Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Redefined

Settled into town you did I see with my eyes
Squared with a peg and bricks built of lies
Not a lot of sense near the waking time
You're hiding
Confiding
Built a little cave you did I have realized
Fermented skin and brass not paralyzed
Broke out of fear in liquor and lime
You're hiding
Deciding
 
Sip brandy, chug wine
Walk the level on the line
Break the balance entwined
with a lady confined
Sip whiskey, chug wine
Waking up with no sign
of yourself now redefined
after letting go of your mind
That's fine
 
Made a space for you with lust on the rise
Spurred on by a thong and shapely thighs
Not a lot of sense near the waking time
You're hiding
Finding
Got a mystery under lock and key immortalized
Temples bursting into whispering centralized
Near your fears in your mind this time
You're hiding
Blinding
 
Sip brandy, chug wine
Walk the level on the line
Break the balance entwined
with a lady confined
Sip whiskey, chug wine
Waking up with no sign
of yourself now redefined
after letting go of your mind
That's fine
 
Squared with a peg and bricks building your lies
Make a tomb of mortar and wait while it dries
Won't make a cozy bed at the waking time
Keep hiding
Biding
Your time 'til it all makes sense and the lights turn on
Your time 'til you recompense what you have done wrong
Your time 'til the lies break down with an empty song
Your time 'til you realize this never made you strong
 
Sip poison, chug wine
There's never a level on the line
No more balance when entwined
with the devil inside
Your whiskey and wine
Won't feel so divine
when you wake up redefined
by the monsters in your mind
Was it fine?
Was it fine?
Was it fine, now, tell me so?
What is right in this light, do you even know?
 
Built a little cave you did I have realized
Fermented skin and brass not paralyzed
Broke out of fear in liquor and lime
You're hiding
Deciding
Finding
You're blinding
Yourself with your lies
 
Sip brandy, chug wine
Here's your devil on a line
He's laughing now entwined
with your lady confined
and you're waking with no sign
of yourself now redefined
with no traces of the mind
you would find
if you'd tried
if you'd tried
 
by: Elizabeth Azpurua
 


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Nonsense

ink stained hands dragging through locks
ruddy autumn hues of burnt orange
across a brow, a cheek, and capturing
freckles as you sleep
your breath smells like cardamom and sugar
and the sound of your heart beating
makes a tapping on my lattice work heart
while I relish in your dreaming
I will fall asleep in hemp and lavender
whilst you sleep in silk by me
my walls are stained with saffron
and your eyes are the color of juniper leaves
with skin like vanilla cotton on me
and my room is filled with incense and nonsense
like the shadows of our dreams
but my hands are stained in ink
from the sketching I was doing
while I watched you fall asleep

By Elizabeth Azpurua




Monday, November 19, 2012

Red, White and Blue

"RED"

it seems it comes down to red
red lips, red around a head
and red, red wings in a tree
red hair, red clothes
a red dress, and red goes
'round and 'round all about red
red heart, red love, red all above
and there's red in lips and love
red, red wings in a tree
and a red rose reminding me
it's all about the red
red lips, red around a head
red hair, red clothes
and a red bed
I see it's all about the red
red, red, red, red, and more red

11/19/12

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"WHITE"

It's not that I dislike the golden skin
but you see what moves within
is the thought of white against my white sheets
It's the way the cream colors blend and I want
to just dive right in
because I'm in love with white skin
Like milk, like moonlight, like white cotton, too
and smooth like silk beneath my fingers
I like the white way of you
Your white skin, freckles and
the way you lack a tan
I adore the way your white skin looks on me

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"BLUE"

Wherever I go I carry the thought of you
I recount the knowledge of your eyes of blue
Yet time whithers away the shade I can't recall
Each year passing I feel the memory get small
I know your eyes were the richest hue
Of a startling glorious shade of blue
But if a painter handed colors to blend into you
I could never quite recreate that shade of blue
Like lapis lazuli seas and stormy waters
So alluring and so captivating, too
But I can't quite explain that shade of blue
Only that it was a color I learned because of you

11/19/12


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Dark Wings

Devil in my eye, your music is your laugh
and your sorcery is binding me
and I choke on the thought of your name
The dark wings that graced your shoulders
know not of this barren ground
and whence you came, ah, what was this sound?
My name like a caress of darkness
You beguile me and tie me in ribbons of lust
and there is no force on this earth inside me
that contains my desire
Devil in my eye, your tongue is your weapon
and your fingers have erased me
and I gasp in memory of my weightlessness
The dark wings that graced my shoulders
knew not the longings of my lonely soul
and whence you came, ah, such a sound!
My name like a caress of darkness
You undo me as I'm bound in chains of lust
and there is no hope on this earth to save me
from my own desire

11/14/12

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Little Light

dirty rags on her feet
and a troubled crease in her brow
with sand stuck behind her ears
waiting for hope not knowing how
she carries a bow on her back
and her arrows are made of bone
and she stands waiting on ships
still lost out at sea all alone
and she holds the little lamp higher
for the lighthouse fell long ago
and her arm is so very tired
and she fears the light she'll let go
and the sea just churns on ever more
while her feet are numb and cold
and the waves play tricks on her eyes
while she waits there growing old
with her sable strands in the wind
and rocks deep in her skirt
she waits with one little oil lamp
and a heart heavy with hurt
so she holds the light ever higher
for the lighthouse fell long ago
and her arm though so tired
still won't let her little light go

by: elizabeth azpurua

Friday, November 2, 2012

Wealth of Coffins

"Tiny Coffins"

Take the items and pack them
tight, pack them small
and pack them all
Label them and stack them
high, stack them tall
just stack them all
and like tiny coffins inside a cemetery
you will line them up inside perfectly
and one by one you mark them off
and wait until you can
hold them again

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"Wealth of the Deep"

She longed for the sea like a bird longs for sky
and dreamed of the clouds as they'd roll by
as she'd sit on the shore and sing to herself
of the boundless wealth of the deep
She longed for the sea like a mermaid would
wishing for a home near the waves if she could
and soothed herself just to dream of the day
she'd dive into the wealth of the deep

11/2/12