tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85555689906407317892024-03-08T01:38:49.979-05:00Kristine's Poetry BlogKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-71417086830355790792011-08-01T20:27:00.000-04:002011-08-01T20:27:32.460-04:00It's My Birthday!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Yes, today is my birthday. I am officially old. Ha! To celebrate my birthday I have decided to post a couple of my favorite poems from my favorite poet, Tim Dlugos. I randomly found his work in a poetry anthology and have been in love with all his poems ever since! So, take a read and let me know what you think! </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">ALLENTOWN</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">waking to </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">rain and</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">still being</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">drunk and</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">trying again</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to fuck before</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the bus came </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">LAST LETTER</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">This will be the last time I set down </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">in writing a request for your watery </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">gaze. I want it to be there, mostly;</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">not to set it on my dresser next to</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the cactus and telephone, nor save it </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">for the year you will spend in the mountains.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">I am afraid it will fade with your tan</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">which will take a long time to go away.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">There us no well I can think of</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">as colorful in its darkness as your eyes:</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">whatever I look down I want to see them</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">endless and reflecting, but am unwilling</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to take them outside of your face, in which</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">you make me travel the whole route between us,</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">the distance of my poems and desires. So</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">this is goodbye, the last time I plead</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">that you keep the sparkle always there by leaving,</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">and that you wake beside me every morning forever</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">to show me what good today can possibly bring.</div>Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-19215778730614704042011-07-29T19:29:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:29:46.283-04:00Short Story: Broken SilentPlease check out my <a href="http://afstewartblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/storytime-wednesday-broken-silent-by.html">short story</a>!Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-61211659480398569912010-11-25T22:29:00.001-05:002010-11-25T22:30:15.143-05:00180 days with Jordan<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta 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class="MsoNormal">sodium sediments stick</p> <p class="MsoNormal">on upper eyelashes. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">shuttering and shaking, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">while I take what was left. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">you are now officially out of my life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">switching and shifting, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">on second Sunday of the month. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">s</span>uffering over sad sentiments,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">left over from our February weekend.</p> Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-75977450677884847562010-11-25T22:25:00.000-05:002010-11-25T22:27:15.425-05:00There is a reason why Disney character’s mothers always die.Cinderella, Little Mermaid<br />Whiff of hot gin<br />Shouts<br />I swear, mama, it wasn’t me!<br /><br />Sleeping beauty, Aladdin<br />Sunny afternoon<br />Yelling<br />What did you do with it?<br /><br />Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo<br />Tugs on Barney & Friends T-shirt<br />Crying<br />Me never touched it! Never!<br /><br />Lady and the Tramp, Pocahontas<br />Expensive empty bottle of perfume<br />Throwing<br />Trash my things, I will yours!<br /><br />Lion King, Peter Pan<br />Trash can filled with VHS<br />Finding<br />Is this the perfume on the bathroom floor?Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-42696877028653670292010-10-15T20:00:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:32:57.710-04:00The bewitching of a young Indiana girla brief charm <br />
<br />
stabbing so genuinely<br />
<br />
touching me like a lady<br />
<br />
like I meant something<br />
<br />
to you (for an instant)<br />
<br />
in your hard wood apartment <br />
<br />
with your delivery sushi and hot tea<br />
<br />
telling me that you would take care of the parking ticket<br />
<br />
but now I comprehend<br />
<br />
this was false <br />
<br />
the sting of your disloyalty takes me and <br />
<br />
moves me.<br />
<br />
I asked to come to Chicago<br />
<br />
to visit you but you told me you were busy<br />
<br />
with work.<br />
<br />
Or perhaps another girl.<br />
<br />
though I know<br />
<br />
I should not be astounded<br />
<br />
and that I should not be troubled<br />
<br />
it was only a little charm <br />
<br />
that you cast on me like words sprinkled on the page to hypnotize<br />
<br />
and this spell of your charm<br />
<br />
and has been broken<br />
<br />
from your cruel embrace of indifference.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-2369844907346028622010-10-15T19:45:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:33:31.519-04:00Just because you fight for our country doesn’t mean you can be an asshole.Thank you.<br />
Planes fly<br />
Back to places where people belong<br />
Left from the place that loved you<br />
small town Indiana <br />
No, <br />
Notes; phone call <br />
None of the above<br />
American to Qatar <br />
Brain mashed like your tiny bag of nuts<br />
Drink? She asks<br />
Yes, you’ll take one <br />
but I’ve been drinking since you left <br />
The heaviest stuff possible.<br />
the plane lifts offKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-62330374648877882972010-10-15T19:34:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:34:03.470-04:00Puerto Vallartait burns<br />
looking over to the hard rocks <br />
waves endlessly crashed on<br />
bitter water slamming <br />
all over<br />
<br />
it aches<br />
wanting you to emerge, to show<br />
from those rocks to hurry<br />
the rough surface, hot sand <br />
to make love<br />
<br />
it stung<br />
the hot sand lay under my hands<br />
beads scratching the soft parts <br />
while I waited and looked<br />
and waited<br />
<br />
it stays<br />
my imprint is still on the beach <br />
looking and still waiting <br />
for you to come over <br />
to take meKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-65236433880656902922010-09-17T16:04:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:35:03.475-04:00Pine TreesLines of pines trees<br />
No,<br />
Rows of pine trees<br />
<br />
Prickling pines penetrate<br />
Force<br />
My skin when pressed<br />
<br />
Asphalt meets the line <br />
Where <br />
Friendship and brutality meet<br />
<br />
Twigs break <br />
Along<br />
With spirit and body <br />
<br />
The pines stay quiet <br />
As<br />
Does the girl that meets themKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-81742035355548912882010-09-17T16:02:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:35:48.666-04:00Dance Classher body bends beautifully<br />
gracious movement<br />
pupils full of curious life<br />
breasts breath-taking<br />
pure lust – wanting her every stretchKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-70502147538325345102010-08-02T16:01:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:36:23.621-04:00A Chicago Affaira Lakeshore Drive <br />
luminous Red Sign <br />
Congress<br />
Remembering that <br />
Dark night in a Dark dress<br />
elevator dropping with my stomach<br />
receiving that Kiss <br />
That changed my mindKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-38050375012208602822010-07-16T16:00:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:37:25.478-04:00spermicidal bathwateri’m lying conscious in this chilly <br />
bathtub filled with my icy limbs. <br />
breaths grow to be deeper while my<br />
fingers grab for some sort of warmth. <br />
i hear your love sounds scream across the apartment.<br />
<br />
<br />
there’s this throbbing pour of <br />
frostbitten water cold.<br />
a shivering sting that <br />
vibrates through me.<br />
a lonesome bathtub you have given to me.<br />
<br />
<br />
children should not be given such <br />
a bitter bath.<br />
hidden away inside a ceramic coffin waiting<br />
for you to finish <br />
scattering your seed.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-48708147079129869652010-07-16T15:59:00.000-04:002011-07-29T19:37:48.388-04:00Broken EngagementPain behind pain<br />
Stiff beyond stiff<br />
Contradiction between contradiction<br />
Speak now or forever.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-3672491513245901992010-05-15T15:55:00.000-04:002010-05-15T15:57:22.123-04:00Numb Limbshands thrusting over blushing flesh moving toward<br /> finely tuned areas that pulse toward the aching hands <br /> rushing to take all off but a<br />button unable to dislodge from its denim puncture<br /> shuttering and ripping the fabric into threads and fibers moving to <br /> uncovered breasts panting – begging to be seized when suddenly <br />blood is dashing to both their centers- swelling genitals to the point where<br /> bodies slam into one another- one inside the other- one on top of the other-<br /> moaning, screaming, gasping, grabbing, tossing and then <br /> Bliss.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-23163476214049697152010-05-15T15:54:00.000-04:002010-05-15T15:55:09.695-04:00Love HAS Got to do with itA quick glance can only show <br />So much from a young girl <br />to another girl suspecting <br />that she maybe <br />would be someone to get close<br />to and perhaps make love. <br /><br />I always thought of love<br />and different ways to show<br />this kind of feeling, to be close<br />with a particular girl<br />and that maybe<br />she too is suspecting<br /><br />this kind of new suspecting <br />of female-only love<br />that it could work maybe<br />and let it show<br />to all the world, especially to this girl.<br />My mind feels so close<br /><br />to this wanted reality that is about to close.<br />People are cruel and suspecting<br />of my affection for another girl<br /> whom I want to love-<br />I am afraid to show<br />my true self, maybe<br /><br />No, I should forget them, maybe<br />forget those who are close <br />to me and who show <br />me care without suspecting <br />any ill will and love<br />but hate for me to show the same to a girl.<br /><br />I have decided that I am a girl <br />and am now feeling that maybe <br />I am in love<br />with a girl who is a close <br />friend, and I am suspecting<br />that our love will show.<br /><br />Family is suspecting my love for a girl,<br />a girl that I am a close friend with and maybe<br />one day I could show my affection for.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-18847054639490716222010-05-15T15:52:00.000-04:002010-05-15T15:53:50.002-04:00Miss Sales Representative speaks to Soon ex-loverRUN OF PRESS!<br /> RUN OF PRESS! <br />Running, running<br />Wishing or wanting to<br />RUN<br /><br />What do you mean RUN OF PRESS?<br />It means anywhere else <br />In the paper – but classified.<br /><br />What about Classified? <br />I want it in classified! <br />I get the feeling you do too.<br /><br />I need to run, <br />As soon as possible. <br />Is today the deadline?<br /><br />It is the deadline for<br />RUN OF PRESS<br />ROP or Classified. <br /><br />The Advertising Coordinator <br />cannot wait any longer. <br />Give me all your ad material. <br /><br />I need to give you this important <br />Information<br />And run. <br /><br />So,<br />Please give me a column inchKristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8555568990640731789.post-56817223880225373412010-05-15T15:50:00.000-04:002010-05-15T15:52:53.223-04:00My Last Love Letter to My Former LoverDear Chicago, <br /><br />Your damp windy nights have left me with a notion to write you a letter.<br /> <br />The sound of the L train used to horrify me as it cried by on its high rise of steel poles and bars. It looked as though it was chasing something <br />that it could never catch. <br />Something perhaps I should have been on and maybe <br />I would be moving toward the outside of this little shitty living space in this loop. <br />Instead I am waiting in this drafty apartment <br />that is sitting atop endless rows of stairs.<br /><br />Your tower literally tilted and swayed my head <br />like the mighty black blocks balanced on top of one another that stood in front of me. With its reputation raised expectations, <br />along with my body in its elevator.<br /> The feeling of being at the peak of the city stayed with me <br />from then till a decade later. <br /><br />The dirty streets are lined with both people <br />of profession and those having no home. <br />Surrounding people either speaking to me, glaring or ignoring <br />all make me feel appreciated. <br />The air is loaded with dense pollution, <br />tension which makes me ache and addicted. <br /><br />Lets meet tonight, <br />as soon as you can, <br />to make love under the dim lights of the old historic apartment with all hardwood floors and steel radiators.Kristine Esserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12859902852233676842noreply@blogger.com0