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"decoy" poems
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM UTC
Erosion
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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On rising heat, killdeer flush to decoy enemy-- threat to its young that roams too close They rush to skim on hayish blur wailing over wildflowers drying Fretful twitter in perpetual flight swifts-- twirl and hurl their bits of bodies-- debris from a cumulonimbus of a late-day sky toward a ridge of stag horn sumac presuming horizon primordial behind which time and city-- drift and wobble on rising heat-- after rush hour Rising Heat Rising-- to meet my mind on its way down from my post behind the laundromat where I view it all-- rising-- where I usually go in search of quiet to almost hear the ocean      two hundred miles away to strain words from wind      in careless conversation to wonder over      missed whispers.... But not today In rising heat, I went down in search of something better--      your eyes again      solvent for my presence of mind      dissolvers of hours and the order of things But I need an excuse!      To turn, to trespass, to disturb the peace!      For your eyes again! And still I need more-- being feverish, weak Or? Or... should I take the cure?      To deny ...To deny To deny what? Overtones from a sea of years? I don't know!  Whatever it was! Nothing explain it... I melt... I'm gone....
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 12:51 PM UTC
After Rush Hour
People smile when they are happy. That much is true, and to see Yours, brings me such joy. Then why is my smile a decoy? I swear my happiness is genuine But all I feel is a spleen As deep and passionate As the love I hold, love that I hate. Pink, white, beige, red Those lips of yours make me drop dead Black, brown, blue, green But those thoughts are, when they should have been. Today I learned that love is a rose Beautiful, but still harmful And now I know that I should close My heart, before my wounds become lethal.
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 11:23 AM UTC
Smile
we were the bomb squad a tribe of children in plastic crash helmets pillows tied on to protect our insides holding hands to keep from feeling lost and alone we were the bomb squad living like thieves in cardboard caves beside the mine fields hidden beneath beds of poppies decoy explosions in cadmium red ***** tender tongues like kittens licking the insides of trembling thighs we were the bomb squad mucous membranes and bones tick tock throats and veins popped in the pyre stomach bile and marrow all up in the same smoke as something that was once smooth and sentient we were the bomb squad we found no time for any flag nothing to do with kings or foreign countries just the knowledge of not having known anything before
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Jul 26, 2010
Jul 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM UTC
we were the bomb squad
Any ****** word don't deserve cannot release, the angst I feel, I've warned you but you swayed, felt ******** and betrayed Seemed like I am the one sorry, and I am the one harshly blamed For your Ill-Advised acts, your unworthy decision pays **** this scenario Your mind games come into play Decoy your ego hear my ******** on the way ********
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Jul 29, 2012
Jul 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM UTC
********
Pinocchio I want to be a real boy not a lying decoy wooden girl doll a little too tall lack of hips couple snips to get the hair that I can bear as mason jay things’d be okay
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 3:35 PM UTC
pinocchio
When I sleep dreams please take head I’m not accustomed to this speed spliced with music art and **** this rhyme a warning and a plead: Many men look back at me their eyes memorize silently I trade in who I used to be degenerating empathy. Friends no more are there as well waving constantly farewell who they are now I can’t tell heavy water stains still dwell. Though no longer what you were your name a prayer spoken unsure Instills the fact there is no cure clear direction- violent blur; I am a man and I’m a boy both utensil and a toy immoral morals, high decoy let flirt with death, young cold and coy.. So please I beg you, dreams of pain let sleep consume me, peace sustain let night air fill my broken brain through the wind myself retrain         Let me wade in water deep,     let my faith forwardly leap worry sow and disdaine reap Troubled Poppies for Endless Sleep.
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Apr 21, 2017
Apr 21, 2017 at 4:32 PM UTC
Troubled Poppies- Endless Sleep
The boy with curly hair a temporary decoy guitar gone ecstasy, chords ring out broke and hollow fears, gone before they could destroy Let off at the brook catching feelings off the hook **** my freezing heartless feet they’ll drown in the dream of maybe ‘Cause either i’m deadly or i wanted to die either i’m deadly or i wanted to die Love me as your’s and i’ll meet you at mine Show up on stage and i’ll be sure to fantasize one look in the crowd and one in the eye play for them and pretend for me I’ll become the fantasy you’ll want the flowers i bring for the end a temporary decoy all too easily either i’m deadly or i wanted to die either i’m deadly or i wanted to die
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Apr 4, 2021
Apr 4, 2021 at 8:35 PM UTC
Groupie Love
It ain’t too bad to be from there Just ask my family and friends But it’s too flat, ain’t no way out The roads are all dead ends. Sometime soon I’ll find a place Where the music I’ll enjoy But for now I keep on tryin’ To escape from Illinois! There’s a river on the border west That moves a lot of dirt Mighty Muddy Mississipp Drowns the pain and covers hurt Yeah, I’m movin’ south to New Orleans Maybe I can find employ In a blues bar down on Bourbon Street Escape from Illinois! Well I stopped a week along the way When I saw the Gateway Arch. But the folks out by the airport Were stagin’ up a march. Seems a white cop fired a shot that killed An unarmed teenage boy Oh yeah, the teenage boy was black, Escape from Illinois. Kept walkin’ to the Landing (Named for Pierre Laclede) It has most every thing you want But nothing that you need Some travelin’ folk told me some news That made me jump for joy Memphis maybe had some work Escape from Illinois! Found the haunted house called Graceland And the grave where Elvis lay Where half a million go each year (Fifteen thousand every day) They all want to pay respects To the rockin’ – rollin’ boy Put their finger in the bullet holes Escape from Illinois. Went downtown, knocked on some doors Once or twice I went inside But Beale Street was broken The travelin’ folks had lied. ‘Cuz there ain’t no jobs in Memphis, Or maybe I’m too coy So I hitched a ride to Nashville Escape from Illinois. Nashville’s a big old meltin’ *** Lots of great ones started here But most end up as tourists Getting’ ****** and drinkin’ beer So money’s at a premium And fame’s a fake decoy End up workin’ in a record store Escape from Illinois? From Asheville to Atlanta From Austin to LA From Biloxi back to Baton Rouge Need a place where I can play I’ll follow all the buskers, Form a musical convoy Livin’ day by day and town by town Escape from Illinois! I’m a minstrel, like a rubber band I keep on snappin’ back I’m gonna make it somewhere Singing somewhere, that’s a fact Got my guitar and my music Gotta do what I enjoy Find a place to sing my songs for you, Hell, it may be Illinois! Phil Lindsey  6/4/15
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 1:46 PM UTC
Escape From Illinois
It ain’t too bad to be from there Just ask my family and friends But it’s too flat, ain’t no way out The roads are all dead ends. Sometime soon I’ll find a place Where the music I’ll enjoy But for now I keep on tryin’ To escape from Illinois! There’s a river on the border west That moves a lot of dirt Mighty Muddy Mississipp Drowns the pain and covers hurt Yeah, I’m movin’ south to New Orleans Maybe I can find employ In a blues bar down on Bourbon Street Escape from Illinois! Well I stopped a week along the way When I saw the Gateway Arch. But the folks out by the airport Were stagin’ up a march. Seems a white cop fired a shot that killed An unarmed teenage boy Oh yeah, the teenage boy was black, Escape from Illinois. Kept walkin’ to the Landing (Named for Pierre Laclede) It has most every thing you want But nothing that you need Some travelin’ folk told me some news That made me jump for joy Memphis maybe had some work Escape from Illinois! Found the haunted house called Graceland And the grave where Elvis lay Where half a million go each year (Fifteen thousand every day) They all want to pay respects To the rockin’ – rollin’ boy Put their finger in the bullet holes Escape from Illinois. Went downtown, knocked on some doors Once or twice I went inside But Beale Street was broken The travelin’ folks had lied. ‘Cuz there ain’t no jobs in Memphis, Or maybe I’m too coy So I hitched a ride to Nashville Escape from Illinois. Nashville’s a big old meltin’ *** Lots of great ones started here But most end up as tourists Getting’ ****** and drinkin’ beer So money’s at a premium And fame’s a fake decoy End up workin’ in a record store Escape from Illinois? From Asheville to Atlanta From Austin to LA From Biloxi back to Baton Rouge Need a place where I can play I’ll follow all the buskers, Form a musical convoy Livin’ day by day and town by town Escape from Illinois! I’m a minstrel, like a rubber band I keep on snappin’ back I’m gonna make it somewhere Singing somewhere, that’s a fact Got my guitar and my music Gotta do what I enjoy Find a place to sing my songs for you, Hell, it may be Illinois! Phil Lindsey  6/4/15
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Distant clouds lining the endless horizon hurtling back in waves, rugged trees on the blue-barren shore, courtyard of this palace- prison: the world shrinks, receding softly like the last light of the evening sun: Neither Odysseus King of Ithaca, nor a captive prisoner of my own deeds, now, the world drops from me, in this deep night I really am no-man, now, I am merely the awareness of nothingness. New worlds emerge: where I ride flying elephants, a hero I am who won without recourse to a decoy horse, where Achilles lives and Laodamia grieves not, where I rejoice at my home the year after we won: Fair Queen, worlds as real as my prism-world at dawn, where the sea-nymph reigns; Many pasts converge and onward to many futures from this present-point, I am really ever just the silent witness.
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 9:53 PM UTC
Ever the silent witness | Odysseus
It can’t be TOO hard- being a duck that is. My stomach growled watching a tot feeding a duck in the castle garden, then my famished gears started turning. Right. That’d be nice- I could go for some bread and a swim. Ducks don’t even have to work for food- not these ducks -they get fed. I have to shop for bread, and that’s not the half of it. First I have to get to the bread, which means risking it in my tired van or sitting on a bus with a perfect smelly stranger or pushing my luck crossing a bustling street. And then, if I’m not way-laid…BREAD! But I can’t just stuff it down my gullet, and sure as day nobody’s gonna feed it to me. The worst that can happen to a duck eating bread is getting its head wet…or choking on fruitcake. Just when I was feeling particularly underprivileged on the food chain, I thought of my great grandfather and his wooden decoy duck bobs still sitting on my hearth back in Indiana, and I thought of the dogs he used to chase the felled birds and I thought of the bullets and the sharp October air, and the teeth, and I felt silly.
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Aug 24, 2011
Aug 24, 2011 at 2:15 PM UTC
Cardiff Ducks
You see, I know this guy, with bright and gentle eyes— sunflowers against blue skies . . . A true angel in disguise. He’s known since before he could fly that he wasn’t like the other guys, or the him in their minds, that decoy, that never dreams of kissing a boy for the purest joy. . . No, he’d have to strengthen those wings not to tangle in the strings that sting, and cling, and sling, to save his prince— his king. A feathered, armored knight, he soars with grace and might. In a weary world of fright, he’d invite any height – loyal beyond first light. And you see, there I was, drowned in muddy water, with gills choked on death’s slobber, ****** by the wave’s merciless slaughter of hope, that bled and foamed atop the marauder, and lost like the sea king’s youngest daughter, I, a merman bobbed below the knight’s shadow. He saw the faintest blush of my lost soul and rushed to grace me from my grave, flushed and bathed me amid the rainbows in the waterfall, hushed my toxic tears, that cursed and gushed, and pecked my lips, as sweetly as a thrush. His feathers fluffed, my scales standing on edge. I nested in the angel’s white down hedge till my heart and soul was nursed to fledge. Our skin taught with tingly warm bumps, an intimate pledge. I a he fell in love with he a him, and love became our kedge. So you see, while my worries ebb and flow like the moon’s tide, bringing questions of where a bird and fish can reside, I trust in him I can confide, never to hide, but cast my fears aside. We’ve already broken the surface where the air and water collide, we need not the world far and wide, we need only to carry each other inside our arms, and together glide, feathers and scales side by side.
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
Feathers and Scales
You see, I know this guy, with bright and gentle eyes— sunflowers against blue skies . . . A true angel in disguise. He’s known since before he could fly that he wasn’t like the other guys, or the him in their minds, that decoy, that never dreams of kissing a boy for the purest joy. . . No, he’d have to strengthen those wings not to tangle in the strings that sting, and cling, and sling, to save his prince— his king. A feathered, armored knight, he soars with grace and might. In a weary world of fright, he’d invite any height – loyal beyond first light. And you see, there I was, drowned in muddy water, with gills choked on death’s slobber, ****** by the wave’s merciless slaughter of hope, that bled and foamed atop the marauder, and lost like the sea king’s youngest daughter, I, a merman bobbed below the knight’s shadow. He saw the faintest blush of my lost soul and rushed to grace me from my grave, flushed and bathed me amid the rainbows in the waterfall, hushed my toxic tears, that cursed and gushed, and pecked my lips, as sweetly as a thrush. His feathers fluffed, my scales standing on edge. I nested in the angel’s white down hedge till my heart and soul was nursed to fledge. Our skin taught with tingly warm bumps, an intimate pledge. I a he fell in love with he a him, and love became our kedge. So you see, while my worries ebb and flow like the moon’s tide, bringing questions of where a bird and fish can reside, I trust in him I can confide, never to hide, but cast my fears aside. We’ve already broken the surface where the air and water collide, we need not the world far and wide, we need only to carry each other inside our arms, and together glide, feathers and scales side by side.
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Thanks thespis for another muse anew, Filliping my soul with the spirit of a song, To chant for the young world in these pepperish letters, before my callous eyes on the skull of historical future on my pykitonic torso of I another African pykin, as I finish my coffin for the cadaver of poetry that the law of poetry is a distorting neurosis, neurotic abnormality its baseboard of time giving classical balance for wondrous poetry. Compensatory motivation a charm of its seed, Taking dear eyes from the skull of Demodocos Leaving songfull mouth his legacy for humanity, Warped physique not short of history, Teaching the world to drink in full pyrene spring As hunchbacked dwarfism of Alexander Pope was not in any sense dwarfism of his poetry, nor club foot of Byron in ******* to Maugham Byronic heroism to Europe of yester times, That sired Proust, the Jewish neurotic And Keats the most dwarfish and Wolfe the tallest Of man and woman to the cultural matrix Of Europe, the mother of art, poetry and synaethesia, From which was born Pushkin that took poetry Out of his nymphomaniac heart, to the solace of czars, And Shakespeare the dear thief, luckily converted Childhood kleptomania into royal theatre of King Lear, The parallel of four brothers from the house of Karamazov, Their father; impecunious penny penchant muzhik In the name of Fydor epileptic Dostoyevsky. A lull of the time to escape from world of rent and tax, Gripped nerves of the duo to a new realm of art wherein sensuous glory from ***** and Indian hemp propelled the souls of Coleridge and De Quincey to grandiose highness of poetry in the dreams of ***** bordering on the teutonic greatness of ritualistic breed, poetry that transcended from rotten apples in the writing desk of Fredriech von schiller the begotten son of Germany, writing under the arms of Balzac dressed in monkey clobus, that along with Milton in the lost paradise, gave him swaddles only when the poetic vein of Milton flowed happily from nothing, but from the ritualized autumnal equinox to the spiritual vernal, as Coleridge was in full recondite of marquetry,mosaic and miracles, the miraculous white male sheep, the white ram of Wole Soyinka, that he gave as a gift to Achebe at the last anniversary, evil decoy that become a car which deathly crushed Chinua Achebe down to demise in the catacombs for the law of poetry as abnormal human neurosis an equation of perfect art.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:26 AM UTC
NEUROTIC LAW OF POETRY
Thanks thespis for another muse anew, Filliping my soul with the spirit of a song, To chant for the young world in these pepperish letters, before my callous eyes on the skull of historical future on my pykitonic torso of I another African pykin, as I finish my coffin for the cadaver of poetry that the law of poetry is a distorting neurosis, neurotic abnormality its baseboard of time giving classical balance for wondrous poetry. Compensatory motivation a charm of its seed, Taking dear eyes from the skull of Demodocos Leaving songfull mouth his legacy for humanity, Warped physique not short of history, Teaching the world to drink in full pyrene spring As hunchbacked dwarfism of Alexander Pope was not in any sense dwarfism of his poetry, nor club foot of Byron in ******* to Maugham Byronic heroism to Europe of yester times, That sired Proust, the Jewish neurotic And Keats the most dwarfish and Wolfe the tallest Of man and woman to the cultural matrix Of Europe, the mother of art, poetry and synaethesia, From which was born Pushkin that took poetry Out of his nymphomaniac heart, to the solace of czars, And Shakespeare the dear thief, luckily converted Childhood kleptomania into royal theatre of King Lear, The parallel of four brothers from the house of Karamazov, Their father; impecunious penny penchant muzhik In the name of Fydor epileptic Dostoyevsky. A lull of the time to escape from world of rent and tax, Gripped nerves of the duo to a new realm of art wherein sensuous glory from ***** and Indian hemp propelled the souls of Coleridge and De Quincey to grandiose highness of poetry in the dreams of ***** bordering on the teutonic greatness of ritualistic breed, poetry that transcended from rotten apples in the writing desk of Fredriech von schiller the begotten son of Germany, writing under the arms of Balzac dressed in monkey clobus, that along with Milton in the lost paradise, gave him swaddles only when the poetic vein of Milton flowed happily from nothing, but from the ritualized autumnal equinox to the spiritual vernal, as Coleridge was in full recondite of marquetry,mosaic and miracles, the miraculous white male sheep, the white ram of Wole Soyinka, that he gave as a gift to Achebe at the last anniversary, evil decoy that become a car which deathly crushed Chinua Achebe down to demise in the catacombs for the law of poetry as abnormal human neurosis an equation of perfect art.
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On rising heat, killdeer flush to decoy the enemy-- threat to its young that roams too close They rush to skim on hayish blur wailing over wildflowers drying Fretful twitter in perpetual flight swifts-- twirl and hurl their bits of bodies-- debris from a cumulonimbus of a late-day sky toward a ridge of stag horn sumac presuming horizon primordial behind which time and city-- drift and wobble on rising heat-- after rush hour *Rising Heat Rising-- to meet my mind on its way down from my post behind the laundromat where I view it all-- rising-- where I usually go in search of quiet to almost hear the ocean      two hundred miles away to strain words from wind      in careless conversation to wonder over      missed whispers.... But not today In rising heat, I went down in search of something better--      your eyes again      solvent for my presence of mind      dissolvers of hours and the order of things But I need an excuse!      To turn, to trespass, to disturb the peace!      For your eyes again! And still I need more-- being feverish, weak Or? Or... should I take the cure?      To deny ...To deny To deny what? Overtones from a sea of years? I don't know!  Whatever it was! Nothing explain it... I melt... I'm gone....*
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Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 at 10:51 AM UTC
After Rush Hour
This life is just lost memories, regrets and false hope Like whatever created us has crafted a sick joke We're so insecure about our pre-destined flaws that We either start big arguments that escalate into wars or Make ourselves feel better by submitting to torture Like I did, knowing that the pain will always reward ya Because pain is a gateway to relieving problems when You got too much and you know it's ****** but you can't solve 'em And you grow up told not to sin, we do it anyways all night and day now where do I begin, how to stand against the shame? Hunting animals down for coats or food to extinction And destroying their environment, fancy word called deforestation In relentless pursuit of luxury and creating a name And you wonder why certain beasts will never be tame, it's insane! Just because we think bigger, grow quicker and have cold hearts Doesn't give you the right to tear this fucken beautiful world apart We only had one hope, that's why life's a joke We progress to be the best but all for no show The only certainty I know is we evolve to destroy I mean that's where we're going, that's right, it's no decoy Ever since we began we transformed to form our end There's no point to this **** game over man! The only reason I'm alive today is because I have this information As I pace back and forth, typing at the bus station I know it's all a joke, so I live to laugh at it I don't take much that seriously, because honestly I've had it I'm done
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Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016 at 4:18 PM UTC
Overthinking
I don't usually do this (status updates instead of poetry) but I'm really in the mood to flex my creative muscles and share ideas and concepts with my fellow poets here on HP. I love collaborating. I would like to use kik or fb messenger since it an easier means of  communication for me. My kik is hottymelly25 and my facebook is Melanie Wilson (TGWLY). Also, we have a thriving group of poets chatting together on kik. We're just a small group of poets who have met on here or on Poets Corner (another poetry app we like to use a lot) and we talk about life, poetry, what we made for breakfast, the importance of the decoy vaginas that ducks have to prevent **** and everything in between. It's quite entertaining and we're kinda like a family. If you're interested in joining us, just message me. :) 16+ only please. Thank you for reading. ❤
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Aug 14, 2016
Aug 14, 2016 at 4:33 PM UTC
Wanna Collaborate?
239 “Heaven”—is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree— Provided it do hopeless—hang— That—”Heaven” is—to Me! The Color, on the Cruising Cloud— The interdicted Land— Behind the Hill—the House behind— There—Paradise—is found! Her teasing Purples—Afternoons— The credulous—decoy— Enamored—of the Conjuror— That spurned us—Yesterday!
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Heaven—is what I cannot reach!
Do I write because I've things to say, or things I don't want to do? Is sitting here typing away, a decoy for the blues? I know there's things long overdue, but there's nothing that cannot wait. Could it be though that my poetry, is just a way to procrastinate? I have stuff to put away and sort, and things to be thrown out. But I'd really rather sit and write, of that there is no doubt. Perhaps I should accept the fact, and get somebody in, who's not attached to all my crap, who can throw it in the bin. And then I will be free to write, my conscience will be clear. If only I could find my pad, I'm sure I left it here... somewhere...
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Apr 25, 2010
Apr 25, 2010 at 9:12 AM UTC
Spring cleaning
That night she wanted to prove her beauty. So she killed all light. Letting only a dim-dip from the moon to reflect how she danced seductively in calm, bold waves, wearing her night black gown now heading my way . That night I felt her beauty with all names men had for senses and some god only knew existed. The sea was always a possesive lover who's satisfied only when humidity consumed every inch of me, Leaving my breath heavy, skin sticky with her water. But that night, as if assured I'll be hers forever she pulled back sending unapologetic rough wind that matched the loud waves still dancing beneath me. I closed my eyes and layed down on her shore in complete surrender; letting her wipe every memory of love before her. "Wash me"I mouth loud enough only for her to hear. Why was I touched before. My brain became heavy with her smell that I kept ******* gulps of, and felt tears collect themselves in my eyes. I discovered the happiness they kept bragging about in complete decoy. If only they know what happiness felt like. Ocasionally I'd peak at her to see endless folds of black and my heart runs fast with fear of its majesty. She accepted what I am, enjoyed swallowing my dark thoughts into her even darker descending bottoms. Her distance made it clear I was not to touch, only taste her. For once I couldn't mind, I threw the weight of my sorrow and passed into a state I still don't have synonyms for. Her love made me complete, I was ready to leave this life then and there with no regrets or a second look. For everything would be tasteless after her
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 11:37 AM UTC
Laying with the sea
That night she wanted to prove her beauty. So she killed all light. Letting only a dim-dip from the moon to reflect how she danced seductively in calm, bold waves, wearing her night black gown now heading my way . That night I felt her beauty with all names men had for senses and some god only knew existed. The sea was always a possesive lover who's satisfied only when humidity consumed every inch of me, Leaving my breath heavy, skin sticky with her water. But that night, as if assured I'll be hers forever she pulled back sending unapologetic rough wind that matched the loud waves still dancing beneath me. I closed my eyes and layed down on her shore in complete surrender; letting her wipe every memory of love before her. "Wash me"I mouth loud enough only for her to hear. Why was I touched before. My brain became heavy with her smell that I kept ******* gulps of, and felt tears collect themselves in my eyes. I discovered the happiness they kept bragging about in complete decoy. If only they know what happiness felt like. Ocasionally I'd peak at her to see endless folds of black and my heart runs fast with fear of its majesty. She accepted what I am, enjoyed swallowing my dark thoughts into her even darker descending bottoms. Her distance made it clear I was not to touch, only taste her. For once I couldn't mind, I threw the weight of my sorrow and passed into a state I still don't have synonyms for. Her love made me complete, I was ready to leave this life then and there with no regrets or a second look. For everything would be tasteless after her
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I see that girls love Beyoncé Girls love to pick at your conscience They hate when guys go dark It's funny, she was no different Nowadays, it's hard to meet women Almost like my love life was finished I've always adored commitment That's why I was in this position Who's ever scared to let girls in You've got admirers, yet so do I It's not just me, we both have to comply {Set II: Brandon} I know I deliver these smiles But I change once I review her files "She cheated with this and him" The heart bled after seeing her 1930's film I have accepted that I could be alone But I know nothing has been set in stone If you have such butterflies for the boy Say my name like I'm not a decoy Girls make it harder to trust your heart I fool myself entirely from the start If you're not running games, Realize I can never be so tame
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 9:31 PM UTC
Smiles
Feeling so hollow Hoping never to see the day Never to see tomorrow Feeling as if I have nothing to say Maybe I should stick my mouth shut Sew my eyes closed Drown in the suffocating **** Cancel the sights that I took in and overdosed I try to feel joy I try to feel this But, still I'm just a decoy All in all this is it I'm just stuck in my hollowness
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 10:21 PM UTC
Hollowness
Take it from me youngster, figuratively I literally have no possessions But surely learn from your mistakes More of less of those encounters More experiences without the hate Alive and happy thankful just to be So youngster now take it from me, My experiences stand ahead you... Live life for the truth of you, There is serenity in being happy Real joy is honest a being Who exudes the love of Life, a light That is the truth of You know Who Soul that is a River Doubtless we began, now to see The construct of brotherly peace, A lovely existence without this drowning pearl The suffocation of our miracle world Take it from me, youngster You only rob yourself of illumination I've been stealing from my own me? If nothing else no one will dispair When no one cares to wake Time will cease, when no one watches Pay close attention to the joy, The life you have pretended decoy Live like you love to live your life, Truly utterly free Breathe each minute passing With thankful joyful and sincerely Returning the gift of chi Most positively the peace we send out Just be mindful youngsters, We make our own hells mouth Chose to be enlightened Be youthful and truly speak freely Alright youngster ? take it from me I wish you everlasting Peace.
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Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 12:10 AM UTC
Youngster
She has the face as innocent as a dog begging for food Her eyes beam rays that gleam like high beams from a spotlight Look at her smile and its like gazing into a cave of sunrays But don’t be fooled, for if you look deep inside Her happiness is absent with a lack of passion to find it. Its easy to hide in a game of hide and seek No effort is involved like it’s the end of the week. Broken and shattered, her happiness has been tattered Thrown out the window… like it never even mattered Fear is seeking her relentlessly to invade her mind She knows it so she keeps evading, to avoid its infestation Each new place she decides to hide Leads to a closer encounter of what she’s avoiding Like a dead plant, she is becoming watered down Fear is now a sponge that wants to soak her up It is feigning for fresh food from some fresh blood. Little does she know, fear is like a ghost; It’s only real if you choose to believe it. Finally, after a good game of hide and seek, fear found her Curled and crouched, clenching her fists in a dark corner… But clenched fists are useless in a fight against something that only exists in your mind Without hesitance, fear went through with his crime--scared her to death without wasting time… literally. She spent so much time living in fear that fear would catch her, and it did. Ironic? She lived a life based on something her mind created Something that exists only if you let it Something that makes you look back on life and regret it And I guarantee if fear let her live she would reminisce on everything she missed and think, “everything I missed has brought me to this.” She avoided anything and everything outside her comfort zone Instead of facing her fears, she ran from them Rather than choosing the road that is less traveled The road with twists and turns, leaps and bounds, change and adventure She chose a road with a pre-determined destination The road that is bland and boring, straight forward and sturdy, mundane and motionless Instead of living a life full of excitement and joy She lived a life with no life, frightened of a decoy Instead of facing fear face to face, she lived with a face full of fear Disguised by a smile, so happy is the way she would appear. I guess you could say the point I’m trying to make is…. Fear is a creation of the mind, Fear only exists if you let it So why live life scared of something that doesn’t exist? And if you have a fear, face it, don’t run away from it. Because there’s nothing to run from, especially if there’s nothing really there. Fear is the façade to a life full of fantastic surprises Letting that façade stand in your way would be quite unwise Take a leap of faith, step past your fears, and see what your life is really comprised of.
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 2:01 PM UTC
Face Full of Fear
She has the face as innocent as a dog begging for food Her eyes beam rays that gleam like high beams from a spotlight Look at her smile and its like gazing into a cave of sunrays But don’t be fooled, for if you look deep inside Her happiness is absent with a lack of passion to find it. Its easy to hide in a game of hide and seek No effort is involved like it’s the end of the week. Broken and shattered, her happiness has been tattered Thrown out the window… like it never even mattered Fear is seeking her relentlessly to invade her mind She knows it so she keeps evading, to avoid its infestation Each new place she decides to hide Leads to a closer encounter of what she’s avoiding Like a dead plant, she is becoming watered down Fear is now a sponge that wants to soak her up It is feigning for fresh food from some fresh blood. Little does she know, fear is like a ghost; It’s only real if you choose to believe it. Finally, after a good game of hide and seek, fear found her Curled and crouched, clenching her fists in a dark corner… But clenched fists are useless in a fight against something that only exists in your mind Without hesitance, fear went through with his crime--scared her to death without wasting time… literally. She spent so much time living in fear that fear would catch her, and it did. Ironic? She lived a life based on something her mind created Something that exists only if you let it Something that makes you look back on life and regret it And I guarantee if fear let her live she would reminisce on everything she missed and think, “everything I missed has brought me to this.” She avoided anything and everything outside her comfort zone Instead of facing her fears, she ran from them Rather than choosing the road that is less traveled The road with twists and turns, leaps and bounds, change and adventure She chose a road with a pre-determined destination The road that is bland and boring, straight forward and sturdy, mundane and motionless Instead of living a life full of excitement and joy She lived a life with no life, frightened of a decoy Instead of facing fear face to face, she lived with a face full of fear Disguised by a smile, so happy is the way she would appear. I guess you could say the point I’m trying to make is…. Fear is a creation of the mind, Fear only exists if you let it So why live life scared of something that doesn’t exist? And if you have a fear, face it, don’t run away from it. Because there’s nothing to run from, especially if there’s nothing really there. Fear is the façade to a life full of fantastic surprises Letting that façade stand in your way would be quite unwise Take a leap of faith, step past your fears, and see what your life is really comprised of.
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Like a clown, walking down past the hotel room his red-nosed cigarette alight. The lobbyist winks, he recognises me. Tap tap I'm leaving. Tap tap. The train with swollen hearts departs this thawing furnace. In the corner is the clown; Comfied round his wearied eyes and weary pride. Playing with her number like a child with a toy, wondering, will the embers suffice? To decoy and employ our tangled kisses and nibbles and bites through the nights. Or get soaked up in depravity and a bottle of gin? Excluded in the watered down reality of the phone. The clown remains without a clue, Are you thinking about me? I'm thinking about you
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Jul 1, 2012
Jul 1, 2012 at 2:03 PM UTC
When the snow stops