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alex-waddell
American I am an undergrad student studying Spanish at the University of Mississippi. / / My poems are like photographs of my thoughts and dreamstuffs / / comments welcome
In days of mud and rust The clean rain falls (in droplets) Into my eyes (and down our throats) Our eyes Will catch every living (and non living) Thing As a piece of magic A fleck of stardust on the horizon A spark of energy beaming from our lives
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 2:53 AM UTC
In days
I see The clouds Clean and free of color Blackening I hear The leaves They speak of seams Pulling I don't know what to think But dream of love Growing
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 2:49 AM UTC
June 2013
In lieu of my strength I choose to fade In place of my death I bathe In the moonlight wealth I'm made
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 2:40 AM UTC
June 4, 2013
When my knees are replaced wrists bound in place these feet won't race these eyes can't change what they've seen Find me I'll be in trees high up where sun shines bright the longest day in Creeks all waters flowed away there Under the stairs in hide away I store my shame it comes to play I have to say what would it take for everything to Stop For a little while we dance I love you past your shirt and pants and then we sit and play and touch I feel afraid its just too much, too good To be for me As true as the leaves on the edge of spring, so real as water above my head. For you Are a creature of all creatures An animal of your own desire And I am watching Learning Waiting For you To look For me
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 2:33 AM UTC
March 3, 2014
She was a drive-by beauty The roadside resistance As they passed they stretched their necks Yet never stopped to stare
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 2:26 AM UTC
October 9, 2011
i'd rather be a mute than walk through fields of opportunablooms and be at risk to say i love and have you love me too
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Mar 2, 2011
Mar 2, 2011 at 6:50 PM UTC
drather b
Wake up, Confusion, it's bed time Mamma's singing Daddy's rhyme Dad he does as mamma says Mom she never makes the beds Like a fool, Confusion, stand proud Make your self heard, quitely, get loud Travel abroad by staying in bed Watch the moon rise till noon (instead) skip the sun that set too soon Sun the skip that too soon set The standards of this mignionette Sheets so warm and quilts so smooth Hot bed rocks, Con, let them sooth Fu, you know the way to life Born today died then in strife Let's make this one rhyme, whall we, Sion? pas du tout pas du tout pas du tout
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 6:24 PM UTC
Cnfsn
Ask me what My deepest secret is And i can't say Pick Scratch Slice and Pull Pain Hurt Feeling Pain make it stop make it stop make it stop i don't want to go To go anywhere tomorrow i don't want to wake Wake up Bake up, burn me alive as i sleep Abduct me Take me away Turn my insides in front of me so i'll see what's underneath The residue Buildup Filth Waste mockery of Existence: Unite and take over! Art! All spiraling cycles Electrons move in circles We're all spin offs of the universe multiverse Omniverse We're all gasses cooled down Inhale, make them spin faster May as well
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM UTC
Ask me what
Remember when i said i spilled Spilled me out for you to see? Well now i've leaked all over the place Drops of me pressing into lost attentions Jack he looked at me Jack he scratched my head Said He liked my hair Not me
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 6:12 PM UTC
stew
Mamma found him in his cage while I was away At Jordan Ray’s Talons up, feathers flat . Dearest neglect of Joey the bird Lived in a pink cage, Grew bright green feathers with a light blue spot on his shoulder. Sister bought him at a mall cart, Saved him, it seemed, But now it’s clear that his fate was condemned A live heart beat quick in hollow bones . From Jordan’s I rushed, Hurried to confirm the news of my mother’s text: “Joey died. You need to come home and clean your room” Warm hearts beat cold in the blaze of August morning Mamma, I found, she put him in the trash Like a piece of pie with one bite taken I found him lain upon heaps of pear peelings Doomed in line to decompose Among the **** and waste of the world I picked him up Placed him into a small shoe box “Come on, Joey bird, lay in here” It’s warm and dry and safe Joey lay there, patient and dead I took him in the yard Out of the room he’d been in Since sister brought him home I found him a tree to chirp in, great oak I placed his box on the grass and dug Dug Dug until I went beneath some roots … Kept digging Unearthing pebbles and insect homes Disheveling years of dirt and order . The heat of the day was boiling on my swelling soul How could mother throw him in the trash? Was he not alive; a thing? As much a miracle as you or me? And my sister, his keeper, was not there to witness Finally joey fit right Fit just where he needed to be The base of a great oak tree Whose roots would **** him in Like the lump in my heart did With every scoop of soil Like the love missed in life that joey died without . That was the first day I hated my mother That was the first time I missed my sister That was the only life I’ve ever mourned
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 6:10 PM UTC
i've only mourned a Bird
Mamma found him in his cage while I was away At Jordan Ray’s Talons up, feathers flat . Dearest neglect of Joey the bird Lived in a pink cage, Grew bright green feathers with a light blue spot on his shoulder. Sister bought him at a mall cart, Saved him, it seemed, But now it’s clear that his fate was condemned A live heart beat quick in hollow bones . From Jordan’s I rushed, Hurried to confirm the news of my mother’s text: “Joey died. You need to come home and clean your room” Warm hearts beat cold in the blaze of August morning Mamma, I found, she put him in the trash Like a piece of pie with one bite taken I found him lain upon heaps of pear peelings Doomed in line to decompose Among the **** and waste of the world I picked him up Placed him into a small shoe box “Come on, Joey bird, lay in here” It’s warm and dry and safe Joey lay there, patient and dead I took him in the yard Out of the room he’d been in Since sister brought him home I found him a tree to chirp in, great oak I placed his box on the grass and dug Dug Dug until I went beneath some roots … Kept digging Unearthing pebbles and insect homes Disheveling years of dirt and order . The heat of the day was boiling on my swelling soul How could mother throw him in the trash? Was he not alive; a thing? As much a miracle as you or me? And my sister, his keeper, was not there to witness Finally joey fit right Fit just where he needed to be The base of a great oak tree Whose roots would **** him in Like the lump in my heart did With every scoop of soil Like the love missed in life that joey died without . That was the first day I hated my mother That was the first time I missed my sister That was the only life I’ve ever mourned
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