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Timbo Jan 22, 2011

Close To Me

When I awake from my dreams
on each new day morn
I turn and find you near to me
your body soft and warm.
I take you in my loving arms
and hold you close to me
for I can only face the day
knowing your love for me.

As I go about my days
life’s pressures all around
my thoughts drift back to you
and the love that we have found
I think of when you’re close to me
and all those things you do
till I just want the time to come
when I’m back home with you.

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Esker Jan 22, 2011

TEMPO

glide
like wings slipping through the rash
of air
the Love burned that nobody cares

saturate
the darkness spreading
like a dull cry
all glade awake
beneath torrid straights

this love
torn
the card in tatters

I am
debris trails
I am the fragment
tales

I Love you
as the walls come
down
and the wind
is slaking
its need
upon the raw
and harried
soul of my advance

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docmaverick Jan 21, 2011

Mr. Gizmo

There's this being that moves, staccato;
moves so swift, he has no shadow,
his demeanor has no, "check"...

..with his senses always reelin';
knock you down, with no hard feelin's;
Mr. Gizmo's had a wreck!

No rhyme, or reason for each antic,
he'll leave your "fung-shue~", something frantic...
..make your heart go, "golly, heck"!

A hurricane's about to happen,
soon your patience will be snappin';
Mr. Gizmo's had a wreck!

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lou Jan 21, 2011

I Crave the Darkness

I crave the darkness
It matches my mood.
These days all is solitude.

I devour the murky shadows,
I feel safe there,
I can hide and no one knows.

I examine the world beneath my shroud
bleakness is where I lay my self down,
Night time is my lover

Life is close enough to watch
But not so near I can touch.
Nobody can hurt me

Maybe someone will teach me how
To climb out of this mire.
Until then I'll stay undercover

S
scribbler Jan 21, 2011

A TASTE OF SALT

Some people don't have much to do
and I'm about to prove that's true
in this tale about a learned buddy
a statistician named McGillicuddy.

Not long ago he got to thinkin'
'bout dinosaurs and all their drinkin'.
To be sure that his facts weren't wrong
he called Asian paleontologist, Fong .

How long did dinosaurs hold sway ?
How much water did they drink each day ?
and during their long domination
what was their average population ?

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lou Jan 21, 2011

You

Your verbal blows
beat me about the head
Nerve endings close to the surface
Pain engulfs me.

Eyes bore into me
I feel you know just what will hurt me,
And you pluck every string 
And play every note 

With the precision of a surgeon 
You cut my heart right out 
Of my chest, 
and bring me to my knees.

I'm left vulnerable and bleeding
Amongst the remnants of our
Love

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lou Jan 21, 2011

I Hate

I hate therefore I am
I seethe with pure emotion
And bile.

Enemy at the gate
Don't set foot on my territory,
You'll regret it.

I have a huge capacity for love
But please don't rip me apart
And fake it,

If you really love me then 
Then there is no fear.
Do't let someone else trespass, on our love

If you cheat you won't recover, 
My wrath will be unleashed,
For a woman in pain can't be tamed.   
  

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infinite_dwarf Jan 21, 2011

Android ( a co-write with Hooded Stranger)

Android

I touch fire, but don't feel the burn
I witness love, but don't feel the yearn
I have 20/20vision, but still cannot see
I'm trying to be human, but never will never be

I am a robot in a human suit
I exist but frozen in permanent re-boot

Is this what it feels like being detached?
Alienated and separated from existence
Am I so indifferent to be excluded?
When all I ask is to be included

A
ArrowWords Jan 21, 2011

Elegy for a Chance Encounter

Who will speak his fond farewell
By those who knew him as I did
From a brief and chance encounter?
While others in attendant rows
He so better known to them,
Speak the first of last and lasting
Memories built from closer, longer,
While my quiet unsaid murmur
Calls to all anonymous others,
Whom this man, this George
Briefly zested with his life,
By his relished erudite flourish
They answer now unheard, unseen
For all our non-eulogized encounters,
For the more than ephemeral effects

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loved Jan 21, 2011

An Endless Night!

An Endless Night
How long will that night be?
Can you say?
Kailashna Jee
A night remains young
For a few moments,
Then we all do sleep
Can the whole night
Keep us awake
Without making a mistake!
Except honeymooners two
I think we have passed that age
Both I and you

Still one never knows
When the sun does rise
In the arms of a fresh bride
A living son
In her womb does her arise.