Blue's Short Poetry Collection #1

all original writing copyrighted by Blue. all rights reserved.


Daisies. Flight. Black Love. Water Transparency. Little Thoughts (for the Unrequited). To Pygmalion: A Love Letter. To Marianne:


Daisies

Bruises--
a spectrum of iridiscent colors
against the pallor of your skin

basking, swathing aimlessly 
reaching, entwining
with the creases of your mouth
and the face that had met a heavy hand

I stop you from looking
into my sadness
Instead I prefer 
your superficiality. 


Flight

from body and soul
you untwine,
escape into dreams
of travesty
like skin
slipping into surgical gloves
I suffocate you
with a smothering possessiveness--
called love

and I watch you moan
helplessly and I revel
in your hopes 
of a different reality.

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Black Love

is bile
spewing from my throat

is stomach churning
like cauldron of boiling water

is acid
marring my face to translucent paleness

is toilet seat cracking 
from explosion of flowing fetuses

is poison creeping
from air vents

and you are the voyeur dropping
from the bathroom ceiling:
our midnight tryst.

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Water Transparency

     i see                 you
   through you                i see
            countless sorrows
i see                      through you
                               your sadness
    i see you                     there
              without seeing
  i feel                     you
                        your lament
       i touch             you
your transparent                      nakedness
    but can't                 feel you
          i feel you              but i can't
   understand you          and i blame you
  for being                          there
                   for me
         to see               but not see
  and you don't deserve               my forgiveness
      and for that               i am
                     happy

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Little Thoughts (for the Unrequited)

Butterfly wings
fluttering against my mother's breast
sits heavily like stone.

     --0--

Sand castles
built by two hands, waiting
for the waves to come.

     --0--

False whispers
that pour like sees pierce the ear
until it splits and bleeds.

     --0--

Shards of glass
fall from the sky, like manna
splintering the eye of love.

     --0--

Ravens and their flapping wings
deluge the sky's horizon
to blot out the sun.

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To Pygmalion: A Love Letter

I have diamonds for eyes--
Do you think I'll ever want them?

I have an open ear--
Don't you think I can't hear the trails of your curses?

I count the bones of my fingers--
Do you see that they are lacking?

I have caved lungs--
Will this be a testament to my hunger for your passion?

I try to find my mind and it is not there--
Am I to be a slave to your thoughts?

I am encased in cold crystals--
Have you thought of a tactile universe?

I have a contorted body--
Did you fail to remember as you mould me?

I have a withered soul--
And you call me yours?

Though I have these gifts--
Should I be thankful that you acknowledge my presence?

My dear Cypriot king,
Oh how you spare me from beauty!

You are no more a sculptor than I am yours.

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To Marianne:

Consider
this situation/question: is it
ironic     if I love
to write what I dislike
to read

and is it a matter of
purpose,     a necessity as they name
this modern mass 
of floating letters

or is this random,   really
or an arrangement of flowers, how do they
sense its sequence ---
to "feel" or "hear" the "rightness"
of look,  of meaning
if ever there is 
one?

perhaps --
you understand us/me
best --- "that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand" ---
but does this
remove my bitterness/fear
or me
from the sphere
of Poetry?

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