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"dividers" poems
Only ONE RACE the HUMAN RACE. The dividers and conquerors all trying to convince you otherwise. And they are NEVER on the frontlines. They manipulate you stirring up emotions hatred. That people should die for the mistakes of the few. God hates those who stir up strife. The only so-called winners are the manipulators the millionaires and billionaires... those who orchestrate the mess who PAY people TO HATE... turning them into mercenaries MERCENARY HATERS AND MURDERERS and NOT for the reasons they think. The ORCHESTRATORS don't care ONE WHIT about the cause ONLY about the POWER and CONTROL they HOPE TO GAIN when they "HAVE TO" quell the mess and put out the fires Which THEY CREATED by THEIR MANIPULATIONS. BEWARE how people try to use your emotions for THEIR GREEDY GAIN TO CONTROL YOU. WE ARE ALL ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE. Reach out try to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR YOUR BLOOD IS ALL THE SAME! WOUNDED ONE DROP OF BLOOD IT'S ALL THE SAME. cj 2016
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Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 2:33 PM UTC
Who is Really Stirring the *** BE WARY......
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM UTC
Thrift Shop Confessional
Thrift Shop Confessional Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles "One of," "two of," Sometimes "three of" items Tempting treasure-sifting shoppers, Bargain-needing families, Women seeking up-brand names at low-brand prices... Our wives, followed by their husbands, Acquiescent, but quiescently seeking Seeking a thrift shop oasis. A cast-off dining set beckons, Sturdy enough, if a little battered, To make us solemnly content to wait Carted clothing trundling Off to fitting rooms. He shuffled up with a foolish grin. "I think I'll join this convocation of Waiting gentlemen. My wife is a shopper... She'll close the place down." I moved a chair and gave some space; Strangers become brothers in this place. Five minutes on, I knew he was a vet: Army, Vietnam Nam... "I don't like to think about it," Cleared his throat, "Never can forget." I turned to look at him. "A little girl came running, With her hand behind her back. She only stood this high," he said, And showed me with his palm her height, "They carried grenades that way... All of 'em...couldn't tell which ones... Sergeant told us, 'Don't ever check...just shoot.'" The voice trailed off.... I sat sweating in a thrift store, Captive of my own politeness, Half a century, Half a planet, Transported in his words into a soldier's Hell. "So I shot... Nothing else to do." Silence then. A total stranger staggering under the weight of having Murdered his Albatross.... Of having carried this thing, This memory, Inside him all these years, Of finding me, The unsuspecting thrift shop guest Who'd listen to his lonely tale, Perhaps so he could earn some rest.... I, his unwitting Confessor, Uncertain what to say, Certain something must be said... Certain nothing could be said... Sat dumb, but understanding The wisdom of confessional dividers, The private comfort of two booths Where prayerful exchanges Intersperse uncertain silences, Present in the overhanging need: Demanding sorrowful returns, Impending memories of sorrows... And lonely trudgings home.... (Connections with Fr. Laurence's "Riddling confession finds but short shrift," in Romeo & Juliet, and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
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The concrete depresses with each small step I take in the Arco parking lot I fold this song up into my pocket and my schoolwork starts to rot. Your hair hangs loosely by your eyes as you ration out my shots. I wanted to remind you that your nails give me goosebumps, but I forgot. Your legs laced up and shining in oil are sculpted out of bronze Lying naked in aphids as we strive to be shameless among your father's front lawn You are sunlight disguised by a sheet on a clothesline In the middle of meadows made of wheatgrass and starshine How can something so beautiful share a species with me? A shopping cart overflowing with grace given away on the streets for free My jeans are turning into strings of flayed fabric under your yellow moon I'll shower you in music, if you promise to abuse it, within my crimson room Lock me in my comfort stall with dividers emitting petroleum fumes Break down all the walls with your desperate call as your temple, I consume From within towers where light is devoured, against all odds, I bloom, For a skeletal mastery with ultraviolet eyes crawls into my tomb. You are a symphony of epiphanies for a boy made of concrete In the midst of a city of asphalt and batteries. You splat on my canvas and blast from my headphones And if you opened me your name would probably be on my bones. Keep the covers at bay So I can admire your frame.
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM UTC
Ultraviolet Eyes
. On the wings of adventure and channel planned visions In bonafide pockets with envelopes streaming When sidewalk dividers, the colors of sunset bring peace to the valley, now penned in a post card           “…wish you were here” And bricks line the mansion with cats in the garden, alongside the seashells and beaches we’ll wander I look to the sunshine to see its reflection upon your sweet features, your beauty it holds me           “Vacation photographs cannot do justice” In rhythmed oasis of sweet waters churning and moments we’re seeking in all we are wanting With shadows behind us as we go out walking to love every minute adventures are flying           “We find that our dreams lead us on our journey” I follow the smiles, that don’t belong to me of hot seasoned concrete and t-shirts emblazoned With images captured, yet still fashioned frowning, until you arrive and my heart swims the shoreline           “My vacation destination is your heart” Feathered dunes outline finding the side streets amazing, hibiscus and bougainvillea and fragrances swaying When every sunrise does find you here with me, of bright painted post cards and moments eternal           “We shall forever live in love…”
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 12:59 PM UTC
Bright painted postcards
These special summer afternoons have no time markers, no human dividers, no watches watching or clocks clocking, just grins and smiles, divining the divide, painting lovely the one canyon of humanity and nature attending to each other These summer afternoons have no time markers, but drift perfectly sequentially from sun to nap to black striped grilled franks, and red watermelon, orange cantaloupe, cold coronas, and desserts of indeterminate beach walks, and quiet talks These summer afternoons are as close as I remember, what it was like to be seven or eight, years of age, knowing only carefree summer months that were carelessly treasured, thinking there is always another, looking forward to tomorrow to do nothing in exactly, happily, the same way innocently I am an adult and that means, cares are ever present, ever fair or fear not,, they lurk and attack the goalie, with noisy or subtle unrelenting attacks but as I overlook the waters, scenario soul gentling me under the cooling coverlet of the perfect breeze and what lurks is the moment the eyes and heart are fulfilled, satisfied by what they see The bay, dotted with the boat traffic not too much, but just interesting, a right tiny armada to entertain, all of us, inattentively observing the submerging descent of summer daytime friends, and I think of you only, at this perfect second and I am besotted with grief and guilt why can I not grant you the moment, that I desperate wish to share my arm is not, not, careless slung, but grasping firm with squeezes tight, finger under chin chucking, come friend be with me, and for just this moment your anti-toil tool here, your plight beyond my comprehension, though I live a life on the unknown edge, what matters is the relativity of us, and I relate to your weariness, I weep with desperate knowledge transporting you here is still an impossibility though my eyes see glory, though my heart cannot refuse the scene's peace invading me, it is not fair, it is not fair and I want you to have this more than me so I can keep it too until then it is a glaze, surfacing the coating, that is me but substance is untouched until this guilt morphs into a shared pleasure
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 4:36 AM UTC
Guilt - These special summer afternoons
These special summer afternoons have no time markers, no human dividers, no watches watching or clocks clocking, just grins and smiles, divining the divide, painting lovely the one canyon of humanity and nature attending to each other These summer afternoons have no time markers, but drift perfectly sequentially from sun to nap to black striped grilled franks, and red watermelon, orange cantaloupe, cold coronas, and desserts of indeterminate beach walks, and quiet talks These summer afternoons are as close as I remember, what it was like to be seven or eight, years of age, knowing only carefree summer months that were carelessly treasured, thinking there is always another, looking forward to tomorrow to do nothing in exactly, happily, the same way innocently I am an adult and that means, cares are ever present, ever fair or fear not,, they lurk and attack the goalie, with noisy or subtle unrelenting attacks but as I overlook the waters, scenario soul gentling me under the cooling coverlet of the perfect breeze and what lurks is the moment the eyes and heart are fulfilled, satisfied by what they see The bay, dotted with the boat traffic not too much, but just interesting, a right tiny armada to entertain, all of us, inattentively observing the submerging descent of summer daytime friends, and I think of you only, at this perfect second and I am besotted with grief and guilt why can I not grant you the moment, that I desperate wish to share my arm is not, not, careless slung, but grasping firm with squeezes tight, finger under chin chucking, come friend be with me, and for just this moment your anti-toil tool here, your plight beyond my comprehension, though I live a life on the unknown edge, what matters is the relativity of us, and I relate to your weariness, I weep with desperate knowledge transporting you here is still an impossibility though my eyes see glory, though my heart cannot refuse the scene's peace invading me, it is not fair, it is not fair and I want you to have this more than me so I can keep it too until then it is a glaze, surfacing the coating, that is me but substance is untouched until this guilt morphs into a shared pleasure
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To the old man buying oranges, We have never spoken, But I owe you my thanks. You wandered into the store, Locking onto the produce section, You demand the honor your age grants. Carefully you inspect the fruit one by one, Examining every dimple, checking every rind, Scouring for flaws in your beloved items. Placing the chosen few in your basket, You set out for the lines, And ****** yourself into my spot. Because of your age, I do not object. You transfer your citrus treasures to the belt, Locking them in place, between the dividers. You glance back at me with a scornful expression, I look away feeling guilty, for what I didn't know. You release from your wallet only what is required, And quickly bury it back out of sight. You hand over your money sourly. Latching onto your bag of chosen keepsakes, You march out the door glaring at the ground. I pay for my items and head out as well. As I exit the store I see it in an instant, Your tiny frail body tumbling through the air, Landing onto the car that almost missed you, But sadly it did not. The crowd rushes toward you, lying there quietly. It all happened so fast. I watch as your oranges flee from their bag, Rushing away from the tragedy that freed them, Tumbling quickly away with your life. To the old man buying oranges, We have never spoken, But I owe you my thanks, For taking my place in line.
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Jul 27, 2010
Jul 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM UTC
To the old man buying oranges,
it’s a place it’s a time it’s a memory it’s a smile it’s the changing of leaves it’s the scent of a wood-burning fireplace it’s a moment it’s a laugh it’s a kiss it’s that anxiety you get in your throat right before you’re going to cry it’s a dog panting and wagging it’s tail it’s a flash of colour through the black it’s a pair of pants it’s holding hands it’s someone’s arm around you, pulling you closer as you fall asleep it’s falling it’s strength it’s a river it’s an ocean it’s a waterfall it’s rain it’s dancing it’s uninhibited it’s passion it’s an old, crackled picture it’s a friend that you haven’t seen in three years it’s a road, the yellow dividers ticking by it’s a mountain it’s a birch tree it’s an aluminum boat it’s a view it’s a pitcher of beer it’s a bottle of wine it’s a drinking game in an old cement basement it’s a rooftop it’s a pair of sunglasses it’s those old shoes that you wish you’d never donated it’s grandma’s jewelery it’s a cat’s tail disappearing behind a couch it’s a song that your mom used to play on the piano it’s grilled cheese and tomato soup it’s a summer it’s a season it’s treading water it’s christmas it’s playing hookey it’s a cup of tea on a foggy day it’s freedom it’s the windows rolled down it’s humidity it’s waking up under the sun it’s waking up under the stars it’s legs intertwined it’s a flashlight in the forest it’s ghost stories it’s that concert, the one you swore changed your life it’s running naked down an old wooden dock it’s a song it’s family it’s then it’s goodbye it was.
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM UTC
nostalagia
it’s a place it’s a time it’s a memory it’s a smile it’s the changing of leaves it’s the scent of a wood-burning fireplace it’s a moment it’s a laugh it’s a kiss it’s that anxiety you get in your throat right before you’re going to cry it’s a dog panting and wagging it’s tail it’s a flash of colour through the black it’s a pair of pants it’s holding hands it’s someone’s arm around you, pulling you closer as you fall asleep it’s falling it’s strength it’s a river it’s an ocean it’s a waterfall it’s rain it’s dancing it’s uninhibited it’s passion it’s an old, crackled picture it’s a friend that you haven’t seen in three years it’s a road, the yellow dividers ticking by it’s a mountain it’s a birch tree it’s an aluminum boat it’s a view it’s a pitcher of beer it’s a bottle of wine it’s a drinking game in an old cement basement it’s a rooftop it’s a pair of sunglasses it’s those old shoes that you wish you’d never donated it’s grandma’s jewelery it’s a cat’s tail disappearing behind a couch it’s a song that your mom used to play on the piano it’s grilled cheese and tomato soup it’s a summer it’s a season it’s treading water it’s christmas it’s playing hookey it’s a cup of tea on a foggy day it’s freedom it’s the windows rolled down it’s humidity it’s waking up under the sun it’s waking up under the stars it’s legs intertwined it’s a flashlight in the forest it’s ghost stories it’s that concert, the one you swore changed your life it’s running naked down an old wooden dock it’s a song it’s family it’s then it’s goodbye it was.
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I don't have any answers I can't recall the right questions Even with makeshift blinders I find myself open to suggestions I've had enough with these reminders I catch a glimpse of the problem in reflections Dark and light are missing critical dividers Please help, can't tell angels from demons? We three share the same voice as Pinocchio nose liers What road is it they say is paved with the best intentions? Something about a destination of eternal fires... Eh, it's a moot point now, I fly by the stairway, going 107 on the highway, it's one way, no need for directions ©2024
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Feb 3, 2024
Feb 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM UTC
~•§•~ Simple Complexity ~•§•~
twin gulls at the ready! resting and fidgeting atop a rock outcropping sister galactic spaceships from cowboy bebop ancient cutters of the sky, cloud divers and dividers efficiency is key, swiveling in crisp circumferences feathered razorblade acrobats mother nature’s surplus fish-killers spend their days as lazy air athletes never in the sea deeper than their beaks
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Dec 26, 2016
Dec 26, 2016 at 6:00 PM UTC
Kaw!
the quietness of content between two people walking down the sidewalk after splitting a pint and a crepe is something new to me the quietness of unsettled emptiness in the dregs of heaving lungs in a public toilet is familiarly foreign and suddenly unwanted i occupy booth seats instead of the space between two metal dividers and a toilet paper dispenser i study the dimples of your cheeks and the scent of your hair i've become a student learning the feeling of having instead of a teacher of wanting i do not see any crookedness to your teeth or my own i taste lager and nutella strawberries on your breath and don't ask what else? no sign of do not disturb in my eyes only, please continue speaking when i sway to the counter and ask for the check i am surprised by our obvious pleasure when the waitress giggles "oh i'm sorry, i didn't want to disturb you" i didn't realize we looked so happy so together in a moment shared over candles and two forks on a coffee shop table i admit it was effortless i see now that food, love, humans the things i made complicated were effortless
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 3:02 AM UTC
food, love, and humans
4 enclosed walls of liquid in a fluid web i want you the veiled ivy shadows in a crowded headspace the saint of dilated seas met the princess of abandoned oceans with daughter on moonrise cheeks of spilt milk in the lobby of the chelsea hotel through 40 days and nights of rain they swore on a bed of clotted blood and see through chinese silk her black widow memories lit a flickering path from attic jets to basement trickles 20 years before when the saint lost all trace where did you go that day? after our butterfly fields (sarah vaughan and dinah washington and ella fitzgerald gathered) a crowd around you all wondering where you came from and where were you going that day when Jesus rolled back the stone from a juvenile womb the populace of a billion worlds inside a temporary tomb the shallow points between childhood legs don't add up to what God paid Satan for your devilblack eyes the princess' daughter i dripped from plasma source such of inner working lips the DNA of the cosmos in my mother's hips unending lines that never touch parallel dividers live lives like my born father of the full eclipse as i make mine this pilgrimage deep to the overlapping ages undercurrents rest in tidal pools the shallows smallest stages
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM UTC
whatevershebringswesing
I thought about always On the train that day As I rushed across state lines To be by your side And I thought about always When I got your calls from jail Counting down the days Until I could hold you again And I thought about always When I had doubts After coming face to face With your addiction Watching you weaken in a way I didn’t know was possible For a substance I don’t understand But that knows you all too well. But always means The fight is no longer yours It is ours And always means I love you through the weakness and pain And monitored phone calls And thin glass dividers That might as well be miles thick Because either way I can’t touch you. And always means You're the only one Who could ever make me brave enough To think about always ojc
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Always
Arches tall lead from Little dividers keeping Some out and others Trapped inside Pink birds with weird One leg stances stand In clumps taking wonder From the people that Come and go like farm Cats Black and white bears Lazily pick away at hard Bamboo sticks and are Content with being the Last of their kind These are the beast of Far away and this is the Ark carrying them over The sea of life For they Have lost their Fight Their instincts The things that make them Animals They are the peaceful wonders Staring out of fish bowls and Wondering why people come And stare at their simple lives All they have is time The lion sleeps softly on a rock The tiger swims, but with no prey to catch The elephants walk about seeing the Crowd’s shock with each of his Thundering steps The monkeys swinging from artificial Vines not caring that we (their brothers) Have given up our childhood games we Used to play Opting, instead, to walk lazily in the hot Summer day and stare agape at the beasts Who are not beasts that wonder at our Funny ways and the food that appears To them each day but who do not care And decide to sleep instead
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May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010 at 5:19 PM UTC
A Day at the Zoo
Free as a bird ~ now “If I leave here tomorrow” Lonely days of glass dividers and tissue boxes Pecking away like a chisel on some old piece of granite Feeling the pain of each sorrowed sentence Carving words on obsolete paper in faded scratch marks “Would you still remember me?” My reflection finds me a stranger of warped shapes Names bounce off of walls and scatter to the stained floor I have read those pieces of promised hope and lover’s sins Said my peace in volumes straight from my heart “For I must be traveling on now” It seems the shadows have faded into a still breeze Hectic lives infuse dancing dreams with left over cottage cheese Faces are seen, hiding in plain site, hoping not to be found Bins overflow with the un-perused and wishful thinking “Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see” Beyond this horizon is calling in a faint echo Winding paths offering more than what I have, whispering on slow winds Forgotten, in due time, as another sun sets And a mourning dove coos my sad farewell “I’m as free as a bird ~ now”
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 3:05 PM UTC
Free as a bird ~ now
Is something I can teach, At sea or on land, Use of a compass And a parallel rule, Dividers and a plotter, All to find out where I am Where I wish to be And what course to steer, In matters of the heart, Also - as do we all - I do my best to plot A course to best effect, But lately I have been All at sea in darkness, Steering by dead reckoning, And raw blind hope, A nerve racking Time sailing blind, Unaware how sands may shift, How deep the seas or shallow, How far away the land, Until now at last the sun has risen, The darkest hour has passed, And you my darling destination Are right across my bow
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Dec 17, 2023
Dec 17, 2023 at 6:34 PM UTC
Navigation
___________________ another mourning morning, usual signs of warning, wanted to wash away the distress signs of no sleep, turned on the tap, out came only troubled waters, my only friend, the voice from the mirror, pretending to be coming from me, speaking: Oh Lord, Oh Lord! *is there no surcease for me, somewhere, can I find, little bites, small plates, pieces of peace, the kind of kindness that eases, repairs the dividers of mind, the country stone fences that been growing wilder, when, troubled child of 10, window breaking, beyond youthful mischievousness, evil streaked, so deemed* Give me a boat, give me a bridge, give me a road, a home, one of those things poets, songwriters about, wax lyrical, Oh Lord, give me time, 45 seconds, even two or three, Being strong, being confident, am I not entitled to that, a boat, sturdy mast, cause sailing from storm to storm, just glimpsing dry land, is that too much, a pale beyond? love, nah, a bridge too far, not even on the menu, not blinded, I am off key, not well enough, between the peaks between, *I am out of sync, bubbling discombobulated, a **** besided, behind, lend me a finger, not even a hand, a kernel, not even a cob, a string, forget a rope, a washcloth to bathe and dry,* lay me down, lay me down, to live, even just not dying.
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Jun 16, 2020
Jun 16, 2020 at 1:08 PM UTC
troubled waters, Paul
It is so **** tempting to leave this place these pages and these faces just pack everything into my car and drive west for as long and as far as possible never stopping until I reach sunnier pastures when life is like broad street in rush hour traffic and I'm trapped stuck to street dividers it seems like a good idea to stick up my thumb and see where it takes me but I'm scared scared that whats out there will swallow me whole a forgotten poet penning his words on the inside of a whale and the truth is I've been running for a while now never moving anywhere
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Feb 16, 2013
Feb 16, 2013 at 1:14 PM UTC
run away
The water Is wide, white as ******* eyes. And I stand at the road pleading to god to see headlights. Stand cold and shivering. Insecurity, Center dividers and purgatory. This is what we know and it wont change anytime soon. My cup runneth over. Our Armories, We are all just mirror images, ugliness clearer then your eyes laid shut while you’re tossing and turning at night. Its all pain seeping through wires, in my veins and onto my skin. The pain, It fills me up. Fills me up like this waitress fills my coffee cup. I pray to god you make it wine, sweater to the tongue. And if this may pass, god grant me the power to see past insecurities. And this may pass please throw away all my ***** bed sheets. This is the differences between cancer and divorce. This is your soundtrack to a **** This is your abandoned song. Breath cancer and bend your own will. - MW
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Jul 31, 2011
Jul 31, 2011 at 1:15 PM UTC
Untitled
I carve at my insides, hallow out this heart, rearrange the lungs, squish tubes, and realign things that can't be removed, and I do it willingly, its you I do it for. I scrape at my out sides, I tear out things I have no use for, at-least I think I don't, I restart this heart, over and over, hoping to line up the rhythm of my life force with you, and you give me scraps, when I am hungry for the loaves, you cause my attack on this life, and I move things out, to elicit a response from you, to con you into conviction, I do it for you, I do it for me, why don't you love me? I hallowed out the chambers, I've knocked down dividers, unlocked the cabinets, given you the keys to every arena, but you have no knowledge of its use, or maybe its you pretend, they tell me to take it back, that I give to much, that I love to much, to strongly, to soon, but to you its not enough. I'm I ever going to be enough?
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 2:51 AM UTC
more of you less of me.
The water Is wide, white as ******* eyes. And I stand at the road pleading to god to see headlights. Stand cold and shivering. Insecurity, Center dividers and purgatory. This is what we know and it wont change anytime soon. My cup runneth over. Our Armories, We are all just mirror images, ugliness clearer then your eyes laid shut while you’re tossing and turning at night. Its all pain seeping through wires, in my veins and onto my skin. The pain, It fills me up. Fills me up like this waitress fills my coffee cup. I pray to god you make it wine, sweater to the tongue. And if this may pass, god grant me the power to see past insecurities. And this may pass please throw away all my ***** bed sheets. This is the differences between cancer and divorce. This is your soundtrack to a **** This is your abandoned song. Breath cancer and bend your own will.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:44 AM UTC
Untitled
lately, my heart has been louder even in echo than my head and i am here trying to navigate the oceans between too much and not enough. looking ever-closer to where i think the peaks of mountains can be measured between fingertips; measured between dividers; backed by a steady needle’s weight. a sea claimed Bering through a marshy coastline lit only by oil and torch - where buoyancy can balance treacherous watery routes and   rough, shaky hands can trace the   pulling of sails through knots towards the exhaling light of an imminent shore. though i am unsure of the differences between finger-lengths, am i holding back because i cannot accurately predict the pulls of the moon; the swells of tides; the seasons of rough storms? perhaps even the spark of embers against my heaving backbone - and what of the humming gears of sentience in my chest? am i holding back because what i lay in permanence always meets a spray of waves? the crash of undercurrents against the breath leaving your lips? - currents that unapologetically meet the rise of the earth and the curve of your back forcing the Weems to stretch for topography that maybe even my knees cannot lock against. go down with the ship, i will swallow the grasp reflex that builds in my throat and in my palms. a million times over i will meet the breaking of every tensile structure in my body if it means catching your swell. and like the greek merchant’s ship cast deep into the dead sea’s belly, i will be overcome with every ounce of your pressure even if every time i am fated to lose the rise and fall of my lungs to salt water; to a watery grave; to knit sheets and a sailor’s prayer; a promise of ever-lasting life.
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Mar 17, 2019
Mar 17, 2019 at 2:59 AM UTC
35 Parts per Second
lately, my heart has been louder even in echo than my head and i am here trying to navigate the oceans between too much and not enough. looking ever-closer to where i think the peaks of mountains can be measured between fingertips; measured between dividers; backed by a steady needle’s weight. a sea claimed Bering through a marshy coastline lit only by oil and torch - where buoyancy can balance treacherous watery routes and   rough, shaky hands can trace the   pulling of sails through knots towards the exhaling light of an imminent shore. though i am unsure of the differences between finger-lengths, am i holding back because i cannot accurately predict the pulls of the moon; the swells of tides; the seasons of rough storms? perhaps even the spark of embers against my heaving backbone - and what of the humming gears of sentience in my chest? am i holding back because what i lay in permanence always meets a spray of waves? the crash of undercurrents against the breath leaving your lips? - currents that unapologetically meet the rise of the earth and the curve of your back forcing the Weems to stretch for topography that maybe even my knees cannot lock against. go down with the ship, i will swallow the grasp reflex that builds in my throat and in my palms. a million times over i will meet the breaking of every tensile structure in my body if it means catching your swell. and like the greek merchant’s ship cast deep into the dead sea’s belly, i will be overcome with every ounce of your pressure even if every time i am fated to lose the rise and fall of my lungs to salt water; to a watery grave; to knit sheets and a sailor’s prayer; a promise of ever-lasting life.
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A spectacular butterfly splendid in its monochrome, leopard-print reflecting armour flies unto the lavender branches recently budded in my garden Fancying myself a faithful reader of Nabokov and drawn to anecdotes of self-glorification I thought I should become a Lepidopterist and catalogue its striking corpse beginning what could become a masterful collection Me, the quarter-tanned Irish bopping all in tennis whites with mock-radioactive web of butterfly doom among the wooden yard dividers But where should I keep it? this hype-building collection of one amongst my dust-collecting books my backdated journals and flaccid-worn glossy magazines my "value-appreciating" vinyl records the more prettily curated and precision-hung images that curate my partner's collections? No, it is not for me to stop it succumbing to dust, to allow it turn into something beautiful again if a tragic kind of beauty amongst the dirt, for something becomes more wonderful when it's beauty is not forced on show but produces itself through more layered, yet uncomplicated means returned back out of the dust, without any of our artificial light recording again it's eventual demise
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Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 4:05 PM UTC
Lessons From Any Art
~ “If I leave here tomorrow” Lonely days of glass dividers and tissue boxes Pecking away like a chisel on some old piece of granite Feeling the pain of each sorrowed sentence Carving words on obsolete paper in faded scratch marks “Would you still remember me?” My reflection finds me a stranger of warped shapes Names bounce off of walls and scatter to the stained floor I have read those pieces of promised hope and lover’s sins Said my peace in volumes straight from my heart “For I must be traveling on now” It seems the shadows have faded into a still breeze Hectic lives infuse dancing dreams with left over cottage cheese Faces are seen, hiding in plain site, hoping not to be found Bins overflow with the un-perused and wishful thinking “Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see” Beyond this horizon is calling in a faint echo Winding paths offering more than what I have, whispering on slow winds Forgotten, in due time, as another sun sets And a mourning dove coos my sad farewell “I’m as free as a bird ~ now”
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 7:40 AM UTC
Free as a bird ~ now
measuring surface dividers forms itself in a haven of morality bred on the surface between incompleteness & independence
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Nov 4, 2020
Nov 4, 2020 at 7:47 PM UTC
Borderline
Sunlight's abrasive presence provokes a heated isolation stewed together in a cauldron of perishables, stoney partitions metal dividers bind, slay serene slumbers cued by the waning sol, an aubade crooned by Mr. Bluebird shifts crystal puffs harnessing Skinfaxi
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 10:01 AM UTC
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