‘Bind and Loose’

‘Bind and Loose’

by nikebottalico

I am here to hold you
I will bind you,
to me
Your spirit hangs by my mortal soul,
I hold you

I bind you to me
I bind you to me

The emergence of the darkness
I hold the light, I hold the light
It flickers, it moves with the soul of you
You are just out of reach
My fingers reach

I feel you
I feel you

Just there, side-eyed, I see you
Just an ethereal wisp of filament
A shadow of my heart burning

I feel you
I feel you

Lit on fire – the magick of my being,
Breathe,
breathe in the smoke
Cherish the delicate light

I bind you to me
I bind you to me
I see you, I see you

The gossamer light surrounds me
Pulls the strings of you
Your being thin — ethereal
No longer tangible to me

I bind you, I see you
My Spirit I Loose
I Loose

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Ride

Ride

by nikebottalico

Take this ride with me
It is slow and deep
It’s happenings right
in front of my eyes

You pose
I would be there in a heartbeat
My love beats with your heart
Nostalgia fills me
You are posing,
but I am not there.

You left me
What didn’t I do
What didn’t I do?
I lost you

You were coruscating
in all your colors
I lost that flash of you.
I would have given you it all
but I lost to her

You left me
What didn’t I do
What didn’t I do
I lost you

It’s happenings right
in front of my eyes

 

 

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In the year 2019 of mournfulness and empathy

Winged

Winged

by nikebottalico ♥ 1 Comment

Winged

 

She broke through

Going about 767 mph

 

Sabled —

black as pitch 

coverings to keep her warm 

She blended in as night,

Though as she broke through

 

Everything will be at arm’s length

Protective measures in sight

 

Her feet were white as snow

You could tell she hadn’t walked there

No, 

she hadn’t walked there

 

She had flown through the sky

And She broke through

Going about 767 mph

With Wings soft as silk

 

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Casting Shadows

Casting Shadows

by nikebottalico

 

Night, night casting shadows

Awake, spinning outside

            barefoot

Stars sprinkle dust

Moon at half mast

With Shadowland

          the other half

Digging deep in the mind

Burrowing in the pain

Outstretched hands

Digging into her belly

          Wombless

Feeling the light of the stars

Beating on  her chest

Begging the light to revive her torn heart

And torn parts

 

Written on 07-21-2018

 

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Caution (Edited)

Caution (Edited)

by nikebottalico ♥ 2 Comments

Children speaking

in a Bevy—

 

singing choirs,

a coherence of pitch hanging

off paper with eight staves.

 

The song screams,

cutting through a cloud of Silence

and the Perpetuity of some

inalienable rights

developed long ago.

 

I hear

Elegance of the Note,

and cry Tears of Emptiness

that a cloud of Silence may win

 

again.

 

 

 

Edited by Dale Winslow, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief at NeoPoiesis Press

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Across the Mind

Across the Mind

by nikebottalico

People walk by
Strangers with strange things happening.
I see
colors out the windows, apparitions float by.
I see
children, who are they?
I hear
Steady low music plays a tune
that is scrabbled about in my brain cells.
Hurry
Get the slide, look at it from the microscope.
I see
fibrous tissues cells, red and pinks
I hear
Shadow talk, what happens to the brain cells when they die.
O my
Do you run away, do you stay?
Where is my top hat?
I have lost it or is there a top hat?
I am afraid
Forgetting, knowing you are forgetting.
Do you go before you are gone?
The shadows press against my forehead.
I am afraid.
I am afraid
Of the Fade

 

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Ghosted

Ghosted

by nikebottalico

The inflection of her voice told you

What she thought

The rise and fall of her chest

like her voice

Accident, it was an accident to meet.

She was there, all there only for a time

She left,

but was there.

04/11/2017

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Thoughts

Thoughts

by nikebottalico

Swollen thoughts drift
red barn door,
Memories, flake like paint
Aged, weathered
Dawn breaks,
time pauses from the pink full moon
To the eastern light

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Dark Days & The Black Sea

Dark Days & The Black Sea

by nikebottalico

Ping-pong

Love is gone

A madman

The President King

is in the White House

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

The Russian Spy Ship is

lurking 30 miles out from

The coast of Connecticut

There is a drive by Su-24 attack

Jets buzzing, taunting the

US Porter American warship

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Everyone needs burner phones

A gun in every closet

To stop this instability

That haunts us.  

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Congressional hearings

Yet to be heard,

We are in mission critical

To keep our freedoms

We need all people to

speak out and tell the backstory

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Congress needs to revolt

against the President King

Fundamentally wrong

Constant flushing himself up

Unfit to be in the office

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

And we are crying

 

 

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Clocks

Clocks

by nikebottalico

Gut wrenching
Dark
Clocks ticking
Strange feelings
Hair falling out
Feel the coming
Fading feelings
Lapping waves
Radiation floating
Organisms dying
Life expiring
Under deluges
Of spills

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