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Roscoe Lane Jul 16, 2015

Omissions...

Omissions….

Emissions are low,
but still the city dies,
politicians know
they hide behind a
compromise.

Students become hookers
to pay for education,
all the good lookers
are supping medication.

We the silent few,
aghast at what we see,
rarely state our view,
is it next for you or me.

Where does our cowardice
begin, could it stem from
feelings of little worth.
Or does it grow within,
a father's sperm, a mother's
womb before our birth.

Malice2112 Jul 16, 2015

Celestasy

Let us gather in the midnight hour
In romance and illusions highest tower
To lose ourselves to dark intentions
Free from petty worldly interventions

Travel out past where the stars glow red and blue
To the edge of the universe with just me and you
And in awe and majesty well dance and our hands will clasp
Well make our own celestial body if we're still in our grasp

Esker Jul 15, 2015

D-zine065

a scoundrel river
ripples its scales
with shipes in shapes
plying its swerve
the serpent fire
like diamonds
and pearls
with funnels
and whistles
steaming their swirls

Beneath the leather
polished shoes
the bones of iron
tremble
Lorrys and motorcars
in the lonely torment
gush past in slipstream
rush
and the gulls cry
like pans call
drifts against
the lull of the
pure ragged clouds

Lonnie Jul 15, 2015

Epilogue

Dire uncertainty gnaws at my spleen
like congressmen at a buffet
hinting at things that are vaguely obscene
and likely to not go away

a media frenzy is blocking the hall
as lobbyists kick down the door
waiting to see the next scape goat to fall
when president O takes the floor

weirdelf Jul 13, 2015

What Matters

One person doesn't matter,
only family does.
Family doesn't matter,
only country does.
Country is a power concept,
a lie,
and really doesn't matter a pinch of shit.
Only our species does.
But we are fucking up,
so only the planet matters.

And luckily,
there are lots more planets,
in lots more galaxies,
possibly in lots more universes.

So everything and nothing matters, Goldilocks.

scribbler Jul 12, 2015

DIMINISHING

Attention drifts from what is said
and eyes go to the morning sky
or maybe toward these hills instead.
Why is it I cannot cry?

A small crowd come together here
mostly of further reduced family
or older folks who were held dear
gathered at the cusp of eternity.

I've been to these too oft before
beside deep holes or in high places
each time aching in my soul
bidding farewell to cold mortal traces.

lovedly Jul 12, 2015

'''I could have danced all night''''

You help recall
Some one
who still lives in my heart
entered through a keyhole in my eye
as she did smile
and
her soft voice is of memory
just a wee part

I always smile
she left us all
seemingly for a while
but within my heart
left an indelible smile...

'''I could have danced all night''''

Still I hear
from the one
who was to most very dear

Esker Jul 10, 2015

GUSHER

knead me
thread me with ur fingers
I am the eye of your attention
and the thread of your thoughts
and passion
The moon basks through
the blinds
coating us in its tiger stripes

U want to be soothed in massage
rough handed measure
bruises pulling
shoving and squeezing

China Blue Jul 10, 2015

From The Mist(Horror Story Workshop)

From The Mist

Ancient forests grew thick and tall
upon this forest a strange mist would fall
enshrouding all in a shimmering light
casting an eerie glow ,throughout the night

A creature emerges from the mist
with eyes ablaze as he spat and hissed
talons on the end of each sinewy hand
here the beast took it’s final stand

The rotten stench,of burning flesh
is interwoven in the mesh
of this ageless ones being
known by all,yet never seen

lovedly Jul 10, 2015

Dare bare her ....she says

Bare her she says

If only you added a smile
she shows her swollen eyes

you'd love to live bare
in beauty and style

others would longingly
at your body stare
and
or
but
of it be aware

this damned world
doesn't care
they lay you in their lair
thread bare

be aware
don't guys dare.....
they afterwards what happens
really don't care!

But don't get scared....