Forum / If I were a poem

• Frankie Saxx

  Jun 16, 08:43pm

  I'd want Matt Dennison to write me. Or maybe Kyle Hemmings if I was feeling like a Tokyo monster in platform boots and weeping eye makeup.

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  Darryl Price

  Jun 17, 01:59am

  Why not turn this into a longer poem and post it to "Stories"--then we could all add a little more love to it.

  If I Were A Poem

  I'd want Matt Dennison
  to write me. Or maybe

  Kyle Hemmings. If I was
  feeling like a Tokyo

  monster in platform
  boots, weeping eye makeup.

• Frankie Saxx

  Jun 17, 06:56am

  Done, Darryl.

  Hey, it looks pretty good all stanzified like that.

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  J. Eric Laing

  Jun 21, 02:48pm

  Ringing the Bells

  And this is the way they ring
  the bells in Bedlam
  and this is the bell-lady
  who comes each Tuesday morning
  to give us a music lesson
  and because the attendants make you go
  and because we mind by instinct,
  like bees caught in the wrong hive,
  we are the circle of crazy ladies
  who sit in the lounge of the mental house
  and smile at the smiling woman
  who passes us each a bell,
  who points at my hand
  that holds my bell, E flat,
  and this is the gray dress next to me
  who grumbles as if it were special
  to be old, to be old,
  and this is the small hunched squirrel girl
  on the other side of me
  who picks at the hairs over her lip,
  who picks at the hairs over her lip all day,
  and this is how the bells really sound,
  as untroubled and clean
  as a workable kitchen,
  and this is always my bell responding
  to my hand that responds to the lady
  who points at me, E flat;
  and although we are not better for it,
  they tell you to go. And you do.

  --Anne Sexton

  Not a poem I'd be, but one I relate to....

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  Adam Sifre

  Jun 22, 12:56pm

  She drips,
  slick with heated words and
  wet innuendo.

  She breathes in roses, salt and darker thoughts,
  exhales, her junkies crowd around for a taste.

  All piss and swoon, and edgy curves,
  her mouth, all promises wrapped in words
  that softly break
  and saturate.

  - Someone who is not Splinker

• Frankie Saxx

  Jun 22, 01:01pm

  Someone who isn't Splinker should put that on the main page. :P

• Frankie Saxx

  Jun 22, 01:03pm

  Now I'm thinking how Eric might read if he were an Anne Sexton poem. Hmm.

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