pandoras box

open it...I dare you

[aaronawbra]

[pandoraspoet]

What Lies Beneath

What portal beats beneath this breast

An effervescent tangled mess

That breeds dis-con-tent dusk to dawn

A jagged quilt so poorly sewn

But pass the threshold and you’ll find

A need to pick up crusted dimes

And buff them out to shiny new

And place them with the sacred few

A yearning chasms midnight deep

Is my love, that raveled heap,

To disencumber would reveal

The truth that cannot be concealed

That with each step I’ve ached for you

My cowboy in the faded blue, who

Long since passed to other realms

You haunt the fields and woods of Elm

Should I but glance you 'neath the trees

I’d gladly follow where you lead

Through gossamer that veils the door

As crows above cry, “Evermore”

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It’s that one tiny, miniscule, smaller than an ant’s ass, bit of hope, that keeps me tethered to this world.

Sometimes I wish I could just stamp out that mother fucker… and leave

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It’s that somersault ache

That wakes me at 3 am

Reminding me that I’m alone

That i have no home

It spreads till i am consumed

And the room becomes my prison

Cursed to remain,

God, you’re in my veins

Ghosted I go insane

As the sun twists in the trees

Peaking through glass

I sigh…and rise

Today is new, gifted few

So while clouds creep into view

And i am edged in pain

I will embrace the rain

Till I can breathe again.

[perfeqt]

“We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.”

— Unknown

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Not by choice a gypsy soul,

New York,

blue ridge mountains,

panning for gold,

then a Prairie's fierce wind

tugs my heart, takes ahold,

before it casts me away

for a copper I’m sold

to the edge of the world

where I sail on the waves

made of flotsam and seaweed

sun-salt bakes me for days,

Where am I from?

The 4 corners I roam

Still searching for you,

for with you…

I am home

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[aaronawbra]

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You walk, cotton candy pink

on white frothy tulle,

Today towards tomorrow,

A yellow feathered future,

dotted with diamonds and

tiny turquoise kisses,

I wish you indigo, violet, red,

And so much green you can

drape a world with fields

of butter and bales of blue.

I am gray,

You…two rainbow snow cones

On a summer day

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Tap tap tap

Bone on bone

Scratching

Flesh

Off aching

Wounds

Tap tap tap

Knock once

I’m gone

through

open threshold

to fields beyond

Tap tap tap

Rain

lightly falls

I lift my face,

hear

Heaven’s call

Home across

The river stix

I tip

The boatman,

but the journey’s

fixed

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Distance Ain’t a Thing

Heat rises from my skin

searching for yours,

A fire stokes

the spaces between,

Why are there spaces between?

There should be no distance

We cannot breach,

Words tangle,

Tongues twisted in a

A tumbler of tantalizing ambrosia,

And scratched texts

That reminds me of

Ninth grade notes

Scribbled in the margins

Of adolescent lust,

Steamy and rich and endless, and

So fearless, so young,

We would travel anywhere

For a six pack of Bud

And love…

When did you get so old

You couldn’t move the

Miles it would take

To remove the places between?

Allowing that fire to burn,

And those words to melt

And that cocktail to drip down your throat

And settle in your hands

That roam their way … here

Just get in your car, baby

I’ll pay for the gas

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A wish in the fountain

Throw a penny in the fountain

Dyed indigo blue

My wish takes a dive

And comes up with you

But only a shadow

You’ve been gone way too long

You’re a tough lonely cowboy

In s sweet country song,

And I’m off on adventures

Chasing the sun

Diving off of the moon

Riding stars to beyond

the horizon

where the Buffalo roam

And your riding the range,

So I’ll never find home.

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Solitary Storm

Pink morning sky

A blush before it peaks

through the screen

of my refurbished room.

I curl into my sheets

A solitary spoon

Catlike I stretch

Before the plum

turns tangerine

an effervescent dream

The sunshine

warms the seams

Of a seemingly innocuous day,

Yet mother earth’s caress

Unblemished noblesse

invites the memory

when you laid here with me

Your fingers tracing tracks

salt trickled down my back

As words wove endless vows

that buried in my bones, now

abandoned and alone

Left to plunge the great unknown

The sky turns silver gray

Light divides the day

A storm is on is way

I weigh the umbrella in my hand

The one with iridescent rainbows

embroidered down the band

And walk into the storm

[aaronawbra]

[pandoraspoet]

An acrostic poem whose last word is spelled out by reading the first letter of each of 6 lines.

Before you I

Reposed on my

Earthy throne,

Awash in clovers,

Too tender to touch,

Hidden. Forbidden.

Yet there you stepped and stole my…

[aaronawbra]

[pandoraspoet]

Bagatelle

Pendulous,

Between nothing and nought,

No thoughts

of me,

A void in our mellifluous universe,

I am clear, without sound

Unbound – Unraveled -

Unexplored -

My cheek to the floor

for the beetles to chirp,

Coleopterans that bellow

oblivion

are silent

beneath the boards,

For

they know,

I am the darkness…