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Beneath the old magnolia tree I used to hold you close to me And there I carved upon that tree That I loved you and you loved me Beneath the white magnolia blooms You cast a spell with your perfume I believed those wooden words were true Ingrained in hearts of me and you But time wears out what boys engrave Nothing's left of the love you gave Except that old magnolia scar.... I wish our love had come so far Yeah, I wish those words were still on track Cause every spring I dream me back To tender lips and sweet perfume Beneath the white magnolia blooms But time wears out what boys engrave Nothing's left of the love you gave Except that old magnolia tree Reminding me.....reminding me......
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Jan 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 at 7:38 AM UTC
The Old Magnolia Tree
The stewardship of talent calls attention for everyone to discover their purpose on earth, knowing we are created with potentials waiting to be maximized. The stewardship of time calls attention for everyone to maximize their time on earth, knowing we are mandated to dominate and subdue the earth. Nothing is found except it is hidden, every one has a talent. Nothing is hidden except it is a secret, every person has a gift. Nothing is a secret except it is a treasure, every individual has a potential. Every one has a secret hidden treasure to be found, ln them lives unique talents waiting to be discovered; lf only they can discover their purpose on earth. Every person has a destined mission to accomplish, ln them lives voices waiting to be heard; lf only they can activate their gifts. Every individual has a solution to provide on earth, ln them lives great potentials waiting to be maximized; lf only they can exploit their potentials. How then can talents be discovered knowing that any talent wasted will be accounted for. How then can gifts be activated knowing that we are mandated by God to accomplish a purpose on earth. How then can potentials be maximized knowing that we are created to impact our generation. Let him that seek to discover and utilize his talents on earth consult God through prayers. Let him that seek to activate his gifts exploit God's given innate ability to man. Let him that seek to maximize his potentials on earth search the mind of God through the scriptures. Is there any reward for discovering and exploiting your talents? Is there any reward for activating your innate gifts? Is there any reward for maximizing your God given potentials? He that discovers and exploits his talents for God will receive the Masters reward. He that activates his innate gifts will be remembered forever. He that maximizes his potentials will leave an indelible footstep on earth. Hope you strive to be persistent and consistent in the stewardship of talent, knowing that much is required of you. Endeavour to be faithful and obedient in your stewardship of talent, knowing we all owe God the accountability of our talents. Ensure you exploit the discovery of your talents, activate your innate gifts and maximize your potentials effectively. Strive to discover your purpose on earth, Seek to activate your talents and gifts; and Strive to maximize your potentials. He that discovers and exploits his talents on earth, will leave an indelible footprint on the sands of time that will be remembered forever. He that activates his gifts on earth will impact the world and his generation. He that maximizes his potentials effectively, will engrave his names in the sands of time and seasons of the sky. Talent is a Mandate not a Delegate.
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 6:49 PM UTC
Stewardship Of Talent
The stewardship of talent calls attention for everyone to discover their purpose on earth, knowing we are created with potentials waiting to be maximized. The stewardship of time calls attention for everyone to maximize their time on earth, knowing we are mandated to dominate and subdue the earth. Nothing is found except it is hidden, every one has a talent. Nothing is hidden except it is a secret, every person has a gift. Nothing is a secret except it is a treasure, every individual has a potential. Every one has a secret hidden treasure to be found, ln them lives unique talents waiting to be discovered; lf only they can discover their purpose on earth. Every person has a destined mission to accomplish, ln them lives voices waiting to be heard; lf only they can activate their gifts. Every individual has a solution to provide on earth, ln them lives great potentials waiting to be maximized; lf only they can exploit their potentials. How then can talents be discovered knowing that any talent wasted will be accounted for. How then can gifts be activated knowing that we are mandated by God to accomplish a purpose on earth. How then can potentials be maximized knowing that we are created to impact our generation. Let him that seek to discover and utilize his talents on earth consult God through prayers. Let him that seek to activate his gifts exploit God's given innate ability to man. Let him that seek to maximize his potentials on earth search the mind of God through the scriptures. Is there any reward for discovering and exploiting your talents? Is there any reward for activating your innate gifts? Is there any reward for maximizing your God given potentials? He that discovers and exploits his talents for God will receive the Masters reward. He that activates his innate gifts will be remembered forever. He that maximizes his potentials will leave an indelible footstep on earth. Hope you strive to be persistent and consistent in the stewardship of talent, knowing that much is required of you. Endeavour to be faithful and obedient in your stewardship of talent, knowing we all owe God the accountability of our talents. Ensure you exploit the discovery of your talents, activate your innate gifts and maximize your potentials effectively. Strive to discover your purpose on earth, Seek to activate your talents and gifts; and Strive to maximize your potentials. He that discovers and exploits his talents on earth, will leave an indelible footprint on the sands of time that will be remembered forever. He that activates his gifts on earth will impact the world and his generation. He that maximizes his potentials effectively, will engrave his names in the sands of time and seasons of the sky. Talent is a Mandate not a Delegate.
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I try to hard to perfect it... someone has to notice my effort. I drown my sorrows in a  book, cramming information into my "empty" mind according society. I am on a high from caffeine , I have to be superwoman.. save the day, save the world and stuff... I give my all , fight to the last second but my best is not good enough anymore. In my own highway of dreams I carry coffins of rejects..... I am tired of writing my "wrongs" that society identified.. I am tired of being perfect and tired of being tired... I was not good enough for my mother, who chose to find acceptance in a bottle...I had a boy for a father and a judge as society.. As time stands still I engrave all the "rejects" in my gravestone .... Here lived a soul not goo enough for society.. I stand bu the coast and shut my eyes .. the breeze hits against my face and for a moment I feel free.... I take these white pills and for a moment I am free,,, acceptable.. I swim in these intoxicating liquid and for a second I am free... acceptable to society,, Good enough....
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 2:17 AM UTC
NOT GOOD ENOUGH..
What a way to make a Love so Sweet like a flower in a favorite movie scene... Bodies draped in sugars and salt. Souls covered in deep blanket of warmth and cold.. Shall engrave in her heart Shall leave handprints of Love Shall write poems in her stars.. then.. You smell her, You touch her gently, You admire the beauty, You watch it blossom and you thank God for creating something so... perfectly.. so... extraordinary.. -A.R.D.R.
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Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019 at 10:56 AM UTC
You shall..
I'll write a poem on your skin With my lips, our love tattooed on every inch At the back of your ear, your delicate nape Your perfect spine and cheeks like wine I'll breathe the words in your mouth Let your soul read and keep my oath Trace it in your waist and engrave the lines Down to the lovely hidden shrine Your eyes on my eyes, my warm hands on your hips I can hear our poem inside your chest The rhythm of our hearts will turn it into a song And with your gentle kiss I'll write again.
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May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM UTC
Poem Written on Your Skin
Everyone you have lost is gone forever. If you try to call the dead, the phone won’t ring. You won’t hear their voices. The ground will shake like your wrists. You will realize this sometime, when you’re in the bath and every nerve in your body is screaming at you to put your head under and count to a thousand. You are more than a suicide note. You are more than a suicide attempt. You are more than cuts and bruises, and friends that abandon you and don’t even say hello in the hallways anymore. People will leave you, daughter. People will leave you alone and shaking. You’ll find solace in the most unexpected places, in the boys that look like they belong in the 1970s and in the vinyl that whispers to you while the sun is going down. Eventually you will find the people that will bend the sky down to you so that you can touch the clouds. They will become your motivation, they will become the glow in the dark stars on your bedroom ceiling. You will forget that they are plastic, and often mistake them for the night’s sky. Memories do not always hurt, it’s okay to be nostalgic but do not drown in it. Do not drown in anything but love, daughter. Love every leaf, every lover’s vein. And every single time you think you’re going insane. You’re not. Remember that the door is always closed, but always easily opened. Remember that you can leave. Remember that you can take the next flight out, start a new life. Remember that the world is in your piano hands. You’ll meet someone and call them love because they don’t know the difference between the dull and sharp edge of a knife. You’ll write poems. Lots of them. You’ll write enough poems to fill the walls in all of the rooms in all of the houses you have ever lived in. You’ll scrawl them on the tree stumps you find temporary homes in while walking in the forest. You’ll engrave them on someone’s bones after they tell you that they would rather die a thousand deaths than go a second without your energy warming their cheeks. For every accomplishment, erase five shortcomings from your mind. Be yourself before you forget who that is. Be, daughter, be who you want to be; Be who you know yourself to be. When the world is sleeping on your shoulders at 4 in the morning, don’t wake it up. Take a deep breath, rock the earth into a deeper sleep. Tell the walls your secrets because they don’t whisper. Don’t tell anyone with a tongue something you wouldn’t want to end up floating back out of their mouths like a catchy song. When you’re standing up on stage, waiting to start your poem, do not avoid eye contact. Make everyone nervous with your metaphors. Make everyone nervous with your passion. You are the strongest soul you’ll ever be. And when I die, shall we not meet again, Remember that I am your mother, daughter. And mothers, always know best.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 10:24 AM UTC
Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
Everyone you have lost is gone forever. If you try to call the dead, the phone won’t ring. You won’t hear their voices. The ground will shake like your wrists. You will realize this sometime, when you’re in the bath and every nerve in your body is screaming at you to put your head under and count to a thousand. You are more than a suicide note. You are more than a suicide attempt. You are more than cuts and bruises, and friends that abandon you and don’t even say hello in the hallways anymore. People will leave you, daughter. People will leave you alone and shaking. You’ll find solace in the most unexpected places, in the boys that look like they belong in the 1970s and in the vinyl that whispers to you while the sun is going down. Eventually you will find the people that will bend the sky down to you so that you can touch the clouds. They will become your motivation, they will become the glow in the dark stars on your bedroom ceiling. You will forget that they are plastic, and often mistake them for the night’s sky. Memories do not always hurt, it’s okay to be nostalgic but do not drown in it. Do not drown in anything but love, daughter. Love every leaf, every lover’s vein. And every single time you think you’re going insane. You’re not. Remember that the door is always closed, but always easily opened. Remember that you can leave. Remember that you can take the next flight out, start a new life. Remember that the world is in your piano hands. You’ll meet someone and call them love because they don’t know the difference between the dull and sharp edge of a knife. You’ll write poems. Lots of them. You’ll write enough poems to fill the walls in all of the rooms in all of the houses you have ever lived in. You’ll scrawl them on the tree stumps you find temporary homes in while walking in the forest. You’ll engrave them on someone’s bones after they tell you that they would rather die a thousand deaths than go a second without your energy warming their cheeks. For every accomplishment, erase five shortcomings from your mind. Be yourself before you forget who that is. Be, daughter, be who you want to be; Be who you know yourself to be. When the world is sleeping on your shoulders at 4 in the morning, don’t wake it up. Take a deep breath, rock the earth into a deeper sleep. Tell the walls your secrets because they don’t whisper. Don’t tell anyone with a tongue something you wouldn’t want to end up floating back out of their mouths like a catchy song. When you’re standing up on stage, waiting to start your poem, do not avoid eye contact. Make everyone nervous with your metaphors. Make everyone nervous with your passion. You are the strongest soul you’ll ever be. And when I die, shall we not meet again, Remember that I am your mother, daughter. And mothers, always know best.
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[Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : oh let them Flame like the ancient city Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers When men let angels fret them ! Yea ! let the south wind blow, And the Turkish banner advance, And the word go out : No quarter ! But I shall hod thee -so ! While the boys and maidens dance About the shambles of slaughter ! I know thee who thou art, The inmost fiend that curlest Thy vampire tounge about Earth's corybantic heart, Hell's warrior that whirlest The darts of horror and doubt ! Thou knowest me who I am The inmost soul and saviour Of man ; what hieroglyph Of the dragon and the lamb Shall thou and I engrave here On Time's inscandescable cliff ? Look ! in the plished granite, Black as thy cartouche is with sins, I read the searing sentence That blasts the eyes that scan it : **** and SET be TWINS." A fico for repentance ! Ay ! O Son of my mother That snarled and clawed in her womb As now we rave in our rapture, I know thee, I love thee, brother ! Incestuous males that consumes The light and the life that we capture. Starve thou the soul of the world, Brother, as I the body ! Shall we not glut our lust On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled To a hell of jesus and shoddy, Dung and ethics and dust ? Thou as I art Fate. Coe then, conquer and kiss me ! Come ! what hinders? Believe me : This is the thought we await. The mark is fair ; can you miss me ? See, how subtly I writhe ! Strange runes and unknown sigils I trace in the trance that thrills us. Death ! how lithe, how blithe Are these male incestuous vigils ! Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us ! Wherefore I solemnly affirm This twofold Oneness at the term. Asar on Asi did beget Horus twin brother unto Set. Now Set and Horus kiss, to call The Soul of the Unnatural Forth from the dusk ; then nature slain Lets the Beyond be born again. This weird is of the tongue of Khem, The Conjuration used of them. Whoso shall speak it, let him die, His bowels rotting inwardly, Save he uncover and caress The God that lighteth his liesse.
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The Twins
[Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : oh let them Flame like the ancient city Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers When men let angels fret them ! Yea ! let the south wind blow, And the Turkish banner advance, And the word go out : No quarter ! But I shall hod thee -so ! While the boys and maidens dance About the shambles of slaughter ! I know thee who thou art, The inmost fiend that curlest Thy vampire tounge about Earth's corybantic heart, Hell's warrior that whirlest The darts of horror and doubt ! Thou knowest me who I am The inmost soul and saviour Of man ; what hieroglyph Of the dragon and the lamb Shall thou and I engrave here On Time's inscandescable cliff ? Look ! in the plished granite, Black as thy cartouche is with sins, I read the searing sentence That blasts the eyes that scan it : **** and SET be TWINS." A fico for repentance ! Ay ! O Son of my mother That snarled and clawed in her womb As now we rave in our rapture, I know thee, I love thee, brother ! Incestuous males that consumes The light and the life that we capture. Starve thou the soul of the world, Brother, as I the body ! Shall we not glut our lust On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled To a hell of jesus and shoddy, Dung and ethics and dust ? Thou as I art Fate. Coe then, conquer and kiss me ! Come ! what hinders? Believe me : This is the thought we await. The mark is fair ; can you miss me ? See, how subtly I writhe ! Strange runes and unknown sigils I trace in the trance that thrills us. Death ! how lithe, how blithe Are these male incestuous vigils ! Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us ! Wherefore I solemnly affirm This twofold Oneness at the term. Asar on Asi did beget Horus twin brother unto Set. Now Set and Horus kiss, to call The Soul of the Unnatural Forth from the dusk ; then nature slain Lets the Beyond be born again. This weird is of the tongue of Khem, The Conjuration used of them. Whoso shall speak it, let him die, His bowels rotting inwardly, Save he uncover and caress The God that lighteth his liesse.
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It was in a small town where I first felt love. It was in our small town from nowhere where I first saw that smile; that smile that could light up a room, or the whole world, even. It was in that small town where we made a promise, a promise that we'll both come back, a promise we both failed to keep. You see, darling, it was in that town where I had my very first heartbreak. It was that town which saw my worst fears realized become a reality. I was in that town when I received the news: that you're never coming back. In this town, I knew love but lost it too soon. Yet this town will soon welcome a hero of the war, in a coffin enveloped by the country's emblem. This town will welcome a son and shall soon engrave his legacy on a stone. But I know I can't stay in this town for long, not when the signs speak of your name, not when the streets sing of your footsteps. Darling, this town is not ours no more. This old town speaks too much of our tragedy, of a love forever lost. It is this town that symbolizes what we both had and what we'll never have. And now I'm leaving this town to forget, to keep my sanity. But as I leave this town, please know that I'm never leaving your memory. For it is one thing to forget this town, but quite another to forget my world: you.
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Apr 10, 2017
Apr 10, 2017 at 8:48 PM UTC
suburbia.
Here lies a calculator, once unstoppable, Together we solved the world’s problems. Your black buttons warmed my hands, While my head was cooled by the solutions you created. Stress relieving buttons, How I often mistreated you, Slamming my fingers into your soul, Jabbing your rugged terrain. My intelligence blossomed with you at my side, But now you have shrivelled up, Shedding your petals, one equation at a time, Until you are planted in the grave you resemble. I etched my name into you At the start of our glorious friendship- A sacred bond that would last forever. Now, at the end, I engrave again. This time there is no solution.
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Feb 14, 2011
Feb 14, 2011 at 12:10 PM UTC
Ode to a Deceased Calculator
Whenever  I am not seeing you Lethal void is my heart Like the monolithic art Of a sculptor; Like the figures of Mona Lisa, I tried to engrave you Again and again in my heart And rehearsed you many times In my memories. To reconstitute Your beautiful image Inside of my mind I behold you thousand times, Yet all loving and languishing Nothing could be captured To match your perfection As you were seen in person Nor could be remembered To your many dimensional figure Of youth unclaimed. You are just beautiful but demure, Seductive but unrevealing A love that slips down Near your lips were forbidden? And be never told? Like two balsam flowers unfold Opening from their buds, Your eyelids are open wide. Like two bees ******* honey My eyes were seeking yours To ferret out the secret Of your true love and desires; Neither did they come out Nor did they flutter And never reached out My beehive safely. Seeking out for your true love In your eyes, in your lips, Cheeks and chin far and near, Everywhere  all over you, Looking at you all the time. You are open to interpretation Of your true intention Of your love and desires Like the secret smiles Of Mona Lisa. Until you make confession Of your true love, I will behold you thousand times, You are just beautiful but demure Looking for you all the time. You make me dream about you While in my sleep or I am awake. My discrete memories Are overshadowed by time, I cannot fight with my feelings Whenever  I am not seeing you, Lethal void is my heart, Come and meet me in person!
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Oct 27, 2018
Oct 27, 2018 at 4:17 PM UTC
Behold You Thousand Times
Whenever  I am not seeing you Lethal void is my heart Like the monolithic art Of a sculptor; Like the figures of Mona Lisa, I tried to engrave you Again and again in my heart And rehearsed you many times In my memories. To reconstitute Your beautiful image Inside of my mind I behold you thousand times, Yet all loving and languishing Nothing could be captured To match your perfection As you were seen in person Nor could be remembered To your many dimensional figure Of youth unclaimed. You are just beautiful but demure, Seductive but unrevealing A love that slips down Near your lips were forbidden? And be never told? Like two balsam flowers unfold Opening from their buds, Your eyelids are open wide. Like two bees ******* honey My eyes were seeking yours To ferret out the secret Of your true love and desires; Neither did they come out Nor did they flutter And never reached out My beehive safely. Seeking out for your true love In your eyes, in your lips, Cheeks and chin far and near, Everywhere  all over you, Looking at you all the time. You are open to interpretation Of your true intention Of your love and desires Like the secret smiles Of Mona Lisa. Until you make confession Of your true love, I will behold you thousand times, You are just beautiful but demure Looking for you all the time. You make me dream about you While in my sleep or I am awake. My discrete memories Are overshadowed by time, I cannot fight with my feelings Whenever  I am not seeing you, Lethal void is my heart, Come and meet me in person!
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Wrapped in a sensitive shadow of frozen alphabets They engrave an intimate definition of private insanity Quiet tremors freeze an unknown violence Leaving to eyes to bury the dregs of scarlet shame
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Jun 30, 2013
Jun 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM UTC
Insanity
if silence is a barrier, i would break through it. if the echoing sounds still didn't stop, i would scream aloud. then i would hear nothing but my voice so clear. if my murky vision is a barrier, i would break through it. if the hazy illusions still didn't go, i would close my eyes so tight. then i would see nothing but the visions of my heart. if my unsteady feet are a barrier, i would break through it. if i still feared that i would fall, i would stop a while. then i would know perfectly where to go and my feet wont faulter again. if my shivering hands are a barrier, i would break through it. if i still feared that the task would go wrong,then i will close my fist so tight and engrave my nails till i felt the pain. then i would know that even if i didn't carry on, i would still hurt myself somehow. if reality seems a barrier, i would break through it. if i still feared my past haunting me,then i would work hard to convert my dreams into reality. then however may be the situations i would survive.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM UTC
Breaking All Barriers
hear the winter closed the door many reasons wouldn't ask for more in spring bloomig mind Is the Cure but i would skip it for what i wore since all what soldiers does is war here the field awaits for the summer While I write words, With A Hammer To engrave The words in Every Hour A look in my Eyes it would'nt alter as the glimp of the hitch fire and A sunrise drives My desire in every season of the year i still feel you there getting near As falling leaf on my Shoulder And the autumn's angular figure here she comes as a falling star! how long goes and how much far! But A cloud pointing on me finger rain!, rain!, upon your chin my sir! sorry! a man could'nt hold a tear! let's play the song Near the river you rain!, I rain! who's The Winner but take it easy, she's the swimmer i hold my chest with so much fear All the thoughts going about her While She took a boat on a tinder the water drove me like a ******* dump my heart, till it won't appear And no matter what would occur I Know that was nice fall in a snare Author / Aladdin AURES H.
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Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019 at 1:35 PM UTC
Rain!, And I Rain!
its new, its foreign your form I’m adoring your frown I’m scorning I just like the way you do you so unique, so new so hot and so blue so me but still you hand on my thigh as you drive down the avenue the first one to engrave their name in my heart the first man to deserve his part in my art of delusional confusion, idealistic intrusion with a sprinkle of disillusionment thought it wasn’t for me, too many days spent in existential worry wondering how it would work for me or if it would hurt me but I throw caution to the wind and trust my wings to maintain my grace on the breeze love is just as simple as it seems
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Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021 at 12:18 PM UTC
Simple Life
gimme a hug, the only antidote to my lonely heart gimme a hug the true and effervescent manner of cometh see gimme a hug the way to everlasting love gimme a hug the fervent route to unblemish happiness gimme a hug and i'll forever engrave you on my mind
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Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM UTC
GIMME A HUG
Don’t fall for me, simply because I will turn your kisses into similes kissing you is like watching a sunset; slow, and beautiful. Don’t tell me you love me, simply because your words will form metaphors in my mouth you are a thunderstorm my heart is not ready for. Don’t fall for me, simply because I am selfish, every breath you take, every word you speak *I will find a way to turn that into a composition of letters and sounds for my own purpose.* Don’t try to be with me, simply because I will try to trap you with my words every space in my broken sentences will be filled with thoughts of you. Stay with me, I’ll turn your existence into a poem stay with me, I’ll engrave your name into my verses stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, so I don’t have to turn my heartache into a poem of sorrow once again. I have not felt at ease with the world in a while, but that has changed, simply because you are my world now *everything I do, I do for you.* So this is a warning; don’t fall for me, simply because I am a thief who is good with words, *I will steal your love and turn it into stories of malignancy and almosts.*
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Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 8:17 AM UTC
Warning From a Poet
Shema (“Listen”) by Primo Levi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You who live secure in your comfortable homes, who return each evening to find warm food and a hearty welcome ... Consider: is this a “man” who slogs through mud, who has never known peace, who fights for scraps of bread, who lives at another man's whim, who at his "yes" or "no" lies dead. Consider: is this a “woman” shorn bald and bereft of a name because she lacks the strength to remember, her eyes as void and her womb as frigid as a winter frog's? Consider that such horrors have indeed been! I commend these words to you. Engrave them in your hearts when you lounge in your beds and again when you rise, when you venture outside. Rehearse them to your children, or may your houses softly crumble and disease render you equally as humble so that even your offspring avert their eyes. Primo Michele Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. It has been described as one of the best books by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His unique work The Periodic Table was shortlisted as one of the greatest scientific books ever written, by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Levi's autobiographical book about his liberation from Auschwitz, The Truce, became a movie with the same name in 1997. Keywords: Holocaust, poem, Italian, translation, man, mud, woman, bald, nameless, houses, homes, bread, eyes, womb, empty, void, frigid, lifeless, horror, horrors, hearts, write, etch, engrave, inscribe, children, offspring, disease, avert, reject
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Mar 14, 2020
Mar 14, 2020 at 4:58 AM UTC
Primo Levi "Shema" translation
Shema (“Listen”) by Primo Levi loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You who live secure in your comfortable homes, who return each evening to find warm food and a hearty welcome ... Consider: is this a “man” who slogs through mud, who has never known peace, who fights for scraps of bread, who lives at another man's whim, who at his "yes" or "no" lies dead. Consider: is this a “woman” shorn bald and bereft of a name because she lacks the strength to remember, her eyes as void and her womb as frigid as a winter frog's? Consider that such horrors have indeed been! I commend these words to you. Engrave them in your hearts when you lounge in your beds and again when you rise, when you venture outside. Rehearse them to your children, or may your houses softly crumble and disease render you equally as humble so that even your offspring avert their eyes. Primo Michele Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. It has been described as one of the best books by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His unique work The Periodic Table was shortlisted as one of the greatest scientific books ever written, by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Levi's autobiographical book about his liberation from Auschwitz, The Truce, became a movie with the same name in 1997. Keywords: Holocaust, poem, Italian, translation, man, mud, woman, bald, nameless, houses, homes, bread, eyes, womb, empty, void, frigid, lifeless, horror, horrors, hearts, write, etch, engrave, inscribe, children, offspring, disease, avert, reject
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I seized a colorful pigeon on my palm And I started to engrave the story of our love in its feathers It flew away to orate our love And in the night I met him in my dream He was dead, and said “This is how the society deals with love
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 5:50 PM UTC
A dead pigeon
If I added up all my scars, across my arms and over my hips, I could stitch them up, into untold stories and engrave them on my skin, so everyone could see, the vulnerability within. If I spread my wounds across a canvas, purple, blue, red, and other hues, creeping on rippled fabric like stars in the night sky, I’d create galaxies, with craters, suns and moons, constellations of healing wounds.
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Apr 25, 2019
Apr 25, 2019 at 3:38 PM UTC
Masterpiece
the words don't come easy on this head-pounding hungover day every train of thought trails off into intangible nonsense. maybe if i buy a new pen? i think perhaps then these words won't look so lame? maybe a carbon steel ballpoint pen with high-grade stainless steel trimmings. i could engrave my name on it. with a pen like that, i think i could write cryptic poetry that would bewilder the masses. then i speculate the possibilities of stabbing myself in the neck with a pen like that with my name engraved on it. possibly if i hit a main artery in my neck, i think that could work. but i can't afford a pen like that.
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Feb 25, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
pen
I’m a victim as you stream my life Like a short film and I can’t remember my own name You drape my skin over rusty bones that fail when the clock chimes Yet you collect every strand of my hair Torn and grown Cut and combed and repaint the shapes I used to be into finer lines Why do you whisper silly words to me? Yet I hang myself on them and engrave the fate you sealed for me Why do you twist me at every angle? relishing in my deterioration Soaking and rinsing your own wounds in the pools of my bitter mistakes and sweet memories But these scars I wrap with your worn stems, vanish beneath my exterior I am stainless Sometimes, when I am too tattered to walk, you carry me on your shoulder But I remember when you grabbed my ankles and cracked my wrists You cast me like a stone And polish me like a trophy Conceal me in your clock work
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Jun 1, 2017
Jun 1, 2017 at 6:13 PM UTC
Time
It terrifies me to know that one day, you will simply be gone, That you will walk out that door and that I will never hear from or see you again, That the person who I stayed up with until 4 in the morning telling everything to is someone that I hope to one day pass on the street, just to know that you're okay. It scares me to know that our time is running short, because TIME doesn't stop for anyone, And with time, memories fade and with it will your face and I'm trying so hard to engrave it on my skin. You. My most beautiful sin. Momma told me nothing good happens after two am and maybe she's been right all along because that is when I fell for you, In the hours of the love affair between the moon and sun, existing together only momentarily before one is overrun, like them we are meant to always reach for one another but never quite get there, Because the universe is run by magic and we have none. But I will always be willing to die every night as the moon does for the sun if it means seeing it bounce off your whiskey colored eyes I used to get drunk off of, one last time, Because you looked at me the way no one else could, and I bared my soul to you more than I should've, we were both the spark and the flame and then the wind lent a shout, matches aren't meant to burn forever and maybe that's why we burnt out. Just know that I will always miss you, That a part of my soul will forever be yours, And I envy the lips that get to kiss you. And as that door shuts, away you will walk to a place I may never stumble across and find, So I will always remember those starry nights, when I was yours and you were mine.
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Mar 29, 2016
Mar 29, 2016 at 5:51 PM UTC
When You Were Mine
It terrifies me to know that one day, you will simply be gone, That you will walk out that door and that I will never hear from or see you again, That the person who I stayed up with until 4 in the morning telling everything to is someone that I hope to one day pass on the street, just to know that you're okay. It scares me to know that our time is running short, because TIME doesn't stop for anyone, And with time, memories fade and with it will your face and I'm trying so hard to engrave it on my skin. You. My most beautiful sin. Momma told me nothing good happens after two am and maybe she's been right all along because that is when I fell for you, In the hours of the love affair between the moon and sun, existing together only momentarily before one is overrun, like them we are meant to always reach for one another but never quite get there, Because the universe is run by magic and we have none. But I will always be willing to die every night as the moon does for the sun if it means seeing it bounce off your whiskey colored eyes I used to get drunk off of, one last time, Because you looked at me the way no one else could, and I bared my soul to you more than I should've, we were both the spark and the flame and then the wind lent a shout, matches aren't meant to burn forever and maybe that's why we burnt out. Just know that I will always miss you, That a part of my soul will forever be yours, And I envy the lips that get to kiss you. And as that door shuts, away you will walk to a place I may never stumble across and find, So I will always remember those starry nights, when I was yours and you were mine.
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At top of the hill A fragrant hill Stands the blue windmill. It has bricks of gold from the Cotswolds. It stands lonely, cold and still. No wind to blow here anymore. Blood sweat and many tears once lined the dusty, white floor. Now ivy of green hugs the door. No stones turn no fire burns grounding flour to make a pound. Every hour, each second counted. Hands of the brave that made a mark to engrave their time on the hill where now time stands still. A Raven who calls to the midnight air His wings as blue as the blades His body as deep as the ace of spades. As old as this story has been told new hope is about to unfold. The Raven is about to learn as once more the blue blades turn Through the yellow window a farmer's wife begins her new life. Her golden apron, her new dreams the sparkle in her blue eyes whips up a wind like never before. The generator stirs, the life uncurls like tail from a happy cat. Except this is tale that is about to begin.
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 5:11 AM UTC
The Blue Windmill
is this craft that chose you, not defined by millimeters, precision absolute, curvatures, so eye pleasing they demonstrate no tolerance for tolerance of the ordinary the skill of words, too, cut so fine, find the extraordinary within, refine, refine, refine, shave away the trite, the reused, discard, instant recognition, unusable cut new cuts, thy spirit tolling, thy soul trolling anew is thy toolings earth sourced from and of the ever better, ever closer, always newer make thy own designs, faithfully execute the new born original, by elevating, with the tools in you, provide us, by illuminating no thing machined, can ever be as fine as the originality that requires soft spoken definition in new ways, heart and hand guild crafted when God designed the Connecticut autumnal leaves, overriding the summers's single green, good but not miraculous, insufficient, when contrasted with the shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown of newly fallen words and worlds in the season of change write me a tool so elegant, so complex, so refined and yet so simple, that its point will force no choice, but engrave gasps of pleasure upon my faltering eyes, my slowing heart, my exhausted limbs, and make me live again through your finest creativity heat heat heat burn to look beyond
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 9:38 AM UTC
Machinist, Tool Thyself (for Joe)
∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ Seems to be a strange day a cold in the breeze in the months of May screeching’s of the door a mist at the windows broken pane The room was lonely as the leaves, out whirling a thump at the ceiling top, rolling, shackling like those ogling cats for a savoring mouse From an ominous weather to the whispering waters a crack brought my most —attention uncanny things lurking came falling within *I saw streamers faking shimmers I saw glitters but aren't gold I saw diamonds yet it wasn't snow* A strong wind gushing hoist the storm came toiling, warping heaven and earth were felonious, winced and everything was settled Crystal drops touching the tender heart abrupt shattered glass striking a sorry won't be sought memories engrave nothing flagrant it is to mend Crystal drops falling true friends come for once, an astral to a feeling stalwart is to be keeping till when, twas its end and all of this begins again
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Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 at 10:12 AM UTC
Crystal Drops