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by joel
September 27th, 2011, 11:32 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: for/from Kailashana, a ghazal
Replies: 2
Views: 455

for/from Kailashana, a ghazal

From Kailashana: When you come, come empty-handed, my Beloved, return to me nothing but your presence. Nothing but your love. [/size] If you would come, Beloved, come to me with empty hands & give me nothing but your love. I need your presence more than tangibility, for what is safety?—nothing but ...
by joel
September 27th, 2011, 9:48 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: shape-shifters on the horizon looming like clouds
Replies: 4
Views: 696

Re: shape-shifters on the horizon looming like clouds

Kailashana wrote:When you come, come empty-handed, my Beloved, return to me
nothing but your presence. Nothing but your love.
...smells like smokey gin and tastes like dates and honey: intoxicating and sweet: very nice.
by joel
September 27th, 2011, 9:45 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: for the shattered air
Replies: 2
Views: 216

for the shattered air

As if a twig between— like shattered air— my fingers, dry and snapped— like something rare— the body of the morning woke my breath while angels, in their fired mosquitoes' buzz, would bleed-sing me their glory— there I was: for puja, yawn— and groan for shibboleth. But in that shattered air I recogn...
by joel
September 26th, 2011, 9:22 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: man in the mirror ( a short story poem)
Replies: 2
Views: 224

Re: man in the mirror ( a short story poem)

saw wrote:How the hell you think you're gonna help me ? ...he
SCREAMED
............he had already become the man he loved to write about.
The audience was angered he
called fiction his biography—
the author but smiled:
he'd fathered a child,
his truest self, in poetry.
by joel
September 26th, 2011, 9:09 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: WITH KAFKA.
Replies: 2
Views: 151

Re: WITH KAFKA.

You kept his books on the shelf next to those of Burroughs and Joyce. You kept his books by poetry and prose that those who'd read you nighttime stories had supposed would bring you better dreams; you chose to read the words that made you glad— kept company with ghosts when Galahad abandoned you fo...
by joel
September 23rd, 2011, 9:04 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: SUNFLOWERS AFTER SEX.
Replies: 5
Views: 259

Re: SUNFLOWERS AFTER SEX.

dadio wrote:now he’s dead.
Open to debate! :wink:
by joel
September 23rd, 2011, 7:26 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: so they murdered Troy
Replies: 7
Views: 1073

Re: so they murdered Troy

Signed and sent, my clement letters
didn't moved supposed "betters"...
yet still, of course,
on him thought "worse"
I it was who tied death's fetters.
by joel
September 22nd, 2011, 6:06 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: TREASURE OF KINGS.
Replies: 2
Views: 120

Re: TREASURE OF KINGS.

...hat and glasses look familiar, Friend... 8)
by joel
September 22nd, 2011, 5:22 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Ad Studium VIII Per Amor
Replies: 1
Views: 136

Ad Studium VIII Per Amor

A line of mourning doves and songbirds sat
across a narrow, rubbered powerline
that may have been my lifeline when I flat-
lined and I called for you and you were mine.
by joel
September 22nd, 2011, 10:50 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: WATCHING HER SLEEP.
Replies: 4
Views: 181

Re: WATCHING HER SLEEP.

keep 'er happy, dadio!
by joel
September 22nd, 2011, 10:46 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011
Replies: 3
Views: 196

October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011

" Your eyes weren't open when the world awoke today— too early for a sabbath rest, too late to start a new creation ," spoke a voice in whispers, trying to digest this night that passed without you in it for the first of many standard ended days. " You surname won't be guilty anymore because you sim...
by joel
September 21st, 2011, 12:18 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: HAZMAT Vat69
Replies: 4
Views: 340

Re: HAZMAT Vat69

...written like glass, smooth and broad, black on the back, showing me me again.
by joel
September 21st, 2011, 12:14 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: CRY FOR LOVE
Replies: 2
Views: 270

Re: CRY FOR LOVE

I love it, Cher...but one word drives me nuts (not a bad thing at all, but I struggle with it) and I've been pouring over it in my thoughts. Please know this is with utter respect and admiration. But you're so dang sophisticated ! How could that ever have not been the case!?!? :) It's hard for me to...
by joel
September 21st, 2011, 11:46 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Possessed
Replies: 2
Views: 171

Re: Possessed

I'm perfect as a master miracle of art; and never have I sinned, but I am whole. The words of hurt I speak penultimate to Love are sighs of Satan's wind, but I am whole. I've neither been your victor of the good nor vector of your smile; I'm indiscreet with hate. If ever you've been loved by me, you...
by joel
September 20th, 2011, 12:14 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Her Prayerful Breath.
Replies: 4
Views: 205

Re: Her Prayerful Breath.

I am not afraid of death and I'm not put-out by (appropriately) dying people and I have watched more folks breath out than I can count at this point...and I'm not that old...but I hate the broken love. I hate the mistakes. I hate the distractions I know will haunt me.

But I love the poetry.

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