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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:14 PM:

The scope, the sheer size and complexity, the utter dynamic of nature and a life. It's too much to take in. It's too much to hold in one's head or give due in one's heart. The spirit cannot handle the magnitude of its own life.

Haiku. That's the answer. Life in small doses. Life in manageable bites. Life, just pieces at a time.

That's what I love of haiku.

I'll put the pieces here …

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:16 PM:


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Crumpled brown photo
smudged partial memories, creased
Last time I loved you.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:18 PM:


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Tiny blood bottles
set in rows with messy corks.
Red sunlight captured.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:23 PM:


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The sound of one hand
brushing spirals down your back.
Musky-sweet love scents.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:30 PM:


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Choking a curved heart,
remnant loves of yestertimes.
Can't breath the shadows.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 7:37 PM:


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Recycled travails,
pains of the fathers repeat.
Pains of mothers too.

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  Happiness : Artist in Residence

Re: Just pieces ...

Happiness said Jan 16, 10:28 PM:


Welcome Naumaad!  What a beautiful statement about haiku!  You have captured something elusive and ineffable here… In this time of not only complexity, but also chaos on all sides of us, you capture what lies at the heart of haiku's appeal:

“Haiku. That's the answer. Life in small doses. Life in manageable bites. Life, just pieces at a time.”

This is so perfect, and it speaks to my soul in its essential simplicity.  So now I will shut up. :)

one thought at a time
this is all my mind can hold
clear nano-moments

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 4:44 PM:


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Woke from bawdy dreams,
splayed, delayed, crusty and frayed.
“Oh hell, not again !”

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:25 PM:


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Dude from the future,
just glanced my way, said “Wassup?”
Just stoppin' for gas.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:28 PM:


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Don't got no time, no.
Gotta keep movin, keep on.
Wind's a comin', wind.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:33 PM:


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Come a cruel, cruel blow,
'n darkness, fast gonna come.
Just me 'n the road.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:43 PM:


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Don't tell me nothin',
them whispers in the river.
I listen them plenty.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:44 PM:


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Git out da way, hey!
'taint no time, no time ta waste.
Runnin', runnin' straight.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:46 PM:


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S'pose I'll stop for now,
gotta messa hurt comin' on.
Messa hurt comin'. Yeah.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 5:53 PM:


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Cracklin' fire of dreams,
too much heat for monkey meat.
Time? Wash gone the flames!

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 18, 9:46 PM:


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Blue-hot steely clamp
Thor's fist wrapped around jelled meat
Can't think, can't think, can't …

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  Happiness : Artist in Residence

Re: Just pieces ...

Happiness said Jan 18, 11:57 PM:


Naumaad: These feel like songs on the wild road of life, and there's a Kerouac beat going on,and the lonely whistle of a midnight train. It is always astonishing to me how much character, mood, and magic can leap out of three tight lines, as happens so often in your poems. Woodie Guthrie, Muddy Waters, and kings of the road…all ghosts of memories of remembrances of things present and shooting by at the speed of light.  Songs from the wild road of life - perhaps a title for one of your collections?  HAPPINESS

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2:22 AM:

Great suggestions Happiness. Thinking about it, I'm a great admirer of Mark Twain and his use of dialect in his writing. It's the way my mother's people talk and I'm somewhat familiar with its rythms, flavors and colors. I have a rather “clean” midwestern accent but sometimes lapse into “country talk” - especially when on the phone with Mom. Also, as I mentioned to you elsewhere, I loved Cormac McCarthy's “The Road”, Stephen King's “The Stand” and “Cell” and those type of books for their post-apocalyptic imagery. For some reason, these stories inspire me. Cormac especially captures the utter despair and struggle of living a day at a time in a dark and menacing landscape where horizons seem to only make things worse. I love the dystopic genre and can easily imagine myself in the shoes of “The Road” 's narrator.

Anyways, I had all of that swimming around in my head when writing some of these and am likely to have it ooze out again.

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 1:17 AM:


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Used ta git up quick.
Now, I sink fast - git up slow.
Plain sucks ta git old.

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I'm sure where snow goes -
It's the rocks, stones; they steal it,
keep it for themselves.

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Starlight burns tired eyes,
dim harbingers of ill winds.
Can't see the beauty.

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Like a huge starved tick,
I gorge on scrumptious pages.
Books, my pale victims.

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In spellbound moongaze,
waking mole knocks at my shoe.
“Hey, get off my porch!”

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Devils have no horns
and angels have no haloes.
Just the opposite.

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Laying on of hands
to heal a forlorn hazel.
Returned the favor.

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Leaves in my basket
Maple's lost children to keep.
Too much lost as is.

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Tall broken cedar
must have sent a branch to knock.
Couldn't come himself.

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Blood rose petals,
skipping past tired, mute gravestones.
Play, then fly away.

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Built a museum
to house life's missing pieces.
“Closed For Maintenance.”

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Steamy espresso
dark chocolate, extra sweet.
Rapture in a cup!”

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Wounds the martial sun
those diffident like the moon.
Soft echoes of stars.

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Please - you're boring me
with your pretending to truth.
You're an open book.

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Lose all pretentions,
I'd rather see you naked.
Love sees through wrinkles.

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Love's shadow, tricked out
in cheap-frosted memories.
Go away. Please, go.

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It's the other way -
Angels want to corrupt us,
Devils offer light.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 1:54 AM:


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Devils in dem hills,
sleep 'til sunlight's shadow fills
'n day takes its pills.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2:07 AM:


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These shoes got voices;
scrip … scrip-plop … scrip … scrip-plop … scrip
Soul's done gone from one.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2:13 AM:


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Clouds stole the moonlight.
How 'ma gonna find my way?
Whispers. Rain whispers.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 20, 2:45 AM:


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Love's luminous cloud
fingered sparkles of bliss like -
puffed dandelions.


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Games intimated
in morning's stay-in-bed eyes.
Over here, you minx!


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Sun, not quite deceased,
puts face on maramalade fools,
then fades to cobalt.


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Unwelcome sunshine
barges into my nightmare.
Was jus' gettin' good.


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Cast-off blackberries;
first meager grub in three days.
My lucky number.


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Parting - searing words,
streak of mercy in her hair,
vanish in the rain.


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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 23, 7:56 PM:


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Rough rhymes discarded,
unpolished dreams left for ants.
Curiosities.

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Ants check my spelling
nightly, as fires turn to dreams -
An amusing kindness.

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Think carefully, ant -
this enticing tiled plain
is guarded by cats.

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Consumed in passions,
love's breath, your peaches revealed.
Line of ants applauds.

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Strolling in cold woods,
your harsh last words warming me.
Sympathetic ants.

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My love, oh, my love
just time and space between us -
unfleshed love within.

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Moon through the forest crowd,
winks at fairies, “Come flitter!”
Come keep me from dreams.

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Decompressed edges,
overfed terrors imagined -
relaxed to breed new coils.

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Times will not wink out.
Ends race like full eclipses -
a wall of shadow.

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Pole of relative
inaccessibility -
peace, farthest from you.

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A crowd of people -
puzzles withing dense puzzles,
Falling, pulling loose.

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It's worth cracking knees -
tired lovemaking's why I live.
What else could there be?

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You prey for escape,
but shallow habit is missed
when it's all you have.

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What you do not want
can seem austere next to dreams,
… but austere has place.

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Our depth of spirit
brings depth to godless heavens.
We “god” the old stars.

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Dream Earth. Sleep land, sleep.
Rest 'til season calls your name.
Sleep land - dream Earth dreams.

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Sins need confessing.
Only life presses report.
Waste no time on “gods.”

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It's lies that age you,
not sliding of days to nights.
Lies. Sharp, ripping lies.

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Your legs wrapped in love
are no small moral lessons.
Love the flesh. Flesh love.

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Can't we speak of it all?
What feeds the flesh? What burns away?
Why just half the tale?

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We impersonate.
We claim angels among us.
We are meat - that's all.

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Unencompassed life -
the spilling flesh and spirit,
evolved DNA.

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Taste for solitude,
I venture into strange thoughts.
Coiled spoils, far from you.

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Trouble planning days -
fogged minds can't read calendars.
' rather read my love.

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Chapters in her eyes,
her hands - complex metaphors.
Novels in her parts.

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The whole mess of her
scrapes me from remnant shadows,
feeds me wild nethers.

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Graces extracted,
what's left of the human meat?
Grace unexpected.

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Time fades from skies.
Skeletons called “memory”
cool in the night's breeze.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 24, 1:35 AM:



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Meat pretending grace,
puerile ministers, kneel, pray.
Grace cannot be forced.

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Smelling the storm build,
I brace for beasty mind winds.
Fool chance is unkind.

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Marionette threads
binding one life another -
masters play masters.

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Mossy solitudes -
stone poetry carved from dust,
have lives of their own.

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My love, facades stripped,
I am come - “La luna del
… cacciatore.”

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Memory's dead leaves -
Come stampede! Come to my blade!
Be slain, be nothing!

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Lost to Alice worlds,
making faces in water.
They make faces back.

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Burning chrysalis
an ember of thoughts unripe.
Words, lines tossed away.

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Saved some cherry leaves -
your favorite, so I'm told.
My love wrapped in red.

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Full moon hung too bright,
her presumptions sass my night
and chilled breath despoils.

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How quaint your favors.
Comes your jasmine's fairy breath,
comes Pan's fawny musk.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:37 AM:



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If I stop somewhere,
stuck mid-breath, wide-eyed and bronzed,
wipe the drool, will ya?

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:38 AM:



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Go straight a lifetime,
hang a sharp left at the end.
You'll see what's comin'.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:40 AM:


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Stooped in the mirror,
can't see himself anymore -
no upstart dimples.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:42 AM:


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It's an irony;
simple to find complex to
find simple again.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:43 AM:


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Didja buy it, true?
Ain't no one can own you, sure,
… do what drugs you like.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:44 AM:


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Took a toke o' day
'n smoked him toke fast away.
Now, night she comin', Hey!.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:45 AM:


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Another time reveals
and mind steals another rhyme
'til time left behind.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 12:46 AM:


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The weeping of boys
who ought be allowed to weep;
Earth could use the tears.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:39 PM:



__________

Tried scrying futures
in the shine of a bald head -
quick-buffed prophecies.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:42 PM:



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Graying fading mane,
precious only in madness,
you'd sell souls to keep.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:44 PM:



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I will adore you.
Disregard your self-disgust.
It's my head, not yours.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:45 PM:



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Barbarous coward!
You, who will not own your life,
sneer when I take mine.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:47 PM:



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Milky mist forest
frosty sinuous path melts
to dreams and whispers.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:48 PM:



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Traveler in time
strays from his vortex briefly
to wink and move on.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:48 PM:



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Seeming from nowhere,
raggedy man and his cart
wandering through time.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:50 PM:



__________

“Have ta go naked;
It hurts,” said the future droid.
Yeah, ain't it the truth.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:52 PM:



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Played-out tracks of dust,
too little meat, too much bone.
Wrinkles on my hand.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:53 PM:



__________

Got words on a page;
pinched out some few with bruises.
Can't stop the bleeding.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:54 PM:



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Hey, pig, what's the time?
Got the time, pig? Any time?
“Ain't no time, monkey.”

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:57 PM:



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Disgruntled angels,
spoilin' the monkey madness
with their own damned brand.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 4:59 PM:



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'dem hands got no folds;
been used too little, or jus'
ain't no hands at all.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:00 PM:



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Scratched in empty plates,
fingerprints of shadow meals,
sadly, … forgotten.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:02 PM:



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Ain't you learnt nothin' kid?
Life blows in, gives you a spin -
you bes' learn ta dance!

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:06 PM:



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'dis box ain't purty,
but you missin' da dam' point -
Ain't purty warms ya.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:07 PM:



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Chickens on holiday
jus' strollin' in for coffee.
“Three bucks, featherhead!”

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:09 PM:



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Keep blowing kisses.
Though love's gone, heart-blown kisses
… got somewhere ta go.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:11 PM:



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Young wad of tissue
leaps and cartwheels in chance winds;
Trash Nouveau Ballet.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 5:13 PM:



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Day may never come -
at least, may not come for some -
and shadow undone.

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