Thank you, Poetic

Thank you (((pkd , 1000 & H )))

(i)

They’re there to see a poem unfolding
Where words haven’t arrived
A small underscoring of half-slept moments
Of forgetting weakness

Here we are again
Away from them
and your hands are in my hair
My face is in your chest
You smell of cigarettes and solitude
Your voice is close to my ear
in a form I know but don’t understand
This is no story you’re telling
in bare-knuckled Braille
It has a narrative I can’t follow
back to your mouth

This is the easy eye of beauty
Silence of the planets and falling starlings
in a cosmic tailspin of absurdity

The black stones under my feet are still warm
from when the sun burnt them
in the middle of the day
I wonder where I left my shoes

(ii)

Naked of meanings your face eludes me
Still the words aren’t coming
The patterns are there
lightening then darkening
The sounds amplify
bird cries swell thick
higher now
with throats full of clouds
Caught as they rise
No truth we’ve been
offered corresponds to this
These are feats of the imagination
To feathered applause and closed eyes

My skin is my mind
These are my dreams
they bring it all closer
Sink it in

Crawl up under my sheets
under a blanket of memory
warp and weft of surfaces of things
Woven threads of messages received
from every cell touched, held, imagined
Hold it, touch it again to remember
whisper into it
into the scars
into the dull ache
like a bridge from some place not located in my body

Or write it and I’ll read it to my hands
with my fingertips in a soft slow scrawl

Have you looked at Socialized Healthcare closely?

Healthcare is important, but it's not a right. This country needs to stop being the place that people come for handouts. There are rewards for good, honest hard work.

So now Obama's proposed income tax = inspired leadership?

So, we should vote someone into office because they give us that "warm and fuzzy" feeling?

What I think is funny is the fact that Obama said that McCain votes with President Bush 90% of the time. True...but most Democrats do, too. What he isn't telling people is that 90% of the legislation that goes through Congress is pointless "let's congratulate so-and-so"...

Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — taking on corruption, passing ethics reform, stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’

Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for president.

The sky opened today
with your exhalation.
Lips against mine,
filling my lungs with your unspent air.
We dim-darkened together.
Your dry lips,
I feel the wetness behind them.
We whisper like lovers-
kisses, not because, no
I’ve never made love to you
I feared the hooks, the barbs, the lures
No gills, gasping, arching.
Not because I feared you’d pull me up
to the surface to flap around on your deck.

Kisses, not because, no,
I feared I’d bring down your ship
with me fathoms deep
and drown us both in inky,
Bedouin dreams projected on bed sheet screens.
Not that any of this is real
except that I feared.
I see you paper cut wince.
It might hurt more than this,
calculating clever-less.

Wonderful, J

Thank you (((mt & pkd )))

Electric reality, don’t loosen your hold
A girl in chains no longer; everything I touch is gold
A fire born of lightning sings a chorus of our voices
melts all thoughts of consequences that will linger from our choices
Fear evaporates when our bodies flame the fight
Our reality turns static the first time you stay the night
We anticipate the power of a thousand potent stars
I taste your kiss, your world explodes, and then we’ll bear the scars
Blinded by the wattage, we both wander through the storm
climbing towers made of steel as risk and reason keep us warm
Miracle? Mistake? A mere moment seized and sewn?
Reality is shocking when the fantasy’s your own
Lust can’t keep you grounded when it’s streaking ‘cross the sky
Clouds of trust and timid passion light the kamikaze sky
Intentions never empty with his needs to fuel my fire
Good for him, the need to be, it only takes me higher
Smoke coming from our skin, from our sin, the past, the rule
And I, content to bow down at his feet, a willing fool.

Very cool write, Jason

And she holds a higher office than both Obama and Biden. So that soccer mom's executive experience makes her unprepared for the office she was nominated for?

Thank you (((1000)))

He never knew you loved him,
and you stood there,
side by side, an intense silence
full of static sparks
of awkward, unbalanced emotion.
He never knew
you wrote him to be kind
and longing.
In the divide
between you, it is clear
you wrote fiction.
The voice of conscience and reason
screams
speak to him!
Ask about his travels,
his muscles,
his sister.
Your mouth is dry,
drums pound the chambers of your heart.
You do not know
if he welcomes your words.
Every moment, every breath,
is a moment, is a breath
he falls
from the lofty cirrus clouds
in your imagination.
Then, a breeze, a gust of wind
and he is gone in so many ways,
the memory erased;
a god proven to be a myth.

Thank you, sweets

In winter there will be
holes in the street, markers
of this August heat that
expands asphalt, makes
room for ice. Earthworms
fry on concrete. Each one
that tries to cross fails
gracefully.

But the nights have changed.
The hours after rain are tainted
with it, the sense of November’s
muffled influence. The grass

is distracted. The maple stares
out into the horizon. Living
things, even as breath is
stifled at noon, are lost among
black branches, stone clouds,
an iced moon.

Powerful write LA!!
Beautiful

(((LA & msmyka )))

Thank you!!