Decree

Awesome!

Two words and I’m done with this one Lisa.

Fucking brilliant!

OK I had to come back and say a little more here hon.

This piece was so damned evocative all the way through, but that finish was freaking fantastic.

“My willing penitence
Drip’s crimson
Nurturing; bygone departure

Witnessed and signed
By all.”

Are you friggin kidding me? that is perfect Lisa!

Hot and replete with allusions,
or maybe that’s just my dirty mind (lo)
awesome all the same ;)

M

just wow…

Ahhh your on the road to purity…lol…May SGG be with you as the dirty layers are stripped from you…I very much like this one Lisa..One I can relate to..Hugggs xox

My willing penitence
Drip’s crimson

Yes yes yes….love that.

WOW Lisa, you’ve outdone yourself with this one!

That is ringing in my ears right now my dear friend….. I am the one deserving of the lashings to some! How appropriate…............ L

oo that’s a goodie, very powerful writing!

Wow good to be back and see that you have come up with yet another powerful piece….
P.S Hello. hugs xox

All good thank you, exciting news is I have been invited to exhibit 10 paintings in Sydney in Nov this year, so now footy is over I can get back to what I love RB, and my friends here and painting….will see more of you all soon….hugs xoxo

gasp

I know wow is kinda overrated here but… freaking WOW! xxxx

very intense I hope you were trying to usher in an exotic scene of humble begining’s, you can try to impress everyone and still come up short tell you what though you’ve entertained my mind.

Not often am I speechless

I suppose I must be odd – but I didn’t read this as a piece of erotica nor do I think it feels “hot” – I thought it read like an anguished act of penitence for past hurts or mistakes, a plea for a second chance stripped of the dirty coverings in which we often clothe ourselves because we don’t trust ourselves to be naked with another. But it takes incredible courage to offer to be this real – and it takes a great deal of love as well. This is extremely powerful Lisa – it IS raw but it’s very real, and very honest. And it’s exceptional writing.

no need to bare your back, no lash to touch your flesh, no penitence to pay, we bare witness to your renaissance Lisa x

Lisa, i just hope that once your book of poetry is published and you become a well-known name in the literary world, that you will take a moment to sign my copy so that I can remember the support we fostered for each other on the bubble.

Perhaps I’m a little emotional today, but this was so deep, sultry yes, but I’m with lianne, it felt to me more like a complete giving of yourself to someone (or even something), taking off all of your defenses and saying ‘here i am in my imperfections and beauty’... you are beautiful.

I understand that feeling well….a sense of not being wortthy of those we love. x

It is perhaps the most difficult thing in the world to forgive ourselves – I have always thought forgiving others to be relatively easy in the long run but not myself. But when you think about it – and I have a great deal – not to forgive ourselves is really rather presumptuous – lol. It suggests we think that a higher standard applies to us than to other human beings and so our punishment should also be greater. But the truth is – we were who we were then, acting from what we knew or believed to be true then – and we are no longer those same women. We’ve learned, we’ve grown, and hopefully we’ve learned a little honest humility – enough so we can look in the mirror and say, “Ok little girl, you’re forgiven – time to grow up now and make what was wrong right.” I’d say you’ve done that most admirably Lisa – and your generosity and graciousness to others is the first sign of a new and unselfish spirit that shouldn’t be hampered by self-punishment any more! xoxox

I believe you are right…it does take strength of mind…and the recognition that we can overcome, sometimes this takes others to support the process. ) x

such self honesty only spurs wholeness….
namaste

I closed my eyes once again so as not to see what the others wrote as I had immed feelings as I read this… What your work is noted for by me is how I seem to either get it or if I get it ,, I am not sure weather it got ME FIRST. and I mean.. here I went to see the movie FAME… and of course I cried through it.. came out and sobbed in my car.. called my at her school (she goes to a drama school much like the movie only it looks a hella lot cleaner) I sobbed to her.. don’t forget honey.. you are living your dream now.. and I just wanna say.. and on I went.. even now I am tearing up… then I come here and I read this work of yours.. tearing into the flesh of life.. using all the words and mystic properties of which I am feeling now..
_Baring my back -
Willing
Your cat of nine tail -
Lashings

Stripping my earthly cowering
and flesh

My willing penitence
drips crimson
nurturing bygone departure_
holy cow bebe.. do you hear my tears?
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Well I don’t know how I shall feel tomorrow.. but your work and your heart always seems right even when it is not on the same track as me. I feel safer by the day knowing our differences seem ‘good for me’.. XXXXXXX and OOOOO why do you forget to hug.. ? you only kiss. xxx

“called my niece” (brothers daughter)

Wow this is really good dear.
“My willing penitence drips crimson”

I wonder why we can so heavily take upon us that we are the sole builders of our ” bad disrepute” ..when the house we have is made up of many visitors who leave an impression some of which we take on.. Saying goodbye to a past that holds us in our ” bad disrepute” may be painful but the hope of being set free (naked) the gift we seek…. XXXXX….. Hmmm this be my musings on this verse that reads like a decree to me. x

I like this Lisa I feel your not just stripping layers in your own judgemental eyes but also within
the piece of writing itself. Keeping the writing to the bare essentials so as the point is kept simple and in plain view. Beautiful.

This one is so beautifully different I can’t help love it :) To say it is erotic is in the eye of the beholder but you’re damn capable of writing any way you want.

_Sigh.._Brings the sadistic tendencies right out of me. LOL
I’m reminded of a scene in Clockwork Orange. You know the one?
Stunning write Ms. Brilliance! xxx

I know that weren’t speaking literally but still… the imagery. Lol

I shall disrobe each layer..my goodness lady..you are so amazingly good..your poetry stands so tall and brilliant..showing its mighty power with each and every sentence..the message is strong but your ability to convey that message stands above others..in awe.

wow…..........I needed to read this twice…and the second time was even better…...and i know i will read it again at least one more time….I loveeeeeeee this…I loveeeee how I get the feeling of being FREE and TRUE, here.
Your Soul is just AMAZING hun…and so is your writing ….just BEAUTIUFL :) xxx

My house has been in disrepute for millenia… no need to bring the cat of nine tails..

Good piece..

Wow! great stuff!

Feelings of shame and guilt can feed intense self loathing and desire for redemption, though how often is the “disrepute” merely a reflection of what is seen through the eyes of others or just “perceived” to be a sin of the accused?

You strip yourself bare already and we love you :-) x

Great writing, Lisa; I think of the many skins I have shed (with help from others) (not all loving) in my life, and how all has furthered my journey of knowing. To know is to set the foundation for living, I believe. And with true life comes greater joy, I have prayed and found. xox

This type of penitence is very evocative to me – I have been in similar places before, but really believe it is important to work past shame, guilt, or whatever other obstacles stand between us and self-love, self-acceptance, joy.
Nonetheless, I am in awe of this as a simultaneously tender and brutal piece of writing, especially My willing penitence
drips crimson
Love you xoxo :D xoxo

wow I love reading this!