tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136947000217891442024-03-21T11:53:15.551-07:00Jolly One-Click Shoe Hero Presents "Where Shall I Wander..."A collection of poems and musings by a rookie poet and constant dreamer - J.O.S.HJoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-85232157131336441912017-03-16T00:22:00.001-07:002017-03-16T00:22:37.950-07:00216<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 216 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day erubescent meaning "reddening or blushing."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">War Zone </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You have your orders</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I expect they will be obeyed </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Trudging through the snow </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">This isn't what I thought </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">This isn't what I expected </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Failure is not an option </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Absolute loyalty is everything </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The wearer of my flesh</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">These weak twiggy legs</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">My pulverised brain</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">My erubescent cheeks </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It won't take anymore </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I smile like a retard </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You must endure</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You must push on</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Your victory will only then be assured</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The ends of it are messy</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">My odds and ends </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Without exception I'm broken</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Without rest we toddle on</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You cannot break</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You must be strong</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Abandon all weakness</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Leave your flesh behind transcend it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">No. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">This is the end of the line</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The final bitter pill</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Whether it be stinging pellets</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Raining on us through the mud in front of us </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Or the whips of our taskmasters behind it's done</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">My body smacks into the hard clay like a dream</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I can feel my skull bending </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It's beautiful and impossible </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The colours blend all together.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-91081951847499673912017-03-14T23:56:00.001-07:002017-03-14T23:56:57.448-07:00215<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 215 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day doryphore </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">"a pedantic and annoyingly persistent critic of others."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Discontent before the Law</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The Court could not </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Account for the doryphore</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">At its doors</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The army of panel wavers </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">In angry bold letters - times new roman, Ariel even Comic Sans</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The opulent gowned figures</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Could not fathom the discontent</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Brewing </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They wanted blood </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They wanted their blood </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was a visceral mood</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">To the crowd and they needed </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It torn down </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They needed to see some symbolic destruction</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Some reality to their agonies</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The men and women in their suits and ties </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Did not see the yowls, mewls or screams </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Though they passed the throng each day </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was a collective deadening of sensation as though their skin had turned to cobblestone, brick and sand </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The people demanded something</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They could not say what it was</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They could never account for it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Put it into the necessary terms </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">So it remained lost </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Security hurried them on</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Official business carried on </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Another day inconsequential as all others.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-82414905568859839962017-03-14T23:48:00.001-07:002017-03-14T23:48:43.238-07:00214<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 214 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day Divaricate meaning "to stretch or spread apart."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Oysters </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Fresh from the sea </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There shells divaricated </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">By strong arms </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The lemon commingling</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">With the shimmering white flesh</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">To lick and slurp </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That sweet gurgle as </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It slides through your insides</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Pearl soft cream </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Feeling the brine briefly</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Whisper at the tail end</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The sea in your mouth.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-22572270234242215712017-03-14T00:03:00.001-07:002017-03-14T00:03:56.135-07:00213<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 213 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Effable meaning "something that can be put into words."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The Silo</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Tall corn rests shadowed by the </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Silo </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It rests in its shade </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The corn is restless the farmer </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Ploughs through it the stalks are tossed up all in sight of the silo</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The farmer rests </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">A kind hand greets him passes him orange juice freshly squeezed </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He inspects the crop </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">In the tall silo stacked dry and barren</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There is a pause </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">An effable silence </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">In the line between the shade of the silo and the white light </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">On the yellow stalks of corn </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There is a meeting </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It is sacred and silent </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It occurs in the shadow of the silo</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There is guilt and giddiness and trepidation </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The silence is all the more chilling and exciting </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There is something being born here in shadow of the silo and it is not corn </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The farmer has neglected his work</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The tractor lies barren</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There is only one place he may be</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">But who with?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-51024196020673753042017-03-13T23:57:00.001-07:002017-03-13T23:57:35.568-07:00212<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 212 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day edacious meaning: "having to do with eating or fond of eating." </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">A tired sort of love </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I love you in a tired sort of way</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Which is the best in bed </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It is the feel of a cold morning </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">My edacious stomach embracing your breath of garlic and onions from a warm hearty meal the night before </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I love you in a peaceful sort of sense</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">When work is done and I'm stretched i feel my body shrinking gradually on that long road home to you </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The compression is joy </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I love you like the stiff pain of a Sunday morning </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Knowing the bliss of waking and knowing what lies behind the next horizon </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">But knowing in this moment</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">As light shines upon us two balls side by side </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Anything is possible today </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">We can do anything we want today.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-8912914667177327052017-03-13T23:51:00.003-07:002017-03-13T23:51:15.868-07:00211<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 211 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day Deracinate meaning "tear up by the roots."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're the Worst </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're bad for me </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're the worst </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It's time to deracinate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">To grab you and draw you out like a weed</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You robbed me of myself</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You took so much of my time</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">(But it wasn't mine was it?)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're a curse </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're a disease</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You took it all my name</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You took my money</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And my self-respect</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They lie when they say you can get it back</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I'm less than what I was now</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Thanks to you </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're poison </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're rot of the most ignoble sort </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">All the words you made me scull</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">All those lying and dirty words</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That you couldn't hold back</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Tried to pretend that you were</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That I was bad</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That I was the reason for your failings</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You're bad for me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">You were the worst </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I will be better </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Perhaps one day.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-78643720200510694962017-03-13T23:51:00.001-07:002017-03-13T23:51:03.148-07:00210<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 210 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Deglutition meaning "the action or process of swallowing."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Rainy Day</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Do you hear it trickle like a hydrant</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Gushing and gushing </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They are scurrying like rats</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Forced down gangways, footpaths, fortresses of construction and industry and into slew ways </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Mewling trampling </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The bolts of water smack their faces like curry </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Their pink swollen heads having difficulty with deglutition </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">This wet shiny world </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The cracked asphalt, the broken paths, the eternal dirt and pebble, the dominance of the microbe and dust </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The trains rumbles their frames </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The trains shake and shatter </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The foundations tremble, yet somehow hold fast </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The carriages away and shake like the sense of the commuters </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Like a pendulum begging to end</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Can you hear the trickle like a hydrant gushing</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The sound of thousands of soggy feet.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-24946984727725097802017-03-13T23:37:00.001-07:002017-03-13T23:37:59.451-07:00209<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 209 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Coriaceous meaning: "like leather." </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Dead needles </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was panting on the balcony</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">A dogged and laboured series of breaths </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was beer, vomit and sweat </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was a wart crusted coriaceous mouth</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">and a surly gent who enjoyed the feel of a lash and the way his victims curled like delicate pine</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Needles bending backwards and </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Snapping collecting into a pile</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">At his feet </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">the colour of autumn.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-10480876858882013682017-03-07T23:14:00.001-08:002017-03-07T23:14:39.610-08:00208<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 208 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day disenthral meaning: "to set someone free from enslavement."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">A couple holds hands in the Family Court </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They were separated</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I thought</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There were issues </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">But they were at peace </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The two of them like </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Old souls that had withered a battle</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He was gentle </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">She was happy to be guided </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">She took his hand </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">She sat across from him</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They made a joke across the Court room</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They nodded compliantly </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They departed having found the decorum an amusing joke and experience </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Never the word attached to this experience </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Never attached to the secret words behind their eyes </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Never attached to the hints of smiles and hope </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There was a deep love there </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Something arrive at after a long journey through darkness and danger </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">So much in a single look</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They weren't slaves to it anymore</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">They'd been disenthralled</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Hate had withered </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">But not broken them</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Their hands held by finger tips </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And still so much there that still might not be.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"><br></span></div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-69344540644644060662017-03-07T23:06:00.001-08:002017-03-07T23:06:05.282-08:00207<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 207 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day deterge meaning: "to cleanse something thoroughly."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Unworthy poem</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Who is to say what is worthy </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">To write about </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I am not sure this is worth your time</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">But apparently it's not something</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That time will let me let go of</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">So a man sits on a train in Sydney</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The trains have these three person seats (designed for three modest persons)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">So what does this fellow in the stripe top do</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Sit right at the edge of the aisle</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He had essentially blocked passage to the two other modest persons</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He knows what he's done</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I wonder if he feels a burning pain in his heat and he knows my contempt my narrowed eyes</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">If I could shoot some guilt into him I would </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Maybe he's too old and worn to care</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">No he's barely a sextenarian </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There needs to be an exorcism </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">A deterge of the fools heart</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Anyway I am spent </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And am left in contempt</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">For this gent</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">This perfectly able bodied arse wipe</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I pray someone will ask please shuffle on over</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Someone may eventually and then my rage will spike again as he turns his fruity eyes </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And in them you'll find one thing only</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I'm sure of it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Indignation.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"><br></span></div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-45696265765442209172017-03-07T22:58:00.001-08:002017-03-07T22:58:42.256-08:00206<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 206 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Coprolalia meaning "the involuntary repetitive use of obscene language."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Coprolalia</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Don't send it </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Don't send the damn email</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">The fuck wit will spin it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He will spin it </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And float it like a paper aeroplane</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Around your ears</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Don't press send you'll regret it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There too many run on sentences</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">There's no punctuation </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">It looks like a wall </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He doesn't have time for that</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Don't toss some garbled Picasso of words at him</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">That fucker pig </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He deserves worse </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">To be brought down a peg to be reminded of respect </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Glutton </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">No don't press it, don't you can't un-send it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Think what would he do</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">He'd do it different</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I bet he would too</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Fucker fuck him </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">I'll send it.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-32078642635571969922017-03-07T22:51:00.001-08:002017-03-07T22:51:15.941-08:00205<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Day 205 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Word of the day Constellate meaning "to gather together in a cluster or group."</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Movement and Sound</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Feeling the mesmerisation of the cosmos</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Touch it the intangible glowing lights pulsing gyrating </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Seize this </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Rotary shimmering skittish </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Diamond sand and glitter streams </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Warbles drones as wind blows </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">And kicks and fires in the chest </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Like explosions of life</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Constellating.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Lingering as the pulse fades</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">As the tones die down</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText';">Thuds to a final stultifying halt.</span></p>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-41600755728615213772017-03-05T22:48:00.000-08:002017-03-05T22:48:17.746-08:00Club X (204 of 365)Day 204 of the 265 day poem challenge.<br />
<br />
Word of the day Comminatory meaning: "threatening, punitive or vengeful."<br />
<br />
Club X<br />
<br />
What is there about it<br />
The rounded flesh<br />
The way it spins<br />
The tease of it<br />
<br />
Step back through the haze<br />
see the full haired persons<br />
rioting silently rocking<br />
like morphine hit hospital patients<br />
rocking their intravenous drips<br />
<br />
Their words<br />
You like the shape of the their words<br />
On oval lips<br />
You imagine that your name<br />
will be upon them those<br />
pink oval lips<br />
You imagine the power that comes<br />
with a name<br />
Remembrance<br />
<br />
The smell is acquired to say the least<br />
the vomit stain on the carpet from where<br />
they got too wild<br />
<br />
There is skill<br />
that one was nearly an acrobat<br />
Could stretch in so many ways<br />
The thought could make you ejaculate<br />
That's the smell like your father's old<br />
vinyl collection wet and collecting dust<br />
<br />
The movements are slow<br />
Undulate a nice word<br />
that encapsulates what happens<br />
with the hips and the way<br />
this resembles waves<br />
but we're far from sea breezes here<br />
this is a hot sauna<br />
not like at the spa house<br />
There's spit and alcohol and crack<br />
There's pinched lips<br />
<br />
There's a phantasmagoria<br />
With these chimerical dames<br />
Blowing smoke through hot pink lips<br />
and Blond manes<br />
<br />
The drones and flares of dance music<br />
The monotonous comminatory stares<br />
and slaps<br />
Dissapointment eats into the late night<br />
early morning folk<br />
who lose focus and seek contrition<br />
from the wares here on display<br />
This is a lascivious excursion<br />
A tantalising holiday<br />
...only it isn't<br />
<br />
The hot fuzz of smoke contaminates<br />
The hidden brawl and testosterone,<br />
Estrogen filled sauna room<br />
low lights and bodies silent in the dark<br />
But not them they stand in dim pale moonlight<br />
Like shining ghosts with fat milky thighs.JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-59984959988749299772017-03-05T22:36:00.000-08:002017-03-05T22:36:49.303-08:00Waiting in the Dark (203 of 365) Day 203 of the 365 day poem challenge.<br />
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Word of the day cantillate meaning: "to chant or intone a passage of religious text."<br />
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Waiting in the Dark<br />
<br />
The thunder cracks<br />
Lightning scrapes the sky<br />
It seems like it will eat you<br />
like a monster<br />
<br />
But it's outside<br />
Inside is the danger<br />
in the blackness<br />
between the halls and the cold tiles<br />
and the cold snarling sniggers<br />
of secret dark lips<br />
that wait in the night<br />
no cantillation shall halt it<br />
<br />
Under covers pulled up<br />
Under covers warm and snug<br />
the monsters can be heard<br />
a cool gust presents itself<br />
noises happen - common noises<br />
but not tonight - nothing common about them<br />
<br />
The thunder cracks<br />
It is closer<br />
the lightning is a gigantic flash<br />
and what will you see through the window if you<br />
dared to look<br />
will that dark face be there staring with<br />
its wide clownish eyes<br />
twisted into a gruesome look<br />
resembling a smile<br />
but there is no word for the way its lips are<br />
its no smile<br />
Smiles are after all for kind things.JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-90583610694824326422017-03-05T22:31:00.003-08:002017-03-05T22:31:55.455-08:00Subtle Touch (202 of 365)Welcome to day 202 of the 365 day poem challenge.<br />
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Word of the day breatharian meaning: "A person who believes that it is possible through meditation to reach a level of consciousness where one can exist on air alone."<br />
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Subtle Touch<br />
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She raked her hands over me<br />
She dug in her claws<br />
She breathed as a breatharian<br />
Each breath was her last<br />
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My skin has lines<br />
a microscope is no longer needed to see them<br />
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Her skin is always silk<br />
I touch it<br />
in my dreams and its like milk<br />
I can drink it<br />
I can consume it<br />
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My skin is wrinkled like a dry lake bed<br />
It will peel off each night form<br />
a scaly thing underneath my back<br />
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There are tiny hairs under her chin<br />
They are delicate white whisps<br />
I long to pluck them<br />
Watch them germinate like seeds of her<br />
Let them wilt and fade away<br />
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She bit me with such vehemence<br />
She chewed away<br />
my subtle touch.JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-25159707649038110542017-03-05T22:26:00.000-08:002017-03-05T22:26:00.225-08:00Push & Pull (201 of 365) Day 201 of the 365 day poem challenge.<br />
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word of the day barmecide meaning "illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing"<br />
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Push & Pull<br />
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I was attracted to the polar opposite of you<br />
I was drawn to your antithesis as though<br />
my feelings were barmecide<br />
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I was pushed<br />
that feeling of falling<br />
except I was being pulled by my heart<br />
That irrepressible urge<br />
to fall forwards into the infinite possibilities<br />
between us<br />
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I was drawn to your eyes<br />
Your bold black pupils and the way they spoke to me like aliens<br />
The discs of your milky white<br />
The incomprehensibility that there was thought and feeling<br />
Somewhere inside<br />
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I was attracted to you<br />
We had a magnetism<br />
That I could not pull against<br />
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I was drawn to your eyes<br />
Lovely blue iris salt of the sea eyes<br />
Lovely deep staring all seeing eyes<br />
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I was pushed<br />
that sensation of being pushed and yet held<br />
Like a vice as you dissected me.<br />
<br />JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-85597609614008163562017-02-28T23:59:00.001-08:002017-03-05T22:16:40.482-08:00Silence (200 of 365)<div style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-family: ".sf ui text"; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Day 200 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Word of the day cerulean meaning "deep sky blue."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Silence </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Pause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">What do you expect between breaths, between pages, between caresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Press on and glimpse the cerulean night, so clear and blank, is it a canvass for us? Was it intended?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">No answers. Silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">I met a man with gums on him that liked to run and squidge together making a hollow croaking noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Pause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Consider the nonsense, consider that we only have so much time. I check it regularly to ensure I am on time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Appointments are satisfying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Pause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Dare I continue, what lays between us that I cannot reach you? What is missing to complete us? I only feel shadows and claws that dig into me - you insist that I stay away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">That's what I see in my heart a pendulum ticking back and forth, it reminds me of the end, if gravity will eventually allow it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">I am a pendulum and my life swings back and forth, back - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Pause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Nothing more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Nothing.</span></div>
JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-86070527078592638562017-02-28T23:50:00.001-08:002017-03-05T22:16:28.355-08:00Camisado (199 of 365)<div style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-family: ".sf ui text"; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Day 199 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Word of the day camisado meaning "a military mission occurring at night."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Camisado</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">It is raining</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">It is so wet tonight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">It's the type of night you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Feel in your thighs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The coolness tickles your warmest bits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">It's the sort of night where you sit in your underwear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And the sun was there but now it's gone and the moon is ice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And feet are cool and clammy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And you are there </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And we are there and the fan blows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And the bed takes us and me into you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And we complete our assault on each other and we lay and we mate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">And then we sit quite as gnomes and listen to the tapping of rain on glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Which leaves tiny slivers like sparks of ghosts grinding against the unknown. </span></div>
JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-20571111861913122522017-02-28T23:45:00.001-08:002017-03-05T22:16:15.627-08:00Candidate (198 of 365)<div style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-family: ".sf ui text"; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Day 198 of the 365 day poem challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Word of the day Bruxism meaning "involuntary and habitual grinding of the teeth."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The Candidate </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The pursing of her lips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The bruxism of her teeth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The schism between her mind and heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The amorphous space about her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The aura and the projections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Blue, purple, green </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">The bottom of a sea choral bleached faded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Her knees knobbly poke out her skirt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Her stomach knotting over and over again and doing somersaults</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Silhouettes in the adjoining board room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Tap tapping of pens </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Scrubbing out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Erasing whiting out </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">White tight knuckles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Brittle smile caving at the edges </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Hair tidy, makeup mild (relatively)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Skirt modest (relatively)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Jacket and coat formal pressed elegant.</span></div>
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JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-4409967252156019212017-02-24T12:40:00.001-08:002017-02-24T12:40:41.594-08:00Transit Lounge (197 of 365)<div>Day 197 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day fuselage meaning: "the main body of an aircraft."</div><div><br></div><div>Transit Lounge</div><div><br></div><div>The tall windows</div><div>Stare back at me and in them</div><div>I see my reflection </div><div><br></div><div>A young boy runs up to the Windows</div><div>A battle weary mother at his side</div><div>He jumps up and down and exclaims with the only words he knows</div><div>I think there must be a word for this excitement</div><div>He stares out at the nose of the plane, it's great white fuselage</div><div>and the wings</div><div>His arms fidget and he points </div><div>As if it's impossible to describe the majesty of what he sees </div><div>There is wonder </div><div>Nothing is mundane to him </div><div>This is the discovery of flight</div><div>This is the discovery of the giant </div><div>And indecipherable </div><div>This is the discovery of the modern</div><div><br></div><div>The boy jumps about and takes his leave </div><div>Then calls his father near to him</div><div>Gesturing frantic and wild </div><div>With a smile a wingspan wide</div><div>The boy's father smiles</div><div>I find myself smiling too </div><div><br></div><div>Suddenly I recall where I am </div><div>In this great fortress that we made</div><div>That somehow belongs to them</div><div>Maybe they are alive</div><div>Maybe these great birds that beat us</div><div>Deserve more respect</div><div><br></div><div>The boy goes</div><div>It is time to board</div><div>Time to fly. </div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-90317797618279284232017-02-24T12:30:00.001-08:002017-02-24T12:30:39.327-08:00Portrait of the Dying (196 of 365)<div>Day 196 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day sallow meaning: "</div><div>(of a person's face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour."</div><div><br></div><div>Portrait of the Dying</div><div><br></div><div>An elderly man lies upright in his hospital bed</div><div>He makes no fuss</div><div>And all noise he tries falls mute</div><div>On every ear </div><div>His harsh complaints might as well be a dogs bark </div><div><br></div><div>The man becomes sallow</div><div>Withdrawn </div><div>There are few flowers or photographs nearby that draw him</div><div>The flower petals are turning brown</div><div>The stems sag and turn the vase water cloudy </div><div><br></div><div>The tubes connect him to the hospital and to life</div><div>This is his life </div><div>The words palliative and care</div><div>Displayed proudly beside one another</div><div>Oxymoron he considers</div><div>But no one is here to experience his wit </div><div>Not anymore.</div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-46485644399360863502017-02-22T22:43:00.001-08:002017-02-22T22:43:46.906-08:00My fat blue tie (194 of 365)<div>Day 194 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day autotomy meaning "The<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> casting off of a limb or other part of the body by an animal under threat, such as a lizard."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>My Fat Blue tie</div><div><br></div>My fat blue tie rests <div>Like a cow tongue on my chest</div><div>It's tip lays just above my belt</div><div>And trousers </div><div><br></div><div>My fat blue tie is knotted</div><div>And tight against my white neck</div><div>It melds my shirt against my skin</div><div>Seals me into my suit and</div><div>My work persona</div><div><br></div><div>My fat blue tie </div><div>Slips and slides </div><div>Eternally shifting but to me</div><div>It is always stationary </div><div>And time is frozen to its autotomous tail <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Like a pendulum.</span></div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-39629761768916102762017-02-22T22:37:00.001-08:002017-02-22T22:44:19.179-08:00; (amphibology) (195 of 365)<div>Day 195 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day amphibology meaning: "a phrase or sentence that is grammatically ambiguous."</div><div><br></div><div>; (amphibology)</div><div><br></div><div>A passing passion</div><div>Hangs in the balance</div><div>Without determination</div><div>Spiralling endlessly and myopically</div><div><br></div><div>The tower cranes </div><div>Hoist an interminable load</div><div>An interminable loads continue</div><div>To be stacked like Duplo blocks</div><div>And the tower cranes are unwieldy as a toddler</div><div><br></div><div>Joe Bloggs catches a whiff of</div><div>Industry on his way in </div><div>He catches up and does his business</div><div>Then he's on his way out</div><div>His suit and tie trailing</div><div>His white collar subsistence </div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-65117445781905465622017-02-20T23:38:00.001-08:002017-02-20T23:38:32.076-08:00Failure (193 of 365)<div>Day 193 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day argute meaning "shrewd."</div><div><br></div><div>Failure </div><div><br></div><div>Reading stories of long fought battles and hard fought alliances</div><div>Reading stories of helpless victims and argute defilers</div><div>Reading stories of (perhaps) wasted efforts and wasted lives</div><div>Reading stories that are inconvenient and non-ending</div><div>Reading stories about relentless forces of darkness and nature </div><div>Reading stories of impossible struggles of tsunamis, volcanoes of famines of wars of corrupt rulers </div><div>Reading stories of false hope felt too late</div><div>Reading stories of selfishness without remorse or recompense</div><div>Reading stories of victimisation</div><div>Reading stories of the helpless become dependent and then of the dependent slammed with sharp inflammatory stones</div><div>Reading stories of condemnation and rejection of religion of secularism </div><div>Reading stories where there is no truce</div><div>Reading stories of rebels and regimes</div><div>Reading stories of countries lost and founded and raped and pillaged and historically languishing or historically spurned </div><div>Reading stories of twisted orthodoxy and radical affiliations </div><div>Reading stories of conflicting ideals and the plunge to violence</div><div>Reading redundant histories</div><div>Reading repeated mistakes</div><div>Reading forgotten failures of wars and conflicts and where it all went wrong...</div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013694700021789144.post-51316014911894834732017-02-20T23:23:00.001-08:002017-02-20T23:23:20.467-08:00Rotary (192 of 365)<div>Day 192 of the 365 day poem challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Word of the day apoptosis meaning: "the death of cells which occurs as a normal part of an organism's growth or development."</div><div><br></div><div>Rotary </div><div><br></div><div>The rotation of wheels </div><div>Became the way of the world</div><div>Horses pulled wheels</div><div>Then engines pulled wheels </div><div>Then electricity was forged by wheels </div><div>The breakdown of the atomic wheel heralded a modern age</div><div>We each have our conception and apoptosis.</div><div><br></div><div>Each day the balls of my feet </div><div>Contemplate and resist fatigue</div><div>They know only one way </div><div>They roll forward just as sure as gravity </div><div>My wheels turn</div><div><br></div><div>The wheels of my eyes are tired and dry </div><div>Shapes blur in and out of focus </div><div>Images projected onto the retina </div><div>A turning projector wheel</div><div>In my mind sends ragged clips</div><div>Of memories and thoughts, lists, tasks operations that circulate back and forth </div><div><br></div><div>There is a wheel pistoning </div><div>Neurones and impulses </div><div>I feel it zig and zag like lightning</div><div>Is my grey matter scorched </div><div>It seems so </div><div>Where did this weariness come from</div><div>When did I lose the momentum of polished wheels</div><div>Where did the inertia go</div><div>What was the trigger for this grounding deafening halt </div><div><br></div><div>I demand that the wheels turn</div><div>I demand an end to these wearisome tones </div><div>I demand an end to this</div><div>I demand an end.</div>JoshuaPMestronihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431531891861274954noreply@blogger.com0