How to consecrate this
this nasty path
full of joy
Who will perform
this sacred sensual circle
with me
Marcy 31, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 38 of 100
Charm Light
Charm
should be as sacred as
sincere
No person
should be an
object
Each
should be a
one
Raise
a spirit
not suffocate
a light out
March 30, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 37 of 100
Late Teens, Early Twenties
The earth has been covered
in an eerie Stephen King novel
and we try to
navigate a plague
and gouge a stranger out of high office
Overthrow ignorance
and comprehend
how the hell we've gone so far
and how the heaven do we save ourselves
March 29, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 36 of 100
Behind Almost
You don't see where it came from
you don't see where it's going
you just see the water flowing
out of their mouth
clear
empty
they speak in mystery
and call it solid
a merry gurgling
that means nothing
Don't hide a lie
behind almost
March 28, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 35 of 100
Notion
The brain's a village of ideas
the mayor
the idiot
the criminal
the saint
all living and growing
hoping to become
a trajectory of words
out through the lips
into the world
and not stuck in the war in throat
choking tied to the tongue
March 27, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 34 of 100
Makers
Dreams take shape
in the day
sung into existence
by desire
by discipline
by continuity
by action
Made into reality
by those
that awoke
March 26, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 33 of 100
Singers
A goal remains a dream
until a path takes shape
like a song
it can begin
pianissimo or forte
grave or vivace
with a voice
basso profundo or coloratura
it makes no never mind
without the trained skill
the practiced breath
the persistence
and the constancy
of the body
March 25, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 32 of 100
Shapers
And those of us
tenacious enough
can shape an idea
give it form
give it sustenance
until it begins to solidify
becoming
a goal
March 24, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 31 of 100
Dreamers
Everything begins
as a dream
Something
from nothing
until it becomes
barely tangible
A thread
of smoke
And those of us
tenacious enough
hold on
March 23, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 30 of 100
Understand
To give charge
and give thanks
to any one
or any thing
over
the one toiled
is like
paying the paint
or the brush
for the picture
March 22, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 29 of 100
Please
We develop ourselves
and
reveal
a study
of an emperor
and
a study
of a magician
and
we fill each other up
with spells of skin
and
treasures of tumescence
together
in the bedroom
March 21, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
What You Need
To hell with "hope"
There are only two things you need
to build a life
A song of joy
and
a song of power
Live in those
rhythm to rhythm
and not only you
but those around you
can be whole
March 20, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Who Do You Run For?
Though the work
be smooth as velvet
it is still work
for another
and
she can give
and give
and give
her profits
are still slim
So
from this day
she will let herself run
run for her work
run for her profit
Run for herself
March 19, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Vote Robin Williams!
If there were
a party of Laughter
I would consider
becoming a politician
The party platform
would be a rock of humor
enormous in its inclusion
infinite diversity
in
infinite combinations
Every speech
a moment of selfless comedy
that cleans
the head
heart
and body
so the work of governing
can be done
March 18, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Image: Robin Williams in "Man Of The Year" (2006), image used without permission, with no credit taken, no profit made, and no offense intended.
Truly Fantastic Reality
I don't have faith in any fashion
as above or reverse
and
yes
I do mean to suggest
those trappings are our traps
their fangs sink deep
drowning us
in fancy
and we miss
the truly fantastic
March 17, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Rune Of Time
After I have done the day
then shut up the world
I will speak the dark silence
with skin
with breath
with screams
with sighs
with you
March 16, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Our Lyric
It's the silence
in the head
in the heart
in the soul
that drives us
mad
for those
who no longer
have their song
to sing
will fill
their emptiness
with a scream
March 15, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Dharma
I've decided
today will be fun
I'm going to write through
my tight skin
with a venom
no visor can stop
from burning my brain
Yes
today
life is definitely
going to be
my kind of fun
March 14, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Hot Target
Do you really want to
put the hull of your heart
in his line of sight again
Yes
he's electric
and can make you
feel
Or
are you the power
he needs to plug into
Why let him smear
his fool's fire
all over you
just for a moment's heat
Remember
a hull is wood
and wood
burns
March 13, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 20 of 100
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Why Some Skulls Smile
At first
it's a battle
to find the right words
Then it turns into
a private little war
with you as an archer
attempting to drain your quiver
Write that river in you dry
So you arrive at your grave empty
but for the smile of satisfaction
March 12, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 19 of 100
Take Up Your Sword
Deep in the circle
drawn in the back of our mind
we can feel the muse murmur
Take up the sword of your passion
and thrust it into your heart
for only by falling upon your desire
can you save yourself
March 11, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 18 of 100
Must
Everyone always thinks
it's about love
Always about love
A randy
though wonderful
poetry off
Little do those closed minds know
what they've missed
could make their lives
for there are those of us
for whom
the muse
must always wear black
March 10, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 17 of 100
Without Voice
Shift our mind
out of our space
and into the sacred
Bring our art to a boil
and fill our cup
with the heart's sticky honey
Word to page
paint to canvas
thread to cloth
spells of food upon our table
Let it use us
as we use it
to speak without voice
March 9, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 16 of 100
Magnetic Poetry pull: Art, Boil, Cup, Sacred, Shift, Space, Sticky, Us, Use.
Smashing
She asked him
to make her one
with nature
though she be human
Paint her with the forest
Instead he colored her
green as the grass
and laid a sidewalk
upon her
She reached for the sun
through the cracks
where he and everyone
walked on her
March 8, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 15 of 100
Magnetic Poetry pull: Ask, Him, Make, Nature, One, Paint, Smashing, Though.
No Other Way
She tried to attune herself
to the glorious light
but it was fast and flat
not her lot
Her squire in this life
is and always shall be
darkness
And she would have it
no other way
March 7, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 14 of 100
Magnetic Poetry pull: Attune, Fast, Flat, Glorious, Light, Lot, Squire.
15 #WorkingBackwardsFromMagic
The average life expectancy is 72 years
15
That's what I've got
15 to play with
15 to plan
We all share the same end
Where do I want to be
What do I want to be doing
Who do I want to be
when that final unavoidable goal is met
These are the last choices I will make
Then I must find my way back from them
to where I am now
and chart that course
in 15
March 6, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 13 of 100
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Bonfire Of Bile 'n' Bone
She didn't hate herself
at least not anymore
She didn't have the energy
Her revulsion ran low
ran deep
at this point it was self-supporting
as easy
as the thought given to breathing
and as familiar a part of her
as the glasses she's had since the age of four
One clears the view
The other distorts the vision
All the memes and quotes post by
philosophy and psychology had their lectures
religion got nailed right in
and ripped right out
Dig deep within yourself they say
you'll find your true self beneath the pain
What if it's all
fat no muscle
blood all but gone
bile mixing with the last of it
Hitting bone
and finding all that's left of marrow
is dust
Part of what blows through the heart
to keep it beating
It likes to feel it's still alive
How do you rekindle passions with that
a bonfire of bile 'n' bone
March 5, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 12 of 100
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Well, !@#$ Me
Jars of words
decks of ideas
an internet full of inspirational imagery
And can I find
one thing
one moment
one vision
that makes the dead trees waiting for my touch
yearn like the arching back of passion
No
no I can not
I couldn't get desire to flow through the ink
if I slit my wrists with my pen
in sacrifice to the silence within me
to shut the hell up
so I can hear my voice
March 4, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 4 of 100
Image is mine
Eternal Conversation
A long, beautiful conversation
It was a shock to realize the end could be so near
She turned to him
"If this is it for us I want you to know
I am so glad I met you"
He smiled nervously
"I was planning on asking you out"
and winked
"I was planning on saying yes"
she held out her hand
He took it in his
"I wouldn't have been able to wait too long
before kissing you"
She leaned toward him
"I'd get to kiss you back, right?"
Their embrace was rough at first
filled with fear and desperation
Then they slowed
and felt one another
An arm around shoulders
holding each other up
A hand through hair
tangled inside each other
Cheeks cupped
always there even when they couldn't be
A lifetime in a moment
And their lips continued their conversation
as they went down...
March 3, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 10 of 100
#The100DayProject2023
Image of unknown origin, used without permission, with no credit taken, no profit made, and no offense intended.
Home Life
Pain hides the story
Smile shields the pain
The world in her apartment
The apartment is her world
Surrounded by her barricade of books
she lives in the leaves of other people's trees
and forgets there is
an "out there"
Days become weeks become months become life
She doesn't remember what it feels like
to be lonely
Snuggles in her broken bed
embraced by no one that feels like everything
She doesn't even mind the cold anymore
Why would she
when it feels like home
March 2, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 9 of 100
Image of unknown origin, used without permission, with no credit taken, no profit made, and no offense intended.
Dark Cursive
She's been living at the edge of her humanity
most of her life
There were moments
when a desire held her attention
and then it would fall up and she'd sit back down
Why risk imperfection
Those moments stopped
She came to the bottom
and began to wrap it all around her
those warm and easy familiars
Her passions wouldn't've be able to find her in that
her castle of comforts
even if they weren't dying
She's settled in deep
made her pact with
"it's enough"
and
made a home out of insta-joys
and the occasional self-inflicted orgasm
Something's peeking at her
through those bricks of years
She could feel it
a feather tickling her brain
the leaves of smooth bound trees beneath her fingers
and the cramp in her hand
The darkness wants to write
March 1, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 8 of 100
Image is mine.
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