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 Dec 2016 Sparrow
haley
Canto II
 Dec 2016 Sparrow
haley
Upon entering the vast crystal dome
we venture through the endless
that such vile creatures call home.

Before me, occurring a ghastly sight
of those cursed to these depths
are confined to the blackest night.

Embedded into the surrounding walls,
irregularity complicates the network
when one wanders the immortal halls

of a timeless place that captures its victims
to intensify the thoughts inside their head,
eluding the state of true mortem.

With heavy rope held agonizingly tense
woven within their eyes and mouth
blocking all intellection of the sense,

the creatures meander aimlessly forevermore
nervous and cautious of their movements,
bloodied and grimy from the soot-ridden floor.

I question my Lover out of curiosity:
“Why must these souls dwell in a daunting
labyrinth without physical perceptivity?”

And the Lover addressed sweetly: “My one and only,
Greed is a moral infection of the human mind,
be wary of the heart and the desire Lustfully.”

He then turned, and I followed him through
up to a Beast whom I would not dare test
for he validates the lack of your virtues.
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
Yasha Harkness
I do desire that we may be better strangers.
Your ill-bred humor disgusts me.
You take too many familiarities with my person.
No I am not your lady.
Nor am i, and never will be your 'darling.'
You are the wrong shape
The wrong size
The wrong class
The wrong gender.
I prefer the company of my own kind.
Leave me be.
inspired by all the Victorian novels I've been reading lately
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
Hayleigh
In the heartbeat she gave me,
would i give all to thee
once more.
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
GKM
Creation
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
GKM
I call him the architect,
He saw the small town
Within me and built cities.
He saw the lake within me
And created seas. He saw the
Hills within me and built
Mountains that touched the
The sky.

But he didn't see me.

So he left and the world shook
And destroyed the land within.
But I can't even bring myself to
Mourn the world he so sweetly
Crafted. I can't bring myself to hate
That the land I built isn't the same.
As he showed me that the
worlds that last are the ones
We build for ourselves.
Here's to being greatful  to the things that break us.
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
Jeff Stier
She captures autumn
in a jar
reads the moon's straying
through leaf and branch

Always in love
with love
and always reeling
from the loss

What wave tossed this refugee
ashore?
What alignment
of stars and planets
of uncountable galaxies
brought this woman
to this world and not another?

A simple truth will tell.
The moon at high tide
hides beneath her skirts.
A slight disturbance
in the silken fabric
of space and time
and all is lost
all is born.

I hold my hands out
palms up
in prayer and thanks
every day
to mark the blessing
to place a peg
in the whole.

Given to all
denied to none
and mysterious to most

Life pours out of
a hole in the sea
leaves nothing
and everything
to chance.

This blessed world.
#h
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
pia
Cass
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
pia
beautiful girl
what did you do?
to have someone like him
love someone like you?

beautiful girl
what did he see?
what was in you
that wasn't in me?

was it your chocolate hair
that he loved so much?
was it your porcelain skin
that he loved to touch?

or was it something that i
just couldn't see?
or just everything i
couldn't be?

beautiful girl
what does he say?
how does it feel
to be loved this way?

what is it like to hear
his stupid laugh?
to have everything i
couldn't have?

was it your chocolate hair
that he loved so much?
was it your porcelain skin
that he loved to touch?

or was it something that i
just couldn't see?
or everything i
couldn't be?

i'm not angry
i just wasn't enough
please take care
of the
only boy
i've
ever
loved
.

yes, it was your chocolate hair
that he loved so much
it was your porcelain skin
that he loved to touch

it was your smile
that lit up a million worlds
it was you
it was you
all along
the
beautiful
girl
.
its a song actually :)
i made it haha
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
S Smoothie
23
 Nov 2016 Sparrow
S Smoothie
23
Such a pure longing for our chemistry intertwined
how the effervescence gives way to such a rich full bodied happiness
always fleeting with such consuming intensity
A profound impacting of souls suspended over us indefinately

such a slow fade to ok
such a long drop from joy
comfotably numb until the next moment serendipity plays with our vibrations
calling on fate to pacify her whims
such a beautifully cruel couplet
tortourously satisfying while constantly feeding the hunger
it happens with such imperfect frequency
i hum my song to your tune
youre almost gone now
getting comfortable again

I smile,
I'm just about to fade
and your song is on the radio
number 23
Chain smokers don't let me down
Perfect strangers
we are burnt inside,
            full of old straw,
            tar and wet ash,

passing trucks lift my hair,
           wash my eyes with diesel

trees and fields behind the stop
           are fenced and grubby,
           they darken,

we are lost in direction
          between two nothings,
          untied to our kin ;

seekers of line and light
          down the way of a savage god,
          the cruel autobahn.
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