This piece was specifically composed for my 1st turn as a poetry slam judge. When I was originally contacted about participating in the event, it was to be as a competitor, but the organization felt I would have a considerable advantage as a published author. Instead the judges role was offered and I was asked in a compromise of performing a few pieces in order to promote my book, to compose a piece with a specific theme of leather. Hmmmm, I wonder how THIS will go over? Enjoy!
"Against The Wall"
Beneath his sentry
He licked it
Split
It
Tapped it
Trapped it
Strut it
Against the wall
With hungry eyes
Wanting it
Lusting it
Between his Damascus
He spanked it
Wet
It
Lit it
Burned it
The smell of his Presidente
Lingering
Between the aromas
Of a saline musk
And a red-striped cod
Piece
Like me
Fell
Bowed
Around his waist
Vowed
As so many others
To get in line
To
Lick it
Stick it
Spit it
Piss it
Drink it
Swallow it
Shower it
Show it
Slap it
Tap it
Wrap it
Wear it
Dap it
Lube it
Love
It
Do it
Over
And over
And
O-ver...
©2010cchristopherbess
Welcome to blog #2! Though Actuality Askew will remain the primary location for a connection to my work, I started this blog as a gift to those who really choose to follow my work. In other words, you can't get the complete picture without coming here. As always, enjoy!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Salvia Officinalis
What Will your verse be
In the great cry that is life?
A ballad
As crisp as roses in bloom
Against a springtime melody?
Or a requiem
Like billowing gray thunderheads
Filled
With the sorrow
So often misplaced as your own?
What will be sung
As you are lowered or scattered?
Cerulean notes off rhythm
Sublime?
Or cherry compositions
Kind?
Ready to burst solutions
To the enigma of you
Beyond those who would know...
Think not of your tune
But your tone
For it's never the song memorized
But the cyclic harmony
That plays in the mind
Resounding verse upon verse
To make sweet the memory
Of the stanza lived
To make sweet the song
Of the verse that lives...
©2009clarencecbess
In the great cry that is life?
A ballad
As crisp as roses in bloom
Against a springtime melody?
Or a requiem
Like billowing gray thunderheads
Filled
With the sorrow
So often misplaced as your own?
What will be sung
As you are lowered or scattered?
Cerulean notes off rhythm
Sublime?
Or cherry compositions
Kind?
Ready to burst solutions
To the enigma of you
Beyond those who would know...
Think not of your tune
But your tone
For it's never the song memorized
But the cyclic harmony
That plays in the mind
Resounding verse upon verse
To make sweet the memory
Of the stanza lived
To make sweet the song
Of the verse that lives...
©2009clarencecbess
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Mellow
Took you off my walls
Unpinned you
Stored you away
With other eyes
I can't forget
But had to move on from
That was years ago
And now you're here
Beneath my broom
Covered in time's sand
And the memories
I try to sweep away
I'll need to sit for moment
Stare at your face
In my mellow mood
With mellow songs
To fill this space
And go...
It was best.
©2010cchristopherbess
Unpinned you
Stored you away
With other eyes
I can't forget
But had to move on from
That was years ago
And now you're here
Beneath my broom
Covered in time's sand
And the memories
I try to sweep away
I'll need to sit for moment
Stare at your face
In my mellow mood
With mellow songs
To fill this space
And go...
It was best.
©2010cchristopherbess
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Liquid
Will you run to me
Will you come to me
With your liquid dreams
With your fantasies
That hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul
Will you tell me things
That you never thought you'd say
Beyond liquid dreams
When your tongue slips away
And they really know
That It's so easy
To run away with your soul
Will let me be the one
Despite your history
To wipe your liquid fears
From the eyes of your misery
To hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul
Would you run with me
Into possibility
Let me take your soul
Show you liquid dreams so bold
Will you lay with me
Let me write you songs
Of those
Liquid things that flow
When one knows
That it's so
Right
Flow me
Down with me
Liquid ecstasy
Come to me with your soul
And be as liquid
Free...
©2010cchristopherbess
Will you come to me
With your liquid dreams
With your fantasies
That hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul
Will you tell me things
That you never thought you'd say
Beyond liquid dreams
When your tongue slips away
And they really know
That It's so easy
To run away with your soul
Will let me be the one
Despite your history
To wipe your liquid fears
From the eyes of your misery
To hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul
Would you run with me
Into possibility
Let me take your soul
Show you liquid dreams so bold
Will you lay with me
Let me write you songs
Of those
Liquid things that flow
When one knows
That it's so
Right
Flow me
Down with me
Liquid ecstasy
Come to me with your soul
And be as liquid
Free...
©2010cchristopherbess
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