List: Miscellaneous Musings

• Masking Memory

  Cold cream covers the lines that sorrow drew / Infusing balm, invigorating hope / Lifting care of time aloft / Reflection blushes with memo

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 12 6:39 PM 2007
• The Big Bang

  Friendship's spacious stillness / and fellowship of calming spirits / Burst upon by cosmic catastrophe / of exponentially exploding falseho

  10 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 9 10:20 PM 2007
• Hope

  yesterday's dream / --sorrowed super nova implosion / brilliance eclipsed / by tomorrow's sun / --cosmic collision of love /

  9 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 10 3:29 PM 2007
• Raven Unraveling

  When wings of pitch / are caught aloft / on winds of undue praise / feathers fall groundward / to graves of inevitable truth /

  8 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 12 12:42 AM 2007
• Misfired

  Missles maurading / maiming, / in my living room / where children play

  5 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 12 2:39 AM 2007
• Masking Memory

  Cold cream covers the lines that sorrow drew / Infusing balm, invigorating hope / Lifting care of time aloft / Reflection blushes with memo

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 12 6:39 PM 2007
• Castle of Confusion

  past moat of maybe / across bridge of hope / lie ecstacy's halls / but bastion's crumbling rejection /

  7 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 13 10:35 PM 2007
• Chardonnay Charade

  drunk with feigning, / swooning in weariness, / hungover heartache / loses hope /

  4 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 13 11:37 PM 2007
• Resolution Questioned

  yearn for passion's sheeted heat / or cease / --in supine slumber?

  7 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 14 1:28 AM 2007
• Hairy Pretense of Wisdom

  gray stripes / through fool's black hood-- / life-long lying streaks

  5 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 14 8:45 AM 2007
• Illuminations

  fresh / as firefly's / brightening bud / love / lifts darkened / shrouded hood /

  9 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 15 8:15 PM 2007
• Sometimes Hope

  sometimes always never

  2 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 15 9:05 PM 2007
• Labrador Lovers

  by day / wind tossled youthful hair / and sang lively song / beneath St John's towering cathedrals / by night / beach was bed / and Amhurst

  13 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 15 11:23 PM 2007
• The Whites of His Lies

  anybody got a bleach pen?

  8 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 25 7:44 PM 2007
• Attic Treasure

  Hope chest-- / accumulated dreams, / antiqued by time / and wanton unfulfillment

  7 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 25 9:58 PM 2007
• Four-Leaf Fantasy

  Standing in / the clover / Breathing in / the sweet purple fume / Dreaming to be / lying down / in your / sacred living room /

  10 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 26 8:24 PM 2007
• Long Gone

  Silk lined / mahogany box / covered in depth, / dust to dust.

  3 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 26 10:43 PM 2007
• Castleward?

  Princess / donned in / indiscernible color, / wanders, / wondering / if home awaits. . . /

  6 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 27 6:13 PM 2007
• Crash

  Inverted V's / dissolve to straight line: / Heavens's vacuum / wisps Spirit

  7 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 30 9:15 PM 2007
• The Sojourning

  Solitude, shouldered, / burdens soul / Winds mock / removing desert trail. / Might companion / ever find me here? /

  8 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 2 12:00 AM 2007
• Comedy and Tragedy

  monochromatic contrast, / feigning vivid hues / of sanity / while lost in / hilarious heaps / of dismal demise /

  7 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 3 12:16 PM 2007
• Torn

  Love is waking / Freshly wafting / Blowing seed of flower promised / Blade is chopping / Mocking, chiding / Leaving only weed of doubting /

  8 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 4 9:31 PM 2007
• The Arid Chasm

  Breath is fleeting / bleeding heart runs dry / and thirsts / dessert gulf expands / keeping reach from touching / cup of cooling / draft

  10 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 7 1:07 PM 2007
• The Juicer

  cynacism oozes-- / juice / from strangled pulp / cupsfulls of / promises broken

  6 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 7 3:48 PM 2007
• Gold Rushing

  Like lusty dreams / of never ending circles / (glistening in the glimmer / of what might be) / sought with ravishing thirst; / touched by i

  15 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 8 12:54 AM 2007
• Whitewashed

  Clorox coursing, / cleansing stains-- / over-indulgent rendezvous / left in heart's collar

  4 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 8 10:33 PM 2007
• The Difference

  Walking in the light / brings breath / allows vision to flourish / makes dreams reality / and possibility endless / Dwelling in darkness /

  9 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 9 5:11 PM 2007
• When I Grow Up I Wanna Be. . .

  lemon juice on paper, / etched in kindergarten scrawl-- / secret annihilations planned! / . . . The Bad Guy

  5 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 10 3:19 AM 2007
• Perfume

  She always wears extra-- / compensation for qualities / she doesn't possess

  5 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 11 1:01 AM 2007
• Country Boy's Song

  Hear those strands / plucked by lightenin’ / sendin’ flames on / wild, country air / right through my bourbon soul? / Lights me up like / t

  18 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 16 10:48 PM 2007
• The Price

  Ripping, Raging, forest Raping / Wretched Roaring fills the ravine / reeling, wrestling, forest wrenching / Crude Uprooting, Ravenous Machi

  17 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 17 7:24 AM 2007
• Ant Hill

  A / city / constructed / by workers who / zip with thoughtless / whiz and whir forgetting / impending rain

  6 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 18 3:14 AM 2007
• Misfortune

  trouble frightens / carnivorous / thief /  

  10 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 18 11:21 PM 2007
• Foolhearty

  When long is short / And shallow's deep; / When height is naught / And dawn's asleep; / There beats / (baudy, in the midst of solace) / the

  10 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 19 12:29 AM 2007
• Cruise to Delicious

  vanilla hills float in banana boat / riding seas of foaming, frothy fudge / with crests of dripping caramel wave / heaven's praline rains s

  13 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 21 3:14 PM 2007
• Closed-minded Charade

  Questionable reality / hangs on weakened frame / --barely hinged / upon creaky bolts / of fabricated tales / designed for compensation / Wr

  14 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 23 8:04 PM 2007
• Bitter Ale

  Bottled draft / for emptied thirst / bubbling / brewing / in imaginations well / Poured and sipped / bitter,strong / budding taste as putrid / choking me / on what I thought / would be.

  11 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 24 2:52 PM 2007
• Stuffing

  Prompt: Gluing petals back onto it's flower.

  11 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 25 12:45 AM 2007
• Life's Loss

  Frigid feeling falls

  9 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 29 1:52 PM 2007
• Inexperienced Spectacles

  city streets--jungles overgrown
  with high-rise, choking vines
  

  21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 4 1:32 AM 2007
• Heart Issue

  When once I've smiled and given heart away, a fainting fear mourns the gaping loss.

  3 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 4 3:39 PM 2007
• Dream Drops

  Clinging to that which is not

  13 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 14 7:41 PM 2007
• Proof

  Prompt: PHOTOGRAPH
  

  6 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 14 7:05 AM
• Hiding in the Rain

  Behind veils
  of stormy sheets

  21 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 15 6:13 PM
• Whitewash

  Excuse's dark sash
  cannot dispel

  12 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 17 5:27 AM
• Countenance

  Fallen rose-- in air

  9 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 19 5:01 AM
• Contingency

  With spirit-wind
  and patient shoulder

  10 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 27 8:31 PM
• Dust Walker

  Intrepid,
  I traverse this earth

  16 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 3 3:03 AM
• Released

  Lonely fingers grasp
  the fastened cold

  20 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 22 12:57 PM
• On Air

  Life's escape--
  hot, white, silent

  24 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 2 12:19 AM
• Shared Milkshake

  on edges
  of seats and seasons

  12 lines, 8 comments, on May 30 10:31 PM
• Final Toast

  Crystal touching
  still rings

  12 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 7 2:24 AM

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