I dream of Veronica & her
spindly legs, soaking hair.
So many thoughts to put in prose
but poetry
makes the body so vulnerable,
opening itself in a showcase window,
crying: "Look at me!
Take me, but please, I beg,
don't make it hurt."
Your fingers are like
water spiders,
floating with the grace
humans
are too heavy to own.
My own tongue is not nearly as
quick
as your fast-witted eloquence
& elegance.
You laugh at me
when I tell you
you're beautiful,
but how else am I supposed
to infer to you
the awe
the bistre of your eyes
inflicts on me?
Brown may be
an ordinary color
but your eyes are
luminescent, irridescent,
These Five Were For You. by nonamepsalmist, literature
Literature
These Five Were For You.
These five were for you. Two sets
of parallel lines, three this way, two that.
I separated them on a blank, hairless mass
that was the middle of my left thigh.
I separated them from the rest, the other
fifty-nine (and yes, I counted them) because
they are different. The others are mine.
They are broken-flesh tally marks keeping track of every
shortcoming. But they are my shortcomings.
Mother, I think you are under the impression
that words come easily for me.
They don't. Every poem is still a struggle; every conversion
from thought to word is like the algebra problems that I
was never too successful at solving, like the b
Play me 'til I'm bent and broken
Whisper me the words you left unspoken
Sing me the songs you play for yourself
The ones so private, left on the shelf
I'll be your guitar, your creative escape
While your hands bleed on the melody you rape
Play me 'til I break,
Leave me lying in your wake.
We both know you're telling me things
You
Really
Shouldn't
Say.
Current Residence: UK Favourite genre of music: Anything I like. Operating System: Vista MP3 player of choice: Ipod Personal Quote: If you can't do it, just don't do it.
Decided to give my page a revamp since I've left it sitting here for a while with nothing going on. I'll occasionally post up a few new things and thank anyone for their comments and/or favourites. Feedback is always appreciated. Mostly thanks to those who have stuck around watching my work and commenting while I've been absent :)
Cheers x
Hey everyone! Happy new year and I guess happy christma too since I never posted that either :X
Not much else to say except I hope everyone has a good 2007 and that hopefully I might be posted up someone new work!
p.s is this message is still here with no new work in a few months at least I know I started off the year with the best intentions
x
I've decided to do this to try and lure my out of my hermit like non DA existence. hopefully I'll get some good pics out of it :D
-100 THEME CHALLENGE-
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Rot
6. Break
7. Heaven
8. Away
9. Cut
10. Breathe
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Spit
17. Blood
18. Under
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. War
22. Mother
23. Distastefull
24. Want
25. Lurking
26. Europe
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Urban
30. Rain
31. Flower
32. Night
33. Wrath http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40062733/
34. Moon
35. Walk
36. Precious
37. See
38. Abandonedhttp://www.de
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