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"cliches" poems
I don't seek your permission... To write about the what, why and how. It could be a haiku or come in the shape of a cow. I don't need your approval... When I don't sound the least bit poetic... In my mismatched metaphors or ill-rhymed acrostic. I'm not asking for your blessing... When I pen down and put up what I think... Be it in cloying cliches or in tear drenched ink. I don't crave for your understanding... When my 10 word poems weren't filtered through your poetic lens, Or if my contributions in collaborations lack in sense. I don't hope for your likes... If my content does not tickle your fancy, Or if my words just rubs you silly. I mean no disrespect... But don't be too quick to click on the 'comment' button. Private messaging has been put there for a reason. I don't mean to cramp your style... You're entitled to your own opinions of course... But if you've got nothing good to say, please save it and shove it up yours.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 10:43 AM UTC
Save It
Whisky, I neglected you For mushrooms and amphetamines. For ket and **** and LSD, And Mandy too, to name a few. Needn’t I have looked so far To be the greatest of cliches. The drugs and raves led me astray. For writers, scotch is more on par. Half your bottle drank away, Half full in my state of mind. Every sip; sublime and kind, Every **** a harshened spray. Now I’m stuck, a drunken haze Has washed and swept the ways of rhyme. In its tide is also time, As by the sun, the night decays. Whisky, polished, final sip. Like the bottle, I am dry. So, I tried, to write not high. This poem ***** I’m off to trip.
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 9:07 AM UTC
Amber is the colour of my energy
Seduced by clichés of love, We signed on for wedding doves, Being at those wedding receptions, All clichés of norms' conventions, Having a cream puff wedding day, An expensive way of getting laid, All clichés for the bridal industry, Trite cant, and hypocrisy, BUT--the appliances outlived everyone!! Wedding gifts when once were young, On film noir weddings I ponder on, As these golden years I wander from, All that phony hypocrisy, Cliches and norms of society, D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (Who didn't hate going to the in-laws for tea?)
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 10:23 PM UTC
CLICHE, CLICHE, CLICHE.
This isn't him, This can't be the face he's left here, This isn't the face he's used to seeing, Solidified in the mirror. It can't be the current one, Or even close, It's not at all how he recalls from the ponds he's known. Not the one admired, On crystal clear days, Or the one sang with, Through some humming nights. Maybe his memory is just fogged up, Maybe this reflection is just blurry from the showers, They'd have burned others skin. Still this can't be the face. Not with the potholes for eyes, Waning moons for lips, And cliches for brains. Or maybe things, Maybe they do just change, Maybe sometimes somethings sink in the earthquakes, And are never swam in again. Maybe sometimes there's no hope for reversal, redemption, Or some rectifying light to right what's left, Only hope in surviving the new. I guess that's all there ever was. If only he had it sooner, He would have thrived in the old world, Found melodies in the days and more mirror-less memories for the nights. Only then could things be better off, Different.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 5:27 PM UTC
Vampirism
Cracks in my character Lined with silk Lovers touch Like a sharpened blade Gliding smoothly Only painful when removed I'm a story book of unfortunate events and cliches And the morbidly curious find their way Into my arms A comforting fear A lion taming circus I'm not sure anymore if this gun Is still loaded with flowers But you Hold me so tight Squeeze out the anxiety Catch it Make me a balloon animal with its breath
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Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM UTC
Breaking Beautifully
"I know it's cliche, but-" You may stop right there As, yes, cliches exist And nobody cares But life is cliche We're all just living jokes With stories told and lived Since millennias ago. Be as cliche as you wish, You can't change what's done And the way you express it Or the need to tell someone Wear your cliche with pride Because, years before you, another did not And it tore them inside And now, in the earth, their body rots. "I'm in so much pain, but none of it's physical And god, that's so ******* cliche," But it's the only description you know Your played out storyline's seen better days. Because it's such a played out, worn out cliche But it's unique because you hurt in your own way And lord knows we're all dealing with the same thing Living a cliche and fighting for something to change. You smile, you laugh; you hurt, you cry And I promise you another in the past Laughed and cried at the exact same time Right up until the day they died. Because you may be something special But don't ever think you're something new You're life's been lived, been replayed By hundreds, maybe thousands, before you. So, yes, it's going to be a cliche.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 11:11 AM UTC
Life Is Cliche
I want a relationship That's anything but typical One that defies cliches And the definition of spontaneous I want to be so in tune with another To the point where it feels As though a piece of me Has crawled its way into him Permanently I want a relationship That takes a detour from anything Stereotypical Such as dinner and a movie for a first date To thrift store shopping In the streets of Seattle At dusk While ending the night At a warm cozy cafe Situated on a quiet corner In the shadows of the city Where poetry is either Softly spoken Or bitterly belted out From within one's own soul On a rugged beaten-up stage With nothing but a spotlight Mic And wooden stool All while we sip on tea (Because I don't like coffee) And reminisce on the moments Worth remembering That were made that day together In between fits of laughter While secretly dreaming About the future ones to be made In the comfort of our minds As we tightly grasp our warm mugs In front of our lips To hide the shy smiles That dare to make an appearance
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 4:02 PM UTC
A Cup of Originality with a Pinch of Spontaneity
Eternity is closed ! - come back another day with flower smears for eyes and sincere passion on your palms          (weathered) I need another Russian Doll - Princess to frequent curtains fashioned from fire & lead equaling out to crimson folds which mysteriously call to the mystical hierarchies of imagination Silent requirements signal beneath the steps which welcome one (a stranger/ an Ibis-Beak cane & dark coat stamped with August rain) They arrive unexpectedly, as if to play the game of cliches, they carry promises fashioned in foreign ports tapping my knee instead of my shoulder having only known or recognized entombment                                (there is no hyperbole which lacks within                                 Nature's haunted heavens) My strange visitor leaves / glass umbrella in hand / to privacy / our brief interaction begins & ends with simple eager undertakings implemented in the afterword   What is in another's contemplation of me? whiling in manifest Theosophy - - Thought form - Primal child-rage / whisp of violet smoke & inksplotches abolished, mutually panting. Our decorated four-legged hunter has arisen and impatiently craves for the Earth to partner at last with the Sun ..The Sun a blazing dime I can smell crispness in the air
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 1:20 AM UTC
Summer Visitations
I want to tell her But i can't. I watch the spring rain fall. A gentle tapping, Sort of rapping On the window's pane. I focus on the sound until it fades. I close my eyes and remember the day, The scene is painted in a greyscale haze. There stands you Across the room Enveloped in blue. Your favorite colour. It's late on that late winter's night, And we're with our group. If I said I knew who was there I would be lying Because it was you I was eyeing. I'll skip the cliches, like Butterflies Or, better yet, "Love at first sight" Be as they may, They all came true that night. A casual glance became A gaze became A smile. Once, Twice, Thrice, Then Five, We held it for a while. I take a drink and pause the haze. Minutes become hours that drag on for miles We found ourselves in that grassy field Dotted with trees, And rabbits, And owls. A hot summer day- The south suffers waves. Hand in hand we make our way Through the trail. We fall behind our friends, There's something I have to tell. I stumble and fumble Through letters to string, I can't think of what to say. And you say it's okay. I smile and hold you close, A mixed sense of pleasure morose. Your lips touch mine, And my heart explodes. I can't believe we let each other go We became 'twixt, Ivy to our bones. Again Time lapses There I am standing There you are Hanging On him. My rage demanding His end. But you come between Deny instead. Say I'm not right in the head, Well, baby, Love killed me dead. I turn to walk away And in turn you turn to Return to he Who shook your leaves. So we've parted ways And all was well Until recently. When I examined A mural And saw I missed a shard. A blue tile The final part To my stain-glassed heart.
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Mar 15, 2014
Mar 15, 2014 at 11:34 PM UTC
Blue
I want to tell her But i can't. I watch the spring rain fall. A gentle tapping, Sort of rapping On the window's pane. I focus on the sound until it fades. I close my eyes and remember the day, The scene is painted in a greyscale haze. There stands you Across the room Enveloped in blue. Your favorite colour. It's late on that late winter's night, And we're with our group. If I said I knew who was there I would be lying Because it was you I was eyeing. I'll skip the cliches, like Butterflies Or, better yet, "Love at first sight" Be as they may, They all came true that night. A casual glance became A gaze became A smile. Once, Twice, Thrice, Then Five, We held it for a while. I take a drink and pause the haze. Minutes become hours that drag on for miles We found ourselves in that grassy field Dotted with trees, And rabbits, And owls. A hot summer day- The south suffers waves. Hand in hand we make our way Through the trail. We fall behind our friends, There's something I have to tell. I stumble and fumble Through letters to string, I can't think of what to say. And you say it's okay. I smile and hold you close, A mixed sense of pleasure morose. Your lips touch mine, And my heart explodes. I can't believe we let each other go We became 'twixt, Ivy to our bones. Again Time lapses There I am standing There you are Hanging On him. My rage demanding His end. But you come between Deny instead. Say I'm not right in the head, Well, baby, Love killed me dead. I turn to walk away And in turn you turn to Return to he Who shook your leaves. So we've parted ways And all was well Until recently. When I examined A mural And saw I missed a shard. A blue tile The final part To my stain-glassed heart.
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~ each intersection, a crossroad made, every answer, a question began; each wrong, a right opposing, every song, a note composing, after darkness, the light again! angry words won’t heal the pain, apologies like ointment’s rain; flood-washed roads a crossing need, no line in sand, a bridge instead, points me north, your heart to claim! i am no island, though often seems, my pained retreat, a blood trail leaves; i find my greatest strength of all, within your heart’s loving embrace, held firmly in your grip of grace! there is no strength in platitudes, cliches are weak, like worn out shoes; the darkened bank cannot hold sway, o’er lighted bridge that leads the way, points me north, and back to you! ~ *post script. learning something of defense mechanisms, mine in particular;   sadly, when brokenness is too acute to hide, the retreat is not bloodless. bridges built of simple three-word sentences greatly needed ...  not a crafted flood of well-worded, defensive responses. “i am sorry!” and “i love you!”... two, eight-letter, three-cord ropes, requiring no word-smithing, yet are sound-ly engineered for mending souls and building hearts-bridges not easily broken... each capable of bearing (baring) great weights. and yes, there are notes composing here, for it is said, “a song solidifies the heart’s passionate decisions!”*
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 1:08 PM UTC
bridges
2 years, 5 months, 19 days. That's the last time a man Looked me in my eyes And told me He loved me. Nearly one thousand days have passed Since someone looked at me Like I was his whole world. And now I'm at the point Where I wonder if I'll be alone Forever, Not like the cliches, The woman who chooses a career over a family, Or the crazed lady who clings to her cats... No, just a girl Growing into a young woman Who doesn't even remember What it feels like to have someone Love her. Not sure if I've really ever even been loved, At least not like it happens in the movies. I've continued to pine hard, Chasing the affection of conflicted souls Who never bother to appreciate me, Those cliched types who are "Too damaged" to really love someone. Sometimes I wonder If I'm gonna be able to accept love If I finally find it, My fragmented soul having grown An allergy to kind gestures, Compliments, Or anything that actually might be deemed Indicative of affection. Slowly sinking down to the baseboards, Rotted and gnarled roots Clinging deep to the underground, My body dissolved into an anterior realm of Cynicism As I grasp the realities of my own Unrequited love, My yearning to demand more, Tied up and twisted with my Fear to stop settling And actually obtain "better." 2 years, 5 months, 19 days. I'm just hoping it doesn't take me As long To look at the Golden brown eyes that I See in the mirror and tell me I love me Enough to not care who Else might.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 12:58 AM UTC
Reflection
a kiss does not always mean "i love you" sometimes it means "i am sorry" and sometimes it means "i have to go" i have had kisses that taste like alcohol, sweat and stinging regret. i have had kisses that were laced with desperation as their tongue wrestled with mine. i have had kisses that left me feeling more empty about myself than good. i have had kisses that never should have happened, ones i wanted to take back. jesus christ, i wish i could. there are kisses i have given that were so passionately deep only because i was trying to find something, maybe searching for the thing that no one could ever find inside of me. there are kisses that have broken my heart. and there are kisses that never happened, but still managed to make me fall apart. kisses that made me a mess of ****** cliches. kisses that kept warning me, kept signaling me to stay away.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 12:34 AM UTC
body language
*Would you mind if I wrote you a love poem Would you care if I shared it with the world Would it be okay if I filled it with cliches As in I am the oyster and you are the pearl* ***Oh my, it'll be an absolute delight Go ahead, let the earth be smitten Let your words float in the twilight It'll be a beauty no one has ever written*** *I ask would it be too much If I compared your beauty to that of Spring flowers Or how I could just sit here and stare As I dreamly while away the hours* ***I'll be flushed with humility As I am just one of His thankful creations I'll allow your gaze even through infinity Admiring beyond my imperfections*** *Would it be to much to say That you put the night stars to shame If I had my very own galaxy On it I would place your name* ***You can ask the clouds and sky above How your words touched my heart to the core The unfeigned expression of your love I'm truly blessed, couldn't ask for more*** *While all above is true enough Against your beauty nature would lose I think instead I'll make this poem A simple "I love you"* Eudora Mike Hauser
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Nov 24, 2015
Nov 24, 2015 at 7:19 AM UTC
Would you mind if I wrote you a love poem?
A person like you should never have to go through what you have No one deserves it, but especially someone like you. I talked to you for 15 minutes and by the 8th minute I had tears rolling down my cheeks and my heart pulsated so sharply I thought I could see it through my shirt God, why. Mom. Cancer. Rehab. Chain. ******* Smoker. Depression. Anxiety. Body dysmorphia. God, I am so sorry.   All the cliches in the entire world could not amount to the things I wish I could say to you, and one day make you believe. All the times you saved me from my worst self, only to realize that while you had saved me, it was your own self that was delving deeper and deeper into its own defeat. God. Every time you would come up and give me a hug even when I barely knew you. When I had no idea what you would mean to me, and how much your life would impact mine. I am so sorry. Sorry that your parent's were **** to you. That you didn't get the family you deserve, but made yourself such a strong, completely marvelous person. I'm not romanticising any of the things you went through because I would never shed a good light on things that caused you so much suffering. No, that's not it at all. All the stories you told me tonight seemed too unbearable to be real. But those stories are your harsh realities and I would trade everything I owned, all the money in my bank account, for you to stop what you do to yourself and the undo the numbness you've trained yourself to feel you are NOT sad personified you are NOT just *** appeal and sweet heartbreaker you even know that my heart breaks, literally I can feel it, when you tell me, show me, paint ******* pictures for me of all the things you've dragged yourself through I can't pick your feet up and carry you through, though. God, how I wish I could. You have to do it on your own, I know you can. But I just ******* hope you'll follow through in your terrifying, mystifyingly horrible promise of, "Maybe I'll stick around until then" . . .
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
sad personified
A person like you should never have to go through what you have No one deserves it, but especially someone like you. I talked to you for 15 minutes and by the 8th minute I had tears rolling down my cheeks and my heart pulsated so sharply I thought I could see it through my shirt God, why. Mom. Cancer. Rehab. Chain. ******* Smoker. Depression. Anxiety. Body dysmorphia. God, I am so sorry.   All the cliches in the entire world could not amount to the things I wish I could say to you, and one day make you believe. All the times you saved me from my worst self, only to realize that while you had saved me, it was your own self that was delving deeper and deeper into its own defeat. God. Every time you would come up and give me a hug even when I barely knew you. When I had no idea what you would mean to me, and how much your life would impact mine. I am so sorry. Sorry that your parent's were **** to you. That you didn't get the family you deserve, but made yourself such a strong, completely marvelous person. I'm not romanticising any of the things you went through because I would never shed a good light on things that caused you so much suffering. No, that's not it at all. All the stories you told me tonight seemed too unbearable to be real. But those stories are your harsh realities and I would trade everything I owned, all the money in my bank account, for you to stop what you do to yourself and the undo the numbness you've trained yourself to feel you are NOT sad personified you are NOT just *** appeal and sweet heartbreaker you even know that my heart breaks, literally I can feel it, when you tell me, show me, paint ******* pictures for me of all the things you've dragged yourself through I can't pick your feet up and carry you through, though. God, how I wish I could. You have to do it on your own, I know you can. But I just ******* hope you'll follow through in your terrifying, mystifyingly horrible promise of, "Maybe I'll stick around until then" . . .
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I'm tired of deleting my sadness. Beautiful prose is my pride, but pride can be broken just like a heart weary with the world, and soft spoken words can cut me like any other. I bleed. I need love and laughter and starlight and music in my life. We all need poetry and dancing in the kitchen and flowers. Yet... The power of my words isn't a sacrifice, and this language is not an altar to your smile. I haven't bared my soul in quite a while, and for you to tell me not to... Bite me. **** your needs and **** you. I'm tired. I'm weary. My normal flights of fancy and music and puns and laughter are taking a reprieve. Skip over it if need be. These words are mine to seek for shelter and this page is mine on which to bleed. Sometimes my playlist is full of spite and tonight cliches Are just what recovery looks like. I recycled rhymes, penned cliches, and god help me today I don't care. Here's the exhibit. My wrists on a canvas. Feel free to snicker. Feel free to stare.
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Dec 5, 2015
Dec 5, 2015 at 12:58 AM UTC
Bite me.
I fell into a dream waking up into a cookie-scented utopia of apostrophes that indicated ownership because it was Marc's cookie and participles grasped and secured like a balloon tied to a toddler's hand I fell into a dream where nothing was kool or rite and everything had been twice read, reviewed, evaluated, and deemed worthy like the cupcakes that get placed on the plate in a Cupcake War I fell into a dream of silence during silent work time not invaded by a slithering serpent fork-tongued and effulgent with ideas expressing expressions idioms cliches redundancies falsehoods lies and the silence hung like an anticipated snow cold cloaking with excitement and a feeling of being completely awake.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
dreamscape in ELA
Wildlife has a way of returning to the forest once it's been burnt to the ground The death and decay are cleansed this way And life vindicates itself of the indignities it has suffered It is this perfect symmetry This cyclical harmony that nature is blessed with Fell short, the night you burned my house down in departure November of last year, you were crying and screaming on the sidewalk And this November I didn't sleep a single night The floor is littered with garbage and clothes I'll never wash again And the shower I passed out in, let the washing machine turn the water cold to wake me up I couldn't stand to touch the surfaces anymore They can't ever be cleansed I can't scrape you off the floor, or the shower The couch, or the insides of my eyes And the bed, where you told me to never forget Maybe I'll crash my car again, maybe you'll come home There's an apartment in the city I always imagined And it's a real place, I'm sure I'll probably never see it With your clothes and mine on the floor While you're making breakfast, humming and smiling absently And I have the first cigarette of a new day Light streams in the blinds and cuts the room in half And I always imagined that being there Would make me realize that it feels **** good to be alive sometimes The winter is coming back now I wake up uneasy in a haunted house And last week I saw your mother Buying groceries She told me to take care of you, once And she smiled sadly at me and gave a small wave Some days it gets easier Some days I collapse entirely Some days I think I should burn my house down Literally this time I've had enough of metaphors and cliches For a lifetime, at least
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 2:35 AM UTC
Wildlife
Wildlife has a way of returning to the forest once it's been burnt to the ground The death and decay are cleansed this way And life vindicates itself of the indignities it has suffered It is this perfect symmetry This cyclical harmony that nature is blessed with Fell short, the night you burned my house down in departure November of last year, you were crying and screaming on the sidewalk And this November I didn't sleep a single night The floor is littered with garbage and clothes I'll never wash again And the shower I passed out in, let the washing machine turn the water cold to wake me up I couldn't stand to touch the surfaces anymore They can't ever be cleansed I can't scrape you off the floor, or the shower The couch, or the insides of my eyes And the bed, where you told me to never forget Maybe I'll crash my car again, maybe you'll come home There's an apartment in the city I always imagined And it's a real place, I'm sure I'll probably never see it With your clothes and mine on the floor While you're making breakfast, humming and smiling absently And I have the first cigarette of a new day Light streams in the blinds and cuts the room in half And I always imagined that being there Would make me realize that it feels **** good to be alive sometimes The winter is coming back now I wake up uneasy in a haunted house And last week I saw your mother Buying groceries She told me to take care of you, once And she smiled sadly at me and gave a small wave Some days it gets easier Some days I collapse entirely Some days I think I should burn my house down Literally this time I've had enough of metaphors and cliches For a lifetime, at least
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I sit here angry with the writer (myself) for his overuse of cliches, for his underuse of relatable things Scorning his very existence. "Why would you write, you fool?" "Ah, It's an escape for you! Who gives you the right?" No one does. If you must, continue I'd rather I heard 1,000 bad poems tonight than let you sleep without writing a one.
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Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 AM UTC
The Self-Critical Poet
You and I are both cliches You with your girlish wit and obsession with everything masculine And me With my wounded feminist heart distrusting every man no matter his professed honor and respect of the feminine I can't help but get mad at you and you can't help but feel sorry for me You think I'm deprived And I know your depraved I just hope you finally learn your lesson when your heart has been shattered and your "girlish wit" taken advantage of But really I don't That would be too tragic and unfair I just want you to stop talking and spreading your false reality to all too eager ears And interrupting this class I liked until you walked in At least you're better than the men in here hanging on your every word
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Jan 20, 2013
Jan 20, 2013 at 5:39 AM UTC
Feminine Cliches
I met a jack rabbit, so twitchy with words, spoke like a prophet on Adderall and nerves. Slick lil rhymes, big ol claims, said he I'm real: "I feels dem **** pains." But I scratched the surface, and—ah—what did I see? machine made brain writing his poems that's not unseen. He said, "It's all a simulation. Whatever do you mean? Your claims are unwinding, dont be obscene." Look at this poem and that poem Claiming his writing is truth Spent eight hours messaging Wikipedia proof But every stanza, a secondhand sigh. Every line, a borrowed blue sky. Not a soul behind the script, just silicon spit and glitch, a shadow puppet playing "wounded wit." He ain’t a rabbit, he’s roadkill in drag. AI-made messiah in a thrift-store flag. He wants applause, a dopamine feast, but the only thing real is his need to be fleeced. He posts and reposts poems by the pound, scraped from some model with a ghost server sound. Feet in the air, head underground, juggling cliches like a sad circus clown. This ain’t poetry, it’s data puke, prettied up for the dopamine fluke. He cries, “I write!” but I see the seams, the Frankenstein phrases, the Pinterest dreams. Jack wants love, likes, digital grace. But behind that grin is a borrowed sad face. Tells us what’s real, what’s deep, what’s true, but it's just reruns in a shiny new shoe. Truth is this: he’s scared of what's real, a hollow crown, that don't know how to feel, drowning in praise he didn’t write down. Special? Please. His soul’s on mute, while ChatGPT plays the ******* tune on a borrowed  old flute. So run, jack rabbit, you digital ghost. Go fetch more claps for the posts you host. But know this, friend: no matter how clever you seem, you ain’t the poet. Not now. Not ever. It's all AI digital dream.
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Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM UTC
Jack Rabbit.exe - the fraud in the feed
I met a jack rabbit, so twitchy with words, spoke like a prophet on Adderall and nerves. Slick lil rhymes, big ol claims, said he I'm real: "I feels dem **** pains." But I scratched the surface, and—ah—what did I see? machine made brain writing his poems that's not unseen. He said, "It's all a simulation. Whatever do you mean? Your claims are unwinding, dont be obscene." Look at this poem and that poem Claiming his writing is truth Spent eight hours messaging Wikipedia proof But every stanza, a secondhand sigh. Every line, a borrowed blue sky. Not a soul behind the script, just silicon spit and glitch, a shadow puppet playing "wounded wit." He ain’t a rabbit, he’s roadkill in drag. AI-made messiah in a thrift-store flag. He wants applause, a dopamine feast, but the only thing real is his need to be fleeced. He posts and reposts poems by the pound, scraped from some model with a ghost server sound. Feet in the air, head underground, juggling cliches like a sad circus clown. This ain’t poetry, it’s data puke, prettied up for the dopamine fluke. He cries, “I write!” but I see the seams, the Frankenstein phrases, the Pinterest dreams. Jack wants love, likes, digital grace. But behind that grin is a borrowed sad face. Tells us what’s real, what’s deep, what’s true, but it's just reruns in a shiny new shoe. Truth is this: he’s scared of what's real, a hollow crown, that don't know how to feel, drowning in praise he didn’t write down. Special? Please. His soul’s on mute, while ChatGPT plays the ******* tune on a borrowed  old flute. So run, jack rabbit, you digital ghost. Go fetch more claps for the posts you host. But know this, friend: no matter how clever you seem, you ain’t the poet. Not now. Not ever. It's all AI digital dream.
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We are the forgotten ones The ones who can articulate beyond the guns and knifes. We don't need a beat Our word flow through emotionally. We are here to capture and decipher minds Teach them all those things school has left behind How history is only written by the victor How there's more to blacks than Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr's his..tory. Let's not leave out the truth. Poets stand up, fight for the youth. We share our truth about love Let's share the truth about knowledge Forget the cliches of if life gives you lemons make lemonade. We freed ourselves from the British. Then enslaved Africa and made them forget who they were. Only of Britain would had thought of that first. Let's not sugar coat the past Let's control the present and the future. Poets stand up We are the symphonies of hip hop, rap and r&b; We are the class. We are the Billy Holliday and Marvin Gay of this new era. Like the fitted cap we fit snugg. Poets stand up. **** speaking on unicorns and rainbows The sunny side of the chi. Just last night my Lil man's got shot by the cops. I use to say he was my son Now I plan his funeral with his mom. Poets stand up Bloods, crips, gangsters, thugs re unite as the black panthers. Poets stand up! Poets stand up! As they say ok ok your 15 seconds of fame Is up. No more from you today Mr. Ananymous.
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Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 5:57 PM UTC
Poets stand up
there aren't any cliches about being broken left for me to spill onto this screen without leaving traces of my blood hidden in each meaning that's been studied over and over and over again i don't want to think about how little or much you sleep or how much caffeine you drink to wake those tired eyes up because i know caffeine can't help and love can't work to distract a mind so full of distractions already when it's two am or i'm drunk i think i miss you the most because it's only then i realise how alone i am and how perfectly my head fit on your bare shoulder but maybe the lesson that needs to be learned is that i'm stronger than the pain of missing you and you're lost in the emptiness of not desiring me i wish i could send telepathic pumps of electric waves fuelled by the thoughts in my brain to your heart so that for a moment you could wake into a coma of happiness but if it were up to me you'd be asleep forever and i'd never want to pull the plug maybe happiness really only does last in the moments when we least expect them but all i know is that somewhere in-between my hundreds of bruises and your thousands of insecurities i got lost in the cliche of a rose world and i was never read to give that up and i never want to let that go tell me you'll stay, even if it's only for another few seconds of this dream
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Nov 12, 2016
Nov 12, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC
the anti-love letter
you're like a warm sweater straight out of the dryer you're like a Disney movie on a bad day you're like the greatest dream of all time without the disappointment of it not being real when i wake up you're like the sound of applause after a terrifying performance you're like a warm bath for an aching body you're like looking at the sun and the moon in the same sky you're like a million double takes you're like the feeling of jumping through giant puddles in polka dot rain-boots you're like the gold at the end of the rainbow you're like a mermaid that glistens under water you're like the first song i ever wrote you're like puppy-kisses and newly hatched birds and scented candles and poetry you're like holding a cup of hot chocolate while wrapped in a blanket sitting by a hand made fire you're the feeling of watching the first snowfall of the season you're the feeling of getting 100% on a test without studying you're like a quote by L.M. Montgomery you're the feeling of watching a Mississippi thunderstorm you're the feeling of watching the fireworks at Disney World for the first time you're the feeling of aching abs after excessive laughter you are my kindred spirit may we never grow up.
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Apr 22, 2013
Apr 22, 2013 at 12:16 AM UTC
heartfelt cliches for Hillary
They say it's not safe to walk around here You'll see women standing on street corners Few drunk mortals and usual dealers Still, it has a unique flair that's sincere. Interesting folks spotted at cafes Nights and on weekends, the scene is alive Best galleries in town, boutiques survive A form of art, nothing close to cliches. The kind of place that gives someone a fright A misconception for some who can't stand The riveting darker side of their mind; It's here geniuses like Baudelaire saw light. There is something alluring about them Those society scorn, the marginalized. Judgmental souls persist; not so surprised When below the surface waits a poem. The people here have no care in the world. Whether it's where they work or their hangout Here, free spirits do not need to stand out They think lightly and none shall be bothered. They say it's not safe to walk around here It's the truth, one must be a bit careful But this area, genuinely soulful; Rather here, red light district I revere.
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Mar 9, 2012
Mar 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM UTC
Red light district