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#surrealist
Leaden beasts, faces stricken. Left grieving amongst their kin. Mobs of silent atheists passing through solemn lands, Dare not tread. Citizen militia running up numbers on the east side Let the stone castles on the hill fall into the sea There is no need for them now Let wild horse run free Hounds with coats dark as night bounding through an empty and stark land ***** by warfare At the end of the ancient war, Is there humanity to be found beneath the bodies of child soldiers and sacrifices? Daughters, learned anew - unavenged A brutal dictator overthrown at a cost to the people Is this the cost of freedom in the New World? Our souls sold off for cheap goods and quick solutions We are no longer ruled by the divine Wake up young one Wake up Screaming, a mother falls dead before our feet As we trudge on towards illuminated TV screens in the distance Nevermind that life came before fame A handful of young girls dance at his feet Tears leaving marks deep like canyons on their soft faces Grant us one more day One high One night with a faceless woman Before we are eaten by what we praise
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Apr 30
Apr 30, 2026 at 3:40 AM UTC
nowadays
Love’s a splinter, a shimmer, a shiver, A quiver of gold in the gut of a river. It’s a thief in the rafters, a laughter that lingers, A bell in your chest rung by merciless fingers. It slinks like silk, like milk on a wire, A flick of a wick set to shadow and fire. It gnaws at the edges, it etches the air, A puzzle of pieces that were never quite there. It’s honey and venom, a rhythm of stings, A tangle of feathers, a choir of wings. A howl in the hollow, a swallow of sun, It’s begun, it’s begun—and it’s never begun. It’s a lock with no key, it’s a sea without end, A ripple, a riddle that you can’t apprehend. It’s ink in the veins of a dream you can’t write, A fight to the marrow, a flight through the night. It’s a scaffold of sighs, a cry on the wind, A hymn for the lonely, the holy, the sinned. It’s the orbit of chaos, the storm in your chest, The claw of a hawk in a silken nest. Love is a hive, a dive into flame, A shape-shifting shadow with no face or name. It hums in your bones, it moans, it conspires, A waxwork of whispers, a cathedral of fires.
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Jul 14, 2025
Jul 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM UTC
Puzzle Pieces (Love pt2)
“There’s a cow at the table,” I whispered, not wanting to be rude. It’s horns curled like question marks, which seemed quite Apropos Now that I’ve been to college, I can tell you, there’s a lot that I don’t know. But a cow at the table, no matter how well dressed, left me, well, confused. “How do you Dooooo?” I offered, friendships should begin straightforwardly. When it didn’t answer, I thought, “Well this friendship’s starting off awkwardly.” Was it hard of hearing? I wondered. “Have you mooooved here recently?” I asked, loudly. Again, nothing, it just sat there proudly. Did it take my attempt at dialect, as a sign of disrespect? “Would you like some fooood? I asked, “Some hay maybe?” I was guessing, but it was a guest. Some friendships start out slowly, but holy-moley, was this livestock trying to troll me? After some aggravation, and impatience, it turned out to be an elaborate, fraternity initiation. . . *Based on Leonora Carrington’s painting “Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur.” https://www.moma.org/artists/993-leonora-carrington*
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Apr 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM UTC
a cow at the table
The dull gleam of the setting sun, Thin and feeble like feathers of birds- Maybe of a tired avian who has forgotten to fly. It paints the woods in the weakest shade, Shades of yellow and shades of red. The leaves fall, dead and dry, They break the sacred silent peace. I stand and hear and I shiver in fear. It is not the fear of the blind future, It is not the fear of the things unknown. It is the dread of nothing The terrifying thought of, Absolute, dreaded, pitch black null It haunts my truth, it strikes my mind It molds my sanity into a copy, A perfect copy of the dark deep space. I see the slow approaching mist, Deathly white and wildly soothing, like a dream, A dream dreamt many years before. It mutters words of darkest comforts And sings the melody of chilling joy. The tune of it, slow and soothing, Calls me closer. Just like how a lullaby, uttered by a mother's lips, Takes a child to a place of solace, How it takes him to the caves of sleep. I walk possessed, I walk towards the call Cursed by the desire for warmth, Some final warmth in the cold arms of death.
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Mar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM UTC
A cursed afternoon
They fed you ghosts, called it breakfast. You swallowed bone-dust with your milk, it settled deep in your ribs— grinding, grinding, grinding. Yet they said: grow. Outside, the trees towered, but inside, the walls learned your name. Soft hands became knives, small mouths learned silence. The mirrors cracked, but nobody asked why. Lullabies were hunger songs, bedtime stories always ending with: Run, little rabbit. Run.
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Feb 22, 2025
Feb 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM UTC
Teeth in the Milk
hope ferments a sweet berry intoxicating as the patient table tending to the wine bottled blessing blood of a saint gently rippling in silence and indifference a crutch to hold your will the black dog sneers growls in your ear
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Apr 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024 at 3:49 AM UTC
Dilly Dalí
twined, grey & silver sing along the edges of consciousness, bolstering themselves in the still life of subtle breathing, the ear, caught by midnight’s velvet blue, drinking muted honey dark’s elixir, a blanketed embrace technicolor mind dance, coupled with the gauzed feet of presence these are Nox’s symphony of arms wrapping awareness inside her primordial soup
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Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 12:49 PM UTC
Night’s palette
They paint red She is happy She is a great artist She draws a pattern She thinks it is the finest Gaza's streets are filled with red It may be surrealist You must blind your heart And say as the world  told Thanks thank God As you created like that Israel killed these animals As they do not deserve to be lived You must solid your mind And dance, dance very fast And drink barrels of highball To see the world's talk To see how it is so having tale that Israel is doing well it may paint of realistic it reflects a view of fact telling Israel is the master Arabs must bow and worship her more It may be line And see how Arabs are awful They don't deserve a1ot to be wonderful **** , **** with your powerful To destroy Arabs at all It may be a cartoon they tell Arabs doing as Tom Who looks stupid and will fall Doom to undeveloped persons ****** over that world Which encourages the unjust And she will **** **** As the baby does with his doll
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Nov 15, 2019
Nov 15, 2019 at 2:58 PM UTC
They paint red
Let's not make any bones about it, For I have no bones to pick. Ah, and I've got you there, for I am a sack of meat. O, to live amongst the squids! and be so jubilant and jiggly, why, no pleasure's ever met my eye, as that leathery wriggling beak. Am I to blame for my misfortune? Surely so, but of you I must ask, what misfortune? Am I to assume that because I have agency, I must fail? Nonsense! And how fitting. American manifest. Living in a land, for himself, most befitting. Laugh with me, for we live in Clown World. This is the power of the untamed duffle bag. Vicious! O how vicious, his maw, his all consuming zipper unzipped. But my zipper, too, is unzipped. Such a faux pas passes not in our society, unforgiving, unforgivable. Original sin.
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Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 at 10:03 PM UTC
Enabler? I hardly know 'er!
Chariots spinning on snake wrapped wheels fly forth through his fiery shins The horses have sitar faces Ancestor voices vocalize with ethereal hymns The imperial rims shall want but have no get Flung forth into hypnotic dishes of nets Gasping for water in heightened air Trickle with spirit and deadly measures With morality a broken metronome A boulder smeared with clumps of pulp of mango Flamingo bends in the fiery knees Seven arms Nine heads Existed from oceans beatings Lightning of wrathful suns Tears shed skinned and dappled face of brimming whim Orangutan spiked fur Perfumed of jungles’ musk and fleas Pinkish hand with crevice knuckles To no king he bends the patella gates He leads the ravaging conquests Endless horse and bird A Danube of feathers Sterling melting herd To no king he hands the scepter He is pouting child Devil wig and fist Sprinting in red abyss amidst the hands of slaves To no king shall he relinquish the ribcage trophy
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Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 11:12 AM UTC
He Who Has No King
Once upon a whispering moon, I rode a star unto Africa. The land was hot & covered in ice. My eyes were glass, Ready to shatter at the notion of ugly beauty. A duality that would cause the sun to tear itself in twain from fear of metaphorical & metaphysical asphyxiation. Atlas of the world turned grey as dreams turn dust to shards of crystal liquid light. Grinning inanely & insanely for the serpent spectre sceptre is in the house of sonic devotional Kirtan emotional Islamic Jewish conditional faith & faith no where but here. No fear. The sky explodes When crying gods do read their own Stories in nothingness & apple seeds. Cyanide & Suicide. Doves, black,  rain, ride. Release. Release. Release.
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Aug 11, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM UTC
Untitled
Winter wizards dancing around my forthcoming saliva dripping tongue, Desire for the frozen, dead landscape. Like dreams that end and never start and like skies that are nothing and all at once...it dances around me forever and ever and the night is forever. Yet, it ends when I look back upon it. Yet, it ends when I look forward to it again. The snow of melody falls and crashes. The snow of love it burns and ashes. The snow of life it lies and snatches. The snow of faith it tries and thrashes. Behold, the gate, in the northern light. Behold, the wall, made of floating ice. Behold, the shoes, covered in ice. Behold, the pipe, wet with Christ. Within I welcome crazy light, Without I welcome sensible night. Dancing and dancing, donning the cap of trees without leaves and horns from the graves before the seas. Spinning the sun into suicide for a season. Spinning the night into seeming forever season. Spinning the story for the tale-born season. Spinning the ice for this dead-earth season. Ritual reborn, I call, into the night. (With thoughts, alone. No sprites of calling with my voice!) Avast, and awaken in this frozen hill. I await the spring, and until then....all is well in the endless white. The endless white. The endless white.
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Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM UTC
.:.The Endless White.:.
One morning, I met and ate with Sappho, and as we watched the baited ducklets come and go described to her a calming Violet i had found within where seeded crops of crocuses grow who strapped the sunlight as its belle bijou and subtle symmetry that provided words to break the heart and warm the blush skin of you I told her of broken morning birds simple songs robbed by her brushed deviled tips I cried of endless pages cast in ink to describe her perfect purple lips of desperate letters to help me understand how her love thinks All other stem of Violetta fail to me to remind of the shadow cast over flowers then or to undermine those bright pink cheeks i could see in its petal hues - usual rhythm couldn't convey to pen this wild moss of a creature that heavn's sink.... a smile, and she replied "a picked and pressed flower for a Violet of my own", said the Girl.
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Mar 19, 2015
Mar 19, 2015 at 6:16 PM UTC
brooding, dulcet; gleaming
A red bird has flown soaring in the great height of the purple sky. The thrilling scream was as a shrill cry on the soundtrack. The bird has disappeared into the sky, and all it could be heard was the sound. That cold sound became fluid in the ears. A forked green lightning following a zigzagging pattern appeared from an antimatter space. The eyes fixed wide-open up, and the mouths kept silent. A ship has left the dock to disappear in the mobile horizon. It seemingly disappeared and reappeared based on where the eyes were looking; the eyes were not able to leave the dock. When the ship could not be seen, a prolonged blast could be heard. Finally, the ship disappeared in an antimatter space, where cold could illuminate and beat the heat to burn everything as we beat the heat with icy cold neck wraps. The eyes fixed wide-open toward, and red screams grew from open mouths. The sun lost its strength to become redder than it was before. In the twilight, its disk disappeared below the mobile horizon. Its power was in the spirit and the matter of the freezing cold. The eyes were unable to see where the sun was going. In the soft and purple mist, they looked like little amethyst stones. The violet light slowed down in the water much more than the red light refracted. The waves of alternating strength in electric and magnetic fields moved around the Earth in the tick of a clock. The mouths murmured, but the anti-sound made them all be quiet. From an airplane in the sky, the eyes could see two rainbows with colors in opposite order forming a complete circle. The eyes could move up and down to see the red light that refracted out of the droplets at steeper angles than the blue light. The mind could imagine another rainbow made of complementary light wavelengths such as green, blue, violet, red, orange, yellow-orange and yellow.
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 10:50 AM UTC
Antimatter (Neo Surrealist Poem)
A red bird has flown soaring in the great height of the purple sky. The thrilling scream was as a shrill cry on the soundtrack. The bird has disappeared into the sky, and all it could be heard was the sound. That cold sound became fluid in the ears. A forked green lightning following a zigzagging pattern appeared from an antimatter space. The eyes fixed wide-open up, and the mouths kept silent. A ship has left the dock to disappear in the mobile horizon. It seemingly disappeared and reappeared based on where the eyes were looking; the eyes were not able to leave the dock. When the ship could not be seen, a prolonged blast could be heard. Finally, the ship disappeared in an antimatter space, where cold could illuminate and beat the heat to burn everything as we beat the heat with icy cold neck wraps. The eyes fixed wide-open toward, and red screams grew from open mouths. The sun lost its strength to become redder than it was before. In the twilight, its disk disappeared below the mobile horizon. Its power was in the spirit and the matter of the freezing cold. The eyes were unable to see where the sun was going. In the soft and purple mist, they looked like little amethyst stones. The violet light slowed down in the water much more than the red light refracted. The waves of alternating strength in electric and magnetic fields moved around the Earth in the tick of a clock. The mouths murmured, but the anti-sound made them all be quiet. From an airplane in the sky, the eyes could see two rainbows with colors in opposite order forming a complete circle. The eyes could move up and down to see the red light that refracted out of the droplets at steeper angles than the blue light. The mind could imagine another rainbow made of complementary light wavelengths such as green, blue, violet, red, orange, yellow-orange and yellow.
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Mud, mud, mud Can't cha get enuff? Nup, tuft. Alleviate normative Chairtime penalties Helper Scalper! Oh, I drew the crucifix! I must cruise for a fix and machinate my auto-licks. Guitars all bent from rotten trips into acid bath houses of Babylon!
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 12:40 PM UTC
Automatic Writing III
Big Sticker Snicker Get my hands away from your thigh brutally change for trains of people purging the time of distempered crises.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 12:36 PM UTC
Automatic Writing II
Geometric Considerations and Nomenclature for Reflectance, U. A march section in B flat minor follows. Cordelia is nervous about her father's tax position but does not tell the others. Japan's Olympic judo team. Rehberg married his high school sweetheart, Jan, a water attorney who represents farmers and ranchers. In four games, he had been sacked 23 times and had a pass intercepted 12 times. Eastern Europe, and conspired to spread communism throughout the world. There are 55 schools in Kortrijk, on 72 different locations throughout the city, with an estimated 21,000 students. Go through all tools, materials, and so forth in the plant and work area.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
Ready-Made Spam
flailing water wings down by the riverbed because a sun drought treats you colder whistle the names of the tight-lipped ghosts whose hunger pangs on and on Worthwhile reaching out Hellbent on riches No One Believed You and now you believe in nothing. What else is there to believe? Smoldering giants in the undertow thats what! Draw a gentle rock and pry it from its gums flying was the greatest mistake
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
speckled brown trout in orbit
Every self defeating metaphor anyone has ever birthed A mug of orange juice in a giant’s hand Three tablespoons of soil that you will misidentify as dirt A motif specific to the reader The sound of a tree falling alone in a forest A manual titled Insects in the Garden of Today: Pests & Benefactors Three redwood seeds in a row without pause
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 8:53 PM UTC
Part of This Complete Breakfast
I stood On the edge of the sky As the Mountain danced below me I stood In blanket stars As the trees sang melodies of old
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM UTC
At the Mountain
They waltz, Right around you. Dancing In rhythm. Their costumes Elegant and flowing. Eye contact Is avoided- Except to their partners. They twirl And they spin And laugh Right in front of you. Champagne, Flows freely. From bottle To glass, From glass, To parched lips. And they dance. They dance harder. And strangely, With more ease. The logic- Like that of a dream; The more champagne The more intricate Their dances become. The more they laugh; The more sober You are. The costumes Appear to grow longer, As the night Stretches on. The elegance fades Into grotesque Haunting themes. The moon and stars Gently blink out, One by one. But the sky doesn't light The horizon with dawn. The morning is still, Yet ages away. The sky, Empty and black. The champagne Never ceases to flow. The couples keep spinning In and around, This large Marbled hall. There you stand- The only exhausted, Itching to leave. The exit hidden By patrons unknown. And you, The only dancer, Not dancing.
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Apr 12, 2014
Apr 12, 2014 at 9:25 PM UTC
A Dance in the Night