Submissions by unboundpoetess
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
tears of men
you bare your storms to me
I lash against the currents
and you give me your back
foundations shift
did we not build
upon the stones
the pull of grains from the shore
where sails have failed proud ships
their masts a heaving sigh
of grief and heavy waters
I sip at your drowning
and break over you
crash on heaving shoulders
where there is no salvage
from the bone littered depths
of fathers, sand and covenants
smashed in sick christening
against the fragile bow
...
I lash against the currents
and you give me your back
foundations shift
did we not build
upon the stones
the pull of grains from the shore
where sails have failed proud ships
their masts a heaving sigh
of grief and heavy waters
I sip at your drowning
and break over you
crash on heaving shoulders
where there is no salvage
from the bone littered depths
of fathers, sand and covenants
smashed in sick christening
against the fragile bow
...
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angel smoke
and I was not a child
worshipping barefoot breezes
given to the sunrise
of her bornagain
she was new earth blush
her freedoms were a stardance
of midnight constellations
and forgiveness was a song
that I could only hum
I cupped the laughter blind
catching angel smoke in nets
white wisps the still center
around which the universe
wrapped the fragile of my dreams
she smiled daylight redemption
and clover was a summered prayer
kneeling in her meadows
whispering soft...
worshipping barefoot breezes
given to the sunrise
of her bornagain
she was new earth blush
her freedoms were a stardance
of midnight constellations
and forgiveness was a song
that I could only hum
I cupped the laughter blind
catching angel smoke in nets
white wisps the still center
around which the universe
wrapped the fragile of my dreams
she smiled daylight redemption
and clover was a summered prayer
kneeling in her meadows
whispering soft...
1077 reads
4 Comments
gehenna burning
this halo glimmers asphyxiate charms
to a slave of slipknot eros noosed
I wear his shackled freedom
and burn like ripe vagaries
plucked on gehenna afternoons
he plies my confession
parted lipped and loosed
spilling open ended conjuration
he casts sorceries for words
etched vertical across my back
staining merlot chaste
so I will hold my demons closer
and the slithered serpents tease my seams
pose to finger permissions
as I scatter on exodus wings
every good intention
firedancing
I...
to a slave of slipknot eros noosed
I wear his shackled freedom
and burn like ripe vagaries
plucked on gehenna afternoons
he plies my confession
parted lipped and loosed
spilling open ended conjuration
he casts sorceries for words
etched vertical across my back
staining merlot chaste
so I will hold my demons closer
and the slithered serpents tease my seams
pose to finger permissions
as I scatter on exodus wings
every good intention
firedancing
I...
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bound
I am drawn with your wicked imaginings
skin sinned brimstone zephyr sketched
warm swept across dark waters
of curve and nape and cleft
burning down the temples
in gardens
of my deepest night
striped with the laces of verdant uttering
this parchment blushes her moan
a slave to quilled religion
I am baptized in tongues
your exegetic doll
swallowing puddles
of your ink
grant me the saliva of your poem words
and I will writhe beneath them
freedom is anathema
pressed between your leather ...
skin sinned brimstone zephyr sketched
warm swept across dark waters
of curve and nape and cleft
burning down the temples
in gardens
of my deepest night
striped with the laces of verdant uttering
this parchment blushes her moan
a slave to quilled religion
I am baptized in tongues
your exegetic doll
swallowing puddles
of your ink
grant me the saliva of your poem words
and I will writhe beneath them
freedom is anathema
pressed between your leather ...
967 reads
8 Comments
cotton
I cry for you
to lap my soft sadness
into wailing peaks
of needyou
arched wanting leaks
on breasts and thighs
and slicks me lonely hurting
I push against your pulse and plead
for deeper
only deeper
until you are in my throat
plundering for poems
and I am in yours
tasting me
in the glisten of your lips
and tonguing your heart again
your balm soaks me
and soothes the furl of toes
laying me apart and purple
contracting to choke
on the smooth of your emotion ...
to lap my soft sadness
into wailing peaks
of needyou
arched wanting leaks
on breasts and thighs
and slicks me lonely hurting
I push against your pulse and plead
for deeper
only deeper
until you are in my throat
plundering for poems
and I am in yours
tasting me
in the glisten of your lips
and tonguing your heart again
your balm soaks me
and soothes the furl of toes
laying me apart and purple
contracting to choke
on the smooth of your emotion ...
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the kiss
on the fluttered fringes of these skins
our breezes are easy chemicals
solar licking flares
that expose us nudely
to our schemes
the cells eclipse the voyeurs
reduce them to elemental things
blood and nerves and jasmine
exhaling ballads to ravening lungs
impatient for panting warm
on wreaths of thirsty sheets
where cool was lost to pulses
in the bosom of some neural music
hovered in this in between
cusp of still life breathless
endlessly painting our beginning
the jealous artists' brushes
pale to...
our breezes are easy chemicals
solar licking flares
that expose us nudely
to our schemes
the cells eclipse the voyeurs
reduce them to elemental things
blood and nerves and jasmine
exhaling ballads to ravening lungs
impatient for panting warm
on wreaths of thirsty sheets
where cool was lost to pulses
in the bosom of some neural music
hovered in this in between
cusp of still life breathless
endlessly painting our beginning
the jealous artists' brushes
pale to...
1099 reads
4 Comments
vitreous
dogs laugh at my eating glass talent
splitting teeth sneer when it shatters them
into dirty prism
reflection shards
hideous pretty in the
caviling light
carnival light
carnivore light
fleas rage sermons
confess nothing
I grin bloody
and gnash some more
H
splitting teeth sneer when it shatters them
into dirty prism
reflection shards
hideous pretty in the
caviling light
carnival light
carnivore light
fleas rage sermons
confess nothing
I grin bloody
and gnash some more
H
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prey
give me something I can feel
gnaw the stitches open
and bleed me from the inside
until I am nothing but a woman
lipstick smeared and wearing
the bones of men
I seek the hide of your animal
to penetrate amnesia
thrust against the white noise
desecrate the voices
wet me until I am female skin
again and wanting
cast me to the earth for cleansing
moaning guttural poetry
against the mud we'll make
your nails snared in the flesh of me
dirty and redeemed
condemn me to unfulfillment
I smile slow...
gnaw the stitches open
and bleed me from the inside
until I am nothing but a woman
lipstick smeared and wearing
the bones of men
I seek the hide of your animal
to penetrate amnesia
thrust against the white noise
desecrate the voices
wet me until I am female skin
again and wanting
cast me to the earth for cleansing
moaning guttural poetry
against the mud we'll make
your nails snared in the flesh of me
dirty and redeemed
condemn me to unfulfillment
I smile slow...
1329 reads
5 Comments
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