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"fulfilled" poems
I too... wake up sometimes longing to touch you to taste tease tempt and excite you I want to wake you up with soft lingering kisses and tender rhythmic touches I want to slide my tongue deeply within you playfully persistent until your back arches and your breath catches I want your spirit to soar... before your eyes are even open I want to give to you the passion joy and love that you have hungered for... I want you to begin each day... fulfilled.
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 1:08 AM UTC
Fulfilled...
Peace flows into me As the tide to the pool by the shore; It is mine forevermore, It ebbs not back like the sea. I am the pool of blue That worships the vivid sky; My hopes were heaven-high, They are all fulfilled in you. I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies, — You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.
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Peace
From one thousand mountains the hawks flights are gone Soaring freely & thinking clearly through the clouds in the sky Not looking back persevering to fulfill the dreams The dreams aren't solely an illusion in the mind But a preview of future times For the reality in the hawks mind is dreams of happiness Clashing between difficulty & a paradox of what is seen & what is not seen What is believed has 20/20 vision A clear sight with no eyeballs But a driven mind with great visual Anticipating the future of success Feeling blessed and alleviating stress Persevering and passing all the tests What lies is the wind which is the past Securing things of desire at last Achievement is a good friend Resulting in a fulfilled end. . .
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Dec 20, 2014
Dec 20, 2014 at 4:03 PM UTC
Connoisseur of Dreams
I see a mirror Of Love, A promise fulfilled By the power above I see a mature woman Who’s endless in worth Who has dreams and goals And a great purpose on Earth I see a soul That’ll hold me close Keep me happy And love me the most When I look into your eyes My search is complete No more looking for love No more girls to meet When I look into your heart I feel God’s grace and blessing My prayers were answered And there’s no more guessing When I see you smile Not a worry do I feel Stress falls to the ground And my anger tends to peel When I see you happy It feeds my spirit I’d even ask if you liked my body Just to even hear it When I see your life I see our great futures combined Nothing but success, love, and peace Fill my dreams and mind When I see into your mind I see your want to be great And you’re off to a good start Many girls are gonna hate When I see into your love It makes me write it down Sing it to a crowd Or preach it on a mound And when you read this Many emotions do you feel But what I love the most No worry about them being concealed
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
When I Look Into Your Eyes
*you to go to him, you're throwing yourself in danger, to dream of such dangerous dream, stop now, let your heart rest, my heart shreads to pieces watching you grieve.* *you smile to me, as if nothing had happened, in reality, you tremble, wither, scowl away, come to me, rest yourself in the arms of mine, by dawn, fly to the moon.* *a place where we can't be together, a place where I can't go, that's okay, as long as you are safe.* *my sad story, can never be fulfilled in bliss, but instead, just this once, stop.* Your wings will get wet
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 6:42 AM UTC
Moonlight.
A dream dreamt for a millennium Everyday oozing away as I badgered and prayed For one splendiferous day To feel limitless and ecstatic in my cranium. Suddenly, my dream came to fruition All this time was worth the anticipation My brittle bones became strong through elation My every cell frenetic with love's constitution. The dream fulfilled Vanished without warning Soaking my heart in distrust and mourning Creating in the center of my mind an emptiness so still.
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 10:49 PM UTC
Dream Fulfilled; Dream Vanished
Ice cream is sweet and quite the treat A savory delight I crave at night At almost any time and any where, it is worth to desert for this dessert. Some keep it vanilla while others want a twist. Sometimes it's good to mix or other wise switch. Maybe you're ***** can't resist other flavored dishes? What if you were denied it or could no longer find it? *** how I'd crave its taste, but at least I'd lose weight. Other substitutes are lame and aren't quite the same. Regardless, I would survive and still be able to thrive. Why is *** so different? It's a biological need you'll probably say, so you, can't compare the two. I disagree completely. Though we'd all prefer not to be lacking, it's not as if we'd die for wanting. Additionally, people have lived ascetically and have been perfectly fulfilled and happy. Those kinds of people aren't born that way, but rather we are conditioned to be *** crazy. We are made to feel as if we are measured by who or how many we've been with. It is validation we truly desire and to know we always matter. And though *** is one of life's greatest gifts, it does not give your life an overarching bliss.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:00 PM UTC
A Sweet Gift
In age of old, in time that pass like tides, When Prometheus lived and Lo! He strived, As thirsting for Heaven, he climbed its hills, and trees, Clenching at the Sun, its spark he seize. The leaves, they warmed, turn bright and evergreen, As Prometheus, he to fierce fire wean, Swell lips sip lightning, of the nascent noon, And divine heat from his hand duly shone, To Roses, who sing, uprise and sweet rebel, In bloom to conquer, vanquish concrete hell. A wish for fire, fulfilled, angered Zeus, He thought the fire be given, not to choose, That excellence with fire, laurel his, "A crime against the Gods Prometheus did." For glory of the light from Heaven sent, The hour of his favour now gone, spent. Smite down the hero, tear ambition down, Old Zeus, but young ambition wears your crown, For daring, striving why not badge of God? The Promethean vision all time hath applaud, It art of upper world, belong in sky, Praise Prometheus as fire goes roving by. Mind gilded by the golden, whirling thread, You seize from Heaven, through the Earth now spread, Bringing hope to hearts, life to the dead, As for forgiveness of the Gods you plead, For an uncriminal act and sublime deed, The arrogance of Zeus? Need not to feed.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:14 AM UTC
Prometheus
Fulfill the dreams of yearning heart Under the arch lights, bathed in glory Reminiscing the path that you took Forlorn and strewn with hurdles At times an effortless glide ahead Blended with mixed fortunes Inching towards the destination Trial of patience as going gets tough Dreams will be fulfilled, after tribulations Don’t stop dreaming just yet Ignore the furtive glances of cynics Dreams are to be nurtured and fulfilled
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 11:23 PM UTC
Achieving Dreams
I wonder what secret The trees whisper to the breeze? Do the birds hear that secret And announce it in their song? Does the wind hold it And drop it in the seas? Does the sea speak it out And share it with the stars? Do the heavens then resound With the secret of the trees? And the clouds, Oh yes! Those clouds Blue, black and grey Is that why come rushing? Across the seas to caress With gentle rain the trees And whisper, "Heaven knows your heart, There are no secrets from God." The trees smile and sway Fulfilled and complete in love.
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Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 11:43 PM UTC
Secret of the Trees
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 12:33 AM UTC
I Can't Write This Poem
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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In tunnelled darks, pastes of reminisce Outward disjoint points to irrelevance Spooned and coned in cold mountaintops The darks of sorrows and trails of struggles Persistence patterns of self satire in gloom Sunken in identity crisis of broad oceans Stormy seas spotlighted by beatific stars Trajectory of spilled ice in recurrent motions A mere past cocooned by fears and tears Clouded in thoughts that cruise and decline Greyed white imprinted by sudden sadness Madness echoes on arched ancient bricks Checkered maniacs of fulfilled passions Filed and iced in cased prolific memories Cascades of sunshine tickles to warmth Orchards of glow that bloom and grow Picked, ticked and unpacked from boxes Attacked, nurtured and stored in bliss Eventful lessons unfolds in untold augury A mission as the known permeates and fade Windowed eyes all line up in parade Mirrored lights digest the haunted haste A stranger to self, an ally to another A dance of bright entwine a twist of blur
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Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 at 11:48 AM UTC
Checkered Darks (Lyrical Poetry Additional Audio)
"This heat and this blaze harm and burn me, please turn me away" She said crying out into the endless hell, her stay And she continued crying out, Loud even whilst she was about, to burn to dust Her boiling blood, gave the surroundings a smell likewise rust Until the Lord finally answered her call >"If you are granted this wish, will you ask for anything else at all?"< In her pain, in her agony she could only respond "No, I swear by your greatness, I will not go beyond (this wish) " Her wish was fulfilled, she was out of hell, But, this made her ask for more, would it suit her well ? " I beg you oh Lord, bring me forward, just to the gate of paradise, I have no other wish, I promise...please..it would be nice" So her Lord would say: >"Didn't you promise not to ask for anything more ? Woe to you, who swore (by my name)! Oh you who was created from the soil...how treacious you are" She kept begging and pondered so far " I swear by your greatness I will not ask anymore, Am I for you, but a useless ***** ? " And she will continue to promise and pledge, Until she was finally brought to the edge The gate to paradise When she looks inside, she would see its vigor charm and pleasure But remembering her promise she would remain silent, in front of this treasure Then, eventually, unable to bear this...she would scream " Oh Lord, let me enter paradise, it is my greatest dream " And again her Lord would add: >" Did you not make all these oaths and pledges not to ask for anything else ? Is it not enough that I brought you out of hell ? You are still sad ! Oh, woe you, how treacious you are " Tugged in her misery she couldn't help but feel down Though she didn't bother to shed more tears, just frown " Please don't make me the most miserable of your creation, Please forgive me and make heaven my home, my final station" And she would continue to ponder until her Lord would laugh As he did, she was able to enter heaven, its most divine half When she was in, it was said >" Make a wish, it will come true"< Happiness overcame her, growing faster than bamboo! She kept on wishing, until there was nothing left to ask for And thus, the former human, lived in bliss From now on and forever, never bored by this ~ Umi
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Dec 25, 2017
Dec 25, 2017 at 9:14 AM UTC
Falling Devil pt4: When the Lord smiles
"This heat and this blaze harm and burn me, please turn me away" She said crying out into the endless hell, her stay And she continued crying out, Loud even whilst she was about, to burn to dust Her boiling blood, gave the surroundings a smell likewise rust Until the Lord finally answered her call >"If you are granted this wish, will you ask for anything else at all?"< In her pain, in her agony she could only respond "No, I swear by your greatness, I will not go beyond (this wish) " Her wish was fulfilled, she was out of hell, But, this made her ask for more, would it suit her well ? " I beg you oh Lord, bring me forward, just to the gate of paradise, I have no other wish, I promise...please..it would be nice" So her Lord would say: >"Didn't you promise not to ask for anything more ? Woe to you, who swore (by my name)! Oh you who was created from the soil...how treacious you are" She kept begging and pondered so far " I swear by your greatness I will not ask anymore, Am I for you, but a useless ***** ? " And she will continue to promise and pledge, Until she was finally brought to the edge The gate to paradise When she looks inside, she would see its vigor charm and pleasure But remembering her promise she would remain silent, in front of this treasure Then, eventually, unable to bear this...she would scream " Oh Lord, let me enter paradise, it is my greatest dream " And again her Lord would add: >" Did you not make all these oaths and pledges not to ask for anything else ? Is it not enough that I brought you out of hell ? You are still sad ! Oh, woe you, how treacious you are " Tugged in her misery she couldn't help but feel down Though she didn't bother to shed more tears, just frown " Please don't make me the most miserable of your creation, Please forgive me and make heaven my home, my final station" And she would continue to ponder until her Lord would laugh As he did, she was able to enter heaven, its most divine half When she was in, it was said >" Make a wish, it will come true"< Happiness overcame her, growing faster than bamboo! She kept on wishing, until there was nothing left to ask for And thus, the former human, lived in bliss From now on and forever, never bored by this ~ Umi
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Sometimes I wish that I wasn’t born with a tall, magnificent, towering horn Because I might be killed soon while my horn were torn. Every 8 hours, one of us is dreadfully killed, Only to make their dream fulfilled? If I were to say we’re nothing special, we’re just like you it’s just not fair. And if I say our horns are made like your nails and your hair. Would people still **** us or let us be free? Maybe they’ll laugh, as you can see. We’re neither for sale, nor for medicine or as your house souvenirs. I don’t want to be a display and stay there for years! How can it be a work that they’re so proud of? Then does that mean we’re just “stuff”? There are not many of us now, only 5 species left and yes it is true. White, Black, Greater one- horned, Sumatran and Javan too. However, I’m afraid that one day we’ll be gone, And by then whom will they look upon? I know by far that many of you had protected us, and gave us support. Though is it not enough to reach the hunter’s heart? Don’t you think that we’ve had enough? We have to stay strong and tough. This is why we need your help, to spread the word and show us you care. Help us make a difference, since we are considered as rare. I want us to all get together and to be a part of this. For a happy future that you’ll never miss!
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM UTC
Get Together! (Protect the Rhino)
He's her sickness, with him she's unwell She's his drug, without her life's hell He's her nightmare, with him she's frightened She's his sweetest dreams, without her he's burdened He's her despair, with him she's grieved She's his hope, with her he's fulfilled He's her failure She's his success
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 5:24 PM UTC
Complicated
I am at this place where sound is energy- where color has mass and taste. Every moment is a glorious adventure, balanced on the fine line between joy and madness. I may be insane. I might have finally lost my mind. I don't care. I am bliss and freedom in this moment, encapsulated by the rushing wind of my own thoughts as they sail by visceral, anthropomorphic. As layer by layer all I know is taken not by force, but gently, I discover truth hidden beneath. Obfuscated no longer, I am god of this moment- I am the All-Seeing Eye. -for just a moment. A moment that seems to stretch across the history of the universe, as I am blinded by the birth of a billion suns... As waves of cigarette smoke waft lazily into the form of tigers, the fever pitch waves adieu- like the distant memory of an ****** it leaves me tired but fulfilled. Time to reflect. Time to absorb what I've found. There are no adventures greater than those in your own mind.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 1:49 PM UTC
Psychedelic
Cornwall, Cornwall every day Bright sun and fresh feelings Simple pleasures by just being here Forward thinking into old age dotage All our lives waiting, hoping, wishing Never believing it could be Out of mind with secret longing Filling up with atmospheric air Sensing that emotional rush Deep breaths swallowing cliffs and sea Wild flowers and cows here Hedgerows and windblown trees Lopsided branches pointing inland As cool salt air combs their twigs The winding tracks disappear Love is here all around, so strong Heart wrenching and stomach churning Soul and body filling up with Cornish… Cornish, as long as it’s Cornish It’s good! Give us a chance to stay Give us the chance to live Ever on the hard granite pathways Sounds of mewing gulls and thunder of surf Beating on the windswept rocks and beaches Cornish light familiar and so bright Invading our eyes and warming our hearts Gently massaging our faces with soothing fingers Lifting our spirits as breaking through the clouds It charges us with love Fulfilled and whole Our lives and minds gratefully feasting The armfuls of wonder as we carry our hearts Together, through eternity, watching As the sun sets in a blaze of Cornish light
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Feb 3, 2010
Feb 3, 2010 at 12:28 PM UTC
Cornish Light
Myself caught in the heatwave sunlight, brown eyes furrowed in the sun, scarf loose on my neck/ the transcendental Denpasar morning-birds are playing their melodies in my head still, three years post-Indonesia.         All of my soul to India now,         sky the pink of painted elephants         on Jaipur dawning,         my afterlife was somewhere here         perhaps two generations ago, chances are.                Vijay Raghav Rao and Alla Rakha                playing the Tabla/via earphones/treading the                Funary Box City (Kashi) future Spring                hands held together keeping calm pace.                Looking about, my twenty-two year old face catches humid wind S I L V E R S H O P tattered bike leaning on the gated guest house entrance      PERENNIAL AZURE SHIVA SITS CROSS LEGGED/      COBRA NECKLACE IMITIATONS ON THE GODDESS THROAT/      MEDITATING SHIVA/ dulled from years and corrosion. Brahmin center of the market street flapping it's tail, sweat beads from my forehead bleeding to oily pavement. At last the months have come for the river Ganges, April penumbra/savage thunderclap while school children uplifting the heart                  AND MIND are ROARING in their laughter the CONTINENTAL DISCORD OF JOY sleeping with their eyes open while others are too tired for the Earth. Sidney Bechet floating swan songs during the black hour cremations/ “Bechet Creole Blues” CATERWAUL IN THAT              VOID THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DEATH/ LUNACY OF LIFE                      (I've arrived at the simultaneous crossroads                                                         of both) searing flesh in open air pyramids/ Manikarnika Ghat, Asia  F           L          O          W           S through dreams like inevitable prophecy and as ash blends with stars the CITY seems fulfilled and mystifying in it's                       (((((RESPLENDENCE)))))
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 3:40 PM UTC
Self-Made Prophecies (Of Varanasi)
Myself caught in the heatwave sunlight, brown eyes furrowed in the sun, scarf loose on my neck/ the transcendental Denpasar morning-birds are playing their melodies in my head still, three years post-Indonesia.         All of my soul to India now,         sky the pink of painted elephants         on Jaipur dawning,         my afterlife was somewhere here         perhaps two generations ago, chances are.                Vijay Raghav Rao and Alla Rakha                playing the Tabla/via earphones/treading the                Funary Box City (Kashi) future Spring                hands held together keeping calm pace.                Looking about, my twenty-two year old face catches humid wind S I L V E R S H O P tattered bike leaning on the gated guest house entrance      PERENNIAL AZURE SHIVA SITS CROSS LEGGED/      COBRA NECKLACE IMITIATONS ON THE GODDESS THROAT/      MEDITATING SHIVA/ dulled from years and corrosion. Brahmin center of the market street flapping it's tail, sweat beads from my forehead bleeding to oily pavement. At last the months have come for the river Ganges, April penumbra/savage thunderclap while school children uplifting the heart                  AND MIND are ROARING in their laughter the CONTINENTAL DISCORD OF JOY sleeping with their eyes open while others are too tired for the Earth. Sidney Bechet floating swan songs during the black hour cremations/ “Bechet Creole Blues” CATERWAUL IN THAT              VOID THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DEATH/ LUNACY OF LIFE                      (I've arrived at the simultaneous crossroads                                                         of both) searing flesh in open air pyramids/ Manikarnika Ghat, Asia  F           L          O          W           S through dreams like inevitable prophecy and as ash blends with stars the CITY seems fulfilled and mystifying in it's                       (((((RESPLENDENCE)))))
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*Just when the sun illuminates, Upon the sapphire skies, And the clouds appear, To slowly dance, side by side. Shimmery, cobalt blue waters, Perform a low sequence, on the seaside, Leaving a bubbling blanket, On the surface of smooth sands, Washing away, pretentiously. Bringing a gentle tropical zephyr, With rhythmic sounds, Echoing, through evergreen pinnate leaves, Swinging gently, into the calming air. Inspiring a magical after glow, With dreams fulfilled, In ecstasy, Leaving a warm and peaceful impression.*
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 8:48 PM UTC
When The Sun Illuminates, Upon The Sapphire Skies II
I wrote about you, day and night You are my moon, you are my sun I wished for the day when we would finally unite Like the stars in the galaxy, shining bright I was dreading the fact that the day might never come When you wrap me in your arms and tell me it's fine When you utter those words and protect me for life My dread was increasing, my hopes were decreasing I slowly shattered into a deep despair Losing all senses of a fulfilled life and hope I thought that the fantasies and dreams in my head are unrealistic and are merely an illusion But then there you were, my protector, my hero You grabbed me right at the end of the cliff and held me tight You reassured and brought my soul back to life You were my protector, and I was yours We are now, now and forever, inseparable For we suffered too long in the absence of one another
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Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 2:30 PM UTC
My Soulmate
“i haven’t seen her in years,” said the hospital bed, “though i’ve seen many others, who sobbed violently like her, who sunk into me like a young, rusting anchor. who could not get comfortable in one position or one mindset or one truth. i have felt them dig in their heels and try to ache and and fight and scream, just quietly enough not to wake their roommate.” “i remember their shapes,” said the hospital bed, “how their voices rose slowly like a far-off ambulance siren, how their faces fell when they remembered the emergency was right here. i have been kicked, punched, clung to, held on to, as if gravity switched suddenly and they feared yet another aspect of the universe was against them. i’ve seen ***** sheets and i’ve seen clean ones. i’ve seen boys with tattoos on their faces and razor marks on their arms. i’ve seen pain. i’ve seen girls who wouldn’t turn off the lights, girls who couldn’t turn off the lights, girls who had turned a light off once and never wanted to do anything else. i’ve seen pain. i’ve felt love before more often than the lovers thought they loved, more strongly than the fighters thought they could fight. in shaky hands folding down blankets more carefully than they have all week in heads that flop ungracefully onto pillows, securely, fulfilled. in the slow turn of a hospital bracelet around a pale wrist, in large, golden brown hands, inspected through tear-blurred eyes, through scratched glasses, picked up off the floor after discovering force won’t carry a ring of thin plastic as far as you thought. i hear change in whispers, good night, good luck, in hushed acceptance, in ‘yes, i really am here’. in screams that send nurses in panic only to find you were laughing. in numbers, in ‘five hundred milligrams,’ in ‘three gained pounds’, in ‘one more day’. i hear shock, i hear fear, in echoes of parents’ voices, ‘why here? why now?’ i have heard and seen and felt all of them. but she,” continued the hospital bed, “hasn’t been in here in a while. i haven’t heard her whisper to her roommate about what she did ‘that night’, i haven’t seen her sneak away from her pile of pajamas as if she didn’t just hide something there, i haven’t heard her empathize with a pencil sharpener. it’s been so long, it’s hard to imagine,” said the hospital bed, ‘i hardly remember her'. if only the hospital bed knew that she could hardly remember herself from then either, if only it knew she hadn't stopped fighting once she left if only it knew how she felt when they said she only needed to go to therapy every other week. it felt like progress, and it felt like hope, and no one better than a hospital bed could understand that.
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 11:43 PM UTC
Hospital Bed Said
“i haven’t seen her in years,” said the hospital bed, “though i’ve seen many others, who sobbed violently like her, who sunk into me like a young, rusting anchor. who could not get comfortable in one position or one mindset or one truth. i have felt them dig in their heels and try to ache and and fight and scream, just quietly enough not to wake their roommate.” “i remember their shapes,” said the hospital bed, “how their voices rose slowly like a far-off ambulance siren, how their faces fell when they remembered the emergency was right here. i have been kicked, punched, clung to, held on to, as if gravity switched suddenly and they feared yet another aspect of the universe was against them. i’ve seen ***** sheets and i’ve seen clean ones. i’ve seen boys with tattoos on their faces and razor marks on their arms. i’ve seen pain. i’ve seen girls who wouldn’t turn off the lights, girls who couldn’t turn off the lights, girls who had turned a light off once and never wanted to do anything else. i’ve seen pain. i’ve felt love before more often than the lovers thought they loved, more strongly than the fighters thought they could fight. in shaky hands folding down blankets more carefully than they have all week in heads that flop ungracefully onto pillows, securely, fulfilled. in the slow turn of a hospital bracelet around a pale wrist, in large, golden brown hands, inspected through tear-blurred eyes, through scratched glasses, picked up off the floor after discovering force won’t carry a ring of thin plastic as far as you thought. i hear change in whispers, good night, good luck, in hushed acceptance, in ‘yes, i really am here’. in screams that send nurses in panic only to find you were laughing. in numbers, in ‘five hundred milligrams,’ in ‘three gained pounds’, in ‘one more day’. i hear shock, i hear fear, in echoes of parents’ voices, ‘why here? why now?’ i have heard and seen and felt all of them. but she,” continued the hospital bed, “hasn’t been in here in a while. i haven’t heard her whisper to her roommate about what she did ‘that night’, i haven’t seen her sneak away from her pile of pajamas as if she didn’t just hide something there, i haven’t heard her empathize with a pencil sharpener. it’s been so long, it’s hard to imagine,” said the hospital bed, ‘i hardly remember her'. if only the hospital bed knew that she could hardly remember herself from then either, if only it knew she hadn't stopped fighting once she left if only it knew how she felt when they said she only needed to go to therapy every other week. it felt like progress, and it felt like hope, and no one better than a hospital bed could understand that.
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- It's a skill that one must practice A tool to wield with grace It's a path paved for the cunning Hidden by a pretty face - You must learn to keep it simple Don't add threads to growing web Don't pile on more fabrications But add truth with it instead - You must learn the ways of patience Step back and let it build Whisper words of sweet seduction   Until agenda is fulfilled - See,  ways of manipulation Are obscure and gently made Yet once you start you must dance on In a lifelong masquerade
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Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015 at 1:19 PM UTC
The Art of Manipulation
I'm scared scared of things ending scared of patterns breaking scared of dreams broken scared of words unspoken scared of time going by scared of a disappointed sigh scared of a painful shove scared of never finding love But I'm also happy happy about things ending happy about patterns breaking happy about dreams fulfilled happy about silences killed happy about times gone by happy about nights ended on a high happy about a friendly shove happy about our one-time love
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Mar 26, 2014
Mar 26, 2014 at 11:47 AM UTC
Scared/Happy
a date with destiny many fulfilled lots more to come
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 10:18 AM UTC
Optimistic