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Daniel Magner Feb 2015
foggy images invade my sleep
I groggily creep into a new day
then fade, transparent, shade
flirting from bed to bus
bus to desk and back again
am I like the crew seen
by the Mariner in his Rime?
Has the flow of sublime powers
slipped like a frog to water
left me feeling, further and
further?
Daniel Magner Jan 2015
Seething in me
troubles aggravate
so irate
******* A
now I want nothing more
than to be no where at all
ditch this town
give the finger to Long Beach
be a ******* ***
under an over pass
the last stop on a bus
going abso-*******-lootly
no where
Daniel Magner Nov 2014
the staircase wails
at the weight
when I ascend
my feet boulders
blocking any pearly gate
the sheets rend
as I toss and turn
cigarette burns on my forearm
someone snipped the yarn
that kept me connected
I'm not sure I plan
to fix it
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Oct 2014
I feel like I repeat myself
over and over when I write
each poem becomes about
staying up at night
wondering about my lack
of friends and my
heading toward a dead end
but I really can't understand
why I've lived here for three months
and have met no one
besides my two roommates
No one relates or sees that
I'm good company
and it's not like I don't try
I do, I sit next to people and
try and get to know them
I smile, I joke
I be me
but I'm so, so
lonely
it's suffocating
it's heart breaking
it's devastating
when I can't pick up my phone
and call someone to just
kick it
I used to think that
I had to learn to like being alone
I did
now alone time is all I get
what the ****
what the ****
what the ****
what the ****
what
the
****
The writing in this is bland and boring but I need to vent somewhere...

Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Apr 2015
Loneliness rests in my chest
garbed in drab grey
breathing salt water into my blood
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Jul 2014
It's the end of an era,
for the friends I leave
I hope their waters
become fairer
and that the wind
blows them toward
a grand new
adventure
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Mar 2015
In an hour and quarter
I'll be officially older than you
I don't want to
I don't want to

Ed....



Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Feb 2015
I miss all my old friends
Daniel Magner Apr 2015
I'm a wreck
it feels so real
in a facade
It's like breathing underwater
Daniel Magner Dec 2014
Tonight I hope to dream
of riding fog
out to the sea
where the waves will
greet me
swell up
accept me to the deep
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Jul 2014
been alone a lot lately
no new friends to keep me company
maybe when school starts
I'll open up and touch a few hearts
but right now it's just me,
my mind, and my body
which I'm working on every day
you know what they say
look good, feel good
burning calories like fire wood
sweating out toxins like
I know I should
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner May 2015
Bukowski gets me
ham on rye with a little bit
of wanting to be nothing
cheap wine in a trashed hotel
a permanent spell on my
self control
all this time I thought I loved me
but I'm sinking
everything I write is a repeat
**** my novel dreams
**** my poetic schemes
I think it's time to sleep
for about five years
so I can wake up with no fears
and disappear
like each season
Daniel Magner Aug 2014
hacking coughs rack my body
forcing sleep to evade me
just give me some loving company
please
please
please
Daniel Magner Feb 2015
i just want to write
pour out this feeling in my gut
I can't keep it stomached
but a good line
I can't seem to make up
Daniel Magner Sep 2014
one of my roommates
is very similar to a mom
except he doesn't nag to help
he bags when things aren't his way
I gotta say
it annoys the **** out of me
like, he lives with two other people
it requires bending
compromising
learning
not constant complaining
or telling me how to do dishes
despite the fact that I never leave
dishes in the sink
(It's him and the other guy)
plus I worked in a restraunt
I've done a thousand dishes
and I do them better
ugh
I'm just hung over
and complaining
but ******* A
let me be
Daniel Magner Nov 2014
I'm a wreck
I'm ******
I stare in the mirror wishing it was
a truck
I want the headlights
in my blue eyes
I want to sleep with her
in my arms tonight
******* it this *****
I'm friendless here
I'm drunk here
I'm faded and jaded
misplaced and disgraced
I want a fresh start
I want a new brain
With less thoughts and feelings
less staring at the ceiling
Lately all I can imagine is Eddie
and Ryan and Alyssa
she hung herself
Ryan ODed
Eddie in a car crash
Grandpa Jerry in surgery
Grandma Cherry in her sleep
Grandpa Con soon after Eddie's retreat
Come on Death, give me a break
or give me a grave
or give me another beer
so I can disappear
Daniel Magner Jul 2015
The barking dog, disappearing, driving,
ashes, Eddie, Jake,
divorce, holes in souls, constellations,
I don't know, I am Arturo Bandini,
I am the sweatshirt that hugged her arms,
Stolen sweatshirt, smokey sweatshirt,
apologies, broken necklace,
whatever
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Oct 2014
I got to PolySci
a little too high
dark glasses over eyes
even though eye drops
were applied
I tried to reach out
find a friend, maybe two
but nothing came
who knew that the
"You'll make friends quickly" Dan
would fail so miserably
now it's "back of the bus music up"
Dan
who plays guitar four hours a day
and doesn't even care where his phone
is because no one here
will text me
anyway
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Drifted
slipped
fell
from a goal
that could fulfill
my soul
phone call with mom
asked what was wrong
and what course in life
would make me feel
better than alright
before I could think
words formed
"English Teacher"
Daniel Magner 2013

Tears filled my eyes
for awhile now I've felt useless
aimless and wasted
a deadbeat
remembering how I used
to be
Soon I will be applying for
transfer to a four year
university
so I can
teach
Daniel Magner Sep 2013
Nine months
I've been untouched
not a single brush
of passion from lips
or a traced design
from finger tips
I miss it
I miss it
I miss
being
loved
Daniel Magner 2013
My heart goes out to those who feel the same, wether it be more or less than nine months.
Daniel Magner Mar 2014
Sipping sweet
perception altering
juice
on cement stairs
feet bare
stranger down below
approached
honey lipped and
mellow
hour talk
between us two
took my hand
and
my bed
and my body
because we both
decided we wanted
to be
used
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Apr 2014
raindrops fell
as if they knew
I wanted to melt
be a muddy puddle
then evaporate
after a couple days
become a cloud
and
drift away
Daniel Magner 2014
it's been raining
Daniel Magner May 2013
It's been awhile since I've dropped
some truth in this booth.
I've been flip flopping between
hopping up on schemes or popping out
on dreams.
My car gleams as I hit the streets, bass up,
glasses on, cranking to a Dre song.
I can barely bite my tongue with my teeth
to keep my feelings deep.
My amigo's girl is slowly becoming my world
and truth be told I don't mind but I feel I'm
in a hole with the hands of my friend
waiting to strangle me lifeless,
but his woman is priceless.
I can't fight this, and I feel like a cheat
losing pals like water from a can that sprung a leak.
Wetting down the ground around my feet making mud,
trapping me morally like an ethical
rut
oh
****.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner May 2015
I drove today, down black and yellow
snakes, houses lined the banks
of the concrete river the snake
slithered into,
children played and parents watched,
I was revving and gunning and lost,
not on the streets, in sheets that smelled like someone
far behind me, in eye water and lilacs,
or two lips,
Then I parked the car,
shut the door,
and fell to a puddle on my
bedroom floor,
I am great, I am hollow,
I am wretched, I am hollow,
Let me evaporate
Let me evaporate,
please,
Let me evaporate
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Aug 2014
on the cusp of being Vegas bound
with a car full of old friends, howling like hounds
yet somehow it hangs heavy on my heart
as if this is the last time that things will feel
almost like the used to back in highschool
and ever after the sounds of our laughter
will fade further and further
as we drift apart
like leaves resting
on water
this is something that gives me much anxiety because I love them, they were there for all the bad and good, they have no need to speak words when I let it slip that, "I miss Ed" or "You guys are the reason I'm not dead" they can just look at me, nod, give a hug and I know they know what I'm feeling, that they care. I'm just worried about them turning into old photos that I talk to but that don't talk back, ya know? I'm worried about saying goodbye, instead of see you soon....

Daniel Magner 2014
If you read this on a phone turn it horizontal so that the lines look right, or don't, I just write the words, it's up to you to decide how you want to read it
Daniel Magner Aug 2013
Does my name
still fall from your lips?
And if it doesn't,
do you miss
its
structure?
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Oct 2017
Roused from sleep by the sound of sobbing,
I reached out for my sweet,
wondering over the wetness in her eyes.
Her cries filled the dark room
as she shook.
"His face, his face," she mutters into her hands.
That crook, that fiend,
that stain on society.
He is unconcerned, free, happy,
while she has terrors, anxiety.
I want to tell her that one day
he will get what's comin' to him,
that, inside, he knows he is ****,
that he will suffer in some way.
maybe today, maybe tomorrow,
maybe next year,

But then, my heart crumples in fear,
because there is no guarantee.
Instead I mumble.
"If we see him,
I will punch him in the face."
Violence with violence,
is there any other way?
Daniel Magner 2017
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
Back and forth
swapping *** stories
showers, back seats
slow or hurried
Then they look at me
I shrug and sip
my beer
They bend their ears
wanting something juicy
any version
but my quiet gulps
spell out
V-i-r-g-i-n
© Daniel Magner 2012
Daniel Magner Dec 2013
Electronic beep
signaled the beginning
words rushed past my teeth
pulsing with hope
as my heart stood tall
but three days
sloshed by
with no return
call
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Apr 2014
I am lava
as it hits the sea,
hardened,
with my molten heart
a memory.
Daniel Magner 2014
VR6
Daniel Magner Jul 2013
VR6
I wonder if my car
would miss me
if I found a soul that fits me.
I'd have no need of
late night drives, just me and
the machine, grinding, smoking.
The worn down, heated seats
holding me till I catch my breath.
Would it curse me, saying,
"I always knew you'd leave me
I was just a car to you
nothing more,
nothing less"
or would it thank me for
the good runs
but finally get to
rest.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jan 2020
Fine sand grains coat my toes
as pure, crystal waves break,
playful, ancient, against the shore.

The swaying plink of reggae guitar
bounces over the sand,
lulling a laze in my core
then emanates out across the beach,
past the break,
and out to sea.
Daniel Magner 2020
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
Drift wood fences
protected the garden
complete with iron gate
and a little man
whose whole life is to wait.
The frame, sleeping against
the fence
has an empty mind
much like mine
kept safe with ivory fences
and organic gates
envious of the Waiter
who gets to stay here forever
and
                            wait...
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jun 2014
It's your last night here
but instead of sleeping
you have to wake up from dreaming
let reality snuggle in
as I get up to leave
fortunately or unfortunately
my keys and wallet are on your floor
so just one moment
in the morning
I'll be back
for a little bit more
just a little
bit
more
Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Dec 2013
Chapped lips
icicle finger tips
this is what I've become
my own eclipsed sun
it's hard to venture
on
and
on
and
on
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Mar 2015
It hangs from my shoulders,
not torturous, but not forgiving,
my camping chair groans
under our combined weight
in the evening,
quite the opposite of merriment
it is never fleeting
a constant cloak
partially soaked with choked words,
a strikingly dissonant chord
accompanied by a melody
"It's high time to hit the road again
it's high time you leave."
Daniel Magner 2015
Daniel Magner Dec 2013
I guzzled down a cigarette
even though I "quit"
three weeks in
had me going strong
four weeks had me sayin'
"****, nothing makes sense"
along with a favorite song
one slip turned into
a repeat
bad habit
Daniel Magner 2013

**** it...
Daniel Magner Mar 2013
I hate gravity.
All it's ever done is hold me
down

I hate gravity.
If it knows what's good for it,
it'll bring my chopper
down.
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jul 2016
My heart is a watering can
with patched up holes.
There is rust around its edges
but it's full to the brim.
I've poured it out
over dry dirt;
nothing ever sprouted
save a few shoots that soon shriveled.
I refilled it each time, trying a new.
Finally, I've tipped it,
sprinkling over my love for you,
and to my deepest delight
a garden grew.
Daniel Magner 2016
Daniel Magner Jul 2013
I tried to use
the sound of the shower water
to meditate and calm my waters
instead fell further
into the waters
of my
head
Daniel Magner 2013

having fun with my writing a little.
Daniel Magner Mar 2014
this last week
has me toasted and beat
sweatpants, same **** sweat shirt,
untied shoes on my feet
I dreaded every time I had go out
and cried with joy
each time I was back
in my
sheets
the title actually comes from me trying to mix the words "week" and "year" I pronounced it "w-ear"

Daniel Magner 2014
Daniel Magner Feb 2017
The wind howled after the divorce,
debris flew about in hordes
and I simply couldn't hold my myself in place.
Sure, I learned to navigate treacherous terrain
with sure-footed grace,
Everyone around weathered the winds
with the same style, same half smile,
all saying, "It will just be just a little longer."
Years after I'd given up, become numb to the rain,
you walked by with an umbrella,
on your way somewhere, seeking more permanent shelter.
You stopped and offered for me to join you
under the umbrella's cover,
even though it was a tight squeeze for two.
Gentle, powerful, miniscule, monumentous,
I love you.
Daniel Magner 2017
Daniel Magner Nov 2013
Once a week
I get caught up
in thought
and lost
so lost
What is this all
for?
Why bother with
a sandwich shop
community college
and being poor?
the only thing I understand
is how to write
and
play chords
the rest of this
seems
so
.
.
.
meaningless
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jul 2013
In the past week
the same question has
been posed to me,
"Are you okay? You seem off"
at least three times.
But I feel as if my actions
stayed steady,
maybe I've been like this
so long
others are starting to see
that my heart is
heavy.
Daniel Magner 2013

but I don't want them to...
Daniel Magner Feb 2013
When the weight
on your chest is gone
what do you do?
Anything you
want
© Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Oct 2013
Anxiety
has been
creeping in
under the door
and seeping into
my floor
so each step
I conquer
poisons
my toes
Daniel Magner 2013
Daniel Magner Jan 2020
A rocky, wavy buffet
served out on the water today.
Waiting on the whales,
but their hiding,
or sleeping,
or swimming away.
In the misty distance waits Diamond Head,
looking out on us,
unassuming.
Take a dive
in the Hawaii ocean.
Daniel Magner 2020
Daniel Magner Oct 2017
I should see a foot doctor.
My knees ache,
and it ain't like I've been
standing up for myself too much
or sitting down too long.
But they sing their song of pain
again, and again, and again.

I don't pen anything anymore,
maybe a jot there or a line here,
so am I a writer?
How long does it take a "while"
to become a "used to"?
I'm no Du Fu.
I'm no Li Bai.
I should say goodbye,
smile and wave as writing
passes me by.
Written in a time of doubt.

Daniel Magner 2017
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
Daniel Magner Nov 2012
It's all about that
                                                                ­               Whump!
It shakes the chest so
hard you can't catch your
                                                            ­                    Whump!
breath
Yup, that's it I flew the nest
                                                            ­                    Whump!
Making my own plans but
I can't pull away from that
                                                            ­                    Whump!
I'm an alien on a spaceship
charging up that engine
                                                          ­                      Whump!
Steering straight toward that sound like
                                                            ­                    Whump!
I hunger for that sub noise
rumbling, I'm addicted to that
                                                            ­                     Whump!
© Daniel Magner 2012
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