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*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 11:50 PM UTC
Scent
*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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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)
I adored the very action of blowing dust-motes off a box. Watch it dance in the distilled air. I like the sight it presents. One where the past snaps the silence of today. Slowly but surely re-etching how much time has passed on the corners of my bruised heart. Once, happiness and sweetness, those dust-motes are just greyed out. They kiss my cheeks and eyelashes. I never blew the remnants of time again.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 4:38 AM UTC
Dust
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM UTC
In My Salad Days
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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In a white book, writing was done with tears, And so we cannot figure out a single line; Memorized and though about since early youth, It eludes one’s wit even as one has aged and greyed. When mind seeks it out, love turns up in the heart, When heart pursues it, love is in the mind, escaping wit. Regarded at close range, love dissipates, Leave it aside and love turns sad and grieves. When loving is intense, love resists the long wait, Like a lightning bolt, it streaks across the dark. The kiss that sears is a kiss given only once, And when the river swell, only once will flooding rise. Love that is timid is a river still and currentless, No falls nor torrents, no tears nor unbearable loss! But when love has dared, the heart is swept away, Honor, wealth and wisdom, love will drown them out! When love is yet a bud, it heeds an elder’s counsel, Such is not yet love, for it still sees the light. But when it bursts aflame, what matter the universe — That’s real love, so lose yourself in it with all your heart. When you balk at the threat of ill fortune and hazard, Truly your wit is lit and your mind at dull alert; Your love is cautious yet, you have not learned to really love, For once in love, the grave itself is heaven’s gate. Love has eyes, love is never blind, having learned to love, one’s wounds turn into blossoms, Love is selfish and cannot bear to share, It’s either you get it all, or get nothing at all. “Mother has been watching me, so I cannot write..” Friend, that’s a sign you have yet to win her love. But when she dares write even at her very grave site, She has come to love you more than her very life. All you, young people. who are in quest of love, Moths who are fluttering around the lamplight, Once in the grip of love, danger you will seek out, Ready to love your wings to the very flames of love.
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 7:40 PM UTC
Love by Jose Corazon de Jesus
In a white book, writing was done with tears, And so we cannot figure out a single line; Memorized and though about since early youth, It eludes one’s wit even as one has aged and greyed. When mind seeks it out, love turns up in the heart, When heart pursues it, love is in the mind, escaping wit. Regarded at close range, love dissipates, Leave it aside and love turns sad and grieves. When loving is intense, love resists the long wait, Like a lightning bolt, it streaks across the dark. The kiss that sears is a kiss given only once, And when the river swell, only once will flooding rise. Love that is timid is a river still and currentless, No falls nor torrents, no tears nor unbearable loss! But when love has dared, the heart is swept away, Honor, wealth and wisdom, love will drown them out! When love is yet a bud, it heeds an elder’s counsel, Such is not yet love, for it still sees the light. But when it bursts aflame, what matter the universe — That’s real love, so lose yourself in it with all your heart. When you balk at the threat of ill fortune and hazard, Truly your wit is lit and your mind at dull alert; Your love is cautious yet, you have not learned to really love, For once in love, the grave itself is heaven’s gate. Love has eyes, love is never blind, having learned to love, one’s wounds turn into blossoms, Love is selfish and cannot bear to share, It’s either you get it all, or get nothing at all. “Mother has been watching me, so I cannot write..” Friend, that’s a sign you have yet to win her love. But when she dares write even at her very grave site, She has come to love you more than her very life. All you, young people. who are in quest of love, Moths who are fluttering around the lamplight, Once in the grip of love, danger you will seek out, Ready to love your wings to the very flames of love.
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every morning i walk my terrier through a winding half-mile, but i think he’s the one walking me: he’s always in a sprightly haste. i don’t know how many tail wags i miss in between slow, drowsy blinks. elsewhere, the earth is walking her moon, both zipping around their own usual orbit. in the city, the suited adults manoeuvre sidewalks, dispensing brief greetings, sparse on chatter. punctuality is a battle through suitcase-wielding phalanxes. overlooking the bustling crossroads, a greyed man sits, ****** from cigar compounding existing inertia. limbs in inactivity, mind far from monotony, slowly drifting towards a familiar wraith in a different hurry: the one for reunion. i think about us and wish the same.
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 2:16 AM UTC
hurry
Margy shouts her advice from outside Greggs unsolicited, but often needed usually it concerns fashion - the choice of a scarf - inappropriate shoes for the weather - or the state of a pair of trousers, hanging and baring a cleavage (“No one wants to see that, dear.”) Margy can be relied upon to wear the same distinct socks – draped around her stocking feet, their multi-coloured design now greyed by wear and the Uxbridge Road. Margy is more reliable than her friends and she tells them as much (“You’re all a bunch of time wasters.”) demanding more loyalty and demands from me enough for a cup of tea - a very expensive one apparently. And on a Sunday, she’ll kneel and pray throughout the early Eucharist, declining the bread and wine (”On, no dear. It’s not a habit I want to cultivate.”)
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Jun 19, 2022
Jun 19, 2022 at 3:26 PM UTC
Margy's advice
I took my pen I drew you out I got you wrong I rubbed you out I honed my craft I tried again I failed with mine And then with men And then with landscapes Laced with trees Where others seemed to draw with ease My lines were sloppy Colors weak Your essence greyed Left incomplete
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Dec 20, 2019
Dec 20, 2019 at 4:09 PM UTC
Incomplete
Venus sits below a contrail necklace whilst the moon above sighs, a ring around its lips guiding shoreline ships back home again to be met by merry wives. Walking with the swell in their socks the sailors tread on land, trembling souls and uneasy hearts make for nervous hands. Their faces have greyed under a stubble mist, grown out of a no-mirror-broken-razor rage; to kiss is to make red, to be back home is to sleep in a bed. Tight canyon cheeks are stretched- flat canvas peaks, tanned bronze by a sun that runs among northern hemisphere, north-east sheets. Chipped lips miss the taste of salt so drink up the malt and take a rest, not long from now he'll want his mistress back, the woman of the swell, this ocean's mademoiselle.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 12:29 PM UTC
Mademoiselle
Mediocre Flow  (Spoken Word- Freestyle-Dramatics) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ==Mediocre Flow == by SassyJ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (Copy the link below to your browser) https://soundcloud.com/user-367453778/mediocreflow In the woods I get lost, arrays of green specked by the rays of the sun. The wind blows but its swift in measure. I get lost my body in the breeze, as the time runs faster I breath slower. Lost in the wonder of the nature. I lay it all down, the worldly desires, disused contributions… all in the mediocre flow. The grounds feels so alive, alone but never lonely. The trees talk to me, they journey my vulnerabilities. A hug of the branches goes far beyond. The only lean over that drives me to ecstasy of …….my mediocre flow. All done with expectations and chasing the unending mazes. We become the mistresses of the earth, arching and protracting with emotions, lotions ……looming greyed blues. Hold this packet of stars, I pass it to you to touch, to overflow in it’s magic and fantastic voyages of the. …..mediocre flow Feel the greenness patched on the muddy grounds. Have the enliven nature of the flying bubble. See the flow of the waters, the contraction of the streams to the lakes. Touch the drops….the raindrops, nurture them as they sink below your feet. Feel the life, feel alive….. the mediocre flow
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 7:42 AM UTC
Mediocre Flow (Spoken Word- Freestyle-Dramatics)
A laugh is not a pretense I wanted to tell you that, Urooj And maybe to myself too Because I know you saw peeps Of the vacancy Nestled in my skin And I too was acquainted With your queer sorrow That rises and falls With a schedule of its own We saw the jolly winds flirt with greyed trees And heard many a strange talks In golden fields of youthful wheat And mustard flowers alive But we ran too, didn’t we? I pointed to the slender tree far, far away Count as I go, I said And count you did as I rushed Rushed clumsily on My feet twisting in troughs Eye-lashes fighting dust Twenty, you shouted, as the tree grew But I barely heard my body singing a battlefield You stumbled through the ploughed soil Hardened through suns Crushing the remnants of harvested wheat beneath the flat soles of your sandals (who wears those to a field?) Then more Through soft, chestnut soils Trying not to damage the baby onions And I laughed through my burning lungs A smoke piled up in me Yearning to gnaw all away And we licked the gusts singing gossips Of sour, raw mangoes Then relished the cool water that You forced the earth to puke (I still don’t get how that hand-pump worked) And I know you sneaked along a wilted rose From your sister’s grave And wept, quietly sniffing Seeing her in all the birds I pointed out All the leaves dried to immortality In my notebook I too treaded through rows of childish guava trees And struggled to will my ghosts away I too got stranded in the insolent rays of the dusty sun But we joked still, didn’t we? And when, on the way home, I reminded you stories Of the silly children we once lived Your laugh glimmered all around And mine mimicked And the radio was **** So we swam in our own private silences Got lost in the rowing birds And I know, at some point, All the dead days And all the rotten mangoes Seated themselves in the car Along with us and our shackled beasts And the villages and the stalls and empty fields Ran past in silence But we had laughed When the restless winds nearly sent me Tumbling down the tree And we had laughed when The freshly-watered soil tried To **** us under And a laugh is not a pretense Urooj, a laugh is not a pretense. I wonder if we know.
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May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021 at 10:55 AM UTC
And mustard flowers alive
A laugh is not a pretense I wanted to tell you that, Urooj And maybe to myself too Because I know you saw peeps Of the vacancy Nestled in my skin And I too was acquainted With your queer sorrow That rises and falls With a schedule of its own We saw the jolly winds flirt with greyed trees And heard many a strange talks In golden fields of youthful wheat And mustard flowers alive But we ran too, didn’t we? I pointed to the slender tree far, far away Count as I go, I said And count you did as I rushed Rushed clumsily on My feet twisting in troughs Eye-lashes fighting dust Twenty, you shouted, as the tree grew But I barely heard my body singing a battlefield You stumbled through the ploughed soil Hardened through suns Crushing the remnants of harvested wheat beneath the flat soles of your sandals (who wears those to a field?) Then more Through soft, chestnut soils Trying not to damage the baby onions And I laughed through my burning lungs A smoke piled up in me Yearning to gnaw all away And we licked the gusts singing gossips Of sour, raw mangoes Then relished the cool water that You forced the earth to puke (I still don’t get how that hand-pump worked) And I know you sneaked along a wilted rose From your sister’s grave And wept, quietly sniffing Seeing her in all the birds I pointed out All the leaves dried to immortality In my notebook I too treaded through rows of childish guava trees And struggled to will my ghosts away I too got stranded in the insolent rays of the dusty sun But we joked still, didn’t we? And when, on the way home, I reminded you stories Of the silly children we once lived Your laugh glimmered all around And mine mimicked And the radio was **** So we swam in our own private silences Got lost in the rowing birds And I know, at some point, All the dead days And all the rotten mangoes Seated themselves in the car Along with us and our shackled beasts And the villages and the stalls and empty fields Ran past in silence But we had laughed When the restless winds nearly sent me Tumbling down the tree And we had laughed when The freshly-watered soil tried To **** us under And a laugh is not a pretense Urooj, a laugh is not a pretense. I wonder if we know.
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She was stripped and ***** before millions, but she made herself believe it was not us but few aliens; why else do you think she stands ***** gathering all her resilience, to provide us food, oxygen and shelter throughout the four seasons. Every night, she wonders about her fate at dawn, Would she be able to greet the sun with that lazy yawn; Her mates are dead in a battle they had forgone, Now, she awaits her turn, death is pleasing than being forlorn. Consumed with fear, the leaves once fresh, now greyed and withered, She is too pained to decide whether to fight or stay a coward; Before the first cut of axe, she asks “what have I erred?”, But we have long since lost our sensitive hearts, her cries are left unheard. What goes around comes around, do we realize that? Every tree lost makes the world less amiable to adapt, having brutally sinned, are we ready to face the impact? Our acts let them bleed; now let’s get ready to don their hat. We can’t give birth to a battalion to fight the nature’s army, Coz our Hitlers and Napoleons are no match for their blazing heat or tsunami. These are conflicts, which cannot be resolved by a bishop or an attorney, we are adhered to doom when the nature says “the war is between you and ME”. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now – a Chinese proverb
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Dec 3, 2012
Dec 3, 2012 at 4:59 AM UTC
Save trees, Trees save!
When thunder is replaced with the screaming of an unborn child And clouds choose to rain tears instead When this dunya becomes a graveyard And the seven seas give birth to one ocean of death When the empty stomach of a black coloured men makes for a white supremacist's money bag And when your lungs are used to carry the ashes of my faithful men Then don't read to us from tales that greyed out your chest Read of the walls that collected broken limbs Read, from heart to chest Read red to us
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Mar 19, 2022
Mar 19, 2022 at 5:48 PM UTC
Read red to us
he leaves his window open so the rare wind whistling by through a dust-coloured day; in a dust-coloured cell on a dust-coloured treasure chest lie his faded blue attire, worn and patched by gentler days, greyed gracefully to dusty black; new wrinkles on his face weigh him down; a faded treasure chest stares at a cement coloured wall over his head, and the lonely voiceless mist, blinding; hear it call to rusty, dark and sunless sky, reflected in his eyes, when a bright and impish countenance eclipses tired sighs; the tired rusty treasure chest five decades hibernates, to feel the stirring light of grey, to feel new hope, awaits the cold and stinging storms that pour, taste salty youth again; the dusty yellow rain boots melt, ecstatic in the rain. T. E. Pyrus https://lampteacupoverthinking.wordpress.com/
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:09 AM UTC
coal mining
He protects his phone but not his *** Sitting on a cherry withered-wood, it's good to remember that in December, he waited for this tired world, to pass him by, for his mother to 'please come home.' Casper, undercut with curls on top, plays a greyed banjo while wearing the green-chestnut flannel his dad wore before he disappeared into vermilion sky, only remembered with lullabies from a hopeful mom that smelled like Pall-Malls and factory-soaked-heartbreak. White, chiseled with skeleton intention, he sips from within himself, hoping to harness new direction.
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 12:33 AM UTC
Casper
Roadways have flayed greyed arteries Into the greenaries of the land. A kingdom of metallic cities, An empire built upon shifting sands. And bombs stain the badlands In dusty countries far ashore. It is a time for distractive actions And a constant state of war. But what a dull reality! To focus on the undulations, The consequences of being free, The purge of the weaker nations. For life can be easy If you live through glossy pages. The life and lies of a celebrity; The superficial ages. A sorry state for families Who talk only about the weather And other temporal pleasantries, On their proud suites made of leather. Oh, what a poor affair! Caring more for the clouds above, Than the climates of our world-weary hearts, and for all the ones we love. And lo, we're careless and carefree for all that does not appear on screen. They'd gush over some royal baby, But not pine over the unseen. Our modern sicknesses Are conjured and conceited too. For what value is there in compassion, If oneself is feeling blue? Does charity begin at home? You once said it does nothing at all. But is home solely what you own, In a world so close and so small? These questions are silent, But they are asked in the thousands. By all those that are used to deaf ears, Across all oceans and lands. To the soft-hearted I call thee, To not be so stilled and so dampened. By the weight of the majority, the crowds of the minds unopened. And to myself I hope, That we shall meet dear reader. Above your recitation of my words, To something more real, To something much clearer.
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Jul 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 at 6:58 PM UTC
The Measure of Man
Roadways have flayed greyed arteries Into the greenaries of the land. A kingdom of metallic cities, An empire built upon shifting sands. And bombs stain the badlands In dusty countries far ashore. It is a time for distractive actions And a constant state of war. But what a dull reality! To focus on the undulations, The consequences of being free, The purge of the weaker nations. For life can be easy If you live through glossy pages. The life and lies of a celebrity; The superficial ages. A sorry state for families Who talk only about the weather And other temporal pleasantries, On their proud suites made of leather. Oh, what a poor affair! Caring more for the clouds above, Than the climates of our world-weary hearts, and for all the ones we love. And lo, we're careless and carefree for all that does not appear on screen. They'd gush over some royal baby, But not pine over the unseen. Our modern sicknesses Are conjured and conceited too. For what value is there in compassion, If oneself is feeling blue? Does charity begin at home? You once said it does nothing at all. But is home solely what you own, In a world so close and so small? These questions are silent, But they are asked in the thousands. By all those that are used to deaf ears, Across all oceans and lands. To the soft-hearted I call thee, To not be so stilled and so dampened. By the weight of the majority, the crowds of the minds unopened. And to myself I hope, That we shall meet dear reader. Above your recitation of my words, To something more real, To something much clearer.
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My mother likes to hang bells On the front door, And I always wondered What they were for. They would jingle Whenever someone made entry, and glitter With the light from the lamppost On the street. But they became dull Hanging all day, And the giggling clatter Mulled and dulled to a brassy bray. Mom has a small wedding bell Of a silver boy Holding flowers With a smiling grin. He’s asking her to ring him And bring back memories. But father’s guitar glistens Whilst the sun lays low. With one pluck The vibration hums Smooth and mellow. But can you hear it Sitting on the steps? This house is so large But there still lays unrest. And through The corridor Clacks the patter Of greyed canine feet. But some of us Lay silent And reap the past From the sounds That do dare speak. the living room clock Drones with That of a distant chime, Because the living arrangements Have changed overtime.
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
Doorbells
“I’m just bored,” she said, but in reality she was just numb, she didn’t want to feel; she lay expressionless, her hair spilling everywhere. Her headphones tangled and twisted to match her thoughts her mind racing people called her lazy a waste of space. Her books no longer thrilled her “I read it already” her music lost meaning “It gives me a headache” her sketches greyed “I ran out of space." She was bored tired not hungry sleepy alone. Hardly anyone noticed her shadow disappearing. -k.m.
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Nov 30, 2013
Nov 30, 2013 at 8:29 PM UTC
the secrets
I stood in the closed space trembling all over, cracked eyelids slowly falling in deadened existences, somber cheeks sinking in the air, as I stared at the shadowed walls, the Spiderman comforter covering the stained bed, a square of Lego blocks, blue polished tricycle, game consoles, a spinning yo-yo that my baby boy used to hold onto like he'd discovered his new best friend.  I remember the days when we used to watch Recess together, his bright blue eyes staring excitedly at the screen, picture perfect animation elevating into heightened equations, ecstatic smiles and sparkly cheeks.  He was my world, the one that kept me working hard every day to make sure he never went hungry, a shining star in my dreams that made being a father the greatest joy. And some days when I was in the kitchen fixing his favorite dish, fried chicken and crinkled French fries, I could hear the satisfying delight in his face.  His exuberant words, This tastes amazing dad, as I smiled at him and thought how lucky I was to be a part of his life. And when it came time to put him to bed, I'd read, "Life and Dreams," his chipper frame smiling in the moment, seeping inside the lovely diction. And as he drifted off to sleep, I could see his lips moving at a slow pace, I love you, dad. I'd kiss him on his cheeks and reply, I love you too my little man. Now as I stand here gazing at everything surrounding me, how my life is screaming inside and out, harboring in brokenness, I can feel the suffocating breaths in the distance creeping around me, a sunken flame disintegrating into greyed ashes.
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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 1:38 PM UTC
My Only Son
I stood in the closed space trembling all over, cracked eyelids slowly falling in deadened existences, somber cheeks sinking in the air, as I stared at the shadowed walls, the Spiderman comforter covering the stained bed, a square of Lego blocks, blue polished tricycle, game consoles, a spinning yo-yo that my baby boy used to hold onto like he'd discovered his new best friend.  I remember the days when we used to watch Recess together, his bright blue eyes staring excitedly at the screen, picture perfect animation elevating into heightened equations, ecstatic smiles and sparkly cheeks.  He was my world, the one that kept me working hard every day to make sure he never went hungry, a shining star in my dreams that made being a father the greatest joy. And some days when I was in the kitchen fixing his favorite dish, fried chicken and crinkled French fries, I could hear the satisfying delight in his face.  His exuberant words, This tastes amazing dad, as I smiled at him and thought how lucky I was to be a part of his life. And when it came time to put him to bed, I'd read, "Life and Dreams," his chipper frame smiling in the moment, seeping inside the lovely diction. And as he drifted off to sleep, I could see his lips moving at a slow pace, I love you, dad. I'd kiss him on his cheeks and reply, I love you too my little man. Now as I stand here gazing at everything surrounding me, how my life is screaming inside and out, harboring in brokenness, I can feel the suffocating breaths in the distance creeping around me, a sunken flame disintegrating into greyed ashes.
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our most intimate moment in my imagination is painting poetry onto your moonlight-drenched chest, hot and writhing underneath me, mirroring each stroke by tensing the muscles in your abdomen– your vessel of a body, becoming frayed and singed at the seams as you burst. I never cared much for my words. when I write them onto my own starved skin, I find, disappointed, that the greyed valleys are always a poor substitute for the scorchmarks your fingers track behind them when we touch. but I imagine that covering your skin in my ink would create a constructive interference, that engraving into you my scarlet-tinged idolatry would cause our cores like stars inside of us to magnetize – solar flares erupting, surging through every ****** crevice – to collide in a kaleidoscopic supernova, tearing flesh to confetti in a glorious funeral that reeks of destiny.
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Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 11:08 AM UTC
collapse of a binary star
Some moments a thought comes - It’s so much easier just to give up. So comfy a feeling to visualize nothing but blank-nothing – Not to be. Not to think or feel or breathe. No pressure to present a concocted identity one can’t even see that’s not at all me. No stress keeping abreast of every snippet of someone else’s reality. No figuring or wondering or worrying or plans. Nothing to hope for or hate or to signify or demand. No side-eyes screaming "how weird". No stink-eyes looking to strike. No evil intentions peering behind some ignoramus’s unbelievable disguise. No more fake smiles and rhetorical "how are you's". No more seeing wrong numbers and choosing them too. Absent anxiety and anger and acrid, stone-cold fear. Absent color. Absent pattern. Without texture or taste. No feeling a thing like the aching of pain. Some moments a thought comes - Just end this silly race sooner. Why stick around any longer perceiving the same old, unpolished, frayed and slightly greyed images on a disappearing, silky screen, when there is glorious and unending nothing awaiting this little, tiny insignificant me.
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Jan 22, 2022
Jan 22, 2022 at 9:25 PM UTC
momentous ideation
8AM strikes like a ***** And romping the losing street - The engineered reptile stalks the hound we are. The soldiered army, oozing molten pride, Spike me in the side with their knees Lifted to caution, so-so below the chin The cold, dead breath bullies like a child Never been taught, never have they ought; I give them pity like spit, the drool reared. The glands of my sodden state are nucleic They spark and fizz and pop at the slightest fix And they mount the green turf as they say the things they say They say them in spite Their eyes to register a flat-line, the pulse of my eyelid Froths staring into their granite granules, you call them eyes I do despise, I do despise, The heartless range of those hunter-deers, The wet pathos that criminals invoke And then, I woke, the rage, the rage! A mountainous affair, cracked into your skin You wished I were dead so you could be thin. And when I am not hot, Risen, aired by the microwaved Monday dawning, I can almost laugh about the spaces between your eyes The slight disgust, the frozen musk Awns over me, little fist tight of pink Ears rabbited off -- a sharp, twisted empale And then, you are there-- Frozen and dominating, your coffin spooks to me A spoken longing and then all we know wilts A running red cloak of tartan regrets Jades the illicit wail bespoken after the instrumental twist The torture device you call your words is broken out I ask for one thing, beg for it, screech it To the solars like I am owed. Knowing Death, if not heed, the spited greed-- Give me strength, for the thoughts The thoughts, that blow through me Windswept, gliding the dead human ash through my marsh Do not upturn the limped greyed grass And blow through, a harmless storm, With nothing to say about how I carry my day. Move on to your homeward-bound, your Concentration plantation, reeling off dead spinners Like your words, your cold ******* words. You slimy ******* you **** I have spoken, one million syllables, For your satisfaction. You lord it over me like a raw-meat hand Of the disciples. Well, well, Judas, Judas -- I bite my tongue. I bite it so it jades.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 12:48 PM UTC
Forsooth to Evil
8AM strikes like a ***** And romping the losing street - The engineered reptile stalks the hound we are. The soldiered army, oozing molten pride, Spike me in the side with their knees Lifted to caution, so-so below the chin The cold, dead breath bullies like a child Never been taught, never have they ought; I give them pity like spit, the drool reared. The glands of my sodden state are nucleic They spark and fizz and pop at the slightest fix And they mount the green turf as they say the things they say They say them in spite Their eyes to register a flat-line, the pulse of my eyelid Froths staring into their granite granules, you call them eyes I do despise, I do despise, The heartless range of those hunter-deers, The wet pathos that criminals invoke And then, I woke, the rage, the rage! A mountainous affair, cracked into your skin You wished I were dead so you could be thin. And when I am not hot, Risen, aired by the microwaved Monday dawning, I can almost laugh about the spaces between your eyes The slight disgust, the frozen musk Awns over me, little fist tight of pink Ears rabbited off -- a sharp, twisted empale And then, you are there-- Frozen and dominating, your coffin spooks to me A spoken longing and then all we know wilts A running red cloak of tartan regrets Jades the illicit wail bespoken after the instrumental twist The torture device you call your words is broken out I ask for one thing, beg for it, screech it To the solars like I am owed. Knowing Death, if not heed, the spited greed-- Give me strength, for the thoughts The thoughts, that blow through me Windswept, gliding the dead human ash through my marsh Do not upturn the limped greyed grass And blow through, a harmless storm, With nothing to say about how I carry my day. Move on to your homeward-bound, your Concentration plantation, reeling off dead spinners Like your words, your cold ******* words. You slimy ******* you **** I have spoken, one million syllables, For your satisfaction. You lord it over me like a raw-meat hand Of the disciples. Well, well, Judas, Judas -- I bite my tongue. I bite it so it jades.
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They’re faded now these shades of grey bleeding into a brand new day these reds these blues, these moral hues they act like clues and tattered cues telling of a time not here and so distraught and full of fear it reminds me of these days gone by once full of color now grey to life and I see now this man I’m not - the one they loved but indeed forgot as I search this broken fantasy, I learn I plead and hope and breathe but I can’t be the man they need, to serve under false deity without understanding this cause for pain, witnessing another day where faith and blindness share a fate, bound to black and white these shades of grey you ask me to embrace belief and abandon my neutrality your guise untrue and fueled by greed, desire, filth and hypocrisy ask not of me to close my eyes to this world I see of untold lies through rose colored glasses and a smile so fake, the truth does lie and happiness breaks I realize now these thoughts so dark, so empty and cold, and contrast so stark darkened shades, these reds these blues, so greyed out because of you.
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Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 6:04 AM UTC
Grey
Some of her hairs grew longer than the others In the outline of her silhouette in the afternoon sun they shined in rebellion sparse and lovely and greyed with age I'd never seen a lady move so elegantly Defying the subtleties that marked her age She could run and play And speak and charm At rest she looked her youngest She smiled in content as her chest raised and fell She mimicked a breeze in late spring In the dawn of the afternoon sun
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 8:04 PM UTC
The Clouds Weren't The Same Anymore.
where once greyed the imminent destruction of silenced, foreign words now renews the captivating serenity born once more to the morning light where the sweet kisses of sun lit drops torch pale skin that bleed vibrant colours from thinning veins painting the world anew the forgotten shades layed to waste in the land of muted fears as ardor springs to life from the lips of my deceiver
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 9:16 PM UTC
verve