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 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
Mya
For Him
 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
Mya
Cigarettes and ashtrays
Red hair and Mohawks
Tattooed is the temple

Rock n' Roll
Busy home and quiet thoughts
Coloured are the walls

Big cities and small streets
Dark nights and bright lights
Empty is the sky

Sketching and painting
Rhyming and writing
Amazing is the Man
 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
Onoma
...Away...
the full-bodied overran spiritedly
its cup--
fetched in movements, musical.
Impress of eyes laved
by their transpiration...
as that daylong Star that
trembles the hills--
where from in plain you come.
Sole proponent of emergence,
enfleshed pathway...
inherit thy haunts.
Whereupon lightning forks
its thunder...as a
joyous weeping dances
the thirsting rose...
the heart of the matter,
thusly enfleshed pathways
meet.
what was once one, was only once
what is to be, might be
what is now, will be the past

what was once whole. is now only part
what was once there, may be gone
what was once past, will never be

what was once a part, is now gone
what is now gone, is only  a memory
what will never be, is now forgotten

now it is gone
once a memory
is now forgotten

and no longer
in the past
when your temper begins to flare
a sure sign the devils there.

trying to get you in his trap
tormenting you so you will snap.

so he can have his wicked way
and with your mind he will play.

he will use his evil spell
and drag you to his burning hell.

so when your temper begins to flare
just beware the devils there
 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
WickedHope
i bleed toxins/ don't
you  taste  them/  in
your    water/    in
your wine/ on
your
lips/
it's a
ma-
tter/
of time
How can I show
more of myself to you?
What can I show you
to scare you off?
Pervert,
**** at work,
****** addiction rehab,
12-step drop-out,
faith-lost
skeptical mind,
more like cynical
say one thing,
do another;
as confused about me
as you are

And I'm almost out there
first step,
bare all in anonymous groups
second step,
peel back the layers among friends
third step (two forward, one back),
mostly anonymous pouring out the heart
through my poetry in the dark
fourth step,
fully open among all?

I was laughed at the other day
upon sharing my experience with addiction
It didn't really offend me
am I almost ready?
 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
Xyns
Woe
 Feb 2015 Rachel Cloud
Xyns
Woe
When we were good
                   We were wonderful
When we were ok
                   We were invincible
But when we were broken
                   We were shattered..
 Jan 2015 Rachel Cloud
Michelle
I avoid the hours between 11 pm and 5 am
Light does not exist then—
Only useless questions, dangerous thoughts, and the Void
Darkness swallows reason and spits out impulse
All of these mix together and try to drown me
Melancholy fills my mouth and I gag on its rotten taste
Cold seeps through my skin and settles in my bones
I am floating through midnight and I have never felt so alone
The constellations no longer console me
Galaxies hurtle away from me
And black holes call my name
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