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ice queenShe takes you by the hips
because she's too hungry
to appreciate the warmth
of your hands.

She transforms you with her fingers,
bending every edge till you're just her
ball, made of glass,
that she shakes once in a while.

She always preferred ice over sunshine.

And I can't stand the sight of her,
she chills me to the bone.
Because she has my whole world
in the palm of her hand

and I fear she might break it.
summergirlNow read aloud over here. Do give it a listen, won't you?
     i. summergirl,
you are crowthroated and tumbling
through the aspen grove
hair on fire with sunrise, lungs
full of sky.
eyelashes like wildflowers
and every morning brings
a new spray of freckles
and a sharper curve to your collarbones.
the cornfields hold no shadows
for your lighthouse eyes
and there are no endings in that
surefooted smile.
     ii. you have grown
so fast.
autumn finds you with broken ankles
leaning on an oak branch
and watching the skies.
crow to sparrow--you are quiet.
summergirl, there is peace in silence,
perched treetop,
fallen antlers in your hands.
you will come to mourn your deer.
keep them close.
     iii. by winter you have paled,
and like the streams 
your eyes have frosted over.
you feel the chill--
there is no need for sight.
summergirl, th
i saw god leaving the shoreLast night I dreamed of blue-grey shores
Of miserable black rocks 
that pushed back a tide that crawled with the dull wind 
And how I moved so quickly, 
Towards the salty edge of the earth;
She told me to run, 
To kick back the sand as hard as I could 
until something appeared.
And I suddenly saw haunting, stone walls
Gleaming in their symmetry
Made of pale, sturdy nostalgia 
with deja vu dripping down
Slipping like liquid mercury 
I ran towards it eagerly, and chased my own reflection - 
But whenever I caught a glimpse of myself 
The drops would dribble and scatter away.
She told me to run further 
And my heart ached and my spine arched
against the stinging, salty wind
Yet before I knew it, the ocean floor moved 
And I ran down shores 
at every turn-
each perpendicular to the previous one.
Everywhere, identical blackened stone barriers
They are all the same, she said
Their crashing waves make the
Between My Silent Sobs and CriesBetween My Silent Sobs and Cries

Taken
From me
The soul I vowed to keep

Now
Sad perfidy
From the man with whom I sleep.

And he rails, he rails
Against me
And
Against me:
But I vowed to love and keep him;
And I meant it sincerely.

This man
I married
When the blossoms were blowing sweet
Has scooped up all the bugs and dirt
From the fallen autumn leaves
And guards the scum upon them
So jealous,
Jealousy.

And I am terrified of a winter
Of some snow piled crisp and deep
In such a blinding whiteness
I could lose what I would keep.

Lover, oh Lover
You're missing the verdant spring
And I know there's still a soul in
crow comes courtingresplendent in a black gloss
of feathered robes...

crow's morning clicks of courtship
echo through downcast mists that
bead upon bowed shoreline willows

and genuflect in the wake
of his purposeful strut
one hesitant step before the next,

his head cocked this way and that,
listening as distant ticks
message back a reply-

the visage of his agenda
suddenly unfolds in a wingspread
that lifts above a watery canvas,

the guttural sound of pulled
stitching sends love notes receding
into estuaries, and ripples

where tadpoles skip and dart
beneath lily pads in the random and
rapid blink of each tiny vortex
Girl, Reincarnated.Perhaps in a past life you were made of ink,
your eyes speckled like blotting paper,
complexion smooth as parchment.

And maybe your voice was storm cloud rolling
because I see your words
and they fill my heart with rain,
not the heavy kind that revels
in punching holes in butterfly wings but rather
the mist that paints the dew and
leaves the sky beautifully grey.

At the very least your soul was a mourning dove,
as there's a lilting sorrow in your words
that the air carries like a melody,
were I to speak them aloud
I would sing, hoping that my voice wouldn't shake
with your weeping.
wrists that roarmama says
pull down your sleeves
they'll see, they'll see
but no-one's even looking

i say mama
tigers are proud and strong
and tigers show their stripes
so today i'm a tiger

and who says
i can't be a tiger
when razors made me fierce
and secrets kept me lonely

who says
i can't tiger-roar
when everything unsaid
ripped my throat raw

i made my stripes
with tiger-claws and tiger-teeth
so damned if i'm not a tiger
and damned if i won't roar

mama, i'm a tiger
mama, hear me roar
The Witch's Admirers   Simple etiquette
     edict
     eve
Simple breath
  and simple needs
poisoned
     so sweetly
so neatly
 displaced
would never
ever
letter
for another space to be.
Dreams, softly
but fruit is costly
and bones are far from rot.
     Why do you burn me,
for perils I have with fraught?

(~ frightened by the powers, that we have not ~)
if only, if only.i.
we drove nowhere
and we spoke a language
that nobody understood
underneath a foreign sky
blanketed in the scent of pine.

ii.
you told me
my eyes were like envelopes—
because they were always
opening
closing
fluttering to the sound
of breaking seals
and ink stained fingertips.

iii.
i told you
we should run away
to a new land
with new faces
because
i was enamored
with people i had never encountered
and places i had never gone.

iv.
you laughed at me
and said that
if i didn't spend
so much time with my head
buried in world maps
i would realize
that i was living on one.

v.
i remember
it rained that day
and the tea went cold
but the
white noiseThe only thing that seems to keep the world out of my head these days
is white noise
it's a rush of excitedly flapping wings
it's nothing you could grasp but a sound and a colour that is none
I try to keep the world out
(she is playing her music too loud too much these days)
and I think of you, ears buzzing with white noises until they ache.
And I catch myself thinking
I wish you were my white noise -
the sound in between my heartbeats,
the same words whispered so close to my ear they sound like beautiful little secrets,
the rock I cling to when the waves crash violently all around me to keep from drowning, I wish you were
my home, my favourite pair of arms, my heart, my safe place, the one to soothe my mind.
I wish you were so many more things
than just far away and as impossible to touch
as white noise.
DesiderationMy deepest wish,
my most powerful desire
is to place
my heart
in your hands
So that
when you'll walk away
I won't feel it shatter
A Name Into The WindA Name Into The Wind

Be forewarned sweet honey circles of the hive,
Or the cave moss deep underground mastering your lair.
And you too salty ocean waves that bellow from sea to land,
For I am coming for your immortality.
I shall drape myself in your behavior until
I and we are one and thou can no longer distinguish
Between right and wrong.
I will blend into nature as nature blends into me.
Evaporate my body from the air that fills my lungs
And become the breath of the land,
Immortally as one

Yet take to heart this forewarning gentle human beings,
For I am coming for you too.
Keep safe not the airy thoughts of man
Where the drea
outgrowing gillssea-cradled urchin 
child has a salty heart yearnin'
for a glimpse of mother moon
tiny spiked wunderkind
punk, studded belt
you know life's answers well
shuffling through the seaweed-less halls
missing the ocean swell
tidal waves foaming at the mouth
everyone is laughing now
at the boy born on a boat one sunny afternoon
cause mama loved the sea like lovers love the sheets
landlocked kid is homesick and
sea sure, he's searching for the sea shore 
life's a blur for Davy Jones at his locker
capsized by sea-legs on solid ground, he finds his seizures
and he hates his earth mother
he hates her
for falling for the ocean and 
how he's rocked by the moon
how he's mesmerized by her glow
her pull on his sea-conceived cells
no
he hates her too
for the puking in the stalls
for the ridicule
GreyI like the color grey;
it's not black and it's not white,
but sometimes it's a little blue.
and I still keep running into parked carsMama,
your baby girl's swimming
in dead of the night
hair, scarred knees,
overgrown weeds, and
countless pairs
of shoes-
with those
orange and yellow wheels
that hug my toes
and heels

I'm running into
parked cars
trying to get
my kite to fly
and hiding under
dashboards
listening to you
fight

I'm rummaging through
boxes of secrets
that Daddy tried
to hide-
solving puzzles with pieces
I'll never uncover
in these thoughts
of you
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To some this might be news
but have a seat
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while I try to change your views.
The cats have been
controlling you
from the day
you brought them home.
You've never seen
them follow you?
So you're never quite alone?
You've never noticed
with just a look
you follow their commands?
Or how they utter
just one sound
and you become their hands?
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It looks you
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My ArchnemesisI saw him once again today
my archnemesis that is.
He seems to think that what is mine
is also mostly his.
He's dancing in my driveway.
He's playing on my soil.
Every time I look at him
it sets my blood to boil.
My archnemesis is crafty.
I will have to give him that
for he's even earned the loyalties
of my neighbor's horrid cat.
He's set the cat to digging up
the flowers in my garden
and for such atrocious acts as these
I'll tender him no pardon.
He chases after butterflies
who've never done him harm
and wins the women on my block
with his cunning and his charm.
I'll find a way to stop him.
I'll suffer no defeat
from my
The Vanishing HatI warned him once.
"Don't go!" I said
when he placed that hat
upon his head.
He turned to the side
and gave me a smile
and whispered to me
"Be back in awhile."
In a puff of dust,
in the blink of an eye
he was gone from this place.
and I'm left wondering why.

We'd come to this moment
from a time further past.
It all hinged on a glance
through shop window glass.
He'd stopped for a look
at a hat on display
in a shop on the corner
on a street on our way
to a theater in London
where we'd first started dating
a romantic reprieve
and I wouldn't be waiting.

"Don't go," I told him
in a jocular tone,
"or I'll go by myself
and leave you alone."
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The Octopus Cat

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If ever you were to see our clinics
never would you find a group of cynics
as depraved as those in mutagenics
who created the octopus cat.

A collection of men from our fair city
all thinking themselves to be so witty
that they grew from scratch this evil kitty
the horrible octopus cat.

It looks at you with knowing eyes
is deaf to all your frightened cries
a creature you had best despise
this menacing octopus cat.

It crawls on eight disgusting tentacles
each of them tattooed with pentacles
be wary of the dread cylindricals
of the deadly octopus cat.

And should you hear within its jowls
the beginnings of its feral growls
or else its otherworldly howls
then beware the octopus cat.

For if you hear these sounds behind you
it's certain we will never find you
I hope we won't have to remind you
look out for the octopus cat.

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The Octopus Catby *SubjugatedSandwich

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This is a silly little rhyme about a serious little cat. Entirely inspired by this hilarious yet sinister piece of art.

by ~aeryael

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©2012-2013 *SubjugatedSandwich
Category: Literature / Poetry / Narrative / Traditional Fixed Forms

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=LadyofGaerdon Oct 12, 2012  Professional Writer
:wave: Hi! Your piece has been featured in #Lit-Visual-Alliance's Fifth Allied Artwork Feature! Please :+fav: the article to bring attention to the feature. Thank you for being a part of the Alliance! :salute:
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*BlakeCurran Sep 5, 2012  Student Writer
Very cool. Love the rhyming scheme - really added to the tension. The rhythm at the end of each stanza was very fitting, always coming back to the octopus cat.
Congrats on the DLD - you deserve it!
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*SubjugatedSandwich Sep 5, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Thanks! And congrats to you as well. I'm so glad DLD is on the lookout or I probably would never have found your poem and the world would have been a sadder place.
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*BlakeCurran Sep 6, 2012  Student Writer
You, kind sir, are too kind :P I'm glad DLD is on the lookout, too, though - it made my day :D
You're welcome, and thanks :)
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*xlntwtch Sep 4, 2012   Writer
Great humor and tone will remind me to look out for the octopus cat! Thank you so much. :+fav: :iconcongratssignplz: on the DLD.
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*SubjugatedSandwich Sep 5, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you! I never expected the response to this would be so great but I have been pleasantly surprised. =D
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*xlntwtch Sep 5, 2012   Writer
:) :iconwelcomeplz:
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~HisWeskerness Sep 4, 2012
hahahaha That last line works really well if you sing it with the spiderman theme
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*SubjugatedSandwich Sep 5, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
~Look oooooooooooout...for the octopus caaaaaaaaat.~ I would never have thought of that on my own but now that you have put it in my head...it cannot be undone. =D
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~HisWeskerness Sep 5, 2012
Muhahahahahaha i have made your story memorable lolz
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