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"Commitment issues" Commitment: a designated set of time Issues: problems So I cannot, successfully, Designate an "appropriate" amount of time To a relationship Is that right? Keep in mind, These women enter my life And I tell them I don't believe in marriage And they say "that's ok" Until it's not. Maybe it's a comment I made Or maybe they forgot But something changes over time And I am not an object I am not some possession That people can lay claims to I am a human With ever-changing needs and desires With thoughts and feelings And my own perception of reality So maybe I get anxious when people Try to put some hold on me You chalk it up to commitment issues What if I just don't like feeling owned? What if I simply refuse To let anyone remove my autonomy? And what's even wrong with that? Who gets to decide what is an "Appropriate" amount of time? Oh, wait, That's "forever" right? Says who? Why should I continue to chase this Socially-constructed dream Of spending my entire life with one person If that's not what makes me happy? Trust me, I've tried for a long time And I could never seem to find A singular being Who I'd willingly spend eternity with If that even exists And until this point I've been unhappy most of my life Reflecting on my failed attempts at Happy monogamy I am finally happy now Free love is beautiful It has liberated my soul It has liberated my love And my sense of self For once I feel happy most days I am focusing on myself now Instead of pouring everything into another I'm growing more everyday And learning more about who I am But you just brush that off Saying my polyamorous identification Is a manifestation Of some fear of commitment It couldn't possibly be the real me It couldn't possibly be the way I feel happiest Because it's not the "normal" way to desire? It's not the logical form of love? Or it's just different Or it's just new And you rejecting it within me Means you aren't accepting me for who I am In this moment If that's the case Then I don't know who you're in love with Because this is who I am Whether you like it Or disagree with it Or not This is who I am And I'm so over Trying to validate Justify And explain myself Just because someone disagrees with my form of loving
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Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 at 11:45 PM UTC
I'm Polyamorous, Not Scared of Commitment
"Commitment issues" Commitment: a designated set of time Issues: problems So I cannot, successfully, Designate an "appropriate" amount of time To a relationship Is that right? Keep in mind, These women enter my life And I tell them I don't believe in marriage And they say "that's ok" Until it's not. Maybe it's a comment I made Or maybe they forgot But something changes over time And I am not an object I am not some possession That people can lay claims to I am a human With ever-changing needs and desires With thoughts and feelings And my own perception of reality So maybe I get anxious when people Try to put some hold on me You chalk it up to commitment issues What if I just don't like feeling owned? What if I simply refuse To let anyone remove my autonomy? And what's even wrong with that? Who gets to decide what is an "Appropriate" amount of time? Oh, wait, That's "forever" right? Says who? Why should I continue to chase this Socially-constructed dream Of spending my entire life with one person If that's not what makes me happy? Trust me, I've tried for a long time And I could never seem to find A singular being Who I'd willingly spend eternity with If that even exists And until this point I've been unhappy most of my life Reflecting on my failed attempts at Happy monogamy I am finally happy now Free love is beautiful It has liberated my soul It has liberated my love And my sense of self For once I feel happy most days I am focusing on myself now Instead of pouring everything into another I'm growing more everyday And learning more about who I am But you just brush that off Saying my polyamorous identification Is a manifestation Of some fear of commitment It couldn't possibly be the real me It couldn't possibly be the way I feel happiest Because it's not the "normal" way to desire? It's not the logical form of love? Or it's just different Or it's just new And you rejecting it within me Means you aren't accepting me for who I am In this moment If that's the case Then I don't know who you're in love with Because this is who I am Whether you like it Or disagree with it Or not This is who I am And I'm so over Trying to validate Justify And explain myself Just because someone disagrees with my form of loving
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Snow fell deeply on the graves that night, falling on both the wealthy and not so, coating with cleanliness and purity all who do not deserve and the very few who may. The snow descended coldly and quietly, blanketing gravestones and statues alike. Distinguishable only by their shadows and heavenward thrusts and stances, they continue to designate where bodies lay and bright hopes are finished. Despite the softness and the silence, above the solitude and endless white, the boundless rage of ended dreams seems to penetrate upward, to shriek. --
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Sep 10, 2011
Sep 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM UTC
The Graveyard
The gap, the take, The spindle-rake. Don't designate the load. The lack, the sting, The dandy spring, There's more than you could know. So weigh your time, With thundrous lines, This yours is yours alone. Thus Live It Loud, And Sunstorm Proud, Use this full day for, "GO!"
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Sep 13, 2010
Sep 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM UTC
The Good Seizure
Here is where I take your smile and stretch it into a sunset, I remember your words to mean everything they didn't I make haikus out of eyes and note how they emit light when you laugh This is where I draw you indelible on the pages of a notebook I color you vivid, write you permanent, take non-fiction and turn it fantasy, Into something we might watch together on a Sunday night I designate you hero of the story and I wait with tired arms to be lifted into yours Here is where I create a landscape out of ash and worship you with language you don't deserve, vocabulary that is too big for your small Here is what could easily be a love poem if you were someone who wanted one but the only want you have isn't for me
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 2:20 PM UTC
A love poem for someone who doesn't want one
325 Of Tribulation, these are They, Denoted by the White— The Spangled Gowns, a lesser Rank Of Victors—designate— All these—did conquer— But the ones who overcame most times— Wear nothing commoner than Snow— No Ornament, but Palms— Surrender—is a sort unknown— On this superior soil— Defeat—an outgrown Anguish— Remembered, as the Mile Our panting Ankle barely passed— When Night devoured the Road— But we—stood whispering in the House— And all we said—was “Saved”!
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Of Tribulation, these are They
I could write a poem on how the storm outside Assaults my window panes with pain intended. The wind brings life to the inanimate accessories of trees Previously dropped to the ground like cigarette butts. And I could say how this weather suits my mood As if even though I’m sitting here in a towel after my bath, There is chaos inside my mind far greater than any weather occurrence. But that would be insane. As if the world outside, where the purpose of the sky is to designate the rain Shares any likeness to the mood I am in. Or the life I lead. How full of myself, to believe the crashing I hear from battering rain Could compare to the need I feel to explode out of my own skull. No. Not ever. Me and Mother Nature share no maternal bond. Even if she could depict what way the wind blows, depending on the state I’m in How could she know? When I am merely here, in my towel, upon my bed. Expressing no wrath compared to that outside. Believing that the storms I see from my bed Rival the storms inside my head.
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Nov 17, 2013
Nov 17, 2013 at 5:46 AM UTC
Pathetic Fallacy
Never Have I Ever (Slam Poem) 5/27/2014 Having a best friend makes you think of weird things. Stuff like: Getting slapped in the face with a fish is more about smell than texture. 13 nights in a row drinking isn't so bad if you save cash not using mixers. A stranger hitting on you is a storyline for tomorrow's lunch. Redecorating my room is just for you, nobody else will see it. You asked me to go shop with you, are you saying I need new clothes? Crushing Ritalin in a bathroom, because we stayed up 'til 6am before work. Pooping is like extra time in the day set aside to call you on the phone. Why do we play Never Have I Ever when we already know the ever's? People think we constantly say inside jokes, but we're just telepathic. I get into shape before you visit town, because you're my best wingman. If we ever stop being friends, I really hope you don't blackmail me. Can I designate you to speak at my wedding, babyshower, and funeral? ... or is it too soon to do that? Losing friends can make you think of weird things, I imagine. Stuff like: 1. I should stop ordering carne asada fries - I can't finish a whole portion. 2. I keep my curtains closed - I know your car won't randomly be outside. 3. Having lunch alone ***** - I shared a crazy story with the cashier today. 4. I take my poops with the stereo on now - I never could go in silence. 5. My voicemail inbox is full - I can't delete any when your voice pops up. 6. Maybe I should call you. 7. I need to talk to you. 8. I wish I could call you. 9. If only you'd come visit town. 10. Maybe I should go visit the cemetery. 11. I have a new least favorite Never Have I Ever. 12. Never Have I Ever had a best friend die. And I hope I never ever will put that finger down.
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 6:05 PM UTC
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever (Slam Poem) 5/27/2014 Having a best friend makes you think of weird things. Stuff like: Getting slapped in the face with a fish is more about smell than texture. 13 nights in a row drinking isn't so bad if you save cash not using mixers. A stranger hitting on you is a storyline for tomorrow's lunch. Redecorating my room is just for you, nobody else will see it. You asked me to go shop with you, are you saying I need new clothes? Crushing Ritalin in a bathroom, because we stayed up 'til 6am before work. Pooping is like extra time in the day set aside to call you on the phone. Why do we play Never Have I Ever when we already know the ever's? People think we constantly say inside jokes, but we're just telepathic. I get into shape before you visit town, because you're my best wingman. If we ever stop being friends, I really hope you don't blackmail me. Can I designate you to speak at my wedding, babyshower, and funeral? ... or is it too soon to do that? Losing friends can make you think of weird things, I imagine. Stuff like: 1. I should stop ordering carne asada fries - I can't finish a whole portion. 2. I keep my curtains closed - I know your car won't randomly be outside. 3. Having lunch alone ***** - I shared a crazy story with the cashier today. 4. I take my poops with the stereo on now - I never could go in silence. 5. My voicemail inbox is full - I can't delete any when your voice pops up. 6. Maybe I should call you. 7. I need to talk to you. 8. I wish I could call you. 9. If only you'd come visit town. 10. Maybe I should go visit the cemetery. 11. I have a new least favorite Never Have I Ever. 12. Never Have I Ever had a best friend die. And I hope I never ever will put that finger down.
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I was once just the moon sitting alone in a cold shadow Then my Sun appeared,  rising and lighting me so His warmth wraps around the earth to make me burn and shine To be lit up and seen as beautiful is more than devine I sat alone in cold emptiness for so long never knowing your heat Now I am shining brightly and your burning fire never missed a beat                                   I know you have a cycle and schedule and I do as well Maybe if I help you and vice versa we will beat this hell You the light, me the dark, and the earth our child in between Who would have thought the old dark moon would become the sun’s queen? I know that I never thought it was really a serious possibility My life had once been meaningless, just an exercise in futility Now I knew my purpose and was proud to be lit up by solar light Tearing away from you during a  rare eclipse never really feels right Somehow my lunar intuition awakened and  I am able to see Part of being the moon and the sun is never being totally free I exist to orbit, to serve and reflect your beautiful sunny glow You exist to give order, give life,  and align it all just so Sure I enjoy being an occasionally lit beacon in the starlit night sky I willingly but willfully hand over control and never ask why I know deep inside my moonstone core that you will always return One lunar cycle and then I get my awesome sunburn                           I doubted if the universe would ever designate me time and place Then all of a sudden you pulled me in to make my suborbital with grace You touch every rock, crater, and imperfection with with your warming light Earth which binds and separates us sees full lunar glory some select nights Nobody would have ever thought I was beautiful before you lit me up But since you came along NASA created satellites just to get me closeup I will never mind being here and reflecting the perfection of you Besides you owning my heart and soul we get to share quite the view When people thank me for being the moon I say thank my dear solar love Because of you I am special and I get to be a real part of this heaven above To Shawn, With Love
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 12:43 AM UTC
From The Moon with Love
I was once just the moon sitting alone in a cold shadow Then my Sun appeared,  rising and lighting me so His warmth wraps around the earth to make me burn and shine To be lit up and seen as beautiful is more than devine I sat alone in cold emptiness for so long never knowing your heat Now I am shining brightly and your burning fire never missed a beat                                   I know you have a cycle and schedule and I do as well Maybe if I help you and vice versa we will beat this hell You the light, me the dark, and the earth our child in between Who would have thought the old dark moon would become the sun’s queen? I know that I never thought it was really a serious possibility My life had once been meaningless, just an exercise in futility Now I knew my purpose and was proud to be lit up by solar light Tearing away from you during a  rare eclipse never really feels right Somehow my lunar intuition awakened and  I am able to see Part of being the moon and the sun is never being totally free I exist to orbit, to serve and reflect your beautiful sunny glow You exist to give order, give life,  and align it all just so Sure I enjoy being an occasionally lit beacon in the starlit night sky I willingly but willfully hand over control and never ask why I know deep inside my moonstone core that you will always return One lunar cycle and then I get my awesome sunburn                           I doubted if the universe would ever designate me time and place Then all of a sudden you pulled me in to make my suborbital with grace You touch every rock, crater, and imperfection with with your warming light Earth which binds and separates us sees full lunar glory some select nights Nobody would have ever thought I was beautiful before you lit me up But since you came along NASA created satellites just to get me closeup I will never mind being here and reflecting the perfection of you Besides you owning my heart and soul we get to share quite the view When people thank me for being the moon I say thank my dear solar love Because of you I am special and I get to be a real part of this heaven above To Shawn, With Love
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A trophy doesn't designate A winner Anymore than swearing denotes A sinner. Think Attitude, Not Platitude, And Wear a ribbon.
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 8:36 AM UTC
Just Wear a Ribbon
Its not the point of killing faith that u will find someone. Its the action of loneliness and controlling your bonds Its empty alone and so is pretending to love You cant make connections not like addiction to drugs. Save the drug of infatuation. No reason just meaning less No selection. Just what drips in your lap No focus just lenses that crack The sextant marking starlines that guide your path is no longer Coordinated calibrated to designate a map Walk amble climb along to view a moral prefix to design a way out of a sea just arms length with the depth of the roots of mesquite trees in the spring We are all stowaways in a ship waiting to jump to shore. Trying to find a place to spill seeds in the tilled rows of a ***** The words you whisper are pretty and my minds enthused tho i know every go at this game i shall lose Im wandering in a labyrinth Chasing in a brain like a rat in a spinning wheel following reflections from a cage You tricked me. Oh yes. You win Im no longer a man like all women before you ate the innards left a shell spit out the hull Dragged my meat to the floor One final kiss and i leave, i am missed You say lies again i pull off your fist its on my head its in my throat i read words that you spoke its not my fault its the blood clot keeping us unconnected in this note I am dreaming secret beaming red lights blinking help is sinking No hope between two softly stroking my cross is burning No fires stoking On my fore arms on my chest guard all is sinking with the funeral All the voices in my head are telling me it should be dead yet the ***** in my soul tells me that he still pleas for bread But i starve him and i lash him and i strap him to this ledge for he is wrong and yes he lies you're the harpy of my dread You ******* killed me like i was a lame horse to be put down
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Mar 18, 2013
Mar 18, 2013 at 1:30 PM UTC
Columbus, Cherub
Its not the point of killing faith that u will find someone. Its the action of loneliness and controlling your bonds Its empty alone and so is pretending to love You cant make connections not like addiction to drugs. Save the drug of infatuation. No reason just meaning less No selection. Just what drips in your lap No focus just lenses that crack The sextant marking starlines that guide your path is no longer Coordinated calibrated to designate a map Walk amble climb along to view a moral prefix to design a way out of a sea just arms length with the depth of the roots of mesquite trees in the spring We are all stowaways in a ship waiting to jump to shore. Trying to find a place to spill seeds in the tilled rows of a ***** The words you whisper are pretty and my minds enthused tho i know every go at this game i shall lose Im wandering in a labyrinth Chasing in a brain like a rat in a spinning wheel following reflections from a cage You tricked me. Oh yes. You win Im no longer a man like all women before you ate the innards left a shell spit out the hull Dragged my meat to the floor One final kiss and i leave, i am missed You say lies again i pull off your fist its on my head its in my throat i read words that you spoke its not my fault its the blood clot keeping us unconnected in this note I am dreaming secret beaming red lights blinking help is sinking No hope between two softly stroking my cross is burning No fires stoking On my fore arms on my chest guard all is sinking with the funeral All the voices in my head are telling me it should be dead yet the ***** in my soul tells me that he still pleas for bread But i starve him and i lash him and i strap him to this ledge for he is wrong and yes he lies you're the harpy of my dread You ******* killed me like i was a lame horse to be put down
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I tend to fall for beautiful destruction. The ones who will dedicate my favorite love song to me So when they leave I can't hear it without thinking of them. The ones who will call late at night and talk about nothing Till i drift to asleep So i cant rest until i hear their voice wish me goodnight. The ones who will designate an "Our thing" So whenever I watch "Our Movie" Or "Our Show" I'll remember watching it with them and have to turn it off. The ones who give me one nickname So no one can call me "Darling" without it feeling wrong. The ones who will make inside jokes The ones only we know So whenever someone mentions a small thing Like soda pop or trailer trash a small smile will cross my lips as I remember them. I tend to fall for someone who takes over the small things in my life leaving their name all over them So when they leave the small things leave too leaving a whole in my life as the things that once brought me joy Will only bring me to tears. I fall for the ones my mom wouldn't warn me about. I fall for the ones who make themselves unforgettable. I fall for the ones who seem to care. The ones who will spam my inbox just to get my attention when they know i feel lonely The ones who will call when I'm crying Just so they can try to cheer me up. The ones who will say They're proud of me when I do what to some may be small but to me is spectacular. The ones who will listen to my deepest thoughts Then tell the theirs. I fall for those who never intend to stay. I fall for those who will only hurt me. The ones who when we're together make me feel like heaven. But when they inevitably leave Will destroy me. I tend to fall for Beautiful Destruction.
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Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 4:13 PM UTC
Beautiful Destruction
I tend to fall for beautiful destruction. The ones who will dedicate my favorite love song to me So when they leave I can't hear it without thinking of them. The ones who will call late at night and talk about nothing Till i drift to asleep So i cant rest until i hear their voice wish me goodnight. The ones who will designate an "Our thing" So whenever I watch "Our Movie" Or "Our Show" I'll remember watching it with them and have to turn it off. The ones who give me one nickname So no one can call me "Darling" without it feeling wrong. The ones who will make inside jokes The ones only we know So whenever someone mentions a small thing Like soda pop or trailer trash a small smile will cross my lips as I remember them. I tend to fall for someone who takes over the small things in my life leaving their name all over them So when they leave the small things leave too leaving a whole in my life as the things that once brought me joy Will only bring me to tears. I fall for the ones my mom wouldn't warn me about. I fall for the ones who make themselves unforgettable. I fall for the ones who seem to care. The ones who will spam my inbox just to get my attention when they know i feel lonely The ones who will call when I'm crying Just so they can try to cheer me up. The ones who will say They're proud of me when I do what to some may be small but to me is spectacular. The ones who will listen to my deepest thoughts Then tell the theirs. I fall for those who never intend to stay. I fall for those who will only hurt me. The ones who when we're together make me feel like heaven. But when they inevitably leave Will destroy me. I tend to fall for Beautiful Destruction.
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By: Cedric McClester Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free There’s no doubt that Christians have good news But we here in America Have the right to choose Some may refuse to bow Or to acquiesce But they’re still citizens None the less Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free See we’re all equal In God’s sight He didn’t designate The religious right To rule over All the rest of us So in Him believers Oughta place their trust Still some out there Are bound to insist That’s fine for believers But the atheist Should also have the right To not believe So their pursuit of happiness Can be achieved Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free She prays in a church And he a synagogue But even the mosque Is still the House of God More than one road Leads to Rome And more than one religion Claims heaven home Still some out there Are bound to insist That’s fine for believers But the atheist Should also have the right To not believe So their pursuit of happiness Can be achieved Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free (c) Copyright 2015. Cedric McClester. All rights reserved/
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 11:33 PM UTC
DEMOCRACY OR THEORACY?
By: Cedric McClester Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free There’s no doubt that Christians have good news But we here in America Have the right to choose Some may refuse to bow Or to acquiesce But they’re still citizens None the less Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free See we’re all equal In God’s sight He didn’t designate The religious right To rule over All the rest of us So in Him believers Oughta place their trust Still some out there Are bound to insist That’s fine for believers But the atheist Should also have the right To not believe So their pursuit of happiness Can be achieved Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free She prays in a church And he a synagogue But even the mosque Is still the House of God More than one road Leads to Rome And more than one religion Claims heaven home Still some out there Are bound to insist That’s fine for believers But the atheist Should also have the right To not believe So their pursuit of happiness Can be achieved Democracy or theocracy The choice is yours What it’s gonna be Take another look At Lady Liberty And ask yourself this question Do you like bein free (c) Copyright 2015. Cedric McClester. All rights reserved/
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How unprepared I was when midnight approached me by Emission of vivid green neon lights From the futuristic skyscrapers to my unworldly eyes But more imposing A suspended meteor in the sky Upon the decrepit city which never stood My arrival at Midnight City, my peculiar neighborhood Thumping tracks and frantic sirens Bombard tremendous fear in my senses Amid the resonating pantomime that cracks throughout my head Merciless cyborgs arrive from nowhere And threaten mankind with unthinkable weapons Their bleak empty eyes bring dogmatic order As my escalated fears enslave me well Inside the mechanical serpent that darts With endless slick demented rails On such a twisted mind, it begins to run Confused and addled, I have no control of this matter Only worries dwell my mind The arrival of this mysterious force is my greatest baffle Does this herald the degeneration of Gaia? What is this complex machinery that enslaves all men? Where does this designate human posterity and fate? What was done for an act of retribution? Does this unprecedented apocalypse null all human solutions? In this dark tunnel, on a decrepit couch The dauntless train begins to screech with endless laughter As it tears tempestuously faster and faster Until all unearthly fluorescent lights blend together Thumping tracks and frantic sirens Eighty-six notches louder Alternating flashes of red and green Fourteen seconds prior A silhouette of a white demon projects from afar As it begins to approach us, its image ever becomes so bizarre Add a second of suspended silence of jest Before we scream and ensue The fatal crash
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 1:22 AM UTC
My Arrival at Midnight City
How unprepared I was when midnight approached me by Emission of vivid green neon lights From the futuristic skyscrapers to my unworldly eyes But more imposing A suspended meteor in the sky Upon the decrepit city which never stood My arrival at Midnight City, my peculiar neighborhood Thumping tracks and frantic sirens Bombard tremendous fear in my senses Amid the resonating pantomime that cracks throughout my head Merciless cyborgs arrive from nowhere And threaten mankind with unthinkable weapons Their bleak empty eyes bring dogmatic order As my escalated fears enslave me well Inside the mechanical serpent that darts With endless slick demented rails On such a twisted mind, it begins to run Confused and addled, I have no control of this matter Only worries dwell my mind The arrival of this mysterious force is my greatest baffle Does this herald the degeneration of Gaia? What is this complex machinery that enslaves all men? Where does this designate human posterity and fate? What was done for an act of retribution? Does this unprecedented apocalypse null all human solutions? In this dark tunnel, on a decrepit couch The dauntless train begins to screech with endless laughter As it tears tempestuously faster and faster Until all unearthly fluorescent lights blend together Thumping tracks and frantic sirens Eighty-six notches louder Alternating flashes of red and green Fourteen seconds prior A silhouette of a white demon projects from afar As it begins to approach us, its image ever becomes so bizarre Add a second of suspended silence of jest Before we scream and ensue The fatal crash
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There will certainly be A great many of them Far readier than I’ll ever be O blessed unborn one Yet endowed with inexistence To whom mercy shall slip from And re-emerge in its awakening Beings past or below my shrinking age A great many among them Whom I once did or shan’t collide Beyond the captured scope of mutual days To relate to you what high events Unrolled before our common eyes Folks granted with the privilege Promoted to the status of witnesses Historians, athletes and prophets By themselves and their narratives I let them unroll their good accounts Forfeit their tales of what must be bound To mould your unsuspecting Circumspect mind and Save you from sensing Delicately sensing Voices that once knew more Than in haste speak Than with haste carry Daringly could the silence hear Untangle the mumbling tango Of the vociferous crystal parade My darling unborn one The tortuous path out of the forgings Of reason almighty, the ventricular beast Played and echoed in loops and on repeat No, you shan’t feast on their hymns Yours is meant for the engineering of belief In something further, of glory, Far more, furthermore, Something extraordinary Than the days of days And the knowns of knowns And to lodge firmly out of the stillness That’s woven in the heart of your chanting storm And in the precipice of the forecast May you never come to designate But the space between the notes So that when it comes not to ever pass We shall rejoice in the untold absence That binds us as if pierced by an arrow While we ask about the bow
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Jun 24, 2023
Jun 24, 2023 at 6:26 PM UTC
Furthermore (2023)
There will certainly be A great many of them Far readier than I’ll ever be O blessed unborn one Yet endowed with inexistence To whom mercy shall slip from And re-emerge in its awakening Beings past or below my shrinking age A great many among them Whom I once did or shan’t collide Beyond the captured scope of mutual days To relate to you what high events Unrolled before our common eyes Folks granted with the privilege Promoted to the status of witnesses Historians, athletes and prophets By themselves and their narratives I let them unroll their good accounts Forfeit their tales of what must be bound To mould your unsuspecting Circumspect mind and Save you from sensing Delicately sensing Voices that once knew more Than in haste speak Than with haste carry Daringly could the silence hear Untangle the mumbling tango Of the vociferous crystal parade My darling unborn one The tortuous path out of the forgings Of reason almighty, the ventricular beast Played and echoed in loops and on repeat No, you shan’t feast on their hymns Yours is meant for the engineering of belief In something further, of glory, Far more, furthermore, Something extraordinary Than the days of days And the knowns of knowns And to lodge firmly out of the stillness That’s woven in the heart of your chanting storm And in the precipice of the forecast May you never come to designate But the space between the notes So that when it comes not to ever pass We shall rejoice in the untold absence That binds us as if pierced by an arrow While we ask about the bow
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I want the children to stay silhouetted against the sun, doing handstands, throwing their heads down and kicking the cloudy, blue water. They are silly children with no fear of the fall and slipping shirts that expose their human bellies. They are spending time upside down before the ground is lava and before they have to check the sidewalks for cracks, before they are tricked into believing there is a secret underneath their feet and they are greedy, greedy, always looking down with limp arms and hunched shoulders. They throw themselves over the ground again and again. Not understanding that their arms are too weak to keep their legs wading against the current of gravity as it pulses down on the Earth. Or maybe they do know and they are only trying to do handstands, looking for a new perspective, a different world, not the one they are stuck with. They could be searching everywhere for an alternative before they have to balance on two feet and face the fear that will rake in moments of their lives. They already know that fear but maybe trying anyways is what makes all the difference. Perhaps everyone should go home right now and designate handstand stations in their living rooms, throw open the windows, and let the sunlight in because it really is getting warmer or maybe we're all just getting used to the cold.
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May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010 at 4:42 AM UTC
Handstand Station
How do I mend my relationship with my body? How do I hate myself, less? How could I? How dare I? The world doesn't. It tells me all the reasons why I shouldn't.                                                                            I mustn't. I must hate myself. I must hate my body, that is what I deserve. What my body deserves Love is reserved for the thin.                                 the beautiful. The beautiful. I could never be beautiful. It's a lie, when they say it. It's a lie. when they say I am. I am beautiful from the neck up. but you'd never use that word,                             designate it to my body.                                                              to the rest of me. The rest of me should be tossed away.                                               discarded. Please sir, can I keep my head? It's the only place I live, the only place I am allowed to be. I am not allowed to be beautiful. not allowed to be thin. that was not the hand I was dealt. not my lot in life. I exist in the world with my shame exposed.                                                               On display. Do you know how that feels? No hiding. No escaping. No pretending. I am fat.   My body is fat. and from first glance, you can see my unworthiness.                                                         My lack of deservedness It's always there.
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Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020 at 10:53 AM UTC
My Body, Continued
How do I mend my relationship with my body? How do I hate myself, less? How could I? How dare I? The world doesn't. It tells me all the reasons why I shouldn't.                                                                            I mustn't. I must hate myself. I must hate my body, that is what I deserve. What my body deserves Love is reserved for the thin.                                 the beautiful. The beautiful. I could never be beautiful. It's a lie, when they say it. It's a lie. when they say I am. I am beautiful from the neck up. but you'd never use that word,                             designate it to my body.                                                              to the rest of me. The rest of me should be tossed away.                                               discarded. Please sir, can I keep my head? It's the only place I live, the only place I am allowed to be. I am not allowed to be beautiful. not allowed to be thin. that was not the hand I was dealt. not my lot in life. I exist in the world with my shame exposed.                                                               On display. Do you know how that feels? No hiding. No escaping. No pretending. I am fat.   My body is fat. and from first glance, you can see my unworthiness.                                                         My lack of deservedness It's always there.
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Over this I vacillate: The writing down of verse, Wealth of language distillate Quench and cause my thirst. Easy enough to hesitate When errands need be run, Either way I procrastinate Leaving the other undone. For quiet I equivocate Time and time again, for It is bliss to terminate The what, the where, the when. Sometimes I stew in stalemate Two webs entreat be spun: Revel in stillness or illustrate, I pay with time for one. Rilke said discriminate If one must write or not, To breath to write to oscillate Conundrum of my plot. Awareness and artistry bifurcate My will in two extremes, Yet I know when conjugate They vivify the means. Unsure if it is designate I muse and metaphor, I know with thrill words compensate When they begin to roar. What is the thing that animates This soul to write a poem, Passion to note and formulate Or to be loved at home?
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Aug 13, 2010
Aug 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM UTC
A Poem of Ate
Baptized in death incarnate, shown the worlds reality at a age of inspiration, with dreams dance upon the wings of butterflies in fields of daisy's, ******* the nectar of life, to sustain the biological imperative, that everything is connected beyond life and death. Merge pen and ink, upon the fallen trees, show the world, the vulnerabilities of a soul lost in the shadows, were light fights the darkness to escape to another day, beyond the pages you write, beyond internal dialogue of devils and angels upon your shoulders. Shower your soul, in the tears of angels, who have lost their wings and laid to rest upon the battleground, the lives of men, to stain sacred ground with life sustenance, every breath a battle you must tell now, so they are remembered in the pages of history Purify this ground, with the ink within your veins, poet, rise from the ashes of reality, sprinkle the air with stardust, of fallen souls, in languid waves of desperation to live again, beyond the tragedy of death you've witnessed, here today. entitle, designate and cleanse this world a new, so every heart may know, deep within the recess of darkness within your eyes, incandescent flames burn the birth of a poet
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM UTC
Birth Of A Poet
When the apocalypse comes, I will remember the days I was not allowed to be myself. When the land will tremor, the insects inside me will crawl towards the edge of my soul. The regrets beneath me will lay out like a web of cracks on an aged wall with no end. When my body will be underneath the fallen ceiling, I will wail remembering the burden of my emptiness that once felt like nothingness. When the keepers of my soul will put a name to my existence, I will designate it as "life", And if they tell me that reincarnation is real, I will still want to be me but with a different mind, And in any parallel world, if flowers would fall from the sky, I will want to be me but with a different heart, And if they will tell me that life will be short, I'll be a chirping bird in the eyes of my cat. I'll be the sound of dripping water that fascinates a little girl. I'll be a saccharine melody in the times of war. I'll be a moment of an autumn leaf falling onto a bed of dry leaves. I'll be a nimbus cloud to a deserted barren land. I'll be a book in the bag of a poor boy. I'll be a candy in the hands of a child, I'll be the essence of lilies to a pleasing garden. I'll be a beam of revolt to a captured slave. I'll be a proud smile on a martyr's mother. I'll be the infinite possibilities of incarnation after the apocalypse.
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Oct 16, 2024
Oct 16, 2024 at 3:46 AM UTC
Reincarnation after the apocalypse
My heart aches and my back breaks from all this pressure on me. I try to escape and i try to designate That Balance is all inside of thee.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM UTC
Free Spirited
You have boxes of cereals I have boxes of crime, Don't worry about it I am not like that serial killer vine. My boxes are not illegal But regarded as trek, I designate them as crime Because it's done on beck. The first crime is universal Which is eating during a class, And if you get caught You will get a detention to pass. Second needs a little courage Which is bunking the lab, And you will roam the whole school with friends Without hiring a cab. This crime is something planned Distracting teacher from her study point, Asking tales about their life struggle Because we got bored from her english coined. This crime is nothing less than others Which is cheating during a test, Not everyone will accept that Because not everytime it did help them to score their best. If you start to count them all It will take your whole life to wind, You created memories that are crime Which you won't ever mind!
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 11:13 PM UTC
Boxes!
The Weather Channel, ubiquitous, Who among us does not have this app, On their phone, computer, mobile device Ready for a quick scan.. Odd topic for an essay, Strange, that your poetic silence Should be broken this way, Then again, you didn't inquire, Or even notice it had gone missing. Yet the channel/app of which I write, Is mobile, and certainly, applies to each of us But cannot be found on any device but in our hearts.. When we awaken, The temperature is taken, A glance upon your visage Reveals rested or irritable, Blue clouds or storm warnings, Better dress appropriately... But even this is not the forecast Of which my heart and words speak,, The whether I need, the thermometer reading, The barometric pressure that needs knowing, Measures whether you love me still, Love me more, love me better, Than the last poem/day we just wrote/recorded, Yesterday... The waters we will yet navigate, The sky we shall observe, Cloud shapes to design and designate, A fortune to prognosticate, Is the sum of the fortunes/forecasts we create daily. Our weather is our good fortune, And strangely the forecast is the same daily, Whether fair or hurricane, Whether gladdened or pained, Our forecast, ours, Our forecast, unique, Our forecast, let us record it into reality, When we awaken entangled, Looking out the window and envision, Predicting our life-scape.
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 9:56 AM UTC
The Weather Channel (A Love Poem)
let me take you to church on friday nights after gin and whiskey roar ‘oh my god’ so she knows you like it take communion when my thighs greet your face - - - - taste thy gifts, which we are about to receive knees rap the hardwood floor, make you beg for mercy whisper sins in my ears, teeth bashed pillows no longer muffle crying out your confessions, repent - - - - keep it pseudo with a blindfold dip deep, deliver baptisms when i get you wet - - - - god is a woman in this bed, no more ****** mary’s metamorphose **** into holy water vocalize moans to the harmony of the gospel precise fingers conduct the choir - - - - adagio, andante, allegro - you designate reach salvation when you ****** - - - - arch your back, thy will be (un)done
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Mar 31, 2019
Mar 31, 2019 at 9:01 PM UTC
my version of praying
Freckles of time Fly effortlessly by Leaving me behind Closed doors–what I find is a knack for creation– Indulging syncopation In establishing my mark; I desire differentiation in my work to designate The things I’ve done Quite innate Is my notion to be unique– yet Like a speckle of dust Surrounded by stars In vain, I do rust At the thought of my existence– in comparison to my surroundings my hard work isn’t astounding or significant at all; my life–like dust– is smaller than small.
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 1:49 PM UTC
In the Big Picture
Originate Meditate Hallucinate Dessegregate Mediate Alleviate Try not to hate Love your mate Deliberate Opinionate Don't procrastinate Appreciate one's own fate Love is fate A one world state Human freight The number eight A white & black state Never hate The human race Proliferate Communicate A gentle trait The broken crate A heavy weight Or just too late Now devastate Appreciate Depreciate Fabricate Emulate The truth dilate Special date The animals we ate Guilt debate The edge serrate A better rate Deliberate Fascinate Deviate Reinstate Liberate To moderate Recreate Detonate Annihiliate Atomic fate Mediate Clear the slate Activate Now radiate Food on plate Gravitate Now simulate A perfect place A heavy weight Is it too late Racial debate Participate Love & Hate Just create Never break A firm had shake The State's on the take The girl is late A baby to take A mother aches A heart breaks Alleviate Just fornicate Now devastate Appreciate Depreciate Fabricate Emulate A ******* child The youth's irate A mind to take Facilitate Deliberate Fascinate Deviate Reinstate It's getting late The Earth's own weight Designate your love as fate At ninety-eight we all rotate To Liberate
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 10:09 AM UTC
To Liberate