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backdeckbenny
Published
Today 7:58am
Today 7:58am
The L Word
If Love is the absence of Fear.
Then Fear is the absence of Love.
Then Fear is the absence of Love.
#love
11 reads
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wallyroo92
Bumped Today 7:36am
4th Jul 2020 5:22pm
4th Jul 2020 5:22pm
Statuesque
Statuesque
#erotic
#rhyming
#WritingPoetry #sensual
#WritingPoetry #sensual
985 reads
13 Comments
goldenmyst
Published
Today 7:28am
Today 7:28am
Chinatown Blues
Chinatown Blues
Teatime in Chinatown
Where the old men play Mahjong
While reciting Lao Tzu over ramen noodles
Whose Tao is a Macau séance
For spirits of ancestors
Like the memory of an opium den
In a dream for a wizened apothecary
Bearded in ashen white
Who sells the dust of dragon bones
As a cure for the immigrant blues
Where Mandarin women chirp
Like songbirds in a bamboo forest
Lost in the mists of Sichuan
But having crossed the Pacific ring of fire
With volcanic ash of tears
For...
Teatime in Chinatown
Where the old men play Mahjong
While reciting Lao Tzu over ramen noodles
Whose Tao is a Macau séance
For spirits of ancestors
Like the memory of an opium den
In a dream for a wizened apothecary
Bearded in ashen white
Who sells the dust of dragon bones
As a cure for the immigrant blues
Where Mandarin women chirp
Like songbirds in a bamboo forest
Lost in the mists of Sichuan
But having crossed the Pacific ring of fire
With volcanic ash of tears
For...
#America
#Buddhist
#city #nostalgia
#city #nostalgia
21 reads
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cabcool
Published
Today 6:52am
Today 6:52am
the quality of mercy
❝The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.❞
—William Shakespeare
would you be cruel to a wounded fawn?
would you shame still a bruised or broken reed?
would punish you a penitential lamb?
or trample on its path a struggling seed?
has callousness all mercy swept from you,
all pity clean repealed from hope's purview?
would you the hungry child relieve of bread ...
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.❞
—William Shakespeare
would you be cruel to a wounded fawn?
would you shame still a bruised or broken reed?
would punish you a penitential lamb?
or trample on its path a struggling seed?
has callousness all mercy swept from you,
all pity clean repealed from hope's purview?
would you the hungry child relieve of bread ...
#inequality
#kindness
#LifeStruggles
#oppression
#poverty
11 reads
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dimpy
dimpsmoon
dimpsmoon
Published
Today 5:51am
Today 5:51am
ode to purring cat
the body was crushed
juices drunk,
a flower ready to bloom again into full glory....
juices drunk,
a flower ready to bloom again into full glory....
#erotic
#orgasm
#sensual
34 reads
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Gahddess_Worship
Published
Today 5:30am
Today 5:30am
Unsolicited Fortune Teller
Sitting in Sunday school class
with a group of high school friends
all of us the same age
but I was a grade behind
our teacher spoke of careers
we might pursue
after graduating school
he was in computer sales
working for Big Blue
my dad, an Electrical Engineer
just happened to work there too
when the instructor
began suggesting jobs each of us could do
to one, “you'd be an excellent programmer”
to another “a top -notch chip designer”
because of their mathematical acuity
and to me he says,
in a dismissive...
with a group of high school friends
all of us the same age
but I was a grade behind
our teacher spoke of careers
we might pursue
after graduating school
he was in computer sales
working for Big Blue
my dad, an Electrical Engineer
just happened to work there too
when the instructor
began suggesting jobs each of us could do
to one, “you'd be an excellent programmer”
to another “a top -notch chip designer”
because of their mathematical acuity
and to me he says,
in a dismissive...
#college
#job
#learning #school
#learning #school
12 reads
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tell_me_wy
Published
Today 5:08am
Today 5:08am
-cide (10w)
#addiction
#alcohol
#dark #suicide
#dark #suicide
8 reads
0 Comments
bcpoet
Lawrence
Lawrence
Published
Today 4:54am
Today 4:54am
Light
slipping through the atmosphere,
crashing into Earth
bouncing and reflecting
Light..stimulating birth
Light..stimulating molecules...
Light..stimulating mind
right here on this small planet
this is where we find
Light..stimulating molecules..
Light..stimulating birth
rushing through the depths of space
crashing into Earth
crashing into you and me,
reflecting how we feel
reflecting what our hearts hold true,
reflecting what is real -
slipping through the atmosphere,
crashing into...
crashing into Earth
bouncing and reflecting
Light..stimulating birth
Light..stimulating molecules...
Light..stimulating mind
right here on this small planet
this is where we find
Light..stimulating molecules..
Light..stimulating birth
rushing through the depths of space
crashing into Earth
crashing into you and me,
reflecting how we feel
reflecting what our hearts hold true,
reflecting what is real -
slipping through the atmosphere,
crashing into...
#universe
2 reads
0 Comments
backdeckbenny
Published
Today 4:42am
Today 4:42am
The lights going out.
A journalist said America was more like a 'bin fire than a beacon' these days.
Can't argue with that.
Can't argue with that.
#America
20 reads
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Metropolis
Published
Today 4:12am
Today 4:12am
DUP
boxes filled,
then hauled away.
a final look around.
the room cleared;
the doors locked.
the parking lot emptied
and a new beginning
............for everyone?
then hauled away.
a final look around.
the room cleared;
the doors locked.
the parking lot emptied
and a new beginning
............for everyone?
#WritingPoetry
22 reads
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Green_Arrow
Published
Today 2:12am
Today 2:12am
My Wife And I Do This Every Saturday
I invited my friend home.
She saw us after taking her shower.
She dropped her towel and he stripped.
I watched him hump her.
She saw us after taking her shower.
She dropped her towel and he stripped.
I watched him hump her.
#dialogue
#fiction
#friendship
#home
#sex
43 reads
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a_methyste
hlightdroid
hlightdroid
Published
Today 2:12am
Today 2:12am
Techno
Time goes well at techno
I do not watch the clock
When it is going to finish.
I do not watch the clock
When it is going to finish.
#love
15 reads
0 Comments
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