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Sydney May 2014
Why do you think
That you're so much better
Why do you think
That you can speak of your own worth

Words ooze from your mouth
a poisonous drip
You bring out the worst in me
Yet I only your best

You speak of how you accomplish
succeed
Then tell me you're falling
Can't cope
Can't breathe

How am I supposed to live with one
as hate-filled and so ignorant
We sleep in the same room
I see you in the night
My thoughts darker than our shutters

I don't claim to be
the best of souls
Yet you do.

You turn over in your sleep
I watch your face squashed into the pillows
Look across the room and see
Hate in my eyes

You tell me how you're depressed
A rough day
Going to **** yourself soon
Do you ever stop to think
how you make me feel
Your lifeline in the dark
You're not interested in me
Your self-obsessions taking over
I can't help but think
You're bad
You're really really bad
You weep into my shoulder
"Why do bad things always happen to good people?"

Well, recently I've been thinking the same thing.
  Mar 2014 Sydney
Seán Mac Falls
Alone I walk, skirting moon dark valleys,

A forest appears, then again disappears,

Call of the owl dims as new sun is rising,

Beyond vast plains, river always gliding.
Sydney Mar 2014
Tick
Tick
Tock
the endless trash of shallow minds
the proceeding clack of dullest desire
long since past;
the need for life.
I lie awake
I count my strife

Dark gas erupts from unnamed faces
they aim for views;
they live for you.
regurgitating facts and lies and worse
tricolons of power in echoing verse
Oh fill my cavernous space with smiles!
empty your dam of "alive" on me
make me wish on wishful schemes
Just stop this monotonous trash
this meaningless hash
of forgotten aims
what we work for; who to blame

Just give me something to admire.
I guess I didn't make sense when I wrote this...just a stream of consciousness that I can't even remember
Sydney Mar 2014
Hair a spiders web
tangled gently on her sloping neck
her fingers red, and soft, and swollen,
childlike;
as if her fingers quested through frozen snow.
forehead high, and wide, and arched
her cheeks so blushed, her eyes so dark.
hips soft and round,
curved into a shy hunch
of shoulders marked by freckles which drifted
from nose to rib.
her stomach warm, her legs sharp
she graces, stumbling through my confined heart.
  Mar 2014 Sydney
Lana
I ooze
      from kitchen
                  to desk
                       to couch
                             leaving
                                    a trail of words
                                                  behind me
:) for all of my fellow poetry slugs...
  Mar 2014 Sydney
Nick Strong
A gentle soul that once,
Trod well, worn paths,
Laid down by matriarchs past.
Now just,
Brittle bones baked by a searing heat,
Bleached beyond a perfect white.
Here lies the last elephant.

© Nick Strong 2014
We have to stop poaching of these and other precious creatures that will be gone unless we act.
  Mar 2014 Sydney
E. E. Cummings
the moon is hiding in
her hair.
The
lily
of heaven
full of all dreams,
draws down.

cover her briefness in singing
close her with the intricate faint birds
by daisies and twilights
Deepen her,

Recite
upon her
flesh
the rain’s

pearls singly-whispering.
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