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JDK Sep 2015
I showed the librarian how Dostoevsky predicted the internet (and what we'd use it for) over a hundred years ago.

She seemed unimpressed.
"We are assured that the longer time goes on, the closer the world draws towards fraternal communion, when distances will be bridged and thoughts transmitted through the air. Alas, put no faith in such a union of men. By interpreting freedom as the multiplication and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems."
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (Published in 1880.)
CynicMonk May 2015
Two Poets,
One writes to remember,
One writes to forget.
jennee Sep 2015
it's become a habit of mine
to count the number of sticks i consume
but for each day that passes, each time
i lose track of the moments i can't refuse
i do realize what i'm getting myself into
i do understand the risks i choose
ironically whenever i'm on a break
a cigarette is what helps me breathe
and the longer i am without it, i'll crave
and its absence will make my lungs bleed

n.j.
it's hard not to
Nicole Dawn Sep 2015
When everything fell apart
I said
"Goodbye for real this time"
And those simple words
Are slowly killing me

And those simple words
Will be my last words
Before I die

How... ironic
So funny I forgot to laugh

Sorry to anyone who read this... I am way too tired to be writing lol
Seán Mac Falls Aug 2015
Man made his house by rolling dirt—
Rock that was flung up from the earth.
Man then planted, course, grainy seeds
After nature made trees, fruits, and bees.
Man soon built fortresses, folds containing,
The weathers grew angry, gathering, raining,
So he fashioned bold cities built upon strands
And great ships laden with spoils command.
The oceans were quarry and the skies gave in,
The plains dried up, all animals were thinned.
And then— man imagined, if only the stars,
With nothing left, must we settle on mars?
Medinah Aousunt Aug 2015
Afraid  of what I don't know.
love what hate me the most.
Caught in a battle to be myself
when told the best thing is someone  else.

Extricated from defeat.
Accompanied by agony.
Forced to love irony.
Humbled by deceit.

To be myself self I must stay sound
Or change my stars uniquely.
No more innocence to be found
What a battle within me.
Poem created by Medinah Aousunt
SøułSurvivør Aug 2015
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looking up into a bowl
over this ball that's cracked and old
spinning on just as arranged
sometimes
the vast sky is strange

shredding paper, spilling ink
words tumble blithely as i think
trying for a depth and range
sometimes
poetry is strange

there are ironic truths in lies
there are many starry skies
there are questions
which arise
there are fools and
there are wise
transparency
and deep disguise
there are many who
despise

i have a hope
that things will change
but
sometimes
LIFE
is
very
strange


soulsurvivor
(C) 8/30/2015
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jerely Aug 2015
You are the pages to the chapters of our story
You are the clarity to my vivid eyes
You are more than the moon
& the stars up above
You are the sweetest raindrop to my loneliness
You are something that I can't resist off
You are the best prize of my life
& it feels like a dream, a fantasy
but more than realness to be.
it's more than those silly thoughts.

Jerelii
Copyright
August 29, 2015
Medinah Aousunt Aug 2015
We are all dead
buried in this grave of life
Constantly gasping for air
searching for the light
secretly dreading the end of sorrow
where everything is right.
We are all dead
cremated by the beauty of this hideous fire
the one we ironically call life.
Poem Created by Medinah Aousunt
History* is *such an integral subject
One if learnt from can change lives
It makes  people realise; violence isn't the answer
It makes  people think; of alternate solutions
Coming to the conclusion that
Peace, integrity and unity
Is the only way us humans can thrive.

We must learn from the past
After all mistakes are made to be a lesson
If this is done so
Many lives and livelihoods can be saved

Alas  however the irony of our past is
We must watch, agonisingly , as history
Continues to repeat itself.
Why are we too stubborn to accept and learn?
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