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serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2006-10-09 06:47 AM

I see. This is your sign to me.
Upward in mobility
nice to see y'gotta goal
phalange phallically in bold
as you cross your eyes to see
volcanoes in reverse
contained
as you justify your nose
blistering the callouses
useful as a valve
and those
are blisters bubbling
beneath
the heroes of what used to be
values on a flute and keys;
dancing like a lephrachaun
in the woods and canopied
kicking at the autumn leaves
falling one by one by two
as you jazzed the point
of moot
as if you had them hypnotized
or strung upon some fishing twine
a trick
that they would dance in rhyme
of rhythm rocking like the girls
who did the dances of rockettes
somewhere in your mind...
a woman's selling cigarettes
in a tray beneath her breasts
enticing you and so sublime:

offering a flame and glitz
a single moment glance of bliss
empying your pockets is
rabid rabbits

preciousness

when she bends invitingly
and can-you-have-some-more?

Later I will hold your head
to the center of my chest
rocking you to comfortless
as y'suckle at my breasts
dead and dry and wiltedness:
I wince the pain of all your greed
as our eyes are entertained
by that fantasy of sweet
comfort and fulfillment freed
from the anger of the need
(release us)
anguish of the flesh--
and pipers do not pray the bead
but bend the reed to test
the test

as if someone were keeping score.

Refugee
Member

since 2006-08-04

Posts 97

1 posted 2006-10-09 09:05 AM

Whew.

Reading you is like mental gymnastics. But in a good way. lol

Great, great, great stuff.

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2006-10-09 09:15 AM

serenity,
You orginize chaos better than anyone I know. Remarkable write.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2006-10-09 09:28 AM

You know what I think about the piper, Ser...I think you said it best on the fourth line of this poem! So many lives....fourth line repeated! Brava!....jo

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2006-10-09 09:28 AM

Fourth line repeated......dern, forgot to save this.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2006-10-09 09:38 AM

Wheew! The rhythm ...how do you do that music?

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2006-10-09 02:52 PM

Thank you all, this one was inspired by leaving the house to visit an old friend.

Not likely that will happen again anytime real soon.

But thanks for reading, and I'm gonna get back to building that drawbridge now.

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

7 posted 2006-10-09 05:31 PM

and pipers do not pray the bead
but bend the reed to test
the test

as if someone were keeping score.

ah yes, K, and this above, wrapped up with a perfect ending lady. Love it.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

8 posted 2006-10-09 06:19 PM

"Reading you is like mental gymnastics"

Refugee said it for me...I guess I am so naive about life except for the most recent of my years that I have to think deeper when reading you...a good thing.

M

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