Jazz Ghosts The leopard runs through the city the night reveals some of its claws my soul remembers a corner where gamblers dealt bullets and you dance like a rebel wife in your private chamber in that dark space the only light comes from your spine the leopard gets tired clawing at the walls in ve...

@Boss: Does it look like I am treating them like furniture?

Scarlet I have seen the eyes. The eyes. of the scarlet girl… the eyes that speak to storms and nomads… the eyes that fly in the jaguar’s dream the eyes that summon soldiers and deep kisses … I shall move in those eyes like a shaft of light… and ask you the language of dreams… Scarlet girl… I can sm...

@raugust7: Hey I really appreciate your feedback. Feels real nice

I did think it was retelling and remixing of Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Cohen's "I'm Your Man", though it has been fitted into a more domestic context, for which I credit the poet.

@ Jimmy: hey thanks so much for taking time out to read this

I used "also" more as a transition point between the two diferrent tones that the poem juztaposes. But you may be right.

My fingers are blades
That slice mythologies

My fingers also worship your thighs.

My fingers are blades
That slice dictators

My fingers also remember
To stroke the thousand moons

Inside your soft, dark body.





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@Jimmy: Thanks man!

@lizzy: Gosh i aint even aware of this news!!! You see, here in India we dont get to know all thats happening out there. So CSA is totally out of the question, as far as this poem is concerned...though i did write a poem once for a newspaper here which tackled CSA and forced incest. and another one ...

The Hall of Blue Jazz -dedicated to Chick Corea 1. The priest strokes the organ his music curves around the soul of ants. a glass of water beside him now and then, a blue egg falls into the glass and cracks, then the keys of his organ recognize the scent of river gods… who wanted his body so many t...

of course!! a bit too late i guess heh .... so wat were the prizes like ... i can guess

Hey i'm quite new here...no idea how the competition works or even where to actually post. anyways, i'm posting something here called 'Shreds' for the Comp. had earlier posted something called 'Lines for Leonard' in this forum. Will that count too? Shreds the last train snakes away the last train of...

Here's something I wrote for you Leonard....and while i am posting this, there's "I Can't Forget" playing ... I wish I could write better...I wish. Lines for Leonard -for L. Cohen on his birthday, 21st September Suzanne takes you down to her mansion of pearls… blood pearls grace the violin...

Hey thanks!!!! yes, will do so immediately

Lines for Leonard -for L. Cohen on his birthday, 21st September Suzanne takes you down to her mansion of pearls… blood pearls grace the violin the psalm of death is heard and the scent of kisses, submarine you discover the lovers moving on crutches… exploring the water songs dragging their wings li...