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May 2015 · 589
"...for I have sinned."
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Three severed devils,
with their golden-cloven hooves,
stampede upon me.
(haiku) [10w]
May 2015 · 243
Untitled
Justin S Wampler May 2015
The silence was deafening
and the atmosphere was palpable
when first I laid eyes upon her.
May 2015 · 423
grand (10w)
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Memories, like echoes,
resonate within the
canyons of my soul.
May 2015 · 390
Tintinnabulation
Justin S Wampler May 2015
The gunpowder smoke burned
and stung my sight,
as the vibrations shuddered
and rattled the room.

The bullets flew
in deafening sound
like death-drums.

Holes appeared like eyes in the dark,
staring at unaware prey.
Spouting red essence in rhythm
with heart beats.

And I stood,
praying for silence
with my ears ringing.
May 2015 · 481
Bar-none
Justin S Wampler May 2015
He sat down
and reeked of fear
as he silently sipped
upon his beer.

The bright aura
around this fellow
was dandelion flora,
burning yellow.
May 2015 · 381
Atlanticus
Justin S Wampler May 2015
The rising sun casts
shallow shadows along
the ******* riptide.

Together we float
facing the receding
darkness of the beach.

In the morning twilight
we separate from the way
everyone else spent their day.
May 2015 · 412
Walking in on them.
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Baby I hope you can run
faster than your mascara,

because a little sobbing
won't stop me now.
May 2015 · 427
Blaine the Mono
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Why did the dead baby cross the road?
May 2015 · 406
first kiss
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Time stopped,
and life died
deep inside
of her eyes.

The arcade,
flooding with
our peers,
surrounded us.

As our lips
touched upon
each others,
it faded.

it all just
faded away.
May 2015 · 340
"shhh... wait."
Justin S Wampler May 2015
She told me no,
that she wasn't ready.

But behind the bowling alley
these things didn't matter to me.

So I slid my hand into her pants
and my fingers into her.

But it was okay because
she loved me.
May 2015 · 273
Hung out to dry
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Drowning in the sands
from the hourglass of
her body.

Dangling limp
on her every
last words.
May 2015 · 1.2k
the time machine
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Its circular face mocks and laughs
at me with that numerical circumference.

Red and black hands reach out and
grab me tight, leaving bruises on my psyche.

I'm helplessly cast deep into my past
where time flows like molasses.

Back when the clocks
took their time
counting down my life
and rotting my mind.

Back when they were slow
and I just couldn't wait to grow
up.
May 2015 · 4.1k
Gin makes me Sin
Justin S Wampler May 2015
It takes two to tango
or so they say,
but it only takes me
to Tanqueray.
May 2015 · 1.0k
Eloquent Articulation
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Blah, blah.

Blah b-lah blah,
blah blahblah blah blah.

Blahbl ahblah blahbla h.
Blahb lahb lahbla hblah.

Blah-blah,
blah blah,
blah.
May 2015 · 454
repose-ition
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Every night I dream
of daylight
and wakefulness.

Every morning I daydream
about going
right back to sleep.
Go to bed.
May 2015 · 494
Moderation in Small Doses
Justin S Wampler May 2015
There is a fine balance between
all or nothing,
which is very difficult for me
to embrace.

I either want it every day,
or it to forever go away.
The same goes for anything
that I've ever found interesting.
May 2015 · 715
Practicing Silence
May 2015 · 300
Daily
Justin S Wampler May 2015
As I lie upon a velvet recliner
beautiful women feed me grapes,
one at a time,
straight from the vine,
as poets fan me with palms and psalms
that they so very much wish to preach.
hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaahahahahahhahahahhah
May 2015 · 436
swimming with the spiders
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Being an adult means lying in the sun
until you're hot enough to take a dip.

It means skimming the water
with fine-mesh nets
to collect the floating dead bugs.

Being an adult means thinking about cancer,
and worrying over every sunburn-forged mole.

It means that the paranoia
we all like to call love
haunts your thoughts accordingly.

Being an adult means your two primary concerns on a summer day
are children could potentially drown and consistent doses of SPF30.

It means that you forsake
your own thoughts
for the sake of sparing theirs.
May 2015 · 245
things
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Why is it that the
most important things
are always the hardest
to put into words?

Perhaps somethings are better left unread.
May 2015 · 1.2k
Sleepover
Justin S Wampler May 2015
With a salacious grin
he pictures her in
his bunk beds.

He giggles and ponders
if she would like the top,
or the bottom.
May 2015 · 805
Lovable
May 2015 · 236
Twenty-seven
May 2015 · 298
Robert Pindleton
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Hold her hair back,
keep her shirt tight,
help me pick the lock
on her door tonight.

I love you Bobby Pin.
May 2015 · 3.7k
Pines and Needles
Justin S Wampler May 2015
She nods and sighs
amongst the conifers.

Evergreen sap coats the
rug of needles beneath, and
the wind covers her skin
with rippling gooseflesh.

A little black balloon lies
beside a bindle of rigs.

The moon robs and blinds
her of sight, shining so
very brightly into her dilated
pupils and hidden irises.

A single rusted spoon glows and
A stolen church candle smoulders.

Her golden locks encircle
the crown of her cranium
in a halo worthy of stained-
glass windows.

Rubber tubing is tied off
above her collapsing veins.

The fallen leaves under her
protruding shoulder blades
stretch out for miles in a
pair of clipped wings.

With a final rattling cough
the light leaves her eyes,

and dissipates into
the punctured skies
as she quietly fades,
and dies.
May 2015 · 383
Anything burns.
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Ashes are so romantic,
you can keep your rose petals,

wilting, and bruised.

I'll be happy with a few candles,
and a duvet of ashes.
May 2015 · 251
My various emotions.
May 2015 · 338
Deluge-ional
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Oxygen deprivation,
faces turning blue.
Everyone I see is me
beneath the full moon.

Seas and oceans swallow
each and every person
whom ever I do follow,
the rapture's coming soon.

Are they real, these drowning fiends?
I guess I'll only know in time.
I don't think I thought these floods
pouring deep from within my mind.
I hate
May 2015 · 1.8k
I hate musicians.
Justin S Wampler May 2015
He played that guitar
like cupid on a broken heart
or a harmony upon a harp.

The sad instrument wept
his tears unto the dry crowd
and they sighed in saturation.

And once he was drained
of everything he kept contained
they lit their lighters, begging for more.

Alas, he was alive no longer,
and had nothing but great nothings
left to give them.

So they took the silence,
and gave it back to him.
May 2015 · 713
Memoriamnesia
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Behind your bi-folding mirrors
I'm led into the closet.

The closet where you kept
endless time and history.

When you opened that shoebox
and showed my eyes, and let the light
shine bright on, the past crammed tight
into that beautiful cardboard coffin

I took up your red sharpie pen
and wrote generic lyrics along
the lines of an empty tissue box
kept right by your so sickly beside.

Years later when you moved out
and found my words written
while you picked up those memories
from your one and only room,

I cried when you told me
you never even knew.

I died when you showed me,
because we never even grew.
May 2015 · 336
rapid eye movement
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Through these nightly mind-movies
I see beautiful stories unfold,
yet I awaken sweaty and cold.

In these sporadic visions of slumber
I see her in the sliding glass
door, standing right behind me.
May 2015 · 285
Talking to Mirrors
Justin S Wampler May 2015
You and I both know
that I'm all for show.
May 2015 · 219
whatever
May 2015 · 556
Untitled
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Chartreuse and obtuse
she's sky-blue angles
and acute when she dangles
from a wordy noose.

I want to watch her
commit suicide
while heavily altered
with me in mind.

**** jupiter
and
**** the sky
May 2015 · 263
meh
May 2015 · 610
Bombay Sapphire
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Slowly killing minds
and turning up time.
May 2015 · 326
Bathroom Dream
Justin S Wampler May 2015
I ****** the bed last night
just like I used to do years ago,
but I didn't bother changing my sheets.

Because I mean, ****,
I'm only sleeping with me.
May 2015 · 774
HM01
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Girl, I love those scars
that branch up and down your arms.
Girl, I see those eyes
that stare daggers and stare knives.

I'll get you to feel again
when you see my fake smile.

I'll get you alive again
at least for a little while.

But at the end of the day
once I've had my way,
I'll leave you just like the last
guy from your horrid past.

Because I don't want to insist,
but I don't care for your happiness.
Because you can't forget once you've learned this,
I only want my name bleeding from your wrist.

I only want to be another tally mark
of scar tissue on your thigh.

I only want to leave you in the dark
and listen to you silently cry.
May 2015 · 419
Walking Backwards
Justin S Wampler May 2015
I will never be of tomorrow.
The past will always be
the path that I follow.
May 2015 · 227
Gone west.
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Anyone can be a god.
But it takes true grit to be a dog.
May 2015 · 322
freebase
Justin S Wampler May 2015
I'm addicted to crack-
ing my knuckles.
May 2015 · 736
Pane
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Glass betrays my eyes,
for I do not see what lies
beyond the window.

I gaze solely upon
my own faint reflection.
May 2015 · 394
Got the Hots for You
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Watch me suffer,
watch me shout.
Watch me struggle
to put the fire out.
May 2015 · 361
Favorite Season
Justin S Wampler May 2015
I want to smother her
in fallen leaves,
making Autumn eternal.
May 2015 · 753
Bleed the Lizard
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Shots bought by others
leave me feeling the same as if it were my money buying them.

No matter where the drinks come from,
they all end up in the same stinking ******.
May 2015 · 11.1k
heavy
Justin S Wampler May 2015
The weight of these words
rolling around in my head
are breaking my neck
one thought at a time.
May 2015 · 388
-gulp
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Fake flames encased in glass
reflect faces of strangers.
Superficial warmth and comfort
radiate from their mouths.

I'm set on edge regardless of my
firm seat and muttered condolences.
Their eyes tell me lies that
they would never speak aloud.

This dense joyous atmosphere
accentuates their hidden pains.

But they can't tell I'm uncomfortable
because my eyes lie the same.
May 2015 · 260
Where you've been
Justin S Wampler May 2015
Countless overlapping stickers speak
more history than a sacred sacrament.
The guitarist's personal bible
is the case for their instrument.
May 2015 · 347
Page 1
Justin S Wampler May 2015
"When first I opened this book, I felt the pain of it's spine beginning
to break. Although this may be my initial entry, I dread the day that
the binding gives way & spills the golden-edged pages unto my lap.
What a curse to envision death before we've yet to even begin living,
what a tragedy to squander and waste this time that I've been given."
(11-29-2012)
May 2015 · 502
Pome
Justin S Wampler May 2015
writing is dead
just like you

so I'm giving up
because thats what
I do

best
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