Day

 Pushing time away today
wicked water flowing
carving my skin
not with the wisdom of the world
but the beatings taken by my heart
the caverns sinking in unused corners of my brain
and the fissures in my brittle soul

October 17, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Time, Today, Water, Wisdom, World.

Defeated

 The language
of beautiful character
set aside
with the flick
of a bedcover
after a little
spank 'n' spunk

So much deception
for something joyous and ecstatic
turned into something
tame 'n' lame

A winner who doesn't realize
they've defeated
only themselves.

October 16, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen

Head Fed

 They want control
Don't they always
Into your head
like a summer day
smooth
like the richest chocolate
the first shimmer of lust
and who walks away
from that warm darkness
that satisfies
many an appetite

October 15, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen

Waiting To Hibernate

 Winter comes
in rain not snow
and heat still covers
the fertile land
So many changes
burn still
in health
in home
in work
and we all wait
for the ecstatic
the divine
the sleepy cold
that protects
and leaves us free
to renew

October 14, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen

More Devotions

 


Long day
past the end
beyond the pay
still clicking away
away and away
Then a short lesson
becomes a league
a struggle to the top
no one can hold
Until at last
under the hand
that counts down
Scribbling fast
to make an artificial deadline
before 
the night strikes
and 
the morning breaks
you

October 13, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Devotions To An Empty God

 


Demands to be turned on
early every morning
wants you to play
their every key
Sit close
let the light
invade every neuron
Don't look away
every detail 
must be addressed
be handled
Expected to put more in
than originally requested
On and on
hunched over
neck bent
Until darkness 
lights out
bed alone
unconscious
dreaming
of doing it all again
when morning comes

October 12, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Human Halberd

 


A suggestive tactic
dazzle me with a fabulous scream
and a cavalry of sensation
will come to your rescue

I'll maul your fears
vanquish your limits
your nerves will be engorged with awareness

You'll breathe me in
and wail me out

I'll punish you with passion until
I'm the first you remember
and the last you recall
when you reach your final port

October 11, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Cavalry, Dazzle, Engorged, Fabulous, Halberd, Maul, Port, Punish, Recall, Remember, Scream, Suggestive, Tactic, Vanquish, Wail.
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Time Passing

 

A magnificent metal arrow
pierces wicked beauty
and the temple of time
begins to open
and the water of wisdom
pours out
slowly drowning
slowly ending
my world

October 10, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Arrow, Beauty, Metal, Open, Temple, Time, Water, Wisdom, World.
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For A Moment, The World

 



Unutterable power
to press
to open
to see
without ego

To die a death
that is not fatal
and the sweet quest
to die again

Every time
is as to make love
in the Garden of Eden
with the Kama Sutra
etched on the Trees 
of Knowledge and Life

October 9, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Ego, Fatal, Make, Open, Power, Press, Quest, See, Sutra, Sweet, Trees, Unutterable.
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Happy Place

 


A haunted holiday
a month of horrors
old and new
gothic classic
slasher fare
a hundred screams revisited
new screams find voice
screen and page
visual and audio

Poe hits man in his core
and the audience is desperate 
to pay the price

Fear's Barker breeds
new night children
for us to swaddle in our dark hearts

The King of terror
still bleeds profusely 
and people rush to bath in his outpouring

31 beautiful bricks of blood
pave the dark path
to my happy place

October 8, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Everlasting Flush

 



A moonful of crushing beauty
nurtures a Sabbat of life

It's a difficult cleanse

So used to the suggestive monster
that anxiety seems sweet

That's the washing
eternal vigilance

Question wisdom
until it proves wise

More fierce self care
until the tides turns back
and flows over and over and over

The word
is volume

October 7, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Thieves Of Honesty

 

Does beauty bleed
when pawed and clawed in a comfortable dress

The joyful exude a scent of fresh grass and human
and it seems to draw
dark, distorted, dangerous love
from a not-so-obvious ruin of a person
who needs to mow the pretty down

The end is always the shaft
but their illusion of tender song and matching soul
lulls the lovely into false tranquility

They think themselves a warrior
conquering, using, discarding

There is no strength in abuse
there is no valor in stolen hearts

They are the brutally weak
the thieves of honesty

October 6, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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No Such Thing As A Spell For A Selfless Politician


 Trolls come out from under the bridge  
and enter the halls of congress  
Leviathans with tiny willies  
huge appetites  
and constitutions of tardigrades  
They gorge on bills  
and rights  
and otherness  
Always the others  
their Turkish Delights  
Stirring the flaccid egos  
martyr complexes  
self righteousness of the unwilling to evolve
weaponizing ignorance  
promising godhood  
delivering monsterdom 
Their agenda changes   
often  
always  
mid-sentence 
an ugly aurora borealis  
But it's an illusion  
They didn't come out  
to conquer  
to subjugate  
to distill and distort  
until we like it  
and thank them  
and beg for more  
abused children in love with their parent's belt  
No  
They came out  
to drag us under

October 5, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Black Listed, Black Balled, & Black Magic

 

Sisters dark
Sisters deep
Sisters held together
by silver astral strings

Years under moons
crested and full
Spells, and stories, and scared truths
filled our boiling cauldron
and nourished our bond

Until it was discovered
the circle was facade
the black mirror was just broken
and the athame was dull

A beautiful Ostara egg
that, without repainting fades,
and turns out to be a block of hollow wood

October 4, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Autumn Daisies, Indole, & Oud

 


The land begins to pull up its shroud of daisies
covering the pungent decay
with a hint of flowers

Lulled into sleepy repose
with psychedelic dreams
for we animals that do not hibernate

Deep in this death
there is always a low scent
of musky happiness

The olfactory promise
that out of this dark compost
life will rise again

October 3, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
(lore; deities covered the graves of children to console those who mourned them)
(low concentration has a flowery smell, too much smells like feces, involved in serotonin - related to happiness - and melatonin - related to sleep, naturally occurring in some psychedelic drugs)
(pungent musky, animalistic)
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Be The Lightning

 


Catch the lightning
preferably in a bottle

Throw the lightning
a bolt from hand or hammer

Be the lightning
give energy to the weak
harden sand til it shines
awaken the abused and abandoned son
and his would-not-be bride

Don't be caught

Don't be thrown

Be the lightning

Be the bolt

Be the power
that illuminates
that burns
that lives

October 2, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Getting Down In The Dirty

 


Getting down in the dirty
where the scent
is sea and musk
and the words
are dust

The only thing wet
is the ink
and the only thing stiff
is the paper

It is time
to thrust in the pain
and pull out
the pleasure
until the rhythm is thick
a fast flowing muddy river
that polishes the page
covered in satisfaction
and sweat

October 1, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
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Break

 You embarrass easily
in that moment you taste lust

It puts a break in the zen
you work so hard for

You try to fight it off
like it's a troll
trying to sneak
under your bridge

But this is a rip in your tranquility
you'll want to ride

July 5, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Break, Embarrass, Taste, Troll, Zen.

One

 Come
worship me
teach me
how to worship you

I am frantic for you
whisper in my ear
all the things
to whisper on your skin

I want to be the one
you turn to
when you want someone
to turn to you

July 4, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Come, Ear, Frantic, One, Teach

Old Friends

 Thanks to the love of Lucy
old friends from the future time travel to me
and we warp to planets
visited and loved and disliked
over many journeys

Back on the bridge of stars
with the Captain of my childhood heart
the outsider who found his family among a Federation
the one who's nothing but a Doctor down to his bones
the heart of the ship who likes his drink
the fair maiden who's neither and both
"don't call me 'tiny'" with his love of torpedoes, roses, and rapiers
and the youth from the land of cold and war.

A crew whose five years were cancelled at three
and yet have stretched toward eternity

Always there
I can visit whenever
and meld with minds
most long dead
always finding laugher and sadness
and the occasional forgotten lesson
they strived so hard to create
among their imperfections

Our infinite diversities in their infinite combinations
still struggle between science and fiction
trying hard to reach the goal so crudely shown to us
longevity and prosperity

Well, at least I can touch that peace an hour at a time
in the company of old friends

July 3, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen

Grab 'Em


 
Grab 'Em

Grab them by the pussy
and shove the crooked rule of law inside

Plant violent seed
fertilize with ignorant manure

Force an unwanted action
with unwanted risk
on the unwilling

A first class hand
over a second class mouth
history becomes present tense
and might makes right
and might is white
and male
again

The higher bench is bent
and the robes of disrespect laugh
as they instigate democracy's decay

July 2, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen


The Stories In Silence


 
The Stories In Silence

A long dead prince
a story never properly told
a life not properly lived

Brothers in a tower
brothers under a tower
the story in their bones
silent in the marrow of decay

A crown passed
from clergy's hands
from the end of a sword
to a head
through a heart

The world has tipped
on tales
we'll never hear

July 1, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen

Art

 Something naughty

Something Banned-In-Boston blue

Something that
in a stroke
will capture a movement

Give those out
a sense of pride

Those deliberately dark
can pant themselves into a lather
over imagined sin

Bob can stay in Ireland

Art's your uncle now

April 30, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 30
Magnetic Poetry pull: Art, Blue, Capture, Give, Lather, Movement, Naughty, Pant, Pride, Sense, Stroke, Your Uncle.

45

 You'd need on helluva chip
to interface and gain access
to the kingdom you wanted to navigate
and seal off from the plague
of intelligence

Apparently
the one on your shoulder
was enough

April 29, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Magnetic Poetry pull: Chip, Gain, Interface, Kingdom, Navigate, Plague, Seal.
45 

And Like It

This won't be sweet 
like a little caramel delight between meals

There will be nothing tender about this

I will have you on this couch
rip those black boxers off
and beat back the noise of the day
with the smacking of skin on skin

I will draw the rune of power
all over your body
with my tongue
and scar it into your flesh
with my teeth
so later
you will not mistake
this memory
for a dream

April 28, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 28
Magnetic Poetry pull: And, Beat, Black, Boxers, Caramel, Couch, Delight, Dream, It, Like, Little, Noise, Power, Rune, Tender.

Dream

  I want lingerie
that makes me
inhumanly beautiful

An extraterrestrial enchantress
from across a sea of stars
to seduce
only you

I'll whisper the love songs of a bluebird
as I heighten your senses
nibble away at your inhibitions
til you come smashing through your limitations

Then I see myself
in the changing room mirror

No purchase

for either of us

April 27, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 27
Magnetic Poetry pull: Bluebird, Enchantress, Extraterrestrial, Heighten, Lingerie, Nibble, Smashing.

Motherwork

 They're an angel
always with an arm
to keep you calm

To celebrate every cheerful component
of your life

They'll charge you full of happiness
with a smile

So slowly
they'll pierce and push in
the things they want
til you find
you soak in the unthinkable

A life you were never taught
was yours

April 26, 2022
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 26
Magnetic Poetry pull: Angel, Arm, Calm, Celebrate, Charge, Cheerful, Component, Mother, Piece, Push, Smile, Soak, Thing, Unthinkable, Work.