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She is raw like cacao Carries a smell of cinnamon and honey Natural brown eumelanin skin Everyone judges not knowing what's within Sweet like honey, She cures any emptiness carried in a man Mix her with sunshine And she glows within Beautiful big brown eyes No one ever takes the time to notice her People only falsely label her and lack realization That she's the most beautiful and radiant brown skinned girl Sweet like honey Beautiful brown girl Never lose your fire Even when the sun may not shine, you'll still always blind them - Henessy J. Beltre
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 9:39 AM UTC
Honey + Melanin
Before you criticize me too soon, I think you should spare some seconds and answer a simple question to yourself... If Shahjahan loved Mumtaz Mahal so much, why he had a harem of wives to use at his own pleasure? While I agree that the Taj Mahal is arguably the most extraordinarily beautiful monument in the world, I don't agree upon the fact that it was built as a tomb of love. It is just a symbol of madness if you asked me. An emperor's insecure feeling to get his name registered in the history books. While it may be one of the most beautiful architectural monument, it was built by over 20,000 architects, craftsmen, masons and engineers who took over 16 years to build the magnificent building. He got this apparently high & prestigious monument of love built but everything that the Emperor did was not pleasant at all. ° The lavishly living Mughal Emperor spent all his - his subjects' money into building this monument of love instead of keeping his subjects well-fed. ° Mumtaz Mahal might have been the luckiest woman to have died and got such a marvelous building built as her mausoleum but she died giving birth to her & Shahjahan's 17th offspring and then Shahjahan who had uncountable other wives was inspired by her demise apparently to undertake what is termed as the biggest project in history build the costliest monument proclaiming his rule. ° The arrogant - falsely proud lover - Mughal emperor didn't know that what he thought to be looked at as the greatest symbol of love will be criticized by some poet in his own land nearly 375 years later. The insane Mughal Emperor got all the builders of the Taj Mahal's fingers cut-off of so that there could be no other Taj Mahal. But Aurangzeb, his & Mumtaz Mahal's son overthrew his power when Shahjahan got older and locked him up in a jail at the other end of Yamuna river where the emperor then died a sad old lovelorn bedlamite person in prison. Aurangzeb was the exact opposite of his dad, he showed religious intolerance and his habits drove the empire towards its doom after his death. But let me think this way; when I look at any picture of the Taj Mahal, what I get the first thing in mind is this: Such a CRAZY emperor who got such a beautiful monument of Egotism built!
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 11:23 AM UTC
Taj Mahal - An Epitome Of Love?
Before you criticize me too soon, I think you should spare some seconds and answer a simple question to yourself... If Shahjahan loved Mumtaz Mahal so much, why he had a harem of wives to use at his own pleasure? While I agree that the Taj Mahal is arguably the most extraordinarily beautiful monument in the world, I don't agree upon the fact that it was built as a tomb of love. It is just a symbol of madness if you asked me. An emperor's insecure feeling to get his name registered in the history books. While it may be one of the most beautiful architectural monument, it was built by over 20,000 architects, craftsmen, masons and engineers who took over 16 years to build the magnificent building. He got this apparently high & prestigious monument of love built but everything that the Emperor did was not pleasant at all. ° The lavishly living Mughal Emperor spent all his - his subjects' money into building this monument of love instead of keeping his subjects well-fed. ° Mumtaz Mahal might have been the luckiest woman to have died and got such a marvelous building built as her mausoleum but she died giving birth to her & Shahjahan's 17th offspring and then Shahjahan who had uncountable other wives was inspired by her demise apparently to undertake what is termed as the biggest project in history build the costliest monument proclaiming his rule. ° The arrogant - falsely proud lover - Mughal emperor didn't know that what he thought to be looked at as the greatest symbol of love will be criticized by some poet in his own land nearly 375 years later. The insane Mughal Emperor got all the builders of the Taj Mahal's fingers cut-off of so that there could be no other Taj Mahal. But Aurangzeb, his & Mumtaz Mahal's son overthrew his power when Shahjahan got older and locked him up in a jail at the other end of Yamuna river where the emperor then died a sad old lovelorn bedlamite person in prison. Aurangzeb was the exact opposite of his dad, he showed religious intolerance and his habits drove the empire towards its doom after his death. But let me think this way; when I look at any picture of the Taj Mahal, what I get the first thing in mind is this: Such a CRAZY emperor who got such a beautiful monument of Egotism built!
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Oh how I hate this time of year, with the stupid songs and holiday cheer... Annoying bell ringers outside the store, and the tacky wreaths hanging on the door. Cardboard calendars filled with waxy treats, ice and snow making death traps of streets. Frazzled parents spending more then they should on entitled kids who are far from good. Fake smiles & wishes in the "spirit" of it all, the empty shelves- the crowds at the mall. The hour long line to see Santa the phony who falsely promises an x-box or a pony. Having to gather with family who annoy, gifting another cheap Chinese-made toy. Fire hazards strung with tinsel and lights, tensions leading to fun Christmas fights! Secret Santas- holiday parties for work- ugly sweaters making you look like a **** The stress of having an enormous list and a tiny budget just makes me ****** No, nothing seems jolly or merry or bright... Oh how I can't wait till post-Christmas night!
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Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017 at 9:24 PM UTC
F-Mas
*Eyes..."the windows of the soul" revealing all i am and are... Layers of emotions that show every battle scar. With a phrase or harsh action they may show such grief and pain. Some often ignore the signs... and just attack again. They speak to you, succinctly and can be an open book If you would only take the time to take a deeper look. They soften when they fall in love and sharpen to a lie And tighten when duress is near and narrow when they spy. They widen when the wonders of the world come into sight. Then close when darkness falls and just embrace the night. They flinch when they are startled and they smile when joy is near. And lubricate themselves with tears when losing someone dear. If you should pay attention to the billboard of the eyes. They often tell the truth and seldom falsely advertise.*
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Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017 at 12:26 PM UTC
Eyes
Genuine intellect is often falsely understood. Brainpower cannot be measured by grades or exam performance, Nor from one's tone of voice or accent, Or the complexity of their vocabulary. It is not always proportional to the size of an income, The exclusivity of a school, The grasp of understanding of trigonometry or algebra, Or one's apparent IQ. *Difficulties and struggles do not make you unintelligent, They make you human.* Perception; Clarity of insight, Being a good judge of character and showing an understanding beyond thought indicate subtle brilliance. Having an aptitude with words, Knowing how to comfort, to console, Delicacy and precision And showing empathy to emotions Signify the intricate beauty of the mind. *Intelligence is sensitive, and has a certain elegance. It is knowing, but not saying.*
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
Exams are unjust.
Wasted all of my precious time... wasted on someone who will never be mine. Wasted my hours and days and years... wasted emotions, pointless tears. Wasted butterflies and falsely felt joy... wasted on a cold and careless boy. Wasted efforts tried so hard in vane... wasted thoughts, get out of my brain! Wasted dreams and wasted desire... wasted devotion sworn to a liar. Wasted my love a love unrequited... wasted inside, broken and blighted. Wasted my heart was wasted on you... wasted and beaten and black and blue.
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 1:30 PM UTC
Wasted
Listen here listen here The world is so **** ******* Maybe all these terrible things are happening because it’s trying to be renewed Our president is so whack He keeps stabbing innocents in the back Praising Arnold Schwarzenegger by acting as if he’s the terminator Pero his wife’s an immigrant too American dream who We pretend to honor the OG’s who created this land But now your trying to get them all banned claiming them all to be rapists and murderers Be humble sit down i'm tired of all these racial slurs He says “We cannot aid Puerto rico forever” But really we need to be working on this together Puerto Rico is just a metaphor for how this president sees all Latinos and people of color He does not see us as his equals, nor does he sees us as his fellows Having the mindset being male and white Is the only possibility of being right Were all humans , we all fit in the same race. We should not be considered by the color of our face Yet somehow the white get all the praise Why are we still stuck in this racist faze Since 1963 when Martin Luther King said in his speech “It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the ***** still is not free” To this day even if they try not to say The ***** is still treated so falsely. Take a moment now to open up your eyes and stop all the self lies Get rid that hate to open up the gate to a whole new perspective A much more un discriminative kind Then maybe just maybe the world wouldn’t be so **** *******
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Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018 at 10:02 AM UTC
The World
Listen here listen here The world is so **** ******* Maybe all these terrible things are happening because it’s trying to be renewed Our president is so whack He keeps stabbing innocents in the back Praising Arnold Schwarzenegger by acting as if he’s the terminator Pero his wife’s an immigrant too American dream who We pretend to honor the OG’s who created this land But now your trying to get them all banned claiming them all to be rapists and murderers Be humble sit down i'm tired of all these racial slurs He says “We cannot aid Puerto rico forever” But really we need to be working on this together Puerto Rico is just a metaphor for how this president sees all Latinos and people of color He does not see us as his equals, nor does he sees us as his fellows Having the mindset being male and white Is the only possibility of being right Were all humans , we all fit in the same race. We should not be considered by the color of our face Yet somehow the white get all the praise Why are we still stuck in this racist faze Since 1963 when Martin Luther King said in his speech “It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later the ***** still is not free” To this day even if they try not to say The ***** is still treated so falsely. Take a moment now to open up your eyes and stop all the self lies Get rid that hate to open up the gate to a whole new perspective A much more un discriminative kind Then maybe just maybe the world wouldn’t be so **** *******
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he said/begged, make love to me just like a woman! kiss me toe to head, linger on my neck, trace my waist, begin at my lips, pause at my hips, quibbles intersperse, quips and licks on eyelids, nibble me, near me, close and closer yet unto the glorious victorious near death experience... whisper me sweet everythings before during after and over again, when you must pause to exhale, blow all their warmth upon thy fingers and bring that warmth inside Columbus me with tongue and eyes, take me slow then again, even slower, for thy pleasure, than execute summary judgement upon me falsely accept, then deny, deny, deny my every appeal to oh my god for anyone's mercy! adjudge me then guilty yet again, and to the tower take me to drown in mine own lashing lamentations, thy incontrovertible evidence, mine own uncensored revelations execute me twice, slowly, goodly with lengthy and lovely measures *she said,  and so I shall, eventually, do what you beseech, what you most excellently seek but you may recall, somewhat earlier, I called out shotgun so you must start my dear by following all the precise driving instructions you just stated, and bring your GPS^, and, oh yes, I'm waiting...* too wit and sod this! he gruffingly huffingly, hurrumphingly, replied, *all hell and damnation, treat me like a woman just once pity-please!" *can't can't can't - she be-witchingly cackled! then sang to me the lyrical words of a Nobel Prize winner!* "***You fake just like a woman Yes you do, you make love like a woman Yes you do, and then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little boy**"
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Sep 27, 2017
Sep 27, 2017 at 6:09 PM UTC
he said/begged, make love to me just like a woman
he said/begged, make love to me just like a woman! kiss me toe to head, linger on my neck, trace my waist, begin at my lips, pause at my hips, quibbles intersperse, quips and licks on eyelids, nibble me, near me, close and closer yet unto the glorious victorious near death experience... whisper me sweet everythings before during after and over again, when you must pause to exhale, blow all their warmth upon thy fingers and bring that warmth inside Columbus me with tongue and eyes, take me slow then again, even slower, for thy pleasure, than execute summary judgement upon me falsely accept, then deny, deny, deny my every appeal to oh my god for anyone's mercy! adjudge me then guilty yet again, and to the tower take me to drown in mine own lashing lamentations, thy incontrovertible evidence, mine own uncensored revelations execute me twice, slowly, goodly with lengthy and lovely measures *she said,  and so I shall, eventually, do what you beseech, what you most excellently seek but you may recall, somewhat earlier, I called out shotgun so you must start my dear by following all the precise driving instructions you just stated, and bring your GPS^, and, oh yes, I'm waiting...* too wit and sod this! he gruffingly huffingly, hurrumphingly, replied, *all hell and damnation, treat me like a woman just once pity-please!" *can't can't can't - she be-witchingly cackled! then sang to me the lyrical words of a Nobel Prize winner!* "***You fake just like a woman Yes you do, you make love like a woman Yes you do, and then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little boy**"
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Lately I've been a little moody I get triggered by comments made on a video or a tweet or the supposed leader of our nation spouting his views on ****** assault victims.... The real victims....men and boys that are being accused of a horrible act Innocent yet treated like they're guilty. Please, don't get me wrong. Being falsely accused is terrible. Any one guilty of it should be held liable. But, after all of the victims, women and men alike coming forward to tell their stories, he speaks on behalf of the accused.....Am I stupid for being angry? What really disappoints me are the people that get upset when women react to such insensitive views. They tweet or comment and I try to have conversations with these people and end up screaming into a pillow! I walk away wondering if it's worth my time to make my point of view understood. Will I ever change any ones mind? It's the black lives matter vs all lives matter struggles all over again! The argument of should players stand for the anthem! Why don't people understand that saying black lives matter doesn't mean ONLY black lives matter, it's a way of saying Please remember!!! Black lives matter TOO! Stop the hate!!! People of color are being discriminated against and we are tired. So finally a man decides to protest by calmly taking knee during the anthem aaaaannnd......here HE comes to manipulate the meaning of it all and makes it about disrespecting the flag and our troops. And don't even get me started on gay rights! To be treated like second class citizens is ludicrous! How fantastically absurd to be told by your own government that you cannot marry the person you love! And because life has to be just a little more unfair the LGBTQ community are at high risk for ****** assault and hate crimes too! I realize none of this is new....I guess the Kavanaugh hearing triggered me and I can't seem to get it off my mind. I heard Dr. Ford's testimony and watched as so many people, including the man himself, come with more and more ****** excuses and a half *** investigation and in the end he sits on the supreme court any way. I'll do my duty....I'll use my voice and vote, but I live in a red state and I know it's an up hill battle. One that may be lost. But I've said my piece. If you've read through it all, thank you. If you agree with me, keep fighting. If you don't, I respect your opinion, but I'll never understand it.
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 2:14 AM UTC
A bit of a rant
Lately I've been a little moody I get triggered by comments made on a video or a tweet or the supposed leader of our nation spouting his views on ****** assault victims.... The real victims....men and boys that are being accused of a horrible act Innocent yet treated like they're guilty. Please, don't get me wrong. Being falsely accused is terrible. Any one guilty of it should be held liable. But, after all of the victims, women and men alike coming forward to tell their stories, he speaks on behalf of the accused.....Am I stupid for being angry? What really disappoints me are the people that get upset when women react to such insensitive views. They tweet or comment and I try to have conversations with these people and end up screaming into a pillow! I walk away wondering if it's worth my time to make my point of view understood. Will I ever change any ones mind? It's the black lives matter vs all lives matter struggles all over again! The argument of should players stand for the anthem! Why don't people understand that saying black lives matter doesn't mean ONLY black lives matter, it's a way of saying Please remember!!! Black lives matter TOO! Stop the hate!!! People of color are being discriminated against and we are tired. So finally a man decides to protest by calmly taking knee during the anthem aaaaannnd......here HE comes to manipulate the meaning of it all and makes it about disrespecting the flag and our troops. And don't even get me started on gay rights! To be treated like second class citizens is ludicrous! How fantastically absurd to be told by your own government that you cannot marry the person you love! And because life has to be just a little more unfair the LGBTQ community are at high risk for ****** assault and hate crimes too! I realize none of this is new....I guess the Kavanaugh hearing triggered me and I can't seem to get it off my mind. I heard Dr. Ford's testimony and watched as so many people, including the man himself, come with more and more ****** excuses and a half *** investigation and in the end he sits on the supreme court any way. I'll do my duty....I'll use my voice and vote, but I live in a red state and I know it's an up hill battle. One that may be lost. But I've said my piece. If you've read through it all, thank you. If you agree with me, keep fighting. If you don't, I respect your opinion, but I'll never understand it.
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How wonderful it is, I say, to the retreating yellow form of your feelings I mistook For Infatuation, you’re a romance heckler far and far away from Accepting fruition within classrooms and being labelled as an angel. And it was within forbidden hell of euphoria, I found You nestled in the society’s psyche neither content or calling For help. Neither did you neglect the pink spectacles of the society, Even found yourself moulding and moulding into a fungi green That I could not recognize, within that half-sanctum, half-oasis I found you absentmindedly Bathing in, you were already out of its waters. And I was no longer seeing you within the dry desert or the sibilance of my desires, but instead in cement woodlands and Within artificial communication and Intimacy I gave willingly. Now how does it feel, to have your heart in one piece, How does it feel to not use whipped cream to fill in the Cracked, salty sections of your own ***** that, Out of confusion, continues to play its favorite song but in all the wrong beats. Somehow within cacophony I found you, nestled, comfortable in Bogus, fraudulent wings of a former angel- who now weeps under our Feet in theory- Somehow, somewhere, I lost you within an epiphany That reeked of bliss and pleasure- Somehow, we end up losing Twins of the heavens when all is well. How wonderful. How wonderful it is, I say, to your lost, secretly-weeping figure That I can’t tell whether transparent or yellow your figure is. But I keep speaking- “Oh, how (falsely) wonderful it is- To love the first angel I’ve set my eyes upon- “Oh, how (falsely) wonderful it is- To lose an angel, no matter how phoney, to a social heaven.” - enriko. aug 5. 11:45pm
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 12:32 PM UTC
Empty Residence Of Aforementioned Angel In Training
How wonderful it is, I say, to the retreating yellow form of your feelings I mistook For Infatuation, you’re a romance heckler far and far away from Accepting fruition within classrooms and being labelled as an angel. And it was within forbidden hell of euphoria, I found You nestled in the society’s psyche neither content or calling For help. Neither did you neglect the pink spectacles of the society, Even found yourself moulding and moulding into a fungi green That I could not recognize, within that half-sanctum, half-oasis I found you absentmindedly Bathing in, you were already out of its waters. And I was no longer seeing you within the dry desert or the sibilance of my desires, but instead in cement woodlands and Within artificial communication and Intimacy I gave willingly. Now how does it feel, to have your heart in one piece, How does it feel to not use whipped cream to fill in the Cracked, salty sections of your own ***** that, Out of confusion, continues to play its favorite song but in all the wrong beats. Somehow within cacophony I found you, nestled, comfortable in Bogus, fraudulent wings of a former angel- who now weeps under our Feet in theory- Somehow, somewhere, I lost you within an epiphany That reeked of bliss and pleasure- Somehow, we end up losing Twins of the heavens when all is well. How wonderful. How wonderful it is, I say, to your lost, secretly-weeping figure That I can’t tell whether transparent or yellow your figure is. But I keep speaking- “Oh, how (falsely) wonderful it is- To love the first angel I’ve set my eyes upon- “Oh, how (falsely) wonderful it is- To lose an angel, no matter how phoney, to a social heaven.” - enriko. aug 5. 11:45pm
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/                        innocent until prōven guilty, contra guilty until                              prōven innocent...   ah!          so the minority report? guilty, while innocent,     based upon a premonition? hindsight with a zodiac type of interpretation...    innocent until prōven guilty has no superiority in practice over the continental guilty until prōven innocent... no... because the principle invokes presuppositions,                   of suppositions... treating the two as propositions - or rather... "verbs" inacted... innocent until prōven guilty - then no understanding of freedom, at least guilty until prōven innocent allows understanding restraint, however unfair,    with 18 years lost...    and then the tears of relief!                      Tomasz Komenda...          an "espionage" case of staging empathy...                en masse...    an innocent man walks away from falsely imposed justice measures... a redemption...        a count de monte cristo allowance...                  but in reverse? the evil man walks free...      succumbing to old age,     and dementia, a pontius pilate pardon... there is no redemption aspect of the saxon course of applying jurisprudence... the... innocent, until prōven guilty, contra: guilty until prōven innocent    schizophrenia?                 the latter overshadows the former...                          because we're not babies... at least with the latter: there's a redemption exegesis -      but with the former?                 bitter-sweet tears within the confines, of an example akin                              to jimmy savile... guilty until prōven innocent    has much more authentic emotional content, with a redemption narrative... innocent until prōven guilty    has?    not much,                                   just a grave, and the stunted emotional expression, what ought to be flowers within the heart,    instead: fungus, growing in the dark... and thus... translating to other hearts:         let's allow this chemo-phobia chemo-philia experiment      be left intact in its the momentum... honestly... the study of law -    is probably the ********* game in the allowance of games of adulthood... one tier above gambling. p.s. because you know there's proof: and that the past-participle thrown into a future, does require an omega rather than an omicron... not an oh, but an ooh... hence? reign from above, on the omicron, with a macron (ō).
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 12:34 PM UTC
contra-evolution of saxon jurisprudence
/                        innocent until prōven guilty, contra guilty until                              prōven innocent...   ah!          so the minority report? guilty, while innocent,     based upon a premonition? hindsight with a zodiac type of interpretation...    innocent until prōven guilty has no superiority in practice over the continental guilty until prōven innocent... no... because the principle invokes presuppositions,                   of suppositions... treating the two as propositions - or rather... "verbs" inacted... innocent until prōven guilty - then no understanding of freedom, at least guilty until prōven innocent allows understanding restraint, however unfair,    with 18 years lost...    and then the tears of relief!                      Tomasz Komenda...          an "espionage" case of staging empathy...                en masse...    an innocent man walks away from falsely imposed justice measures... a redemption...        a count de monte cristo allowance...                  but in reverse? the evil man walks free...      succumbing to old age,     and dementia, a pontius pilate pardon... there is no redemption aspect of the saxon course of applying jurisprudence... the... innocent, until prōven guilty, contra: guilty until prōven innocent    schizophrenia?                 the latter overshadows the former...                          because we're not babies... at least with the latter: there's a redemption exegesis -      but with the former?                 bitter-sweet tears within the confines, of an example akin                              to jimmy savile... guilty until prōven innocent    has much more authentic emotional content, with a redemption narrative... innocent until prōven guilty    has?    not much,                                   just a grave, and the stunted emotional expression, what ought to be flowers within the heart,    instead: fungus, growing in the dark... and thus... translating to other hearts:         let's allow this chemo-phobia chemo-philia experiment      be left intact in its the momentum... honestly... the study of law -    is probably the ********* game in the allowance of games of adulthood... one tier above gambling. p.s. because you know there's proof: and that the past-participle thrown into a future, does require an omega rather than an omicron... not an oh, but an ooh... hence? reign from above, on the omicron, with a macron (ō).
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Gestures always so polite Doesn't seem right Impurity and doubts Falsely sweetened mouths Good to the worst No bitter words burst No expression of offence Nothing said in defence So sweet, so easy going So tolerant, so loving No respect for self? Left the heart on the shelf? Observing the moves Following the cue Now I see you You are one by two. A brain so sly Always telling a lie Fooling honest souls To reach your vicious goals Talking ill behind ones back Frankness you lack I pity thy soul It’s gone for a toll Not brave, not true A coward in you
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
Impure Purity
Disclaimer: I did this as a creative rewrite for one of my university lit courses, and all the inspiration and quotes belong to Robert Browning the original writer of "My Last Duchess" HIS LAST DUCHESS ARRIVEDERCI _“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”_ (I’m not) Alas! Me, “a wonder.” He calls. Now wretchedly refined and pasteurized. To be consumed, now, for genteel eyes. Pity! Should you ever see me roll mine. Behind those curtains, you might have been surprised To see my countenance whimpering At you Sir; and seething, at _Him._ Must you not be fooled by that sickly decorum Upon which his manly pride resides. The Duke—what rich talent in envy he has, And of pithy idiosyncrasies! Pardon me now As I speak of his infamies: Is it not, Too preposterous of a Duke, to sulk And take offense, over a blush? (As if the blush was his to wield and shun.) Am I not allowed to flush _at all?_ And must I be ashamed of being swooned By the casual offers of life’s grandiosities? Each and every, dropping of the daylight, Ripen cherries in May and chivalrous gentlemen, my dear white mule; must I then weep at them all, only to prove my fancy for him. And when does gracious gratitude itself become in vain: a finite honour— deemed excessive elsewhere? Never had he plucked me out, for censure, Before he gave commands, I knew he did To pluck the smile out of my face. Utterly clueless—he thought I was To find myself throttled, for immodesty. A wife, an appendage to a Duke, Loosely felled, to stroke a green-eyed ego. My fault it seems, is a mere generosity Of affection: falsely opined, if not Misread, to fare a defect of temperament, A chronic malady, doth be cured by death. To cement the farce he will, soon, bring you Downstairs to meet a friend. (a fiend) A prized possession: Neptune, taming a sea-horse. His hubris incarnate, cast in bronze. But you must know the truth, for the sea-horse Did not perish for naught, she is freed from him At last.
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
HIS LAST DUCHESS
Disclaimer: I did this as a creative rewrite for one of my university lit courses, and all the inspiration and quotes belong to Robert Browning the original writer of "My Last Duchess" HIS LAST DUCHESS ARRIVEDERCI _“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”_ (I’m not) Alas! Me, “a wonder.” He calls. Now wretchedly refined and pasteurized. To be consumed, now, for genteel eyes. Pity! Should you ever see me roll mine. Behind those curtains, you might have been surprised To see my countenance whimpering At you Sir; and seething, at _Him._ Must you not be fooled by that sickly decorum Upon which his manly pride resides. The Duke—what rich talent in envy he has, And of pithy idiosyncrasies! Pardon me now As I speak of his infamies: Is it not, Too preposterous of a Duke, to sulk And take offense, over a blush? (As if the blush was his to wield and shun.) Am I not allowed to flush _at all?_ And must I be ashamed of being swooned By the casual offers of life’s grandiosities? Each and every, dropping of the daylight, Ripen cherries in May and chivalrous gentlemen, my dear white mule; must I then weep at them all, only to prove my fancy for him. And when does gracious gratitude itself become in vain: a finite honour— deemed excessive elsewhere? Never had he plucked me out, for censure, Before he gave commands, I knew he did To pluck the smile out of my face. Utterly clueless—he thought I was To find myself throttled, for immodesty. A wife, an appendage to a Duke, Loosely felled, to stroke a green-eyed ego. My fault it seems, is a mere generosity Of affection: falsely opined, if not Misread, to fare a defect of temperament, A chronic malady, doth be cured by death. To cement the farce he will, soon, bring you Downstairs to meet a friend. (a fiend) A prized possession: Neptune, taming a sea-horse. His hubris incarnate, cast in bronze. But you must know the truth, for the sea-horse Did not perish for naught, she is freed from him At last.
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Quincy Valero Everybody’s best friend Jet black hair Shiny brown eyes A boyish smirk Standing six foot something Coming out of catholic school agnostic Attending state college Every word that came out of his mouth was a riot A funny story of a bad situation he was in that he can laugh at now An awkward moment with a girl he tried to get in bed God awful train rides with a clueless conductor Quincy Valero A wanna-be Casanova The irish-italian self-proclaimed “Don Juan of Dumont” Roaring down the suburb streets in his bright yellow mustang From Bergen county to Trenton Edgewater to Ewing Bumping R&B; from the 90's A main girl A side chick And a few back pocket broads Leading them on To where? I’m not even sure he knows Quincy Valero My best friend since I’ve been here in Purgatory My lifelong cellmate My hetero life mate My brother of second thought Our token white boy He’s had his ups Wild ragers until day break A four way with me and two girls in my four door sedan He’s had is downs Falsely charged with domestic abuse Community service, endless court room hearings, suspensions and a whole bunch of nonsense Quincy Valero The quintessential example of the modern day male Stays up all night Sleeps all day Opportunistic Egotistical Miserly ***** And hungry Always aching to put in his two cents And leaving everyone in a howl of laughter An Adderall popping Seasoned drinker A professional *** smoker, coached by yours truly Fast talking baritone voice With a half serious tone Yes, Quincy Valero The tight plain white t-shirt wearing Chino sporting Nostalgic, slightly racist, sexist, anti-semitic Bust usually honest, friendly and apologetic Good hearted dude we all love to hate And hate to love Bed-headed Pajama bottom *** Talking about his Svedka regrets And we laugh and laugh and the stupidest things Then remember events that seem so long ago And then make plans for tomorrow Yeah, one of my best friends My oldest friend That’s Mr. Quincy Valero
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Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 11:56 AM UTC
Quincy Valero
Quincy Valero Everybody’s best friend Jet black hair Shiny brown eyes A boyish smirk Standing six foot something Coming out of catholic school agnostic Attending state college Every word that came out of his mouth was a riot A funny story of a bad situation he was in that he can laugh at now An awkward moment with a girl he tried to get in bed God awful train rides with a clueless conductor Quincy Valero A wanna-be Casanova The irish-italian self-proclaimed “Don Juan of Dumont” Roaring down the suburb streets in his bright yellow mustang From Bergen county to Trenton Edgewater to Ewing Bumping R&B; from the 90's A main girl A side chick And a few back pocket broads Leading them on To where? I’m not even sure he knows Quincy Valero My best friend since I’ve been here in Purgatory My lifelong cellmate My hetero life mate My brother of second thought Our token white boy He’s had his ups Wild ragers until day break A four way with me and two girls in my four door sedan He’s had is downs Falsely charged with domestic abuse Community service, endless court room hearings, suspensions and a whole bunch of nonsense Quincy Valero The quintessential example of the modern day male Stays up all night Sleeps all day Opportunistic Egotistical Miserly ***** And hungry Always aching to put in his two cents And leaving everyone in a howl of laughter An Adderall popping Seasoned drinker A professional *** smoker, coached by yours truly Fast talking baritone voice With a half serious tone Yes, Quincy Valero The tight plain white t-shirt wearing Chino sporting Nostalgic, slightly racist, sexist, anti-semitic Bust usually honest, friendly and apologetic Good hearted dude we all love to hate And hate to love Bed-headed Pajama bottom *** Talking about his Svedka regrets And we laugh and laugh and the stupidest things Then remember events that seem so long ago And then make plans for tomorrow Yeah, one of my best friends My oldest friend That’s Mr. Quincy Valero
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I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 at 10:10 AM UTC
slept with my rapacious pen (she, full on conjugation)
I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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NOT ALL POETRY SHOULD BE ABOUT DEPRESSION, LOVE, WIND AND TEA-CUPS - I PREFER TO BE THE DONALD TRUMP OF THE POETRY WORLD: SEEMINGLY ILLITERATE, OBSCENELY DISSOLUTE, UNINFORMED, SOCIOPATHICAL AND FALSELY MAGICAL; SOMEONE SAID THAT, 'WE HAVE A DUTY TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE,' I DID NOT ENTIRELY AGREE, NOT ALL OF US ARE SUITABLY QUALIFIED AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT MAY PASS ON THEIR OWN MISTAKES; A TEACHER MISSPELT THE WORD 'BOLLOCKS,' AND NOW HALF THE TOWN IS WRITING THE WORD BOLLUCKS INCORRECTLY; THOSE WHO CAN, DO AND THOSE WHO CAN NOT, JOIN THE RADIO -LIKE CERTAIN PRESENTERS, IT RINGS, WHO SEEM TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS.
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 4:18 AM UTC
OUTRAGEOUS
Barnacles begin their lives as free-swimming larvae, ebbing and flowing with the tide.   Most are eaten, some wash ashore, a few survive long enough to attach with freakishly strong glue their minute larvae heads to a final rock- strewn home. There they spend the rest of their lives with feathery feet poking out of a hardened shell, filtering the sea for whatever happens to come within reach. Why the barnacle starts out free and ends up bonded to some god-forsaken rock to alternately dry out and be fed at the whim of the tide is just one of life's many small mysteries. While barnacles are meant to lead a primarily static life human beings are not. We are meant to flow to settle and ground, uproot and travel to seek to speak well and listen better to find meaningful answers. We always have the choice to let go of whatever safe, high ground we're frantically clinging to though it will mean not knowing where we'll ultimately wash ashore. Letting go can feel like being caught in a rip current.   What I know about rip currents: They pluck hapless beachgoers from shore and pull them out to the ocean deep.   If you're caught in one and try swimming back to blessed land you won't make any headway. Eventually you'll grow tired and drown. The only way to survive is to stroke like mad in a totally counterintuitive direction parallel to the solid ground you desperately want to reach until you're out of the narrow river ******* you out to sea. I've decided to unglue my little larvae head from its rocky, self-imposed, falsely-safe perch. Let the current carry me where my feet no longer touch the known. It's up to me to swim in the right direction until I'm free.
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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 at 9:47 AM UTC
Barnacles and Rip Tides
Barnacles begin their lives as free-swimming larvae, ebbing and flowing with the tide.   Most are eaten, some wash ashore, a few survive long enough to attach with freakishly strong glue their minute larvae heads to a final rock- strewn home. There they spend the rest of their lives with feathery feet poking out of a hardened shell, filtering the sea for whatever happens to come within reach. Why the barnacle starts out free and ends up bonded to some god-forsaken rock to alternately dry out and be fed at the whim of the tide is just one of life's many small mysteries. While barnacles are meant to lead a primarily static life human beings are not. We are meant to flow to settle and ground, uproot and travel to seek to speak well and listen better to find meaningful answers. We always have the choice to let go of whatever safe, high ground we're frantically clinging to though it will mean not knowing where we'll ultimately wash ashore. Letting go can feel like being caught in a rip current.   What I know about rip currents: They pluck hapless beachgoers from shore and pull them out to the ocean deep.   If you're caught in one and try swimming back to blessed land you won't make any headway. Eventually you'll grow tired and drown. The only way to survive is to stroke like mad in a totally counterintuitive direction parallel to the solid ground you desperately want to reach until you're out of the narrow river ******* you out to sea. I've decided to unglue my little larvae head from its rocky, self-imposed, falsely-safe perch. Let the current carry me where my feet no longer touch the known. It's up to me to swim in the right direction until I'm free.
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Distasted disaster dooms Truehoods falsely spoken Falsehood & true galoshes Numbrella mousetrap ****** void twice And More And Morel eels
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Mar 24, 2010
Mar 24, 2010 at 11:14 PM UTC
seaside blue
I abuse words verbally like my voice is Bobby and the dictionary Whitney/ Like a literary hyperbole properly arranged to explain this deranged brutality perfectly/ Force the English language to work for me like a particularly dark time in history/ Optimistically take the tongue twister trickery and aggressively attack a vocabulary vocally and personally/ Not physically but a barrage on your psyche, almost psychedelically/ Use words medically, like a surgeon I expertly plant thoughts whispered softly but assertively/ Moving letters like chess pawns to express thoughts masterfully and creatively/ Gruesomely grotesque but gorgeous thoughts written down beautifully/ You can't help but hear the perplexity of mythoticly placed words with comradery/ An oddity with the audacity to raise the bar and up the capacity/ Because what comes out of me has to be exactly what you see because it is me/                 Not just a part of me but all of me/ I'm not a fallen tree sitting in the forest silently, quietly all by my lonely/ It's just the opposite actually and factually/ I will attack with a dialect so violent you violently retract causing you to react cowardly automatically/ I don't even have to lift a pinky, leave it stinky/ Let my words linger there in the air like **** smoke, thick and sticky/   Periodically come back to peek and see if you've figured out the mystery and found the key/ One that'll decipher decisively what it is that I've let out of me and spread to all humanity/ I could never have planned it, see, it had to happen naturally, organically if you will/ And not to build it up falsely but I honestly, back then, didn't have the ***** to let it out of me and it cost me considerably/ So now this mastery I hold of word delivery bestowed to me gets jotted down feverishly/ With an intensity equal to none inside of this ******* century, can't censor me/ Got a consistency that forces me to constantly cross the border of insanity repeatedly/ Time only to watch my talents as they literally wither away for all of eternity/ Such a tragedy to see such agony but please, no apology brought on by sympathy/ Just let me be as I drift farther out to sea to a place you'll never see/ To let these words mold me into someone you could never be/ ©2018
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Apr 6, 2018
Apr 6, 2018 at 4:00 AM UTC
~•§•~ Verbal Abuse ~•§•~
I abuse words verbally like my voice is Bobby and the dictionary Whitney/ Like a literary hyperbole properly arranged to explain this deranged brutality perfectly/ Force the English language to work for me like a particularly dark time in history/ Optimistically take the tongue twister trickery and aggressively attack a vocabulary vocally and personally/ Not physically but a barrage on your psyche, almost psychedelically/ Use words medically, like a surgeon I expertly plant thoughts whispered softly but assertively/ Moving letters like chess pawns to express thoughts masterfully and creatively/ Gruesomely grotesque but gorgeous thoughts written down beautifully/ You can't help but hear the perplexity of mythoticly placed words with comradery/ An oddity with the audacity to raise the bar and up the capacity/ Because what comes out of me has to be exactly what you see because it is me/                 Not just a part of me but all of me/ I'm not a fallen tree sitting in the forest silently, quietly all by my lonely/ It's just the opposite actually and factually/ I will attack with a dialect so violent you violently retract causing you to react cowardly automatically/ I don't even have to lift a pinky, leave it stinky/ Let my words linger there in the air like **** smoke, thick and sticky/   Periodically come back to peek and see if you've figured out the mystery and found the key/ One that'll decipher decisively what it is that I've let out of me and spread to all humanity/ I could never have planned it, see, it had to happen naturally, organically if you will/ And not to build it up falsely but I honestly, back then, didn't have the ***** to let it out of me and it cost me considerably/ So now this mastery I hold of word delivery bestowed to me gets jotted down feverishly/ With an intensity equal to none inside of this ******* century, can't censor me/ Got a consistency that forces me to constantly cross the border of insanity repeatedly/ Time only to watch my talents as they literally wither away for all of eternity/ Such a tragedy to see such agony but please, no apology brought on by sympathy/ Just let me be as I drift farther out to sea to a place you'll never see/ To let these words mold me into someone you could never be/ ©2018
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Headless chickens running aimless toward the almighty dollar Blindly staring at the knife"s stainless steel amidst all the squaller My thirsty soul argues against my numb skull to hold a thorough audition They lewdly feud about potential candidates accrued to search for recognition They conclude on a suspicion they mutually feared as a result of blind ambition Search preludes the admission, that I found my dream car with no keys for ignition Don"t question authority especially when it's the majority Everyone knows the world is flat and let's just leave it at that I bought water from you now I have ice to sell I have a great story but no one worthy to tell Hindsight should really be at least twenty fifteen Because to admit we just don"t know is too obscene? Blissful ignorance"s repugnant scent wafting through the cave Mindless sheople"s chainlinked brains all dancing at the rave Fire flickering Shadow puppets tastefully riding the next wave Puppeteer wizard behind the curtain telling them how to behave Misaligned redcoated frontline soldiers falsely labeled as brave Life"s ironic conundrum puzzle, choosing which children to save Diseased cement steadily drying in a world ever ready to pave Hungrier than I"ve ever been, yet sickly devoid of things to crave
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 5:06 AM UTC
Worth...less
With chords, thoughts and moves There laid two flying creatures, they had abandoned their shields at the front door when the wine started playing down the walls soaking pole to pole, they drank it with arranged wings, the two seagulls. Little did they know how falsely wary were their bodies already soaked The blue one fluttered to the north air She looked to the sun and knew Too late, the shield was no more in her care When the rain started falling from conflicted clouds in the absence of her rig the seagull languidly tried to cease the drops. No logic to coat the sense All the way deceived by her ghost defense With blurred movements in the sea carpet there came to her sight a savory brown trout murmuring wine memories to the seagull and the only drive in her mind: dip into the water; gently slip her claws through the fish; fiercely devour it; until it's no longer a wish For long she was flying up and down, viciously all around, the blue seagull would see images of the trout in every fish when she was drowned. Little did she know the true brown to go down her throat was by then a far away memory of the one seagull soaked in wine And the moves, thoughts and chords.
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Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 7:31 PM UTC
Famished
Let's face it its more ******** warfare culturally they are used to faking it as thimbles and chipolatas in ninety seconds do not reach first base much less seeing stars on cloud nine hence they woke and fake the reality they chose be it feel or fright in woke solidarity against frustrations they cloned their made-up foe what better than sturdy shining Mandingo loaded and tied up there for the having to your heart's content presented to you the untamed beast the wild moor tooled hot and ready raw animalistic unfettered passion rock hard we can name him Rocky that goer that delivers every time the one that is all your men aren't and can never be cause he's gifted sleek like dolphin in rhythmic glide tasty like fresh clean mushroom Arabian stallion if ever there's one with absolute pedigree and class take a break from the mediocre from the wham bangs no can dos from the floppy quick-draws saps imagine the dark horse with the most in smooth soft pink leathery velvet tis your secret your guilty pleasure tis the obsession you made into a war the fantasy that plays in your heads tis behind fervours that haunts you that you so well disguise in hatred telling metaphors slip out Freud hold him down, grind him hard wear him out, let's wreck him so the sado masochistic 'punishing him' give him a hard time, it all says a lot you twist innocent sentences into ****** innuendos and innocent actions are falsely given ****** meanings as morn noon and night you toil you troll and agitate for attention yes you twist turn  bite and nibble in Freudian throes you talk love you glaze unrequited love relentlessly you close your eyes and dream sweet pain yeah! get real, its no psyche warfare its a flutters obsession, it's the classic ' "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." its how you float your boats and and get yer thrills you better face it you're all addicted It's an ******** War-fare and you all know so.....
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Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 2021 at 7:11 AM UTC
My pinky for a horse.....
Let's face it its more ******** warfare culturally they are used to faking it as thimbles and chipolatas in ninety seconds do not reach first base much less seeing stars on cloud nine hence they woke and fake the reality they chose be it feel or fright in woke solidarity against frustrations they cloned their made-up foe what better than sturdy shining Mandingo loaded and tied up there for the having to your heart's content presented to you the untamed beast the wild moor tooled hot and ready raw animalistic unfettered passion rock hard we can name him Rocky that goer that delivers every time the one that is all your men aren't and can never be cause he's gifted sleek like dolphin in rhythmic glide tasty like fresh clean mushroom Arabian stallion if ever there's one with absolute pedigree and class take a break from the mediocre from the wham bangs no can dos from the floppy quick-draws saps imagine the dark horse with the most in smooth soft pink leathery velvet tis your secret your guilty pleasure tis the obsession you made into a war the fantasy that plays in your heads tis behind fervours that haunts you that you so well disguise in hatred telling metaphors slip out Freud hold him down, grind him hard wear him out, let's wreck him so the sado masochistic 'punishing him' give him a hard time, it all says a lot you twist innocent sentences into ****** innuendos and innocent actions are falsely given ****** meanings as morn noon and night you toil you troll and agitate for attention yes you twist turn  bite and nibble in Freudian throes you talk love you glaze unrequited love relentlessly you close your eyes and dream sweet pain yeah! get real, its no psyche warfare its a flutters obsession, it's the classic ' "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." its how you float your boats and and get yer thrills you better face it you're all addicted It's an ******** War-fare and you all know so.....
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I am a traveler commuting on life's rails, going station to station. Disembarking at different destinations, each time spent differently. The car can be claustrophobic with passengers, suffocating me in anxiety. Other times, just a few of familiar faces, friends, families, locals, daily riders. Some talking, of life, nonsense, all or nothing, each making their way. There are times of light, above ground and of sun, the rest tunneled, falsely lit, dark. The sights of open land, buildings, and of the day, the faces of love, hurt, hurried and grind. Day in Day out this cycle goes on, different,yet the same. I am part of this mass exodus to get somewhere, yet my commute is my own. At times I arrive with many at the platform bustling towards their tasks. Trains for life come and go, expresses to locals, roaring with noise, movements, purpose. However, there are times i am the only one there, Occasional train, in silence, alone. Those are the days that my commute seems fruitless, leaving me to wonder, Have I just been passing it all by? © J.L.Gonzalez75 09/2016 * this is a rough edit... am not a poet, but just write.
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Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 at 7:28 PM UTC
Somewhere Destination