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1.1k · Nov 2016
Lazy Evening
Daniel Magner Nov 2016
Her chest rose and fell as she slept,
the black sheets draped over her hips,
her arms folded over her face,
taking a nap in outer space.
I laid next to her,
awake and breathless.
The cat at our feet seemed unable
to grasp the importance of the moment.
Instead she spread her paws, yawned.
For the cat and my love
this is just a lazy evening, another nap,
for me
it is everything.
Daniel Magner 2016
1.0k · Feb 2014
Rein Me In
Daniel Magner Feb 2014
Walking home through the first rain
since the start of an unexpected drought
soaked to the soul by the song
the drops sang across the road
standing tall, stout, despite the cold
peeled off watery clothes
dove into a blanket sea
storm blown seaweed hair
with anchor pillows
to keep me from
drifting
a crew devised of two
a figure in my dreams
and me


Daniel Magner 2014
1.0k · Jun 2013
Omelette
Daniel Magner Jun 2013
Smashed together
cracked, mixed, stirred
swirls of laughs, fears, habits
Heated, cooled, fried
like my insides.
© Daniel Magner 2013
1.0k · Aug 2013
Anosmia
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
It would drift by
on the airstream,
created by a stranger somewhere,
soft and sweet.
I'd stumble in the subtle
shades of the scent
till it dropped me at you,
the trigger pulled on a bottle
of perfume.
But my nose hasn't
gobbled up those particles
for quite some time,
your aroma
no longer on my mind.
Daniel Magner 2013
1.0k · Mar 2013
Phone Misplacement
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Phone misplacement
turned into ghosts
and heartbeats
© Daniel Magner 2013
1.0k · Jan 2018
New Notebook
Daniel Magner Jan 2018
I write in pen,
for fear that lead would fade,
slowly scraped from the page
as ages pass.
Maybe grasping the inevitable,
whether leaded or penned,
moves my hand toward ink,
marks me for the passion to float,
not sink.
Despite that bite, I'm toothless
half the time,
a spaceship primed for travel,
but un-fueled.

So,
this notebook is your fuel,
empowering you to fill
from end page to end page,
engaging your will to strive,
thrive,
rise,
continuing to pen rhymes.
Not to live,
but to exist.
Daniel Magner 2018
1.0k · Dec 2012
Brother
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
Through years spent
sharing a bedroom
And playing in the same streets
Gnawing on the same meals
with childish teeth
I don't think you really
know how much it all
means

Now weeks pass
I'm in class, you work
but I spend many nights
wondering if you hurt
or wonder if I've grown
since the days in that home

We have different tastes
different hungers
but I mean it when I say
I love you and I'm grateful to
call you
Brother
© Daniel Magner 2012
1.0k · Mar 2013
Epidermis Dip
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
"Not yours"
Poured out of steely tip
to dip beneath my epidermis,
now it's permanent.
And never been more
true.
© Daniel Magner
1.0k · Sep 2013
Messy Clarity
Daniel Magner Sep 2013
"The way you work
is so messy"
as paints lay all
around,
bits of paper
tacked, taped
in shapes
five shades
of blue
stain my arms
"And your pieces are so...
unclean, undefined"
I laughed a little
and replied
"Just like
life."
Daniel Magner 2013
1.0k · Dec 2012
Schizophrenia (First Draft)
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
Words poured out like a salad
She wept and cried
yelling at the jumble
"You won't get me!
Just a big pile of salad words!"
Her dad stood in her doorway
while someone whispered
"It's not real, you aren't even her."
But she was on the phone with me
I heard every word
"I'm scared..."
fades out like the giggle she
keeps hearing and the
little girl that she has seen
"I was possessed once"
she told me, "maybe twice."
then we walked on the beach
everything seemed calm
two weeks later hearing
arms scratching the walls and
her dad standing in the doorway
is it real?
real?
rea
re
r
© Daniel Magner 2012
First Draft
For a friend...
1.0k · Nov 2013
My File
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
While rummaging
through my mother's
filing cabinet
for info needed
to transfer
I came across the section
for
me
papers on applications
medical records
but tucked away in the
very back
was a folder
I opened it up
curious
out dropped a picture
that made me feel much
older,
for there I stood
long hair
white tux
with Sydney
on my arm...
it was prom
I started
to cry
It's been over two years,
I think,
there is no feeling
of missing and wishing
for her
but there is for
the idea of being
wanted
.
.
.





Daniel Magner 2013
1.0k · Jan 2014
Angsty Drunk
Daniel Magner Jan 2014
She stated the obvious
while I puffed on my cigarette
"You know smoking kills?"
"Yeah, want to die?"
I held out my stoge
"I like life"
"How do you know
you don't like death
if you've never tried it?"
She stayed
silent
Daniel Magner 2014
1.0k · Mar 2013
Coke Coughs
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
You never did **** like that for me
chillin in my lap, with a lighter and a sack
tickets to shows and suckin' it clean
Funny little nicknames, bed games,
thinking about head thangs.
Trips to Chico, down south, or left and right
two lines in the morning and two tabs at night
decided to be a bad ***** now, come freestyle
and I'll put you in your place
run laps around you the whole ******* race
leave you in the dust without a ******* trace

Step back, breathe
dry heave, dry heave
Switching lanes like a drunk man
swerving on the highway, I'm ******* my teeth
coked up going 90, 0 in my sheets.
Blown out bass busting out **** beats
Thought those 2 years made you a hard ***** *****?
You're a lie ***** *****, you don't even try ***** *****
I'm glad I got to know ya but now I'll kick your *** to the curb like a ******* state patrola!
© Daniel Magner 2013

I don't even know what to call this but here it is.
1.0k · Dec 2012
Disconnect
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
I don't relate to
any of this anymore.
Buildings rip the sky
blocking out the light
of stellar smiles.
If I look out I can only
see for a few feet
not miles and miles.
I've worn out the soles
of my shoes
walking the streets
that sandpaper my soul.
I don't connect to
any of it anymore.
The lights on all night
pretending to be extra-
terrestrial
or the stacks of ads
that blockade my mail
But there aren't
any letters for me anyway
cause I don't relate to this
anymore.
© Daniel Magner 2012
1.0k · May 2013
Kiln
Daniel Magner May 2013
She may find my
harsh tattoo
and unmalleable attitude
something that does not suit
her range of liking,
but I've changed
one, two, many times
to give a ****
if a dime minds my demeanor.  
Steel Reserve, and steely nerves,
I don't even have an interior
just miles of walls.
Glass eyes don't blink at all
when her clothes fall
or her voice calls
my name.
This clay is fired
it's too late to
change.
© Daniel Magner 2013
998 · Mar 2013
Stuffed
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Sushi and pretending
don't go well together.
One raw and real
the other just a cover
© Daniel Magner 2013
998 · Dec 2012
The Group
Daniel Magner Dec 2012
Garrison muddles in pharmaceuticals
dreaming health for long dead
friends
But he snorts away his hopes
following those white lines
down the coast

Tony jumps at riches
wants to support his poor parents
thinking money buys life
But he finds himself in ditches
after fun times that turn
into long nights

Ashley lost a father
younger than anyone should
wishing to bring back memories
But she drowns them away
in a sweet mixed drink
trying hard not to repeat

Will broke his hand
over the love of his life
so he pays for lunch in dimes
But he lives in a smoke
a slight smile of unknowing
despite being flat broke

And I...well I...
don't know who I am
I dabble in love, life, and sadness
But I always run out of time
so I got me a watch to keep track
but I forget to check it
because I want to rewind
First Draft
© Daniel Magner 2012
996 · Jan 2020
If the food ain't good
Daniel Magner Jan 2020
don't eat it,
but don't tell me
"It ain't Texas enough."
I know.
We are in Seattle,
the owners are Chinese,
and I'm Californian,
so it's definitely not Texas.
It's a mutt.
"Dog food," said a customer.
I don't blame. I ain't mad,
they just pay me to be here.
Daniel Magner
993 · May 2014
Machete Constellation
Daniel Magner May 2014
My downstairs neighbor got evicted,
he gave me a charm to keep away evil spirits, hung it right on my door. Acceptance from a few time aqaintance
had never felt so good. We stood and smoked stoge after stoge, swapping stories, who would have thought two stories and a noise complaint to meet a Pisces just like me, and have him call me a saint. That *****, quivered on the air followed by I don't care, a high five, and a see you around. Drop the stoge to the ground, stamp it out, peace out.
Daniel Magner 2014

For P.D a kindred soul
987 · Jan 2014
Sloppy Writing
Daniel Magner Jan 2014
tracing my veins
wondering
which side of this brain
is chemically imbalanced
which side houses talents
I haven't trained
people praise my writing
and some songs
that I have made
but none of it seems
all that great
they haven't gotten me
less poor
or less bored
just a little less
ignored
but when I trace
my veins
I think that
is
enough
Daniel Magner 2014
986 · Mar 2013
Assimilated
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
The slightness of soft
skin rubbing past
is in the past,
but I don't mind that.
In fact, I'm chugging along
despite the warmth of
lips being gone.
Stay strong.
That withdrawal is nothing compared
to the gut wrenching, stomach stomping
of a feeling I get when I realize
I don't feel any thing toward
anyone now,
that I
          don't
                                                      care.
© Daniel Magner 2013
972 · Oct 2013
Guiding Sparks
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Flicked from my fingertips
fireworks skip across the
pavement
falling grey against the frost
with no guiding force
but my mindless toss
driven by a twist
in the universe
I hope I'm like them
not actually
lost
Daniel Magner 2013
970 · Nov 2012
Trap
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
I'm trapped in that place
blips and zings shooting out
lights thick enough to take up space
All I can hear is that bass and a sample
shouting, "Drop it to the floor make that
*** shake!"
Suddenly it's a competition
everyone asking, "Yeah, well
how many did you take?"

I feel them cranking up the noise
watch those costumed beauties
listening to the sample auto reverse
grinding up on those boys
"that's an *** quake!"
joy, joy, joy
we all got down to business
as if we were Mercy employees

Back at the hotel rooms the track
drops again, taking hold
of my brain in the back and
rocking my head side to side
I can't stop this feeling like
somehow I got trapped
in trap
© Daniel Magner 2012
Using the word "trap" as in the type of music.
967 · Nov 2013
Owe
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Owe
I've escaped
without a hangover
far too many times
gone uninjured
when I should've
died
I'm no cat
I'm living on
borrowed
lives

what happens when
I have to repay
my
debts?
Daniel Magner 2013
952 · May 2013
Pedestal
Daniel Magner May 2013
The first time bud
was packed by
my hands
friends gasped and
murmured.
Then my tongue
lapped up acid
and they all
stayed wide eyed
and confused.
Drug by drug
and still they stare
I want to yell,
"I'm just like you!
I'm human
too!"
© Daniel Magner 2013
949 · Aug 2013
Transcription 2
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
I'm rappin' over old school beats like Eminem
I'll even make sure I sound like him
cause I'm rippin' him off
I'll even use one of his lines under my cough
cough cough chicka slim shady
come on, sue me man, come hate me
I don't have lawyers, but I'll fight you on the street, daily
and afterwards I'll hurt myself on your property and sue you so you
have to pay me.
That's right, I'm the new slim shady cause you lost that side
he straight up died and got reborn inside my mind
now whose shaking and quaking like they don't want their spine cracked
you want your sick mind back?
Then listen to my raps...
Daniel Magner
A second one...
944 · Jan 2014
Plateau Please
Daniel Magner Jan 2014
I am the
tippy tops of mountains
and the lowest folds
of valleys
sometimes my emotions
practically scrape the sky
other times they fall
so deep
I could die
I just want to be a plateau
I just want to be a plateau
I just want to be a....






Daniel Magner 2014
943 · Nov 2013
Grandma
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Unfinished sentences
struggling over each
syllable, letter, sound
cane catching every nick
in the fairly flat ground
gazing at photos
that eyes can't see
remembering
what they look like
while fumbling
to flip out the light
lost on some
withering path
deep in the mind
Muttering cryptic
thoughts
Despite the deterioration
that makes you forget
who I am
I still love you
Grandma
and I cherish the moments
when clarity shines through
even though you've told me
the stories about that clock
and the whale
and the picture of Grandpa
over and over
sometimes you slip
out a new piece of old life
you are my luck
my four leafed
clover

Daniel Magner 2013
924 · Oct 2013
Clouds
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
a friend asked,
"Do you miss her?"
and before I could whisper
a reply
they nodded,
"You do, I can see it
in the way you look
at the sky
...
everytime"
Daniel Magner 2013
920 · Aug 2013
Dear Karma
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
What's the ******* deal
Karma
even when blood leaves my veins
for a honorable cause it ends in vain
even when I stay vigilante on my ****
it's like my ***** are getting kicked
and all I hear is
"Keep your head up, things get better
good things come to good people"
then where's the ******* good?
I'm broke, can't get classes, can't afford food
and I'm not spending on a whim
I budget, I save
but here I am a wage slave
**** it Karma
you are just like all the fake religions
follow their opinions and end in heaven
just like lucky number seven
or wishing on a shooting star
last time I did that I wished for
"All my friends and family to be safe and happy"
a week later Eddie died in a car
My faith is gone, just like my happiness
put out, shut down, left to rot
and to think I thought
being a hardworking, noble person
got you somewhere
Daniel Magner 2013
I'm so ******* done.
920 · Feb 2015
Untitled
Daniel Magner Feb 2015
Maybe if all soldiers
had to look their enemy in the eye
before they killed them
they wouldn't
or maybe not,
my head's just full of thoughts
where is peace?
what does this all mean?
what does this all
mean?

Daniel Magner 2015
Based off a story my grandpa Gerry told me about the war in Korea. He had a man in his sights but they locked eyes, in that moment he saw something and missed on purpose. The man was captured and tortured for 3 days before he died. He said he never forgot the man's eyes....
916 · Nov 2012
Older
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
It could have worked if we were older
Maybe in a few years you'll lean on my shoulder
on that hill, both back from college for summer
and you'll realize I'm your guy.
Or maybe not, maybe we'll be back
but you'll have a boyfriend that you love
more than you ever loved me
and I'll be asking a ******* a date to a movie
I'll see you holding his hand and I'll
remember what I wrote next to your name
in my phone

"Always take care of her even if it means
letting go"
Yeah it'll sting but then I'll smile
because I know
that I probably love you more than you will ever
be loved
You'll never know that but
seeing you happy is enough

And maybe you'll see me getting a girl's number
and you'll think back to that summer when you
gave me yours
Yeah it'll sting but you'll remember everything
that made you happy
Then you'll grab that boy and walk out that door
talking about how much you adore his
brand new hair cut
I'll look up and you'll be gone
possibly forever but
I have you in my heart
I'll always remember
© Daniel Magner 2012
An old poem/song I wrote. Although I no longer like the writing, the feeling is more relevant than ever
912 · Apr 2018
Packing for a Funeral
Daniel Magner Apr 2018
The usual travel excitement
is dormant,
put to sleep by somber things.
No bright, floral swim trunks,
no blue-striped tank top,
no flashy ties or eye catching button ups.
Black pants, black socks, black tops,
black-faced watch,
black thoughts.

A sudden loss.
Daniel Magner 2018
909 · Aug 2013
Forgery
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
I can't tell
if having options
for handwriting styles
is odd or not
but I finally chose one
I dig a whole lot.
Daniel Magner 2013
907 · Jan 2020
Wifi
Daniel Magner Jan 2020
It's the closest I've got to a soul.
Ever present and when it isn't
I'm hollow,
desperate to feel its powerful touch,
wash over me, connect me to the hive mind,
the swirling voice, collective planet,
except those with no access.

Yes, it is life blood,
cool streams in the desert,
a thing so desperately sought.
Daniel Magner 2020
907 · Mar 2013
Morning Mischief
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
The beat played
Oh how it played!
and the sun came
with rave, laser waves
to bring in the day
Oh what a day!
© Daniel Magner 2013
904 · Mar 2013
Gateway Sounds
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Thumpity thump
bump the bump
let bass **** up
in your spine
shake down your behind
quiver in those
pristine teeth
then bump you into me.
Bounce those eyes
side to side
down chests,
up thighs.
Burst out your mouth
in a weighted sigh
that snaps shut
with the snare drum.
Rattling through your thumbs
tapping on
jeans, cotton, skin.
Cymbal ringing like tin,
lifting that chin
while the music
lets you
give
in.
© Daniel Magner 2013
904 · Feb 2013
Greedy for Me
Daniel Magner Feb 2013
I try to sympathize
with all my friends.
When they need help
I try to meet those ends,
but I forgot about myself
until now.

If you want me,
come and find me.
I'll be at the beach with my bare feet,
sippin' my favorite brew
with a smile aching on
my cheeks.
© Daniel Magner 2013

Short Song
902 · Feb 2013
White Gold
Daniel Magner Feb 2013
Numb nostrils,
jittery tongues,
swarming the cutting board.
Sharks, whose blood lust
shot off the charts
with the sight of one little baggie,
gnash their teeth
"Pour it out! Line it up!"
"Here's yours!"
"I can't feel my teeth!"
all caught on the reef
thrashing for another dose.
Who am I to judge with this
white gold
in my nose.
© Daniel Magner 2013
897 · Nov 2012
Truth
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
I've got to be real with you
because I've never
been one to be fake
Telling the truth is messy
but it's a risk I'm willing
to take.
I've done my fair share of
forceful forgetting, taking
smoke and pills straight
to my face.
If you see this mom, I hope
I'll still be your son
and not a disgrace
not just another mistake
Like the marriage you lost
to alcohol, a pack of lies
costing four dollars and
sixty-nine cents, and a foot
too slow on the brakes

I can't tell you I've always
been good, acting like
I knew I should, no
I've lied a million times
I've cut a million lines
the carcinogens burning my eyes
till I go blind
I used to want help but
now I scream to the world
"I'm fine!" and ya know what
I just might be lying
it wouldn't be the first time.

But a brain in altered states
doesn't know it's in a cage
it feels like ink flying
ripping away from the page
or the main act on the
main stage.
So don't look on me with hate
or pity, or disgust
I'm doing the best I can
I'll move and change my name
if I must, but I swear one
day, I'll be okay
in that you can trust
and if you see me now, Ed
just know that even though
you are dead, all the things
I've done to erase my past
you're still sitting inside
my head, I still dream you
up while laying in my bed
I hope out of everyone
you understand everything
I've said. because I'd hate
to let
you
down
First Draft, © Daniel Magner 2012
897 · Oct 2013
Skin And
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Bones
stand
alone
Daniel Magner 2013
yet another one on this topic...
897 · Jul 2014
Porch
Daniel Magner Jul 2014
gazing at my front porch
I don't see an empty
concrete rectangle with one couch
I see plants sprouting up
I see deep talks with friends
sitting at night under the open sky
the palm trees wafting gently
I see a new chapter
full of laughter and growth
I see a little garden
that I can call
home

(temporarily)
I've found that I must be my own home, where ever I may go

Daniel Magner 2014
897 · Sep 2013
Jade and Dust
Daniel Magner Sep 2013
I'm drawn thin
aches and pains
on the sides of my shins
due to pancake flat feet.
Hunched over as if
I'd taken my age and
added ninety more years
but my body decided to
keep my acne,
how lucky.
Really I just want
to sleep
I'm ready for
eternal peace
because I already
feel worked and worn
enough
to die
Daniel Magner 2013
891 · Aug 2013
MDO
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
MDO
Waves crash
standing tall like
Poseidon's staff
mountain of gold
fog cleared
and worries
disappeared.
Daniel Magner 2013
890 · Feb 2014
Rich Kid
Daniel Magner Feb 2014
At a party a guy said,
"I need a job so I can
go to the bars"
What the ****
I work 40 hours a week
so I can pay for my car
and eat
where are your priorities
am I a minority here,
surrounded by rich kids?
I just want enough to get
a grilled chicken sandwich
***** your beers and
Long Island iced teas
give me enough to
have a roof over my head
and
eat
Daniel Magner 2014
886 · Nov 2013
Slightly Tangy
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
I still love
dousing
your sweater
in oceans of grey
spilling potion on the
sleeve
making it smell of me
wearing it to sleep
each time I don it
I drain a little more
of you
out of my
memory
Daniel Magner 2013
885 · Apr 2013
Deltopia
Daniel Magner Apr 2013
Hands clasped together
for a moment or two,
pulled to the side to
tell my sorrows to
liquid pools of "I know"s
and "It'll be ok"s.
The rest a blur of shouts
shots, blunts, phone calls
brother's voice muted
"She's in a coma."
even with all that I still only
really remember
that one, two second, hand holding
moment.
© Daniel Magner 2013
880 · Dec 2013
Late Bloomer
Daniel Magner Dec 2013
A pink shock
cooled by the turquoise
laying underneath
paint drops
flicked to a fro
revealing road ****
wonder
and a lava sky
Hold still
unravel your mind
So many questions
starting with,
"I like the pink hair,
Why?"
Daniel Magner 2013
877 · Mar 2013
Opening...
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
The morning starts up frosty
my wallet laughing,
"You lost me!"
Streets blank, cruising
wheel spins, gas pedal pushes
gaining speed.
Unlike most, this car needs me
to drive, to come alive
Unless it's stolen, it'll stay
by my side.
Leather seats are no replacement
for skin, artificial heat doesn't
warm me
Just reminds me that I'm lonely.
© Daniel Magner
874 · Oct 2013
Plea
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Hawaii sands
drift in and out
never seen their shores
there is no doubt
I need a vacation
or I'll fracture
crumble over
in stature
and keel
on my knees
universe hear my pleas
Please?
Daniel Magner 2013
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