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"acidic" poems
You cause a break inside my organs Pointing out my flaws our differences. You are at peace. I sit jittering, worrying what everyone will think of when I didn’t care you made me laugh at everything Changes.  You’re not right for me Nor I for you, but I can’t help Thinking What if?  Then I remember you’re not what nor Everything I want. You are an intellectual snob you have a depth about you I would love to delve in, a psychological study that even the best critics would praise, but I don’t want anyone else to have been there or ever go there. I cannot hold on to you tear me away while You’re haphazardly gluing us together We’re a kindergarten art project messy, trying to see Beauty within the confusion, unfinished     You asked me Where am I most at peace 4 years old.       I could be anything No fears I hadn’t been ripped apart. I was the girl that said everything, until I felt the need to screen my thoughts, like the filter you use to make your coffee each morning.  I wish that’s where I was, having you tell me that you like your women like your coffee Dark and bitter. I can look past your chauvinistic ways, not giving a **** about anyone. You’re not really closed minded You just act like it, which annoys the hell out of me Sometimes.  I wish life was simple.     But then I would never know your complexities nor Feel the things you help me feel, like hate for train whistles or the burn of gin hitting my throat. Music       you introduce me to offstage trumpets, bad movies.  Your politics, your brown eyes       and how you can hear frequencies that most everyone else can’t.  I worry that you hear the fear in my voice and heartbreak With every word I speak. When were you going to tell me? Or was that your plan all along? To throw me out like yesterday’s coffee grounds or cut up scraps Used and unwanted. I wish I could tell you to tell her you don’t want her but me instead, you don’t, I don’t want you to. I want holding hands, laughter comfort, personality, humor, intellect. You want that plus things I can’t give But you always take. You are your coffee disgusting, caffeinated, addicting the only patch that helps is comforting words you never spoke. We had many conversations of your desires, lusts, mistakes, but I was burned, by lies, distrust. You left, like always, a harsh, acidic aftertaste on my tongue.
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Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM UTC
Coffee
You cause a break inside my organs Pointing out my flaws our differences. You are at peace. I sit jittering, worrying what everyone will think of when I didn’t care you made me laugh at everything Changes.  You’re not right for me Nor I for you, but I can’t help Thinking What if?  Then I remember you’re not what nor Everything I want. You are an intellectual snob you have a depth about you I would love to delve in, a psychological study that even the best critics would praise, but I don’t want anyone else to have been there or ever go there. I cannot hold on to you tear me away while You’re haphazardly gluing us together We’re a kindergarten art project messy, trying to see Beauty within the confusion, unfinished     You asked me Where am I most at peace 4 years old.       I could be anything No fears I hadn’t been ripped apart. I was the girl that said everything, until I felt the need to screen my thoughts, like the filter you use to make your coffee each morning.  I wish that’s where I was, having you tell me that you like your women like your coffee Dark and bitter. I can look past your chauvinistic ways, not giving a **** about anyone. You’re not really closed minded You just act like it, which annoys the hell out of me Sometimes.  I wish life was simple.     But then I would never know your complexities nor Feel the things you help me feel, like hate for train whistles or the burn of gin hitting my throat. Music       you introduce me to offstage trumpets, bad movies.  Your politics, your brown eyes       and how you can hear frequencies that most everyone else can’t.  I worry that you hear the fear in my voice and heartbreak With every word I speak. When were you going to tell me? Or was that your plan all along? To throw me out like yesterday’s coffee grounds or cut up scraps Used and unwanted. I wish I could tell you to tell her you don’t want her but me instead, you don’t, I don’t want you to. I want holding hands, laughter comfort, personality, humor, intellect. You want that plus things I can’t give But you always take. You are your coffee disgusting, caffeinated, addicting the only patch that helps is comforting words you never spoke. We had many conversations of your desires, lusts, mistakes, but I was burned, by lies, distrust. You left, like always, a harsh, acidic aftertaste on my tongue.
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Living freely in this world My vulnerability, feels so lost As it seeks the skies to escape all Perched high away and hiding My heart forsaken For my vulnerability Has left The little bird has flown My retreating heart lives behind Many layers of frozen ice The warm waters of my heart Have all frozen over Come back, come back little bird A teardrop falls For I see the loss of potential In this frozen pond Where waters should be warm My heart should sing Great rich jungles, it should bring My pride wounded by this world I stare into my murky depths My standing in this world falling As my legs are taken By the jaws of a giant beast Far away a bird twitches My stomach twists and turns Absorbed I am into the belly Of a great giant crocodile I begin to feel my vulnerability In these dangerous warm acidic waters As I merge into a crocodile And high above a bird leaves his perch As the ice layers break With the force of my tail New eyes see the self importance in people Of this earth, with all their arrogance I will bring you back to earth For I am the last living dinosaur Born from a time when T.rex reigned And even the birds had teeth For I still live in waters Where Piranha's seek to Frenzy on living flesh And I am to be scared of you I warn all of those who wish to disturb My open and most precious heart That rests in silence over my pond For your flesh will quiver With the sound of my ancient growl And your eyes will panic With the sight of my jaw A quiet bird flutters closer Bring your bitterness and all your sourness For I am hungry and love rotten meat And your disregard feeds my fury Circle my pond Where my heart rests softly With rich and green waters Bursting and growing in love For I am not scared to feel And I will lounge and grab As a tonne of me, slaps itself Bang, hard on this earth For I am here to feel it And not escape it But you will be blind And lost in my depths I will turn you over and Your arrogance will feed me As I grow stronger You will be ripped limb from limb   A little bird comes closer My heart free from noise A silence nestles in me And all innocence is seen Beautiful souls float freely Butterflies dance and play And my beautiful vulnerability returns in sweet song And rests softly in my jaw A strange paradox becomes so very clear With a little bird we hold so dear
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
THE JAWS OF VULNERABILITY
Living freely in this world My vulnerability, feels so lost As it seeks the skies to escape all Perched high away and hiding My heart forsaken For my vulnerability Has left The little bird has flown My retreating heart lives behind Many layers of frozen ice The warm waters of my heart Have all frozen over Come back, come back little bird A teardrop falls For I see the loss of potential In this frozen pond Where waters should be warm My heart should sing Great rich jungles, it should bring My pride wounded by this world I stare into my murky depths My standing in this world falling As my legs are taken By the jaws of a giant beast Far away a bird twitches My stomach twists and turns Absorbed I am into the belly Of a great giant crocodile I begin to feel my vulnerability In these dangerous warm acidic waters As I merge into a crocodile And high above a bird leaves his perch As the ice layers break With the force of my tail New eyes see the self importance in people Of this earth, with all their arrogance I will bring you back to earth For I am the last living dinosaur Born from a time when T.rex reigned And even the birds had teeth For I still live in waters Where Piranha's seek to Frenzy on living flesh And I am to be scared of you I warn all of those who wish to disturb My open and most precious heart That rests in silence over my pond For your flesh will quiver With the sound of my ancient growl And your eyes will panic With the sight of my jaw A quiet bird flutters closer Bring your bitterness and all your sourness For I am hungry and love rotten meat And your disregard feeds my fury Circle my pond Where my heart rests softly With rich and green waters Bursting and growing in love For I am not scared to feel And I will lounge and grab As a tonne of me, slaps itself Bang, hard on this earth For I am here to feel it And not escape it But you will be blind And lost in my depths I will turn you over and Your arrogance will feed me As I grow stronger You will be ripped limb from limb   A little bird comes closer My heart free from noise A silence nestles in me And all innocence is seen Beautiful souls float freely Butterflies dance and play And my beautiful vulnerability returns in sweet song And rests softly in my jaw A strange paradox becomes so very clear With a little bird we hold so dear
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Green eyes, wish they'd stay but only when I cry and my eyes are red from the acidic tears only when I'm high and my eyes are red from the smoke roaming the air wish green eyes would stay, but I am stuck with brown and theyre kind of a bore.
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
green eyes.
I. Neptune’s Theater A rock spins through the universal tumbler and its warm blue pools calcify as turquoise Neptune in his cloudy blue bath bath builds a lace castle with his fingertips Sculpts a submerged eden of crimson and emerald where painted parrots chat up cardinals butterfly and angel fry sway with wave pulse and foliated coral fingers beckon from arched windows. Neptune’s children are flat and bright, spined and notched free yet entangled in lace mesh ecosystem beneath an array of bioluminescent stars as a gangly pretender watches and blows bubbles. II. Sapien Siege The hot acidic hand of death grasps the mesh rends and tangles the ecosystem shattered reef’s loosed children scream beneath planet’s stars. Butterflies impaled cyanide-swooning damsels mesh-tangled angels hauled heavenward coral to potash, corpses to coal. The pretender to the throne blinks rubs blurry lenses, kicks plastic fins and moves on to the next show Unseeing and unaware of the luminous filament in his wake. Self-appointed divinity, deus ex machina. ******************************************************************************************* Ann says: All of the animal and human characters in this poem (except Neptune and The Pretender) are named after coral reef fish. Coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystems, are expected to be largely extinct within one human generation. Deus ex machina is Latin for “God from the machine.” Copyright 2013 by Ann Marcaida.
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
Children of the Reef
you are tomato soup acidic and creamy. your path is marked by risen temperature in my esophagus. your path is parallel to my spine. and you rest in the warm vats of my stomach but you are warmer still. no real need for digestion. you are but orange liquid. but sometimes you burn tttttttttsa on my tongue your steam-less appearance fooled me; there is no need for cooling hot hot tomato soup.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 6:25 PM UTC
tomato soup.
coffee ph5 acidic nutty hot strong bold milk ph6.7 slightly acidic creamy neutralizer sugar I do not sugar coat boldness.
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 3:12 AM UTC
My Cup of Coffee
Here is to the bitter eye of the even sky The acidic beverage I imbibe So I can feel just a little more alive For that cardiac killing back breaking Blood spilling sweat distilling nine to five
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC
Here Is To Beer
I knew the orange on the orange tree you had an ache in your shoulders uncomfortable in an unnatural way yesterday I passed you talking to flowers you hadn't moved you hadn't strayed but hiding in the leaves was a forced disguise the omens told me something quiet and unceasing reminding me of a slumbering domesticated cat dreaming of cutting yourself loose from truncated ease dropping down from the branch with panther steps licking fruit lips ripe with revealed acidic petals riddled with a past you revelled mixing in with zest shocking chances stepped in for the next dance sleep taken aback by wings cut from a dark sky the sidewalk pitted and cracked beneath the pounce relief escaped the twigs with a spring like waking prey pressing into night foliage shaken from a nice balance as I saw you take control with nothing to mask your face on the surface too smooth for violence was laughter of glowing gloom to embarrass and deter such rebellious arrogance with a twist struggling from a lame curse its flavours sharp against your sweetened perfume muscle expecting you to build a limestone shed for tears rather than take on the night with a mind to wrestle the outside aches for your physical attraction gaining courage from the purpose in your eyes tense as the tightness of your dress' intention demanding that my hands draw from such lines the sinuous heat of pulsing flesh's invitation curved upon seeds not chaste but not quite refined which I try not loving with some cool disambiguation you left me the taste of syrup of grenadine too reputable to ripple vain red tipple eyed on a table spilt with pink gin and mandarin sharp teeth tingling a tartness into my hand sliding slowly at a tilt like drops of sweat on skin focus dwindling into the clasp of an escaping shade wrapped carefully under soft rice paper and then tucked under a heel with a pointed kick like a blade only to feel you relent and burst open soft in appeal again and again
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 3:28 PM UTC
Orange Drops
I knew the orange on the orange tree you had an ache in your shoulders uncomfortable in an unnatural way yesterday I passed you talking to flowers you hadn't moved you hadn't strayed but hiding in the leaves was a forced disguise the omens told me something quiet and unceasing reminding me of a slumbering domesticated cat dreaming of cutting yourself loose from truncated ease dropping down from the branch with panther steps licking fruit lips ripe with revealed acidic petals riddled with a past you revelled mixing in with zest shocking chances stepped in for the next dance sleep taken aback by wings cut from a dark sky the sidewalk pitted and cracked beneath the pounce relief escaped the twigs with a spring like waking prey pressing into night foliage shaken from a nice balance as I saw you take control with nothing to mask your face on the surface too smooth for violence was laughter of glowing gloom to embarrass and deter such rebellious arrogance with a twist struggling from a lame curse its flavours sharp against your sweetened perfume muscle expecting you to build a limestone shed for tears rather than take on the night with a mind to wrestle the outside aches for your physical attraction gaining courage from the purpose in your eyes tense as the tightness of your dress' intention demanding that my hands draw from such lines the sinuous heat of pulsing flesh's invitation curved upon seeds not chaste but not quite refined which I try not loving with some cool disambiguation you left me the taste of syrup of grenadine too reputable to ripple vain red tipple eyed on a table spilt with pink gin and mandarin sharp teeth tingling a tartness into my hand sliding slowly at a tilt like drops of sweat on skin focus dwindling into the clasp of an escaping shade wrapped carefully under soft rice paper and then tucked under a heel with a pointed kick like a blade only to feel you relent and burst open soft in appeal again and again
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A Response to Thought Catalog Number One. "She won't touch your stuff because she doesn't want to do anything" Which also includes leaving her bed before six pm meeting your friends or seeing the movie you've been begging her to see since the trailer came out last year Number Two "She'll probably forget you borrowed money from her" or to pay the bills, or your birthday or getting groceries Number Three "She's a cheap date" more than likely because she doesn't care where you go but she wants to be back in her bed the minuet she gets into your car because now her insecurities are buzzing in her ears and clawing at her throat Number Four "She probably doesn't want to meet your family" sitting in her room terrified that she's not good enough that she will never be good enough and they won't accept her Number Five "She will probably get drunk and you can have *** with her" Number Six "You can get free drugs!" she knows about her missing pain pills and antidepressants but she won't say a thing because you love her, right? it's selfish of her to think she needs those she has you. right? Number Seven "She has poor memory and a short attention span" Unaware of whether its Monday or Thursday or if she ate this week Number Eight "She won't talk that much" instead she can soak up your words and turn them against herself until they infect her insides with acidic words ugly/fat/ugly/stupid/ugly/useless/ugly/worthless Number Nine "She'll pamper you because she's sensitive" Here's the newest game you wanted I hope it makes up for me not being good enough Here's some money, go out with friends I don't want to bring you down Number Ten "It'll make you look better" She's a charity case a lost cause who lost herself but she's so lucky she found you She's like an accessory that you drag around she'll make you look perfect won't she? It's supposed to be simple. Dating the dead girl walking. besides the fact she'll bawl her eyes out every time you grab your keys or the fact you have to deal with the burden of having to hide your mother's steak knives so you can sleep in peace without worrying whether you will find her lifeless body on your bathroom floor Number ten You can romanticize the pain she goes through everyday while her hourglass hearts last grain of sand falls to the bottom but you will NEVER be able to say you were the hero.
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 11:11 PM UTC
10 Reasons to date a Girl with Depression (A Slam Poem)
A Response to Thought Catalog Number One. "She won't touch your stuff because she doesn't want to do anything" Which also includes leaving her bed before six pm meeting your friends or seeing the movie you've been begging her to see since the trailer came out last year Number Two "She'll probably forget you borrowed money from her" or to pay the bills, or your birthday or getting groceries Number Three "She's a cheap date" more than likely because she doesn't care where you go but she wants to be back in her bed the minuet she gets into your car because now her insecurities are buzzing in her ears and clawing at her throat Number Four "She probably doesn't want to meet your family" sitting in her room terrified that she's not good enough that she will never be good enough and they won't accept her Number Five "She will probably get drunk and you can have *** with her" Number Six "You can get free drugs!" she knows about her missing pain pills and antidepressants but she won't say a thing because you love her, right? it's selfish of her to think she needs those she has you. right? Number Seven "She has poor memory and a short attention span" Unaware of whether its Monday or Thursday or if she ate this week Number Eight "She won't talk that much" instead she can soak up your words and turn them against herself until they infect her insides with acidic words ugly/fat/ugly/stupid/ugly/useless/ugly/worthless Number Nine "She'll pamper you because she's sensitive" Here's the newest game you wanted I hope it makes up for me not being good enough Here's some money, go out with friends I don't want to bring you down Number Ten "It'll make you look better" She's a charity case a lost cause who lost herself but she's so lucky she found you She's like an accessory that you drag around she'll make you look perfect won't she? It's supposed to be simple. Dating the dead girl walking. besides the fact she'll bawl her eyes out every time you grab your keys or the fact you have to deal with the burden of having to hide your mother's steak knives so you can sleep in peace without worrying whether you will find her lifeless body on your bathroom floor Number ten You can romanticize the pain she goes through everyday while her hourglass hearts last grain of sand falls to the bottom but you will NEVER be able to say you were the hero.
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I cut one swiftly, the acidic elixir dripping through my fingers unto my inebriating, rustic drink.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 1:09 PM UTC
Tequila
What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 4:47 PM UTC
Advance C. Macafartty Soldiers
What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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1 + 1  isn't math. It's life and it isn't hard. 1 + 1 is love. A universal concept of criss-crossed hands. Blue eyes to others hugging their gaze.   1 + 1 is war. Two acidic cultures colliding and sizzling at contact. Blood Hot. Black. 1 + 1 is curiosity Glassy eyes on charcoal talons Wrinkled trunk 'round tail of dog Feeble finger ravaged by thousands of legs Paint Africa upon my hands. 1 + 1 are footprints of mud on the porch. Yours between mine. Toes so close and mud still fresh. But for those, who have the most unfortunate pleasure of removing themselves from infinity. 1 + 1 = 2. How sad.
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Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM UTC
On Mathematics
It's duller now I only see you in my suggested friends list... or in tagged posts. Or in your sister's comment threads. But I still remember when seeing you on my timeline made me burn up. At first it was ginger, spicy and sweet. Talking to you made me feel like I had the universe in my head; probably because you told me you were studying the string theory and you knew how stars formed. After a while I didn't feel a burn anymore. I didn't feel anything in my head except empty and I didn't know how to remedy it, except by putting all of myself towards keeping you from feeling the same. I lost myself; you found me, absorbed my strength, and said you had none to give back when I needed it. The night you tried to **** yourself wasn't ginger, cayenne, or even the weak sting of crushed black pepper. It was pure peppermint oil: molten silver and acidic. I have no other words for it. It hurt almost as bad as when, after weeks of not knowing if you were dead or alive, you texted me. "So, your cousin is pretty amazing... we've only been talking a week but I think I'm in love with her?" That was cayenne... But now I guess I've built up a tolerance.
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 8:39 PM UTC
Capsaicin and Peppermint
Pounding bass. Sub-sonic strobes. Synthetic smoke. Alone on the dance-floor I was glad to see another clubbers curves move in rhythm; Uninhibited by the foot tapping brigade who watched with intensity. You edged ever closer Till our smiles became infectious. An uncertain bond of understanding, amid an endless rush of acidic bleeps. Uncluttered. Uncrowded. Mystically shrouded in transient beats, we strangers come together in unity Your hips move to the pneumatic bass as transient hardhouse and tribal breakbeats embrace, The foot tappers again resume, Spontaneous rushes and some sulphur that is sour to taste. We may have unzipped and consumed to electronic tunes, but the tune remains the same - Beautiful stranger dream a dream for me because now all we have between us is Rain.
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:09 AM UTC
Clubbers Paradise
I hate this empty feeling In my stomach Acidic and cold Like someone punched it I feel sick I think I combusted Wouldn't be surprised If you loved it I hate myself I hardly speak Because I hate what's underneath I'm horrible Understand that
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 8:41 PM UTC
Stomach punch
Blood searing my veins Cauterizing countless lacerations My wounds seep with The acidic taste of my life I sit- Unaware of my soul Leaking out every pore Dripping slowly away The greedy Cracked concrete Drinking up my essence Until all I am left is Tranquility
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Jul 13, 2010
Jul 13, 2010 at 1:16 PM UTC
Tranquility
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 6:19 AM UTC
Fires On Java
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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A lone wolf; Solitary soldier. Too comfortable you have become stumbling down a path for one. Blinded by eyes closed to the world that truly lays beyond your chosen screen of wool woven, cross-stitched with Denial. Hands you refuse to hold as you boldly trek down the dusty trail; howling out silently so no one may hear. Sporting a mask made of self-loathing and fear, vulnerability the enemy you choose to slay, for surrendering to a state of naked, raw passion seems more frightening than the darkest dungeon, stormiest night. Gulping down another shot of loneliness on the rocks, not even a splash of soda, for you like the way it burns. Inhale solidarity, snorting your line after line of self-destruction, acidic dispelling of feelings chosen not to be felt. Sometimes, though, in the quietest of the night, sitting on the lip of a deep substance-induced-slumber, you may whisper in a tone you would hate to be called sweet, and the mask comes off; till 2 PM, waking and at it again, alone, a lone wolf howls at emotional sobriety and takes another drink.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 8:46 PM UTC
A Lone
Th poems were walking down the street A young teenage girl, A Professional Loser, but life lessoned and in possession of Eagled-claws and tongue razored sharpened From gettin/givin acidic high school barbed kisses (She maintained up to date put down lists), Swooped them up, hers to imprison, Framed them to be soully hers, Purposed for skin restoration during the wee hours of the Crying Nights A middle aged man, tired from failure, Trapped tween lost rock n' roll dreams and Unsuccessful retirement planning, Suffocated by the hands of twixt and tween, Grabbed the three, like a rock climbing hand-hold to Take him home when and where his family looks at him Pathetically. This grandfather espied the other two, Looked liked old familiars, friends maybe, But eyes/words, dimmed, disparu, Memories unsorted, disordered, jumble-merged, Perhaps the words to a song he once knew complete, But did he write that phrase, or was he just a poet Thief? The three poems went about their business, Bringing heaven to earth, *FYI, even Angels can't be everywhere, so, God invented poems to do his ***** work, Cleansing souls.* They rode in~out of town on a prankster wave, A cheering throng was not around, But a singular poet saw, recorded the vision, And thus, this nameless poet, Below unmasked, unsealed, Cleansed one more soul, And that soul, this soul, as required, Paid it forward. Paid as in the past tense
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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 9, 2013 at 10:38 AM UTC
Three poems were walking down the street
Every year the mosquitos come back to feast. They make home in spare water and lie eggs. The mosquitos feast upon our acidic flesh with envy. Have you ever wondered why the mosquito keeps returning to feast upon us? Perhaps our flesh is tough and a challenge found enjoyable by the insect. Maybe the mosquito finds pleasure from our blood. Maybe we have a unique taste thats mesmerizing. Perhaps the mosquito returns every year to feast upon us in envious pity, for even the mosquito knows a numb life is a lonely life. There's comfort in the mosquito, the mosquito has hope. Unlike the mosquito I dont possess such a thing. I am meaning less & beautiful. A corpse, I am cold and dark. My blood is as Cold, as the mosquito.
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Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 8:34 AM UTC
Mosquitos
The sun rises then sets; It's beautiful. The moon glows then disappears; It's beautiful. *The thought of 'Us' is bittersweet. 'Us' is ugly yet so beautiful. 'Us' is saccharine yet so acidic.* Demoralized thoughts derived from cynical trepidation seem to render me dazed and addled. I've never experienced a love like this: a love whereas i voluntarily succumb to any of your surmises, a love whereas your wants and needs come before mine, a love whereas I feel like i need you, a love whereas I suffer from withdrawal when your voice fails to reach my ear for too long, when your skin fails to touch my skin for too long, when the trust I so much had in you .. .. .. seems to no longer exist. *Would anyone savour the taste of a bittersweet fruit?*
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM UTC
Bittersweet
Acidic Memories of Flying Free on LSD! (FOR J,S, and N.S)!! Miniscule piece of blotting dot, Slices through my brain... Swear I felt it sitting there, Time and time again, Stereo sound distorted,While wild mind cavorted, Feeding much imagined images, Mirages in a mist, The light fantastic, it was stripped, Brain enlightened as she tripped, Is it night time? Dark or Light time? Haven't got a clue, Free riding wild, Runs as sparkly space pilot, On the end of the bed, Hell on earth, I lost my head! Was that funny micro-dot, purple, pink or blue, Confused in a bedroom, Where the hell is the door? Couldn't escape, till toxic fit left.. After too many hours, Shut my eyes, Tried to sleep, Not a chance in hell, My mind flew well, Trippping on flashes of dots and of dashes, Colours of rainbows, Flew through my head, So much more so when I needed my bed ! CopyrightLivvi Kent 30/04/2013
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Aug 26, 2013
Aug 26, 2013 at 5:44 AM UTC
Flying Free on LSD!
I stood flat-footed upon an eroding hill Here the sweet peas, on tip-toe for a fight With wing of coarsest black o'er delicate night And spiteful fingers grasping at all beauty To bind us all in deeds unworthy Oh, toxic wind and fertile rain Disperse the fragrance of this pain In healing gardens root a seed Sprout the bliss we sorely need This tiny pulse of life we hold Thrives in soil tilled with love And tender vines create a bower Of sweet pea tended, brought to flower I stand bare foot on an erupting volcanic mount Here the sweet peas, on tip toe for a flight With wing of justice verity o’er delicate sight And nails that compassionately snowball serenity To bind us all with concord and altruism Oh, acidic rain share the tears Wash thy tainted eye-sight Then crux us in the high-yield land As we germinate to heaven’s height The seed so robust and fertile A shell encased with human forms The greenness of reflected sextile Oh Sweet pea, our mirrored storm *Inspired by a stanza from Keats' poem: I stood tip-toe upon a little hill Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wing of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings."*
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Jul 14, 2016
Jul 14, 2016 at 9:11 AM UTC
Sweet Peas (a collaboration featuring Sassy J)