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to recrudesce
- "I'd like to say that hope floats, but I'm just a girl who speaks in ransom notes," and just as you rise, a new sun to meet, slip, trip, skip and hit repeat. - a poem in 5 parts dealing with shame and embarrassment for reoccurring missteps and mistakes when dealing with mental illnessPoetry: General, T, English, Poetry, words: 955, 3/4/2015
ellipses
I sneak peeks at the brilliant blooming midnight hour, my sight blind to all but the sumptuous swirl of overhanging skyPoetry: Love, K, English, Romance & Poetry, words: 78, 2/28/2014
the call of the tiger-lily
there it stands, before your eyes, transparent as the illusory moonrise, there it stands, consumed in fire, standing atop the funeral pyre, but do you not hear the drum? Bum bum. Bum bum.Poetry: General, K+, English, Poetry, words: 196, 2/28/2014
1 corners
are yours the eyes for which I seek, undulating cobalt in forbearing frame, the light beyond the soot and the dim, the kiss I long to linger on my cheek?Poetry: Love, K, English, Poetry, words: 92, 8/4/2013
Behold thy heart - and in his palm burning, you devoured it »
Ecce Deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi - "Behold, a deity stronger than I; who coming, shall rule over me.": a very distant courtship developed through nothing but correspondence; in the absence of physical contact, my admiration grew stronger in the presence of your righteousness. see the sun climbing, it's nothing to your virtue, whichleaves me humble and in awe.
Poetry: Love, T, English, Romance & Poetry, chapters: 4, words: 373, 4/8/2013
an indistinct effluvium
neatly lined, straight in a row, a stretch of cadavers dreaming. if I were walking near their line, knees turned inward, twisted spine, a pile of inactive corporeality, slabs of meat spattered with swirls, bewitching contours pigment the skin and with one last violent push, rot permeates completely within. -4 sections-Poetry: Life, M, English, Poetry, words: 655, 4/8/2013
2 carved in the marble of your headstone
i miss the sound of your eyes, blue and blinking as you smile.Poetry: Love, K, English, Poetry, words: 133, favs: 1, 10/16/2012
2 Abduction
Do I dare abduct you into my reveries, Clasp you into my palms and suspire, Clamor, desperate for your lips on my skin, Ache to be swathed in the fervor of your bones, While I dissolve into the sting of the night, Benumbed, pierced, kissed by starlight? - a sestinaPoetry: Love, T, English, Poetry, words: 451, 9/15/2012
1 i wrote sestinas for you
I have left a kiss for you to read at sundown when you are alone. for an unrequited musePoetry: Love, K, English, Poetry, words: 56, 9/14/2012
dew collector
i wait with a paltry, copper basin - my body wrenched, hunchbacked, giving obeisance to the memory of you.Poetry: Friendship, T, English, Poetry, words: 204, 8/15/2012
2 before i could
i'd like to know if that dove still rests - beneath the daffodils, entombed.Poetry: Love, T, English, Poetry, words: 77, 10/6/2011
1 silver
cried out a million pieces of starlight, trying to find you in the darkness.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry, words: 78, 12/19/2010
1 patron saint
bring silence with thine glory - oh, patron saint of fools.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry, words: 83, 4/3/2010
1 synapse trees
pretty, meaningless poems of mine - you inspire the minds of none.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry, words: 46, 1/16/2010
wrath
homegrown - like moonshine, it takes ahold of you, never to let you go.Poetry: General, T, English, Poetry, words: 97, 1/7/2010
2 watlz whirling girl
i cannot remember the face of god in these harrowing moments - so i don't blame anyone.Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry, words: 146, 11/5/2009
a breeze
i don't feel special. but i bet you do.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry, words: 100, 5/12/2009
1 canary girl
i crawl to the edge of dawn, praying the light will shine, holier than Jesus, to heal me as it did her tongue. marishaPoetry: Friendship, T, English, Poetry, words: 399, 3/30/2009
the cartographer
the maps he found were of places long gone, polaroids of an imagined memory.Poetry: General, T, English, Poetry, words: 192, 2/5/2009