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Mar 2014 · 270
Sometimes I Sleep
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Sometimes I sleep
sixteen hours at a time.

My body catching up
with my

dreams


Soul Survivor
March 13
2014
This is the TRUTH.
I slept the day away yesterday!
I work days at a time
then
CRASH!!!
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
They don't have one.
It takes SOUL TO LOVE MUSIC.


Soul Survivor
Just a little bit of humor...

... but it really isn't funny.
Mar 2014 · 419
Life...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
... is a fortune cookie.
Folded. Bent.
Full of paperwork.

10W
Soul Survivor
February
2014
Mar 2014 · 238
Microchasm
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Billions of worlds
which have their existence
within the figure
0
Soul Survivor
February
2014
Mar 2014 · 229
Reality 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Good to know
others share my reality!

(or lack thereof)


Soul Survivor
2014
Random thought
Mar 2014 · 813
Paper Skin 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
You drew a heart
with your pen...

... on paper skin.


Soul Survivor
2014
Regarding the poem "Liberated"
By Post Scriptum
Mar 2014 · 377
The Sky Wept Softly
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
I arose to the
subtle scent of a skein
of moist desert
her
weathered brown cheeks
slightly dewed with
tears

The company of
mute
charcoal
clouds cluster

conspiring

but never consumating
the JOY of
happily wedded bliss

the fruitful mating
of
earth and heaven

RAIN.

The earth recieved
only a wet kiss
and the sky

wept

softly


Soul Survivor
February
2014
We are having a
terrible drought in the
desert southwest
Mar 2014 · 470
Just my typical day... 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Blood gouts onto the rags.
I wring them out...
... poetry.


Soul Survivor
2014
Pretty much every day.
Mar 2014 · 1.7k
Camera Obscure
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Brightest light of pupil
Lens of isinglass
Lashes fringe your shutters
Vision becomes flask.

Sparse your recollections
Copious your thought
You give away your images
Your mind completely fraught.

In small glassine packets
They are completely free
But though you've eyes to view them

Still you do not see.


Soul Survivor
2013
I was going through
a period of denial.
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Saturday night full moon...
... a bullet hole in
photographic reverse.


Soul Survivor
Mar 2014 · 1.1k
A Closer Look.........
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Look closely at your dots and periods.
You'll see this...

. Bob Dylan .
. William Shakespeare .
. Maya Angelou . Emily Dickinson .
. Ralph Waldo Emerson . Robert Frost . Ai .
. Max Eastman . Thomas Hardy . William Blake .
. Edgar Allan Poe . Pablo Neruda . James Joyce . Ovid .
. Carl Sandberg . Anne Sexton . Taigu Ryokan . Sappho .
. Ogden Nash . Dorothy Parker . JD Salinger . Rumi .
. Dame Edith Sitwell . Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly .
. Anna Swir . Sara Teasdale . JRR Tolkien .
. Alfred Lord Tennyson . John Skelton .
. Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
. Dylan Thomas .



Soul Survivor
2014
The poets in my "dot" were chosen
at random, to fit the design.
Mar 2014 · 796
Do I Need Permission?
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Do I need permission
To just simply...

... BE?


I need each and every
One else to be OK...

... With ME.


I don't need a permit to live...

... you'll agree!


I'm cutting the strings.

I set myself FREE.


Soul Survivor
I really feel like this.
I need validation from everyone
Else that it's okay to exist on earth.

I want to know if I need permission
To put up your names on my
POET TREE. Please contact me
Via the site message system.

Se my last post about it.

Catherine
Mar 2014 · 1.1k
Poet's In Profile 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
word word word w
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word word word
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word word word
word word word
word word word word word word
word word word word word word
word word word word word word


We love each other
but there are words
between us


Soul Survivor
I hope this will look like two
Profiles facing each other...
Mar 2014 · 582
30W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
30W
A ten word poem to
someone with a
dissociative disorder


Soul Survivor
I hope this poem
does not give the impression
I'm making fun.
I'm slightly bipolar so
I have no right to do that!
Mar 2014 · 304
Full Flight ~ 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
The pen is a feather
~~~
READING A SET OF WINGS

^♡^


Soul Survivor
I've missed reading!
Mar 2014 · 443
Half Hearted
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
O my spirit breaks!
I cannot abandon my friends.
How can I love new ones

with half a heart?


Soul Survivor
I will be staying at Poetfreak...
... and staying here TOO!

I'll be busy as a
one armed
paper hanger but I will
make it work!
Mar 2014 · 942
Starlight
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
ancient times for
the unfathomable deep

their burdens of history
the stars weep.


Soul Survivor
Mar 2014 · 335
No Time to be Afraid
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Days such as these
legends were written.
We are so close
yet to some t'will be hidden.

An old Chinese curse
involves interesting times
I guess we're in those
or I'm totally blind!

Fill up on the God
that I know we all seek
whether here in this world
Or The Lord if you're weak.

The final outcome
of life shall depend
on what we do now.
How it all ends.

When you look back
bad decisions are made
so just keep moving forward
and don't be afraid!

When looking forward too hard
we get tripped up
with the things right before us
this very moment.

There's more to this life
than meets the eye
do what you want
but remember

WE ALL

DIE.


Souls Survivor
This came to me
After listening to the news...
Mar 2014 · 1.4k
Mamalaria Blossom ~ Short
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Fuchsia hat sits rakishly
upon a platinum blonde head
of close cropped spines.

Sun glints in her curls.


Soul Survivor
Mamalaria are cacti.
They grow in clumps of little
Heads that look like
*******.
My father has one.
Theres one large
Growth that looks for all the
World like a head.
And it has only one fuchsia
Blossom...

Hence the poem.
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
God has given me my

D R E A M

I have an opportunity
That comes only
ONCE
A LIFETIME

I can realize
This drean. But it comes
With a higher
Price than I'm willing
to pay.

What would you do?

I could go to art school.
And illustrate
A book of poetry.
Really. I need help.
I would have to leave.
The sites of
Both poetfreak
And this site
AS WELL.

I DON'T WANT TO!
I would
Lose part of my heart
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
.... and leave my last site honestly.
And

With Dignity.

I have nothing against

POETFREAK.

There are many excellent
POETIC VOICES
THERE.

I read some of the most
Amazing People
I will ever read on
That site.

Please read my work on
That site.
I've published over
~~1500~~
Poems at Poetfreak.

Under various names.

I wrote poems for
Alost 40 people.
Personalized and only for them.
Please read some of those folks too!

I still have 5 to go
And I'll have a perfect
Vinyl Number ~ 45.

I promised these poems
I must live my
Christian faith.

I want to be back in
Two Days.

~~~
AND I WILL BE!

CJBlaze.  Steelrelease.
Dream Weaver
AKA
Catherine E Jarvis
Mar 2014 · 596
my profile painting...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Was painted on the east coast.


By Soul Survivor
CATHERINE E JARVIS

me by the Grace of God.
Mar 2014 · 246
You were a good child...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
.... long before you were
A "BAD" ONE.
And He Said It Was Good

HE IS GOD.

GENESIS ONE
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Come Little Children
I'll take thee away
Into a land of
Enchantment.

Come Little Children
The times come play
Here in my gardan

Of shadows.

~~~

Follow sweet children
I'll show thee the way
I'll show thee
The way
Through all the pain
And the sorrows

Weep not poor children
For life is this way
Murdering
Beauty and passions.

~~~

Hush now dear children
It must be this way
Too weary of life
And deceptions

Rest now my children
For soon we're away
Into the calm
And the

QUIET.
This is satan's song to Eve.
He decieved her and
Brought death
Into the Garden.
He lied to her.
And he's lying to
YOU

This was not written by me.
See Erutan
Come Little Children
Mar 2014 · 651
void...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Like a glove
no love
Like a slate
no hate.

Like a leaf
no fall
Like a fort
no wall.

Like a frame
no art
Like an end
no start


Like a hand
no wave
Like a soul

NO GRAVE.
And the deep was
Without form...

VOID.

GENESIS

CATHERINE
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
... knowing.

Not KNOWLEDGE.

BIG DIFFERENCE.

Knowledge is good.
It is what separates us from beasts.

But when you do evil and

KNOW IT... YOU DIE.

As a spirit.

When you know the One
Who died without committing
A single sin you take on
His life and

LIVE.


IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
That One is Jesus Christ of
Nazareth.

Catherine
Mar 2014 · 306
Genesis
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
In the beginning
was the
WORD

He spoke all life
into existence.

He literally carved us
from clay
with the
flow of His speech.

That, for a POET
should be

EXCITING !!!
Read Genesis 1
John 1


Catherine
Mar 2014 · 393
~~~~~~^♥^(wha...?)
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
This is what I want to do
I must decide...
....depends
on you.

I would like to write about
my Lord and savior.
But
won't put up with
bad behavior.

I'm keeping this site
to spread the
WORD.

Jesus'
People will be heard.

I'm going to write
about the bible.

While on earth
I won't be
idle.

I will keep writing
on my other
site.

But keep things
cool so there's no fight.

Its not his fault
This poet friend.

The person simply
Feels condemned.

What he shows through
all his gevetching

Is that he's
feeling some

conviction.

I just need a place to be

where I can read
ald write

FREELY.

Please understand
This is not absurd

I'LL START WRITING
ABOUT

THE

WORD.
Thanks for the freedom
You have shown me.
Those who wish to can read
I am somewhat of a
Bible scholar.
No degrees.
Only in life and the Spirit.


Catherine
Mar 2014 · 391
Should evil win...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
... when good could prevail?

Could Jesus Christ's
people be so assailed?

The answer must come
from up above.

The answer must come
from a place of


LOVE.
I must ask a question.
It will come with my next write.


Catherine
Mar 2014 · 2.2k
Decisions
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Those things that so tear the heart
You don't know if it'll mend
Or break apart...

Those things you do
that set the score
Will change
your world...

... forevermore.
I have to make a decision about
Which poetry site to stay on.
I am so broken up about it.
I was being hassled a bit on my last one.

I have friends on that site,
And don't want to leave them
But this poet over there doesn't
Respect boundaries of basic human
Dignity. I don't know what to do!

Help!
Mar 2014 · 270
friends over...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
The nourish of
unconditional love
you know is
not

deserved.

S~S
I had a couple of friends come
By today. They just really
loved on me.
It was very much needed
And a gift from God.
Mar 2014 · 1.3k
minimalist poetry...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Japanese Garden

%%%%%♥
》》《
=========
Bonsai

Caligraphy
...
Idiocync
...
­Symphony


~~~~~~~~~^♥^

S~S
I have my android phone back
Now I can do more with the flow
Aestheticly
Thank you God!
Mar 2014 · 1.3k
The Devil's Disciple
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
This poem is a TRUE STORY.
I strongly recommend that
You read the whole thing.

I was really broke one year,
I was in a test,
I had to pay the rent,
But I knew that God would bless.

I set up a yard sale,
To relieve the money bind.
I didn't know I'd be so fortunate
As to what I was to find.

A young man came by
On a beat up bike,
He looked so hot I gave him
Some water for his hike.

He took the drink most gratefully
But he seemed a little down.
Even though he was flirting
Acting like a clown.

I had a music setup
Playing some music for God.
He said something very strange,
And he was acting odd.

"I'm a Devil's Disciple,
The Motorcycle gang."
He didn't say it loud
And I could sense his pain.

He said his motorcycle
Was broke down, in the shop.
But he was a Disciple
His face set, in thought.

I was quite abashed.
And taken aback.
He pointed out his "teardrop"
I asked him, "What is that?"

He told me he had killed a man,
And assisted in the deaths
Of at least three other people.
These had been his tests.

Well, I didn't believe him.
I thought it was a brag!
But was taken aback again
When his face began to sag...

He began to cry!
Those tears were right on top!
He was to **** another man,
And he wanted to stop!

He said God despised him...
He would not forgive!
He could not take it anymore
It was no way to live!

I felt such compassion...
I could, in a way, relate.
Though I had never killed a man,
My average wasn't great.

I opened up my Bible
And showed him a few things.
I told him the story
Of Jesus' suffering.

I told him of His MERCY
Of His ABUNDANT Grace,
I could see the tears subsiding,
And a look came to his face...

I had something else to tell him.
The Spirit brought it up.
I was hesitant to tell him,
But the Spirit would not let up!

I don't know how I knew this.
To this day I have no clue.
I said, "You lost your father,
But it was not due to YOU!"

His eyes got big as saucers!
He was completely shocked!
I said, "Come and sit down here.
We really need to talk.

You've been living with the guilt.
It's yourself you must forgive.
Let The Lord Jesus in your heart...
It's time for you to LIVE."

So he took my hands,
And we said a prayer...
To my great astonishment
He nearly left his chair!

He cried out, "They're GONE!!!"
I asked, " What do you mean?"
He said, "All of the BAD ONES!!!
I JUST SAW THEM LEAVE!!!"

Well. I knew what he was saying.
I knew just what he meant.
There were DEMONS IN HIM...
AND AT LAST THEY WENT!!!

Because he received Jesus Christ
The monsters went away!
I will stand on this belief
To my dying day.

He put his arms around me.
I held him for a while.
He bawled just like a baby.
He was as a child.

When he was done weeping
He said, " I can no longer ****.
But I'm very much afraid,
It is the Disciples' will."

If not he'd be dead.
Which way should he go?
I said, "I don't need to tell you.
You already know."

He'd been on his way to deal drugs,
But he couldn't even score.
He had to stop with everything.
Couldn't do it anymore.

We talked a while longer.
What we spoke of I can't say.
But he did not come back to see me...
But I remember... and I PRAY.

WHAT I WANT TO SAY HERE
IS NO MATTER HOW YOU'VE LIVED,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE...

JESUS CHRIST... F O R G I V E S !!!


S~S
I posted this due to a friend out there...
Maybe... YOU.
Mar 2014 · 265
East to West
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
how
much
does
Jesus
love?
He laid His arms down on the cross.
No fight. No struggle. They nailed.
As far
as the
east
from
west.
That
is how
much
Jesus
Christ
loves
you
and
yours.


S~S
"As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our
transgressions from us."

Psalm 103:12
Mar 2014 · 268
Breathe
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
i look up at your window
so cold my breath
drifts
like feathers

~~~

cold whispering wind
sends it up

~~~

does it brush your window

with

its

wings?


S~S
Mar 2014 · 1.9k
Tear Stained Glass
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
stained glass saint
looks down
upon the
modern congregation

<><><>

light weeps through



S~S
saints today don't know the
meaning of the word
a saint is can be anyone
but now we take Gods grace
way for granted
and look at
God as Santa Claus
who gives us
our new Mercedes.
Mar 2014 · 754
The Rain Unseen
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
rain is pouring down
behind her eyes

~~~

misting her whole world
to grey and wet granite

~~~

but not a single tear falls.

~~~

S~S
(sigh)
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
A limpid pool stirs
blinking luminous waves
as you dip your toe in the water

.
.
.
(((-)))


S~S
Mar 2014 · 420
Permafrost ~ Senryu
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
"How hard is your heart"
said the shivering ice
to the Northern Lights!



S~S
Mar 2014 · 413
The Head Stuffers
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
There was a little girl
Playing in the sun,
She had a bow upon her head
And smiled at everyone!

Then some heartless people
Untied that little bow,
And began to stuff her head
With some WORDS
that you may know.

They, unfortunately,
Common words.
Words you may have seen.
One began with letter 'N'
And others just as mean.

They fully stuffed her head
And when they were done,
Tied her little bow again
So it would not come undone.

In the end her head was lumpish.
Had very little grace.
And there was a mean ol' scowl
On her once-lovely face.


S~S
This is based upon a cartoon I saw once.
A famous artist... but I can't
remember his name!
Mar 2014 · 1.0k
Archery
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
The archer stood
his back an arc
released his arrow
to the mark!

God, please grant me
his grace and ken
may my arrow
be my pen!
All in the Name of
Jesus Christ...
without Him I am
less than nothing.
Seriously.
Mar 2014 · 701
Apocalypse
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Sunset bleeds into
gauze clouds.
No help. No hope.
No...
()
^

S~S
I hope this is not too
heavy.
But it's TRUE.
Mar 2014 · 313
Believer 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
I am a Believer.
Catching fish with
nets, not hooks!


Soul Survivor
I'm calling myself a Believer, not a Christian.
The Romans gave us that label.
It was a derogatory term!
The fish caught are thrown back... eternally grateful!!!
Mar 2014 · 1.0k
Scorpion ~ 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Scorpion will
have its sting
but
one must be

C L O S E.
Keep you friends close, enemies closer.
But wear a hazmat!

Hey! Another 10W!!!
Mar 2014 · 476
I write...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
I write... I write...

In this cloistered
oblique night.

It comes in through
the corners of eyes
shadows black
they come disguised.

This feeling, wanting
feral pain
snatches breath
naught remains.

I read... I read.. I read...

maybe then
I will not bleed.
I can only
count the ticks
the clock is mute
the seconds lick.

I read YOU
you precious child
fingers stop.
No longer wild.

This has shred me
to the bone
though not written
for me alone.

The demons
gibber and cavort
but
silenced, dumb,
by precious art.

If there's one thing
that I could say
you have
touched a life

today.
Thank you.
Mar 2014 · 370
Minimalist Art 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Never have so many
Paid so much
For so little!!!
Nothing against Minimalists!
This is meant to be humorous!
Mar 2014 · 2.0k
Exclamation Mark!!! 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Minimalist poetry.
Words.
Each one with an
exclamation
mark
!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 2014 · 314
Tail lights 10W
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Your tail lights, red
in the rain
stopped
my
heart

!!!
He left me in the muddy dust.
Mar 2014 · 351
Simpleton
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Simple is as simple does.
It takes a fool to fall
in love.

Love is simple if believed.
Should you give
not to
receive.

This is a simple thing I've done.
I guess I am a

simpleton.
Soul Survivor
(c) 2014
Mar 2014 · 2.2k
Subliminal
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Just as a deer pants for the water
ever will my soul long for you...
sweet is the spring! My hand is
under the fount! The water will
sustain me.

Creature that I am! How can I
help but be a lesser light
revolving around the Star
invincible? Your beams a
scintillating waterfall...
teach me to drink!
Soul Survivor

Hint: Acrostic.
(would you have read otherwise?)
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