Poetry by ~shanty

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and now .... you're gone ~ ~~for my friend

i looked i did i thought about you often you know that now that you did matter to me greatly know that i can still see your face and feel your skin

i can still hear that voice soft low an deep and oh the gentle laugh the eyes brown as the earth wide as a world lost inside itself

and we two would go there you and i and it never changed that moment lost when time rearranged for us amidst the din wrapped us in the soft the quiet the dark the center of the earth

in the park oh on the grass i remember bodies pressed whisperin in each other's ear soft warm breathe caress laughin over coffee fingers twinin i remember

and when i looked i could not find you strange i thought you must be here i have found others of a lesser note and so i looked again and this time i found your name within the little box

writers writin' on the writer sayin he was somethin special he was was he was was was was was was starin at the screen clutchin insides turn to stone

your gone you left me all alone but but i was lookin to say i will i will i will i am ready and i am writing again

but you are gone you can't be i am stone and life keeps drippin water on my head dear god dear friend dear brilliant one you are dead

oh the funeral guests they say read like a list elite garlands at your feet but i wasn't there i didn't know you know how i hide i guess it's been years

i didn't know i wasn't there and it feels all wrong inside me oh god you're dead

and the words bring tears and fears of mortality and a loss that sits like a rock i see what's been you're gone yes you're gone home free

and this much i do know this much is quite clear to me last fall you died said uncle said when and today i stand here with a hole in my heart with a sinking certainty that i will never touch your hand again


~blame game~

it's only for the cream you know that the gods have split the oreo

come n'sew me their story and i'll show you the glory of the garment worn loosely an a soul blazin warmly within it it myself i'm comfortin

their story it spun itself before me the clock struck one and down he run this great man whose mind unravelled time now broken bodied trapped a fire within a ghost he did lay himself upon the mercy at the feet of her whose heart he'd torn apart

at first in honor amazed my heart lurched he did not deserve this pain he did not deserve this either that she should love him yet that she should give herself to him still care for his broken body sustain his weakenin' will this was my thought fashioned from the moat and so there i was treadin' water ignited by my indignation righthanded righteous razed and ragin'

yet risin' from the center pool is a quiet drop of water rippling whispers thanks the goddess i can see the golden apples for reflections golden mittons backed with tin within the wee hours of the race i see my own reflection in your face

oh here we are a tear torn between where the truth remains in this game unseen the vision of the

creature that is we divided in illusion the right and the weft the ewe and the me and I and Thou cause course i know it anywho anyhow there is no you there is no me no ladies man and no lady

just one being split lookin back at it self realized in the reflection we the mothers lovers the sisters and crones of the night we are liquid lamped and dancin we are lava of an echo darkly blinded by the light

i call you other call you he but you are me it's only for the cream you know that the gods have split the oreo cause how drear how uneventful if it was one seamless mouthful instead of but a yummy frame within for to play this livin game and so i rock your heart and know it is myself i'm comfortin it is myself i'm comfortin

come n'sew me their story and i'll show you the glory of the garment worn loosely an a soul blazin warmly within           Gabby's Hope kiddie spoiler

once upon a time in a land long ago and quite forgotten lived the BansheeBabes of JohnnyHawk Rotten

little GoldiLocks and LeatherHood, they ran from the BB's they ran through the woods they ran through the briars and the ran through the brambles they ran bushes, where a rabbit couldn't go they ran so fast that the Banshees couldn't catch em from the weird little town to the castle camelo~

they went to see the horsies and they went to see the cowlets Leatherhood made her Goldie a comfy sleep~hay pallet she was so tired, doncha know a ‘runnin from that slaughter woulda broken Hoodsie's heart if they had'a caught her

so she plumped up the bed ‘neath little locksie's head ah no it twas not vellum twas not too soft twas not too hard but just right for a felon yet when our Goldie dear laid down she found that she was grounded she spied her tummy frowning like a juicy watermelon plump rounded

oh looky Leatherhood n' bound listen to this fruited sound methinks we'll have some food ole' watermelonwine an' maybe mead and all cause i ate that blackened seed don't let those roundboys take my fruit go hit em real hard in the snoot

an lo! tis true that on that day the goldengirl and LeatherHood did bring forth from the hay a sweet melon strangely fey

but LeatherHood bearin scratches from the Foxy ~in ~the~wood said it is time to split that fruit~ and make some flowin wine, forsooth! oh no cried Goldie upon my tooth~ we can't~ i think this fruit is too fine to split, in truth~

no! I will not have it~ have it now! cried the mighty Hood~ ! no! no! the starry~eyed LocGoldie cried! this it is not good! The was on goldiegirl had gone up to the rocks she ran close behind her cute behind ran Leather in her hood so fine

she caught that goldilocks but alas~ anon~ the melon she was gone the little one with the cute behind said she had dropped that melon down a blind too far too deep for them to find

but ~AHA that little goldilocks had sent her down the river dressed in little talkin socks so that she shant shiver

now next week we'll see well~ maybe~ we'll see if it was wise to send her on that river bender or should she ‘a let ole' leather end her~

hungry hearts

 a moon full washes  across the window  a shadow darkens  my heart can hear  the soft padding  the hot breath  and i remember  once upon a time  i knew that shadow  passing there  once upon a time  it drew blood  from that soft  this succulent  nape of a neck  skin creamy white  against the crimson  stain has marked  my heart taught  me to dwell  in places layered  shadows fold me  stillness will he  come again i  languish in  the twilight  once upon a time  i knew that shadow  passing there  i called him other  once upon a time  if i could pray  i would ask  to feel once more  that sharpened tooth  pierce my innocence  draw me through  the lookingglass  cut to the soul  i hear the padding  of the cloven  see the shadow pass  the window feel  the hot breathe  fill the night  steaming thick  fraught with  a thousand desires  once upon a time  i knew that shadow  passing there  i called him other  until he woke me  from my fear  once upon a time  now our immortal  hearts beat  with wanton lust  life burning blood  wolves are ravenous  the flesh is weak  tender and far  too juicy  not to slacke  this thirst fill  up my hunger with  your sweetness  dark and warm  fear not  it is the sacred  covenant we keep     'tight jaws n' peroxide faux '

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