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"fending" poems
You're the Wacky Wolf-man, Tearing through our pages with a single huff. Breathing life into us little piggies, Blasting your way through the daily fluff. You're the Word Wizard. Leaving us in awe and in dribbles. Waving your wand, Conjuring magical and spellbinding scribbles. You're the Living Legend, Almost like a deity of some sort. Garnering shiploads of admiration, Through words of encouragement, banter and retort. You're the Bad Boy Bard... Never mincing your words. Unconventional, you howl amidst the flocks... You never did chirp like the birds... You're the Minstrel Mobster, Shooting your Tommy, never missing. Flicking forward your fedora, Strung lute ever smoking. You're one Cool Cat. Fending off haters with a bat. Everyone just wants to be that. Like a superhero whose symbol is a bat... You're a Gem Generator. Cogs and gears churning the jewels laid Machine malfunction! My system's jammed! Well I guess that's just it... Enough said!
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Oct 5, 2014
Oct 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM UTC
Marvel Man
A Muslim boy with a clock Is seen as a terrorist with a glock Maybe i'm right, maybe i'm wrong But if he were White, Asian, Hispanic or even Pacific Islander Nobody would of suspected anything. When are we going to stop fearing an entire race for only a portion radical and illogical ways of treating others? I don't tolerate people who behead others if they don't agree with their religion I don't agree with the repressive governments that control everyone and stone them for minor misdemeanors There are good men out there fighting this evil that has plagued their homelands I'm all for ending terrorism of all kinds But let's stop terrorism of innocents too Sure, i'm afraid of what the radicals will do to their own people, my people and the rest of the world But i'll be dammed if i treated somebody from the Middle East like a monster when i don't even know who they are If it wasn't for a Middle Eastern girl The Syrians girls wouldn't have an improved education If it wasn't for a Middle Eastern man fending off the Taliban and risking his entire village to keep Marcus Littrell alive He would of been KIA a long time ago. What about the ones who fought and died for America? Nobody ever mentions them The media wants me to hate them all, but i laugh and shake my head Warped minds trying to warp others I only see the ones who want to do us harm, and the ones who want to live peacefully and away from a life of hell Brothers and sisters, just a different culture and skin color I'm sorry if America seems racist or hateful, but i'm proud to be the one who throws those two words in the trash Because i'm not afraid to speak my mind And i welcome everyone here America is everyone's home. If only the Soviet Union never invaded Afghanistan If only the people were not scared To be free like America. Unity for all, Religious differences and Cultures alike. I hope one day a Muslim man or Woman can walk down an American street without being labeled as a terrorist. I hope one day these repressive governments fall into the hands of democracy And we start the Age of Unity again.
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 4:23 PM UTC
Age Of Unity
A Muslim boy with a clock Is seen as a terrorist with a glock Maybe i'm right, maybe i'm wrong But if he were White, Asian, Hispanic or even Pacific Islander Nobody would of suspected anything. When are we going to stop fearing an entire race for only a portion radical and illogical ways of treating others? I don't tolerate people who behead others if they don't agree with their religion I don't agree with the repressive governments that control everyone and stone them for minor misdemeanors There are good men out there fighting this evil that has plagued their homelands I'm all for ending terrorism of all kinds But let's stop terrorism of innocents too Sure, i'm afraid of what the radicals will do to their own people, my people and the rest of the world But i'll be dammed if i treated somebody from the Middle East like a monster when i don't even know who they are If it wasn't for a Middle Eastern girl The Syrians girls wouldn't have an improved education If it wasn't for a Middle Eastern man fending off the Taliban and risking his entire village to keep Marcus Littrell alive He would of been KIA a long time ago. What about the ones who fought and died for America? Nobody ever mentions them The media wants me to hate them all, but i laugh and shake my head Warped minds trying to warp others I only see the ones who want to do us harm, and the ones who want to live peacefully and away from a life of hell Brothers and sisters, just a different culture and skin color I'm sorry if America seems racist or hateful, but i'm proud to be the one who throws those two words in the trash Because i'm not afraid to speak my mind And i welcome everyone here America is everyone's home. If only the Soviet Union never invaded Afghanistan If only the people were not scared To be free like America. Unity for all, Religious differences and Cultures alike. I hope one day a Muslim man or Woman can walk down an American street without being labeled as a terrorist. I hope one day these repressive governments fall into the hands of democracy And we start the Age of Unity again.
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.              **the future is...a tornado of uncertain-           ty• a swirling vortex, in its centre is me•such power and speed, can ne- ver see•can never foretell, it's hid-   den debris•like clockwork, it will            make contact•by the second, bra-         cing for next impact•the past is...         yet another•wild winds that echo            my mistakes as reminder•this twis-                ter within...tearing with no remo-                rse•destroying confident strong-              holds, breaking feebly boarded            doors•can't ease the rage...eat-     en from the inside•won't stop until...my beating heart had         died•the present is...only this      frail little body•fighting huge  battles that come incessantly     •fending off the future, con-             taining the past•not know-             ing how long.......this disas-        ter would last•but I'm still          here.....still holding integ-             rity......•still fighting this        war waged in history's         folly•will i be settl- ed? will the winds ever abate?• will i ever       come to     terms...? will i ever     acc-           ept                      fa                        t                e              ?              •**
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
Tornado
.              **the future is...a tornado of uncertain-           ty• a swirling vortex, in its centre is me•such power and speed, can ne- ver see•can never foretell, it's hid-   den debris•like clockwork, it will            make contact•by the second, bra-         cing for next impact•the past is...         yet another•wild winds that echo            my mistakes as reminder•this twis-                ter within...tearing with no remo-                rse•destroying confident strong-              holds, breaking feebly boarded            doors•can't ease the rage...eat-     en from the inside•won't stop until...my beating heart had         died•the present is...only this      frail little body•fighting huge  battles that come incessantly     •fending off the future, con-             taining the past•not know-             ing how long.......this disas-        ter would last•but I'm still          here.....still holding integ-             rity......•still fighting this        war waged in history's         folly•will i be settl- ed? will the winds ever abate?• will i ever       come to     terms...? will i ever     acc-           ept                      fa                        t                e              ?              •**
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No more than a rumor Or a legend spoken in whispers Mischievous folklore Foretold around campfires About a man Skin black, birthed under an Eclipse Who stalks the dark forces Casting his might over them Fending off the evil Which festers across the land Bleeding gold ink That soils the crop and livestock Wherever life thrives Evil musters its footprints But wherever it may be He is there Baffling their kin Striking like thunder Swift and silent Like the humming katana Making clean kills And fading back into thin air Being seen as a ghost When more is known of him For he is flesh Great in heart And vibrant in sight As the father of judgment Carrying out his given cases That are closed by his steel hands
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 12:28 AM UTC
Birthed Under an Eclipse
Ganders...gargantua--ensconced in far-fetched space... (attrition)...LOOK AT THAT LINE...LOOK AT IT... ROUND THE CORNERS OF PERPETUITY...predilections. A soul's inalienable fracas...on bend and knee...hop...and whoop...miasmic gargoyles poppy-wreathed... for all-too-lucid dreaming...chanting etceteras of bare riff raffs. Golden breastplates...weeping willow wings...empurpled-- fending fang trumping lines of: yuck, cluck, claw and kook. ...Listless eyes...alphabetize...think a blind oracle's informed absentia...holy and bovine. Redolent airs...perspiration of spume's most distancing shore-- eyepieces for the specks and logs in the oculos of brothers and sisters. As dust to dust doth not settle...heart's yonder score...nay cease of interstice...off-world amorousness. Gather ye yarrow sticks...hurl them at days...roofless arcady... live into the spectra of their worlds, come friend or foe...Fate's foundling. Lines strung as prayer beads...curs-ed beads...forget-me-nots enclosed in letters baiting Long Farewells, in the great literary correspondence of authored and Author. ...Ye gorgeous gargoyles come perch and push. Persona non grata...the wide world...unisex prodigal...All--returneth. LOOK AT THAT LINE...LOOK AT IT...(attrition)...ROUND THE CORNERS OF PERPETUITY. NEBULAEIC FANFARE...come perch to push...lo...ANGELS!
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM UTC
Gorgeous Gargoyles
Show me a field that is filled with golden flowers hours upon hours the smell of the grass elevates the scents that seems to send passerbys into an overdrive of envy. Lend me your hand so that my coarse skin is softened by yours, the door to my heart is forever open awaiting your entrance and the defences are fending off other fiends so don't worry about guard because as hard as it is to trust, I've let my guards down a long time ago. Show me that you can be the green to my gold let us grow old but never grow up as we play like kids let the bliss fill both our hearts as we unite together against the world. Girl, will you find it in yourself to love me? ...as much as I love you?
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Jan 1, 2017
Jan 1, 2017 at 6:30 PM UTC
Let's Grow Old Together
oh jeez... look at how unsanitary the air can be this area's apparently embarrassed of the error so please excuse this breeze abuse & breathe in deeply...heavily. be ready for the steady supply of thickened oxygen that's boxed me in pressed against the rocks again fending off that wretched wind it bends me with its petty whims: my lazy lungs got stretched too thin. this air this air...this heavy necessity wrestling emptiness endlessly TESTING TESTING please inhale as you're listening i'm invested in your empathy & especially your circulatory circuitry every blood cell has its worth to me every photosynthesized sympathy is my chlorophyll currency & i'm spending it like burning leaves.
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Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM UTC
fingerpainting
. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Walk with me n be my Friend: fending oFF thee awful Qualm, calming all the thoughts of Death. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Talk to me if no one Else. "tell me what to do aGain?... ...death is gonna Haunchew." Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Waltzing in my ball of Hair; share the Yarn of all you Bear, spare the Rod n chop the Sheers. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; "Welcome to the slums of Hell." help me Speak in bleeding Tongue. "vi la Vita......vi de Vel". Mirror Mirror on the Wall: wall of Talking thought so Clear; hear the Fall of waldo's Water, thrall the Call of ocean Odlaw. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; call my Bluff n cuff my Arms, bar my Cell n sell my Soul, sow the Seed n reap its Rose. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; flaunt my Card n guard the Door. Youre the one im steering Clear of... ..."ofCourse you are." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all i Know is no ones Lost, mossy Oak is all i Know, frozen Walls i call my Home. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Are ish ards of Glass; lashing Out n always Laughing, laughing as you watch me Ball. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Do is use my Tears. here you Are with all the Cotton, swabbing all my flaws n Fears. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; call me what you always Do: stupid Queer n weird n Ugly."dont ******* Tell me what to Do." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; talk the way you always Have: Chanting like a ******* Trucker, Cussing like a ******* Sailor. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Hollow be my only Name. satan stole my only Halo: angel of a broken Cross. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Follow me n see my View. you should see what i have Saw... ...all ive seen is You. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Are is all i Am. have you not a ******* Conscience?... ..."obviously Not." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; walk a long this haunted Path. after That if you can Laugh... ...so can I. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all youve Done is run n Hide. 'and Then... ...tyler was Gone. was iaSleep?... ...had  i Slept?' -  Jack's Medulla Oblongata   .
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM UTC
iMaginary "Friend"
. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Walk with me n be my Friend: fending oFF thee awful Qualm, calming all the thoughts of Death. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Talk to me if no one Else. "tell me what to do aGain?... ...death is gonna Haunchew." Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Waltzing in my ball of Hair; share the Yarn of all you Bear, spare the Rod n chop the Sheers. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; "Welcome to the slums of Hell." help me Speak in bleeding Tongue. "vi la Vita......vi de Vel". Mirror Mirror on the Wall: wall of Talking thought so Clear; hear the Fall of waldo's Water, thrall the Call of ocean Odlaw. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; call my Bluff n cuff my Arms, bar my Cell n sell my Soul, sow the Seed n reap its Rose. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; flaunt my Card n guard the Door. Youre the one im steering Clear of... ..."ofCourse you are." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all i Know is no ones Lost, mossy Oak is all i Know, frozen Walls i call my Home. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Are ish ards of Glass; lashing Out n always Laughing, laughing as you watch me Ball. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Do is use my Tears. here you Are with all the Cotton, swabbing all my flaws n Fears. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; call me what you always Do: stupid Queer n weird n Ugly."dont ******* Tell me what to Do." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; talk the way you always Have: Chanting like a ******* Trucker, Cussing like a ******* Sailor. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Hollow be my only Name. satan stole my only Halo: angel of a broken Cross. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; Follow me n see my View. you should see what i have Saw... ...all ive seen is You. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all you Are is all i Am. have you not a ******* Conscience?... ..."obviously Not." Mirror Mirror on the Wall; walk a long this haunted Path. after That if you can Laugh... ...so can I. Mirror Mirror on the Wall; all youve Done is run n Hide. 'and Then... ...tyler was Gone. was iaSleep?... ...had  i Slept?' -  Jack's Medulla Oblongata   .
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Weepy is my heart as it mourns hard this day Muddled is my head with thoughts all amuck Muffled is my voice with the words I try to say Stifled are my screams as they try but all seem stuck. Tense are my shoulders with the load that I bear Wet are my eyes seeing everything so blurry Heavy is my chest as it sighs and draws its air Tired is this body with so much it attempts to carry. Weak is my strength, fending off oh so feebly Uncertain are my hopes to see the light at the end Outstretched are my arms reaching and grabbing constantly Tested is my resolve, how much further can it bend. Lonely is my soul yearning greatly for it's other pair Drunken are my senses, almost losing all control Desperate is my being wanting love that's not here but there Clouded is my future, totally obscured is my goal. Two-sided are the fallen words I have listed before Strained is my mind as I try to view the good Mirrored are these feelings, they bear so much more Enlightened is my will, I shan't mope and brood. Relieved is my heart when I think of the other that beats Serene is my head when I separate fear from fear Loud is my voice as it clears for the love it greets Redundant are my screams for I don't need them here. Relaxed are my shoulders, still fueled to continue Wide are my eyes for the sight they can't always see Lifted is my chest for the love it wants to pursue Upright is this body, to get to where it wants to be. Rejuvenated is my strength when I accept that I am strong Restored are my hopes, I'd still keep them alive Faithful are my arms, still reaching for what they long Strengthened is my resolve with plans it'll contrive. Contented is my soul for the mate it has found Heightened are my senses, embraced by feelings so keen Centred is my being, keep my bearings on the ground Bright is my future, in my dreams they have been. Empty are the words for I won't let them linger Focused is my mind; on my prize no matter how far Embraced are these feelings for they only make me stronger Steeled is my will; to be one with my love, angel and star...
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 5:27 AM UTC
Mirrored
Weepy is my heart as it mourns hard this day Muddled is my head with thoughts all amuck Muffled is my voice with the words I try to say Stifled are my screams as they try but all seem stuck. Tense are my shoulders with the load that I bear Wet are my eyes seeing everything so blurry Heavy is my chest as it sighs and draws its air Tired is this body with so much it attempts to carry. Weak is my strength, fending off oh so feebly Uncertain are my hopes to see the light at the end Outstretched are my arms reaching and grabbing constantly Tested is my resolve, how much further can it bend. Lonely is my soul yearning greatly for it's other pair Drunken are my senses, almost losing all control Desperate is my being wanting love that's not here but there Clouded is my future, totally obscured is my goal. Two-sided are the fallen words I have listed before Strained is my mind as I try to view the good Mirrored are these feelings, they bear so much more Enlightened is my will, I shan't mope and brood. Relieved is my heart when I think of the other that beats Serene is my head when I separate fear from fear Loud is my voice as it clears for the love it greets Redundant are my screams for I don't need them here. Relaxed are my shoulders, still fueled to continue Wide are my eyes for the sight they can't always see Lifted is my chest for the love it wants to pursue Upright is this body, to get to where it wants to be. Rejuvenated is my strength when I accept that I am strong Restored are my hopes, I'd still keep them alive Faithful are my arms, still reaching for what they long Strengthened is my resolve with plans it'll contrive. Contented is my soul for the mate it has found Heightened are my senses, embraced by feelings so keen Centred is my being, keep my bearings on the ground Bright is my future, in my dreams they have been. Empty are the words for I won't let them linger Focused is my mind; on my prize no matter how far Embraced are these feelings for they only make me stronger Steeled is my will; to be one with my love, angel and star...
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The first time I heard them I swear, I was to listening to the most beautiful choir in four-part harmony, swaying or angles wings rubbing, & perfectly, playing a common file instrument angled, such a unique sound symphonic & splendorous they are all around this free concert an offering of Mother Nature chiming at once uncaged, & calling on the ladies in perfect unison   sounding like church telling one another of sunlit hours say the flowers fending off evil spirits allowing me to travel into the dark again leaping over obstacles, alerting me to danger, still in their silence   I am protected by this harbinger of luck a most powerful portent, of coming things they sit silently in the quiet, like a copper cricket weathervane, as the poor man's thermometer spinning tales effortlessly, in the wind calmly   watching over us a shivering in the night save you, are mine my Native American totem or God's Cricket Chorus foretelling of Sorrow of coming rains tomorrow ex-lovers and death a shrill creaking stridulating in song Oh, I fear that day, your music should go away please dear uncaged cricket choir   I truly ....    hope you'll stay. Cherie Nolan© 2016
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Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 at 1:32 PM UTC
"The Uncaged Cricket Sings"
today i learnt that 3am is witching hour i think back to the 3ams we spent together our thoughts growing louder as the world grew silent witches would have had nothing on me with you, my fears remained shrunken a rock, a stone, a gem my rock, my stone, my gem remember how i picked at your mind remember how you learnt my idiosyncrasies remembering intimacies and depth remembering limits and being apart ‘patience is a virtue’ i never understood that till i saw it reflected in you but then again, patience. . . the very thing that made me tear us apart we used to fit ourselves into each other’s schedules, like puzzle pieces now remote acquaintances at the very least strangers and driftwood torn apart, all on my part consider this a shout to an endless void a scream into an abyss a plea to your heart all that you will never witness but if i ever cross your mind even for a millisecond do accept my last selfish request promise they’ll be good thoughts or maybe, at the very most, promise you’ll call after all 3am was always ours two of us fending against the dark an incessant, hopeful memory (yet one of my favourites) 3am will always be ours
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Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 8:54 AM UTC
to you (alternatively: my closure)
Nag, nagging, Finger wagging, Shoulders sagging, Victim slagging. Oh beration, Flagellation, Irritating Castigation. Cutting hemlock, On her chopping block, Innuendoes Spawning ad hoc. Super-intending, Condescending, Never ending, Insult fending. Pointless rounds Of empty double-talk, Wife, your name is Self-styled wise hawk.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 6:33 AM UTC
Ode to Trouble 'n Strife
Nebraska has over 6 million head of cattle and is perhaps the largest beef producer in the world. This is strange, juxtaposed to my neighbors who are Hindus, from India. On all sides, I am surrounded by young, attractive, friendly Indians living in Nebraska, studying information systems. I rarely eat beef, but I joke, for them, this place must be some kind of sacrilege, or purgatory where they go before returning home to join the "growing middle class" we hear so much about. They have gatherings, food, language and ways of maintaining hegemony among their group while they are here, in my hallway, and I am alone. I have no information to manage, no home to return to. They gather in my neighbors’ apartment talking, late into the night I once made friends with two of them who, unlike the others, were both atheists instead of Hindus. They told me that Hindu women, like the ones next door do not have *** before marriage, but the men do. This seemed like a paradox, but I believe them to this day. And when I hear this platonic conversation, muffled by the walls it sounds like pigeons cooing flapping their wings in an alleyway And having nowhere to go. The countless, devout Hindu men visiting my charming neighbors remind me of adolescence how I used religion as a cover for my shyness I admired these men, in their pursuit of something I was told to be obtainable and then I remembered all the people who were not devout ******* the religious girls I tried to flirt with while I was in high school. I laugh. I wish there were a high minded reason I stopped believing in the zombie Christ, but it was the fact that no one from my church was having *** with me, because of God and all that, but they were having *** with other people. **** christians, really, you can have them all. It’s easier to imagine my neighbors as trapped birds subtly fighting for scraps without ****** desire than to imagine them as people like me, who know what they want but assume it’s out of reach. The alternative, to know that they are having *** and I am not, is too upsetting. I want them to sound like cooing birds, shy and timid and lost, because that is how I feel. But, if their voices, distorted by the walls, sound like pigeons to me, what must my silence sound like to them? How do they want me to seem? Lonely people, quiet people, sad people, fending for scraps of trash. That is not them, but it is me. I realize it is easier to be a Hindu than an atheist in Nebraska, and it doesn't matter what (or if) you eat when you're alone.
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Nov 17, 2012
Nov 17, 2012 at 1:22 AM UTC
Pigeon People
Nebraska has over 6 million head of cattle and is perhaps the largest beef producer in the world. This is strange, juxtaposed to my neighbors who are Hindus, from India. On all sides, I am surrounded by young, attractive, friendly Indians living in Nebraska, studying information systems. I rarely eat beef, but I joke, for them, this place must be some kind of sacrilege, or purgatory where they go before returning home to join the "growing middle class" we hear so much about. They have gatherings, food, language and ways of maintaining hegemony among their group while they are here, in my hallway, and I am alone. I have no information to manage, no home to return to. They gather in my neighbors’ apartment talking, late into the night I once made friends with two of them who, unlike the others, were both atheists instead of Hindus. They told me that Hindu women, like the ones next door do not have *** before marriage, but the men do. This seemed like a paradox, but I believe them to this day. And when I hear this platonic conversation, muffled by the walls it sounds like pigeons cooing flapping their wings in an alleyway And having nowhere to go. The countless, devout Hindu men visiting my charming neighbors remind me of adolescence how I used religion as a cover for my shyness I admired these men, in their pursuit of something I was told to be obtainable and then I remembered all the people who were not devout ******* the religious girls I tried to flirt with while I was in high school. I laugh. I wish there were a high minded reason I stopped believing in the zombie Christ, but it was the fact that no one from my church was having *** with me, because of God and all that, but they were having *** with other people. **** christians, really, you can have them all. It’s easier to imagine my neighbors as trapped birds subtly fighting for scraps without ****** desire than to imagine them as people like me, who know what they want but assume it’s out of reach. The alternative, to know that they are having *** and I am not, is too upsetting. I want them to sound like cooing birds, shy and timid and lost, because that is how I feel. But, if their voices, distorted by the walls, sound like pigeons to me, what must my silence sound like to them? How do they want me to seem? Lonely people, quiet people, sad people, fending for scraps of trash. That is not them, but it is me. I realize it is easier to be a Hindu than an atheist in Nebraska, and it doesn't matter what (or if) you eat when you're alone.
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What once was stoic and only showed strength, now slowly sinks and melts... Like a castle of sand on the shore, fending off the teases from the playful waves of the rising tide - but failed. What once was rock... Now submits to forces that meant to erode and break. Pounding, battering and eating into the outer carapace I’ve prided for years. What once was armour I thought impervious and would deflect, now threatens to collapse into itself. Like a weak submersible made for the shallows yet dove too deep, anticipating the impending crush at the end.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:49 AM UTC
Crush
For the majority of my life I've been cared for by my parents. Now i'm all alone trying to do this on my own Fending for myself Got me feeling stressed out Popped to many Xanax Bout to pass out Just hit the couch and i'm startin to black out How many did i do again? I think i lost count Stomachs feeling week Feelin like i'm at the peak Don't wanna come down I'm so sick of the frown Depression at its worst Thinking that im gonna burst Tired of being the clown Now im searching for the crown
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Mar 24, 2014
Mar 24, 2014 at 12:54 AM UTC
Clinical
Where the devil if not here In the room with me. Surprised In the kitchen I slide The chef's knife Far back on the counter To hide Lest she loose control lost Again, else Might become real, that image Now swimming In her own soup, Of a chromium-vanadium blade Gleaming, swinging In glorious swoop Home to this chest or head, Imagining it dead, Tainted crimson. Not the first time I could be a toreador Fending off his bull With nearby chair To save flesh from the goring Of its horns, On the way to salvation At the door. Still, animal rage Stands between instrument And shields awaiting at table As they are meant. A lamb, I once used my hand And it hurt When steel first broke skin. Tears weren't First from pain, but shock Life was so real and cruel. Since then the whys Have grown with our lives. One or other medication Will fail to stop the sensation. Now, my life's exhaustion is In pondering the question: Can the coward present neck As easy offering and end it, Or continue cowardice, Facing the goddess Conspired to destroy What once was me.
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Oct 18, 2009
Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM UTC
Shiiva's Daughter
Eager, ***** I washed my hands of you in Rippling Creek on the 1st of January -- the beginning of the beginning. As you turned to driftwood, the friends and cross-eyed strangers asked what was I thinking when I let go of you. My mouth stitched by bongwater haze all I could do -- watch your notched body soak. Now on the 18th of September, sitting in Fox Hollow, USA, the shiniest of suburbs -- the sober of the sober-- In honest, I say I'd rather have you alive and hating me than dead and loving me. If I lied in the grey dawn, it was out of love. If I lied in the grey dawn, I was out of truth. I'm alone fending off vultures prying in with fake Facebook profiles, taking threats from fathers who long ago went blind, and this much I promise to you and Fox Hollow, USA: I will quarantine the past.
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 6:46 PM UTC
Fox Hollow, U.S.A.
Yellow ribbon in her hair how would I forget about you reaching keeping the strangeness quiet holding together sanity you would do well to remember her voice the texture of the strands you hold you cannot keep them but you can remember maybe that will be enough Enough. ENOUGH! what a stupid looking word Yellow ribbon I remember a time when you were green before I pulled all the blue out and put it into my pen to scrawl her name on my insides like a cast in white plaster for all my broken parts but they’re mended now it’s time to peel it off one strip one letter at a time it’s time for my insides to be soft again I’m scared to death that the pale long hidden skin and scars will frighten off anyone who might warm me again my hands are only this cold because I haven’t had anyone to hold fending off frostbite just my hands folded together as in prayer but without the hope of an answer without yes no or maybe life is just living just ‘here I am there you are goodnight’ and I can’t help but miss her so Yellow ribbon when I grow my hair long and become someone new I will tie it back with you try to remember who I was before and maybe then be true
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 12:30 PM UTC
Yellow Ribbon
Isolated faces paradoxically surround Bound by wants infinity I strayed away from banks Cause greed was just to trendy The idea of friends and numbers Threw me to the ground Figured we'd crown 4 quarters instead of 100 pennies Swede shoes, silk shirts, and bentleys By some is defined as plenty While little Lenny with stomach empty dreams of Denny's Or some water or a Father would help immensely Afgani blowing and Hennessy gulping MC's Take their aperture and narrow it densely Make millions off the Emmys some how erases Memories Of pennies struggling in this world Mother fiend'n they're just fending Against the many In class they're considered lowers Below us they just a penny I say our morals need reordered cause no doubt that they're all Quarters And deserve entry into this bank of respect That has become run by hoarders Loving to build borders 3 times the size Of their self righteous shoulders This is a disassembly of a culture surrounded by sentries.
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Jan 11, 2012
Jan 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM UTC
Quarters and Pennies
Seagulls hit the horizon's backboard off the sands of Pacific Beach. In my lungs breakers burn out some forty feet from shore. They will return. This jetty'd be a monolith if this ocean were a sky. Silt on this deserted coast scene is encumbered by bits of driftwood and sun-bleached glass. The living in this town are accustomed to the weight. And tidepools are their hearts: shallow, mossy, little things fending for breathe. This jetty'd be a monolith if this ocean were a sky.
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Aug 27, 2012
Aug 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM UTC
Belmont
If I hedge thus a drooling wager and cash in on my thrice-foiled cravings for her overdue bites (plus a guilt-free laugh at his expense), I can use minced steps to sidle around too-lively trunks, and avoid the need to heed thugs barking mad from within their crevice-laid traps. How those bug-eyed brutes'll clamor and claw at me to discard this protective wrap, clued in by my rep of never bending willfully to anybody but her. "Come on, shed! Get, uh, new set of scales, for you we will — promise!" is how she'd stammer, roughly translating their not-so-twee chatter, if she were there. Rather, in that lavishly apt way she has, she'll be away picking suitable pelts to adorn her newly uncovered, quite public shame while fending off an advancing clod, who won't go easily, but who does go on ad nauseam with a penchant for naming every ******* thing that haps vitally across his cocky path. Beyond a simple relish of mischief, I'm doing this (mostly) for her benefit. How could a persimmon be forbidden, as if he had permission to make such bargains? He's dismissed it as an ungainly fruit, and mocked its likelihood to "lava thy lips" with an orange pulp, but in that chance smattering lies the matter to inflame my soul. I'll feed her the pudding-fresh flesh, and strip it down to its delectably small seeds. In their splitting I'll glean the silvery utensils to spill a man's wholly worthless future. Let's tuck in.
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May 18, 2010
May 18, 2010 at 4:31 PM UTC
Fruit of a Bizarre Love Triangle
-- Wish You Were Here -- standard postcard greeting -- Poems aren't postcards to send home -- Anne Sexton Dear friends, dear friends at home, resent No pagan rite nor chance event We've failed to photograph for you With technicolor flair in the true Late Tourist Style. Be satisfied You're there, not here in Circe's herd Or dodging stones some Giant's hurled Or fending Triton's tempest blasts Or lashed, like me, to a shattered mast As tempting taunts roll down the tide. When night winds grind the wheel of sleep Consider Cyclops, counting sheep; When home-fires cool, just think of us Attending smokes more perilous! Home-bound friends, be notified: This holiday's a Trojan Horse. The wine's gone bad. The weather's worse. So mark our fates by this palsied hand: *Have sacrificed most every man. Now homeward-bound. Still terrified.*
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Sep 10, 2011
Sep 10, 2011 at 5:47 PM UTC
To Penelope, Ithaca
Kiss me in hallways and backyards, in barrooms, and back rooms and in basements, enslaved with the treatment and easement of lips twisted which time ceases to be with and be of, to believe of lease treats of the Grand Paradis, trysting bright lights of the night. Give me a center to move around, a dance to take my hands into, a wall to build a fortress on, a body to move motionless inside a shadow upon, fending off tides, embodied in touching, this turnstile of heavy whetted emotions churns a fuse, burns loose the moment that time has lead us to produce. So cute. Impeccable, irrevocably festive with all of the pyres night's desires iron onto our wrists, lifting up each other's shirts, flirting with our fine twilight dessert. Sewn by such estranged Earth's involvement, our arms wrapped, chests spasming with deep breaths and ripe peddling. Pampering first chaste grace of the soul, whether our bodies entwine or fast in the hours of this world. How conceived of delight, the moments effervescent reproach, like Apollo's gold wing's flying from his chariot's coach. The mien of publicly idling in two, what seemed like an hour happened in only sixty seconds times two. A year passes, entranced with shining infinite lust, with a cornucopia of different kisses that began with just us.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 4:31 AM UTC
you, me
chanting in the frosty awe a million spruce jingle in the vast where no summer has kissed here for an age and a day and marvels twinkle in the zero you nest in the glacier fending off the dragons of satanic machines be my guest let me show you to your windmills ' they might be giants ' they might be
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 3:38 PM UTC
' they might be giants '