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Carlo C Gomez Apr 2021
Starting from the Euphrates
wayfinding a trail toward Babylonia
to divert her waters

mapping her ancient towers
her eyes
her desires
her pudendum

egressing out of the bitter river
surrounding her temple

until enlightenment
glisters betwixt the frangible pages of her
Dialogue of Pessimism:
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"Who is so tall as to ascend to heaven?
Who is so broad as to encompass the entire world?"

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Inspired by Jamadhi Verse's poem 'Minor Melancholy' and the music she provided a link to:

https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4289300/minor-melancholy/
CMD Jun 2015
black moss, early morning
smoke egressing an open window
leaving behind a forest of desert trees

phantasma collecting in the shadows
of the eastern suns first hours

like a cowboy returning home late

it is everywhere, it is everywhere

it is okay to believe in magic
Carlo C Gomez May 2022
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cracked compass
burning atlas
no sense of direction
on a drive about
the silent forests of the heart
egressing from the shadows
that hunt for us

foot caught on the accelerator
passing escapism's plateau
like a dissolving shelf of flashbacks
kept in a glass jar
it's normal to tire out
wondering who will it be
looking in the window?

the people at the wheel
are not on the payroll
they're pierced and sheer
on the surface
but their deepest parts
still inhabit bone
and slave for mere feldspar
once again human thoughts
turn to crystalline
and still they shine for us

signs are posted:
"a time for vanishing, lay it to rest"
until the unfamiliar sound
of the walls of Jericho
collapsing
breaks the momentum
quiets the traffic

we entered a promise land
on cruise control
with too many exits
and not enough things to see
we did not end up
where we thought we'd be
those eyes at dusk
in the rearview mirror
they hunt for us
they wait for sleep

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Humanity is swiftly disappearing from the map.
Emily Mary Dec 2014
Our lives are battle fields
Egressing from the womb with war paint on our faces
Soldiers live there life to fight not flight
Yet, some of us are not strong enough
We are weaker than the rest,
Carrying paper wrists and our weapons filled with blade edged bullets
Looking for an identity

We our the unknown warriors
Sulking upon tarnished territories
We will sleep in guilt ridden graves,
Apologizing to our mothers and our fathers for not wanting to fight anymore

They'll weep and beg the heavens to send you back
But you're an angel now
There is no reason for war,
There is no reason to be sad anymore

Keep savior to your paper wrist
Keeping savior in your heavenly spirit as well
It's so easy to become lost in time that you can't even bare the thought of going back

It's so comforting to be a coward, to just stop fighting.
Jai Karkhanis Feb 2015
Fathoms deep, are these mines of grey
impregnable, by even the brightest ray
yet light here is in plentiful found
To its insides alone, forever bound

Darkest evils, here lie awake
In every hall, pit and bottomless lake
Writhing ever to upwards surge
Singing, forever,their own dirge

Battles here ever are waged
Ambush,attack and clouts staged
For no blackness may reside alone
From cracks and crevices, are many lights shown


And the makes of the mines are just so
Always deeper,than their depths may go
for every produce that is fine or fair
Can be, twisted to cause despair.


Glittering gold, of value great
And coal, for which lies fiery fate
Fabulous, shinning, precious stones
Lie embedded, in old rotting bones

Many beings do venture here
With dreams hopes and many a fear
Each follows where the great mine leads
ever wider, are sown these seeds

And from these seeds new beings form
to join the massive egressing storm
That leaves forever those places dark
Whether to falter, our make its mark

Good,evil and all between
Are in this hallowed space seen
Neither fine nor all fey
But in truth filled with grey
Our minds our complicated beings.
Rip Lazybones Oct 2014
Struggling to fill the sacks in my chest
Losing everything inside
And not just one form of mass
Trading the contents of the hour glass
Just to stay afloat on the soil
I am the quintessence of ephemeral
Egressing back into the atmosphere
Anchors are only for those of worth keeping
Yet I still scornfully catch myself hoping
The hand coming to tether me
The loving cauterization of your arms
The hive minded beat of your heart on my chest
All these share the same neglect
As I drift away from this lonely rock
I only have time for one last wish
As I soar from here to next
Please Neptune, let your image be what the moon reflects
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8566UtalG_o
Phoenix32 Apr 2017
Like a portal the mien Your face exhibits portrays an illustration of your inner expression, egressing onto a flesh canvas; unveiling your thoughts without a single word.
K Dec 2017
skies -   a mix of orange and yellow
blankets of cotton candy clouds
blue and white
alike The Starry Night
mixed with evening light
with swirling parallel lines that     - blend -
orange, red, purple, yellow, blue          egressing the sky as pastels!

a perfectly blended ombré of - cool -
hues of blue and - warm -
hints of the orange - sunset -
poetically painted across the sky beside
under blankets of, now, dark clouds.

watching day transition to night;
completely and utterly sublime.
Prathipa Nair Mar 2018
Looking through the window
He sat breathing with ease
Egressing of rain announced
By the black cuckoo so proud
Raindrops falling tardily from leaves
Tickling the wet and shy earth
In her dress of sticking flowers
Spreading the fragrance of a new bride
Sparrows and squirrels visit houses
Breaking the silence after rain!
River Jun 2017
A tale of becoming
Of threads being woven together,
And ending
Culminating
Finishing
The hero is nearing deliverance
Sees the light in the distance
Deep within the cave
*I've met a world of many wonders
Peculiarities and honest realizations
Did I not know
That this was a journey, all along
A simulation in which I was the protagonist?
I saw vistas I could not fathom
That no ordinary man could imagine
Of inter-connectedness and miracles
Like the things out of your wildest dreams
I sought, thirsting for truth,
Dying for love
I got so much more than I asked for
I closed my eyes
But when I opened them
I saw I was living the dream
I am the dream
Realized,
Becoming
Egressing from that place of depression
Going towards the light of dawn,
The Light to which I am drawn.

— The End —