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Erica Chen Jul 2010
Now that poetry has found me at last,
it feels like I can die any minute without it being in vain.

A poem is a poet's way to be a rebel,
to write is to live forever when nothing else matters.

How fragile is a poet's inner soul -
the one you condemn, rip out, and abandon to the sea.

I used to think I was dead already, someone without a voice
and then you came to me like love, without me even choosing

These words that fall from my pen each day
connect me to more than who I am, more than I could ever be.

And now I wonder, when I write my final word
take my final breathe, will you truly know me for who I really was?
Exquisite Corpse

Surrealists liked to explore the mystique of accident and one ways of doing this was by creating an exquisite corpse.

They did this by handing out a note with a single phrase of writing on it. Each of the other surrealists would add a phrase to the note. But each person only saw the phrase written by the person who handed the note to them. The other phrases would be folded so they weren’t visible and once each person had written a phrase the paper note would be unfolded and the poem read out loud to the group.

Being surrealism, nothing is set in stone, everything can be changed. This exquisite corpse was created by Frank Lambert and Erica C.

Hope you enjoy… :)
Erica Chen Jul 2010
It takes a pencil to write a poem,
  a piece of white paper, a leaking
mind, a cup of tea, to hold.
  And a poem is what makes a poet.
To be Continued...
Erica Chen Jul 2010
There’s a crevice in my heart,
along with an exhausted smile,
Hiding in the darkness, and when
no-one sees, it weeps.

Then you come along, silently,
yet it trembles my world.
My heart was breathin’ so lonely,
now I know this emptiness can’t be fulfilled.

And I stop hatin’, right at the very
moment you look into my eyes.
That’s when I realize, you can’t
have a broken heart without believing in Love.

Time Passes by, Beauty Changes,
Love Faded, and People Die –
You’ll always end up being Alone.
I think you should love me.
I need some Serious Poetry Technique to Smooth this Piece.
So Poets, a little help here?
Erica Chen Jul 2010
You really believe –
If you don’t love me back, I would stop caring.
  Caring for not to care anymore.
If you told me to stop loving you, I would walk away.
  And I’ll still be loving you secretly from distance.
If you disappear, I would be better off without you.
  I shall have no life to live, all broken.
If I forgot you, I would stop thinking about you.
  You’ll always be my every Sweetest nightmare.
If we never met, I would see through happiness.
  Hell, what’s the point of it then?
After David Oliveras' Movie * Watercolors *
Erica Chen Jul 2010
You wish not to take my heart
  when you die –
Lying on a hospital bed, you pray
  while holding my hand.
You wouldn’t take my heart, you
  can’t, I’ve lost it long before I
knew I am going to lose you.
   I didn’t say anything.

Death is hard, saying Goodbye is
  harder, but Letting go,
it is the hardest.
  I don’t see how I can.

They said there’s nothing left
  for me to do but pray.
Except I don’t believe in God,
  yet I hope you enter Heaven.
You told me it’s a place of lonely
  peace, and you will love
me again upon my shoulders.
  I didn’t feel anything.

You’re not an angel, but you’re
  the Closest thing to Heaven
I’ve ever touched.
  I wish I believed.
Love without Religion, let's do this.
From now on.
Erica Chen Jul 2010
Way down in the Water, I
   stand still.
As you want me to,
   as Always.
Hide, and Survive.

Tired, so exhausted I
   am now.
Don’t mess it up, just no,
   would you?
Slip, keep silent.

He ain’t got no good,
  he ain’t got no right,
he ain’t got no chance,
  to pick on my Brother.
Make it easier.

Take a good, nice sip
   of you.
It will never, in a long time,
   be enough.
Slowly, be aware.

You just can’t see it,
   can you?
He just wouldn’t listen,
   would he?
You need no to ruin.

Dream it Beautifully, with
   no sense of dread.
Tend a Rabbit, get a
   Garden full with pretty
softy things and,
   you’re with me.

Have it come true, please,
   in a world like this,
with a guy like you,
   in so many ways, I
somehow speechless.

Help, live it out loud
   please help.
I want this I want this,
   life could be so cruel
Still, with you I am
   safe, as a sleeping
Child in a cave.
   You’ve found me.

Because I got you and,
   you got me.
We got each other
.

As Innocence fade away, all
   you have left, son,
is guilt, and there’s no
   turning back.
Unsavable, this time.

The very Scent of her
   takes away the
Smell of the Bunk House.

Shut it, don't ever,
   you can never lay a
sight on her.
   Take it in, for it’s
Not just another hell
   I’ve given you.

Mean to be lost, him,
   alone from the beginning.
Can’t deny so,
   you choose to destroy.
Loudly, **** him.

I think I knowed from
   the very First
.
Thought I could stop, but
   it happens anyway.
Run, not again.

Love me, if you’re still
   capable to do it.
As all these time, you
   know what is the
Best for me,
   don’t you?

What’s now, I’ll listen,
   I really will, and
have them Remember
   like I never have.
Leave, let’s not.

As you want to,
   As you want me to,
As you want me to want us to,
   Choose, to see
the Truth in you.

You hear it, can
   you see? Just, close
Your eyes and imagine.
   Bang.
After John Steinbeck's Novel * Of Mice and Men *
Erica Chen Jul 2010
I**

Does reality scare you somehow?
  I know what it does to me.
Dreamless, braindead,
  mocking me like a Prophet to the past.
And I ****** up.
From my Poetry Suit  *Slices of Poem*
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