Unerasable
Sometimes life is a slow motion
mugging
where I often wipe blood
from my brow
and I say;
so.
Sometimes I lose in love
where the pain's so bad..
but the next day
or at some point
I say
so?
I have wasted money;
spent frivolously
but I got over it
and moved on.
There are evil people
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Married Yesterday
She is at ease with her self
tugs at her bra strap unconsciously
looks at your mouth when you talk
stands on tip-toe to make her points
takes deep breaths easily at surprise,
takes up the entire room with her smile
is unconscious of how beautiful she is
does not hesitate to get on the floor
for animals and kids,
keeps her money in her bosom,
would ask you to oil her back
because she has dry skin;
calls everyone honey,
touches your face
when she talks to you;
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Poets Creed
Though I may be tempted
I shall not fall below
to gravities;
dive beneath life's geography
to Depression's
crevice
and ravine.
I shall not sip Dark Sufferings-
Edgar Allen Poe elixirs;
unredemptive dark poetries.
I will not cuddle dread,
or slurp Death's Gruel.
I will stand up to
wily winds.
I will not paper mache
enthusiasms
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Your Between And My Betwixt
We so easily
slip into the
intestacies
of Time's Pauses
where we
make love;
where time
draws the window curtains
for our modesty
and our pleasure.
Moments
swirl
dance and play
on window sills
and make
toys
for our play
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Crouching Low
Two men in ragged clothing
sat beside the road
alert and on the hunt.
Each watched a different direction
looking for game to emerge.
One espied a small bird
unknown to either of them
and its strutting attracted them.
' That bird, ' one man says
'we could kill and eat.
It does not look that fast
and would be easy prey.'
'Well it could work, ' the other man said
'but if we don't hunt him and instead capture him
we could keep him as a pet.'
'What good would that do? ' said the first man.
'We don't need pets.'
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The Dark Kiss
You are dark delight;
I am scattered vanilla.
I notice you in crowded meetings
where my eye centers
on you,
I have taken you into my rooms
risked all to to have you
to myself,
braved cold and rain
in clandestine rendezvouses;
and I confess
you are the sweet
I must not have.
My world and your world
must not meet.
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Beauty-See Beauty-Don't
There was in her face,
in the contours of her
beauty lines
a past smoothing out
which I could see
would match
her older photographs.
The older her
only hinted at
that prior
state.
But I took my time
to look at her
now past 55
to see
in that older landscape
what my eye
sought
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Candy Canes
I put my hand into your fire for you,
flames are squelched
roses flow from mouth to mouth
soft petaled
perfumed
with scents I smell
from those other beating hearts
which surround you
and you smile
your eye mine.
I placed my head into the sun-oven and baked
tan and muscle brown
your eye candy
and you simile.
You lift your arms
point to me with brown rounded headlights
and I see yellow in the sky behind you,
blue nights in those eyes
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My Grandmother Used to Say
My grandmother used to say
you can't threaten
a poor man with poverty
a loveless soul with loneliness
a hard heart with pitilessness
because all these
lacks
are never noticed by those
already far gone.
You don't bring coals to Newcastle
bride an honest man
teach character-
that is something which must be lived-
Never try she would say
to be young past your age
kiss evil on the mouth
break the golden rule
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Sweet Bear-Ables.
Wrap me in my history
and I hope this does
not warp my future.
Wrap me in my hurts endured
and pray they don't contain me
and my healing.
Wrap me in sins
committed
against those deserving
and not deserving;
my mistakes.
Twirl me
in my ego
taint..
Flash those lights on me,
strobe- caught
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