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Pigeon Nov 2015
When I was young, I was born with a silver spoon
The paper airplanes were dollar bills, doubloons were stars and moons
And my father wore a velvet glove on his iron fist
The eggshells I walked would crumble like chalk; I had no complaints- they were diamond encrusted
But times have changed, the moneymaker's deranged, the silver spoon's tarnished and rusted
It dissolved into sand in my work-callousless hand
And moths feast on the fund I was trusted.
I've learned I can never count on anything.
Pigeon Oct 2015
Butting heads and jumping mountains,
Fiery ram am I
I have no wings or feathers but on swift hooves I can fly
I sometimes wish I wasn't burning,
but any cooler and I wouldn't be so bright
And my love'd be dying coals instead of an inferno of red light
Oh, I know I can be passionate, I know I sometimes look for fights,
I know that I am stubborn, strange and always must be in the right
But know I'll never hurt you, This fire can be soft and warm
And trust that I won't burn you
Even though this ram has horns
Inspired by Rough Around the Edges's poem, "Taurus", MF's poem, "Sagittarius", and L's poem, "Libra".
Pigeon Oct 2015
You wait for me behind the closed door of my eyelids and
As I fall asleep I can't escape the dark and what you did
That summer
Can't run or hide because it's inside of me and i feel ruined, tainted, filthy
Innocence and paradise lost between your ***** fingernails and olive palms
And in my dreams I replay the pain I felt
Even though it was you who was in the wrong
I'll probably delete this
  Sep 2015 Pigeon
L
Bow
The violin sings its tale of woe
Back and forth, the horse hairs vocalize
Power undulating with each flair
Shrieking, wailing, *weeping
And part from the stage

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Leigh
Pigeon Sep 2015
Oh, I'm a blackbird singing in the dead of night but my voice is shot
I'm a river-stone that's all alone and skipped over more often than not
I'm a bird flying off of a bridge and a pendulum swinging from my ceiling
Because only bidding everything farewell can help the way I'm feeling
Pigeon Sep 2015
I weigh and deliberate every word that shatters from my lips
But I still say all the wrong things
Who can I trust? Who can I trust?
I talk to no one of my heart unless I must, and yet
This bird, this feathered cold-weathered thing in my chest
Flutters on and ***** along; I bet
If I were to wring its neck
There would be less tears shed than if another ended up to be dead in my stead
Pigeon Sep 2015
I'm a pigeon who was left broken in grief after finding she wasn't a swan as he'd had her believe
but then you came along,
and while he'd been wrong,
reminded me that doves and pigeons both sing the same song,
And it's beautiful, lovely, and though I be plain of the face
I sing better than swans with their pureness and grace.
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