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The Struggle

Why do we struggle to be who we are?Our true face to show, I see you and you see meBeneath the mask, filtered for your acceptanceLies the truth upon which I base all my liesYou are you and I am IWhy do I struggle to be who I am?Is it some traumatic even from myContinue reading “The Struggle”

Quite Absurd

It seems quite absurd the rain falling downInstead of needing the sun to be outInspiring rainbows to come aroundInsisting that the colors come aboutTaming lions and bearsTaking ruby colored shoesThe sun will come out sharesTuscan red headed orphan bluesAim for the sky and you’ll hit the starsAsk the questions why and you’ll answer them allAnotherContinue reading “Quite Absurd”

How It Ends

This is how it ends, nothing like how it beganTime has turned the page, The sage left with nothing to sayI walk away, crossing a borderAn artificial line across a very real divideNever to turn back and see your eyes looking my wayIt began rough but smooth seas calmed our wavesBlessed with bounteous apathyWe lookedContinue reading “How It Ends”

Hunting Sinners

The evening quiet as a mouse praying in a churchI slip into the night The wings of the bat its latest meal in searchWhisper to me dark tidingsMy heart will jump and give a lurchAs we hunt sinners this evening This is a poem from a prompt from dVerse: “Today we are finding different waysContinue reading “Hunting Sinners”

The Place We Have Come To

So we have arrivedA estas alturasAnd have come of ageA estas alturasAt this place and timeA estas alturasTo this single spaceWas it by His hand?¿Divina providencia?Or perhaps fate?No. Divina providencia.That guided us to this land;God’s country.Divina providencia. How was I to know?Un inocenteShe shouldn’t have been thereUn inocenteIt’s not my fault I swearUn inocenteShe’ll getContinue reading “The Place We Have Come To”

Pope Goes the Weasel – A Trumped Up Views story

Pope Goes the Weasel is another story in the Trumped Up View series that takes a look at an alternate reality that closely mirrors our own. This mini fiction is about a pair of men who discuss if the President would make a good pope. Adult language. Safe For Work (SFW). Read all the TrumpedContinue reading “Pope Goes the Weasel – A Trumped Up Views story”

ORGASMS

OrgasmsHot, fiery explosions of pent up EnergyLet loose in one single momentMaybe drawn outMaybe noBut that single sparkThat instantWhen everything is ReleasedThat!I want that.But not just a physical orgasmNoI want to a release of the mindAn intellectual orgasmBlow my mind, let it leakDripping off my tongue with articulated interpretationPrecipitous sentiments of cerebral provocation My mindContinue reading “ORGASMS”

Crushed Seduction (Alliterisen)

Two threats, open love letterWet my whistle the story’s steamyClear cut quaint question asked“Who will be my last love?” you ask.I answer in artAs is my way with meaningIt is I you yearn to loveDon’t dream about me at nightIn wondrous fits of flightDon’t you undress me in dreamsRipping apart satin seamsLooking to loose myContinue reading “Crushed Seduction (Alliterisen)”