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Benji James Apr 2018
If not for hellopoetry
I would have given up
The writing was starting to take its toll
Left me emotionally exhausted
I was forced to take a break
For all my energy it had drained
Sleepless nights, endless lines
Trying to switch off my brain
Left me depressed
When sentences formed
A story I'd tell
About my life in hell
Sometimes dramatised to a new level
Sometimes I have seen myself become the devil
All my emotions that stain the page
The blood, sweat and tears
Written into each line
Left me losing moments in time
And for this writing became a crime
Didn't feel like I was utilising my mind
Until recently I realised this was the only legacy
I would leave behind
I've seen this art in a whole new light
Through words on a page, I've shown my fight
I've shown all my emotions, I have been totally open
Gave my all in every line
Sprinkled in a flavour of rhyme
If not for hellopoetry all I'd have is blank pages
A mind full of lines, forgotten in time
Took some time to unwind
And that is when I realised
These writings and I are bound for life
I've learned to embrace this now
Finally proud of all my works,
how has it taken me this long
To fall in love with this art
If not for hellopoetry
An appreciation I would never have tasted
And this whole community I've embraced it
Don't care if you love or hate it
It's made me make some changes
If not for hellopoetry
There are talents I may never have uncovered
Some of us are still so young,
Still, more room left to improve
The elder ones raising us up
Understanding a whole new love for this art
I once said These lyrics were written in blood
Straight from the arteries from my heart
That metaphorically speaking
I spread all I am, all across the page
Bled the led with what I felt  
So much heart into every verse
All this time it was never a curse
It was something special I've been gifted
To get all these thoughts out of my system
If not for hellopoetry
I wouldn't be here...caught within this poetic atmosphere

©2018 Written By Benji James
Big Virge Sep 2020
HEY... My Name AIN'T Jane... !!!

Big Virges' PERSONALITY...
Does NOT Embrace... CALAMITIES... !!!!!

YES Doris Had Her Day...
But Virge Is A Name...
Whose Character CAN Claim...

... The Type of...
Brain Thought Waves...
Worthy of... ANY STAGE... !!!

Because I Use Wordplay...
That's Smart And Edu-tains...
Due To My... PERSONALITY...
NOT Running From REALITY... !!!

So What's Yours Like... ?
Are You The Type...
Who... ALWAYS Smiles... ?

EVEN When Life...
Brings You TRIALS... ?!?

Like Those Now Known...
As... PAEDOPHILES... !?!?!?!

Whose Personality TRAITS...
Are... BEYOND A Disgrace... !!!

Personalities CHANGE...
From Person To Person...
And... Place to Place...

Some Now Seem LAME...
So Make A LOT of CLAIMS...
That... DON'T Hold Weight... !!!

Quite A FEW Now SWAY...
To... STRANGE Displays... !?!

From Road To STAGE...
And Of Course SCREENPLAYS...
NOW... INDICATE...
That Creative Personalities...
Are Quite Willing To Play...

The Lives of Those Who SADLY...
Have Been Victims of TRAGEDIES... !!!

... REAL Life CRIMES...
Of Course... DRAMATISED... !!!

But You Shouldn't Be Surprised...
When CERTAIN Personalities...
.... Within YOUR LIFE....
Give You... CLEAR SIGNS...
That Things AREN'T Right...
... Inside Their Minds... !!!

Cos' They Choose To DENY...
Their... " Internal Fights "... !!!!

Personalities Resigned...
To... unBalANced Lives... !!!

But What About THOSE...
Whose Vibes Incline...
To Give Off WARMTH...
Just Like SUNSHINE... ?!?

These Are The Types...
... I TRY To FIND... !!!

Girls And Guys of ALL Skin Types...
Because My Personality...
Now Lives It's Life With PARITY...

Because It Is HUMANITY...
That Signifies My Mind And Personality...
Does NOT Embrace DIVIDES...
That Make Personalities... DIE... !!!

Because of Their SKIN TYPE... !!!

Or Things Some CHOOSE To Like...
That DON'T Encourage My Mind...
To STAND Right By Their Side... !!!!!

What I'm Saying Is RECOGNISE...
Personalities NEED To Find...
Those That Are ALIKE....
So Connections DON'T Cross Lines... !!!

You See As I Age...
I See How GREAT...
It Is To Meet... Personalities...
Who Choose To Feed...
OFF REALITY And SANITY... !!!!!

Because I DON'T Deal In Fantasies...
Or Talk That Is... PURE FALLACY... !!!

Personalities To Me...
NEED To Be MORE FREE... !!!

FREE Through SPEECH and ARTISTRY... !!!

And FREE of...... Personalities...
Who Work In Teams Who Seem To FEED...
OFF Economies Where HYPOCRISY...
Makes Them DEAL Like Fiends Who Kneel...
For A Daily Meal Where DEMONS STEAL...
Their SOULS...... For REAL...... !!!!!

Personalities Designed...
To... HURT Mankind... !?!

WHY... WHO KNOWS... ?!?

Personalities Flow And Sometimes Roll...
With Those Who CLONE To RETAIN CONTROL... !!!
And USE Them Like CERTAIN Folks DO... " **'s "... !!!

Or YES... Rent Boys... !!!
Personas' DEVOID of MORE Than CHOICE... !!!!!

So YES SOME Personalities...
Have Been FORMED By The TRAGEDIES...
DEFINED BY Their Life's RIDE... !!!

So I'm THANKFUL That Mine...
Has Had... BOTH Sides... !!!

GOOD And... BAD Times... !!!
And Has Brought Me SMILES...
And TEARS... Sometimes... !!!!

Personalities Inclined...
To PLAY The TOUGH Guy...
Are Those I CHOOSE...
To Now Walk By............................ !!!!!

Because Personalities...
Who'll ABUSE or ****** GLADLY...
Do NOT Leave People Happy... !!!!

My Vibe is MORE...
About STOPPING Wars... !!!
And... THAT's For SURE... !!!!!

And My Name AIN'T...
... " Milton Bradley "...

Attempting To TAKE...
BLOOD From My Veins...
... WITHOUT My OKAY... !?!

INDEED Could End Up BADLY... !!!

Life's... NOT A Game...
I Choose To FORSAKE...
Or To... Throw Away... !!!?!!!

So YES I Have TENACITY...
But Now Live Life... ORGANICALLY... !!!

So When It Comes To BIG VIRGE...
That's The Word I... PREFER...
To Which People DEFER...

To DEFINE My...

.... " Personality "....
So many in this world to navigate around, or with, it's best to try to, quickly get to know, what type you're dealing with.....
Isobel G Apr 2011
People say it's all,
In our minds,
Over-dramatised,
But this,
Is bigger than us,
And they never saw,
The bloodshed
©Nicola-Isobel H.       02.04.2011
Mateuš Conrad Jan 2016
indeed when the nadir of youth comes,
a new height is located upon the horizon,
a new fluctuation, and a necessary experience,
it’s not exactly defined by old age
and its cinder like cares for former glories
(more a jest at feeding comforts of a coffin,
with such statements... i used to fall asleep
with my hand behind he pillow, on the side...
to be lying like a straitjacket front facing up
i must surely be dead),
not really on the middle ground, where obligations
drop off: children, mortgage, expectations
for a better life, dreams and their demises,
the next zenith after youth's immediate nadir
is... children... children invoke a rekindling of
youth, the chance to observe the first known
memory of oneself, but instead dramatised without
and cognitive conviction, as stressed by the
seen child, for women the escapade into child
rearing is more mystical, given the foetus, but
putting that aside (after all, i only have to ball sacks
with tadpoles, swarming, on another note,
universe out of nothing is contradicted by ova,
sure, nothing in there, but... ah some fun close
proximity spelling: eve's ova and a robot named ava),
to see children is to rekindle the sudden loss of
youth and multiple ***-partner attractiveness -
unless of course the latter was completely discarded
by simply saying after the *** act: what a ****-up,
that one too, this one started sniffing my *******,
this one was into whips and dominoes, etc.
and this is where two people emerge, those who
desired for children and to see youth once more
surround them (increased longitude with the promise
of grandchildren, and the respectability of being
informed by the ever changing world via their
children), these people live for a purpose, a purpose
that if taken to an extreme as darwinism has made
philosophy: well, we can't let the most superior
species on this planet (which is between venus and
mars, and is 0.000001 the size of the sun, and in
a ****** solar system, and and and and) do a dodo,
can we now? so the ultimate purpose is to not
become extinct... it's a great vector of feeling;
the other person? he lives for the opposite, he lives
for leisure, focusing his own memory toward lost
youth, he and the ghost child clinging to adventure
and dogs, climbing trees, wiping his *** after
taking a **** in the woods with a leaf, inspecting
a little stream in the countryside with a few friends:
tadpoles and leeches... becoming terrified of leeches
(even though the ancients used leeches in medicine);
he does all the leisurely things required of him...
immediately without a purpose... as the majority of
people who decided to live for a purpose can attest
to in terms of conviction: a mode of learning
has no purpose even if the mode of learning goes
outside the box-standard school and university?
no learning outside of that hemisphere? i'm sure
learning is a constant with only fluctuation being
a man's age: one year 21, another year 31, and so on.
in so writing, i wished to create a chiral representation /
interpretation of nietzsche's aphorism 627,
man alone with himself from the book human,
all too human
.
Sean M O'Kane Nov 2018
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Breathe In, Breathe Out

The background silence is deafening against the sound of your own awful struggle.
The inevitable is patiently waiting in a darkened corner of the room as we sit around your bed in reluctant readiness.
A noble hardy vigil but one that, unlike the others, I must confess is new to me.
I had consciously avoided receiving death all my adult life and now here, my greatest champion and comfort was being dragged into the snare.
The last hours were truly stifling - I wanted to scream my lungs out and tear down the walls.
How could it have come to this ******* pitiful ending?
But no,
knowing your calm patient Christian ways the only righteous path for you my sweet, was to take your hand and whisper our last words of love to you.
It was the only way for you, mother.
Death is not the stuff of over-dramatised fiction, it's the quietest test we face for those we love.
Mateuš Conrad Feb 2016
in a dream, treading lightly, instilled by
the near to bloom magnolia tree,
in dream the same magnolia, although
dramatised to a near-fluorescent
blush, among other flowers whether
in shrub, singled-out stalks, or trees
(like the magnolia); then being dragged
into a room full of people i once could
claim to know without added nostalgia
i ascribed more to the locations i knew
them in, sitting naked, arguing,
resorting to punch one of them in the face
and then seeing blackness of my eyelids,
hearing the clock tick tock tick tock.*

narayan's mantra, repeated 19 times,
with the head slightly tilted to ease the
larynx and open the nasal cavity;
the mantra?

ōm nāhmāh nārāyānnah
                               ōm nāhmāh nārāyānnah
ōm nāhmāh nārāyānnah.
Big Virge Nov 2020
It’s DISTURBING To Me... !!!
To See Communities...
Who... CLAIM To Be...
Supportive of HONEST Poetry...

REFUSE To Deal...
With Poetry That Speaks...
On Political Themes...
Or ANYTHING Likely...
To Make The Sheople BLEAT... !?!

About CAUSING OFFENCE...
And... ARGUMENTS...
Because of Things Expressed...

When We Have PRESIDENTS...
And Leaders Who UPSET...
Because of Things Now Said...
That Fuel Their Governments... !?!

Are Humans Now SO WEAK... ?!?
That Arguments Should Be...
Now Left To Media Teams...
Whose Biases Now WREAK...
of More Than FALLACIES... !!!

Are People So... “ P.C. “...
That They Don’t Want To Speak...
UNLESS It’s On The Streets...
Through PROTEST Scenes... !!!

COMPLIANCE Is Where...
Poets Once... DARED... !!!
To Openly Speak On Humanity...
And Peoples' Movements Globally...

Is FEAR What Really Runs...
Free Speech Kingdoms... ?!?

Cos It’s...
CLEARLY NOT FREE When Artistry...
Is Placed Inside A World That Hides...
The TRUTH From Minds...
That Are Being Downsized...

Because of Lockdowns Due...
To This... CORONA FLU... !!!

Why Are Groups Enforcing Rules...
To Keep The TRUTH...
LOCKED In Bedrooms... ?!?

Cos’ That Just KEEPS Art CHOKED...
And UNABLE To Grow... !!!

So WHAT If Some Cause ARGUMENTS... !?!
Isn’t That Part of Us Being Human...
Using Our Art And Creative Freedom...

To INSPIRE A Desire...
To RETIRE Empires...
That Are FILLED With LIARS... !!!

Because Unity...
Has NEVER Been Achieved...
In Our Societies... !!!
For Century After CENTURY... !!!

So WHY Should We Deal...
In CONTROLLED Speech...
Within Artistry...
That Should Surely Be FREE... !!!

It’s A Trend That I See...
That Now WORRIES Me... !!!
When Those Making Movies...
And Those On Our TV's...

Seem To Air Their Views...
To The World FREELY...
Even When Their Speech...
Is FAKER Than... FALLACIES... !?!

Although The CLAIM Nowadays...
Is That Movies Being Made...
Deal In Real Stories Based On REALITY... !!!

But... Hollywood Clans...
AREN'T Known To Feed FACTS... !?!

It’s Visual FICTION Mostly...
With... DRAMATISED Themes... !!!

So If What Is Now Displayed...
Is... REALITY Based...
Why Are People So AFRAID...
To... Poetically Deal...
With What Is REAL... ?!?

They Are WEIRD Communities...
Those In Spoken Word Scenes...
And The Field of Poetry...

It Seems That Poets CAN'T DEAL...
With What Now Makes Them Angry...
But Will Follow Policies...
That Treat Humans Like SHEEP... ?!?

I Guess It’s Just ME...
Who Sees A Future That’s BLEAK... ?!?

Where The Use of Poetry...
ONLY Deals In FREE SPEECH...
Over Some... TRAP Beat... !!!!!!!!

Or When It’s In A MOVIE...
Where It’s Vetted By Teams...
Who Are Those Who Control...
What Is Said And What Is Seen...

Because of... Policies...
That Are Probably NOT As Free...
As They Are CLAIMED To Be... !!!

These Companies That Now Stream...
Have Agendas For Their Means...
And AGENDAS That Now Feed...
Some... Pretty SCARY Themes... !!!

Much Like People Who Feel...
That EVERYTHING That They Read...
Or Now Hear... Poetically...

Should Just Feed... UNITY...
And Words of LOVE And PEACE... ?!?

When As I’ve Said Before...
We’re STILL Embracing WAR...
And Have Found No Route To Peace...
And Racial Harmony...
That Deals In UNITY...
And... REAL EQUALITY... ?!?

Poetry Should SURELY Be...
Something RESTRICTION FREE... !!!

When... TECHNOLOGY...
And THIS CORONA DISEASE...
Is Spreading So QUICKLY... !!!!!

Well So They Say...
... “ ALLEGEDLY “... ?!?

That I’m Now Thinking SERIOUSLY...
When It Comes To Future Scenes...
of... Poetic Artistry...

“Is This Really How Things
Will Continue To Be ?”
It's actually not that new an issue, of course some people are brutally honest in their poetic creativity, but it's rare that these peoples' work, gets to be heard or seen, in anything that is fed to the world publicly, especially now through online communities !

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