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"benumbed" poems
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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An indifferent ache swirls in the silence throbbing like a dancing candle flame; no one understands the heart of silence moving the darkness with its ancient dance Its voice is only felt but never heard the way it whispers the reality it bears; disrobing the nakedness of a fragile heart exposing inherent truth deep in disguise retouching the chaos passing of love laid bare Unspoken emotions that nobody hears float around a muted tongue benumbed by fear doubt is a bitter taste that knows not love searching for a labyrinth to begin to wend a better way trying to feel the unfelt warmth of love in an endless cold waiting on a frozen emptiness that never thaws No one understands the haunting fear, ... surly it couldn't happen again ― and surly it will, a heart stifled silent,  silence doth loudly peal                 poignant dreaded words:                  ***"It's not you ― it's me ,.......       I love you but I'm not in love with you"*** and like winter dreaming for the sun to reappear, to come back again and dry the memory of fallen tears, a hushed heart falls off the earth lost in ether shadows lay mooning in the lonely silence within moonlit dapple When you pull love too close ― it will push you away some silence heals ― a dissonant silence cuts to the bone        Only the lonely feel a silent voice sigh          Only one hears a silenced heart die ...                harlon rivers ... March 2018
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Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 3:00 PM UTC
Only one hears a silenced heart ...
An indifferent ache swirls in the silence throbbing like a dancing candle flame; no one understands the heart of silence moving the darkness with its ancient dance Its voice is only felt but never heard the way it whispers the reality it bears; disrobing the nakedness of a fragile heart exposing inherent truth deep in disguise retouching the chaos passing of love laid bare Unspoken emotions that nobody hears float around a muted tongue benumbed by fear doubt is a bitter taste that knows not love searching for a labyrinth to begin to wend a better way trying to feel the unfelt warmth of love in an endless cold waiting on a frozen emptiness that never thaws No one understands the haunting fear, ... surly it couldn't happen again ― and surly it will, a heart stifled silent,  silence doth loudly peal                 poignant dreaded words:                  ***"It's not you ― it's me ,.......       I love you but I'm not in love with you"*** and like winter dreaming for the sun to reappear, to come back again and dry the memory of fallen tears, a hushed heart falls off the earth lost in ether shadows lay mooning in the lonely silence within moonlit dapple When you pull love too close ― it will push you away some silence heals ― a dissonant silence cuts to the bone        Only the lonely feel a silent voice sigh          Only one hears a silenced heart die ...                harlon rivers ... March 2018
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Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM UTC
Standing Barefoot on Rocky Ground
Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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The elixir that I take in, To indulge all of my deadly sins. Eighty proof of malign madness, Trapped in a bottle of rancid bases. **** my insecurity, And drown me in my reverie. Where all the worst become the best, Where fear and shame cannot arrest. Each trickle burns my frozen core, A second turns to forevermore. The holy water from the river Styx, That forces every mime to speak. Stay with me 'til I succumb, To this empty heart that's gone benumbed. When this head's befuddled with every lie, Until they look true before these jaded eyes. My most loyal companion, Don't wake me while I'm woebegone. I'll intoxicate this bleeding heart, And let this hell just fall apart.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM UTC
Molovetov Cocktail
Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream Upon the silver lake or crystal stream; But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth, And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree The drowsy cuckoo, and the humble-bee. Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring In triumph to the world the youthful Spring. The valleys, hills, and woods in rich array Welcome the coming of the long’d-for May. Now all things smile, only my love doth lour; Nor hath the scalding noonday sun the power To melt that marble ice, which still doth hold Her heart congeal’d, and makes her pity cold. The ox, which lately did for shelter fly Into the stall, doth now securely lie In open fields; and love no more is made By the fireside, but in the cooler shade Amyntas now doth with his Chloris sleep Under a sycamore, and all things keep Time with the season; only she doth carry June in her eyes, in her heart January.
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The Spring
They are                 monotony. Pulchritudinous                               aesthetics, Alleviation                       to                              seclusion. Do you not feel the heat – my wrist on yours burn tales more rich than ours on nights more dark than souls too tense to feel the eyes of God draw shame on backs of necks so close? Or is it                                                                                                                                       just me? Conjuring                     fraudulence Accrediting                        ludicrous                                           buoyancy I know its there I know the life that flows through limbs of mine can move through cloth to touch the skin of yours I hear your eyes I see your voice I breath you in why else are we so close? And           innocent And             serene And             happy And                                                                                                                                              secluded. How can you sit not feel those things I feel not think those thoughts I think not see your wrist sink in to flesh as soft and pink as lips I long to taste? We are al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways so close... They are                  tolerable Doused                ardor                             maybe. Benumbed                        incandescence                                                     maybe. But still                They are                                                                                                                                                            here.
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 5:43 PM UTC
Heartbeat
They are                 monotony. Pulchritudinous                               aesthetics, Alleviation                       to                              seclusion. Do you not feel the heat – my wrist on yours burn tales more rich than ours on nights more dark than souls too tense to feel the eyes of God draw shame on backs of necks so close? Or is it                                                                                                                                       just me? Conjuring                     fraudulence Accrediting                        ludicrous                                           buoyancy I know its there I know the life that flows through limbs of mine can move through cloth to touch the skin of yours I hear your eyes I see your voice I breath you in why else are we so close? And           innocent And             serene And             happy And                                                                                                                                              secluded. How can you sit not feel those things I feel not think those thoughts I think not see your wrist sink in to flesh as soft and pink as lips I long to taste? We are al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways al-ways so close... They are                  tolerable Doused                ardor                             maybe. Benumbed                        incandescence                                                     maybe. But still                They are                                                                                                                                                            here.
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The briny tears have dried The sounding knells are stilled The grieving crowd, dispersed The parting pain, allayed Benumbed lie the dead Beneath the marble vaults Bereft of power and prowess Benighted and beaten. The sun shall never cast its glorious rays The stars shall never their brilliance shed The breeze never shall bring tidings new The showers shall no more drench them through A thoughtful friend sometimes seen around A fervent prayer at times chanted aloud A plaited wreath, rarely laid over A trite rite, randomly carried out There’s none left to mourn or weep Nor anyone to sing, sigh or sob Leaving the dead to rot in the closure of graves To life’s alluring charms, the dear depart. Cold as clay the dead lie so still To be feasted on by maggots and the worms Life with all its glory – defunct Its fever and fret too – extinct. How in vain we run after wealth The power and position we deem so great Shall come to naught within Time’s gloomy vault Yet we run and yet we straggle behind. In vain ends our travail for might Inglorious is our quest after fame Transient turn the riches, we garner Short lived is their gleam and glitter. Oh Lord! Lead us not into illusory charms Deliver us of our avarice to hoard For all that is born and made ‘Must consign to death and come to dust.’
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Feb 6, 2017
Feb 6, 2017 at 6:29 AM UTC
Dust unto Dust
Bravely Burn Barbaric Books of Belief Belonging to Bad Bigots to Become the Bearer of the Bright-less Broken Banners of Both and Between Bruised and Betrayed Beleaguered Borders to Begin Benevolence Before the Beings Below Be Benumbed and go Berserk for Bloodshed . Boldly Bestow the Blessing of Brotherhood to the Blind and Brutal Blood Beasts and the Bound Brethren of Brazen Ballads. For a Bare Bundle of Burnt Books can Barricade a Braced Battalion of Bayonets, Block Beyond Billions of Battle Blades, Buffer a Bunch of Big Booming Bullets, Backfire Boorish Ballistae of Bribery and Bury the Barmy Bastard's Baleful Brusque Breathes that Brings Back the Bedeviled Beacon of Blame.
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Feb 24, 2011
Feb 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM UTC
The Beheading of a ******** Behemoth
Deadlines besiege me, as stress pennoned limbs ache for action, yet, procrastination consumes me. I know relief will come, when: task complete I can truly unbend, sit back and relax. Yet, brain benumbed, I irradiate in a background of autogenous anxiety. I stare through the TV, study the grain on the page I'm not reading, attempt to study the air. Until, deadlines eve, when stress breaks free staining my mouth, and eyes and senses, bitter body, shocked, resuscitated and frantic activity commences.
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM UTC
A study in what not to do
i'm getting pins put in my body tomorrow like those red pin cushions that sit on a table in your basement. and it will also be your birthday. and i'm sorry i will be benumbed. i'm sorry this happened i'm sorry that the mason jar full of loose change and dollar bills and the piggy bank covered with dust and cobwebs will soon be vacant i am nothing but a pin cushion and i wish i could be something more.
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM UTC
pin cushion
584 It ceased to hurt me, though so slow I could not feel the Anguish go— But only knew by looking back— That something—had benumbed the Track— Nor when it altered, I could say, For I had worn it, every day, As constant as the Childish frock— I hung upon the Peg, at night. But not the Grief—that nestled close As needles—ladies softly press To Cushions Cheeks— To keep their place— Nor what consoled it, I could trace— Except, whereas ’twas Wilderness— It’s better—almost Peace—
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It ceased to hurt me, though so slow
Mind benumbed with a dreary monotony; thoughts rambling like the black and gloomy clouds trying to break the boredom of the winter sky. Dark dust of melancholy clouding the senses to a hazy opaqueness. I hibernate, with shoots of life sleeping inside me waiting for the knock of Spring on the frozen shell of my consciousness. Latent I lie, with hues of magic trancing in my soul. Latent I’ll lie, till the soft brush of springtime paints my world in a flurry of psychedelic colours.
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Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018 at 11:40 AM UTC
Waiting for the knock of Spring
Siberian morn.. Benumbed by the frigid gusts, the Winter is here.
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Dec 7, 2012
Dec 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM UTC
Winter (Haiku)
O old Gods who wait in morrow, let me shine in sacred sorrow I proffer, and offer, my marrow, bone, flesh, to thine altar borne, lone in meeting, only fleeting, silent here for duty sworn My old Gods who sit in waiting, might I power just to borrow? Only briefly you must loan me the magic to sunder torn. Weak and trembl’ng, weak to muster, I sought courage, but I crumble, at the sight of just thy vision, for to me it seems e’er unseen naught to know but thy own master ‘til I patient, sorely lumber wondering if fear has stolen me to thine own sacred meadow when suddenly, fervently see thine true shape and face and form and terrible dreams enter my soul e’er to stay and e’er to fecund for death I prefer to understanding the truth our Gods have shunned. Yet little more did I then speak among the dead and too the meek, falling towards an abyss so deep that makes my heart and soul weep dying truly like a phantom lurking in the shallows creep and yet falling ever faster and so overwhelmed by deep my eyes and ears saw nothing and heard nothing, not a leap from the darkness that consumed me e’er more did I fail to seek that which cannot only reap the dead and tear them ‘til they so reek so sharp and pointed so it was even I could witness and speak “Who have I wronged in this place so awful that I am gaoled oblique? Yet can still think and ponder the widow’s peak and in vain self-wreak?” in sacred toil among the stardust that makes us shine so mystique. What does thou will, O lord, my lord, of more than we can ever tell? I know it is not my duty not to know. Ask I must, ask besides the husk of my body is yours and yet I know little of thee by whose authority do wield such magics and more asides? it is not plain to me what sort of horror lies ‘neath the scorched ground so why do I? Why do I scream? Why do I see the beast in me? The hound that hunts for those who must be slaughtered despite what else they seek the wolf inside that hunts, rips, and tears, taken apart piece by piece the awful sound of howling that’s for me to not and never cease the stars themselves align to my fate fear in mind and e’er besides ‘tis here that I myself sit alone and finally soon to die. for death I prefer to the fate our Gods have brought to us benumbed.
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Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021 at 5:40 AM UTC
The First Descent
O old Gods who wait in morrow, let me shine in sacred sorrow I proffer, and offer, my marrow, bone, flesh, to thine altar borne, lone in meeting, only fleeting, silent here for duty sworn My old Gods who sit in waiting, might I power just to borrow? Only briefly you must loan me the magic to sunder torn. Weak and trembl’ng, weak to muster, I sought courage, but I crumble, at the sight of just thy vision, for to me it seems e’er unseen naught to know but thy own master ‘til I patient, sorely lumber wondering if fear has stolen me to thine own sacred meadow when suddenly, fervently see thine true shape and face and form and terrible dreams enter my soul e’er to stay and e’er to fecund for death I prefer to understanding the truth our Gods have shunned. Yet little more did I then speak among the dead and too the meek, falling towards an abyss so deep that makes my heart and soul weep dying truly like a phantom lurking in the shallows creep and yet falling ever faster and so overwhelmed by deep my eyes and ears saw nothing and heard nothing, not a leap from the darkness that consumed me e’er more did I fail to seek that which cannot only reap the dead and tear them ‘til they so reek so sharp and pointed so it was even I could witness and speak “Who have I wronged in this place so awful that I am gaoled oblique? Yet can still think and ponder the widow’s peak and in vain self-wreak?” in sacred toil among the stardust that makes us shine so mystique. What does thou will, O lord, my lord, of more than we can ever tell? I know it is not my duty not to know. Ask I must, ask besides the husk of my body is yours and yet I know little of thee by whose authority do wield such magics and more asides? it is not plain to me what sort of horror lies ‘neath the scorched ground so why do I? Why do I scream? Why do I see the beast in me? The hound that hunts for those who must be slaughtered despite what else they seek the wolf inside that hunts, rips, and tears, taken apart piece by piece the awful sound of howling that’s for me to not and never cease the stars themselves align to my fate fear in mind and e’er besides ‘tis here that I myself sit alone and finally soon to die. for death I prefer to the fate our Gods have brought to us benumbed.
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Arteries benumbed Reading pharmaceutical's inserts no fun Reading your mind even worse Print so small Foldings such as a roadmap Those molecular models delineated Moods might just as well be Translating cuneiform You wedge-shape marks on me Deceptive blinks cut my clayey gray matter That mascara you wear Like kajal on Persian Princess Ovular pills with spider legs How do I defend from? Enigmatical ellipses Narcotic exotic I look for, but find no Adjoining pamphlets or warnings To all your strange side-effects
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Nov 24, 2015
Nov 24, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
Refills Require Authorization
been a-while spring abridged;winter night each layer of snow colder n' heavier earth lay frozen and I frostbitten icicles of gloom lining my chest,eerie chill creeping heart benumbed;slowly melting basking in apricity,duly warmed up awaiting spring anew
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Nov 3, 2020
Nov 3, 2020 at 9:50 AM UTC
vernal wisps
Do not presume to think dear sun To ****** away my dreams The dark still holds me in it’s thrall Within the great unseen They will not lift these limbs of mine They wallow in their weight Enjoy the burden of their bonds Refuse to animate A captive to these strains of sleep Gladly shackled to my bed I revel in their sweet confines My eyelids drawn with lead I Self sedate with each warm breathe Benumbed by this safe drug Which toxifies my consciousness I revel in it’s fug I will not wake, I’m staying here Please do not liberate me Reality’sbecome too much For me to cope with lately.
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM UTC
sleep
On the foggy window glass, In the snow that raw, My finger rubbed past the dew, To catch a glimpse, Of fog and benumbed, Outside of the car window. My eyes desire a little sunshine, My skin, a little warmth. Ears urge for her chirping, Lips, the touch of hers, Hands, a stroke in her hairs, Body, to have a shadow besides hers. The sun shined shyly over the meadows, To hide back in clouds, As if it kissed the snow - a good foggy day. Conifers stand tall, covered in snow as if a white ghost, Sailing with the wind, snow shifted -revealing a green arm, Only to muddle the sleeping fox beneath. Relishing in my state- haywired, A smile played on her, if only, for an instant, to leave me mortified. My devotion for her- untouched. Masked, my feelings rattled, Green eyed- I explode. Saurabh.
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Aug 11, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 at 6:09 AM UTC
Road Trip
In No Strange Land O World invisible, we view thee, O World intangible, we touch thee, O World unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air - That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars! The drift of pinions, would be harken, Beats at our clay-shuttered doors. The angels keep their ancient places; - Turn but a stone, and start a wing! 'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad, thou couldst not sadder) Cry; - and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross. Yea, in the night, my soul, my daughter, Cry, - clinging Heaven by the hems; And lo, Christ walking on the water ....
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 5:53 PM UTC
Francis Thomas - I dedicate to Poetry Home away from Home
Empower me With the keen edge Of cathartic sagacity And I will dance In exalted  tribute To daybreaks invincibility Double time While quoting  rhyme To the downbeat slash Of the scarecrows scepter While compatable Emulation Exposed to rarefied Imagination As the keep of the keys Pounds out The scathing expose That dredges up Those Benumbed and bewildered Riders Who have been Constantly Overexposed to the negatives Developed In those darkrooms WHERE Expedited promises Secretly enacted Enabling Blankcheck ******* Of any and all Faithful believers Of our beloved Carrousel That we have Always  insisted Is the keepsake Bequeathed To all the concerned Caretakers--once empowered With the keen edge Of cathartic sagacity Now just Trying to keep dancing To the fading  calliope music As too many Once - synchronised Elements Of our revolving Carrousel   Are going wrong Breaking down
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 1:16 AM UTC
Breaking Down
Alight from your throne, reeking of superiority. Cast the first stone! It no longer bothers me. Spewing impotent venom, your willfully caged mind, conditioned, doped, benumbed, cradled ideology; you're blind. Let us meet as equals. A dialogue must be fanned, or the cycle of upheaval will regress the promised land.
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Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 8:24 PM UTC
The Dire Dialogue
My nose is benumbed with the chill, and the cold and the numb but the touch of her thumb ****** the ice out of me and into her. My lips were dry without her warmth, left with the sweet painful taste of craving dehydrated, drained. My ears hurt with the screaming, and the constant streaming of her tears, and the tears, in her heart, in her eyes. My eyes are blinded by the nothingness, and the stark contrast of her pale skin, and her pale face, against the darkness, the blackness. and finally, what do you see she asks me there's nothing to see i reply. why can't you see why can't you see wHYCAN'TYOUSEE she yells because you won't let me i whisper.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 8:26 AM UTC
senses
Jilted heart, benumbed. Feelings died and interred in forlorness' grave.
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
On the Shelf (10w)
How much more breaking do I have to do until my heart numbs itself? I am sick of this routine — my chest sewing itself just to be ripped apart once more. I wish I can leave it be — an open wound for the flies. And yet, how many more wounds are there until there is no healing scar left to tear? I am sick of this routine. Tonight, I wish my heart would just tear itself into a handful of benumbed pieces. And tomorrow would stare at me — an aftermath of a storm. A heaving curiosity. A girl, lying in pieces and with no heart left to break.
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Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 10:40 PM UTC
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