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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:14 PM:

 

The scope, the sheer size and complexity, the utter dynamic of nature and a life. It's too much to take in. It's too much to hold in one's head or give due in one's heart. The spirit cannot handle the magnitude of its own life.

Haiku. That's the answer. Life in small doses. Life in manageable bites. Life, just pieces at a time.

That's what I love of haiku.

I'll put the pieces here …

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:16 PM:

 


__________


Crumpled brown photo
smudged partial memories, creased
Last time I loved you.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:18 PM:

 


__________


Tiny blood bottles
set in rows with messy corks.
Red sunlight captured.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:23 PM:

 


__________


The sound of one hand
brushing spirals down your back.
Musky-sweet love scents.

___________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:30 PM:

 


__________


Choking a curved heart,
remnant loves of yestertimes.
Can't breath the shadows.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:37 PM:

 


__________


Recycled travails,
pains of the fathers repeat.
Pains of mothers too.

__________



  Happiness : Virtual Architect

Re: Just pieces ...

Happiness said Jan 16, 2008, 10:28 PM:

 


Welcome Naumaad!  What a beautiful statement about haiku!  You have captured something elusive and ineffable here… In this time of not only complexity, but also chaos on all sides of us, you capture what lies at the heart of haiku's appeal:

“Haiku. That's the answer. Life in small doses. Life in manageable bites. Life, just pieces at a time.”

This is so perfect, and it speaks to my soul in its essential simplicity.  So now I will shut up. :)

one thought at a time
this is all my mind can hold
clear nano-moments

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 4:44 PM:

 


__________


Woke from bawdy dreams,
splayed, delayed, crusty and frayed.
“Oh hell, not again !”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:25 PM:

 


__________


Dude from the future,
just glanced my way, said “Wassup?”
Just stoppin' for gas.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:28 PM:

 


__________


Don't got no time, no.
Gotta keep movin, keep on.
Wind's a comin', wind.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:33 PM:

 


__________


Come a cruel, cruel blow,
'n darkness, fast gonna come.
Just me 'n the road.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:43 PM:

 

__________


Don't tell me nothin',
them whispers in the river.
I listen them plenty.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:44 PM:

 

__________


Git out da way, hey!
'taint no time, no time ta waste.
Runnin', runnin' straight.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:46 PM:

 

__________


S'pose I'll stop for now,
gotta messa hurt comin' on.
Messa hurt comin'. Yeah.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:53 PM:

 

__________


Cracklin' fire of dreams,
too much heat for monkey meat.
Time? Wash gone the flames!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 18, 2008, 9:46 PM:

 

___________


Blue-hot steely clamp
Thor's fist wrapped around jelled meat
Can't think, can't think, can't …

__________



  Happiness : Virtual Architect

Re: Just pieces ...

Happiness said Jan 18, 2008, 11:57 PM:

 


Naumaad: These feel like songs on the wild road of life, and there's a Kerouac beat going on,and the lonely whistle of a midnight train. It is always astonishing to me how much character, mood, and magic can leap out of three tight lines, as happens so often in your poems. Woodie Guthrie, Muddy Waters, and kings of the road…all ghosts of memories of remembrances of things present and shooting by at the speed of light.  Songs from the wild road of life - perhaps a title for one of your collections?  HAPPINESS

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:22 AM:

 

Great suggestions Happiness. Thinking about it, I'm a great admirer of Mark Twain and his use of dialect in his writing. It's the way my mother's people talk and I'm somewhat familiar with its rythms, flavors and colors. I have a rather “clean” midwestern accent but sometimes lapse into “country talk” - especially when on the phone with Mom. Also, as I mentioned to you elsewhere, I loved Cormac McCarthy's “The Road”, Stephen King's “The Stand” and “Cell” and those type of books for their post-apocalyptic imagery. For some reason, these stories inspire me. Cormac especially captures the utter despair and struggle of living a day at a time in a dark and menacing landscape where horizons seem to only make things worse. I love the dystopic genre and can easily imagine myself in the shoes of “The Road” 's narrator.

Anyways, I had all of that swimming around in my head when writing some of these and am likely to have it ooze out again.

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 1:17 AM:

 

__________


Used ta git up quick.
Now, I sink fast - git up slow.
Plain sucks ta git old.

__________


I'm sure where snow goes -
It's the rocks, stones; they steal it,
keep it for themselves.

__________


Starlight burns tired eyes,
dim harbingers of ill winds.
Can't see the beauty.

__________


Like a huge starved tick,
I gorge on scrumptious pages.
Books, my pale victims.

__________


In spellbound moongaze,
waking mole knocks at my shoe.
“Hey, get off my porch!”

__________


Devils have no horns
and angels have no haloes.
Just the opposite.

__________


Laying on of hands
to heal a forlorn hazel.
Returned the favor.

__________


Leaves in my basket
Maple's lost children to keep.
Too much lost as is.

__________


Tall broken cedar
must have sent a branch to knock.
Couldn't come himself.

__________


Blood rose petals,
skipping past tired, mute gravestones.
Play, then fly away.

__________


Built a museum
to house life's missing pieces.
“Closed For Maintenance.”

__________


Steamy espresso
dark chocolate, extra sweet.
Rapture in a cup!”

__________


Wounds the martial sun
those diffident like the moon.
Soft echoes of stars.

__________


Please - you're boring me
with your pretending to truth.
You're an open book.

__________


Lose all pretentions,
I'd rather see you naked.
Love sees through wrinkles.

__________


Love's shadow, tricked out
in cheap-frosted memories.
Go away. Please, go.

__________


It's the other way -
Angels want to corrupt us,
Devils offer light.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 1:54 AM:

 

__________


Devils in dem hills,
sleep 'til sunlight's shadow fills
'n day takes its pills.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:07 AM:

 

__________


These shoes got voices;
scrip … scrip-plop … scrip … scrip-plop … scrip
Soul's done gone from one.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:13 AM:

 


__________


Clouds stole the moonlight.
How 'ma gonna find my way?
Whispers. Rain whispers.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 20, 2008, 2:45 AM:

 


__________


Love's luminous cloud
fingered sparkles of bliss like -
puffed dandelions.


__________


Games intimated
in morning's stay-in-bed eyes.
Over here, you minx!


__________


Sun, not quite deceased,
puts face on maramalade fools,
then fades to cobalt.


__________


Unwelcome sunshine
barges into my nightmare.
Was jus' gettin' good.


__________


Cast-off blackberries;
first meager grub in three days.
My lucky number.


__________


Parting - searing words,
streak of mercy in her hair,
vanish in the rain.


__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 23, 2008, 7:56 PM:

 

_____


Rough rhymes discarded,
unpolished dreams left for ants.
Curiosities.

_____


Ants check my spelling
nightly, as fires turn to dreams -
An amusing kindness.

_____


Think carefully, ant -
this enticing tiled plain
is guarded by cats.

_____


Consumed in passions,
love's breath, your peaches revealed.
Line of ants applauds.

_____


Strolling in cold woods,
your harsh last words warming me.
Sympathetic ants.

_____


My love, oh, my love
just time and space between us -
unfleshed love within.

_____


Moon through the forest crowd,
winks at fairies, “Come flitter!”
Come keep me from dreams.

_____


Decompressed edges,
overfed terrors imagined -
relaxed to breed new coils.

_____


Times will not wink out.
Ends race like full eclipses -
a wall of shadow.

_____


Pole of relative
inaccessibility -
peace, farthest from you.

_____


A crowd of people -
puzzles withing dense puzzles,
Falling, pulling loose.

_____


It's worth cracking knees -
tired lovemaking's why I live.
What else could there be?

_____


You prey for escape,
but shallow habit is missed
when it's all you have.

_____


What you do not want
can seem austere next to dreams,
… but austere has place.

_____


Our depth of spirit
brings depth to godless heavens.
We “god” the old stars.

_____


Dream Earth. Sleep land, sleep.
Rest 'til season calls your name.
Sleep land - dream Earth dreams.

_____


Sins need confessing.
Only life presses report.
Waste no time on “gods.”

_____


It's lies that age you,
not sliding of days to nights.
Lies. Sharp, ripping lies.

_____


Your legs wrapped in love
are no small moral lessons.
Love the flesh. Flesh love.

_____


Can't we speak of it all?
What feeds the flesh? What burns away?
Why just half the tale?

_____


We impersonate.
We claim angels among us.
We are meat - that's all.

_____


Unencompassed life -
the spilling flesh and spirit,
evolved DNA.

_____


Taste for solitude,
I venture into strange thoughts.
Coiled spoils, far from you.

_____


Trouble planning days -
fogged minds can't read calendars.
' rather read my love.

_____


Chapters in her eyes,
her hands - complex metaphors.
Novels in her parts.

_____


The whole mess of her
scrapes me from remnant shadows,
feeds me wild nethers.

_____


Graces extracted,
what's left of the human meat?
Grace unexpected.

_____


Time fades from skies.
Skeletons called “memory”
cool in the night's breeze.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 24, 2008, 1:35 AM:

 


_____


Meat pretending grace,
puerile ministers, kneel, pray.
Grace cannot be forced.

_____


Smelling the storm build,
I brace for beasty mind winds.
Fool chance is unkind.

_____


Marionette threads
binding one life another -
masters play masters.

_____


Mossy solitudes -
stone poetry carved from dust,
have lives of their own.

_____


My love, facades stripped,
I am come - “La luna del
… cacciatore.”

_____


Memory's dead leaves -
Come stampede! Come to my blade!
Be slain, be nothing!

_____


Lost to Alice worlds,
making faces in water.
They make faces back.

_____


Burning chrysalis
an ember of thoughts unripe.
Words, lines tossed away.

_____


Saved some cherry leaves -
your favorite, so I'm told.
My love wrapped in red.

_____


Full moon hung too bright,
her presumptions sass my night
and chilled breath despoils.

_____

How quaint your favors.
Comes your jasmine's fairy breath,
comes Pan's fawny musk.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:37 AM:

 


_____


If I stop somewhere,
stuck mid-breath, wide-eyed and bronzed,
wipe the drool, will ya?

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:38 AM:

 


_____


Go straight a lifetime,
hang a sharp left at the end.
You'll see what's comin'.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:40 AM:

 

_____


Stooped in the mirror,
can't see himself anymore -
no upstart dimples.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:42 AM:

 

_____


It's an irony;
simple to find complex to
find simple again.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:43 AM:

 

_____


Didja buy it, true?
Ain't no one can own you, sure,
… do what drugs you like.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:44 AM:

 

_____


Took a toke o' day
'n smoked him toke fast away.
Now, night she comin', Hey!.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:45 AM:

 

_____


Another time reveals
and mind steals another rhyme
'til time left behind.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:46 AM:

 

_____


The weeping of boys
who ought be allowed to weep;
Earth could use the tears.

_____



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:39 PM:

 


__________

Tried scrying futures
in the shine of a bald head -
quick-buffed prophecies.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:42 PM:

 


__________

Graying fading mane,
precious only in madness,
you'd sell souls to keep.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:44 PM:

 


__________

I will adore you.
Disregard your self-disgust.
It's my head, not yours.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:45 PM:

 


__________

Barbarous coward!
You, who will not own your life,
sneer when I take mine.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:47 PM:

 


__________

Milky mist forest
frosty sinuous path melts
to dreams and whispers.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:48 PM:

 


__________

Traveler in time
strays from his vortex briefly
to wink and move on.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:48 PM:

 


__________

Seeming from nowhere,
raggedy man and his cart
wandering through time.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:50 PM:

 


__________

“Have ta go naked;
It hurts,” said the future droid.
Yeah, ain't it the truth.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:52 PM:

 


__________

Played-out tracks of dust,
too little meat, too much bone.
Wrinkles on my hand.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:53 PM:

 


__________

Got words on a page;
pinched out some few with bruises.
Can't stop the bleeding.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:54 PM:

 


__________

Hey, pig, what's the time?
Got the time, pig? Any time?
“Ain't no time, monkey.”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:57 PM:

 


__________

Disgruntled angels,
spoilin' the monkey madness
with their own damned brand.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:59 PM:

 


__________

'dem hands got no folds;
been used too little, or jus'
ain't no hands at all.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:00 PM:

 


__________

Scratched in empty plates,
fingerprints of shadow meals,
sadly, … forgotten.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:02 PM:

 


__________

Ain't you learnt nothin' kid?
Life blows in, gives you a spin -
you bes' learn ta dance!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:06 PM:

 


__________

'dis box ain't purty,
but you missin' da dam' point -
Ain't purty warms ya.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:07 PM:

 


__________

Chickens on holiday
jus' strollin' in for coffee.
“Three bucks, featherhead!”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:09 PM:

 


__________

Keep blowing kisses.
Though love's gone, heart-blown kisses
… got somewhere ta go.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:11 PM:

 


__________

Young wad of tissue
leaps and cartwheels in chance winds;
Trash Nouveau Ballet.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:13 PM:

 


__________

Day may never come -
at least, may not come for some -
and shadow undone.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:14 PM:

 


__________

Dreamed of a future;
an unwelcome queer dream,
… an unlikely future.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:17 PM:

 


__________

Moon's subtle cutouts
silhouettes snipped from darkness -
I and trees remain.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:18 PM:

 


__________

In the tops of trees
I thought I could see, you, me …
Detritus of dreams.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:22 PM:

 


__________

Your sanity's ill;
had my fill of your ill will.
Be silent. Be still.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:25 PM:

 


__________

Straight, flat, square, plain - yech!
Your purity is hellish.
Heaven's a real mess!

_________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:28 PM:

 


__________

Perambulating,
pompous pertinacity
philosophizing.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:29 PM:

 


__________

I ain't movin' down
your one-lane road; one-lane roads
ain't movin' down me.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:31 PM:

 


__________

Ivory maiden
crowned in frosty black blossoms
dreams of greener fates.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:34 PM:

 


__________

Lavender whispers
deception scents in your eyes
sounds of smoky lies.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:41 AM:

 


__________

Prodigious power
to set heavens to dancing -
in dragonfly wings.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:44 AM:

 


__________

Trek to tomorrow
as though heading into fog -
no reason to fear.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:49 AM:

 


__________

Comfortable lives,
minds hiding in thin boxes,
miss the fullest snows.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:53 AM:

 


__________

Peeling frosted leaves
to birth the day's eloquence -
leaves and leaves to go.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:56 AM:

 


__________

Dead-end trances abhored
traded for trances preferred.
Flows the stream of dreams.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:58 AM:

 


__________

Life freshly leavened;
wondrous once-in-the-'verse bloom -
just like its mother.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:01 AM:

 


__________

Could we have it wrong?
Does the light give us shadow,
or shadows the light?

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:04 AM:

 


__________

I can know nothing
but what the water whispers
or its breadth reveals.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:08 AM:

 


__________

I can hear nothing
in shadows of cobalt lakes
lost in scaled breezes.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:10 AM:

 


__________

This is not haiku,
but only words pretending
to a real moment.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:13 AM:

 


__________

There are deep faces
you can slip and fall into
… and keep on falling.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:14 AM:

 


__________

An owl jus' doin'
what owls jus' do, an' me
I'm jus' doin' too.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:16 AM:

 


__________

Climbed outta my skin
to look at what's happenin' -
climbed back in again.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:17 AM:

 


__________

Walking a long path,
I once chanced to meet myself
on the long walk back.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:19 AM:

 


__________

Fog-laced sun
cuts a half-baked shadow
behind me.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:21 AM:

 


__________

Gull in the water,
staring at his reflection.
“Who you lookin' at?”

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:27 AM:

 

__________


A simple
uncertain smile -
a wish within a fear.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:29 AM:

 

__________

Too many moments
spread thick over too few hours -
it's almost bedtime.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:30 AM:

 


__________

Abandon illusions
of station in man or stone -
there is no “stillness.”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:31 AM:

 

__________

I woke as man-fish,
without marrow of regret,
fused with urging depths.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:33 AM:

 

__________

Life's crimson waters
splashing around in my chest.
Clocks are silly things.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:34 AM:

 


__________

Roses beyond prime
pierce through fat pressing shadows -
day's remaining grace.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:36 AM:

 


__________

Fragments come to play;
all blow in, some blow away,
some few choose to stay.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:37 AM:

 


__________

Songs in crooked doors
who rebel against their lines
lament stolen curves.

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  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:38 AM:

 


__________

Grace is not hearing;
even stones can catch the song.
Grace … is listening.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:40 AM:

 


__________


Puppet's fake despair;
not safe from forced masquerades,
surely so from pains.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:41 AM:

 


__________


What mimes truly know,
the writer pretends in equal -
words are arrogance.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:42 AM:

 


__________


Hush of nightingales
descends, I fear, upon poised days -
Who now sings us through?

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:44 AM:

 


__________


Lost raggedy man
despoiled, estranged by fools,
still, has grace and heart.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:45 AM:

 


__________


Reach out, my darling!
Though you're shy from claims unsure,
loving hands hold true.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:47 AM:

 


__________


I chance touched your waist
as you slid hush and sluggish
into the less loving day.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:48 AM:

 


__________


Your hand's warmth lingers
on my trailing fingertips -
as I slip to dreams.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:49 AM:

 


__________


In Wary Tavern,
searching eyes
draw recoil.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:50 AM:

 


__________


Overbearing sun
garishly repaints your hair.
Shoo! Scat! Go away!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:51 AM:

 


__________


After moon slices
with chai and lavender bread,
you treat me to more.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:55 AM:

 


__________


I peel out of night,
to be encrusted by day.
I peel into night.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 16, 2008, 7:57 PM:

 



__________


Voices! Voices go!
Haints and terrors crisp? Away!
Come! Some silence! Come!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 16, 2008, 8:00 PM:

 


___________


Chasing ghost splendors
'round and 'round stale idle toys-
Comes now the fool's sweat!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 16, 2008, 8:07 PM:

 


__________


Stars! Stars wish for me
wishes beyond stars you see.
Wish Far Stars! Wish far!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 16, 2008, 8:13 PM:

 


___________

Under brash young trees
shadows tickle flash shadows -
my slow steps for home.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:09 PM:

 

__________

Simple egg blossoms
splashes pinned to vines above -
dusts of happiness.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:11 PM:

 

__________

Sorrowful tempest!
Leave for me my fairy tale
serendipities!

___________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:13 PM:

 

__________

Fleshes and poppies
spilled tresses and buttercups -
womb and seed complete.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:15 PM:

 

__________

Love dripped on paper
lusty scratches rolled and corked -
heart in a bottle.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:18 PM:

 

__________

Festering spirit
long mired in old infections -
revelries bleed pale.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:20 PM:

 

__________

In thin light she steps,
fire tamed to alabaster
dressed in laced whispers.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:49 PM:

 

__________


Fathomless heavens
cooler than Luna's embers -
my love's cauldron eyes.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 7:56 PM:

 

__________


Musky aromas
stream and eddy in shadows -
she glides from love's nest.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 8:04 PM:

 

__________


A berry jam kiss
pressed to “I Love You” paper -
“See you soon, my love.”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 8:56 PM:

 

__________


These panes in sunset
burn watching for her return -
I share their longing.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 9:08 PM:

 

__________


Hawthorne petals stream
angel tears for waning Spring -
Summer's lingerie.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 9:28 PM:

 

__________


Her fleshes aflame
she brings fresh petals wearing
nothing but the rain.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 9:37 PM:

 


__________

Long moment's moonlight -
As she sleeps in cool highlights,
I pray at her womb.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 10:23 PM:

 

__________


Unblinking blossoms
sway in their summer prayers -
new bees in their eyes.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 18, 2008, 10:42 PM:

 

__________


Moments spill too quick
defying my gentle pour -
passions in deluge.

__________



  Janet : Strategic Enthusiast

Re: Just pieces ...

Janet said Jun 19, 2008, 11:19 AM:

 

Naumadd!!!

I'm a puddle on the paper - no words can do justice to my admiration!

~Janet

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 6:41 PM:

 

Thank you so much Janet. Your words are genuinely appreciated. I'm honored you find something of value here. Sometimes it seems I have to bleed a pail of blood for each of these. At other times, they pour out faster than I can write them down.

May you find awe.

  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 6:42 PM:

 

__________


Whispering babble
of a thousand dragonflies -
Voices in my head.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 6:58 PM:

 

__________


Silver sadnesses
sealed beneath satin windows -
photos of the lost.

__________




  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 7:08 PM:

 

__________


In an Autumn sea
children dance on golden waves -
your hair in the breeze.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 7:33 PM:

 

__________


Denim crevices
pinches, curves and blue delights -
forget the movie.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 8:13 PM:

 

__________


Night cools the proud stem!
Unfold your dewy petals!
Let fires melt the moon!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 10:47 PM:

 

__________


Impudent robins!
Why snub thee my spent goddess
bare but for sunglow?

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 11:15 PM:

 

__________


My life's brief fire
by chance born of raging stars -
Take this light! My love!


__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 11:55 PM:

 

__________


Her wrenching giggles
spill past our passion's borders -
flotsam in the night.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 19, 2008, 11:58 PM:

 

__________


From this creeping night
tomorrow's laughter whispers -
fade to sleep our tears.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 12:23 AM:

 

__________


With ripened fruits
and blushing fields of cream -
she lures the hunter.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 12:32 AM:

 

__________


Much more than the leaves
kisses, cries,  autumn goodbyes -
I recall her scent.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 1:19 AM:

 

__________


Comes a simple man -
hot seed of steps in fresh snows
agent of breezes.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 1:28 AM:

 

__________


Solstice stars catch rides
tangled in her laughing hair -
My sultry witch.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 1:45 AM:

 

__________


No burn in my heart;
pale ember, cool wind, white ash.
Passions turned. No burn.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 20, 2008, 4:59 PM:

 

__________


By this kiss, my Love
I gift thee waters and breath
of ancient lovers.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 21, 2008, 2:54 AM:

 

__________


Chance gossamer rains
murmur hushed treats to distract -
these two hearts absorbed.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 21, 2008, 2:57 AM:

 

__________

Cottonwood fairies
flock to solstice revelries -
Spring's passing mischief.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 21, 2008, 2:59 AM:

 

__________


This shy little moon
trembles behind black aspens -
Our kiss fires her blush.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 21, 2008, 3:02 AM:

 

__________


Refreshing herself
humming some light melody
styled on our rhythms.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 21, 2008, 3:04 AM:

 

__________


Her demure giggles -
last Polaroid before
lusty communions.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 4:08 PM:

 

__________


Gracious summer trees
drink their fill the Fountain's rage
passing kind trickles.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 4:20 PM:

 

__________


Now births a moment -
a rough stone only polished
in its pregnancy.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 5:13 PM:

 

__________


This day's jagged tales
rip their feast 'til thin heart fails
and serenity pales.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 5:15 PM:

 

__________


Questing little cat
implodes into a cramped box -
poses victory.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 5:32 PM:

 

__________


Through the tiny hole,
Kitty Cacciatore! -
secreted villain.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 5:39 PM:

 

__________


Ecstatic moment -
summer's wild pungent soup
foments rhapsody.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 6:41 PM:

 

__________


In a puff appears
a force of delightful craft -
“Where ya been, kitty?”

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 6:50 PM:

 

__________


Scoundrel cat's repose -
deception's best argument
clothed in tooth and claw.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 7:19 PM:

 

__________


Splash into splashes,
I dream and wake to new dreams -
river into rivers.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 7:39 PM:

 

__________


These, my common breaths
come now from long-cooled bloods -
Buddha in the trees.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 23, 2008, 7:41 PM:

 

__________


Some few maple leaves -
all the memory of once
striking miracles.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 10:51 PM:

 

__________


Scraps of sanities
scrawled between insanities -
papers gold and ash.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 10:54 PM:

 

__________


Bathing in starlight,
stardusts renewed in fleshes -
starflamed intercourse.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 10:58 PM:

 

__________


Cool abrasive moon
scraping these nights without scar -
spare my heart the same!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 11:23 PM:

 

__________


Brooking thin moments,
painting thin hells with heavens -
Come! Come deep spirit!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 11:28 PM:

 

__________


This is who we are:
coupling of shine and shadow -
mad menacing muds.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 24, 2008, 11:36 PM:

 

__________


Ghost bird! Fly Moon bird!
Ghost far over Raven night,
deep to tomorrow!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 7:01 PM:

 

__________


How trees turn the Earth
how we the ever-sleeping
simply ride in dreams.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 7:19 PM:

 

__________


Inside this window
stands the rare mercies needed
in deep savage woods.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 7:23 PM:

 

__________


So many mornings
I've slept through the fantastic
tales of brave rabbits.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 7:38 PM:

 

__________


This … is who we are:
briny jellies aspiring
to terrible angels.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 8:06 PM:

 

__________


Not a tale of awe
nor even a tale of woe -
but a long true tale.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 8:22 PM:

 

__________


Hear the Always Song
of Always melody and tale -
sing Always harmony.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 8:30 PM:

 

__________


No love no love no
love no love no love no love
ever burns bloodless.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 8:33 PM:

 

__________


What sorcery far stars
what sorcery long darkness
and what sorcery I.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 25, 2008, 10:44 PM:

 

__________


Dance as fertile womb
eat the sleeping seed of moment -
burn … 'til moment fails.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 4:40 PM:

 

__________


Mine is never dream
nor mine ever dream of dream -
mine … is hope of dream.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 5:49 PM:

 

__________


Her altar
invites the elements -
I come Fire, Air, Water
and Earth.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 5:55 PM:

 

__________


A moment to plunge
deeply into worrisome soups -
Now, one to forget.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:42 PM:

 

__________


Moment's birth and birth
and moment births everlast
… until birth no more.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:44 PM:

 

__________


Vines curling, wrapping
some day may come tap-tapping
begging at thin panes.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:46 PM:

 

__________


“Seed” are steps taken
and too my untaken steps -
What moments we plant!

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:48 PM:

 

__________


Heartbreak, my heartbreak
this rapturous cracked escape
out of sleep … to awe.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:52 PM:

 

__________


Teeny tiny creeps
steal their chance advantages -
I am a universe.

__________



  Naumadd : Rationally Passionate Writer

Re: Just pieces ...

Naumadd said Jun 27, 2008, 10:54 PM:

 

__________


Sparrows care nothing
for these abominations
eating our bellies.

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