Author Archives: poetry

we’ve never met

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and everyday you’re not here, my spirit bleeds…

“Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

Crazy skies all wild above me now
Winter howling at my face
And everything I held so dear
Disappeared without a trace
Oh all the times I’ve tasted love
Never knew quite what I had
Little Darling if you hear me now
Never needed you so bad
Spinning round inside my head

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

I’ve been talking drunken gibberish
Falling in and out of bars
Trying to get some explanation here
For the way some people are
How did it ever come so far

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now…”

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twenty-six etched caresses

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[now]

I squeeze you slowly, mostly, you hold me closely, tenderly, enveloping me, no falsity, rare sense of clarity, security, miraculously, merciful transparency, ceasing apparentlies: rediscovery, hidden trajectories, smitten kitten abandoning treacherous residencies, enough already, no more calamity tragedies, you’re my double digit economy, my currency is equilibrium; love without dichotomy…

[then]

your tiger eyes shine diamond bright, my beacon light, shimmering blind, golden skin pressed against mine, your every sunrise grips my outlines tight, all upon a time silent sighs die, glimmering inside gliding finds, bone, flesh, wrapped round divine kinds, defined size, no dividing sides, decisive grinds, cubed tips, softly signed, smooth lips, rouge designs, blurred contours defined in only our minds, submissive incline repaid in kind, refined, refinding, rekindling life an olive kiss at a time.

Passing Presence

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Yearning, for something perhaps beyond my reach, a heart to set free, protect, and safe keep. I’m filtering, not listening, to foolish unpracticed teachers preach. Your spirit creature; soul leeches, smokescreen features, pretending you’re my imprint. I beseech you, keep your distance. Please, just let me be. Perched on these, ragged, rugged, windy leaves, I watch a savage sea rock a bleeding beach. I throw caution to a sinking breeze, whispering wishes for endless sleep.

Darkness pulls me in, wrapping me in velvet lone, you come in and rush, I go out slowly on my own. I don’t know what keeps me here, cold cords like puppet strings. Working through sullied motions, unfolding broken stars the daybreak brings. Touching scars, I pause, inbetween faltered breathing, with your lies you try to reel me in; drown me in your seething; seal me in a room with sickly witching djinns. I’m refusing. Unravelling your fabled myths, I’m standing, fearless, over delivering.

buried / written by Shane

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Realities, tragedies,
grapple me, tackle me
gradually,
fall in love with fallacy,
clash with absent humanity,
passion, passed up for vanity,
ration my compassion, charity:
cloak and dagger fashion,
fascists long for insanity,
conjuring up clarity,
but apathy reigns,
if empathy was currency,
we’d all feel the strain,
yearning for some pain,
so I can feel the same as you.

There’s unity in suffering,
so maybe I could trade with you,
you can take my shoes,
I can take your blues,
since we were cultivated in the same womb.
This universe is doomed,
if we don’t make the room,
to expand,
and zoom out,
observe the bigger picture,
we’re forced to tune out,
watching corpses who know,
it’s nothing new,
like lies are the truth.