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Premium Member An Early Experiment

The mirror reflects, obliquely,
a peculiar yellow butterfly -- it flutters, flutters
the specks of black my beard is made of
on the breeze.  A daffodil hangs down its treasure
and I spread shaving cream, in great white puffs,
shielding from the windy noise its yellow
across my face.  The nose protrudes, ridiculous
excrescence.  A leaf half green sweeps up in circles
in the whiteness all around.  A weak chin, think I,
of windy sighs.  Squirrels crack acorns, crunching,
down into a patchy neck.  Very unsatisfactory
remembering winter's almost famine.  The trees --
appearance.  Altogether so.  Oh well.
Quiet.  Steady.  Sturdy.  Oh well.
The mirror reflects, but not uniquely.


shadow puppet

my hands are cracked and bleeding 
I gag as bone protrudes 
but the show must go on. 
my hands are tightly bandaged 
once i disappear behind the screen 
and light illuminates my hands 
I look perfect. 
I steady my tremors 
and put my focus 
into my performance. 
I wish that someone 
would peer behind the screen
kiss my hands 
and hydrate my skin 
with tears 
but instead 
I watch others puppet shows 
at the slightest mistake 
I waste no time 
I rip the paper 
but there they stand 
soft, unscarred hands 
I’m forbidden form their theater 
for ruining the show 
I learned to stop letting 
my insecurities show 
but I always worry 
that others 
struggle the same 
almost to a fault 
but instead 
I hide behind the curtain 
bandaging my broken hands
© Leya Moore  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Small

Death bubbles by
in such a sorrowful state.

A snowflake melting
in the midst of life.

A rusty knife
the tip of which protrudes
to make a third nipple.

Creating nary a ripple
in the scheme of things.
Which brings us to an impasse.

Unobstructed,
Our methodology measures
the in-constitute and volatile breaking of sound?
One cup sound; two cups shatter,
an eardrum rapidly boiled.
Why would it matter?

Death rattles by
Cough Cough choking on 
his chopstick nun-chuck
glory road to Hell.
Did I say for whom the bell
tolls now?
Did I mention that it’s NOT
some sacred cow?

Be silly-still and listen
 to the feeling of guilt
Measure your Mayonnaise Days 
with Infinite Care
dollops of sweetness 
filling you up to the hilt

A Fruitcake Day
in the ordinary life 
of an insect.
Form: Rhyme

Zilch-Chapter 3-Snatch

Into the Hatch, drop by drop
The metal melted like the crop
Sizzling ooze falls onto a floor
And begins to feel a little sore

Still no eyes, no lungs, no aim
Digits pull and push its frame
Outward sounds, crashes, pounds
Begin to be heard, as fear surrounds

Ears, but not quite shaped like ours
Are the next to form in these early hours
Yet just as green and red get comfy
A grating shrill comes from newfound company

Their location is hard to properly state
This starless cavern below the Fate
Forgers don't dare stoop this low
Whatever is here won't approach slow

The sounds in the silence, let words free
"WrIgGlE aBoUt, WiThOuT We?"
Tumbling turns to playful pursuit
When from a stomach protrudes a foot

It winds its ankle, without a crack
And stamps down harsh, with an attack
The Smith is pinned, spreading his patch
While five more digits manage to snatch.

Snippets of Spring vol 2

Lyricism of wisteria ruses…peacocking muses gushing tomes

Classicism flocking..roams & woos homes not garden gnomes

Colourful creepers cruising..schmoozing with boisterously blushing bricks

Spring exudes mysticism..oozes oodles of bamboozling serendipity flushing

Cherished fingers rushing freely..delivers..unctuous ravishingly rambunctious

Relished slivers lavishly lingers..embellished..proudly protrudes

Inspires rhyming platitudes about gratitude...fires fresh

Attitudes across a range of altitudes & latitudes

Sprinkling wryly of vintner's drily sparkle...ends strange debacle...

Skint stints of wily skinflint winter’s splinters..with hints of now..Spring sprints

But also somehow.. if one squints..get an inkling of change..

Glints of summer's tints slyly twinkling
Form: Rhyme


3am

3am
The rest of the world was asleep 
While your mind on the other hand, never is
You occupied it
with inhale of your beloved Mary Jane

I study every smoke cloud that leaves your body
As that same dumb couple argues on TV
when will they learn I ask myself

Suddenly I felt the weight
Of the bed shift
A cold bony hand
Grabs my shoulder 

Felt my flannel slowly sliding off my back
And without hesitation
I fall into the comfort of your touch 

Your breathing becomes scattered
As I trace every single rib 
that protrudes your dull skin

Dirty nails 
make its way up my chest 
And around my neck
Which is accompanied 
By your chapped lips 

Maybe we're both wrong I thought
As the adrenaline and sweat leave my body
I placed my body next to yours
Under the blue covers

You casually turn your back
So all I see is your silhouette
I did the same 
As the couple on TV made up again 

I stare into the dark room
Conscious of every sound
Every movement you make

Which forces me to catch my breath 
For I hope
You finally decide to hold me 

6:50am 
It came around
Just as I started to close my eyes

Felt the bed shift again
And the urge to sleep
Suddenly disappears

Your mother left for work
While your presence left me 
I roll over to see you up 
Already saying good morning 
To Mary Jane

I pick up my clothes 
that slept on the floor 
And I head downstairs to leave

I went to grab the door 
To the garage
I turn the knob slightly 
And look back up the stairs

You weren't there 
you never are

But you'll make the time 
To call at 2am
On a weekday 

And impulsively 
I'm leaving my twin bed
and climbing under your blue covers
© Ali Lynn  Create an image from this poem.

Ugly Girlfriend

Everything is an issue with my friend
I hope she is a girl as she is known to claim
She thinks she is Marilyn Monroe so
Think on my pretty
In fact there is but one good eye
Like a lighthouse beam beckoning
About the middle of the head
Large with yellow, pus oozing on her tiny face
Sometimes it looks cloudy or milky white
Under moon light it stands out frightening

She orders me to give her money...a gun
It must be time to make love
Or take her dancing in the dark
That makes perfect sense for the digestion

A large tooth stands out yellow gray
Turning green and festering today
It protrudes from her lower jaw
Stands as a monument to former days
When there were plenty

From the vicinity of the mouth she shouts
Commands me be still while she takes aim
I am a target of her love 

She screams at me to pay the rent
Slurs her words, most unheard 

Pretending to be sultry
My girl is far from pretty
The distance is from here to Mars
Ugly defines her nicely
Skinny is her only attribute
Shoot me!…. Shoot me now my pretty!...

Premium Member Rapidly Changing Chameleon

Being a chameleon is easy for I am born under Gemini sign
Mercurial and free flowing, I am held to my own desires
I wake up as Pollock one morning, Poe the next.
Coleridge and Van Gogh may not show up until Thursday
if at all. It might not be their week.

Yesterday I was a peacock before chameleon me appeared.
Male of course, as they have the prettiest colors of aqua and cobalt.
The day before, I was an oak. A giant Cheshire cat was sitting on me.
I am not averse to being a closet monster either.
It is one of my happiest memories.

Honesty protrudes out of my art and writings when I am human.
When I am the wind, or the daffodil, I merely am.
I never know what I will be.
Sometimes I change in the middle of a thought.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I am now a wolf, a lone wolf, so stand back and keep your distance.
me

I Relished Being Hungry For Leftover Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy Grub First Helping

Hmm... on second thought
lemme join anorexic club
until rib cage protrudes taut and visible
doubling as drum to drub
synchronized within heart of darkness,
especially when electrocardiogram exhibits
absolute zero vital sign,
cardiac arrest translates
as cessation to lub dub,
hence yours truly

declared dead as doornail,
coroner report deems arrhythmia
directly linkedin to deliberate Machiavellian flub
courtesy the missus attempt to poison me
actually aborted cuz nanobots
loosed upon body gripped with rigor mortis,
a minor inconvenient truth
cuz odorless and tasteless deadly toxins
rendered me convalescing
from bout with death, an oxymoronic
former slenderman gourmand.

temporarily deceased
until said microscopic robots
avidly analogous to frenzied
figuratively hogtied pigs
buzzfeeding at a trough
creating porcine hubbub
invisible nanoids (0.1-10 micrometres)
accomplished programmed task
whereby fatal microbes they did scrub
away leaving me fit as a fiddle.

No matter she thoroughly, painstakingly
and lovingly didst strew
haphazardly she threw
leftovers together,
this blustery march like
November twenty six figuratively view
wing the remaining thirty plus days
of two thousand twenty one
thoroughly cooked in microwave until...
poor excuse for my meal appeared
with consistency of shoe leather.

Think the missus not afraid
of Virginia Woolf keen to experiment
treating me like the Gingerbread Hag would:
questionable resultant glop pantomimed
for my guessing pleasure
never figure out in bajillion years
as amateurish Marcel Marceau charade
performance courtesy the spouse,

an entrée she gave - yours truly
immediately sought to evade
me subsequently evincing
horrific puckered mealy mouth
as though I swallowed hand grenade
figurative exploding oral cavity
feeble futile gesticulation inveighed.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member THE EMPTY ROOM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
the door clicks shut  
leaving only dust particles  
dancing in sunbeam's path.  

four walls hold their breath  
waiting for footsteps  
that never come  

a single nail protrudes  
where a frame once hung  
its shadow stretching longer 
           with each passing hour.  

the silence settles  
thick as plaster dust  
in corners untouched   

no echo answers  
when the floorboards sigh  
beneath the weight of absence.  

light bleeds  
across bare parquet  
marking time in slow degrees.  

air grows stale  
withheld breath and unspoken words 
condensing on the ceiling

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