 12, so i really hope you see that i mean it when i say this was most definitely the reason for what you thought was new). If we are sexually active and i do not handle it in the bathroom promptly after, it will be the same consistency later on. I know that sounds like a long winded explanation, but that honestly is the reason for any discharge ever for me, and i really don't have anything to lose if you knowing details like this could show you the truth.

The extent of my discharge is frustrating to me to hold as a reason that i have wronged you, because it is absolutely not due to me doing anything ****** with another person, let alone not from even being *****.  This again comes to knowing me as a person. When you first saw me naked and wanted to eat me out, and im sure for awhile after that, i was always particularly dry down there because of me over cleaning what i have always struggled with. I am very self conscious about this and i hope i made sense explaining this, given the only person who knows close to as much about this is my mother, so i have never had to truly explain it before. I believe going back to day one of knowing me should help piece together what i have been trying to tell you for so long.

As for my *****-ness, this was the first and only time i had lied to you, and i was so ashamed for such a stupid lie i was very excited and appreciative to hug and kiss you, feel your embrace and have you call me yours. I felt so unbelievably bad even though i did nothing, and could not have been happier to see you, especially due to the fact you were upset with me the night before (it could have been a couple due to the weekend, its hard to remember now but i do know we talked in a car and it ended badly before i had to leave) and having you upset at me for just about anything makes me so sorry and miss you so much.
I am and have always been ***** for just you, and i feel i have been more comfortable to express that this last year than others, as i have become more comfortable speaking intimately like that with you.

My judgement was wrong when i sided with zeze, but we were both deceived, as well as literally all of my other friends, just so he could get in her pants. I mean this when i say it was everyone, amar, saba, ayah, reema, me, zeze, reem. Everyone repeated that he was such a great person and zeze had nothing to worry about. It seemed so ridiculous that we could all be that stupid, and i hate that us "knowing" him from high school gave him some sort of advantage. It wasn't a lack of desire to cut him off, just us giving people the benefit of the doubt that did not deserve it, because we thought we knew the person he was. With all this said, i could not be more sorry for not seeing your intuition for what i now know is the truth, and i have said this before. I am sorry, you were 100% right and i am ashamed for not believing you.

I love your mother dearly,
but i was not exploring my options.
I knew the ******* and everyone else in my friend group since high school, and i never wanted to pursue them and therefore never have.
I knew you for two days and fell in love with you.

You are my everything, and you became that the first time we sat in the ugl together and you completely boggled my brain. You bring me things i did not know i could obtain from another person, and even with you thinking the worst of me my love has never wavered.


I know this is a lot, but I write this because no matter how angry i am to think you could see me wanting to do something with anyone else but you, i love you more than i see myself ever loving anyone. Please don't make me convince you anymore that i love you enough to never want/have wanted anything or anyone else in my life, because that has been the hardest part. I have been with you through your worst times, and when i lied we had finally gotten through so much of it. I'm so sorry.

I will never forgive myself for believing that any lie, even if it was small and meaningless in my mind, would be okay and cause for a better focus and future. I was not in the right head space at that point in time, where it was the beginning of isolation from my friends. I also had moved back home after leaving for the first time, and because of this, also isolated by my family that has still been going on till this day. I should have known better than to even plant a seed of doubt in someone who was my rock and my everything. I am so sorry for thinking that any lie is okay, no matter how harmless i think it is. I knew this prior to lying, and it was just a bad and panicked judgment call that should not have happened. This was a panic that existed solely because you were all i had left in my life that i cherished more than anything, and did not want to give anyone or anything a reason to take you away. Even with you struggling with yourself at the time, i honestly believe you would not have been as angry with me as i thought you would be. There was no reason to believe you wouldn't have understood the awkward position i was in, and i really ****** up for choosing to lie to spare you from being uncomfortable. Granted, you probably would have given me the amazing advice to simply not feel obligated to have lunch with someone i didn't know too well anymore just to be nice, and none of this would have happened. I know that now and i really hope my mistake wont ultimately rip away the most valuable person i have for reasons far worse than what actually happened.
If thats not karma, i dont know what is.

To a certain extent i deserve what i got to show me no lie is an okay one, but i refuse to lose you over something that i did not do. It took a lot for me to own up to such a big mistake, and i feel my courage was depreciated because of the what if's it created. I do not blame you for having them, but after so long i just wish you could see how they are not plausible.

Please imagine yourself in my shoes, and how frustrating it is to be so stubbornly accused of something you did not do for so long.

I had no reason to seek other people, i was finally happy to see you having the mental energy to start to rebuild yourself into the beautiful person i have always seen you to be.

I really want to forgive you, but i genuinely cannot while knowing that you believe i am capable of cheating. I also cannot see how you can say you forgive me when you still doubt my truth. I do not understand what exactly you forgive if you still do not believe me. It makes all my efforts to keep such a beautiful soul in my life for nothing if you do not see my truth for what it is. I spent so much of my being to help you realize i am being truthful, and to lose you after so many months of commitment breaks me. I feel as though maybe your mind is stubbornly using these false accusations as an excuse to move on without guilt for other reasons, or just using my existence as a way to remove all your life frustrations without fully realizing it. I mean it to the very bottom of my core when i say i have never strayed from the desire of you and just you. I would not plea for months to a person and put them through all this, or myself frankly, if i was not being completely honest in what i'm fighting for. I chose you bean, and after being **** on for something i did not do i was still willing to chose you.

I was undoubtedly convinced that this year was certainly going to show you how ridiculous the accusations were and your worth to me, and end with you finally giving me at least the beginning pieces of trust i have fought so hard to regain. Maybe i now must realize i am simply not enough. I did more than i thought was humanly possible to fight for someone. I hope this moved you in some way, because it is the last ounce of energy i have in my body to give away. This has ****** me up for so long, please believe me in everything i have told you. You are not a fool, and it would mean the world to not be thrown away for false accusations. For everything i have done for you, please do me this kindness and remember me for who you know me to be. And please mean it fully and truly if you ever decide to do so.

I love you so much Thomas.
It has been about a week later, and instead of sending a text i have written a million times and have battled myself against sending, i am choosing to write this here. It has taken a lot of patience to let you check discord on your own time and to have you not prioritize this hurts more than anything else that has ever happened between us. If you have moved on and have done things with others, i must know and you must be vocal and communicate, because i am in such an extremely low place right now that i have never been before and need to hear it from you before it spirals me to a place i cannot come up from. The hope of getting you back and having you reach out destroys me with everyday that goes by with nothing but silence. Let me know if my hope should even continue, and if you still desire me in your life (even if still just in the near future and not right now). You will never understand your significance to me, so please. just please. I am in so much pain thomas, there isnt anything i would appreciate more than this. thank you.
Jayantee Khare Jan 2018
People coming
out of their nest,
Few sundays
marked as fest!

Let's go cycling
or just walk,
Everywhere
people flock!

Kids are playing,
elders relaxing,
Drawing, dance,
or sketching !

Traffic absent,
roads are our own,
Yoga, zumba,
fitness zone!

Football, badminton,
Karaoke,
Sit or lie down
on the road, it's ok!

Move and groove
on favourite song,
Dance on the road,
it's not wrong!

All are happy
it's a good treat,
Come and join
on happy street!
In india, we have happy streets...the traffic is blocked for few hrs...on earmarked road....been there with son...enjoyed ..and inspired to write this...
Matt Jun 2015
I was lying on a yoga mat
In the local neighborhood park

I'm just a layabout now

No chance I see
At any type of career

Our economy in ruins

It was relaxing
Just lying there
Thinking no thoughts

I didn't want to be home
During lunchtime
When the taxpayer is there

30 years old
Completely broke
How embarrassing
Despite all my education
Unable to pay my bills

Ah well,
This nation
Has no future anyhow

And later I parked underneath the shade
Of the large tree
Looking far down the street
Relaxing in my car
A biker made his way up the street

That night I was at the gym
And I chuckled to myself
The same Zumba class

Or whatever it was
The dancing, the music

I keep the eternal calm
No matter what is going
On around me

Remember the constant sound
Of the water I recorded that one day

A woman complimented me on my stretch
Leg extended parallel from my body

She said, "Looks nice"
Thanks, I said, sheepishly
A bit older then me
But attractive
Women are fun

But when you live at home
Just no chance really
Of being in any type of relationship

When you have no money
And no decent job well
That's just America

So I'm content to layabout
The layabout

Other people may have their positions
Or a decent job
Nothing I do results in any
Of those worthless paper dollars

So I'm just content to layabout
Alto soy de mirar a las palmeras,
rudo de convivir con las montañas...
Yo me vi bajo y blando en las aceras
de una ciudad espléndida de arañas.
Difíciles barrancos de escaleras,
calladas cataratas de ascensores,
¡qué impresión de vacío!,
ocupaban el puesto de mis flores,
los aires de mis aires y mi río.

Yo vi lo más notable de lo mío
llevado del demonio, y Dios ausente.
Yo te tuve en el lejos del olvido,
aldea, huerto, fuente
en que me vi al descuido:
huerto, donde me hallé la mejor vida,
aldea, donde al aire y libremente,
en una paz meé larga y tendida.

Pero volví en seguida
mi atención a las puras existencias
de mi retiro hacia mi ausencia atento,
y todas sus ausencias
me llenaron de luz el pensamiento.

Iba mi pie sin tierra, ¡qué tormento!,
vacilando en la cera de los pisos,
con un temor continuo, un sobresalto,
que aumentaban los timbres, los avisos,
las alarmas, los hombres y el asfalto.
¡Alto!, ¡Alto!, ¡Alto!, ¡Alto!
¡Orden!, ¡Orden! ¡Qué altiva
imposición del orden una mano,
un color, un sonido!
Mi cualidad visiva,
¡ay!, perdía el sentido.

Topado por mil senos, embestido
por más de mil peligros, tentaciones,
mecánicas jaurías,
me seguían lujurias y claxones,
deseos y tranvías.

¡Cuánto labio de púrpuras teatrales,
exageradamente pecadores!
¡Cuánto vocabulario de cristales,
al frenesí llevando los colores
en una pugna, en una competencia
de originalidad y de excelencia!
¡Qué confusión! ¡Babel de las babeles!
¡Gran ciudad!: ¡gran demontre!: ¡gran puñeta!
¡el mundo sobre rieles,
y su desequilibrio en bicicleta!

Los vicios desdentados, las ancianas
echándose en las canas rosicleres,
infamia de las canas,
y aun buscando sin tuétano placeres.
Árboles, como locos, enjaulados:
Alamedas, jardines
para destuetanarse el mundo; y lados
de creación ultrajada por orines.

Huele el macho a jazmines,
y menos lo que es todo parece
la hembra oliendo a cuadra y podredumbre.

¡Ay, cómo empequeñece
andar metido en esta muchedumbre!
¡Ay!, ¿dónde está mi cumbre,
mi pureza, y el valle del sesteo
de mi ganado aquel y su pastura?

Y miro, y sólo veo
velocidad de vicio y de locura.
Todo eléctrico: todo de momento.
Nada serenidad, paz recogida.
Eléctrica la luz, la voz, el viento,
y eléctrica la vida.
Todo electricidad: todo presteza
eléctrica: la flor y la sonrisa,
el orden, la belleza,
la canción y la prisa.
Nada es por voluntad de ser, por gana,
por vocación de ser. ¿Qué hacéis las cosas
de Dios aquí: la nube, la manzana,
el borrico, las piedras y las rosas?
¡Rascacielos!: ¡qué risa!: ¡rascaleches!
¡Qué presunción los manda hasta el retiro
de Dios! ¿Cuándo será, Señor, que eches
tanta soberbia abajo de un suspiro?
¡Ascensores!: ¡qué rabia!  A ver, ¿cuál sube
a la talla de un monte y sobrepasa
el perfil de una nube,
o el cardo, que de místico se abrasa
en la serrana gracia de la altura?
¡Metro!: ¡qué noche oscura
para el suicidio del que desespera!:
¡qué subterránea y vasta gusanera,
donde se cata y zumba
la labor y el secreto de la tumba!
¡Asfalto!: ¡qué impiedad para mi planta!
¡Ay, qué de menos echa
el tacto de mi pie mundos de arcilla
cuyo contacto imanta,
paisajes de cosecha,
caricias y tropiezos de semilla!

¡Ay, no encuentro, no encuentro
la plenitud del mundo en este centro!
En los naranjos dulces de mi río,
asombros de oro en estas latitudes,
oh ciudad cojitranca, desvarío,
sólo abarca mi mano plenitudes.
No concuerdo con todas estas cosas
de escaparate y de bisutería:
entre sus variedades procelosas,
es la persona mía,
como el árbol, un triste anacronismo.
Y el triste de mí mismo,
sale por su alegría,
que se quedó en el mayo de mi huerto,
de este urbano bullicio
donde no estoy de mí seguro cierto,
y es pormayor la vida como el vicio.

He medio boquiabierto
la soledad cerrada de mi huerto.
He regado las plantas:
las de mis pies impuras y otras santas,
en la sequía breve de mi ausencia
por nadie reemplazada. Se derrama,
rogándome asistencia,
el limonero al suelo, ya cansino,
de tanto agrio picudo.
En el miembro desnudo de una rama,
se le ve al ave el trino
recóndito, desnudo.

Aquí la vida es pormenor: hormiga,
muerte, cariño, pena,
piedra, horizonte, río, luz, espiga,
vidrio, surco y arena.
Aquí está la basura
en las calles, y no en los corazones.
Aquí todo se sabe y se murmura:
No puede haber oculta la criatura
mala, y menos las malas intenciones.

Nace un niño, y entera
la madre a todo el mundo del contorno.
Hay pimentón tendido en la ladera,
hay pan dentro del horno,
y el olor llena el ámbito, rebasa
los límites del marco de las puertas,
penetra en toda la casa
y panifica el aire de las huertas.

Con una paz de aceite derramado,
enciende el río un lado y otro lado
de su imposible, por eterna, huida.
Como una miel muy lenta destilada,
por la serenidad de su caída
sube la luz a las palmeras: cada
palmera se disputa
la soledad suprema de los vientos,
la delicada gloria de la fruta
y la supremacía
de la elegancia de los movimientos
en la más venturosa geografía.

Está el agua que trina de tan fría
en la pila y la alberca
donde aprendí a nadar. Están los pavos,
la Navidad se acerca,
explotando de broma en los tapiales,
con los desplantes y los gestos bravos
y las barbas con ramos de corales.
Las venas manantiales
de mi pozo serrano
me dan, en el pozal que les envío,
pureza y lustración para la mano,
para la tierra seca amor y frío.

Haciendo el hortelano,
hoy en este solaz de regadío
de mi huerto me quedo.
No quiero más ciudad, que me reduce
su visión, y su mundo me da miedo.

¡Cómo el limón reluce
encima de mi frente y la descansa!
¡Cómo apunta en el cruce
de la luz y la tierra el lilio puro!
Se combate la pita, y se remansa
el perejil en un aparte oscuro.
Hay az'har, ¡qué osadía de la nieve!
y estamos en diciembre, que hasta enero,
a oler, lucir y porfiar se atreve
en el alrededor del limonero.

Lo que haya de venir, aquí lo espero
cultivando el romero y la pobreza.
Aquí de nuevo empieza
el orden, se reanuda
el reposo, por yerros alterado,
mi vida humilde, y por humilde, muda.
Y Dios dirá, que está siempre callado.
Es media noche; la luna
Irradia en el firmamento;
Y riza al pasar el viento
Las ondas de la laguna.

En el bosque secular,
Y entre el tupido ramaje,
Turba el pájaro salvaje
La quietud con su cantar.

Y entre los contornos vagos
Del horizonte, a lo lejos
Brillan cual claros espejos,
Al pie del monte, los lagos.

Yace en paz, sola y rendida
De Tenoch la ciudad bella,
Parece que impera en ella
La muerte más que la vida.

Y no es ficción, es verdad;
Que fue tan triste su suerte
Que la orillan a la muerte
El luto y la soledad.
Su esplendor está apagado
De la guerra al terremoto;
El gran huebuetl está roto
Y el teponaxtle callado.

No alumbra el teocal, la luz
Del copal de suave aroma,
Porque el teocal se desploma
Bajo el peso de la cruz.

No cubren mantos de pluma
Los cuerpos de altivos reyes;
Tiene otro Dios y otras leyes
La tierra de Moctezuma.

Y ante este Dios y esta ley
Que transforman su recinto
Sólo al César Carlos Quinto
Reconoce como rey.

¡Cuántos heroicos afanes!
¡Cuántos horribles estragos
Han visto bosques y lagos,
Ventisqueros y volcanes!

Está el palacio vacío
Sin pompas ni ricas galas;
Desiertas se ven sus salas
Su exterior mudo y sombrío.

Y zumba en su derredor
Sel viento la aguda queja,
Como un suspiro que deja
Honda impresión de dolor.

Es el profundo lamento
De una raza sin fortuna:
¡La sangre que en la laguna
Flota y se queja en el viento!

Por eso duerme rendida
De Tenoch la ciudad bella,
Como si imperase en ella
La muerte más que la vida.
Frente a la anchurosa plaza,
Cerca del teocal sagrado
Y del palacio olvidado
Que pronta ruina amenaza,

Donde con riqueza suma
Viviera, en tiempo mejor,
Axayacatl el señor
Y padre de Moctezuma,

En corta y estrecha calle
Desde la cual, el que pasa
Mira fabricar la casa
Del alto marqués del Valle.

Así en la noche sombría
Como en la tarde callada
Y al fulgor de la alborada
Con que nace el nuevo día,

En toscas piedras sentado
Y con harapos vestido,
Entre las manos hundido
El semblante demacrado;

Un hombre de aspecto rudo,
Imagen de desventura,
Siempre en la misma postura,
Y como una estatua muda,

Inclinada la cabeza,
Allí lo encuentra la gente,
como la expresión viviente
De la más honda tristeza.

¿En qué piensa? ¿Qué medita?
¿Qué dolor su alma destroza
Que ni llora, ni solloza,
Ni se queja, ni se agita?

En su conjunto reviste
Tanta tristeza ignorada,
Que la gente acostumbrada
clama al verlo: «¡el indio triste!»

Le conocen por tal nombre
En el pueblo y la nobleza,
Y dicen: es la tristeza
Que tiene formas de hombre.

A nadie llegó a contar
Su tenaz dolor profundo;
Siempre triste lo vio el mundo
En aquel mismo lugar;

Tal vez fue algún descendiente
De los nobles mejicanos,
Que al ver en extrañas manos
Y en poder de extraña gente

La nación que libre un día
Vivió con riqueza y calma
Sintió en el fondo del alma
Horrible melancolía.

Y sin ninguna amenaza,
Viendo a su nación cautiva,
Fue la expresión muda y viva
De la aflicción de su raza.

Muchos años se le vio
En igual sitio sentado,
Y allí pobre y resignado
De su tristeza murió.

Su desconocida historia
Al vulgo pasma y arredra,
Y en tosca estatua de piedra
Honrar quiso su memoria.

La estatua al cabo cayó,
Que al tiempo nada resiste,
Y «Calle del Indio Triste»
Esa calle se llamó,

Sin poder averiguar
Con ciencia ni sutileza
La causa de la tristeza
Del indio de aquel lugar;

Pero en nuestro hermoso valle,
Y en nuestra mejor ciudad,
Pasan de edad en edad
Ese nombre y esa calle.
Ya por cambiar de piel o por tenerla
nos acogemos a lo oscuro,
que nos viste de sombra
la carne desollada.

En los ojos abiertos
cae la sombra y luego son los ojos
los que en la sombra caen
y es unos ojos líquidos la sombra.

¡En esos ojos anegarse,
no ser sino esos ojos
que no ven, que acarician
como las olas si son alas,
como las alas si son labios!

Pero los ojos de la sombra
en nuestros ojos se endurecen
y arañemos el muro o resbalemos
por la roca, la sombra nos rechaza:
en esa piedra no hay olvido.

Nos vamos hacia dentro, túnel *****.
"Muros de cal. Zumba la luz abeja
entre el verdor caliente y ya caído
de las yerbas. Higuera maternal:
la cicatriz del tronco, entre las hojas,
era una boca hambrienta, femenina,
viva en la primavera. Al mediodía
era dulce trepar entre las ramas
y en el verde vacío suspendido
en un higo comer el sol, ya *****."

Nada fue ayer, nada mañana,
todo es presente, todo está presente,
y cae y no sabemos en qué pozos,
ni si detrás de ese sinfín
aguarda Dios, o el Diablo,
o simplemente Nadie.

Huimos a la luz que no nos miente
y en un papel cualquiera
escribimos palabras sin respuesta.
Y enrojecen a veces
las líneas azules, y nos duelen.
Su cuerpo es una hostia fina, mínima y leve.
Tiene azules los ojos y las manos de nieve.

En el parque los árboles parecen congelados,
los pájaros en ellos se detienen cansados.

Sus trenzas rubias tocan el agua dulcemente
como dos brazos de oro brotados de la fuente.

Zumba el vuelo perdido de las lechuzas ciegas.
Melisanda se pone de rodillas y ruega.

Los árboles se inclinan hasta tocar su frente.
Los pájaros se alejan en la tarde doliente.

Melisanda, la dulce, llora junto a la fuente.
Wake Up
Wake Up

Sky kiss and lawn of mind
Greening beautifully
Can’t-miss
Sky kiss

Zumba laugh
begin…

Raining and fog falling
turtles pleasantly rolling
Don’t have time for calling

Looking sky
don’t know why?
Ohh It’s not too high, O dear!

Let’s open your astronaut dream
packed with oxygen drill

Moon wink
link your dream strings
Kites flying
and so the rising moon
O
Beloved come soon
Under the Shade of a tree
Let’s feel free
Let’s uncage your butterfly and a bee

tip-top
colors hop
tip-top
colors hop

Get up
Leave your lazy cushions
Do the tango
Don’t wait!
close all your negativity entry gate!
cheers!!

A round walk! Around the walk!
feel the rhythm and think what you have brought
Gain some spiritual meditational sky talk
Then some bang bang chocolate

Take some Fruit’s salad
jolly your mind and add your heart
A dazzling mug of coffee

Rise up and twinkle!
Rise up and twinkle!

start your day!
Don’t let it down dreamy feather
realize the real
concatenate the imagination
combo!
Mumbo Jumbo!

Let’s go
driving the infinite snow
feel the cold
relax with the music old!

Take a break!
Let’s go

Pots of golden *** and vacant space
time your mind
sometimes memories rewind
under the cup of diverging new winds

If reached in the forest unknowingly
wild your heart and don’t feel unrest
Wear a mask under the green shadow
Don’t fear if the lion is so near
like a moonwalk
slowly
reverse your gear of slow walk
without eye to eye contact

If lion attack
punches the nose hard
breathe!
and
never let the lionto eat you
Don’t go beyond the imagination,O dear!

Wild the forest
wild so you!
Wild the forest
wild so you!

Bright love
singing right in front of the mind tree, a pond
O melting glaciers
Hurry up!
seasons of a fluffy polar bear
Drinking beer…

closely searching me near!
So I deep sleep while drinking a lovely beer…

Just to fear the wild bear!

cheers!!! cheers!!!cheers!!!


Grasses of dreams want to sprout
Layer the other side of the coin!

Wake up!
Wake up!

Trees are laughing
Kissing and rejoicing
Oh Dear!
Everything is in the dream!
cheers!!!

Snow is wildly astonishing
Foresting smile!
Glittering star shining in the dreamy mile!


Layer’s of desert fall
I am in the dream
I can’t call…
cheers!!!

Wake Up!


Wake Up!

Wake Up!!


Wake Up !

Wake Up!

Wake Up!


Wake Up !!


Wake Up !!!

Como el día que madura de hora en hora hasta no ser sino un instante inmenso,
Gran vasija de tiempo que zumba como una colmena, gran mazorca compacta de horas vivas,
Gran vasija de luz hasta los bordes henchida de su propia y poderosa sustancia,
Fruto violento y resonante que se mece entre la tierra y el cielo, suspendido como el trueno,
Entre la tierra y el cielo abriéndose como una flor gigantesca de pétalos invisibles,
Como el surtidor que al abrirse se derrumba en un blanco clamor de pájaros heridos,
Como la ola que avanza y se hincha y se despliega en una ancha sonrisa,
Como el perfume que asciende en una columna y se esparce en círculos,
Como una campana que tañe en el fondo de un lago,
Como el día y el fruto y la ola, como el tiempo que madura un año para dar un instante de belleza y colmarse a sí mismo con esa dicha instantánea,
La vi una tarde y una mañana y un mediodía y otra tarde y otra y otra
(Porque lo inesperado se repite y los milagros son cotidianos y están a nuestro alcance

Como el sol y la espiga y la ola y el fruto: basta abrir bien los ojos) y desde entonces creo en los árboles
Y a veces, bajo su sombra, he comido sin miedo los frutos de una amistad parecida a las manzanas
Y he conversado con ella y con su marido y su cuñado como hablan entre sí el agua y las hojas y las raíces.
Nicole Tracii May 2019
Played Eminem at full volume because I didn’t have to listen to you complain about “**** rap”

2. Cried while listening to Cinderella Man.

3. Listened to music by Drag Queens because I love myself.

4. Danced and cried alone in my room

5. Took advantage of the fact that I still had your Netflix password.

6. Made an OkCupid because Tinder is garbage. I had way too much fun sarcastically making my profile. I included the fact that I don’t believe in wearing matching socks and quoted drag queens to excess because I don’t get cute I get drop dead gorgeous.

7. Looked for girls on OkCupid.

8. Realized my sexuality.

9. Went on a date a week after. It was terrible, he talked about himself the entire time and he didn’t even have an interesting personality.

10. Decided to date myself. I found out I’m a way better date than anyone I had ever dated.

11. Joined a dance group, a Zumba group, a kickboxing group, a yoga group,  a barre fitness group, and the summer rifle club. And I discovered I loved it all.

12. Went to bars on a Tuesday night because they had comedy events and burlesque shows. This was the best date I took myself on.

13. I moved on. I didn’t move on to someone else. I moved on to myself. Because I am the best thing for myself.
Nat Lipstadt Aug 2022
the house in August is summer morn quieter

the sink clatter of breakfast dishes awaiting disposition by the dishwasher (me) ends abruptly. The slamming screen doors are
signal that crew has departed for yoga or Zumba, even work,


and the cottage is his.

An early riser, he has already visited and returned from the Environmental and Recycling Center which demands he ken various kinds of plastic, sort clean metal, glass and batteries for Hades voltage  crushing to their eternal resting for burial and rebirth & celebrates

bringing order to refuse.

Now, he retires to the sunroom couch to bring order to the refuse of his rambunctious mind, where he has birthed too many poems, survivors, destroying many stillborn or defective, that were not good enough for you, wept many tears of joyous completion, reveled in the late current bounteous good fortune in a mostly accursed life,
and dwells in a world entirely

of his own mind carving.

With one exception.

He sees the few names of those who have shared this journey.  With some, he has conversed for almost a decade. His grace for those willing to tag along and make their presence known, I am grateful

beyond words!

Thank you.

nml
08/03/2022
you know where.

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