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"atrium" poems
Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava. From the Vena Cava to the Right Atrium. From the Right Atrium through the Tricuspid valves. Through the Tricuspid valves to the Right Ventricle. Up the Pulmonary Artery. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the pulmonary artery. To the lungs. Blood becomes Oxygenated Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs to the left side of the heart through the Pulmonary Vein. From the Pulmonary Vein to the Left Atrium. From the Left Atrium through the Bicuspid valves. Through the Bicuspid valves to the Left Ventricle. Up the Aorta. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the Aorta. Oxygenated blood is sent around the body. Blood becomes Deoxygenated Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava........ SO If you tell me your heart is "literally broken" just don't. It isn't broken. It just hurts. It's just feels horrible. Painful. A feeling that hurts you and feels like your heart hurts so much that it's actually broken. But your heart doesn't actually hurt. It's just a feeling. The cycle stills goes on. It is still functioning. So, next time you feel your "heart breaking" and literally being "torn apart", Remember... Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava. From the Vena Cava to the Right Atrium. From the Right Atrium through the Tricuspid valves. Through the Tricuspid valves to the Right Ventricle. Up the Pulmonary Artery. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the pulmonary artery. To the lungs. Blood becomes Oxygenated Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs to the left side of the heart through the Pulmonary Vein. From the Pulmonary Vein to the Left Atrium. From the Left Atrium through the Bicuspid valves. Through the Bicuspid valves to the Left Ventricle. Up the Aorta. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the Aorta. Oxygenated blood is sent around the body. Blood becomes Deoxygenated Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava.............
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Dec 17, 2014
Dec 17, 2014 at 5:39 PM UTC
The Heart (The pulmonary cycle)
Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava. From the Vena Cava to the Right Atrium. From the Right Atrium through the Tricuspid valves. Through the Tricuspid valves to the Right Ventricle. Up the Pulmonary Artery. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the pulmonary artery. To the lungs. Blood becomes Oxygenated Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs to the left side of the heart through the Pulmonary Vein. From the Pulmonary Vein to the Left Atrium. From the Left Atrium through the Bicuspid valves. Through the Bicuspid valves to the Left Ventricle. Up the Aorta. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the Aorta. Oxygenated blood is sent around the body. Blood becomes Deoxygenated Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava........ SO If you tell me your heart is "literally broken" just don't. It isn't broken. It just hurts. It's just feels horrible. Painful. A feeling that hurts you and feels like your heart hurts so much that it's actually broken. But your heart doesn't actually hurt. It's just a feeling. The cycle stills goes on. It is still functioning. So, next time you feel your "heart breaking" and literally being "torn apart", Remember... Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava. From the Vena Cava to the Right Atrium. From the Right Atrium through the Tricuspid valves. Through the Tricuspid valves to the Right Ventricle. Up the Pulmonary Artery. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the pulmonary artery. To the lungs. Blood becomes Oxygenated Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs to the left side of the heart through the Pulmonary Vein. From the Pulmonary Vein to the Left Atrium. From the Left Atrium through the Bicuspid valves. Through the Bicuspid valves to the Left Ventricle. Up the Aorta. Through the semi-luner valves. Out the Aorta. Oxygenated blood is sent around the body. Blood becomes Deoxygenated Deoxygenated blood flows from the body to the right side of the heart through the Vena Cava.............
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I'm looking deep into her eyes *Looking into her eyes... is like opening a door that leads... to another door* Wait..really?  OK...I open the door. *This door leads to a long, winding path, like the winding path of your love.   The path leads to a third door* O...K. I open the door. *This door leads to a spiral staircase descending down, down, down,  deep into her soul. At the bottom of the staircase is--* A door? A door. I open the door The door is locked.  The key might be under the mat Seriously?  I check under the mat Nope, not there.  Maybe try under the small rock next to the door Oh for the love of...I check the rock There is a key Wonderful...I unlock and open the door *Inside this door is a large atrium the glass ceiling giving way to a beautiful summer night, the stars twinkling in the distance.  At the far end of the Atrium, there is a curtain* Sigh I pull aside the curtain There is a door Come on!  I open the ruddy door. *You find yourself in a long hallway, with fine art hanging along the walls. Crimson carpet lines the floor. At the end of the hall is a door  locked with a combination biometric fingerprint scanner/retinal scanner* What. *You have 10 seconds to unlock the door before the hunter-bots de-atomize you* What!?  Ok! I try my fingerprints and eye! *The door unlocks and the hunter-bots stand down. In the next room are three vials.  Two of them contain terrible neuro-toxins that will lead to an excruciatingly painful death.  The third will allow you to continue on to the next room.  You have 30 seconds to choose before you are terminated* What the hell is this!? This is the path to true love hidden deep in her eyes No, this is insanity! 15 seconds OK!  Geez!  Umm..Vial Number 2! You're totally dead Oh god! Just kidding.  None of them had poison...was just messing with you THAT'S IT!  I'M DONE WITH THIS Really?  There's only one more door.  I swear ...Fine.  What ridiculous thing do I need to do to open it. *It's already open.  You find yourself in a circular room with a pedestal in the center.  On the pedestal is a hand written note.  On that note is the key to everlasting happiness* I pick up the note *You smell sweet hints of your beloved's perfume and notice the care that each word of the note was written.* What does the note say? *My love: Next Tuesday Only --  Buy One-Get One Free at J.J's Pizza.  Cannot be combined with any other offers/coupons.  Must present coupon upon purchase.  Expires 1/14/14* ...An expired coupon for Pizza? Such a wonderful expression of love! How do I get out of here... You see a door .
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Mar 8, 2014
Mar 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM UTC
Deep in her Eyes
I'm looking deep into her eyes *Looking into her eyes... is like opening a door that leads... to another door* Wait..really?  OK...I open the door. *This door leads to a long, winding path, like the winding path of your love.   The path leads to a third door* O...K. I open the door. *This door leads to a spiral staircase descending down, down, down,  deep into her soul. At the bottom of the staircase is--* A door? A door. I open the door The door is locked.  The key might be under the mat Seriously?  I check under the mat Nope, not there.  Maybe try under the small rock next to the door Oh for the love of...I check the rock There is a key Wonderful...I unlock and open the door *Inside this door is a large atrium the glass ceiling giving way to a beautiful summer night, the stars twinkling in the distance.  At the far end of the Atrium, there is a curtain* Sigh I pull aside the curtain There is a door Come on!  I open the ruddy door. *You find yourself in a long hallway, with fine art hanging along the walls. Crimson carpet lines the floor. At the end of the hall is a door  locked with a combination biometric fingerprint scanner/retinal scanner* What. *You have 10 seconds to unlock the door before the hunter-bots de-atomize you* What!?  Ok! I try my fingerprints and eye! *The door unlocks and the hunter-bots stand down. In the next room are three vials.  Two of them contain terrible neuro-toxins that will lead to an excruciatingly painful death.  The third will allow you to continue on to the next room.  You have 30 seconds to choose before you are terminated* What the hell is this!? This is the path to true love hidden deep in her eyes No, this is insanity! 15 seconds OK!  Geez!  Umm..Vial Number 2! You're totally dead Oh god! Just kidding.  None of them had poison...was just messing with you THAT'S IT!  I'M DONE WITH THIS Really?  There's only one more door.  I swear ...Fine.  What ridiculous thing do I need to do to open it. *It's already open.  You find yourself in a circular room with a pedestal in the center.  On the pedestal is a hand written note.  On that note is the key to everlasting happiness* I pick up the note *You smell sweet hints of your beloved's perfume and notice the care that each word of the note was written.* What does the note say? *My love: Next Tuesday Only --  Buy One-Get One Free at J.J's Pizza.  Cannot be combined with any other offers/coupons.  Must present coupon upon purchase.  Expires 1/14/14* ...An expired coupon for Pizza? Such a wonderful expression of love! How do I get out of here... You see a door .
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Violating a placid spirit Memories transgress   desecrating the sacred. Memories are the dark side of a full moon. Memories are unsatiated desires couched on sorrow   entangled in time a perennial wrinkle on the soul. Memories are trespassers possessing neural atrium wading saline sockets slithering in to throbbing veins tiptoeing to hollow spaces burying all under their eerie weight, Memories are an inescapable affliction. In fragmented mindscape Memories are violent winds littering the past. Lurking behind aches   in ethereal garbs, Memories are assassins. Or sema of a swirling dervish. Hurtling within, Memories is an avalanche pounding the abyss choking the void one gasp at a time. Memories are nameless apparitions fused as shadows to the very being. Memories are an assault on identity and belonging.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 6:23 AM UTC
Memories are trespassers
Today from the atrium the oleanders crept. It has been coming, I have foreseen it in the dark where soil is kept, in spider cracking windows and the pale greenery's lost steps. though I had once thought the escape to be inept. I used to worry their fragile buds, when seeking freedom from prism light, would not survive the harsh transition would not survive the come-on night. Now I see the morning to come after the midnight run would be the first light born, negative the shield, through which the oleanders used to see: the dawn, the triumph, oh the sight, The harmony of the dew with daylight's furious might and the sun breaking the way - it makes the gloom so bright while I, in my room with my pill candy and my sheets: the white is just too white and the walls are Mary clean. I watch them from my window and I hunger at the sight. I envy them their beauty, their strength, and their flight.
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Oct 23, 2012
Oct 23, 2012 at 12:18 AM UTC
The Atrium
In my dreams there are smoke detectors and crashes and lies. There is a kiss in an atrium right before it catches fire. There is placate, stay straight, evacuate. Neodymium nitrate always smells a certain way and always looks a certain blue. Why does an alarm go off after I dream I've kissed you, but never if you kiss me? What doesn't my brain want me to see? As Orion slinks into view I stand mixing solvents at the centrifuge. There is always a healthy dose of things I don't know. Always something for Orion to pin with her next arrow. If I am not here, asking questions of the world, demanding answers from what I put into test tubes, the next thing could be you.
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Mar 8, 2019
Mar 8, 2019 at 10:55 PM UTC
research
I'm ruptured whole and am considered inadequate as my amygdala slides through the trachea drops to my ventricles falls through the aorta plunges to my diaphragm hits the esophagus crashes to my phalanges. There is no hope. May I hold something over your cranium? May I remind you of your neuron imbalance? And yet you sit and watch as my septum separates from the left atrium from the right ventricle from the bicuspid from the tricuspid from the pulmonary semi-lunar valve. I love you. (Stupid cerebral cortex.) I love you. (Imprudent Broca's area.) I love you. (Hopeless frontal lobe.) I love your nonfunctional mind and functional soul and Well this is all a metaphor for unrequited love.
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 9:41 AM UTC
The Body
Take my heart Cardium carpal Impossible to hold in both hands In every glorious piece Valve, ventricle, artery Pulsing, pulsing — but no blood Not pink, not red but grey, Grey matter, but no matter Take care not to lack a hole by Ebon ivory of your skeletal hands, Pulsing, pulsing — but no blood Only bone grasping endocrine glands Blood eagled atrium across your palms Venae cavae hollowed hands.
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Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021 at 6:10 PM UTC
Venae Cavae
This is the cardiac line. Your first stop is the left atrium. Passengers alight here for warmth and passion. Please have your tickets ready worn on your sleeve. We apologise for any delays. This was due to mixed signals. You are in coach one of four. Mind the gap between the heart and common sense.
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 1:47 PM UTC
Cardiac line
Tears. Salt   water mixed   with fire from my core   ,this molten center; Where   viscosity erupts into the cavernous third   chamber, sufussive. Hands. Feel across the   valleyed surface, touching the unhealed; A perfectly   clean circle sitting upon solar plexus; Cupid’s sharpest hit. Unseen.    The fissure runs deep into a chamber nestling betwixt red pulsing atrium.    Only I sense the tremors here.No beats sing out in this vast ethereal emptiness. Silent.        Vaulted edifices shining bright with colourful minerals. Molten. Lovers leaving stains upon          the walls, as pure deposits cool. Crystallizing in the aftermath of each eruption, my volcanic            heartrock shines like a diamond in the rough.
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
Inside Dormancy...(poem art)
The nettle stings, scrapes, scratches, and scuffed shoes were far removed from us; the last worry as we cut, crisscrossing to create a crawl space through a wall of flesh-hungry growth - at first - to gain access to more flesh-hungry growth The discipline - for me - was an exhorted departure but the product was worth every scab; an open space where we could be: undisturbed, unfettered, unchained, and with a live canopy we were free to create more, build more, care more and leave a sliver of our growth Perhaps more than a sliver. Perhaps it has become my definition of what it meant to be young and to find a fit; connect with the other forgers - akin to a close-knit military unit - collecting driftwood, desks, drawers, drapes, and designated seats to burn or to use as decor And decorated it was. Spectacularly so! Swings hanging from the sturdiest branches, discarded rugs coated with muck, leaves, and filth dragged in to line our atrium, a place for every member and a code: "Nobody but us" Simple society solidified with barbaric politics. A system preaching tribal nonsense can't last long. Mostly the damage was done when things got less simple; when we grew and outgrew and the fences were put up. The homes and the simple society were moved in shortly after
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC
Growth
I have a memory that kills me Like shards of glass sliding through my atrium, Undetectable until it has ripped an Irreparable hole in my heart. His arm is tightened around my neck, Pressure behind, Pulling me to him, My fear thicker than the air I could not breathe. And then it was over, Over like the red and sweat of my face As the oxygen rushed back in. Therapist says it was not an accident. In 30 seconds he had tested me. I was controllable. Pass or fail Depends on who you ask.
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Dec 6, 2019
Dec 6, 2019 at 2:50 AM UTC
Deadly Memory
It was not in the road that took me there but the way my heart always remained the same rushing through college corridors, open dissection tables, woodwork poetry breathren. Indestructible construction of these cerebral plates left me the mind of a surgeon and the heart of a poet. In the cold operating room they cut open his chest- blood gushing out and I could see why sometimes a little hurt could cause a lot of noise. Ventricle, atrium. A nick that ricocheted, a word that spelled goodbye. There was a rhythm in his heart and for once I could feel synchronicity was never so beautiful; almost teary-eyed I could find those verses lost between the veins, quietude pumping out slowly. Lost in the mistranslation of his chest till the nurse said "Doctor, your patient's dying"
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 1:00 AM UTC
Mistranslation
Prerogative presumptive judicature, cantankerous cantilever capacity.  Paradoxical dichotomy greaves, gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts, asymmetrical symmetry.  Objectified manifest's dimensional delineation, intrinsic endemic innate opaque opulence.  Protractive analyses accidence ambience acoustics.  Spatiotemporal telemetry tactician's trajectory extant.         Prophylaxis protocol annex annul.  Kinesiology kleptomaniac extraversion embezzlement euthanasia extortion, embark embargo extradition.  Aura roan's rainbow mare's nimbus nimiety exorcism.  Corporeally preternatural's existential exigence exodus.  Cerebral cortex's ****** matrix's carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma, apex axis crux, exponentially extemporaneous manumission. Categorical imperative hubris, hectic duty deontological probity.         Astral projection's clairaudience clairvoyance.   Tenets and principles, maxims and axioms, and doctrinal mandates.  Exserted protuberance's edifice ********   Exotically ****** ethereally sublime xylem Xanadu sails. Erotica erectile errantry.         Fulham nuance *****  Formidable foundry of a foyer fracas.  Harpy harsh hast, atrium attrition seditious.  Oak tree ****** nails swarthy ******** swath swizzles and unicorn railway sails.  Anchor pin tachometer troll wood harlotry's root clod rudiments, lightning bow hat pick.  Transcendent nimbus nimiety exorcist.  Transpicuous translucence alluvium aloof impunity.
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Feb 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021 at 10:07 PM UTC
An Epoch of Epos and Epopee
Prerogative presumptive judicature, cantankerous cantilever capacity.  Paradoxical dichotomy greaves, gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts, asymmetrical symmetry.  Objectified manifest's dimensional delineation, intrinsic endemic innate opaque opulence.  Protractive analyses accidence ambience acoustics.  Spatiotemporal telemetry tactician's trajectory extant.         Prophylaxis protocol annex annul.  Kinesiology kleptomaniac extraversion embezzlement euthanasia extortion, embark embargo extradition.  Aura roan's rainbow mare's nimbus nimiety exorcism.  Corporeally preternatural's existential exigence exodus.  Cerebral cortex's ****** matrix's carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma, apex axis crux, exponentially extemporaneous manumission. Categorical imperative hubris, hectic duty deontological probity.         Astral projection's clairaudience clairvoyance.   Tenets and principles, maxims and axioms, and doctrinal mandates.  Exserted protuberance's edifice ********   Exotically ****** ethereally sublime xylem Xanadu sails. Erotica erectile errantry.         Fulham nuance *****  Formidable foundry of a foyer fracas.  Harpy harsh hast, atrium attrition seditious.  Oak tree ****** nails swarthy ******** swath swizzles and unicorn railway sails.  Anchor pin tachometer troll wood harlotry's root clod rudiments, lightning bow hat pick.  Transcendent nimbus nimiety exorcist.  Transpicuous translucence alluvium aloof impunity.
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A sunny serenade of Cyan Skies On a Strangely soothing Sunday afternoon In the south wing The White Rabbit tells me about Beautiful Butterflies batting their wings To the beat of a bohemian movement and I blush at the gesture And The Mad Hatter tells me about The Kevorkian crawdads clawing at each other Under the crystal clear stream Bent like a Candy Cane And I cry for the dead. I hear her, I hear her But I also hear the Marsh Hare And The Marsh Hare tells me about The analytical anarchists armed with arms Marching around the inner atrium screaming "All hail Anarchy!", "All hail Anti-Society!" Aiming for the heart And I amaze myself I hear her, I hear her And because of her I hear The chains and restraints The Queen of Hearts tells me about My fantasies of White Rabbits My dreams of Mad Hatters My imaginings of Marsh Hares And how only she is real The straps are too tight The clothes too thin The walls too thick And she stabs me With a Red Rose All in white, The Queen of Hearts Says Wake Up Alice And now I can see My sunny afternoon is shady And I am barred from my butterflies.
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Jun 27, 2011
Jun 27, 2011 at 12:07 PM UTC
Wake Up Alice
Another night like so many others. A night made up of the dope laced hours that slowly  made up a life. A black cat laid curled in a tight ball on a worn wine stained carpet. The fluorescent light of the Atrium softly lit the otherwise darkened room. Quiet except for the hum of the refrigerator and the tiny waterfall that trickled away inside the Atrium. There was music playing,so low it was as if it was something that came from a dream. Two lost souls took their places at either side of the counter top and dove deep into their demons. Both quietly concentrated on their potions. The tiled counter top was littered with paraphernalia,empty beer bottles,ashtrays that needed to be emptied, lighters, burnt spoons,tin foil and empty plastic baggies. One chased the dragon, while the other desperately searched the crook of his arm for a vessel. There wasn't too much conversation. There was only one  goal here. And it didn't involve words. The silence was broken when one lost soul said to the other, "I don't dream anymore". The one with the harpoon in hand said. "You have to sleep" The dragon slayer replied as he exhaled yet another slayed beast. "When I sleep its like I die". The Archer said as he pressed the point up against a blue black dying vein. The black cat stood and stretched as a siren passed outside. Another dragon was slain as the siren faded into the night. The one with the point drew blood and smiled. The slayer chased another dragon,then looked over as the black cat climbed to the open window and out into the welcoming night. "Then that's the dream" the dragon slayer said then smiled a smile that only a poppies blood can produce. The harpoon handler looked up and grinned, then found his target and continued on with his quest for the warmth. He smiled to himself as he pushed on the stopper and once again played with death.
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 7:36 AM UTC
Conversation Between Hunters
Another night like so many others. A night made up of the dope laced hours that slowly  made up a life. A black cat laid curled in a tight ball on a worn wine stained carpet. The fluorescent light of the Atrium softly lit the otherwise darkened room. Quiet except for the hum of the refrigerator and the tiny waterfall that trickled away inside the Atrium. There was music playing,so low it was as if it was something that came from a dream. Two lost souls took their places at either side of the counter top and dove deep into their demons. Both quietly concentrated on their potions. The tiled counter top was littered with paraphernalia,empty beer bottles,ashtrays that needed to be emptied, lighters, burnt spoons,tin foil and empty plastic baggies. One chased the dragon, while the other desperately searched the crook of his arm for a vessel. There wasn't too much conversation. There was only one  goal here. And it didn't involve words. The silence was broken when one lost soul said to the other, "I don't dream anymore". The one with the harpoon in hand said. "You have to sleep" The dragon slayer replied as he exhaled yet another slayed beast. "When I sleep its like I die". The Archer said as he pressed the point up against a blue black dying vein. The black cat stood and stretched as a siren passed outside. Another dragon was slain as the siren faded into the night. The one with the point drew blood and smiled. The slayer chased another dragon,then looked over as the black cat climbed to the open window and out into the welcoming night. "Then that's the dream" the dragon slayer said then smiled a smile that only a poppies blood can produce. The harpoon handler looked up and grinned, then found his target and continued on with his quest for the warmth. He smiled to himself as he pushed on the stopper and once again played with death.
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The house, when empty, feels like a moseleum. Everything is dark. It is strange, how literally I can feel the heart tear. Pericardium and myocardium, ripping with the slow, tough **** of time and waiting, atrium and ventricle split. Far away my brain turns in on itself as I stare at the candy on the road, left from a Christmas parade, Defined by the things its left behind, though they lie unwanted. My soul has fled to the wilderness birth pangs of grief beginning, prepared to deliver a stillborn heart, As another star falls out of my sky. It will go dark, I know. One by one fall, without wishes to bring them back. I stare at my sister's golden hair and dread the day when she will be the one lying white, bloodless in a hospital bed. Oh my mother, Oh my father, are you to fall away, too? Light. I scream, I need light. But I will not throw bits of glass at the sky to pretend I have re-lit the stars.
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Dec 7, 2015
Dec 7, 2015 at 12:53 PM UTC
If you're going, go gently, please.
Intertwine our pulmonaries Pull tight, tie together our coronaries My superior vena cava resting near yours Hear that, the sound of opening ventricle doors Beautiful looking aortas fixed Winding together as a double helix This heart of mine will skip a beat Just so my arrhythmia and yours might meet This ticker will only continue to tick If next to yours it may stick Not a murmur because of bad health A murmuring of loves bountiful wealth Atrium to atrium, heart to heart: Blood's continual pumping, so long as our valves never part.
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Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 6:44 PM UTC
Anatomy of Adoration
I promised you i’d plant those **** pink roses but that Sunday morning that you broke me in ways even my best friend didn’t think was possible and i realized it was probably a good thing that the whole thing was a production of strictly pretend; a play, a script, an authors first mistake- that day, i clipped every last flower off and set the remains in a little drawer with shards of glass i broke in my sleep because i loved you every single day despite my i’m over you i’m over you i’m over you that i repeated with the foolish hope of convincing somebody that air still funnels through my lungs and it’s come to my attention that i’d pick my head over my heart but that is only because i am a toy car abandoned by every single pair of hands to wind it up and let it go And yes, I will reduce my emotions to dust or enlarge them in full zoom but I cannot get over that fact that the clementines rotted in front of us and you devoured the part of me that let my heart reign over my head and snapped the key to my rib cage; you promised you would keep it safe and you lied
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM UTC
The High School Production of A Slightly Cracked Left Atrium
I'd like to paint you in an atrium of colorful echoes zinging past your face like hummingbirds add in a touch of forest green, the murky-gray lake water, white triangles sketched for carefree sails burnished by unusually honest conversation, only sky blue and gold for the looks thrown in each direction and inexplicable smiles a rainbow,          a myriad for the future, but you stand alongside me      as breathtaking landscape and no art could do that justice
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 9:25 PM UTC
Bowline
Under the clouds of hope I married your kind eyes with the faith of a million flowers bringing back the spring to the wild gardens of my left atrium. I swear I did not know that you were born of rain and alcohol, because every one of your touch could douse the flames your kisses light on my skin. I tried to write more about how every time you said the word “halo”, your mouth would curl like a serpent waiting to attack; how your hands always were a warm reminder of thoughtless touching; how your feet are tired from all the walking down flights of a paradox of stairs and still wanting to run away with me.
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 6:51 PM UTC
Weather
My sweater is torn. And its January. She can sew. She taught herself on a Sunday afternoon last July. My sleeve caught on the door handle as I left. It was trying to stop me, Hold me back, teach me a lesson. The handle took my button. I didn’t care. I could go back and get it. But not today. I’ll fix it. Stars, toggles, squares, Pink, blue, white, navy. I find a grey circle. The thread finds its way Through the four chambers Of the button. Atrium to ventricle. Ventricle to atrium. I double knot it. She can sew. I didn’t care. And now I wear my button on my sleeve.
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Sep 21, 2011
Sep 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM UTC
Chambers
From the beginning I trusted you, but in end I rejected you Because the demons inside shined bright in the night Sadly, we only hung out at night... When your world was already dizzy Mine was too busy to understand the reasons why So my mind decided that a marathon was stunning I only thought of you but it managaed to keep running In this case 28 k but seemed like 28 days Becuase as you know you just dont run the race Theres many days of planning and exercise just in case Now, my heart beats out of rythem Becuase of the precision of your desicion Your words seemed kind but in my mind I knew that they hurt Like you grabbed my heart, played with it, put it back and left it in parts Since then my left atrium doesnt work Its like a inncoent whale that was left to die in the beach dirt And i was simply that... innocent dirt What had I done previous to this that made you act outrageous? But now I know your contagious A disease that brings you one step closer death But now im just once step closer to home I guess Home. A intanglment of feeling like the fibers in my sheets I thought it was a place of love but then relized its just a place to meet My mother was a weird one. Often pressing burdens on her son A seperated family with nothing in commom is definatly more common then Nostradomeous To say I love quotes would be close but theres some that make me simply choke Remember when "like father like son" was an inpiration quote but for me its what kept me a float On the sea of hatred with the destination of dope Becuase of the words my mother chose, addiction would be my affliction A state of pain my mother, father, sister and brother could not feel Yes, this is the shittest deal, but look at me now A person ontop with the world as my partner, Ambition like a morning light because I had the will to fight Only you can make a change your life, not your mother, drugs and neither your wife.
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 4:04 PM UTC
A State Of Pain
From the beginning I trusted you, but in end I rejected you Because the demons inside shined bright in the night Sadly, we only hung out at night... When your world was already dizzy Mine was too busy to understand the reasons why So my mind decided that a marathon was stunning I only thought of you but it managaed to keep running In this case 28 k but seemed like 28 days Becuase as you know you just dont run the race Theres many days of planning and exercise just in case Now, my heart beats out of rythem Becuase of the precision of your desicion Your words seemed kind but in my mind I knew that they hurt Like you grabbed my heart, played with it, put it back and left it in parts Since then my left atrium doesnt work Its like a inncoent whale that was left to die in the beach dirt And i was simply that... innocent dirt What had I done previous to this that made you act outrageous? But now I know your contagious A disease that brings you one step closer death But now im just once step closer to home I guess Home. A intanglment of feeling like the fibers in my sheets I thought it was a place of love but then relized its just a place to meet My mother was a weird one. Often pressing burdens on her son A seperated family with nothing in commom is definatly more common then Nostradomeous To say I love quotes would be close but theres some that make me simply choke Remember when "like father like son" was an inpiration quote but for me its what kept me a float On the sea of hatred with the destination of dope Becuase of the words my mother chose, addiction would be my affliction A state of pain my mother, father, sister and brother could not feel Yes, this is the shittest deal, but look at me now A person ontop with the world as my partner, Ambition like a morning light because I had the will to fight Only you can make a change your life, not your mother, drugs and neither your wife.
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Bo, I’ve just been Playing Pretend. Putting on make-up and brushing my hair. Putting on dresses and smiling. Faking. Dear, I wish I could say you’ve replaced the past, but all I can say is I hate me. I’m dragging you about. Breaking your heart one atrium at a time. I’m putting you in his place, taking you to our old haunts. Truthfully, I hate the product in your hair. I despise the nick-name “boo.” I could care less about champagne and “fine dining.” I wish you read more than non-fiction. I want you to laugh at my cheesy jokes. I wish you’d gotten upset when I told you about the boy. You claim to be free, but you’re more caged than me. Worry worry worry. About one word answers, about slow responses, about me, about the non-existent us. I’m offering apologies, because I never told you. I’m sorry, dear, but the way you offer me your cheek offends me. The way you put my hand on your leg repulses me. Your damp fist in mine, makes me reach for hand sanitizer. Your love for eighties fashion causes me to worry for your sanity. Your style drives me crazy. I want band shirts, and thrift stores, but you want quality over quantity. I want fifty-seven fifty cent skirts that I’ll wear once. I’m tired of playing happy for you. I’m sick of being sweet. I was in it because you were interesting, now I’m in it for the drugs. I’m avoiding your gaze more. Hoping you don’t see the things I do, because dear, I’m afraid to be alone. Honestly, sweetheart, your hands get me nowhere. Every touch is just that. I’m sorry dear, but your kiss stops at my lips. I apologize love, but you’re not in my head. Or my heart. You’re just a placeholder. You’re me trying to find solution. Try, try, trying to find the answers. Trying to find the cure. And failing. Miserably. All I’ve figured out, is I can’t stop looking left, when you’re sitting to my right. All I know is kissing you feels like cheating. All I know is I can’t get him out of my brain. All I wish is that I would have fought harder. All I see is how us ending has pulled him further from the surface. All I can worry about is his masochism. Darling, I’m sorry, but I’m dead weight. I have nothing left to give you.
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Sep 15, 2010
Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM UTC
I'm Playing Pretend, darling.
Bo, I’ve just been Playing Pretend. Putting on make-up and brushing my hair. Putting on dresses and smiling. Faking. Dear, I wish I could say you’ve replaced the past, but all I can say is I hate me. I’m dragging you about. Breaking your heart one atrium at a time. I’m putting you in his place, taking you to our old haunts. Truthfully, I hate the product in your hair. I despise the nick-name “boo.” I could care less about champagne and “fine dining.” I wish you read more than non-fiction. I want you to laugh at my cheesy jokes. I wish you’d gotten upset when I told you about the boy. You claim to be free, but you’re more caged than me. Worry worry worry. About one word answers, about slow responses, about me, about the non-existent us. I’m offering apologies, because I never told you. I’m sorry, dear, but the way you offer me your cheek offends me. The way you put my hand on your leg repulses me. Your damp fist in mine, makes me reach for hand sanitizer. Your love for eighties fashion causes me to worry for your sanity. Your style drives me crazy. I want band shirts, and thrift stores, but you want quality over quantity. I want fifty-seven fifty cent skirts that I’ll wear once. I’m tired of playing happy for you. I’m sick of being sweet. I was in it because you were interesting, now I’m in it for the drugs. I’m avoiding your gaze more. Hoping you don’t see the things I do, because dear, I’m afraid to be alone. Honestly, sweetheart, your hands get me nowhere. Every touch is just that. I’m sorry dear, but your kiss stops at my lips. I apologize love, but you’re not in my head. Or my heart. You’re just a placeholder. You’re me trying to find solution. Try, try, trying to find the answers. Trying to find the cure. And failing. Miserably. All I’ve figured out, is I can’t stop looking left, when you’re sitting to my right. All I know is kissing you feels like cheating. All I know is I can’t get him out of my brain. All I wish is that I would have fought harder. All I see is how us ending has pulled him further from the surface. All I can worry about is his masochism. Darling, I’m sorry, but I’m dead weight. I have nothing left to give you.
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Can you settle for more or less if today was your last day And what would be your retort if you were denied another chance? How life introduces sobriety and the impending inevitability The interstice and it’s ingress that encloses before your eyes The demanding pouring of importune time That soothing allaying sighs that evoke incalculable alleviation If someone were to impart as they closed their eyes As they died with a commital of happenings with not enough time As to burden you with the impression of only one chance It would seem and with the impending inevitability Of your death which would subito compromise the day A bearding contrivance plight of obligations engagement and commital no alleviation An abecedarian dossier concealed for a long time All this time the inevitable coinciding incident only for your eyes The emotional habituation was of quotidian rendition each day Of how trivial things take us on a dance with only one life one chance With your attention and awareness on the answer the inevitability Of what you are becoming with each passing second for each Thought which transpires and no alleviation Is there an epoch a replicating limn a depiction of our linear time As we perpetrate and pursue progressively for our alleviation Engaged to staying the course the day Stirring closing in on our deliberate objective determined chance Which remained for a terse duration from the inevitability In which at the atrium of this erstwhile portage of a duvet to belabor To stifle firsthand with your eyes The variant from this domicile from this residence on a day Is the vagabond to perish in yonder with no alleviation Once man was a brute dullard or a curmudgeon spinster at a time Which offers a mute disconnection ragged miscreant the inevi Naivety or absent mindedness to somnambulist and its silhouette Notwithstanding change The quagmire and it’s nightmare the ingrate delighted with coined Shunned eyes Reputation with a flagrant obscene defilement galvanizing The alleviation At the heart of this lies another chance A precocious inevitability A man who lies to die another day The annihilation in desperate want for from those argent eyes To the starving newfangled optimism which in its sheen Shines sunshine dulling the ocular orbs of time Forwithal in befuddlement remain here The time if infringement to comprehend the volatile vertigo And the inevitability The harrowing of hell Glance at the shinning suns in her eyes intention considers change After you heal and left are the cicatrix Will you plunge further for alleviation Or on the intent of regression once again From long ago to another distant day.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 9:20 PM UTC
Destination
Can you settle for more or less if today was your last day And what would be your retort if you were denied another chance? How life introduces sobriety and the impending inevitability The interstice and it’s ingress that encloses before your eyes The demanding pouring of importune time That soothing allaying sighs that evoke incalculable alleviation If someone were to impart as they closed their eyes As they died with a commital of happenings with not enough time As to burden you with the impression of only one chance It would seem and with the impending inevitability Of your death which would subito compromise the day A bearding contrivance plight of obligations engagement and commital no alleviation An abecedarian dossier concealed for a long time All this time the inevitable coinciding incident only for your eyes The emotional habituation was of quotidian rendition each day Of how trivial things take us on a dance with only one life one chance With your attention and awareness on the answer the inevitability Of what you are becoming with each passing second for each Thought which transpires and no alleviation Is there an epoch a replicating limn a depiction of our linear time As we perpetrate and pursue progressively for our alleviation Engaged to staying the course the day Stirring closing in on our deliberate objective determined chance Which remained for a terse duration from the inevitability In which at the atrium of this erstwhile portage of a duvet to belabor To stifle firsthand with your eyes The variant from this domicile from this residence on a day Is the vagabond to perish in yonder with no alleviation Once man was a brute dullard or a curmudgeon spinster at a time Which offers a mute disconnection ragged miscreant the inevi Naivety or absent mindedness to somnambulist and its silhouette Notwithstanding change The quagmire and it’s nightmare the ingrate delighted with coined Shunned eyes Reputation with a flagrant obscene defilement galvanizing The alleviation At the heart of this lies another chance A precocious inevitability A man who lies to die another day The annihilation in desperate want for from those argent eyes To the starving newfangled optimism which in its sheen Shines sunshine dulling the ocular orbs of time Forwithal in befuddlement remain here The time if infringement to comprehend the volatile vertigo And the inevitability The harrowing of hell Glance at the shinning suns in her eyes intention considers change After you heal and left are the cicatrix Will you plunge further for alleviation Or on the intent of regression once again From long ago to another distant day.
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How long did it take her to be free? How long did it take For the wingless dragonfly to finally open her heart to the world How long did it take for her to overcome Devil’s workshop Slowly caressing her retinas With silky daffodils and two-faced tulips Where Now She dives into a glistening pool of complicated risk Opening her atrium to the masses Shedding incumbent teardrops Just for that one standing ovation That sets her free It was then Where pieces of plastic chains fell from demure stratosphere Dented taps, similar to a shoeless dancer, Setting off bass tones and low-key monotony For she was One cholesterol filled syllable short To be genuine One tearful, hyphenated lyric Too blunt To be embraced by their “god” One dilapidated vowel shy Of being honest Her diary didn’t have enough pages torn From emerald sanity There were too many “Wows”, Diluting into disingenuous shoulder pats Her stanza pushed aside A glorified ***** call with no call back number Leaving messages towards empty dial tones … How long will it take her to be free? Until she looks up Knowing she already holds the key
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 12:06 AM UTC
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