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#NoPoo Book 1     An ode to Gabriel

Grace
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child slapped child across the face
mother spat at mother
and the little dog laughed
we are lost souls
wandering on misty terrain
hitting and at times missing
Destiny

...or are we

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(NoPoo 163) Cloaked In Anxiety

my tortured breathing
escaping ~ frantic heartbeats
confined ~ in my chest


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24.04.2021
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Treasure

dreamt...
treasures of glittering gems
all manners and shapes of gold
strewn upon distant shores
with shoals of fish beached
sun colouring the canvas
of that scene in molten gold

threshold of a world that was ...
or would be

chalice of bitter
to lips
of God to God
of dust to dust
garments of regality turned to ashes

golden needles and silver threads
sew but heal not

...heart band broke, it bleeds again

my heart is just missing you.






lepperochan
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Prison planet


wouldn’t have a cat for a friend
if it weren’t for the plague

but these things happen I guess
in times of the prisoners

she’s not so bad, plays fetch
like a four legged ninja

twitch in her jaw
says she’s trying hard
not to draw blood
when her mouth
is too fast for my hand

I see her sometimes
perched in the window

one time while there
heard her let out a cry

an awful sorrowful sound

nothing like the canary
caged in the bedroom

every morning
it’s a sweet happy melody

would make me feel warm inside
if it didn’t wake me so early

[and the logic of it escapes me
poor thing has wings
and caged in]

but it did wake me
so now while it sleeps
I throw a blanket
over the cage

morning time for him
is at my discretion

and when the blanket comes off
the light floods in


it sings



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_feral
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under a moon

 
 
eyes  
ache—
          
            violent  
            & blue





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lepperochan
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No, it wasn’t the time a baby Ghecko bit me on the little finger. though I do to this day remember the trauma


in all my years
and there are a few of them
I’ve never felt so frightened
helpless, and so close
to frantic tears
as the time three wasps
came at me through a hole
in my trouser leg

I suppose, looking back
it must have been
a real Death Star moment for them
cos the hole was small

and I had thrown a rock
at their nest after all

I ran
like a shite
from a belly full
of bad pints  

down a lane way
up a street
passed the neighbours
staring at me
like I’d my hands
cupped ‘round the jewels
eyes forward
neck stretched out



up the driveway
through the front door


fell on the stairs
face first
on the carpet

didn’t care

found a way
to climb them fast
with forehead and knees
burst into my bedroom

tore off trousers
trapped the wasps
long sigh of relief

the tables had turned

not that I wasn’t
still a bit frightened




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Sometimes it is all about the kernel.


it's easy
to cast lines
aspersions
or assumptions

to be
so shrouded
in self

absorbed of
and blinded

a cause.

leaving sound thoughts
left—
in an well warned
obscure

Oh, to be discovered
right.

when
desperately
needing





to be wrong.




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... is everything.

     
        
i read    
about not forgetting,        
echoes that remain chested within        
closer than our very own skin        
and beckoning      
that beckoning    
of sweet memory        
       
my pitter,        
it quickens and patters        
o' how deeply the grasp        
into the heart        
of my heart        
seeing... me        
       
seeing.        
me.        
   
as you see me.       
   
affording that clarity    
an exquisite poignancy        
delivers a sort of healing        
       
when i see myself,        
through you        
       
the breadth        
of such tender beauty        
reflected back to me    
how you allow me        
to permeate        
without question        
willing ....        
       
it's that willingness, my love        
       
willing       
and wanting        
my tattered soul        
       
   
   
as is.      
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
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(NoPoo 164) The Value Of A Good Cry

in the eons of tears
a faint remembrance ~ of a
passionate embrace


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Blood

blood under fingernails
seeping from shallow cuts
piecing together shards
of glass mirror broken
on the floor

I wanted a glimpse of self
at what price


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~Scarecrow Skins Of Evanescence..  Shreds As Eventual Stardust Us :: The Love Buddha

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(NoPoo 165)... And Left Gasping

   i forgot to breathe
   your beauty sucked my air out
   now i am breathless


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