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Fireflies in Glass Jars
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Thursday 30th August 2012 6:26 am
Tags: confessional poetry,free verse,free form
Remember to Float
by BT
They asked me why I do not fly,
I told them it’s not that I don’t know how too,
I just need to be closer to the earth right now.
They asked me why I do not close my eyes
I told them it’s because I see so much better when they are open
They asked me how I move so quickly
I tell them that I am pure electricity
It’s important t...
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Wednesday 2nd May 2012 10:47 pm
Tags: experimental,free verse,found word,free form
Spirit Animal
by BT
Pooling your heat
You are hot wires running through me
Electric as you cover
Your thin bodies wrapping themselves tightly
racing like wind to a wildfire
You are covering me in flame
Dangerous animals are fleeing these woods
as you turn figure eights
creating paths of orange and red
trails of yellow to black to ash
Heat escapes me as my temp...
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Thursday 12th April 2012 3:19 am
Tags: free verse,free form,word experiment,found word,contemporary
Forlorn
by BT
No wait,
Bring me someone who is fast
and maybe together we can fall
through these sleepless nights
like stars that burn out,
we will slip awkward, as we dip
fluttering like ash
we will darken the summer sky
filling it with heavy grays and whites
We will become a flash of tumbling embers,
just built to spill
Ready to turn the desert to glass
Only to s...
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Monday 26th March 2012 12:13 am
Tags: experimental,found word,free verse,free form
Chrysalis
by BT
Water
Throat
Heart
Root
I am surprised to hear my voice
so bold and sure of it’s self
as if it weren’t my own
and for a second there
I have to wonder.
I listen again,
There is a distant sound
of harmony and balance,
they are bleeding together
the masculine with the feminine
It is a song
A chant
It is spilling out over my lips
But I do not si...
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Wednesday 21st March 2012 5:56 pm
Tags: experimental,found word,word experiment,free verse,free form
Krilian Photography
by BT
I've seen it
In fact it’s scientific
It’s realistic
It’s true
each time you rip a leaf in half it hurts
It leaves an outline
It’s electromagnetic field still glows
It’s forever connected
An aura brightly burning
completing it's path...
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Friday 16th March 2012 6:04 am
Tags: scribble,free verse,free form
Vertigo # 2
by BT
With each panic attack,
I disassemble,
I break apart,
like glass slivers,
I am falling all around
There is a crowded bus ride ahead,
an elevator door closing behind,
5 o’clock traffic and all it’s stillness
waiting
The train with it’s voice letting me know that once again,
“the doors are now closing”
I find you there, every time,
Standi...
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Wednesday 14th March 2012 9:57 pm
Tags: free verse,free form,expermental,poetry
Vertigo #1
by BT
I find myself gasping for breathe
dizzy and pushing at nothing
as hard as I can
Each day
I am breathing deeply
anxiety attack
after anxiety attack
I have let you take over my days and nights for far too long
My past has once again backed me into a corner
I&...
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Wednesday 14th March 2012 6:11 pm
Tags: free verse,free form,poetry
Don't Forget
by BT
Eat
Coffee,
drink it quickly,
before it’s 8:30am
and it’s to late
Qi Gong till it’s time for more medication
Qi Gong is your medication
Medication makes you come down
Take it at 10am
Take before you go up
Before you notice you’re awake
Noon
Don’t forget your medication
Take it on an empty stomach,
That means at least four hours since...
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Friday 9th March 2012 9:10 pm
Tags: free verse,free form,free
These Days
by BT
I can’t even help it
It’s happening without trying
There seems no room for darkness
My feet are extending
white roots
are growing ever
d
o
w
n
w
a
r
d
like a pair of tubers in rich soil
The universe is funneling itself through me
There is black hole forming above my head
So I am opening up and giving back my turbu...
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Thursday 8th March 2012 10:58 pm
Tags: free form,poetry,free verse,contemporary
Fire
by BT
A burning bed ignites me
I sleep
so you can dream,
awake
inside of me
I sleep so we can speak
I do not try when I’m awake
What would I say?
I’m sorry?
I’m on fire
In my sleep
with you
wrapped up inside of me
The wishing tree waits
So I wish,
and when I wish
I wish thoroughly.
For I’m on fire
And I am going to take advan...
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Wednesday 7th March 2012 11:14 pm
Tags: poerty,word play,rhyming,free verse,found word
Postcard Perfect
by BT
It was New Years Eve
when you dipped me.
You leaned in for a kiss.
I should have known then that eventually you'd drop me.
And
the snow fell all around
a sailor and a nurse.
After the war had ended,
she stopped bandaging his wounds,
he bellied up to a bar
&
the photographed just faded away.
Every night when the street lights come on,
the snow fal...
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Wednesday 7th March 2012 8:50 am
Tags: experimental,free form,free verse,poetry
Green Grass
by BT
The day you left,
it rained for three fucking days
and man,
you still wouldn't wash away.
So I prayed out loud to the girls
with more grass
than that green grass
that we used to make love in.
I waited there sea sick,
in sea of emerald green
swaying back and forth
all around me.
Just then, the air pick...
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Wednesday 7th March 2012 8:35 am
Tags: free verse,poetry,experimental,free form,journal
It Rhymes
by BT
as they slip through your hand
Boys are like plasma
dripping back to the sea
Like metal they rust
You can smell them both erode
They tell me it’s the salt in the water
that makes them both corrode...
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Thursday 1st March 2012 5:12 am
Tags: snippet,free form,experimental
Meridian Lines
by BT
I have been opening the meridian lines
Gathering knowledge
Stretching the lines of communication like the marks on my hips
Gaining greater understanding,
of who the hell I may actually be
I am collecting all the pieces of myself
Bits from here and there
I am putting them back together again
with tiny much needed kisses...
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 8:48 pm
Tags: poetry,contemporary,free verse,free form
Underwater Creature
by BT
much faster than yourself
I am smoothed out
by the waves
your words a thousand dull lead sinkers around my neck
I can not hear you here
Here, I belong to no one,
not even myself
In fact, I do not exist
There is tranquility in nothingness,
no need for oxygen
or cigarettes
Clear
I disappear
amogst the school of fish
and soft rock
I make my...
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 6:13 am
Tags: experimental,poetry,contemporary,free verse,free form
Candy Apple Love
by BT
Really, I did.
It was a sweet candied apple, kind of love
a legs wide open, love
a love that knew each and every one of my secrets.
Love?
Do you remember the night
that I wrote testaments across your body?
You a moonlite canvas pale as washed wool.
I dreamt mad Van Gogh blue skies,
wrapped up with you,
my love,
We...
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 5:50 am
Tags: free form,word experiment,experimental,free verse,found word
Joan of Arc
by BT
Loud, brash, sweet thing
Bring me some water to wet my whistle
For you
Love only lasts ten minutes at a time
Only this time
The time is mine
So go on over
Lay it down
Cause all your cards ain't showin
And my hands are full
I'll drop this heavy load
When words spill soft and free
Meaning what they s...
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 2:44 am
Tags: free form,contemporary,experimental,poetry,free verse,found word
Questions I Never Asked
by BT
I am hidden
I watch my father lay in the stillness
Eyes open,
he is somewhere farther away than I have ever been
He is fixed upon the tree limbs
against the grey sky
and I am fixed upon his expression
and all those secrects that he does not tell
I watch quiety,
trying desperatly to un...
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 11:15 pm
Tags: free verse,contemporary,poerty,free form
Sugar Revolution
by BT
My revolution
Bring me fruit in the dead of winter
as tears roll from your face.
Be sweet rebellion on hot summer nights.
Burn messeges onto thick leaves
and press them hard against my bedroom window.
Stand naked under the naked moon
Be raw
Be real
Speak true
If you speak a...
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:38 am
Tags: contemporary,poetry,word association,free verse,free form,poetry,experimental
She Knows
by BT
The money comes from sex
The sex is last nights million dollar needle
Baby's bruised arm can't bend to stop the nose bleeds
Or fix the drippy faucet
Or fix
Or fix enough
to fix the holes in the walls
Or stop this broken shopping cart ride home....
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:35 am
Tags: free verse,poetry,free form,contemporary
Falling Colors
by BT
with whole body
covered in wet white chalk
stinging the canvas with her strokes
as she bends in this hot light
On knees
you swish color up
lighting the room
song orange
in soft swift movements
canary yellow floats freely and deep red
is c...
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:32 am
Tags: contemporary,free verse,poetry,free form
Immortality
by BT
plastic milk jugs, cockroaches,
toxic waste, photo chemicals,
silicon implants, rayon shirts,
carbon, light pollution,
true love...
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:30 am
Tags: free verse,poetry,contemporary,free form,list,word association
Some Times I Change My Mind
by BT
but mostly just the direction.
I think I’ll run into the woods, the next time I’m menstruating
and devour some wolves.
Or throw cotton balls at the Willamette river,
just to see how truly absorbent they are.
I’ll make a contest of it,
like the ol' school one's of...
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:28 am
Tags: free verse,experimental,word association,free form,contemporary
Your Aquiantance
by BT
drive by boys
with their last forever kisses
that say...........
'' every little things gonna be alright"
I sit fat,
ripening
Movement growing steadily within me
I
can no longer stand the quickening
building in my body
My belly swollen
My t...
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Monday 20th February 2012 7:25 am
Tags: poetry,free verse,contemporary,free form
Broken Crystals
by BT
They sky is covered in clouds
They say that white is the color of absence
Just like the caterpillars in the spring,
eating all the pretty leaves,
you in a swift second
blow in
stealing all the color from the sky.
Gorging yourself on all the glorious blues and golden yellows
Pink, no where...
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Sunday 19th February 2012 8:42 pm
Tags: contemporary,poetry,found word,nonsense,experimental,free form
Super Hero
by BT
I wait till your asleep,
fully asleep,
I check.
It is then that my research begins.
Late at night with a pair of head phones and a flickering TV
...... I've come to some conclusions.
Developing super pow...
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Sunday 19th February 2012 4:11 pm
Tags: contemporary,free form,free verse,poetry
A Ribbon Cut As Red As my Heart
by BT
Now,
old memories hang as heavy as these winter clouds,
Again,
I am consumed by thoughts of you.
Familiar smells,
bring visions of your apocalyptic smile.
And I remember why I left.
My bones feel that familiar ache
as does my heart.
Call me Phinnius, your trusted friend
and push m...
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Saturday 18th February 2012 3:45 am
Tags: free form,contemporary,free verse,poetry
Vapor
by BT
and let me rise.
Or each glance I throw
will burn through you
like grapefruit acid
spit in both eyes.
I can no longer take the heat,
I am dissipating like the clouds that form each morning
above the Willamette River.
Each morning they are torn apart
and left to there own foolishness.
Soon I too will be an apparition
and you will be pawing at the early...
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Saturday 18th February 2012 3:39 am
Tags: experimental,free verse,word association,free form,contemporary
Fireflies in Glass Jars
by BT
I wonder about you sometimes,
So…. I have to keep my distance
I don’t always return the phone calls
Or get in touch the way I use to
You see,
Just like fucking strange men
Or sleeping in abandon cars
You my friend,
are not good for me.
You bring me back to who I used to be
An almost extinguished lighter flame glowing inside of me
snuffed...
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Friday 17th February 2012 7:34 pm
Tags: free form,poetry
Clemency
by BT
http://drivenbythemoon.blogspot.com/2012/02/word-experiment-3-clemency.html
Love,
I wish for you to grow amongst the lunar tides
and factory girls
girls with words of spit fire,
Amongst things that brui...
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Monday 13th February 2012 6:29 am
Tags: poetry,word association,writing game
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