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and                                                                                                                           that backseat "love" lasted only as long as the night as the memories rush in that morning try as i might to keep you outta my mind, you're holed in there tight a battle between "love" and lust...(hint) love lost the fight. we                                                                                                                             caused kisses shared between those wet rival lips and bare skin touching, form a feeling at these hips down unbuttoned jeans that your small hand slips hear that sound, like tearing, as our "innocence" strips. *******                                                                                                                         formed foggy windows from our skin we shared and dissolved to nothing, ha, like we ever cared   discoveries made at night shed light on how we faired the sounds of "love" from my speaker actually blared (lust) .
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Dec 27, 2011
Dec 27, 2011 at 1:57 AM UTC
you can't spell "lust" without "us"
Hear the chorus of moans and cries, Distraught in sorrow and covered in lies, An ebony symphony tormented by sin, Not of their own but of winter white skin, I see them, broken, beaten, hated, Abused, refused, and fornicated, By **** and lustful molestation, Helpless still an entire nation, Watch tiny hands of tear stained youth, Be ripped away from shreds of truth, From loving fingers do they pry, The small away, now most will die, I see them sobbing gasping for breath, Eyes blurred and swollen smelling of death, Terror instilled on the hearts of so many, As they’re are sold for the worth of a penny, You’re cruel and you’re vicious you know not what they faired, You’re words drip with acid sadistically shared, You carry infection and taint all those near, I bring you dear folks the esteemed auctioneer, The slayer of hope with malicious intent, With a cross in his hands he believes he’ll repent, As I watch from the corner of life so ill fated, Blood pours from the wounds on the backs now serrated, My eyes know no mercy and I’ll **** with a glance, I know nothing of black, white and grey filled with chance, I speak for the demons that live off the hate, Thrive on the loathing of these people’s fate, There are no angels in this room filled with pain, After all who could stand in this blood filled domain.
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Jan 16, 2010
Jan 16, 2010 at 2:40 PM UTC
Ebony Blood
Blue for the chill, It's blue, That hill, Off in the distance, Past that window, That hasn't been washed, I'll do that, I will. But the hill, It's blue, Blue is for the chill, In case you forgot, I do that sometimes, I can't remember my lines, But it's ok, Cause they did too, So it's not just you, But look, Out the ***** window, That I forgot to clean, A minute ago, Oh, Right. ... Now look, Look! Past the window you don't know is there, Cause its so clean, Out to the hill, It's blue, Just like you, Blue is for the chill, Blue is for you too. I know why blue is yours, Cause I know almost everything, I knew what your favorite colour is, I know your favorite song to sing, I shouldn't give it away too soon, But the colour is blue, And the song Blue Moon, I knew I shouldn't have said anything, I gave it away too soon... But that's why you need to look, You need to see, Just like me, I see you have eyes, I know that cause I can see, Big surprise, It's deductive reasoning, I like your wide eyes, Makes you look scared, Maybe you won't be so combative, Maybe you'll do better than the others faired... No no, Don't cry, Please don't cry, I, I don't know what to do about tears, I find them to be one of my bigger fears, I fear them like you fear death, I'm not sure how to make them stop, Without stealing your breath... That's better I'm glad you stopped, It's better than you smile, Cause it's been quite awhile, Since I've seen someone not so scared, Perhaps you will do better, Than the others faired... Oh no, I've gone and frightened you again, I'm sorry, I don't mean to, I'm unsure what to do, How about I show you something? Here look, See, It's a ring, Diamond and gold, Will keep shining forever, Till we're grey and old, Isn't that something else? It'll last longer than both you and I, But that's no surprise, Rocks have long lives, We humans almost never survive... But never mind that, You got me all sidetracked, Trickster you! But look, Beyond the window, All the blue, That is the hill, Cause blue is for the chill, And I know how you like the colour, I like always how the world is still, Never moving, Not an inch, Not a mile, Not bit, Not in quite awhile, I've often wondered why not, But then I forgot, What I wondered about, And then I scream, And I shout, And when I stop I find everyone's sleeping, Not making a sound, Not even breathing, So I dig a big, Big hole in the ground, And in they go, Without a sound. But don't worry, I won't forget a thing! I won't ever forget the name of that song, That song you love to sing! It's called... It's called... It's called..... ... .... ...Hm, Wake up sleepy head, Wake up lazy bones! Oh, You're dead... You never even got to see the hill, That's passed the window, It's blue, Blue is for the chill, All for you, That hill, Cause it's blue, And I know you really like the colour, Or liked I guess, What a mess... I'm sorry for this, I really thought I'd miss, Never hit anything with it before, But I guess I did today, I had hoped you could stay, For a little while longer, I knew that I could be just that little bit stronger, But not today...
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Jan 13, 2010
Jan 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM UTC
Blue Is For The Chill
Blue for the chill, It's blue, That hill, Off in the distance, Past that window, That hasn't been washed, I'll do that, I will. But the hill, It's blue, Blue is for the chill, In case you forgot, I do that sometimes, I can't remember my lines, But it's ok, Cause they did too, So it's not just you, But look, Out the ***** window, That I forgot to clean, A minute ago, Oh, Right. ... Now look, Look! Past the window you don't know is there, Cause its so clean, Out to the hill, It's blue, Just like you, Blue is for the chill, Blue is for you too. I know why blue is yours, Cause I know almost everything, I knew what your favorite colour is, I know your favorite song to sing, I shouldn't give it away too soon, But the colour is blue, And the song Blue Moon, I knew I shouldn't have said anything, I gave it away too soon... But that's why you need to look, You need to see, Just like me, I see you have eyes, I know that cause I can see, Big surprise, It's deductive reasoning, I like your wide eyes, Makes you look scared, Maybe you won't be so combative, Maybe you'll do better than the others faired... No no, Don't cry, Please don't cry, I, I don't know what to do about tears, I find them to be one of my bigger fears, I fear them like you fear death, I'm not sure how to make them stop, Without stealing your breath... That's better I'm glad you stopped, It's better than you smile, Cause it's been quite awhile, Since I've seen someone not so scared, Perhaps you will do better, Than the others faired... Oh no, I've gone and frightened you again, I'm sorry, I don't mean to, I'm unsure what to do, How about I show you something? Here look, See, It's a ring, Diamond and gold, Will keep shining forever, Till we're grey and old, Isn't that something else? It'll last longer than both you and I, But that's no surprise, Rocks have long lives, We humans almost never survive... But never mind that, You got me all sidetracked, Trickster you! But look, Beyond the window, All the blue, That is the hill, Cause blue is for the chill, And I know how you like the colour, I like always how the world is still, Never moving, Not an inch, Not a mile, Not bit, Not in quite awhile, I've often wondered why not, But then I forgot, What I wondered about, And then I scream, And I shout, And when I stop I find everyone's sleeping, Not making a sound, Not even breathing, So I dig a big, Big hole in the ground, And in they go, Without a sound. But don't worry, I won't forget a thing! I won't ever forget the name of that song, That song you love to sing! It's called... It's called... It's called..... ... .... ...Hm, Wake up sleepy head, Wake up lazy bones! Oh, You're dead... You never even got to see the hill, That's passed the window, It's blue, Blue is for the chill, All for you, That hill, Cause it's blue, And I know you really like the colour, Or liked I guess, What a mess... I'm sorry for this, I really thought I'd miss, Never hit anything with it before, But I guess I did today, I had hoped you could stay, For a little while longer, I knew that I could be just that little bit stronger, But not today...
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Sick An illness Inherited From his side Passed down Unto me A cancer I couldn't hide Sick Nor could he Until the day It set him free Finally Leaving me Sick My confession I was happy When he died But if I said I hated him Honestly, I lied Sick His fare thee well Hasn't faired me well Only left me Sick His cancer Straight from hell
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 12:29 PM UTC
Fare Thee Well : Sick
She is dark haired Faired hair Blue eyes Brown eyes The curvy perky pervy mermaid Of quiet joys named Maria The fairy queen of the Autumn roads Master and mistress of mystery Shaded tints Of unknown Digital history Cloaked in anonymity Baring my solemnity Wearing layers of dignity And desire Is inspired A crackling volcano Of unmeasurable passions A shadow thief who stole my heart Monument made of more than beauty By all the curiosities Of Casual conversations It is not out of obligation Or out of courtesy that I court Her kindhearted pleasure It is merely for my pleasure That I treasure such a jewel I will never meet her in person I will only know her in poetry and prose And as far as that goes It is a grand gift she bestows
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM UTC
Digital Dalliance
You hate that I wear your shirts Specifically the ones that you got from being in the marines Its just I don't know you I never really did So I wear your shirts because you've worn them And I was hoping that the fibers would tell me who you were The woven strands would tell me about your personality The dyes would tell me about your past A history written in cloth The folded crisped sleeves Telling me about what happened in the past ten years of not talking to each other You see I **** at talking about what I'm feeling The only proper way I can is spilling it through the tip of a pen Or pouring it into a keyboard I'm slowly reminded that your shirts don't take on a condescending tone Telling me that I'm just a kid Part of me was hoping that Some kind of weird information transfer would happen Your shirt and I would swap information So the next time you put it on (If I hadn't taken it with me) Everything I've been through would swap into your head and be processed And you'd stop calling me a little kid and you'd realize that I **** at showing emotions and that you aren't a brother to me You're a stranger And you left When you did I had to grow up because you were the first to go Ten years ago you left and I don't hold anything against you because I don't know you And my earlier memories are always swirling eddies A fogged shower mirror that I can never make out You left and when you did you left a child behind Someone who still had chimed belled laughter Will o the wisps smiles Someone who treaded on pearl ingrained feet But those pearls began to sink in and cut Only to become blood rubies Unforgivingly beautiful And seductively painful I walked back into your life on those ruby kissed feet   I stood a little taller My shoulders a little broader My face a bit more graced with age Hi I'm your slightly older younger sister How have you faired these past ten years?
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 6:32 PM UTC
To My Brother
You hate that I wear your shirts Specifically the ones that you got from being in the marines Its just I don't know you I never really did So I wear your shirts because you've worn them And I was hoping that the fibers would tell me who you were The woven strands would tell me about your personality The dyes would tell me about your past A history written in cloth The folded crisped sleeves Telling me about what happened in the past ten years of not talking to each other You see I **** at talking about what I'm feeling The only proper way I can is spilling it through the tip of a pen Or pouring it into a keyboard I'm slowly reminded that your shirts don't take on a condescending tone Telling me that I'm just a kid Part of me was hoping that Some kind of weird information transfer would happen Your shirt and I would swap information So the next time you put it on (If I hadn't taken it with me) Everything I've been through would swap into your head and be processed And you'd stop calling me a little kid and you'd realize that I **** at showing emotions and that you aren't a brother to me You're a stranger And you left When you did I had to grow up because you were the first to go Ten years ago you left and I don't hold anything against you because I don't know you And my earlier memories are always swirling eddies A fogged shower mirror that I can never make out You left and when you did you left a child behind Someone who still had chimed belled laughter Will o the wisps smiles Someone who treaded on pearl ingrained feet But those pearls began to sink in and cut Only to become blood rubies Unforgivingly beautiful And seductively painful I walked back into your life on those ruby kissed feet   I stood a little taller My shoulders a little broader My face a bit more graced with age Hi I'm your slightly older younger sister How have you faired these past ten years?
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Concrete walls, floors, and ceilings solo like solitaire is how I'm feeling my mind locked up solitude so they can so they can't hear me. Tho they feel my heart beat deep beneath the fears that scare me How dare me? How dare I live life long and true hoping for paradise. I live my life watched my sacred eyes, they say they've lived through pain but care they bare mines. Trial after trial, files document mines, Minds pill under the facts after the fact the truth are lies, they live under my light dim lights never shine, that’s fine a light is bright, but that too will die, closed in cloths, wrapped in shame, eyes are crazed but mine are sane ... The past haunts us all but this my battle, scars build on top of scars, pain of the past building a plethora of burdens.... This isn’t just a shame, this game... The game we all play, called life This game called life but there are no resets or retries, if it gets real and you down to ride, then you down to die, because bullets have no name, and your clock is what they're trying to strike. Your time is the biggest lie, because all you know is a fraction growth human beings are starting to show. All you know is the space where your mind lies, but don’t forget you mind lies. Deceived by your own perception, relieved by hoes affection this deception runs deeper than a touchdown pass, and no matter how many Hail Mary’s you say. You may drop the ball and throw it away. Regress to a place you've already been take a step back and try it again So listen my faired friend , in life we can hold hands but walking by side to side , not living through others eyes, my life is so magnetized , try not to be compromised , you see the struggle from far , don’t make it seem like your blind, Take a breath .. Let us all relieve stress... Don't Call it a big step.. For us all ; we need help... Life is just a war... For war begets war... But understand my man, this is all a plan to cost more... If I’m struggling and I’m tumbling, just reach out or scream and shout but life is crazy no one can play me, I’m no console, put the games way please... This is my; fraction of classlessness; or my small ghetto passion for bashfulness... Look out your tunnel vision and see the world, not all are rich not all have girls not all have the smarts not all seem to shine cause in this crazy world MANY PEOPLE ARE BLIND.
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 4:20 PM UTC
Concrete Walls
Concrete walls, floors, and ceilings solo like solitaire is how I'm feeling my mind locked up solitude so they can so they can't hear me. Tho they feel my heart beat deep beneath the fears that scare me How dare me? How dare I live life long and true hoping for paradise. I live my life watched my sacred eyes, they say they've lived through pain but care they bare mines. Trial after trial, files document mines, Minds pill under the facts after the fact the truth are lies, they live under my light dim lights never shine, that’s fine a light is bright, but that too will die, closed in cloths, wrapped in shame, eyes are crazed but mine are sane ... The past haunts us all but this my battle, scars build on top of scars, pain of the past building a plethora of burdens.... This isn’t just a shame, this game... The game we all play, called life This game called life but there are no resets or retries, if it gets real and you down to ride, then you down to die, because bullets have no name, and your clock is what they're trying to strike. Your time is the biggest lie, because all you know is a fraction growth human beings are starting to show. All you know is the space where your mind lies, but don’t forget you mind lies. Deceived by your own perception, relieved by hoes affection this deception runs deeper than a touchdown pass, and no matter how many Hail Mary’s you say. You may drop the ball and throw it away. Regress to a place you've already been take a step back and try it again So listen my faired friend , in life we can hold hands but walking by side to side , not living through others eyes, my life is so magnetized , try not to be compromised , you see the struggle from far , don’t make it seem like your blind, Take a breath .. Let us all relieve stress... Don't Call it a big step.. For us all ; we need help... Life is just a war... For war begets war... But understand my man, this is all a plan to cost more... If I’m struggling and I’m tumbling, just reach out or scream and shout but life is crazy no one can play me, I’m no console, put the games way please... This is my; fraction of classlessness; or my small ghetto passion for bashfulness... Look out your tunnel vision and see the world, not all are rich not all have girls not all have the smarts not all seem to shine cause in this crazy world MANY PEOPLE ARE BLIND.
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How can you give me half your heart And say you love me true? Like every time you muttered "Babe, I wanna marry you" Is it a fools pride? Stubbornness? Or were you really just a dunce To even try to think "Hey, I love two girls at once" I thought you knew I thought you cared You said it'd last Look how that faired So I'm tired and asleep My heart casts nightmares of the break But I'll manage as I do Since pain is always what I take Please don't come looking for me I'll find you if I have a need Numbness is my new best friend Thanks for a taste of the apathy seed If you can't tell from this poem My hearts in disarray The rhythm's all ******* up Beating every other day
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Apr 18, 2012
Apr 18, 2012 at 10:18 PM UTC
Half
Where do I go from here? Share my hopeless despair? Cared for emotions are rare. Faired erosion we're square. Gone and maybe forgotten. Songs of baby's and Mama. Long are days on the bottom. Onward my crazy mantra.........
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Sep 6, 2015
Sep 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
Dawn's Dare
You make me feel Like i could conquor the world Like there is nothing that could stand in my way You make me feel whole And unchallenged Even in the face Of great toils And great misfortune You are there in my mind Pushing me to drive through whatever stands in my path You are my consience You guide me through life Much like the streams that flow from the north Guide the salmon across the abyss And into their home waters You are the light of my life Much like the light of the sun That rises and sets in continuity With the stars that protrude from the undefined infinite When im not with you I do not exist Because me without you Isnt really me Me without you Is a shell of a man And not in the way that a shell of a turtle or armodilo is;usefull More like the way the shell... Of a full metal jacket-30.6 rifle round is;destructive and unjustified Me without you is the world without the moon Neither can be without the other I cannot be without you I dont know how i ever faired without my fair lady I dont know how i ever lived Without the love of my life And if i ever lost you... I dont know if i would be able to live again I love you There isnt really anything else to it And i wish with all my heart that you feel the same
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:39 PM UTC
You make me feel
the current prognosis is looking very grim twitter's share price has taken quite a trim already RIPs have been posted on the net which has so saddened the twittering set it hasn't faired well against Facebook that is why its flimsy foundations shook after a while the minute by minute style of it proved not to be such a fabulous hit investors withdrew from the iffy trade they became aware of its sinking lade stocks aren't going to improve so the pundits say would seem that the chirp has faded away
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Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 at 6:02 PM UTC
Twitter RIP
Upon the hallowed ground she stood The wind blew through her hair A swallow swooped o’er the darkening sky And the scent of rain filled the air She heard their voices loud as thunder Echo over hill and down And warily she watched them Ride their ghost mounts into the town The rain now fell in torrents Upon the hallowed field But she moved not from her own same spot As an icy hand bid her yield A hand of ice held fast her hem Though she struggled against its grasp She begged it there to let her go Then from the earth she heard it rasp ‘One kiss my bonny sweetheart the years were long since I saw thee last It be cold here in the hallowed ground And I lie and freeze a memory of the past.’ ‘I fought here on the hallowed ground with rapier high and voice aloft till down the enemy struck me fast and I lay in my blood on the damp ground soft.’ The hand then loosed its steely grasp And she saw her true love’s form A cold and bleeding upon the ground she covered him with russet cloak to keep him from the storm As the rain then pelted down around The long lost lovers in their embrace His bonny sweetheart spoke to him With trembling lip and heart that raced ‘My own true love, my only Long waited I for your return I scorned the suitors who sought my hand They said your love is gone and dead, but your memory I would not scorn ‘I waited long for word or news of thy well being or how thee faired, but none e’re came to me at all so I waited, hoping you had been spared.’ ‘Ah a truer love man never had that would wait through tears and time and keep the hope that I still lived to find that in the ground I lie. Forgive me, love, I’ve done thee wrong To make thee wait for me so Take my hand with one last kiss And then my love, you must go.’ ‘Nay my only, only love, it’s here with you I’ll stay I’ll not go back to my old life I’ll lie here by thy side, come what may.’ So upon the hallowed ground she lay Her hair damp and soaked to the skin And right by his side she lay all night As she clutched his hand so thin. The town knew not where she had gone But in the morn they found She’s gone to be with her one true love Dead, upon the hallowed ground.
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Apr 26, 2012
Apr 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM UTC
The Hallowed Ground
Upon the hallowed ground she stood The wind blew through her hair A swallow swooped o’er the darkening sky And the scent of rain filled the air She heard their voices loud as thunder Echo over hill and down And warily she watched them Ride their ghost mounts into the town The rain now fell in torrents Upon the hallowed field But she moved not from her own same spot As an icy hand bid her yield A hand of ice held fast her hem Though she struggled against its grasp She begged it there to let her go Then from the earth she heard it rasp ‘One kiss my bonny sweetheart the years were long since I saw thee last It be cold here in the hallowed ground And I lie and freeze a memory of the past.’ ‘I fought here on the hallowed ground with rapier high and voice aloft till down the enemy struck me fast and I lay in my blood on the damp ground soft.’ The hand then loosed its steely grasp And she saw her true love’s form A cold and bleeding upon the ground she covered him with russet cloak to keep him from the storm As the rain then pelted down around The long lost lovers in their embrace His bonny sweetheart spoke to him With trembling lip and heart that raced ‘My own true love, my only Long waited I for your return I scorned the suitors who sought my hand They said your love is gone and dead, but your memory I would not scorn ‘I waited long for word or news of thy well being or how thee faired, but none e’re came to me at all so I waited, hoping you had been spared.’ ‘Ah a truer love man never had that would wait through tears and time and keep the hope that I still lived to find that in the ground I lie. Forgive me, love, I’ve done thee wrong To make thee wait for me so Take my hand with one last kiss And then my love, you must go.’ ‘Nay my only, only love, it’s here with you I’ll stay I’ll not go back to my old life I’ll lie here by thy side, come what may.’ So upon the hallowed ground she lay Her hair damp and soaked to the skin And right by his side she lay all night As she clutched his hand so thin. The town knew not where she had gone But in the morn they found She’s gone to be with her one true love Dead, upon the hallowed ground.
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I pulled the door open, prayed. Hoped I wouldn't see your smile bright and shiny behind the tile. My breath died a moment, when I heard my name in your voice, my feet had to make a choice. My eyes closed and I walked. You small talked me, as you stirred sugar in my coffee. You asked about my weekend, how Natalie's hangover faired. My true feelings were dared. "You want to know how I'm doing? I am Livid. Depressed. Scared. Distraught. "I trusted you, Matt. You promised me! I BELIEVED YOU! "Good-bye." My eyes opened and I walked. You small talked me, as you stirred sugar in my coffee. You asked about my weekend, how Natalie's hangover faired. My true feelings were spared. "Thanks for the coffee." I trusted too much. Barricaded too late. It's my fault. I thought you were the exception, but who am I to believe any one would choose me?
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:15 PM UTC
Weeks
The truth is much harsher when it is out of the blue but then it isn't really out of the blue, is it? Lingering, hovering, nagging, gnawing at the back of my mind, fingers just of it's reach. Each time it would come close to the surface I would glimpse at its purpose, only to get nervous and kick it back away. So I may stay oblivious to it just a little longer. I knew this to be the lull before the storm And now the horrid truth has pull the storm in to my orbit Full of lightening, but what is its target? Great flashes of light burns through the night leaving heaps of ashes among the trash. I remain unhurt, undamaged, unburned. Others haven't faired so well. Feared the flash and rightly so Their pain stains the ground in the form of ashes. Ashes and dust stains everywhere, even in the heaviest of rain A reminder. Of what's to come. What's to be returned. And I - I watch it all. The Writting on the Wall on the ground. I might be unburned but such a sight unhinges me something terrible Prys me open just enough to cry. Pouring tears lost in the roaring rain. But crying all the same. Because I don't know why it's you. I don't know why you have to die. Dodging lightening all your life until now a streak is lodged in you. Breaks and splinters inside tightening its hold. Even though you are burning up, I have never seen you look so cold. I wish it was one of your famous poker faces Tricking us you are going to fold but at the last minute revealing a hiden ace. If ever there was a time to play your ace, it is today. Don't let this be our last game But you have no control over it do you? Have to deal with the cards that has been delt. I must admit, these cards are **** No aces to play but that won't stop you You'll play till the end with the same grace you've always had. So for now lets keep playing. We still have time, we've always had time You are not ashes, yet. And when that last flash does occur Then I will say goodbye And in the morning cry all the more Mourning you and everything you were.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 6:42 PM UTC
Dodging Lightening and Playing Cards
The truth is much harsher when it is out of the blue but then it isn't really out of the blue, is it? Lingering, hovering, nagging, gnawing at the back of my mind, fingers just of it's reach. Each time it would come close to the surface I would glimpse at its purpose, only to get nervous and kick it back away. So I may stay oblivious to it just a little longer. I knew this to be the lull before the storm And now the horrid truth has pull the storm in to my orbit Full of lightening, but what is its target? Great flashes of light burns through the night leaving heaps of ashes among the trash. I remain unhurt, undamaged, unburned. Others haven't faired so well. Feared the flash and rightly so Their pain stains the ground in the form of ashes. Ashes and dust stains everywhere, even in the heaviest of rain A reminder. Of what's to come. What's to be returned. And I - I watch it all. The Writting on the Wall on the ground. I might be unburned but such a sight unhinges me something terrible Prys me open just enough to cry. Pouring tears lost in the roaring rain. But crying all the same. Because I don't know why it's you. I don't know why you have to die. Dodging lightening all your life until now a streak is lodged in you. Breaks and splinters inside tightening its hold. Even though you are burning up, I have never seen you look so cold. I wish it was one of your famous poker faces Tricking us you are going to fold but at the last minute revealing a hiden ace. If ever there was a time to play your ace, it is today. Don't let this be our last game But you have no control over it do you? Have to deal with the cards that has been delt. I must admit, these cards are **** No aces to play but that won't stop you You'll play till the end with the same grace you've always had. So for now lets keep playing. We still have time, we've always had time You are not ashes, yet. And when that last flash does occur Then I will say goodbye And in the morning cry all the more Mourning you and everything you were.
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Down to the Storehouse of Amenti I rose Curling a sleeping kitten Striped grey with a pink nose I was charged with it’s protection Through witch’s warm cottages and priests’ church perches I met a dark-haired guide A wanderer lost in the circle Of a troubled spirit’s tides Followed he to the escalator I chose, rising up Through the forbidden fruits of mankind Material wealth is perishable goods And poison to the mind As the stairs slid into a ramp A stranger pin-striped with lies Caught me in his paws and smiled his canines Scared, I said “I must follow my guide.” But in this brief encounter The direction of him I surrendered And turned about on a lost head and stumped feet But he was nowhere in sight. So I chose a new path Gathering my lace skirts to my knees And risked my sake on a roll of Fate’s dice. Followed my soul to the base of another stairwell This one with wooden roots pecking at my feet Faired I well and higher I rose With each new well in between Four wells I found, one going down, And landed I next to some people. I changed the rods to make the cross Easier to bear for those people. And next I found where one good deed abounds Another is sure to follow... And since I was sure That my guide would be seething Sick with waiting for hours, Directions I sought From a golden-braided broad Thick she is with Wisdom-giving. She said, “Travel to the Fourth Floor And seek nothing more Than the Stairwell that takes you to the bottom.” I passed up a ride on a star ship Docked, and shaking in its power Children bubbled with laughter As I watched it lift off from its tower I passed up the last gate- The Stairwell that led to Heaven Four-stride across and glowing sky-blue Like the light of the star-flowers found in my garden It called to me like the tomb. But too strong was my longing To return to the beginning Where my guide would be delayed So I turned from the staircase Straight into an elevator Where a young operator escorted me away Blasted to the bottom and shown the door To face life’s routine boredom To match what was written In his sour expression Even as by his side I left the store. So was this a test by the Lords of the Cycles To see where my loyalties rest? Or was this a message Like what one sees in the mirror About the illusion of fear?
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 12:58 PM UTC
Amenti
Down to the Storehouse of Amenti I rose Curling a sleeping kitten Striped grey with a pink nose I was charged with it’s protection Through witch’s warm cottages and priests’ church perches I met a dark-haired guide A wanderer lost in the circle Of a troubled spirit’s tides Followed he to the escalator I chose, rising up Through the forbidden fruits of mankind Material wealth is perishable goods And poison to the mind As the stairs slid into a ramp A stranger pin-striped with lies Caught me in his paws and smiled his canines Scared, I said “I must follow my guide.” But in this brief encounter The direction of him I surrendered And turned about on a lost head and stumped feet But he was nowhere in sight. So I chose a new path Gathering my lace skirts to my knees And risked my sake on a roll of Fate’s dice. Followed my soul to the base of another stairwell This one with wooden roots pecking at my feet Faired I well and higher I rose With each new well in between Four wells I found, one going down, And landed I next to some people. I changed the rods to make the cross Easier to bear for those people. And next I found where one good deed abounds Another is sure to follow... And since I was sure That my guide would be seething Sick with waiting for hours, Directions I sought From a golden-braided broad Thick she is with Wisdom-giving. She said, “Travel to the Fourth Floor And seek nothing more Than the Stairwell that takes you to the bottom.” I passed up a ride on a star ship Docked, and shaking in its power Children bubbled with laughter As I watched it lift off from its tower I passed up the last gate- The Stairwell that led to Heaven Four-stride across and glowing sky-blue Like the light of the star-flowers found in my garden It called to me like the tomb. But too strong was my longing To return to the beginning Where my guide would be delayed So I turned from the staircase Straight into an elevator Where a young operator escorted me away Blasted to the bottom and shown the door To face life’s routine boredom To match what was written In his sour expression Even as by his side I left the store. So was this a test by the Lords of the Cycles To see where my loyalties rest? Or was this a message Like what one sees in the mirror About the illusion of fear?
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By the slightest margin we cheat death But if we fall beneath What shall we find ? People of our kind ? Answer no, souls in forms we haven’t seen Coming from places where we haven’t been Doing things we haven’t done Having things we call fun. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to die I prefer to live, even if it is a lie But when the time comes I’ll be prepared To stand and see how I’ve faired Whilst living, to assess my place For eternity, wrapped in immortal grace.
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Oct 10, 2009
Oct 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM UTC
Don't get me wrong.
for a moment, the word stops breathing, your heart quits pumping and bleeding in the only healthy way it knows how. there is silence—and then there isn’t, not anymore, the sky is shattered by lightning and your pulse jumps with every rumble, your body flinches with every roar and the sky is turning far darker than it was a minute before, the wind is like a turbine, going round and round and round, tearing, ripping, and seething, you can see the clouds descending, you’ve been through this time and again and you know the power this twirling cloud will be rendering, you should be inside, you can hear Mike Morgan yelling over the static of your TV “prepare yourselves for the damage this will bring! hide under mattresses, bathtubs, if you must under the kitchen sink!” it’s coming your way, it’s picking up speed and you try not to imagine what has made up the debris, you come to your senses, realize it’s real, accept the fact that it’s not a drill, you grab who you can, you shove them down stairs, you start counting heads and start saying prayers, the cellar is dusty, you choke for clean air but it’s howling outside and you know you won’t find any out there, metal is screeching, someone is screaming, sirens are bleating out to anyone who cares, it takes three men alone to make sure the door doesn’t tear off it’s hinges in the height of the scare—and suddenly it’s over, you can’t here anything from anywhere. the world again stands still, but it isn’t holding it’s breath, it’s watching a thousand electric sparks die a last death. you push against the doors, you need to breathe better air and you can hear someone telling you that you need to take care, but you push and you shove and you break free of your prison, you climb out to see how your world has faired, but there isn’t anything there
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 2:50 PM UTC
wind burn
for a moment, the word stops breathing, your heart quits pumping and bleeding in the only healthy way it knows how. there is silence—and then there isn’t, not anymore, the sky is shattered by lightning and your pulse jumps with every rumble, your body flinches with every roar and the sky is turning far darker than it was a minute before, the wind is like a turbine, going round and round and round, tearing, ripping, and seething, you can see the clouds descending, you’ve been through this time and again and you know the power this twirling cloud will be rendering, you should be inside, you can hear Mike Morgan yelling over the static of your TV “prepare yourselves for the damage this will bring! hide under mattresses, bathtubs, if you must under the kitchen sink!” it’s coming your way, it’s picking up speed and you try not to imagine what has made up the debris, you come to your senses, realize it’s real, accept the fact that it’s not a drill, you grab who you can, you shove them down stairs, you start counting heads and start saying prayers, the cellar is dusty, you choke for clean air but it’s howling outside and you know you won’t find any out there, metal is screeching, someone is screaming, sirens are bleating out to anyone who cares, it takes three men alone to make sure the door doesn’t tear off it’s hinges in the height of the scare—and suddenly it’s over, you can’t here anything from anywhere. the world again stands still, but it isn’t holding it’s breath, it’s watching a thousand electric sparks die a last death. you push against the doors, you need to breathe better air and you can hear someone telling you that you need to take care, but you push and you shove and you break free of your prison, you climb out to see how your world has faired, but there isn’t anything there
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defeated in battle her legs the price a warrior lays dying before a grand golden cage a doll looks down at her from within, eyes unblinking her own legs folded underneath her unused for centuries “would you like my legs? I have no use for them I am sure you would make them strong again” the warrior, with the long legs of a doll gains grace and speed quite unlike what she had before she gained glory and revenge and treasured the gift swearing to return them on the day the doll was free from her cage the doll faired no different with legs or not gained a protector and a companion she never tried for freedom for there was no door to the cage and her dreams were not hindered she had her hands and she had her voice with which she could pass the time merrily away with the warrior
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Jan 30, 2018
Jan 30, 2018 at 5:00 PM UTC
doll's gift
*It’s a pale paler heart There is no reason To part, Jane Eyre The proof is plain to see Would you let her be? ​A passionate English Orphan So paint her white This very day Let her know why We see her this way Charlotte Bronte Closer she walks With Emily and Anne Closer that We see where your muse's faired That magically makes Us free Is the paler shade of white for thee?* Debbie Brooks 2014
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 11:46 AM UTC
Jane's Pale Heart
8 years. No collective cheers or beers shared. Together enduring the same weather I can only wonder how we'd've faired. I think we woulda been a strong team, the likes of which could not be compared. All a fantasy, the reality is you're still a part of me. Can't say I think about you constantly, but more in the last 8 than the previous 18. One quick passing dream, imagining a table sitting you and me, first time seeing you in 23. We so often speak rest in peace, but I hope you currently think less of what could be than me. Sometiiiiiimes I think you are around. Little things in my life that ring so profound. But I wanna hear the sound of words to me through your essence. I ask today for you to give me a sign of your presence. Help me become aware of my lessons. Still learning to ease myself when within there is tension. I miss you and the relationship we almost had. I send my love, rise in peace dad. I still remember 8 years past. Friends scooped me up in a parents SUV and we smoked hash in the back. A silent memorial cuz words were hard to grasp. But here I am still trying to improve not losing self, only the mask. Thank you for keeping me on track. One day may we collaborate and spend time to love and laugh. One love~
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Nov 19, 2016
Nov 19, 2016 at 4:17 PM UTC
Sideways 8
Not these prose that may bloom and become rhymes, unreasonable times squared , how have i faired?, Thanks for asking, work is taxing, the least, Of my worries, is finding words, flock! "Bird by bird" where are the people that read, without pillaging, without burning, and Purifying, some flash mob dance, rough draft, This a loose assembly of words, proof of life, Though the Store was not minded, Where are?, the watchers, from While, dipping my toe, in a West Coast ocean, member of the North of the 49th Parallel Poets Brigade, Canadian, but not pure
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Apr 28, 2019
Apr 28, 2019 at 11:11 PM UTC
Pure
I won't give up on you, till my last try To wipe off from your face, the tears you sadly cry For I have seen you drown, in sadness river Each day is worse, you're sinking under I know you're badly hurt, more than you're faired As your promise was broken, when you fully cared So, your trust is lost, to believe in love For you only gained pain, for what you had to give Let me gently kiss, your tamed heart with fire And override those dark, old memories with another For I cannot stand, seeing you so sad You're also hating me along, when you get so mad I can give you real love, to heal your wounded heart So, close those broken old doors, and open a new gate I know, when a pure heart is deceived and broken It's hesitant to believe in love, once again Yet be mindful, life won't last for too long For you shall not keep singing, the same old sad song @jobiranyc(9/16/2017)
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 12:41 PM UTC
I won't give up on you
Upon the hallowed ground she stood The wind blew through her hair A swallow swooped o’er the darkening sky And the scent of rain filled the air She heard the voices loud as thunder Echo o'er hill and down And warily she watched them Ride their ghost mounts into the town The rain now fell in torrents Upon the hallowed field But she moved not from her own same spot As a deathly grip bid her yield A hand of ice held fast her hem Though she struggled against its grasp She begged it there to let her go Then from the earth she heard it rasp ‘One kiss my bonny sweetheart the years were long since I saw thee last It be cold here in the hallowed ground Though I be but a memory of the past.’ ‘I fought here on the battle ground with rapier high and voice aloft till down the enemy struck me fast to lie in blood on the damp ground soft.’ The hand then loosed its steely grasp And she saw her true love’s form A cold and bleeding upon the ground as more furious grew the storm As the rain then pelted down around The long lost lovers in their embrace His bonny sweetheart spoke to him With trembling lip and heart that raced ‘My own true love, my only Long waited I for your return I scorned the suitors who sought my hand for your memory I would not scorn. ‘I prayed long for word or news of thy well being or how thee faired, but none e’re came to me at all so I waited, hoping you had been spared.’ ‘A truer love man never had that would wait through tears and time and keep the hope that I still lived to find that in the ground I lie. Forgive me, love, I’ve done thee wrong To make thee wait for me so Take my hand with one last kiss And then my love, you must go.’ ‘Nay my only, only love, it’s here with you I’ll stay I’ll not go back without thee, I’ll stay by thy side, come what may.’ So upon the hallowed ground she lay Hair damp and soaked to the skin And by his side she lay all night As she clutched his hand so thin. The town knew not where she had gone But in the morn they found She’s gone to be with her one true love Dead, upon the hallowed ground.
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
The Hallowed Ground
Upon the hallowed ground she stood The wind blew through her hair A swallow swooped o’er the darkening sky And the scent of rain filled the air She heard the voices loud as thunder Echo o'er hill and down And warily she watched them Ride their ghost mounts into the town The rain now fell in torrents Upon the hallowed field But she moved not from her own same spot As a deathly grip bid her yield A hand of ice held fast her hem Though she struggled against its grasp She begged it there to let her go Then from the earth she heard it rasp ‘One kiss my bonny sweetheart the years were long since I saw thee last It be cold here in the hallowed ground Though I be but a memory of the past.’ ‘I fought here on the battle ground with rapier high and voice aloft till down the enemy struck me fast to lie in blood on the damp ground soft.’ The hand then loosed its steely grasp And she saw her true love’s form A cold and bleeding upon the ground as more furious grew the storm As the rain then pelted down around The long lost lovers in their embrace His bonny sweetheart spoke to him With trembling lip and heart that raced ‘My own true love, my only Long waited I for your return I scorned the suitors who sought my hand for your memory I would not scorn. ‘I prayed long for word or news of thy well being or how thee faired, but none e’re came to me at all so I waited, hoping you had been spared.’ ‘A truer love man never had that would wait through tears and time and keep the hope that I still lived to find that in the ground I lie. Forgive me, love, I’ve done thee wrong To make thee wait for me so Take my hand with one last kiss And then my love, you must go.’ ‘Nay my only, only love, it’s here with you I’ll stay I’ll not go back without thee, I’ll stay by thy side, come what may.’ So upon the hallowed ground she lay Hair damp and soaked to the skin And by his side she lay all night As she clutched his hand so thin. The town knew not where she had gone But in the morn they found She’s gone to be with her one true love Dead, upon the hallowed ground.
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Lift a hand held flag, Raise a cheer and brag, how?  You're Canadian eh? Cause no rift, don't drag down, or braise your neighbour, sorry, you're Canadian you say? Stand for the Anthem, languages not an issue, tearing up? Grab a tissue. Our heritage maybe scarred, but no country has faired better, we all learn from our miss takes, remember every place, can you name every lake, walk through every mountain pass, or thank God for those who have gone on before, matter's not the race. History is man's foolishness, this country has a tale to tell, of men and women, of sacrifice. The present is about change, one of hardest things and strange, that no one knows how to do it right. But every one has an opinion. Sometimes the pinions, small, are the most important, is all. The future, sutures to the present and the past, to the wind change is fast, courage Canada, this day is your birthday, a day like any other, and you will not let anyone down,                                     after all you are Canadian.
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 12:28 AM UTC
A Day Like Any Other