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"divider" poems
This isn't Rome I'm standing still because of statutes Stone grill: I a carved marble statue not a muscle dares, Near frozen by the fear, let it go I hear over shoulder: perfect pass if I get shot over a penalty Is it clear? my arms are arms? a load chopper; in his shades, do those aviators make me even darker? (if I studied aviation I could take off I can hover, I can…) Wait. he's moving closer, every hair strand an antenna, I can feel him, The smell of disdain on his glare, stained blood on his hands, another brother, my brother Guiltier with every pace so --  show your hands, foot mixed with concrete I take this order serious, my motions are motive and mistaken for resist, Wait. Is it his stare or am I ****** (Why did I decide to go my friends wouldn't believe this…) limitations to the thoughts; am I arrested or caught? I'm cold on the surface, Erode so slow is my sediment evidence, A blue god so I'm pacified, I'm hesitant, he calls and I say that I'm innocent, I'm witnessing the transitioning from eruption to ocean -- volcanic Blue Medusa, can you only sculpt destruction? (I'm not 3 dimensional, I'm real and I matter, I'm real and I matter) I'm real, But I shatter, Gravel if determined that I'm rude so I can't breath, Gravel if My license plate removed I don't leave, I don't speak, I don't flee, I'm not free, I believe, That this happen to my mothers, mother mothers' brother, Brother from another was granite and granted he's valuable but only in a home -- of course I'm quartz in the making A corpse still shaking Cause a wallet was mistaken Or I.D. was misplaced So, I'm on the rocks since the bar says that I'm a criminal, velvet rope divider marks my life and a vigil, a wake, or a hashtag, you choose, glass house, Cold Stone’s, rocky road, Medusa licks his finger tips same finger which petrified me in the first place, Reminded I'm in Rome as I'm standing there motionless a statue for display or a trophy for the kitchen, this art is not for sale there will be no shipping, With solidarity through our solidification, It won't matter if I look back, I Matter and I’m Black.
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 10:56 AM UTC
Blue Medusa
This isn't Rome I'm standing still because of statutes Stone grill: I a carved marble statue not a muscle dares, Near frozen by the fear, let it go I hear over shoulder: perfect pass if I get shot over a penalty Is it clear? my arms are arms? a load chopper; in his shades, do those aviators make me even darker? (if I studied aviation I could take off I can hover, I can…) Wait. he's moving closer, every hair strand an antenna, I can feel him, The smell of disdain on his glare, stained blood on his hands, another brother, my brother Guiltier with every pace so --  show your hands, foot mixed with concrete I take this order serious, my motions are motive and mistaken for resist, Wait. Is it his stare or am I ****** (Why did I decide to go my friends wouldn't believe this…) limitations to the thoughts; am I arrested or caught? I'm cold on the surface, Erode so slow is my sediment evidence, A blue god so I'm pacified, I'm hesitant, he calls and I say that I'm innocent, I'm witnessing the transitioning from eruption to ocean -- volcanic Blue Medusa, can you only sculpt destruction? (I'm not 3 dimensional, I'm real and I matter, I'm real and I matter) I'm real, But I shatter, Gravel if determined that I'm rude so I can't breath, Gravel if My license plate removed I don't leave, I don't speak, I don't flee, I'm not free, I believe, That this happen to my mothers, mother mothers' brother, Brother from another was granite and granted he's valuable but only in a home -- of course I'm quartz in the making A corpse still shaking Cause a wallet was mistaken Or I.D. was misplaced So, I'm on the rocks since the bar says that I'm a criminal, velvet rope divider marks my life and a vigil, a wake, or a hashtag, you choose, glass house, Cold Stone’s, rocky road, Medusa licks his finger tips same finger which petrified me in the first place, Reminded I'm in Rome as I'm standing there motionless a statue for display or a trophy for the kitchen, this art is not for sale there will be no shipping, With solidarity through our solidification, It won't matter if I look back, I Matter and I’m Black.
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An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel gazelle inescapable sleek leather boots on the pavement rat-a-tat-tat best intentions going down for the third time stuck in the particular You cannot make love to concrete if you care about being non-essential wrong or worn thin if you fear ever becoming diamonds or lard you cannot make love to concrete if you cannot pretend concrete needs your loving To make love to concrete you need an indelible feather white dresses before you are ten a confirmation lace veil milk-large bones and air raid drills in your nightmares no stars till you go to the country and one summer when you are twelve Con Edison pulls the plug on the street-corner moons Walpurgisnacht and there are sudden new lights in the sky stone chips that forget you need to become a light rope a hammer a repeatable bridge garden-fresh broccoli two dozen dropped eggs and a hint of you caught up between my fingers the lesson of a wooden beam propped up on barrels across a mined terrain between forgiving too easily and never giving at all.
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Making Love To Concrete
I am the Great Connector I was born to unite The Horde I am the Great Collector Of souls felled by my Axensword They all call me subhuman And revile me as a beast But they do the same to you and For that they'll pay the price (No Peace) We are strong, We are brave Though they wish to see us caged We are wild and Untamed And we will never live as slaves Conquerors, We Are One! Same blood in different skins At last you'll see, when the victor is me I am the Lord of our Kin Wastelanders, Join the March The World will burn as we sing When the battle is won, I'll announce to everyone "I am the Ogre King!" I am the Great Divider I was born to brew up storms I am the Annihilator My path was forged in war My reign began in chaos In Bloodshed, so it ends All this Strife has nearly left me with No Kingdom to Defend (Descent) We are Violent and Enraged Now that we have been Betrayed There are Consequences Grave For Manipulated Faith Revolution, it has come! Same blood but different sins The Empire Falls And all Hear the Call For A New Order to Begin Decapitate the Tyrants & Slaughter those who Resist When the battle is won, At the top of my lungs, I'll cry "Long Live the Ogre King!" I am the Great Destroyer The Throne is mine to take I will be king at any cost Dead nations in my wake I am the Great Conniver With Sinister Designs Never cared how much is Lost So long as what is Left is Mine (Arise) We are rabid and insane From lives of misery and pain Now that the world's ablaze We fall into our cages These Horrors have just begun Same gore from separate veins What have we done, To our daughters and sons? A History Bloodstained! We threw our lives into this war, And lost more than we gave When the killing is done, I'll tell everyone, "The Ogre King is slain!" Now Our Planet is a Grave! "The Ogre King is Slain, Long Live the Ogre King, I Am The Ogre King!"
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Apr 6, 2018
Apr 6, 2018 at 3:38 PM UTC
Ogre King
I am the Great Connector I was born to unite The Horde I am the Great Collector Of souls felled by my Axensword They all call me subhuman And revile me as a beast But they do the same to you and For that they'll pay the price (No Peace) We are strong, We are brave Though they wish to see us caged We are wild and Untamed And we will never live as slaves Conquerors, We Are One! Same blood in different skins At last you'll see, when the victor is me I am the Lord of our Kin Wastelanders, Join the March The World will burn as we sing When the battle is won, I'll announce to everyone "I am the Ogre King!" I am the Great Divider I was born to brew up storms I am the Annihilator My path was forged in war My reign began in chaos In Bloodshed, so it ends All this Strife has nearly left me with No Kingdom to Defend (Descent) We are Violent and Enraged Now that we have been Betrayed There are Consequences Grave For Manipulated Faith Revolution, it has come! Same blood but different sins The Empire Falls And all Hear the Call For A New Order to Begin Decapitate the Tyrants & Slaughter those who Resist When the battle is won, At the top of my lungs, I'll cry "Long Live the Ogre King!" I am the Great Destroyer The Throne is mine to take I will be king at any cost Dead nations in my wake I am the Great Conniver With Sinister Designs Never cared how much is Lost So long as what is Left is Mine (Arise) We are rabid and insane From lives of misery and pain Now that the world's ablaze We fall into our cages These Horrors have just begun Same gore from separate veins What have we done, To our daughters and sons? A History Bloodstained! We threw our lives into this war, And lost more than we gave When the killing is done, I'll tell everyone, "The Ogre King is slain!" Now Our Planet is a Grave! "The Ogre King is Slain, Long Live the Ogre King, I Am The Ogre King!"
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What has become of us Amidst the hustle and bustle of city life When did evolution condone us to regress into a state Of uncalculated caucus As we meander our way through the rapids of life Rapid Is hardly a best-fit descriptor For we are past the point of speed We mill around like headless horses Buzzing bees Stinging roaches Fallen leaves Roaring lions Try to lead But fail Like cottons fighting breeze Is this all we are? Is this what we were made for? To quickly climb the climb And await the graceless fall Parachutes prepared for praise But our pride prevents and prevails Till the day I climb the ladder Shall I not attempt to see What the view at the top might be like I fear it enthralls me But then reality strikes like a maddening blaze And suddenly I see That I'm well on my way up the hill As I swing from bridge to bridge Is this the way to live? Uncautious steps with kleptomaniac ease As we take what we desire From our capitalistic divider Though we hate to be the same Not at all do we differ Are we not all blinded mice With a tetra-human vice Spiders apt at spinning lies Banking life on Friday highs All around me boring beasts Lost to whims, to say the least What I fear most is the day I give in and join the race Is the day I eat my heart out Just to enjoy the highest gaze Till then here trapped in the zoo Enclosure encasing truth Finding fault with every human till the day I conform too
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 8:12 AM UTC
Speed
Cold white layers pile over the grey concrete I did not expect the storm but I Needed to face the journey Someday We knew it could not last forever And in that moment An accident in my vision, Maybe the music screaming into my ear Distracted me from the obvious truth that lie Just through the windowpane Leading to a collision straight into reality Your words, the concrete divider That hit hard enough to take deep damage Yet not hard enough to stop me from moving forward The unexpected truth that came at the least expected moment My ignorance overlooked the obvious signs That i could not stay safe forever Not at the speed we drove.. My skin hugged my knuckles tightly Enough to match the descending snow As I knew from the first swerve Your first word That inevitable fate I surely faced Death loomed close in my mind But I drove on Grabbed the wheel and forced my way through The place where I felt nearest to the grave Until I reached a safe enough space to see for myself Just how much damage I endured And, like my car, I am totaled Broken into pieces that cannot be reframed Some lost at the point of collision Others gradually passing over time And some still holding on In the eyes of an astonished mechanic The car shouldn't even start And according to everyone else I should be dead But I'm not And though neither the car Or my own life will ever fully return to their original condition We still drive on Moving forward on the unpredictable Icy Deadly Highway of life
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 3:28 AM UTC
The Impossible Survivior
Cold white layers pile over the grey concrete I did not expect the storm but I Needed to face the journey Someday We knew it could not last forever And in that moment An accident in my vision, Maybe the music screaming into my ear Distracted me from the obvious truth that lie Just through the windowpane Leading to a collision straight into reality Your words, the concrete divider That hit hard enough to take deep damage Yet not hard enough to stop me from moving forward The unexpected truth that came at the least expected moment My ignorance overlooked the obvious signs That i could not stay safe forever Not at the speed we drove.. My skin hugged my knuckles tightly Enough to match the descending snow As I knew from the first swerve Your first word That inevitable fate I surely faced Death loomed close in my mind But I drove on Grabbed the wheel and forced my way through The place where I felt nearest to the grave Until I reached a safe enough space to see for myself Just how much damage I endured And, like my car, I am totaled Broken into pieces that cannot be reframed Some lost at the point of collision Others gradually passing over time And some still holding on In the eyes of an astonished mechanic The car shouldn't even start And according to everyone else I should be dead But I'm not And though neither the car Or my own life will ever fully return to their original condition We still drive on Moving forward on the unpredictable Icy Deadly Highway of life
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I am the first born millennial grown in the digital garden from transplantation. The data stream flows along with my bloodlines, Divided, interspersed, like a lava lamp of my own identification. A bloodline that once worked the fields, and now works the fields of existence, A bloodline that made its pilgrimage to new land in order to satiate the body, has now grown to satiate inquiries within the self. I reflect upon those occasions where I have been told: “why do you care about the state of affairs for them, you are not of them, you do not act like them so you can’t be one of them” and I clench my tongue, forgive them father, they know not of what they speak” “Perdonalos padre, no saben nada de que dicen” The climate of academia is both inviting and yet marking, I feel connected to both intertwined bloodlines, and markedly separate in a way neither will ever know “mijo, él esta ****** no dice nada que él no entiende” But I understand, my name, my appearance, my lineage, they all mark a separation of that cultural heritage, a combination, a divider, that lava lamp burns hot from the up down theatrics of where identity will lie I am the new millennial Expect us.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 3:01 AM UTC
Together Alone
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 12:01 AM UTC
Old Souls (Cut From The Same Cloth)
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Going once the cruise_______* One specific lover What do we uncover More advice going twice in (2) You see an unexpected attraction Like twins with two heads exact copy Say Action your movie part "The offer you cannot refuse" You cannot duplicate her heart With another Flower rose Another heart obligation "Alaskan Huskies Twin Adoption" Two heads better than one snipper She- Wolf surf and turf Mexico taco, at the gulf Her green planet thumb Mount Fiji we climb Right force ruler the heart divider the duplicate lover "To Reproduce" over the a million light-years duplicated love tears Years we treasured It's in our duty Congregated United we stand   Imagine the world stopped to be buried The duplicate became a twin maid of honor She lost her duplicated purse "Twin Identity" Doppelganger Your heart couldn't hold on____ Any longer To reproduce the same forbidden fruit voiceover singer The rare find someone with a Giving heart Having a double scotch doing the part The pirate wearing Eye patch* Twofold twice the gold one heart match Poems true believers One is the snitch To love life singles or doubles subjects to catch up in triples The full house what a spouse Your boiling minds Twice around the coffee house The day she or he was born The comfort comes with love Fire eye lit bedding (Forever young double wedding) You're the one so gifted hearted*
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Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 3:00 PM UTC
Duplicate
Out my kitchen window I see the barrier surrounding my backyard. And the backyard after that. And the one after that. And the one after that. And so on... Wanting to keep people out. Guarding our things and guarding ourselves. I see your barrier. It's made of the thickest stone. There are barely any cracks or breaks just signs that someone tried to get inside and holes patched from their effort. I wish I could make all the hurt go away. I wish I could provide the comfort you need. I wish I could tear down that stone divider. I wish I could shatter your wall. I stand at your barricade my hands placed on the cold, thick stone. Projecting all my love and warmth into the tips of my fingers. I want nothing more than to rummage through this rubble so that I can find you and hold you.
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Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 1:12 AM UTC
Breaking Your Barrier
In between a rock and a hard place she was stuck, Literally she was crushed between a freeway divider and a semi truck. Native American so her roots didn't connect her to heaven. He was a self proclaimed athiest at the ripe age of seven. A short belief in an afterlife as maybe a wolf or an eagle seemed too childish so he gave up on it before he was legal. Visiting a slab of shiny stone in between two pine trees; The wrong one but he doesn't care he sits down waiting to freeze. Smoking a joint forgetting the new one while trying to keep all of her. Exposion to death at a young age has no real cure. Step brothers have no sympathy saying it's time to growup, Girlfriend doesn't know when to stop bringing it up. The clouds float on by. . . He wishes he could die. Staring at a shiny engraved stone with tears to the brim, Hating all that his short seventeen years have shown him. His only desire at the moment to just see once more her face, He was caught in between her rock and his minds hard place.
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 1:38 AM UTC
Between
We are taught to write neatly but how can I deny what you write so deeply? With your scruff and ease, that no one else sees but me. I feel honoured to decipher what's laid before me. A survivor a desire a provider a divider a whirlwind of fiction all balanced in the depiction your ink puts to pages and pages of this contagious frenzy we call "writing" and now I'm squirming and writhing in the itch to just pick up a pen and not care about handwriting.
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Jul 12, 2013
Jul 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM UTC
Handwriting
Maths being their ancestral home Living in a house of geometry box Scale the tall man, working In the company of lines Protractor his stout wife, Controlling the house in all degrees Set squares the two daughters, Helping their mother in some angles Compass the one-legged son, In business with his friend the pencil The art of making circles and arcs Divider the youngest one, Poking his nose in all their business Without this amazing family there is no Maths !
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 11:14 AM UTC
Geometry Box
Destiny's child had a smile, "How are you doin" She winked. "There have been many close calls, I've done my best Afraid you'll have to do the rest" Yanked out of the way of that car flying by at a hundred miles an hour paused just long enough, Didn't fall when surrender called. There was that 18 wheeler changing lanes fast, Snow flying everywhere, Couldn't see me, Moved on over to the center divider, The only place not concrete, Destiny's child she likes to smile, Laughs with glee, A tinkerbell to me. The CHP didn't look into my pocket "Please" Destiny's child she's been on my side, I just go along for the ride, She takes care of everything. We've all had 'em many close calls, Almost near falls, Some have her some don't, Some survive, Some die. Directing traffic, Destiny's child, Roads not taken every once in a while. There she goes laughing, She can be pretty wild, Destiny's child. There ought to be a Tarot card with her name, When she steps in the game will change, She knows how to dance on the head of a pin, Change generations with a gleeful laughing grin. Destiny's child She was there that night, When I was looking through the circular light Stop sign with a grin, She knows when you gotta end, She knows when you gotta begin. You'll catch her out of the corner of your eye, When the light's just right, She ain't up there with the green flash, But she definitely has class. Destiny's child, I'll be grateful to her 'till the last gasp.
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 10:53 AM UTC
Destiny's Child
A few drivers, mid-summer afternoon lean against the divider, paint peeling some perch on it lightly--- indulge in hot group-talk; the waltzing-shadow of a banyan tree opposite side of the auto-rickshaw stand--- a street-art, delicate, dark-hued; the phantom arms hug the disparate crew in a tight family-embrace, its breath tousling their hair and it--- protects them from the Mumbai heat! @Sunil Sharma
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Apr 27, 2017
Apr 27, 2017 at 8:00 AM UTC
The embrace
The monkey on my back is just a cigarette under the crack Where your fingertips can not, anymore, the nicotine pursue... A stain in my Egyptians, the painful intermissions And nevertheless a violent ingestion, the cavalry consumed. Dogs don't eat dogs unless they're the runts of the group, And when they come out crooked, the casualties ensue. Ribs on my shoulders, eyes in my aorta And just as I guessed, from out of my chest, a ghost not unlike you. Ive been here 666 years and the irony is insane The only voices Ive had in my head were dripping off the brain A zombie could knock down a wall or take 3 in the chest But a dog with the head of a worm is quicker than the rest. Uninvited your spine comes crashing into my field of view Negatives of your face fading into non-photo blue The tree canopy becomes a face that looks a bit like yours But when it blinks my heart sinks, and you walk out the door. Signals running every which way! Scream me, baby! Do it! Lose my caller I.D. witch ***** slow Drag Drug Love. Eat it all under a vacuum heart and say the words! Gooba gabba gooba gabba! We accept you, one of us! Shoreline, waistline, eyeliner, center divider Crash into the sea and settle underneath! The bubbles quit rising! A man is inside! He looks like your and my hatechild! You wanted art!! Ill give you art! As soon as my head stops circling around. One of us!
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM UTC
Rants From the Mismatched Grapefruit Child
as you trod upon your floral dream-world pierots on pillows gaze. watching you with intent. peonies are being pulled back beneath, the false divider, between earth and fire. barriers. are simply states of your soul stuck watching, divine totems decapitate themselves instead of succumbing to slumber. the blades on which you rest end abruptly. leaving only an ancient path within. lost somewhere between dying dynasties. there is a hole in the dirt where gravity sings, to cobblestone satellites scanning the skies. for more than a sign that knowledge need not be, a colossal misconception... transcending even the most distant star cluster.
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Sep 11, 2011
Sep 11, 2011 at 8:30 PM UTC
calling the clusters by their right name
Our lot was not to stay all night; In kneeling praise by bathroom stalls. Alcohol numbed your honesty's bite, wrote her destiny on the divider walls. And we weren't the kind to cheat, don't believe, All the loose lips half-cross town, Last call patrons who watch me leave, And shut this ****** down... Like Zane and Beckett, so convinced, Their **** would last forever, Bad enough to make you wince, If they spend one more second together. Or Jane and Kinney, young, driven, and full, Of lust or something similar. Don't be surprised, you've seen this fire, The end? ...all too familiar. And pretty Syd had all the gall, and Pony Boy thought he knew the score... but he's just a **** like so much Pyrex, Stuffed inside his paper ***** But Ashtray Woman with ***** Mouth, And monster's blood on toilet tissue, Is just another frightened girl, With real and dangerous daddy issues. Now, here, at the close (I'm still glad to say), You deserve almost everything, that you've won, Our karma arose ( and, in time, took the day ). Now I ponder regrets in the hours before dawn, It wasn't the when, or with whom we may lay, or the time in the morning before I should be gone, It's more about how we desired to stay... When we gazed into stars lying flat on your lawn. I once craved your poison but, now, in my way, I'm actually glad to see you gone.
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Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 at 11:26 PM UTC
L'Enfant Terrible
smoke-sheet eyes, you questioned me behind a mesh divider all my hot hard "no"s all my parting throes - terrifying, endless, and gaping. you questioned, and never answered you opened me like an underripe fig I didn't understand how a person could pull me apart too soon. Now I mould over, I bruise and hug the wet, black ground.
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Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 12:08 PM UTC
fig
Rain soaks our clothes, leaves us breathless and cleansed. The lights bounce and shimmer; a thousand lights on us. Coppery and acidic, but it doesn’t overpower the taste of you. Drunken girls laugh into the night like gulls in the morning. Ignore the looks; kiss me, put your lips on mine. Smear my pink lipstick, make your pretty red stick. Fist my sweater and pull my heart out; keep it with yours. Tug the strands of my hair, pull me closer; don’t let the divider in. It’s cold in the rain, so mingle our breaths and create hot, steamy fog to keep us warm. The lights are on us, but **** it; let’s give ’em a show. They want the rain to drown us; let’s slow dance. Hold my waist, reel me in like a love song. Sip my lips like cheap beer, savour me like wine. Bruise me like a peach; kiss it better. Feel the wind sting our cheeks; try to blow out our flame. Whispering in my ear, he’s looking, isn’t he? Kissing the frown from your lips, yes, he is. Who cares? Let the hateful ******* sneer and scorn. I’ll still love my lover in this storm.
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Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 5:08 PM UTC
Rain Lovers
debased heads crooked in the grey city winter tiltinlikethestreetsisrollinyoudownintohell sidewalk shufflinlimpinstarindodginhidin holdin the eyescloudedpaincloudedlifecloudednothing swayin on a thruway divider in rags and solitude bentbackbrokenbackbentbackbroken wearin nevernewshoes and holding a pushcartcane filled with onemanstrashisthiswomanslife my bornagainsinglemama sees thepooroldwoman we pass in a gotbetterthingstodothanpityyou engine she doin the teetertottersendmetumblinintotrafficpleasehappydance in our eyes she no more than a label, no more than her vice butthewheelskeepturnin wegotmoreworktodolifetolive andjustlikethatshegone ifsheeverwasthere
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
newnewplague
~~~ This path I wander, aimlessly through evergreen and stone As sunlight fades the calling mist, I’m lost and all alone With broken branch and tilted leaf as footsteps fall from view These endless thoughts a’ swirl my mind in hopes of finding you              ~~~             I dance with fairy creatures that live among these trees Enchanting stones and casting spells that will lead your path to me Your heart is the one I've chosen but I'll cast no spells to bind Your love, to me, for eternity you must choose of your own free mind ~~~ Walking long of moss dream windings Brittle earth my feet they fall Weary as these eyes perceiving Echoes on the silence call Following my heart’s direction Shimmering a light does bend There beyond the fern leaf visions Dare I pray it not pretend ~~~ A dash here and a sprinkle there of pixie dust on my toes I'll take those last few steps to him except... I got some up my nose Ahhhh-Choooo!! I sneeze and lose my footing, *falling swiftly on my *** I see a face peeking through the trees, now I feel just a little bit dumb ~~~ What was that, ahead, the clearing a giggling I can’t resist Parting quick this brush divider, squinting, I peer through the mist At this sight my feelings ponder, beauty fore my questioned brow A fairy, whom I feel connected on the ground, she smiles now ~~~ "Well don't just stand there looking silly, come over and take my hand" I smiled and waited, beaming, it was all going just as I planned Now that he's close, I pounce on his heart knocking him onto his back "Gotcha!!" I squeal, delighted with my prize "I'm so happy you made it, at last!" ~~~ I took her hand and fell in love, such happiness her smile it brings My shoulders twitched, as I looked back, I saw that I had sprouted wings She kissed me and my world did bloom in joyful song and endless laughter I knew right then we’d spend our days living happily ever after
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM UTC
If you go out in the woods today... a collaboration with Ana Sophia
~~~ This path I wander, aimlessly through evergreen and stone As sunlight fades the calling mist, I’m lost and all alone With broken branch and tilted leaf as footsteps fall from view These endless thoughts a’ swirl my mind in hopes of finding you              ~~~             I dance with fairy creatures that live among these trees Enchanting stones and casting spells that will lead your path to me Your heart is the one I've chosen but I'll cast no spells to bind Your love, to me, for eternity you must choose of your own free mind ~~~ Walking long of moss dream windings Brittle earth my feet they fall Weary as these eyes perceiving Echoes on the silence call Following my heart’s direction Shimmering a light does bend There beyond the fern leaf visions Dare I pray it not pretend ~~~ A dash here and a sprinkle there of pixie dust on my toes I'll take those last few steps to him except... I got some up my nose Ahhhh-Choooo!! I sneeze and lose my footing, *falling swiftly on my *** I see a face peeking through the trees, now I feel just a little bit dumb ~~~ What was that, ahead, the clearing a giggling I can’t resist Parting quick this brush divider, squinting, I peer through the mist At this sight my feelings ponder, beauty fore my questioned brow A fairy, whom I feel connected on the ground, she smiles now ~~~ "Well don't just stand there looking silly, come over and take my hand" I smiled and waited, beaming, it was all going just as I planned Now that he's close, I pounce on his heart knocking him onto his back "Gotcha!!" I squeal, delighted with my prize "I'm so happy you made it, at last!" ~~~ I took her hand and fell in love, such happiness her smile it brings My shoulders twitched, as I looked back, I saw that I had sprouted wings She kissed me and my world did bloom in joyful song and endless laughter I knew right then we’d spend our days living happily ever after
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As my fickle pen sweeps across the chosen page, Its unsteady stream of ink spouts scattered thoughts of thou… Oh, that my grief were not so! If only my mind could wander Without inevitably pausing upon thy fabricated tombstone! But alas, for such luxury is not mine to own, that pleasant sense Of rightness in the world so often dubbed peace of mind For mine is not to be had, for how can there exist Peace of mind without peace of heart? There ‘tis I find the keeper of my despondency, my heart is at war! Not warring another, mind, but with itself! The ceaseless battle rages, with neither side being the victor, Instead, my heart is torn apart…but who am I to complain? For were my heart a whole, it would do an equal good As that it does in two. What good is a flower That has no stem to hold it upright? Instead of embracing The sun, it floats aimlessly downstream ‘til It disappears beneath the current, ne’er to be seen again. This t’would be the fate of my heart were’t to remain whole. Thus, by waging war upon my emotions I succeed In preserving my sanity. For this, and this alone, I thank thee. For without the pain dealt me by thine hand I would still be drowning. Not drowning in sorrow, As a part of me has already done, but drowning in illusion. This illusion that I so easily fell victim to suffocated All my senses, particularly that of reality, leaving no barrier Between thy murderous rage and my vulnerability. The knife thou plunged in my chest will forever be the divider Between what was and what remains: The object Of my devotion and destruction, one and the same, Yet separate, for a part of me is remains willing to die For love of thou, but still the other part is willing to die for none. To die willingly by another’s hand is different than to die by thy own, If only because thou diest knowing ‘twas another’s will. Thus I inherently refuse to surrender my whole heart To another’s cause, and so the battle rages on…
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 8:00 PM UTC
In Favor of the Obdurate
As my fickle pen sweeps across the chosen page, Its unsteady stream of ink spouts scattered thoughts of thou… Oh, that my grief were not so! If only my mind could wander Without inevitably pausing upon thy fabricated tombstone! But alas, for such luxury is not mine to own, that pleasant sense Of rightness in the world so often dubbed peace of mind For mine is not to be had, for how can there exist Peace of mind without peace of heart? There ‘tis I find the keeper of my despondency, my heart is at war! Not warring another, mind, but with itself! The ceaseless battle rages, with neither side being the victor, Instead, my heart is torn apart…but who am I to complain? For were my heart a whole, it would do an equal good As that it does in two. What good is a flower That has no stem to hold it upright? Instead of embracing The sun, it floats aimlessly downstream ‘til It disappears beneath the current, ne’er to be seen again. This t’would be the fate of my heart were’t to remain whole. Thus, by waging war upon my emotions I succeed In preserving my sanity. For this, and this alone, I thank thee. For without the pain dealt me by thine hand I would still be drowning. Not drowning in sorrow, As a part of me has already done, but drowning in illusion. This illusion that I so easily fell victim to suffocated All my senses, particularly that of reality, leaving no barrier Between thy murderous rage and my vulnerability. The knife thou plunged in my chest will forever be the divider Between what was and what remains: The object Of my devotion and destruction, one and the same, Yet separate, for a part of me is remains willing to die For love of thou, but still the other part is willing to die for none. To die willingly by another’s hand is different than to die by thy own, If only because thou diest knowing ‘twas another’s will. Thus I inherently refuse to surrender my whole heart To another’s cause, and so the battle rages on…
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There once was a girl who now no longer exists In a city that no longer exist, with a name That no one in existence can pronounce And that only inexistence can imagine. She lay in a bed that also no longer exists Playing a game, that only existed in nonexistence, With a boy whose existence is, again, no longer real. The one rule of this game that has long been lost in existence If it ever really existed at all, the one rule of this bed game was and is, The bed is the only thing that exists at all. The boy and the girl who both no longer exist they, Drew a line around the bed, rendering it their only plane of existence Neither a toe nor a finger could touch the floor as they were sure That that was too close to earth to not nonexistence And touching this floor, this divider between existing and not, Was not the point in their coexistence in their nonexistence You see this game was not for those who exist Because they did not exist. Not in this house, On this street, in this city, all of which are no longer in existence. But they exist to one another in their bed of inexistence But to no one that now exists at all. Centuries of existence will be worth this kind of inexistence.
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Oct 4, 2011
Oct 4, 2011 at 8:04 PM UTC
Does This Poem Exist?