written underwater

mood: hopeful

music: Enigma - Push the Limits (ATB remix) | Powered by Last.fm

thank you god.
thank you for new beginnings sprouting out of ugly ends.
thank you for my mother's improving health.
for enough money in my bank account to keep that stress away.
for the end of anxiety attacks.
for your healing medicines.
for discipline.
for your borrowed strength.
for your gifts of talent.
for being alive, and strong emotions that prove it.
for hope.
for you.
thank you.

Tags: gratitude, life, poetry, spirit

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mood: awake

ever since i was a kid i've been
taking a slant,
positively framing,
using formal diction -
writing formulaic responses to
academic questions.

all this structure
& anticipation of the desired
response -
gets me down.
i am more correct than
i am me.

now its a formal effort to deformalize,
a structured exercise in destruction.

i will stop when all i hear are
words verberating through my fingers,
saying what i think you don't want to hear.

Tags: poetry

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mood: frustrated

my anger does not burn slowly,
stoked to last the night -
it explodes in violent displays of fury -
longs to cut the words from your tongue,
slice expressions from the mantle of your face,
silence you as a snuffed candle in weary darkness.

Tags: michael

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mood: contemplative

I am the sea

Volatile, unpredictable, unyielding

Beautiful maelstrom

The lover who will take your last breath

11.01.08
 

Tags: michael, poetry

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location: L and 14th

mood: creative

i'm very pleased to say that my poem "some hearts" appears in this week's sacramento news and review!

pick one up at your news stand or check it out online!

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=874128

giddy.

Tags: poetry, published

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location: 14th & L

mood: nerdy

music: office noises

pressed to the wall,
forced to speak truth -
instead of what I see;
my whirling fantasy,
dying at my knees.

Tags: michael, poetry

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mood: working

music: Boga

last night we got
down &
out &
ugly; 


now:
beauty
is all we
see

Tags: michael, poetry

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mood: distressed

music: Velvet Underground

like a god,
i am evil &
angel,
destroying myself
& birthing
all within a
day

Tags: poetry

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mood: calm

no beer in the fridge
dead solders lie by the sink
sweet to share the last

Tags: michael, poetry

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mood: accomplished

it was just a day
with its bookends of time
less or more than ordinary
but for illuminated crime 


seconds were just seconds
passing just the same
surprise is in substance
respite from the tame

Tags: poetry

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location: 1-80

mood: pensive

music: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

underneath skirt, skin

stories tell of blood, sin

origin & end

Tags: poetry

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location: Prince Conti Hotel

mood: happy

Yey! I just got word that my poem exotic bird is in this week's Sacramento News & Review.

You can check it out here.

I am so thrilled because this is my first publication!

If you are in the Sacramento area, please pick up a copy or two for me since I am still on vacation in New Orleans!

Thx!

Tags: poetry

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mood: cheerful

do you ever feel
like a woman; the
way we overlook
your wit for the
color of your fur?

Tags: poetry

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mood: cranky

not shattered or broken,
but smashed, crushed,
obliterated; a mortar &
pestle - grinding, grinding
blood & flesh;

my heart a meal of
[dis]trust, pain blended
with spices of despair;
a bitter taste
only fit for you.

[2.19.08]

Tags: michael, poetry

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mood: hot

soft song:

sometime
i want to finish
what i started;
part my legs &
perch on the
epoch of your bliss.

Tags: michael, poetry

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mood: relaxed

At the end there is beginning
from depths escape
hiccups of salt;
death.

Saplings burst violent
beauty from earth;
miracles.

Sun above, below, day after day
healthy-steady
heartbeat-rhythm;
life.

Tags: poetry

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mood: cynical

Heavy, delicate burden,
a thousand pounds of daisies;
shiftless, silk noose adorning
fragile veins, below
lemon features;
sour taste of a life
changed, broken,
begun, without permission.

Tags: poetry

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