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Over a cup of morning java Scanning my daily mail I came upon an advertisement sheet *That exclaimed in BOLD rainbow pastel* Grand opening of a store that has everything On the corner of Daisy and William Tell The one thing I saw that interested me Is they were having a back to "60's"  Hippie sale Of course I stopped what it was I was doing Hopped in my Lexus and left right away The excitement had my heart all in a flutter This I guarantee is going to be a good day They weren't kidding when they said they sold it all I'd been wandering the store for quite a while That's when I came to what it was I had come here for Before me in trippy little colors, the hippie aisle So I bought me a couple colorful hippies With my 25% coupon I was able to save The Hippies even  came with a bonus Fresh cut flowers and Jefferson Airplane tapes When I got home I showed them to their room Black light posters and colored beads hung from the door As luck would have it I bought an Indian hemp rug From Pier One just the day before They taught me transcendental meditation While I taught them both how to bathe Their lessons broadened the mind My lessons the nostrils saved I soon had a groovy little hippie pad In which organic vegetables and enlightenment grew We'd sit around crossed legged in a  purple haze at night Playing psychedelic tunes on our Kazoo's And I was pretty good too! Who Knew! Yes, a house of happy hippies Is a happy hippie house indeed Especially when Wendy Crystal Sky...Yes, that's her name Brews her famous dandelion tea I highly recommend the purchase of hippies I couldn't be any happier with mine Sure beats the punk rockers I got on close out last year But that my friend is another tale for another time...
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 6:48 AM UTC
Hippie Sale
Over a cup of morning java Scanning my daily mail I came upon an advertisement sheet *That exclaimed in BOLD rainbow pastel* Grand opening of a store that has everything On the corner of Daisy and William Tell The one thing I saw that interested me Is they were having a back to "60's"  Hippie sale Of course I stopped what it was I was doing Hopped in my Lexus and left right away The excitement had my heart all in a flutter This I guarantee is going to be a good day They weren't kidding when they said they sold it all I'd been wandering the store for quite a while That's when I came to what it was I had come here for Before me in trippy little colors, the hippie aisle So I bought me a couple colorful hippies With my 25% coupon I was able to save The Hippies even  came with a bonus Fresh cut flowers and Jefferson Airplane tapes When I got home I showed them to their room Black light posters and colored beads hung from the door As luck would have it I bought an Indian hemp rug From Pier One just the day before They taught me transcendental meditation While I taught them both how to bathe Their lessons broadened the mind My lessons the nostrils saved I soon had a groovy little hippie pad In which organic vegetables and enlightenment grew We'd sit around crossed legged in a  purple haze at night Playing psychedelic tunes on our Kazoo's And I was pretty good too! Who Knew! Yes, a house of happy hippies Is a happy hippie house indeed Especially when Wendy Crystal Sky...Yes, that's her name Brews her famous dandelion tea I highly recommend the purchase of hippies I couldn't be any happier with mine Sure beats the punk rockers I got on close out last year But that my friend is another tale for another time...
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A GLEAM -- a gleam -- from Ida's height, By the Fire-god sent, it came; From watch to watch it leapt, that light, As a rider rode the flame! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory, And sent it on, the jocund sign, To Athos, Mount of Jove divine. Wildly the while, it rose from the isle, So that the might of the journeying Light Skimmed over the back of the gleaming brine! Farther and faster speeds it on, Till the watch that keeps Macistus steep See it burst like a blazing Sun! Doth Macistus sleep On his tower-clad steep? No! rapid and red doth the wild fire sweep; It flashes afar on the wayward stream Of the wild Euripus, the rushing beam! It rouses the light on Messapion's height, And they feed its breath with the withered heath. But it may not stay! And away -- away -- It bounds in its freshening might. Silent and soon, Like a broadened moon, It passes in sheen, Asopus green, And bursts on Cithaeron gray! The warder wakes to the Signal-rays, And it swoops from the hill with a broader blaze. On, on the fiery Glory rode; Thy lonely lake, Gorgopis, glowed! To Megara's Mount it came; They feed it again And it streams amain-- A giant beard of Flame! The headland cliffs that darkly down O'er the Saronic waters frown, Are passed with the Swift One's lurid stride, And the huge rock glares on the glaring tide. With mightier march and fiercer power It gained Arachne's neighboring tower; Thence on our Argive roof its rest it won, Of Ida's fire the long-descended Son! Bright Harbinger of glory and of joy! So first and last with equal honor crowned, In solemn feasts the race-torch circles round. -- And these my heralds! -- this my SIGN OF PEACE; Lo! while we breathe, the victor lords of Greece Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy!
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The Beacon Fires
A GLEAM -- a gleam -- from Ida's height, By the Fire-god sent, it came; From watch to watch it leapt, that light, As a rider rode the flame! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its holy promontory, And sent it on, the jocund sign, To Athos, Mount of Jove divine. Wildly the while, it rose from the isle, So that the might of the journeying Light Skimmed over the back of the gleaming brine! Farther and faster speeds it on, Till the watch that keeps Macistus steep See it burst like a blazing Sun! Doth Macistus sleep On his tower-clad steep? No! rapid and red doth the wild fire sweep; It flashes afar on the wayward stream Of the wild Euripus, the rushing beam! It rouses the light on Messapion's height, And they feed its breath with the withered heath. But it may not stay! And away -- away -- It bounds in its freshening might. Silent and soon, Like a broadened moon, It passes in sheen, Asopus green, And bursts on Cithaeron gray! The warder wakes to the Signal-rays, And it swoops from the hill with a broader blaze. On, on the fiery Glory rode; Thy lonely lake, Gorgopis, glowed! To Megara's Mount it came; They feed it again And it streams amain-- A giant beard of Flame! The headland cliffs that darkly down O'er the Saronic waters frown, Are passed with the Swift One's lurid stride, And the huge rock glares on the glaring tide. With mightier march and fiercer power It gained Arachne's neighboring tower; Thence on our Argive roof its rest it won, Of Ida's fire the long-descended Son! Bright Harbinger of glory and of joy! So first and last with equal honor crowned, In solemn feasts the race-torch circles round. -- And these my heralds! -- this my SIGN OF PEACE; Lo! while we breathe, the victor lords of Greece Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy!
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Haiku Poetry is a very short poem with poetic images that can transcend the limitation imposed by the usual language and thinking. What if we took that imagery into the realm of human nature? While attempting to do this I tried to stay within the bounds of contemplative poetry that indicates a moment, sensation, impression or drama of a specific moment in nature. However, I broadened this framework to at times include moral, historical, scientific, legal, social, etc., issues as well. I believe, by doing this, we are introduced to a unique and creative imagery that paints a mental picture where you the reader can find much deeper meanings to personally relate. **Cute little test mouse caged for scientists to share waits death, for health care**
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 11:29 AM UTC
In the Name of Science -Haiku Poetry
This Tamarind tree with a thick  thatched roof of leaves spread to all the sides like matted dreadlocks of a sage in silent, inwardly turned contemplation, for long long years has such cool, comfortable shade, that is-- lovely rendezvous to the love smitten, to bill and coo for hours, transit home for nomads who own nothing more than their backpacks and looking for a shade, playground for children in the neighborhood, with curious eyes, resting place for laborers tired from toiling, in the sun all day long. pen for itinerant goats, that playfully fight with each other, kennel for stray pups finding companionship all by themselves, hive for honey bees that hum tunes for all these refugees, venue for a cocophonous congregation of  birds of different feathers, obviously very political, probably arguing about the future plans when such a kind tree no more would be there, soon when the road gets broadened.
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Mar 3, 2013
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:31 AM UTC
An amazing avatar in need of a redeemer
leisure up my friend !    weaken open your shellfish hinge        and wet your beak it’s a marked holiday break    unmarred by family obligation there’s freedom    to make the most criminal crown of mistakes    in the name          of some frown of liberal investigation on the town an eager squad of collaborators are on board      they have your back desperate, sick and starving gulls      broadened to explore the deplorable on and on to the next and the next      death defining task a meandering stagger of a bar crawl   perpetually   powering through      as the day spans a revulsion the heat stays as the day sinks beneath in place of the suns rays the heat radiates         from the baked city concrete    stepping out from the shelter of the bar   the night swelter respires fiercely not done with our steam of annihilation   what establishment would take our kind ? city has already bowed over it's plumage                                  to our ******* pilgrimage bark melts and peels in strips off the trees         (meat shaved off the strip pole) our heels spark the pavement vermin and jackals follow our movement              from shimmering dark spots              and our vision constricts our aim   has become clotted...       ...what was it that we reached for ? oblivions fruit seemed a doable pursuit it's the usual downhill shambles from here familiar yet barely remembered a rambling guff of bad ***** comedy there is no plucky legend just an embarrassment
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Jun 10, 2023
Jun 10, 2023 at 9:47 PM UTC
crawl
leisure up my friend !    weaken open your shellfish hinge        and wet your beak it’s a marked holiday break    unmarred by family obligation there’s freedom    to make the most criminal crown of mistakes    in the name          of some frown of liberal investigation on the town an eager squad of collaborators are on board      they have your back desperate, sick and starving gulls      broadened to explore the deplorable on and on to the next and the next      death defining task a meandering stagger of a bar crawl   perpetually   powering through      as the day spans a revulsion the heat stays as the day sinks beneath in place of the suns rays the heat radiates         from the baked city concrete    stepping out from the shelter of the bar   the night swelter respires fiercely not done with our steam of annihilation   what establishment would take our kind ? city has already bowed over it's plumage                                  to our ******* pilgrimage bark melts and peels in strips off the trees         (meat shaved off the strip pole) our heels spark the pavement vermin and jackals follow our movement              from shimmering dark spots              and our vision constricts our aim   has become clotted...       ...what was it that we reached for ? oblivions fruit seemed a doable pursuit it's the usual downhill shambles from here familiar yet barely remembered a rambling guff of bad ***** comedy there is no plucky legend just an embarrassment
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Over a cup of morning java Scanning my daily mail I came upon an advertisement sheet That exclaimed in BOLD rainbow pastel Grand opening of a store that has everything On the corner of Daisy and William Tell The one thing I saw that interested me Is they were having a back to "60's" Hippie sale Of course I stopped what it was I was doing Hopped in my Lexus and left right away The excitement had my heart all in a flutter This I guarantee is going to be a good day They weren't kidding when they said they sold it all I'd been wandering the store for quite a while That's when I came to what it was I had come here for Before me in trippy little colors, the hippie aisle So I bought me a couple colorful hippies With my 25% coupon I was able to save The Hippies even came with a bonus Fresh cut flowers and Jefferson Airplane tapes When I got home I showed them to their room Black light posters and colored beads hung from the door As luck would have it I bought an Indian hemp rug From Pier One just the day before They taught me transcendental meditation While I taught them both how to bathe Their lessons broadened the mind My lessons the nostrils saved I soon had a groovy little hippie pad In which organic vegetables and enlightenment grew We'd sit around crossed legged in a purple haze at night Playing psychedelic tunes on our Kazoo's And I was pretty good too! Who Knew! Yes, a house of happy hippies Is a happy hippie house indeed Especially when Wendy Crystal Sky...Yes, that's her name Brews her famous dandelion tea I highly recommend the purchase of hippies I couldn't be any happier with mine Sure beats the punk rockers I got on close out last year But that my friend is another tale for another time...
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 6:01 AM UTC
~Hippie Sale~
Over a cup of morning java Scanning my daily mail I came upon an advertisement sheet That exclaimed in BOLD rainbow pastel Grand opening of a store that has everything On the corner of Daisy and William Tell The one thing I saw that interested me Is they were having a back to "60's" Hippie sale Of course I stopped what it was I was doing Hopped in my Lexus and left right away The excitement had my heart all in a flutter This I guarantee is going to be a good day They weren't kidding when they said they sold it all I'd been wandering the store for quite a while That's when I came to what it was I had come here for Before me in trippy little colors, the hippie aisle So I bought me a couple colorful hippies With my 25% coupon I was able to save The Hippies even came with a bonus Fresh cut flowers and Jefferson Airplane tapes When I got home I showed them to their room Black light posters and colored beads hung from the door As luck would have it I bought an Indian hemp rug From Pier One just the day before They taught me transcendental meditation While I taught them both how to bathe Their lessons broadened the mind My lessons the nostrils saved I soon had a groovy little hippie pad In which organic vegetables and enlightenment grew We'd sit around crossed legged in a purple haze at night Playing psychedelic tunes on our Kazoo's And I was pretty good too! Who Knew! Yes, a house of happy hippies Is a happy hippie house indeed Especially when Wendy Crystal Sky...Yes, that's her name Brews her famous dandelion tea I highly recommend the purchase of hippies I couldn't be any happier with mine Sure beats the punk rockers I got on close out last year But that my friend is another tale for another time...
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i don't regret meeting anyone that i've met anyone that i have loved i will not forget they have broadened my playlist introduced me to all different styles i have come to appreciate my playlist that has been growing for a while someone introduced me to indie someone else what they played in the 60's and Mr. current listens to classic appreciative of music without lyrics i've never known what to listen to i grew up on rock and roll so thank you to all those i've loved and will love you have deeply affected my soul.
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 8:32 PM UTC
the playlist of my life
You are an unrelenting hurricane, vaporizing everything in your path. You are as fluent and necessary as water, and as viscous as honey at room temperature, always taking the path of most resistance. But once you are warm you flow as freely as the sea, and just as violent too. And that is why you require a broadened cliff for your unbridled waves to beat against, a sturdy bomb shelter for your B-52 flybys; an eye at the center of your storm, perfectly peaceful and okay with all that you are. Because you are the current within veins, sending action potentials down axons and dendrites, flooding presynaptic terminals with pieces of yourself. And you will be someone else’s, because you deserve all of this and more, and these are all the things I could never be for you.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 9:46 PM UTC
you stand as tall as peaking redwoods
silence slipped fingers against my lips silence struck metal against my hips silence slipped the grainy film from my eyes silence broadened me to how this world lies silence had grabbed me by the cheek silence said that to cry was weak silence taught me how to look you right in the eye and lie.
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 1:03 AM UTC
Outspoken
Maiden and Observer As speculated, The observer and the scientist See an enigmatic entrance. The arrival of the specimen: He shows haste, His wrist flickers: Punctuality. He mouthes questions of career: Orderliness. His vocal appetite silent: Surrender. He declares instruction: Superiority. He brightens athleticism. Focus. The smile appears through in the unknownest places, Within restaurant doors, Through the soundwaves. Through ideations: Competitive movement. Inertia and stagnation is of disinterest. Wordly reflection produces empty reciprocration. Can it be a metaphor for the observer, Can the specimen by the symbol? Both reflected from one another. There is the one, and then, the other. The challenge is: Exhibiting both states Simultaenously. This is the task of the maiden. The balancer of scales. The scientist seeks to understand, There is evidence of somes sort A hidden bliss a smile inside, a moment of analysis. Notions brought on by previous experiments. Past failures predict present outcome, Recent knowledge or estimation? Emotion links to reason, Reason negotiates but stands firm, The scientist is fatigued, his hand lowers. Body language is lazily interpreted by curious Observer, Studying this new behaviour. The professor places his spectacles on, He sees no other path to take, He concludes and hypothesises, This specimen can be learnt from No more. Specimen's silence allows flowing thoughts to pervade the mind of the observer and the scientist. Silence given to the cynicism of life, the broadened mind perceived as narrow. The observer is observed. Now conciousness changes in the realm of the user experiencing himself. Self perception, self defense, Guard is raised, Gates are closed. Only water flows through, Other matter obstructed. Maiden, Observer, Scientist, Specimen.
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Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC
Maiden and Observer
Maiden and Observer As speculated, The observer and the scientist See an enigmatic entrance. The arrival of the specimen: He shows haste, His wrist flickers: Punctuality. He mouthes questions of career: Orderliness. His vocal appetite silent: Surrender. He declares instruction: Superiority. He brightens athleticism. Focus. The smile appears through in the unknownest places, Within restaurant doors, Through the soundwaves. Through ideations: Competitive movement. Inertia and stagnation is of disinterest. Wordly reflection produces empty reciprocration. Can it be a metaphor for the observer, Can the specimen by the symbol? Both reflected from one another. There is the one, and then, the other. The challenge is: Exhibiting both states Simultaenously. This is the task of the maiden. The balancer of scales. The scientist seeks to understand, There is evidence of somes sort A hidden bliss a smile inside, a moment of analysis. Notions brought on by previous experiments. Past failures predict present outcome, Recent knowledge or estimation? Emotion links to reason, Reason negotiates but stands firm, The scientist is fatigued, his hand lowers. Body language is lazily interpreted by curious Observer, Studying this new behaviour. The professor places his spectacles on, He sees no other path to take, He concludes and hypothesises, This specimen can be learnt from No more. Specimen's silence allows flowing thoughts to pervade the mind of the observer and the scientist. Silence given to the cynicism of life, the broadened mind perceived as narrow. The observer is observed. Now conciousness changes in the realm of the user experiencing himself. Self perception, self defense, Guard is raised, Gates are closed. Only water flows through, Other matter obstructed. Maiden, Observer, Scientist, Specimen.
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Shoeboxes in the upstairs prove when veins were tight and hair was that shining, gleaming, streamin,’ flaxen, waxen stuff of the 70s. You would laugh if you could see him in a toupee, shoulders broadened against the end of a night shift, billy club swinging steady by his side; She, beautiful like Grace Kelly, with high definition cheek bones, her smile Rainbow Bright enough to call the curtains down and leave them that way forever. But red velvet shrouds over them still; His shoulders curve under tax forms and knee replacements, cancer spots on his bladder and nose. She plays with the extra turkey skin on her neck, frowns at the grooves around her mouth. The audience sees more than we want to. They fade from unblemished black and white into garish Technicolor, Twenty-nine years of dinner, ***** dishes left in the sink, root canals, cat food cans, ******* stickers, laundry to fold, that milk might be a week old. They go on and I love them for the death of romance, for the things they've folded away in shoeboxes for me to find.
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 1:55 AM UTC
Death of a Hollywood Romance
Oh no, wanderlust! You have broadened into space - I can't afford that.
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Oct 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 at 12:56 PM UTC
dreams
We lay on a single bunk, gazing at each other under African sunlight not yet lovers, but going that way. "You're beautiful," she said after a while and I believed her but wanting to give her credit for all that was good in me I replied, "It's a reflection!"                      Except - Despite my tan, despite the rainbow racket of  parrots outside, despite my travel-broadened mind, I still carried a heart nurtured in Aberdeen, that grey-granite reservation in North East Scotland where true emotion may only be expressed after fifteen pints and a dram.                 So, by way of a padded brown envelope in which to hand over this pure, unselfish thought I said it in a silly voice. These days she doesn't even write. Me?  I'm married to a woman who finds me kind of funny looking but in an agreeable way. It's a reflection.
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Dec 6, 2010
Dec 6, 2010 at 4:40 AM UTC
The Envelope
one year. it took one year for you to realize that you don't want me. I'm not sure if you ever did. we were best friends first, lovers second. I was there for you and you were there for me. I tried to help you, but I'm not good with words, you see, but i tried so so hard--- and that has to count for something, right? It hurt so bad when you said i couldn't understand, because I did, I understood you so well. I couldn't emotionally support you how you wanted and I think in the end, that was what broke us Along with other things. We had so much fun together, I felt alive with you. You took me places I've never heard about, let alone ever been to. You broadened my horizons, You valued me and believed there was something special about me. But that's all someone wants, right? to be wanted? For most of the time I felt wanted by you. In the beginning, I was so sure we would work. I felt it in the way you looked at me and I wanted you so badly. Summer was great and then we had a scare. You were more scared than me and I think that was because I knew I loved you and you knew you didn't. I couldn't tell you I did because I was so scared of losing you. So I detached myself, for my own protection and we drifted. I thought we had ended and you would only think of me as a best friend, but then I told you I was going on a date. You couldn't let me be happy for one second, you couldn't let me out of your selfish grip. The very next day you told me you loved me and I was still so scared. So scared of being vulnerable, so scared of what would come next. But I told you I loved you too, but that didn't seem to be enough. You treated me like dirt and I think I figured out why you are verbally abusive. It's because your dad was like that with you. You never learned how to properly love someone, and I desperately hope you figure it out soon. We reconnected for two weeks, and me being a hopeless romantic that won't let my guard down so easily, I knew it wouldn't work, despite all hopes. After that reconnection, I felt empty. I tried to come up with an explanation why and I couldn't figure it out. Although we did love each other, we weren't "in love". All I wanted was to be wanted. And only by you. But we decided to remain friends. Then I changed my mind. You could never commit to me, I figured that out after that one time you asked me to be your girlfriend and then took it back the next day. After almost a year, you finally figured out what you wanted. Not me. "I'm not your type" I will never understand how you can love someone who isn't your "type" but I will always wonder what's so wrong with me that you couldn't keep loving me. And I will always wonder what's so wrong with me that I could love someone who I knew could never treat me the way I deserve. I will always love you, and I will always be there for you. But I will also never be able to be myself with you again. I showed you my most vulnerable parts and you denied me and I am so ashamed I let myself get that close without a commitment. My mom recently said, "Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free" and I took that to heart. I will find someone better, I know I will. and they will want me for me, not for my body, nor my money, nor because they think they can take advantage of the shy girl with her heart on her sleeve.
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 5:40 AM UTC
I wanted to be wanted by you
one year. it took one year for you to realize that you don't want me. I'm not sure if you ever did. we were best friends first, lovers second. I was there for you and you were there for me. I tried to help you, but I'm not good with words, you see, but i tried so so hard--- and that has to count for something, right? It hurt so bad when you said i couldn't understand, because I did, I understood you so well. I couldn't emotionally support you how you wanted and I think in the end, that was what broke us Along with other things. We had so much fun together, I felt alive with you. You took me places I've never heard about, let alone ever been to. You broadened my horizons, You valued me and believed there was something special about me. But that's all someone wants, right? to be wanted? For most of the time I felt wanted by you. In the beginning, I was so sure we would work. I felt it in the way you looked at me and I wanted you so badly. Summer was great and then we had a scare. You were more scared than me and I think that was because I knew I loved you and you knew you didn't. I couldn't tell you I did because I was so scared of losing you. So I detached myself, for my own protection and we drifted. I thought we had ended and you would only think of me as a best friend, but then I told you I was going on a date. You couldn't let me be happy for one second, you couldn't let me out of your selfish grip. The very next day you told me you loved me and I was still so scared. So scared of being vulnerable, so scared of what would come next. But I told you I loved you too, but that didn't seem to be enough. You treated me like dirt and I think I figured out why you are verbally abusive. It's because your dad was like that with you. You never learned how to properly love someone, and I desperately hope you figure it out soon. We reconnected for two weeks, and me being a hopeless romantic that won't let my guard down so easily, I knew it wouldn't work, despite all hopes. After that reconnection, I felt empty. I tried to come up with an explanation why and I couldn't figure it out. Although we did love each other, we weren't "in love". All I wanted was to be wanted. And only by you. But we decided to remain friends. Then I changed my mind. You could never commit to me, I figured that out after that one time you asked me to be your girlfriend and then took it back the next day. After almost a year, you finally figured out what you wanted. Not me. "I'm not your type" I will never understand how you can love someone who isn't your "type" but I will always wonder what's so wrong with me that you couldn't keep loving me. And I will always wonder what's so wrong with me that I could love someone who I knew could never treat me the way I deserve. I will always love you, and I will always be there for you. But I will also never be able to be myself with you again. I showed you my most vulnerable parts and you denied me and I am so ashamed I let myself get that close without a commitment. My mom recently said, "Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free" and I took that to heart. I will find someone better, I know I will. and they will want me for me, not for my body, nor my money, nor because they think they can take advantage of the shy girl with her heart on her sleeve.
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The thickets of time come rain or shine, scratch the best of years, old man looking on do you still count the cricket scores in your sleep ? with jumpers  for wickets, and  blackberries  down country lanes. Navel looking down the vastness of your now waist line, a mark of  your captaincy receipts of your labour dangling like a butchers overall. In your limelight  your broadened smile releases a relinquished accent that you could never quite forgive. .
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 3:14 PM UTC
Jumpers for pursuit.
I stared at your face I was touched by the look you had on your face it contained sadness mixed with Beauty and the unforgettable serious that holds as you look upon your face your blond hair frames you So well the more I looked the more the human ebbed and flowed from your picture I’m only left to Guess about the real you but you came at a time when I need to connect to another human being Stillness the photo was snapped when your lips were open as if you were getting ready to speak it Creates a haunting quality blue eyes of cool hard or tender they match your circumstances to rule By the spirit if you are invaded you fall back to the wall now everything is right your strength rushes Forth your fortress at your back is not your power or defense it is your confidence the inner swelling Well you are not unfamiliar with life’s jagged edge your hands not visible truly will carry the marks of Scars a defender will call out the warning then lead the necessary charge with a boldness the field holds No greater honor than selfless sacrifice a pillar that stands fearless when you know you are in the right Only the lonely know true glory a rock Asbury carbon by this fuel a dynamo has its switch flipped she Drinks courage in like it’s her own homemade brew she strikes a pose sweet as a rose and truly the river Widens its flow the heavens burst into a glow a soul of fire has passed among the dark and wild wood Just a visitor that left her words that were indeed silent with wisdom beamed from her essence she took And held our imagination for a little while shared her humanness broadened our existence stillness Captures by its frozen immobility it wills and holds you until it evokes in you a response tenderness Speaks a language all its own it never fails it has all the emotional tools that works in the soul thanks Desert woman there are truly streams in the desert you prove that thank you
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Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 7:46 PM UTC
I Broke a Rule
I stared at your face I was touched by the look you had on your face it contained sadness mixed with Beauty and the unforgettable serious that holds as you look upon your face your blond hair frames you So well the more I looked the more the human ebbed and flowed from your picture I’m only left to Guess about the real you but you came at a time when I need to connect to another human being Stillness the photo was snapped when your lips were open as if you were getting ready to speak it Creates a haunting quality blue eyes of cool hard or tender they match your circumstances to rule By the spirit if you are invaded you fall back to the wall now everything is right your strength rushes Forth your fortress at your back is not your power or defense it is your confidence the inner swelling Well you are not unfamiliar with life’s jagged edge your hands not visible truly will carry the marks of Scars a defender will call out the warning then lead the necessary charge with a boldness the field holds No greater honor than selfless sacrifice a pillar that stands fearless when you know you are in the right Only the lonely know true glory a rock Asbury carbon by this fuel a dynamo has its switch flipped she Drinks courage in like it’s her own homemade brew she strikes a pose sweet as a rose and truly the river Widens its flow the heavens burst into a glow a soul of fire has passed among the dark and wild wood Just a visitor that left her words that were indeed silent with wisdom beamed from her essence she took And held our imagination for a little while shared her humanness broadened our existence stillness Captures by its frozen immobility it wills and holds you until it evokes in you a response tenderness Speaks a language all its own it never fails it has all the emotional tools that works in the soul thanks Desert woman there are truly streams in the desert you prove that thank you
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Light ****** Where there is light there is freedom guard it with your life These unquenchable rays are broadened and sharpened as a knife By those that pray and hold these liberties as a sacred trust Finding they are without equal to all living they are a must To have this treasure the bold go to unquestionable lengths The quest is all consuming for in this alone lies our unbeatable strength Our birthright constantly in jeopardy from those conditioned by injustice Rights were only afforded to the high rulers the small were viewed with prejudice Take from earthen need plant the uncommon seed filled with heaven’s dazzling light In this you have begun the cure this plague has fermented and has brought the darkest knight Now in common hands blessed healing will flow to all who wait under threatening skies To waste time is cruel and heartless while your neighbor waits and dies You are called to be an army of light benders In you is invested all saving truth you the befriended Assailed by lies false brothers in the most crucial fight you contend This sacred way you have been chosen trusted even to death you must defend
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Jan 18, 2012
Jan 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM UTC
Light ******
I was near you today, if only for a moment. And today I felt the wrinkles of worn fingers slide slowly across my heart as a chest swelled faster than the lake we sit by while the rain pours down. I have seen the soft curve of a shoulder falling slowly like snow on the calmest winter day, and give way to embracing arms that bend like roads in the rolling hills at sunset. The horizon is lovely. I have seen wind kiss pink onto cheeks and blush as it runs away and escapes through hair sitting, flowing down a broadened back. I heard a song as a soul danced sweetly behind a smile, each curve in each lip spilling music so serene. And sunlight dancing with the colors of skin glowing brightly, each scar sharing stories, each freckle a divine masterpiece crafted slowly, delicately, and put quietly into place. I felt a glow as calm as summer twilight, lit up with fireflies shining from each pore. I felt a love that felt like home I was near you today, if only for a moment.
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Jun 17, 2012
Jun 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM UTC
I was near you Today
i knew a hedge between kept a friendship green but as our garden grew our edges weaned to common ground, boundaries were forgotten as our passion broadened so here i wait for autumn to come around. © Matthew Harlovic
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Jul 28, 2016
Jul 28, 2016 at 10:49 AM UTC
overgrown
He and She had a beautiful relationship. It was full of love and passion, passion so strong nothing could affect it. Each day their love grew stronger and stronger. So strong in fact that others asked them for advice. The only piece of advice they ever had to give, was to listen to each other and never lose their respect for one another. As their family grew their love was broadened. Broadened to accept and appreciate their new creations. These creations noticed and studied the love and passion their creators showed. They learned to treat their own loved ones the same way, with passion just as strong as their creators. He and She were getting no younger. Their relationship still did not falter. They loved, laughed, and lived together. When He grew sick and weary, She stayed with him, and showered He with her passion. He was healed by her love and passion, only to slip back into his illness deeper and darker than before. She wept and prayed for her love to heal him again. Her prayers and tears would only be in vain. He slipped away from her and never came back. She visited his final resting place many a time. She still loved and showered him with her passion, only this time She didn't get it back. Alone and feeling forgotten she let herself go and slipped away. United again they continue their love from where they left off. With their love and passion just as strong as it was before, He and She forever shine as constant examples of true love and passion. He and She together...forever
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM UTC
He and She
He and She had a beautiful relationship. It was full of love and passion, passion so strong nothing could affect it. Each day their love grew stronger and stronger. So strong in fact that others asked them for advice. The only piece of advice they ever had to give, was to listen to each other and never lose their respect for one another. As their family grew their love was broadened. Broadened to accept and appreciate their new creations. These creations noticed and studied the love and passion their creators showed. They learned to treat their own loved ones the same way, with passion just as strong as their creators. He and She were getting no younger. Their relationship still did not falter. They loved, laughed, and lived together. When He grew sick and weary, She stayed with him, and showered He with her passion. He was healed by her love and passion, only to slip back into his illness deeper and darker than before. She wept and prayed for her love to heal him again. Her prayers and tears would only be in vain. He slipped away from her and never came back. She visited his final resting place many a time. She still loved and showered him with her passion, only this time She didn't get it back. Alone and feeling forgotten she let herself go and slipped away. United again they continue their love from where they left off. With their love and passion just as strong as it was before, He and She forever shine as constant examples of true love and passion. He and She together...forever
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We had come across this grotto in The cliff near Cater’s Pride, And were swimming in the shallows When we took a look inside, There was just a tiny entrance that Had broadened to a hall, And the strange effect of lighting seemed Reflected off each wall. There were seashells, there were gemstones Shining, in the rocky face, And a narrow path around a pool With depths we could not trace, But the water was so clear and blue, And warm, it must be said, That Cathy cried, ‘Can this be true?’ While I just shook my head. We sat back on the ledge and dangled Feet down in the blue, We didn’t know that danger loomed And nor, I think, would you, But then some minor turbulence Disturbed the perfect pool, And suddenly three heads appeared To laugh, and play the fool. Three nymphs with sparkling eyes and teeth Who splashed, their laughter pealed And echoed round the grotto, as Their presence was revealed, They saw us and they beckoned us As if to swim and play, If only caution reckoned in The thoughts I had that day! But Cathy laughed and waved at them From just beyond my reach, And two of them came swimming and They seized an ankle each, They pulled her off the ledge and laughing In that pool so blue, Then swam around her teasing so I knew not what to do. Now Cathy was a swimmer, she Could more than hold her own, But when they swam around her What I saw would make me groan, For as they broke the surface I Could see her face was pale, And each of these fair maidens, well, They had a fish’s tail. They whirled around and tumbled her And pulled her by the hair, And soon I saw her fighting them As if in need of air, I dived in then to free her but They saw me coming down, And took her to the depths with them Until poor Cathy drowned. I totally lost sight of them And had to clamber out, Sat weeping by the pool until Just like a waterspout Her body shot up from the depths And then the mermaids three, Swam clinging to each other, looked Apologetically. They didn’t know we had to breathe They had no need of air, They made me signs of penance but My Cathy simply stared, And in her eyes a look of awe As if in death she’d seen A world that was worth dying for, A dream within a dream. David Lewis Paget
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Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 8:47 PM UTC
The Grotto
We had come across this grotto in The cliff near Cater’s Pride, And were swimming in the shallows When we took a look inside, There was just a tiny entrance that Had broadened to a hall, And the strange effect of lighting seemed Reflected off each wall. There were seashells, there were gemstones Shining, in the rocky face, And a narrow path around a pool With depths we could not trace, But the water was so clear and blue, And warm, it must be said, That Cathy cried, ‘Can this be true?’ While I just shook my head. We sat back on the ledge and dangled Feet down in the blue, We didn’t know that danger loomed And nor, I think, would you, But then some minor turbulence Disturbed the perfect pool, And suddenly three heads appeared To laugh, and play the fool. Three nymphs with sparkling eyes and teeth Who splashed, their laughter pealed And echoed round the grotto, as Their presence was revealed, They saw us and they beckoned us As if to swim and play, If only caution reckoned in The thoughts I had that day! But Cathy laughed and waved at them From just beyond my reach, And two of them came swimming and They seized an ankle each, They pulled her off the ledge and laughing In that pool so blue, Then swam around her teasing so I knew not what to do. Now Cathy was a swimmer, she Could more than hold her own, But when they swam around her What I saw would make me groan, For as they broke the surface I Could see her face was pale, And each of these fair maidens, well, They had a fish’s tail. They whirled around and tumbled her And pulled her by the hair, And soon I saw her fighting them As if in need of air, I dived in then to free her but They saw me coming down, And took her to the depths with them Until poor Cathy drowned. I totally lost sight of them And had to clamber out, Sat weeping by the pool until Just like a waterspout Her body shot up from the depths And then the mermaids three, Swam clinging to each other, looked Apologetically. They didn’t know we had to breathe They had no need of air, They made me signs of penance but My Cathy simply stared, And in her eyes a look of awe As if in death she’d seen A world that was worth dying for, A dream within a dream. David Lewis Paget
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She found a corner to corner herself in, yet she broadened her prospects, and so she grew out of her love for me. There it was, her car parked in a lot. there's a whole world out there, does she know? Dumb-fucked ***** my own street isn't safe anymore.
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Jul 29, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 at 8:07 AM UTC
I Can't Get Away
I’ve been watching for some time From afar the deep and low valley Watching the leaves fall Of what hope they can rally For not ray nor beam Nor excitement I seek Only the bejeweled recluse with the golden hair The blue eyes and tongue abounding, yet meek A beauty not to sever From the mountains of my youth Against all attempt My failed past endeavor To bring those impartial arms closer to my own But, alas, she proved far too clever And escaped, perpetually I bemoan And where you took leave Still spurns the suture Dark blood freshly drawn I bleed for another, though soul turned to pewter And I stumble weakly like invalid fawn The gauze did atone Anesthetized my brooding Until the reclaimed throne Did sanctify its queen Too little, too late A penance not paid Impatience could at surface readily sate And showed me in acetic recollection My folly not to wait But, escaped your grace, my grubby hands though groped And words did not flow forth as I had hoped Simple gesture; a wave or two And the separation broadened again, same as the first time I left you But, I’ve been watching for some time The creeks and the crags Knowing the leaves will always return And the fawn thus wanes to mighty stag In hopes for a band of our own from the pitch of time discerned I fashioned this life for you And encircled you in my mind That what persona I do beget I was just hoping for you to find A poor choice for but one of many An ill-conceived and hasty plan All done for you, my beauty Planning for a future Before it even began And now, after I’ve waited for what feels like millennia These clipped wings refuse to span And this valley wracks me with mania Spirits sink with the sun Ink drips from the vein Turn to verse written in vain, Smears through the valleys Like eloquent stains An escape from memory, dazzling and dun But the valley vast, maw is wide Too far, too unwilling to outrun The Beautiful, the flitting Inescapable Morgan.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 7:27 PM UTC
I've been watching for some time.
I’ve been watching for some time From afar the deep and low valley Watching the leaves fall Of what hope they can rally For not ray nor beam Nor excitement I seek Only the bejeweled recluse with the golden hair The blue eyes and tongue abounding, yet meek A beauty not to sever From the mountains of my youth Against all attempt My failed past endeavor To bring those impartial arms closer to my own But, alas, she proved far too clever And escaped, perpetually I bemoan And where you took leave Still spurns the suture Dark blood freshly drawn I bleed for another, though soul turned to pewter And I stumble weakly like invalid fawn The gauze did atone Anesthetized my brooding Until the reclaimed throne Did sanctify its queen Too little, too late A penance not paid Impatience could at surface readily sate And showed me in acetic recollection My folly not to wait But, escaped your grace, my grubby hands though groped And words did not flow forth as I had hoped Simple gesture; a wave or two And the separation broadened again, same as the first time I left you But, I’ve been watching for some time The creeks and the crags Knowing the leaves will always return And the fawn thus wanes to mighty stag In hopes for a band of our own from the pitch of time discerned I fashioned this life for you And encircled you in my mind That what persona I do beget I was just hoping for you to find A poor choice for but one of many An ill-conceived and hasty plan All done for you, my beauty Planning for a future Before it even began And now, after I’ve waited for what feels like millennia These clipped wings refuse to span And this valley wracks me with mania Spirits sink with the sun Ink drips from the vein Turn to verse written in vain, Smears through the valleys Like eloquent stains An escape from memory, dazzling and dun But the valley vast, maw is wide Too far, too unwilling to outrun The Beautiful, the flitting Inescapable Morgan.
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stealing the only oxygen that I have out from my blackened lungs, piano tapping fingertips play across my ribcage, goosebumps layer my outstretched collarbone, pulling rigid hips into your broadened abs, kissing my slightly chapped winter cold lips, you intoxicate my body with the sweetest poison. only you can **** my nerves, and empower my soul at once. steal my oxygen until my winter lips freeze. I no longer have a use for burning summers.
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 10:51 PM UTC
winter lips