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May 2016 · 400
Edges
Sydney May 2016
Show me all your sides
Let me trace your angles with my tongue
And bite your edges with my enamelled teeth.
Show me all the ways in which you curve
And I'll demonstrate my own contorted corners.
Lay your blueprints on the table
Let me wonder at the architecture of you.
Trace your plans onto thin paper
And we can tessellate;
until you're happy at last .
Feb 2015 · 2.5k
Paradise
Sydney Feb 2015
Paradise
A lonely place
Inhabited by few

As much as is a perfect space
A location with a view
Paradise is found within yourself
Or even in another
Paradise is more than most,
A moment found with few.

Paradise is here
Paradise is there
Paradise is me when all the lights are
Faded glare
Paradise is the shaking in your limbs
When you've found your own release
Paradise is the tightening of pupils
When they rest upon their love
Paradise is the feeling inside
The impenetrable barrier
Between you and the rest
Paradise is all I have inside me
Paradise is my best.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 517
Pacific Love
Sydney Feb 2015
Fat waves roll across my painted toes
You hand holds my waist
Staring into the deep sea
I cling to you
My beauty,
My savior,
Your breath mingles with mine
Salty air ***** between parted lips
You warm touch lingers on my winded-beaten cheeks
Sweet-smell of hair pressed against my neck

All these moments
These longing for the times
Feel new soft cotton against my skin
Old cashmere jumper warm against your  chest
All these things I desire yet never have experienced
I just wish for a love that I can hold close
On these summer Ohope nights
With pohutukawa petals drifting across our bed
And the Maunganui mountains cupping us dear
And your warmth holding me
Until bright New Zealand morning.

All in good time,
Cupid says
All in good time.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 396
Tripped and fallen
Sydney Feb 2015
Look at you
Loud girl
Yet quiet now
You're kneeling down,
on your knees
at the hands of a devil,
You wept and cried
But still you kept it to yourself.
Pray soft,
How could one so lovely as you,
fall down and be caught only by darkness?
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 443
In Waterloo station
Sydney Feb 2015
Specks of life
Crawling as frightened flies
Around a sugar-spill
Opened mouths lead to empty souls
Internal clattering lead to outside murmurings
Sighs and mumbles of a life-still-lived
Legs dancing in uncontrolled hustle
Interlocking and swerving
Searching and swirling
Eye contact is made and broken in an instant
Lives to be lived that could have been
Friends to be loved that can't ever be
All move;
As if in some erratic dream
Rushing towards their next tomorrow.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 369
Ark of God
Sydney Feb 2015
Ancient dust and ruin leading
A trail long lost but not forgotten
A silent few hold memory of the glory in highest regard
Lost beauty of a morphed race
Covenant high from god still lingering in our world-view

If we cannot get by
Without the new age
Ushered in by ancient gold
Then how can we expect
To have faith in a world
Without such beauty as the Ark of God
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 638
The reservations
Sydney Feb 2015
The reservations
Between my heart and the next
Are wide enough for long tables
Lengthy rows of empty seats.
The reservations
Between my heart and the next
Are plain for all to see.

The lingering of distance
The shielded minds
With guarded words
Litter all my past relations
And doom the next before they start.
The reservations
Between my heart and the next
Are plain for you to see.

I shut my city walls
My drawbridge, gated up
I let no friend nor enemy in,
No peace can slip between these bricks.
The lingering of distance
The shielded minds
with guarded words
Litter all my past relations
and doom the next before they start.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 966
Constellations I
Sydney Feb 2015
Constellations;
Racked through brain
Like waves on the sand
Pin-pricked entities;
Cloves on an orange.
The constellations of my heart
Are nothing but veins
Valves pushing and chugging
Squirting sickly sap
Through the eroded chambers
Of a worn out heart.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 537
Constellation II
Sydney Feb 2015
Piano dances on ears
Melody adorning perception
a Panoramic view of sky
Dome-like;
Much closer here on the Islamic whale-road
Constellations span the air like
Insects floating on an oil slick.
One point
Is pin-pricked out.
Pinnacle of earth
This, the center of our world.
Endless nations oscillate on a shared axis
Waves and space
Are flung out to sea
Cloud and man
Fall away to nothing
And nothing
Nothing but this spinning top of sky
Earth, hairs, leaves, sunburn,
All is captured by this.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 1.0k
Papa
Sydney Feb 2015
Much greater it is
to live and love as I do
than to have my whole life dictated
by an unknown creator
who already plans my fate
and leaves me no choice
to seek it for myself.



If this God is omniscient and benevolent,
why did he leave us live in painful ignorance for so long?
I guess I'm having troubles with my tethered Gods,
the one that lingers just far from view
that see's not fit to glance upon my face
or even breathe upon my mirrored soul
forgive me Father
for I know not what I do to hurt you
when you still have yet to reach out the hand
to feed my withered soul
a hand which I have yet to bite
to taste the suckled-fruit
of our heavenly father.
Feb 2015 · 450
Haleine II
Sydney Feb 2015
Closeness of wind
and loss of breath
freedom of mountain-top
lurching under liberated soles
the span of sky
lingering around;
one soul alone
set free
let go
prison left
and trap escaped.
Kiss of breeze
and earth
and wind
and life
and all that is held good
all that was has now broken
from enforced captivity,
lies here,
alone,
at the feet
of a want-less wanderer
lies here in the eyes
of a fear-less traveler.

Not lost for long
a calmer beat
cannot stop the thrum
of unending humanity
of immortal prosperity
yet still,
I gulp the alpine air,
and long for whats to come.
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 349
Haleine
Sydney Feb 2015
Fluid air like streams
of water
skims down throat
and neck
filling emptied lungs
of parched humanity
with life-breath
gently gasped
like dust
of an angel
drawn in as quiet
as childhood;
first breath;
a life less languished
Blood-bled
with silken respite
that enters in
moistens with redeeming ebb
of unconscious inhalation
a deeper depth of daylight
pouring into raucous chest
fluid air like streams
of water
replenishing what was once broken.
very much a stream of consciousness. I guess trying to describe the feeling  of having an inner haven. (unedited)
Feb 2015 · 465
The beach
Sydney Feb 2015
world arches back
relaxes into new found worth
a painted dust
falling from hard-baked earth

specks of life
lie scattered round
like soft shells on the sand

waves lap at shore
to taste its past
and swallow hidden ecstasy

the beach lies rough
a dusky place
a heaven for the beaten
but lingering on
like sailors songs
are thoughts
of sweet deliriums.
thoughts for the last lines?
(unedited)
Feb 2015 · 451
Scratched youth
Sydney Feb 2015
Cut-shallow once
twice
pressing blade into taught flesh.
third
another,
gentle kisses from a blunted knife
barely etched into young skin;
undulating ridges of a bruised mind
left like the footprints of a lonely traveler.
soft compulsions
to bring blade to body
lead to eyelash scratches
scattered on palest wrist.
The innocent embrace of a weapon
on a jaded soul.
unedited
Feb 2015 · 513
Drink
Sydney Feb 2015
words splash
from open lips
filling dry mouths
with moist whisperings
of fluid dragged down gullet
gurgling into empty stomach

full with language
like a plugged bath
I gargle your poetry
let it slip into my bloodstream
lessening the unquenchable thirst.
unfinished/edited
Aug 2014 · 299
Time and Time again
Sydney Aug 2014
Old scars
pulled apart by new onslaughts.
Aug 2014 · 195
Untitled
Sydney Aug 2014
And I'm scared to write
putting pen to page
in case the floor gives out
as well as my brain.
Jul 2014 · 346
Stolen fruit (II)
Sydney Jul 2014
as if you could shrink,
one so violent and so vibrant,
You exploded in my hand,
as soon as I held you.
You swept through my dreams,
before I even knew you.
Jul 2014 · 332
Hanging fruit (I)
Sydney Jul 2014
You masquerade like you're shrinking
falling backwards
in the half formed light
yet I see your eyes
through the blackness
blinking fiercely
watching all the people go by,
a flicker crosses your tongue
a spark of recognition
thrown from the flames in your head
licking at your eye *****;
rolling backwards.

As if you could shrink,
one so violent and so vibrant,
You exploded in my hand,
as soon as I held you.
You swept through my dreams,
before I even knew you.
Jul 2014 · 381
Alone in life's fight
Sydney Jul 2014
I stand
amongst the scorching desert storm
eyes rising above the mist
of rock and sand
I lookout
seeing a mire
of improbable outcomes
lives lead that need
things answered
to be achieved.

the sand lashes
against my skin
ripping at bits
of sunken flesh.
Old scars, pulled apart
by new onslaughts.

I see
through the turmoil
a haven that could be mine
it glimpses;
and I stumble
weak eyes only seeing
the howling wind
and gasping dirt.

So I crawl
hand and knees
and foot over elbow
ceaselessly grappling
for the haven of success
Sydney Jul 2014
To hate a thing
That one holds dear
Not to love a thing
From afar.
No, nearest despising is what is queer.
Angel washes, love absolves.
You hate them as they feed your soul

It's love!
She shouts
Not you or I
I would not know what mysterious force
Binds us, two girls.
Yet I do know
I do love her
Yet her I loathe,
She needs me as I feed her soul.
Unfinished
Jul 2014 · 355
Untitled
Sydney Jul 2014
I want to leave my hairs on your pillow case,
And my perfume in your wind.
I want my fingertips
To smudge the glasses in your cabinet,
And my feet
To ***** your white tile floors.

I want my indent
To remain in your bed
And my heart on your chest,
For all the night lingers
You'll be my rest.
To be edited, thought id just get it down now to get started
Jun 2014 · 449
Death of a Child
Sydney Jun 2014
The death of a child
is not a solemn event
it's an event of crying
of shrieking
and weeping

Teenagers mourn for their lost friend
mothers stand and lay them to rest.
The unthinkable has happened
no words to describe
when a teenager dies
the world herself cries

Nothing to say
no words or prayer
nothing to hear this sad time around
her life will be celebrated
her death will be mourned
But still the hole lingers
where her bright life once shone

Among the living will her memories stay
her life of joy and inkblot in everyone's history.
She lived as one should
a child and a girl
carefree and loved
She roamed all the world.

And now she is dead.
And there are no words.
But teenagers crying,
And parents doing the worst.
RIP Emma.
May 2014 · 1.0k
Softness
Sydney May 2014
Softness  
Trickles gently down bone
Deep ache of touch on quivering leg
His hand shivers down my spine
Softly landing like a bluebird
On my twisted hip.
Warm palm stretches
From navel to rib
Pulls me out from inside.
Nose pressed into my shoulder-neck
Taste of breath on collarbone
Fingertips linger
Sweetly feeling the softness of knees
Eyes drizzle honey-love on me
I wallow in his sunshine-warmth.
May 2014 · 768
Hypocrisy
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 · 611
Untitled
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
Mar 2014 · 727
Alexandra
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 · 1.0k
Her
Sydney Mar 2014
Her
Her anxiety
              An ocean
                           A wave of emotion
                                                     Rips through her
                                                                          All too often.

It trickles through her everyday
seeping into cracks in her core
small springs turn to gushing floods
in a split second.

She crashes down on me
and I stand
the force of her tide
drowning in her doubt.

Holes eroded by the constant drip;
rapids ricochet through her body
her mind awash;
thoughts tumbling in the whirlpool.

She crashes down on me
and I stand
drenched in her
a lighthouse in the storm.
Mar 2014 · 470
Past the time of day
Sydney Mar 2014
Past the time of day ,
when modern things are put away,
when the forest of the night,
swallows whole the waking forests light
with an exulting mass of chorusing wishes
a delicate hush of silent kisses;
Plays gentle on the ears of sin,
and rejoices in the gentle din,
of mother natures flowing wings

If you could only hear
the wistful natter
the softly tread patter
of charming creations, their tiny beams,
that carefully waltz the verge of dreams

you would understand the peaceful throng
of dusky crawlers, their gentle song
their deafening cry, your soothing balm
as nature hold you in her palm

So stand, gentle brother
soft and calm
hold loving near the peace and charm
and wander now
the streets of dark
and let her dreams
engulf your heart.
Mar 2014 · 315
Traumfabrik
Sydney Mar 2014
Call, Call
you halcyon beast
you maiden of dirt
come wrap me in
your black embrace
darkness
calls me
from the sunset abyss
I clasp the void
I taste its bliss
                  
                            Fall
       ­                            so soft
                                              cracks of nothing
                                              flush of peace
                                              rips through bones
                                              wash of calm
                                                      of numb.
                               Chocolate hatred through eyes of dust.

Rough sheets
Smell of lavender
I lift my
cheek
touch of wind
from open window
I feel
the comfort seep
through my whole

I am at peace
In my own berth.

— The End —