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There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges, Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies. I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step on your feet, Because I think that is sort of sweet; No, I object to one kind of apology alone, Which is when people spend their time and yours apologizing for everything they own. You go to their house for a meal, And they apologize because the anchovies aren't caviar or the partridge is veal; They apologize privately for the crudeness of the other guests, And they apologize publicly for their wife's housekeeping or their husband's jests; If they give you a book by Dickens they apologize because it isn't by Scott, And if they take you to the theater, they apologize for the acting and the dialogue and the plot; They contain more milk of human kindness than the most capacious diary can, But if you are from out of town they apologize for everything local and if you are a foreigner they apologize for everything American. I dread these apologizers even as I am depicting them, I shudder as I think of the hours that must be spend in contradicting them, Because you are very rude if you let them emerge from an argument victorious, And when they say something of theirs is awful, it is your duty to convince them politely that it is magnificent and glorious, And what particularly bores me with them, Is that half the time you have to politely contradict them when you rudely agree with them, So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice
There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges, Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies. I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step on your feet, Because I think that is sort of sweet; No, I object to one kind of apology alone, Which is when people spend their time and yours apologizing for everything they own. You go to their house for a meal, And they apologize because the anchovies aren't caviar or the partridge is veal; They apologize privately for the crudeness of the other guests, And they apologize publicly for their wife's housekeeping or their husband's jests; If they give you a book by Dickens they apologize because it isn't by Scott, And if they take you to the theater, they apologize for the acting and the dialogue and the plot; They contain more milk of human kindness than the most capacious diary can, But if you are from out of town they apologize for everything local and if you are a foreigner they apologize for everything American. I dread these apologizers even as I am depicting them, I shudder as I think of the hours that must be spend in contradicting them, Because you are very rude if you let them emerge from an argument victorious, And when they say something of theirs is awful, it is your duty to convince them politely that it is magnificent and glorious, And what particularly bores me with them, Is that half the time you have to politely contradict them when you rudely agree with them, So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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Tick tock, Tick tock, Tock Tock ticking Clocks cluck, catching curious cries Several seconds slide, slowly sticking Eclectic evil ever eager to eat out eyes Tock tock, tick tick Tock danger dances down, depicting doom Hands hold hearts heavily in hock aren't all able to articulately assume? Clock is currently counting costs justifying jumps and juggling jacks tabulating time that is tossed lightening liberal lust and loving lax tick tick tick, tick tick tick destination is a detonation despised tock tock tock, tock tock tock sheep sleep soundly shrouded, so surprised
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 2:50 AM UTC
Tick Tock, Counts the Clock (alliteration)
Eve of Holi A spring eve that’s all different from others Zephyrs blowing away the leaves Orange sky adding the flavours Blooming flowers nodding in a rhythm So Ironical is nature of this evening That all these beauties act as ornaments of Kali On a normal evening man would work They would work appraising weather They know it will not last long, they enjoy Today they as if ignore it, of morning celebrations Morning is gayest morning of the year Every reason to see every man Mankind being unanimous Evening on contrary balancing it to a usual day An unexplainable soundlessness, vacuum of thoughts A day depicting environment without men on work Streets still hold colours on their chest But this colour no more is a sign of happiness People meet each other, everyone has a smile But that doesn’t match with nature suit There smiles have scope within its sight Body of people walking on street enjoy zephyr Their mind stay startled of unusual quietness Standing on my entrance, I observe A swinging litchi tree, missing sound of saw mill Smiling flowers, orange cloudy sky Empty streets, parked wagons, and utterly silence
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM UTC
Holi. The festival of colours?
Mad Angry and disturbed Perturbed by your absurd words Their rhythm ring sing songs on & on Wrongly depicting me as the beast who depletes we Condemned and prosecuted for convoluted convictions Incarcerated despite fair trial meanwhile Defendant roams free, though guilty So I suffer when her rough mood cannot bebuffered And somehow the blame is on me, what a shame it would be If I had a fair trial, and you were beguiled by my vengeance But Corinthians bestowed on me that love hold no grudge So I won't budge, This time.
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Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014 at 1:06 AM UTC
Guilty yet guilt-free
You once told me that when we die, we become another star in the night. I never really cared about your zodiac and lunar signs, I never paid attention to the solar action shooting by, You'd wonder if it's magic plans or broken scrap that flew the skies, You were psychedelic dresses, I was only wrapped in suit and tie, It never blew my mind until I finally gave your truth a try, I glimpsed the puzzle pieces in the time before the moon would rise, A tapestry on galaxies, depicting myths, and human lies, I guess you proved me wrong again, I was quick to scrutinize. Now, I'm studying the subjects and sitting in observatories, Thinking back to when I'd write them off before I heard the stories, Earth is boring now you're gone, I hope you're up there yearning for me, Every star's a soul, I'd see you but there's nothing worse than stormy Nights and light pollution, it's a blinding kind of nuisance, I'd be admiring your fusion but the sky has turned translucent, But still I'm plotting charts of stars, I'm always making observations, Waiting for the day I get to see your face in constellations. I wanna chase you forever, whether heaven or hell, I'll go, Can't let you float away, I'll take a world tour with my telescope, The way I speed through hemispheres, this night will be the death of me, But otherwise I'd only see you half the year, you're my Persephone, I'll trek from Arctic harbors, give binoculars to polar bears, Shiver in my igloo, hands together, say a hopeful prayer, And no, I won't be lonely there, your soul will be a solar flare, You'll whisper an aurora, northern lights to let me know you care. I'll whistle Canis Major and Minor, and let Orion guide me, I'm quite unlikely to quit, what kind of guy would I be? To search the Seven Sisters for an eighth and get inside their psyche? I'll question Cassiopeia, Cygnus, and Pisces nicely, Ask if they've seen something fishy, and then I'll talk to Taurus, An orbit tourist, I'm daunted without the gall to forfeit, So if you're gone, then I'm glad that this was all you taught me, I live each day for the night and just endure the morning.
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 3:50 PM UTC
Constellations
You once told me that when we die, we become another star in the night. I never really cared about your zodiac and lunar signs, I never paid attention to the solar action shooting by, You'd wonder if it's magic plans or broken scrap that flew the skies, You were psychedelic dresses, I was only wrapped in suit and tie, It never blew my mind until I finally gave your truth a try, I glimpsed the puzzle pieces in the time before the moon would rise, A tapestry on galaxies, depicting myths, and human lies, I guess you proved me wrong again, I was quick to scrutinize. Now, I'm studying the subjects and sitting in observatories, Thinking back to when I'd write them off before I heard the stories, Earth is boring now you're gone, I hope you're up there yearning for me, Every star's a soul, I'd see you but there's nothing worse than stormy Nights and light pollution, it's a blinding kind of nuisance, I'd be admiring your fusion but the sky has turned translucent, But still I'm plotting charts of stars, I'm always making observations, Waiting for the day I get to see your face in constellations. I wanna chase you forever, whether heaven or hell, I'll go, Can't let you float away, I'll take a world tour with my telescope, The way I speed through hemispheres, this night will be the death of me, But otherwise I'd only see you half the year, you're my Persephone, I'll trek from Arctic harbors, give binoculars to polar bears, Shiver in my igloo, hands together, say a hopeful prayer, And no, I won't be lonely there, your soul will be a solar flare, You'll whisper an aurora, northern lights to let me know you care. I'll whistle Canis Major and Minor, and let Orion guide me, I'm quite unlikely to quit, what kind of guy would I be? To search the Seven Sisters for an eighth and get inside their psyche? I'll question Cassiopeia, Cygnus, and Pisces nicely, Ask if they've seen something fishy, and then I'll talk to Taurus, An orbit tourist, I'm daunted without the gall to forfeit, So if you're gone, then I'm glad that this was all you taught me, I live each day for the night and just endure the morning.
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The first Drops for her, The silent wish, That it was different, That I was not a burden. It splashes down, Splitting into a thousand little droplets, Each a sorrowful entity, Depicting each scene of heart-wrenching pain. The second Drops for him, The silent prayer, That I could be better, A person you wished could be like you, The man that could make you proud, By just being a man Not more, not less. I'm sorry I'm less. The third Drops for me, More than just silent, More than just faint, It crashes like thunder, Bearing grief and pain, That I am not what you expect, Nor will I ever be, And nothing can change that, even me. These tears come hurtling down, And maybe the figures are just figures, It could be more, definitely more, I lost count, But the awful truth is its always silent, Never to be heard or seen...
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 5:12 AM UTC
Tears
resuming vogon poetry altering website logos pretending everyone cares playing "east hastings" asphyxiating well-nigh denouement depicting twitter status obfuscating coincident deletions translating from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh assuring Sḵwx̱wú7mesh exists painting skwiḵw's mother? decrying micropolitical maelstrom imbibing fireball fountain inundating lexical foofaraw crafting poetic wonders desiring other mediums remaining practically invisible ending internet-only depression drafting noetic blunders requesting astute clique blazing perilous trail aging ominous grisaille depicting kmart realism seeking darker groups increasing pre-weekend laughter appropriating communist symbols making lone chuckle offending worldwide communists colonizing hello poetry colonizing parallel universe relaxing e-migration policies пить чистую водку photographing abduction scene ¿losing consistent format? increasing bluebird insignia avoiding frivolous legalities striking astraphobic comments assuming near-universal automation lowering latent inhibition traversing oneiric plane laxwadding afebrile loodies wallscaping pitchsourced chthonicities closing one-star conveniences sharing alien-looking alphabet writing system downtimes
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 7:42 PM UTC
201509-w1
The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy the poet places his Sunday porcelain coffee mug   upon his bare chest, purposed to heat the heart to a higher degree, equal to hers, next door, three feet away, in their communal bed two identical alarm clocks, one on each nightstand, confirms the degree differential, for far beyond time-telling, it informs on me, providing the room temperature, and her side of the bed, 5 degrees warmer the collegial scientists posit theoretical excuses, the rooms wind currents, proximity to the A/C, body mass, all refuted after visual and mechanical inspection, all indelible proofs of the Equivalency Fallacy despite the visual evidence abounding all around, despite the surrounding starlike quantity of busted, love songs, poems and the other artistic churn, depicting the principle, one requires love physics to validate the living principle for the living, that love is rarely identical in quantitative quality, typology, representation and manifestations measurable each greets the other with morning declarations of mutuality, trying to find those hundred different ways to love her/him today, employing imaginative artifice to proof the impossibility, that in every aspect your living love ability is precious capital precision equal and ha! each love is the greater... you knew this? then you knew, his coffee spills (intentionally?) and the Fighting Fallacy rules, every thing is fair in love and war, for they too, are identical and equal, in so many ways, but never quantifiable exactly 8:33am, 73 degrees, on my side 11/12/17
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 8:45 AM UTC
The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy
The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy the poet places his Sunday porcelain coffee mug   upon his bare chest, purposed to heat the heart to a higher degree, equal to hers, next door, three feet away, in their communal bed two identical alarm clocks, one on each nightstand, confirms the degree differential, for far beyond time-telling, it informs on me, providing the room temperature, and her side of the bed, 5 degrees warmer the collegial scientists posit theoretical excuses, the rooms wind currents, proximity to the A/C, body mass, all refuted after visual and mechanical inspection, all indelible proofs of the Equivalency Fallacy despite the visual evidence abounding all around, despite the surrounding starlike quantity of busted, love songs, poems and the other artistic churn, depicting the principle, one requires love physics to validate the living principle for the living, that love is rarely identical in quantitative quality, typology, representation and manifestations measurable each greets the other with morning declarations of mutuality, trying to find those hundred different ways to love her/him today, employing imaginative artifice to proof the impossibility, that in every aspect your living love ability is precious capital precision equal and ha! each love is the greater... you knew this? then you knew, his coffee spills (intentionally?) and the Fighting Fallacy rules, every thing is fair in love and war, for they too, are identical and equal, in so many ways, but never quantifiable exactly 8:33am, 73 degrees, on my side 11/12/17
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You know it's time to talk when the teapot empties itself, forgotten steam whistling in and out our ears. Tell the truth, it's all about the mist, crawling in and out of our heads. delicately painted china empty of all but dregs spilling out patterns depicting surprises unreadable to all but the blind changing the addictions to colorless schemes of the bitter sweet taste lingering on our tongues uncurling to let out the truth.
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 12:30 PM UTC
Teatime
You were born in the cold black heart of the Cold War, under the fist of Eisenhower, under the satellite eye of Mother Russia—1960 America. Chinese Year of the Rat.  U-2 Pilot Gary Powers forgot to **** himself. Space Race Baby looking up at stars she does not comprehend— the world is big, the sky is bigger—Shhhhhhhhhhh: huddle under your desk in case a big, black, bomb falls down and burns you so bad you feel nothing but cold                cold         cold; huddle inside yourself in case your plane is shot down over Soviet soil and everything turns to red, turns to blood, turns to your fingers shaking and your eyes stinging, and you think about that time when your mother told you about the Year of the Rat being associated with white, with the Chinese color of death.  You think: This is it.  There is where it ends, but this is not it; this is not the end.  You will die in a hospital bed in 49 years, so just give it some time, alright? Khrushchev and Eisenhower can play Tug-of-War and                                    Vietnam can burn in the meantime. Mother, when you were born you could not breathe.  Mother, when you died it was because you could not breathe.  Mother, when you are not here I think of Gary Powers not having time to press “Self-Destruct,” of the Year of the Rat                                                                       choking to death on                                                                        Lily  of  the  Valley, of learning how to talk to the 58,286 dead Vietnam War soldiers. I want to know what it is like to look up at the sky and fear a missile strike smack in the middle of winter. I want to know how cold the Cold War felt to you in the Chinese Year of the Rat, and what he felt when U-2 Pilot Gary Powers fell like                     Lucifer                into the arms             of Mother Russia.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 6:45 AM UTC
A Constellation Depicting Stockpiles of Nuclear Weapons
You were born in the cold black heart of the Cold War, under the fist of Eisenhower, under the satellite eye of Mother Russia—1960 America. Chinese Year of the Rat.  U-2 Pilot Gary Powers forgot to **** himself. Space Race Baby looking up at stars she does not comprehend— the world is big, the sky is bigger—Shhhhhhhhhhh: huddle under your desk in case a big, black, bomb falls down and burns you so bad you feel nothing but cold                cold         cold; huddle inside yourself in case your plane is shot down over Soviet soil and everything turns to red, turns to blood, turns to your fingers shaking and your eyes stinging, and you think about that time when your mother told you about the Year of the Rat being associated with white, with the Chinese color of death.  You think: This is it.  There is where it ends, but this is not it; this is not the end.  You will die in a hospital bed in 49 years, so just give it some time, alright? Khrushchev and Eisenhower can play Tug-of-War and                                    Vietnam can burn in the meantime. Mother, when you were born you could not breathe.  Mother, when you died it was because you could not breathe.  Mother, when you are not here I think of Gary Powers not having time to press “Self-Destruct,” of the Year of the Rat                                                                       choking to death on                                                                        Lily  of  the  Valley, of learning how to talk to the 58,286 dead Vietnam War soldiers. I want to know what it is like to look up at the sky and fear a missile strike smack in the middle of winter. I want to know how cold the Cold War felt to you in the Chinese Year of the Rat, and what he felt when U-2 Pilot Gary Powers fell like                     Lucifer                into the arms             of Mother Russia.
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The grass was clear in the moist of the ruins moat Twas dawn and all this hike, not even a city I could sight The plains were sheer as the white satin coat I've seen Clash, a clustering view from mountains down to hills Shaking knees as I rise to pick up my bed of sheets Then the breeze swept as I shivered to its grasping chills Distant peeks; unbridled stallions are troubled free The sunray spots the verge and brightens the darkest end At lost in the moment, a nature's sage of imagery blends A brown wren swiftly glides upon to rest at my tent In the midst of the day like rain in June and blooms of May Swans, Geese and white petals dancing to a bluish bay Solitary to be, but with the rivers overflowing symphonies We'd sing hymns to delight in an afternoon galore A steadfast rhythm clinging as I walk with God alone Euphoric army of billows cascading, a purple-orange scene As I idle in the view of fields depicting a justful liberty To smile and remember someone cared with all is please Singing crickets and fireflies we're all a friend of mine At eve I rolled endlessly, frolicking at the midnight meadow Casting joys and crowns as the moon beams a silver line To the hinterlands, life's a breeze and everybody twas at ease An escapade I was wanting to get lost from life's reality Meeting pauper's, gazing wonders, then we'd all fall asleep
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Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 at 12:11 AM UTC
◦ To the Hinterlands
Everyday’s affliction with what we know is missing Countless moments wishing that fishing was as simple as whistling Remembering that willows wither in winters un-warmed and wandering wonders willfully repose when rivaled against ripening woes Come closer potential memories of exposes’ Clothes skydiving with expectations of faceplanting into the floor Lady classifications disguise the actions depicting a ***** Heaping hopefuls cascade over glistening gazes that persuade the perilous to lay dormant Come closer to the oops That second guess in the back of your head that taps the shoulder and says go That same go that was an initial no and now corruption has spidered the criteria It seems the cat may have found the trick to the ball of yarn
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Dec 1, 2011
Dec 1, 2011 at 10:26 PM UTC
Curiosities Corruption
Fading stains record the tender scheme of flagrant deliberation Transparent in their defense of the illusion Depicting careful consideration of honesty and reserve While shattering the picture of your delusions A saturation of recollection, distinctive in its eloquence Briefly coercing the eyes to conceive The continuation of a scheme hid in a shroud of confusion Which refuses to change or ever leave What would ever stain, yet without any imperfection Expressing clear in all of its defense Completely raw and uninhibited in the purest honesty Yet leave your values standing on the fence A love beyond comprehension is your tender scheme The stains are your records of transparency A continuation one cannot deny, when looking in your eyes No illusions, just the pureness of honesty
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Jul 11, 2010
Jul 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM UTC
Honesty
A land with love, peace & admiration To you I salute with all my devotion A land where live people of all kind Various languages where we find A land beleaguered by Himalaya And perennial rivers running via A land signed by a flag of tri colour With courage, peace & faith depicting her A land called as India or Hind Where I'm privileged to born in A land to which I call my country With all my devotion I salute thee...
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM UTC
AN ODE TO INDIA
building purist æsthetic proselytizing solar-powered heliolatry commemorating historic concert sensing dark forces fokken lekker antwoord pumping sensory overload featuring high-tech dee-jay admiring gelato micro-truck laxing laying lazing "doing something nasty" continuing quality content entering another cathedral journeying without borders "exactly one year since visiting vatican" appreciating full-time gigasphere awaiting pyongyang performance depicting unlikely crowdsurfer foreseeing exponential improvements furthering esoteric agenda sensing profound incompatibility data-mining people's infidelities anticipating futuristic caffeine perfecting invisible propaganda researching mind-control techniques polishing psycho-social weaponry sensing social embargo flourishing frantic fanfare admiring longitudinal monument parodying marketing slogans cycling through österreich eyeing dystopian disneyland streaming crosswords extended-play herding glass kittens deleting idiosyncratic fragment loremipsum-ing laconic loudmouth receiving ultramodern telegram eigo-ga wakarimasu ka? guzzling duck-fat fries encouraging panic selling (juxtaposing past incarnations) getting black-and-white privilege renewing boutique account relishing cinema poutine re-entering hibernation mode opening old windows continuing zoo motif absquatulating excessive excesses nullifying originality claims proliferating protean persona disappearing sidewalk alphabet shrugging opprobrious moments enjoying vertical alignment re-entering cyberpunk paradise approaching island sun soaring beyond monoliths trivializing extraneous argy-bargy decreasing character limits dumping generic accounts uglifying commit message escaping into idiosyncracy moonshining great lake exuding idiosyncratic propaganda living nineties' dreams making occidental cuisine envisioning idiocratic president expropriating your time ascending homely helix singing fat lady
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM UTC
201508-h2
building purist æsthetic proselytizing solar-powered heliolatry commemorating historic concert sensing dark forces fokken lekker antwoord pumping sensory overload featuring high-tech dee-jay admiring gelato micro-truck laxing laying lazing "doing something nasty" continuing quality content entering another cathedral journeying without borders "exactly one year since visiting vatican" appreciating full-time gigasphere awaiting pyongyang performance depicting unlikely crowdsurfer foreseeing exponential improvements furthering esoteric agenda sensing profound incompatibility data-mining people's infidelities anticipating futuristic caffeine perfecting invisible propaganda researching mind-control techniques polishing psycho-social weaponry sensing social embargo flourishing frantic fanfare admiring longitudinal monument parodying marketing slogans cycling through österreich eyeing dystopian disneyland streaming crosswords extended-play herding glass kittens deleting idiosyncratic fragment loremipsum-ing laconic loudmouth receiving ultramodern telegram eigo-ga wakarimasu ka? guzzling duck-fat fries encouraging panic selling (juxtaposing past incarnations) getting black-and-white privilege renewing boutique account relishing cinema poutine re-entering hibernation mode opening old windows continuing zoo motif absquatulating excessive excesses nullifying originality claims proliferating protean persona disappearing sidewalk alphabet shrugging opprobrious moments enjoying vertical alignment re-entering cyberpunk paradise approaching island sun soaring beyond monoliths trivializing extraneous argy-bargy decreasing character limits dumping generic accounts uglifying commit message escaping into idiosyncracy moonshining great lake exuding idiosyncratic propaganda living nineties' dreams making occidental cuisine envisioning idiocratic president expropriating your time ascending homely helix singing fat lady
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If my life were a movie it would be one of those films that gets hyped up to no end because I’m one of those kids with the rough childhood who just wants to make it When in reality it’s just a less action packed but just as dark dc movie My story has also been confused with a marvel movie since the protagonist is me And i can't help but cut my overbearing traumatic tragedies with self deprecating comedies But my life to me feels more like an edgar wright movie where the action isn’t as exciting as The fact that I was able to get out of bed this morning And my day to day reality will forever feel like a motion blur of edited out negative emotion I think Maybe my life could be a wes anderson movie stuck in one color palette for the rest of my eternity And my maturity tends to overwhelm me my journey is like an anderson movie because i tend to create a world around me Taking time to shape my own protected reality so that the outside world can’t hurt inside me If im being honest though i want my life to be a spielberg movie that grabs attention of all ages coming from all sorts of places I want to spin my truths into his fantastic fantasies where no one equates my past with me But at the same time I want my life to be a blast from the past john hughes movie where i find a way to stop my past from haunting me And everything ends up okay at the end of the day because my minds overbearing insecurities No longer have control over me Now i see that in actuality other peoples movies are just too much for who i truly want to be and how my trauma impacts me I mean between my all of those boring biographies and my abundance of favorite movies I’d want my life’s movie to be full of images depicting my fondest memories and all my angsty gen z tendencies If my life were a movie i’d make it about how I am, or was, or am going to be If my life were a movie I’d make it about me
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May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 12:24 PM UTC
if my life were a movie
If my life were a movie it would be one of those films that gets hyped up to no end because I’m one of those kids with the rough childhood who just wants to make it When in reality it’s just a less action packed but just as dark dc movie My story has also been confused with a marvel movie since the protagonist is me And i can't help but cut my overbearing traumatic tragedies with self deprecating comedies But my life to me feels more like an edgar wright movie where the action isn’t as exciting as The fact that I was able to get out of bed this morning And my day to day reality will forever feel like a motion blur of edited out negative emotion I think Maybe my life could be a wes anderson movie stuck in one color palette for the rest of my eternity And my maturity tends to overwhelm me my journey is like an anderson movie because i tend to create a world around me Taking time to shape my own protected reality so that the outside world can’t hurt inside me If im being honest though i want my life to be a spielberg movie that grabs attention of all ages coming from all sorts of places I want to spin my truths into his fantastic fantasies where no one equates my past with me But at the same time I want my life to be a blast from the past john hughes movie where i find a way to stop my past from haunting me And everything ends up okay at the end of the day because my minds overbearing insecurities No longer have control over me Now i see that in actuality other peoples movies are just too much for who i truly want to be and how my trauma impacts me I mean between my all of those boring biographies and my abundance of favorite movies I’d want my life’s movie to be full of images depicting my fondest memories and all my angsty gen z tendencies If my life were a movie i’d make it about how I am, or was, or am going to be If my life were a movie I’d make it about me
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The sweetness hurt the most. the way you laughed with me the way we'd stay on the phone for hours depicting scenes of us having picnics on warm summer days playing with our son the one you swore you'd have with me you swore a lot of things but yet, you never swear. well, you do now, but you didn't used too. that was sweet. the sweetness hurt the most. the way you'd lovingly ask me to hold you i called you my baby girl, and you called me every night, so that you could feel safe and warm throughout our years together, I was your shelter your safe haven, from the downpour that was his death the hurricane winds that was another's misplaced love and the lightning stress of a senior year, and big changes. I protected you. I kept you safe. I loved you. You used me. and when you were done, when the storms had passed you left my shelter, for one that looked better. I warned you, my shelter was true and his was not, I warned you, as sweetly as I could those hard nights not to do this. The sweetness hurt the most. worse even, then when you ignored me and left my shelter anyways, to go to his. how did that work out? you hate him now? he took advantage of you? he wasn't what you thought? pity, because I tried to warn you, whispering "please listen to me, my sweet, i love you" certainly the sweetness hurt the most. and even now, after everything you've told me after you finally worked up the courage to face what you did I know in my heart that you still have never felt the pain even on your worst day, that I felt on my best day, after you left. you are somehow blessed with the ability to forget the things you no longer wish to remember. it's impossible to grow, until you feel the pain of what you've done and as wrong as you were, you were right about one thing, I am the strong one. and my shelter? Now I have someone else to protect, and there's no room for you. and the songs I used to sing you to sleep with the ones that I couldn't bare to hear after you left? I sing them to her now, even more sweetly then I did to you. the sweetness hurt the most. but now I'm better, and I've let you go. I bear you no ill will. I will never forget you, but forgiving you is a long shot too. I do not hate you, nor even do I dislike you. Count me not as your enemy, nor as your friend Perhaps just do what you did before, and forget to count me at all. I may even still love you, but never enough to let you back in my shelter. The shelter that if truth be told, is the strongest one you could have found. and god help you when the rain comes because baby, my sweet, sweet girl the rain will be my tear drops, the wind will be the loving words i whispered to you, and the lightning will be hot, flashing images of the future you gave up. and the sweetness will hurt the most.
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Aug 23, 2010
Aug 23, 2010 at 2:14 PM UTC
Sweetness
The sweetness hurt the most. the way you laughed with me the way we'd stay on the phone for hours depicting scenes of us having picnics on warm summer days playing with our son the one you swore you'd have with me you swore a lot of things but yet, you never swear. well, you do now, but you didn't used too. that was sweet. the sweetness hurt the most. the way you'd lovingly ask me to hold you i called you my baby girl, and you called me every night, so that you could feel safe and warm throughout our years together, I was your shelter your safe haven, from the downpour that was his death the hurricane winds that was another's misplaced love and the lightning stress of a senior year, and big changes. I protected you. I kept you safe. I loved you. You used me. and when you were done, when the storms had passed you left my shelter, for one that looked better. I warned you, my shelter was true and his was not, I warned you, as sweetly as I could those hard nights not to do this. The sweetness hurt the most. worse even, then when you ignored me and left my shelter anyways, to go to his. how did that work out? you hate him now? he took advantage of you? he wasn't what you thought? pity, because I tried to warn you, whispering "please listen to me, my sweet, i love you" certainly the sweetness hurt the most. and even now, after everything you've told me after you finally worked up the courage to face what you did I know in my heart that you still have never felt the pain even on your worst day, that I felt on my best day, after you left. you are somehow blessed with the ability to forget the things you no longer wish to remember. it's impossible to grow, until you feel the pain of what you've done and as wrong as you were, you were right about one thing, I am the strong one. and my shelter? Now I have someone else to protect, and there's no room for you. and the songs I used to sing you to sleep with the ones that I couldn't bare to hear after you left? I sing them to her now, even more sweetly then I did to you. the sweetness hurt the most. but now I'm better, and I've let you go. I bear you no ill will. I will never forget you, but forgiving you is a long shot too. I do not hate you, nor even do I dislike you. Count me not as your enemy, nor as your friend Perhaps just do what you did before, and forget to count me at all. I may even still love you, but never enough to let you back in my shelter. The shelter that if truth be told, is the strongest one you could have found. and god help you when the rain comes because baby, my sweet, sweet girl the rain will be my tear drops, the wind will be the loving words i whispered to you, and the lightning will be hot, flashing images of the future you gave up. and the sweetness will hurt the most.
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my sunny days were spent cooking plastic spaghetti noodles over a wrinkled sticker depicting an oven eye while kate shuffled through invisible mail and tended to our adopted stuffed animals imitating her mother’s affection. my sunny days were spent building lego castles on the cool screen-in porch while the radio played mellow weezer that was suddenly replaced by sparks and foul smoke because of billy’s antics with the hissing water hose. my sunny days were spent drawing tattered pirate maps on jelly-smudged napkins that guided us—the brave hardened rapscallions—to the attic to horde stores of gold and to battle foes in the dusty shadows with our swords made of cardboard. my sunny days were spent hiding and seeking until mom’s heels clicked up the hot asphalt driveway where she would chastise me for the mess i had made of myself in cuts scrapes and grass stains worn by me as medals of honor.
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Feb 6, 2010
Feb 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM UTC
in memoriam
Bamboo shoots, cooked in oil, we munched were delicious. The tender love, we shared, in our sojourn, in the lodge deep inside the forest, had complemented it. She was a playful tigress, transformed by the atmosphere, with a manifested ****** interest, different from her usual demure self. One thing led to another, we fed each other, heady vintage wine, from our mouths, till we found out, in such circumstances, love would make us do things, we never imagined we could. The sketch she made depicting us, as two wild elephants, in musth* rummaging the bamboo grove, eating shoots to our fill, reminded *Shiva and Parvathi, his consort, taking the form of elephants indulging  in every possible play amorous, culminating in the birth of Ganesha, the cute God, elephant faced, the remover of obstacles. Love drunk the song  we both sung, was one of innocence. The booming wind in bamboo leaves, suddenly changed tune, sounding like ankle bells. Dense, dark, green womb of forest and the flow of wind above, like a blood stream, kindled the prenatal memories, from deep down, and as the background score, cacophony of unknown birds of many feathers. We swam in the lukewarm water, of a day so different, with joyous abandon. A voice mysterious, spoke in my blood stream: "Be like birds, wind on bamboo grove, elephants seeking what they want, the love you share would bring, fantastic results, the world, would look far more simple, life and death cease to be riddles, just natural, shadows vanish, no fear remains in deep caves, everything gently flows, like a clear river to the ocean"
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 1:08 AM UTC
A day different, we invented
Bamboo shoots, cooked in oil, we munched were delicious. The tender love, we shared, in our sojourn, in the lodge deep inside the forest, had complemented it. She was a playful tigress, transformed by the atmosphere, with a manifested ****** interest, different from her usual demure self. One thing led to another, we fed each other, heady vintage wine, from our mouths, till we found out, in such circumstances, love would make us do things, we never imagined we could. The sketch she made depicting us, as two wild elephants, in musth* rummaging the bamboo grove, eating shoots to our fill, reminded *Shiva and Parvathi, his consort, taking the form of elephants indulging  in every possible play amorous, culminating in the birth of Ganesha, the cute God, elephant faced, the remover of obstacles. Love drunk the song  we both sung, was one of innocence. The booming wind in bamboo leaves, suddenly changed tune, sounding like ankle bells. Dense, dark, green womb of forest and the flow of wind above, like a blood stream, kindled the prenatal memories, from deep down, and as the background score, cacophony of unknown birds of many feathers. We swam in the lukewarm water, of a day so different, with joyous abandon. A voice mysterious, spoke in my blood stream: "Be like birds, wind on bamboo grove, elephants seeking what they want, the love you share would bring, fantastic results, the world, would look far more simple, life and death cease to be riddles, just natural, shadows vanish, no fear remains in deep caves, everything gently flows, like a clear river to the ocean"
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no count-downs for birthday parties no arm wrestles, no jump shots no go-cart donuts not even a snowball where did we go? blond hair up to my shoulders surrounded by jewels some empty-paned picture frame couple sprouts beneath a pine saying "monkeys" for Grammy's kodak red clay on your feet pink frosting in your teeth me, sheathed in my favorite shirt "I'm the big sister!" with a butterfly depicting what I've yet to become how wrong have we gone? well, I'll be twenty once spring rolls around and brother you're not far behind I can't tell time to change its mind but I promise you it won't be changing mine from the photographs, scrapbooks I'll forever feel your laughter just like goosebumps the brail I'm reading into let's gaze past glares straight through white sunbeams spiking your brown eyes twice as deep as mine the truest shades on the face of the earth to this very foggy day this mirror, this moment snagged before shutters snap and capture us, splatter us on matte paper, or cell screens with brown hair up to your shoulders way to go, little brother but I'm still keeping that tee because the only thing I've always been proud to be is your big sister
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Mar 4, 2018
Mar 4, 2018 at 10:14 PM UTC
and then, we stopped racing
Last night I had a dream. I was standing on a planet named ALONE. It was just a lonely planet widout any sun and moons. It consisted of kingdoms. And I was on a tower of one of such kingdoms. The day was perfectly imperfect as always. And the night came succeeding to boil all the intricate frivolous thoughts running through my mind. Wind was cooler than usual. And its blowrate was gradually increasing. Suddenly I saw a white dot far ahead in the sky. It was getting brighter and was protruding lines of white. Wind ravished the people all around the planet. There faar ahead something had happened and the white dot was now like ripped off into small white dots and was kept intact in a spherical manner by some force. It was a scene depicting many planets coming into existence. Then something clicked my mind. Maybe there a world had arised like ours but very very far from this planet. But there, is not just a planet, but many of them with luminous bodies succumbed into it. One day I will travel there. I got up from sleep. Now I knew that goals are always far. You just have to try and be determined..
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 5:13 AM UTC
Aim
Keeper of the meaning Mindfulness a prelude The struggled literature it asked the way The keeper, contemplating the path Stopped to think about Natural things Asking elders on the trail Creating triads Depicting aspects of her answer To the question What it means And some; were enlightened And air and breath and beauty Wrought wrath Indigenous justices Things worth keeping To the keeper of meaning
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Aug 23, 2015
Aug 23, 2015 at 6:20 PM UTC
The keeper of the meaning
When put to words They do not feel the same. When said out loud, Come across as burned out flames- They seem as somewhat distorted, Not what You see inside, Rather concealed and tamed, The intensity not quite portrayed, On the equivalent high tide.
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 8:29 AM UTC
Depicting Emotions
Kiss me, So I may drown in this amorous affair, Savoring the delicious taste, Of your lips against my own. Hold me, Your arms clasped around, My petite body, Skin touching skin, Finding warmth in your blanket, Of security and adoration, Burrowing into the flowing fabric, Of your embrace. Never let me go, I yearn to hear the inhales, And exhales of your breath; You glance at me, Chuckling in delight, As your thoughts turn, To how enchanting you view me to be. Caress me, Allowing your firm hands to explore, The slight curves, Of a soft feminine exterior, Yearning for the stroke, Of your fingertips upon me. Does love not knock upon the door, Of your innermost chamber?! Listen Please, Silence your scattered thoughts, Allowing you to hear, The lulling seductive melody, Depicting the presence of Eros, In the heat of the night. I shall pray you stay, With fingers tightly interlacing, For the fates bestow us, With a blessing, Perhaps a curse, Receiving a bond to unite us. An illicit connection, In the eyes of others, Yet I behold my desire, For you as a dragonfly, Mysterious and ancient, A beautiful creature, Existing almost as long, As the sands of time, Flying among the earth, To be free. Breathe me in, Granting me the chance, To enter your body, Mind and soul, Engrossing our spirits, To complete the other, Through gazing into, The eyes of the other. Cherish me, As our lips encounter, Passionately nibbling, As they collide in portrayal, Of our irrevocable love, Tantalizingly sweet As the Riesling rests, Within my wine glass, Tempting me to consume, Pleasure through the delicious taste, Awaiting for me. Reminding me of the same reasons, I crave you, My beloved.
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 3:00 AM UTC
“Don’t Leave, Just Give in”
Kiss me, So I may drown in this amorous affair, Savoring the delicious taste, Of your lips against my own. Hold me, Your arms clasped around, My petite body, Skin touching skin, Finding warmth in your blanket, Of security and adoration, Burrowing into the flowing fabric, Of your embrace. Never let me go, I yearn to hear the inhales, And exhales of your breath; You glance at me, Chuckling in delight, As your thoughts turn, To how enchanting you view me to be. Caress me, Allowing your firm hands to explore, The slight curves, Of a soft feminine exterior, Yearning for the stroke, Of your fingertips upon me. Does love not knock upon the door, Of your innermost chamber?! Listen Please, Silence your scattered thoughts, Allowing you to hear, The lulling seductive melody, Depicting the presence of Eros, In the heat of the night. I shall pray you stay, With fingers tightly interlacing, For the fates bestow us, With a blessing, Perhaps a curse, Receiving a bond to unite us. An illicit connection, In the eyes of others, Yet I behold my desire, For you as a dragonfly, Mysterious and ancient, A beautiful creature, Existing almost as long, As the sands of time, Flying among the earth, To be free. Breathe me in, Granting me the chance, To enter your body, Mind and soul, Engrossing our spirits, To complete the other, Through gazing into, The eyes of the other. Cherish me, As our lips encounter, Passionately nibbling, As they collide in portrayal, Of our irrevocable love, Tantalizingly sweet As the Riesling rests, Within my wine glass, Tempting me to consume, Pleasure through the delicious taste, Awaiting for me. Reminding me of the same reasons, I crave you, My beloved.
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I sit watching with a lifeless gaze. I see only the thoughts that grip my mind, all an effect of words said. Not the words spoken out loud, but the words strung into answered questions. Questions I have yet to ask and will never ask. I see visions of what-ifs and what-wills. I see images depicting years of the most likely outcome, influenced by years of observation. I see them fall in place like falling leaves from a tree. A tree whose roots grew from insecurities of being nothing more than a seed. I see not love stories nor happily-ever-afters, but that timeless story life has forever told, the story of Truth. I see a play of the willful becoming those who lack the will. I see the stage set with actors holding back their desires, fighting their inhibitions till the clock ticks, hitting that split-second. STOP! Release the lights! QUIT THE ACT! Let the water run and split the bar on the gate that is life. I see the minds of so many who jump ship in this flood, simply to drown in their waters. Their last breath a regret! As they sink in their sea of pain, calling out no name, only asking, "Who do I blame?" The waves washing over with no sway, as if to whisper but one name. I watch the outcome of this play day after day, reaping my mind like the sun seeks the shade. It's fear. Fear of loss and fear to love, it's of failing and failing to try, all the hellos and goodbyes. It's the moments and memories of with and without, it's my thoughts and my doubts, it's no life with. And it's a life going out.
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 5:27 AM UTC
A watchers thoughts
I sit watching with a lifeless gaze. I see only the thoughts that grip my mind, all an effect of words said. Not the words spoken out loud, but the words strung into answered questions. Questions I have yet to ask and will never ask. I see visions of what-ifs and what-wills. I see images depicting years of the most likely outcome, influenced by years of observation. I see them fall in place like falling leaves from a tree. A tree whose roots grew from insecurities of being nothing more than a seed. I see not love stories nor happily-ever-afters, but that timeless story life has forever told, the story of Truth. I see a play of the willful becoming those who lack the will. I see the stage set with actors holding back their desires, fighting their inhibitions till the clock ticks, hitting that split-second. STOP! Release the lights! QUIT THE ACT! Let the water run and split the bar on the gate that is life. I see the minds of so many who jump ship in this flood, simply to drown in their waters. Their last breath a regret! As they sink in their sea of pain, calling out no name, only asking, "Who do I blame?" The waves washing over with no sway, as if to whisper but one name. I watch the outcome of this play day after day, reaping my mind like the sun seeks the shade. It's fear. Fear of loss and fear to love, it's of failing and failing to try, all the hellos and goodbyes. It's the moments and memories of with and without, it's my thoughts and my doubts, it's no life with. And it's a life going out.
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