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Jonathan-E-Williams
21/American I started writing with a pen in a small notebook that I carry around in my coat pocket. The following poems are from the pages of this book: small musings, little etchings of nothing that scratch at the bottom of my mind.
As time began to sail across the distance between the legitimacy of sea-faring tales and their land-woven origins, our fingertips became acquinted in the same fluid lucidity that the soles under our feet interpreted into syncopated steps Our words melliflously met above the undertones of cityscape circuit-boards, embellishing the space between the notes of our independence and the harmonies of our togetherness She is neither the sea nor the wind, for both are masters of their own trade; indifferent to the collisions of an unmapped expedition She is, as is freedom, the sail under which the destinations of her vessel rely solely on the unpredictability of the collision itself
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Jun 20, 2014
Jun 20, 2014 at 6:17 AM UTC
Quiet Confidence
My eyes long to bleed the pigment nostalgia of ink-blot images this over-exposure of apeture awareness develops beyond the thought-corridors of blackrooms before absorbing your sepia solitude, remember that filtered lenses cannot distinguish the difference between memories and mementos
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
Phonographic Memory
Self-Promotion Shamefully accents each line of scattered HelloPoetry Follow me Like my words give me significance We are all children ignoring ourselves enough to hide the smiles we form from the positive-reinforcement of another desperately embelished first-world sob story kicking and screaming flourishing melodies of sameness over commonplace chord progressions **** me for humming along **** you for harmonizing
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Mar 21, 2014
Mar 21, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
21st Century Cadence
When life becomes a vagrant and death an unsung train there you will find me oozing notes into night's horn moon-beams drenched with midnight's blues rattle, ripple, shake distorted city light dancing barefoot on crescent waves I ponder,         wander,                     wait. to reflect upon reflections - as the moon, in her wistful way, seeps sonatas of wayward days and in the distant dissonance of constant consonance She, too, waits.
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Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 1:41 AM UTC
Moonlit Madrigals
We fall as one as rain into a sea of subjectivity; each droplet, individual in choice, ripples across the entire surface
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Mar 8, 2014
Mar 8, 2014 at 11:49 AM UTC
Sonder
Your mind is a temple Sweep its steps, polish its floors But      Never gauk at your neighbor for the tidy mind You've wasted on cleaning theirs
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 7:22 AM UTC
Advice for the log lodged in my eye
She fabricates variance in the same picturesque sky Mauling two birds with one stone-cold, self-sustaining lie If happiness blots itself upon perspective, then I was merely one musing of a momentarily hung canvas dangling dull under the noose of your cautiously composed independence             - "Independence"                    she doth protest While in dependence,                    she doth ingest She flees towards East evermore, infatuated under the intoxication of dissimilar skies, ceasing to remember that all worlds eventually become spherical. We, abreast, left the nest; I, digress, detest the West.
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 2:52 AM UTC
Blackboard, Bluebird
Light danced across the hardwood floor of her irises, reflecting deep rays of brown, fire-painted oak wood into the absorbing glass of his sea-foam green, windowframe eyes. A now forgotten word was mellifluously sung; curtains leaden with longing were reluctantly drawn. The luminous sun then ceased to hang canvases of oak and sea on their abstractive walls, diverging instead to displays murals of perspective into the windowpanes of distant eyes. Then, like black and white keys being poignantly pressed by the fluency of fingertips, the edges of their eloquent lips began to touch
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Feb 7, 2014
Feb 7, 2014 at 5:33 AM UTC
Scenes from the First, Last Kiss.
One more cigarette One less thought captured by my notebook I know I have two inner-pockets in my peacoat One with Silver Sherman's and one with the little notebook of deeper joys that follow Yet I've spent more time Lighting Maduro paper than sparking ideas onto trees that are utilized for musings rather than consumption I inhale carbon monoxide, (in line following the crowd -- by choice) Rather than exhaling the same for the leaf-lungs of trees I stretch for something A dichotomy of Pockets Paper lined for thoughts or Tobacco twined for my subduing One more, One less One more circus of circumstance, One less bridge to nowhere One more apple to pick, One less bone I wonder, "When the sands of time should be sifted through my hands and not my mind?" But my mind continuously filters, wondering which grains of now-repurposed stone amounts to more or less You fool! Stop staring at the back of the clock Discontinue your prescription to madness! Watch instead the gears turning not in anxious fear, but in wondrous awe Everything: a means to its own end; not an end to its own means And yet, blackened by the smoke, hardened by the repitition, you take another drag And all I can say is that my throat screams for tea and my mind for resolution One more thought, One less execution. -- I know That if I was self-driven enough I could compose a chart (or a melody) that shows the correlation between the distance of you from my thoughts and the intimacy of nicotine to my mouth
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Feb 7, 2014
Feb 7, 2014 at 4:56 AM UTC
One More, One Less
One more cigarette One less thought captured by my notebook I know I have two inner-pockets in my peacoat One with Silver Sherman's and one with the little notebook of deeper joys that follow Yet I've spent more time Lighting Maduro paper than sparking ideas onto trees that are utilized for musings rather than consumption I inhale carbon monoxide, (in line following the crowd -- by choice) Rather than exhaling the same for the leaf-lungs of trees I stretch for something A dichotomy of Pockets Paper lined for thoughts or Tobacco twined for my subduing One more, One less One more circus of circumstance, One less bridge to nowhere One more apple to pick, One less bone I wonder, "When the sands of time should be sifted through my hands and not my mind?" But my mind continuously filters, wondering which grains of now-repurposed stone amounts to more or less You fool! Stop staring at the back of the clock Discontinue your prescription to madness! Watch instead the gears turning not in anxious fear, but in wondrous awe Everything: a means to its own end; not an end to its own means And yet, blackened by the smoke, hardened by the repitition, you take another drag And all I can say is that my throat screams for tea and my mind for resolution One more thought, One less execution. -- I know That if I was self-driven enough I could compose a chart (or a melody) that shows the correlation between the distance of you from my thoughts and the intimacy of nicotine to my mouth
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What the **** are you laughing at? Duck.
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Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014 at 5:00 AM UTC
A Walk by the Lake