The practice of the mirror
That sudden feeling that you know this smile on this face familiar but not safe intimately you know this one …
Category Archives: licentia poetica
Morning
He gives me the sun so all my cracks fill with light warm, blazingly alive rays The backdrop fades with …
Yeah I know you
it’s the breath that roots in grief the deepest discipline is to not get caught in the politicking of meanings …
Somewhere in a corner
somewhere in a corner I keep your name unspoken to keep you unreal my personal ghost a creator guardian loving …
frazzled
that off-feeling when nothing aligns as ordinary as an awkward bite when your teeth don’t meet just right and you …
other times
everything happened everything passed here I return once again after the kicking and screaming are done the imagining something different …
20 hour bubble
the wind moves through you yet around the curve of your perfect pearl round and round you spin me free …
rock climbing
disappointment is a gritty pause between what you hoped for and what you got when you have to make do …
America the Brave
I’m detoxing the American dream seriously a six dollar coffee has done me in does that come with a Happy …
ideas
i get so sick of them slave masters like the gods’ intellect making themselves manifest demons of my pride I …
i’ll run for president
I’ll run for president I didn’t think I’d care enough and that I’d just get assassinated because the truth is …
all ur base r belong to us
I poeted unselfconsciously till you said something thanks now I’m staring and wondering just how much blundering my form if …
melodies
the musician is a magician taking simple sound and transforming into feelings like clouds that show us the sky and …
unoriginal sin
how low we fell to condemn ourselves in laws made a god above speaking through flesh and blood man carried …
birth of a song
ॐ I knew in that moment confession breaking dawn opens the sky cracks and pours love inside as truth rises …
ka*ma
even the smallest drops eventually add up to the deepest oceans. All kindness matters.
arent you just so glad
aren’t you just so glad you woke up today attached to the umbilical cord routine of everyday that anchors your …
two
the misery of me is you my view cut in two a rope to climb the ways to cope escape …
Kill the Buddha
If you meet the expression of your longing In the form of the one who’s got the answer Slay the …
the myth of freedom turns hungry ghost
Everyone wants to feel loved Everybody’s suffering We drive away the fear With all the pretty shiny things You get …
Quaternity
Live beneath your mother’s pain Hide behind your father’s rage Release the pressure of amniotic love Pass through the birth canal of change I …
Home in the Twilight Zone
The darkness of your lifetime drifts inYou wake up make ends meet while you sinkNo time to grieve no time …
Judas
That you survived doesn’t mean you came out unscathed Just because you’re here doesn’t make you ok The price you paid when …
I speak sometimes just to hear myself think
I speak sometimes just to hear myself thinkFamiliarity breeds contemptBut what I don’t know makes me afraidI look for a …
I am the desert
I am the desertMy waters run miles deepCracked earth and parched lipsWhisper the sinsOf your father on the windHold with …
A Life Ago
When I speak I’m hollow like my mouthI feel through a padded wall around meI can’t filter in all the …
Campfire poet
you break throughthe canyons of solitudethe northern windpours a sky of truthon my small wingsthe life i live is a …
I Was Here
Don’t cry for me for my scars They already did me in I’m all that’s left of the war I wear the battles …
When You'll Miss The Ground
You will fall in love With someone who’s not me You will let it go When you let it flowIt …
Walk in silence don’t walk away in silence … One day you’ll wake up and I won’t be here anymoreThe …
9-27
Lovers are strangers speaking the same words In separate languages between the wounds Circling around the deep end of the …
Morphogenic
Heart of my mind cut out within I don’t know who I am again I seek with eyes that billions …
Pig on a Farm
How dare you question me? Where did you get the audacity To question authority? Didn’t you see signs and warnings …
Stranger's edge
I look for you under the rubble A stranger’s edge had stolen us We hung there wrecked in silence In …
Awaiting Consequence
Come in, sit downI’ve been waiting for you so longFor your silence, sit downI’ve been waiting for you to swallowThe …
Anatomy of the Fall of Grace
There’s nothing to say anymore When the curtain has fallen And your life is made of horror and greed By …
Slow Burn
Anesthetize your compromiseFind the void you can swallowRide a wave that leads you awayAnesthetize and choose tomorrow Pour inside me …
Radiance
Slip it in a little deeper till your head wants to swayTake it allOpen up a little wider till your …
Whole
Fill the cracksA broken stateI desire multiplicityIn no self the possibilityA seed buried in my wombA planted need abortedStrip off …
Mr. Pan
In the small hours of the nightThe warrior paws at the skySleepless eyes run dryLike the dread he sweat in …
Inside the Dream
Where all is real and all has yet to beIn the lines where our dreams meetThe delicate moments of memoriesIn …
What is gone…
Threads of dreams close around these fingersTie fluid spirit to the rock of strengthIntent and truth crack the shellDrawing out …
Too Far To Hold
Carry the usual armaments Set them down on the table Fear of death bind you tighter and tighter Human machine wired to the …
Sword of Damocles
A black TV screen stares in front of me flat and deadOur room reflected filtered through an unbiased lensI look …
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." ~ George Sand
Skin on skin.Face to face.Separate.Physical bonds of space.Jagged edges of you and me.Standing in fron of each other like elaborate …
the idiot's guide to eternity
this is where deathpasses through this is the welldeep and fullholds the suspenseup to the brim what comes next? this …
On The Wheel
The spotlight floods meI imagine your face whileI stand in judgmentBlinded by the glareRevealing my nude thoughtsThe veil falls awayAnd …
How I survived the holocaust
I hold in my breath your secret sigh You washed up like a wave curling like a blanket Of stars …
First Audience
The act and the play are a way of lifeI’ve been kissing you while I’ve been fightingThe walk like the …
Between
I stand on no brinkYet I’m always on edgeOur love puts me in a placeBetween a pocket full of lettersThat …
Mental Sky
I spend my life in painand it always rainsin my mental skybut how can Ihow can I go on everydayhow …
Ascension
I make my confession to the solitude of passionThe laws of flight are lonelyFor the higher you fly the fewer …
and in the end it was the end she wrote
She laments the glory of her brillianceLike she mourns the death of song in silenceThe rebirth of a princeThe cause …
Bumped
You take me there without knowing whyYou are that and so much moreMaybe that’s why we’ve bumped livesSomeone just opened …
A thousand heartbreaks steep
I got old in the last few yearsI got old in the last few yearsA thousand heartbreaks steepI once loved …
Election day
Steep in the quiet valleyThe people wait for himGazing upon the gravesHis eyes strangely shiningMadness or truth besetCast into stones …
Everyday Amazon
The face I met laughing in the moonlightNow quietly sleeping in the candlelightA heart beats heavy and slow tonight In …
Make it something beautiful
great people aren’t made through well adjusted social interactionsand when I get frustrated I just thinkthis is just shaping me …
the first time the dam lifted
my pain rises in waves and falls in tearsit’s just a flow like a rhythmI just am as I amin …
In Requiem
Treat me like a human beingI’m not so different from youRemember me you took my raceClothed me in chains, whipped …
Rhyme of the day
There’s a difference between what you say and what you doI manipulate my state alter my reality and shape my …
Silverback
Getting through the day a Macchiavellian narrative there’s no way to explicate the contradictory relatives you feel the pressure of …
In Loving Memory
All that time I wanted to believeI was more than just a dreamLife just slipped me byWaiting for me to …
Gordian Knot
Touch me in my terror of contactThese threads inextricably tangledMy lidless eyes sleeping in contractWith a dream world of my …
Dissolution
I need to let it break inside orBreak something on the outsideThis pressure on my chestA weight of grief that …
Identity
They call me unfeminine because I can grit my teeth and bleedLike a man I can step into the ring, …
Dream #357
I wish I could explain to myselfHow complicated us or the lack of us isSome days are a balm to …
Measure for Measure
Today I listened to someone else’s wordsIt was like taking a laxative for my mindI was on a bus and …
My name
It’s my nameI’ve forgotten howTo sayIt just sounds so strangeNowMy face with someone else’s nameAlmost alien but not quiteStill too …
4th of September
Fire burns take this pain tear it out from these veinsCold grey day drain this stain warm pen write this …
