Month: July 2024

The Stormy Lunes

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First a trickle

Then the rain picks up

The drops dance

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In the wind

With the clouds gradually darkening

Low guttural rumble

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Distant at first

The storm isn’t here yet

But it’s close

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I feel it

With all its potential energy

Thunder’s closer now.

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Heavy rain now

Shrouded world in water’s fog

Hard to see.

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A bright flash

And deafening crack of thunder

It had arrived

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All rain gutters

Pour like mad with rainwater

The street floods

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Small bits of

Everything wash down the avenue

As they meet

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Their final destination

Down the deep storm drain

To the ocean

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Wind whips violently

Tree branches snap, falling everywhere

Creating ground forests

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The rain subsides

The winds die down gradually

The thunder quiets

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Far brighter sky

Just as the sun reappears

The waters recede

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I venture out

To clear the broken branches

Into a barrel

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Clear sky now

Butterflies and birds fly by

Enjoying the warmth…

-AAA 07/25/2024

Delicious (For the Lovers out There)

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Originally Published 04/14/2024

D   elving deeper and deeper inside as I find.

one pleasure after another.

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E   volving from a purely theoretical

friendship into a physical one as lips touch.

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L   ips softer than velvet sweeter than wine

and accepting of mine.

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I   timacy on all levels baked with the fires of

our desires as we descover unspoken

pleasures.

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C   hoosing to embrace every soft inviting part,

an offer of open lips and mouth.

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I   ntimidation melts from the place as I enjoy

each nuance.

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O   ther things people disasters in the world

do not exist for those long enjoyed

moments.

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U   nbelievable wanton desires are cast and

consumed in the white flames of desire.

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S   enses maxed to pleasure, taste, touch,

smell, sound and sites that will forever

burn as those eyes did…  

-aaa

In your Right Mind

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Originally Published 04/19/2024

It’s time to share a some thoughts

For those who’ve had hearts broken

It’s the ought to and ought nots

To whom that I have spoken

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Take a deep look inside

And tell me what you see

If you’re not beaming with pride

You’re stuck and still not free

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Look at all you’ve done

And all that you’ve survived

Not all of it was fun

But you’re here and still alive

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Don’t worry about the future

Don’t dwell upon the past

Living in the present will suture

All the wounds you have amassed

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Take lots of chances

In any opportunity to change

No more missed advances

Embrace your inner strange

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Move forward on your journey

But know just where you are

If you’re twenty, fifty-two, or thirty

You are a shining star

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So pat yourself right on the back

And have some pride, my friend

For your journeys been on a weary trek

But the worst of it is at an end…

-AAA

Self Synchrony

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Originally Published 04/24/2024

I sing my own song.

I admit it when I’m wrong.

Know where I belong.

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I play my own tune.

Not with a flute or bassoon.

But drums to the moon

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I know who I am.

And Never seize up or clam.

Always be a man

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Fear nothing that’s lived.

Life will flow freely as sieved.

If you just forgive.

Then you’d truly live.

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Now’s the time my friend.

For this exercise will end.

Gentle peace portend…

-aaa

Lunes of Music

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Turn on music

Then let the world stop

This is bliss.

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Pick a playlist

Let the endless tunes flow

Fulfilling sonic dreams.

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Happiness in song

Is my kind of happiness

With headphones on music 🎼 🎶 🎵

-AAA 07/24/2024

QOTD: #127

Anthony4 Comments

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

My best strategy of all is not answering questions of the day that are just ridiculously repetitive or trying to mine marketing information from a bunch of great writers out here .

Let’s just say doing what feels good and makes me feel good and not doing what does not which is a double negative of course 😂

-aaa

Negativity’s Minions Depart!

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Darkness don’t envelop me

Move far far away

Across an enormous sea

Keeping you at bay.

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Sadness get away go now

Leave while you have the chance

I’m no longer negativity’s sow

So find another place to dance.

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Misery your company I don’t need

Pack your bags and get out of here

Never again on my soul will you feed

So kindly make tracks and store your gear.

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Self loathing, you and I are now through

Join your other lame friends and leave town

There’s nothing further you can do

So leave this place and take your frown.

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Uncertainty, you once one a great foe

Now your just a feeling I discard

Join the others and simply go

One foot then the other, it’s not hard.

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Self-pity there’s no room for you

You’ll also have to make some tracks

Find a place, and grab a brew

Leave while you can as I have the facts.

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Desperation the last to leave

You were the biggest pest of all

Limiting myself to what I could achieve

Now you’re the one who takes a fall.

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I tread a new road without my old friends

They say negativity loves company

And that’s where my company ends

Now I become the best that I can be…

-AAA 07/24/2024

QOTD: #127

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What are your future travel plans?

In the interest of myself and my readers and choose not to provide marketing information on this question of the day.

Many of us have plans to do fun things in the future, but we don’t need to share them for “data mining purposes” to quote one of my author friends here.

As always thank you for reading…

-aaa

Thank You

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Originally Published 04/21/2024

Thank you for teaching me what love is not

Thank you for poisoning my every thought

Thank you for continuously using me

Thank you for emotionally abusing me

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Thank you for not being generous to me

Thank you for taking advantage of all that you’d see

Thank you for mental slaps with a white glove

Thank you for teaching me I had unconditional love

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Thank you for showing me all your hate

Thank you for showing me my own strength and faith

Thank you for doubting my every word

Thank you for demonstrating to me the absurd

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Thank you for weaponizing love and sex

Thank you for empty accounts and bouncing checks

Thank you for the emasculations you gave

Thank you for the respect you’d never save

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Thank you for not being in my life

Thank you for no longer being my wife

Thank you for the dog and pony

And thank you for that alimony…

-aaa

❤️Quantumess❤️

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Originally Published 04/25/2024

If I saw you right now what would I say.

If there were song for it what would I play?

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If time were under control how would we clock.

If music were our favorite how would we rock?

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If light is a relative thing how do we shine.

If hearts are to hold why not mine?

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If challenge of change makes me burn 🔥.

Is the price of wisdom worth the spurn?

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If the heartbreak was required.

Why wasn’t she mired?

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If love is for the all.

Why wouldn’t she fall?

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If growth is great and fear is small.

Did you just master walking tall?

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I think it’s worth the price of purest gold.

To perfectly align with half of a soul… ❤️

-aaa

HAVE

Anthony4 Comments

Originally Published 04/22/2024

Have a plan, carry it out.

Have I idea, make it happen.

Have a passion, fulfill it.

Have a desire, bring it to fruition.

Have a poem, emotionally charge its words.

Have an analogy, make it like no other.

Have a goal, exceed it every time.

Have a want, see it happen first.

Have a notion, follow your instincts.

Have a love, treat it like the diamond it is.

Have a mother, love her and her lessons of love.

Have a backup plan, and never get caught unawares.

Have a father, follow his lead and example with respect.

Have an understanding, feed it with knowledge.

Have a history, fill it with experience and perspective.

Have a sister, protect her and support her.

Have a brother, share in his trials and tribulations.

Have a godmother, never let her go she will show you heaven.

Have a life, maintain it with good habits.

Have a body, treat it like a temple lest it fails.

Have a heart, always follow and feed it.

Have a feeling, recognize its source and significance.

Have a hunger, always feed it properly.

Have it all, your persistence will pay off in the end.

-aaa

QOTD: #126

Anthony3 Comments

What would you change about modern society?

I pull no punches here, when I say everything, I mean everything.

Our society has become a selfish narcissistic, self oriented, pigheaded group of people. uncompromising and unchanging and frankly ignorant. Anybody not agreeing with somebody else’s politics is automatically hated friendships have died, relationships have died, over the stupidest trivial things.

I hope one day they wake up and get their heads out of their nether regions, or else we’re flat out doomed…

-aaa

The Right One

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Originally Published 04/14/2024

The right one is just like home a safe harbor to anchor your life.

The right one will see, greatness that you

will eventually come to know for yourself.

The right one will help you unlock the doors that you thought could never be opened.

The right one will help you ignite that spark that somewhere long ago you thought you’d lost forever.

The right one will know what to say when you need to hear it no matter how difficult.

The right one will share grow and touch your deepest thoughts meeting them with their own.

The right one will understand without question and with heartfelt compassion.

The right one will see your weaknesses and help you overcome them.

The right one will help you transcend your most difficult traumas.

The right one sees your potential and shortcomings and sticks with you even if you repeatedly fall or fail.

The right one will take your tears for strength and purify them for you.

The right one will forever transform your perceptions and life itself.

The right one will bring you back to the self you were meant to be…

-aaa ❤️❤️

Evening Rains: Lune Series

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Gentle rain falls

Soft mist refreshes everything, alive

With cool water.

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Grass, trees, plants

Drink the fresh crystalline waters

Quenching all thirsts.

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A distant flash

I can’t hear thunder yet

But it’s coming.

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Storm clouds gather

The sky now looks orange

More lightning flashes.

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The storm arrives

As the rain picks up

Now a downpour.

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Taps away steadily

Against my bedroom window pane

Which relaxes me.

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A sudden flash

Followed by crashes of thunder

And rushing wind.

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Steady rain continues

The storm then eases up

Much softer now.

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Closing my eyes

The gentle rain coaxes me

To needed rest.

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Soft gentle blackness

Raindrops accompany me to bliss

Sleep and dreams…

-AAA 07/22/2024

Controlled Chaos

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Originally Published 04/09/2024

Falling in space, we all are, at many miles an hour.

A spec a dot a piece of the universe.

Falling faster and faster and faster.

Don’t look back just keep going.

We’re all falling together in concert.

No reason no purpose just gravity.

Don’t be afraid it’s a great expanse of emptiness.

But you’re not alone you’e in good company.

Close your eyes feel the speed rush by.

Trust in yourself let your instincts take over.

You are significant don’t even question it!

-aaa

Sunday Whirl #664

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Sunday Whirl #664

Only In Dreams

Our dreams travel along a road paved in the finest silk.

In the shadow of the moonlight.

Some inspire us while others leave us trembling.

What connections in our minds zigzag and create all of these vivid nighttime events.

Prophets have had their visions and meditated in prayers afterwards.

Even our greatest minds may never solve the puzzles that are hidden and resolved in our dreams.

-AAA 07/21/2024

Together At Last, My Ideal Manifestation

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Originally Published 04/09/2024

I know you so well I know your taste.

That ecstasy contorted look on your face.

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I know your beautiful scent.

Destinations we came and went.

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New adventures of pleasures await.

Passport for passions with an ideal mate.

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Covered in kisses if you desire.

Bodies entwined in instant fire.

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Any request that you want to make.

Fulfilled with as much as you can take.

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Share with me a deep embrace.

Not a single moment goes to waste.

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Chasing dreams just you and me.

The way it was supposed to be.

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We met on a random distant shore.

Understanding how it didn’t work out before.

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Karmic lessons of our pasts.

Relationships that didn’t last.

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All don’t matter wow.

As we’re together now.

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It’s all no sudden wonder.

That we manifested each other.

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Now silently together in a soft bed.

I caress a weary head.

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Your breathing is very deep.

We drift together off to sleep.

-aaa

QOTD #124

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What do you listen to while you work?

It’s a simple question and depends on what I feel like.

Often jazz or classical, sometimes rock or heavy metal does the trick.

Other times it’s hours of yacht rock that get me through my day.

As always I think you for reading. 😊

-aaa

Tempest Tryst ☔️💃🕺☔️

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Dancing together like a single form.

Keeps emotions infinitely warm.

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Thunder provides a steady beat.

To the rainy overture as dancers meet.

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A flash of lightning brightens in light.

Providing a strobe for the duet tonight.

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Dipping a partner in the growing breeze.

Winds wisp violently among the trees.

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Hold each other in the potent deluge.

The soft inviting arms, a temporary refuge.

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Kissing deeply in endless sheets of rain.

Serious doubts that either will complain.

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Soft lips quenched drenched in moist dew.

Quickly stealing an embrace or two.

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In an increasing maelstrom they twirl around.

Until resting together on dampened ground.

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Passions increased, no care that it’s wet.

Seeing how much closer they can get.

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Very dank clothes will get in the way.

Quickly removed as the dancers play.

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Caressing hair, gently touching faces.

Warms insides, near, and faraway places.

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Soaked to the bone, the puddles run deep.

Saturate two bodies in intimacy’s keep.

The end of the dance they dress in the rain.

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Sweet and tender skin almost too much.

Goosebumps appear where their lips touch.

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Their own fury matches that of the storm.

Now a dance on ground, again single form.

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In water-logged clothes, none can complain.

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Last a retreat: dry clothes, cottage, and fire.

A bed warm blanket, the dancers retire.

-aaa ⛈️ ⛈️⛈️

Originally Published 04/08/2024

QOTD # 123 Comfort Foods

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What’s your go-to comfort food?

Again in the interest of my readers, I will not digress on these answers, but I will share some comfort foods I love.

Comfort foods I love include:

Homemade southern macaroni and cheese

Homemade lasagna

Peach cobbler

Banana Pudding

Christmas Cutout Cookies

Chess/buttermilk pie

Pumpkin pie with whipped cream

Baby back ribs

Whipped cream

Fried Pickles

Tuna casserole

Popcorn at the movie theater

Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup

As always, thank you for reading 😊

-aaa