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capnashy
capnashy
We live in an immaterial world, a ghost world, and i'm an immaterial girl, a ghost.
He wears his solivagant demeanor like armor; your battle of love will never scratch his silver plated chest, your swords will never pierce the walls inside his ribcage called, "home" Home is where the heart is and he flatlined a long time ago; broken heart syndrome only has only 11 documented cases of death, but something snapped inside that boy that day and I think about how they never mention that you can die on the inside, too. He says cigarettes are a way to manipulate time, that sand is just sand if you don't know how much you have left in your hourglass, and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You could've called us time travelers, we were making best friends with the moon and the stars as we breathed in the promise of calm, an ashen beach lay beneath us. Sand is just sand, after all. The confessions of an insomniac, the stream of unfiltered emotion laying open, so vulnerable- how terribly sad it looks in the light.
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 10:41 PM UTC
The confessions of an insomniac
I think you leave little bits of yourself in the trees I can always see you in them Your energy is constantly intertwining with nature And when I'm in nature it's almost like you're there; in the mountains, the trees, the wildflowers. It's the tsunami waves of missing you It's the warm sunny days where everything is alive and singing, "He's all around you, just look." It's that feeling that you get when you're on a mountain looking up at the sky and realizing how small you really are. You're the boy who plays with the moon, and I'm the girl watching, mesmerized by the way you two move.   It's that moment when you love nature so much that it crushes you, because you know that you don't belong. We are built to destroy, and the world deserves so much better than that. I know I am a disaster, but you make me feel less evil than I've made myself out to be. I feel more like a tree when I'm with you.
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 1:44 AM UTC
Komorebi
I remember the first time I discovered poetry, bolts of electric affluenza coursing through soft fingertips and into the skinny blue lines of fascination meaning nothing at first, yet transforming into the spillage of emotion, the invention of color, the budding metamorphosis of the artist’s apprehension. I remember telling everyone about the honey-tainted metaphors that exhaled yellow pigment through our film noir madness of ravaged years cementing over irises and I remember the revelation, saucer eyes and trembling hands after discovering the faultlessness of magic that tore at heartstrings and furrowed brows, the mumbled prayer of stitching entire blankets of words together to keep our souls warm even as the frigid ice of Time burned in desperation to freeze our heartbeats. You are a poet but to the world, you are wasted opportunity you only know of words that slip through tied tongues like silk and mending excuses to make up for heartbreak You are a poet but they never stop reminding you to keep your feet glued To hollow ground, shaking To find something that tastes of reality, the human flesh sweat of long lost longing You have to stop living in your head In the spaces where you breathe life into promises You are a poet But that has never been enough. The poet is used to this-- the knowledge of failure always shoved under the doormat numbers that collect under crumpled paper, the rotten look of misunderstanding as they wonder where the science of living went missing When did art decide to invade your insides, Leaving no room to calculate meaning with mathematics? Oh, but only the poets understand That there is no formula to meaning No theorem to calculate suffering, Only words that get stuck and disintegrate into whispers only all-consuming madness, write me a storm That rages through afflictions Write me an ending where We are older, in the house we dreamed of, buried Under blankets in the forgotten fog of Decembers Write me an ending where my voice is steady Instead of constantly wavering past the silence of goodbyes hellos heartaches Love me And I will love you Lose me And I will turn you into poetry stretch your bones into feelings, follow the lines in your palms into futures Where we end up together I will hold up your eyelids so they will never feel heavy at the sight of destruction I will shelter your heart to keep it beating As we watch as the words I could never say flutter at your fingertips like moths with broken wings The world does not understand love nor the poets that create it.
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Dec 12, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 at 6:16 PM UTC
TO BE A POET / A Slam Poem
I remember the first time I discovered poetry, bolts of electric affluenza coursing through soft fingertips and into the skinny blue lines of fascination meaning nothing at first, yet transforming into the spillage of emotion, the invention of color, the budding metamorphosis of the artist’s apprehension. I remember telling everyone about the honey-tainted metaphors that exhaled yellow pigment through our film noir madness of ravaged years cementing over irises and I remember the revelation, saucer eyes and trembling hands after discovering the faultlessness of magic that tore at heartstrings and furrowed brows, the mumbled prayer of stitching entire blankets of words together to keep our souls warm even as the frigid ice of Time burned in desperation to freeze our heartbeats. You are a poet but to the world, you are wasted opportunity you only know of words that slip through tied tongues like silk and mending excuses to make up for heartbreak You are a poet but they never stop reminding you to keep your feet glued To hollow ground, shaking To find something that tastes of reality, the human flesh sweat of long lost longing You have to stop living in your head In the spaces where you breathe life into promises You are a poet But that has never been enough. The poet is used to this-- the knowledge of failure always shoved under the doormat numbers that collect under crumpled paper, the rotten look of misunderstanding as they wonder where the science of living went missing When did art decide to invade your insides, Leaving no room to calculate meaning with mathematics? Oh, but only the poets understand That there is no formula to meaning No theorem to calculate suffering, Only words that get stuck and disintegrate into whispers only all-consuming madness, write me a storm That rages through afflictions Write me an ending where We are older, in the house we dreamed of, buried Under blankets in the forgotten fog of Decembers Write me an ending where my voice is steady Instead of constantly wavering past the silence of goodbyes hellos heartaches Love me And I will love you Lose me And I will turn you into poetry stretch your bones into feelings, follow the lines in your palms into futures Where we end up together I will hold up your eyelids so they will never feel heavy at the sight of destruction I will shelter your heart to keep it beating As we watch as the words I could never say flutter at your fingertips like moths with broken wings The world does not understand love nor the poets that create it.
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Kaleidoscope love scenes may cause motion sickness, so be careful because I've been slipping silver-lined sentiments into your tea. Streams of honey pour from my lips, infused with good intentions and "I'd love it if you'd stay," undertones to really sweeten things up- but not too much, I know how sugar makes your head spin. All of the late nights we've stayed up talking have made the bags under my eyes perfect for brewing and i'm ready to pour myself out to you; that little tea *** short and stout has nothing on my porcelain frame. Tea cup collarbones made for you to drink from. Our tea party wouldn't be complete without snacks, and I hope soul food is what you're looking for. I don't want small talk, I want the kind of talk that makes me feel small compared to the possibilities. Lets take note from Alice and her glass vile's labeled "drink me", and drink up as we watch the universe expand before our eyes. All of the love i'm trying to give you could easily be compared to most hallucinogens, because you make my world flip-flop in the most beautiful way. So, would you care to see what I see? Turn me into a cup of tea, and when i'm done i'll scream and shout words of "I love you," so tip me over and pour me out.
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Dec 12, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 at 5:47 PM UTC
phan·tas·ma·go·ri·a of love