https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1522-week-of-06-02-08 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:40:35 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8909-a-poem-for-my-lover https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8909-a-poem-for-my-lover   I love my hands on the curve of your back our legs wrapped when I can't feel where I end and you begin the feel of hair moving against smooth skin my mouth, breathing your breath when our teeth touch and tongues tease I love your beard tickling behind my knees and shoulders across my stomach I love myself, when I'm with you callooh Words Words Words Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:03:27 GMT /section-335-words-words-words#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8890-a-little-love-here https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8890-a-little-love-here The romping feet of shrew I believe,like war and faith, my father's voiceand questions, never answers(This is not the shuffle in the walls..) I watched my lawn for two decades and rejoiced for each seed eaten then gazed at each tiny gray-brown corpse and otherwise, prayed very little for their souls.  anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8891-assumptions https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8891-assumptions Terrance took the darkness of his left handto the smoothness of his black scalp. He thought so deeply, I watched him drownin his own brown eyes. But it was words He said it was words at least. And demanded poems are here for clues. not meaning. Parenthetically, he said, "(I rarely know what I've written until I read it.)" You should be talking about meaning. I said nothing. You shouldn't be talking about meaning. I said nothing again. Terrance said, "Poetry is the language of suggestion not the language of meaning, everybody knows that." Shut ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8915-blueberries-friendship https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8915-blueberries-friendship draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8892-crossing-lines https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8892-crossing-lines Beyond these boundaries, at memory's unfolding where paradise is the dream the dreamer sees beyond the dream where passion ignites passion flame ignores hope and we are the inferno Beyond the utmost boundaries, I crumble ruins and debris between my thumb and finger where death not measured by breath the graveyard is a pair of eyes without a tempest. Beyond these gentle beyonds, where boundaries blur to fingertips against the turgid pulse in nipples against the tropical torrents of juice between the aching soft of thighs Beyond words where emotions sing without boundaries. This is we naked. my cock against your belly my lips against yours in the holy sacrament of kiss. Yes, i understand boundaries. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8830-marriage https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8830-marriage i would not whisper stones in your ear or paint body with body on matted grass no, our trade was not for direction, or creation our do's were paid in the soft voice of hope we baked love, we glazed love, we spun love then held it to our lips, in our arms, and hips our trade will carry nothing, and serve no master no, that was not the bargain. footsteps, fingertips, and starlight on the thistles that old kettle, this hot tea   our deal is for the journey, words and a touch when there is only silence. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8888-no-conversation-in-a-private-forum https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8888-no-conversation-in-a-private-forum Caesar's poolboy wore a tight sparkling toga shaved every follicle from his flesh, and sluiced every cell of his skin with extra virgin olive oil until he was the song mother's sang to their sons like a warning ringing over the Tiber above a lake where the Golden Eagle stood vigil. After, in the glow of morning his body would embrace the water, a  colossus of touch & touched - until he became he clean and tall, erect like a monument polished with sheep's wool. Caesar could swim there in the pansied sun, a brutish testament to war mocking this peace of boy. Old, grissled, a new God of war and the price of freedom. The pool boy smiled until he forgot everything he once knew. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8889-semper https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8889-semper “What's with you and that rotary phone,” you asked once by the spruce beside the stoop Moments later, you asked me the same thing and then it was another night and our friendship was gone. A few years later, the phone rang    . . . the same. “what the hell,” you hung up on me and the spruce was dead    . . . The phone is gone rushed to the abyss by the merry progress of light through almost-wires — gone. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8855-streams-consciousness https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8855-streams-consciousness A red tailed hawk screeched from high above the red brick smokestack that stands like a silent sentinel protecting my city's past. He swung out upon the smokey tufts of air, and sung out to the blue blue sky that I couldn't dare to see. His scarlet plumes were not so far away as my mind, but he was far enough that I could not discover his face. I lurched from that calm moment of hope and soaring, to the squalor of confusion. Was this good? Was this bad? I do not know. I do not know if I should ... more anstey Prose & Such Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-123-prose-such#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8855 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8855 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8855 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8849-symphony-of-the-phony-little-man https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8849-symphony-of-the-phony-little-man Dear James It is not the musician but the poet who is fortunate the bright flare of trumpet that flitters along the melody is only a  vague metaphor for the  deafening  squeal of  the right verb detonating a solo phrase, before the chorus of nouns thoughts contrasted, painted in adjectives and linebreaks fused with form, then formless. re-formed reformed. The clarinet can not reed these notes - of man, wood, wind and silence. the brash of brash alludes, but can not speak the tones of these lyrics. The real music is always in the ideas, and while those feelings reverberate between the  gliss and snarl, atop the growl and groan, beside hum and wistful whistle - it is the music of the mind that endures. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8849 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8849 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8849 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8887-tallahassee https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8887-tallahassee draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8887 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8887 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8887 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8832-taxed https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8832-taxed Charlie told me never to pity the poor only rich men really know about suffering only those guys with $1000 suits and their leathery wives with brittle dyed hair know that color matters and gray isn't an option.   The poor are distracted with polarbears and penguins and all that shit about the sea rising up to engulf their tiny little shacks. The god damned poor think it's tragic when the price of gas goes up a penny and feel nothing when the market crashes.   ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8832 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8832 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8832 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8791-the-meaning-of-a-college-degree https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8791-the-meaning-of-a-college-degree draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8791 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8791 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8791 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8854-upon-cool-green-grass https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8854-upon-cool-green-grass i  pluck daisies like tomorrows from a thin green calendar then each pale petal, an idle hour, beautiful  and lost what a coward I am to see only the yellow center but never the sun Daisey anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8854 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8854 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8854 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8893-of-obsidian-twilight-and-june https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8893-of-obsidian-twilight-and-june tomorrow, i will gain the hourgathered from shrinking moments,tucked mindfully with notionsi've preened into souvenirs. when midday unarms itself ofmornings hoarse edge,there will be no pleading burdento wage war against. every delicate sigh of sufferingwill be passed over with thecandor of a kept tongue somy words may fall fertile. held against this hour,the fervor eros confesseswill deliver glass from stone,humbling the length of a day Amanda Baker Sometimes...it just is Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:35:36 GMT /section-531-sometimes-.it-just-is#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8893 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8893 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8893 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8840-the-lilac-thief https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8840-the-lilac-thief I live in Belgrade, MT and my neighborhood has become a purple and white eden The Night Prophet The Night Prophet Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:19:14 GMT /section-219-the-night-prophet#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8840 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8840 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8840 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8896-twist-in-the-wind https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8896-twist-in-the-wind I fell, broke my wrist I had surgery, and I was a dumbass for being on the ladder in the wind with no one holding it kzealy Only In The Eyes of the Beholder Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:51:19 GMT /section-61-only-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8896 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8896 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8896 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8902-relieved https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8902-relieved Interminably Consternation Mosquitobyte MosquitoBytes Volume 05: Interjaculate Love - 2005 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:43:24 GMT /section-518-mosquitobytes-volume-05-interjaculate#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8902 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8902 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8902 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8906-timeaus https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8906-timeaus Interminably Consternation Mosquitobyte MosquitoBytes Volume 05: Interjaculate Love - 2005 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:35:29 GMT /section-518-mosquitobytes-volume-05-interjaculate#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8906 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8906 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8906 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8905-spore https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8905-spore Interminably Consternation Mosquitobyte MosquitoBytes Volume 05: Interjaculate Love - 2005 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:34:03 GMT /section-518-mosquitobytes-volume-05-interjaculate#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8905 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8905 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8905