February 2012
26 posts
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Peace at Noon
This morning I heard a butterfly
(and I don’t think that it would lie),
Say to a robin flying east
At noon the world would try for peace.
We’d walk away from separate thoughts
Of who is best and who is boss,
Then come together as if friends
And start again by shaking hands.
We’ll sit down to a bounteous feast
And share our plates with those of least,
Then tell each one on either...
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What I Need
punkdbyeros:
i
don’t
want you
anymore
*
not
anymore
*
not
anymore
than what my
heart can hold
*
and my heart
can hold
a lot
*
so
*
i’ll be
needing
you forever
(punkdbyeros)
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What I Need
i
don’t
want you
anymore
*
not
anymore
*
not
anymore
than what my
heart can hold
*
and my heart
can hold
a lot
*
so
*
i’ll be
needing
you forever
(punkdbyeros)
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It's the Kiss
Eyelids draw slowly like window shades
Passion usurps the heart
The countdown for touch is metered out
Staccato breaths beat hot
And then
It happens…
The lean in
The tilt back
That touchdown of lips
The tingle that sends rings around the moon
The scratch that cures the itch
It’s the kiss
And it tugs on madness
Setting everything on fire
It’s the kiss
That insatiable magnet
...
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For the Love of Blue
Lift me up Blue,
Allow me a peek at heaven
For I love hue.
To know you’re prime,
Wonder of splendid gradations
Amalgamate sublime.
Oh beauteous lust,
You decorate the seas and sky
With colors just.
Pacify me,
Take lodge within this hungry heart
Adorn me wholly.
(punkdbyeros)
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Here's an Answer For You
acumen-thoughts asked me concerning my poem “You Left” :
“Why do you break your lines up so much? I think this poem would flow better if you kept “untrue” in the second line, unless you purposely did this to change the meaning.”
Answer:
“untrue” was purposely placed on the 3rd line. Maybe you just didn’t understand that. As to why I...
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You Left
Before you left,
You stayed
Untrue.
(punkdbyeros)
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Here is Why
I stood atop my daddy’s shoes
Not thinking I could ever lose,
And twirled with him across the floor
With eyes closed shut I swore we soared
We danced like that six years plus spring
When from his shoes came wondering,
He placed me then square on the floor
And left me crying at the door.
My mother wept tears of her own
And held me in her emptied arms,
She sang to me a lullaby
Of...
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All of This
I need this
All of this
To shape me
To shake me
To take me where I ought to be
To school me
To fool me
To scare me into being free
To hail me
To fail me
To watch me as I gain control
To bless me
To caress me
To be there when I fall in love
So, trust me.
I need this,
All of this.
(punkdbyeros)
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The Forecast
“…and tomorrow morning we’re going to have a little drizzle.” “Drizzle,” she repeated. “What a stupid choice of words!”, she yelled at the TV. Fran stared at the man who stood in front of a weather map and continued with her tirade. “You’re on camera - for god’s sake - wearing an expensive suit and calling the result of your sophisticated prognostication, drizzle,” she turned off the...
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No Other
I have no need to know,
If you can love me better.
My love’s not ebb and flow,
With him I’ll be forever.
And if forever ends tomorrow,
Our goal will have been true.
Where’s the glory in tears and sorrow,
Since I have no need for you?
I have no need to feel,
How I’d fit inside your arms.
My love for him is sealed,
No need for all your charms.
(punkdbyeros)
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Hope and Faith
The father was a dreamer,
The mother stayed awake,
Their children walked between them
Balancing hope and faith.
(punkdbyeros)
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I Want My Fire Back!
You left a big chill in this house
And now our memories belong
To a new Ice Age and…
I want my fire back!
Everything you’ve ever said
To me
About me
With me
Every kiss
Every….
Everything you’ve ever touched
(Including me)
Is now suspended behind a foggy frozen
Glass of tears
And…
I want my fire back!
Corks are popping
Somewhere else
Questions are...
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Sanctuary
I’ve taken sanctuary in your words,
Like nests of fine down they comfort me.
When there need be a place to disengage,
Your words are as if my aerie.
I am enrapt by your syllabic soliloquies;
Your fearless rhythms and rhymes.
As I muse and celebrate creativity,
I return to your words ofttimes.
(punkdbyeros)
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My Van Gogh
I wish I’d known him,
For I do love him
- Van Gogh -
In all his genius
And complexities,
I stay lost for him
In my naive reverie.
He fought failure,
Whose wound pended
- Van Gogh -
And In all his pain
And awkwardness,
I wish he’d known
I love him best.
He left his hopes
In starry blues,
In lavenders, greens,
And brash yellows too.
In painful adoration
I speak in...
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I'm Still Here
Still
-
Silently
Painting with
The colors of
Your aura
-
I’m here
-
Fine tuning
My senses
In your
Magnetic field
-
I’m here
-
Sensing
Your thoughts
That have dared not
Been spoken
-
I’m here
-
Transfixed
In the Matrix
For the rest
Of our years
-
Still
(punkdbyeros)
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In My 'Happitat'
Where I live
Beneath this skin
Within this soul
This spirit
These innerings
I work it out
Through questions
- No pause -
Like Quixote
This is my quest
I follow that star
It’s up to me
To know my needs
To expect no others
To care for me
I waste no time
To find my way
To live my life
Not wish it away
So here I’ll be
With my art
And my books
Between pages of music
Loving...
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It was Your Laugh
We were still so awfully new;
Feelings not yet broken through.
We were on our very best,
But tiring of our forced gabfest.
And then you got into a laugh,
The kind that made you bend in half.
And I was pleased, but shocked to see,
That you were laughing because of me.
I can’t remember what I had said,
What made you lean and kiss my head.
And in that instant we had gone,
Up to the moon...
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Look, We Made it!
I’m climbing this mountain
Alone
Ever unsure
Lungs paining
Fingers slipping
Trying not to put too much into
You knowing that I can make it
Because
C’mon
You don’t know,
You don’t know!
You only hope you’re right
For bragging rights.
- See? I told you you’d make it -
You’d say
And that’s all I’d hear
Everyday
And after I’m no longer
Recognizable because of
Lacerated...
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But...Until That Day
My fear punctuates
This peace,
This calm,
This loving you
With the dread of seeing
Your anger toward me.
There’s a sick catch
In my breath
Every minute
When I watch you read,
Or sip your coffee,
Or look for your shoes,
Or when you don’t say
Good morning to me,
I know it must be coming.
That day,
That ugly day
When you will
Hate me for even one minute;
For whatever it may be,
...
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Merman
Who rides the auto-stream currents
Beneath the seven seas?
A massive destructive Merman gang,
Flanked heavily in force by threes.
Architects of tumultuous storms,
Bafflers to those on dry land;
Marauders and wreckers of ships
Who assesses their spoils on tidelands.
The Merman leader, an ageless one
Whose name to humans unknown,
Dons matted seaweed for his coif;
Gills...
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A Sonnet for Kites and You
Winds whirred wildly and ‘round about,
Like giants playing with spinning tops.
Your kite ignored with such devout,
The place for flips and all its flops.
For thirty minutes you did run,
The wrong direction, oh my god.
To laugh at you was so much fun,
My friend you are so very odd.
Why would I ever want to live,
Away from all the things you do?
I’ll stay here so that I may give,
All...
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Crazy Love
Here’s a note for your heart.
And please don’t
Share it with your mind,
Because….I’m in love with you
And I can’t explain it.
Dear Your Heart,
I’m out here in the cold inching
Like a worm on a limb
Trying to find the right spot to dive,
But I know that when I do
You’ll not be there to catch me.
You’ll be off listening to reason
Courting sanity and counting
Your...
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Crushing
Thoughts of you and I forget to breathe,
Peripheral sightings make still my knees.
This Crush for you is calling the shots,
But a Crush isn’t bad when that’s all I’ve got.
It’s my very private wishing game,
And I scrawl your name again and again.
But…nothing will ever come of this,
No glances exchanged, not even a kiss.
I find it better to leave it there,
All awkward, impossible,...
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Dance Lessons
Face to face
Your eyes, your mouth
Toe to toe
Heartbeats, count them out
Hand in hand
Fingers laced - like this
We could stand here and kiss…
…..but let’s dance.
(punkbyeros)
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You are My Absinth
What is it
That you do to me?
With you
I feel lost
And yet
I have no desire
Of ever wanting
To be found.
When you reach out
For me
Why must time disappear?
And without fail
While in your arms
I Forget the concept
Of speech,
Only touch has meaning.
You are my Absinth
An elixir for this
Inflated heart.
I am caught in another
World with you
And I become
No longer here.
...
January 2012
42 posts
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The Memory Game
My heart’s working hard in order to forget you,
And to help it I’ve made a game called “Adieu”.
I keep a picture of you in my underwear drawer,
Don’t get excited, it’s near my socks not my bras.
The ring is hung on a nail near the door,
Reminding me you don’t belong here anymore.
In the copper pot I used for brewing your tea,
Grows a Venus Fly Trap doing what you did to me.
...
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Like Today
Today is like a calming sea,
And you’re a boat across from me.
I’m the lighthouse surveying the blue,
You hoist your flag for a beer or two.
Because your need is not a storm,
I tell you to use your own two arms.
You laugh then leave me to putz,
As I whip up a fabulous breakfast.
I love it when we have these days,
‘Cause you’re my sailor in so many ways.
Today is like...
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My Confessor
Confessor,
Train your ears to me
And mop my brow
With sweet silence
As I quench your hours
With my noise.
I am your Romancer,
Wild with a wordy heart
That kisses ink to paper
And cooks up stories
For you au jus.
If you search for my eyes
I will hide them.
And though I need your gaze,
I need not gaze upon you.
I am merely a story-teller,
A wisher,
A dreamer,
Filled with the...
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nooneknowsnothing:
Ok, second reading from my...
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Tomorrow's Peace
A dove
Watches the sky
For peace
From a nest
Made of hope
And Laurel
Let us conceive
A working plan
To have peace here
By tomorrow.
(punkdbyeros)
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Tomorrow's Peace
A dove
Watches the sky
For peace
From a nest
Made of hope
And Laurel
Let us conceive
A working plan
To have peace here
By tomorrow.
(punkdbyeros)
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Strangely Divine
Not even on these winter days
With birds flown south
(Returned by May)
Does my heart struggle
Against the cold
To beat more assuredly for yours.
The heavy hungry hardy ticks
Refrained by equalled tocks
(Soon fixed)
Shall arrange new rhythms
For my heart
To beat in accordance for scores.
Such love so strange and divine
That lost to Hamlet - Ophelia
(Unkind)
Will ink once...
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Never Wished For
Today is the next day
The one I never wished for,
I’m feeling over the rainbow
Since I made a wish for you.
I never gave it one thought
(But can anyone ever?),
Is it possible to recover
When a granted wish comes true?
Today my life is heightened
As if spilled from a cornucopia,
The echoed gifts not ceasing
And I am filling up therethrough.
Now caught in forever’s vortex
...
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Easy
You’re like quicksilver - easy
Like a liquid metal man
Words flowing
Chatting me up
Making sure I understand
Tracking my temperature
Giving it a rise
Taking me there
Now you’ve made me cry
You got pass my caution tape
And the note on my door
You’ve broken all my windows
And swept the pain off the floor
You’ve weathered through
My deep freeze
And sweated through my heat
You leave...
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My Joy
You are a joyous note sustained in the song of life.
(punkdbyeros)
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Skating in the Park with George
With quick hand flare and confidence
I laced my skating shoes,
I knew that when I‘d try to stand
I’d be hanging onto you.
You skated and I scooted
For miles throughout the park,
I sat on benches periodically
To avoid little dogs that barked.
We passed couples kissing
Who couldn’t get enough too soon,
I had the juvenile urge to shout
“Get a room!”
You stopped and skated back...
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Hurricane Daughter
A tumultuous lover
Had blown out his sails,
Half blood of a hurricane
His tempestuous Gale.
She powered down lines
With sparks that flew,
A natural disaster
From a stormy milieu.
With boarded up wisdom
He ignored the siren’s call,
A hurricane’s daughter
Had caused his fall.
(punkdbyeros)
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A Fear of Love
Let…me…go
It’s not you
It’s…us
We’re dangerously
Circling this incinerator
And I tell you…
We will surely fall into it
And become beyond recognition
Heart over mind
Tumbling
Soul over spirit
Never to return
To the innocence
Of breathlessness
Or to the anticipation
Of being in one another’s
Trance
We are flirting
With an ancient flame
It is torturous
...
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Preaching Without the Band
Some crickets had church
In the back of a barn,
The choir started singing
Before the preacher was done.
You see, they didn’t understand
A word he was saying,
But every time he’d raise his voice
All the crickets went amening.
The preacher was a grasshopper
A violinist of the locust clan,
Sadly, he got turned around
When separated from his band.
The best thing he could do, he thought
So that...
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MLK Day
I raise my teacup in the morning air,
To remember a man no longer here.
He stands chiseled now on the Stone of Hope,
Adorned by the poignant words he wrote.
If fear ever struck him we do not know,
He marched for us despite the blows.
He had a dream, as we all do,
And here on Tumblr his dream is true
We write together as one family,
No matter the color we happen to be.
...
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The Repertoire
I called out to a Nightingale
Before the sun had set,
And read a list of songs to sing
A list of all her best.
She listened most attentively
Head tilted to one side,
A wink and fluff of ivory throat
Sent golden notes to glide.
Between each song the Nightingale
Peaked in and out of shrubs,
Till last her repertoire was done
The night was filled with love.
(punkdbyeros)
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Go Away
Love
Don’t challenge me
Don’t you dare
Put your finger in my heart
And force me through
Any of your tests
Because I swear
I cannot
Resist
You
I cannot say
“No!” To you
And I will surely
Fall on my face
For you
Love
Have mercy
PLEASE!
I don’t know how
To play this game
I’ll just sit in a corner
Acquiescing to the
Delivery of the repeated pain
And beg for...
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Wonderment
Oh,
This moment
With you
Owns me
I am lost of reason
And propelled into
The mystery of emotions
My joy hurts
From its perpetual
wonderment
Steady me
Take my hands
Pull me back into
The now
For this is just
A moment
But
This moment
Is with
You.
(punkdbyeros)
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Tread Fantastically
There were times when I’d stumble
And blatantly blame my shoes
I’d hide from the trouble like a cat
And fake scratch the pending blues
I’d yawn and steep some Oolong tea
Out in the hot revealing sun
Then play my music boldly
Adding rhythm to my problems
The incense made me feel wiser
But naivete still hunkered nearby
I’d search spaces to hide myself
Out of the corners of my eyes
And...
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Not Where I Should Be
I’m taking a train to Way Over There
To a place that holds your gaze,
And stand strategically upon the spot
In hopes you’ll look my way.
When I arrive I’ll wave my arms
And shout for you to see,
But if your heart I cannot win
Then that’s no place for me.
(punkdbyeros)
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Elvis, Please!
Elvis,
You still got your gun?
Can you hurry up
And come down here,
And make somebody run?
Get your smoke wagon,
Load it up,
You can test it on my TV.
Spin it,
Skin it,
Then get him on his knees.
Elvis,
He’s just plain wrong.
Don’t show him no mercy,
And please,
Don’t sing him no song.
I’m tired of begging,
‘Cause that’s just not me
So, I’m going to sit here,
And wait for...
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A Journey of Soulmates
Like a winding ribbon of smoke,
Our love’s on slow burn.
As Aladdin rises with hope,
We possess the lantern.
By the magnificence of Psi,
We’re taken to star gates.
With reasons to kiss the sky,
We celebrate being soulmates.
(punkdbyeros)
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No Matter the Love
Sometimes when I look at you, I drift back to the hunger days when wanting you was an empty occupation; when pain stalked me and became my way of being uncomfortably alive. I wanted you too much. My silent tantrums became the whip and turned against me. I didn’t want to believe in patience and so I suffered from what I didn’t want to know. I’ve since learned to wait. Thank God it wasn’t too late....
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Some Men
Some men are poachers
Wily thieves of souls
Setting out hair trigger traps
A thrill that never grows old
They’ve got a scant of charm
And intelligence to boot
If you have trouble finding your heart
Just look under their shoes
They know how to cry
And ask for your forgiveness
But that only lasts
As long as it takes to get you
And to say, “I’m sorry”
They’ll say it all night long
...