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terrabita
terrabita
14 years of shying away from sunshine.
Trees are in love with humanity. they reach out to kiss our heads with the tips of their browning leaves while we like a vengeful lover first kiss back with words and then cut them down with blades but someday we too will be cut from life and our concrete jungles will fade into dust only stumps remain.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 10:14 AM UTC
a love-hate relationship
I find myself getting lost within the concrete that is cold and cold resigned to white walls while the worth of my words are measured in glass flasks there is no soul here after all   and I will soon grow used to the blank stares of mirrors the hardness of science this time memories of the sky will not save me at all from such a fate
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 10:08 AM UTC
Transferee Issue #1
Grandmother, Do not feed me with the scent of tomorrow - it has a certain pungency that I cannot stand. After all, I am still full with the taste of this bitter residue lurching in my stomach left by memory.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 10:01 AM UTC
on family reunions
Bent over the stream of laundrywomen drench words that flitter to and fro, rinsing and revising spoken prose across whispered conversations Fading away into the piercing gaze of an endless summer’s haze the laundrywomen have mastered the art of washing the soul with only water and well-meant poems as soap as if it were the cloth in their hands
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 5:34 AM UTC
Laundrywomen
In the garden I knelt as a young boy, with dirt-caked nails that dug deep in the soil. Searching for neither coins nor toys that would take away my childish coils. Instead I search for the worms and birds Who whispered to me secrets of their tiny world: that if you listened closely to the hum of the earth, you would learn to fly across the universe. Now I kneel before the ground once more, grasping for the soil until my fingers are sore. Even if I sit still and watch the flying birds, I still cannot hear the hums nor the chirps.      As I grow more but my days grow less,      I cease to hear the whispers of innocence.
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 10:19 AM UTC
Loss
I am bound to you as you are bound to me. Have we become what should never be? Trapped in your heart as your are trapped in mine, it goes on and on - the passage of time. Close the door behind you and count to ten. Think of me and open it again. I am chained to you as you are chained to me. Is this the way how everything should be?
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 10:13 AM UTC
*******
Trapped at the crossroads We are caught in the heat haze bound to each other
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 4:56 AM UTC
Summer Daze
On this day we are pierced by the screams of a new way to undulate across the river of life.
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 12:09 PM UTC
fireworks on new year
In a cold universe of stars, I am just one of them, ever bright However, I am born to lose my light and crash through the dome of somber skies darkened by the star's perennial lie: they have already gone silent.
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:17 AM UTC
fakery of the fallen
Step into the train as cherry blossoms kiss you a fragrant goodbye.
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:15 AM UTC
somber fragrance