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amanda-fletcher
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American Poetry is a language in it's self. The rules are vague, but the understanding is universal. Perceive my words at your will, for they speak in many tongues.
You know, I’ve wanted to say this for a very long time, but for a very long time I haven’t believed that you’ve been ready to hear it nor have I been ready to say it. Three.big.words. So big my throat can’t store it can’t keep it together it comes out in stutters, I Luh, I Luh, I Luhhhvee Y-yu-you. this, is the first time. This is the first I’ve felt vulnerable and empowered at the same time. This time is kind of amazing This duality inside of me fighting against one another My heart choosing sides, Left and right, ripping me apart A ****** valentine a serious war. like, the Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me, Yes, this is Brand New. I wrote a ballad For you, a love song from deep emotions mixed up making a ballad that cries out the howls of true devotion the secrets never spoken under the sheets where I lie, next to your embodied soul You soft ************ Let me hold you, let me cast you under the spell I brewed myself brewed right here. Right here. in the place where I actually love you because I actually love you in the softest portion of my heart the most delicate, touchable, stababble place in my heart a sensitive baby crawling into my throat choking me with the words the words inside my throat I’m choking on a flavored peanut caught in the wrong tube I am choking on something so dang sweet, like sweeter than the 90’s chokers, Love. Is. A Hard Peanut. I believe in the like Maybe some faith in the love. I spat up the peanut It left sugar in my mouth but I spat it out. It was, after all, Lodging my airway Constricting my muscles Suffocating my taste for reality Organically altering the song Of my tongue, like I found the tune at Whole Foods. You Stupid Peanut, of course I found you at Whole Foods You’re a Genetic Beauty, modified once originally You hard Peanut I Love You I Love You I Love You! There, I said it With my choking throat My loving Soul. My soft heart I love you, Peanut.
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Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
I Didn't Write a Love Poem
You know, I’ve wanted to say this for a very long time, but for a very long time I haven’t believed that you’ve been ready to hear it nor have I been ready to say it. Three.big.words. So big my throat can’t store it can’t keep it together it comes out in stutters, I Luh, I Luh, I Luhhhvee Y-yu-you. this, is the first time. This is the first I’ve felt vulnerable and empowered at the same time. This time is kind of amazing This duality inside of me fighting against one another My heart choosing sides, Left and right, ripping me apart A ****** valentine a serious war. like, the Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me, Yes, this is Brand New. I wrote a ballad For you, a love song from deep emotions mixed up making a ballad that cries out the howls of true devotion the secrets never spoken under the sheets where I lie, next to your embodied soul You soft ************ Let me hold you, let me cast you under the spell I brewed myself brewed right here. Right here. in the place where I actually love you because I actually love you in the softest portion of my heart the most delicate, touchable, stababble place in my heart a sensitive baby crawling into my throat choking me with the words the words inside my throat I’m choking on a flavored peanut caught in the wrong tube I am choking on something so dang sweet, like sweeter than the 90’s chokers, Love. Is. A Hard Peanut. I believe in the like Maybe some faith in the love. I spat up the peanut It left sugar in my mouth but I spat it out. It was, after all, Lodging my airway Constricting my muscles Suffocating my taste for reality Organically altering the song Of my tongue, like I found the tune at Whole Foods. You Stupid Peanut, of course I found you at Whole Foods You’re a Genetic Beauty, modified once originally You hard Peanut I Love You I Love You I Love You! There, I said it With my choking throat My loving Soul. My soft heart I love you, Peanut.
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It's interesting, being in the dark and all. Suddenly your strength is taken away, though you are not senseless. Power simply takes on a new format, a new vigor on the road. Let the dark be your light. Let it guide you blind through the heavy obstacles, and to a place of safe keeping. Use a new strength, a power in your temple so you can open your eyes, So you can see through the darkness without senseless demise.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
You Can See
Mattress your old, mattress you’re heavy. Mattress you heave, mattress you hold. Mattress, you’re heavy. Mattress you rock and mattress you cradle and mattress you carry the weight of my feathered bones mattress you steal mattress my dreams mattress haven mattress heathens, mattress, ***** me, rock me, carry me, mattress I do. Mattress you’re heavy, mattress you’re tough mattress you’re powerful, your rough mattress your edges are rough mattress Mattress on my back mattress over my shoulders mattress on top of my soul, pushing me down, no. Mattress to carry my weight all the way home mattress support dreams and mattress support evil and mattress speak loud mattress scream louder mattress no, mattress, yes, mattress, victim, mattress, ghost
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 1:35 PM UTC
Mattress
Shhhhhhhhh, shh, shush! They can hear you! The sun is shining and you’re excited but you’re missing the point! It’s about change, something new. It’s about the sport bamarama homerun outta the park and into their eyes. Huuuuushhh! We can’t be a bunch of buzzing flies, Mean, disturbing cries disguised as whiny babies. Well, I guess this whole thing is a baby, But also a promise, to the future. Shhshshhshhh. Call it Heaven, because once they give us the key the pearly gates open wide. Let my angels sing with their large white wings. We got a future to fly for. Shhhhhhhhh! Don’t you get it? Freedom of speech doesn't unlock your voice box. It strings your arrow and pulls it back, shooting through the hearts of grey suits. Hush. Now you know, don’t give away your position with your battle cry, shoot your arrow into the source.
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 1:24 PM UTC
Hush
People say I’m loud, I just wish my voice would carry with the wind and into the ears of everybody who’s not asking to hear what I’m talking about. You didn’t invite yourself, I invited you to hear me out. You won’t hear me, you’ll hear my object of choice held high with two hands, to the sky, to the spray of your tear gas in my eyes, but be not blinded in sight as you are deaf to the ear, loud and clear you see my poison spilled on the mattress my body was mutilated on, shoving out through my sweaty hands, drip, drip, dripping onto the streets you defend with your devices of destruction. My words weight is less than a million dollars, less than a tuition, less than my fore father’s current colleagues who are counting down days from suits to polo shoes, making face on the last of their public legacy, they don’t want a face like me writing slogans on their cities about ignorance and inconsistency. I guess I’m not loud enough, it takes more than volume to raise The roof the roof the roof is on fire. Save the pen, the paper, your voices and chairs, your mattress and umbrellas that protect us from your outrage at my outrageous voice Silenced by a shield. Silenced by batons. Silenced by political power without political people, incorrect intentions, raging with rovers 100 feet above my head exploding like an overfilled balloon. You can beat my words down but you can’t burn my furniture, bigger than you, bolder than you, screaming louder through a mouth it doesn’t even possess, looking on the face of a choir, a whole choir, asking to cure our disease. I will hold my symbols of faith, **** and freedom in my right hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth until our protest has made a difference, until my metal chairs have molded your thoughts into signatures on a page of on a page of social justice. It just is, bigger than you, bolder than you, louder than me, Don’t test me, Test my furniture. It will always be heard. People say I'm loud. I just wish my voice would carry into the ears or everybody not asking to hear what I am talking about. Well, I'm not talking, My object speaks pretty loud.
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM UTC
Furniture
People say I’m loud, I just wish my voice would carry with the wind and into the ears of everybody who’s not asking to hear what I’m talking about. You didn’t invite yourself, I invited you to hear me out. You won’t hear me, you’ll hear my object of choice held high with two hands, to the sky, to the spray of your tear gas in my eyes, but be not blinded in sight as you are deaf to the ear, loud and clear you see my poison spilled on the mattress my body was mutilated on, shoving out through my sweaty hands, drip, drip, dripping onto the streets you defend with your devices of destruction. My words weight is less than a million dollars, less than a tuition, less than my fore father’s current colleagues who are counting down days from suits to polo shoes, making face on the last of their public legacy, they don’t want a face like me writing slogans on their cities about ignorance and inconsistency. I guess I’m not loud enough, it takes more than volume to raise The roof the roof the roof is on fire. Save the pen, the paper, your voices and chairs, your mattress and umbrellas that protect us from your outrage at my outrageous voice Silenced by a shield. Silenced by batons. Silenced by political power without political people, incorrect intentions, raging with rovers 100 feet above my head exploding like an overfilled balloon. You can beat my words down but you can’t burn my furniture, bigger than you, bolder than you, screaming louder through a mouth it doesn’t even possess, looking on the face of a choir, a whole choir, asking to cure our disease. I will hold my symbols of faith, **** and freedom in my right hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth until our protest has made a difference, until my metal chairs have molded your thoughts into signatures on a page of on a page of social justice. It just is, bigger than you, bolder than you, louder than me, Don’t test me, Test my furniture. It will always be heard. People say I'm loud. I just wish my voice would carry into the ears or everybody not asking to hear what I am talking about. Well, I'm not talking, My object speaks pretty loud.
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It's not a failure that the sailor sits at the sea line with a seashell to his ear, It calms the calamity of a ship crashed ashore. Will the parlor man feed us anymore seasons of steady hands afloat? To sink sink of to sail The Great Beyond, you may borrow my boat.
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Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014 at 7:30 PM UTC
Tried
Stain my naked body With your blood,  clear. It a not the first time I've absorbed your foreign nature, I've been doing it for years Through your body,   Through your mouth dripping with the liquid sensation of your lonely soul, grinding away the essence of physical feeling with physical feeling, hot, your hollowed out, it's purposefully misunderstood by you But not by me. I see inside your holes, I've always been able to, And now, finally, your looking into mine.
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 7:48 AM UTC
Close
I forgot what it's like to be cold, freezing. A blanket of sunshine wouldn't be enough, I need more. This is the same feeling, This is the exact same feeling that I breathe every year.
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 2:32 AM UTC
Familiar
The face of the cold looks a little different, a bit harsh. The only smile that shows is one for hope of the sun In time, in subtlety, both pale and tense. Be sure to return the same smile back, give some common hope. One day, yes, one day, the sun will brighten our faces, I Promise.
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
Patience
It's a choice to ambulate through the head and the heart And out of this place all at once, To ridden your riddle, relentless, like the rock that you are. It's a choice, to plan the path that you pull us down, together, leaving any help far back behind the hurdle. It's a choice to end there, unattatched, in the thick of the thunder. You chose my place, caught in the cold, cloudy and confused, without a hope or  heart, a dream or destination. It's your preference, not my choice.
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 3:17 AM UTC
Choice is At Will