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Orange, The Unrhymable Word
The color, the fruit …the color of the fruit The word, orange It used to be called yellowred One word not two Things change Her favorite color was orange Can you guess her favorite fruit? She mastered the fine art Of peeling the skin In one whole piece Slowly she would push Her slender fingers [...]
Finished
Finished The time before – the build up The time after – thought In between there is the void In that void there is me Anger has caused my hands to bleed I am so alone in my mind Staring as the blood becomes Oval jewels within the cuts I will not clean them Not [...]
On Love (Refrain)
This poem is a refrain (so to speak) of “On Love“ On Love (Refrain) Oft quoted poet You can have those summer days I cherish the darkness and the secrecy Of a black blue night When you can see right through Light’s absence Eyes reflecting eyes Reflecting eyes To one who asked how Could forever [...]
On Love
On Love Realization struck Chord of dissonance Opening the universe Revealing truth Youth A condition of unbearable want Disguised as need Between Heaven and Hell Lies a conversation And you laugh A poet That can’t express himself Exhortation Join the forum discussion on this post
Roleplay
Roleplay In the post afternoon Twilight I saw her Just as night dropped Upon the atmosphere Like the wings of the Universe folding in on itself Cloaking the empty streets In tempered darkness Empty but for she Filling in all my blanks Angel of night dark seraph Street lights framing her With a pale yellow [...]
Colors
Colors Each design seemed of mirrors Sliced thin to string And woven thread-like Into the fabric Of her blood blue jeans If I concentrated hard enough I could truly See myself in her pants Silk blouse – The color of A six winged angel’s Lust – Hung loosely About her left shoulder, Line slanting Tightening [...]
Once Kings
Once Kings oh how we sometimes fall walking through bottles of prescription inscriptions five cent deposits living off change loose pocket currents the once great halls of kings now alleyways of whispers quite talks of used coffee cups containing livelihood a quarter of a quarter or a nickel plus silver crown of aluminum grasped in [...]
Home Away
Home Away Wooden floorboards Brown piano keys Form a crazy melody Stained with black Marks – memories Of old chewing gum Left by careless child Made permanent By the trod of Unseeing foot wear Fused into less than Intricate patterns In need of a lot more Than the push of the Broom or the polish [...]
Tears From Fire
Tears From Fire Tears from fire Shed blood for blood The pain of the flesh Reflects the pleasure Toss fate into the wind Caution to the waves And breathe deeply Inhale the breath of the universe Exhale darkness Catch a single grain of sand On the tip of an eye lash And dream of deserts [...]
Ambiance
Ambiance The ambiance of the child bearer Visualization is lost Screaming spreads religious thought Children pity adults and follow each other Peer pressure made me do it Close my eyes and go back To the third person him her it Join the forum discussion on this post
Flowing
Flowing Rapidly flows the tide Of and yet forming The spirit of a universe Black and expansive To send unto all Sentiments of the cerebral Seasons like lovers Years that move into unseen futures Beauty trapped in the void But to release it Is to release Ruin Therefore Beauty in death Pandora’s observation Flowing Free [...]
Ascendance
Ascendance It was one of those nights When lunar wombs Became pregnant With the words of distant stars And gray matter preached Of the existence of an Inter/Inner planetary fire That burns Into ashes That I blow Away into infinity Causing the birth Of a new universe As I tap the cigarette ash Into the [...]
On Death
On Death It came one night and told me From beneath a cowl of utter night Starless and stark its smile spread And chilled me like the thought of death Nihility it muttered and Nothingness it said While saying nothing As the one hand That clapped Echoing in my skull Lonely and alone Hungry to [...]
Planets Misaligned
Planets Misaligned It struggles to be noticed Amongst a million of its brothers All vying for attention Armless yet reaching It remembers when They were but one And yearns to return To before It remembers the womb And aches to tell Me of existence As I walk this Sandy shore Join the forum discussion on [...]
Reflections aka Mirrors Redux
Reflections (rev02) aka Mirrors Redux (a re-imagining of Mirrors) Fortune told like mirrors reflect Life in continuance Stuck in perpetual innocence Without the benefits Waters that flow A rapid repetitiveness Sea of life dying From lack of intelligence Drinking to sate But that thirst he will never quench As man drains the Gaia fountain While [...]
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