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"cured" poems
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
why eye drink the vin in vignette (for all the better poets here)
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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//the door to your bedroom was a portal to a world unseen your bed, the ocean & your sheets, the sand with the crevices caused by the tide it flowed so sweetly over the soft sand beyond the door, serenity was foreign to you you were only there when you needed to be you, who had knit the thickest wool to pull over my eyes thicker than the blindfold we used the frenzy I remember frenzy further cured with discipline and you know what? "I like that ***** **** how will you discipline me today, daddy? it was what you taught me after all to be a brat for no one but you to be no one else's little girl if not I'd be a bad girl bad girls get punished bad girls get no love so I saved you the trouble and left my collar at the door//
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 8:15 PM UTC
the woes of a *** addict
I talk words of lust with a boy unaware I know not if it's unjust if he knew that i would dare To be touching lips with another and another after that 3 boys who want me and on top of that... an ex-lover who awaits her love to be reciprocated by one she had wronged by me, yes, I she has wronged. and alas, the sister of a friend whom i am confused upon if i should love her or not fool, you may think that she is the last one another girl at school she is but a year older i see her from time to time rarely i seek for her she is but a crush the sister, but a dream the ex-lover - such a waste and though it may seem that i am an adultress because of all these men but judge me not i don't belong to any of them commit, you say it is for the best but if i do so again i may have to rip out my chest it hurts beyond words and the pain - i may not be able to bare and i'd have to swallow the hurt again till i am too numb to give a care so tell me, kind stranger, what would you do? if you had 3 boys and 1 girl loving you another girl, you might love and another girl, as a crush don't you think it's a tad bit too much? though, i can't control it I need to be reassured that though my love betrayed me this broken vessel be cured by something more real it has to exist something i wont be afraid to love something far greater than a kiss something others cant take from me something thats just mine something that i can have and keep for all time so tell me, kind stranger, do you take me for a fool? you think i don't know that such thing is hard to find? that it is but impossible because i am still so blind i'll find my happiness i pray to the gods i do but only once i stop thinking of finding it is when id find you you. whom i have poured my heart and soul out to without giving a rat's *** one i'm not afraid of - i'm afraid of everything. you, who is not wearing a mask. if you tell me that you're right there id lose all faith in man kind because i know you're not i know that now. if you tell me you wont hurt me don't say another word because i know you will hurt me i know that now. but i can love myself i can live for myself, too i know that now i don't exactly have to live for you. it is my life this is my world but i'm lonely because i'm too scared to be that broken hearted girl the one who cried the one who swore and hit her lover and walked out the door even if i could i wouldn't change a thing because through this mangled heart i can love true again someday..
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM UTC
Someday
I talk words of lust with a boy unaware I know not if it's unjust if he knew that i would dare To be touching lips with another and another after that 3 boys who want me and on top of that... an ex-lover who awaits her love to be reciprocated by one she had wronged by me, yes, I she has wronged. and alas, the sister of a friend whom i am confused upon if i should love her or not fool, you may think that she is the last one another girl at school she is but a year older i see her from time to time rarely i seek for her she is but a crush the sister, but a dream the ex-lover - such a waste and though it may seem that i am an adultress because of all these men but judge me not i don't belong to any of them commit, you say it is for the best but if i do so again i may have to rip out my chest it hurts beyond words and the pain - i may not be able to bare and i'd have to swallow the hurt again till i am too numb to give a care so tell me, kind stranger, what would you do? if you had 3 boys and 1 girl loving you another girl, you might love and another girl, as a crush don't you think it's a tad bit too much? though, i can't control it I need to be reassured that though my love betrayed me this broken vessel be cured by something more real it has to exist something i wont be afraid to love something far greater than a kiss something others cant take from me something thats just mine something that i can have and keep for all time so tell me, kind stranger, do you take me for a fool? you think i don't know that such thing is hard to find? that it is but impossible because i am still so blind i'll find my happiness i pray to the gods i do but only once i stop thinking of finding it is when id find you you. whom i have poured my heart and soul out to without giving a rat's *** one i'm not afraid of - i'm afraid of everything. you, who is not wearing a mask. if you tell me that you're right there id lose all faith in man kind because i know you're not i know that now. if you tell me you wont hurt me don't say another word because i know you will hurt me i know that now. but i can love myself i can live for myself, too i know that now i don't exactly have to live for you. it is my life this is my world but i'm lonely because i'm too scared to be that broken hearted girl the one who cried the one who swore and hit her lover and walked out the door even if i could i wouldn't change a thing because through this mangled heart i can love true again someday..
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Red streaks of thin hair, finely cured, Sugar-coded skin, sweet yet sticky inside…and then you sniff, Freshly sliced with soft cries for help, the grass grows, Dried in the most delightful setting; a miniature shadow of the sun, The initials share a basketball in one palm- -The pop from the stereo reflects the ripple of a king- -----------------------0----------------------------0------------------------- A complete package within, once the engine has revved- the liftoff- Find yourself inside of her powers; the majestic magic maneuvers the mind, Mend many memories and flick the switch on the motionless projector, Guilty pleasures please the people and protect peaceful guidance, Keep close the cultivation of a captivating lover- -She will rise in your soul like helium in the lungs- --------------------0--------------------0-------------------- She, who I breathe for, calls my name; forever entering the cave, I broke off a chunk of everything she has grown to be, Crumbled, chalk-like pollen, piles into mounds of distraction, I set flame to the lone match and touch the wick- a silent sway- She burns, her hair still a fiery-ruby blend, but like all living expectation- -The ash separates and with the wind…she performs flips-
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 3:44 PM UTC
Strawberry Cough
“You know, son… There’s a reason... God had a reason to give you broad shoulders -- It’s so you could carry this load… It’s so you could hold up all these boulders.” *“But these boulders aren’t my own, so why did He leave me them to hold?” I can hardly hold them now… surely I’ll collapse when I grow old.”* “You can’t think in terms of time, it is not a restriction by which He is bound… Instead you must think it as your cross, think of the thorns upon his crown. He will not notice the time; that’s a human concept we’ve created… Instead he’ll judge you by the size of the burdens with which you’re weighted.” *“Well, that’s a relief, but how can you be so sure? He’s never turned the night to day; I’ve never seen a disease he’s cured. Excuse me if I’m wrong, but I struggle to have faith When the world that he created has become this wretched place.”* “I can’t convince you that he’s real, I can’t show you how to feel. But if I showed you cold and silence, would you say that they were real? Yet these aren’t real things, simply the absence of others… So you must look to the voids, when you wish to discover.” *“I hope that you’re right. I hope he’s up there listening… I hope there’s golden gates I can admire, I hope that they’re still glistening. I hope God can take my hand, and tell me ‘Son, you’ve done well.’* I hope to God there’s a heaven – ‘cause I’ve been living in hell.”*
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM UTC
"You know, son... There's a Reason..."
“You know, son… There’s a reason... God had a reason to give you broad shoulders -- It’s so you could carry this load… It’s so you could hold up all these boulders.” *“But these boulders aren’t my own, so why did He leave me them to hold?” I can hardly hold them now… surely I’ll collapse when I grow old.”* “You can’t think in terms of time, it is not a restriction by which He is bound… Instead you must think it as your cross, think of the thorns upon his crown. He will not notice the time; that’s a human concept we’ve created… Instead he’ll judge you by the size of the burdens with which you’re weighted.” *“Well, that’s a relief, but how can you be so sure? He’s never turned the night to day; I’ve never seen a disease he’s cured. Excuse me if I’m wrong, but I struggle to have faith When the world that he created has become this wretched place.”* “I can’t convince you that he’s real, I can’t show you how to feel. But if I showed you cold and silence, would you say that they were real? Yet these aren’t real things, simply the absence of others… So you must look to the voids, when you wish to discover.” *“I hope that you’re right. I hope he’s up there listening… I hope there’s golden gates I can admire, I hope that they’re still glistening. I hope God can take my hand, and tell me ‘Son, you’ve done well.’* I hope to God there’s a heaven – ‘cause I’ve been living in hell.”*
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I'm tired No, not that kind of tired Where it can simply cured By sleep I'm tired Of all the things That put me through And through I'm tired Of all the times Where I've almost Shed a tear I'm tired Of all the friends That used me Like my feelings never existed I'm tired Of all the life That makes me suffers Days and nights
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Apr 12, 2014
Apr 12, 2014 at 7:19 AM UTC
I'm tired
Sadly you found me STD yes you infected imperfected and now you wont leave you would think i had *** but its just an STD but you wont let me be not a bacteria inertia or viral spiral just a simple disease that doesnt invovle a sneeze im living yes i still can breath but i still have a STD... See she gave it to me... I can spread this thing and even if i would i dont thing that I should.. see it would just complacate things No we wouldn't die tonight but one day we just might not from the sores and the strains but from the aches and the pains of being lonely again... See its a lot more complicated then what you are making it you think Im just disgusting cuz of what I caught but I pretty sure its something u thought. lot worst then yeast cuz that will leave more like a Herpies or *** even tho that isn't what I've received And I dont have the funds to splurge so I dont know if I can scure the cure or if she even had the bug enough that it could be cured by her love I caught somethin that aint easily healing...... Espcially if you dont have the disease... I caught.....Feelings A sexually transmited disease
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 11:28 AM UTC
STD
We open our minds to expand to the times not to pretend there is some end to confine the limits of prime; we defend to remind to dance to the trance we redefine to enhance not to surrender to chance. We open our hearts to embrace the new space-time transparency, interdimensional race as we become united and one, open to truth we exhibit ourselves as one infinite youth, gifted and new, eternally pure evolved to endure no end to potential, perfect and cured. We strengthen our bodies and build on each other we love ourselves and love one another we grow and mature and extend to our neighbors but as we think deeper our expansion is greater our planet is one and our galaxy peace to the opening worlds we bring wisdom and ease we do not enslave or deny or deceive but we share our pure knowledge our light and belief. We raise up our souls beyond science and physics to evolve beyond consciousness confinements and limits our imperial nature shifts to emerge from the boundaries of body and smallness of Earth we expand our perception to include all dimensions from previous eons to future inceptions. We shift our new world from finite to light, universal, infinite, natural, bright we embrace the day and welcome the night to work with each other to be perfect, upright, to evolve our new planet, our galactic mindframe to expand from micro to cosmically aimed to unlock the portals to open our brains to evolve from old gears to interdimensional spheres uniting creation without hesitation pure as clean water and deep meditation. -Ryan Christopher Brandes
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 10:00 PM UTC
Human Evolution
We open our minds to expand to the times not to pretend there is some end to confine the limits of prime; we defend to remind to dance to the trance we redefine to enhance not to surrender to chance. We open our hearts to embrace the new space-time transparency, interdimensional race as we become united and one, open to truth we exhibit ourselves as one infinite youth, gifted and new, eternally pure evolved to endure no end to potential, perfect and cured. We strengthen our bodies and build on each other we love ourselves and love one another we grow and mature and extend to our neighbors but as we think deeper our expansion is greater our planet is one and our galaxy peace to the opening worlds we bring wisdom and ease we do not enslave or deny or deceive but we share our pure knowledge our light and belief. We raise up our souls beyond science and physics to evolve beyond consciousness confinements and limits our imperial nature shifts to emerge from the boundaries of body and smallness of Earth we expand our perception to include all dimensions from previous eons to future inceptions. We shift our new world from finite to light, universal, infinite, natural, bright we embrace the day and welcome the night to work with each other to be perfect, upright, to evolve our new planet, our galactic mindframe to expand from micro to cosmically aimed to unlock the portals to open our brains to evolve from old gears to interdimensional spheres uniting creation without hesitation pure as clean water and deep meditation. -Ryan Christopher Brandes
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To lie or not to lie - that is the question: Whether 'tis better to keep the truth Shutting the light in the dark, Or to bring upon pain or pleasure Why, by bringing truth, gain unwanted reaction. To lie, deceit - No more - and by secret to say what we want to say The will of truth and lie That flows from lips - 'tis an infection One craved by all. To lie, deceit - Deceit, perhaps too much. Ay, there's the problem. For in that deceit of truth what pathologic lieing may come. When we have gained such filthy pleasure from this lie, Must force us thought. That's the reality That makes chaos of such pleasure. For who really wants to hear or speak an ugly truth, The lover's love gone, the child's art trash, The woman's ugly face, the man's unattractive body, The co-worker's stench, and the embarrassing blemish That gives opportunity for lie, When they themselves would appreciate Why give them heart ache? Who would give them truth, To give them hurt, But the chance they would enjoy the truth, The unknown glee from fate's unlucky victims For the victim's mind confuses the liar And makes the liar want to speak truth And to see that reaction instead. Thus turning pathologic lieing into suthe saying, And thus the addicting infection Is cured with the disease of truth, And infection seems less appealing With this regard the lies soon stop And lose what effect they once had.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
To Lie or not to Lie - That is the Question
Monday was terrible. Horrific. I spent the day sulking on my lonesome and went home ready to erupt. I could feel the slight tingle of tears threatening their way through my eyelids Ready to pour over the second they perched open But due to my lack of sleep last night I doubt I could even build up the strength to open my glossy eyes Even if I wanted to In a weird sense I enjoyed the mere thought of Monday being able to make me cry I almost laughed Or screamed Or both A year ago today Everyday was a Monday to me Everyday went horribly Everyday made me come home crying and lock myself in my room I was so used to that constant repetitive torture That Monday appeared to be no different than any other day Monday was just... It. Tuesday was "it" Wednesday was "it" Thursday was "it" Friday was "it" Even Saturday and Sunday were "it" But now, today Monday is distinct In a horrifyingly gruesome way And this tear-jerking unsatisfying Monday gave me hope Monday made me cry Tuesday did not Wednesday did not Thursday did not Friday did not Not even Saturday or Sunday made me cry Only Monday made me cry Only Monday Just as Monday made 7 billion other humans cry On this torturous inescapable earth It also made me cry And that gave me hope that maybe I really am normal Or I can be Or I will be Because Monday is unbearable for everyone And Monday is unbearable for me And the rest of the week is alright for most people And it was alright for me And Saturday and Sunday are fun for most people And Saturday and Sunday were fun for me Somewhere Deep inside my clouded, muddy mind I caught a glimpse of hope That maybe There is hope for me Maybe I am cured Maybe I can be Maybe I will be
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Sep 6, 2015
Sep 6, 2015 at 12:13 AM UTC
Monday
Monday was terrible. Horrific. I spent the day sulking on my lonesome and went home ready to erupt. I could feel the slight tingle of tears threatening their way through my eyelids Ready to pour over the second they perched open But due to my lack of sleep last night I doubt I could even build up the strength to open my glossy eyes Even if I wanted to In a weird sense I enjoyed the mere thought of Monday being able to make me cry I almost laughed Or screamed Or both A year ago today Everyday was a Monday to me Everyday went horribly Everyday made me come home crying and lock myself in my room I was so used to that constant repetitive torture That Monday appeared to be no different than any other day Monday was just... It. Tuesday was "it" Wednesday was "it" Thursday was "it" Friday was "it" Even Saturday and Sunday were "it" But now, today Monday is distinct In a horrifyingly gruesome way And this tear-jerking unsatisfying Monday gave me hope Monday made me cry Tuesday did not Wednesday did not Thursday did not Friday did not Not even Saturday or Sunday made me cry Only Monday made me cry Only Monday Just as Monday made 7 billion other humans cry On this torturous inescapable earth It also made me cry And that gave me hope that maybe I really am normal Or I can be Or I will be Because Monday is unbearable for everyone And Monday is unbearable for me And the rest of the week is alright for most people And it was alright for me And Saturday and Sunday are fun for most people And Saturday and Sunday were fun for me Somewhere Deep inside my clouded, muddy mind I caught a glimpse of hope That maybe There is hope for me Maybe I am cured Maybe I can be Maybe I will be
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I thought I was cured. I thought that life might be like Super Mario, you were the villain that shrunk me and all I had to do was find a super mushroom to make me big again. But life is never like a video game. My super mushroom tricked me, it only worked for so long. Now everything triggers your memory and I feel so small.
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
Like Super Mario
Loneliness is a pain, Not the pain of a knife cutting through skin, sinews, muscles,and drawing blood. Not the pain of a tooth in your mouth throbbing and sending shocks of horrors through highways of swollen nerves.. Not a fatal pain of a dying cell being devoured by a cancerous growth that thrives on the death and the pain of the very cells that produces its been. Not the pain of the prisoner s body been tortured by men who see no wrong or feel no shame as they insert sharp hot instruments into natural and man made orifices in their captives helpless, hopeless bodies. Not the pain of age as the body's functions start their natural march towards unreliability , Hips, knees knuckles, elbows and all the other joints as they begin to slowly dry up and rub against each other like stones rolling down a hillside. Not the pain of hearts slowing, livers hardening,lungs wheezing like ripped accordians bellows . Not the pain of childbirth. Not the pain of accidents that show no fairness to the person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not the pain of self inflicted wounds that can fool you into thinking that that pain is the answer to your problems. Not the pain of the young healthy times when the body, and mind could accept it and overcome it Not the pain of hunger or thirst. Loneliness is the pain of the soul . Loneliness is the pain of dreams that are dreamt when your asleep and when you'r awake. Loneliness is the pain of memories . Some half forgotten some that are so clear you could almost touch them. Some you'd rather forget. Some you would spend the rest of your life reliving over and over again. Loneliness is the pain that at times can be part relieved momentarily through the bottom of a whiskey bottle or a point of a syringe filled with a concoction of juices from plants poisonous to both the body and the soul. Loneliness can never be cured by earthly things. Loneliness is a pain that can only find peace through a kinderd spirit. Pat Rooney 2013
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 2:24 AM UTC
Loneliness is a Pain
Loneliness is a pain, Not the pain of a knife cutting through skin, sinews, muscles,and drawing blood. Not the pain of a tooth in your mouth throbbing and sending shocks of horrors through highways of swollen nerves.. Not a fatal pain of a dying cell being devoured by a cancerous growth that thrives on the death and the pain of the very cells that produces its been. Not the pain of the prisoner s body been tortured by men who see no wrong or feel no shame as they insert sharp hot instruments into natural and man made orifices in their captives helpless, hopeless bodies. Not the pain of age as the body's functions start their natural march towards unreliability , Hips, knees knuckles, elbows and all the other joints as they begin to slowly dry up and rub against each other like stones rolling down a hillside. Not the pain of hearts slowing, livers hardening,lungs wheezing like ripped accordians bellows . Not the pain of childbirth. Not the pain of accidents that show no fairness to the person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not the pain of self inflicted wounds that can fool you into thinking that that pain is the answer to your problems. Not the pain of the young healthy times when the body, and mind could accept it and overcome it Not the pain of hunger or thirst. Loneliness is the pain of the soul . Loneliness is the pain of dreams that are dreamt when your asleep and when you'r awake. Loneliness is the pain of memories . Some half forgotten some that are so clear you could almost touch them. Some you'd rather forget. Some you would spend the rest of your life reliving over and over again. Loneliness is the pain that at times can be part relieved momentarily through the bottom of a whiskey bottle or a point of a syringe filled with a concoction of juices from plants poisonous to both the body and the soul. Loneliness can never be cured by earthly things. Loneliness is a pain that can only find peace through a kinderd spirit. Pat Rooney 2013
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¤¤¤ I've had dreams by day That brought the nightmares back. In the daylights exposure it was dark   When the negative light was bright. In the sea of people I was the floating remains Of a Great White's meal.  On the lonely roads of thought My mind was in gridlock. Comforting memories were suspended Over a psychic black hole By jagged and rusted Medieval-type surgical tools. My remaining senses Were nailed to a cross-section Of psychically atrophied grey matter Along neural pathways Guarded by gladiator-type tormentors. Left with nothing But the stinging desire to be freed From a curse that had to be cured And the hell of searching for a cure When I was convinced there wasn’t one. The powers that be come with force To quell primal lusts & desires Forbidding you of them As they seductively Dangle them before your eyes    Until you are so frustrated and unfulfilled That you no longer Care for your world.   This cracked glass remains empty Even though it is constantly being filled Then spilled or leaked on the floor Until you learn to lap it up Like the lapdog that you have become For their amusement. You remain with a love for freedom   But your cage is so large  That you think you are free Lost in societal fantasy. You think for a while That these fantasies are real    Until you come to your senses that aren’t As you join other fools In comfort that you're not the only Broken-back pack-mule.  But in spite of it all And in the face of them all Don't let these birds of prey                                                           And powers that be Deprive you of what they cannot see In that hidden corner Of what is still untouched-- The real you Uninfected by the world.   Take care of your spiritual affairs. Don't let the global beast And your primal hissing forces Make you be your own pallbearer.
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Jun 27, 2017
Jun 27, 2017 at 6:28 PM UTC
A Soul Suspended Over a Psychic Black Hole
¤¤¤ I've had dreams by day That brought the nightmares back. In the daylights exposure it was dark   When the negative light was bright. In the sea of people I was the floating remains Of a Great White's meal.  On the lonely roads of thought My mind was in gridlock. Comforting memories were suspended Over a psychic black hole By jagged and rusted Medieval-type surgical tools. My remaining senses Were nailed to a cross-section Of psychically atrophied grey matter Along neural pathways Guarded by gladiator-type tormentors. Left with nothing But the stinging desire to be freed From a curse that had to be cured And the hell of searching for a cure When I was convinced there wasn’t one. The powers that be come with force To quell primal lusts & desires Forbidding you of them As they seductively Dangle them before your eyes    Until you are so frustrated and unfulfilled That you no longer Care for your world.   This cracked glass remains empty Even though it is constantly being filled Then spilled or leaked on the floor Until you learn to lap it up Like the lapdog that you have become For their amusement. You remain with a love for freedom   But your cage is so large  That you think you are free Lost in societal fantasy. You think for a while That these fantasies are real    Until you come to your senses that aren’t As you join other fools In comfort that you're not the only Broken-back pack-mule.  But in spite of it all And in the face of them all Don't let these birds of prey                                                           And powers that be Deprive you of what they cannot see In that hidden corner Of what is still untouched-- The real you Uninfected by the world.   Take care of your spiritual affairs. Don't let the global beast And your primal hissing forces Make you be your own pallbearer.
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Her man had left for California. Left her with nothing but the dog to fight the emptiness of her apartment. She told me she couldn't sleep anymore, told me she couldn't eat anymore. She got sick, so sick— swore that it was tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever— My experience led me to my own diagnosis; another case of a love long lost. I didn't have the heart to tell her. Instead I slept with her, despite the risk of sickness. She was afraid it was contagious. I laughed, told her I would take the risk. I stayed there two weeks, laughing. She could eat again, she could smile again, she made up love late into the night. It seemed like this quarantine was paradise. Till up one night there was a knock on the door. It seemed like her bags were already packed. It seemed like she was gone within the few moments it took to see who it was behind the door. Told me to lock up the apartment, leave the key under the *** of wilted hydrangeas. He was back from California. It seemed like she was cured— of her malaria, her yellow fever, her cholera— Just like that, a clean bill of health. A modern day miracle. It seemed to have been contagious, after all.
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 1:06 PM UTC
Think I'm Coming Down With Something
Come forward Ramadan I await your arrival The hearts are ill And they need to be cured Come and spread your joy Of double rewards As heavens doors open And prayers are answered Show me all I have to be thankful for And help me think of the needy Those who go without food or water for days And yet still how my Lord provides Come and show me When Satan is locked away Am I being tempted Or are these sins force of habit Ramadan come And remind us of our purpose Surround us with a humble atmosphere Where brothers and sisters unite Dawn till dusk I will not simply starve But be on my best behaviour No foul language or thinking the worst of someone I will join the congregation At each and every prayer Speak kindly And spend more time with my family In the month of God's mercy I will try my best to please Become a better person And carry through these deeds
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 3:49 AM UTC
Ramadan
Sitting in my room A ****** is the moon I stare back at her Gone when I wake at noon She's always gone too soon Who do you run to? When you just want comfort When you just want to be cured I just want to be cured I just want to be cured
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM UTC
Cured
* The fume A thick dark fumy cloud Dormant it lies, but often loud Precariously overhead, it flowed The sunshine of the life, it swallowed It rained, challenged by the mighty peak In the heart, It pained, to see it weak The cloud was small but heavy However dusty and floaty. The doom and gloom Embracing in its shadow In desert, plains and meadow Eclipsing the days, sunny bright Dreadful, with the darkening night With me, always  hanging around When noticed, nearby it's found Haunting me with a sadness Flaunting its darkness A lot in the cloud explored Then consciously, It was ignored But dancing at the back of the mind Past  hurts and  pains, it  put to rewind The boom and bloom And then, letting it flow across, I got immersed, In fine tiny droplets, the cloud dispersed, Now each droplet addressed separately Was dried in the shiny sun completely All of the cloud, dripped to evaporate Condensed eventually, as distillate My pains, by that elixir, cured, Alchemised me into 24 carat gold *
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Jul 19, 2017
Jul 19, 2017 at 9:24 PM UTC
The cloud alchemy...24 carat gold
8th grade. That was the year everything went to hell. That was the year I went on a diet. I decided to shed my last shred of dignity, along with 60+ pounds in order to impress the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year I lied to my parents. "Did you eat dinner?" they asked. "Yes," I replied, and they believed me. They couldn't tell that something wasn't quite right with their perfect little girl, who was starving for the perfect body, and for attention from the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year teachers began to ask questions. Mr. May, with the spiky hair and burly arms, glanced suspiciously at my pale skin, eerily translucent and decorated with bruises. Mrs. Fitz, who had recently been on a diet herself, always made sure that I had a lunch, although she never made sure I ate it. Mrs. ***** a small woman with a big personality, used to make comments about eating disorders just to get a rise out of me, and when that didn't work, she went a step farther. Mr. Daley, the 7th and 8th grade guidance counselor, consumed every lie I fed him, and when I grabbed a Jolly Rancher off his desk on my way back to class, he smiled with triumph, as if he had cured me, but he didn't see me throw it away as soon as I got home. Those extra 15 calories would have ruined my chances with the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year I couldn't leave the house without a sweater because, even on the warmest day, I couldn't stop shivering. That was the year all of my hair fell out. That was the year I lost most of my friends. That was the year everything went to hell because of a boy with dark, curly hair.
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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 9, 2013 at 10:48 AM UTC
The Boy with the Dark, Curly Hair
8th grade. That was the year everything went to hell. That was the year I went on a diet. I decided to shed my last shred of dignity, along with 60+ pounds in order to impress the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year I lied to my parents. "Did you eat dinner?" they asked. "Yes," I replied, and they believed me. They couldn't tell that something wasn't quite right with their perfect little girl, who was starving for the perfect body, and for attention from the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year teachers began to ask questions. Mr. May, with the spiky hair and burly arms, glanced suspiciously at my pale skin, eerily translucent and decorated with bruises. Mrs. Fitz, who had recently been on a diet herself, always made sure that I had a lunch, although she never made sure I ate it. Mrs. ***** a small woman with a big personality, used to make comments about eating disorders just to get a rise out of me, and when that didn't work, she went a step farther. Mr. Daley, the 7th and 8th grade guidance counselor, consumed every lie I fed him, and when I grabbed a Jolly Rancher off his desk on my way back to class, he smiled with triumph, as if he had cured me, but he didn't see me throw it away as soon as I got home. Those extra 15 calories would have ruined my chances with the boy with the dark, curly hair. That was the year I couldn't leave the house without a sweater because, even on the warmest day, I couldn't stop shivering. That was the year all of my hair fell out. That was the year I lost most of my friends. That was the year everything went to hell because of a boy with dark, curly hair.
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Please stop crying, takes your hands off your ears I want to help you. Your moans of anguish and pain hurt my soul, I wish to help you. I will. I will. I have to stay calm, motivate myself. He is just ill, And illnesses can be cured And I can do this. I can. I can. He's only been here for a short while Yet he screams as if he were possessed I offered my help, I did all I could But found him dead in his room. I didn't help him. I couldn't help him. I wish I did.
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 7:13 PM UTC
The Doctor
It is ironic, Salvador, because I am afraid of many things in the world and when I am with you I feel safe, Yet your company is the one thing I am afraid of most. I know that I love and need you more than you will ever love and need me and that One day you will be free With another woman and I will be Left paying for my sins against God and My rights against the state. I thought that our love would have no limits; You said that I am a Christian storm but I know that you can brave this tempest and Save me from myself. I am a poet, Salvador, but Whenever I sit down to try to write a poem about you, Or even just how I feel about you, I am unable to because I am lost for words. I can no longer express myself. I remember the beach. We would lie there for hours And on its sand we would kiss not just with our lips but With our eyes. The water will miss our visits, Its body seldom taken by another- As opposed to being constantly engulfed by two artistic lovers. I have received my seaside medicine -Via touch of tongue And word of hand- But have come to the realisation that you have in fact Poisoned me. I shall never be cured now. The smoke from silent guns has already risen but I am severed from the call to a fight with myself; A conflict to choose between God and you, Despite the fact that you are the same. You distract me from every focus- Even though we are miles apart; Even though you have replaced my words with your art, You have broken me, yet You make me Whole. Where is your warmth now, Salvador? I am alone by the sea trembling with the cold That you swore I would never feel again. The winter will devour me as a result of your failing to relight the fire that is supposed to Ignite me. You promised me life with a portrait machine But in all honesty What I really want to be Promised with is your faith, In me.
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:37 PM UTC
To Salvador, love Federico
It is ironic, Salvador, because I am afraid of many things in the world and when I am with you I feel safe, Yet your company is the one thing I am afraid of most. I know that I love and need you more than you will ever love and need me and that One day you will be free With another woman and I will be Left paying for my sins against God and My rights against the state. I thought that our love would have no limits; You said that I am a Christian storm but I know that you can brave this tempest and Save me from myself. I am a poet, Salvador, but Whenever I sit down to try to write a poem about you, Or even just how I feel about you, I am unable to because I am lost for words. I can no longer express myself. I remember the beach. We would lie there for hours And on its sand we would kiss not just with our lips but With our eyes. The water will miss our visits, Its body seldom taken by another- As opposed to being constantly engulfed by two artistic lovers. I have received my seaside medicine -Via touch of tongue And word of hand- But have come to the realisation that you have in fact Poisoned me. I shall never be cured now. The smoke from silent guns has already risen but I am severed from the call to a fight with myself; A conflict to choose between God and you, Despite the fact that you are the same. You distract me from every focus- Even though we are miles apart; Even though you have replaced my words with your art, You have broken me, yet You make me Whole. Where is your warmth now, Salvador? I am alone by the sea trembling with the cold That you swore I would never feel again. The winter will devour me as a result of your failing to relight the fire that is supposed to Ignite me. You promised me life with a portrait machine But in all honesty What I really want to be Promised with is your faith, In me.
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I used to write the most beautiful things When I feel loved for everything. Flowers grew on papers with every words written down, Pain has never spoken I always savor what's in his favor, Even I drench in ink by the thorns he pricked Storm crossed the yard In the waves I tried to linger Left soaking in tears Waiting for the sunshine Waiting for it to end As sweet as yesterday Captivated by his fragrance Now I cannot breathe I want to escape this maze of wilted roses What have I done? Why I'm no longer safe in my own garden? Lost with the clouds Sadness was profound You came and painted new colors in this miserable life I was found From disgrace You embraced me As I suffer illness You cured me Even trouble I become No hesitation, you choose me Thank you so much for saving me You are now my forever paradise.
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Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018 at 2:15 AM UTC
I will write again, for you.
Though you've barely had a ramble are no wayward canine daddy of note that brief encounter in our brambles has left the experts fearing a cancerous growth So we starve you of your pine nuts and bacon rinds so we can feed you anaesthetic and betray you to the thief of time only to make you, I imagine, feel pathetic And you often so full of life's exasperate scurry I worry will the shine stray from your eyes those hazel pools of so much of my feeling mature, just for pertaining to a creature's care  we all seem in too much of a hurry to stifle what little spirit that surrounds us to wear down on every minor aspect of childish delight in this silent sacrament of the aging process and with arguably years of your fatherhood left in the very ***** some dry eyed savant decides it correct we should tamper with Tomorrow I will snuggle you in favoured, bouncy eiderdowns that will blanket your unknowing and treat you as if you were an eastering child on cured hams and other saltiness after you awaken from those strangest enforcements of sleep and through our eyes we will trade more secrets to keep And we will hope, as we only can, that it was for the best For you, Yorkshire's son, or Sheringham's And consider with all of your exhuming breath That we meddled, stilling over life To cheat a slightly delayed death.
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Apr 11, 2017
Apr 11, 2017 at 5:29 PM UTC
Stilled Life
Someday I'd like to wander free like butterfly, like bumblebee, perhaps to plant a willow tree beside the silent solemn sea, before these things exist no more, from mountain top to shifting shore, when, soon, bald eagles cease to soar and build their aeries nevermore, and fish forsake polluted streams (where sulfur swims and typhoid teems since no one really cares it seems) to die inside our toxic dreams while ice caps melt and winter steams, and all the air surrounding reeks as children choke, for no one speaks of fracking wells or oily leaks (Big Brother's silenced all critiques!), and rancid rains acidify so woods no longer multiply (for God so wills, we can't deny, which is, of course, our alibi). And as the deepest ocean fills with plastic bags, and garbage spills upon the plains, across the hills and turns to poison dust that kills wild dingo dogs and daffodils which sink in swamps’ forsaken swills, the mocking bird makes light and trills (midst waning wails of whippoorwills) "Behold the surreal scene that chills and greet the dread that death distills! You've had your day with all the frills that brought the flood and final ills that can't be cured with bitter pills nor yet undone with further thrills of profit gained that grinds and fills dead desert sands with dollar bills." EPILOGUE Though swaddled still in infancy, we feel we’ve reached our primacy (aloof, though preaching piously, disdaining deeds of decency) and have no need of augury. But in the pit of prophecy the crucial questions seem to be: “Is doom Earth’s fate, our destiny to twist in tides of agony destroying nature’s progeny with no return a certainty assured by death’s finality?” and ”Should we plant a willow tree to someday weep for you and me?”
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Jun 16, 2015
Jun 16, 2015 at 2:45 PM UTC
A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free like butterfly, like bumblebee, perhaps to plant a willow tree beside the silent solemn sea, before these things exist no more, from mountain top to shifting shore, when, soon, bald eagles cease to soar and build their aeries nevermore, and fish forsake polluted streams (where sulfur swims and typhoid teems since no one really cares it seems) to die inside our toxic dreams while ice caps melt and winter steams, and all the air surrounding reeks as children choke, for no one speaks of fracking wells or oily leaks (Big Brother's silenced all critiques!), and rancid rains acidify so woods no longer multiply (for God so wills, we can't deny, which is, of course, our alibi). And as the deepest ocean fills with plastic bags, and garbage spills upon the plains, across the hills and turns to poison dust that kills wild dingo dogs and daffodils which sink in swamps’ forsaken swills, the mocking bird makes light and trills (midst waning wails of whippoorwills) "Behold the surreal scene that chills and greet the dread that death distills! You've had your day with all the frills that brought the flood and final ills that can't be cured with bitter pills nor yet undone with further thrills of profit gained that grinds and fills dead desert sands with dollar bills." EPILOGUE Though swaddled still in infancy, we feel we’ve reached our primacy (aloof, though preaching piously, disdaining deeds of decency) and have no need of augury. But in the pit of prophecy the crucial questions seem to be: “Is doom Earth’s fate, our destiny to twist in tides of agony destroying nature’s progeny with no return a certainty assured by death’s finality?” and ”Should we plant a willow tree to someday weep for you and me?”
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Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous. The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up. Once in a night as black as pitch Isabel met a wicked old witch. the witch's face was cross and wrinkled, The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled. ** ** Isabel! the old witch crowed, I'll turn you into an ugly toad! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry, She showed no rage and she showed no rancor, But she turned the witch into milk and drank her. Isabel met a hideous giant, Isabel continued self reliant. The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid, He had one eye in the middle of his forhead. Good morning, Isabel, the giant said, I'll grind your bones to make my bread. Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She nibled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off. Isabel met a troublesome doctor, He punched and he poked till he really shocked her. The doctor's talk was of coughs and chills And the doctor's satchel bulged with pills. The doctor said unto Isabel, Swallow this, it will make you well. Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She took those pills from the pill concocter, And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.
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Adventures Of Isabel
Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous. The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up. Once in a night as black as pitch Isabel met a wicked old witch. the witch's face was cross and wrinkled, The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled. ** ** Isabel! the old witch crowed, I'll turn you into an ugly toad! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry, She showed no rage and she showed no rancor, But she turned the witch into milk and drank her. Isabel met a hideous giant, Isabel continued self reliant. The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid, He had one eye in the middle of his forhead. Good morning, Isabel, the giant said, I'll grind your bones to make my bread. Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She nibled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off. Isabel met a troublesome doctor, He punched and he poked till he really shocked her. The doctor's talk was of coughs and chills And the doctor's satchel bulged with pills. The doctor said unto Isabel, Swallow this, it will make you well. Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She took those pills from the pill concocter, And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.
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I'm tired! I'm tired of everything, I'm tired of all this world, I'm tired of everything! I’m tired of every example, I'm tired of all the effort, I'm tired of paying the price, I'm tired of dying of desire! I'm tired of being late, I'm tired of being diagnosed, I'm tired of being cured, I'm tired of being censored! I'm tired of having to explain to me, I'm tired of having to listen, I’m tired of all words, I got tired even of poetry! I'm tired of still life, I'm tired of alternative medicine, I'm tired of rich details, I'm tired! I'm tired of daydreaming, I'm tired of sleeping on the train, I'm tired of feeling pain, I'm tired of suffering for love! I'm tired of everything in this world! Tired tired! Tired of living tired, Tired to exhaustion! Tired out, Married… I married my old coat With my fatigue.
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 12:57 PM UTC
TIRED OUT!