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 Sep 2014
Hailey P
Never cry in your bedroom.
Because a place of comfort
Should never contain sadness.
 Sep 2014
Mohd Arshad
What are balloons?
Have you ever thought?
Where do they leave for?

You inflate them.
Yes. Their goals they know.
Soon they soar in the sky.

They are metaphors
For our dreams. Yes.
And for our life too.

Would you emulate them?
 Sep 2014
Mohd Arshad
Never
Compromise
With words
They are
The poem's personality
 Sep 2014
Sjr1000
She comes to me
bleeding inside
from a thousand
individual scars
with pleading eyes
self contained
She speaks in gentle
refrains

"I don't know where
I'm going
I don't know who
I've become
I go through the motions
deaf, blind and dumb
I dance on cue
I stand in line
I've tried to be so
good.
I've left behind the darkness
I've forgiven the past
I'm far too aware of time
It doesn't matter really I don't mind
I wish I could tell
you what I find

The struggle between
my internal world
condemnation
irritability
judgement
fears
heartaches there, vile rages, petty hatreds
*** dancing on the head of a
pin
exquisite laughter
it's all there.

While my behavior is quite the
opposite
accommodating, loving, compassionate
flirtatious, curious
connection is my goal

When I'm alone I'm lonely
when together suffocated
the best distance is
from here to there

I wish I could tell
you that I mind

The storms still
come and go
luck rides the
tides
each day the
sunrise

This human stuff
is all too real
it creeps up on you
so you don't know
how you feel

Which is why I've
come to you to
speak my mind
they say you are the
complaint department
the garbage collector

I'm bleeding inside
from a thousand scars
that's not to say I really mind."

They say the healer
must heal themselves
so of course I ask
"How can I help you?"
 Sep 2014
mark john junor
if i could just plug my life in
get it under control
get something happy on a regular basis
get some kind of sense out it all
but its all to weird
its all too deranged
like i'm not really here
just watching it all remote lack of control
just so ****** bad
if i could just get somebody to actually hear me
if i could just get somebody to notice
but its all got strange
the road is all gore no glory
and even standing here with you feel all alone
hey will you take a second from your own screaming
and notice me
hold my hand
if i could just pull the plug
get the whole thing to pause
i could get a grip
i could get an idea which way
if i could
if i could
 Sep 2014
Arcassin B
By Arcinder






**** your ignorant preference,
I know people that would get you bodied,
Everybody don't believe I have a pistol,
But ***** I ain't everybody,
I heard you came in town,
Filled with a lot of words,
Ask anybody around,
Save your life for what its worth,
Be smart and walk away,
If you don't want to in up in the e.r,
For you and your team of old people,
******* don't get far,
Kicking leaders out their groups,
So pathetically mental,
Keep listening to dash,
He's gonna get you killed in a pin iCal,
Never met such lame people in my life,
I'm know to hang wit jail birds,
With my heart as cold as ice,
You fagets have some ****** up lives,
I swear to god you are beneath me,
Laugh over your coffins,
Set it on fire and then ***,
Keep ******* with me,
You won't have future.
**** the mafia
 Sep 2014
irinia
my town
where wild flowers grow
between tram tracks.
there was a time when
it was hardly morning,
no bridge into daylight.

walls had ears,
neighbors had eyes
whispering behind the curtains
there was an emptiness in the guts
of the city
and poetry locked in the drawers,
Borges was read under the blankets
while Dostoievski was  a comforter:
demons were embedded.

yeah, people were clapping and smiling
watching the nub of history, numb
they had a life to live,
what can you say?

one day the radio
burst on in the streets
some were shivering in the attic
"we are free", they said
"we are free",
came the echo in trance

"shhhhh"! said others,
let us wipe the blood
don't disturb the sacrificed
so we can sleep
without dreams

it's Thursday in my town
streets are weary
and our souls are
slowly expanding
Thank you, Eliot, for this choice! I am glad that this poem was chosen for the Daily Poem because for me it is a reminder that people died for freedom and struggled against oppression in times when "Cruelty knits a snare,/And spreads his baits with care", as the poet says. (William Blake, The Human Abstract)
 Sep 2014
Jeremy Bean
Its just a hazy day
not bright at all
this Michigan weather
boasting that its fall.

The sun beams are few
the clouds are many
reflecting my mood
in this autumn setting

but these sunglasses I wear
are not for the glare
to protect my eyes,
or for fashionable flair

They are merely there
for masking
         a longing
  
Watery stare.
 Sep 2014
The Noose
The late afternoon sun
Whose heat dusk
Would soon to absorb
Sifted through the window
Exposing particles of dust
Lightly strewn
On the glistening cement floor
Of the passageway
It must have been September

Daisied grass beneath my feet
Ladybird crawling
Along my fingertip
A fleet of autumnal birds
On the wing
Above me in their hundreds
Their remedying cadence
Humming and resonating
In my head
It must have been September

Swathed in the air of content
And absence of dissonance
Silently without warning
The light of september
Faded with the light of day
To bore the fathomless
The eruption of chaos
When my coin flipped
As I slept
Happiness or sadness
Out of my hands.
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