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Remember to Float

by BT

Remember to Float

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

Forlorn

by BT

Bring me someone new fast

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...

Monday 26th March 2012 12:13 am

Tags: experimental,found word,free verse,free form

Chrysalis

by BT

Chrysalis
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...

Wednesday 21st March 2012 5:56 pm

Tags: experimental,found word,word experiment,free verse,free form

Postcard Perfect

by BT

Post Card Perfect

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

Just so You Know

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...

Wednesday 7th March 2012 8:35 am

Tags: free verse,poetry,experimental,free form,journal

It Rhymes

by BT

Girls are like tiny diamonds,
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...

Thursday 1st March 2012 5:12 am

Tags: snippet,free form,experimental

Underwater Creature

by BT

I am an underwater creature
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...

Thursday 23rd February 2012 6:13 am

Tags: experimental,poetry,contemporary,free verse,free form

Candy Apple Love

by BT

I loved you once.

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...

Thursday 23rd February 2012 5:50 am

Tags: free form,word experiment,experimental,free verse,found word

Joan of Arc

by BT

(part 1)

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...

Thursday 23rd February 2012 2:44 am

Tags: free form,contemporary,experimental,poetry,free verse,found word

Sugar Revolution

by BT

Be my sugar

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...

Monday 20th February 2012 7:38 am

Tags: contemporary,poetry,word association,free verse,free form,poetry,experimental

Some Times I Change My Mind

by BT

Sometimes I change my mind,

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

Broken Crystals

by BT

Crystals cover the ground

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...

Sunday 19th February 2012 8:42 pm

Tags: contemporary,poetry,found word,nonsense,experimental,free form

Vapor

by BT

Stand back
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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