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December Gems...

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:55 AM
Blue VeinsTempered heat:
Ice on blue veins.
Snow greets the valley.
BibliophileBibliophile by Violet Sturgeon

Meet me in the book stacks
Choose a subject of your choice
Such an aphrodisiac
Let me hear the writer's voice

Pull off the dust covers
Let me bend your spine
Let your fingers hover
Over the perfect find

Breathe in Keats, Wordsworth, Pope
You bring out the Romantic in me
Exhale Atwood, Moore, Burroughs,
Show me postmodern frailty

Lets bring life back to these tomes
Of blank verse, epics, satire
Rediscover why we made these words home
Let the classics rekindle our desire

Remember it's a library
We must keep our voices down
Be my apothecary
As we journey round

Let me see your fantasy, adventur
Seemingly Intrinsicthe November sky trembles and she's
out sleeping on the railroad tracks, again,
where no one hears her staggered breaths
and stuttered dreams

she promised she'd be back in a few
summers, once the war raging within
her ribcage finally called it quits
(she's so close to raising that white flag,
her fingers plead)

tightrope walkers never feel free, she's bound
by the internal pulsation of her heart, going
stagnant as she gives away the pieces of
herself to people who see her as nothing more
than the wide-eyed doll in the corner, yet
unnamed, forsaken by children with better
things to do

and perhaps these are intrinsic qualities
First SnowfallOn days like this,
when the first snow falls like torn lace
and the sun is
barely
a whisper of warmth
above the clouds,

I hear the call of forfeit possibilities
and
count the ways
I wish that I had loved you better;
longing for another lost love
with whom I could have made
all my
mistakes.
67. BlueI used to walk the skylines
blue

Under blooming stars
a field of forget-me-nots
in the periwinkle sky
sparkle underwater, whispering "hi"

Under my feet
the sidewalk gleams cerulean
with spider blood
and lanterns of butterfly heartbeats
dance bright, lighting up the streets

Under some childish wonder
we created coloured rooms
side by side: red and blue
until the day it was no longer true

I
gift wrapped an airport for you,
my darling,
wrapped in the faintest idea
of how I remembered the sky to be

But when we untied the strings -
golden dreams on morning wings

it wasn't so blue after all.
dfc 12-5: trijan refrainchasing pavements from 'neath my feet
for unimpeded earth;
be it mud, dirt, or grass green-sweet
its touch signals rebirth.
i can't abide its absence long,
to do so makes my head all wrong;
i can't abide...
i can't abide...
being apart from Mother's song.

chasing pavements from 'neath my feet
to trail my toes in wet;
where the solid and liquid meet
i feel contentment set.
water's washing can cleanse the soul,
percolate halves into a while;
water's washing...
water's washing...
exhibits how to fill my role.

chasing pavements from 'neath my feet
til i soar through the clouds;
below restrictions are replete,
above there are no crowds.
blue, b
Emotional MindAh, yes, you've grown on me
everything sings
you are posed in every line
like these.

I am mad
mad, much as one can be
mad
O please add up to something!

I have in my head, composed a
beautiful letter....damn you, for giving
myself to you like this.

Broken defenses too truly,
no resentment.

You, a fine art, prismatic butterfly
slipped
between my heart.
AubadeI am
no goddess of
articulation.

I am abrupt syllables,
Bezaleel staining dog-eared dictionaries--
a cinder from God's own panic attack.

So when my shivers are redolent, seeped
in Earl Grey and the sound of
her whispers against the underside of your wrist,
I can string together phonemes
that ardent logophiles slaver over.

This is me, understood--
not a poet, but
an
anxiety disorder left to pens
and paper.
fumesthe  talk 
        of           my 
                            heart
                                          unfurls,
                                                        wisps
    
                                                       of        smoke
    
                                             
FrostI am devouring chaos,
chasing it down with winter's chill.
Spare me your fingerprints,
summer's lovechild.  Those knowing owl eyes
have me second guessing the wild churning
in my bones. You are the sleep that sweeps
my eyelashes, drowning me in my own daydreams.

When was it...
that you plastered yourself to my ribcage?
GreenFor a moment there I had you
Grasped within a scuffled palm
Breathing gently beneath my tulip skirts

Then the winds rose again
And you left as quickly as you came:
A rustle of foliage, dancing with a tumultuous gravity

"Ill be back for you come spring."
Serendipity and SnowfallI am la vie en rose,
a newborn with as many mini bones in my body as possibilities.
Lovelily,
I am potential waiting to be tapped into.
I am a spectrum of light,
serenity in the symmetry of a snowflake.

I come veiled in lace from everlasting love's womb with my budding,
fresh,
goose-flesh tucked tenderly underneath.
I spread my spirit wide,
outstretching my feather-tips &,
supplicated by twizzles,
I catch my ballerina's foot & fly.
In these fleeting,
finite moments of ubermensch suspension in multiple salchows comes clairvoyance,
a kindness beyond the absolution of mundane minds.

With the key to perfection being repetition,
I pray you
Flight of Fantasy reworked      Once I dreamed I might pilot a spaceship.
     Help Dan Dare conquer the Treens
     Unseat the Mekon from his dinosaur steed
     And end his reptilian reign.
     
     I would howl at the moon with Akela
     After drawing the teeth of Shere-Khan.
     I'd peer down Zam-zammah's muzzle
     Then slide down the barrel all day.
     
     I would swing through trees with anthropoid apes,
     Do battle with blue men on Mars.
     I'd smash the machines of the morlocks
     Give the Eloi sunshine and ease.
     
     But I ate of the tree of knowledge,
     Perhaps shades of the workhouse closed in,
   
an almost epilogueSought out from the ice and snow,
where 'twas tossed a summer or so
ago,
It's mine.
It's in my hands so much
it sits in the palms and presses
through,
against my fingernails.

I choose to be
enough.
Santa Fe de BogotaSimón Bolívar found you como una Flor de Mayo.

I know that in your swelling city heart
you long por el mar, por la sal del mar,

but instead you straddle the roads,
hunker down over your landscape and breathe
your car fumes, inspiras las fumas como sombras,
espiras tranquilidad inquieta.

Colombia, madre, you have become
bloated in your old age, have grown your
ankles, pálidos e inflamados;

you should have been a sea lion,
morena y rapida y a la cresta como la espuma.

Mi alma, I will bring you the sea salt to run through your hair,
diamonds with which to crown your mane.
PrincessShe complains of
never enough--
old debts coalesce
like black oil
floating on otherwise
unperturbed waters.

She sometimes trips
over high-heeled shoes
that the dog has pulled
from their box
and left pock-marked and smelly
in the corner.

She is meticulous about
her ever-widening ass
and measures it daily
in end-to-end
plastic-coated capsules
filled with empty promises.

But she swings it like a queen
as she hisses "Get a job!"
and clutches her purse
in French-manicured nails
out of fear.
EmbossmentWe lay among our words, sprouting up from chipped tiles,
the smell of airplanes and sleeplessness, enveloping.
Here, you began deciphering, trying to put my murmurs on your lips
and make sense of the way my hands found yours,
a desperate notion.
This was where breathing became dependent on you,
where speaking was insufficient,
and the comprehension of how useless words can be
painfully set in.

Counting each bipolar star,
I let my skin become saturated
with the erratic expulsions of your promises.
Black satin skies convulsed above us
and I felt the way your bones shifted to fit mine.

We scarred each other with nails and teeth,
m
LoveOh, love
  I know not how
  The Heaven's above
  Breathe that vow
  In which all life,
  Sings without care
  Sweetness in the
  Palpitating air
  When shall it rain
  Down from the skies
  To relieve the yearning
  Of my deepest cries?
rising from the riverit's one of the drowned days; those that drag
like hooks through a river,
turning dead things
belly-up on your shores. listen.

i am listening. to name it lover,
this ripening ache stretched
between us; to know
what it is you carry. you
are a deep silence gardened
by ghosts; hanging
from the hinges of a sprawled
elsewhere. (they are here
still, pacing the long brim
of your memory around
to the long brim of mine.)

i too have been drowning.
if not by one stone,
then another. the autumn quiet
of the body
in bed. this language named skin,
beast, temple, home. underwater,
you open your mouth; amniotic
void of unspeaking, horiz
:thumb339957073: Steady She Goes11.27.12

I was your steady
but I was not your miracle,
and in the end you wanted me
about as much as you wanted
coffee grounds beneath your tongue.

I will not apologize for this.

You believe in a love that
does not want, need, or desire,
which is no love at all.
I believe in a love that speaks.

I am all roses and poetry
and one day I will love a man
who loves the freckle on my ear
and can recite my favorite poem.
He will stare down my demons
and accept the chance of dark winters
and he will love me.

He will love me like a treasure to hold.

I have faced greater messes
than the one you left behind,
and I will never apologiz
learning to breathe anewtake me further from these shores
from the things I know
as the ripples start to form
before the cascading water
comes crashing down

you pull me into this
tidal wave
turning me inside out
twisting me upside down

my chest is crushed
and quickly emptied
I draw you into my
hollow lungs

as you invade me
warmth spreads across
my breast
I'm surrounded
I'm cocooned
in your neverending
depths

and you complete me
:thumb322547868: no earthly gooddullish drudgery
insides all ug-l-y
spilling out split seams
pitch black and bubbling
sick carcass covering
brick-heart (beat)
mumbling
mostly in sane
inane
ornate mutterings
pitted & precious
half-blessed & breathless
have-not
half-knotted up
nodding off
lest this
daydream
of days seen
seems less dream
than real scenes
the rou-
tine of self
checklist
heart screams head
senseless
NeedI need a ticket to Wrigley Field, I need a better deal
I need a bus pass or insurance on my automobile
I need concrete to fill the hole in my heart, and
to stuff into my head instead of brains, I need a train
I need to get somewhere fast, maybe I need a plane
I need more daylight and less twilight I need a
stranger in the night to make things right I need
something new, shiny and bright, I need a new dream
I need some ice cream, I need to get to Wrigley before I scream
I need you more than flowers in this hospital room, I need
Devo on the stereo I need to go go go I need new sheets
I need a healing hand I need your kiss on my li
look, little catsteps silently on fences
black and white- just like
my soul, it dances
chases
gutter rats in dark alleys
or its own tail, while
yellow eyes glow
not for me, they know
I'm only worth light
glances    


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