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 Feb 2017 maxime
Sam
Delicate Flower
 Feb 2017 maxime
Sam
Positive words of wisdom,
spread through the cool, dry air.
Feeling the whispering wind,
brush swiftly across my hair.

Daffodils spreading sunshine,
Roses giving warmth,
Orchids beaming bright
continuing to sway back and forth.

A beautiful lotus gleaming above all,
floating in the sparkling pond.
The sun glistens in the water below,
radiating across, far and beyond.
I finally have happiness-I'm not letting people drag me down.
 Feb 2017 maxime
Wordfreak
A few fleeting words for a faraway friend;
Welcome back.
 Jan 2017 maxime
Sam
Hello Again
 Jan 2017 maxime
Sam
Words of mystery,
have became known.
Words of disguise,
were rightly shown.

Hidden no more,
under the brush they lay.
For everyone knew,
what they planned to say.

Words scribbled down,
on piles of paper.
Every single one,
would diminish and taper.

You call that poetry?
they say with a frown.
Classified as a poet,
you're only a let down.


Words of mystery,
kept concealed.
Words of disguise,
not tightly sealed.

Scribbling away,
at the endless works.
Never moving past,
the broken waterworks.

Here I write away,
those silly old scraps.
And pray dear god,
that I'll never relapse.

Done with the pointlessness
Done with the wrath,
I'm ready to move on,
to journey on the path.

Words of mystery,
closed once more,
Words of disguise,
never like before.
-January 11, 2017-
Before I left, my poetry, was not poetry anymore.
When I first started writing, before this page,  I would rhyme, make the  words lyrical. I would work hours on end on one poem to make it perfect to my liking. It soon turned into me writing one quickly, and posting, without me looking it over. I'm not saying by any means this is wrong to do, because I  still love doing it. I'm saying for myself, a goal is to bring back the lyrical poems, every once and awhile, because, hey, why not.
 Jan 2017 maxime
Amethyst Fyre
I'm seeing the shadows of flames when there was no fire
But there is the sun
I'm drawing patterns between people when there are none
But the poems speak the same words for everyone
I'm not close enough to hold all the stars in their place
But even the sky has to spread itself so thin you can hardly find a trace
Hold me tighter
Hold me tighter

I wish you well my friend
Wishes never save you in the end
 Jan 2017 maxime
Sam
Digging
 Jan 2017 maxime
Sam
You dig yourself into a hole,
you keep digging and digging,
making it impossible to exit.

A rope is handed down to you,
to help you out of the damp darkness.
You grab ahold, and pull.

We find each other on the same level,
Not because I helped you up,
but because you dragged me down.

You pull me down,
farther than I've ever been.
But I keep giving you the rope.

I climb, I reach new heights.
I'm lifted out of the hole,
But you stay behind.

You wonder where I'm going,
You are curious about the light.
You dig deeper
hoping to find light in the ground.

Then you get yourself stuck again,
So I tie and make the rope longer,
and drop it back down for you.

You don't climb,
You pull me down,
Again.

You are lonely down there,
alone in the damp darkness,
and you see vulnerable me.

Vulnerable me,
The one you know will always be there,
Even if you hurt me.

I'll stay,
and you know that.
You take advantage.

Take me for granted,
prized possession
Mishandled and Mistreated.

So go ahead,
drag me into the hole,
drag me deeper every time I try.

One of those times,
the rope may not come down,
because you pulled too hard,
and it snapped

But don't worry,
You'll find someone else to drag,
Someone else to call to your every need.

Someone else will come by,
see the poor innocent victim
and start building the rope.

Because that's what you do,
You're an opportunist,
you get what you want.

So go ahead,
drag me.
drag me to the grave.

Frankly, I don't give a ****.
Who do I care about?
The poor soul who is prey to your next move.

*They won't know what hit them
 Dec 2016 maxime
Amethyst Fyre
Is this what being an adult is?

Staring at objects and them staring back at you
Thinking only that you don't know if you have enough energy left
To put that away, do this, do that

But, somehow, doing it anyway
Because otherwise you know nothing will ever get done

Because it is only you here, by yourself

Is this what being an adult is?
Being too tired to weave feelings into poems
And so listing thoughts out in hollow fashion

Just so you can get to sleep
 Dec 2016 maxime
Sam
320 Miles Away
 Dec 2016 maxime
Sam
Emotional me, cannot bare,
that you, my friend, are not in my care.
I pray and wish that you may be,
Though apparently my lock, does not fit your key.
Yes, our lives are separate, ever so far apart,
But don't worry, my dear, you'll always be in my heart.
Wherever I go, Whatever I see,
I shall always be looking and thinking of thee.
I will never find you, because you are so far.
If you ever get lost, just follow the north star.
I'll be there waiting for you, as cheerful as can be,
And we will lay there smiling, knowing you are finally with me.
Okay reading over this, it sounds like a love poem.
It actually is meant for a long distance friend.
I was watching reuniting videos online today, and it just reminded me of when I visited her over the summer. God, do I miss her so much. 320 miles is a long ways away, I just wish I could hug her sometimes. I know she needs it, and so do I. We are literally two peas in a pod, I can even begin to tell you everything we have in common. I just miss and love her so much. I know she won't be reading this, and I know it is kind of weird to be saying all of this, but it's 11:25 p.m. and I still have most of my homework to do.  So, this is a better use of my time.  That chick has listened to me complain and need advice over the same things over, and over, and over again. I'm surprised she hasn't just blocked me out of her life, it is probably very annoying. Anyways, I had a point to all of my blabber, I think?
Hold onto something special, hold onto that friendship.
She left me 2 years ago, and hell I still tell that girl everything.
Meeting someone new, always having the old, something to always treasure.
Always tell them how much you love them, and how much they mean to you. You never know when, well I won't get into that, just always tell them they are worth something, and, if possible, never let go <3
 Nov 2016 maxime
Alan McClure
Brothers,
let us stand together.
Sisters,
you can stay sitting.

Let us stand
united
by our inability
to stay out in the sun
too long.

In fact,
would someone mind
erecting a gazebo
for us to stand united
underneath?

Thank you.

Brothers,
having proven
that we cannot demonstrate
our superiority
through sport,
rhetoric,
mathematics,
music,
drama,
art,
science,
business acumen
or military might

Let us instead
prove it beyond all doubt
by gathering in groups
and chanting slogans.

Flags are good, too.
Dagnab it,
just look at the way
we can wave those flags.

If that
doesn't qualify us
as the Master Race,
then I don't know what will.

And thus anointed,
let us expunge the world
of miscegenation.
Let us cleanse public radio
of anything other
than Bavarian folk music.
Let us revel
in boiled beef
and wheat-based foods.
Let us return
the mineral wealth of the world
to the tarnished, coloured nations
from whence it came.

Let us reject
foreign mythologies
apart from that one
about Jesus
obviously.

Let us all return
to the country, town,
street
and house
of our birth.

History is with us, brothers.
If there's one thing
it teaches us
it's that nothing should ever change
and empires
never fall.

Sieg heil!
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