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My poetry. My wishes. My vision. My hopes and dream. My love. My silence. My unwanted solitude. My heart. My scattered realities and my complete imagination. Through the cracks of the former I grasp glimpses of the latter. On the quiet separated isles of those floating parts I sit, in the dark, looking over the black water at the half-open shadow door. Stream of black blood of loneliness flowing from underneath me, forming my shadow, down into the water under my empty soles. My closed eyelids and opened eyes. My scarred face. My quiet frozen fire of soul. My fallen tears and my opened chest. My blindness. My anger. My sore forehead. The open gate of my brows. The river of sorrow. My waiting. My salvation. My ennui. My swinging legs. My confused eyes. My empty mouth. My calm black pupils. My empty gaze. The bridge being built above the surging flood. My naked feet. My tired toes. My wrinkled sole. My empty fingers. My longing palms. My yet unechoed song. My light. My reignition. My arrival. The bottom of my gaze. The terminus of the river. The faint strength in my fingers. The overlap of my void physicality and the illusory unknown.
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Jan 30
Jan 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM UTC
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A little black puppy At my tentative greeting Wagged their tail surely. Then, rushed into my arms passionately unreservedly Giving me countless kisses all over me. Your little body against my skin and clothes, How warm How soft Like the spring sunshine, Like tears of joy. So that adults and children not far away screaming in fear at your nearness Saddens me As I turn away I already miss you. Your warm, slightly burning body. Your softness. Your gentle fur rubbing against my skin. The dust in your hair was left on me Clean water will bring it back to the world once again And as you roll around on the ground with your friends again in your family's displeasure It will come back onto you again In my dreams tonight You'll be a hundred times larger Your hair will grow so long to burry me in it In our adventures in the dark forest You'll protect me surely As sure as how you wagged your tail at me. We'll meet again All the puppies in the world We'll meet again That day, I become you You become me
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Jan 30
Jan 30, 2026 at 11:39 AM UTC
A little black puppy At my tentative greeting
Lonesomeness is like hollow, transparent tubes coiled within my flesh. My flesh can neither fill nor touch these empty spaces. In them, piercing, whistling winds run through. I stand on the ground with these tubes, with my mouth half open, fingers hanging bewilderedly in mid air Bereft, at a loss, helpless, Not having a clue.
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Jan 30
Jan 30, 2026 at 10:53 AM UTC
Lonesomeness is like hollow, transparent tubes coiled within my flesh.
I am a quivering puddle of melancholic, sorrowful water Held by God in its palms in front of its chest My black candle burns alone Light of tears Wax water of shadow The flickering silent candle light In the lonely corner Rides the seas of my tears Falling into the firmament beneath my feet And the abyss above my head God clasps its hands into its chest Where I melt My philosophy shimmers faintly in its chest chamber My lips that know a thousand languages are tightly sealed My pupils that glow with flame gaze into the depth of the darkness in my eyelids I sit in silence Like a one-month-old melancholic child Angry force pounds from my silent body into the white-grey land of existence My infantile body sits in silence Unable to be compensated Unable to be consoled My cotton shirt is full of flower seeds That are also silent Imagining the mountains Imagining waves of hills They are nourished by the imaginations And blossomed all over me I stand up And turn around To face the faintly blue white radiance
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Jan 30
Jan 30, 2026 at 10:50 AM UTC
I am a quivering puddle of melancholic, sorrowful water
There is an ant lying quietly on my sink Its body, so small, so tiny, so innocent Its limbs so deeply relinquished, powerless Its head tilted to the side So peaceful and tender Making it look like a baby in deep slumber I, a giant body, gaze at the little tiny ant In infinite tenderness and compassion Softly collecting it into my arms, rocking it  in imagination I blow on to it Its tiny antennae sway up and down, gently, lightly Hi there, tiny little ant See you, tiny little ant
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Jan 30
Jan 30, 2026 at 10:47 AM UTC
There's a tiny ant lying on my sink
The signals of the itch Like occasional asteroid explosions in the distant universe— shrill, Abrupt, Then slowly subsiding My body feels like a giant telegraph tower Surges of radio signals sent with electric wave sounds loud and quiet on and off all over me, I watch Quietly A bit lost Like a bewildered giant As if my body doesn't belong to me As if there is a confidential mysterious exchange between it and something that's totally oblivious to me I watch Like an innocent outsider I listen As the exchange continues on without abating As I fall asleep All the lights still flickering All the sounds popping on Bright and dim Sharp and blunt Abrupt or consistent low humming A giant building of sparkling sensations The black medium of the universe containing planetary detonations On and off Here and there Now and then I awaken, In the morning To a quiet body I don't know what has happened over the night I don't know about the progression of the exchange Has it finished? As I wonder, The signals quietly reemerge, The sounds rerise. I get up and off my bed Now I'm a walking telegraph building.
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Jan 23
Jan 23, 2026 at 8:20 AM UTC
My Eczema II.
My eczema is climing me like creepers climbing a wall It is always reaching further on my surface Where is it going? As if it has a mysterious destination that has always been just right out of reach It looks all pink and explosive Like still fireworks Frozen on the surface of my skin Frozen Like oil paint tossed into my skin And paused there then For now we have to live together Me and this vibrant, electric plant "What is the significance of your appearance? I ask of it It stays silent, And still. Breathing, Through its quiet, pulsating itching I have to refrain from touching it Its poisonous, tiny, sensitive sakura petals Resisting the lure of its enticing breaths. It fully presents its existence Fully open Exposed Wide-spread As if tranquilly embodying its quiet innocence Peacefully claiming its righteous presence I watch In a distance In wary admiration Watering it twice a day, carefully And applying translucent, pure white vaseline As if taking care of its delicate beauty It lets me be Lets me do whatever I want with it It pays no mind  It shrinks when that's the direction of the wind And it absorbs the aliveness for growth happily From when I sometimes give up resistance And indulge in its inviting fragrance Then caught by regret afterwards, When watching its pleasantly enlivened pink existence, charged, ready And let out a sigh in deep remorse. Its art embedded, blooming, serenely, above the intricate highways of my running blood vessels Sometimes I hold resentments against it, Its pink, alarming, worrisome colors Its ever-present attempt to lure, ****** my touching. Sometimes I let it be Admiring its art Like how it lets me be It /is/ like an art Non-verbal messages are carried within its sudden appearance in my gallery, my body To be understood, felt, through experiencing, through me It's a language spoken to me through my skin It's a gast of wind flared with fire flames blowing through my porous physicality Leaving fiery marks on my surface And when my being finishes registering its messages It will leave me It will leave the way it arrived Suddenly Entirely Quietly Leaving my skin peaceful again Like water restored from ripples of a suddenly dropped stone chip Back to being a windless mirror Then will I miss it? I won't. Maybe I will, In my change, In my poetry
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Jan 23
Jan 23, 2026 at 8:18 AM UTC
My Eczema I.
My eczema is climing me like creepers climbing a wall It is always reaching further on my surface Where is it going? As if it has a mysterious destination that has always been just right out of reach It looks all pink and explosive Like still fireworks Frozen on the surface of my skin Frozen Like oil paint tossed into my skin And paused there then For now we have to live together Me and this vibrant, electric plant "What is the significance of your appearance? I ask of it It stays silent, And still. Breathing, Through its quiet, pulsating itching I have to refrain from touching it Its poisonous, tiny, sensitive sakura petals Resisting the lure of its enticing breaths. It fully presents its existence Fully open Exposed Wide-spread As if tranquilly embodying its quiet innocence Peacefully claiming its righteous presence I watch In a distance In wary admiration Watering it twice a day, carefully And applying translucent, pure white vaseline As if taking care of its delicate beauty It lets me be Lets me do whatever I want with it It pays no mind  It shrinks when that's the direction of the wind And it absorbs the aliveness for growth happily From when I sometimes give up resistance And indulge in its inviting fragrance Then caught by regret afterwards, When watching its pleasantly enlivened pink existence, charged, ready And let out a sigh in deep remorse. Its art embedded, blooming, serenely, above the intricate highways of my running blood vessels Sometimes I hold resentments against it, Its pink, alarming, worrisome colors Its ever-present attempt to lure, ****** my touching. Sometimes I let it be Admiring its art Like how it lets me be It /is/ like an art Non-verbal messages are carried within its sudden appearance in my gallery, my body To be understood, felt, through experiencing, through me It's a language spoken to me through my skin It's a gast of wind flared with fire flames blowing through my porous physicality Leaving fiery marks on my surface And when my being finishes registering its messages It will leave me It will leave the way it arrived Suddenly Entirely Quietly Leaving my skin peaceful again Like water restored from ripples of a suddenly dropped stone chip Back to being a windless mirror Then will I miss it? I won't. Maybe I will, In my change, In my poetry
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Escape to one's mind is a useful skill A needed support beam of an introverted person's will So, hide away, and enjoy the stroll Because living in the real life often takes its toll
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Jan 22, 2022
Jan 22, 2022 at 7:54 PM UTC
Mind escape
They call you judgmental yet frown upon you when you are not exactly like them They try to pick apart any possible reason for an action you take, a mistake that you make Then boil it down to their own perfect little answer Their expectations they hold for others can be grueling with how many hurricanes run through your head, though they claim not to ask for much To act as if they can see right through you can sometimes be their favorite way to pass time, though  of course they don’t know half of it The strong vibes of arrogance and judging glances they shoot behind your back are enough to suffocate you, but you choose to hold it together with a smile Until the weakness returns, where you break down and shake You try to place words together in your mouth, your poems, in your eyes, your soul, anything.. but the largest part of you screaming out remains silent To expect to be fully understood by another is foolish   For their selfishness and their narrow way of thinking are evidently highly prominent And far too many complications are forever involved The attempts to silent your mind  unfortunately prove to be futile A cigarette, one drink after the other take away the gnawing pain that will eternally make its presence known Moments of happiness turn dark as ash ever so quickly To laugh at oneself, to lose one’s mind is hauntingly easy enough In a world where no one truly knows your name.
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May 22, 2021
May 22, 2021 at 2:24 AM UTC
Misunderstood.
How do we dare to doubt? It's because we aren't used to happiness in life For far too long we have been the ones who give Maybe, that's why it is so hard for us to receive We are scared of being backstabbed Know life as the cruel place without light We are shy, timid creatures Coming to be tamed by love
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May 2, 2021
May 2, 2021 at 12:03 PM UTC
How do we dare to doubt?
Obsessive helper Looking for the broken things Mending them with tears
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Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 6:16 PM UTC
INFP (Haiku)
I'm worried because I have no worries I'm afraid cuz I have no fears I spin in circles cuz I never get nowhere when I wake up I'm still sleeping I'm so ugly I'm in the hall of fame and for that I feel no shame I met the real me and then she ran away
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Aug 9, 2020
Aug 9, 2020 at 1:11 PM UTC
Paradoxical
Pink dream, cotton candy Like a warm-hearted cancer Snugged in my palm tightly hushing my nightly distress with an answer. Gently tuck you in my pillow case Wish for calming waves to drift me away Time after time, night after night Second after second Heavy-lids say farewell to Non-existent slumber Rose Quartz
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 11:43 PM UTC
Ode to Pink Dream
Until an old photo comes across your eyes, you will never cherish the little pieces of time that pass you by. To experience is beauty, To live is just a waste. My mind is full of feelings. My heart is full of feelings. There is no logic to me. I am art. I was designed by an artist. I was first crafted in the womb. My thoughts are put on paper and become art too. Life is art. We create moments and memories. Our art is often a photograph. Feelings are art. The way you decorate your home is art. Singing the song you love is art. We are all artists. After all, we were designed by an artist.
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Jul 22, 2019
Jul 22, 2019 at 12:58 PM UTC
It's All Art
Here, have a dime, My two cents by Five: You're not that sublime When it comes to being alive. You slam some door and claim your might; Not impressed by how you've dared To shut the doors and scream to fight; You're the kid that's truly scared Of all the things you can't control, All the things you'll never know; Not fear nor anger will fill that hole; Even roots must break dirt to grow. You're stuffed in far too small a space; Cramped wings find no room to fly; Sometimes I wish you'd have the grace To just let go and simply cry. So much lost in the fear of being wrong; A self-fulfilling prophecy in every song, when in point of fact: There's more to life than being strong; Your inner child's got a cataract. You're the match that sets yourself aflame, Because somedays you still need to feel; Anything less would be far too tame In this search for something real. All I know of timeless wealth Is how to give a loving hand; We have to be the one to see ourself, but By your side I Truly stand. To speak of what's true: If every fear is just projection Then if I am to question you Surely I speak to my own reflection.
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Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019 at 9:10 PM UTC
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Guess you're gone again Watched you walk away; You always said breathe out then in; Know you'll be back someday. Same seeks same to find its home Not meant to chase the vogue Some souls are surely made to roam Rebel always chooses Rogue. And rebels need a reason We can’t abide bad laws; yet Against the heart there is no treason When standing for a Cause. Always loved unspoken things Like the thrill of open sky Every bird must find its wings To let go of fear and finally fly. Beneath your chest there beats a fire A powerful creature that needs to be free Weave these words into the pyre This is who you’re meant to be. And I refuse to be your cage, Won’t bind your feet or blind your soul Won’t consign you to dance on broken stage, ‘cos You’re meant for more than that role. Can’t hide a sky of stars in a box Can’t bottle a boundless tide, Can’t block nature behind black locks, Though I’m ashamed to say I’ve tried. If you must fade to find your grace Because you’re made of art, Just know you always have a place Wherever waits this heart. So, You’re always free to go, and Seek each untraveled road; Build your dream abode. Just please hear this song That I’ve been singing all along: I’ll always prove your fears were wrong, for Some things will not erode.
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Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 4:32 PM UTC
To love a Turbulent
I won't play by the rules of the game; hate will not become me. If you ever go into that darkest spiral where you feel you are a grenade and so you push everyone away and then feel that next wave of despair that is utter loneliness at the seeming-realization that you have cut out everyone you love in your life - if that ever happens to you and you reach that stage of existential loneliness in a vacuum of infinity - you're not alone. You're not abandoned. It will not push me away. If you ever feel like you're unreal, come find me. I'll always listen.
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Feb 23, 2019
Feb 23, 2019 at 5:08 PM UTC
Abandon abandonment [prose]
Is anyone real out there? What a horrible question to tear Apart this life, Which always rhymes with strife Because there's a limited number of ways To say we're running short of plays To fill these broken days I don't think I'm better than anyone I don't think I'm magically The One But I also don't feel real And here's the whole spiel Maybe these bones are made to rust At the intersection of fear and trust 'Cos all this pain is just reflection Every fear is just projection Insanity - I cannot condone If we want to be free, do we have to be alone? Whatever else is true, whatever ways I'll rot - I truly love you; words are all I've got The 4's attachment is being broken; All that's expressed is just a token I can only show the 2d shell And so I Truly wish you well But I'd sooner save you from this spell Hey broken one: are you reading yet? This is for you, so don't forget The rhythm doesn't matter All words will fade, left in tatters And though this path we can't condone I swear to you: you're not alone. You're somewhere amidst the thought and **** I bid to you: please stop and look The slightest difference between we: I'm a permutation of thee I know the things you cannot say I, too, seek each shattered Way Combing The NeverNever every day For another reason to stay. I know you fear you've fallen wrong, But there's meaning in your song; Long past the end of time, What's true will shine through every rhyme.
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Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 at 2:20 AM UTC
This one's for you
So this is what inspiration feels like: When it's come time to take a hike, And every fork is a new road to take Every choice is another path to make Every word is another leaf to rake Every thought is free - What a wonderful gift for me. The mind is strong, so No thoughts are wrong Or out of place; Fear bites no grace. To those who choose just love: Your light outshines the dove; 'Cos for all that you may know, You still make room for worlds to grow.
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Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 at 1:54 AM UTC
P to J
I could sit and stare, And bide my time; Thoughts rip and tear, And try to rhyme. Somehow it seems so strange That though we poets, Filled with strands of gold or gray, Can rarely find a way to say What's truly on our minds; We're too caught up in the blinds. Perfection is a savage curse, But self-rejection's even worse. Maybe it's okay to be afraid; You can't pick and choose what to feel; Know your soul's not being weighed, so Put pen to page and just be real.
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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 3:45 AM UTC
The Beautiful Ugly
I wanna write in the bath Just to prove I can, So I am; No clue what I'll say, But that's okay; I don't need an in to win; I just gotta play. Language conquers mind; Maybe we're all too blind From the search for a metaphor, A greater meaning, a Something More; I wonder what we might be Without the concept of you vs me?
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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 3:39 AM UTC
Liquid Thoughts ♥
I won't write a story of perfect love, Where we sing our praise to the heavens above; Where blue skies fill every day, And there's no such thing as gray. I won't write a story with only white, For there's equal meaning in the night; Perhaps the point of a plight, Is to prove you're prepared to fight. I won't write a story where there's no dark; For though each moment leaves its mark, It merely makes the light matter more, And instills an essence never seen before. I won't write a story without dejection, For it could never be true; But what need have I of perfection, As long as I have you?
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 2:48 PM UTC
Perfectly Imperfect
Perhaps I struggle to find the phrase To set the strands of your soul ablaze Because when I look at you, I gaze Into something so much more How could any worldly rhythm Though surely bright and strong Dare dream define such a prism? You are more than form; you’re song You are the sound of the galaxy Dancing through the sky I dreamed of such a fantasy And yet you dreamed of I. No words, no song, no rhyme Nor thought, nor dream, nor time Could ever be enough. You are my beautiful impossibility, My miracle, my spiritual key; You are my partner and my very best friend, And I walk with you without end.
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 2:47 PM UTC
A 5 Minute Poem
How to Be a Poet (After Wendell Berry) To be a poet is not just to write poetry. To be a poet is not to refuse to look at a computer screen. To be a poet is not to find some structured, patterned language in which to fit a thought. To be a poet: accept. Qualia is a term that defines the unique experience of how our senses manifest. We may both agree that this text is black, but how can we know that I see the same shade of black as you do? To be a poet: accept that all perspectives have value. To be a poet: listen. Listen to the unbalanced grating of the washer machine thrown slightly off its axis; listen to the blanket of sounds caressing your skin as you sit on the bus. Listen to the sounds and dreams of the world around you. To be a poet: think. Think of the way the tap of fingers feel against your jeans; think of all those little projects you never quite managed to follow. Think of all those thoughts you were scared to acknowledge. To be a poet: feel. Feel for the smiles and the averted eyes; feel for the lost souls and the newlyweds. Feel sunshine on your face, feel wind brushing against your jacket. Just feel. To be a poet: dream. Dream and don’t stop. Dream about dreaming. Dream about running away. Dream about getting more sleep. Dream with such reverence that others start to dream again too. Some days you may not have a pen. Some days you may not have a computer. Some days may be bright and warm, others dark and cold. Being a poet is not about meeting certain conditions; being a poet is about finding meaning in what exists.
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 2:44 PM UTC
To Be a Poet
How to Be a Poet (After Wendell Berry) To be a poet is not just to write poetry. To be a poet is not to refuse to look at a computer screen. To be a poet is not to find some structured, patterned language in which to fit a thought. To be a poet: accept. Qualia is a term that defines the unique experience of how our senses manifest. We may both agree that this text is black, but how can we know that I see the same shade of black as you do? To be a poet: accept that all perspectives have value. To be a poet: listen. Listen to the unbalanced grating of the washer machine thrown slightly off its axis; listen to the blanket of sounds caressing your skin as you sit on the bus. Listen to the sounds and dreams of the world around you. To be a poet: think. Think of the way the tap of fingers feel against your jeans; think of all those little projects you never quite managed to follow. Think of all those thoughts you were scared to acknowledge. To be a poet: feel. Feel for the smiles and the averted eyes; feel for the lost souls and the newlyweds. Feel sunshine on your face, feel wind brushing against your jacket. Just feel. To be a poet: dream. Dream and don’t stop. Dream about dreaming. Dream about running away. Dream about getting more sleep. Dream with such reverence that others start to dream again too. Some days you may not have a pen. Some days you may not have a computer. Some days may be bright and warm, others dark and cold. Being a poet is not about meeting certain conditions; being a poet is about finding meaning in what exists.
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