Fever Trip

 A poor girl fell ill

and fever took her mind

around this world

experiencing

growing

becoming

When she recovered

she cursed her good health

and every winter

ran shoeless in the snow

hoping her temperature

would rise higher than her means

November 30, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 30 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Around, Fever, Girl, Travel.

Wicked Spring

 Envy Spring

when Nature makes wicked porn

Here 

There

Everywhere

And even the most virulent prudes

do not mind being made

to take it in the face

November 29, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 29 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Do, Envy, Face, Here, Made, Porn, Spring, Wicked.

Fusion

 The merging

of his energy

&

her technology

created

their support

their home

their love

their peach

their life

forever remerging

forever replenishing

together

never cold

November 28, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 28 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: &, Fusion, His, Technology, Their.

A Moment In Spring

 Is the weeping willow crying for joy

the beauty of spring moving the willow to tears

Is humanity too drunk on its own ego

that it cannot listen

to why the willow weeps

Cannot stand naked in the now

and want for nothing

but this moment of weeping for joy

November 27, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 27 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Drunk, Humanity, Listen, Naked, Now, Spring, Want, Willow.

Avenging Spines

 Was it a slow practice

learning to drip honey from one lip

while dripping poison from the other

Was your mouth swollen with the duplicity

ready to explode

with the life of one

and the deadly truth of the other

How do was the malice from your mouth

A rinse of rose petals and vinegar

May thorns slip through

and bleed you

from the inside out

November 26, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 26 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Explode, Lip, Practice, Slow, Swollen.

Hole In One

 Believe in the simplicity of control

Display a thirst for it

Jerk aside protections of personhood

Don't lie that the fight is to make

woman whole

when it's really to put

a hole in woman

November 25, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 25 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Believe, Control, Display, Hole, Jerk, Simplicity, Thirst, Woman.

Wage Love

 One fish

red fish

One fish

bad fish

One friend

mean friend

One friend

smooth friend

Plenty of fish in the sea

with the paint of many colors

Plenty of friends in this life

to wage war or love upon

November 24, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 24 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Bad, Fish, Friend, Mean, One, One, Paint, Red, Smooth, War.

Pulling the word One twice made me think of Dr. Seuss's book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish."

Wants

 Who wants

appropriate

when one can have

scandalous

Who wants

a calm blue sky

when one can have

a storm of fire in the heavens

Who wants

to be two ships that pass in the night

when we can crash into one another

fall apart upon ourselves

and drown

delirious

in an ocean of our little deaths

November 23, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 23 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Appropriate, Blue, Crash, Delirious.

Burn/Atrophy

 Advance against

not hide behind

the barricade you've built

It protects you from nothing

but the essential encounter

with the mysterious

Burn it while you still can

before you petrify

and life stops looking for you

believing you already dead

November 22, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 22 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Taking/Giving

 When you're opened up

you suffer

When you open yourself up

you live

November 21, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 21 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Live, Open, Suffer.

Solitude

 They only cried once

from loneliness

until they turned lonely

right side up

and found themselves

November 20, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 20 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Only Words

 Lay a juicy kiss of poetry on me, baby

Pinch me with the power of love

with the beam of your words

across the sky of my heart

Foreplay in ink

November 19, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 19 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Beam, Juicy, Kiss, Love, Pinch, Poetry, Power.

It Was Not A Rock

Prometheus was not chained to a rock

He was glued to a page

No eagle came for his liver nightly

He cut into himself with a pen

hoping the words he needed

to start a fire

were flowing in his organic ink

November 18, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 18 of 30 NaPoWriMo2024

The Myth of Prometheus

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It Wasn't A Rock

 I am convinced

it wasn't a rolling rock

it wasn't up a hill

Sisyphus wasn't a sinner

He was a writer

The rock

a pen

The hill

a page

Back and forth

along the lines

only to scribble it all out

and start again

and again

and

again

November 17, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 17 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Doldrums Outside The Tollbooth

 Focus

I'd be done by now

if I could find my crazy

and bring it to the top

sticky tangy cream

instead of submissive thick sludge

I want penetration

self-inflicted deadlines

writing myself through

writing myself out

November 16, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 16 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Crazy, Cream, Penetration, Sticky, Submissive.

Title references the movie "The Phantom Tollbooth" (1967)

Tumescent Trap

 Time has him

once again

in the ritual

where thoughts are too busy feeling to be

and when you feel so much more

and so much less

yourself

Animal to animal

he's caught

you're caught

in a trap set for each of u

long ago

November 15, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 15 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Animal, Animal, Has, Him, Ritual, Time, Yourself.

Nothing Better To Do Today

 Happy thoughts gelled against the fire

Burning words of the first woman

who should have been your water

but was just the first human

to set you to burn

simply because they could

November 14, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 14 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Against, First, Happy, Human, Woman, Your.

Delectable Rectification

 The repulsive worm of unworthiness

squirms its way in

the slime of years

giving it easy access

to the dark parts of the heart

Capture the delicious

the flavors of the physical

have action rectify

and put to the grave

the liturgy of lies

that were planted in the virgin soil

of the young mind

November 13, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 13 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Capture, Delicious, Have, Physical, Rectify, Repulsive, The, Worm.

Fly Her Out

 Instead of Snow White

she's snow blind

and her dwarves are dark gremlins of doubt

each enthusiastically waves a finger

and she falters

not wanting to disappoint

She must break her crypt of glass

strip herself of others expectations

until she can fly

November 12, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 12 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Crypt, Disappoint, Dwarves, Enthusiastically, Finger, Fly, Her, Out, Strip.

Addressed To You

 You are

the squire of my heart

carrying it

with feeling beyond care

The package

holds the love of a girl

that can only commit

with the totality of innocence

And she's put it

into you

November 11, 2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 11 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Girl, It, Never, Package, Squire, With.