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262 · Sep 2017
Awkward Star Man
Paul Donnell Sep 2017
I went to the edge I came from the center
wanted to broaden my perceptions
but i came tumblin down
I crashed in a grove
the faires ran from the alien
told stories of a star man

Every word I spoke floated up above
traveled in the leaves never heard by anything
I put together a story that I wanna tell
move my hands and the gnomes start to yell
fear in their eyes as I tell em I love em
I'm always lost in translation
they ran from the alien
told stories of a star man

I donned a cloak made of willow and marsh
tried bein a ghost if im already scary
maybe some one will take pity
im wordless im airy.

Alone and self centered awkward and cratered
the cliffs to high
I shouldn't be here.
262 · Dec 2016
Possessed
Paul Donnell Dec 2016
My brain is a buzzy fuzzy ******* chaos crashing lashing vestibules at the fringes of cathdreals self imposed upon the walls scribble muddle tuddling funnels skating elating trying to get this and all any of all to make sense. Idosyncracies is all i am composed of as i compost tangents into piles of 25 combonation summurize the total sum of more ****** tons of love covered ****

The pots spinning centifrugal mixing the frugal.
unicorn horn exposed and raw vibrations painful magic casting shamful spells to massivly masochistic split up shelves organized in arms legs and brains. jars of letters jars of get better tools and drills to dull the silence, blood rushing ears crushing pressuring waves caressing lessons of other rappers listening listening lisntening loading up vocabulary cant **** canaries ******* hell here it goes again brain flow wild hell bells crashing colliding collapsing pillars supporting the sub laminate mantles buildings built cracking the crust devils in a pretty suits slitting throats of these ***** holy ******* hell i cant ..
Im possessed
.
257 · Oct 2017
Gate crasher
Paul Donnell Oct 2017
I crashed the gates of heaven
My guts on silk and linen
I am an astronaut
****
254 · Dec 2016
Steezy
Paul Donnell Dec 2016
I feel so mac and cheesy
Smokin ciggarettes and wheezy
I forget that im a werido
I **** the flow.
Well
Oh come on
yes i know
that i disurpt everybodies flow
walk in a room talk a bit
and try to find a place to sit
Awkward and shaking all my leaves stirring up the honey bees i feel my tounge is being stung
That was an awkward hug..
****
But give me a skateboard and a hill ill bounce to music and just chill
Wave my arms i ride the waves
Gravity pullin my way
the wind it flows in funny ways
I feel at peace.
Hit the bottom silde and stop
Awkward stuff it catches up.
254 · Jan 2018
Goodbye
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
My heart is just paper mache, silver strings and georgia clay
A mass that drips and sings sad sad songs

You plucked the strings now out of tune
You said said goodbye we're done its through
So I left it on the tracks and walked away

It gave me wings and clipped them too
the feathers fall and fly to you
Jealous of the bits that float away

And the birdies say hey
gonna peck out your brains
You stupid ******* whatd you think

The crows they ate and now they know, my heart lies hidden and over grown
Maybe theyll take flight and eat that too

My gut it has some words for you but misery will follow suit
Something wicked always comes this way

It hit me like artillery from far away my ears still ring cant find escape in sleep its my dreams

And the birdies say hey gonna peck out your brains, you stupid ******* whatd you think

I break down put it on repeate cross the country break my feet always walking walking walking pain

While the sky was blue I thought of you
Sky turns red and the sun is dead
Skys now black and the moon it laughs

im just wax and Ice alive, candles melt but i survive
**** man,is all I do

But i am strong, or so im told
Not strong enough to face the feelings that i hold
I hold inside
Please hold my hand
I think i need help
Lettin go of the ******

My heart is just paper mache, silver strings and georgia clay
Lost it on the tracks
Not sure its ever comin back.

And the birdies say hey, gonna peck out your brains, you stupid ******* what you think?
This hurts
243 · Sep 2017
Anchored Tight
Paul Donnell Sep 2017
I got my boots laced up tight and i guess that means i got somewhere to go,
But im nailed to the wall.
Legs bounce and dance eager to get it on but i cant rip myself from this frame.

I decorate this place every weekend a peice of modren art, weird,
Whats it mean to you

The whiskey glazed sunrise hit my bleary eyes and water poured from my face and i tried desperatly to keep it from watering my roots, i dont want to be anchored to this room
I want to float.

Cirrus clouds above could hold my damaged head and the albatross criss cross contrails and sing just for me i might finally sleep.

But i tap my feet, three times, close my eyes and im still here. Mouths motion mourning and id decipher the damage but my codex is broken, the language spoken is one unfamiliar and the toll for imagining somethings wrong is something finally is.

If i said everything's fine could you pick up on that lie?
Maybe drop me a line, static in my ears cotton in my lungs yes im on the porch contimplating bugs.

If i dont make sense its because i just dont.
Its simple,
I might be manic corrosive, eating litmus paper and dreading christmas.
I wish i knew what the **** i was talking about
242 · May 2017
A letter
Paul Donnell May 2017
When did you start dreaming? When did it become that the stars struck something beyond inspiration. When they started to talk? Low vibrations from eons away the caterpillar trials soon gave way to solitude and then I guess you grew wings.

I had dreams long before you did. Where are my wings? This cotton field, this mountain that looms, these spring flowers that wash the passes with crimson have become something of a prison.

I heard you found something. It glows and shimmers and you can hardly hold it in your soft pink hands. You tired eating it, naively tried ******* some strange power but I heard it bit you back. News of this glowing person comes in from dusty drifters from lands I wish I could see. I take them with all my sense and taste briefly where they're from.  Sometimes your light is washed upon them.

The days have become forever here. The sun broke I think, or maybe it's tired of sharing the sky. It hangs low and turns everything this strange vibrant purple grey and all the moon flowers have died. Does the sun still work where you are?
236 · May 2017
A moment
Paul Donnell May 2017
Murmur languid passion
Crave, convulse caress
This flicker of fever
For you, wet ecstasy
Could give shudders
or,
luscious agony
235 · Nov 2016
WoAh
Paul Donnell Nov 2016
My hands are shaking again
My heart is racing and then
My mind races and bends
Anxiety is the buzzing bashful brother of exitment and bravado
Lashes out in spazzy gestures
And sends my head space on a trip to burning pastures
Bragadosious i am not
Bed ridden sad sappy ******
Pent up and
Woah
My thoughts derail again
Where the hell are my friends
They didnt go anywhere
Its all in my head

Twitchy turbulance tackling full force into tubluar pathways my blood
Is
Screaming
233 · Jan 2018
Birdy
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
Sometimes I try too hard,
Sometimes I get confused,
But I pack my bags and I hit the road,
Im a bird with leather shoes.

Well I know my magic spells
And the cards they tell me well,
They tell me I'll have wings to fly
On the winds that I do find.

These birds will know my name,
As my wanderlust remains,
I follow crows as they do know
Where treasures lie and wait

These roads are very long
And the rivers are so wide
But ill cross them too and ill see you
in the moments i pass on by

so if you miss me while im gone
Remember this old song
Look towards the moon im looking
too
My light it will find you
228 · May 2017
Tension in distance.
Paul Donnell May 2017
I can not sleep.
My eyes are peeled back sixteen layers deep.
One hundred miles away I feel nails,
Itching to dig into the smooth soft flesh of my shoulder blades.
228 · Mar 2017
That one two.
Paul Donnell Mar 2017
Someone stitch bells onto my body.
So ya'll can hear me coming.
That..one..two..one..two
Those who live for loving
I know how you carry
That..one..two..one..two
If your heart looks like mine
A honeycomb home for lovers once known
How that pain in your chest starts to feel like ow~
How home is a person never once was a place
How ya suffer on but still bright with love on your face
and ya carry on
That..one..two..one..two..
If ya feet look like mine
Blistered up from that long walk
That..one..two..one..two
If ya tear skies into roadmaps
A sunrise is just somewhere new
That..one..two..one..two
Well I know how it is
How whiskey starts tasting like a best friend
How ya throw up the blues and wish for a quick end
How ya get up with blood and ice in your eyes
How ya look up and throw a bird to the sky
like *******
That..one..two..one..two.
Get on with it. Keep on keepin' on
Hold close; hold tight whats yours
even for a night
You gotta love the light
Cause around the next bend
The past tells you Darkness ahead
So hold tight.
Love what you got right now
Cause pretty soon
Its gonna be
that..one..two..one..two..
227 · Aug 2017
on the porch
Paul Donnell Aug 2017
**** me alive.
Realize the candy cane gum drop revelations.
A cigarette for you,
I'll take those daring eyes.
Exhale soft,
the smoke catches the thick Georgia air.
Grey wisps you whisper into my hair and clothes.
Your fingers dance to the flesh of my neck.
You say..
I like the way you smell..
and breath deep everything you just expelled...

Did you even know me?
224 · Jun 2019
Love Letter In The Cold
Paul Donnell Jun 2019
Hello again, of course, I miss you dearly. The weather at the corners of the world looks bleak and without reprieve. Nothing would warm these cold bones more than you, wrapped up in my arms. I fear I will not make it to summer and of course this letter I write to you wont even make it out of this humble shack I've built as the Snow has me barricaded in. I can't even leave to so much as hunt for my next meal. Writing to you is all that keeps me sane. Maybe one day someone will find this letter along with all the others. It's possible I suppose.
This foolish man is still very much in love with you. As my body turns to dust I hope by then you've found someone else to love. Someone you can grow old with and watch the stars burn out. I fear this is all I have left.
I won't make it till the morning.
I love you forever,
Stephen Spice *



How can I go on, my dreams are dead.
The reaper beats the gong.
Upon his wings old and cold.
Upon his scythe, slick with soul.
I know he comes for me this day.
I am finally going home.
222 · Oct 2017
I am bloody
Paul Donnell Oct 2017
From start to finish i am ******
eyes red capillaries broken
can you break me
you berate me
thos second self that speaks in solar winds
blasting apart my ******* head
I blink
the star dust mixed with red
you follow me to bed
whiskey cant silience
Bright lights blink twice for no
shut up
i want to be alone
Manic
222 · May 2014
Violent Dreaming ~ Haiku
Paul Donnell May 2014
My dreams are violent
Dogs of war are at my feet.
They feed on my fears.
.
220 · Apr 2018
Wip
Paul Donnell Apr 2018
Wip
I am in love with something that can never really be met.
Shes always standing just where the horizon falls into forever. Riding the sun solemnly down and then laughing as she rises with the moon.

She tourtures me in every idle moment. Calling my name and whispering promises of all the wonderous things hidden underneath silk and paper maps

A moth to a flame, I am burned and turned to ash and the Gods have seen fit that i am ressurected everytime and everytime i am filled with greater passion for her.

She has led me across grassy hills that morph in the breeze, unfocusing my eyes and showing me dreams.
through caves and cold creeks, long highways and longer nights.
216 · May 2014
Stuck ~Haiku
Paul Donnell May 2014
They have clipped my wings.
I am as heavy as stone.
I look towards the sky.
212 · Oct 2017
Messenger
Paul Donnell Oct 2017
I am a messenger,  a soft wing upon a glowing silver night. Within dreams I walk, bare feet upon rocks and moss, crystal citadels rise from subconcious seas, beautiful and titantic, refelctcions of the child, wonder and tall tales.
On star dust pillars i dance with fevor sweeping a psychedelic array of color with every intuitive step.
I drink tempests from teacups, swallow whole storms of tropical tenacity.
I meet with wizards place to place,  gather stories songs and bitter sweet good byes.
I am a messenger of no importance. Impotent against the tides yet powerful when I let go and ride.
211 · Nov 2017
Dessert
Paul Donnell Nov 2017
Your rickshaw riptide truths felt real and dangerous. Cracked my fragile creme brulee mind.
And oh how you enjoyed your sweets.
211 · Dec 2016
More brain vomit
Paul Donnell Dec 2016
Stagnation dances in puddles sloshing seeping cementing my shoes and soaked socked feet to the black gritty glittery asphalt,
Oh yeah girl check it out
I say i read alot but i read into you and read into your eyers glitter shimmer shake nonsense sometimes grabs sense, sense it out since you have since you was young writing rapping takes for ever, flow.
Im a fish gasping for O2 siphon from the viscous shallows of this circular neighborhood roots dug in deep been here so long they bust up the street. Can you let me in? As much as i scream with looks desperate for a bit of touch, no not like that, just a hug
210 · Jun 2017
Go on
Paul Donnell Jun 2017
flowy brain *****. Ink pen space rocket. Cross the stars and dot the quasars. Build a bridge to beyond.
209 · Sep 2017
I walk a lot
Paul Donnell Sep 2017
Whats the point now?

When I get the falling down,
The sky follows suit.

I grew feathers and gravity flipped a *****.
The moon rose in a sick sewer fog,
Orange and,
primordial.

I touched her,
silver strings followed my fingers and played me a song.

What I mean to say is.

I opened my door and never looked back. The heart I left still beats in time upon rail road tracks thick with tar and I still feel the vibrations from here.
Two thousand seven hundred miles and suddenly I'm stretched between mountains beech trees and limestone caverns. I remember a girl with fire hair and a bus to match and I fell in love but remembered I left my heart so I left her to. Upon a bike I rode a wave a gust of air from passing pastures at mach speeds.
So I traveled more and left behind even more than that and flung myself down an arkane maw rode a boat never looked at time.
So when I get the falling down..
I grow feathers and gravity flips a *****.
Like a moth I bounce off neon light to neon light without realizing im really looking for the moon but the doors that are open promise good times pretty faces and *****.

But I get out there,
Out there in the great beyond and scatter myself into the stars and talk to each little one. and the moon watches and stays amused at her little creation laying in Gaias hair just trying to understand and grab something that makes sense and I'm almost there.

Naked in a field
drunk on a tower
sweating in sheets
and gravity flips a *****
and I slip out and I never look back.
What I mean to say is..

I walk a lot.
205 · Dec 2016
Funeral march
Paul Donnell Dec 2016
I saw ya in the ICU
With Tubes in yer vains
The pillars of heaven shook
Callin your name

My foundation was blasted
With unspeakable rage
How could you do this
Ya passed on your pain

So bury my head in the mountains
Dont wanna see this place no more
You found peace on a crescent
I found you in the moruge

Now this storms here to greet me
Back from the northren blues i am
This south Georgia city
Aint been kind to this midwestren man

So give me a fist full of lightning
Put my fire in my hair
You hung yourself on a crescent
Pretty soon Ill see ya there.
204 · Sep 2017
Twitch
Paul Donnell Sep 2017
when I feel the twitch in my dominate hand
I know that it calls for my favorite pen
it vibrates my head and a storm starts to churn
and memories resurface and I start to burn

so I start to write to get it all out

but that leads to rage and rage leads to rain

rain leads to feeling like I'm all alone
alone starts to feel like this might be my home
but Home never was something solid and true
and of course that thought will just lead back to you
So I walk something like two thousand miles
I cover my tracks and hide all my trials

I think I died somewhere out there
so I grew a new face and my clothes they would tear

Now I click and I pop in my posthumous walk
I struggle to breath as I struggle to talk
Yes somethings shifted but the twitch it is gone
and I think I'm just searching for where I belong..
202 · Sep 2017
Maybe..
Paul Donnell Sep 2017
Sometimes,
There is no point
In holding onto hope.
Sometimes
You just
exisit.
Maybe you are cast away,
Riding on the notes of of a piano
That drift into the empty lobby.
Where the carpet reminds you of your first apartment.

Maybe sometimes its all nonsense that fills your mouth and hoodwinks the special moments that shouldve felt like a rising sun after hours sitting in the cold. Thinking of revalations.

Maybe this cigarrette tastes like nihilism and the smoke looks like you feel.

Maybe your fingers are burning with lust of creation but the rest of you cant catch up.

Maybe you swallow and shift in your seat trying to peice together the exact moment that you couldnt stand waking up anymore. Maybe this nothing just isnt enough and you need more because the ciggarets stopped working a month ago and everytime you see yourself in the mirror its a shade of blue youve never seen before. And maybe in the shower with your head pressed agaisnt the tile you wonder how well the water would mix with your blood and how long the curtains could hide the scene.

Maybe when you look at the stars it doesnt look like forever but feels like a box with little pinholes poked in the top so you can get just enough air. Maybe your chest collapses trying to figure out how to breath again and maybe nothing helps and it all tastes like ash and maybe you punch the ground, ****** your knuckles and look at the damage with a strange curious numbness wonder what just happened.

Maybe tomorrow...

Maybe not.
..I dont feel well
200 · Aug 2017
Cycle
Paul Donnell Aug 2017
psychosis grips, grins.
Blink.
Shake my head.
Take a sip of gin, make the gut glitter
touch up brainwaves
rainbow palisades carousal ride around repeated word again left right up down **** me wheres the ground movie movie I'm the star listen wait, let me out the car.
Grips. Grins.
Sip. Gin.
Cycle.
****.
How do I scream with written word? It would take a page or clever words but all I have is a sound. Doesn't translate.
Then again, nothing does.
Grips.Grins.
Sip.Gin.
Cycle.
****.
196 · Oct 2018
Untitled 479
Paul Donnell Oct 2018
I was like an angel fallen out of the sky,
Hungry for bread but only searching for wine,
And just like a needle phasing through skin,
I showed you the light and then drowned you in sin.

I am a pile of limbs and dog bones,
chewed on and hallow
I cry for my marrow
Out lost in the yarrow,
I'm sorry I'm here and not home.
196 · Sep 2014
Untitled
Paul Donnell Sep 2014
My head was always in the clouds
But my spine, it finally broke.
Now my cerebral core is crashing
And I am hungry for your hope.
194 · Aug 2017
Untitled 34
Paul Donnell Aug 2017
I am nothing more than a seasonal wind.
A brief taste of spring.
Coming in hot
Shaking up the leaves.
Make ya notice
Exactly who I am.
And then swiftly as I came
I disappear.

Do you recall?

Do you feel me when you look upon fields of wheat, gently dancing.

Am I nostalgic in nature?
Do I make you say,

I wish..

Because I wish..
I wish Icurus


Haddnt been the embodiment of me.
Paul Donnell Dec 2016
Beats hit hard the train of thought hits harder ink boils over soul possessed become a bleeding ulcer paralyzed waiting to die, constant, twitching, running, running, you cant stop its inside your guts twist up butterflies feesing on your secerets and in your sin your insides burning acid leaking out always obsessing the obsessive tendencies drugs and *** love and lust pain and ****
Fast and last words are prayers magic incantations that draw out the darkness and removes it pushes it to paper black ink is best bleeding im bleeding every word is a painful movement twitching spaztic manic illusions casting out shadows that dance when the moons lit.
A stream of brain *****, written fluidly and without breaks or stopping. A real strange thing to do if you can hit that trance like state.
188 · Jan 2018
The dead doe
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
I watched the eyes of a creme colored doe as the light left in ribbions that lifted the air and revealed the gods underneath. The blood mixed with the earth, her scent with the air and the cycle was complete...

Ribbions cascade around us all.
185 · Aug 2017
Littleones
Paul Donnell Aug 2017
We were the little ones
Cannon ball birds that caravan the country.
Holes in our chest we plant little flowers
We always face the sun.
175 · Nov 2017
What a night
Paul Donnell Nov 2017
My amaranth heart cracked and crumbled.

A creme brulee between your sheets.

And in the morning, laying in the after math,
The damage well and done...

*Id never feel that weightless again.
163 · Jan 2018
Change
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
Fissure fissure flippant ****** forcing a shedding of skin
chitinous mass decays in grass
panic manic hindsight batters shatters
teeth cracks crosses
blind in three eyes senses fail burning up and eating air
non conducive heart elusive
ego wagon broke and passive
trails here trails there
float on to anywhere. What else.
But not really
156 · Jan 2018
Strife
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
Hook me in the mouth.
The feather of a friend, lost over the
Atlantic.
Deep down in the deep down, torn against the coral and then
Washed ashore.
Waves like waves, wind like winds,
if its all the same to you
it feels the same to me.
A battering along the coast,
ceaseless and inescapable.
154 · Jun 2019
Nonsense speaks to me
Paul Donnell Jun 2019
A black Cadillac bad day
No shoe shine
No pomade'

Hangin with with the phreaks on Ellis and 3rd
I scan the eyes and wait for the word

The word is WOWZA

Dichotomy in motion, nonsense on the wind.
Caravan buffouts carrying back the crystal whompas from The reeking underbelly of this dry heaving city

Whompas for me if you please, now my no shine shoes skitter down streets looking for a place of sweet reprieve.


WOah boy now just wait, the bubbling fountains speak fractals in tune with, i think that bird on the ledge.

ITS GONNA JUMP!

I scream,
and then it does, so gracefully down below landing impossibly gently upon its impossibly delicate toes.

Good things birds can fly. Wouldn't last long otherwise.
153 · Jan 2018
Choked up
Paul Donnell Jan 2018
Choked on chicken bones with a throat made of paper.
Rigamorits already in my joints but mostly in my jaw
A diaphram full of marbles that causes shaking at the knees.
Mostly im just scared to speak
Shut up

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