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Innocence isn't just a Thought Theory Feeling State of Mind Age Lack of Knowledge Purity Cleanliness Innocence is more So much more Than I ever believed it was Or could be I grew up Maybe a little too fast And all at once And where I once was Innocent Innocent Innocent My mind grew And expanded And now I know Of many many things I wish I didn't And no longer am I Innocent Innocent Innocent But I lack the Thought Theory Feeling State of Mind Age Lack of Knowledge Purity Cleanliness Of Innocence That I yearn to have once again But will never have again Because once Innocence is lost It cannot be found Ever Again And you are forced To sit And see And observe The innocence around you And mourn over Your very own Innocence Which Is Long long Gone.
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Oct 21, 2013
Oct 21, 2013 at 7:13 PM UTC
Innocence: A Question
Onion, luminous flask, your beauty formed petal by petal, crystal scales expanded you and in the secrecy of the dark earth your belly grew round with dew. Under the earth the miracle happened and when your clumsy green stem appeared, and your leaves were born like swords in the garden, the earth heaped up her power showing your naked transparency, and as the remote sea in lifting the ******* of Aphrodite duplicating the magnolia, so did the earth make you, onion clear as a planet and destined to shine, constant constellation, round rose of water, upon the table of the poor. You make us cry without hurting us. I have praised everything that exists, but to me, onion, you are more beautiful than a bird of dazzling feathers, heavenly globe, platinum goblet, unmoving dance of the snowy anemone and the fragrance of the earth lives in your crystalline nature.
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Ode To The Onion
Situations find themselves unraveling uncontrollably, picking at scabs of superiority, delving into wide expanded pits of insecurity. The master of masking change would be the ever drifting reputation, it leaves bitter, it brings hate. May I express how much I hate? Nothing squirms and squiggles uncontrollably more, than watching reputations crumble, due to fake superiority. What do I want, change! What does she want? Change, but she gets insecurity. To understand the confliction, insecurity must paint walls of peeling purple hate. Well, something in you will change. You may remain stubborn, uncontrollably defending your sudden superiority, you’re just choosing a rotten reputation. I wish to fly you to a new nation, I mean shes breaking your reputation. I’d like to find the spot in your mind resided by insecurity, I know you’re not studded with superiority. She’s finding a reason for everyone else to hate the way you attract uncontrollably. Nothing about you, in you, should change, because this digs deeper than the change her and my relationship took, than are used to be reputation of adoring each other uncontrollably. of ignoring that insecurity. of the day she learned to hate, spindling a slippery net of superiority. Her comfort zone of a home lays in superiority, I’d rather cry endlessly than change by cultivating my hate for her, for her debilitating take on your reputation. Transperency touches insecurity and you are broken, falling uncontrollably. I will continue to hate her superiority, but that won’t reflect on her reputation. You mustn’t change your disposition, but lose the grip on insecurity Don’t you dare hate these words, they care, they love uncontrollably.
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Jun 21, 2012
Jun 21, 2012 at 10:45 PM UTC
My Words for Her
Situations find themselves unraveling uncontrollably, picking at scabs of superiority, delving into wide expanded pits of insecurity. The master of masking change would be the ever drifting reputation, it leaves bitter, it brings hate. May I express how much I hate? Nothing squirms and squiggles uncontrollably more, than watching reputations crumble, due to fake superiority. What do I want, change! What does she want? Change, but she gets insecurity. To understand the confliction, insecurity must paint walls of peeling purple hate. Well, something in you will change. You may remain stubborn, uncontrollably defending your sudden superiority, you’re just choosing a rotten reputation. I wish to fly you to a new nation, I mean shes breaking your reputation. I’d like to find the spot in your mind resided by insecurity, I know you’re not studded with superiority. She’s finding a reason for everyone else to hate the way you attract uncontrollably. Nothing about you, in you, should change, because this digs deeper than the change her and my relationship took, than are used to be reputation of adoring each other uncontrollably. of ignoring that insecurity. of the day she learned to hate, spindling a slippery net of superiority. Her comfort zone of a home lays in superiority, I’d rather cry endlessly than change by cultivating my hate for her, for her debilitating take on your reputation. Transperency touches insecurity and you are broken, falling uncontrollably. I will continue to hate her superiority, but that won’t reflect on her reputation. You mustn’t change your disposition, but lose the grip on insecurity Don’t you dare hate these words, they care, they love uncontrollably.
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Out of what our hearts are made, The sea of stars above our little heads is widely spread, expanded, The river of the milkyway, seperating two lovers, with more stars, All come within a clear, manifest orbit, bound to gravity and bounty, A vally of natural nuclear fusion reactors, spreading light through the dark of the night, a play of beauty and might, on the ceiling of Earth, All shining uninterruptedly, without the intruding light of the moon, In the world of empty dreams, waiting to be filled with memories, Clusters, binary, trinary stars with their satelites, dance as celestial beings through the infinity of space, all with grace, individuality, bliss Heartfelt, past the luxury of luminosity and spinning alike wage wool Because stars are, a magic mirror to the things we are, or want to be, Weave the fate that you want to feel free, broken loose from the lies, It is best to dance with me on these fantastic grounds here with me, If we gather in a dark night, my dear knight, we can grasp fantasy, Dear trasure mine, you're, a distant eniment galactic heavenly beauty So shine on until you someday let go of this worldly life, my dearest, As then I would like to meet you in the realm of the dead again, In the loitering darkness one day. ~ Umi
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Apr 1, 2018
Apr 1, 2018 at 9:35 AM UTC
Al-Majara
And so the green balloons did grow Inflated, nurtured over time, This tree of air Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Argon, Traces of other gases too, Out side was warm Internal temp minus triple degrees, What had been barren branches Now sustained as these Strings matured forth Buds of latex and rubber grew, Liquid air exhaled as the buds nurtured   Air expanded with warm the green balloons Grew & Grew Sprung forth in to life what once was Small, now expanded fuelled by the Cold fuel of the tree of white, In the winds they did gesture As if dancing putting on a show Tree, Branch, String, Green balloons flourished there veins Feeding air anew, Blustery winds picked up Strings did snap, green balloons did Float away, drifting upon high Into a sea of blue, But as seasons change, Green balloons became loose Many floated away to places new Those that did not, Deflated, Depleted, Exhausted, Nourishment of air, no longer green ballons Phenomenon's of gases changed And green faded now this tree of air Brought forth new shades of    Yellows, Purples, Black, Oranges, So these colours did fall from the tree, Floating not as before, They did descend, slowly to the floor, Biodegradable. they did fade From view, not what they were before, The life cycle of these green balloons The tree of white grows evermore cold, For seasons change and green balloons will Grow again next spring  floating in the air once more.
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 6:15 PM UTC
Tree Of Green Balloons
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM UTC
Erosion
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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It hurt, my friend, I don't know why but when I showed you my new found pride you asked quickly of my minds state and why. Drunk? Me!? No! This symbol simply proves so. I'm viewed as average, not good enough. Just this shows my inner pride. It helps me knock those comments made by those on the other side of the glass... so why must you make one just as crass? I will prove to you, one I once knew well, that I'll shed and change - that way easily then can I reveal just how beautiful a Swan I really am I'll fly away and soar above your petty comments, Friend? You were the one who grew distant, you were the one who couldn't see past the dirt. Yet here I am, my wings expanded, Everything changing around me and fast... I'll fly off on my own path, and show I'm the swan I truly am.
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 11:24 PM UTC
*Swan*
*He makes me feel beautiful* Which I have never felt before I've always had my doubts and could never be too sure Cause they told me I was ugly They told me I was fat They joked about me and never had regrets And I sat there and I laughed it off but it hurt me inside So bad that I got off the bus and ran straight to my room to cry And I got on my knees and prayed at my window and asked the lord "Why is this happening to me?" and it started when I was four And yes, I still remember that far back Cause being bullied is it's own feeling of being jumped or attacked And *he makes me feel beautiful* Cause he looks me in my eyes and tells me that I am and I can tell it's not a lie... Because instead of posting pictures I have edited and cropped And having boys tell me I'm pretty through messages in my inbox... *He makes me feel beautiful* Cause he means what he says And a few other people have told me I am cute but I thought they were just kidding Cause I have programmed myself to thinking my beauty is forbidden Which means that I could never be a girl that is praised For her good looks, her perfect body, and her Aphrodite face. *He makes me feel beautiful* Cause even though I have flaws He accepts them and makes me feel like I have none at all So maybe I am pretty and I am starting to think better Of myself instead of looking in the mirror with a look so bitter *He makes me feel beautiful* And when he tells me so with such a serious voice, I get chills Cause he's the first person that hasn't made me feel completely ill By insulting or pointing out one of my many imperfections But instead trying to help get rid if that negative venom That people have slowly injected into my mind Making my optimism die slowly over time Making me get violent and defensive and making me less kind To the point I get a rush to commit a deadly crime Then they say I'm crazy and continue with the names It's a cycle, a stupid circle, a horrible made up game That has expanded to the point where death is how you win And I would of won this game if it wasn't for my kin *He makes me feel beautiful* outside and in So I wrote this in dedication to that special him For helping me realize more than ever in my life That maybe I am beautiful and I've been this way for a very long time...
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 7:07 PM UTC
He Makes Me Feel Beautiful
*He makes me feel beautiful* Which I have never felt before I've always had my doubts and could never be too sure Cause they told me I was ugly They told me I was fat They joked about me and never had regrets And I sat there and I laughed it off but it hurt me inside So bad that I got off the bus and ran straight to my room to cry And I got on my knees and prayed at my window and asked the lord "Why is this happening to me?" and it started when I was four And yes, I still remember that far back Cause being bullied is it's own feeling of being jumped or attacked And *he makes me feel beautiful* Cause he looks me in my eyes and tells me that I am and I can tell it's not a lie... Because instead of posting pictures I have edited and cropped And having boys tell me I'm pretty through messages in my inbox... *He makes me feel beautiful* Cause he means what he says And a few other people have told me I am cute but I thought they were just kidding Cause I have programmed myself to thinking my beauty is forbidden Which means that I could never be a girl that is praised For her good looks, her perfect body, and her Aphrodite face. *He makes me feel beautiful* Cause even though I have flaws He accepts them and makes me feel like I have none at all So maybe I am pretty and I am starting to think better Of myself instead of looking in the mirror with a look so bitter *He makes me feel beautiful* And when he tells me so with such a serious voice, I get chills Cause he's the first person that hasn't made me feel completely ill By insulting or pointing out one of my many imperfections But instead trying to help get rid if that negative venom That people have slowly injected into my mind Making my optimism die slowly over time Making me get violent and defensive and making me less kind To the point I get a rush to commit a deadly crime Then they say I'm crazy and continue with the names It's a cycle, a stupid circle, a horrible made up game That has expanded to the point where death is how you win And I would of won this game if it wasn't for my kin *He makes me feel beautiful* outside and in So I wrote this in dedication to that special him For helping me realize more than ever in my life That maybe I am beautiful and I've been this way for a very long time...
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When the arc of his watch hands   reached the top of the hour Sam pushed the throttle forward. Engine 138 thundered out of Blossburg station like an iron dragon breathing smoke and steam - whistle shrilling over the Tioga valley. Powered by coal the train carried coal to the waiting city of Elmira where Sam would press his mother's hand - perhaps for the final time. The wheels churning iron on iron across Pennsylvania farmlands, turned like other wheels before moving settlers west to break its ready earth - wheels beneath his grandfather's oxcart turning toward Lycoming's verdant hills. New wheels now carried America to urban landscapes drawing us like electro-magnets to streetlamps - factories - dry good stores - new crops for a modern age. Elmira’s silhouette expanded on the horizon. and Sam pulled the train in on time - brakes screeching through billowing steam. His wife, Jenny and his sister's Sam came in a horseless carriage with Zoe, Marie and Edward, children now grown at their sides. They all gathered by Hannah's bed now approaching her final hours soft voices and fragile smiles cradled the truth beyond all telling: Time, ever advancing like the hands of a fine old watch, holds us all in its circling sway © 2006 by Robert Charles Howard
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Aug 25, 2017
Aug 25, 2017 at 10:58 AM UTC
Sam's Watch (1915)
I've never thought less of you than in begging moment, flipped on smooth river rocks, arms wide on expanded hips, smile fake and expectant. You paddle kayaks in awkward plaids and throwaway sweaters, grinning sweetly at dimples and polished toenails and forgetting my name while I repeat yours in echo. On tall bicycle, you look down at tear-strewn carpet, at lingering rain, and you lean to one side, precarious balance while the sun peeks through the blinds.
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM UTC
Camping
Pretty is a six-letter word that can’t encompass your entire being in its arms. You were born to a mother who wore pain like trees wear their rings, as marks of fierce bravery and battle cries. You almost split her insides open coming out, wailing so hard the plaster cracked, but she grinned and bore it like a champion, even though the walls of her womb felt like one giant cigarette burn that no one cared enough to put out. You are Icarus incarnate, with a body stitched from wings, flying toward the sun every day no matter how low the storm clouds hover. Pretty is not a synonym for learning how to put together a body that fights itself every day with pocket knives, like assembling letters to form words that flame in the mouth. That’s called survival. Pretty is an ugly word. It leaves behind a bitter residue that apologies cannot erase. Pretty is just an excuse for playing darts with a woman’s confidence. When told you are not pretty, always remember how your body expanded to fit its widening cage, its blooming hips, how the growing pains were less like pain and more like cracking fault lines. How your body turned itself inside out and spilled over and over again. Getting emptied is not pretty. It is dark and wounding and it requires strength enough to move mountains. On your worst days do not look in the mirror and call yourself pretty. Call yourself trying, call yourself surviving, call yourself learning how to get through a day, a week, a month or year. Call yourself still learning. Pretty is just six letters for lipstick, false eyelashes, combs for hair that never gets tangled, not for women who earn a victory every day just managing to exist. When told you are not pretty, do not **** in your stomach. Pretty is a discriminatory word, but having a body that knows what it wants and gets what it wants is not a hate crime. It’s a healing hymn. Don’t forget how trees shake their last leaves in winter like they’re shedding skin from the old year. Shed pretty. Shed it now. Teach yourself to replace it with heart-wrenching, brilliant, clever, artistic, unique, understanding, fighting. Always living. When told you are not pretty, don’t fall in love with the ground. Get back up. This is not an apocalypse; this is not the end of the world. A six-letter word doesn’t have the power to burn down every building in site or freeze the entire world in epic proportions. Your body is not wreckage or refuse left over from a world on fire. Your body is just fine. Look in the mirror. Tell yourself, Pretty is not me. Pretty is an ugly concept. I am more.
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 6:59 AM UTC
when told you are not pretty
Pretty is a six-letter word that can’t encompass your entire being in its arms. You were born to a mother who wore pain like trees wear their rings, as marks of fierce bravery and battle cries. You almost split her insides open coming out, wailing so hard the plaster cracked, but she grinned and bore it like a champion, even though the walls of her womb felt like one giant cigarette burn that no one cared enough to put out. You are Icarus incarnate, with a body stitched from wings, flying toward the sun every day no matter how low the storm clouds hover. Pretty is not a synonym for learning how to put together a body that fights itself every day with pocket knives, like assembling letters to form words that flame in the mouth. That’s called survival. Pretty is an ugly word. It leaves behind a bitter residue that apologies cannot erase. Pretty is just an excuse for playing darts with a woman’s confidence. When told you are not pretty, always remember how your body expanded to fit its widening cage, its blooming hips, how the growing pains were less like pain and more like cracking fault lines. How your body turned itself inside out and spilled over and over again. Getting emptied is not pretty. It is dark and wounding and it requires strength enough to move mountains. On your worst days do not look in the mirror and call yourself pretty. Call yourself trying, call yourself surviving, call yourself learning how to get through a day, a week, a month or year. Call yourself still learning. Pretty is just six letters for lipstick, false eyelashes, combs for hair that never gets tangled, not for women who earn a victory every day just managing to exist. When told you are not pretty, do not **** in your stomach. Pretty is a discriminatory word, but having a body that knows what it wants and gets what it wants is not a hate crime. It’s a healing hymn. Don’t forget how trees shake their last leaves in winter like they’re shedding skin from the old year. Shed pretty. Shed it now. Teach yourself to replace it with heart-wrenching, brilliant, clever, artistic, unique, understanding, fighting. Always living. When told you are not pretty, don’t fall in love with the ground. Get back up. This is not an apocalypse; this is not the end of the world. A six-letter word doesn’t have the power to burn down every building in site or freeze the entire world in epic proportions. Your body is not wreckage or refuse left over from a world on fire. Your body is just fine. Look in the mirror. Tell yourself, Pretty is not me. Pretty is an ugly concept. I am more.
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this poem started off intending to be the shortest poem in the world nay, more aptly in the whole wide, wide open uni-verse but ambition overtook it and it aimed to stretch far and wide an Aristotelian hubris, you know like the ambition of Macbeth going beyond what Mrs Macbeth intended and so this ambitious little poem of ours expanded starting meek as grass growing zealous and went beyond itself and its kind this poem that had such humble beginnings that dared to want to be the shortest poem in the world but turned out loquacious and it could go on, it said, beating all length, breadth and dimension and would have - but it got into convulsions and fits and shock when it had gone beyond its shortness and it couldn’t even spell couldn't even get words right floating in a soup of red lines in Word or in Mac’s Pages and so it took its own life or someone stabbed it like they did to o’erweening Macbeth or to our poor, poor misunderstood Rasputin who being a Saint was thought a Devil but was all humble as the shortest poem in the uni-verse
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Oct 29, 2011
Oct 29, 2011 at 10:06 PM UTC
the shortest poem in the uni-verse
you were blue and i am yellow you liked the way i brightened rooms i thought we could make a home run true but no winning evolved while our garden bloomed for as my love for you grew it expanded way beyond you and it wasn't long before you knew exposing your true shades of gray when you touched me but you looked her way you decided olive green just didn't look good on you i have always preferred green over purple and you once told me you felt the same but that one night where you both lied you chose the latter you took her side and i’m not sure if it's because she appeared shiny red and i was becoming a worn out yellow but it shouldn’t have mattered because you plucked me first and you and i both know that's not what you do to flowers when you love them you were supposed to water me but you showered her instead and now i am left here trying to heal the paper cuts i got from the countless times i ran in circles trying to catch your racing heart but it barely ever grazed my fingertips and each time i looked down to see what was left of you and me i was struck in the face with the sad reality that we had never even made it off of home base
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:43 PM UTC
the art of leaving
I am reading poems by Billy Collins: AIMLESS LOVE, a retrospective, A sampler, as it were For the Books and Brew; Our monthly selection. Nine manly men Meeting for monthly meals And book-talk And politics And, of course, good beer. They like nonfiction, I like fiction. Richard Hughes, British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays said: “All nonfiction can do is answer questions; It is fiction's business to ask them.” Still, my repertoire has expanded: Nike shoes. Civil War. Institutional racism. Opioid addiction. Rafting the Grand Canyon. Climbing mountains. With Baron Von Humboldt. And now this: Poetry. Nine manly men Reading poetry to each other While sharing a meal, One lovely poem after another. You can't read a book of poetry Like you consume other books, Fiction or nonfiction. The table of contents: The lid of a box of exquisite truffles— A map of pleasures contained within. You look at the map, And make a selection. The caramel truffle Is not the coffee truffle. You look at the map, Make a selection, And bite! The crusty chocolate cracks! The darkness melts, Floods your mouth with taste. Then the rush of caramel! Flavors, smells sloshing Swooning with sensate memories. What? Turn the page and read another? Reach for the coffee truffle? No. Linger with caramel; Luxuriate on aftertaste. Is that a note of citrus or salt? I will enjoy my coffee truffle tomorrow.
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 12:26 PM UTC
EXQUISITE TRUFFLES
The mathematician never finished his work today Which is weird because it was the most important project of his career. Working on the equation for the perfect person, left it halfway done. The other half lost in this numerical mind. But that's what we are, two halves of an unfinished project. A slip atom A half of a binomial theorem A parabola at the apex of its' focus, ready to fall right back on its' feet. Because apart we are imperfect, we trip, we fall But when multiplied we are a product of perfection, able to point out that mistaken branch before you have time to brace yourself. I'll take those expanded arms and wrap them around me, feel your acute angles against my obtuse curves. Put my hand on your neck, not to feel your skin, well: to do that too, but also to feel your pulse. Knowing it beats at the same intervals as mine. And no one know why the mathematician never completed the equation. …maybe fell asleep… …maybe distracted… …maybe he just forgot… But I thank him. Because perfect is lonely and you...you are everything. Without him the Y= to my MX+being would never be linear. And I'm not good at math, neither are you, but I'm pretty sure we don't need to look in the back of the book for any answers.
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 3:33 PM UTC
Math
Across from me at the bar table, the bartender smiles and asks for my order I tell him, "anything strong," and hand him ten dollars I drink it up, feel its strength running down my throat into my ever-growing stomach I look up and remember what I've left at home My wife sat in the bedroom alone, My children pacing around and adapting the way women and men are supposed to be I have taught my son power, strength, and dominance While I have taught my daughter weakness and submission Maybe that's where I went wrong as a father Where all previous generations of my family have gone wrong Raising me as a man seeing women as objects, And I raising my son in the same manner I take one last sip from my ten dollar drink Taking it in along with my realizations In front of me is the door of my home where I have left women to shrink in order to enlarge myself to the point of overfeeding my ego And then I decided to shrink myself into the size of the women I've shrunk The size of my home has grown larger Its proportions have expanded Allowing each of us to occupy the same amount of space And so I sat across my wife at the kitchen table Looking at her at eye level She smiles and I smile back
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 6:21 AM UTC
A Response to Lily Myers' "Shrinking Women"
She burst into our lives one summer In an explosion of glitter and cat ears And into the darkness of our young lives She became a light. She demanded my friendship Commanded my respect Reprimanded my bad choices And expanded my views. She's the one who got me writing poetry She taught me how to worship And how to question authority She told me to speak up To be myself And I learned from her fearless example. We shared some scars And she was never afraid of telling me the straight-up truth. She wasn't perfect Sometimes she destroyed feelings And shoplifted our hearts But I learned from that, too. And then one day with a toss Of those red curls, one of those Hugs that made everything better And a swing of the metal heart hanging on her chest She was gone, just like that But I'll never forget she changed my life And I'm still changing it through Rachel, this one's for you.
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Jul 5, 2016
Jul 5, 2016 at 4:57 PM UTC
Church Daze -- Rachel
The Canvas Skin strikes again With a breakdown of mental boundaries My mind has never stretched so far Or expanded to such an extent That the former impossible Is now within such short grasp And the idea that was harboured within Is now beautiful ink Underneath skin.
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 7:02 PM UTC
Canvas skin strikes again
to ones wronged or irked by some stupid bullsh#t and who may have an itch to do some ruin— —ation, e.g., shoot some bullets all the imprudent bullies and corrupt ****** contributing to in— —justice will do as ones to subject to a punishment [mafias & agents of authoritarian regimes] and if you are one of 'em a few words regarding your funeral [if there will be one] hope it will be at odds with the usual it should be a carnival to the bone whether or not that is suitable
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Mar 29, 2020
Mar 29, 2020 at 9:56 AM UTC
VULTURES [might be edited, expanded]
I was raised in a house that seemed big on the inside With a garden that was larger than the rest of the earth. My bedroom was shared. But there was more than enough room. So proportionally, I always felt small. The curtains were vines in a furniture jungle The bookcase a tower of riddles. I used to spend my days inside the wardrobe Because I heard there were whole worlds inside of them. The sofa was a cloud, I liked to sink into it. The bathtub an ocean, that I was constantly floating adrift in. The TV screen might as well have been A stage compared to me when I was younger. Even the cupboard was a cavernous place, my sparrowbone limbs Would fold up only slightly, but still there would always be too much space. Space blank as a bullet hole Like the gaps between stars. An absence you're constantly falling through. When you're so tiny, And surrounded by nothingness, its easy to forget that you're not nothing too. I was compressed in the classroom behind a scrawl splattered desk The lines of graffiti looked mammoth. The teachers were giants And I was just jack They ground up my brains to make alphabet stew And gave me only a handful of A, B's and C's back. The playground was Olympus, I was acting atlas I felt as though the whole world was on my shoulders. See I was a really loud kid, always shouting out Because I thought that was the only way to get anyone to hear me. Lungs like an opera singer by the age of just nine And in the habit of using embellishment. I've been where you've been kid, I've seen it all. I know exactly how the sight of a bullies hand-down button-up Can be enough to make you choke... Sometimes it still is enough. And I know I don't look so tiny now I expanded as I grew more constricted. Trying to compensate for the empty place, I had made a habit of occupying. See I understand, I know But I promise you, one day you'll stop standing under things Find your feet and grow. The leaves of your family tree do not define Who you'll be You do not have to hold up those branches all alone. And I know I look so small right now But in here, in here I'm mammoth. And I promise the world is not so nothing filled When everyone is giant.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM UTC
Acting Atlas
I was raised in a house that seemed big on the inside With a garden that was larger than the rest of the earth. My bedroom was shared. But there was more than enough room. So proportionally, I always felt small. The curtains were vines in a furniture jungle The bookcase a tower of riddles. I used to spend my days inside the wardrobe Because I heard there were whole worlds inside of them. The sofa was a cloud, I liked to sink into it. The bathtub an ocean, that I was constantly floating adrift in. The TV screen might as well have been A stage compared to me when I was younger. Even the cupboard was a cavernous place, my sparrowbone limbs Would fold up only slightly, but still there would always be too much space. Space blank as a bullet hole Like the gaps between stars. An absence you're constantly falling through. When you're so tiny, And surrounded by nothingness, its easy to forget that you're not nothing too. I was compressed in the classroom behind a scrawl splattered desk The lines of graffiti looked mammoth. The teachers were giants And I was just jack They ground up my brains to make alphabet stew And gave me only a handful of A, B's and C's back. The playground was Olympus, I was acting atlas I felt as though the whole world was on my shoulders. See I was a really loud kid, always shouting out Because I thought that was the only way to get anyone to hear me. Lungs like an opera singer by the age of just nine And in the habit of using embellishment. I've been where you've been kid, I've seen it all. I know exactly how the sight of a bullies hand-down button-up Can be enough to make you choke... Sometimes it still is enough. And I know I don't look so tiny now I expanded as I grew more constricted. Trying to compensate for the empty place, I had made a habit of occupying. See I understand, I know But I promise you, one day you'll stop standing under things Find your feet and grow. The leaves of your family tree do not define Who you'll be You do not have to hold up those branches all alone. And I know I look so small right now But in here, in here I'm mammoth. And I promise the world is not so nothing filled When everyone is giant.
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in a strange land i stood alone facing the sun it felt like home. the mountains were watching me. i was new i was the guest. how did i come here wasnt clear but its for the best. somehow i knew the trees had a msg for me. a msg so familiar that was always burried inside me. And they said : young man standing in the plain you still have alot to gain. dont be afraid of the unknown for it is essential for ur growth. trust your intuitions and believe And all your talents shall be revieled Be courageous and dont be shy for what life have planed for you aint a lie.. lose your fears and lose your greed and the secrets of life shall be whisperd in your ears.embrace silence and embrace peace and wisdom is what you shall see. we know what you think. we know what you feel and thats one of the reasons we called you here. in front of you we stand here an untouched forest existing for your relief. Love me and love me again for im your mother and i ll never end. im nature. through me u breath. through me u eat Never abandon me and i ll provide for you your needs. i take so many forms im in so many places love me and into your heart i shall be expanded. Im done now u can go back and continue your life. but dont forget rare are the ones who saw this place. always remember wht i said and search for signs traveling in time and happiness is what you shall find. as the sound stopped i closed my eyes trying to embrace what i witnessed. i felt im one with evrything. time has passed i opend my eyes. I was in bed. I knew this story shall be shared. words of Harfouchism.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 11:32 AM UTC
The Enchanted Forest
in a strange land i stood alone facing the sun it felt like home. the mountains were watching me. i was new i was the guest. how did i come here wasnt clear but its for the best. somehow i knew the trees had a msg for me. a msg so familiar that was always burried inside me. And they said : young man standing in the plain you still have alot to gain. dont be afraid of the unknown for it is essential for ur growth. trust your intuitions and believe And all your talents shall be revieled Be courageous and dont be shy for what life have planed for you aint a lie.. lose your fears and lose your greed and the secrets of life shall be whisperd in your ears.embrace silence and embrace peace and wisdom is what you shall see. we know what you think. we know what you feel and thats one of the reasons we called you here. in front of you we stand here an untouched forest existing for your relief. Love me and love me again for im your mother and i ll never end. im nature. through me u breath. through me u eat Never abandon me and i ll provide for you your needs. i take so many forms im in so many places love me and into your heart i shall be expanded. Im done now u can go back and continue your life. but dont forget rare are the ones who saw this place. always remember wht i said and search for signs traveling in time and happiness is what you shall find. as the sound stopped i closed my eyes trying to embrace what i witnessed. i felt im one with evrything. time has passed i opend my eyes. I was in bed. I knew this story shall be shared. words of Harfouchism.
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Humanity. Humans talk, communicate. Been doing so since the first grunts. For millennia human sounds have filled the airways. Dissipating in the wind. Humanity expanded, communication expanded. Spoken words, written words, flying furiously around the globe. Communications, thoughts, information, most lost to time. Some stuck in the minds of man and moved forward. Engrams tweaked, thinking altered. More people more words. Endless conversations endless thoughts. Ideas, thoughts flying around the globe at light speed. Computers, Internet, social media. Communication increasing   exponentially. Most dissipates some sticks gets passed forward. Such is the way civilization is constructed.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM UTC
Communication
Admitted to taking the reduced ruling Fourteen souls accepted what this is after All Of this... Immediately unavailable to face Sunday's showdown at The Stadium. The Titan gave assurances to the souls today. It will not take any further action -Despite the deal- But their identity is still unknown Some suggesting only retired evidence. Hand in hand with sickness, The hound (who is widely regarded) Appears to prove why force In recent years Did indeed highly fancy tomorrow's feature; "The Winner". The hound first knew his fledgling When he could finally be on the road While his empire expanded "I used to hope for the best" Titan tells us. "I used to have a while and I used to get sick. Now I just have to find a way To use up that time. I speak only to the Landlord And his tenants. I only blame myself for the sickness. All I know is where I've come from ...At least, I think so... ...I hope so." "It's a funny thing!"- Hound. *Pressure keeps you honest. Wet, heavy conditions expected tomorrow. So, with everything said, I wish you peace and love. Love is waiting.*
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 7:32 AM UTC
4. Tune Your Ears
One Republic pick and mix, assorted all sorted wrinkles missing, smooth as glaciers toils reversing on harbingers like excesses does walking the trodden alleys learning Sods mathematics organs pains for non-organics are inherent consequences so one Republic and the anthropologists utters a myth in passing all bananas look like all bananas because bananas are bananas alike sing a song of three pence and a pocket full of fear Plato's cave a grand auditorium for lames united disunited ages in anti-virus glares white noise in white air and masses sigh the emperor's coat plays invisible chess ladies think long and hard in minds for a dolphin swims like none-other the glides of the sweetest depths and in those places unseen expanded vibes of feels know reasons why so it's the bigger snap it's the difference the forbidden fruit lures will not move not go in
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Apr 20, 2019
Apr 20, 2019 at 6:07 AM UTC
Can't stop, he's coming now!.....