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The waves of crimson tides crash upon a porcelain shoreline This isn’t the first time This isn’t the first time I cast my penance upwards And it shatters at your feet As the gavel strikes again and again Mercy turns a blind eye…why? The blood on my hands The knife in my heart Is the hidden blade behind my back Still Dripping with the blood of my self destruction A blood splattered oblation of all my fragile promises A final sunset Casts a shadow over the headstones of everything I’ve loved Seeking escape from something I can’t even remember Cyclical ritual surrender This isn’t the first time crimson waves crash again Again and again On fractured porcelain shores Filled with all the broken pieces Of the person I once was And to no avail; perpetually, I fail To put them back together Never, forever Again and again For the last time
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Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM UTC
Again and Again, for the Last Time
Our souls are dyed to match the dusk And steeped in solemn, frigid rain. We live adorned with shades of death And sanctify what is profane. The only things that glimmer here Pierce through the skin and hang in chains. Is it any wonder we all have A curious love affair with pain?
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Jun 1, 2025
Jun 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM UTC
Is it any wonder
Moved on to a better place Found peace in the fallows That dug knee deep in shadow Living in darkness has become a crime But I was so used to doing time Caged liberty is no man’s dream My dream is to die and pass on to a different time.
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Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 2024 at 6:22 AM UTC
Okay and?
Huff, puff, smooth bravado, This instrument that I play, Whisks me away into smokey, Desolate lounges, Filled with women in black and red dresses, Who would otherwise look away, If not for my silky, suave vibrato. Ooh, how I can carry a tune, My fingers dance on the keys, Like raindrops on a windowsill, The neon lights at the door, Buzzing outside in the cold. The only thing warming up, This cold little soul, Is a finger of rye, Adjacent to the ashtray, That holds my neglected cigarette. She watches, She listens, My face turns purple, As I pour my heart out on stage, Out in the open in this vacant place, With only the few of us around.
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Nov 7, 2023
Nov 7, 2023 at 9:54 PM UTC
Tenor, Alto, Whatever
The modern poem, Is a minute, edgy, Motivating, philosophical phrase, About how you should change, Your belief system, On love, In the format of a poem.
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Oct 30, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 at 8:42 AM UTC
Poopetry
Have we all become mere automata guided by the ring of pings and notifs? The spray of lather from a sea of data carrying with it wrung celebrity whiffs have stung us with a certain aphasia... The written thought was a lifetime ago long abandoned by the times and all-- where once there was soundness to follow nonsense amassed like a rising cymbal whose crash sent reason to the gallows. The news of the day presents a delectable entree of a hodgepodge of this, that, and nothing much. Wherefore we find our tongues compelled to say something about the aftertaste or to prejudge as if we were connoisseurs--it must've hid faraway. Are we perhaps amusing ourselves to death? I am by no means a Luddite to such a degree, but I believe we have bombarded and blessed ourselves a little too much to see... only time will tell us reason's final breath.
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Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 10:38 PM UTC
Automata
A Liebestraum and two Arabesques stood there holding me between the ears one mundane evening… The indoor storm who knew could deject one so boldly cleaned its final tears and left me be… A new wave calm eschewed ‘til present flooded in me serene and aptly dear calmness… For a moment I felt a sense of clarity that had neglected me for ages. My sullen blues and anxious reds faded to black, and all manner of emotion had been evicted from my mind. I could think about things in straight lines and deep focus for an entire ******* moment. Then Spotify had to ruin the moment with an indie rock montage in my queue. I cried.
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Jun 24, 2023
Jun 24, 2023 at 4:25 AM UTC
clarity amidst classical pieces
Is substance abuse that grim: the instant I use you lights dim like they want my muse to trim her figure in darkness-- Blow the candles out with a kiss: show a dancehall how to fill a floor with slow hands-and-all antics while my mind sinks in you-- Take me deep within nirvana: make me sleep in a hug sauna maybe I'd keep in mind on a frigid Friday night-- So bare with me if I overdose: Be there lines that blow over my nose, I care not if they slide me into comatose... The high that is you, an ingenue but of substance, a drug to pursue... **** me with an overdose.
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May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023 at 9:38 AM UTC
Substance Abuse
fate ***** with a lot of possibilities but if you choose one to beset yourself with-- a certain mirage sizzling over the horizon-- might the fixation of that end drive yourself towards it? So I say liberate herself from one down the line: fate ought to flirt with the tread's-worth of lineages growing within its forest of prospects. Decide where to take her and meddle her acquaintances rather than choosing one to wed your kismet.
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Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023 at 2:37 AM UTC
the promiscuity of fate
Did you notice the crisis going on outside, It’s terrible really they’re trying to hide Atrocities behind a wall of big lies The badness of this is incredibly sized. So get out and help, you useless **** Shout and whisper you absolute schmuck, March and stamp and tiptoe around red tape, Call it ****** harassment, but I wouldn’t call it **** Donate and berate but most of all- **** THE GOVERNMENT, (Tenderly, like a lover, to not upset the way of things of course.) Why aren’t you looking for missing kids Why aren’t you crying at the dead body Why aren’t you saying what Russia forbids Why aren’t you crying at the dead body Why aren’t you aching from every pore Why aren’t you crying at the dead body Why aren’t you saving all of the ****** Why aren’t you crying at the dead bodies Why aren’t you giving your money to us? Why, aren’t you someone the people can trust? Did you notice the crisis going on within, It’s terrible really, a huge massive din Is crashing and smashing alone in your head You can’t ever stop, unless you are dead. Oh wait, you posted a brightly coloured infographic on your instagram story? You’re good, never mind.
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Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022 at 8:28 PM UTC
Crisis
Have you ever seen a smile that made you turn away with glee have you ever felt a face so close eyes contacting like a particle collision. This will end in a heavy mess, and yet - a portrait with such warmth. radiating in a such a way star beams envy it's smirk. and supernovae would **** for the smile. when you look at me I know I'm here I'm real I'm alive These thoughts bring tiny Heat deaths to my chest expanding forever I might never exhale, if only to draw in the moment and die with it inside me. but, I won't superfluous words merely orbit my skull with a stronger gravity pulling them further from you tearing chucks of me elsewhere until eventually your warm glow, is merely a scintillation
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Dec 24, 2020
Dec 24, 2020 at 11:45 AM UTC
Tell me
In the corner, in spring He feels a phantom drift through his skin He lifts his head to see, but the curtain stops to swing He turns his attention towards the man within
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 4:53 PM UTC
Out of mind
Everytime I see you online I want to bottle you up And label you mine I'd keep you in dark Ferment you forgotten Think of a drink But now you are rotten Here, meet the sink.
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Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020 at 9:18 PM UTC
Huckle haze
The rain is pouring In thick, lustrous clumps from the sky I feel dizzy as I float Higher, higher, up into the big, heavy clouds Then down, down, I spin Spiralling Until I collapse in a steaming heap I ****** a hand to the ceiling But the drunken dream fades into suburban grey Sweat drips off my face The blood on my arm becomes evident It makes me queasy, sickly On instinct, I press a sharp point Through the skin and into the nest of veins Power courses through my blood until it hits my heart And then I float Higher, higher, up into the big, heavy clouds Until I spiral down again Into my cold, mundane nightmare
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May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020 at 4:28 AM UTC
Heroine
Our writing are the personification of our sickest obsessions The pen can manifest your darkest fantasies Writing isn't bad It makes you human You're an animal Writing helps you succumb to your depression For this poem My blood is the ink And this knife is the pen Now lets all write poetry to show all our friends! Writing can make an impression To suffer is an artists true catalyst And the biggest agony is to exist
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Apr 21, 2020
Apr 21, 2020 at 11:15 AM UTC
Writing
Love was fickle, but the hate remained the memories of laughter did eventually fade but sharp and cold left in a corner, unattended, the loathing could only grow. And grow it did, steady and fast grow, until the love, it was eventually past and when one lost to the other and the hate prevailed, love was not even a memory, behind the resent that it was veiled
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Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM UTC
Hate prevails Love
Head cut off Mouth ripped out Left without a way to cough Without a way to pout Forced to keep quiet By the rulers of the ears No place to riot People are running from their own fears Officials hate a mess People don’t like a lot of wrecks So the only way is to suppress At least in the eyes of the press
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Nov 24, 2019
Nov 24, 2019 at 9:28 PM UTC
“Eyes Of The Press”
Wrapped in metal wire Jagged edges keep me contained I intend to fly higher But I’ve been drained I’m stuck on the ground String wrapped around your arm I’m being drowned Within an emotional storm Your tears bring me down And hope gives me nightmares Let me go without a frown Only set free with new mindsets Just a balloon wrapped in a razor blades And barbed wire
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Nov 24, 2019
Nov 24, 2019 at 7:09 PM UTC
“A Balloon Wrapped In Razor Blades”
i hope you drown in those eggshells you had to walk on. mope after your fake crown, you fell, what a shock, withdrawn and when you're done, beg in hell for a key to a lock gone.
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Oct 18, 2019
Oct 18, 2019 at 9:36 PM UTC
when eggshell breaks loose
sunbeams fall across my face as I recall such regretted haste of statically-charged, crystal **** lightning shimmer ice cold switchblade gleams in blue television glitter raising hell in my white nightgown, I drive fast drinking *** I'm not afraid to crash Elvis in the mirror, Marilyn in the bed fire shall consume me? well, devour me it has for my soul is set ablaze when I dream of what I had your pulse sends me lightyears away as I think of all the times you brought me to my knees prison calls from mid-July still ring out in my ears the longer that you stay away, the more you feed my fears cigarettes burning, neon palm trees, bikini ****** Jesus pleads with me to no avail, "don't go further," but I am God now and I crave your touch, daddy though you're gone forever, sadly Lolita's gone and snatched you away forevermore my skies will be grey stop haunting my dreams please let me be your spirit still holds me hostage and while you remain to be the only one on Earth for me what I can't have will **** me surely
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Sep 26, 2019
Sep 26, 2019 at 11:11 PM UTC
the ghost of you
it lies entombed in fabric and stale air the fire arms swaddled in cotton shields scalding, the guilt, huddled and shining fair the narrow, long weapon it finds it wields disgust, at itself set back on the shelf dives back in the sea of cloth Calliope though arduous, the work to quench the flames’ thirst would fruit with cool, gentle blossomed rose they wilt into an ugly, blackened shame with scarlet spark still glowing ‘neath their throes it found a better way- let cooling comfort stay fire cannot fight flame and burn cannot beat blame
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Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019 at 1:13 PM UTC
Fire Arms
You are slowly dying everyday! Every breath takes a breath away! You are all going to die someday! Were you even alive anyway?! The bodies of man are beginning to ashen. I leave them to be swallowed by the sun. The dead remind me of you. Shedding red into the blue. Drowning in every drop of water! Eaten alive by every human flower! Killing every son and daughter! Sprayed by the capillaries of a sick mother! You are all sick! Sick like her! You are all sick! Like your mother! Artificial clouds are where the sun used to be! The black hand of death chokes the sky! Short may you live, And soon you shall die! Breathing through the gaping holes in her lungs! Flowing through her thinning blood vessels! Stored inside her dissipating muscles! This is how dying feels! You insignificant little ***** You live like this, And you are going to die like this! You keep bleeding your mother, You are going to die with her! You are all sick! Sick like her! You are all sick! Like your mother!
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 8:04 PM UTC
Sick
Sometimes On a sticky morning Where the sun Won't stop shining And my head Won't stop wondering The next best thing Is a tale as old As time
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Jul 20, 2019
Jul 20, 2019 at 2:22 PM UTC
Sometimes