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PrttyBrd Oct 2018
I dipped my toe in the Atlantic
and wondered how long it would take to get to England on a rowboat
or to swim there outright
as if I would be so inclined in either fashion

I've seen **** and Jane through many trials
all the running, jumping, and frolicking
never really seemed book worthy
but I read on dutifully hoping they would surprise me

Eventually, I stopped reading the adventureless series
and grew into darker theories of life
that have lead me to ponder the distance
across the ocean to Neverland in ways that I couldn't actually attempt

Safe in my unathletic prestenses, yet vulnerable in my dreams
I remember the snowbirds that chased me
through childhood summers
I remember the accents and crystal blue eyes

I will remember your face... always
but I no longer remember your name
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Purgatorium
PrttyBrd Mar 2016
Timeless
Love is timeless
Yet the hands of time
Tick in the slowest of motion
The seconds pass in millenia
Straining an already broken heart
Which barely beats on its own
Pieces of me die in absentia
Drifting on the breeze
Hoping to land in wounds
That used to keep me safe
Now residing a thousand miles away
As I search each breeze for pieces of you
To infuse love-filled saline into the shards
Of desiccated arteries
I yearn for a chance to breathe-in
The dust of you that searches for me
And exhale the warmth of your love
To surround my dying soul.
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426 · Aug 2010
Better late than never
PrttyBrd Aug 2010
This fool believed the words once spoken
The dancing heart tells lies
Floating on the wind for an hour or a day
Worries blown away in a sigh
Thoughts of maybe tickle the past alive
Awakened memories, revived
copyright©PrttyBrd 24/08/2010- From The Ride of a Lifetime
425 · Jun 2010
I'd Rather It Be Me
PrttyBrd Jun 2010
Walking through that door
It's twenty years ago
Stress binds the head
Yet loosens the mouth
Endless circle of love
Laced with repression
Though it is ever-so subtle
The foul flavor remains
Leaching into every crevice
Seeping through every pore
Spewing forth at the most inopportune moments
It is that explosion of the vile
That will be remembered
It will color perception almost black
The worst overshadows
The best withers away
The past is the present on the other side
This time, it was another who was the lamb
The sacrifice was unbearable and heartbreaking
As they craved fresh blood
And got their fix
Forever silenced,
To form an untainted opinion
It must be looked upon with bare eyes
Soul shaking, and silent
Only by lurking in the shadows
Can the wounds begin to heal
Under cover of the sacrifice of others,
There is safety.
But there is no freedom in guilt
There is no joy in their pain
Scars yield a thicker hide
Jaded by experience
Yet eternally marred by bearing witness
This transitory passage need not be
Cannot be, and will not be again
The innocent will no longer be sacrificed
For it will forever be me upon that altar
It is all can be done
copyright©PrttyBrd 06/06/2010- From Sunset to Sunrise
421 · Sep 2010
From a dream to reality
PrttyBrd Sep 2010
is it the dream or the possibility
the want or the need
the pull within is ripping
at the fabric of my being
who I am and how I am made
are too quickly blowing away
the goal of the long term
is changing now, today
the past begets the future
that is on the verge of change
and dreams that lay awake
can cause your plans to rearrange
copyright©PrttyBrd 01/09/2010- From The Ride of a Lifetime
420 · Sep 2020
Apparition
PrttyBrd Sep 2020
I'm in love
with the ghost
of
who you
were
2015 reboot
PrttyBrd Dec 2019
bartering time for money, wasting it on love
or vice versa

rationalizing choices in white rabbit pocket watch anxiety
a pound of flesh to sell off a soul in limited real estate high yield *******

not a single serving available to nourish the mind
after insipid, ear-bleeding monologue conversations

compiling minutes into days suffered
always searching for that quick high, down to the wire bout of auto-****** asphyxiation

in diamond pressure ulcers born in
self-induced, great expectations
that look like strangers in the distance

the breadcrumbs that resemble the stain of dreams
feed the drama that knows the only truth

the hollow cannot be filled with a diet of Xanax and double shot espresso
dancing through norms on marionette strings

bartering time for love, wasting it on money
or vice versa
when time is all we possess

wondering, if once that currency is depleted,
will your soul finally feel complete
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411 · Nov 2014
Love Jonz
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
When the heart is in full swoon
Time is a blur and reality is just that moment
That very moment when eyes overflow with a happy heart
When the very scent of each other is a drug
And addiction runs both ways
Swept up in this timeless euphoria
Careless words fall off the tongue
"I love you", is the new high
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405 · Nov 2014
In the Beginning
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
Time
lapses into yesterdays
at the very thought
of you
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PrttyBrd Nov 2014
You are two people
Detached through silent self-loathing
Torn between flesh and fantasy
Nightmares tear your eyes from dreams
Tasting the flesh as you awaken
Aroused and *****
Frightened of who
Of what you're turning into
Praying you will not become
That sickening desire
Losing sight of the fact
That a dream is just a dream
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403 · Nov 2014
Limitless
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
Pushing the limits of freedom
Breaking all that binds an individual to society
Should becomes yes
Shouldn't becomes must
Shackles disintegrate
Everything becomes nothing
Nothing becomes everything
Unwritten rules no longer apply
Opinion is irrelevant
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disenchanted
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
I wanted that
but that is not
what this is
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Prove Me Wrong
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
There are times
When i wish
I wasn't always
Right
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389 · Jul 2020
my ink pooled unnoticed
PrttyBrd Jul 2020
choking on words you said once
inked a thousand times over
carved out of my flesh
shoved down my smile

"Shut up and swallow. How does it taste?"
in silent repetition of beautiful pages
trading breath for pain
stolen from love regifted

it tastes like I'm dying
still looking for reasons to smile
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The Heart Can See
PrttyBrd Jun 2010
To see through closed eyes
Truth so bold that it's blinding
Undeniable
Questions answered in silence
Heartbeats tell the tale
Pounding desperately in pain
Racing with passion
Unable to fool the soul
Close your eyes and feel your way
A Choka  5-7-5-7-5-7...ending in 7-7.  Can be any length, so long as it is longer than a Tanka which is 5-7-5/7-7

copyright©PrttyBrd 01/06/2010- From Sunset to Sunrise
375 · May 2015
se la vie
PrttyBrd May 2015
He has a she, a her, a heart not mine
I could not keep his ego fed
Sharp jagged words, on black and white pages
Here is where the story bled
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373 · Nov 2014
Poet's Lament
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
a soul full of pain bleeds out on a page
but joy is harder to scribble
to squeeze a full heart that's happy in part
results in naught but a dribble
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354 · Nov 2014
It Just Is
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
Love has
           No worries
                 No questions
                        No doubt
                               No lies
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PrttyBrd Jan 2020
last year's hangover
Morning Star blind
without the ride
of imbibing libations

words bled dry
in powdered thought
desiccated emotion
won't rehydrate unsalted
and I just ain't in the mood

shoulda had that drink
winning every battle
lost in war I can't see
but scars burn deep
courting failure
with fear

why fight fate
in altered perceptions
that are all real enough
to feel
in a world where the
only thing concrete
is thought...

bled dry
in last year's hangover
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331 · May 2020
that's her destiny
PrttyBrd May 2020
the misty air reminded me of the ocean
where salty nights washed sins clean

you smelled like lucid peace
a dream in reflective satin hues

sliding down my ignorance flayed
uncloaked, unhidden, and still unrecognizable

dancing in tropical fruit facades
sanding pain into polished silver

pleas of please carried on whetted wind
winding down paths uncovered

familiarity forgone in fleeting fanciful and feckless feelings

forgotten ocean breezes lost clean slates
to pleas ignored in fanciful feckless feelings
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with love in all things
PrttyBrd May 2020
your sunset smile that catches stars
in enchanting constellation

all I can do is run toward you in hopes
to make shadows into gemstones

you can't hide what I feel in your lost eyes
an offer born of pain, beautiful as it may be

all I ever wanted was that smile
I would steal the night sky to see it again
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desideratum
PrttyBrd Nov 2014
I just want what I want, when I want it
Why is that so much to ask

A queen in another life
A love in his place
A need to be his Goddess
A desire to be fulfilled

I just want what I want, when I want it
Why is that too much to ask
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221 · Nov 2017
Enchantments
PrttyBrd Nov 2017
Crystal ***** and amber smoke
A garden of foxglove and rue
Belladonna fairytales
And there's nothing you can do

Malicious hearts and demon spirits
Wreak havoc come what may
The quiet careless non-believers
Will bow to their dismay

For if a pure path isn't chosen
Either darkness or the light
Then shadows have a firmer grip
On the souls still stuck on "might"

So make a choice, right here and now
Of who you want to be
Standing still, you acquiesce
To the shadows consuming thee
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