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"doorways" poems
ground zero i become aware of boundaries i am a dog chasing cars i sing your voicemail to sleep there are no surgeon general warnings to tell me that *the objects in the mirror are more depressed than they appear* so how do i tell you that there are parts of my life that move slower without you in them? or that i look for you every day in emails & unanswered calls in the sunrises i didn't choose to be awake to watch that i sometimes still stare at doorways hoping you would walk through them    stage 1 you tell your new lover you've got a splinter and they pull the sound of your body falling asleep on mine out of your fingertip    stage 2 your new lover says something at dinner that makes you choke so they call 911 & the paramedics do the hymleich not knowing you would ***** our promises all over the the restaurant    stage 3 your new lover surprises you by cleaning the house & washes the shirt you kept next to the bed, not knowing it was the last thing you had that smelled like me after people always ask what was loving her like? after a really long silence i just say "it must be nice" but i never say it's watching paint dry i never say it's a window seat in hell i don't tell anyone about the dreams where i am reading you bedtime stories each one is a different way you die & every time i can never save you dreams where what i think are angels in my bedroom are just homeless versions of myself you never loved i have dreams where i pay someone to shoot me just to see if you would cry just to see if you would cradle my body i don't tell people that loving you is like playing piano for someone who can't hear that it's hitting repeat on my favorite song & forgetting the words every time it starts over that it's finding out there's no milk after you already poured yourself a bowl of cereal it's getting locked in the dark & being told to look on the bright side that loving you is like being reminded of what it felt like the first time you accidentally let go of a balloon as a child it's drowning without the water it's the feeling you get when you start to dance & the song ends
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 3:30 PM UTC
stages of detachment
ground zero i become aware of boundaries i am a dog chasing cars i sing your voicemail to sleep there are no surgeon general warnings to tell me that *the objects in the mirror are more depressed than they appear* so how do i tell you that there are parts of my life that move slower without you in them? or that i look for you every day in emails & unanswered calls in the sunrises i didn't choose to be awake to watch that i sometimes still stare at doorways hoping you would walk through them    stage 1 you tell your new lover you've got a splinter and they pull the sound of your body falling asleep on mine out of your fingertip    stage 2 your new lover says something at dinner that makes you choke so they call 911 & the paramedics do the hymleich not knowing you would ***** our promises all over the the restaurant    stage 3 your new lover surprises you by cleaning the house & washes the shirt you kept next to the bed, not knowing it was the last thing you had that smelled like me after people always ask what was loving her like? after a really long silence i just say "it must be nice" but i never say it's watching paint dry i never say it's a window seat in hell i don't tell anyone about the dreams where i am reading you bedtime stories each one is a different way you die & every time i can never save you dreams where what i think are angels in my bedroom are just homeless versions of myself you never loved i have dreams where i pay someone to shoot me just to see if you would cry just to see if you would cradle my body i don't tell people that loving you is like playing piano for someone who can't hear that it's hitting repeat on my favorite song & forgetting the words every time it starts over that it's finding out there's no milk after you already poured yourself a bowl of cereal it's getting locked in the dark & being told to look on the bright side that loving you is like being reminded of what it felt like the first time you accidentally let go of a balloon as a child it's drowning without the water it's the feeling you get when you start to dance & the song ends
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*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 11:50 PM UTC
Scent
*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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It’s all you’ve ever seen in a midnight’s dream the zero sum games and exorcised demons asinine plunges on tunkwa brides phantom fingers cradling the ragged red dress shadow hands clasp at the floodgates lava fields boil through scorched amber veins needles pierce the look out where flames dance wildly over boneyard grounds deep red pedestals behind bleeding walls empty halls and doorways throughout the sinful nest bulging eyes and blood rush in a dark crimson sky a funeral, before I die
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Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 2:14 PM UTC
Fever Dream
Endless stains of blood On white t-shirts On nights that scatter blue trees over black earth Alight by shooting stars The mother tells her child Unwilling to unlock the truth The truth those stars Don't grant your wishes They grab them With scarred scratching hands. Alight, The damp stitches in the soil Cemetery symmetrical to hospital Those shooting stars circling Like a vulture Speeds towards dead carcasses Still, the murdering star will not cease To break bones That have already broken To take lives That have already been taken To burn What is already charred Today smells like burnt muddied skin feels like gnawing on your own fingers for feast sounds like tired, howling machines spurring and sputtering, never-ending their onwards trek Swallowing distances and with it, nameless faces countless places Today the earthquakes of death Don't make the land shake anymore For it has learned to cope With the desolate cemeteries filled with mute bones Today burns like gasoline Looks like intestines decorating destroyed doorways Today it rains curdled crimson Tell me shooting star If the child liked  jam on his toast Did he snore? Did he like math? Or english? Shooting star doesn't know and neither the bombs. As bodies fall from trees like rotten plums. The world was born in blood And has not ceased to suckle its wounds Endless blood thirst, Endless war But not endless skin to bleed.
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 2:41 AM UTC
sign of the times
We lay together in darkness as your hand trails down and rests between my thighs. Your light caresses send me shivering into a world not entirely my own. Your fingers dance in me, sliding through puddles, finding hidden doorways I'd thought long gone. I brace your wrist, fingers encircle. Don't stop. Never stop.
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Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022 at 9:33 PM UTC
In Darkness
he got drunk and went to sleep in his bed and the fire started and he layed in there burning until a friend in the next room smelled it and ran in and tried to pull him out of the fire by his arms and the skin rolled right off the arms and he had to grab again deeper near the bone, and he got him out and up and the guy started screaming and running blind, he hit some walls finally made 2 doorways and with half a dozen men trying to hold him he broke free and ran into the yard screaming still running he ran right into some barbed wire and tangled in the barbed wire screaming and they had to go up and get him loose from the wire he lived for 3 nights and 3 days drinking and smoking are bad for the health.
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carnival
My mom Tells me I'm a gift. She says love Is what keeps the atoms In you and I Is the moment She caught my Father's eye Is the day My grandfather died With a candy kiss on his cheek She had never tasted something so sweet. When we were little We played kickball, The ground is lava And hide-and-go-seek. As I grew I knew most days, It was harder to find myself; Let alone somebody else. And I have been around Enough center city playgrounds To see the rich Pump every bit of spare change In their veins fighting A cancer that they Never learned to put in their past. To see the poor Wage wars with themselves Trying to pick up Way too much, Way too fast; Nobody really knows how to make love last. So put your prism your heart Beneath the moonlight. Refract the wavelengths Of your wonders Into ROYGB-eautiful like the sea, It took a lot of jellyfish to let people see through me. And even more mirrors To find a place I was comfortable Praying in. Fraying in doorways Where I learned hope, Is looking both ways On a one way street Cause it can be so easy to thank God While you still have bread to eat. I have never prayed So hard for a healthy meal Than the days I remember The heart is a muscle; And sometimes the only Thing we need Is to "work it out." And I know that some days, My doubt hangs my Smile like Jesus Christ I never quite learned How to bleed right. But if there's one thing I found from cleaning The crosses out of the Empty hallway of my character Is that you haven't experienced loss Until you've held two outstretched arms For years waiting for your innocence to come back. Nothing, weighs more than the guilt of your past And nothing throws punches Faster than the ghost of who you used to be. And I know it's hard To stop looking for yourself Under every bed you Left nightmares in And I know it's hard To be comfortable In your own skin But sometimes bars Aren’t the only thing That builds a cage And sometimes The only way to live With yourself Is to stop digging Your own grave. You can spend years Listening to morticians And never get grounded. Surrounded by the Square roots we all share, By the same air, We've all got to learn to let go. To learn that Holding your breath Has never been how Living things Learn to Grow
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Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015 at 4:57 PM UTC
Dandelions
My mom Tells me I'm a gift. She says love Is what keeps the atoms In you and I Is the moment She caught my Father's eye Is the day My grandfather died With a candy kiss on his cheek She had never tasted something so sweet. When we were little We played kickball, The ground is lava And hide-and-go-seek. As I grew I knew most days, It was harder to find myself; Let alone somebody else. And I have been around Enough center city playgrounds To see the rich Pump every bit of spare change In their veins fighting A cancer that they Never learned to put in their past. To see the poor Wage wars with themselves Trying to pick up Way too much, Way too fast; Nobody really knows how to make love last. So put your prism your heart Beneath the moonlight. Refract the wavelengths Of your wonders Into ROYGB-eautiful like the sea, It took a lot of jellyfish to let people see through me. And even more mirrors To find a place I was comfortable Praying in. Fraying in doorways Where I learned hope, Is looking both ways On a one way street Cause it can be so easy to thank God While you still have bread to eat. I have never prayed So hard for a healthy meal Than the days I remember The heart is a muscle; And sometimes the only Thing we need Is to "work it out." And I know that some days, My doubt hangs my Smile like Jesus Christ I never quite learned How to bleed right. But if there's one thing I found from cleaning The crosses out of the Empty hallway of my character Is that you haven't experienced loss Until you've held two outstretched arms For years waiting for your innocence to come back. Nothing, weighs more than the guilt of your past And nothing throws punches Faster than the ghost of who you used to be. And I know it's hard To stop looking for yourself Under every bed you Left nightmares in And I know it's hard To be comfortable In your own skin But sometimes bars Aren’t the only thing That builds a cage And sometimes The only way to live With yourself Is to stop digging Your own grave. You can spend years Listening to morticians And never get grounded. Surrounded by the Square roots we all share, By the same air, We've all got to learn to let go. To learn that Holding your breath Has never been how Living things Learn to Grow
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I pretend that your poems and  my poems go slumming in disguise; carrying on in dark doorways of riverfront bars— tipsy, telling secrets, spilling out into the sweet-smelling night, libertines  more in love  than they were before.
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Dec 15, 2010
Dec 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM UTC
Your poems love my poems
Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips Where bones idle under years of fatback And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes cliched by Repetition. Her children, strangers To childhood's TOYS, play Best the games of darkened doorways, Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of Other people's property. Too fat to ***** Too mad to work, Searches her dreams for the Lucky sign and walks bare-handed Into a den of bereaucrats for her portion. 'They don't give me welfare. I take it.'
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Momma Welfare Roll
I wrote a poem on a bus but to hear it you must climb to the top of the bouncing metal stairs.    Slither snake-like past the rail and sit on the rainbow nylon bench.    I'll be there at the top of the bus, reciting my rhyme, written as we ride along, past shops and houses with musty nets and peeling paint on dingy doors.    There's the old woman who lives in a house no bigger than a shoe box who had so many children she didn't know what to do! But they've all grown and flown now and she's all alone with no-one to talk to but herself.    Look at that kid: grimy smile and mischievous eyes, skateboard-scuffed knees, darting out from the roadside. Screech! As we stop and angry words. The kid glances back and tosses a vee leaving just his smile behind.    The bus lurches on at a snail's pace and stops at a stop for a giggle-girl-gang to chatter up the stairs with a clatter of feet and voices:   weekends and boyfriends, music and laughter. The bus trundles and sways past shops all shuttered, old folks gathered by doorways talking about people dead and forgotten ... except by them.    Into the town now: a river of road-rage as our bus ambles onward toward car-parks and markets and rat-racing shoppers    And stops by a brown pigeon-stained temple of public philanthropy, a gift from a long-dead civic leader and now proud home to dogeared tomes of PC persuasion.    Our bus, like some Trojan horse, disgorges its riders who spatter and scatter like rays of dawn light to shop till they drop.    So, just me and you seated atop the steel stairway and you say to me sharply, “So where's your poem then?” I look at you strangely: “It's happened around you,” I tell you quite curtly.
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Sep 23, 2012
Sep 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM UTC
On a Bus
I wrote a poem on a bus but to hear it you must climb to the top of the bouncing metal stairs.    Slither snake-like past the rail and sit on the rainbow nylon bench.    I'll be there at the top of the bus, reciting my rhyme, written as we ride along, past shops and houses with musty nets and peeling paint on dingy doors.    There's the old woman who lives in a house no bigger than a shoe box who had so many children she didn't know what to do! But they've all grown and flown now and she's all alone with no-one to talk to but herself.    Look at that kid: grimy smile and mischievous eyes, skateboard-scuffed knees, darting out from the roadside. Screech! As we stop and angry words. The kid glances back and tosses a vee leaving just his smile behind.    The bus lurches on at a snail's pace and stops at a stop for a giggle-girl-gang to chatter up the stairs with a clatter of feet and voices:   weekends and boyfriends, music and laughter. The bus trundles and sways past shops all shuttered, old folks gathered by doorways talking about people dead and forgotten ... except by them.    Into the town now: a river of road-rage as our bus ambles onward toward car-parks and markets and rat-racing shoppers    And stops by a brown pigeon-stained temple of public philanthropy, a gift from a long-dead civic leader and now proud home to dogeared tomes of PC persuasion.    Our bus, like some Trojan horse, disgorges its riders who spatter and scatter like rays of dawn light to shop till they drop.    So, just me and you seated atop the steel stairway and you say to me sharply, “So where's your poem then?” I look at you strangely: “It's happened around you,” I tell you quite curtly.
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in dreams people end up in places, shrink down to sizes aren't faces but bodies, aren't lips, just statues, no legs, thick torsos, you settle for old faces call them out from behind doorways make love to them in hallways but they disintegrate beneath your hands and you spend the time waking up trying to fall back, the lights go off in your dream and the people there fall asleep, you probably saw satan once and said he didn't belong there, your prayers weren't audible but drowned out his voice, you said no, you aren't allowed to be there, this is sullied ground, this is hallowed ground this is sacred ground
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 10:37 PM UTC
murakami
They say that the cities Are paved with gold That this is the land Where dreams are made true I'll tell you its where they are sold Only the ruthless can afford To rise to the top The cities are nothing but cold Homeless in doorways And beggars on corners A meagre minimum wage income A damp house to welcome Indirect subtle insults Discrimination and accusation Faulted into submission One size fits all Well it better fit you Or you're just another number Database, forms and paperwork Lost in the system Nine to five Or the underworld shift Borrow from Peter to give to Paul Man made traps Crime is always at an all time high Theft, **** fraud, ****** Delinquency Occurring frequently I read the news And it starts my day off miserably Concrete jungle Where have you gone simple things If you have a minute Tell me about the other side The place I want to go Acres of playground fun I want to hear about the trees The earth beneath your feet Do you sit by the river And feel complete
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Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 5:46 PM UTC
City vs Countryside
We are just ghosts Aimlessly passing the time, Forgotten places Left behind, Boarded up doorways Stained by decay, Restlessly looming In the deepening gray, Disappearing beneath The undergrowth
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 6:14 PM UTC
Ghosts
Her shoulder rose like the moon above the black velvet of bolero jacket She took his arm, his eyes-- An apogee She took the room in reverence So slowly shed the mountains shed the light hand to touch their wonder Gazing after her noiseless ascent which never happened while they watched.... Pearls— roll against warmth luxuriating offspring cool encircling contents iridesce their energies’ warning: Nothing quite that simple Nothing quite that still Nothing like the opulence on the Proud Eve of catastrophe Pearls— caught in the lining of what never happens the first time.... She heard them before she saw them rip their orbits! fission her universe! in the mezzanine of the symphony hall Pin ball in the Fun House Bingo bounce off— the hardwoods of space.... Universal Theory of Scatter? Even now I can still hear the clatter of their round smooth souls in the doorways of distant relatives How could I know? You would condemn me to find them all?
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Jan 25, 2017
Jan 25, 2017 at 8:31 PM UTC
String of Pearls
You pull me through doorways with cherry red charm. You fill me with whiskey and hang on my arm. We waltz through the wreckage, the crown and her guest. Your hem lined in ashes, the last of what’s left. The clerk asks for blood. The stone has run dry. We promise, tomorrow and feed him with wine. The clouds now move faster, with voice of hard wind. It speaks to you only as thunder moves in. You twist here beside me and curl like a vine, your teeth in my shoulder, reliving some crime. You hold me so tightly and whisper your vows. Your secrets stay hidden. Your tears are so loud.
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Jun 8, 2023
Jun 8, 2023 at 12:43 AM UTC
To A.
Sometimes          I feel a well                    dug deep          into my heart   I try to stop it but it quickly becomes ocean   and overflows        into great tsunami           rises over all the levees              rushes past dams                                  breaks down tall                    city structures,               edifices crumbling            in its path      all the squid and octopi     skitting forth in wild pulses, tentacles entangled      in doorways and rooves         slipping through narrow                 window-openings                    as they pour ink                        in clouds,                          shifting shapes                           in cephalopod excitement                             while blue whales                             and humpbacks                                breach over bridges,                              phosphorescent jellies                           light up                        the dark streets of                       my arteries                      electric eels illuminate                     the alleyways of                    desolation's thick syrup                      and I cannot stop it even                             if I wanted to,                    these darkened,                      swirling waves I am both floating and flying like a jumping manta ray curling around the ferries bobbing in seahorse iridescence weaving between buses as if they were corals And when the storm subsides, colorful rockpools form, rich in diversity It is there, in between the multicolored ***** and succulent shellfish, in a mermaid's        voluptuous smile and turquoise eye that I see you, so crystal clear                 I could reach out                                     and bring you to me,                                    holding you tight                          until the                 gentle break      of           morning
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 5:31 PM UTC
tsunami
Sometimes          I feel a well                    dug deep          into my heart   I try to stop it but it quickly becomes ocean   and overflows        into great tsunami           rises over all the levees              rushes past dams                                  breaks down tall                    city structures,               edifices crumbling            in its path      all the squid and octopi     skitting forth in wild pulses, tentacles entangled      in doorways and rooves         slipping through narrow                 window-openings                    as they pour ink                        in clouds,                          shifting shapes                           in cephalopod excitement                             while blue whales                             and humpbacks                                breach over bridges,                              phosphorescent jellies                           light up                        the dark streets of                       my arteries                      electric eels illuminate                     the alleyways of                    desolation's thick syrup                      and I cannot stop it even                             if I wanted to,                    these darkened,                      swirling waves I am both floating and flying like a jumping manta ray curling around the ferries bobbing in seahorse iridescence weaving between buses as if they were corals And when the storm subsides, colorful rockpools form, rich in diversity It is there, in between the multicolored ***** and succulent shellfish, in a mermaid's        voluptuous smile and turquoise eye that I see you, so crystal clear                 I could reach out                                     and bring you to me,                                    holding you tight                          until the                 gentle break      of           morning
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People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 8:34 AM UTC
Boots and Shoes
People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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People who are afraid of themselves Multiply themselves into families And so divide themselves And so become less afraid. People who might have to go out Into clanging strangers' laughter, Crowd under roofs, make compacts To no more than smile at each other. People who might meet their own faces Or surprise their own voices in doorways Build themselves rooms without mirrors And live between walls without echoes. People who might meet other faces And unknown voices round corners Build themselves rooms all mirrors And live between walls all echoes. People who are afraid to go naked Clothe themselves in families, houses, But are still afraid of death Because death one day will undress them.
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Houses
. So you snuggle in to your bed as you hear mid-winter calling. The cold north wind is blowing as the last of Autumns leaves are falling. Did you ever stop to think as you pull up your blankets tight? That out in the doorways of the city desperate figures shiver in the night. Crowding around the soup van blue hands grasping for the heat. Hallowed eyes and frightened expressions as the rain turns to stinging sleet. The concrete pavements are hard and cold the bridges provide scant protection. The hot food and volunteers words stir memories into recollection. Once they were people of society with homes and jobs and cars and love. Now they fight behind the charity shops for clothes and coats and hats and gloves. So as you snuggle deep in your bed and your fire starts to burn low. Remember the people of the streets as the sleet begins to turn to snow. Pagan Paul (Dec 2008) ©2016
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Oct 24, 2016
Oct 24, 2016 at 4:38 PM UTC
Poem for the Homeless
Passing through huddled and ugly walls By doorways where women Looked from their hunger-deep eyes, Haunted with shadows of hunger-hands, Out from the huddled and ugly walls, I came sudden, at the city's edge, On a blue burst of lake, Long lake waves breaking under the sun On a spray-flung curve of shore; And a fluttering storm of gulls, Masses of great gray wings And flying white bellies Veering and wheeling free in the open
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The Harbor
I am the fire that holds the glow of a hidden flame that captures all that fall within. As all my fire flowers around me bellowed by every heartbeat. As many invisible doorways break open and all is awakened in air of ruby reds and orange flame, as they burst and bloom.   I am the fire that swallows all fire so shout at me more little drill sergeant for you light my fire. For I will explode all over your anger and blow you out like a little candle. As I am a colossal fiery breeze as turbulent winds encircle like a forest fire I engulf. My coat shines and glows with orange embers fanned by a million life times of survival. The power of my radiating heat melts bones like ice in boiling water or the hot sun against margarine. Dare you look into my stare take a dip a little swim and I will reignite your flame. I am the WILD Tiger never in caged by any shouldst or ought to for I am a free and my path always open for me to seek fuel for my flame. As my fire is never suffocated by conditions or rule as I possess all the space around me. Like oxygen I **** it all in while exploding into higher spaces much greater places. I feel the taste of LOVE and HATE as they are both painted upon my tongue and feed my appetite. Like two sticks Love and Hate I rub them both together please give me more smoke and fire. You rub your soft injustice against my hard wood I will bring you storm clouds and flames. As I fight for right as naturally as gravity is pulling us to earth. I will transform any situation never stopping to ask if I can as I throw myself at anything. I wash souls of petty despair as they bath within my glare. Come close to me and I will hold you tenderly in the nets of my sight like hammocks in my eyes. Let me lick and sooth your many wounds as we together we softly purr. Purring sweetly together like a V8 engine I can slowly restore all your strength and power. I pounce and spring of solid rock that feels so soft and elastic like rubber. A thousand coordinated sparks ****** themselves forward as they blaze a trail to fast for the brain. You will be liberated when you find my fire rocket blades ignited we will dance and play through time. So much can be gained when running with the Tiger, caressing air with a watery velvet. As you slip through a jungle with a silky strawberry orange flame, how we Love the beautiful Tiger's Flame
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 4:23 PM UTC
TIGERS FLAME
I am the fire that holds the glow of a hidden flame that captures all that fall within. As all my fire flowers around me bellowed by every heartbeat. As many invisible doorways break open and all is awakened in air of ruby reds and orange flame, as they burst and bloom.   I am the fire that swallows all fire so shout at me more little drill sergeant for you light my fire. For I will explode all over your anger and blow you out like a little candle. As I am a colossal fiery breeze as turbulent winds encircle like a forest fire I engulf. My coat shines and glows with orange embers fanned by a million life times of survival. The power of my radiating heat melts bones like ice in boiling water or the hot sun against margarine. Dare you look into my stare take a dip a little swim and I will reignite your flame. I am the WILD Tiger never in caged by any shouldst or ought to for I am a free and my path always open for me to seek fuel for my flame. As my fire is never suffocated by conditions or rule as I possess all the space around me. Like oxygen I **** it all in while exploding into higher spaces much greater places. I feel the taste of LOVE and HATE as they are both painted upon my tongue and feed my appetite. Like two sticks Love and Hate I rub them both together please give me more smoke and fire. You rub your soft injustice against my hard wood I will bring you storm clouds and flames. As I fight for right as naturally as gravity is pulling us to earth. I will transform any situation never stopping to ask if I can as I throw myself at anything. I wash souls of petty despair as they bath within my glare. Come close to me and I will hold you tenderly in the nets of my sight like hammocks in my eyes. Let me lick and sooth your many wounds as we together we softly purr. Purring sweetly together like a V8 engine I can slowly restore all your strength and power. I pounce and spring of solid rock that feels so soft and elastic like rubber. A thousand coordinated sparks ****** themselves forward as they blaze a trail to fast for the brain. You will be liberated when you find my fire rocket blades ignited we will dance and play through time. So much can be gained when running with the Tiger, caressing air with a watery velvet. As you slip through a jungle with a silky strawberry orange flame, how we Love the beautiful Tiger's Flame
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we were driving home taking side roads in a roundabout way. and you spotted something on the side of the road. bloodied, broken and (i assumed to be) dead. you pulled over and we inspected it. i was rather disgusted, but you picked it up and coddled it 'cause it had fur. you kept coo'ing at it and asked it what it's name was (expecting no answer) but it struggled to utter "Love". we begrudgingly decided to take it home and made a bed for it and nourished it back to health. a week later we were drinking Earl Grey by the fireplace, heard a rumbling and looked around to see it standing there looking at us. it was 7' tall and had an expression of awe, wonder, and terror as if it thought we would ****** it at any second. each night it had a different face, resembling one of your former playthings. you never called it the same name twice. a week later, it couldn't fit through any of the doorways. we always came home to plaster, paint and drywall scattered everywhere. i complained. "Love has broad shoulders", you quipped. it had grown too much for us. a week later, i spent the afternoon at the bar and you were shopping. we rendezvoused back home at 3PM. only to find a gaping hole where the front door used to be. everything inside totaled. precious collections, expensive technology, jewelry... all gone (or destroyed beyond recognition). i railed, "Love ruined EVERYTHING!!!" you seemed to take no note, kept your composure and muttered, "It always does" and just began sweeping. the next day we got a kitten from the animal shelter, and were laying in bed with it at night. i asked, "Do you think Love will ever come back?" you answered coldly, "It never does".
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Jul 16, 2012
Jul 16, 2012 at 1:17 AM UTC
Growth Spurt
we were driving home taking side roads in a roundabout way. and you spotted something on the side of the road. bloodied, broken and (i assumed to be) dead. you pulled over and we inspected it. i was rather disgusted, but you picked it up and coddled it 'cause it had fur. you kept coo'ing at it and asked it what it's name was (expecting no answer) but it struggled to utter "Love". we begrudgingly decided to take it home and made a bed for it and nourished it back to health. a week later we were drinking Earl Grey by the fireplace, heard a rumbling and looked around to see it standing there looking at us. it was 7' tall and had an expression of awe, wonder, and terror as if it thought we would ****** it at any second. each night it had a different face, resembling one of your former playthings. you never called it the same name twice. a week later, it couldn't fit through any of the doorways. we always came home to plaster, paint and drywall scattered everywhere. i complained. "Love has broad shoulders", you quipped. it had grown too much for us. a week later, i spent the afternoon at the bar and you were shopping. we rendezvoused back home at 3PM. only to find a gaping hole where the front door used to be. everything inside totaled. precious collections, expensive technology, jewelry... all gone (or destroyed beyond recognition). i railed, "Love ruined EVERYTHING!!!" you seemed to take no note, kept your composure and muttered, "It always does" and just began sweeping. the next day we got a kitten from the animal shelter, and were laying in bed with it at night. i asked, "Do you think Love will ever come back?" you answered coldly, "It never does".
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Complex cosmos. Intertwined divine. Emerging energies tangled in vibrant vibrations. Beings of light. Woven through time and space. Mind meeting spirit. An Awakening. Truth echoes in the silent wind. Open eyes with ancient ties. The illusion is wearing off. Dormant souls colliding, Seeing light beyond this realm. A revolution beyond government and world order. A conscious shift, long awaited. Beyond technology and media schemes. A new view. Simply pure. Beautifully complex. A transcending universe in the minds eye. Opening mystical doorways into the great forgotten. Taking spirit back. Claiming love and light for all who accept it. Nature fueling the human imagination. The endless curiosity, We are cleverly designed to crave. Follow me tonight, I’m the stars in the sky. We’re all just seeking truth And we’re just passing by.
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 4:57 AM UTC
Awakening.
*if only I knew how to love... for my Victoria winces-grimaces, that these words even leave my fingertips, reminiscences, a chrome bookmark tab full of decades of near misses, instances, subway sideway stolen daily glances of she who would be the only, the one, but one day failed to appear, left to dream peer, and/or decades long of romanced lasses, flying spectacular super crashes, when my heart-blanched, lanced, and the lawyers danced, poems shriveled as dried ink crack'd and words rusted shut, cut by so many p'raps, and ugly motives, beautiful covered up, disguised as synapses of sin and insincerity, and I, the sad man, both the sinner and the sinned against, totalities, of shoulda-woulda-asked/kissed-her-gallantly, activities, when kisses were doorways to trap door rooms and an over decorated monte cristo prison cell ah well the 'and yet,' the 'but for,' a single finger, sealing silenced lips, passions mourned and irrevocable sensations, frittered, fractured, all that I calmly called love was sprigs and broken branches, cut flowers destined to shrivel, not of what I believed in, something akin to a tree rooted, an oaken strong unbreakable love of this certain, all approximations, all failed incantations, for surely, if but only one escaped, could have been saved, and if truthful love it was, I would have known it, for would I have dared to let slip away?
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Jul 14, 2017
Jul 14, 2017 at 6:05 PM UTC
if only I knew how to love
Sometimes I choke back tears Sometimes I hinder in doorways Sometimes I'm just numb But I'm always throwing up anti depressants Sometimes I feel like nothing at all Sometimes I use the scissors Sometimes I OD Then I'm throwing up anti depressants Sometimes I think it's all okay Sometimes I smile again Sometimes it's not worth it So I'm throwing up anti depressants Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever wake Sometimes I wonder if I want to Sometimes my dreams are everything I'm just throwing up anti depressants
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 12:34 AM UTC
Here we go again