Tag: poetry
group name: hromantics
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November 16, 2006 09:19 PM EST --
I lay awake — your flame my only triumph.
Beside you, the kingdom beyond the grave is nothing,
to the embracing desert.
When your eyes are closed
the earth veiled.
Warriors of the drunkenness . . . more
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November 18, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
"Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois."
—Tom Wolfe (The Painted Word. Stated in regard to Andy Warhol.)
Insomnia
Dedicated to Jessie Rae, an amazing singer, . . . more
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February 22, 2008 06:12 PM EST --
Once more I want to ride the carousel,
whose galloping ponies' bright-painted thighs undulate and sing to my core,
and yet fear shrieks: hold fast the pole, hold fast the pole, hold fast the . . . more
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March 09, 2007 11:55 PM EST --
Her heart met his mind as she quested for bliss.
He tendered a handshake when she hoped for a kiss.
Appropriateness was his reason, which to her felt remiss.
He suggested mediation; she struggled to . . . more
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September 03, 2008 07:06 AM EDT --
SEETHING
The breath uplifted, rising, falling
I belonging there among our . . . more
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August 26, 2007 02:29 PM EDT --
One day and your whole life changes.
One day and that’s it.
Some snap judgment this or that thing.
You’re so sure you are in love; my lover, you say.
Secrets whispered through the wires, codified, . . . more
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March 19, 2007 10:09 PM EDT --
i love you
it scares you half to death
and makes you want to peel your skin off
i want to barge into you
a silent dock
while the ocean laps itself
against
on and with
the cloth of your flesh,
the barrier . . . more
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July 01, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
If you offer your soul i will take it and make a deal with some god.
If some god you offer, i will kneel before and pray.
If some prayer you give, then let it be sweet and bring me absolution.
If absolution . . . more
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October 23, 2006 06:11 PM EDT --
You gave me hope.
You showed me a way out.
You made me feel love,
you shattered all my doubts.
I wanted to return the favor,
I wanted to be your one.
Then one . . . more
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October 19, 2007 06:10 AM EDT --
OUR FINAL BREATHS TWIN SPEARS
The eyes come unfearing, as bold as desert sun
But held in the soft shading of eyelids and lashes
Lips are shown as sunbeams, parting the clouds, my lips . . . more
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January 31, 2008 06:30 AM EST --
PARSED BY A PAUSE
I remember...
In the yellow and shadow of summer season
Our thoughts can lift soft to the sun . . . more
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July 14, 2008 08:45 PM EDT --
Parting is bitter and weeping vain
And all true lovers will meet again
And no fate can sever my love from me
For her heart is the river, and mine the sea
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April 15, 2008 05:59 AM EDT --
A DUET IN A GARDEN PLACE
The stem, the leaf, the head of rose
Does it crave what gentle lover's kisses bring?
Can it feel the handle of my fingertips?
May I roam throughout as . . . more
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September 26, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
Trust me
Support me
Fight for me
Protect my precious soul.
Cherish me
Run to me
provide for me
Let your love fill my every hole.
Look me in the eyes
Know me
Love . . . more
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April 01, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Throbbing Dragonfly
Would you move me gentle, smooth?
Row us down the river past the lush-rush grassy banks
down the serpentine jewel, a floor of green that sparkles emerald in the . . . more
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April 12, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
You tell me you are stuck
How that quicksand pulls and sucks your fine bird-bone ankles.
Rage against the dying of the ...
the ground contrives to swallow you more.
That seamless cast . . . more
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April 13, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
How fast you spin that silk web
cocooning fast your solitude -
xylophanes titan, my dark butterfly
spinning, spinning, spinning,
your private subterranean homesick blues,
you struggle against . . . more
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July 23, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
Such things I would do ~
overcome this shyness in a moment
To show my true trust
there is nothing I would not be
to keep this love, I dip, I dive
a line, straight to you, strong vector.
Do you find your . . . more
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August 23, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
It is a Morse Code dash.
A ribbon, pale-grey line,
simple and flat, screaming yet alarmingly soundless.
These vacant hollow hours ~
Empty of your laugh, your voice, your breath;
still, I keep my ear primed; . . . more
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May 19, 2008 06:11 AM EDT --
ROSE FRECKLED
There along the nose and shoulders
Your freckled expanse rose up in tones
Rising like tiny rebel roses blooming . . . more
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