tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21972774578956267152024-02-08T04:46:10.584-07:00Unorthodox Erratic Talk In high school, I challenged myself to write a poem everyday for a year. I did not succeed. Nevertheless, attempting to changed my life. My poetry is my loudest voice. So I continue to write.
All poems copyrighted Copyright©NdaughNaomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-21212330367372884312014-04-08T23:27:00.001-07:002014-04-14T13:10:01.522-07:00Midnight's Dew (5)<style>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i go back to the days </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on the other side of
may</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and search for where i
gave myself</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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suspended into powdered
white clouds</div>
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sprouting free as the
lusting seeds of weeds</div>
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stretching through
open air</div>
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festering on the
window sills </div>
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of the night time, </div>
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sharp wind flutters
beneath my dress</div>
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i am quiet, and still</div>
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i look to God’s
unchanging hand </div>
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with bare feet
pressed to the brittleness</div>
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of broken glass,
reflecting the blood stroked above each door</div>
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<br /></div>
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hoping to be kept
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i make myself open, i
dare to bellow out and cry</div>
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because i gave myself
surely </div>
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I am my wounded
sacrifice </div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i go back to the days </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on the other side of may</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and search for where i gave myself</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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the waves have
crashed</div>
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the river has turned</div>
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and the ocean has
swung into gulfs</div>
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<br /></div>
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here</div>
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i sit barren, quiet,
still, and numb</div>
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<br /></div>
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harvest time has
come,</div>
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it is the brink of a
new dusk </div>
Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-75122012339362894382014-04-08T01:04:00.003-07:002014-04-14T13:09:36.611-07:00Sauerkraut (4)<style>
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i’ve got turned up cabbages</div>
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and a torn out harvest </div>
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protruding from my center</div>
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<br /></div>
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a place where
i go to touch, sometimes </div>
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<br /></div>
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they hold me there,</div>
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trying to revitalized my dead body </div>
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the bareness of my empty</div>
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seemed like
ghost had came by now </div>
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and got the
best of my loveless kisses </div>
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choruses out
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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touching me
smooth,</div>
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stroking me
deep</div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Devil makes a mean pot roast</div>
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wholesome with his full foot</div>
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i choked it down into swallows</div>
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i make me good and full</div>
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<br /></div>
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(it rains here sometimes, in autumn)</div>
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<br /></div>
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and i catch, with big wide open hands,</div>
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all my teardrops</div>
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<br /></div>
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careful not
to drown </div>
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in puddles of
my quick fear</div>
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careful not
to land in the pit of broken leaves </div>
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that are soon
to frost over</div>
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<br /></div>
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i can’t tell if the rain is clear,</div>
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or blue</div>
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and if i am still
here </div>
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<br /></div>
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if i bellow out my destitute </div>
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will it diminish into depths</div>
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of sour tongues, coated over </div>
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with the sweet mornings of may </div>
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<br /></div>
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(Pastor
dressed up on Easter Sunday)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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i sat, and let the tears patter down</div>
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on the rooftops of my head</div>
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(i am
coupled whispers)</div>
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the taste
on dangerous lips</div>
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touching me
smooth,</div>
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stroking me
deep,</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
i am quiet, and still</div>
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cold and bitter</div>
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<br /></div>
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there are
waves crashin’</div>
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sendin’
rivers turnin’ </div>
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and oceans
swingin’ into gulfs</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: right;">
where i lay
my naked babies </div>
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in the water
of an old song</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
easily lost
in submergence </div>
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<br /></div>
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i admire
their lifelessness- (in adoration)</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
i am quiet
and still</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
cold,
stark, and bitter</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">it’s the brink of dusk</span></div>
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Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-44697815008823577322014-02-26T21:38:00.002-08:002014-04-08T10:40:00.083-07:00Afterthought (3)<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watch wistful white
kisses<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">diminish down depths
of destitute-<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
sing my rhythmic freedom, <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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i’ve got blood cuffed ‘round my neck <o:p></o:p></div>
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(rings of burnt lines)<o:p></o:p></div>
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sour hunger,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and ungratefulness <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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keep me like they taught you<o:p></o:p></div>
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with smooth touches and deep<o:p></o:p></div>
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strokes holding together, breaking honesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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keep me like they taught you<o:p></o:p></div>
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knives hung over pure white snow<o:p></o:p></div>
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rough ravished and touched <o:p></o:p></div>
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destroyed, like you <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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keep me like they taught you<o:p></o:p></div>
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(choking everything)<o:p></o:p></div>
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swung down, deep down<o:p></o:p></div>
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bitter, emptiness <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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in May<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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in no man’s land<o:p></o:p></div>
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on the rooftops of your head <o:p></o:p></div>
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i sit <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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you stand in puddles of quick fear,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and lust<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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keep me like they taught you<o:p></o:p></div>
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touching me smooth<o:p></o:p></div>
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stroking me deep<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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i’m quiet, still<o:p></o:p></div>
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keeping me like <o:p></o:p></div>
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I taught you <o:p></o:p></div>
Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-11082211303537859102014-01-02T19:25:00.000-08:002014-01-02T19:25:29.541-08:00Things I've learned as of 2014<br />
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to smile in the midst of the storm<br />
<br />
to nurture the me that i am<br />
<br />
to appreciate my reality<br />
<br />
to be in control of my mind<br />
<br />
to cultivate positive energy<br />
in an atmosphere of negativity<br />
<br />
to be thankful for what’s real<br />
<br />
to laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh<br />
<br />
to trust<br />
<br />
2 dance like no one is watching<br />
<br />
nd write like no one is reading<br />
<br />
to be honest with everything<br />
<br />
to speak, up<br />
<br />
and thank God for the unseizing downpour<br />
of love <br />
<br />
2 be humble<br />
<br />
2 be thankful<br />
<br />
2 give</div>
Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-91258360168265562022013-09-28T11:07:00.001-07:002013-10-19T16:52:59.451-07:00On a Tuesday You just sat<br />
-on that chalk choked sidewalk<br />
at ease, lost in your own bewilderment<br />
-cooly<br />
the sun kissing you sweet, dancing<br />
on the top of your cheek bones<br />
I saw you,<br />
as beauty<br />
together- our heads poked in clouds<br />
dreaming of change<br />
making ourselves a catalyst<br />
wrapped in one dream<br />
exchanging new thought,<br />
and fantasizing.<br />
Smiling girlishly, bundled in laughter<br />
-young<br />
thirsting for the promises of life<br />
appreciating our moment in time.Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-45905218367263317592013-07-20T08:33:00.003-07:002013-07-20T08:33:35.072-07:00Wilderness 7-10-13<br />
<br />
My mind feels so stale,<br />
i can't write nothin' or feel nothin'<br />
<br />
my round brown identity is painted on canvases<br />
and laid over notepads<br />
<br />
parts of me are stacked-high<br />
spread frequently through powered clouds<br />
i sat one day, thinking', heavily of a day<br />
when sunshine would come covered in moonlight<br />
blinding my unready eyes with God's idea of beauty-<br />
<br />
you ever wonder if moonlight come before daybreak<br />
and daybreak before dawn<br />
and if limbo is our looping present, and if heaven be tomorrow-<br />
<br />
i wonder on things<br />
still-<br />
contemplate moving<br />
and my parts covered in chocolate skin<br />
heated by the constant of sun breaking onto my face<br />
at the sweet part of a bitter day<br />
<br />
i think in circlesNaomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-73356510288815947292013-05-03T22:34:00.001-07:002013-09-28T14:19:50.074-07:00In love with youI want to love you, self<br />
<br />
ferociously alive like clovers do<br />
<br />
green and plentiful in front lawns<br />
<br />
and through sidewalk cracks-<br />
<br />
I've watched you laugh<br />
<br />
hurt bad too-<br />
<br />
Get wind from hot air balloons<br />
<br />
disguised as colored, rainbows too<br />
<br />
spread across whipped backs<br />
<br />
and broken oversized shoes-you<br />
<br />
we've made it<br />
<br />
you and I-<br />
<br />
self I'm falling in love with you.Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-32403196444110122552013-04-15T13:39:00.000-07:002013-09-12T18:28:46.202-07:00SweetLost in riddles and smooth lies,<br />
<br />
<i>that rhyme</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
and quick smiles, bright teeth, and eyes,<br />
<br />
<i>that hypnotize</i><br />
<br />
Truth set out for me,<br />
<br />
I hung high instead.<br />
<br />
Tiptoed across hot coals holding my breath-<br />
<br />
imagining a love of ours<br />
<br />
on chorus<br />
<br />
song by many<br />
<br />
felt by plenty.<br />
<br />
I sing for you.<br />
<br />
Hoping you'd see me-<br />
<br />
And we could sink, feel cool<br />
<br />
honing our togetherness<br />
<br />
and creating it as beauty.<br />
<br />
Sweet lies read like sweet smiles<br />
<br />
on broken canvases and keyboards askin' for play-<br />
<br />
trust became a rhythm of<br />
<br />
lies, apologies: repeat.<br />
<br />
My heart could never sway.<br />
<br />
I stay parched like the longing do.<br />
<br />
fool-I see sweet nectar in you,<br />
<br />
A Queen.<br />
<br />
I curtsey at your feet<br />
<br />
timidly, waiting to be tapped<br />
<br />
sweetly, on each shoulder.<br />
<br />
Sweet, won't you keep me?<br />
<br />
I've been stung,<br />
<br />
now I'm dying from your bite.<br />
<br />
My one desire?<br />
<br />
Your honey-<br />
<br />
You saw past me<br />
<br />
I couldn't be your flower.<br />
<br />
I'd bloom for you-though<br />
<br />
be true<br />
<br />
wholesome too.<br />
<br />
Them eyes spin a haunting image<br />
<br />
read by you lips-<br />
<br />
they show a scene lost in it's own film<br />
<br />
strip, soundtrack of the blues<br />
<br />
with a sequel intended<br />
<br />
to break<br />
<br />
me<br />
<br />
too.<br />
<br />
Like you, sweet?Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-37881586512748873232013-04-11T18:23:00.000-07:002013-04-11T18:26:23.365-07:00Sweet Southern Morning Southern mornin' sweetness<br />
hugged with the gentle kisses of the mornings birds<br />
hummin' eagerly over railroad tracks<br />
singin' past broken buildings and old tire swings-<br />
<br />
Hard interruptions<br />
of yella finding his voice,<br />
muffled by the sounds of<br />
choirs singin' and church bells ringin',<br />
there's a calm here.<br />
<br />
Almost find myself to ready to not believe it-<br />
searchin' for sounds to halt and winds to disrupt<br />
my sweet southern morning'-<br />
<br />
My body collapses with the rising of Mamma Sun<br />
kissin' wildly on her earth, the extensions of her body<br />
finding my skin, kissin' firmly, wakin' up my insides<br />
She eases me with a gentle touch and wraps me up in her mornin'-<br />
sharing her wholesomeness with me<br />
(never felt more delicious)<br />
<br />
My breathing is slowed now<br />
breath stilled by the chilled rhythm<br />
of hearts aligning with the certainty of existence<br />
no need to rush, it's here.<br />
<br />
Southern mornings sing a cool tune-<br />
heavy, tinged with blood red dirt<br />
loose now, and sorry<br />
singin' for new understanding<br />
asking for rediscovery.<br />
<br />
Southern mornings sing a compelling tune<br />
with a melody of the blues<br />
coatin' over a somber history-<br />
accompanied by sunday church bells<br />
and the happy sounds of children's play.<br />
<br />
I thank sweet<br />
for pouring herself onto the south<br />
and giving me new morning<br />
through my quiet mourning.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-46663697668016592672013-02-27T07:57:00.001-08:002013-02-27T07:57:38.239-08:00Self Portrait pt. 2I decided to try unearthly honesty<br />
bitter and sweet truth<br />
no mask of the tongue<br />
mellow deliverance<br />
I consistently question what life is<br />
and can't figure where mind is<br />
I'm repeating my self-again<br />
because I'm still locked on it-<br />
still addicted<br />
I decided to rebuke loving uncertainty,<br />
went for the kill<br />
asked the unasked questions<br />
got rejected<br />
constant replay of a life unloved<br />
yearning to become a mixture of eclectic unabused happenings<br />
I watched it laugh at me<br />
suck me in, trip me<br />
watch me begin to fall-<br />
I swam in eyes<br />
and though myself a float, felt protected<br />
almost embraced the hug<br />
almost let the falsity of the remedy<br />
fool me -again<br />
There's no way my heart could breathe<br />
without the pen<br />
thoughts unrecorded are not enough<br />
-to easily lost<br />
leaving changes unmade<br />
I have to write away the pain<br />
of commonly misjudged eyes<br />
I still even let my heart cry<br />
exhale from the shame<br />
coated on the brokeness of the unloved<br />
i faced weary eyes straight through the mirror<br />
could only scope the sight of another<br />
The ones I wanted to take in mine<br />
I'm breathing still<br />
trying to seek calm<br />
realizing my words don't make change<br />
I only live them for me<br />
to dream myself unpained<br />
words kept me<br />
so I keep them in unearthly honesty.<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-86209170936643175612013-02-23T10:33:00.000-08:002013-02-23T11:26:33.184-08:00locked I locked on your eyes,<br />
piercing and wide looking.<br />
<br />
They had a mystery<br />
a divine story,<br />
something curious<br />
and abstract like<br />
(don't peel off me, please?)<br />
<br />
They have a steady flow<br />
and a sick coolness<br />
(like you do)<br />
<br />
The gentle sharpness of them<br />
amaze me-<br />
I just want to know them<br />
(and be close)<br />
<br />
They shake my whole existence-<br />
send chills down my spine,<br />
(you're beautiful past today)<br />
<br />
I hope to meet your gaze on tomorrow<br />
I'd like to watch them watch the sunrise<br />
(feel their hold)<br />
<br />
I let them bathe me,<br />
I want to be my purest with them.<br />
<br />
They ask for such sweet honesty<br />
and I timidly give into them<br />
because their trueness frightens me<br />
(and because i want you)<br />
<br />
They look like eternity<br />
and foresee a life of love.<br />
(so i'm locked on you)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-20503566818448598362013-01-31T17:00:00.001-08:002013-01-31T17:05:11.762-08:00Po DreamPoe it tree<br />
saved me<br />
<br />
So I stay wrapped in her<br />
trying to pull my heart out,<br />
break her from this cave<br />
<br />
I wanna,<br />
swim good<br />
and take heed in him<br />
feel the touch of her<br />
<br />
I want to experience that fragile<br />
thirst, some folk call it love<br />
<br />
Can I take off my skin for you?<br />
Expose you only to my flesh-<br />
<br />
Can I press my bleeding self against you?<br />
Will you feel my hurt?<br />
<br />
I love to watch the flow-<br />
ride.<br />
<br />
I love how it never stops<br />
no mater how still the water is<br />
<br />
I took a bath in it<br />
tried to drown myself<br />
to stop the sour breath<br />
<br />
I looked to her eyes for kindness<br />
searched them for affirmation<br />
reached out to<br />
you<br />
wanted your love<br />
<br />
I cut myself on the prick deep inside your chest-<br />
but I still held onto it hoping my feel would heal the hurt,<br />
hoping my burn would feel good.<br />
<br />
I'm dreaming still-<br />
imaging a world where you knew me,<br />
knew about we,<br />
felt the possibilities-<br />
<br />
My life be lucid like that<br />
my mind swollen<br />
fighting the uncertainty of time<br />
dreaming for a break-<br />
running towards a lie.<br />
<br />
I'm dreaming still-<br />
but I don't see the sunshine of tomorrow,<br />
only the dull of today.<br />
<br />
My heart be hopelessly in hopeless hope-<br />
for you<br />
<br />
I lose myself with a sick lit bud<br />
and sizzle into quiet time-<br />
<br />
I'm back with you,<br />
and you're wrapping me-<br />
like poetry always do<br />
<br />
Keeping me quiet,<br />
sound only in my chest<br />
<br />
but you see I'm dreaming still-<br />
imaging a time when my reality did not exist<br />
but we did<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-79772925874060811172012-12-11T10:38:00.000-08:002012-12-11T12:10:25.600-08:00Self Portrait pt.1i am scatterbrain<br />
<div>
and uncontrolled<br />
<div>
collected in a messy kindof way</div>
<div>
my legs aint always shaved</div>
<div>
and my finger nails are rarely painted</div>
<div>
(my childhood grim and tainted)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i have sad eyes</div>
<div>
and a furious brow</div>
<div>
a quick tongue </div>
<div>
but a daunting smile</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
i stand created </div>
<div>
from an assortment of complex memories</div>
<div>
and establishment after experience</div>
<div>
i myself am incorporated </div>
<div>
and i got business</div>
<div>
Purpose of divine favor</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
my hands and lips </div>
<div>
sometimes be horrified</div>
<div>
to dance in the breath of my own existence </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
i often question what life is</div>
<div>
and wonder where mine is </div>
<div>
i've lost it</div>
<div>
reclaimed and disclosed my truth</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes there's a cry in my chest </div>
<div>
that i can't quite get out</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i lie and contradict myself</div>
<div>
i am a hypocrite </div>
<div>
and perfectly flawed </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i admire the unworthily flawless</div>
<div>
and desire to live that life</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
more often than so i'm petrified </div>
<div>
and hidden behind the living </div>
<div>
folded between the lines</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
my hips round and large</div>
<div>
so i'm often out the margin </div>
<div>
or bleeding through the paper</div>
<div>
or sometimes just too messy to read</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Ever live for years without breathing?<br />
(i feel like i just exhaled)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i feel brutish </div>
<div>
and allow myself to gloat in pity</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
often i look to outward lives </div>
<div>
to catalyze my outward movement </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i feel lovely</div>
<div>
and admire my coat of skin</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
too often i question myself from within</div>
<div>
and wonder where times been</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
and where it's goin'</div>
<div>
and who be knowin'</div>
<div>
(and how much of my life was sin?)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
consistently i live in uncertainty </div>
<div>
dwell too heavily in my own thoughts</div>
<div>
and confuse perception with reality </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
we all be</div>
<div>
confusions of an unreal past</div>
<div>
living towards a fabricated future</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
denying the moment of now</div>
<div>
too far removed from the present<br />
ceasing to seize the moment </div>
<div>
every second a different prospected memory </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
every memory </div>
<div>
a different perspective of the past</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
sometimes i be scatterbrain</div>
<div>
every thought more conflicting than the last one<br />
actions abruptly premeditated </div>
<div>
<br />
I asked God to reveal me to myself<br />
he told me to let go of my past </div>
<div>
and to stop anticipating the future<br />
live aware of the present moment </div>
<div>
to breathe as though i've been delivered </div>
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Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-56160597013566016372012-10-07T17:12:00.000-07:002012-10-07T17:18:11.468-07:00Winter time blues. Inspiration: This cold ass pre winter day in October<br />
Word: Winter<br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
it reminds me of those sad ass days<br />
when the cold only made shit worse-<br />
and iced over sidewalks<br />
<i>with blood turned brown</i><br />
and the residue of dirty caution tape<br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
and late packed ass Chicago buses<br />
<i>and the dry frozen salt on the back of hearses </i><br />
and tryin' to keep warm on the train<br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
cause it reminds me of legs slippin'<br />
<i>and bodies dippin'</i><br />
and hot burning tear drops frozen over<br />
from mother<br />
<br />
I hate<br />
the winter time<br />
and cold black ashy hands<br />
wanting for dinner<br />
<i>and for closure</i><br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
cause it feels like that good luck shit<br />
<i>that don't exist</i><br />
den ran dry<br />
and it's ice blue gray skies<br />
make it seem like the sun den died<br />
<br />
I hate winter<br />
and how time passes slower<br />
<i>hard for the lonely loner</i><br />
<br />
I hate the winter time<br />
cause all I see<br />
is them white pretty families<br />
cuttin' down christmas tress<br />
and broke and broken mamas<br />
tryin' to make holiday<br />
when ends don't meet<br />
<br />
I hate the fucking winter time<br />
it reminds me of harsh winds<br />
and the infinite sound of doors closin'<br />
<i>and eviction</i><br />
and all that other bullshit<br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
cause it feels like death stings deeper<br />
standing over salted dead-land<br />
and by frozen trees<br />
<i>and that walk back from RUSH still haunts me</i><br />
<br />
I hate winter time<br />
because trees don't seem to hide me<br />
and snow tracks tell where to come fine me<br />
<br />
and I hate January<br />
because the start of a new year<br />
redundantly brings back<br />
memories kissed with neglect grief<br />
and death<br />
<br />
<i>and I'm forever wantin' you to come back-</i><br />
<br />
to fall,<br />
when the September Sun<br />
danced in your brown eyes<br />
and your color changing body was only limp<br />
but still patiently holdin' on<br />
<br />
So I hate the winter<br />
and how every year it only gets colder<br />
and I'm further away from you in time<br />
<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-26230159265860789522012-08-25T12:03:00.002-07:002012-09-17T16:30:49.089-07:00Divided LifeInspiration: This book I'm reading about Henrietta Lacks<br />
Word: Torn<br />
<br />
I feel like another part of my life<br />
has been torn from my heart<br />
and my soul be diluted<br />
and flat like cooled hot water<br />
I feel like I've been stretched open<br />
and cut unwilling<br />
like Henrietta<br />
<br />
I feel like my tears be endless,<br />
I shed the Sahara<br />
<br />
Sometimes I get lost in daydreams<br />
to cultivate new dreams<br />
<br />
I can only hope that my torn lives<br />
multiply, like heres did<br />
and love for something<br />
better? Like here ded<br />
<br />
I thought I was empty once<br />
that empty felt much better<br />
<br />
My pit of black be lonesome<br />
but it shines more vividly<br />
than daybreak suns<br />
<br />
My cave is etched with pillars<br />
of heartbreak and isolation<br />
<br />
The walls painted heavy<br />
with over thought confusion<br />
<br />
The floor burns bright<br />
and catalyzes compulsive upsetting thoughts<br />
<br />
I call this place calm<br />
<br />
I sit neatly placed at my desk<br />
quieter than that sick silence<br />
so my ears ring of deafening screams<br />
and unprint worthy violence<br />
<br />
My hands be numbed<br />
no longer strong enough to lace<br />
just cuff<br />
<br />
They be fulfillin' their mission for us<br />
I've been thought down<br />
into an unfair fore-sought destiny<br />
<br />
Mothers had more of a dream for me<br />
my torn lives be slabbed on<br />
petri dishes or profited on<br />
by the lawless lords<br />
<br />
I wonder if they'll see the moon<br />
or distill into the air<br />
chocking the breathe of dead land<br />
or if they'll revolutionize a society<br />
be noteworthily uncredited<br />
to the hearts that they were torn from<br />
<br />
I wonder what might become<br />
of we<br />
I wonder if we might multiply<br />
rather than divide<br />
I wonder if we might reclaim<br />
our torn livesNaomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-50884554695500764782012-08-25T10:59:00.001-07:002013-10-06T16:24:31.541-07:00You Promised MeInspiration: In light of all the current foolery of the world.<br />
Word: Promise<br />
<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I feel
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">cool, im
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I dreamed a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and moon sent <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">delivered in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I heal through
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"We
couldn't see the stars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">so we threw up
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now we got our
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">killin' our
own- I read<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Books explain
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">be crooks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and why my
people's smiles stay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">crook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We be hooked-in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the imagery of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the broke-in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that's that
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">fuckin' with
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">got us thinkin' real
is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">a cold bed of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">wanders tryin'
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">hell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">haunted on the
backs of open legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and hands
throwin' up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">callin'
oneself supreme <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">uncommonly
common is the new theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frank Ocean
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">so he must not
fuck with that one man's laws<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I be scorn
again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">be that angry
black woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">because I
can't become<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the remedy, of
a broken reality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that shit dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What if I shot
the sheriff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for all the
misbled blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and hung him
high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">enough to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">dead little
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">danglin' on
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and bodies
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">by aimless
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">led by lost
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">trailed by
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and mother's
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">quicker than
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">tryin' to make
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">was all that damn
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I much rather
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">than the land
of the dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And aint that
where we is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">with all this
self-denying finger pointing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">hatred?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We be sippin'
on that maddening world-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What she say?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I don't
hear [shit] but maddening screams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the soft
strains of death..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You promised
me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">a freedom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">postto insure
some blessing of liberty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">said if I
agree I'd be insured domestic tranquility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the best lie
was the promotion of general welfare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">because the lawless
lawmakers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">don't care<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">thus I've
created a new promise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">deviated from
a blood country's platform norm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">aint no need
to confirm or follow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">my promise
aint ratified by the heartless or hollow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">merely a claim
for my stolen dignity <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, fuck a
promise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I'll claim my
own free<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-51064133303360991412012-08-25T10:32:00.000-07:002012-08-25T10:32:41.887-07:00Movies Inspiration: My favorite movies.<br />
Word: Watch<br />
<br />
I want to watch Drumline<br />
and Save the Last Dance<br />
sing along with the Temptations<br />
and shout with the Five Heartbeats<br />
I wanna do the washer machine with Selena<br />
and hoop with Monica<br />
I want to fall in love With The King<br />
and be dazzled like Anna<br />
I want to be marveled by the life of Billie<br />
Sing a little blues too<br />
I'd love to ride the bleak with Juno<br />
and get lifted with Craig and Smokey<br />
I wanna have a walk on beaches<br />
and see the garden of Edward<br />
I'd love to get bad with my bads<br />
and Set it Off<br />
then cry a little bit with Doughboy<br />
I want to hurt with my Sister's Keeper<br />
and be romanced by Love Jones<br />
I want to feel classic hip hop<br />
and beautiful in Brown Sugar<br />
and be troubled by 13<br />
I wanna live that thug lyfe<br />
in Claudine<br />
and Wait to Exhale<br />
I wanna eat spaghetti<br />
toppled with syrup<br />
and find the meaning of family<br />
with Elf<br />
I want to learn the backstroke<br />
and swim good in Pride<br />
I wanna love Jenny like Forrest<br />
and run myself to Freedom<br />
I wanna dance dirty and<br />
come out of my corner<br />
I want to find where my broken is<br />
and make it into A funny Story<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-75687638451324856382012-07-19T22:03:00.002-07:002012-07-19T22:20:55.106-07:00BudInspiration: And old friend<br />
Word: Acknowledge<br />
<br />
For a while now, I've wanted to write a poem to you,<br />
not a thank you, but an acknowledgment.<br />
<br />
I allow you to move me<br />
similarly I use you<br />
I look to you for compassion<br />
honesty<br />
lustful love- still remaining true<br />
I asked you to acknowledge me too<br />
recall our long summers<br />
of warm baths<br />
and morning stories<br />
I love our morning glory<br />
and how the wine sinks down deeper<br />
when I'm riding you<br />
We be, the three of, cool together<br />
The thick warmth of Moscato<br />
with the dry heat from you<br />
sizzle me like I'm dancing the Rumba<br />
or a Jazz Ballet on pointed toes<br />
I love when I giggle<br />
release openly<br />
You're an old friend<br />
I normally trust you<br />
but I can never really give you my heart<br />
nor give myself to you,<br />
or give into you<br />
allow you to abuse me,<br />
too.<br />
I will always be buck enough to conquer you<br />
I won't get lost like the hopeless do<br />
and confused<br />
and look to you for life.<br />
<br />
You're simply the reflection<br />
of my sunshine<br />
the afterglow<br />
of my moonlight.Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-16499904713764754632012-07-19T21:26:00.001-07:002012-07-20T08:13:20.413-07:00Bittersweet Poetry<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Inspiration: A friend of mine who is a beautiful writer wrote an essay that brought up some old memories.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Word: Bittersweet </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I feel like I have stains on my cheeks<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
from where tears lay faithfully<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Where they dream swim and breathe-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I drank bittersweet wine<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
twisted into rhymes rained down on moleskins. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
My pen goes in. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I’m writing about you again.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I’m sittin’ at home without you again.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But you where never here though-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That was just a miss-recalled memory<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Caused by you haunting me-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I want you to hurt me,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Cut me wide op-en deep-ah <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bittersweet poetry<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It’s the most emerging emergency <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I’ve lost my head for you<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Been lost in you-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes I scream out openly<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In public with folks around<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes I bang at my head in my sleep<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes, there is no sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes, you are my sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometime, we should sleep<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Together.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Arm in arm, head <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
On one pillow.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This can no longer happen now <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That thought was before I took you<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Took your breath<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Made you dead-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
See If only <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
you were out of my head<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If only<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I could get you out of my head.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I couldn’t kill the thought<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
so I took my heart instead-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Now I stare like lady Macbeth<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And wish away blood stained<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hands<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That only wanted to be laced with your<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hands <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So openly I have no regret.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And ultimately there can’t be a me<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Without you<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So willingly-<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I take my life too.<o:p></o:p></div>Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-4149078507467922812012-06-21T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-21T00:03:35.492-07:00That One TimeInspiration: Not sure, found this in my poetry book<br />
Word/Phrase: One Time<br />
<br />
I said I didn't care anymore<br />
claimed that I was over it-<br />
But I still become stilled,<br />
by your presences<br />
Shaken,<br />
by your deliciously upsetting eyes<br />
I still sometimes get tangled in the idea<br />
of you holding me<br />
in your arms<br />
keeping me<br />
with your eyes<br />
like you did that one time...<br />
you see my problem is,<br />
I'm still stuck<br />
on that one time.Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-73273642982648902642012-06-20T23:31:00.000-07:002012-06-21T22:52:05.634-07:00Each day I LoveInspiration: Thinking about the things I love.<br />
Word: Love<br />
<br />
I love how we all breed new facets of culture<br />
I love moments<br />
I love how language can create itself<br />
I love God<br />
I love how there is only one God<br />
I love the many extensions<br />
I love sweet babies<br />
the one's who bring you flowers<br />
I love the feeling of hot pavement-<br />
pressed against my feet<br />
I love sand between my toes<br />
I love being footlose<br />
and raw and bold<br />
I love good taco meet<br />
and a bubbly glass of wine<br />
I love handbells<br />
and wind-chimes<br />
and soft tin roof water cries<br />
I love the color of Jenni's hair-<br />
in the summer time<br />
I love apples-<br />
the kind that type<br />
I love my room to myself<br />
at night<br />
I love candles<br />
and a rough summer rain<br />
I love meatballs<br />
and my brother's 'black folk' spaghetti<br />
I love nice train rides<br />
and the brown line<br />
I love rooftops<br />
and flat rocks<br />
and stars<br />
I love dreadlocks<br />
and Cadillac Cars<br />
I love man, men, and humanity<br />
I especially love being womanly-<br />
a woman<br />
I love women, admire a good curve<br />
I love people<br />
and how we all swerve<br />
I love music<br />
a good 10 minute song<br />
an acoustic guitar<br />
I love a sexy rhyme<br />
and a haunting rhythm<br />
I love dirty dancing<br />
and wiggling my bum<br />
I love finding my breath-<br />
at the end of a long song<br />
I love breathing<br />
and waiting to exhale<br />
I love the way smoke looks-<br />
in the sunlight<br />
I love diggin' down into the earth<br />
and taking in the moonlight<br />
I love lovin' and I live to love<br />
I love the feeling of my love<br />
setting my soul free<br />
I love that what I love<br />
is an extension of meNaomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-85795922961257749442012-05-24T17:38:00.000-07:002012-05-24T17:44:22.352-07:00Beauty QueenInspiration: Thinking about self-made celebrities.<br />
Word/phrase: Beauty Queen<br />
<br />
It'd be tragic if a beauty queen got HIV<br />
(The others less worrisome)<br />
HIV will undoubtedly kill her.<br />
<br />
Would her followers bring her<br />
flowers, roses, comments of love<br />
Would they write on her wall<br />
with pictures of red kisses-<br />
<br />
Would they like her still<br />
favor her still?<br />
<br />
What if the beauty queen<br />
was kissed with solemn red lips<br />
turing her pretty butterscotch legs<br />
black-<br />
<br />
Dripping riled labors of lust<br />
into the mouth of wanting patrons<br />
would she still be the pretty<br />
beauty queen...<br />
<br />
or would her blackness turn her ugly<br />
would her butterscotch become roily<br />
a shot of overcast<br />
dim, musty, and gray-<br />
<br />
Would the beauty queen still wear her crown<br />
or would her throne be brought down<br />
by sour embraces of other dying arms-<br />
<br />
Would her followers recast her<br />
or band her with blocks<br />
<br />
Would she no longer be lusted<br />
Would her hair become brittle<br />
her lashed burn off?<br />
Would her eyes lose luster<br />
and her lips become parched for polish-<br />
<br />
Would she become- ordinary<br />
or rather unacknowledged<br />
Would she become present<br />
but not seen<br />
spoken of<br />
but not heard?<br />
<br />
It'd be tragic if a beauty queen<br />
got HIV<br />
the others are far less worrisome<br />
HIV will undoubtedly kill her.<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-17512097641782341902012-05-01T01:04:00.001-07:002012-05-01T01:15:40.209-07:00The StormInspiration: A really beautiful Thunder storm<br />
Word: Thunder<br />
<br />
Thunder away my love song<br />
Write to me a storm<br />
Rain though layers of my brown<br />
and create a music<br />
a song of Nina<br />
Let's bachata into the motherland<br />
and shimmer like quick sand<br />
Let's become beauty<br />
lay in my worlds<br />
Dazzle me with sunshine<br />
Massage me with foreign oils<br />
rub me down rapidly<br />
Dance the ballet<br />
Move to the greatest, freedom of rum<br />
Let my insides come<br />
Razzle my quick dance<br />
Lust on pointed toes<br />
Eroticize my everything<br />
Linger<br />
Allow yourself a stay<br />
as my presence rocks you<br />
Let my heart pound inside yours<br />
down your inner drum<br />
Let's wade in the water<br />
create a ferocious wave<br />
Watch my back ripple<br />
down to the moonlight's shine<br />
Let's hush on the current<br />
and drop to the flow<br />
Let's go beyond the trees<br />
and become lightening<br />
We'll be fire and ice<br />
and you can slide down<br />
the curves of my thighs<br />
melt<br />
all through me<br />
Let's lubricate the earth<br />
and create ourselves a bed<br />
Pick for me a throne of flowers<br />
tickle me with their innocence<br />
hum through hurricanes<br />
lose yourself in space<br />
move me <br />
with your lips<br />
allow the solitude<br />
to be our grace<br />
<br />Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-73971403709933736592012-04-30T20:11:00.000-07:002012-04-30T20:11:41.933-07:00Self<div>
Inspiration: Late night realization </div>
<div>
Word:Self </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
You have to get lost, to find yourself.Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197277457895626715.post-12227933383530443712012-04-14T14:21:00.007-07:002012-04-14T14:25:15.117-07:00No Woman No Cry<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Inspiration: My Favorite Bob Marley Song<br />
Word: Cry *the words in italics are meant to be sung*<br />
<br />
<i>"No Woman No Cry"</i><br />
Weeps<br />
softly<br />
tears<br />
loud<br />
shaking-saddened<br />
<br />
I be sad now<br />
real down now<br />
My face aint so hot- right now<br />
<br />
I be cryin'<br />
engulfed by tears-<br />
fillin' up the golf cost<br />
<br />
Cryin',<br />
I be, dyin' now<br />
(feel like it)<br />
<br />
Pain don't move softly<br />
but slowly<br />
tearin' me up,<br />
I can't heal,<br />
no more<br />
<br />
<i>"Here little darlin', don't shed no tears"</i><br />
Shed, my blood shed<br />
dull crimson red<br />
I am (dead) now<br />
head turned<br />
eyes flicked<br />
nullity etched deep down,<br />
in my skin<br />
<br />
I be,<br />
hollerin' now<br />
beggin' now<br />
<br />
Won't you forgive<br />
won't you-<br />
<i> </i><br />
Let me live,<br />
please<br />
<br />
I wanna breathe,<br />
again<br />
see,<br />
again<br />
him,<br />
again<br />
hurt joyfully,<br />
again<br />
<br />
<i>"My fear is my only courage"</i><br />
my fear is, my courage<br />
so I guess I gotta push on through<br />
<br />
Aint that what DuBois said<br />
Aint that what, my Lord said<br />
<br />
I suppose I outta be like them, then<br />
and stop all this dyin'<br />
and cryin'<br />
and fussin and shit<br />
and do what Ms. Oprah did-<br />
<br />
Turn these crimson wounds<br />
into my wisdom<br />
and learn-<br />
how to live with them<br />
<br />
<i>"Cus everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright"</i><br />
Right?<br />
Least' that's what a dear love of mine said to me,<br />
said it would<br />
all be right<br />
everything<br />
(Which seems too hard to believe)<br />
<br />
That's why I end up cryin'<br />
and that's how I'm gone end up,<br />
dyin'<br />
<br />
Because I let my tears nurture the dead in me<br />
I live regrettin' me<br />
and I aint too proud to be<br />
sometimes<br />
<br />
Sometimes I wish I knew how to lie<br />
or act real good<br />
So I could live happy<br />
and free<br />
<br />
Be like that woman who don't know no cry<br />
and learn to only surrender my life<br />
to the beautiful things<br />
<br />
Written April 13th and 14th</span>Naomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16212283464538952518noreply@blogger.com0