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"cackling" poems
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
how do you know when (a human is too broken?)
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Its my body, my money, its up to me what I do with it. But everyone else is wearing it. I cant help the way I feel. Blonde Red Orange Brown Purple DMs purple with pink laces school skirt altered in the textile lab 3" shorter hormones racing, zipping, vibrating, fizzing till the top pops stairs made for stomping and storming cackling laughter crackling down the telephone wire clothes left on the bedroom floor abandoned for a girl crisis. You cant read my mind read my lips read my body read my journal sandwiched between the midriff covering cottons gran bought for Christmas and the skimpy lace thong I'd be grounded for buying Mother's mattress sanitary towels tossed aside for shamefully purchased tampons instructions included and time has passed and masks have fallen and I find you there in the muck and the mire and dust you off until I see your face - all mothers lipstick and glittering pink eye shadow and the smile that stores secrets in a treasure chest. Your legs shake like Bambi's but you get to your feet and nestle yourself into me warmly, strongly until you fall right into me and you run and you run and you run and you run and you run right through my veins giggles throbbing through my pulse pajama parties and homemade perfume radiating in my eyes and there you are and there I am.
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Jun 26, 2013
Jun 26, 2013 at 5:54 PM UTC
A 'Girly' Girl
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM UTC
A Crowing Lamentation
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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Witches are eating the toes of a troll with a spoon, boiling blood in a cauldron, and chanting mischievous lyrics in the silver moon. Feel their devilish ways cursing life, casting ugly spells and cackling at tormented suffrage and strife. Watch in horror while witches dance, stripping away sanity by carrying off hope with no redeeming chance. **** this nightmare caused by witches, hypnotizing minds by changing their appearances. Hunting desperate men for affection, seducing the weak to coerce their love like a **** infection.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM UTC
Witches
Depression is a hooded figure standing just outside of a wooden doorway, Blood dripping down your skin and having the sick thought of  “Oh, look how beautiful the red is” (everyone always says red is my color). Depression is writing sick poetry on skin and publishing it with scars, cutting on ankles, not wrists because you’re scared you’ll get in trouble but you so desperately need to be seen, and never are. Depression is accepting ruin in life with this hole in your chest because death is a reward, an escape from this pain you deserve to feel. It is writing the word “alone” and seeing the word “home”, accepting the torment like a gift because you’ve earned it. Depression is admitting suicidal thoughts to paper and not to people, and loving the broken things, hoping to tie them together, thinking maybe things will get better, but knowing that’s just wishful thinking because Depression is tying yourself together with the severed nerves in your heart; It is rope, it is ribbon, it is thread, it is DNA; It is hearing your mother call you monster and disgusting through the too-thin walls of your door when she thinks you can’t hear, And depression is sadness being a privilege you’re too pathetic to have. It is a hug, a freezing touch, a reminder that Depression is being birthed a lie. And it is shutting yourself behind that wooden doorway And hearing your family laugh like cackling hyenas, Eating at your self esteem like softened prey And learning at a young age to love family always but that family isn’t always love because Depression is family. It is an unfurnished home, An empty frame, A foot when the shoe hasn’t been broken in yet, you when life hasn't been broken in yet, Seeing happy people and thinking they all look the same, like the front covers of magazines with grins reaching their eyes while yours can’t, and wishing you could package your smiles into tiny little piles and hand them to people more deserving of them because you know you’re wasting them with half-assed lines of “I’m fine” Depression is having to view your past as if it wasn’t yours, because to accept it as reality is to accept finality of your life through suicide. It is the note masked inside of a poem, Envisioning pills as if they were peace, Depression is the last stanza, It is the audience, It is this microphone, It is me standing in a room full of strangers And for the first time finally feeling like I'm being heard. Depression is a hooded figure standing just outside of a wooden doorway that keeps pounding, possessive, ****** but when you open the door out of anger and shout “I’M SCARED” to thin air, your voice comes out as a whisper. And silently, the figure replies;   “I know your favorite color.”
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Mar 4, 2014
Mar 4, 2014 at 8:04 PM UTC
I Know Depression (Slam piece, final edit)
Depression is a hooded figure standing just outside of a wooden doorway, Blood dripping down your skin and having the sick thought of  “Oh, look how beautiful the red is” (everyone always says red is my color). Depression is writing sick poetry on skin and publishing it with scars, cutting on ankles, not wrists because you’re scared you’ll get in trouble but you so desperately need to be seen, and never are. Depression is accepting ruin in life with this hole in your chest because death is a reward, an escape from this pain you deserve to feel. It is writing the word “alone” and seeing the word “home”, accepting the torment like a gift because you’ve earned it. Depression is admitting suicidal thoughts to paper and not to people, and loving the broken things, hoping to tie them together, thinking maybe things will get better, but knowing that’s just wishful thinking because Depression is tying yourself together with the severed nerves in your heart; It is rope, it is ribbon, it is thread, it is DNA; It is hearing your mother call you monster and disgusting through the too-thin walls of your door when she thinks you can’t hear, And depression is sadness being a privilege you’re too pathetic to have. It is a hug, a freezing touch, a reminder that Depression is being birthed a lie. And it is shutting yourself behind that wooden doorway And hearing your family laugh like cackling hyenas, Eating at your self esteem like softened prey And learning at a young age to love family always but that family isn’t always love because Depression is family. It is an unfurnished home, An empty frame, A foot when the shoe hasn’t been broken in yet, you when life hasn't been broken in yet, Seeing happy people and thinking they all look the same, like the front covers of magazines with grins reaching their eyes while yours can’t, and wishing you could package your smiles into tiny little piles and hand them to people more deserving of them because you know you’re wasting them with half-assed lines of “I’m fine” Depression is having to view your past as if it wasn’t yours, because to accept it as reality is to accept finality of your life through suicide. It is the note masked inside of a poem, Envisioning pills as if they were peace, Depression is the last stanza, It is the audience, It is this microphone, It is me standing in a room full of strangers And for the first time finally feeling like I'm being heard. Depression is a hooded figure standing just outside of a wooden doorway that keeps pounding, possessive, ****** but when you open the door out of anger and shout “I’M SCARED” to thin air, your voice comes out as a whisper. And silently, the figure replies;   “I know your favorite color.”
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Are dismal days headed our way? Or could the blue Carnival part the grey? Fluttering red ribbons of the red carnival. Warm blood That welcomed in The oncoming flood. Spinning whites The back of your eyes The toothless grin of a cackling clown A white carnival of white lies
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 1:14 AM UTC
Carnival
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off and under that an army shirt private first class and he wore a green beret walked very straight he was black in brown walking shorts hair dyed blonde he never bothered anybody he stole a few babies and ran off cackling but he always returned the infants unharmed he slept in the back of the Love Parlor the girls let him. compassion is found in strange places. one day I didn't see him then another. I asked around. my taxes are going to go up again. the state's got to house and feed him. the cops took him in. no good.
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private first class
Smoke, it is all smoke in the throat of eternity. . . . For centuries, the air was full of witches Whistling up chimneys on their spiky brooms cackling or singing more sweetly than Circe, as they flew over rooftops blessing & cursing their kind. We banished & burned them making them smoke in the throat of god; we declared ourselves "enlightened." "The dark age of horrors is past," said my mother to me in 1952, seven years after our people went up in smoke, leaving a few teeth, a pile of bones. The smoke curls and beckons. It is blue & lavender & green as the undersea world. It will take us, too. O let us not go sheepishly clinging to our nakedness. But let us go like witches ****** heavenward by the Goddess' powerful breath & whistling, whistling, whistling on our beautiful brooms.
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Smoke
.         Flying, flying         Away and dying Across the night air is the cackling of witches.         Flying, flying         Away and crying     Are children abducted for wickedest fun.         Flying, flying         Away and sighing Are night winds that murmur in ominous pitches.         Flying, flying         Away and nighing     Their lair, the witches have only begun. O.O
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Aug 19, 2015
Aug 19, 2015 at 6:39 PM UTC
Flying Away
And our brother, too, the metal shaman Reaches up, plucks knowledge from the stars We chant, guttural grunts, primal urges And fierce grinding teeth clenching and screeching The shaman dances and Reaches up, plucks knowledge from the stars And we SCREAM shrill Bare our necks and bring the knife across, **** A sacrifice to the metal beast The shaman stares straight up, Plucks knowledge from the stars And the blood leaves us Hair turns grey Daily exploits lost in deepening wrinkles The macabre ritual culminates... The Shaman, unappeased Laughs like Hyena, cackling REACHES UP AND PLUCKS KNOWLEDGE FROM THE STARS! The existential cacophony diminishes Din dimming Beast is empty Bits flow like blood Ones and zeros in a jumbled pool The shaman delivers The family sits around the glowing box A tribe in an ancient ritual Flip the switch, change the channel The children plucking out their eyes Little blind Oedipus Smashing faces through the tube To the life on the other side Celebrities, products, and reality shows Forget thought Present your mind To the beast A cinematic **** Send Damsels to appease the Minotaur Change the channel
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
Silicon Shaman
Crow cackle! Crow cackle! …cackling crow! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? What does he do? And what does he hear? What does he see? Why do birds fear? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? The scarecrow sees bunnies, the scarecrow sees squirrels, The scarecrow sees shenanigans of little boys and girls. The scarecrow sees nothing because he doesn’t have real eyes. The scarecrow’s just hay, in a disguise! The bunnies will stop put to him one eye, they cannot seem to figure out, if he’s dead or alive? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? And the chickadee and the finches and the wrens and the sparrow, all want to rest on him but find themselves harrowed, for his job is to be frightening, fearsome and scary, …and blackbirds, ravens, crows here-ever are nary. Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? You’ll find him quietly scouting the good farmer’s fields, If you could speak to him or hear from him, what could he reveal? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Eating your corn, tormenting fields that you’ve sown, In the evenings or the mornings he’ll always be alone. Squawking and screaming their terrible dread! Crying at you, calling to you and filling your head, Always complaining and shouting at your ear. That field and its corn, is what they hold dear. Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? Protecting the corn fields, forever in the throes, Crow cackle! Crow cackle! …cackling crow! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know?
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Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 7:13 PM UTC
Song of the Scarecrow
Crow cackle! Crow cackle! …cackling crow! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? What does he do? And what does he hear? What does he see? Why do birds fear? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? The scarecrow sees bunnies, the scarecrow sees squirrels, The scarecrow sees shenanigans of little boys and girls. The scarecrow sees nothing because he doesn’t have real eyes. The scarecrow’s just hay, in a disguise! The bunnies will stop put to him one eye, they cannot seem to figure out, if he’s dead or alive? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? And the chickadee and the finches and the wrens and the sparrow, all want to rest on him but find themselves harrowed, for his job is to be frightening, fearsome and scary, …and blackbirds, ravens, crows here-ever are nary. Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? You’ll find him quietly scouting the good farmer’s fields, If you could speak to him or hear from him, what could he reveal? Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Eating your corn, tormenting fields that you’ve sown, In the evenings or the mornings he’ll always be alone. Squawking and screaming their terrible dread! Crying at you, calling to you and filling your head, Always complaining and shouting at your ear. That field and its corn, is what they hold dear. Crow cackle! Crow cackle! Cackling crows! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know? Protecting the corn fields, forever in the throes, Crow cackle! Crow cackle! …cackling crow! Who is this scarecrow and what does he know?
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perhaps our cause is selfishness, but in the most honest way we say it we do our thoughts are released, and yes, mingle always interjoined, like two separate words sewn together into one we share, and also we justify each other i am selfish, about you i admit, i give in, you are the one to whom i exercise no charity to myself, kept to my breast, melt between into my liquid soul my heart will pillow you with its thrum don't you find it rhythmic? a selfish question: i need you to say 'yes' you are gravity and i slam, hurried, sped through the breath of masses who slip out of sight before even being passed into your body press my face to yours lips tangle in sentences, in action, in smiles, in outright cackling laughter that somehow you find adorable and i say again, i am selfish of you i crave you to myself, all my own, become unto me for i cant do without you now that i have your taste and the same is said for you; from you to me? you need me? you crave me? mind mirrors mind, and you become the meteor? i, your destination i to fold into your soul (gladly gone, meet me there) so we both hold the other in selfishness, no love to share but love to keep and be kept and that is magnitude our gravities combine single form, single line, singular to the last freckle and toe you and I are an Us and we're selfish together because love is need desire selfish want and so, so, so very splendid
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 6:06 AM UTC
selfishness
Zombies are waddling toward their door. Witches are cackling, black cats are scratching, And the ghouls want brains and more. But Brig and Ophelia aren’t scared yet, They’re waiting inside, Gobbling strange snacks while they hide. It’s bugs they like to chew and gnaw; And they love to eat their spiders raw, Not fried with onions, like Granda; Or served with broccoli, like Nana. Not boiled with worms and creepy crawlers. Ciaran eats those, Not these crazed daughters. Ophelia and Brig Eat them raw, Alive, not dead, With wiggly legs and sharp jaws; And wrapped up with mosquito heads In white sticky spider webs. They eat Black Widows soaked in goblin blood And wicked witch’s poo; Made from bats and rats and unschooled fools, That witches eat to soften  stools. They eat fat spiders Floating in soup, That slide and wiggle Down their throat. They eat them with their mouldy cheese, Melted over wasps and bees. The girls fork down spider stew, They love the taste “Tres beaucoup.” The gravy’s made from a mummy’s spit, And sweat that drips from a ghoul’s armpit. They like their spiders spread on bread, A feast to feed the risen dead. When their snack is finally done, They’ll pick their teeth and scrape their tongues For Daddy Long Legs they didn’t eat. The long legs caught between their teeth. They'll use those legs to weave a wreath, To trick flies and bugs and lonely spiders Into their hungry House of Horrors.
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Oct 30, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 at 11:06 AM UTC
Brig and Ophelia's House of Horrors
Fleer to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly have you fleered today? or do you fleer the day that your greatest fears will fleer right in your face I think it’s funny how the word fear sounds like fleer well not ‘funny’, per say, but in a dark ironic fashion because, so often we fear to be fleered we fear to hear cackling that define our mistakes to be clear but if you fleer at fear then maybe, just maybe, fear will go away if you laugh in its face and say ‘I won’t be fleered today, but you, you fear, will fear the day, that you become fleered in an adhering way so stop making me fear and steer clear away cause once the end is here it will be freaking clear as day that you fear, were the real ***** the whole. entire. time.’ cause, really, fear just fears to be fleered as much as you do so fear shouldn’t be feared because it’s just here to confuse you because the ‘only thing to fear is fear itself’ but if you fear fear then it will trick you to believe something else because we’re all deprived of the hope that our cards that are dealt are just another way to make life a hell so don’t fear, fear, look it straight in the eye then turn away from fear because there are miles ahead of you that don’t involve fear, that involve confidence and security and your journey is just about to begin -Slang
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 10:37 AM UTC
untitled poem #3
Pendulum swings, beckoning time To move along and forget. But it can’t. It likes to linger in the green Meadows where butterflies Sip on sweet nectar while Children play hide and seek Among the tall trees. Pendulum swings, yet time Ignores it at the shores when Waves and sun hold hands and Conceive warm hues bathing The couple immersed in love Which spans an eternity. Pendulum swings, but time Sleeps at the campfire Crackling, cackling at the Jokes told by the witty Grandfather who has Seen it all, done it all. Pendulum swings, coaxing Time to be on its way. But it can’t. It’s unable to let go of those Treasured, magical moments Etched in the fabrics of the Universe, painting all existence.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 12:16 PM UTC
Pendulum Swings
She is A cackling old Bird Who undermines me Regularly. She wears a very Pretty white dress, And a big egocentric ‘S’ necklace that reflects perfectly in the globe of my tears like a diamond snake. “I’m going to ruin your life!” She laughs. “I’m going to make your father hate you! I’m going to make you cry All the time, When you see a lonely Person Or a shivering dog Or when someone gets a Really easy question wrong on The Chase.” **** off, S! I’m trying to be tough ******* it! Can’t you see what I’m Trying to do with my black converse And my leather jacket? (Ten pm, Leather jacket shed, Blank Word Document open Teetering on the tip of a poem. I look around the room. S leans against a wall. “Well well well. Look who’s come crawling back.”
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 9:34 AM UTC
sensitivity
My idea of a party is having sand in my hair while I smell of burnt wood and midnight barbecue Music will be the waves that crash and return and messy chords on an acoustic guitar And I will remember when we both wished that we could go on road trips on hours like this, And how eventually time ran short for us, so we're finally here I want to get drunk on the moonlight while I sip on yesterday's memories I want to talk about the good times I will fall asleep enveloped in nature's arms and dance while the stars twinkle high above My idea of a party are late night drives and stops at gasoline stations at unearthly hours, Conversations that result to slurred words and cackling with the windows rolled down, Romanticizing over the architecture of rotting wood and crumbling concrete Books and printed words under a flashlight My idea of a party are rolled sleeves and roadtrips away from every soul and every touch of skin, Away from the world, except yours I will never grow tired of n.j.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 7:55 PM UTC
My Idea of a Party
Among the orchard weeds, from every search, Snugly and sure, the old hen’s nest is made, Who cackles every morning from her perch To tell the servant girl new eggs are laid; Who lays her washing by, and far and near Goes seeking all about from day to day, And stung with nettles tramples everywhere; But still the cackling pullet lays away. The boy on Sundays goes the stack to pull In hopes to find her there, but naught is seen, And takes his hat and thinks to find it full, She’s laid so long so many might have been. But naught is found and all is given o’er Till the young brood come chirping to the door.
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Hen’s Nest
This life, although startling in its brilliance, remains confined to the electrical shadows cast on the walls of our brains. Do you ever feel… no, no, no not feel. Well maybe feel... or sense… that everlasting something sometimes off in the distance I can see… I’d love to take my hands and, like the meaty instruments they are, dance sweet symphonies up and down your body. Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer to land my ***** machine among majestic silver seas and strange beautiful grass of green. I would use my subtle touch to say what I couldn’t any other way and drag you down to the depths. But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough as our poor idiotic language. *Every hand, give me your hand. I’ll talk to you, you wont understand.* These electrical shadows cry at the ultimate, but our mere conception shames it. Like the dream tigers we desperately try to craft they continue to disintegrate like the castles made of sands, rocks piled on rocks reaching for the stars. The firmer the hold, the quicker it slips away. “Just try squeezing the truth from water,” the angels sing to me in my sleep. And it’s the love of dreams which is so greedy for recognition swiftly performed in the sight of all. And it’s the waves I feel… well maybe not feel. And I wanna say **** you” because I still love you. I sense… well maybe not sense… And I feel my soul being slit up as if by a razor. frenzied but beautiful and an awful ambiguity grinning over it all, cackling out the Tao’s opening words, lukewarm to the point of being enigmatic, “The truth that can be told, that is no eternal truth.” I guess after the laughter, then comes the tears. **** you, Lao Tzu and your ****** ancient wisdom. Why you staring at my finger when I’m pointing at the moon? I got nothing at all. The center, unapproachable forever. You’re willing to die you coward but not to live. Love life more than the meaning of it.
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 8:25 PM UTC
Why you staring at my finger when I'm pointing at the moon?
This life, although startling in its brilliance, remains confined to the electrical shadows cast on the walls of our brains. Do you ever feel… no, no, no not feel. Well maybe feel... or sense… that everlasting something sometimes off in the distance I can see… I’d love to take my hands and, like the meaty instruments they are, dance sweet symphonies up and down your body. Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer to land my ***** machine among majestic silver seas and strange beautiful grass of green. I would use my subtle touch to say what I couldn’t any other way and drag you down to the depths. But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough as our poor idiotic language. *Every hand, give me your hand. I’ll talk to you, you wont understand.* These electrical shadows cry at the ultimate, but our mere conception shames it. Like the dream tigers we desperately try to craft they continue to disintegrate like the castles made of sands, rocks piled on rocks reaching for the stars. The firmer the hold, the quicker it slips away. “Just try squeezing the truth from water,” the angels sing to me in my sleep. And it’s the love of dreams which is so greedy for recognition swiftly performed in the sight of all. And it’s the waves I feel… well maybe not feel. And I wanna say **** you” because I still love you. I sense… well maybe not sense… And I feel my soul being slit up as if by a razor. frenzied but beautiful and an awful ambiguity grinning over it all, cackling out the Tao’s opening words, lukewarm to the point of being enigmatic, “The truth that can be told, that is no eternal truth.” I guess after the laughter, then comes the tears. **** you, Lao Tzu and your ****** ancient wisdom. Why you staring at my finger when I’m pointing at the moon? I got nothing at all. The center, unapproachable forever. You’re willing to die you coward but not to live. Love life more than the meaning of it.
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I'm scared of my imagination. I hear, see and feel things I shouldn't. It scares me. You hear barking, I hear howling. You hear chair scraping the ground, I hear screaming. You hear snoring, I hear wailing. You hear in between radio stations, I hear cackling. You hear sliding, I hear snakes. You hear buzzing, I hear a bomb ticking. You hear church bells, I hear the call for death. You hear chopping food, I hear execution. You hear the waves, I hear the drowning of the unknown. I can't stay in the dark, It's what I imagine I fear for. My heart runs for it's life, But it's stuck in the same cage. And it's walls are scraped, With tally of the times it will never get out. You hear a tap, I hear drowning. And I am flowing with it. In it. Shake my head away from the dreams? It's not as easy as you think. When they taunt you, While you sleep, You dream, You eat, Scream. I do. It's just a nightmare... - No it's not. It's real; It's my imagination. Telling me things it shouldn't, Making me feel things I shouldn't. The imagery is too much, I cannot see; Blind. The wails, howls and screams are getting louder; Deaf. I’ve run out of voice, To speak, to express, to call for help; Dumb. They say your imagination cannot hurt you, Yet I’m screaming, running away from it. But I can't – it's stuck with me, 'till I die. Die from the fear of myself? I will.
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 4:47 AM UTC
Imagination
It took a hastily-made hangman puzzle to **** you, a present-day friend of mine to simply whisper that three-letter word as if she were restating the gospel. Ironic, then, that as you were dying, I felt an era-long noose loosening. I remember finding skin pores mistakenly labelled as sinkholes, every confession warranting a "believe me, we knew" after the other. If you had spent any more time, an indefinite amount of days deciding to stay lurking in the corners of the closet, out there in the rafters where no one could hear you whispering poison into my gut reactions, I might have sprouted a kamikaze bloodline, a raucous rhythm in the ranks cackling louder with each year of silence, each span of secrecy. Although your plastic inflection vanished with a collective unlocking of the joints, your cryptic sentiment still loiters while my common sense is sleeping, and I remember to repeat, three times like Dorothy, that moment I could only be my true self on paper.
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011 at 4:40 AM UTC
Elegy to a Former Self
There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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Nov 14, 2010
Nov 14, 2010 at 6:08 AM UTC
Congress
There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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Jackals cackle beating paws sound like drums against an earth cracked from famine. They pant dry clouds of dust are heaved the grained dirt grind between ravenous teeth. Infants crying dying. Mothers hearts are breaking hurting, aching. Their lips-like earth-are cracked thier yearning wanting water cool for the taking. Mothers foster bitterness A father's pride is broken laying, falling between those dry cracks falling falling down to magma burning. Vapors rise, the heat is burning earth and evermore the jackals are cackling.
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Jan 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011 at 10:50 AM UTC
Jackals cackle
My back hunches Like a stuffed bookcase in a corner Too full My back laden with possibility I find myself lost in a maze Of what should be tranquility Except you lurk there Your eyes filled with miserable possibility I've watched your pale fingers Turn into twiggy claws And your green eyes The ones that look like the sea Turn cracked and dark Under the light of the grey sun She clutches your shoulder Cackling at how I search For an exit And exit from this maze A maze of possibility Her stature slouched and heavy Her hands cold and grey Stroke your thick hair And I see the disgust in your eyes And taste it on the air I struggle through Getting closer to you Trapped in a maze of Possiblity
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
Possibility