all of a sudden passion suddenly

[Liar]

send me spinning
through words like vapor
virelays wielding vocal wings
tuning this lyre
with silken spun strings
then the first tremble
tries to assemble
articulation and arpeggio
without arrière-pensée
and nothing but a naked
virginal ethos
that can harmonise
with an everlasting
escalation

 

[Angeline]

one window
two apple trees
a black slash of road
to sculptured green hills
and distant mountains

cool air blows
from north already
kissing autumn
imagining white
stretching past that window
set against the smokey
blue-gray horizon

you don't know, you
just don't know
he says

but I know
what was cold
what is warn
stretched out
over the night
under a comforter
the same color
as a winter sky

 

[SeattleRain]

am I supposed to ocome here with an idea in mind
it does not work this way the mind does not make the idea
the idea makes the mind

I think it is steel
but for the rust

sweat under workgloves
tan line
is dirt line as you
pound that shovel into the soil
screeches over rock
want to be under that blade
use your foot for pressure
dige into me deeper
tell nme
this is what we wanted

crack and grapple

 

[SeattleRain]

girls never got to watch them
shoot the pig and steer but

under the
overshoot where they hung him first
head down slit neck blood soaks into shit and straw
and mud

sliced down insides tumble out it should not be this
easy

scratched dust from the tuft between ears
this morning

marrow smears white over circular saw
dont touch dont

 

[Guest]

just the wind

Frustrated
at the kitchen table
doing mundane inane tasks
bills, bills, and books

I felt a hello
a serpentine around
and through ankles

I'll tell ya
I don't know if I believe
in ghosts, or angels

but for a moment there
I forgot you were gone
and called out your name

 

[Tathagata]

autumn comes
a dark wasting disease
still mornings when even the birds
are hushed
sensing it's bacterial approach

trees creak
dry rheumatic knees
and all living things seem to pull up
inside themselves
and huddle for warmth

winter is blatant, pompous
casting it's dispersions and icekill bunting across
fields and prairies

but autumn
the ninja season
hides in shadow..and during the night
slowly
methodically
kills off summer
and hides the remains

 

[annaswirls]

through the sunroof
from the back seat


mommy,

geese
in the sky

sleeping
on air

they are resting

 

[WickedEve]

that moment of nightfall
I walked
or I stumbled
perhaps night stumbled
after all it was nightfall

we brushed the dusk from our knees
and continued on

I knew it followed
always follows
swaying from ash to aspen
then two blocks down

round the bend
curved and black
in stretch mayhem

havoc on hawthorn
always havoc
when following thing shifts
and peers beneath its hem

 

[annaswirls]

bitter almonds of youth
teeth for the chew
crack into halves

ignore the arsenic

grow into sugar roasted
hide the bitter
deny the poison

today salted
keep your teeth
no swallow hole
whole
you will not fir it back into smooth pitted shell
bite, grind, digest
it is stil yours


dont turn it into paste
or stir it into a shake
frapped on high


you still have your teeth
bite it yourself
stop whining about the taste of youth in your mouth
pretending only memories can inspire you

just take it in your mouth
whole

 

[flyguy69]

Afternoon

Sunlight splinters at the window and
falls in shards across her hip
golden scimitars that parry with every breath
and clatter to the sheet when she raises her head

Nap-happy eyes flick dreams off her lashes as
she smiles and
blinks Hi,

What are you doing?

Just watching you breathe

Silly!

Bicep pillow cased in curls as
sideways eyes drink me in
my chair
Lazy fingertip twirl in curl
turns the thermostat up and
beckons me back

This bed is full, but
there’s room for more

 

[SeattleRain]

he says move it aside
I say step to the left
steam and reflection block my intentions

open that door
on my knees bathrug ready
drop me down into the cool air
condensation free vision

drop me down
finger through damp
my fingers through damp

until nailsround back
tips between and
oh

yes that too

chrome rail for support
smile up shower spray on face
hold those thighs

I don't know which part of you hold onto next

but wait
those thighs
let me take that quiver with a
yes
that too

come on baby
give it up for your girl
send the quiver and
shiver into me as I swallow you down whole

leaving room for more

 

[SeattleRain]

open glass,
grill
is hot
singed and steal
smoke
and steam

bumps rise down arm read me backwards

press it down
juice through grill
sizzles onto coal

instant
boil


I waver like a heat pattern
rising from the flame

baby get me some water
flip me round backwards
poke me
see if I am done

 

[WickedEve]

drape disregard over time-etched mirrors.
turn persistent hour glass to the wall.
gaze upward, cut and tempered ceiling,
where you lie polished in another's arms.

 

[WickedEve]

bakeher


hot ovens cling
fabrics and dough rises.
there's need to peel sweat
from thighs. white cotton bunches
just below. bread is best with butter,
yellow and melt and mouth.

shall I feed you,
keep you alive on this and water,
kisses and spreading
with knives?

 

[SeattleRain]

not to break rules in saying
I love
when you write this out knives'
and dough things melting
into puddles of timeless rising

shy girl
twist a verse mind finger through curls
mirrors can tilt elsewhere
I see

 

[Tathagata]

I sat in the midst of life
a hundred shades of emerald and jade
yellow buds, purple flowers
white winged butterflies, overloaded honey bees
shiny flies, tsking squirrels, argumentive crows

and rows of chairs filled with people
under white tents
coughing, whispering,fanning themselves
against thrust punch heat and humidity

Maddie who was 20 months crawled up to me
dressed in a purple linen dress and her straw colored hair pulled back into two tiny pony tails
eyes..clear
blue as a mountain lake
she smiled at me
and put her fingers in her mouth and giggled
when I smiled back

her mother had a 9 week old strapped to her chest
eyes closed
dozing is the heat

in the midst of all this life and affirmation I heard a woman say
" God does not make mistakes"

and I watched two men proclaim their love for each other...after 15 years of sharing their lives, and become a couple.

and I looked around..

And God didn't seem to mind at all.

 

[Tathagata]

2974.64 miles away from home
That's what I'm being told...
as though someone took a soldering iron
and traced those numbers in my brain last night

I think cold beer will cool off
the split burnt flesh of nevermore thoughts
but will it close the gap??
Probably not..

Perhaps two will
Or three

It would take 44 hours to drive it
Probably 5 or 6 to fly it...

But I should walk..prostrating myself every third or forth step.
For it would be a pilgrimage
Of religious proportions.

walking to face God
and when I get there...
Just a mirror

So why can't I love a mirror here
2974.64 miles from heaven?



The mirrors here don't have a turned up button nose.

 

[Tathagata]

I wanna drag a loose jointed chair across a scarred soul of a floor
small stage
eye squinted against the chesterfield in my mouth
backs of heads bob at the bar
drinking birds
sucking whores
nodding zombies
doesn't matter

three simple chords
slow man
and i'll tell you my life
in a mother goose rhyme

foot tap ash flick low growl
pull it up from deep
hummmmmmmmmmmm
like om
pull it up man

start in E
I can sing in E

walk it brother
make it walk


wakin' up this morning...was no blessing ,it was a curse
wakin' up early this mornin' weren't no blessin, was a curse
all day long I been a sick man...callin' for the nurse

allright fellas stretch it.....yeah

I feel at home there
exposed
sliced open
I miss that exchange

musical succubus
should put that on my tombstone


nothing brings you back into the world
like telling your troubles to strangers
and having them applaud

 

[WickedEve]

We have forgotten last rain--
wetness shunned beneath graves,
roadsides, while we walk breezeless dry.

I ask the strangers to turn out our sun,
but they smell of gasoline and sex,
fueling us with their want
as we lead them to the place:

cracked floors, bare and spread
from wall to window,
with straight backs,
no cushion or plush for pushing,
only wood--soon sweat,
skin and cling.

We watch the heat waving
between chairs, cocks,
and six penetrables.

Count them: three, four, five, sex.

Brown with wide smile,
shaved from toes to beneath arms,
trembles to Deep Sleek.

Someone whispers, Deep Sleek
from outside the window
where noon builds bonfires on our backs.

Wild Cry burns shadows out of the corner
till the place is solar.

Wild Cry is a palm presser,
bent and touching boards,
her one, two, three,
the only shade for him and him

and him, stroking far into the heat,
groaning ultraviolet, fuck!

~

We are beckoned, sol blinded,
fire stirred and kissing the sun.

 

[Tathagata]

there is a part
of my reptilian brain..way back there
who wants to bite heads off
these dimwitted intruders each weekend


I should sit all scaly
propped up
teeth covered with less fortunate family members
chicken skin between your teeth
small putrid bits of bones
around my chair


and I sit in my fetid heat
no air conditioning in This room
i like tropic

and they edge their way in
and attempt to speak over my chants
my music
my sanity

i feel the jaw slacken
my eyes roll towards them

and in a snap
i taste the fountain of imbecile blood run over my lips
as my mouth snaps
once
and slurps down
their opposable thumb brain

not very big or tasty
a quick lick of the lips
a glance at the baseball score
and i wait
venus flytrap patient

next.....

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

Love versus Lust,
a battle I can not win
but am afraid to lose.

Gentle kisses
enflame my heart
and my body.

Fighting to hold back
to savour each moment
I cling desperately to your lips.

Dancing with your tongue
my body shudders in need
I pray you don't notice.

Oh God,
how sweet it is to move slow
if only I could survive the pace.

Unsure if I want to stop
almost terrified of going further
petrified this all might end.

You don't have to love me yet
although I'm falling for you
just...just...let the future unfold.

I won't wish for us to be together forever
(although that is what I want)
I wouldn't want to mess with fate.

Let's take this one step at a time,
but since you make me weak in the knees
any chance you can carry me?
...

 

[echoes_s]

wordless

cursorily blink of blank
waves herding foam
rocky shore, graveled sand
rippled sea recedes
pages curling, wrinkled wet
bereft of ink, of me

seagulls swoop
screeching as they catch
words left dangling
speechless, without tract,
meaningless as they are
devoured then discarded below

 

[Tathagata]

the crack of a pop top
becomes a metronome
mesauring off minutes
suspended between
fight or flight
each sip
a small suicide
a small decision
how far do I go??

too far , not far enough
waves of undertsanding mix
with symphonies of boredom
uselessness
come on
i've seen the punch line...

You know,
i can see the board
and you have Park Place
and Boardwalk
and all the Hotels...
Why must we play this out??
is your victory some karmic satisfaction?
and am I to fake defeat
like a pornographic orgasm
to excite your sense of self??

bad news droogy
that one desire
that one iaota of ego I have left...
says fuck you

sorry

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

Overflowing with inspiration
bursting with passion's sweet taste
I lick my lips & write feverishly
loosing myself to my imagination.

A hand to my throat
my heart pounding
I surface briefly
realising the day has passed me by.

Embracing the night I howl at the moon
If only I could type as fast as I stroke (the keys)
Thoughts pound my brain
making it explode with ideas.

Sated, I type my final words
My breath shudders with completion
I submit (the story)
it is done...


++++
Yay! I finally wrote another story, called "Willing Victim." Watch for it to come out soon! (Lol, yes this is a shameless plug masquerading as a poem - sorry I couldn't help myself). Anyone who wants can spank me for it...

 

[annaswirls]

baby yuo got me wearing that dress

the one you convinced me that I wanted
to wear

for you


I hate this dress
it does not fit
material suffocates
scratch tags

it is too short


and you walk in
you stop to speak to
amanda

and I know you saw the dress
and shoes

but you stop to get a drink
and check out
your

self

before making your way
across to where I am

stopping to
flirt with June
do business with Richard
schmooze with Jane

and baby
what made you think
I would be here waiting in line


did you see that dress walk away
on top of those shoes?

Those shoes?

rather be alone
home
than to wait
in ache
I never asked to feel

you convinced me that it was real

baby, starting again at step one
the path gets longer every time