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willoughby-lucas
I am a BFA 2 fine arts major at the California Institute of the Arts (Calarts.) I am from Alabama and recently moved to California for college. I am trying to incorporate poetry into my practice as a visual artist.
On my first day he never spoke My second day his lips brought forth letters Then with the third we broached words In a week there was a sentence And after a month there were conversations. Gradual steps to comfort, but strides in perception. Wondering who he was I gathered some initiative I tried to aim it gently but i probably hit a few nerves Erratic as usual he might have regretted being hit Carful as I could be but as clumsy as I am His glass spine shattered with my slightest presence He's the vase but who could be his flowers Im not delicate I won't be able to line his rims with petals Im not poised I won't be able to color his reflection with a primary's elegance Im not rigid I won't look strong or brilliant floating in the water that his depth holds For all these reasons I shouldn't fill the bouquet his shape desires. Wishing for the day when we would equal one The pull of numbers to the decrease of a sum Begging for a clock that provided us with the time to process love The tug of a gear syncing to the motion of the machine Praying for a reality where he would be a fixture in my future The luminosity of a memory we share sparking with the light of mutual desire.
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:33 AM UTC
Synopsis of my Desires
Maybe it was soon Maybe it was impetuous Maybe I will always be reckless Maybe its the reason the pain will cut deeper later Maybe its the reason the anger will hit me harder in my future Maybe I will always be stupid enough to venture But whatever the inevitable outcome I chose to love him. Thinking in circles playing with the pictures Editing the scenes and adding scores to the moments I move the documentation of your whole into the priority of my pupil I glance over your features, remembering how they felt I visualize what our reflection once looked like But now thrown apart how can I do more than crop them together again. The safety of your essence lingers in my cells The comfort we shared abides in the corners of my muscles The solace I found within you resides in my ***** systems But the notion that we will one day reunite is what sustains my soul. I want to do more than see I want to feel more than a 2d image can bear I want to lay next to more than the voice I hear But wanting more should I even dare. Without the touch of some flesh Its your words that still do caress My eyes aren't as dry as they look They fill each night with glass tears I wouldn't risk letting one fall Ill just sit here waiting each day for you to call These days hurt and these hours burn But each blink reminds me your one closer to being in my line of view.
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:27 AM UTC
The But that Justifies Distance
I had that need to communicate, before I knew what I was going to say I knew what You meant to me and I knew I was sad But nothing seemed to say what I wanted you to hear I knew I was missing you and I knew you missed her But I thought just for a minute that you might've been my cure I knew I'd been hurt: left thinking one thing but you brought me to believe in another I thought I knew not to love but I guess I forgot I thought I could assume you'd be more than a man I'd have to tolerate I thought I knew never to assume, but I guess I expected I would've been more careful So I might have had thoughts but I guess I wasn't thinking: Im at the same place I was then Im closer to who I was, now then who I've recently been Im in the same pair of shoes I swore Id never have to wear again But despite all cautiousness, you're now not only my past but the pain of my future Maybe I shouldn't have anticipated your love Perhaps that would have subsided some of the peer pressure Possibly that could have brought us closer All I know is that we could've been happy, but you chose her And now Im stuck accepting your convoluted conjectures Mostly because your so scared of the unfamiliar.
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Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 10:51 PM UTC
Driven by Harsh Thoughts of Love
Subconciously dreaming Seeing him sigh I awake to a start From the stain of the morning Throwing memories in my eyes The death of a life The lack of love in me Feeling his knife Now I'll never be more than one of his amputees. Learning to listen We prepare our ears Can you hear shouting? As they all yell I wake to their cries Acknowledging my own Remembering my sadness Do I feel tears? Tied to our hope We live for the alternative Pretending to move We stand starved and stubborn Unwelcoming the change Defying composure And laying it all on the line With the true self's exposure. Left tortured, tempted by love We fall for the forbidden Massaging the pain Living for the lies Ignoring old warnings Refusing to recognize What was the demonstration of our demise.
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Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 3:12 AM UTC
Preparing for the Pain
Tender moments brought by unsavory words, Anger meets passion- While rubbing together Your body clenching- My sweet mind I feel your horrors as you felt mine Convulsing movements- Persistent touch- We wont let go We love too much. I kissed you often- Now left in dismay- You are so very, very far away. Made distant- Your touch fades- You're in my eye And I in yours. I miss you always I’m feeling lonesome- Read, Write, Speak- Where lies a response? Can you hear my voice?- It feels so loud but dose not transcend- Rejoined by a reply and my heart shall mend- A letter this is, So to you my words I lend.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 AM UTC
Letter
Driven by its consumption Altered by its meaning and Frightened by its prevalence. I am in love with my mind Should I think another way Was I meant to think in such delusions Or should I wait to speak from lunacy. Impulsively driven but we all loose logic Passion negating our reasonable mention But now we weep, trapped by degenerative muscles Forced to fight for a sense we once had And the past we used to remember.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM UTC
Mindless
Forget Forsaken, Lose Lost Since this Connection, there's no Desertion Reminisce in this: Neglect the Past but Embrace this Present I'll say it as long as you can hear, This friendship should cast out every one of our fears. I may bring stress But I'm not always going to be your mess--- Understand I wear frowns not tears. You may worry and I may give you reason But don't ever take it as treason Im here and let it be clear I Love you, Dear. The Glass Shatters A Reflection cast in each other, Myself Projected in your eyes. Acknowledging the Resemblance Still Seeing the Difference While Appreciating this Coincidence. Love bread Consistency Constancy created Honesty Close from Compassion Dedication by Devotion This is Dependable Since this is nothing short of Remarkable. Affection Motivated my mind Want wrote what needed to be Expressed But neither could convey this Blessedness My aim was to Memorialize Even then no one could begin to Conceptualize. Who would I Be Without You and Me Never forget this "We" Despite the distance between Seas Even if it's more than just You and Me This will always remain to Be. Don't Doubt what you know Don't Question what I've told Don't Worry I will leave Because I'll always be here for You and Me.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:31 AM UTC
You and Me
[1] Introduction Originality a creation of the self Yet asking for fiction Unable to conjure from a thin presence But gifted from life gathered. [2] When, Why, and How? When the tears from this today Mimic the rain of my tomorrow, How do I know where To escape? When we are lost in our selves And tempered by the faults of others, How do we grow To understand? When logic is renounced And feeling is felt, How do we remind ourselves To refrain? Moments that unfold Will educate the soul, Inspiring our answers on How To Live? [3] Plot, Setting, Mood Our overlapping ideas, The overlapping events, And unfortunately overlapping people, Become my overlapping emotions. I’m the paradox, You’re my paradox, And actually we’re the contradiction, Inspiring my few uninspiring words I am reading and writing to you   The pain you are The pain you caused And the pain I feel Produce these overlapping paradoxical poems. [4] Betraying Body Walk with fake footprints, See with unfocused eyes, Touch but cannot feel, There is simply nothing to taste, And smelling only the lost scent; Living desensitized the body feels unlit with purpose. We are lost Directionally challenged Falling, tripping….now bruised. We live damaged, Our tears cleansing our deepest cuts Internally bleeding, The blood forcing color to our eyes Beginning to live with the hue obtained. Hemorrhaging at the heart Cardiac arrest We’d welcome death, the ungiven gift They choose life, the given curse Disregarding our last rights Providing us with a life we do not wish to live. It rains, we flood Wishing to drown And yet being denied Our legs tread the threatening tide Progressing to our new state of barely alive.   Time willingly unkind: Intentionally slow, Trudging through, perhaps looking to an end Watching the rise and fall of numbers Their cyclic hands pass Strangling the minds of many Those still living: live lonesome, accompanied by the inevitable tock of time. [5] Semicolon Bridging my gaps, Sewing my wounds , And preparing for the relapse in pain. Writing through my wordless speech I begin to reinterpret my language Advising myself to remember my illiteracy. Repeating my self Becoming redundant Incapable of innovation... I look again through the pages of my unspoken mind. [6] The Repetition of my Pain Headache, life threatening? Heartburn, possible survival? Common cold, originality? Pregnancy, new life? Who defines pain? Are you sick? Are we all? I’m sick I’m hungry I’m cold I’m tired I am heart broken. Am I sick? Aren’t I always? He’s fine He’s happy He’s lying He’s pretending He will never say. Is he sick? Was he ever not? We were fine. We were happy. Were we lying? Who was pretending? We will never love again. Were we sick? When were we not? [7] Falling Action Redirecting my momentum and changing the gears, I found HIS path I’ve regained consciousness, Been lifted out of the soapless  bathwater And cleaned by the warmth of  a fire. Although burnt and previously bruised The bandaids were enough, The aspirin filled a void, And my head had stopped hurting. Self sought, Self seen, Self claimed, And now reconciled with self; Clarity retrieved and new quest begun.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:29 AM UTC
Self Portrait
[1] Introduction Originality a creation of the self Yet asking for fiction Unable to conjure from a thin presence But gifted from life gathered. [2] When, Why, and How? When the tears from this today Mimic the rain of my tomorrow, How do I know where To escape? When we are lost in our selves And tempered by the faults of others, How do we grow To understand? When logic is renounced And feeling is felt, How do we remind ourselves To refrain? Moments that unfold Will educate the soul, Inspiring our answers on How To Live? [3] Plot, Setting, Mood Our overlapping ideas, The overlapping events, And unfortunately overlapping people, Become my overlapping emotions. I’m the paradox, You’re my paradox, And actually we’re the contradiction, Inspiring my few uninspiring words I am reading and writing to you   The pain you are The pain you caused And the pain I feel Produce these overlapping paradoxical poems. [4] Betraying Body Walk with fake footprints, See with unfocused eyes, Touch but cannot feel, There is simply nothing to taste, And smelling only the lost scent; Living desensitized the body feels unlit with purpose. We are lost Directionally challenged Falling, tripping….now bruised. We live damaged, Our tears cleansing our deepest cuts Internally bleeding, The blood forcing color to our eyes Beginning to live with the hue obtained. Hemorrhaging at the heart Cardiac arrest We’d welcome death, the ungiven gift They choose life, the given curse Disregarding our last rights Providing us with a life we do not wish to live. It rains, we flood Wishing to drown And yet being denied Our legs tread the threatening tide Progressing to our new state of barely alive.   Time willingly unkind: Intentionally slow, Trudging through, perhaps looking to an end Watching the rise and fall of numbers Their cyclic hands pass Strangling the minds of many Those still living: live lonesome, accompanied by the inevitable tock of time. [5] Semicolon Bridging my gaps, Sewing my wounds , And preparing for the relapse in pain. Writing through my wordless speech I begin to reinterpret my language Advising myself to remember my illiteracy. Repeating my self Becoming redundant Incapable of innovation... I look again through the pages of my unspoken mind. [6] The Repetition of my Pain Headache, life threatening? Heartburn, possible survival? Common cold, originality? Pregnancy, new life? Who defines pain? Are you sick? Are we all? I’m sick I’m hungry I’m cold I’m tired I am heart broken. Am I sick? Aren’t I always? He’s fine He’s happy He’s lying He’s pretending He will never say. Is he sick? Was he ever not? We were fine. We were happy. Were we lying? Who was pretending? We will never love again. Were we sick? When were we not? [7] Falling Action Redirecting my momentum and changing the gears, I found HIS path I’ve regained consciousness, Been lifted out of the soapless  bathwater And cleaned by the warmth of  a fire. Although burnt and previously bruised The bandaids were enough, The aspirin filled a void, And my head had stopped hurting. Self sought, Self seen, Self claimed, And now reconciled with self; Clarity retrieved and new quest begun.
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The Duration of our Association Writes a Song Meant to be Heard by the Artists above and below us, The housewives before and after us, And the Creator that has always wanted to get to know us. Our Chorus has built a Bridge from foundation to second Verse Your Vocal cords burst, mine always in strain So I revert to a way I can seem less cursed Painting you here with me in this forsaken Refrain. I'll write you here I'll Envision your Tune and Draw your Hymn I'll Create an existence for you with me And "we" will never cease to be. You'll be here and I'll be ruining my Voice for you You'll be there but you'll need to Hear You'll have to Listen but there's a continuation to their destruction And we will never let "us" come to a Conclusion. The Orchestra thriving in the Tone of louder Feeding from the veracious Harmony We seem to constantly inspire, The Voice of circumstance Plucks the Strings of our Instruments, Amity Sculpting a heart worth honorable mention Pumping Lyrics through the circulation of this dedication. I'll Write you here and You'll Sing me there And together we will fathom the concept of "near."
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:24 AM UTC
Our Aria