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Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Stark white was the fir in its blanket of snow
worn down was the deer that hunger laid low
gone were the green things clover and all
buried by the dampness of frigid snow fall
harsh became the forest as vast as the sky
leaving whitetail for miles to do nothing but die

Jan 2015 Nikki

Grounded

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Grounded

I dream of breathing deeply, without any aid or skill
my mind was born sleeping, surrounded by the still
this body's just an anchor, to the world and all I know
it ties me to the precipice, where I think of letting go
in spirit I soar freely, though these words weigh me down
where I organize entropy, to keep my feet on the ground

Jan 2015 Nikki

Stories

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Stories

In the dark of the nighttime, papyrus well lit
these embers of imagination are bright where I sit
by spark of the dreamer whose words I read
dead for many ages yet renewed is the seed
planted in the fertile reaches of my mind
wisdom handed down for posterity to find
I hear plainly these voices, deep as they are sage
and thirst for the knowledge contained in the page

Jan 2015 Nikki

Melancholy

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Melancholy

My melancholy temperament left the stench of death
upon my lovers hands and all the places that we went

Jan 2015 Nikki

Wind

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Wind

With motley colors unbroken you rearrange
until words plain spoken grow and change
unbent by convention unbowed by kings
reinvent a connection with all living things
watch on the sidelines or stand up to shout
following guidelines is not what it's about
own the voice that sprouts from your lungs
it reverberates a choice from the center of one

Jan 2015 Nikki

The Breaking of Ananke

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

The Breaking of Ananke

Crushed by the perplexity of Chronos transparent
Awakened to destiny Ananke, forever adherent
the Titans birthed the Gods without peripheral vision
who against the odds, would free the cycle from its own attrition

Jan 2015 Nikki

Doubt

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

Doubt

If these moments turned to hours before my eyes could blink
would I spend my precious time concerned what others think?
and if the months just spanned the years before I could forget
would I place more import on fears than life lived with regret?
then if this life just becomes death with no meaning left to find
should I let doubt become my focus and the captor of my mind?

Jan 2015 Nikki

The Apprentice

Jan 2015 Nikki

Tiberias Paulk

The Apprentice

I entertain the possibility that nothing's what I know
and watch my culpability in the seeds that I sow
I am letting go everything contained within a name
if I've taught you anything one day you'll do the same
to stand among the stillness as peaks do fall and rise
it's only just the willingness to see with all your eyes
you know you're made of strings and tiny bits of star
you dream of many things but none of these you are
the mind appears a single thread, yet aware of ourselves
it's an illusion based in synergy the deeper one delves

Dec 2014 Nikki

intuitive battle of the roomy ghosts

Dec 2014 Nikki

mushroom faerie

intuitive battle of the roomy ghosts

taking shots of herbal tea
to substantially swallow the floodgates of my thoughts
it had been six months with no word
and i hadn't spoken either
my mouth was a hotel for ghosts
that would float up to my brain and create a resort
the memories of you playing on a 36mm reel over and over

until throwing up wouldn't even purge you out of my system.

finally using your brain you spoke up
and the ghosts vanished.
you are quite the intuitive ghost.

stab my brain with the hope you will be back
the pain increases as responses grow weary,
and your fear swallows your intuitive mind once again.

its a shame to know what you want, ghost:
and never actually go for it.

and that is the true battle.