Tag: poetry
member name: Sue T.
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November 29, 2008 07:08 AM EST --
love him grateful
on bended knees
with purple eye
and matching tie
love him grateful
with bursting lips
drenched in tears
and sodden fears
loathe . . .
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December 06, 2008 08:28 AM EST --
tip toe
weary ballerina frame so fine
with faded fettered feet
so delicious you can eat
her woeful silent steps just one at a time.
tip-toe, tip-toe
fettered . . .
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December 13, 2008 06:36 AM EST --
soliloquy
It is not your love that breathes me in and out.
I stand by myself, strong in the shadow of the night.
In the house of hearts.
If your gift is to devour me inside out, . . .
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January 10, 2009 07:06 PM EST --
A Letter To My Keeper
Dear Keeper and Monster Within
When I was a child I didn't know who you were ~ didn't know that you existed ~ and therefore you did not. Not in my mind, . . .
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January 17, 2009 07:51 AM EST --
Pulse
in the velvet darkness of this space
know that nothing painful can subsist
if haunted stains soak rotted floors I lift my head
if death points fingers . . .
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January 31, 2009 06:31 AM EST --
You sit there, unmoving heaviness,
once poised delicately on the edge of happiness,
now plunged into mechanical existence by this crushing albatross.
Such despair as it . . .
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February 21, 2009 07:24 AM EST --
You fall out of bed onto the wooden floor and under the bed there is just enough shadow to detect those flashing eyes, that insincere smile, that mask-like face. It scratches you. Spits . . .
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March 14, 2009 08:31 AM EDT --
Régime, goddess queen of the night, she shines
wrapped in her silky soul-skin, a wild woman
of the sacred obscene, her spirit
out of hiding, resplendent in color,
a luscious rainbow . . .
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April 04, 2009 07:34 AM EDT --
No one saw it coming the day I vanished.
It gathered in my heart when I felt the icy tip of your jagged knife pierce
the tender surface of my weary skin.
It furtively transformed itself . . .
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October 04, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
Many moons ago, there I was strolling through western Uganda (yes, strolling ... and hitching-hiking too) when I was struck down with cerebral malaria. One minute I was going about my daily business . . .
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December 21, 2008 06:57 AM EST --
you sat on the porch with your drink in hand but I
couldn't take my eyes off the leaves of the trees
shaking, shivering, shimmering in the breeze
you whispered
my teeth are chattering . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:33 AM EST --
REBIRTH
i sit silently in the lavender cave
my door to freedom dimly lit
and guarded by the dreaded lion
him who hails from the red, gold and green earth
yes, your earth from which I . . .
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January 04, 2009 03:57 AM EST --
note : this cave is lit
if my path is yours, we will meet
so keep walking, breathing, being
as I watch you naked in the truth of this moment
radiant in the light of your soul
swimming . . .
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October 31, 2008 07:25 AM EDT --
This is what happened during my night at the hospital when my dad died.
Somewhere Else
my guide lies
hands clenched and panicked
he kicks
lost . . .
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November 06, 2008 06:24 PM EST --
She hears those slow deliberate footsteps on the stairway. Sees that shadow wavering by the door. He stumbles across the room spouting poetic drivel. And laughs and . . .
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November 20, 2008 09:15 PM EST --
Dedicated to Reeves, who fell by the way, both angel and devil packaged in his own grief. His angel was crack. And crack was his devil.
the Devil's Angel . . .
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October 31, 2008 12:00 AM EDT --
I like to write poetry by letting the words fall on to the page. I have no interest in formal styles. However, this poem has been written in a particular style known as a 'pantoum'. . . .
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September 30, 2008 03:30 AM EDT --
She is not herself anymore.
In body she is present,
strangely beautiful
in some
grotesque fashion.
Her thoughts
twist
tumble
naturally wild and unnaturally contained
within . . .
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