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Dafremen (an Open Mike session in 7 parts..and counting)

Bitterness
Bitter hints
Betray the silence dropping
From my bitter lips
Replayed the final consequence of being this
Doing this
Then chased away the memories that leave a stain
Reflections that remain are all but washed away
In the flood of raw emotions twisting
Twirling in my brain between the tides
Below the highs, above the lows
And where it goes from there
It seems the future only knows
The present, I'm afraid
Has never seen that distant road
And the past knows nothing more than what was left behind.
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Dafremen Come lover
Tap upon my screen
Come now then, wrap around my skin
Come help me breath
Please click the corners of the windows
Popping up inside my brain
Help them be still
Then take your fill of what my heart may have in store
But remember this, if you will my bitter lover:
I'm no open door
I'll walk away
Just turn away to face what fate may call the consequence
I won't repent or bend my knee
To be a part of this
Still there's a spark within my heart that sputters
Stutters first and then
Begins to burn again
Its tiny flame leaves one to hope perhaps
For love without the pain
For a soothing taste of drops less bitter
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Dafremen But the bittersweet embrace of you around me
Stills the air
Stops time on a dime and halts
My throbbing chest
Just long enough to reach and catch a breath
Snatch a breath mixed with your sweet scent
Not bitter at all once the moment's spent
This that heaven sent to tempt and comfort
Fill with wonder and tears of joy these eyes
This tender after-dusk surprise
This body's word unto the wise
Abandon hope of any compromise all ye who enter
You'll find no censure here, my dear
Just the bitterness your scented favor melts away
Just the coldness warming to your gentle sway
Drops of sweet refreshment
Which wash the bitterness away.
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Dafremen Within that rhyme once lost to time
Can you hear the distant rumble
Can you hear the misted thunder's drops of Scorpio rain?
Can you feel the surging swell within us breaking once again?
Followed by the smooth accelerated pace of droplets
Trickling to linger, mingling on our skin
Can't you feel the rain?
Can't you feel the coolness of it seeking out your autumn thirst?
Can't you feel it's need to penetrate the warm September earth?
To quench the need of earth and rain
To cool the fires, to still the pain
Treacle bittered by the past
Is sweetened in this way
And when the rains have come at last
The bitter's swept away
Leaving nothing save the clasp of hands between us to betray
Heat driven rythymic revelation shared
In Scorpio rain
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Dafremen Are they ever dark
Such nights as these?
Does evening's twilit ever come
With your scent
Still lingering on the breeze?
Could faster beating hearts replace
The pounding passion lying there
Set sprung to crouch
Yet crouched then sprung
Upon the magic light reflecting
Off your fragrant hair as moonlight
Changes guard with sunlight's fading rays
Will there be other days?
I cannot know, I cannot chance it
Cannot know
What mysteries dance in
With warm November rain
Just know the pain
The autumn burn had left me yearning
Then you came..
With your late autumn rain
And while your soothing drops come somewhat bitter
Tender is your name
Your bitter's sweetness is betrayed
Along with fallen sunlight
Moonlight fallen
Whispering my name
That I partake of thoughts
And drops awaited:
Sweet November rain
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Dafremen To curse the gods
Then shout their name
On hands and knees
Beseech and plead
For warm November rain

I cannot know the depths of such
This burning echoed off the hills
Into the farthest plunging heart
That calls and draws me closer still

This pampered pain
This molted skin that breathes
And bleeds for you into
The heart of Tolkien's Simarils

I cannot speak
This tongue falls flattened
Flattery will get me nowhere
You know my soul
You see my heart
You live my mind and words
The sound of your sweet bitter tea
The dearest drops I've ever heard.
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Dafremen I could not know the depths to which
Your burning, yearning hurt you so
I didn't feel the curl and peel
Of burning slowly growing cold
A man am I, a gentle soul
Yet still, how can I be with you
And at the same time leave this place
To find a Moon to give you too?
I cannot break that promise dear
How could I leave that open door?
When left behind in body here
Your heartbeat's call tugs at me more
I cannot be away forever
Can only stand the things I can
Yet he who stands upon your doorstep
Awaits an answer, soul in hand
Along with your pride

What of that dear?
With you I cannot hide in here
For every man must seize the day
A man I am in every way
Today, tomorrow, yesterday
And so I sought to make you proud
And in so doing, found your tears
I left your warm November rain
To find December's waiting here
Yet every winter calls to spring
And so my bitter sweetest one
When I return, and you are near
Twas warmth within your springtime sun
The burning for my tender one
And bitter drops that called me here.
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stork daddy you need a guitar... 031017
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Dafremen Got one for my birthday. Wrote my first song based on the music first:

days_that_passed_through_summertime

Now I need to learn to play the damned thing.
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nom happy_and_sad


i looked it up, he was right
070127
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nom sweetbitter 070326
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unhinged in_the_wake_of_lamentable_tides 070419
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