poems
WHEN YOU LISTEN, WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
Bird song
Frog song
Cricket song
Rain song
Wind song
Heart song
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HOWLER
The wolves were not made
knowing how to howl.
I taught them.
As the moon,
first I taught them to chant
with feverish pleasure at the
thrill of it all.
Then, I taught them to scream.
Cursed to live on when
all the stars are gone.
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HIVE MIND
He is of the Hive Mind.
It takes a Hive Mind to make a Queen.
She is used and abused by all the men around her, but
Hive Mind says ‘Stay inside” and “You’re so pretty ’.
Hive Mind Says
‘Find yourself a She to make her your Queen Bee’.
To be He, is to be of the Hive Mind.
Sometimes, when one can break free,
he becomes one that believes in We.
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UNIVERSE
I’ve never had a religion.
I know no universal truth.
but I’ve always said I believe in the echoing ripples of poetic balance.
Only to turn the page and go again.
The courage to speak
necessitates the fear of being heard.
The courage of listening
outweighs the fears of knowing.
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You sing a lover's lore;
I urge you to drink more.
What touches you and me？
Crows nest on willow tree.
Crows hide mid poplar flowers;
Drunk，you stay in my bowers.
Behold the censer and the sandalwood in fire!
Two wreaths of smoke combine and rise higher and higher.
-Li Bai’s A LOVE SONG
WILLOWS
On Li Bai’s “a love song”
From behind the partings of the willow tree
draped like bed curtains, hides you n me.
Until, later,
vines glisten in the fog, they cry
on the ground, sorrowed by our lover’s goodbye.
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LIKE THE CAT
Rest a minute.
Watch the world as the cat does;
perched with leisure,
noticing every blade,
and hearing every chirp.
Rest a minute.
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VINES
I have been trained like a tree.
You shaped me from a wandering vine,
guiding me higher and higher
with your stronghandedness.
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CRICKET
Chasing you as frantically
as one chases the cricket
beneath the bed in the night.
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HOW /WHAT
How do I stop and listen?
What if I am heard?
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CANT I JUST
I love you
but I cannot help you.
I don’t know how..
can’t I love it better?
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STILL WATERS
So long as my heart beats,
the water will never still.
With each thud,
A ripple runs from edge to edge.
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POMEGRANATE WOMB
A pomegranate is like a woman’s womb.
Full of seeds, but the numbers are few,
She is only ripe for a season.
From deep, the red juice flows.
A womb is like a pomegranate,
only so many pieces to give.
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ALONE
Sometimes I want to be alone as I feel.
Like the moon in the sky, surrounded by the brightness of others.
Cut the noise, let it be dark.
Just for a bit.
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OUT OF BODY
It doesn’t hurt.
I’m not sad.
I’m out of my body,
and you look the fool.
My blood is the mirror,
your lashings the tool.
How does it feel?
Why are you really mad?
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NAMES
Where do names go when we die?
We do not take them with us,
For we say
“It had been her name”
Not
“Her name is gone.”
When did they separate?
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PERFECT BOY
The safest man ever near me
Is my first born son.
How I love thee.
The safest man I’ll ever know
Is the one I made
And could watch grow.
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ADHD
what do you call the feeling of
Thinking that every moment is
The singular moment of your existence
that you might have someone else’s attention
and don’t know what to do with that moment?
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YOURS
Your loyalty causes wars.
Mine settles the dust.
Your loyalty is an eye for an eye.
Mine opens the bandage.
Your loyalty would smite with no remorse.
Mine would see you at your worst.
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I am feeling warm
Because I got what I needed
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Make me sad. Let me cry.
There’s no relief to wipe a dry eye.
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Talk talk talk
When I want to be seen.
Watch watch watch
When I want to be heard.
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My story will fulfill you,
But there’s a chance it could kill you.
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Your heat is a slow boil;
Warm, bubbling, fun.
Until I look back to see
You’ve loved me dead.
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My armor looks like
Making you laugh and lean into me.
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B -B
Between my bone and the buzzer
Is the little death and a burst of life.
While it swells and tries but cannot
merge that greatest divide.
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DELIGHTS
First sip of homemade coffee.
No time limit to walk the shelves.
“thank you.”
Dualities of humanity.
Your laugh.
When my blood pumps and I know it’s joy.
To breath with a still mind.
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FLY MY LOVE
What is it about the airport that makes me so existential?
The choices?
Intersecting fates?
Fears. Joyous reunions.
Icarus tread here,
As will I…
Oh what a place to see you and I.
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Would that I could kill
To be free of need to please
If I never knew you
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THE VILLAGE
It take a village to raise a baby
In the modern village
It seems that
The village
Is just
Villagers demanding their wants
And no more easing your needs.
So that the parent must perform as a village of one
Desperate to give their baby
Everything -
Although it is oft the minimum.
The parent is told:
Buy this,
Earn that,
Work then;
But no fevers no breaks no tears
(Neither yours nor the little bairns)
Because your time is money,
But where did it go?
Oh! Silly parent,
It’s not for you but the village.
In the modern village
It seems that
There is no more
“What can we do for you?”
It is
“Why haven’t you done this for me?”
The village is not the entity that unifies and nurtures,
The village is now the entity that isolates and acutes.
It takes a village to raise a baby.
It takes a village to raise a youth.
It takes a village to raise a prime.
It takes a village to raise a parent.
And it repeats.
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MOTHER MAKER
With all the love I have to give…
It starts before we have met,
And I won’t know it's done for years to come.
Til another asks where I have gone.
To make you perfect I choose what’s fair:
I take my thick hair,
my bright eyes,
I take my smooth cheeks,
My big lips,
My muted hips.
I cut them out one by one
I do it all with joyous yesses,
For I cannot stop what has begun.
I give them to you with hugs and caresses,
Little kisses and head scratches.
My tight skin and body thin,
I cut out my want, need, lust and longing,
And set it free, with my heart pounding.
With all the love I have to give…
I carve it out piece by piece
To give to you
So you may feel all I have felt,
The beauty I have known is here, you see?
It’s gone to you from me.
With all the love I have to give
I give to you,
Now I must learn what is left of me.
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It is falsely thought; the opposite of rage is joy.
Perhaps it is glee, but then what of distraught?
Might it be simple; happiness. But then what to despair?
Further still one’d say rage opposes calm,
but I counter. That is all too simple.
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The balance of rage is numbness. A void.
Rage is godliness manifested in man.
For rage is, to recipient;
no reason, no mind, no moment, no focus.
For rage is, to endower;
Gone compromise, gone shame, gone blindeye, gone cage,
Rage calls ‘master’ only to Freedom.
Rage is a god's limits breached, and eruct.
Achillian Rage is a freeing and a taking.
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I am but a knight
And her place is the dais
These flowers I leave
Now’s all that’s between us
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I am scared to love me
Because by God if I did
I would rule this world
And I can’t do that to them
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To be a mother is
To get dirty even whilst you clean
To be a doctor is
To enter the body and never greet the soul
To be a lawyer is
To fight even when the cause is wrong
To be a sailor is
To worship and grovel all at once
But to be the poet is
To speak the raw truths
From a veiled mouth
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When mind touches paper
I am a murderer
I am a healer
I am the adulterer
I am the devoted
I am the secret hero
I am the martyrd liar
But most of all I am not me
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With hair that never sits well groomed
With a stare that is too sharp to be soft
With lips that are too thin to smother mine
And eyes that are too light to be lively
With a body that is too large to fit against mine
All these wrongs to make it alright
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When the world is ahush
And mere friction is too much
When i want that touch
And i need that rush
I take that desire and leave
Deep into the darkness
Buzzing like the queen of the hive
Seeking a white horse
To show me his dark side
I want the white knight
To reveal his dark desires
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The creative spirit-
I need someone to take this pain
I work myself to the bone
In the hopes that it tires this creature
Rather than that
It makes the beast more resilient for tomorrow
The pain is ecstacy
The creature inside strangles me
But we like it
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When the unyielding sunshine tells you
you are beautiful,
It is hollow.
For how can the one who sees no faults appreciate what is before them?
No, it is when the vile and wretched tells you
your beauty lights their dark and dreary skies,
That is when it means the most.
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The paradox finding of the passion
Is how much it hurts.
To want something,
so badly it consumes you,
and you let it.
Have I betrayed myself?
Or is this living
To its fullest?
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Dear author:
Thank you for your slice,
I’ve been so easy to entice.
I’m eager to step inside
The world you’d have me reside,
The vicariousness of weight that your words hold
has allowed me to seep from my mold
without losing myself too completely.
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For a man to face existential purpose,
he faces death, makes War.
A woman will face the challenge of making life,
and all those consequences..
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Serum
Collagen
Red light
Green bite
Tight skin
Did you eat tonight?
B. R. E. A. T. H.
4. 4. 4. 4.
kpop
hot cup
Good book
Spiraled feline
Sit with me tonight.
