poetry – Page 69 – Poétique

Partake

Take a bite out of my love
It’s there for you to partake of
Usually at my own peril
My lips are open and
Ready to taste
When we experience how
To have sex with one another
We will have to learn again
How not to because
We cannot always be
In the embrace of each other
All the time though
It will feel like my arm
Belongs with you and
Your neck belongs with me
Take a bite out of my love
I can think of no better way
For us to spend our time
Who knows where the
Barrel will land once we
Spin it round and point it
Down, could be the love
Roulette we’ve both been
Looking for I’m willing to
Bet it all, let it ride on you
Risk it for the biscuit
If you’re willing to open up
Let me inside be your
Number one none of this
Poly stuff amorous yes
But only for you, nobody else
Can do what I want to
Be doing with you if you
Want to take a bite out of
My love, will you…

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Make It All Better

What’s wrong with the
Whole world and why
Do I feel like I want to live
In a cave somewhere
Far away from these redundant
Songs being forced into
My ears at the market
While I’m shopping
Somehow having this
Symbiotic experience with
The world just like a clone
Of everyone else as I sift
Through objects that
Don’t matter and won’t
Matter even five years after
From now on… and what is the
Bland stale scent of
Nothingness in the air
The humming of electric cars
It’s taking it too far for us to care
Sounds like we have money
Driving through the parking lot
Where there are so many
That have nothing am I part of
The problem or the solution?
Want to get away from
The pollution of our existence
People are so sweet gentle
And kind walking through life
Why do I feel like I’m losing my mind
Like I’d rather be deaf
Dumb and blind unable
To process everything
That is going on around me
Wait a minute hold the door
There’s someone on the ground
I spoke too soon because
Some buffoon of a jerk
Knocked a gal down in the street
I saw it with my own eyes no joke
Backed up with the car door open
Knocked her off her feet
Provoked? Looks like nothing’s broken
She’s okay but how’s my faith
In humanity today? Or the world?
I think it’s sad when a Pop-Tart is
What we’re left with
To make it all better

Grocery Store

I think of this friend
When I got to the grocery store
It’s an outlet market
I’m not sure if she works
There anymore the pandemic
Created a divide
Kind of like a divorce between us
I figured let time just
Run it’s course
Perhaps we’d find another way
Around the mountain
Have a picnic at the
Fountain of our youthful
Friendship beginnings
Always a sucker for
Happy endings but
Still waiting for that
Part of the fairytale
To find its way out of
The forest nothing abhorrent
Just a lot of absence and
Possible rumors through
The grapevine I know
Her style so I’m not surprised
Really don’t care if she is
Telling lies just like to remember
The friend that she was
Which then back to my story
About how we lost touch
Might be a bit boring
But I realized I need to
Be clear that a friendship
Is jointly a union not
One person stewing just
On hold left on red
Running thoughts through
My head, Is it something I said?
Then I was invited to a
Last minute party too soon
To rearrange all the things
I’m so sorry but still let’s keep
Trying meanwhile two years later
A new meaning for see you
Later alligator (I don’t think
That’s what we meant)
More like see you never
Maybe we should just go
Grocery shopping?
And then came an invite to
Shop an open closet event how clever
A personal yard sale to get her a couple
Of bucks not the meeting I hoped
For so what but I’m not
Feeling great about how
All l’d really like is just a cup of tea
And maybe a biscuit
Not some glorified ticket
To a garage sale
Or a party just a little
Personal time to swap smiles
Looks like I’ll be waiting again
For a little more while

Open Wide

My appetite
Bare
Black veins
Dark sky
Sweet mouth
Open wide
Different
Than before
Changed
Somehow

I’ve not
Known
A darkness
Such as this

Demon kiss
Ghoulish bliss
The dimming
Dynamic
Where light
Has been
Contrasts
A monstrous
Love
Consuming
Bath of us

Delivery

In the delivery room
Eyes gleam in disbelief
To think that miracle could be
Sitting there right next to me

If I knew then
What I know now
I would hold your hand
Again somehow
I would pass the energy
That slipped away from me
Into your palms

Duo

Spirit strokes me
With synchronicity
Dare I say it out loud
For fear of losing touch
Of what I have no control
Of anyhow

Superstitiously
Symbolically construed
If my soul was crying
I would only hear it echoing
With laughter

Meet you after
The duplicity
Resounds

My Mum

Aggrandize the case scenario
What’s the point in having
A baby if you don’t want to
Love it after it grows up?
Sweep it under the rug
They say no one will know
The process of grieving
Coexisting walking along side you
Several states between us
I counted at least three
How many miles can I see?
Eighteen thousand and eight
Twenty six hours I-84 E to I-80 E
The absence of it is the same
As living with it being even
Equal to the desolate drudging
Saved up for the living nobody’s home
A phone call away yet
How would you know if you
Never sent a card never
Wrote a line never called to find
Out if l’m dead or if I’m alive
You couldn’t know
Could be afraid to find out so
You’d find out later like
A phone call from a coroner
Or a stranger dialing in
Somehow I suppose they’ll
Figure your location but I’m not sure
The approach
You are so independent
So self sufficient
I saved your number in
My phone as mom just in case
Make it easy to designate
Who to call if they found me
On the floor, who it is that you are?
Now that I am out of the nest
Many years have passed
Living my life and all the rest
You did your cuckoo’s best
Sending me along now I’m free to fly
Who cares where or why sing the song
The actions of how much you care
Seem to hang vacantly as we stare
Without your daily presence
No anger on my part
Filling forgiveness
Up from the heart
The only constant is
To know that you will go
You will disappear again
It’s difficult to be a mum I’m sure
Or even a friend I’ve heard in the end
You’ve done as good as you could
Although I wish you
To be what you would for a lot more
Thank you for your attendance
When you have had it to give
No reason to hold it against you
You gave me a life to live
Though I’m not sure you’d feel it
My life that is if I lost it
Even if I did

Sleep

More sleep the better to keep
A bear at bay in the cove
Midnight strolls along the cost
Feels good to know that there’s
A getaway a hiding out
A hibernation of sorts at least
Once a week more sleep
More sleep the better to keep
My wits about me like the
Bear at the beach with
Water to keep me grounded
O! The sound of an ocean
Curled up at the bottoms
Of my ears a tunnel an echo
Of hope to feel rested
A deep convalescence along
A sandy floor below the tide
To keep my slumber sweet
Before the shore fills up with
More to do a step away into
A grand span of restful wings
Thoughtful dreams subconsciously
A seagull sings to me my mew
Comfort in the song a chuckling
Display of careless blue
Freedom to the sky cannot deny
Liberty in waking moments
More to enjoy them like the
Birds and the bears when we
Sleep more sleep the better to keep
Our hearts in happy places
The brain is surely waisted
And says Hey! Thanks for nothing!
If we dare to care for less than
Fifty winks which beats the forty
You’ll see to cozy up a touch
Longer than a nap just after lunch
Cinquante clins d’œil
Is just the snap it takes
Aback appreciation to enjoy
All the dozing we should keep
Nothing does the trick like bears
To get some sleep

Old Friend

Wouldn’t it be easier to
Let me go than to randomly
Like posts that are
A million years old?
I don’t want this to be
Like jumping beans
In my head
Get out of my head
Should we
Smoke the peace pipe?
Is there anything we
Missed along the way?
Do we need to return
Anyway?
Should I proceed with caution
Yellow light traffic up ahead
Any kind of commotion
Is better instead of the
Memories I have of our
Last encounter
A lot of back and forth
About your being right
And me being stupid
(Too needy also that night)
Whatever you didn’t want
To deal with at the time
I try not to forget
Because forgetting is like
A quick shot into the
Mainline of pain
I’m almost there
I wish the friendship
Had a little something
More to behold
I mean…
Wouldn’t it be easier to
Let me go than to randomly
Like posts that are
A million years old?

Uplift It

Your enthusiasm is electric
Did somebody turn off my light
Change the perspective
Or am I really just
Boring as fuck
Did I pull the wool
Over my own eyes
Rug out from under my own feet
Peek through the blinders
No use for me even to cry out
If I thought that I got it
Then I brought what I wanted
If I show how I brought it
In the footsteps I’m walkin
Am I throwin up red flags
If I see that the way that
It plays out is the same as the day
That I caught up
With the way that I brought it
Did I turn all the lights out
Is the switch that I lost
On the wall where I left it
Then why not just expect it
Turn it back on don’t just forget it
Score it out lighten up so I won’t
Catch a network of feelings
I’ll find hard to neglect that
Turn the light on respect that
See the mess and say yes to the
Cease and desist in the distance
No need coexisting
Perfect pictures created
With no time being wasted
As myself I have faced it
And the look in my eyes
In the mirror I’m reflecting
Will begin to uplift it