The Poetry Marathon

21 – dreamer-

I have watched this girl for a while now,

she is becoming more like the trees she loves

so much, every time my eyes catch her tiny

frame wondering through the bush, her skin

etched with wonder lines her hair mattered like

branches, the sun dulling her to an earthy brown

the rain leaving river beds in the country of her body,

the seas tide marks wander up her legs, salt crystals

cling to the soft down on her legs. she has become the

ebb and flow of an old memory, a spirit of land.

 

-s.j.duncan-

Hour Twenty-One, Exaggeration

Tall True Tale

My Creek Native American ancestor
was seven feet tall
and a blacksmith
that married a white woman
and drove his cattle and sheep
eight hundred miles to market
one way
on foot
and returned home empty-handed
eight hundred miles again.
He died from pneumonia
at age twenty-one
and thus escaped the Trail of Tears,
his baby girl just one year old,
and his wife remarried
and birthed seven sons.
All true.
I swear.

Purple Mountain Majesty

When she smiles, she lights up the sky

Her eyes sparkle and dazzle.

But that hair,

That hair,

That beautiful purple hair.

It’s majestic and royal and grand.

Layers and layers of curls,

Styled so high.

An indigo spire

In the sky.

Caregiving

I poke my head into your room to ask a question.
And find
You
Clutching your stomach,
A fistful of chub in each hand.
You stare at yourself
With disgust,
With loathing,
With sadness.
“Fuck,” you say.
And I realize
That if I ever love myself,
It will be in spite of you.

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Outta Space…

Falling out of love

with you

came too easy

Now I question

why

even more

Was there?

No

there wasn’t

I made it all up

Reality rears its

ugly head again

I shall have to

write it all down

turn it into a book

Or just another story

for you

to

read

Weather

Today’s weather news

The eastern sun is so hot it can melt the Mount Everest into a puddle,
And that too would evaporate.

While the Northern winds carry on their onslaught, with cold that can freeze over hell.

The rains in the west have turned into a tsunami, though we aren’t sure…. Our crew drowned as well.

The only normal region seems to be south since they have huge, humongous, giant gates.

That’s all for today!

HOUR7

 

Reflecting on human nature

 

Burning questions,

vague answers,

why is everything

so complicated?

 

What should we do

to appease pain?

in us and in others too!

Or are we doomed to be selfish?

Cross breeze

(more…)

Temple Vein

8/6/17 2:10am
Temple Vein

It has always been your fault
From the first breath
to today’s silence.
You were born evil,
pathologically manipulative
A vile spitting and kicking thing.
A screaming thing.

It has always been your fault
for being too quiet or
walking too far behind or
not responding when I fucking said your name the first time.
I know you heard me.
Walk faster, speak up, they’re looking at us again.
This happens every time I take you anywhere.

It has always been your fault
you’re so annoying
can you please stop singing
sometimes I want to smother you
do you have any idea the day I’ve had?
The phone is always ringing
why is the phone always fucking ringing

It has always been your fault
It has always been your fault

Always