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339 · Feb 2017
loves beautiful perfection
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
He was falling in love with her
in a way that he knew
meant he would love her
more and more ever day
until his end
and that in his end
his heart would burst from his chest
and rise up to the heavenly sky
as her always star to shine
where all could forever see
that she was
loves beautiful perfection
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
Poets and painters and writers and dancers and those who have art fall from their dreams through their hands and into something real in this world fall a little faster and give a little more and feel a little deeper because they have the same love that is born in the heart of dreams of flawless magic and perfect wonder and they know the value of our human imperfections and the beauty hiding in our flaws and they love long past our failures and their broken hearts keep loving us even after our goodbyes and our cruelty and mistreatment and they do more than belive in magic but keep magic alive and spin more threads into its blanket that keep our lives warm and they give without asking for anything in return and they comfort our sorrows and find our hands to hold in the dark and they take out sad stories and turn tears into dreams and dreams into stars and place those stars in the sky and they show us that magic is something wonderfully real if all we do is belive and pull these thing from our dreams and into our hands and it is a mad cat wearing a hat that smiles and purrs from our hearts and it is the most simple and complex and most beautiful part of living that makes life worth it all in the end and its at the end of the colors of every paint brush and every drop of ink from a quil and in every note of a song and every rhythm and rhyme and every leap taken and every word spoken on a stage and like life art would have no meaning without it and it comes to us from the birth place of dreams and it is as real as forever if we all just belive and its really that easy which isn't easy at all but we must never stop trying when we have found and we have fallen and been lucky enough to found ourselves blessed with its presence and that is of course my kind friend the magic and wonder of love
339 · Apr 2018
life’s lust
Akira Chinen Apr 2018
Let me peel off your sunday best
and dress you down in morning light
over the curves of your soft skin
and paint you in a day dream
of little black dresses on a friday night
with lace stockings and come here

and my

     my

   my high heels

that bring kings and fools down
to begging on their knees


I could worship every inch of you
no matter the view
if you were the sun over heaven
or a grain of salt carried by an ant
a saint or a *****
queen or a vagrant
dressed to the nines
or down in the ditches
I’ve seen you in places
where beauty is found under the illusion
of the flesh worn out over our bones

I want to devour you
and give birth to a new emotion of lust
with hands capable of dissecting
the last layer of skin
on a heart beat
                      
                        beat
    
beat me into submission
let’s ride out this transmission
beyond the hand and touch
of what only mankind
would be ****** enough
to label as sin
and be the stars in a home movie
not safe to be watched
by minds lesser than gods
swimming between limbs tangled
and blurred and penetrating
while turning blood pumping
into the sweetness of honey flowing

      and drip
  
    drip

  dripping

into polls where we
transcend the limits of our imagination
and dive deeper than a last breath
and urgent gasp
of lost and found pleasure
outside of times understanding of mortality
and the endless sight of eternity
and the true nature of life’s lust is exposed
as nothing more or less
than the survival of love
338 · Apr 2016
Today
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Love is simple
Enough
Its easy to fall
For the girls
I will never
Know
The women
Whose lips
I will never
Kiss
The soft
Skinned
Ladies
Oceans apart
The old friend
I was too
Cowardly
Too dare admit
My adoration
Its easy
Enough
To fall
Its simple
In the
Safety
Of
Solitude
In the
Secrecy
Of darkness
In the
Dreams
Of
Tomorrow
While
Knowing
I will
Always
Be safe
As long
As I
Only
Wake up
Today
337 · May 2017
escape
Akira Chinen May 2017
Take a last glance at the moon
and blink three times
and escape the reach
of eternity with me
and let our  memories
of sand and flesh fade
and paint only the flames
of the ghost of our human names
as our souls float
on the infinte silk vibrations
of the river of timeless love
337 · Aug 2017
fiction and dream
Akira Chinen Aug 2017
two parts fiction
three parts dream
thread from a cloud
tear from the sea
a love affair
of sweat and lust
bent over
with hips high
and head low
hard thrusts
and muffled moans
bite marks
as kisses trail
with tounge twisted
between thighs
of your soft heaven
and the sinful scent
of blood
and cream
left on my
dripping fingertips
from your moist fold
that your lips devour
and swallow down
no hesitation
as heads
and hands
and limbs
mix into something
of pain and bliss
we lose ourselves
on the edge
of ecstasy
and thunderstorms
of electricity
and tumble back
and crash through
two parts fiction
and three parts dream
and we become
a thread
stiched through
a tear
of a love affair
at the bottom
of a forgotten sea
337 · May 2016
Poetry and Confessions
Akira Chinen May 2016
Confessions hidden in the rhythm and the rhyme
Its not poetry but a lowly cowards crime
Fallen completely and blamming madness
Fearing the love more than fearing sadness
Using dime store story clichés
Red shoes waiting
Rain and overpriced umbrellas
Romeo bleeding
Pretending nothings wrong
He can't say it out loud
So he just quotes an old song
So when she puts it all together
He can claim he
Was just singing along
Checking the airfare
To her far away town
At 2:32 am
Restless and sleepless
But still dreaming along
Falling and singing
And dancing
With that madness
Knowing his hearts
Gonna break
He's just the kinda guy
Who always makes
Mistakes
Waiting too long
Or saying too much
Too soon
Or never saying
Anything at all
Because he
Likes crying in the rain
Out there in the dark
Where no one
Can hear him
Or tell the rain
From the tears
A cowardly way to die
Letting all that love
Burn alone
In the middle
And bottom of his soul
His heart beating its wings
In his chest
But the noose is wrapped
Tight around his ribs
As well as his neck
A fully loaded gun
Playing Russian Roulette
Bang
Dead on the floor
While every one is watching
Cagney on the screen
Swaying to the rhythm and the rhyme
Fitted for his straight jacket
Strapping the madness in tight
Hoping it while ****** his heart
Somewhere in the night
He's just the kinda guy
Who always makes
Mistakes
No way out
Just a prisoner
Writing bad poetry
On his cell walls
Written up his confession
But refuses
To sign the dotted line
https://youtu.be/dfQ7ieF7w4Y
336 · Apr 2016
Broken Wings
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I would pull the threads from my own heart and let it fall apart
To mend your broken wings
And weep to watch you fly away
For after falling in love with you
There would be nothing beautiful left for me to do
335 · Mar 2017
blind eye tattoo
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
She had a broken heart tattooed on the eyelid that covered the eye that was blinded by all the battles she had fought in the name of love
335 · May 2018
being born
Akira Chinen May 2018
Falling in love with you
I imagine...
was a lot like being born

that is to say
it was like I wasn’t
and then suddenly I was

as if before you I didn’t even exist
as if life didn’t begin until I saw you

that the sting of my first breath
didn’t happen until you breathed
love into my lungs

then suddenly I became
painfully aware of just
how beautiful life could be
335 · May 2016
When you...
Akira Chinen May 2016
When you know...

LOVE

When it has consumed your sensibility beyond doubts
And worries and fear
When you cannot deny it and let it wash over you and push you
Over the edge
Beyond madness
Out of the reach
Of heavens promises
And hells temptations
Down to the center
Of the depths of its raging sea
Drowning there
In its boiling waters
When you have only stopped
Falling long enough
To know you have
Fallen
Completely
Madly
Impossibly
In love
And then continue
To fall even
Further
Faster
Through its bottom
Again and again
When you have
No choice
Your soul
Your heart
Your dreams
No longer yours
To control
When you know...

LOVE

By all means possible
Dance with it
Sleep with it
Dream with it
Crumble the mountains
Drain the ocean and seas
Steal the stars and moon and sun
To light the way through your journey
For darkness is waiting to swallow and steal it away
The odds are never in your favor
The chances are always stacked againt you
The dice loaded
The cards marked
When you know...

LOVE

Reach and stretch
Trust and belive
Against logic
And sense
And science
Reach across oceans
Stretch over mountains
Belive through doubts
Trust beyond darkness
Find me
Reaching
And stretching
Trusting
And beliving
Through the darkness
And doubt
Over mountains
Across oceans
When you know
When I know...
334 · Aug 2014
Madness vs. Madness
Akira Chinen Aug 2014
Stand against the madness before its too late
Embrace all your madness before it can escape
That's not to say the madness is the cure or
  the disease
Now take a moment, take a breath, and take a
  look around
Can't you see it?  Can't you feel it?  That rumbling
  in the ground
The earth is dying and the smoking gun is gripped
  tightly in our fist!
Our children are being murdered and the ******
  knife is sitting in our sink!
Crocodile tears streaming down our face cry
  for vengeance
Silver tongued beggars shake tin cups and plea
  for retribution
But all we really every do is nod our heads like
  puppets
Staring blindly at the flat screen filled with a
  million colors and a billion lies
Our L.E.D. master says "Feed Me,  See More"
  and we reply "tell me what to buy"
So stand against the madness
Become the monster and stomp and dance
Don't let your innocence die away
Turn off your TV , the computer and all of
  your electrical devices
Open your windows and your doors and
  step outside...
Now take a moment, take a breath, and
  take a look around!
Madness vs. Madness!
We can't let them win!
334 · Jun 2016
At its very best
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Yea... it hurts sometimes
Yea..  it even makes me miserable sometimes
Don't worry about that

Because thats love
Even at its best
Its always going to hurt
And make us miserable

From time to time

When we're miles apart
Or sleeping in the same bed

Love is so good sometimes
That it makes us sick
Until our chest hurts
And our souls are miserable
And thats when we know
We have love
At its very best

So when I'm hurt and miserable
From thinking
And longing
And dreaming
About you
Its only because
I have found love
*Love at its very best
I love you
Akira Chinen Jun 2017
I sit out under the dying sun and feed the hungry mosquitoes of early summer and something else under my skin itches that bothers me more than the simply annoyance of tiny bugs enjoying the blood circling through my flesh and it's not something treatable with slaves or lotions or repellents and it isn't as simple as day turns into night and there just isn't anything that can be done about it but it's far more complex than it need be and should be easier to solve than it ever will be  because the ego of man pitted against intellect and compassion is an easy thing to ******* and nothing of nothing can be solved in the face of a man with a tiny brain that can't process same amount of electricity it takes a baby to say "mama" without short circuiting and going on a twitter rant like a pre-teen in a flame war over which Pokémon character could beat up The Hulk and it's just embarrassing to be human in today's world because I **** you not the dung beetles and cockroaches are life forms worthy of more respect than we are with the crap we're letting go on in today's world and it's just  a dam shame that I can't manage to do more with my blood and flesh then feed some tiny little bugs that don't have to worry about any of the ******* we willingly swim through on a day to day bases and it all bares the weight of a meaningless existence when the dollar out weighs the soul according to the Dow Jones and why should we be worth anything more than what we can do to profit those that have too much but still need more and more when the poor have just enough or almost enough to survive because as long as the poor have the will to survive on less and less and are willing to feast on the trash of the upper filthy class oh did I word that wrong I meant filthy rich in a haha good show James but who let the rift raft into the room way and if a lie is believed as the truth why not just make it the truth and put it into law and separate and divide and spread fear and hate to the gullible and take from the poor and give it all to the rich because god and the devil are dead or make believe or long gone because face it who in their right mind would battle for our wretched souls in the first place but at the end of the day at least I can watch the sun sink and feed something tiny that will at least leave an itch that I can easily scratch and if its all for nothing I'm going to toss it all away to anyone who needs the love because that's the one thing I'll always have for anyone who needs it and can see through all the ******* and is tired of swimming for nothing of nothing and if that's you or you or you come find me at the end of the day and maybe just maybe we can set things right or at least try to do something meaningful despite our meaningless existence
334 · Jun 2017
love lost dream
Akira Chinen Jun 2017
She touched his forehead with her pinky
and he fell out of his body
and into a state of dream and wonder
floating between the slow movement of eternity
and the quick death of the moment
and she spoke of many things
and with every word
that flowed from her mouth
he saw fireworks burst with magic
in the coffee colors of her eyes
and with one sentence
she tickled his intellect
and with the next
gave a feast for his mind
to ponder and savor
and with a gentle word
of this and that
she warmed the deepest pools within his heart
and he saw colors he had not seen before
as she removed each layer of mystery
of the skin of her tattooed soul
and she was a riddle of beauty and truth
and a secret not meant to be unlocked
but only understood by listening attentively
and a new spectrum of light
beamed from her heart
and out through her ribs
and she showed him the meaning of life
with a simple laugh and a mischievous grin
and then gently lifted him back into his body
and then sealed him back in with a kiss
over the hole her pinky had made
and then vanished into the mist
of a love lost dream
334 · Jun 2022
a cup full of moonlight
Akira Chinen Jun 2022
The night sky had a cup
  full of moonlight
and the shadows played
  in the fields
   and danced in the streets
the few sparce stars in the sky
  gently sang a lullaby
and the mad mad world below
  paused for a moment
    for only a moment
and though worn and weary
  I smiled
sleep would come
   soon enough
and trouble would have
  to wait for tomorrow
    to begin its brew again...
334 · Jan 2016
Evil
Akira Chinen Jan 2016
Evil isn't hiding under your beds or in your closets, it's not lurking around the corner or down some dark alley.  It's not in the blade or the handle of a knife, it's not in the bullet or the gun or the bomb or the boom.  Evil only lives and breeds in the heart of  men and it is kept alive and well generation after generation, handed down to our sons and daughters as they are taught greed and fear and lust and hate.
So next time bullets go flying across the school yard or bombs fall from the sky and find hospitals instead of their "targets" or a child is beaten or murdered or ***** by its father or preacher or mother or sister or teacher or brother or friend... and you wonder what kind of monster, what evil would allow?
Look in the mirror, stare into the darkness in the pupils of your reflection and listen to the soundless echo of the blackness you find there.  Do not blink, do not turn away, let your eyes and mind adjust to the horror staring back at you... The evil infesting and rotting away at and in your own heart.  It's been living and thriving in the silent bubble you've built around your days and nights.  All the years you quitely ignored your hearts cries for help as evil made itself at home.
Every time evil made the front page news, instead of fighting back, you decided to just turn the volume down.  Knowing it was there and knowing it was wrong...  Were you hoping it would go away while feeding it your doubts and fears and hate?  Did you think that you could make it fat and satisfied and it would then find somewhere new to roam?
Don't look for the devil to blame or the absence of prayer in the classroom or the sky you claim to be empty of god... Stop petitioning deities to save you from the evils of the world when those evils are your own monsters walking and dancing and playing in the blood of your own heart.
333 · Jun 2016
Still
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Black waves full of death and decay
Wash over the last scraps
Of my withered heart
Still faintly beating
Still beliving
In the fairy tale
Before forevers end
Fingers scrapped clean of their skin
Scratching out words in blood
Bones exposed to the sand
Still writting of love
Still beliving
In the days
Before forevers end
Soul trapped to the rage of the wind
Hope being stripped from my ghost
Love longing to hear the thunder of bullets being hammered
Still fighting to breath
Still feeling
That the only fairy tale
Worth beliving
Is the one
Without forevers end
333 · Jan 2017
the tale of perfect love
Akira Chinen Jan 2017
She was from the silk blue skies of heaven and the velvet soft pink clouds of dreams and her smile was the tapestry stitched to his heart and her lips held the promise of perfect love and he was lost in the black flames of eternity and desire contained in the dark center of her pupils that were surrounded by the soft magic in the gentle blue irises of her eyes and he was falling fast and standing still and all he could do was smile because his emotions were beyond his control and his every cell tingled and vibrated at just the thought of her fingers entwined with his and their palms touching and he didn't need to feel her lips pressed against  his before he knew his heart and love belonged to her and he secretly longed for the day he could hold her in his arms and get lost in her eyes the same way he got lost in her picture dream after dream and he would leave words like little bread crumbs so he could find his way back to the poem he heard beating in her kind heart and its gentle grace night after night and he would listen to the rhythm and flow and dance with the hope that one day he would find the bravery to tell her the tale of the perfect love waiting to be read from her lips and that his humble house would become the kingdom their two hearts would call home
333 · Apr 2018
...
Akira Chinen Apr 2018
...
Dear friend... I know I don’t call as often as I should... and lets be honest we can just about say, I dont call at all and I am sorry I am not better at keeping in touch.  I know we all get tired, we all work and a lot of us have jobs we don’t necessarily like, but we have to survive through the ******* parts of life to get by.  So we put in our forty hours a week, or more... and the end of the day comes too soon and we still have too much left to do and we fall into the routine of tomorrow, I’ll call tomorrow or for sure this weekend... and **** comes up, not important ****...just small distractions and maybe a little insecurity or excuses and we don’t or I don’t.... and months go by and years turn into more years and I haven’t heard your voice on the phone or in person and I think, this weekend... this weekend... but then the weekend ends and next week ends and its been another year.  And trust me, I ******* miss you, I really do... all of you.  And maybe I will call... one day... but if I dont, know that I love you and I am grateful for whatever time we spent together that allowed me to become your friend, for whatever it was that made my heart open and grow and forever hold a space for you to be a part of it.  I can still hear your voice as clears in my memory as if you were sitting here now and it brings the same warmth and comfort as any hug a grandmother might give us.  I hope we both live long enough to see each other again, to talk about absolutely nothing important and to laugh about the things that seem to big and cumbersome to hold on our own and I hope I don’t forget to tell you I love you when we do.  When the day comes when we have no choice but to say goodbye, to whichever one of us escapes this life first, to whoever finds out what comes next next, I hope of all the things we might take with us... I hope it will be the love we shared.  

And on a side note, I know I rarely answer my phone, but if you call and I am awake, or if you wake me up, I will and I will be happy to hear your voice and I will tell you I love you...
333 · Jul 2017
the fear of Death
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
Death looked down in fear
and trembled at the horrors of mankind
and wept to know
we would treat the kingdom of the dead
as poorly as we had the land of the living
333 · Feb 2016
Madness
Akira Chinen Feb 2016
Madness is a lot like love, it's  orgin and depth often affect wether it ends on the pages of a tragedy or a beautiful ever after.  I've always had to read it through to the end regardless of where it might take me.  I find more comfort in dancing with monsters than living a life where one has to hide their demons just to get through the day.  
And like love as well, it can be good or bad depending on whose hands it's left to.  It takes a heart of great strength and delicacy to handle the fires and beauty and pain  born from madness.  Spilled, mishandled or broken... madness can do great harm to the pages of any story that its words are printed upon.  
Read well, dance freely, embrace tragedy, and page after page may madness be part of the beautiful  ever after.
Akira Chinen Aug 2014
A dance lost in translation
A love never revealed
A star never wished upon
  still falls from the sky
A soul unborn haunted his heart
  and grew inside his dreams
A hand never held reflected
  behind his closed eyes
A laugh never heard passed through
  his skin in the gentlest breeze
A tear never tended to
Multiplied into the ghost of an
  unending rain
A dance lost in translation was
Translated as nothing at all
333 · Mar 2018
with love and hope
Akira Chinen Mar 2018
The green fields paint themselves over the brown roadside
and up the hills that meet the pale blue grey sky
as winter releases its last cold breath
and the ants march in triumphantly
from their tombs of slumber
to find a feast of crumbs fit for a queen
and it’s strange how royalty
is so often mistaken for nobility
as mankind claims to be both
but rarely shows signs of either
and isn’t it strange the things we see and hear in dreams
while our eyes are shut in a dark and silent room
and if we can hear without sound
and see without seeing
what is the point in believing in anything
that we see as real or true
and why give so much time and opportunity
to things born for nothing more than human misery
and so little time for matters of love and hope

if reality is the only thing at all
why do we bother to dream
why do we bother to love
what does cold hard concrete have to offer
the stars of heaven or the fires of hell
what is it that burns in the furnace of our blood
that makes the heart beat so fierce
through the good and the bad with or without our consent
what is it that makes the heart
feel heavy inside our chest in times of trouble and ache
and why does it seem so light when we feel our lives
are boundless and endlessly filled with love
is it simpler than we choice to believe
is it something as simple as acts of kindness
is the heart heavy only when it has nothing to offer its love to
nothing to care for
have we been living backwards towards the meaning of life
have we been so overly desperate to be loved
that we forgot or failed to realize
that the hearts true function is to give and give and give
is love too heavy to hold
is the heart only light when it flows like a river
uninterrupted by dams of human misconceptions
why do we breath under blue skies and sleep under pale moons
as the seasons pass and the ants march
mistaking  what it is to live by simple means
as water bends and curves over sharp rocks
and smooths the rough edges
forgiving what cuts its path to rivers and streams
and on and on the water flows
as should the love inside our hearts
endlessly and effortlessly by acts of kindness
to fill our lives with love and hope
331 · Jun 2016
Russians Know Best
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
None of us are home
Unless we walk the road
Where we find ourselves
In love
Never settle into buildings
Made of just wood and stone
Travel well on bricks
Of gold
In carriages with throne
Flowing with gypsy
Blood
Russians know best
When writing stories from love
Singing of passion
Over the breath of accordions
None of us our home
Except when dancing
Around hearth and flames
Pulsing with gypsy
Blood
As Russians sing best
With fiddles and violins
Poems of life
And love
https://youtu.be/QqiFFB1GSXI
331 · Feb 2015
Still dreaming...
Akira Chinen Feb 2015
My monsters still sleeping
  of an angel he's  still dreaming
And I hope he never wakes
  and is witness to my mistake
How I never tried to hold your
  hand
How I never tried to tatse your lips
How I never tried to be bold  and
  tell you what secrets my heart
    did hide
I wish I could take my monsters
   place and live inside his dream
And have him take over mine and
  maybe then he could tell of all the
    things I had buried deep
And say the words I could never speak
331 · Aug 2014
TV
Akira Chinen Aug 2014
TV
Feed me (your soul)
Watch me (control you)
I'll bring you everything
Bring you the new and improved
25% more (in the same 12oz. can)
Spill the cleaner
Stain the wipe
It's OK
Believe the hype
Imitation light
Artificial life
Heart break
Heart ache
Let me make the big mistakes
331 · Mar 2017
ball of chaos
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
She was a ball of chaos made out of the yarns of mayhem and the threads from a dream of madness and he felt like a kitten curious and eager to pounce and play and purr and get tangled in her knitted webs of love
331 · May 2017
wall poems
Akira Chinen May 2017
I hope you're always the reason I wake up to poetry written in flames on my walls in the middle of the night
330 · Nov 2017
death of the moon
Akira Chinen Nov 2017
Bones rise from the soil
under the death of the moon
and in the pale electric light
you bloom like a flower
and open your petals
against the gentle pressure
of my wandering fingertips
and we sleep walk
through dreams of lust
and on tight ropes over furnaces
forging our translucent skin
burning white with desire
and we whisper in unspoken
languages of desperation
and abandonment
and cave into each others rib
and devour one anothers heart
and with bloodstained lips
we lock mouths
and tie our tounges
and taste the flavors
of sin and decadence
and become something more than human
and exchange
and rearrange
and twist from bodies
to souls
to stars
to prayers that make
the gods tremble and quake
and in its last breath
the moon etches our name
in the stars of eternity
330 · Apr 2017
the stories of stars
Akira Chinen Apr 2017
There was a secret
drawn into the frame
surrounding her eyes
and each lash held a key
to a dream of endless beauty
and within the colors dancing
around her pupils
was a truth to love
only understood by those who knew
the language of leaves
and the stories of stars
329 · Jul 2017
is this not love?
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
When beauty is felt and not seen...
when we feel it within ourselves
and beyond ourselves...
from the center of our ribs
to the farthest reaches of the unknown...
when we go blind and suddenly see everything
more clearly and vividly...
when we need not our hands to touch
or our mouths to kiss
or our tongues to tangle
or our bodies to collide...
when we leave the sensations of our bodies
in their twisted agony
and dance of lust under sheets
while the spark and electricity
of our beings traverse the stars...
when beauty consumes us
and becomes us
and makes us something new...
when we speak without words...
when we hear songs from the silence...
when we tremble from things
other than fear...
when we our lost to everything
but a dream weaved from the threads
and blood of our hearts...
when beauty is felt and not seen...
is this not love?
329 · Jun 2016
One word
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Let my tounge be the key to unlock your folds
Let me eat your pain and taste your nectar
Let my fingers stray from mind to thigh
Ease your worries and slide in pleasure
I in you and you on I
******* dance with rythmic breath
Gentle groans and heavy whispers
Eager mouths and pleasing hands
Let these moments never end
You on I and I in you
Let me unlock your pains
And fold your pleasure
With one word whispered
You release my life and

love

From me to you and you to me
No sinful act could bring half the heaven
When tangled limbs do sway and stride
As my heart does erupt to say and hear
That one word that trembles both bone and soul

love

And I have written, whispered,  shouted, and howled
And dreamed, longed, wished, and hoped
And you know I say these three words true
When I say

*I Love You
329 · Jul 2018
living and dead
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
We send our children off to war
to make men and women of them
and too often

war

sends them back as ghost

both living and dead
329 · Mar 2017
after you're buried...
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
Teach compassion, kindness, and generosity not fear, greed and hate... depression is a mental disorder not a weakness, some are born **** to it and others have it forced upon them.  Teach that a good life is what love you leave behind and not how much **** you accumulated to be sold in a garge sell 10 minutes after you're buried...
328 · Nov 2016
It's cold
Akira Chinen Nov 2016
It's cold in my living room and the kitchen and the bedroom and the grocery store aisles
It's cold during hot showers and long hours and morning coffee and humid afternoons
It's cold under blankets and sheets and stars and in bed
It's cold in my bones and my lungs and my skin and my blood
It's cold wherever you aren't
And its coldest in the place you left your fires burning in my heart
328 · Jul 2016
Wonder of Alice
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Irish white skin
Red lips of fairy tales
Lost songs of yesteryear
Dancing in her eyes
Silk innocent skin
Wonder of Alice
Cat like smile
Cloud of lucid dreams
No place more like home
Than under her gaze
And the warmth
Of her arms
328 · Mar 2017
seas and storms
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
He wore a mustache below his crooked nose twisted into handlebar shaped antlers and he spoke through his teeth with lies he stole from the devils lips on a night full of the bloodletting of lust and the strands of his beard where frozen swirls of black smoke hanging from the bottom of his outer jawline and there was dark magic spinning tales in the carmel brown of his eyes and she knew not a single truth hung there in the air seperating their hungery mouths and could taste the fire within his lungs before their tounges tangled and as they kissed she pulled out his soul and stole his fire and his breath and slipped her hands through his ribs and gently squeezed her fingers around his heart and with a swift flick of her wrist carved her intials in his pulse and he was wrapped around the desire and arch of her spine and he abandoned his dreams and his hopes and swore over his heart to the voyage of her ship and exploration of the seas and storms of her love and tied his wrist to the mast and spoke an unbreakable vow to forever sail under her name and her crown through this life and through the bones of his death and should he rise again wander the lonely shores until he found her seas and ship and heart and would then be hers again
328 · Oct 2016
days of dreams perfection
Akira Chinen Oct 2016
I don't remember the exact day we first meet
Or the date of our first kiss
It was long ago and a blur away
But I can recall how it felt
The last time we kissed when it still meant something
The last time you pushed your hips against mine
With love still beating in your chest
The urgency and passion of you grinding untop of me
As I was melting into you
The beauty of the dream swimming from your eyes into mine
The helpless state of being yours
Because you were mine
The way you song my name with sunshine in your voice
The days of dreams perfection
The chapters of a perfct life
Before we had to read
The fairy tale of forevers end
The world crumbled beneath me
And you slipped away
As if you were made of gun smoke and oceans mist
And even now
With years between us
Swimming from my reach with the echos of mermaids
Your only a dream away from perfection
327 · Sep 2015
Burning Moon
Akira Chinen Sep 2015
Burning in the shadow of the blood
  red moon
Watching the world crumble from
  An empty view
Everyone walking in the shadow
  of their death
Living as if they've already taken their
  final breath
Boiling in the shadow of the harvest
  moon
Watching the water spill over with
  no where else to go
Everyone is staring with dead eyes
  mumbling there was nothing
   they could do
Listening to the shadow of this lost
  forgotten moon
Watching as its dead heart
  blooms anew
And everyone turns a deaf ear as it's
  the easy thing to do
327 · Jul 2017
she had a poem(repost)
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
she had a poem where her soul was suppose to be and the pupils of her eyes had been carved out from the black void before the beginning of time
she knew more than any man or woman or god and only ever lost at anything when playing checkers and
tic-tac-toe with children
there was an intricate and gentle song that hummed in the depths of her heart and her blood flood with the slow ease of the last drop of honey from a jar
an unending kindess flowed from her gaze and she was continuously looking for those in the most need
she existed within the fabric of dreams and the horizon of eternity
and the beauty of love was an endless fairytale tattooed along
the curves of her spine
she has walked quietly through your dreams and gathered all the tears of heartache and grief you have ever shed and turned them into stars and moons and wishes of good tidings
she is there everytime you fall in love and and everytime your heartbreaks and it is with strands of her hair that she stiches the broken pieces back together and whispers sweet words of hope to chase away the feelings of despair
and you know her by
a name you will never speak in
a language you will never know
and when dreaming
you can always hear
your heart reading
her poem to your soul
326 · Aug 2018
a brief moment
Akira Chinen Aug 2018
I looked up from my sketch pad
and for a brief moment
saw how beautifully perfect
life can be

and isn’t that all we have

just moments

and in that moment
I found that every now and then
life can be something
even more beautiful than love
326 · Feb 2017
rear view mirror
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
I only look good to you
in the rear view mirror
In the retrospect of looking back
when you have nowhere else to go
You offer up apologies
and expect me not to notice
the subtle hidden lies
Your kind words are years too late
and laced with the same poison
that killed the love
I once trusted you with
And what do you expect me
to say or do when I know your words
rarely carry any weight of sincerity
And I see nothing different
in the rear view mirror
and looking back I can only wonder
how did I ever find your lies beautiful
326 · Jul 2016
Far away from home
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
One of these days
One of these days
I'm just going to go
Going to go home
I'll grab the devil by the tail
And I'll hold it 'till he wails
And lets out a howl
And I'll sail on his dead breath
Through night and through sky
Up past clouds and past moon
Where I'll jump on star
And I'll pay it with my every wish
And it will zoom away from this place
This place with no grace
No kindness
No love
This world of ****** and hate
Brother shooting brother
Father ****** daughter
Mother drowning babies
Preachers spreading lies by day
And underage thighs by night
Teachers twisting history
To keep minds complacent
Politicians protecting profits
Instead of the people
Religion spreading bigotry
Lucifer weeping below
God long out of tears
Unity and peace
A dead dream
Of the long long ago
A fairy tale book
Thrown into the fire
By fists of greed
And one of these days
I'm just going to go
Just going to go
Going to go
Go
And pull the trigger
A flash and a bang
And I won't have to give a ******
Or another minute
To this place
So far away from home
326 · Apr 2017
solitude of lonely rage
Akira Chinen Apr 2017
In the solitude of lonely rage dreams scatter beneath translucent skin in graphite lines and watercolor pans and tubes of paint spread by the course hairs of a worn out brush held by fingertips weathered and craked and stained with acrylic ink and blood and ***** spill into the wasted hours of pornographic procrastination as hands are busy stroking everything but ego and ambition and time has no need for patience or excuses and moved at its own pace despite the moving gears of the cuckoo clock trying to convince it otherwise and only mankind would be foolish enough to try to claim time can be measured and trapped and strapped to a wrist to cover up the color of thoughts of suicide and the bruises of wasted desperation as the tick tick tock of the bird inside the clock waits in lonely rage for its hour of desperation
325 · Sep 2014
no longer need...
Akira Chinen Sep 2014
Peel my face away
Let nothing of me stay
Dismember all my limbs
There's no use to being human
Separate my ribs
Crack them one by one
Infest my hollowed chest
With caterpillar's at rest
When wings tear from their cocoon
Let butterflies carry off my heart
To a place so far from here
I no longer need my name
325 · Jun 2016
Everyday
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Everyday of being
I fall a little deeper
Every day of falling
I find myself more in
And love has
Never been more
An honor and a privilege
Than being so in love
With you

And the words that made
My hands tremble
To write
And my heart fear
You would be
Scared away
Once whispered
And shouted
And put on paper
And sent over mountains
And across seas
Brought a smile
To your lips

And now though they still
Send shudders
Through my every fiber
And quake the blood
Within my soul
I ache and long
For each new moment
I can repeat them
And here a moment
Has come again

*I Love You
325 · Nov 2017
prayers of the lonely
Akira Chinen Nov 2017
She answers the prayers
of the lonely
and tenderly sews
and stitches broken hearts
and gives them a new coat of paint
and teaches them to laugh
and play and sing again

She is kind and wise
and knows more secrets
than all the mermaids
and the skulls lost at sea
and keeps a garden made
of flame and poetry
hidden in the heart
at the bottom of the ocean

She is there for the lost
and the miserable
and the dead
to guide them home
and carries the light of hope
in the emerald green of her eyes
full of elven lore

She was the first to have wings
and spread them endless and black
against the sky
to give the day
and the tired
a time to sleep
and dreams a place to bloom

She carved the moon and the stars
from the beat of her heart
and placed them high up in the night
and you can hear her voice
in the lullabies of leaves
and the song of the wind
whenever you whisper a lonely prayer
from the pieces of a broken heart
#dreamweavers
Akira Chinen Jan 2017
She was small like a bird and more beautiful than all the stars stretched out across time soft pink dreams curled and nested in her head and tinted her hair with the colors of a cloud streaked sky at sunset
He felt like a wish walked through the center of his heart the first time he saw her walk past and was sure that she had the smile that had lived in his dreams of love since before he had been born into this life
She was lovely and kind and sweet
He was dull and boring and shy
She was young and vibrant
He was old and grey
Two hearts so close they could see into the others dreams
But he sat quietly
The temptation of perfection would have to be lost to the years of later regret and he folded the paper and the wish that read like a poem and instead of leaving it on the table for her to find he placed it in his pocket and walked away leaving a gentle whisper outside the door in the cool night air hoping she might hear him when she walked out and smile so the stars could see how beautiful and lovely it is to fall in love with a dream
324 · Mar 2017
dreams of yesterday
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
Lead and hate made a hole in his chest
and now Tony won't sing no more
And now Maria has nothing
but blood and time on her hands
and nowhere to go
and her voice has grown cold
And as she watched his blood stained with hate
flow through the street
she forgave the hole and the lead
And she held the gun
  she held the gun
But she couldn't find the hate
to pull the trigger
Only the tears for the death of a song
she could hear echoing
somewhere
in in the dreams of yesterday
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