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MattBerkes
I wonder why The windows weep. I wonder will The thunder keep Me awake To reap The thoughts Where my Doubts steep. Counting sheep. I want to sleep But I think The windows weep For the way My brain will leap At any cheap comment That can heap More coals Onto my insecurities. The water's deep And I know I shouldn't keep Swimming down But a few Stray words seep Into my head, Urging me to creep Farther and Down here I can't see The windows weeping Anyway.
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Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 at 6:07 PM UTC
Weeping Windows
Hopeless, hopeless. Try to focus, Mind's atrocious. What's my diagnosis? Sealed in my steel head With a piecemeal Brain of sand And every thought is Helium in my hands. Darkness mutters, Heartbeat flutters, Shadows clutter the light And morality stutters. Sinking, sinking, Tired of thinking, Mired and shrinking, I can see the devil winking. Doubt instilled in me By the truths I fought. Every forward step is oblique. Isolation is vulnerability When every idle thought Plays hide and seek With the devil.
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Jun 22, 2019
Jun 22, 2019 at 12:22 AM UTC
Hide and Seek with the Devil
Time floats with the dust And hangs in our silence, Mulls in our laughter, Hides our reliance On trust. Oh say it if you must; We can watch the Metal rust On our support beams, Grow old and Talk of dreams Unattained nostalgically But it seems Like we'll always be Stardust Blown together On a gust of chance. And if it's true, Let's entrance Ourselves in Harmonic wanderlust.
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Jan 13, 2019
Jan 13, 2019 at 11:49 AM UTC
Pleiades
Blades of grass Slice like swords Up the mountain towards Divinity and Portage Pass. Ripples make The water's mirror Obscured but clearer Is my mind at Gold Cord Lake. Sailing towards The deepest blue Where nature's hue Harmonizes in Kenai Fjords. The mountains wield Their crown with pride, And skies abide The reign of the Harding Ice Field. The sky is dark But a giant looms And light assumes It's silhouette in Denali Park.
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Dec 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018 at 9:19 PM UTC
My favorite places, Alaska
Glass bent dreams, Refracted moonbeams, An indigo patchwork Of stars And fraying seams; In streams and bends, The scene amends What reality pretends. By my force of will, Even the Amazon unbends. I dream the world anew Where light turns askew, My kingdom in the blue, Built for two, Built around you.
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Dec 15, 2018
Dec 15, 2018 at 4:57 PM UTC
Looking Glass
Thought, like A gunshot. Like the noise the Lightning wrought. Like a crashing wave That drags me back Into the tide I fought. I sought my peace Inside a void Where the pressing fears Might cease. Where my demons Would release Me But it was all For naught. In my darkness, I was found. The sporadic, Enigmatic sound Of my neural network Run aground On the void I used As a shield around The fears I loathe to feel, Saw my defenses Swiftly drowned, And I thought.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 11:19 PM UTC
Thundering Thoughts
Sirens. Blaring. Glaring. Why is everyone staring At the sky? They open their mouths With sounds of sirens Like bombs fly, You'd think the inky blue A graveyard but Only clouds die There. Staring. Blaring. Like the whole world Is swearing to hear Nothing else but The siren's prayer. Is it for calamity Or welfare? I think even the Staring, screaming statues Don't know And I'm worried They don't care. But still they sing, Their voices ring, Howling the siren's fanfare.
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Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 at 12:21 AM UTC
Fanfare of the Sirens
The final verse The silent curse In harmony, rehearsed. All voices rise A hymn reprised Their words heard in reverse. The rites of time henceforth proclaim, A soul and skin decreed by name, A toll within the heart aflame, Step forward and asperse. To heaven and hell, it's all the same So be deliberate and terse. The ritual will only get worse And your time already came.
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Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 at 12:23 AM UTC
Denouement
Sinuous swirls float On the wind, Into the blue, Into nothing, Along with the words I wrote. The mountain top clings To the mist That slips through Jagged fingers As the wind that carries it sings. Fate dictates the scene at hand. Though it claws And fights to Grapple the mist, The mountain was fated to the land. And the mist returns From whence it came. It's the melancholy death Of a union Of beauty, But it is a death all the same.
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 10:04 PM UTC
Ephemeral
We held on for a time, Frozen together Before the sun would climb. An iceberg adrift On cold bliss, We could hardly feel The melting Or the consequence We'd dismiss. We were creatures of Our seasonal night, But the darkness blocked Foresight. And our dancing on The winter sea Cast no shadow In the moon light. But the sun would rise And it's rays would welt The ice with brilliant heat, It would creak and split And crack and shriek But we wouldn't notice it melt. The sun rose in the sky But set on our season. Our glacier couldn't defy The time or our treason, Our negligence. So we melted Into the ocean And the currents Carried us apart.
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Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 8:45 PM UTC
Arctic