tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24695073707831203742024-03-05T21:40:38.270-05:00BLACK MAMBApoems from a poison penFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-19836065921448988882022-10-04T16:46:00.003-04:002022-10-05T11:49:59.850-04:00Donald Trump's Ass<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Donald Trump's ass is discovered inside a trash can.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It turns to us and speaks:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Many people say that I am the greatest asshole they've ever seen."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Donald Trump's ass pauses for effect,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">then ejects several golf balls from itself at random.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"I only like white golf balls," Donald Trump's ass explains.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It then adds that Donald Trump's Ass White Golf Balls can be purchased on the Donald Trump's Ass website. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thousands line up to kiss Donald Trump's ass. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They deny that it tastes like shit. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They line up to buy Donald Trump's Ass Shit Sandwiches</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(great with Donald Trump's Ass Bleach Slurpees.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But where is the GOP?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Shouldn't someone notify them that Donald Trump's ass is here,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">discovered inside this trash can? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The call goes out. Everyone is searching for the GOP,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">but finally, in the end (The Donald's own, in fact!),</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">they are found</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">like little dung beetles</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">nine miles up it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">______</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">for Sanaa Rizvi's "Allen Ginsberg & the Beat Generation" prompt at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2022/10/04/poetics-allen-ginsberg-and-the-beat-generation/" target="_blank">Dverse</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-65841200967232514382022-02-15T17:58:00.000-05:002022-02-15T17:58:05.418-05:00Chamber Duet II<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">See how I love you darling</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">skittering down the rotten leaf path with a lamp</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">wearing my delicate gloves and old cardigan</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">against the chill and damp?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Don't hand me shit about loving sailors now</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">with their faces like pale wrinkled moons</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">floating up to sing you shanteys</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">while you percolate in shallows like a wax Quadroon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">My frail sweetheart, what's become of you?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">You used to gild heaven just by looking up.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Now, if we touch, it's with a cypress branch</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">to roll love's body in the muck.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">We really cared once, you know it's true</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">with every movement meant to please.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Now your sailors adore you with gassy grins</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">and stultifying ease.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">I'll use tiny clippers on a driftwood cello</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">a balsa fake to echo and bore</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">a waterside horror to mock two biddies</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">our love song evermore.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">______</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">for<a href="https://dversepoets.com/2022/02/15/tuesday-poetics-after-st-valentine-left-the-building/" target="_blank"> Dverse Poetics</a> "After Saint Valentine left the building." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-23374641719268812212022-01-24T16:08:00.003-05:002022-01-24T16:11:08.220-05:00Advice<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">When Chaos shivers you with a thunderous right,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">think on beauty, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">think on loveliness.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">When your knees forget themselves,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">when your bowels disintegrate,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">fall as if flying.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">When your chin hits the pavement,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">when the mighty boot comes down,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">think on joy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Forgive freely.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">_________</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik;">for dverse <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2022/01/24/quadrille-144-shivering/" target="_blank">quadrille</a>--"shiver"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-2846383249889779072021-04-24T20:41:00.002-04:002021-04-24T20:41:54.541-04:00Transubstantiation<p> <i>"Every time I planted a seed, he said kill it before it grows" --Bob Marley</i></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Here is your cradle, narrower than a matron's squint.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Worlds have been birthed from less.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><i>Tilt your tarmac cap, child. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><i>Suckle from stars a foreign milk</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><i>distant evanescence </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;"><i>from saudade milled.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">Here is your birth-door, jagged as a shiv,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">and your unseen bloom, opening in spite of itself,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">a spirit shaken loose, dumb with innocence,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">just holy enough to make someone want to kill it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">_______</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Rubik; font-size: medium;">for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/08/future-muse.html" target="_blank">Sunday Muse #157</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1MDlMdu2gjw" width="320" youtube-src-id="1MDlMdu2gjw"></iframe></div>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-42554857268594244242020-03-07T13:16:00.001-05:002020-03-07T13:16:03.159-05:00Musee des Larmes<span style="font-size: large;">Your Museum of Tears exhausts the visitor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with unrelieved monochrome. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Repeat patrons squat and rock, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pulling their hair,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">begging for blindfold and bullet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">There is a booth to check your solutions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which will not be examined.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In lieu of a claim ticket,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">special jugs of further tears are dispensed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bearers long for the grave or asylum.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Security stops visitors for interrogation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why did you make a face at exhibit 45?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why did you skip the explanatory plaques?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Don't you see how unfair it all is,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and how innocent the artist?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">In your Museum of Tears,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the railings are salt-rimmed,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the light fixtures red and swollen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Several displays repeat in a loop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Many have hung themselves from the balcony balustrades.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot be a member.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot be a patron.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot be a docent,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Though I hear there is a brand new wing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">where whole aquariums bear my name.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">_________</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunday-muse-98.html" target="_blank">Sunday Muse #98</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-66472536332793130042019-12-23T11:40:00.000-05:002019-12-23T11:40:22.357-05:00Lamby<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Everyone agreed that Lamby was certainly possessed, and that it was high time something was done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A broken vase had been discovered, and the child accused.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Lamby did it," said the child, and all heads turned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The father felt certain that Lamby harbored powerful desires, barely concealed beneath its innocuous expression; desires that would certainly bring ruin and shame upon the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The mother was convinced that Lamby seethed with anger and longed to destroy them all in revenge for various wrongs. Did the thing ever close its eyes, even in the dead of night? No, it did not, so busy was the thing in planning its various diabolical machinations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lamby was removed from its only advocate, the now distressed and tearful child. "I lied," said the child. "Lamby didn't do it. I did." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"The thing MADE her do it, and now controls her tongue as well," opined the clergyman, having been summoned to the scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"We need punishment, to restore happiness," said the father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"We need righteous fury, to restore harmony," said the mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"We must destroy it in order that it may be forgiven," thundered the clergyman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As the three adults danced around the cleansing fire consuming her toy in the front yard, the child ran to a neighbor's house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"They've gone fucking crazy over there," reported the child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Such </span>language<span style="font-family: inherit;">," tutted the neighbor, and took the child home, where the broken vase lay forgotten in the foyer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">_______</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A parable for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/12/artistic-interpretations-over-loved-and.html" target="_blank">Artistic Interpretations </a>at Real Toads.</span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-74146616381515291302019-08-31T11:36:00.000-04:002019-08-31T11:36:22.127-04:00Stop<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Stop showboating.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You, who lived in the walls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">now live in the air.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You, who lived in my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">now live in the margins of grander stuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are windows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(You don't care about windows.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are borderless nights, and sounds I did not know I could make.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(You don't care about that, either.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Everything's a brag with you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">while down here it's all cement and stones, glass and goulash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Shut up for once, I said on that first night, smiling,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">when you were sweaty and happy and talking rot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now when I say it, I do not smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I whisper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and curse you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">every ethereal blameless bit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">_______</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/08/sunday-muse-71.html" target="_blank">Sunday Muse</a> #71.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-80357268975334707422019-06-30T12:28:00.002-04:002019-06-30T12:45:01.340-04:00A Summer Blues<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's a blues made from candle wax,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the hiss of tires on wet streets,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and lips that promise and vanish but linger all the same.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's a blues made from old calendar pages,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">new blooms from a shaded garden,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and an ache warm and melancholy as night-lit water.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Come, I will play this blues</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for heedless ferals and true believers;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for my own sore need, and for you, red-haired and </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fleetingly perfect as dusk on the last night in July. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">_____</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-sunday-muse-62.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i> </span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-14552915713402364182019-06-23T14:38:00.000-04:002019-06-23T14:38:37.013-04:00Expect A Magistrate<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Expect a magistrate,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>my<i> deus ex machina</i> replacement </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>when I zone out as we're talking, my beautiful one.</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Perhaps a tailor,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>festooned with measuring tape </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>to act as your envoy when I have checked out, <i>mon petit cher</i>.</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At last, a math genius</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>fresh from Mumbai</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>to complete the needed Trinity you desire, sweet enchanter.</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I will leave you with my legal codes,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>my paper pattern,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>my formulae,</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>So that you might animate my double,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>quantified, tame to the bone,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>a wedding cake figure to replace me when I've gone. </b></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-91671087452065717882019-06-19T18:14:00.000-04:002019-06-19T18:14:00.555-04:00Araber<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Here comes the araber across the cobblestones,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">slow as a rolled coin.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Here comes his horse, his cart, his bellowing cry:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Blueberries!</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Strawberries!</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Sweet persimmons!</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">His wagon is laden with fruits round and ripe.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">His call is laden with sung notes stretched:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bluuuue BERries! </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Strawwww BERries! </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Plumsandblack BERRIES! </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The sky is pale blue, the few clouds puffy white.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Delicious ORRRanges!</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The day is hot. His horse is stoic. </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I wonder if I have a nickel</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">or a dime?</span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">There is no araber, nor cobblestones either.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">His horse and his wagon </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">gone to dust and kindling.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I hold a plastic tub wrapped with cellophane in my palm.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Ed Sheeran leaks from a speaker somewhere in the ceiling,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">bleating about being in love with some girl's body.</span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Hey...what's wrong?"</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">My shopping companion gives me a friendly little bump.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I tell her:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Strawberries...</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">blueberries.... </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">plums and black...berries."</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">She is used to me, and kind.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">When we leave, the sky is pale blue, </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">the few clouds puffy white,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">the back wheel of our basket spinning and clattering </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">all the way to the car.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">______</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></b></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/06/berries-wed-muse-13.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i></span><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></b></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span></b></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-89682039539089050912019-06-15T19:41:00.003-04:002019-06-15T19:41:32.239-04:00Single Lady With A Cat<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oscar says</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I should sniff at your kindness as if it were a little tainted.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you want me,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I should proceed in silent circles;</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a tide ruled by an odd moon </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>whose attention wanders.</b></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Oscar knows</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>that disappointment is the only reward for his counsel.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I accept your kisses and crumbs </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>as if they were riches and rings</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>despite Oscar's disapproval and destruction of my things.</b></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I have had Oscar from a kitten,</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>ever advising me to hide my heart and hold out for better.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Oscar is vocal--he tries and tries.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>But what does Oscar know?</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>He has always been loved.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>_______ </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/06/sunday-muse-60.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i><br /><b></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-8327291056985378362019-06-08T16:06:00.001-04:002019-06-08T16:12:43.463-04:00Shit-Hole Country<b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mud can be made into bricks;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bricks can be stacked, piled, lived in.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Go ahead, buy a chair, a table,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pipe in Fox News,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">get on line and own the libs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wear your red hat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Live off the land.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Go all-natural.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">get off the grid.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mud can be made into bricks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but so can shit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It can be stacked, piled, lived in.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just insist that dung is diamonds and wave that flag.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">______ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/06/just-one-word-muddy.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</span></span></span><br />
<br />Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-4934131923649383362019-06-08T15:42:00.000-04:002019-06-08T15:42:03.040-04:00Dog Track Rabbit <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>keep going.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>you're almost there!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>don't stop now.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>how about a bigger house?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>or a better ride?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>move up in your company!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>move in on a better man/ better woman!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>get slimmer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>get hired</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>get a degree</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>get published!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>tired of the same old grind?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>same old clothes?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>same old spouse?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>if you lived here you'd be home now.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>eBay!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Amazon!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Match dot com!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Toyota, Pelaton, Nike, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>prestige, appearances, pissing contests!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Desire fuels everything,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>feeds nothing.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Stay hungry, my friends. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>_____</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/06/sunday-muse-59.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b> </b></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-24713039026489563172019-05-20T08:47:00.000-04:002019-05-20T08:47:55.072-04:00Skullduggery<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a shame the sort of skullduggery a woman will get up to when a man forgets to leave his boots across the back of her neck. Why, she might start thinking the fruit that grows around her own bones belongs to her, or some hysterical shit like that.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leaders, lofty men of business and government, with your raw dicks and your melted eyes from hours spent watching women your grand-daughter's age on a screen, women with bodies but whose souls are cagily kept off-camera, beware of skullduggery when your wives show up and expect you to know who the fuck they are and to want them, even with all those clothes and no option to scroll ahead when they start yapping. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stuff their flighty stupid mouths with parchment dicks, laws borrowed from syphilitic lunatics who ruled back in better days. Stop skullduggery wherever you find it, beat it out of them with bibles, do it for America. Strut and make your fuckstick a factory, breathe deep the smoke and sparks of your industry, and be proud, gentlemen, of preserving what is right and good and lawful under God, eh-men. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">______</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for "irony", <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekend-mini-challenge-oh-poetic-irony.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</i> </span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-35938675701763213052019-05-12T10:51:00.001-04:002019-05-12T10:51:39.165-04:00Mother's Day<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't be bothered </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">to birth this child</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">who howls and scratches all night long.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't be bothered</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">to take these pills</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">that do me no good and make it worse. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">My mouth says words learned by rote</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">to scatter like mothballs for smile-beaked neighbors.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mail me cards of flowery joy</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">to instruct me how to masquerade.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't be bothered</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">to birth this child</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">who howls and scratches all night long.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't be calmed</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">from nervous disgust</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">at this body in mine, who will unmask me, given time.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">_______</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">for<a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/05/muse-55.html" target="_blank"> this</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2016/07/09/how-being-raised-by-a-narcissist-damages-your-life-and-self-esteem/#4224a9842c67" target="_blank">How Being Raised By A Narcissist Damages Your Life</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-42928432844046821882019-05-09T20:12:00.003-04:002019-05-09T20:12:38.579-04:00Shards and Thorns<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has come by a road of shards and thorns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the warped mirror of our true reflection.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Where is the child,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the dawn's early light,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the bible or the hustle that was sure to pay off?</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has come by a road of shards and thorns </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the warped mirror of our own reflection. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many have died--</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">loved ones, enemies, combinations of both.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many have died--</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">each new self carries the dead ones slung over a shoulder.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The unmarked blank of our beginnings</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">gives way to the selves and scars of who we have become. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By a road of shards and thorns,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we arrive and find that every strange road has become us.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">______</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/05/wednesday-muse-7-beautiful-mess.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-75374844213394077572019-05-07T10:01:00.001-04:002019-05-07T10:09:15.894-04:00Aviary<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I keep an aviary.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are a thousand cages.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are 999 doors.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is one lock.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I lade tables with pies, sugar cubes, golden gewgaws,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but my birds want only old string, dead grass, rotten leaves.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They jam their homes to bursting with the stuff.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Birds, sing for me,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ease my heart,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and though you hate it, please symbolize</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all the usual for me--freedom, beauty, delicacy--</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But all you display is the patches on your shoulders</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and a dull imbecility.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are 999 doors, every one of them open!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, you just sit there in your trash of straw, trembling.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I should feed you my anger,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">watch you incinerate, bewildered, an inch from the gaping exit. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Birds, sing for me</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ease my heart,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">produce your automatic but lovely songs </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for the wretched one behind the iron and only lock for miles around. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">______</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/05/muse-54.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-52164776202057661632019-04-29T09:55:00.002-04:002019-04-29T09:55:45.595-04:00viper's lullaby<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">when worlds wash up against the back of your lips,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with their cargo of souls you've loved like specimens,</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">why must you always then speak, spilling </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">your professed darlings over the edge in arranged terror,</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">pursued by the infected monsters of your</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">suffocating correction and the deluge of your improving touch?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">______</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/poems-in-april-asking-questions.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-45873927812735825312019-04-28T19:10:00.002-04:002019-04-28T19:35:20.402-04:00You Like My Smile<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You like my smile, I can tell</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by the gliding bird your body becomes when you see it.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's for real, but laying low behind it</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is the goodbye hiding under my tongue for later.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a woman always quarreling with clocks--</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">they show too early or too late to suit me.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mornings, I ache for the drowse and lamplight of evening.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evenings, I wish the sun were just rising, nothing decided, everything unspoken.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is my smile, here is my heart.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the sun, the moon, the mail, the years.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's for real, but laying low behind it</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is the goodbye I hide that will break our hearts, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">there from the beginning, the taint behind the smile you love. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">________</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-muse-53.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-72977310352144171032019-04-27T08:50:00.000-04:002019-04-27T08:50:10.186-04:00femme folle avec des fleurs<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Out of the hospital AMA,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I buy a street vendor's yellow flowers just outside the subway. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">_______</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">AMA = "against medical advice"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/in-station-of-metro.html" target="_blank">this</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-48258280041723988912019-04-26T10:10:00.000-04:002019-04-26T10:10:13.869-04:00Bicycle Wheel<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Our milkman brought the war home with him.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I could hear the bottles rattle from my room above the porch.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A doctor used a belt and a bicycle wheel </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>to put my dad's knee back in place. </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(That's why he didn't serve.)</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Dad's voice was calm.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I could picture him standing in the early chill in his plaid robe.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The milkman's staccato curses bounced off him like a breeze.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Dad died twenty years ago.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I'm divorced with a grown son.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I don't know what happened to the milkman.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Dad and I watched the moon landing together.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I wondered how they'd ever get home.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Daddy, I want to start over.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I need a belt, a bicycle wheel, and something to bite on.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I need to re-enter somehow.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If I do,</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>if I burn bright the way I used to</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>when I'd spot you; </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you'd say,</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"There's my girl,"</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I think I could find the blue ocean one more time</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>and bob like a cork, light as a child, </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>with helicopters coming fast from the eastern sky.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>_______</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b><i>for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/reboot-rewind-recycle-rebirth-poems-in.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-76453686143911716242019-04-25T16:17:00.000-04:002019-04-25T17:10:40.147-04:00Leopards Like Your Ribboned Hat<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leopards like your ribboned hat.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sun warms the straw and your grassland hair.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ribbon is blue and moves the way a windy sky moves.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your hips move the way a leopard moves</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">across the grassland</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">under the sky. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leopards like your ribboned hat</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">from a storefront head on a city street.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You saw it and sighed, your eyes the blue of a windy sky.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now leopards move the way your ribbon moves</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the way your hips move</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">on a city street.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leopards like your ribboned hat.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They move the way a windy sky moves,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">slipping through your grassland hair like windy suns.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They move the way your ribbon moves.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The way your hips move.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leopards move.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">______</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/kerry-says-lets-be-imagists.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-46720682250509482732019-04-19T10:53:00.000-04:002019-04-19T11:01:04.337-04:00Crimson In Filigree<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Somewhere high up in the trees, a cardinal sings--</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I cannot find the crimson in the filigree.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cardinal, lading air with desire, a red unseen Ulysses,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have no other to be siren for--sing for me.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My skin is newspaper, my eyes crystal bowls left behind.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The early April air, cardinal, is a sacristy</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for tired robes of faded rose like love notes with edges frayed.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have no other hymnal--so, cardinal--sing for me.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lofty cardinal, mere bird, tireless singer, I hear you--endlessly--</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but cannot find the crimson hidden in the filigree.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">________</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for <a href="https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/micro-poetry-i-am-my-own-muse.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> </i> </span></span></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-34057671948138368262019-04-10T07:40:00.000-04:002019-04-10T08:15:56.949-04:00Tweetstorm<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a land of black doves, white crows,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">only a fool would trust the sky. </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Disguise is the modern currency--</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">even lovers wear falconry gloves,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fumbling at each other in a panic of talons.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Enter the Queen of Vanity,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with her fool, Mars, stumbling behind on a leash.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No one can open a mouth except to lie.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a land of black doves, white crows,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">mere melanin gives way to a sludge of relentless death.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With heads skewered on blinking devices,</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">nattering husks burn on pyres and transfer</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">their dying whimpers</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">like tarnished pennies for the laughing ferryman.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">________ </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For Day 10 and for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/open-book-poems-in-april-day-10.html" target="_blank">this</a>. My word was "melanin."</i></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></span>Fireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2469507370783120374.post-39566044823514869682019-04-08T17:02:00.003-04:002019-04-08T17:02:27.440-04:00Blue Horses.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue horses came out of the sea last night.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their hooves made shapes in the sand which spoke </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in Arabian symbols and scents.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They wandered into town on the</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">cobbled streets and stood</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">under lanterns lit by nuns made of fog.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You came close, then,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">having approached for a million years.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You came close enough to dance</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and we danced</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">like mayflies caught in a globe of disappearing dreams.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue horses came out of the sea last night,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">muscular and graceful, uncaring</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">whether I loved you, though I did.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a refracted vase</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">where I saved what I saw in your eyes</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that made me love you,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that made the sea roll sleepily</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the stars play wooden flutes, then go silent.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue horses came out of the sea last night, and though</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it has happened often before,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we made them forget their way,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">become lost,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and cry for the pastures they carry in their minds.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Forever now, we will follow their symbols and scents,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">each of us separately,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">blindly, carrying bridles we made from sand.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">_____ </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>for Day 8 and <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-muse-50.html" target="_blank">Sunday Muse</a> #50.</i></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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