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"effort" poems
Anything can look like a poem and sound philosophical simply by moving the words on different lines. Am I doing it right? Is this really talent? Art? Effort? I think I am trying. Really, I am I go back and change the order and I break lines where it sounds right But it does not take me long. Not at all. I try to be intentional and call it natural rhythm. Instinct and style taking over I alternate between agonizing every detail like When to Capitalize and publishing free form poems without looking over them twice. How is writing supposed to feel? Should I labor? or should it flow? Or do I get to decide? I think the things I talk of mean something at least. But am I just pretentious? fooling myself into thinking that using common poetry formats somehow makes my work worthwhile?
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May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 at 5:12 PM UTC
Is this art?
Would you miss me if I was no longer here would you notice I was missing would you even shed a tear Would you think back to all the things you never said would you find time to write that letter would you wish it had been read Would you follow me or try to find out where I'd gone would you wish you'd made the effort would you admit you got it wrong Would you wish now that you'd decided not to wait Would you read this in the future and curse you were too late?
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Jun 28, 2010
Jun 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM UTC
Would you
I wake as your  friend                                     You wake as my lover I speak as your lover                                       You speak as my friend I act as your possession                                   You are my possesion I rebel as your cover                                        A means to an end I hurt for your compassion                             You live for my acceptance I injure for your respect                                  Though it's never been withheld I confide for your emotion                              You crave my direction I give and you collect                                      Never will you rebel This is madness                                               This is Sparta This is insanity                                                This is the price of exellence I can't be everything for you                          I am your everything You can't be everything for me                     I am magnificence You treat everyone the same                         I am fair and righteous As a friend, yet as a lover                              And yet you seek more And it's a cruel, cruel game                          Dare you grow capricious From your twisted love, no one recovers     You'll become one I abhor I am done                                                       You are confused (I am never done)                                          And I will not calm you I am sick                                                        *As I am amused* (But I'm not tired)                                         As I drop little clues   I will run                                                        You'll never leave me (I won't run)                                                  But I'll abandon you Because I love you                                        You'll always need me (A better word is 'desire')                             And I'll never need you Let me go!                                                    My grip is vice-like (But you're not holding me)                       I'm not ready to let you go Bring me back!                                            If I lose you, 'my dear' (But I never left)                                          I must find yet another 'beau' Love me only!                                             And I've not the time to put effort (But you love equally)                               In little minions like you Push me away!                                          I've not a care to give for (Or bridge this rift)                                    You insects I never knew Please, disappear                                       I am your torture One day you'll understand                      But I am your salvation That the twisted way you love                 I am your executioner Could coax death from any human        And I am your redemption Please, disappear!                                     You'll wish me dead forever Though I'll weep when you're gone        You'll wish me dead I know I know sanity will return                          And you'll wish yourself deader And I'll eventually move on.                    When away I finally go.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 8:25 PM UTC
Parallel Insanity
I wake as your  friend                                     You wake as my lover I speak as your lover                                       You speak as my friend I act as your possession                                   You are my possesion I rebel as your cover                                        A means to an end I hurt for your compassion                             You live for my acceptance I injure for your respect                                  Though it's never been withheld I confide for your emotion                              You crave my direction I give and you collect                                      Never will you rebel This is madness                                               This is Sparta This is insanity                                                This is the price of exellence I can't be everything for you                          I am your everything You can't be everything for me                     I am magnificence You treat everyone the same                         I am fair and righteous As a friend, yet as a lover                              And yet you seek more And it's a cruel, cruel game                          Dare you grow capricious From your twisted love, no one recovers     You'll become one I abhor I am done                                                       You are confused (I am never done)                                          And I will not calm you I am sick                                                        *As I am amused* (But I'm not tired)                                         As I drop little clues   I will run                                                        You'll never leave me (I won't run)                                                  But I'll abandon you Because I love you                                        You'll always need me (A better word is 'desire')                             And I'll never need you Let me go!                                                    My grip is vice-like (But you're not holding me)                       I'm not ready to let you go Bring me back!                                            If I lose you, 'my dear' (But I never left)                                          I must find yet another 'beau' Love me only!                                             And I've not the time to put effort (But you love equally)                               In little minions like you Push me away!                                          I've not a care to give for (Or bridge this rift)                                    You insects I never knew Please, disappear                                       I am your torture One day you'll understand                      But I am your salvation That the twisted way you love                 I am your executioner Could coax death from any human        And I am your redemption Please, disappear!                                     You'll wish me dead forever Though I'll weep when you're gone        You'll wish me dead I know I know sanity will return                          And you'll wish yourself deader And I'll eventually move on.                    When away I finally go.
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I want something that I cannot have. I cannot have it because I don't truly know what it is. I've seen it polished and propped as if it were on display and I've heard the stories of how much time and effort it took to make it look as such. But I want it. I want love. I want the idea of it at least. I want the fights brought about by events simpler and less important than the time we wasted to have them. I want to be pained by the sight of her pain and know that the feeling of knives piercing my chest when I see her cry is there because I would literally drive them there myself, if only to prevent her tears. I want our laughs to intertwine over the smallest things and our conversations to stretch our minds over the biggest. I want to see you sleep at night and I'll smile because I know that you're finally at peace. And I want you to smile when you wake up because you know that I'm fighting to make your reality better than your dreams. I want love. I want romantic love, I want crazy love. I want passion. I want to pick you up in my arms and in that brief present get lost in your presence. I want to be in you when I am in you and have you wish that I would stay forever. I want to be in your heart and mind, and I want our love to be torturous and blind. I just want love. I want the idea of it at least.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
Maybe It Is Just An Idea
can hearts be heavy like the bags under my eyes, or is my illusion of gratitude just stronger than my effort to stay awake
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Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 7:57 PM UTC
heart
1 Backwater nymph, queen of serpentine black tresses flaunting its coconut oil gleam; envy of  leggy girls from the Western ghat mountains, and lissome  maidens from the plains, who can never eat as much fish, even if they wish. Wearing hibiscus flowers, on coiffure like hood of a king cobra, your coral lips  silently speak of hot peppery kisses, waiting for me at shaded corners. Your sultry body in me arouses desires, that could only be whispered in your ears. 2 On a coconut lagoon when we met, for the first time and spoke, non stop, as if we knew each other life long, I heard music in your words. Oh! in the tongue you spoke, I heard the cadence of a nightingale ecstatic, on its wings above the clouds, love had prompted us to fly above the storms. Your  gleaming coal black eyes, like silver hooks, tug at my heart strings, that makes music, only I can hear, you are a free flying lark, above Kerala's lush coconut coast, that extends from sea shore to the mountains. 3 **When we relished steaming brown rice, mixed with clarified butter, with spicy tuna curry, tasting so dainty, cooked in bubbling sweet coconut milk, my eyes like two crazy butterflies circled your face, a blossomed Champak*. Mashed cassava and roasted squid, melted on our tongues, in a perfect culinary language any one would understand without effort. 4 Your lips had cinnamon scent, spice land's boons, when we kissed we touched heaven of scents and spicy tastes. When our eyes fell on each other, near the ancient synagogue, the hay days of which is over, a long jasmine garland coiling your hair,     marked you different, from the  the ladies of your neighborhood,                                           surrounding you. How well you did pretend that you have never seen my face before! You have mastered love's cunning, and all the wily tricks to cheat the enemies of our fiery love my Freudian mind perfectly understood. Just imagine the brouhaha we would invite, when we elope, in the last boat, to Alappuzha, stealthily at midnight.*
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 1:33 PM UTC
A love song for my Cochin* girl
1 Backwater nymph, queen of serpentine black tresses flaunting its coconut oil gleam; envy of  leggy girls from the Western ghat mountains, and lissome  maidens from the plains, who can never eat as much fish, even if they wish. Wearing hibiscus flowers, on coiffure like hood of a king cobra, your coral lips  silently speak of hot peppery kisses, waiting for me at shaded corners. Your sultry body in me arouses desires, that could only be whispered in your ears. 2 On a coconut lagoon when we met, for the first time and spoke, non stop, as if we knew each other life long, I heard music in your words. Oh! in the tongue you spoke, I heard the cadence of a nightingale ecstatic, on its wings above the clouds, love had prompted us to fly above the storms. Your  gleaming coal black eyes, like silver hooks, tug at my heart strings, that makes music, only I can hear, you are a free flying lark, above Kerala's lush coconut coast, that extends from sea shore to the mountains. 3 **When we relished steaming brown rice, mixed with clarified butter, with spicy tuna curry, tasting so dainty, cooked in bubbling sweet coconut milk, my eyes like two crazy butterflies circled your face, a blossomed Champak*. Mashed cassava and roasted squid, melted on our tongues, in a perfect culinary language any one would understand without effort. 4 Your lips had cinnamon scent, spice land's boons, when we kissed we touched heaven of scents and spicy tastes. When our eyes fell on each other, near the ancient synagogue, the hay days of which is over, a long jasmine garland coiling your hair,     marked you different, from the  the ladies of your neighborhood,                                           surrounding you. How well you did pretend that you have never seen my face before! You have mastered love's cunning, and all the wily tricks to cheat the enemies of our fiery love my Freudian mind perfectly understood. Just imagine the brouhaha we would invite, when we elope, in the last boat, to Alappuzha, stealthily at midnight.*
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750 Growth of Man—like Growth of Nature— Gravitates within— Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it— Bit it stir—alone— Each—its difficult Ideal Must achieve—Itself— Through the solitary prowess Of a Silent Life— Effort—is the sole condition— Patience of Itself— Patience of opposing forces— And intact Belief— Looking on—is the Department Of its Audience— But Transaction—is assisted By no Countenance—
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Growth of Man—like Growth of Nature
I am a stranger to myself. I do not know how to be gentle, compassionate, or loving, to any part of myself. I have always been able to present myself well in most public situations, be it work, school, parental obligations, parties. I can be calm and level-headed. I am able to problem solve in logical and intelligent ways. I can be humorous and glamorous when need be. But it seems as though that power and confidence, that grace and strength, is only a mask. I now have more days when that mask feels heavy. And when I lack the strength to put it on, I have to hide myself. And I’ve been hiding a lot lately. I hid yesterday. I am hiding today. I hear the words of care that others speak, but they don’t feel real to me. Sometimes I can accept their words while knowing that they do not realize that I am a disgusting person who deserves to be treated badly. They see what I want them to see. I watch them interact with the humorous Nita, the intelligent Nita, and I watch it all from the outside. I want so much more for myself. Who is this Nita that is respected by so many? I want to be loved and to feel love. I want to be free from the father and the host body. I desperately wish to be free from them, and not just in a surface way. I want them out of me forever. My soul cries out for kindness and gentleness and yet when it is offered I cannot accept it. I want to be respected and loved and yet I do not know how to love or respect myself. I know how to pretend. I wrote the book on how to hide your feelings. I know how to smile, I know how to laugh. I know that I have been given gifts but I don’t know how to use them. And the ones who were abused, ***** assaulted, degraded… they are afraid to dream that there is more to life than this. They cannot fathom that there exists a world where they can be loved in a gentle way, touched in a way that does not hurt. They stopped dreaming a long time ago. I want to stop fighting so hard, so much of the time...fighting myself, the therapist the fighting stubborn one just comes out in full-force at any perceived threat and I want her to stop fighting when there is no reason to fight. I want to learn to trust in myself and others. I want the chaos and confusion inside my mind to clear and I want some sense of cohesiveness and togetherness inside of me. I want to believe that there is more to life than pretending behind an illusion of imaginary togetherness... more than just feeling ashamed and degraded. I want to trust that I am allowed to heal. I want to believe that I am worth the time and the effort it is taking, and the pain I endure every day. I want to believe that I am not what they said I am, that real love actually exists, and that I am worthy of receiving it. And even as I write this, there is that voice inside speaking to me, "But what if you're not worthy, Nita? What if you are what they said?" She is a big part of me~ she has a loud voice. And if I don't believe in myself... how can I convince that part of me that I am good and I am worthy?
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 5:29 AM UTC
I know so much ~ but I do not know myself
I am a stranger to myself. I do not know how to be gentle, compassionate, or loving, to any part of myself. I have always been able to present myself well in most public situations, be it work, school, parental obligations, parties. I can be calm and level-headed. I am able to problem solve in logical and intelligent ways. I can be humorous and glamorous when need be. But it seems as though that power and confidence, that grace and strength, is only a mask. I now have more days when that mask feels heavy. And when I lack the strength to put it on, I have to hide myself. And I’ve been hiding a lot lately. I hid yesterday. I am hiding today. I hear the words of care that others speak, but they don’t feel real to me. Sometimes I can accept their words while knowing that they do not realize that I am a disgusting person who deserves to be treated badly. They see what I want them to see. I watch them interact with the humorous Nita, the intelligent Nita, and I watch it all from the outside. I want so much more for myself. Who is this Nita that is respected by so many? I want to be loved and to feel love. I want to be free from the father and the host body. I desperately wish to be free from them, and not just in a surface way. I want them out of me forever. My soul cries out for kindness and gentleness and yet when it is offered I cannot accept it. I want to be respected and loved and yet I do not know how to love or respect myself. I know how to pretend. I wrote the book on how to hide your feelings. I know how to smile, I know how to laugh. I know that I have been given gifts but I don’t know how to use them. And the ones who were abused, ***** assaulted, degraded… they are afraid to dream that there is more to life than this. They cannot fathom that there exists a world where they can be loved in a gentle way, touched in a way that does not hurt. They stopped dreaming a long time ago. I want to stop fighting so hard, so much of the time...fighting myself, the therapist the fighting stubborn one just comes out in full-force at any perceived threat and I want her to stop fighting when there is no reason to fight. I want to learn to trust in myself and others. I want the chaos and confusion inside my mind to clear and I want some sense of cohesiveness and togetherness inside of me. I want to believe that there is more to life than pretending behind an illusion of imaginary togetherness... more than just feeling ashamed and degraded. I want to trust that I am allowed to heal. I want to believe that I am worth the time and the effort it is taking, and the pain I endure every day. I want to believe that I am not what they said I am, that real love actually exists, and that I am worthy of receiving it. And even as I write this, there is that voice inside speaking to me, "But what if you're not worthy, Nita? What if you are what they said?" She is a big part of me~ she has a loud voice. And if I don't believe in myself... how can I convince that part of me that I am good and I am worthy?
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Weary and weak,--accept my weariness; Weary and weak and downcast in my soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal Distant and dim,--accept my sore distress. I thought to reach the goal so long ago, At outset of the race I dreamed of rest, Not knowing what now I know Of breathless haste, Of long-drawn straining effort across the waste. One only thing I knew, Thy love of me; One only thing I know, Thy sacred same Love of me full and free, A craving flame Of selfless love of me which burns in Thee. How can I think of thee, and yet grow chill; Of Thee, and yet grow cold and nigh to death? Re-energize my will, Rebuild my faith; I will arise and run, Thou giving me breath. I will arise, repenting and in pain; I will arise, and smite upon my breast And turn to Thee again; Thou choosest best, Lead me along the road Thou makest plain. Lead me a little way, and carry me A little way, and listen to my sighs, And store my tears with Thee, And deign replies To feeble prayers;--O Lord, I will arise.
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I Will Arise
The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we **** THOSE PEOPLE. "Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always **** those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace. -- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 2:25 AM UTC
Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we **** THOSE PEOPLE. "Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always **** those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace. -- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
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Darkness pervades; an empty whole. Tears fill this broken bowl. The nectar too salty to quench the thirst A brutal reminder of what came first A Blackness, a Void. God illuminated into being. Beauty, Belief, Faith - a false way of Seeing. The futile attempts to make the hole whole, but it's Loneliness that resides in our Soul. In every being sprung into existence the Romantic effort of Man's resistance is Love, hailed as the Cure. But ask yourself, "Are you sure?". At a life with Loneliness by our side Love's importance becomes amplified. But Love is just a wishful lie it is Loneliness that embraces us as we die.
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 4:34 PM UTC
The Void
Please, close the door, and lock it shut These feelings are the death of me Unbearable sadness coupled with undying rage Drives me sane, woke up in the hospital with a cold sweat. All alone. alone with my thoughts, I cannot sleep So I stare at the white ceiling thinking of you, Wondering what I could of done to deserve this. I tried to be a good friend, I know sometimes it doesn't seem like it, I am full of love, but I don't know who to love. Opening up to you took more effort than imaginable, you take it for granted, but that's okay. Use and abuse me I'll take the abuse.
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Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
I'll be here
I am lost I love you Who am I Who are you We were friends Silent lips lie Is this reality Nothing got better People aren't nice I am hurt I hurt you Do you remember We're all tired Same routine everyday Lost in confusion Lost in effort Beautifully painted skies I've grown up You were different I was different I want *** I want love I want pain A year intoxicated I didn't know Failure to myself Read many books Leave pain behind Drink your milk She's gone now Life's quickly fading Words left unsaid Lust isn't love I barely exist Don't forget me Let yourself heal. Love the word.
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 2:36 PM UTC
3 word poem
Mine 6:48 a Wednesday Two Weeks later Then: Thanksgiving eve 5E; MIT I sit at my desk: stare out of the windows < My skull at the Chocolate Bock I just Overflowed > all over my notes on the Circe episode of Ulysses, which I have not yet read. 20 minutes after I just –– Went alone. Stood there, yes, alone Above the porcelain enterprise Taking that litmus test of humanity Clear, I pass. Yellow, I fail. It was rather clear I think Honestly? I don't remember. Two weeks ago, I stood there== and came up with this phrase. Standing there with special eyes:::: Seeing. Came back to my room, I did, faithfully Looked there below my second fridge A plate sat. mine. On it: maybe food, maybe ***** Probably marijuana Only the first my own Who remembers? Next to it: an empty prescription bottle "It's some medicine for Asthma. I don't even _have_ asthma!" "Classy **** I am; I've never bought a shot glass. Just use discarded prescription bottles." An experiment @ the sink: exact: 2.0z. On the dot. Turns out that's 1&1/3 of the standard—The ritual We make it. And have made it. For years now together after midnight [or so] 4 years. Soon it will be Maybe I shall leave; probably not but harken back, that fortnight, less 6 To that evening. Orange and purple Effort sublime but not enough: Lost to a team of Freshman.?! ~If only:~ "Tripped mad-laundry shrooms", 6 and a half months ago Two men sit in the corner of my room I know one; the other spoke 2-weeks-later: sticky keyboard I am not sober, but who is? Last night. Remember those videos? reminded me that *** can be beautiful: After basically 2 years: I almost forgot. x-art.com. December 6, 2011 I have a perspective now: It is not the same as yours it is not and, by necessity, can not be the same. But I see it. Stephen Daedalus calls it immature—lyrical but **** you, James: it is mine! I am. Will always be. Will have never been. But, God/Goddess **** it now! I am: I See. I try! ~D.B.Guy
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 3:23 AM UTC
Mine.
Mine 6:48 a Wednesday Two Weeks later Then: Thanksgiving eve 5E; MIT I sit at my desk: stare out of the windows < My skull at the Chocolate Bock I just Overflowed > all over my notes on the Circe episode of Ulysses, which I have not yet read. 20 minutes after I just –– Went alone. Stood there, yes, alone Above the porcelain enterprise Taking that litmus test of humanity Clear, I pass. Yellow, I fail. It was rather clear I think Honestly? I don't remember. Two weeks ago, I stood there== and came up with this phrase. Standing there with special eyes:::: Seeing. Came back to my room, I did, faithfully Looked there below my second fridge A plate sat. mine. On it: maybe food, maybe ***** Probably marijuana Only the first my own Who remembers? Next to it: an empty prescription bottle "It's some medicine for Asthma. I don't even _have_ asthma!" "Classy **** I am; I've never bought a shot glass. Just use discarded prescription bottles." An experiment @ the sink: exact: 2.0z. On the dot. Turns out that's 1&1/3 of the standard—The ritual We make it. And have made it. For years now together after midnight [or so] 4 years. Soon it will be Maybe I shall leave; probably not but harken back, that fortnight, less 6 To that evening. Orange and purple Effort sublime but not enough: Lost to a team of Freshman.?! ~If only:~ "Tripped mad-laundry shrooms", 6 and a half months ago Two men sit in the corner of my room I know one; the other spoke 2-weeks-later: sticky keyboard I am not sober, but who is? Last night. Remember those videos? reminded me that *** can be beautiful: After basically 2 years: I almost forgot. x-art.com. December 6, 2011 I have a perspective now: It is not the same as yours it is not and, by necessity, can not be the same. But I see it. Stephen Daedalus calls it immature—lyrical but **** you, James: it is mine! I am. Will always be. Will have never been. But, God/Goddess **** it now! I am: I See. I try! ~D.B.Guy
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The most important things in life are often those we have to choose from at critical times.  They very often represent and determine the course our life will take and to what extent we have in controlling or shaping it.  With whatever choice we make, opportunities arise and by making the most of these we realise the relative benefits to be gained or otherwise.  Through our committment and willingness to achieve a goal, irrespective of what obstacles there may be or we come across, we move forward and progress is made in our endeavour.  If the goal is something we have set our mind and heart on whatever setbacks or obstacles are encountered should then be taken to be the hurdles to overcome. By repeated experience we learn the necessary disciplines with which to train or involve our mind and body to reach our goal. When we recognise and forego or sacrifice certain habits that are not conducive to our overall progress we release more energy by which to accomplish our end.  By sustained right effort we put in motion the train of events that will bring about the right results, but we should not be too attached to the fruits thereof.  Too much attachment is a cause of blindness, disappointment and suffering.  However with the right mental attitudes including positive thinking and actions we should learn from and leave behind past failures by always striving onwards to our desired objective or set goal. The best way to achieve this end is to include in some way the benefit and good of all those concerned whether they be friend or otherwise which will not be easy but will exhibit a spirit of high ethical standards and character and contribute to endearing oneself to others. _______________________________________________________________
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 4:28 PM UTC
Prose: Achieving Our Goal
The most important things in life are often those we have to choose from at critical times.  They very often represent and determine the course our life will take and to what extent we have in controlling or shaping it.  With whatever choice we make, opportunities arise and by making the most of these we realise the relative benefits to be gained or otherwise.  Through our committment and willingness to achieve a goal, irrespective of what obstacles there may be or we come across, we move forward and progress is made in our endeavour.  If the goal is something we have set our mind and heart on whatever setbacks or obstacles are encountered should then be taken to be the hurdles to overcome. By repeated experience we learn the necessary disciplines with which to train or involve our mind and body to reach our goal. When we recognise and forego or sacrifice certain habits that are not conducive to our overall progress we release more energy by which to accomplish our end.  By sustained right effort we put in motion the train of events that will bring about the right results, but we should not be too attached to the fruits thereof.  Too much attachment is a cause of blindness, disappointment and suffering.  However with the right mental attitudes including positive thinking and actions we should learn from and leave behind past failures by always striving onwards to our desired objective or set goal. The best way to achieve this end is to include in some way the benefit and good of all those concerned whether they be friend or otherwise which will not be easy but will exhibit a spirit of high ethical standards and character and contribute to endearing oneself to others. _______________________________________________________________
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Never have i felt so alone. All my friends have left Fault of my own im sure, For i never made the effort. "Too busy, too tired" i said. At first I blamed anxiety But let's be honest, I was just too lazy. No family to be seen. Packed their bags, And off they went. Still we talk in text, alas no hugs through a screen. Despite all this I was happy, All this seemed as nothing. As my girlfriend was my all Best friend and family as one, What more could i ask for? Now we are no more. Never have I felt so alone.
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 7:11 AM UTC
Alone
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Fortunately it resuscitates
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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I put so much effort into random places, so much effort into random faces face it im faceless placeless drifting shifting thoughts towards destiny feeling empty, wondering whats left in me...? messages esoteric terrorize my rhetoric pedestrians staring glaring gazin gotta get a second look shook layers shed, fall from those ancient snakes left for dead suffocated, stranded damaged god ****** this sunless planet is madness immobilized try to find sense in a broke world what are hands without manipulation? and in life? death is a stipulation a fools gold is never within grasp so clasp delusions Grandiose with a toast to sham pain and champagne emptied grails course through mans veins oh to see what mirrors saw would reflections appear at all? peer into the endless ego see nothing but self libido we are all weary travelers, existences' eternal passengers remove masks, flasks, end the charade let serpents slither, and sun bath away from the shade embrace the end of nights push away the start of days just keep in mind which way             the pendulum sways
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 10:29 PM UTC
ancient snakes (masquerade)
I'm waiting for my mother I twiddle my thumbs idlly I'm trying to look away from The chocolate bar that's staring at me "Look at me!" It whispers softly I'm struggling to avert my eyes "You'll feel better when you eat me" it says With an effort, I ignore its lies I walk around the chocolate shop Like a predator circling it's prey This temptation is just too great! My feet can't seem to walk away "Eat me! Eat me!" The chocolate chants Someone save me from this torture!   "Don't leave me all alone" it says I can't take this anymore Suddenly, my phone rings My mother has finally arrived! I turn my my back on the chocolate My face glows with pride I didn't succumb to my desire I did it! I resisted! I held on, I stayed strong Even when the chocolate insisted I smile as I reach the car I'll tell my mother about my ordeal I think of how proud she'll be And of how happy I will feel But before I utter a single word, She hands a packet, beaming wide She says "look what I got for you!" I can't wait to see what's inside! A prize for resisting temptation? Oooh! What could it be? I open the packet and look inside And a big fat chocolate stares back at me!
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 2:22 PM UTC
Temptation
the cat  steals  my tongue when i see your pretty face and my words  start to race fighting to get along you often  wonder why am i so shy you say ,  you  should at least try try , make an effort to talk i know you're just worried    that i'll fade away alone in the dark.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 4:33 PM UTC
shy .
A man is like a flower Starts with a bud Blossoms into its nature Natural ecstasy and perfection In time it wears out too Finally falls off the tree A natural process A natural phenomenon Naturally the man See as a flower All the nature of being To the base is the same The intelligence the man puts into saying That he is only the creature of importance And everything in the world are the resource Resource to be consumed by himself Is the false flag he is raising And is in the denial of the very nature Anything which is resonant And synchronous to the nature Has the time in nature to the eternity Whereas if not In accordance to the nature Sooner or later On the verse of decay On the verse of extinction I see the human race is in the path of extinction As civilization denying nature rather than glorifying Human beings are far from the true essence And are not synchronizing in the heart Of the very nature The so called intelligence is what humans praise and glorifying A lot full of **** And it is a shame We see the population of human species To rise and rise So may presume the statement I just stated to be false But seeing the thought processes And so called intelligence Is setting the human species To a sense of decay The step to the human race to demolish its own race Is a unjustified intelligence in itself The truth and laws of nature Being in shade Humans incorporating thoughts As a tool of destruction Rather than construction In the field of criticism rather than motivation In the field of extinction rather than sustainability In the field of destruction rather than collaboration And effort in maintaining the continuity Of equilibrium and resonance with the nature On the contrary Making critics and complain about the others Not realizing all are the part of the whole Is creating a challenge to the nature Going off beat with the nature. We shall know Anything not synchronous And not resonant to the nature Nature wipes out sooner or later We cannot accept the very fact it is true Even seeing our own life As a child The bud to the flower The youth The perfection in being and entire existence The new ideas and new world The fruit of generation brings about The generation to come To fertilize the seeds of the existence The old age To be renewed thoughts Nature wipes out as per the plan of its own Accept it as a reality As it is the truth The sharpness of flower Remembered as the youthfulness of flower The bud is treated emotionally With care as it is to be the perfection In the time to come The flower to be wiped out is respected As it was once a perfection Once roared the magnificence of itself Upon this very world The being-wiped flower doesn’t ask For its claim in the now world And indulge the new with its now state But appreciate the perfection once it had   Make believe the youthful flower to blossom And accept its own existence in the present. Every species and beings Are in the nature of being We are no different from the other species We are no superior and at the same time no inferior To the other species And not the other species to us humans Everybody and everything Is the part of the whole The whole is the nature itself.
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May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 2:33 PM UTC
Flower of life
A man is like a flower Starts with a bud Blossoms into its nature Natural ecstasy and perfection In time it wears out too Finally falls off the tree A natural process A natural phenomenon Naturally the man See as a flower All the nature of being To the base is the same The intelligence the man puts into saying That he is only the creature of importance And everything in the world are the resource Resource to be consumed by himself Is the false flag he is raising And is in the denial of the very nature Anything which is resonant And synchronous to the nature Has the time in nature to the eternity Whereas if not In accordance to the nature Sooner or later On the verse of decay On the verse of extinction I see the human race is in the path of extinction As civilization denying nature rather than glorifying Human beings are far from the true essence And are not synchronizing in the heart Of the very nature The so called intelligence is what humans praise and glorifying A lot full of **** And it is a shame We see the population of human species To rise and rise So may presume the statement I just stated to be false But seeing the thought processes And so called intelligence Is setting the human species To a sense of decay The step to the human race to demolish its own race Is a unjustified intelligence in itself The truth and laws of nature Being in shade Humans incorporating thoughts As a tool of destruction Rather than construction In the field of criticism rather than motivation In the field of extinction rather than sustainability In the field of destruction rather than collaboration And effort in maintaining the continuity Of equilibrium and resonance with the nature On the contrary Making critics and complain about the others Not realizing all are the part of the whole Is creating a challenge to the nature Going off beat with the nature. We shall know Anything not synchronous And not resonant to the nature Nature wipes out sooner or later We cannot accept the very fact it is true Even seeing our own life As a child The bud to the flower The youth The perfection in being and entire existence The new ideas and new world The fruit of generation brings about The generation to come To fertilize the seeds of the existence The old age To be renewed thoughts Nature wipes out as per the plan of its own Accept it as a reality As it is the truth The sharpness of flower Remembered as the youthfulness of flower The bud is treated emotionally With care as it is to be the perfection In the time to come The flower to be wiped out is respected As it was once a perfection Once roared the magnificence of itself Upon this very world The being-wiped flower doesn’t ask For its claim in the now world And indulge the new with its now state But appreciate the perfection once it had   Make believe the youthful flower to blossom And accept its own existence in the present. Every species and beings Are in the nature of being We are no different from the other species We are no superior and at the same time no inferior To the other species And not the other species to us humans Everybody and everything Is the part of the whole The whole is the nature itself.
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You fell asleep before I even got my bra off Giving me a B for half-assed, dreaded, and deadened effort
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 12:45 AM UTC
Senior Year Killed the Syllabus Week Pt. 2 (20w)
I can't date you. Not now, not ever. I thought it was because I enjoy what I have right now but over the course of this past week I've come to a conclusion. Its because I can't find feelings for you. They were once there but you scared them away and I don't believe there is any going back to what we used to have. I'm sorry that maybe I got your hopes up or lead you on but you can get over it. Everyone eventually does. I don't doubt you once had feelings for me but I also don't doubt that you're very confused right now. You don't want me. You want someone new, and I'm only used a different way. You haven't broken me in yet, I'm like a new pair of shoes, everything is uncomfortable right now but you're making an effort to wear me in. Then I won't be new anymore, I'll give you blisters and hurt you. Then you'll go back to your old pair because that's what you're comfortable with. I'm sorry. Goodbye.
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 2:33 AM UTC
A message to send