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Semerian Perez Aug 2012
When the eagle
And hawk
Fly as one
The legend
Of a warrior
Will come alive

He meets with his comrades
Amist the bonfire
He spoke
Of myths and legends
Warriors
Riding across the sky
Hunting buffalo
As they once had done
Across the grassy plains

War cries fill the air
As they chased down
Their meal
Praying to the great spirit
With each ****
As a way of giving thanks.

The fire flickered
Among their copper skin
As images danced
On the walls

He saw visions
Many things
That had passed
Or going to pass.
He had a wife
He had a son
He also lost both
To war or sickness.

He called forth
Many of us by name
As he made his way
To the sacred cave

His final vision quest
Led him deep within
There he drew
His final breath

Not before he prayed
To the great spirit
To guide him home
And to protect his decendants.

So now
Whenever I see
An eagle in the sky
And hear a hawks cry
I know he is watching
And waiting

The painted warrior
Now in the sky.
euphoria Dec 2015
what did we do?
where did we go wrong?
god, why did you let me throw it all away?
why didn't you stop me before it was too late?

why didn't i realize i was a fool before i lost the one thing that actually mattered? why didn't i stop and try to figure out how to love myself before trying to love someone else? why didn't i stop in the midst of the passion to ask myself what kind of person i was? why didn't i realize what this was doing to her before it was too late?

but she's gone now and i've lost the one thing that can't be bought. i've lost the one thing that can't be sold, that can't be found in the supermarket.

i've lost my spirit. she has it now and i'm not sure i want it back. because a spirit lost is a spirit changed and skewed and i'm scared to look at my naked spirit again. i'm scared of what i'll find, missing and scattered, tattered and torn amist this jar of hearts.

i've caught a cold from the ice inside my spirit and she's gone. she doesn't want me anymore. she doesn't even want my spirit but she doesn't have a choice, does she? once heartbroken, always heartbroken and the one who broke a spirit can't fix it, or so the story goes.
Michelle Paret May 2016
Never ceases
Hardly rests

I swallow blood
Glides through my neck
Blurry shaking

Amist black fits
Rips, twists, hits, kiss
****
Are you sure you want this?

Swollen, inflamed seas we call my eyes
And permanent frown lines

Obsession is an understatement
A suffocating, seductive idea
Grows to mania
Oh that mania

At least it's all mine

Romanticize trauma
I adore that folding, shrinking pain
Takes from my core, birthed from my core
Come accompany this misery, please

Your silent thoughts ****** me
*Torment me
Torment me
fesojaiye atanle Jun 2012
clad in a grey native **** cloth
he sat,quivering on a stool
with a aged breast on furrows breath,
that shook the folds of his shoulders

Now and then does he seems to gasp
about a menlancholys spit,
but amis his grey eye lashes
it pierce through what words cannot paint

He folds his feet and *** his head
like a lizard amist a bait,
but his vague stare hold a mist
which mystries cant be shook from him

What ails him so, the world wont ask,
but lost to what all eyes cant see
it lingers through the heart of man
that trode the earth with guns and roses

He breath in and expires in lort,
his thought search for truth in his heart,
he bow his head and close his eye
and found no peace,even as he sleeps

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Landing back at the Cleveland airport I made my way that afternoon to the airport bar for my ritualistic landing drink.I was in no hurry because I never checked bags and I was generally never in a rush.As I watched the olives dance to the bottom of the glass and slowly make their way back to the top amist all the tiny bubbles they created I was reminded of a couple of facts that were to serve me well in the coming days.The first was very simple,if someone invites you to do somthing proclaiming it to be a blast,it never is.And secondly if I witnessed a ****** and in explaining that ****** to a group of ten people stratigically placing the word **** in there several times at least half of the group would be more offended by the word **** than the actual ****** itself.That being said,at any given moment we are surrounded by people that are focused on the wrong things.
AngLe Sep 2018
Cri Per sooth a lbay Goyle
way hem- raging letter

(p)Frozen shell, thaw sleeting
Pulsing necks harelm glow-in
after math of the shadowy fight

her's filling glaint, gladly save
entice weary charter banner
pilling sooth sabre

Immerseyourself, freeself lead soul
not that of a barron but soon
something/ ethers awept & taken
back from ground
back from reprose
back from amist
Groomed tooken & Vol = best
my friends & love
i am awept
this isn't poetry
or its very bad poetry

written after checking something
The heart is sore
but singing...
and in its song
hope breathes

a stubborn will
like weeping willows
bending but not breaking
It beats on...

Against the light of the sun
The glow of the moon
from the soft of the dirt
amist the filth of the earth
I burst through

Through concrete walls,
of aching scars
unable to to stop this beating heart
I break through it all

I remove the weeds
I make room
For all the beautiful
flowers
that have yet to bloom
My family is going through a lot right now, but I believe that in the end we will prevail, hope is enduring and faith the substance of things hoped for, unseen but soon to be seen; made plain. Strength results from all hardship. Doesnt mean the process doesn't hurt but that it often will not **** us. We all experience pains (it is universal), there may be different causes but it feels the same. In this we can empathize with one another and be compassionate; loving. If you are facing a difficult situation or are experiencing pain, I wish you to be well soon. Know you are loved and supported, carried in the heart of a stranger; someone who cares.
Brandon Navarro Oct 2014
You showed me yours
a week ago.
It was on my mind
since then.

I hadn't in a year
"I won't get caught"
I think.
So out comes
those tools
the inconspicuous ones.

Silently I rub it,
play with it.
Now it's on my leg
amist the light browns
There is a shimmering red.
I'm smiling
yet there is a tear.

Now I feel it
how I made you feel
how it feels to feel.
Hello Daisies Aug 2022
Who am I
Softly whispering in my head
Crumbling around with little dread
I really don't know
Little bits disappear and melt like snow

Who am I
Am I the green on a summer leaf
The dancing amist the grief
Twirling with such glee
Never to see

Who am I
Am I droplets of water
Pouring into the ocean
With big waves of commotion
Lost in the deep
With secrets to weep

Who am I ?
Sunken treasure
Buried deep within
Golds and rubies waiting to win
Never to be found lost and abandoned

Who am I
I have to ask
Anger and red burning the skies
Cold and blue freezing your eyes
Who am I
I want to know
Buried in snow
Dying in the breeze
Of autumn leaves

Who am I
Sweet and soft
Mellow and yellow
Like the soft daisy of spring
Ugliness and rage never to be seen

Who am I
Can anyone tell me
I don't want to be yelling
But I've been waiting to know
For some time now

I feel like many things
But they come and go
Never keeping me
Letting me show
My angst
My sorrow
I'm just broken and borrowed

Will I never know ?

Who am I
Ah lost in life
mhm May 2019
Brethen of the orchid
In the rays of the warm amart
The sounds of the loud *****
Walking foward to tear you apart

Soul pledge to Affinity
A deed shall not last
Pain swiped by tides of eternity
No letting go of the past
        
Flower in the coffin
Bleak trail of the hearse

The rain falls
On the victim of this moral curse

Take my hand
You will never leave
You misunderstand my craving dream

You withstand
My spirit grieves
You understand that I will leave

The marked mattress
Dreams of glee
The past foward
Deceit is what you see

Time will tell
The pain shall fade
Maybe once
Maybe within days

Mourning over a well needed embrace
This feeling of sorrow you must take
A Suttle light glows Amist the pain
Your exit to the time that you remain

Not to Weep in the end of a journey
To say farewell to what has happened
Not to cry because of the end
To smile because it happened

To remember days of our embrace
To remember the flower's shinning face
To see the days in the wake of the past
To wander with the spirit through familiar traces
:)
Gabriel Bonney Sep 2018
Do me a favor
and piece together your shards,
and may they eclipse the moon
so your seas might be calmed.
Then you can tally the stars
amist the dark parts of your thoughts.
And when the sky falls,
we will walk amung your
many suns.
Methinks resurgence of wakefulness
after bewitching hour i.e. midnight
quickly dissipating before dawn
quasi baptism regarding
preternatural soulful immersion
amidst spiritus mundi

foretaste awaiting expiration
regarding corporeal being
yours truly approaching mortality,
despite atheistic predilections
mine consciousness anointed
amist pantheon renown authors

analogous to dead poet society
ephemerally, fleetingly, gloriously
rejuvenated injecting inspiration
channeling, kindling, tindering
divine ethereal effervescence
allowing, enabling, proffering

exquisite jubilant outlook,
albeit phenomenal, quintessential, surreal
flash dancing unbelievable arabesque
spellbinding one garden variety
no name brand mortal
with dizzying evocative

silent springing summer
re: August gifted wordsmiths
avast swath of diverse
literary creative minds
amalgamation spanning
representative creeds, ethnicities,

genders, nationalities, religions...
disembodied spirits
peacefully commingling
immortal legendary outsize resplendent
universally vaunted writers
inaccessible to communicate

become linkedin while
this body (me) electrified
with sensory awareness
merely sneak preview
after life coming attractions,
nonetheless spark zealousness

to hone poetic craftsmanship
never approaching supreme
talent these masters endowed
yet also aspiring
to tamp down intimidation
beholding gold standard

benchmarked excellence
no matter mine deft
flourishes with English language
never earns raves
still enjoyment arises
enamored with kickstarting

indulging reverence expressing
emotions, thoughts, yearnings...
thru milieu courtesy
twenty six symbols,
where dictionary equals Bible

said tome in tandem with thesaurus
treasure trove of untold delight
and affinity since boyhood
until...corporeal flesh
attains posthumous summons.
dreamsanddepth Sep 2023
Like hiking in the fog.
Only the brightest or burning memory shines through
Some of these memories are just mine, others I’ve shared with you
Some places on my path are beautiful and  stunning
While others feel their placement is uncanny and cunning
When I walk my memory lane, I see growth through the pain
Tears, Love, Finding oneself I did gain
The more path I create, the more is can see what creates a memory lane
As I seek to move forward, I will choose happiness, and not in vain
I promise myself I will seek moments of joy, growth, and security.
For all other factors that do not matter, I will keep in the fog and leave them blurry
So the next time I take a stroll I will see all beauty
To see what has blossomed amist the rain
To see what has grown and what has changed.
Yes, the beautiful path is mine to create
Mine to allow those who will stamp by fate.
For now, I know what to seek.
To make a beautiful memory lane complete
Lola Nov 2020
Scattered thoughts are all around me..
My questions how they they grow..

I desire such sweet solice,
Yet terrors', all I know.

The mountains, say they hear me,
The rain on tin roofs ring..

While withered demons gather to hear the angels sing.
And alabaster horses swirl.., to hear their metal cling.

Their hooves grow so impatient,
While precious time awaits...
And seconds drop in bundles ...
Amist their pearly gates.

Music lives within me, it's all that I can hear,
The rythm, soothes me simple..

Please... Always, keep it near.

Timing back to tick tock, the clocks make them unwind...

Your words, seem cheap and easy,
Yet so humbled and so kind.

I come across as normal.. but,
back to nothing I become...
From music cleft to ending note..

My heart beats a different drum.

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