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You're mad like a poet
Screaming at the world
At the top of your
Coal powdered lungs and
Mouth painted blood red
As if trying to yell
"Listen! Listen up!
Listen to me now!
I've got many things
To say! Many things!"
But they ignore you
And your late sleepless
Nights on a desk, ink
Dragging down your arm,
Spread up on papers
And decorating
The room in crumpled
Piles of lined papers,
Are wasted away.
It's sad, little friend,
And I wish you best
And not the poets fate,
And the cancerous days
That come with such things.
Live a life that's not
The poets and scream like
Anybody else
Just not him, not her.
Eh... I had to write something.
Metanoia begs the muse   believe...              
"Accept the current, do not fight the flow."      

True, and known,
these aching limbs must
rest within the deepest ebb
- as the ocean swells
with each new
moon.

Drifting far
when floating; Sinking
deeply into crystal nothingness
- unless held by a sturdy rock,
tethered taut.
                
Promises sung, in rounds, stay...
Swirled upon a blushed summers breeze; Heard,
liberated, in flight's of birdsong
across sunset skies.
  
       Connected distant energies may still   
but for always, will burn brightly in each
& every shining light seen by
her sextant soul

[eyes]
on the
   Voyage  
      ahead.    

"Surrender the past  & tomorrow  comes... 
un-blinkered,
never unbound."
  
~ ♥ ~
From me to all that is now, known, & yet to Be...

Metanoia (n);
the journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life
I sat looking at the street
At the people walk by
Drive by in their cars
Faces blurry as they'd pass
In thought lost i was
Thinking about me
Thinking about all
About the future
About the past
The wasted opportunities
And all the regrets
The smiles
The tears
The broken hearts
The feeling of love
The failures
The successes
The roads chosen
The roads neglected
What would have happened
Would things be different
Would things be better
Would things be worse
Have i done things right
Have i done things wrong
Where am i now
Where shall i go
Looking at the street
From the window in my room
At the people walking or driving by
They became blurs
And in thought lost i was
2013. Fresh outta the oven. Not sure about the name. Any suggestions? And also enjoy...
 Aug 2013 Artemesia Blastside
kgl
you listen but you never hear
sounds reverberate - distorted
around your confused and browbeaten brain
as you try desperately to face the mornings
as you recklessly ignore the pain

you're alive but you never live
your heartbeat is merely a mechanism
clinical and cold you lie like a statue
waiting for time to disintegrate you
as you try to fade away

you talk but you never speak
meaningless echoes of a world inside your head
they'll never understand you
they'll tell you to go on living but
for all intents and purposes


*you're already dead.
The memory of her sits on a balcony ledge, cigarette in hand.
My green light at the end of a dock.
And this time I am reaching out
like many before,
in pages and poems past.
Macbeth’s face is a book.
Her body is an atlas
tracing a beautiful continent.

Follow the long tributaries that lead to shallow deltas.
This shore begins softly and forms into slender feet,
quiet but powerful when outstretched an angler waiting for prey.
Odysseus, only, can hear this Siren play.  

Follow her legs, those tawny plains,
unbroken, guiding along welcomingly,
inviting curiosity and conscripting imagination.
An oasis.
And her torso is a valley from which
her laughter is ****** upward and resisted until uncontainable.
Dimples break and burst like earthquakes.  
A ridgeline is all that awaits until we see her face.
She is the Americas from bottom to top.

Follow her decorated canyon mouth
but know it is merely a diversion.  
Her eyes are icebergs, which shyly reveal themselves
to sink ships and drown lovers, for always.
Her hair is aurora borealis,
the northern lights,
dancing colorfully
to an unaccompanied waltz
heard by everyone but her.

As the memory of her sits the smoke billows around
like clouds traveling down a coastline
only to dissipate
and disappear.
The Other Stars are watching my Orpheus, rowing a Tea Cup 'cross the Mighty Mississip'
chewing on cobwebs and split infinities.... never been at ease with a good ****... but Love's Will
is Oroborus... and to believe in you now, would set ablaze a thousand torments...
The Last Drop from The Last Orange. The Other Stars have Tears in Their Eyes.
They weep the Mighty Mississip'

So i can be on my way
So I can Be
on My
Way.
I'm calling you out
Of my mind
Manifest yourself
Come on, blow up in my face

To the:
Bombshell
With the short fuse
I'll be your Molotov cocktail
You be my fiery muse

I keep seeing your face
In sepia torn scenery
In the art of my dreams
trying to photoshop reality

To the:
Dream Girl
With her totem locked
I'll join you in a free fall
As I violently shake back awake
Alone

So it goes...

You're dancing my imagination
Heart-beating my soul
Tango of illumination

I felt your grace
In telepathic foreplay
My little mind-fu©k
life's stranger than fantasy

To the:
Princess,
Crowned in roses
I'll savor you as a Goddess
When you open your sweet blossom

So it goes...

You're dancing my imagination
Heart-beating my soul
Tango of illumination

Fire of my *****
Rising up my spine
We could be enlightenment-to-be
Like Nirvana
      Come on blow my mind
kenHeike ©

Looking for feedback on this one. I wrote this for a girl I had a crush on but has since started a relationship with some other dude(****** I know). I reference her favorite movie/book in here. I was gonna trash it but I started to work in different archetypes. I don't know if I should record or not though. Thoughts?
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