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Rubyredheart Sep 24
The strongest man
is not he whose booming shouts
usurp the roaring thunder
but, rather, he whose presence
stills the raging storm.
Power comes not from
a loud & deep commanding yell.
It takes far more strength
to hold & to protect a heart
listening carefully for its living pulse.
The strongest man
carries hearts in the palms of his hands.
Show me your strength.
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if you stop writing

about me , will i

disappear?


will we be so quiet

no one will notice us,

any more?


the bear considered, thought

it may be nice.
Boaz Priestly Sep 24
setting the stage in a bright
white bathroom, fluorescents
buzzing buzzing buzzing,
glass crunches under worn boots

mirror glass as confetti,
bloodied knuckles attached to
shaking hands that grip the
edges of the cold sink

say in a voice that sounds
more and more like my fathers,
‘boy, you’re closer to the things
they **** than the things they keep’

had always planned to be a
pallbearer at my own funeral anyway,
already made sure i wouldn’t be buried
as my fathers daughter

so i go to church,
but the door handles burn into
the palms of my hands and my
knees creak to think of kneeling

what do i have to repent for anyway?
the ****** knuckles and last nights *****
still on my breath don’t make me a bad man,
they don’t make me my father

i do not seek absolution,
no penance or hail mary’s
are going to save this soul of mine

i am as a wild flower pushing through
cracked sidewalk, spindly sapling emerging
from the bark of a felled tree,
lived through the man my father was
to remake myself in my own image

and just because i picked out a coffin
in a wood that made me think of
how dark his eyes always were
when he looked at me doesn’t
mean i have to buy the **** thing
Grandma said,
Don't go,
but I dunno
Idaho
looks a likely place to be and grow
and I have heard
that Tea Kettle Cave is one to save
for the album,

boys will be Boise.

Grandma says
Dayum.
Norbert Tasev Sep 24
The spiraling snakes would now like to devour the entire World; nuclear fission may increase the actual value of mortalities in the eyes of "some" - of course as unnecessary collateral losses -, a white condensation trail inevitably passes over a person's head, left by some luxury private plane while reaching Earth orbit. The rule of the constantly suspicious sentries that remain open still returns now and then.

At the last moment, perhaps after five hundred years, the Cyclops-brained titans enriched with testosterone, who have deliberately forgotten the proper manners, the conditions of behavioral codes, the eloquent ins and outs of compliments, will also become extinct; anniversary rings are driven through broken or white diamond wedding rings, because fewer and fewer of them can only truly experience the feelings of the Universe, which alone reside unnoticed in the depths of beating hearts.

They grow respectable beer bellies not only It's pounding, but it's quite a lot, gentlemen Pál Pató, and while the great gentleman's party-dario, bolsoly-babysitter is going on, it's as if everyone is no longer able to bear the enriched, concentrated half-hearted appearance-happiness.

- The city of Nineveh, which has long surrendered to partying, is thus becoming an increasingly sinkable Atlantis, a tiny island of nowhere, which at any moment - if they're not careful - can be swept away by the moving Danube. It would be better to head straight in the opposite, more vulnerable directions, because now everyone is considered a bit of a good actor in fair-boy comedies; what is failure and success at the same time was actually a lesson and a make-up exam! One day - in any case - he will be forced to take off his mask and become a shameless clown!
Onoma Sep 24
A chamber

can outwait a

drop.

Called miraculous.

A pan is a ***.
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