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dejuan-davis
American I'm a film student at the University of Texas at Arlington. I love poetry, mainly the haunting realism of life with all its pains and ills and joys and triumphs. Life has ups and downs for all of us, and for every pain there is a poem.
Unfound The horizon welcomes yet a new sun But my heart remains unnoticed to you. The deep hidden place I show to so few Is so tightly bound to leave me undone. Seems life has played a ridiculous pun To leave me so bound, so helpless, so true Tied to this one who sees nothing I do. I will walk away, I’ve learned my lesson. But I can’t! I can’t! My heart is so held To you by love’s misguided reasonings Playing with my thoughts and unbiased mind That you are the one, I’m forced, I’m compelled To hope your love is close to sweetening Until that I have found, you also find.
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Sep 27, 2012
Sep 27, 2012 at 2:58 AM UTC
Unfound
Windows rolled down to catch the hint Of the first faintest salt-tinged taste Of air as it rushes into our eyes and ears and noses. It arrives long before the destination, Expectations increasing as sandy patches Begin to burst into view. Never before witnessed by eyes of these occupants The palm trees, seashell shops, and forever blue expanses Plaster our faces and finger-pointing hands to windows. A flying fish breaks the surface as we skim our own sea Curving and turning the contures woven for us. The stop is long-awaited, long-sought, long-debated But soon, as in a dream awakened, our feet touch Something other than carpeted floorboard. Sand Gives us one second's pause until shoes are discarded Where they lie unguarded as toes touch the sandbox. Hot sand guides us quickly to water where white waves Rush on its newcomers, greeting with kisses the blue-white Eyelashes of the ocean eye. Splashing and crashing Waves beat us down, then again pick us up, lifting And twisting till our faces wear red-sun masks. Collapsing in sleep, energy spent by ocean's leaching Reconvening in silence as bed's teaching leads us To dream and desire, the new advantages of energy The ocean, with no ride to slow us, wakes us with calls "Rush on! Rush on!" as every wave turns. The one day of driving, seems so long compared To the week of fun flying sooner than thought. The best trip, this trip, had come unexpected, And its end, abruptly so. A trip discovered with the flip of a coin, heads: east, tails: west.
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 4:33 AM UTC
Road Trip
Windows rolled down to catch the hint Of the first faintest salt-tinged taste Of air as it rushes into our eyes and ears and noses. It arrives long before the destination, Expectations increasing as sandy patches Begin to burst into view. Never before witnessed by eyes of these occupants The palm trees, seashell shops, and forever blue expanses Plaster our faces and finger-pointing hands to windows. A flying fish breaks the surface as we skim our own sea Curving and turning the contures woven for us. The stop is long-awaited, long-sought, long-debated But soon, as in a dream awakened, our feet touch Something other than carpeted floorboard. Sand Gives us one second's pause until shoes are discarded Where they lie unguarded as toes touch the sandbox. Hot sand guides us quickly to water where white waves Rush on its newcomers, greeting with kisses the blue-white Eyelashes of the ocean eye. Splashing and crashing Waves beat us down, then again pick us up, lifting And twisting till our faces wear red-sun masks. Collapsing in sleep, energy spent by ocean's leaching Reconvening in silence as bed's teaching leads us To dream and desire, the new advantages of energy The ocean, with no ride to slow us, wakes us with calls "Rush on! Rush on!" as every wave turns. The one day of driving, seems so long compared To the week of fun flying sooner than thought. The best trip, this trip, had come unexpected, And its end, abruptly so. A trip discovered with the flip of a coin, heads: east, tails: west.
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Fling the Air The door is opened By temptations of clover, Lavender, and roses The swirl of air flinging Escaping smells adrift. A black piano bench Worn so smooth I see The wood grained from use Incessantly yawns Giving up its treasures Sheet music, lyrical Compositions, and not many blank pages. Deeper I tread into this world Of music and harmony Past the tightly strung bow Leaning against the antigue stand And the old books well read Until my gaze is returned By three lonely bottles Full, in their places unheeded Escape impossible. And then I think, Did the air fling their scent Or did they fling the air?
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 4:32 AM UTC
Fling the Air
I see them there now Or are they only a dream Is this even real. I want to believe That I will have that moment If only that one. The glance of their eyes Fleeting through the stained glass sheet But then they are gone. I am all a fool The impossibility Of this, my belief. That someone as they Seemingly my common soul Would look upon me. To find in me they As though myself reflected Their eyes the mirror So I continue On and on and on and on Without that someone The search is ended Except only in my mind For they don't exist.
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Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 2:31 AM UTC
Winded Spiral
There are words no one knows, In my heart, too deep to hold. They trace themselves on ivory cords Round and round my throat. My tongue cannot find them though they are near their form And they choke-- --their twisting fates arise through unknown doors. Leading back down to the bitter depths with unspoken sorrows. Their retreat bleeds deeply into the fount Passions stream and fears rebound Rousing troubled hearts awake Only to fall again at the break. At the end, the troubles silence Untouched by trembles, untouched by rite The dregs bind up the yearnings rise And I walk on, Undone by time.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM UTC
Unspoken
The walls of my heart, Guarded words, thoughts, and passions, Protection from pain. They are mine to hold Against all other's actions, But is this in vain? For fear that the storm, Tearing my world's foundations, Will cause the cloud's rain. Has left me too dry In my deep hibernations No other to gain. The realness of life Awakens my soul's sleeping To an honest thought. Protection from pain And its hermited living Can claim nothing brought. But sorrowed loneness And a heart unforgiving To the one is wrought. So I tear my walls, And move my habitation, To the land of chance. My heart now able, To be hurt, held, healed, or loved, But for sure it's free.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 6:25 PM UTC
Safety
You think they'd just be lying about. Strewn away from society like the brave little toaster. But alas... They persist in existing in drawers and 'hind doors of cabinets aplenty. If only a watch would give a moment of time in my hand, I'd rip it to pieces and turn into feces watch pieces lying there dead. I wonder the winder has thought this thought through that watches have turned from metal.. To tiny parts made of plastic and trinkets and trinklings of junk on which they've settled.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 6:06 PM UTC
Antique Watches
silence poorly constructed shattered so easily by those too callous to care
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Mar 30, 2012
Mar 30, 2012 at 2:31 AM UTC
Silence