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Going Forward

Don't it sound like              
Th' old is about to die?  
Take them happy stories     
And say goodbye               
      We were going forward until you left me behind   
We were going forward, through the best n' the worst of times  

Change of season                             
As even the clocks unwind            
When you would come around like
A friend of mine                                     
      We were going forward until you left me behind
         You would come around, Claude, and we would unwind

Didn't we have enough of the stuff of life, Claude?

Long way to go with 
Abrasions on the knee               
Take aim at the target though it's          
Well out of reach                                    
       We were going forward until you left me behind    
              We were going forward until you left me

Didn't we have the worst and the best of times?
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member - When the Backpack Feels Heavy -

Hold on tight 
    A journey begins 
    Not in the crowded city streets 
    A journey of high mountains 
    as close to heaven 
    that you think you can catch the stars 
    Pack your backpack with sad thoughts 
    Upwards ... the bag is heavy 
    I will hold you in your hand 
    Stop ... take a deep breath 
    Your journey has begun 
    Proud high mountains suddenly makes the backpack a little lighter 
    Follow your feet forward
    The air is crisp and fresh 
    Even if you are tired 
    Lower your shoulders 
    I'll teach you to dance on the sparkling snow 
    Our goal is the top 
    The backpack feels lighter 
    Do not give up - we will reach our peak 
    Heavy thoughts erased 
    Abrasions and tired feet 
    Satisfaction - a major force 
    The goal is reached ... you won 
    Dance in the sparkling snow ... catch your star 
    The backpack is empty 
    The whole world is at your feet




    21.05.2014
    A-L  Andresen :)
    Copyright © All Rights Reserved

Premium Member Silent Killer

It courses through the blood
hidden from view it seeks out
the T-cells attaching itself
it silently goes to work

Invading and taking over
not caring if it's host
be a young person or old
killing of the white cells

Your gender it cares nothing for
or if you are straight or gay
insidiously it can hide for years
a master of disguise it patiently waits

Growing stronger all the time
breaking down the body's defences
it corrupts turning cells alien
not caring that as it slowly kills

That eventually it will too die
that as it completes its invasion
leaving a sick body open to attack
covered with open sores and abrasions

This silent killer in murdering you
does itself meet its own doom
dying along with its host
will we ever find a real cure?

This is about Aids/ HIV though it could also refer to cancer HIV is ingenious in
its ability to hide itself inspires by Harlan Coben's book Miracle cure

Premium Member Outlook

when I last looked
snow sprawled in
like an embrace from a foreign world
outdoor walk suspended
by squabbles of sleeted wet
unappealing chords
of ice pellets that stand hair on edge
to coat a hatless head in splinters

force that shapes a winter's pace
implanted temper
abrasions
in tracks of snow
as February squeezes into loins
an ache

my icy fingers
trace the window, vaporized
a shield of separation
a pledge of freedom re-booted
like green paths rising
a shifting focus
till March tramps into place
month of mis-rule
ornamental promise
that a turnstile world
clangs change
when I next look
to turn the page





Poem written February 23, 2023

Premium Member Soon To Join Two

Amidst this greenery and purple heather
Azure blue skies grace our naked souls
Beneath the Cullins on the Isle of Skye
Two in love sharing adventurous goals

On our tartan blanket facing each other
Noses in touch sharing kisses aplenty
Rapid they are in teasingly smother
Tongues now fence, complimentary

Wandering hands on porcelain skin
Gracing, caressing, she sighs as I do
Arching her back, her breasts in rise
Pert to the air, this soon to join two

Slowly in kissing crawl, to her lips I
Caressing undulations, blushing she
Our eyes meet, for they tell no lies
In loving clasp she welcomes me

Rhythmic we are in this rustic place
Seismic groans of wonderment cry
Skin to skin of loving abrasions
Two fused astride my manly thighs

Gyrating hips in sensuous grind
Internal flows await their desire
Passionate kisses now frenzied
Fusion of two in wanting transpire
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Slumbering Seeds

a cog in the wheel and a log on the fire

of dreams I hallucinate unless the days

are visions of sleepless delusions of truth


its real and surreal when nights close in

I used to be a knight in shining armour

kissing the princess after conquests won


life matured and dreams changed their way

I became chipped wood shaved into pieces

abrasions of a sculpture unfit for purpose


a brigade of chainsaws stunted my growth

the forester ruled relentlessly and debrided

what was left of saplings and torn offshoots


roots failed to spring up from the underworld

weeds’ thorns cut deep into vulnerable skin

and festering wounds oozed poison at will


one day however a creek crept up from below

viscous tears gave me a springboard from arrest

I plunged in slow motion to follow the stream


when I reached the ocean I feared to submerge

too vicious were tides and the surf sucked me in

drowned me but spat me out ‘return to sender’


still dreaming I built a beach hut by a rock pool

drift wood sea shells and white flag of surrender

octopus’ arms released me to become a dolphin


no more do I have to save the world on my own

because a small marine fairy liked my abode

fixed my anchor with love passion and kindness


the sand quakes and spray caresses our bodies

embraces night terrors adopts them as friends

for honest companions can weather the storm


14th April 2021

Premium Member Candor Mortis

My autopsy room is a confessional, 
where killers in absentia divulge 
their sins through bodies
rigid and frigid, mutilated and mute.

Graffiti of abrasions, contusions and lacerations
reenact without deceit or reservations
a catalogue of perversions and violations.

Rage, hatred, greed, jealousy, sickness 
explode and leave behind vandalized anatomies, 
a *********** of naked emotions
in the topography of vacated husks.

Silently, they talk.
With my eyes, I listen.  

They confide in me about themselves too,
these chatty cadavers, 
about their public faces and private hell.

Tattoos speak of loves and obsessions, 
silicone breasts betray insecurities, 
medications reveal internal insurgencies, 
needle marks give away muffled screams,  
cirrhosis lets on alcoholic dreams. 

A hundred foibles preserved by the 
candor of rigor mortis, 
each corpse an abridged, 
unfinished biography. 

By the end of their final confessions, the departed
have parted with their burdens of secrets.  

In death much more than in life, 
there is honesty. 

Still, I take comfort in the lies of the living.

Premium Member Descent And Ascent

I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth finds its prey
knifing sunset’s skin  desecrating cranberry rays
it’s red demise fills my see-through-eyes 
Sun’s canvas shredded
I fall through tattered pages of watercolor-layers
accumulating dust and blood of the slayed day

I arrive not a predator but a peace-maker
my raiment fleece of lamb not mane of beast

I come to rest 
a drop of rain who clings to a windowpane
… translucence transforms me
inside a room I see myself with my possession-pain  
a swaddle-bundle I rock to soothe
pain held against my breast like a newborn
crying to be fed
nurtured with lemon-squeezed tears
and sticky sick-sweet milk of revenge

my fingertips trace my descent down the glass
I pray not to let the dark moon be my doom

I know myself like turmoil-seas know the shore
let the salt-sea’s seethe meet still grains of sand
abrasions cleanse one of crime and grime
      
I know myself like the night knows the morn
let the night be a knight 
and capture rapture with light-swords of dawn

I know myself 
the games I played with leather fringe and lace
his Marlboro face    the Moët taste
the magnet attraction pulled my limbs apart

I am a tear liberated from the storm
free to fall   free to fall   oh I had to fall so far to be free
fall from heights where lust-wishes glisten
slip the stardust handcuffs
fall from nimbus  find the limbus of self and soul
find a way to rise above black seams
and wanton scenes of my scream-dreams

translucence transforms me

I let go of the windowpane 
and die to myself casting off pleasure of pain and sin 
I fall to silent-sister soil  inhaled to be exhaled
on dizzy wind-whimsy-warmth of first light
I fall a new drop of dew wet with sky light
as I bear Love's cross like a white lotus bears its muddy birth

Could Go

4/22/17


No intentions of being misleading
Could go by bleeding
Is one way of leaving
As the heart stops beating
And the lungs stop breathing

Also could be caused from exsanguination

Across a pagan nation
Could go by strangulation
Which'll cause and make abrasions
With no intentions of making a statement


Pulse rapid then slowing
Could go by overdosing
Knowing
It comes with the risk of choking

Could go
While on the road 
Or in your own home
You just never know

The voices calling
On any side of the walling
Could go by falling
The outcome would be appalling
Yet enthralling
Like something never before seen, or only in a drawing

Above the Earth's layers
Could go by the might of Mother Nature
Whether your on land or in a ship as a sailor
The odds just may not go in your favor
Sooner than later
The sight of even greater danger

Among objects that are inanimate
Could go by accident
Tragic and just about as bad as it gets
Near and far from any waters with halibut

Only an earthling
Could go by burning
With zero chance of returning
Might be considered disturbing
But there are technically worse things

No guarantees
Could go by disease
Anywhere, not just by the seas
Or any trees and leaves
Whether your a kid, teen
Or ninety three

Regardless of if it involves being annointed
It's been one heck of a voyage
Could go by poison
Which could be quick or miserable and far from joysome
I'll tell you what it wouldn't taste anything like Hoisin
And like usual fingers would probably get pointed

Due to one too many mistakes
Could go up in space
On a ship or base
At a slow or rapid pace
Whether or not the pulse began to race

All of us are fallible
Could go by getting eaten by a cannibal
Or some kind of animal
Whether or not their claws are retractable

Nobodies laughing
Could go by crashing
Whether or not it's your fault, still come the sirens and lights flashing
Like they say nothing is truly everlasting

Before during or after nine
Could go due to it being my time
Which would be fine
And rather benign
Except that I need to finish this rhyme

By: Dalton Ogletree
Form: Rhyme

Suture My Wounded Soul

abused as a small child, 
so meek and so damn mild-
innocence brought sadness, 
in adulthood came madness. 

daddy couldn’t put the bottle down, 
he tried and failed many a time-
too many bruises black and brown, 
falling back down every time I climb.
I was beauty and ashes combined, 
a fake smile hiding my frown.

I grew up with that same mindset,
putting the pill bottle down was hard-
raging silence and moments of fret, 
in the game of poker, I drew the wrong card.
my wounded soul, unsutured and scarred,
now I live in the shadows of ebony regret.

she just couldn’t stop the drink in hand, 
suicide took her away from me-
I may never quite understand, 
now her laugh but a sweet memory. 
my eyes too blind to really see, 
the death of my sister’s wonderland.

          my injured heart learned many lessons, 
          my aches and pains have killed my essence-
          lesions left abrasions and anguish remains,
          and now crimson scars run through my veins. 

          blemished and battered left with scratches, 
          please Lord, sew over these dirty patches- 
          I needed an ounce of self-security, 
          but these wounds left me in obscurity. 

          abandoned by those who I needed most, 
          the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost-
          forgiveness has been lost in atonement, 
          as I quiver and shiver in this chilling moment. 

abused as a small child, 
so meek and so damn mild-
youth brought intense woe,
now it's time for me to let go.


June 21, 2017
Form: Rhyme

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