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"decrepit" poems
Being transgender is like this: Everyday of your life, you have always wanted a dog. For as long as you can remember-- even if you don't know to what extent-- you have wanted one. You asked your parents, Santa, the easter bunny, even the tooth fairy. Then one day you get a dead cat for your birthday. You say "This isn't a dog," But "You get what you get and don't get upset" So you carry around and care for the dead carcass. All sorts of people look at you, unable to understand what you are doing. So then one day you decide to try to make it look a bit nicer. You wash it a bit, comb what little fur it has left, cover the decrepit limbs. But then you realize the futility in doing this all the time, because you are still carrying around a dead animal. So you continue to carry it around because you have to, no matter how horrible it may be. Although you are carrying around a dead and rotting cat, you aren't a ******* cat owner; You still want a ******* dog.
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 6:53 PM UTC
Being Transgender
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Faces without name, faces without purpose Faces that are just like my own. I watch the decrepit, old man Standing, waiting for a train to nowhere Wandering through the rest of his days Like every second Is his Last. The children playing there don’t know it yet. Soon they will -- their weary mothers do. Every day, growing older. Every day, growing colder. Every day, realizing our fate. The tracks are wet from the cold, Unfeeling rain. The rain, which pours from the Infinite sky, [Of which we will all soon belong] Floods the streets and earth [Of which we will all soon belong] The drops dismantle the delicate flowers surrounding us... Petals Drop To The Ground helpless. Our days dwindle as such. One day We will all be these Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 3:02 AM UTC
Waiting in the Rain for a Train
Lost Love He remembers that day many sad years ago it was sunny out, but soon a storm raged. He returned home early from work, eager to rest and nurse a cold. Eager to see his gorgeous wife fix him a delicious soup and give loving care, a remedy not. He caught a surprise. Was it then a hallucination? To see her ex's car in front of their house, fanning the flames in his heart? Or to imagine the house shaking, or to hear love noises howling from the rafters of contempt, as her fireplace warmed tempest. He sure hoped then... it had been a misfire it wasn't. He slowly opened the front door, walking decrepit and sad, like he was in hospice care. He could see the final script playing out, more so the tragic ending the trail of clothes, her ex-boyfriend's scent, calamity, and approaching closer the devil speaking louder. He opened the bedroom door to their parts caught in honey jars and scarlet red on his tainted wife over bed sheets of shame. Their eyes catch, both flush, and tearful, as breathing stopped, his melancholy eyes asking why? Why? What about the future  lily pods, our family, house, kids ... and you sell out. What about being fresh out of college with our dreams, passion and honor...us. What about the bonds, pinky swears, pricking of blood marital vows. Her eyes had no answers. She cried, loudest as her ex-boyfriend bolted not before passing the mill. He closed her door for good that mournful day, dismissing darkness, opening his wrath for her in his mind, yet what words or light can be exchanged? Uprooted and lost, he walked scarred over and over by her promise and lost love. That was thirty years ago and he still walks with her ghosts, and it still pains. LR-5/4/17
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May 4, 2017
May 4, 2017 at 11:31 PM UTC
Lost Love
Lost Love He remembers that day many sad years ago it was sunny out, but soon a storm raged. He returned home early from work, eager to rest and nurse a cold. Eager to see his gorgeous wife fix him a delicious soup and give loving care, a remedy not. He caught a surprise. Was it then a hallucination? To see her ex's car in front of their house, fanning the flames in his heart? Or to imagine the house shaking, or to hear love noises howling from the rafters of contempt, as her fireplace warmed tempest. He sure hoped then... it had been a misfire it wasn't. He slowly opened the front door, walking decrepit and sad, like he was in hospice care. He could see the final script playing out, more so the tragic ending the trail of clothes, her ex-boyfriend's scent, calamity, and approaching closer the devil speaking louder. He opened the bedroom door to their parts caught in honey jars and scarlet red on his tainted wife over bed sheets of shame. Their eyes catch, both flush, and tearful, as breathing stopped, his melancholy eyes asking why? Why? What about the future  lily pods, our family, house, kids ... and you sell out. What about being fresh out of college with our dreams, passion and honor...us. What about the bonds, pinky swears, pricking of blood marital vows. Her eyes had no answers. She cried, loudest as her ex-boyfriend bolted not before passing the mill. He closed her door for good that mournful day, dismissing darkness, opening his wrath for her in his mind, yet what words or light can be exchanged? Uprooted and lost, he walked scarred over and over by her promise and lost love. That was thirty years ago and he still walks with her ghosts, and it still pains. LR-5/4/17
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born in illusory chains gnarled metal encrusted in my broken skin the copper colored dust of rusted steel infectiously envelopes shaving off antiquated layers of fundamentalist religion encrusted for generations unpeeled until raw an unsophisticated method unveiling ancient lodged glass shards colored with deceit brought before their court interrogated unfathomably skewered an eerie salem witch trial in modern times barbarically they shun me banished i wander aimlessly smelling the rotten decay of deceased community as splinters pierce my feet from the crooked wooden plank i walk alone now an unfathomable inner ache kindled a residue within igniting a wildfire from the darkest shadows uncontainably erupting i dance savagely naked in the orange moonlight and in every shaded edge lit my soul ablaze i am a nomad sheep ‘tho not one of their color no pasture to contain me no shepherd i can follow theological safety nets no longer there to catch me bohemian-like i plunge free falling plummeting stripped wide open magically fearlessness reverses gravitation floating untethered i soar amongst apricot tinged clouds my skin still wet from rebirth and rise with the flaming coral sun you cannot destroy me i twisted in your decrepit pencil sharpener and with fresh mettle cut through the chains that bound you can have my ego but you cannot have my soul dismantling domestication transcending limitation wildly untamed i fly ©2016janetaylor
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 6:40 AM UTC
fly
*Let me be captured by the night. Engrossed in the conversation between the stars. Syncopated twinkling like... thousands of fireflies trapped within sealed jars. Let me be enslaved by the moon. As I drink her glow in greedy insatiable gulps. Crestfallen... Her beam with an agenda... As the landscape she sculpts. Let me be ensnared by my solitude. But I hear crickets... Chirping and chipping away at my bastion of dreamstate. Persistent calls I try to shun that never abates. Let me be trapped in my thoughts. So I could harness... And immortalise them in indelible careless scribbles. Erecting and... Rebuilding them from the rubble of conflicting squabbles. **Let me be overwhelmed by the mess of my being...** Let me wallow Then emerge strong from this decrepit state of mind. Let me breathe heavy from my punctured lungs. So I could heal in time before true solace in this dark, I would find.*
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May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM UTC
Captured
to exonerate the clippings they took the back road to oswega the tudor house rabbits had long lost their heads (presumably to the ***** and what remained of the landscape was dead and dry and orange that happy home on the brink of cattle loop was now gull grey the needles and stragglers from shady bay remained (in growing numbers) on the outskirts of the driven back park the once fabled town of horse drawn tours and dignitaries was stone washed ~ on the back of it's government docks sat decrepit toppers set against the high tide beside the lighthouse and its measured song flutes and fiddlers and acoustic sitars ride the accompaniment nose rings and signage in the hands of staged protesters the sickly spit strewn with tidal run and ocean bags hedgerows trimmed along the sea side rolling hills fade adjacent the chuck mint juleps and flop hats peak on the parade clydesdales and royals blinded in the back
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 2:41 PM UTC
beacon hill pass
Within creased paper lie binded souls Firmly held within my clutch , Ideology hemorrhaging as non-opposables only bend so much. Thirsty i reached for a swig of your cup  Open palmed  This vessel mishandled  the contents soaked through bedrock Its remains a drink for the decrepit.
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Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
morals
Hello Chicago Flat carpet-town of corn meal steel spears at the northern junction of Cahokia and some unknown dream No lillies grow here sir, no tulip fields though there are many Dutch a little up north Wisconsin, dontcha' know? Family blood rains through the Chicago river named of the blood of a slain tribal wonder wanders with the roaming buffalo I sat at the top of Sears (Willis) Tower and peered into the foggy distance and made out the shores of Michigan through Indiana the leftover rains of a continental freeze churned the earth to butter and carved the arteries and bowels of today's earthly body And when we drove in from O'Hare in the late hours on incessant stoplight highways counting down the streets thinking maybe they'll go all the way to Mississippi just a long row of Concrete I saw the brick tower of a decrepit Frito-lay plant where they cooked their corn and potato into succulent can't eat just one little snacks for the whole of america to enjoy in backyard barbecues and convenience stores and grocery outlets All across the planet Now with the trucks they come and go up to and whizzing past Chicago on to greener states with greater relief with hills and lakes and winding streams Different sections of the sculpture Cities eroding into the pleasant coasts quaking and breaking into tiny stones a monumental David cracked in the gallery bird **** corroding the silicates unpolished and immortal words Chicago! oh you mighty city you built from sod and sweat and dew of new morning I see your towers you dreamer, you But your towers are in Dubai, and Shanghai now The world moved on and forgot everything about that magnificent mile burned to make you earn new toys and fancy things from far beyond your winding river streams But you didn't die amazing, how much they tried to rust you out to bleed you dry no, Chicago, you keep your ***** rivers flowing all the way to the Mississippi flanked by modern Roman concrete all the way to the great green sea out into the puddle that surronds the Amerigo Chicago don't you give up that river dream
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Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
O'Chicago
Hello Chicago Flat carpet-town of corn meal steel spears at the northern junction of Cahokia and some unknown dream No lillies grow here sir, no tulip fields though there are many Dutch a little up north Wisconsin, dontcha' know? Family blood rains through the Chicago river named of the blood of a slain tribal wonder wanders with the roaming buffalo I sat at the top of Sears (Willis) Tower and peered into the foggy distance and made out the shores of Michigan through Indiana the leftover rains of a continental freeze churned the earth to butter and carved the arteries and bowels of today's earthly body And when we drove in from O'Hare in the late hours on incessant stoplight highways counting down the streets thinking maybe they'll go all the way to Mississippi just a long row of Concrete I saw the brick tower of a decrepit Frito-lay plant where they cooked their corn and potato into succulent can't eat just one little snacks for the whole of america to enjoy in backyard barbecues and convenience stores and grocery outlets All across the planet Now with the trucks they come and go up to and whizzing past Chicago on to greener states with greater relief with hills and lakes and winding streams Different sections of the sculpture Cities eroding into the pleasant coasts quaking and breaking into tiny stones a monumental David cracked in the gallery bird **** corroding the silicates unpolished and immortal words Chicago! oh you mighty city you built from sod and sweat and dew of new morning I see your towers you dreamer, you But your towers are in Dubai, and Shanghai now The world moved on and forgot everything about that magnificent mile burned to make you earn new toys and fancy things from far beyond your winding river streams But you didn't die amazing, how much they tried to rust you out to bleed you dry no, Chicago, you keep your ***** rivers flowing all the way to the Mississippi flanked by modern Roman concrete all the way to the great green sea out into the puddle that surronds the Amerigo Chicago don't you give up that river dream
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You make me feel wistful With your tight bellies, limpid eyes and endless manes of hair, You make me feel afraid. Dainty Angels, I can't...Quite...Remember... You make me feel jealous With your waiflike allure, sad vulnerability, delicate beauty, You make me feel inadequate. Fairy Foundlings, I won't...ever...be.... You make me feel ancient Outside, dated and decrepit. How do you feel? What do you need? Why are you all so sad? My dreams are your nightmares. I tasted raindrops once, too I almost have it, almost understand.
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 3:05 AM UTC
Little Sisters
A young girl is walking on a sinuous and rough trail. Wounds and scratches have found its place in her body, so frail. As she reached the end of the pathway, she began to feel decrepit and impuissant that she wanted to discreetly skreigh. On a cloudy dark night, a boy appeared in the fog. He said Everthing will be okay.. Don't worry.. Just take my hand.. He took her to a place that is very bright, dazzling that it hurts her heavy eyes. They both sitted on an evergreen well-groomed grass. She noticed the beautiful scenery that appeared. It calmed her mind, her heart, her whole being. The sun shines, the water by the river is crystal blue, the breeze of the wind blows her hair. She have seen the skies, the birds and the flowers surrounded by tall trees. This place is filled with love, joy and happiness. This is the place that she can choose to be with or she can be in another world..                                           - Ella Salvador
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 5:18 AM UTC
Paradise
Decrepit creature, in the cellar you dwell, to be at the side of the "angel" that fell. The door was cast open, my words - yours to slur, the glimpse of your face, forever a blur. Consumed in smoke, to linger at demand, you were given to me, you're mine to command. A desolate figure, with the number of six, you are all combinations insanity could mix. As a nothingness to live, to be as a whole, to exist like a human, but to feed from a soul. You are every hate but love I can acquire, the sadistics of fantasy, the perversions of desire. The purity of innocence, all knowledge to contain, The hatred to breed, the ****** to refrain. The being to devour, the being to let be, to know, to dare, to will, to remain silent is to see. Fear not he is there, fear so that he is, to feed from the source you've convinced him is his. He knows not what you are, but he knows it too well, to exist in your life, he knows not where you dwell. You know who you are, but he feels of himself not, you are all that he craves, he is all that you sought. He is the sanity to forever keep you mundane, he is the power to forever keep you insane. He is the understanding, the logic to be told, the agony to breathe, the death you hold. He is yours for the taking, but so are you, The connection to what you can't have, but the connection to what you do.
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 6:08 PM UTC
41821179 - 2010
Banished before thon barren plains, Where treacherous tears abstain Fare. Fair is the waste, The impurity of deep, decrepit weeds. And dage brings fruit then touched Only by their ravens of rot. May they paint thine tainted stave In golden garth and lull the lark; “Mine, Sweet babe, Robbed of cradle Readied for ritual. Mine, Sweet babe, Gore masked black Within the crimson bath.” Lacen their throats, the gullets that gloat! Lest langes of thorns, wrap the bairn sworn. Death breeds glore o’er luid nights Beldam rise belles in wicked repel. Round the funeral pyre.
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Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021 at 1:38 PM UTC
Salem
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls Went wobble-wobble on the walls. Faint odours of departed cheese, Blown on the dank, unwholesome breeze, Awoke the never ending sneeze. Strange pictures decked the arras drear, Strange characters of woe and fear, The humbugs of the social sphere. One showed a vain and noisy **** That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig. And one, a dotard grim and gray, Who wasteth childhood's happy day In work more profitless than play. Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms. And one, a green thyme-honoured Bank, Where flowers are growing wild and rank, Like weeds that fringe a poisoned tank. All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. The wandering phantom broke and fled, Straightway I saw within my head A vision of a ghostly bed, Where lay two worn decrepit men, The fictions of a lawyer's pen, Who never more might breathe again. The serving-man of Richard Roe Wept, inarticulate with woe: She wept, that waiting on John Doe. "Oh rouse", I urged, "the waning sense With tales of tangled evidence, Of suit, demurrer, and defence." "Vain", she replied, "such mockeries: For morbid fancies, such as these, No suits can suit, no plea can please." And bending o'er that man of straw, She cried in grief and sudden awe, Not inappropriately, "Law!" The well-remembered voice he knew, He smiled, he faintly muttered "Sue!" (Her very name was legal too.) The night was fled, the dawn was nigh: A hurricane went raving by, And swept the Vision from mine eye. Vanished that dim and ghostly bed, (The hangings, tape; the tape was red happy 'Tis o'er, and Doe and Roe are dead! Oh, yet my spirit inly crawls, What time it shudderingly recalls That horrid dream of marble halls!
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The Palace of Humbug
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls Went wobble-wobble on the walls. Faint odours of departed cheese, Blown on the dank, unwholesome breeze, Awoke the never ending sneeze. Strange pictures decked the arras drear, Strange characters of woe and fear, The humbugs of the social sphere. One showed a vain and noisy **** That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig. And one, a dotard grim and gray, Who wasteth childhood's happy day In work more profitless than play. Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms. And one, a green thyme-honoured Bank, Where flowers are growing wild and rank, Like weeds that fringe a poisoned tank. All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. The wandering phantom broke and fled, Straightway I saw within my head A vision of a ghostly bed, Where lay two worn decrepit men, The fictions of a lawyer's pen, Who never more might breathe again. The serving-man of Richard Roe Wept, inarticulate with woe: She wept, that waiting on John Doe. "Oh rouse", I urged, "the waning sense With tales of tangled evidence, Of suit, demurrer, and defence." "Vain", she replied, "such mockeries: For morbid fancies, such as these, No suits can suit, no plea can please." And bending o'er that man of straw, She cried in grief and sudden awe, Not inappropriately, "Law!" The well-remembered voice he knew, He smiled, he faintly muttered "Sue!" (Her very name was legal too.) The night was fled, the dawn was nigh: A hurricane went raving by, And swept the Vision from mine eye. Vanished that dim and ghostly bed, (The hangings, tape; the tape was red happy 'Tis o'er, and Doe and Roe are dead! Oh, yet my spirit inly crawls, What time it shudderingly recalls That horrid dream of marble halls!
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MONKEY IN A RED FEZ DANCING TO ABBA I watch the children play on a sunny Sunday in Rotterdam like a stereotypical alien studying humans. Their cries rise and fall like seagulls as they swing sea-sawing or blurring into one on a brightly coloured turnstile. A man looking like a badly drawn cartoon turns the handle slowly  of a broken down barrel ***** A monkey in a red fez dances on the end of a chain. The barrel ***** spews out everything from Abba to Franz Lehar. The decrepit old man and even more decrepit monkey appear as if they have stepped out of another century. I am far from home. The day is dying. I read from my battered book Hamsun's HUNGER. It's lurid cover torn half hanging on/off. The park deserted now as night steals its colours. The last words of of this the final chapter are lost to me swallowed by the dark. The barrel ***** peersists the soundtrack to some forgotten film The monkey red fez fallen at its feet. The monkey blissfully asleep. The music caught entangled in branches and  leaves. I watch the yellow lights blossom one by one a silhouette of houses like a stage set. Houses like cut-out silhouettes a stage set. The last lines revealed under a passing  lamp "...where the windows shone so brightly in every home..." I laugh at such a coincidence. Leave the book on the bench for some other me to discover when the sun comes up. And return to my space ship.
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 5:17 PM UTC
MONKEY IN A RED FEZ DANCING TO ABBA
Dazed. The stars never seemed so far away Lying with hopelessness sleeping next to my pillow In the arms of seclusion, still I lay After a long night we formed a ********* No strength to pray Withing my carapace I inquire a reason Of why I'm so numb Where is my lighter? Concealing my pain Where is my grinder? When life is like a sudden rush of fresh air to A raging set of flames Savagely searching for an euphoria But it's the impossible to maintain Longing for an escape Only in sweet serenity But when 5 fingers deadly hugs your heart & wrings out your Innocence, happiness, and tranquility You are forced to watch them leak Decrepit Reaching for a lighter to blaze the leaf Because in the sober mind You Are Weak No that is me. So I begin to pollute my temple Taking it all into my bloodstream With the exhale of a breath In the mist of a cloud I release my exhaustion My emotion and my temper Enhancing my inner being suddenly, I know with facts that I am steel Making it through another dreadful night My wounds are temporarily healed But When there was no soul to console No arms to hold No pen to make art No illumination from the dark Only the flame that I flick Which forms so beautifully & Dances in front of my eyes Offended that beauty could destroy so ruthlessly A killer in disguise Or ruthlessly be destroyed In this life full of void Consumed by the misery of all the screams All the noise When the Sun's job is done, it hides from the World Full of hatred and pity Another night comes Captive in these four walls No where to run Now I'm forced to look at how far I've come I could have died in insanity Arson my soul Plead guilty of ****** A Killer Upfront If I had not match all those nights with all those blunts                             Copy Right 2013                                  ©Patty Ann
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Oct 21, 2013
Oct 21, 2013 at 5:08 PM UTC
All those nights, All those blunts
Dazed. The stars never seemed so far away Lying with hopelessness sleeping next to my pillow In the arms of seclusion, still I lay After a long night we formed a ********* No strength to pray Withing my carapace I inquire a reason Of why I'm so numb Where is my lighter? Concealing my pain Where is my grinder? When life is like a sudden rush of fresh air to A raging set of flames Savagely searching for an euphoria But it's the impossible to maintain Longing for an escape Only in sweet serenity But when 5 fingers deadly hugs your heart & wrings out your Innocence, happiness, and tranquility You are forced to watch them leak Decrepit Reaching for a lighter to blaze the leaf Because in the sober mind You Are Weak No that is me. So I begin to pollute my temple Taking it all into my bloodstream With the exhale of a breath In the mist of a cloud I release my exhaustion My emotion and my temper Enhancing my inner being suddenly, I know with facts that I am steel Making it through another dreadful night My wounds are temporarily healed But When there was no soul to console No arms to hold No pen to make art No illumination from the dark Only the flame that I flick Which forms so beautifully & Dances in front of my eyes Offended that beauty could destroy so ruthlessly A killer in disguise Or ruthlessly be destroyed In this life full of void Consumed by the misery of all the screams All the noise When the Sun's job is done, it hides from the World Full of hatred and pity Another night comes Captive in these four walls No where to run Now I'm forced to look at how far I've come I could have died in insanity Arson my soul Plead guilty of ****** A Killer Upfront If I had not match all those nights with all those blunts                             Copy Right 2013                                  ©Patty Ann
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Nobody knows the the darker corners of my decrepit soul, a stale and stinky nasty shrinking ***** of abstraction, that is less than a fraction of nothingness, a shadowy space where people cringe and strangers displace their rage till tension and resentment fill this smelly place. Nobody knows that my heart does not grow but disposes of the red roses, dripping paint of crimson pain, beatings taken in exchange for struggles and anguish, pumping out plump plumes of poetry and prose to express the truth, that nobody knows.
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 11:48 AM UTC
Untitled-17
this game has no rules wikipedia is full of it z-list celebrity remember that nobody cares except you this statement is a statement this statement exists this statement has letters poets just want to jump in sighs about the decrepit state of humanity thanks to those who make it worthwhile and eternal damnation to those who don't enjoying my indulgent freedom here hanging up pentabarf
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 2:50 PM UTC
thanks
There, somewhere, is a place so familiar, that you've forgotten and you didn't even know. In this place is a building, decrepit, with walls well worn, built with the least experienced of hands. These hands, now gone, showed a tenderness in their craftsmanship, a love now forlorn as the walls Walls held up with the determination of creeping moss that spreads through the corners of the halls. Halls so sprawling as to confuse those who dare to come in and seek the treasures within These treasures hidden, repressed and no longer precious, a sentinel to those left behind. And these treasures you found within these halls bound by these godforsaken walls built by those who know, knew, and would never have Reside in a building beyond all paths That calls to you and all that you believe To compel you in, so you'll never leave.
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Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 4:19 AM UTC
Determination
too much time to think. crushing is how i would describe it like walls falling to the floor with a more than deafening crash a single hand suffocating my throat and along with it; a suppression of my creativity, and livelihood i’m not sure who i am without you. it’s been far too long. the mediocrity of my attempts at denial are almost laughable. if it weren’t so pathetic in it’s origin. the night proves to be the worst. stuck; contemplating a lost unity. a severance of what once was. the void and i have found solace in each other. alone, decrepit; trying our best to survive in whatever way, we can. avoiding the gaze of the time. this is such a strange place to be alive.
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 4:53 AM UTC
time (questioning my sanity).
Swooping through the city streets, the alleys, the corners, every crevice and crack. Education and language never to be seen, dissipating with the past. Ingrained in the brain, the common normality, placed on the famous track. Morality has diminished, human beings are finished. No curative for this disease, a disgusting devious deceit   Two dozen selfies left behind,   just you, old and decrepit all your doing, your design,   a silly lie.   A ***** disguise. Alone with a wasted life.
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 11:01 PM UTC
The Plague Of Narcissism
I dream of a society Where the ideals of beauty Are less focused on superficial concepts like one's waistline Or how decrepit their smile lines made them appear But rather one where the focal point of unanimous adoration is, As corny as this may sound, One's morals and where they land on the gradient of human compassion In this utopia, The elderly aren't seen as catalysts for repugnance and a wrinkling of noses But rather as symbols of eruditeness and beauty The type of beauty that influence or money can't obtain And it may be conceivable that instead of wasting my days squandering over my physical appearance, I can just fritter away the days Strumming my ukulele along to the tune of my American dream For I have yet to actually awaken from my adolescent slumber Breifly enough to grasp my dream from the bubble floating above my resting head And nestle it securely in my pocket So it doesn't forgo me In search of someone less complacent with bewilderment about their future Who dreams of social and economic prosperity Instead of someone who's apathetic at best about whatever career choice they've chosen for the week Maybe that's just it That maybe I don't want the conventional American dream of fame or fortune or recognition Is it feasible that maybe my American dream isn't to rise from sqaulor into a soulless mansion Whose corridors boast success But lack warmth and presence? I suppose that my American dream encompasses more than just America itself It lives in the eyes of every human being on the face of the earth It's nestled in the gaze of a starving child And the stare of anyone who's ever felt a tongue's razor edge And all I'd have to do is delve into their eye sockets and plant a seed A seed of hope and compassion Or whatever I deem fit Perhaps I just want to shield myself From the world's disapproving glances, Those fleeting moments of eye contact that convey condescending judgement Maybe I'd just like to make a difference to things sans the media’s snide opinion But despite my juxtaposition to society's critical assessments, I know that I can't run away from my fears or problems So maybe I dream of a society Where I can remain headstrong even in the face of opposition Because I'm aware that not everyone's going to love each other And spout sweet nothings about peace and understanding from their hind quarters So maybe I'd like to help be a driving force That wards off the world's shadows So the sun can continue to shine on my American dream
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Aug 14, 2012
Aug 14, 2012 at 11:14 PM UTC
Dare I Fathom Dreaming of an American Dream?
I dream of a society Where the ideals of beauty Are less focused on superficial concepts like one's waistline Or how decrepit their smile lines made them appear But rather one where the focal point of unanimous adoration is, As corny as this may sound, One's morals and where they land on the gradient of human compassion In this utopia, The elderly aren't seen as catalysts for repugnance and a wrinkling of noses But rather as symbols of eruditeness and beauty The type of beauty that influence or money can't obtain And it may be conceivable that instead of wasting my days squandering over my physical appearance, I can just fritter away the days Strumming my ukulele along to the tune of my American dream For I have yet to actually awaken from my adolescent slumber Breifly enough to grasp my dream from the bubble floating above my resting head And nestle it securely in my pocket So it doesn't forgo me In search of someone less complacent with bewilderment about their future Who dreams of social and economic prosperity Instead of someone who's apathetic at best about whatever career choice they've chosen for the week Maybe that's just it That maybe I don't want the conventional American dream of fame or fortune or recognition Is it feasible that maybe my American dream isn't to rise from sqaulor into a soulless mansion Whose corridors boast success But lack warmth and presence? I suppose that my American dream encompasses more than just America itself It lives in the eyes of every human being on the face of the earth It's nestled in the gaze of a starving child And the stare of anyone who's ever felt a tongue's razor edge And all I'd have to do is delve into their eye sockets and plant a seed A seed of hope and compassion Or whatever I deem fit Perhaps I just want to shield myself From the world's disapproving glances, Those fleeting moments of eye contact that convey condescending judgement Maybe I'd just like to make a difference to things sans the media’s snide opinion But despite my juxtaposition to society's critical assessments, I know that I can't run away from my fears or problems So maybe I dream of a society Where I can remain headstrong even in the face of opposition Because I'm aware that not everyone's going to love each other And spout sweet nothings about peace and understanding from their hind quarters So maybe I'd like to help be a driving force That wards off the world's shadows So the sun can continue to shine on my American dream
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The sky descended its sapphire pearls from its embellished chalice. The pearls decorated my lonesome face, I stared upwards into the grey heavens of solemnity. I was searching for answers. I felt nothing as the water rolled off my fingertips, those precious jewels crashed the surface of the decrepit earth. This feeling I so longed for, so begged for, so sought. Empty like a vessel, I stood and soaked the frequency in, seconds that felt like days, time stopped, it stopped for me. Maybe for once in my life I was in control, this was it. No pain, no sorrow, I was free. In that moment I bathed. Bathed in the past, as my future filled my lungs, I was drowning in truth. Baptized from suffering, I was rooted, longing for the gods to purify me. I am a mere spec in the vast void, existing, while life just moves on. I couldn’t fathom moving on, what good could that bring if nothing in life was guaranteed. And just like that, the fear crept back in again, and I found myself, back in hell.
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Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 2022 at 8:54 AM UTC
Hollow Like The Sapphire Rain
Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye The petals begin to die Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye The heavens start to cry Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Let out a collective sigh The drudgery of life The need to avoid strife Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye It's all in your mind A fabrication Imagination Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye In and out Up and down They go as they come They bring gladness as they leave sadness Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Deathly still As still as death Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye I've been told to move on As young and beautiful As a newborn fawn As broken and doubtful As a mind so torn Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye You have left us tonight You're nowhere in sight Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye The moss spreads The dust collects Decrepit but not dead Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye I've been told I'm wasting my life I've been told to let go I know it's all true It's something I must do Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye You left and now, I'd like to leave too Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye No. A simple word A simple meaning All over my mind Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye I won't let you go I refuse to do so You embody life A life I wish was mine Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye You said goodbye, not on purpose, of course But they said goodbye on purpose. Who do I believe? The living or the dead? Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. It's the only word in my mind.
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 9:57 AM UTC
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Love too much Hurt too much Always needing a heart to touch Limitless sources of abundance so clear No ability to cause you harm or unnecessary fear Sometimes momentary blindness, inability to truly hear Critical lapses of  excruciating, intensity from my vivid past Try, as I might, to make the most healthy relationship last As days turn into nights, I wish a moment of bliss with you that would last. Not sure anymore, of anything that is real Putrid, agonizing, annoyance seems to keep me off keel Hoping, dreaming and wanting for my positive feelings to be real Lustful thoughts of our time together feel ****** and surreal In the midst of the anger and bitterness,  I realize I am able to feel. Seductive, entranced, mesmorized with true love stamped within our hearts, forever sealed. The dripping of the lukewarm indecision has grown old, decrepit and shames me in despair Ready now for the realness of  a soul mate, never knowing one that cared. So here it goes, where it ends, know one knows… now that my soul has been given and shared. In the end, where I have always been Crushed within the lions den Here I am, nothing hidden, never knowing the why and when. My heart is now yours and given of my free will Never again will I have to trudge up the loneliness hill. The love that I seek has been found in you With a light in our eyes, yours sparkling blue. The things in my past that riddled me with fear When the darkness replaced the light is no longer here. I'm trusting you to love me and hope it is true. This poem was written especially for you.
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM UTC
CRUSHED WITHIN THE LIONS DEN
Love too much Hurt too much Always needing a heart to touch Limitless sources of abundance so clear No ability to cause you harm or unnecessary fear Sometimes momentary blindness, inability to truly hear Critical lapses of  excruciating, intensity from my vivid past Try, as I might, to make the most healthy relationship last As days turn into nights, I wish a moment of bliss with you that would last. Not sure anymore, of anything that is real Putrid, agonizing, annoyance seems to keep me off keel Hoping, dreaming and wanting for my positive feelings to be real Lustful thoughts of our time together feel ****** and surreal In the midst of the anger and bitterness,  I realize I am able to feel. Seductive, entranced, mesmorized with true love stamped within our hearts, forever sealed. The dripping of the lukewarm indecision has grown old, decrepit and shames me in despair Ready now for the realness of  a soul mate, never knowing one that cared. So here it goes, where it ends, know one knows… now that my soul has been given and shared. In the end, where I have always been Crushed within the lions den Here I am, nothing hidden, never knowing the why and when. My heart is now yours and given of my free will Never again will I have to trudge up the loneliness hill. The love that I seek has been found in you With a light in our eyes, yours sparkling blue. The things in my past that riddled me with fear When the darkness replaced the light is no longer here. I'm trusting you to love me and hope it is true. This poem was written especially for you.
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I will not wait for you to strip the last oxygen molecule from my decrepit body.
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Aug 13, 2012
Aug 13, 2012 at 9:14 PM UTC
Robbery