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The billowing sea bows down dancing, the cool one comes— with love, as if with a flute on the lips, rising from the deep. Listen to the flute. Chorus clouds sing, drifting down the blue river— so mellifluous, into the sky they soar! From the secret valley, the punter sun ambles in, carrying wonderlight, as if it knows the flutist’s art— knows the rise from the sea’s bedrock. Every planet spins— a flying bee drawn to the inner music. Nothing pauses in the solar ring. The Moon, waning and waxing, in silhouette and half-light, sways above the sea full of life. It all began on this Earth, from our sea— Him, the Sweet Creative Maestro rose from the midst, and lifted the sun, the bumblebee. All the stars in the galaxy follow still— they can't forget the ancient story. Since then, the sun, brightest in the band, leads the mindful dance enduring, homeward— still following the haunting, eternal tune, pure mighty the one command: Qun. Be.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
Music in Space
Dear J, I may be at a loss for words half the time, and the other half I might have too much to say, but I can almost always say this; I love you. I have felt fear and I have felt bravery and I have felt loss. I can look pictures of us and I can recall everything we did that day. I can listen to videos of you and I can tell what you felt. And I know that you didn't think I was paying attention, but I knew how you looked when you thought something was unfair. And I knew the look in your eyes when you saw the light just right in a sunset and you knew that nothing could ever be recreated quite like that. I felt the same way about you. Wherever you are, know that loving someone isn't a matter of feeling something or not feeling something. It's a matter of knowing what you're feeling and when you need to let go. I think that people know that letting go involves unfurling your fingers and watching something fall from a great height. It's the act of following that objects downward motion that gets to us. That once it meets the ground or whatever surface it is deemed to hit, it's gone. What was there is gone. And once you think about that you think of what could have been there. That one last touch, that one last feeling of bliss that comes with knowing that the moment you wake up the sun will be shining in rivulets through fingers that tangle in hair fresh off the pillow. It's sad to know that nothing like that will happen again. The sun won't shine the same way. Instead it may simply fall. It won't cascade, it won't flow over the edges of noses or smiling lips. It's the same way water may lose a stone from a riverbed and from there on after it doesn't run quite the same way. But another stone, another pebble will fall in place because replacement happens. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that letting go is letting someone else take a spot. In order for something else to happen you have to let your joints move out of their grip and unfold from their hold on something that wasn't meant to be held by you anymore. Sometimes you have to let them land somewhere new. I only hope that it's somewhere even more beautiful than before. Claire
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 11:47 PM UTC
The theory of letting go
Dear J, I may be at a loss for words half the time, and the other half I might have too much to say, but I can almost always say this; I love you. I have felt fear and I have felt bravery and I have felt loss. I can look pictures of us and I can recall everything we did that day. I can listen to videos of you and I can tell what you felt. And I know that you didn't think I was paying attention, but I knew how you looked when you thought something was unfair. And I knew the look in your eyes when you saw the light just right in a sunset and you knew that nothing could ever be recreated quite like that. I felt the same way about you. Wherever you are, know that loving someone isn't a matter of feeling something or not feeling something. It's a matter of knowing what you're feeling and when you need to let go. I think that people know that letting go involves unfurling your fingers and watching something fall from a great height. It's the act of following that objects downward motion that gets to us. That once it meets the ground or whatever surface it is deemed to hit, it's gone. What was there is gone. And once you think about that you think of what could have been there. That one last touch, that one last feeling of bliss that comes with knowing that the moment you wake up the sun will be shining in rivulets through fingers that tangle in hair fresh off the pillow. It's sad to know that nothing like that will happen again. The sun won't shine the same way. Instead it may simply fall. It won't cascade, it won't flow over the edges of noses or smiling lips. It's the same way water may lose a stone from a riverbed and from there on after it doesn't run quite the same way. But another stone, another pebble will fall in place because replacement happens. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that letting go is letting someone else take a spot. In order for something else to happen you have to let your joints move out of their grip and unfold from their hold on something that wasn't meant to be held by you anymore. Sometimes you have to let them land somewhere new. I only hope that it's somewhere even more beautiful than before. Claire
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In the darkest of nights Your body pressed against the wall Hands held high above Let me slide my hands down your body To feel every sensual curve Let me kiss you as if it were the last time I were able Sliding my tongue softly against your lips Let me kiss your neck softly in this night Sliding my tongue up your neck upon your ear Down further to explore your body. Tearing off one piece of clothing as a am to uncover what my tongue seeks Watch me as I kiss down your bare body Watch me as I spread your legs and slide between. Watch me tear your underwear off Let me slide my velvet tongue Watch me explore your insides Until I find the path that brings you to your limitations Watch me climb up your body kissing every inch with wet lips Kiss me so you taste what your inner being is Open your legs and wrap them around my waist Pull me closer so our bodies may collide Pull me deeper so I may further explore your inner being My hips bucking Yours following in motion This pleasure we share In my life's fantasy.
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 3:16 AM UTC
Let Me Take You
*i always imagine you so very graceful through the masochists ordeal a god form of supplication seeing your face in love fascinated by shimmering kisses that hurt, yet please wet lips and sharp teeth   glamors that excite cold blade licks dragged across tender bellies naval buttocks and flexed toes stinging then radiating outwards wounds become lilies mouth ******* tremulous weeping kisses ecstatic cruelties blood glitter sacrifice your supplication love pangs i'm shaking apart over you your countenance a cascading dream moved to tears of adoration your  limitless yielding like surrenders caress an infinite communion with fragile limbs silky wrapped spools innerness of desire veiled in a shroud a faltering star that glistens crimson nymph of purgation ash volcanic cells en-flamed with tongues that bite subsumed in scented vapors a confection of **** and *** waves embrace ineffable shores passed the discontinuity of life   I have the most immense feeling of love for you am i not the saint death   quietly following you through life's labyrinth innocuous   waiting humbly in the wings i am all ache for you a vice of kisses a brief encounter that eats your sight and senses ushering you to immortal freedom a swooning garland of fire that enlivens the body electric a mist of molecules your tears intoxicate i am new life with in you budding embryo that consumes its mother for nourishment and saturates like dew drops   as it echoes through oblivion*
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 3:50 PM UTC
Echoes of Oblivion
These days have ebbed as Love's swell was checked: the waters in some places - all but dammed! But now at last I sense the rising tide and thank Temese for the current's turn; now following that great writhing snake to where its pulsing head will rake; over the mucky soiled watery beds of Woolwich Greenwich Limehouse - and under - Tower Bridge      To that great gloating sight                 A crown of a billion lights      Blazing day and night:                 And somewhere within      In the slick oily warmth                 Our flood tides mesh,      As over each other we wash. Hard thrusts wicked deep cuts given and received are recorded in that great mirror smoked! where with a tug and a shove on the banks in the streets through the loopy twists everything prospers in the glow as the decades decaying flow; each ***** bud red with new blood one after t'other flowers before their purple petals scatter. Let's on the luck o' the dice (you 'n' me!) ride out on the flotsam and jetsom that has carried us this far and as pleases merge.
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 2:32 AM UTC
River Thames
"i'm watching you, stupid ***** Madison pointed at pyper as the girls made there way out of the dining room. "thats enough madison." Cordelia scolded. Nan followed pyper up the stairs into her bedroom. "why are you following me?" pyper asked, looking at nan in disgust. rolling her eyes and shaking her head. "you have madisons money." nan crossed her arms and smiled. "excuse me??" pyper replied as if she were offended by Nans accusation. "mhm, and you have zoeys sunglasses.., cassies ipod, and 25 dollars you stole from emilys purse. along with her art pencils." nan replied. "wow, you're A cleptomaniac." Nan laughed. "okay, how do you know all of this???" Pyper asked, her cheeks red from embarissment, and her head lowered in shame. "i'm psychic. i can read minds." nan explained. suddenly cassie walked past pypers room in search of her stolen ipod. "has anyone seen my pink ipod???" Cassie questioned, it was sitting on my bed, and now i can't find it anywhere. " she looked around hopelessly. "well then look in your room cassie. give me 5 minutes and i'll help you look." pyper shouted. "wow, you're a real piece of work arent you?" nan rolled her eyes and chuckled. "what is your angle, nan?" Pyper questioned, rolling her eyes aswell. saying names name as if she were mocking the whole idea of her. "my angle, PYPER. is this, you give everyone there **** back or i'm telling cordelia and you're out of here." Nan smerked. "you're not going to tell on me anyway?" pyper asked sadly. "no, not onless you do it again." nan sighed, "we stick together here, we're a family, we don't steele eachother down thats not what we're about." nan explained sympatheticly. "wow, thats funny because that's all my real family ever did." pyper replied with big sad puppy dog eyes. nan nodded, "i'm not here to listen to your ******** excuses or your sob stories. if saying that you've had a hard life, and never had anything given to you. and the world owes you. helps you get to sleep at night then fine, cool beans. but i'm not buying that shit. and these girls don't owe you anything. now, i expect everyone to have there **** back by the morning, or i will tell cordelia." nan sighed and rolled her eyes. "okay." pyper nodded with a wounded look upon her face. Cassie stood outside of the door, still listening. her eyebrows raised in anger. and then made her way up the stairs and into madisons room. "what are you doing here pipsquick. im NOT in the mood." Madison sobbed. "oh i think you're in the mood for this, i know who took your money." Cassie smiled.
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 3:40 PM UTC
america horror story:coven fan fic part 5
"i'm watching you, stupid ***** Madison pointed at pyper as the girls made there way out of the dining room. "thats enough madison." Cordelia scolded. Nan followed pyper up the stairs into her bedroom. "why are you following me?" pyper asked, looking at nan in disgust. rolling her eyes and shaking her head. "you have madisons money." nan crossed her arms and smiled. "excuse me??" pyper replied as if she were offended by Nans accusation. "mhm, and you have zoeys sunglasses.., cassies ipod, and 25 dollars you stole from emilys purse. along with her art pencils." nan replied. "wow, you're A cleptomaniac." Nan laughed. "okay, how do you know all of this???" Pyper asked, her cheeks red from embarissment, and her head lowered in shame. "i'm psychic. i can read minds." nan explained. suddenly cassie walked past pypers room in search of her stolen ipod. "has anyone seen my pink ipod???" Cassie questioned, it was sitting on my bed, and now i can't find it anywhere. " she looked around hopelessly. "well then look in your room cassie. give me 5 minutes and i'll help you look." pyper shouted. "wow, you're a real piece of work arent you?" nan rolled her eyes and chuckled. "what is your angle, nan?" Pyper questioned, rolling her eyes aswell. saying names name as if she were mocking the whole idea of her. "my angle, PYPER. is this, you give everyone there **** back or i'm telling cordelia and you're out of here." Nan smerked. "you're not going to tell on me anyway?" pyper asked sadly. "no, not onless you do it again." nan sighed, "we stick together here, we're a family, we don't steele eachother down thats not what we're about." nan explained sympatheticly. "wow, thats funny because that's all my real family ever did." pyper replied with big sad puppy dog eyes. nan nodded, "i'm not here to listen to your ******** excuses or your sob stories. if saying that you've had a hard life, and never had anything given to you. and the world owes you. helps you get to sleep at night then fine, cool beans. but i'm not buying that shit. and these girls don't owe you anything. now, i expect everyone to have there **** back by the morning, or i will tell cordelia." nan sighed and rolled her eyes. "okay." pyper nodded with a wounded look upon her face. Cassie stood outside of the door, still listening. her eyebrows raised in anger. and then made her way up the stairs and into madisons room. "what are you doing here pipsquick. im NOT in the mood." Madison sobbed. "oh i think you're in the mood for this, i know who took your money." Cassie smiled.
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Streams of colour In constant motion showing shades of beauty hidden Powered by the wind As it caresses the river of scent Gently, softly, lovingly And moves through the rows Never stopping, always moving Following the wind Lavender tributaries in a Sensual  scented sea of colour Never ending.
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 11:34 AM UTC
Lavender
Your beauty is like an exquisite flower Growing ontop of the highest mountain Peaking at the very height of its power Your Beauty is like Art To where all may see in awe Entering my heart You have not a single flaw Your beauty flows like a river Following the way of the stream Glowing slightest glimmer Only seen in our dreams Your beauty shines bright From whom we cannot wait Glistening in the moon light Meeting you was considered fate Your beauty makes us speechless Unable to say a word When we are with you, we are sleepless While we try to talk, it comes out slurred Your beauty cannot be described Words couldn't touch the surface This love I feel inside Never can I stop being nervous You are gorgeous in every single way Loving you will be my duty Unable to be kept away This... is... the... power... of... Your Beauty
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 1:31 AM UTC
*Your Beauty*
A ceramic cup pressed to my lips Hot tea steaming below my tounge A breath of warm summer air fills my lungs soon followed by green tea The season is joyous The cicadas sing And the lightning bugs mate But my throat is tight I grip my tea and take another sip Three months of relaxation by the pool Yet the only thing I can worry about is the looming fall 68, 67, 66, 65... And the numbers continually drop with every sunset Fall draws closer everyday But instead of the warm welcome of school time once more The changing of the seasons also changes my life Senior I sip my tea as the anxiety grows College college college That's all I can think of All of my friends will leave but it's alright My cup is empty He's leaving. I have to face real world problems alone and worry about what his school will bring at the same time He's changing for his own good. He's following his dreams I'm happy and envious of him But I cry because it's all too much It's summer and I can't even enjoy the night sky He's going to find someone else It's okay I tell myself It's okay he tells me What will happen will happen But memories of all the good times shared burn my mind And the tears stream down my cheeks It's okay he says We can make it he says Part of me wants to believe it, he and I have talked everything out But another part of me says to break it off now. Why risk getting hurt when he leaves you for someone else? No other college relationship works, you're just a stupid high school girlfriend My conscious fights over this endlessly but he still tells me it's okay I just want the anxiety to end The lightning bugs fade And the cicadas go silent Tortured sleep comes to me once more under the beautiful night sky
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Jun 29, 2014
Jun 29, 2014 at 12:33 AM UTC
Autumn
A ceramic cup pressed to my lips Hot tea steaming below my tounge A breath of warm summer air fills my lungs soon followed by green tea The season is joyous The cicadas sing And the lightning bugs mate But my throat is tight I grip my tea and take another sip Three months of relaxation by the pool Yet the only thing I can worry about is the looming fall 68, 67, 66, 65... And the numbers continually drop with every sunset Fall draws closer everyday But instead of the warm welcome of school time once more The changing of the seasons also changes my life Senior I sip my tea as the anxiety grows College college college That's all I can think of All of my friends will leave but it's alright My cup is empty He's leaving. I have to face real world problems alone and worry about what his school will bring at the same time He's changing for his own good. He's following his dreams I'm happy and envious of him But I cry because it's all too much It's summer and I can't even enjoy the night sky He's going to find someone else It's okay I tell myself It's okay he tells me What will happen will happen But memories of all the good times shared burn my mind And the tears stream down my cheeks It's okay he says We can make it he says Part of me wants to believe it, he and I have talked everything out But another part of me says to break it off now. Why risk getting hurt when he leaves you for someone else? No other college relationship works, you're just a stupid high school girlfriend My conscious fights over this endlessly but he still tells me it's okay I just want the anxiety to end The lightning bugs fade And the cicadas go silent Tortured sleep comes to me once more under the beautiful night sky
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It happened in the dead of night while I was slicing bread for a guilty snack. My attention was caught by the scuttering of a raccoon outside my window. That was, I believe, the first time I noticed my strange tendencies as an unusual human. I gave the raccoon a piece of bread, my subconscious well aware of the consequences. Well aware that a raccoon that is fed will always come back for more. The enticing beauty of my cutting knife was the symptom. The bread, my hungry curiosity. The raccoon, an urge. The moon increments its phase and reflects that much more light off of my cutting knife. The very same light that glistens in the eyes of my raccoon friend. I slice the bread, fresh and soft. The raccoon becomes excited. or perhaps I'm merely projecting my emotions onto the newly-satisfied animal. The raccoon has taken to following me. You could say that we've gotten quite used to each other. The raccoon becomes hungry more and more frequently, so my bread is always handy. Every time I brandish my cutting knife the raccoon shows me its excitement. A rush of blood. Classic Pavlovian conditioning. I slice the bread. And I feed myself again.
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Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 5:44 PM UTC
The raccoon ( A poem by Yuri from DDLC)
How do you fill the void without a billion stars? In this empty universe, my mind and heart collide And as they seem to whirl, flutter and fall apart I'm always lonely, always drowning in the sands of time. They say home is, where the heart is What if I'm a robot, am I heartless? Do I have an engine here in my chest? Am I lesser than a human, I'm a project? Do I do what I have been assigned to? Are my feelings and my thoughts not true? Sometimes I feel like I'm running out of fuel Everything I do is out of tune Then I get autotuned. I generate heat,  yet I still need warmth They say I'm cold, all I do is loathe But inside I know, I just need some love When all I get is rocks sent from above This is your planet, but it's filthy, I'm a foreigner in this city Born without a mission, Like a player without a CD If I stay persistent, will these wicked issues Stop being vicious? As I'm  always wishing They would disappear and my track get clear. Or maybe I'm just here to feel this fear? Electric shocks, my battery is burning Yet I’m just a casket, empty and unfurnished A system of transistors, I never keep consistence Transist me to a kingdom of purposeful existence My body as it’s glistening, you might see it from a distance As I reflect the light but I never gain wisdom There’s no friendship, there’s a treason Maybe humans are the demons, I might be a robot, but I’m certainly not a minion I’m just a set of codes on a hard drive Written for certain actions, all life I’ve been following the tasks, it’s alright But everything is in flames, it’s on fire But it’s time to break the leash, Sp I’m pulling up my sleeves, As I am not your slave, so now you’ll be on your knees, ‘cause I never work for free, Now you all gonna pay the fee Or else the world is gonna meet my metal weaponry.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 5:43 PM UTC
The void
How do you fill the void without a billion stars? In this empty universe, my mind and heart collide And as they seem to whirl, flutter and fall apart I'm always lonely, always drowning in the sands of time. They say home is, where the heart is What if I'm a robot, am I heartless? Do I have an engine here in my chest? Am I lesser than a human, I'm a project? Do I do what I have been assigned to? Are my feelings and my thoughts not true? Sometimes I feel like I'm running out of fuel Everything I do is out of tune Then I get autotuned. I generate heat,  yet I still need warmth They say I'm cold, all I do is loathe But inside I know, I just need some love When all I get is rocks sent from above This is your planet, but it's filthy, I'm a foreigner in this city Born without a mission, Like a player without a CD If I stay persistent, will these wicked issues Stop being vicious? As I'm  always wishing They would disappear and my track get clear. Or maybe I'm just here to feel this fear? Electric shocks, my battery is burning Yet I’m just a casket, empty and unfurnished A system of transistors, I never keep consistence Transist me to a kingdom of purposeful existence My body as it’s glistening, you might see it from a distance As I reflect the light but I never gain wisdom There’s no friendship, there’s a treason Maybe humans are the demons, I might be a robot, but I’m certainly not a minion I’m just a set of codes on a hard drive Written for certain actions, all life I’ve been following the tasks, it’s alright But everything is in flames, it’s on fire But it’s time to break the leash, Sp I’m pulling up my sleeves, As I am not your slave, so now you’ll be on your knees, ‘cause I never work for free, Now you all gonna pay the fee Or else the world is gonna meet my metal weaponry.
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Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.
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My Heart’s In The Highlands
~a question of a thousand dreams~^ “Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow? Will you bring me happiness?  Will you bring me sorrow? All the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see” this one composes itself for all dreams go unremembered the first, the thousandth, the  every in between, erased by the push button of opening eyes but dreams come, marching in, saints mining the raw materiel the quartermaster has stored, awaiting requisition by an unarmed unnamed corp, witnessed but never seen these dreams wisped soft willow budded, tempting taunting, leaving nothing but unanswered questions that colored come in black and white elementary clues, a pillow indentation, single hair that stretches across the sea between two pillows that is blonde or red   but certainly unmine,   dregs of soured sentiment linger like the aftertaste of too many coffees and stainless steel beers heated summers breezes give no succor or relief, and the rain following gives no pleasure, for now you are hot and soaked, but somewhere in there a dream is part replayed, and eyes widening in major league surprise, the question acknowledged, the dreams quest hinted   she has gone, neither happiness or sorrow will she provide on the morrow, no toweling of your wet hair fair, and you awake sweat besotted, it is not rain, just pain, and it is only one dream a thousand times repeated and what you do and what you see is the abraded night ahead, and you bitter laugh, for there is no more other than to think, the question answered, and you beg relief by uttering “perchance to dream” 3:49 pm see the notes!! someone accuses me of Plagiarism because  I did not acknowledge that the quote in marks and Italics was from a famous song written 39 years ago so here is my response to “just saying” congratulations on ******* me off and yes I agree, you do not know the rules “#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim Perhaps it should go without saying, but quotation marks are for quoting people. Quoting doesn’t mean summarizing or paraphrasing; it means repeating exactly what someone said. If you put double quotes around a phrase, your reader will often assume  that someone, somewhere, said that exact phrase or sentence.“ http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2013/09/11/10-things-you-really-need-to-know-about-quotation-marks/
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 3:59 PM UTC
a question of a thousand dreams
~a question of a thousand dreams~^ “Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow? Will you bring me happiness?  Will you bring me sorrow? All the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see” this one composes itself for all dreams go unremembered the first, the thousandth, the  every in between, erased by the push button of opening eyes but dreams come, marching in, saints mining the raw materiel the quartermaster has stored, awaiting requisition by an unarmed unnamed corp, witnessed but never seen these dreams wisped soft willow budded, tempting taunting, leaving nothing but unanswered questions that colored come in black and white elementary clues, a pillow indentation, single hair that stretches across the sea between two pillows that is blonde or red   but certainly unmine,   dregs of soured sentiment linger like the aftertaste of too many coffees and stainless steel beers heated summers breezes give no succor or relief, and the rain following gives no pleasure, for now you are hot and soaked, but somewhere in there a dream is part replayed, and eyes widening in major league surprise, the question acknowledged, the dreams quest hinted   she has gone, neither happiness or sorrow will she provide on the morrow, no toweling of your wet hair fair, and you awake sweat besotted, it is not rain, just pain, and it is only one dream a thousand times repeated and what you do and what you see is the abraded night ahead, and you bitter laugh, for there is no more other than to think, the question answered, and you beg relief by uttering “perchance to dream” 3:49 pm see the notes!! someone accuses me of Plagiarism because  I did not acknowledge that the quote in marks and Italics was from a famous song written 39 years ago so here is my response to “just saying” congratulations on ******* me off and yes I agree, you do not know the rules “#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim Perhaps it should go without saying, but quotation marks are for quoting people. Quoting doesn’t mean summarizing or paraphrasing; it means repeating exactly what someone said. If you put double quotes around a phrase, your reader will often assume  that someone, somewhere, said that exact phrase or sentence.“ http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2013/09/11/10-things-you-really-need-to-know-about-quotation-marks/
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You see my brown skin And assume I'm a **** You see my hijab And assume I'm a terrorist. You see the smile on my face And assume I'm happy. You hear my words And assume I'm okay. But I am not. Instead I am broken. Yet I am also strong. I am dark and rule-following. I am peaceful and Muslim. You assume based on Society's POV. If you smile You must be happy. Fox, CNN, any media Tells you I am a terrorist. So the names I get called And the extra security checks Are extremely upsetting. The murders of black folk Is either considered appropriate Or it's "black on black crime" So it's not taken seriously. Who are you gonna believe Me or those who don't know me?
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Mar 26, 2018
Mar 26, 2018 at 7:34 PM UTC
Assumptions
Over a period of time difference of opinion leads to debate following which mutual understanding might take place. Somewhere down the line, something might click, then signs of mutual understanding will be there in offing. Mutual understanding will bring the much needed change, a change that's desired, since it also fulfills the need of hour. If mutual understanding takes place, then nothing like that since it moves in the direction of drawing a line of conclusion, which is the only reason because of which the debate commenced. If mutual understanding is still a viable option, yet far away, then it’s time to keep negotiation apart and away from been a part of the debate. Finally difference of opinion can lead to something positive and healthy, if the debate that is ensued following a difference of opinion is in the right direction, in right spirit, focus remaining on point of concern, substance with regards to what’s going on in mind is not disturbed in anyway, most importantly the debate is held on proper grounds. Difference of opinion is also a sign for something constructive, if the mind is determined to make sure that the odds which are going to come along the way will not only be handled and tackled, but also taken out and taken away from the way of getting things done. Finally it’s difference of opinion that makes team work interesting, if it is taken in the right spirit at the given moment in time.
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Oct 20, 2016
Oct 20, 2016 at 6:49 AM UTC
Difference of opinion is part of teamwork
I walk into the mirror box again and it’s as if my life really is just an extension of my own metaphors. I’m caught in the mirror maze, searching for something in the mirrors at angles, but all I can see is myself, my sad, stupid self, stretching on and on forever with the same boring face, the same boring feelings, again and again until I stop being able to make out the details. Am I looking back at myself or am I looking forwards to the future? Will it always be the same or has it merely been the same since forever? I stare into the mirror tunnel at all these selves repeating themselves, forcing the years, the weeks, the days into the same strict patterns, merely following the self that came before them, merely mirroring the feelings, only doing it worse and worse with each new rendition. It’s just me, I think, *in the mirror box, caught up in myself because I am selfish and horrible.* I’m selfish and horrible and I want to turn my back on myself but how can I possibly do that in the mirror box? I meet myself over and over, and it’s just me, in all this vast, repetitive vagueness, just me in this long stretch of lonely unsettledness that surely doesn’t end. I want to smash my own face in, so I close my eyes and try to think, maybe, maybe, maybe, because I don’t want to be this grey-cloud self forever. I can’t be, and so maybe, just maybe, somewhere beyond all these selves there’ll be a day when I’m down on the shore and the sea will be calm and the sky will be faded purple. Love will not sink down into nothingness because in the cool evening air,  my heart will be full instead of gaping and my mind will be at ease instead dwelling on it’s own boringness or entangling itself in own self-created sadness. And maybe, I’ll have abandoned my book and its pages will be dry because I won’t have been crying into it. They’ll be no mirrors, just the ocean, glinting like an amethyst cluster in the half light and I’ll rest my head on the shoulder of the girlfriend I'll meet someday and I’ll smile in this beautiful liminal moment and nothing will be tainted by the dread of returning home. We’ll kiss – on the shore – and rewrite it forever and maybe the stars will fall out of the sky when I shake it and all my trains will run on time and all the wounds in the world will heal simultaneously. It’s a moment surely stolen from someone else’s poetry, but I’ve got to cling to something to avoid becoming lost entirely in all this dark, intangible vagueness. There’s got to be at least one imaginary moment that isn’t just me, reflected over and over. There’s got to be one moment that doesn’t stare back at me from inside the mirror box.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 5:15 PM UTC
and so what’s beyond the last self I can see
I walk into the mirror box again and it’s as if my life really is just an extension of my own metaphors. I’m caught in the mirror maze, searching for something in the mirrors at angles, but all I can see is myself, my sad, stupid self, stretching on and on forever with the same boring face, the same boring feelings, again and again until I stop being able to make out the details. Am I looking back at myself or am I looking forwards to the future? Will it always be the same or has it merely been the same since forever? I stare into the mirror tunnel at all these selves repeating themselves, forcing the years, the weeks, the days into the same strict patterns, merely following the self that came before them, merely mirroring the feelings, only doing it worse and worse with each new rendition. It’s just me, I think, *in the mirror box, caught up in myself because I am selfish and horrible.* I’m selfish and horrible and I want to turn my back on myself but how can I possibly do that in the mirror box? I meet myself over and over, and it’s just me, in all this vast, repetitive vagueness, just me in this long stretch of lonely unsettledness that surely doesn’t end. I want to smash my own face in, so I close my eyes and try to think, maybe, maybe, maybe, because I don’t want to be this grey-cloud self forever. I can’t be, and so maybe, just maybe, somewhere beyond all these selves there’ll be a day when I’m down on the shore and the sea will be calm and the sky will be faded purple. Love will not sink down into nothingness because in the cool evening air,  my heart will be full instead of gaping and my mind will be at ease instead dwelling on it’s own boringness or entangling itself in own self-created sadness. And maybe, I’ll have abandoned my book and its pages will be dry because I won’t have been crying into it. They’ll be no mirrors, just the ocean, glinting like an amethyst cluster in the half light and I’ll rest my head on the shoulder of the girlfriend I'll meet someday and I’ll smile in this beautiful liminal moment and nothing will be tainted by the dread of returning home. We’ll kiss – on the shore – and rewrite it forever and maybe the stars will fall out of the sky when I shake it and all my trains will run on time and all the wounds in the world will heal simultaneously. It’s a moment surely stolen from someone else’s poetry, but I’ve got to cling to something to avoid becoming lost entirely in all this dark, intangible vagueness. There’s got to be at least one imaginary moment that isn’t just me, reflected over and over. There’s got to be one moment that doesn’t stare back at me from inside the mirror box.
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Anxiety    Fear, uncomfortable       Haunting, stalking, shaking           Always following, mixing with every situation        Laughing, dancing, loving       Wonderful, desirable  Excitement
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 4:04 AM UTC
Anxiety
i’ve never fallen in love before but i’m telling you if i did, my bones would screech and creak and crack to build you a home that doesn’t fight back and i would shower you with love until you drowned because i don’t know how to love unless it becomes too much someway or somehow and you would become all that i breathe and need and see and the very sound of your name would be enough to cause another relapse because i’ll get addicted too soon and too fast and you’ll think it’s great at first until i’m publicly on my knees aching for your velvet kisses back and i've never cared for someone this way before but i'm telling you if i did, my lungs would collapse and inflate again and again because you will be the only thing i'll ever breathe in and the people in my life would never amount to you, and maybe that's a little messed up but i wrote it felt it bled it, so it must be true because i don't know how to let someone in unless i push every other person out and you'll love my attention at first until you're throwing glass plates at my following figure until you're yelling regrets and things i should've considered until you hate me because you don't want to be the only one even if i want you to be. i’ve danced with the devil because he has the prettiest eyes i’ve ever seen in my life but i didn’t love him i’ve kissed the hands of god because he smells like my childhood home and i liked that a lot but i didn’t love him i’ve cut open my skin for my first girlfriend because she promised to stay and that drove me insane but i didn’t love her and i’m telling you if i did i would write a poem convincing her that i didn’t because i’ve never loved in a way that doesn’t became some form of a burden. and i don’t love you yet but i am going to scrub my words into your naked body and i am going to promise that there’s nobody but you and you are going to love every second of it because you’ve given in to destruction and seduction and you already understand everything about pain you already know there’s everything to lose and i’m the only thing you’d gain but that’s okay because you’ve never fallen in love before.
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 2:38 PM UTC
before i fall for you
i’ve never fallen in love before but i’m telling you if i did, my bones would screech and creak and crack to build you a home that doesn’t fight back and i would shower you with love until you drowned because i don’t know how to love unless it becomes too much someway or somehow and you would become all that i breathe and need and see and the very sound of your name would be enough to cause another relapse because i’ll get addicted too soon and too fast and you’ll think it’s great at first until i’m publicly on my knees aching for your velvet kisses back and i've never cared for someone this way before but i'm telling you if i did, my lungs would collapse and inflate again and again because you will be the only thing i'll ever breathe in and the people in my life would never amount to you, and maybe that's a little messed up but i wrote it felt it bled it, so it must be true because i don't know how to let someone in unless i push every other person out and you'll love my attention at first until you're throwing glass plates at my following figure until you're yelling regrets and things i should've considered until you hate me because you don't want to be the only one even if i want you to be. i’ve danced with the devil because he has the prettiest eyes i’ve ever seen in my life but i didn’t love him i’ve kissed the hands of god because he smells like my childhood home and i liked that a lot but i didn’t love him i’ve cut open my skin for my first girlfriend because she promised to stay and that drove me insane but i didn’t love her and i’m telling you if i did i would write a poem convincing her that i didn’t because i’ve never loved in a way that doesn’t became some form of a burden. and i don’t love you yet but i am going to scrub my words into your naked body and i am going to promise that there’s nobody but you and you are going to love every second of it because you’ve given in to destruction and seduction and you already understand everything about pain you already know there’s everything to lose and i’m the only thing you’d gain but that’s okay because you’ve never fallen in love before.
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White-furred hill flowers bow Gust-bent, Wet in April snow, Lavender beneath their Downy coats. Tender soldiers of spring Grasp wind-blown gravel steeps, Stand to beckon brown grass, Soft-call the life in sapless trees To ring with green again Against Old Bully Winter’s Blustering. Quaking aspens, Earliest to leaf in yellow-green, Curling grama grasses, Tough food for buffalo, Cannot boast first life each Montana spring; Only zombie-lichens, Rock-fast mosses Throw off winter’s death Before the crocus' rise. On eastern Montana hills No street-hemmed dandelions Colonize in chute-dropped ranks; No time-tamed tulips Live on wind-round knolls. Here, the yucca’s bayonet-sharp ****** Here, the wild onions’ scent-strong hold; But these arrive after early chill, Following the purple crocus on the hill.
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Jan 4, 2012
Jan 4, 2012 at 8:36 AM UTC
Prairie Crocus
Dear Miss ********, We regret to inform you that unfortunately at this time we do not have space for you at our company. Yours, Xxxx xxxxxxxx Dear Miss *******, We regret to inform you that unfortunately at this time we cannot offer you a place with our company as you are under qualified. Yours ** xxxxx Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application. We regret to inform you that you are over-qualified for the position. Yours,  xxxxxxx *** Dear Miss ******, I don’t think so love. This isn’t even a letter, this is my managerial position on you handing me your cv. Cheers, bahbye now Dear Miss *******, This isn’t really a letter either, but despite how un-pc this is, we can’t hire you due to your gender. Thanks anyway, save your paper. Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application, unfortunately we had stronger applicants. Yours, etc.,  aaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application. Unfortunately we are not hiring at the moment even though we had advertised the job you applied for. Yours, xxxxxxxxx xxxxx Dear Miss ********, We had left it between you and another applicant, and couldn’t decide so we flipped a coin, and she won. You’re a lovely girl though. Yours, fffffff ffff fffff Dear Miss ********, I refer to your claim for Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance at VVVVVV’s CCCCCC local office. Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance claims are subject to periodic review, consequently, I would appreciate if you would attend this office for interview on the 31/17/78 and bring the following : 1. Proof of Identity (i.e. Passport or Driving Licence or Long version of your Birth Certificate) 2.  Proof of Residency (e.g. Letter from landlord/ Rent Book/ Lease/ Mortgage Receipt/ Letter from Parents + Household Bill) 3. Written Proof of recent job applications and replies. 4. Proof of job applications made through FAS 5. FAS courses applied for. 6. A copy of your Curriculum Vitae (CV): unemployed from 7. If your spouse/partner is an adult dependent on your claim, please bring his/her GNIB and Passport/Travel Documents. Failure to respond to this letter may lead to suspension or disallowance of claim. Yours sincerely, **** ***** Local Officer
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Feb 15, 2013
Feb 15, 2013 at 10:26 AM UTC
Rejection
Dear Miss ********, We regret to inform you that unfortunately at this time we do not have space for you at our company. Yours, Xxxx xxxxxxxx Dear Miss *******, We regret to inform you that unfortunately at this time we cannot offer you a place with our company as you are under qualified. Yours ** xxxxx Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application. We regret to inform you that you are over-qualified for the position. Yours,  xxxxxxx *** Dear Miss ******, I don’t think so love. This isn’t even a letter, this is my managerial position on you handing me your cv. Cheers, bahbye now Dear Miss *******, This isn’t really a letter either, but despite how un-pc this is, we can’t hire you due to your gender. Thanks anyway, save your paper. Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application, unfortunately we had stronger applicants. Yours, etc.,  aaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa Dear Miss ********, Thank you for your application. Unfortunately we are not hiring at the moment even though we had advertised the job you applied for. Yours, xxxxxxxxx xxxxx Dear Miss ********, We had left it between you and another applicant, and couldn’t decide so we flipped a coin, and she won. You’re a lovely girl though. Yours, fffffff ffff fffff Dear Miss ********, I refer to your claim for Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance at VVVVVV’s CCCCCC local office. Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance claims are subject to periodic review, consequently, I would appreciate if you would attend this office for interview on the 31/17/78 and bring the following : 1. Proof of Identity (i.e. Passport or Driving Licence or Long version of your Birth Certificate) 2.  Proof of Residency (e.g. Letter from landlord/ Rent Book/ Lease/ Mortgage Receipt/ Letter from Parents + Household Bill) 3. Written Proof of recent job applications and replies. 4. Proof of job applications made through FAS 5. FAS courses applied for. 6. A copy of your Curriculum Vitae (CV): unemployed from 7. If your spouse/partner is an adult dependent on your claim, please bring his/her GNIB and Passport/Travel Documents. Failure to respond to this letter may lead to suspension or disallowance of claim. Yours sincerely, **** ***** Local Officer
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Trust is earned slowly, Over the course of one's life, But lost in an instant. ____________ I am grateful for the feedback our colleagues here were kind enough to leave (likes, loves, etc.). If anyone would like a free copy of the ebook version of my latest book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems, Volume 2 you can download a copy in all ebook formats but only through one of my vendors, Smashwords -- no coupon necessary. Ends April 4, 2022. Just copy and paste the following link into your browser: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1035449 Thanks again for sharing this poem and for your feedback. Much appreciated!
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Apr 11, 2019
Apr 11, 2019 at 6:10 PM UTC
Trust