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4.8k · Jul 2011
Dandelions.
Ben Gillespie Jul 2011
Like the winters long lost petals
as it will compose into dirt,
this new dandelion vessel
overcomes my hearts inert.
We're all scared of something
we lie awake wet with grey.
With healing backs reopening old wounds
the bandage from you, my first aid.
a thankyou poem.
2.8k · Aug 2011
Uncommon Bucolic.
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Wandering paths ask for a dying cloud-drought
One black with the heart of darkness, devout.
A blooming earthly sunrise follows a fountain
and walks with her vices, talking to a mountain
Hope of finding you there, with bitter mnemonic
standing restless, alone in uncommon bucolic.

She proceeds to see with a call for rain
as fog blankets us, sunlight slowly wanes.
Lost in haze, could of sworn water fell genuine,
closing eyes swallow you whole, the medicine.
Ben Gillespie Jul 2011
No crocus' will bloom at the bed of this hill
as Orcus attends the open chest, spilled
into a lake that drowns these broken oaths.
Along with the words pronounced the most
in pages of prose spoke in endeavor.
Like the perpetual lie, "I'll love you forever."
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
In the beguiling romance of a flower
as it grows like lichens up a tower
A melancholic thought does rise,
born deep into the grey-green eyes
of a boy, who's song he forgot how to play.
So alone he sits, indoors all day.
The thought itself does manifest
into homesickness of the family crest
a malady of ferocious discord
from into which the boy had been born,
It was not an affliction that is caught.
Dreaming of life, this boy is from the north.
1.1k · Aug 2011
Morning in Germany.
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Trodden and toxic with heavenly waters, this
the murkiest of hearts that badly needs dialysis
Rupturing them clean, like morning's fresh shower.
Across tables, drink affection acted out in bliss
With ice in the glass and garnished with flowers,
and trade all a black forest could have to behold,
For that glance so sincere, and a hand to hold.
1.0k · Aug 2011
Oil
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Oil
Fumes induce this, the nauseating nest.
It dictates what nectar I should drink.
The hues are spoken with cherub's breath
while I quote Icarus and the glory of blue.

The snail, you don't love me, and still.
Your ephemeral shape kisses my lips
just as Judas would kiss, but with eyes,
dark as winter showers with autumnal halos
in bloom.
The smiling blue-white path in front of me grows appeal and I chase.
992 · Aug 2011
Jetty & Island
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Flurries of birds lament with me,
alone on this rock, as I appear to be.
But sat with the island, solice offered their calls
In front of the lake, it is not who enthralls
Who used to circle around my hand,
the last of the hourglass, lonely piece of sand.
956 · Aug 2011
For Böcklin.
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
From smithson's crystaline jetty, I spy.
With my little eye, an isle of the dead.
Surrounded by the bland entourage of buoys
I stand heavy and still for an hour, but dry.
Wandering in my loneliness,
While I want to swim around the jetty of your eyes.
936 · Aug 2011
56' Car crash memory
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
I built a bar with Jackson *******
he gave me lemons,
and we built skyward with the salt of the earth,
drank with God.
He is a devil when he's drunk.
So be my front tooth, sing lisped with me, for what its worth.
815 · Aug 2011
The Shallows
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
An endless barrage of barges once were,
yet now seek less, and imitate scourge
upon a fervent wasteland ruffled with wind
across this river we died for our sins.

Once a bookshelf sat in an empty room
with anticipation of a groom
waiting and looking across the barren straight,
to find no more than flotsam at its wake.

In the days of home a literary gem appears
and a private conclusion seems to ever near,
but with one last fire extinguished by wind
across this river I died for my sins.
762 · Aug 2011
Ivory messages of control.
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Rebirthed into cold waters,
with saint Sebastian's arrows falling on our foreheads,
leaving a penitent blood dripped on my lips. You kissed it off me like it was honey.
I wanna meet you again on a desolate hillside,
with a punctured bicycle
without a Salford lad narrative.

Splitting my lip,
on your ivory messages of total control
and I love it.


I want to ******* while you're wearing figure skates
until marble floors grind down to Henry Moores.
You are paradise, found.
Dante's balming embrace.
It was a bright and soothing daytime.
You were ticking the right boxes so often that pencil went through paper and stained my knee with graphite while I was left figuring out a composition,
of a portrait of the artist as a young fan of your beauty.  
as we fell lips-first and made head on collisions look like speedbumps.
intended as spoken word.
705 · Aug 2011
Taught me.
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
Those footsteps down that hallway floor,
behind burnt sand and off white door
blossoms a fruit that taught me to write,
and speak about the scent of Alphabet's sight
In evening, falls from tree like a clop of step
and removed from its roots, nests in my lap
Something so serene seen only in dreams.
her last words spoken are clarified and clean.
673 · Aug 2011
III
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
III
A most beautiful river once crossed my path
and took from my eyes, cut out exact.
as she placed them upon her buttercup petals.
I find that making least noise, myself, the empty vessel.
Speculation is bound by my own physics
and just once I ask that eros might visit.
Take my greys and portraits painted blue,
mix it for the colour I nearest choose.
618 · Aug 2011
The Shallows 2
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
All of my spite leaves these thin pages blank
Malicious intent and hope that a boat could of sank.
With walkers in two's surrounding the center
The contemplation of craters will always surrender
To this, my last heartless letter of prose
and my disgusting apparitions of Emily Rose.
618 · Aug 2011
Marktplatz
Ben Gillespie Aug 2011
The rain approaches fast, pencil is slight,
and I leave words quick with flight
I feel speckled kisses on my cold neck
Far up in this tender rose garden trek,
staring over abyss, sudden with bottles
upwards is skyline, beautiful and mottled.
478 · Mar 2011
Romance II (Version 2)
Ben Gillespie Mar 2011
Romance, that loves to nod and sing
with a burning throat and broken wing
Once taught me a song so dry and black
It chose my words in an attack
with a most fierce ******, pronounced and sung
on Rialto bridge with water in my lungs

Romance, that kissed goodbye at the foot of my bed
long ago lay with me and kissed my head.
With a written word, ill leave this world
amongst laments of love lost, to be with the birds.
As wind evanescences it disappears completely
and ill sing no more, this song, so sweetly.

— The End —