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 Nov 2014
PrttyBrd
I can feel you, restless, in my dreams, or mind, or heart.   tortured by thoughts of nothing in blackness in the noise of a crowded room.  There is no peace tonight, in my very being I feel it,  There are no meds to remove the screams, no drugs to escape the torture.  The numbness of self medication keeps your sanity hanging by the strongest of all threads.  Can't think too much, or ponder on what ifs.  But music looks beautiful dancing in the air, and time is a concept of man that serves no purpose other than to **** joy and draw boxes of conformity in thick black lines.

the color of sound
permeates cracks in the void
tolerable life


Existence without reason,  alone in an ever-present crowd, there are no rainbows in nighttime storms, I can feel your quick breaths as you are dragged into sleep unwillingly, though in desperate need. the trepidation runs deep, silenced by normality, fear of separation of mind tethered to others by soul alone.  Pretense in surface honesty, which is perceived as truth.  But the core of it, the fear of it, the whole of it cannot be hidden, for I feel you to the depths of who you are afraid to be.  There is no loss of sanity in being who you are,  Those colors sound beautiful as they dance in the smokey air, and the math is art incarnate, science is the symphony around which all things are born and oh the music.  Yes the music that dances through it all is the very air in all it's swirling hues of blissful perfection

two halves of self dance
tangos of darkness and light
beauty in all things


                    *in wait of nightmares
                    there need not be loneliness
                    joy in one who knows
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 Nov 2014
Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
 Nov 2014
Ezra Pound
The petals fall in the fountain,
the orange-coloured rose-leaves,
Their ochre clings to the stone.
 Nov 2014
BB Tyler
If a picture's worth
a thousand words,
than the poet's opus
is to give infinite images
in just two handfuls.

Distillation of words

so
just a drop
of one
will get you
drunk.
go read some haiku~
 Nov 2014
David Ehrgott
sprinkle her lightly
her powers so magical
the light of stardust
 Nov 2014
Roberta Day
I fainted--alone.
I realized how alone
we all really are.
I fainted from sneezing yesterday. It was terrifying.
 Nov 2014
PrttyBrd
Your soul bleeds pages
Swimming in your words of truth
I found my own heart
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In response to Penmanship by Quinfinn
 Nov 2014
Roberta Day
Touch can be primal,
sensual, and relieving,
yet rare to receive.
 Nov 2014
BB Tyler
the lust for bitter living
in pain
knowing such sweet succulence
tender &
open to infliction
on the forest floor
sunlight
between the leaves
eating
where the water
waiting
sprouts seeding
seedling sated
no longer thirsty for
darkness or droughts of
shadow cast
sun blade
cutting

the blanket of death
falling
peaking through the
moth-holes
like stars
hidden

excited when
after a long cold
the taste of blood
again
 Nov 2014
BB Tyler
shine a light
light a spark
spark a shine
 Oct 2014
Antiquity Vaircome
She quietly weeps
Trying not to disturb them
As they sleep, clueless
 Oct 2014
Roberta Day
The longer you wait,
the longer you’ll be waiting
for the thing you want.
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