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pepper
pepper Posts: 155
edited February 2011 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
It’s not that she didn‘t like clothes, it’s that she wore a gown of madness.

She dances with her heartbeat in her hand
Raising her arms with open palms
She feeds the sky a miracle
It makes sense to offer herself like that
To feel her mortality, in everything she touches
There’s no sacrifice in a gift.

She drinks daylight to help her find her way
To make shapes out of the shadows she spat out
from when she prayed like a whore
to taste forgiveness
But God won’t hear her there
There’s no gift in sacrifice.

So she cradles the night for a view darker than herself
She swallows the rhythm from her hips to be more like… herself
She licks the grace from her lips
and sits on the back of words like… ‘I love you’
And rides them home.
Pepper- I am faith without religion, without bruised knees and pleas for forgiveness...
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  • zarocat
    zarocat Posts: 1,901
    pepper wrote:

    So she cradles the night for a view darker than herself

    That gave me goose bumbs
    1996: Toronto
    1998: Barrie
    2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills
    2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal
    2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids
    2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
    2006: Toronto X2
    2009: Toronto
    2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton
    2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula
    2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo
    2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit
    2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2
    2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
    2022: Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto
    2023: Chicago X2
    2024: New York X2
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    woah, very powerful.
    strong words, in subtle and beautiful ways
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Great writing
    Cancel my subscription to the Ressurection
    Send my credentials to the house of detention

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  • pepper
    pepper Posts: 155
    Thanks :)
    Pepper- I am faith without religion, without bruised knees and pleas for forgiveness...
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    Incredible.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    I've always enjoyed your poetry - You've been gone for awhile, glad you're back.

    Thank you for sharing.
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  • pepper
    pepper Posts: 155
    mikalina wrote:
    I've always enjoyed your poetry - You've been gone for awhile, glad you're back.

    Thank you for sharing.

    Thank you!
    Pepper- I am faith without religion, without bruised knees and pleas for forgiveness...

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