Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wet...Etheree
I fucked you
Monday, September 5, 2011
Love...clarity pyramid
LOVE
Once found
Can’t be lost
I love you wholly
Without reservations
Even after tides have turned
“I will never want another”
Friday, August 19, 2011
Fours...Clarity Pyramid
Nonsense
I write to you in nonsense
So that you know I am still alive
And I can feel connected to
The past love that lives
Here in my present
But only in your memory
I write to you in nonsense
The words can seem silly
To the unmastered ears
Not attuned to the keen of longing
Decibled higher than a
Light flashing, wailing ambulance
I write to you in nonsense
Words, please mine
That is my only currency
To gift to you from my soul
Heart pleas touches only you
Can begin to understand
© NP
Friday, July 29, 2011
Undiscovered
Fine, whispy coats
Of sheer veneer
The shadow of your hand
Plays under several
Half way to my mask
Halfway to my heart
Each position in which I lay
Aches for someone to hold
The hopelessness of desire
Blends with an unrelieved
Taste of loss now on
My every breath
Tears preempt a cold
Consciousness
Preventing my escape
From loneliness
A great change
Has occurred here
I no longer have to convince
The manifested spirits
Who wander in and out
Of my waking days
Whispering in quick claim
Of the fear I have
In riding the electric storm
That may not produce
A sunrise
My song has been pulled
Under black waves
And I can’t breathe
Trapped forever beyond
What I want and need
And what I have been allowed
I would like to think
That the sun
Brings consolation
Even when I am found
Sitting in the rays
Arms wrapped my middle
Trying to hold the pain in
The blisters on my hand
Turn into staining wounds
I continue to ponder
All the theological questions
Of the why and the why
Each luminosity at twilight
Spreads only darkness
Into the coming sunset
I need for the anguish
To be captured in
Pewter common cups
Making the wafers
Easier to swallow
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
(can't sleep)
He awaits me
In corners and blind alleys
Full tilt neon boogie
In get back blues
I speak
His name loudly
Damn near scream his name
In a delta rhythm
Heel clicking on sidewalks
Broken glass sparks
Moist and hot
In a basin of water
His power over me
Strong and relentless
So I run faster, wider
My hips sway stactically
Pearls on the river
And blood in my veins
Ridiculously
Drawn towards his light
As if I didn’t know better
I confessed
To my preacher
I just knew
A longing like this
Had to be a sin
He only agreed
And wiped electric
Off his chin
In that tired knowing
Of one that has
Been full before
Has been sated
At the table
No blessing for me
Just a pat on the hand
Even he was afraid
Of a new embrace
That could start
Him to moving
Into the void, again
Still I speak
Him into being
Ordered and
Disordering my words
Staining my radiance
In a swirling mist
Allowing the water
To cover me
To fill the spaces
He left open
Cleansing vowels
My reflection
Breaking shadows
Into more shade
I’m ready
To cross over
Spitting the flavor
Onto the pavement
Rebukement
Of the taste
On the tip
Of my tongue
My flesh is weathered
And bears the mark
Of his days
Across my belly
Around my hip
I span the length
With fingers spread
Until prints
Coil together in
A nest of promises
Unfulfilled sacredness
Trembling at the edge
Of a passerby’s irises
Sightless again
And I just want
The scent of him
In my mouth
To quench this thirst
This knowing
This lightening
Scorching my breast
The dawn is near
Though I know
I won’t sleep again
Closing my door
On the life outside
And drinking tea
In a broken cup
I am ashamed
At susceptibility
Of words spoken
In whispers
Wrapped in linens
And perched on windowsills
Holding the pain
Behind my smiles
He comes to me
In lonely thoughts
But I know hear
For I no longer
Believe
In love
© NP 5/20/11
Chocolate...Crown Oddquain
Brown ladies
On summery streets
Colorful sun dresses melt
Sight
Sight
Of your skin
Invites a cool tongue
To a slow licking of sweet
Skin
Skin
Peeking out
From your hidden places
Succulent curves on display
Shine
Shine
Into light
Desires of you
From milk to cocoa flavored
Taste
Taste
Colorful
Rainbow hued women
A black woman reigns over
All
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Edens
Song of Solomon 4:16
“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.”
A wind bloweth gently
Stirring the hair
At the nape of my neck
Eyes closed I savor the scent
Of musk and spice and Africa
The loam of earth’s origin
Grown in fabled gardens
I await my beloved’s return
For reclamation
Prepared with anointments
Ruddy with ministrations
Fine gold braided in strands
At the secreted entrance
To a private sanctuary
Pomegranates lay heavy on boughs
Cinnamon studded with spikes
Of the finest saffron
Reddened apple bottomed fruits
And succulent peaches
The table set and feast prepared
Let my beloved come and have his fill
Awake fair winds
Bear him to his garden
Stir the petals gently
To release the spicy pungency
Of my ripened fruit
Grown from his careful tendings
Seeded for his palate only
The Art Forbidden
Song of Solomon
3:1-3
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Why did you hide from me
I beseeched you ernestly
In city streets and
Lanes paved wide
Across heaven's horizons
I sought your face
My soul longed for you
Every watchman watched
But none could help me
Find you who I desired
Above the touch of strangers
That I will always shun
By night I dreamed
Of your sweet voice
Calling out to me
Calling me from evensong
In the quietest hour
Twixt now and then
Though in all faith
I prayed without ceasing
I fasted on my knees
I called you by name
But you answered not
Your essence still lingers
Around every memory
Those that keep count
Of us who are alone
Cannot erase the stain of tears
As there is no grace
Sufficient to make an art
Of being one forbidden love
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Skin I'm In
My skin is stretched to its limit
Of pain and scars
Permanent markers
Of the places you touched me
Gently and softly with tenderness
The bruises on my cheek, my calf
Extend the polar ends of
How my heart was stretched
Into pieces, little pieces
I live behind the kisses
And the promises
Uttered by lips
Disconnected from your heart
Words never meant to be fulfilled
But tasted good
On a practiced tongue
Skin that will not be lied to
Will not be bruised by another
I have no untouched places left
Unburned by your kind of love
This is the skin I’m in
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Miscarriage
I wake to sweat soaked sheets
Swimming in a angry rage
Purple pool of tears
My senses have bleed out
Onto the bed’s heavy blankets
Abortive pain stains my bed
Gripping the headboard
I try to stand
And find that my knees
No longer work well
Head swimming
Trying to make it to
The hallway bathroom
I fall to the floor
And crawl the rest of the way
Falling over into the tub
I lie on my back
So that I won’t drown
And be found face down
In this amniotic
Flood of love’s tears
© NP
Catching up
You...etheree
Thursday, March 10, 2011
My pussy snitched on you
My pussy snitched on you.
But don’t blame me
I wasn’t even there
Eyes rolled in the back of my head
Chanting for help
With every oh yes and oh please
I was out
Not tapping but holding on tight
In pure delight, I shivered
Thought I was twisting your sheet?
No sir, I was counting threads
To keep oral pleasure from going to my head
To keep that punnani under control
But she don’t listen to me
You whisper her name
And she begins to coo
And she begins to ooze
Sweet honey from the rock
She keeps under the hood
An engine remastered for maximum speed
My pussy snitched on you
But don’t blame me
I wasn’t even there
The stars I see orbiting my space
Are somewhere out there in another place
And time
And future
That you and she create
You call her name
Without my knowledge
And out of my hearing
And I suddenly become weak in the knees
Knees parted and sighing
I know you can hear her song
And it is at that moment
That I forget my name
And everything around
Save how to get her to you
My pussy snitched on you
It is only your rhythm she knows
In each refrain til the song is done
Eyes rolled in the back of my head
Chanting for help
Will you make this snatch cum?
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Garden...Puente Style
Mary, Mary quite contrary
I need you with something very
Much like a longing to possess
The secret of your happiness
In my garden you will stay
For only there with you may I lay
~Where night will never turn to day~
Here only in captivity you remain
I find it is not ropes but chains
That bounds my soul to you
For you have gained the coup
The butterflies that now do come
Carry tales of how I was undone
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
marry-oh-nyet (girlfriend in a box)
You do
I do
Do love
Do sex
Sex there
Sex here
Here maybe
Here soon
Soon good
Soon patiently
Patiently hard
Patiently wait
Wait for you
Wait months
Months pass
Months come
Come spring
Come fell
Fell hard
Fell in love
Love in heart
Love in soul
Soul worried
Soul troubled
Troubled word
Troubled water
Water flows
Water salty
Salty preserves
Salty keeps
Keeps in storage
Keep on shelf
Shelf in closet
Shelf over bed
Bed is empty
Bed is cold
Cold hands
Cold feet
Feet straight
Feet bound
Bound emotion
Bound tight
Tight board
Tight corded
Corded nyet
Corded girlfriend
Girlfriend
Nyet
Dissasemble
When it started I was sleeping
Dreaming of being in love and
My hand broke and fell off
No longer able to pen the words
That I have always hid behind
My voice was love’s next casualty
Quivering while trying to say your name
On the phone, in conversation
I couldn’t even speak face to face
A croak, a whisper and it too was no more
The clavicle gave in to my shoulder
Proved useless by the lack of hands
And I rolled to one side and off the bed
Like one who has had a stroke
And with no voice to call for help
I had fallen and couldn’t get up
Imagine my surprise when I discovered
That my feet began rooting to the carpet
A shaggy nude wall to wall fibrousity
Unable to move less my ankles break as well
The cords of muscles knot into disuse
Unconnecting to knobby knees
Til only the torso remains
Everything has a way of going back
To its own origins, unselected de-evolution
The remnants of our love is back to lust
And the only things remaining in the shadow
Are tits and ass
My man
I want my man to kiss
I want his full lips pressed against mine
Sweet sweet breath across my mouth
I want my man’s hand
To hold mine in his firm strong grip
Lengthening the path of my lifeline
I want my man’s touch
Leaving electric blue sparks along my spine
As if he harnessed light
I want my man’s skin
Pressed against mine with no room for sweat
Tongue on the back of my neck
I want my man’s pulse
Measuring the rhythm of my heartbeat
Pacing our passion
I want my man soon
For it has been far too many long months
I need my man right now
I want my man
I want his heart to belong only to me
As my heart belongs to him