michaelfirewalker

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Into Gone

Posted Mar 27, 2010 · 46 lines · 7 critiques

can’t find you now
not here where acid tears
sheer corrupted winds that rip
apart the tender raw
slices of this precious madness

I will shred those pretty paths
you must walk so dignified
muscled calves rock hard above
four inch carmine heels

how beautifully you etch
your sugar love
into the perfect Viking cross
carved across my broken skin

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till all my rabid sin
screams your loss

till I can clearly see
inside your delicate jail
teeth clenched
chained to this old cold bench

till I can count the full
cost of souls on ice
and measure all
the crimson spice
falling
from our stillborn cries

till I feel our shared
desperation cling
to the highly polished steel
soldered deep inside our minds
where my molten thirst
pulls out to ride
your wild bucking tide

till all our naked dawns
burn and rise
you slip into your red disguise
and break the pink flamingo necks
of hurricanes no longer
held at bay

for we know the names
of all the walking dead
those like us that bled
then tried to die
but instead were forced
to barely stay alive

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Received a critique
on Into Gone from @whitetea
"double commented, can only edit, can't delete :("
30 Tue

Received a critique
on Into Gone from @whitetea
"You are very gifted at being able to name your sexuality and the pursuits and reactions and passing thoughts that are contained by that! You are able to express the subtleties that are the triggers and crescendos that s…"
30 Tue

Received a critique
on Into Gone from @panaella
"Hello, Gosh!....loved this and it's getting my vote...loved the extended images...the reds.. slightly erotic and raw and it flowed as well... Ells x"
27 Sat

Posted a poem
Into Gone
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Open thread 46 lines
27 Sat

Critiqued
"WHITE COLLARED" by @ziggy
"aaahhhhh...the dubious joys of organized religion...the endless reversity of human indecision...when will we ever learn...will we really burn...and why the hell do we continue to yearn...very strong poem...enjoyed... mi…"
27 Sat

Critiqued
"Not Quite Tamed" by @panaella
"I like the use of "not quite"...lots of powerful undercurrents swirling between the lines...much said that is not said...encourages a bit of contemplation of how clearly we see others and present ourselves... michael"
27 Sat

Critiqued
"Forest Quest" by @Clem
"the poem walks sure, safe inside its own mind, at intimate peace with its creator... it left me with the reassurance that Earth still reaches to hold us all, and will comfort us, if we but allow... thanks, michael"
09 Tue

Received a critique
on Buck High from @whitetea
"You are able to paint the most vital and unspoken details of sensuality, no secrets in this. Very, very good write."
09 Tue

Received a critique
on Stormin' SM from @Kailashana
"Not exactly. Not when I read inscrutable and have *those* kind of thoughts. Lol. Love ya, ~A "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." ~ Paul Valery"
09 Tue

Received a critique
on Buck High from @Kailashana
"Hmmm. Good question, Raskin. White lightning, however, has a different connotation which doesn't, imo, work with the flavour of the poem. What you think Mikey? ~A "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." ~ Paul Valery"
09 Tue

Received a critique
on Buck High from @raskin
"Third stanza, would it be lightening being tatted versus thunder? Thunder is a sound, lightening moves cloud to cloud. Tatting is making lace, old fashioned. raskin"
09 Tue

Critiqued
"untitled" by @whitetea
"you don't mess around... questions: will he won't he can he take it down? or will a holy man avoid the gritty real if he can? is he afraid to feel? and will he even try to leap the Void, and dip his perfect hands into t…"
09 Tue

Received a critique
on Buck High from @Kailashana
"Niiiiiiiiiiice. I especially like the last stanza. How can one walk into the world angry and afraid? ~A "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." ~ Paul Valery"
09 Tue

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Buck High
"BUCK HIGH"
Open thread 30 lines
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Stormin' SM
"so you rode those bad winds"
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"RISE AND SHINE"
Open thread 21 lines
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Done
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Open thread 16 lines
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Critiqued
""Whipped"" by @whitetea
"love a good whip, myself...no games here in this one...love that too...straight shot, side pocket, no prisoners...hot, deep truth spelled red... mikey"
17 Wed

Critiqued
"in and out of the dark, Bukowski sees on a clear day" by @Kailashana
"you walk the high wire well balance bar held blind in burned palms delightfully uncertain whether you fell off or left serious alms in the arms of a runaway star mikey"
17 Wed

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on "in and out of the dark, Bukowski sees on a clear day" by @Kailashana
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"BEACH RUN IN AQUAMARINE"
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"LOON"
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"rising green and wild blown"
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"Forest Quest" by @Clem

on Buck High from @whitetea

on Stormin' SM from @Kailashana

on Buck High from @Kailashana

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"untitled" by @whitetea

on Buck High from @Kailashana

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"in and out of the dark, Bukowski sees on a clear day" by @Kailashana

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