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Poems by Dull Red, by newest first

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  • baby wrapped in baby blue
    a baby is born, 46 chromosomes
    by Dull Red 9 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 22 8:35 PM 2007
  • untitled
    the woman in black is my lover
    by Dull Red 7 lines, on Nov 22 8:32 PM 2007
  • much of life
    much of life is scratching at
    by Dull Red 7 lines, on Nov 22 8:30 PM 2007
  • untitled
    like a child
    hours after dismissal
    by Dull Red 13 lines, on Nov 22 8:28 PM 2007
  • Faith
    so warm are the lies that comfort,
    by Dull Red 12 lines, on Nov 22 8:25 PM 2007
  • In a Place we Once Knew
    in a place we once knew- the warm cabin
    by Dull Red 18 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 22 8:22 PM 2007
  • humanly love
    desperate to feel light: I see shelter
    by Dull Red 12 lines, on Nov 22 8:17 PM 2007
  • undressed
    fascinated by my own nudity,
    by Dull Red 11 lines, on Nov 22 8:14 PM 2007
  • Quiet
    the Divine message,
    so succinct
    by Dull Red 13 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 22 8:12 PM 2007
  • Exposure
    one white candle
    bears a flickering flame,
    by Dull Red 53 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 4 7:56 PM 2007
  • untitled
    I am cradled
    Against the soft neck
    by Dull Red 30 lines, on Oct 26 2:48 PM 2007
  • drowning the dryad
    baby blue birds perch on the black scrolls
    by Dull Red 32 lines, on Sep 22 2:11 PM 2007
  • evaporation
    my naked body bathes in steam,
    dense as velvety asphyxiation
    by Dull Red 22 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 16 2:01 PM 2007
  • amity armistice
    I reached that pinnacle- seemingly over-rated and highly esteemed,
    by Dull Red 24 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 1 12:10 AM 2007
  • Alice
    a prepubescent girl / donning a light blue dress / spins in circles, / the fabric swirling and her arms / erect in the air. / the paserbys
    by Dull Red 11 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 20 11:14 PM 2007
  • teenagers
    Just stop it-- / That catheter won't drain shit: / Filtering out my brain / of ugly things, / Oh, Mom, you'd call it cliche if i told you / that nobody understands. / It's not my fault that / pret
    by Dull Red 35 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 19 11:10 PM 2007
  • lifestyle segmentation
    i swear to fucking God that it's that bottle- / it's drinking from me, / each droplet of acidic delight / d / r / i / p / p / i / &nbs
    by Dull Red 33 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 19 12:41 AM 2007
  • a force called fate
    baby stop tapping your fingernails / (repeatedly, like that old sacrifical drum) / on the side of the bathtub. / i know damn well that it's my head / you so desire to be splitting into. / you- my adorable, di
    by Dull Red 38 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 17 11:40 PM 2007. In Love, Pain
  • stepping on
    i am the fire that made it upstream, / every inch advanced with all / fibers of muscle, threads of strength-- / now within my dreamland / a
    by Dull Red 15 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 13 9:14 PM 2007
  • Veneer
    filthy rich parents: / scratched from the diamonds, / aphixated from the powders since infancy; / being glazed in a thick coat of castol oi
    by Dull Red 36 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 11:25 PM 2007
  • desecration
    tattoo it on my fucking forehead: / a little phoenix emerging from the foraged city, / flames still hot off it's red tail feather, / floating on / the feeling better than chemicals, / the feeling of resurrection, b
    by Dull Red 20 lines, on Jun 29 3:22 PM 2007
  • Innocence
    integrity, purity- / inept, / like little boys / dashing from tormentors / always taken (but never killed) / however, crawling on this eart
    by Dull Red 19 lines, on Jun 24 3:10 PM 2007. In Hope, Pain, Society, Other
  • amante
    rompa por favor mi cabeza, / así que usted lo podría encontrar en ello: / tu puedes ver su sonrisa, sus labios / en mi tejido de cerebro. / por favor interrupción abre mi pecho. / y usted, mi amor, verá--
    by Dull Red 19 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 23 2:49 PM 2007
  • Upswept
    you got me Volant- / flying away: / grabbing my horse-hair broom / and cackling- / leaving behind mangled heaps. / midair in / a filthy win
    by Dull Red 21 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 21 11:46 AM 2007. In Sad, Dark, Other
  • sidelines of a high school girl's locker room
    short girl with too much makeup / swallowing / magma- words too blistering / to be emitted, / standing next to / the burdened baby face = /
    by Dull Red 31 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 17 11:22 AM 2007
  • en tu
    un lugar por mi cabeza / es en tu. / mi nariz, mis ojos, mi boca, / mis labios / no son arriba de su pecho, / pero / son adentro su pecho f
    by Dull Red 14 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 17 11:02 AM 2007
  • concord
    azure- soft waters, / opening into silence: / the origin of sin.
    by Dull Red 6 lines, on Jun 17 10:19 AM 2007. In Haiku
  • lethargy
    My wicked temptress twists me, / Epidermis rippling like black / Waves- / Touching the shore and cracking / (fiercely fading) / To harmful
    by Dull Red 27 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 16 8:52 AM 2007
  • requiem
    i descend down from life / and sit on my cloud-- / eternal, ethereal / yet sapient. / i a fugitive fleeing: / swimming in my own aquatics,
    by Dull Red 30 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 14 7:31 PM 2007
  • halcyon days
    Time Wastes: / the abstract watch contorts, / degrading in black sand. / little, inaudible ticks, tocks / still breaking the hearts drawn i
    by Dull Red 25 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 10 9:04 PM 2007
  • status symbol
    [so, you want to drop bombshells? / leave little craters in city streets, / with the dexterity of / Nazis in Stalingrad? / of course as to, / express that tinsy thing within you called... / (insecurity, vulner
    by Dull Red 41 lines, on Jun 8 9:57 PM 2007
  • snollygoster
    "Don't you fucking say 'burning again..." / followed by a poorly- calculated / Oh baby baby baby, don't leave / I join the blond, 5'8'', C
    by Dull Red 29 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 2 8:26 PM 2007
  • god slots and Girls Gone Wild
    tricky, slick (cardboard cut-out of a) God, / leading to- / sloughed off faces, via crater and stone / we are those green little critters / so insult pregnant women, or-- / shave my head in bowl-pattern /
    by Dull Red 16 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 2 8:20 PM 2007
  • ebb and flow
    precipitation- / like that one day, / you wrapped your fingers around my side / [electrified at human contact] / and told me the / appallin
    by Dull Red 22 lines, 2 comments, on May 22 9:35 PM 2007
  • Delivery
    [the scalp is rolled open: / mind's clandestine, unknown truth / (nude and revealed); / beneath rugged workmen clothes- / denim and dirt-so
    by Dull Red 67 lines, 5 comments, on May 22 9:22 PM 2007. In Abuse, Angst, Dark, Life, Love, Pain, Society, Anger, Romance, Message, Humanity
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