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353 · Apr 2019
Sea of Consciousness
zumee Apr 2019
Pain is a Captain
at the helm of every mind
painfully waiting
for a Mutiny on board
inspired by this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyViG2ua8aY
351 · Dec 2018
American Soul
zumee Dec 2018
Blessed are the arrogant
for theirs is the kingdom of their own company
Blessed are the superstars
for when the magnificent send their light
we understand better our own insignificance
Blessed are the filthy rich
for you can only truly own what you give away
Blessed are the bullies
for one day they will have to stand up to themselves
Blessed are the liars
for the truth can be awkward
Kendrick Lamar & U2
349 · Mar 2019
unblah
zumee Mar 2019
if lips could speak
for themselves
yours
would still choose silence
345 · Dec 2019
Once up on a Time
zumee Dec 2019
Time will come
crashing down
happily ever after
332 · Sep 2021
blast radius
zumee Sep 2021
Forever happened
forever ago

(             (         (      (    (   (  ( (( • )) )  )   )    )      )         )             )

Today
just residual glow
328 · Aug 2019
Single Duality
zumee Aug 2019
to a severed soul
heaven burns
just as cold
as hell
323 · May 2018
Human
zumee May 2018
Paradox-consuming entity
incapable of digesting paradoxes.
318 · Feb 2021
pensive pensieve
zumee Feb 2021
flattering
or
flattening
?
to be used
as a mind-
sharpener
314 · Jun 2019
Toddler Psychonaut
zumee Jun 2019
matter-
flavored un-
consciousness
licking on a
dream-
cone;
time
m
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l

t


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n


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313 · Apr 2019
on the loo
zumee Apr 2019
Hunter-gatherers
were philosophers too
313 · Jun 2019
Knock Knock
zumee Jun 2019
Who's there?
Mother Nature
Mother of who?
Mother of You
What do you want?
Can't you tell
Tell you what?
Whether you're a mistake
or just a nice idea

Is it degrading to call humanity an idea? asking for a friend
312 · Mar 2021
sweating muse
zumee Mar 2021
in wordlight
bathes
a naked page;
the candles
wax
poetic
310 · Jul 2019
Language Overlord
zumee Jul 2019
Everyone
will be a poet
when the words become aware
310 · May 2019
11
zumee May 2019
11
He saw her face
thought: seven
Another looked
saw heaven
308 · Apr 2022
Invictus
zumee Apr 2022
out of the night that covers me
black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul

in the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is ******, unbowed

beyond this place of wrath and tears
looms the horror of the shade
yet the menace of the years
finds, will find me unafraid

it matters not how strait the gate
how charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul
~William Earnest Henley
301 · Apr 2021
dualittybitty
zumee Apr 2021
can a caterpillar
feel the wings
of future
?
question
bugs a bug
that questions
300 · Nov 2021
frenemies
zumee Nov 2021
hold life close
hold death closer
299 · Apr 2019
Religion
zumee Apr 2019
Ravenous Answers
feeding
on a dying question
297 · Feb 2019
Treatise on Irony
zumee Feb 2019
Poetry
expressed with words
will never attain
Poetry
expressed through living.
The Golden Rule is: Live before you write.
294 · Jun 2018
Consolation Grook
zumee Jun 2018
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.
~Piet Hein
291 · Oct 2019
Spit it out
zumee Oct 2019
When larynx lays a toxic trap
that words can't help you out of
Palmed into a cosmic clap
without a way to wiggle out
politely,
Even
when flawless lips are watching
whatever you do
do not
swallow the phlegm
291 · Jun 2019
Emotions
zumee Jun 2019
memorable
are the unrememberable
memories of the heart
288 · May 2018
Childbirth
zumee May 2018
Screaming new mother
defecates
on a hospital delivery bed

It's (shaped like) a boy
287 · May 2021
imagine
zumee May 2021
if all humanity

stopped.

(talking at the same time)
277 · Oct 2018
Old Age
zumee Oct 2018
Sneaks up on you
like consciousness
in a monkey
276 · Jan 2021
meltiply
zumee Jan 2021
do yous and mes
come in 2s or 3s

do 3s and 4s
come from mine and yours
267 · Mar 2019
Counterfeat
zumee Mar 2019
real money is real
and
fake money is fake
because
real paper is real
and fake paper is real
266 · Nov 2021
we, the universe
zumee Nov 2021
like the heat of a moment
on Eternity's cold
it takes somebody cool
to keep a somebody warm
261 · May 2018
try Angular
zumee May 2018
I,
I write,
I write words,
I write words inside...
I write words inside isosceles!
I write words, inside.
I write words...
I write?
I
261 · May 2018
pain-killer-poem
zumee May 2018
Sometimes
When you carry the figurative
weight of the world
on metaphorical shoulders
By some semantic glitch
Your all-too-real lower back
takes a hit.
254 · Oct 2018
Hyperword
zumee Oct 2018
some words
Ambush off the page sharp
as a godstopper
Rip a soul's blinds open
Violate the mind
Leave thoughts in tatters
Exit on a sigh
252 · Feb 2019
freeway homebody
zumee Feb 2019
If the road was a woman
he'd settle down and marry
246 · Jul 2019
Infinity flirts
zumee Jul 2019
I just birthed you
and this is crazy
Imagine time beyond numbers
you'll find me maybe
245 · Jun 2018
Blue
zumee Jun 2018
I saw
me, you
in a dream colored blue
making the acquaintance of a metaphor:
meta you, meta me
out of the blue, met a dream.
243 · Oct 2019
Karma's fuel
zumee Oct 2019
Hamsters running
around the wheel
Generate : Reality
241 · Apr 2019
Sometimes
zumee Apr 2019
what makes the difference
between dying of truth
and surviving a lie
is the courage it takes
as you drive in the blade
to look the other person
straight in the eye
Maybe one day I'll learn how
to ****** love properly
239 · May 2019
Close Encounter
zumee May 2019
When I almost met God
It was seated
behind the trunk of an almost-Tree
ancient wood woven
in finity fabric
every living you
every living me
fibers in thread
connected
legstoarms
handstofeet

dancing
*******
birthin­g

236 · Feb 2019
Blaze
zumee Feb 2019
"Where do you think confidence comes from?"
"I dunno. Thinking you're the best?"
"That's not real confidence. Can I tell you where I think it comes from?"
"Okay."
"I think confidence is the consolation prize to knowing that you're alive."
From Ethan Hawke's movie about Blaze Foley
236 · Mar 2019
Rorschach
zumee Mar 2019
Bi-polar bear
in the robes of a grizzly
share the heart of a butterfly
Awake
in its cocoon
What's ur diagnosis, Doc
232 · Feb 2019
Case for Atheism
zumee Feb 2019
A True God
always kills itself
the moment it's born
232 · Mar 2019
Migration
zumee Mar 2019
Two loving, Father Mother swallows
futures swallowed or so it seemed
inside the nest, for Baby swallow
Wove a song along the seams:

"Behind your eyes, a trace to follow
We were only swallowed in a dream."
For a dear friend who recently lost both parents
230 · Jun 2021
grin reaper
zumee Jun 2021
meeting death
on its own terms

with a smiling heart

is to have met with life
on Yours
"Would you be ready to die today?"
is almost a cliche
but...Would you?
and if not, does that bother you?
It should.
zumee Dec 2019
I scream
You scream
We all scream
b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶g̶a̶r̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶i̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶d̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶i̶g̶n̶o̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶v̶i̶a̶l̶i̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶l̶t̶h̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶s̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶

for ICE-CREAM!
my sugar-free milkshake brings all the diabetic boys to the yard
227 · Apr 2019
Big If
zumee Apr 2019
If Love
accompanied by pain
is preferable
to no Love
It stands to reason
that every true Lover
is also
a ****** *******
225 · Sep 2018
Take me with you
zumee Sep 2018
My entire existence would fit
Easily
inside your backpack
224 · Aug 2019
Burning for a Savior
zumee Aug 2019
Mother heaves
a tortured breath
her lungs on fire
For the first time
in a long time
she falters
We kneel
heads bowed
hands clasped
in typing supplication
emoticon prayers
to silicon embryos
for signs of life
from e-God
gestating
in the womb
between our fingers
223 · Aug 2019
3 lies and a truth
zumee Aug 2019
normality
is a special kind of weird
x
weirdness
comes from outside
x
deep down
all we want is to be normal
or was it 3 truths and a lie
217 · May 2019
Domesticated
zumee May 2019
under a roof of logic
Modern Man
cuddles its thoughts
to sleep
215 · May 2019
Mother
zumee May 2019
A Mother's Love is like a Rose
Sustains in soft abundance
her bees and birds, but to their foes
her petals: Razor Diamonds
Happy belated Mother's day :}
210 · May 2018
Church of Dualism
zumee May 2018
Despite what the priests
of philosophy say
it is possible
to hold communion with the answers
without having
to excommunicate the Questions.
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