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deterioration

My mind racing behind a cloud of smoke.  The systematic deterioration of my life's work. yet most of the time I sit smiling, open minded to the possibility's, and to the actions that require an opposite and equal reaction to the options that lay dormant .  Nothing came to mind.  Rather id watch my own demise then be called to make a claim on another's life.  So back to my decomposition a composition I'm very familiar with. My aid might be just inadequately enough to began the healing processes of someone who needs the primordial elements from my destruction to find the reasons and meaning in their own lives.  I know I'm not obligated to pick at the scabs but my empathy wont allow them to hurt alone. Those influences that persuade, to succumb to healing.  To not watch the final grains of sand funnel down.  To accept that by holding on there is not another turn in this mortal life of flesh and bone.  Even the prettiest of flowers must deteriorate to live again, to blossom`

Premium Member The I's Have It

Illusory inmates I'ying internal
intricacies initiate informal
invasives identifying 
incomparable inconsistencies
ill initiated incompatibilities, incomplete
incomprehensibly Ioa-ted introverted
intellectually inadequately 
involuntarily involved iconic idealisms.

Premium Member Casualty Or Cause

Casualty or cause?
A question where we’ll pause:
war’s chicken/egg conundrum with the truth.

Employing logic flawed,
inadequately awed,
thus, Lucifer brought war to the Most High.

He sought to share dominion,
held high, his own opinion,
a creaturely inflation of self-worth.

Pride, the worst of all,
swift led to Satan’s fall,
and thus was he cast down from lofty skies.

And though he was imprisoned,
his heart, full of derision,
sought vengeance in destruction of the earth.

Perhaps inspecting here,
an understanding clear
emerges from this epic tale of woe.

For with forbidden fruit,
the serpent did recruit
our parents by assault on verity.

Does truth die due to war,
or does death come before?
In understanding Satan’s case, we know.

Envisioning self god,
he thus committed fraud;
a lie he was too willful, blind to see.

And so down through the ages,
man’s wicked heart still rages
against the Truth, near constantly at war.

From Putin’s evil rise,
we trace back to the lies
we’ve bought in perpetuity since youth.

And thus, we can’d deny
the war follows the lie;
we’re just repeating what’s transpired before.


Bestiality

Your Bestiality seems to
Become a reality 
Fingertips....wet lips 
I love it when you lick
Honey-dipped skin
I can do nothing 
But comply to your
Every whim and appetite 
Ohhhh...I love the way you bite
When I seem to entice 
Your heightened itch 
Yes I don’t mind being called your B....
The groans and moans 
You want silenced 
For all those who want to listen 
To this kinky event 
In this position I’m willing 
To do anything....even pay the rent 
I’m developing some type 
Of anatomical monkey on my back 
Yet your rhythm remains 
Conclusively enacted 
When I throw it back 
I was inadequately prepared 
For these moments of 
Lascivious acquisitions 
And animalistic demeanors
How I savor these junctures of carnality 
And your monstrous bestiality

Premium Member Prufrock Love Song Tribute

against the sky
           spread out
           corners of evening
days of hands
            of indecision:
revisions
come&go
    in formulated 
                  phrases
days
&
ways
     known to all
     to its crisis
          prayed:
talk
with
      a smile
      of no great
                matter:
overwhelming
     questions
       as patterns
in the mind
       meticulous
          yet obtuse
sing to me
in
  white & 
         black
a
predicament
    evolved
      into
        despair
triviality
       ransacked,
       irony
       conceived
explicit
        experiences
        self-regarding
        sardonic
        self-conscios
inadequately
      revealed:
a sequence
  of
     images
  of
     imagined logic
visions
    of conceit
          failure
            futility
time
indivisible
     inhabited
     by allusions
fulfilled
   by
      sensibility

Premium Member Loving You From Sunset Until Sunset

From sunset 'til dawn, how do I love thee?
To the music of the cooing doves song
From the crack of dawn with sunny skies or gray
With each thought that passes into light
Of matter gray, each breath that I take
How do I love thee?, often my heart 
Strays into a lovely day with flowers gay
How do I love thee?, deep; long; with each breath
That I inhale and release never to cease
How do I love thee, inadequately pure
Of this my soul is forever sure
How do I love thee, with phileo love
Sometimes eros but await total agape 

In response to  

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861

Inspired by Brian Strand's contest # 231

I know that the rhyme scheme is not correct on this one but it just flowed when I wrote it awhile back..I hope that you enjoy reading it..


Imperfection

Early mornings

remind me of memories

not yet made

my cup of coffee

like a warm embrace

steam rising

against the optimism

of a blue sky

I am a women

inadequately defined

there are the bold lines

the ones that trace the contours of my skin

deep grooves

against my being

mother

companion

friend

but underneath the muscle and sinew

of my tactile reality

lies the deep blue of my blood

untouched

constantly moving

the solid fragments of bone and marrow

forging an alliance with my heartbeat

I still have yet to sit here

within the dark spaces

and love

the fearsome silence

I still avert my eyes

to the sight

of my own abundant flesh

the valleys

of my own opulence

refusing to accept this body

the way it is

and the way it was

beautiful

in all its blaring imperfections

my skin stretched

and pillaged

remnants

from a battle bravely won.

Moral Tension: Part Ii

with so many people around,
why wasn’t there one person trying to
stop this malicious individual who
was wailing on this woman?

while the watcher opened her mouth &
nothing came out, the man hitting the
young woman had stopped, pulling her
by the arm along behind him back into
the crowd---the woman who had been
hit was all disheveled & weeping.

the watcher didn’t know the relationship
between the two, but she knew that 
what she’d seen had sent her into a moral
panic, wherein what she knew to be
“the right thing,” she simply had been
inadequately prepared to deliver a 
response &
this kept her up at night
for the next week or so.

at home, away from the city,
the watcher didn’t walk around as
self-righteous as she had before,
in fact, it seemed to some who knew her
best,
that she had got right down off her
soapbox---
for she just couldn’t shake the memory
of that man slapping that woman so hard
that she could hear it across a crowded
street---
worse yet,
she couldn’t shake the idea that she hadn’t
done a thing to stop it.

Premium Member Presidential Supporter Takes On God

BP knew on February Thirteenth

Of structural flaws in the well beneath

     Goldman Sachs sold its stock

     It should come as no shock

The Lord in heaven is grinding his teeth


*Goldman Sachs was the number two contributor to the Obama campaign and 
suspicion has surfaced as to why the White House has inadequately monitored 
offshore drilling and has been slow to act on stopping the oil spill.  
GS sold nearly 60 percent of its BP stock before the April 20th explosion.  Coincidence?  Insider trading?

The Swan - Song

Inadequately the clouds covered the moon
the wind was soft and silky.
The death of shadow was not complete.
Stars had fled from groans of night.

In the still room poor sentences could not compete
with the innocence of emptiness
which was in throes of giving
birth to a new meaning.

Weeping flowers were weaving a song.
Memory, my pain, returns again and again
I would never go ever to my old house
just one for me, it gave me choking
                                sadness.

The wanderer me, moves again, to switch
the lights on. You are not watching me.
I don’t put claim on my words. They
came to me from dangerous mistakes.



SATISH VERMA

Cappuccino Sunset

Volcanoes rise on the red check

chessboard of life entrenched

in the hopelessness of romance.

Lava lamp pieces manipulated

to check then mate,

a burning desire to copulate,

ejaculate,

physically communicate.

Below the insubstantial surface froth,

bitter black fluid

inadequately tempered by brown sugar grains

seeps into our hearts, our brains.

It matters not an atom

when the sun sinks down

spreading sweeping crimson shadows

across the map of the human heart.

God is old hat, reclined on a 

celestial candy-striped deckchair,

sadistic and out of touch.

The truth,

what truth is that?

Is it feasible, is it possible

to love and want love

too much?

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