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517 · Mar 2019
Marionettes
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
You think you are free?
Free to stand on our own feet.
Dare to cut the ropes.
513 · Oct 2021
such days
OpenWorldView Oct 2021
dark marauding dreams
follow me into daylight
death can't come early
506 · Jul 2019
Imaginary Carrots (10w)
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
Grand dreams beat boring reality.
May you never run out.
dreams are all I have
505 · Nov 2018
Burning Sugar
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
Love, like sweet icing sugar
burns with yellow flame
blackening your common sense.
503 · Mar 2019
Scene with Music
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
I love to lose myself
in those rare moments
without words.

Where music and imagery
synchronize to stir
my deepest feelings.

I love to lose myself
in destruction and sadness
played in G-Major chords.

Where tears flow
from my heart
and fiction veils reality.

I love to lose myself
in hope for a better future
without words.
503 · Mar 2019
In the Shadow
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
She enters the room
like illuminating sun.
I freeze in the dark.
500 · Nov 2018
To the Gallows
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
I can’t see their anger.
I can’t taste their rottenness.
I can’t smell their stench.
I can’t hear their screams.
I can’t feel their stones.

I’ve grown cold of this world.
Shutting out all the lunacy
by looking into myself.

And I’m content, calm, ready.
They can’t scare me anymore.
I’ve sent my fears to the gallows.
Find the truth inside yourself.
499 · Aug 2019
"human" nature
OpenWorldView Aug 2019
hate spawns violence
violence begets more hate
round and round we go
494 · Feb 2019
Democracy
OpenWorldView Feb 2019
Rule by the people.
Depraved by politicians.
People by the rule.
492 · Jun 2019
Gravity
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
“I’m dark”, she warned me.
Cross the event horizon.
Nothing can escape.
484 · Oct 2018
Finding Happiness
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
Hold still for a moment.
  Appreciate that you are alive.
    Put away the distractions.
      Picture yourself
        Independent and free.
      Needing nothing
    Except yourself.
  Savor this inner peace as it
Shines through to the outside.
477 · Jan 2019
Left vs Right
OpenWorldView Jan 2019
And the wolves are watching
the lambs fight among themselves.
475 · Aug 2018
Death
OpenWorldView Aug 2018
Cupid's arrow ripped
a  wound that left me bleeding,
till death showed his face.
475 · Sep 2019
silence
OpenWorldView Sep 2019
colorless cocoon
envelops a silent pain
until we accept
inspired by
AMA
a short film by Julie Gautier

https://youtu.be/bdBuDg7mrT8
474 · May 2019
Erosion
OpenWorldView May 2019
the wind whispers pain
across my life's cold wasteland
grinding me to dust
470 · Jun 2019
So Easy
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
falling out of love
easiest thing in the world
focus on yourself
It works.
Promise.
469 · Sep 2018
Thought
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
Like a withered leaf in a storm
I was pushed through life.
Powerless without a goal
my last will drowned in blood.
After years of suffering,
it finally was quiet.

Oh, beautiful nothing.
No more limitations.
Imagination becomes reality
death becomes life.

Now the dream can begin.
And I find myself in your arms
walking through rose gardens
swimming in a sea of passion.

You are my happiness and joy,
wisdom and meaning.
463 · Dec 2018
Teeter
OpenWorldView Dec 2018
Solemn promises.
Stern new year resolutions.
Lies sold to myself.
461 · Jun 2019
Greed
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
the gift of reason
lifts us from primal darkness
but amplifies greed
446 · May 2019
Meek
OpenWorldView May 2019
Blind Polyphemus
shepherds his dull flock of sheep.
Ulysses long gone.
Keep grazing.
Give wool and meat.
Be meek.
442 · Oct 2019
slowing down
OpenWorldView Oct 2019
shadows grow longer
crows lament coming winter
silence blankets land
hiking impressions
440 · Oct 2018
Your Indifference
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
Crucify me with glowing irons.
Tear me into thousand pieces
or burn me in heresy fire.

Just do something
because no death
can be worse
than your indifference.
428 · Oct 2018
Safety Relief Valve
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
Poems are like a safety relief valve.

In them we can say
what we would never say aloud.

In them we can
  curse,
    cry,
      love,
        hate,
          destroy,
            and create.

All those feelings and actions
we never show in real.

Poems are like a safety relief valve
and they are saving lives.
419 · Aug 2019
development (10w)
OpenWorldView Aug 2019
novice
learn learning
learn teaching
teach learning
teach teaching
master
418 · Jun 2019
Upside Down
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
a plutocracy
rules best from the shadows of
mediocracy
418 · Apr 2019
Holy Grail
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
Love, essence of life.
Kind, patient and innocent.
Quest for a pure heart.
414 · Oct 2021
hope
OpenWorldView Oct 2021
makes us submissive.
prevents us taking action.
we can do better!
have courage
409 · Aug 2019
Fatigue
OpenWorldView Aug 2019
Pointing out
the truth.
Preaching
the future.

It's all for naught.
As words spoken
remain unheard.

Ignored you start showing.
Giving all you have.

But again
all is for naught.
As results
remain unseen.

So you keep toiling
silently hidden
unknown unseen
til the end.
404 · Feb 2019
Safe Space
OpenWorldView Feb 2019
mental asylum
shielding snowflake fantasies
from reality
403 · Jan 2019
Undefined
OpenWorldView Jan 2019
my life
divided by
zero
401 · Jun 2019
Last Wish
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
Bury me
under a tree.

One with
green leaves
and pink
round blossoms.

One that grows
sweet red fruits
that feed
hungry mouths.

One that sparkles
in golden colors
until the first
winter arrives.

One which
rests in peace
covered by snow
until spring.

Bury me
under a tree
so I can live again.
400 · Dec 2018
Soundless Sadness
OpenWorldView Dec 2018
I’m alone.
In this dark room.
Gasping for air.
Eyes closed.
Tears bleeding.
Sadness screaming.
Soundless agony.
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
398 · Jul 2019
ad astra
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
fifty years ago
mankind took a giant leap.
time to learn flying
together
we can reach
the stars
398 · Nov 2019
restraint
OpenWorldView Nov 2019
count from one to ten
take a deep breath of fresh air
close your eyes, exhale
394 · May 2019
Falling
OpenWorldView May 2019
seeing you daily
that uplifting cheerful soul
makes me fall for you
love at many sights
391 · Apr 2019
Vantage Point
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
A life
means nothing
from afar,
but everything
up close.
Think of all the wars we wage
and the faceless victims.
389 · Aug 2019
Love Lost
OpenWorldView Aug 2019
forever pledged love
hollowed out by dailiness
just snake skin remains
383 · Sep 2019
moment
OpenWorldView Sep 2019
we stood in the cold
looking into each other
just before we kissed
382 · Mar 2019
Spring
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
Shy rays of light
paint warm hues
on dreaming eyes.

And a robin chirps
his morning song
in silver key.

Life awakens
all around.
381 · Aug 2019
End Of Light
OpenWorldView Aug 2019
the night brought the blue
so I closed my eyes and heart
to make it darker
381 · Jan 2019
Cold
OpenWorldView Jan 2019
Snow reflects first light.
Silent winter wonderland.
Cold and stiff I sleep.
381 · Dec 2019
miss you
OpenWorldView Dec 2019
we have never met
but always knew each other
two souls bound by fate
379 · Jul 2020
keeping silent
OpenWorldView Jul 2020
when words are targets
the truth remains unspoken
and progress will stall
378 · Feb 2019
A Leaf’s Life
OpenWorldView Feb 2019
I was born in spring
above a silent stream.
Called on by an ancient king
to serve after winter’s dream.

We fought a many battle.
Braved storms and other misery.
Always the obedient cattle
until death or glorious victory.

Time moved like the water below.
Day and night in constant flow.

I held on till the end
seduced by a promised land.
A place of plenty and open doors
across the distant ocean shores.

Then I fell, all brown and brittle
into the river’s icy wave.
I drifted happily for a little
before I sank to my murky grave.
377 · Nov 2018
Mass Transport Insanity
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
Shoving, pushing, a high pitched row.
Nerves so tense, lids to blow.
What an insane nuthouse show.
Morning commutes are not healthy.
377 · Jul 2019
Unwritten
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
blood, tears, agony
among the crumpled paper
lies the poet's soul
377 · Jun 2019
stalker
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
blazing moon rises
darkness chases frightened soul
fleeing own shadow
You are your own worst enemy.
377 · Mar 2019
Lifeboat
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
Buried below pillows
I sail from darkness
towards bright stars
rising behind weeping eyes.
My room. My bed. My sound. My sorrow.
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
Your sinful mouth is my tomb,
intoxicating its sweet bloom,
for all my virtues are put to sleep.
I drink uncontrollably from its well
and sink freely into its depths,
gazing blissfully into hell.

My hot flesh glows in his breath,
I tremble, like a spring rosebush
kissed by warm May rain.
- I follow you into the wild land of sin
and pick fire lilies by the roads,
- even if I can’t find home again…
From my favorite German poet:
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945)

Sinnenrausch

Dein sünd'ger Mund ist meine Totengruft,
betäubend ist sein süßer Atemduft,
Denn meine Tugenden entschliefen.
Ich trinke sinnberauscht aus seiner Quelle
und sinke willenlos in ihre Tiefen,
verklärten Blickes in die Hölle.

Mein heißer Leib erglüht in seinem Hauch,
er zittert, wie ein junger Rosenstrauch,
geküsst vom warmen Maienregen.
- Ich folge dir ins wilde Land der Sünde
und pflücke Feuerlilien auf den Wegen,
- wenn ich die Heimat auch nicht wiederfinde...

I found one translation https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1679708, but wanted to try it myself. Work in progress.
368 · May 2019
Search (10w)
OpenWorldView May 2019
Not for shallow fame,
but love
from those you touch.
"Give and you shall receive."
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