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

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Art, Blue, Capture, Give, Lather, Movement, Naughty, Pant, Pride, Sense, Stroke, Your Uncle.

  Bob's 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

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

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

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

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

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

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

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Angel, Arm, Calm, Celebrate, Charge, Cheerful, Component, Mother, Piece, Push, Smile, Soak, Thing, Unthinkable, Work.

As It Is

 Become desire

you fortunate

gorgeous girl

There is always someone thirsty

for a piece of your red

whether it be a pint of blood

or a pound of flesh

Perhaps it's the one behind you

she will take your place on the pedestal

thinking it will never end

while you fade into the crowd

wondering exactly 

when and how

it ended

Or perhaps it's me

distracting you 

with the truth

as I pull time

out from under you

April 25, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 25

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: As, Become, Desire, Fortunate Girl, Gorgeous, Me, Piece, Red, She, There, Thirsty, Your.

Almost Awake

 A form through mist

a silhouette on a wall

it's a problem of technique

a demand of gravity

my body won't stop us

for it does want

more

April 24, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 24

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Almost, Away, Body, Demand, Does, For, Form, Gravity, Mist, More, Problem, Silhouette, Stop, Technique, Us, Wall.

Flat Screen Fire

 I can hear that lovely, calming crackle

see the flames rise and dance

the wood below both hard

and ember orange

sweating smoke

But I don't feel the heat

the air doesn't get too thick and make me cough

the logs don't collapse in on themselves

with that crack

the sound of a surrender only given

to fire

The same moment

captured

and tossed on the pyre

over

and

over

Burning my life away

April 23, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 23

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Galley Desk

 Eager to please

What's that in corporate speak?

Ambitious?

Hard working?

Thorough?

Office Door Mat?

Just wipe your feet

on their desk

dropping more work they're not trained for

in their inbox

under the flag of TeamWork

"We've all got to row together"

In the past

those who rowed

were slaves

chained to their oars

who could be wrapped in those links

and thrown overboard

for any reason

or no reason at all

April 22, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 22

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Vend-A-Bull

 I need a dose of liquid energy

more and more often each week

Short staffed

and

short sighted

the work replicates like rabbits

and I fight against my nature

to make everything neat and tidy

at the expense of my sanity

The is no "I" in "Team"

but there is an "m" and an "e"

who's seeing red

at one more meeting instead of an email

and getting tired

of swallowing bull

April 21, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 21

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

superKalifragilisticexpialidocious

 

superKalifragilisticexpialidocious

I have an instagram account

because of a dog

No, not mine

that would make sense

Belongs to a man whose work I like

but never followed

until I found his bestest buddy

was a super power puppy

Doesn't look like the Phantom of my past

but I see the echo of our relationship in theirs

as they travel around the world

and I wonder

as I did with mine

who really has who

by a leash

April 20, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 20

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

The Scream Of Tea

 Hot

screeches aren't usually know for their temperature

but this one is

Warmth

in a whistle

In community

or

in solitude

it wraps you in scents

almost otherworldly

Calm

and 

focus

poured in a cup

A tradition of liquid peace

that begins

with a shriek

April 19, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 19

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Forbidden Things That Bring Joy

 If you bring someone to where

they have no control

it is possession

It is where

monsters are grown

Where you hear the sound

of someone's dreams die

as they thank you for it

Where all the men you've danced with

are dead

and you abuse inspiration

criminal perversion

until you arrive at the place

where life gives up

You don't die

You're the one that gets destroyed

April 18, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 18

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

The Last Howl

 After two years

the blood came back

and with it brought

stronger urges

now only acted upon

with pervy stories

From stereotypes

to mythological

hard and rough

hard and slow

each tale ends with a toy

And I remember

the blood always brought the worst pain

and the deepest fulfillment

even alone

And I realize

I may be hearing

the last howls of estrogen

as it leaves my building

April 17, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 17

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Trash Hoarder

 Empty pizza boxes

lined up along the wall

piled high

all those toppings

stupidity

fear

laziness

trapped in the lava cheese

of memory

Empty cans of energy

false strength

one atop the other

turrets for an imaginary life

a castle of air

Hiding

inside a Great Wall of Rubbish

pretending to have a life

April 16, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 16

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Mighty Love

 She raises a mighty flag

and points her finger to the sky

A girl

of unbelievable magic

A comfortable heretic

Nothing artificial in

or about

her

She'll load you down

with pure love

and raise you up

with same

over

and

over

she'll claw at your heart

til you bleed and believe

April, 15, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 15

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Artificial, Believe, Bleed, Claw, Comfortable, Finger, Flag, Girl, Heretic, Load, Magic, Mighty, Over, Unbelievable.

No Trespassing

 Alone

in an enormous ocean

of solitude

I live

in the making

of joy

I nurture it

like grass finally growing

in a once barren meadow

and neither you

nor your kind

will swim in

or trample

me

April 14, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 14

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Alone, Enormous, Grass, Joy, Live, Making, Nurture, Ocean, You.

Realities

 Was my voice

ever supple

or was it always

this

an unfulfilled desire

to connect

Am I the punchline

in a mad jester's horrible pun

An android

without an emotion chip

A cadaver buried

in the sod of poetry

refusing to accept

the reality

of death

April 13, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 13

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: Cadaver, Connect, Horrible, Jester, Sod, Supple, Voice

Empty Becoming

 When bad writing

becomes reality

you end up

with a mouthful of ink

and an empty notebook

April 12, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 12

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Crayons

 My ninety-six count crayon box

must be almost fifty years old

Sharp and sleek

have become

little nubbins

Bright and dark

worn down

to flat and dull

Children's hands

outside the lines

Teens creating eyesores

College dwellers

trying to be

neat and orderly

Open rarely

for decades

Who has the time for rainbows

Now

as the last box for us all begins to beckon

I am

once again

outside the lines

creating eyesores

April 11, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 11

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022