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Indefinite black pervades the air,
a darkened sun casts no shine
luminous black, like concrete surrounds you,
light is absent, Cimmerian shade is all.

Sonorous, sullied, sooty black cloaks all.
Shimmering, in the corner is a jet black,
obsidian hard sparkle, it's just a puddle.
A puddle made to sparkle in the street light.

A joyless sight in the darkness of a Stygian night.
Indistinct figures rush by, oblivious to the sparkling puddle.
Somber souls,mournfully groping homeward in the false electric light.
Home to a comfortless home, having failed to see the sparkle in the dark.
© JLB
23/08/2014
16:23 BST
Oh senselessly dim you are

Quite different from Spring
But vivacious all the same

Not what is to be expected
A happy surprise nonetheless

While daylight hours lacking
Wait for thy sun to fade

Smiling at tomorrow still
Just enjoy this small life

Alas she does not want to go
© 2008
Lawan Jan 2014
What world do you see
through your eyes?

a world full of lies
or a bed of roses?

do you count your blessings
or grieve for your demise

in a world full of lies
or on a bed of roses?
I believe Reality is king.
but our perception of it is what matters the most.
Lawan Feb 2014
The world is full of wolves...
And more wolves pretending to be sheep;


wicked, heartless, manipulative... deceitful, arrogant, greedy -

good people ...

but somehow I luckily manage to pick up
needles from a ****** haystack--

Somehow(I don't know how)
I manage to come across
good people
Joyce Rocha May 2014
People are dancing,
Dancing while walking on the street.
Their paths cross
And they just cannot see!

I am their audience and the only witness of
this unexpected spectacle
from this undesired quotidian,
which feeds itself of unbearable blindness.

A second more, and I would have lost.
A second less, and I would not have seen.
What are the laws that govern this addition and subtraction of seconds?
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Shane Oltingir May 2014
The drunken poet drinks his strife:

He stumbles, falls, and tumbles rhythm;

Vomits verse unto the ground --

That he cleans up in the morning --

Before passing it off as poetry.
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