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"harboring" poems
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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Oct 20, 2011
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:38 PM UTC
Hollow
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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You've crossed my mind many nights. Sometimes I just lay there, holding you tight in mind. Wandering your body with my hands. Filling my fingers with the skin I've dreamt so much about. The things you keep hidden. unraveled in empty sheets, blankets. Your warmth becoming the only comforter that dictates whether or not I'll have sweet dreams. What justifies the stain our breath has left on one another's. The press of your face against my neck. The marks left on each other in anticipation. Refusing to pull ourselves away. Clinging tight to the ****** of being beside ourselves. Deliberately keeping each other awake in the promise of sleeping wild moments later. To watch your face scrunch up as it breaks your gasp. Bringing a halt to anticipation, The comfort of bodies becoming pillows harboring us into a deep sleep. Soft, still. My head laying on your shoulder. As we ourselves become lost in the sheets
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 11:35 AM UTC
Holding You In Mind
I’m a none, Escaped from myself Just to be an anonymous A nameless face Harboring a soul, Inspiring reflection, In a finite of time Travelling in a circle Over crosses and lines, Budding path of life Sacrificing all the senses Truth is one, perceived it in a different way
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Feb 17, 2018
Feb 17, 2018 at 7:39 PM UTC
The Pilgrim
Solemnly and silent In subtleties she calls to me Falling into my heart caverns And running through my veins Through my body And where I am she’s close to me Exuding watercolor dreams Like a painter reacquainting me With once greyish reality And every morn, I hear her sing In voice that constructs melody As if to say to newest sun To shine ever still All subconsciously And I would follow lyrically Each instruction as they ring Like notes in my mind harboring This subtle, silent calls to me
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Aug 11, 2021
Aug 11, 2021 at 12:53 AM UTC
The Subtle
From the time the heart first knew how to feel, and the eyes distinguished rain from tears, few have hidden behind the walls within me. Whether they found it a safe place or a jail cell - well, I guess we'll leave that to the imagination. No matter if it was a cell or heaven, the space within always felt alive. Even at my deadest times, the heat within coursed like it knew something more valuable was in store. Somehow, some way, a wanderer found a pathway in. Had he known better, perhaps he would not have been in the hands of the girl with wisps of flame at her angered fingertips. The burns don't sustain, but the more that's lost, the more it dissolves all other slivers of hope left to grasp. Fear is the real culprit, you must see. The fear I must face by harboring a false love; a fear of committing my own sins; of breaking my own promises. I've never understood a "true understanding." Anger can be cooled by the calm, as does the rainbow after the storm. With the storm blown over, his eyes shone bright and revealed his intentions clearly - you can still love with a straight face and a frigid heart.
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 9:58 AM UTC
A Journey of Chance
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM UTC
Babbling Stream of Consciousness
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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I've often wondered if sometimes, if at all There's a part of you-even if just a tiny bit That resents me for the things I've taken away Without your knowledge It's justifiable you know, I'll understand if you do I mean I resent me too at times I wouldn't blame you But you, with eyes wide closed, Heart open look beyond all of me And I realize, Things aren't always black and white There's a thin line in between Harboring all that's good within, Looking beyond the imperfections, And it's you. You're the warm blanket we all need, A perpetual calendar of inspiration for me And most. Let your aspirations guide to better things, Be drawn to success like a moth to a flame, Careful not to burn your wings, Or to let people step on your cape You're more than what you see in the mirror The love you have within you radiates To form an everlasting echo that transcends Beyond definition Finding reflections of each other in our hearts And that's where , not anywhere else We'll keep each other safe, warm and protected For someday, this is all we'll have-memories
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 8:18 PM UTC
To My Sister
Golden hour daughter Splitting eyes gouging light— Harboring disfunction, not Finding sensory stimulation Beyond illusion— overactive/> Am I a life force, Or a chair for it to sit? Stitching pixels to form— A drive to keep an open Ripped rib wind— about My drouth stomach, Itching, salivating…
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Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016 at 11:25 AM UTC
Dysphoria
When you come to my thoughts You are none other than the billowy embodiment of a reminiscent memory and also a current everlasting longing You are the memory of a being or idea one can feel and remember vividly but can not zero in on, for you are the intangible the winding wind You are those spiraling twines that place intermittent along grapevines You are the ancient scrolls from wise days before paperback You are the spin in the reaching center of a handcrafted wreath And within all these individualities and collective, Lies your scent comprised of multiple scents You are the mighty togetherness Your arrival to earth escaping from birth   gave these words to the minds of the kind You are the winding wind who spins and twines, wreathes and scrolls who lands from time to time and when you do drop for a spell This location of harboring landfall is a day of new tradition, the first step you take on new land on that new day Becomes the origin of a new holiday In my thoughts you are the mortar of the earth
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Dec 19, 2018
Dec 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM UTC
Wise days before paperback along grapevines
There is a period of time Immediately proceeding a conversation you had Where you shared, what you are sure in retrospect, Was too much And when they go its nearly silent Aside from the car engine Your ears are on fire On one hand you’re glad you said it On the other hand You wish to rewind And unsay the things you did. Reverse and greedily fill your arms with all the Pieces of yourself you’d given away freely. They’re yours and they don’t own them. But like a dusty collection of spoons, From all fifty states, You know that you have no use Harboring those thoughts. Maybe they will somehow affect that person And help them when they’re feeling down But you doubt it. They won’t fully understand, Because you’re a bad story teller Who can’t describe the feeling of the sun On the tops of your legs and interpolated Between your toes. And you're selfish and don’t care You feel incomplete now and hope That maybe, just maybe They weren’t even listening to you ramble Or couldn’t understand you Or cast the little wads of memories away Like pencil shavings Which are fun for a little under an hour. And you’ve almost convinced yourself Until you see them, and they see you And open their mouth to say something- And like some horror movie The secrets come swarming.
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Oct 6, 2012
Oct 6, 2012 at 11:04 PM UTC
Indian Giver
Nothing they say is true; My body is but a graveyard where you bore ten feet down and burried my trust in men My body is a graveyard and I am haunted harboring all these dead secrets everyone seems they have forgotten inside me they are rotting The girl in the mirror, did she just escape a fire? Haunted by the burn of liquor Haunted by your searing fingers (twenty of them) Push me down harder Pry me open quicker I love the way it hurts
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 8:35 AM UTC
BURN / HAUNTED / INNOCENCE
My interests began to fail me as my darkness moved in for the **** I blamed it all on the crescent Moon. The bad head case of the blues I had been Harboring all dam year. Then settled on the fact that it was just another washed out wednesday night. Frusciante once again amazed me as he summoned the Gods with his guitar and sang to me through the magic of the radio. My curiosity began to return as the comical thoughts of suicide took to their roost inside my head. There they always await like vultures atop a San Pedro Cactus. Patiently waiting for the next time my mind goes weak.
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 12:43 PM UTC
Frusciante Brought Me Back
I like you. I think I’ve liked you since the first time I saw you. Don’t get me wrong, though. I don’t love you. Saying I love you would be silly. I don’t know you that well. I just know your name. And the course you’re taking. Who your brother is. What year you’re in. So, you see? Saying I love you is preposterous. But I like you. I like you. But my friends don’t. They call you arrogant. But I think you’re just confident. I keep that information to myself, though. I like you, but my friends don’t like you that much. So I pretend that I don’t like you either. That’s why when we see each other around campus I ignore you. But please don’t think that I don’t like you. Because I do. I really do. I’m not in love with you, though. Just so we’re clear. I like you. I like your eyes. I like your wavy brown hair. I always wonder what it would feel like to run my fingers through it. I like your hands, especially your fingers. Long and thin like a pianist’s. I want to hold your hand and lace our fingers together. I like your lips and the way they hint at a smile whenever you see me. Or maybe that’s just my imagination. But still, I like your lips. I’d like them even more if they’re pressed against mine. Sorry, please ignore the line above this one. I like you. I know because my hear flutters every time I see you. Sounds silly and cliché, I know. But it’s true. You make me feel weird. But a good kind of weird. I like you. And I want to know more about you. Like why take up engineering? Why not accountancy like your brother? I want to know you more. Can you sing? Do you dance? And why did you choose number 7 for you jersey number? I’d like to get to know you. But I know it’s impossible. Well, maybe not impossible, just outside the realm of probability. I like you. And I’m saying it here. Because I can’t tell you. I can’t tell my friends. But now I’m telling everybody. I like you. But I don’t love you. Because you’re a stranger. A beautiful stranger but a stranger nonetheless. One day we’d see each other and maybe I’d smile. Hopefully, you’ll smile back. But until then, I’d be harboring these feelings of mine. And I’ll watch you. And like you from the sidelines.
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 7:39 AM UTC
I Like You
I like you. I think I’ve liked you since the first time I saw you. Don’t get me wrong, though. I don’t love you. Saying I love you would be silly. I don’t know you that well. I just know your name. And the course you’re taking. Who your brother is. What year you’re in. So, you see? Saying I love you is preposterous. But I like you. I like you. But my friends don’t. They call you arrogant. But I think you’re just confident. I keep that information to myself, though. I like you, but my friends don’t like you that much. So I pretend that I don’t like you either. That’s why when we see each other around campus I ignore you. But please don’t think that I don’t like you. Because I do. I really do. I’m not in love with you, though. Just so we’re clear. I like you. I like your eyes. I like your wavy brown hair. I always wonder what it would feel like to run my fingers through it. I like your hands, especially your fingers. Long and thin like a pianist’s. I want to hold your hand and lace our fingers together. I like your lips and the way they hint at a smile whenever you see me. Or maybe that’s just my imagination. But still, I like your lips. I’d like them even more if they’re pressed against mine. Sorry, please ignore the line above this one. I like you. I know because my hear flutters every time I see you. Sounds silly and cliché, I know. But it’s true. You make me feel weird. But a good kind of weird. I like you. And I want to know more about you. Like why take up engineering? Why not accountancy like your brother? I want to know you more. Can you sing? Do you dance? And why did you choose number 7 for you jersey number? I’d like to get to know you. But I know it’s impossible. Well, maybe not impossible, just outside the realm of probability. I like you. And I’m saying it here. Because I can’t tell you. I can’t tell my friends. But now I’m telling everybody. I like you. But I don’t love you. Because you’re a stranger. A beautiful stranger but a stranger nonetheless. One day we’d see each other and maybe I’d smile. Hopefully, you’ll smile back. But until then, I’d be harboring these feelings of mine. And I’ll watch you. And like you from the sidelines.
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Words, words, worms! My mind is swarmed With them. Ants file in through the sticky Canals, chattering, stamping their little black feet. They use me. I am their harboring medium, A visitor in my own head. Black, empty mouths flutter and dance and signal Amongst themselves, crowding my skull, A murmuration of phrases and guttural sounds. I mustn't tell fully what they say. They draw forth black and bubbling swamps, Wicked crows, the yawping millions, pecking, Pecking, gouging with yammering beaks At every smooth, young innocent. There is death in this tumult of words. Let it not take me.
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 10:14 PM UTC
Strange Whispers
PART I: ADRIFT Madness passed Misery and bumped into me. We travel together now, Islands lost at sea. Ahead, Tomorrow rides, pinned to the sunrise. Yesterday dogs us, marking our tides. Empty atolls pass on windborne paths. Now homes to only bones; more dead outcasts. The Ocean never laments or attempts to make sense. We just wander across it until living relents. PART II: VAGRANT Lagoon to lagoon, harboring my tether. Giving me shelter from daily storms. Lost in the masts, a paper boat. Taking on water... as expected. A lucky hook snares the soggy craft. Dried and opened: a cry for          . When no reply came, a folded flotilla Whitened the water, a cry now screaming. This harbor now empties. My travels resume. PART III: DREAM The sea fades to gulls, and then, a delta rushed with mountainfulls. I've become a salmon fighting upstream, an island lost in a riverbed dream.
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Aug 26, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 at 11:30 AM UTC
Wandering Islands.
Packing things into brown boxes. Concealed memories in a cardboard funeral. Harboring dust like it’s a trophy. Time ticks                ticks                      ticks                            ticks away. So much crammed into tight spaces. Wrinkled and wrapped up just like it was placed. The season on my face is fall. Each tear swaying down like a fallen leaf. Choking on how to say goodbye. Adios. Sayonara. Au Revoir. Aloha.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
Aloha
Red faced and wasted I saw you naked And fell in love With your ancient body Gone is the impulse to run And all i can do now Is to write simply Lies and truth Mixed together Like oil and vinegar We are fumigating Our own bodies Remove these carbon copies And quietly daydream About the faces of lost Summer lovers Fundraisers say goodbye To yesterday's vacations Just as we long to cry We catch ourselves Smiling for a moment What do the turtles wish to communicate Are we awake in our shells Or have we fallen into the spell of limitation Consternation and ************ Facts and figures receive their adulation While we attract only tender triangulations Please finish up your investigation I blame you for instigating this comedy A catalyst of abomination and dichotomy Which followed me into retirement Let's give banquets back to the government And return to ancient lands Devoted to camels and drunken apologies It's apocryphal Pornographic phantasmagoria Fantastic fan-fictions Describing sacredly sadistic rituals Glorious duality Radically alters our expectations Yet manages to satisfy your frustrations In dissimilar situations We liberate our agitation and consternation Over magazines and barnacles We are more conspicuous Than an empty gap in the sky Made by two constellations Taking a long vacation Intrepid sailors raise their sails And navigate by stars and compasses Renaissance dancers are porous instigators They initiate our imitations We dream of political sovereignty To remediate these tragedies I breathe warfare and cleanse the air Of apathetic non-negotiaters Harboring criminals like butterflies Sometimes the means do justify your eyes Targets never argue And bullets never lie Finances and fiancées Certainly have some value Yet we underrate our skies Miles of lost continents Drift out from your skin We begin an embargo Hoping in the future we will win Metaphysical furniture Effects the state of mind you're in The record players turned down But you heat me up to begin
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May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019 at 4:05 PM UTC
in memoriam
Red faced and wasted I saw you naked And fell in love With your ancient body Gone is the impulse to run And all i can do now Is to write simply Lies and truth Mixed together Like oil and vinegar We are fumigating Our own bodies Remove these carbon copies And quietly daydream About the faces of lost Summer lovers Fundraisers say goodbye To yesterday's vacations Just as we long to cry We catch ourselves Smiling for a moment What do the turtles wish to communicate Are we awake in our shells Or have we fallen into the spell of limitation Consternation and ************ Facts and figures receive their adulation While we attract only tender triangulations Please finish up your investigation I blame you for instigating this comedy A catalyst of abomination and dichotomy Which followed me into retirement Let's give banquets back to the government And return to ancient lands Devoted to camels and drunken apologies It's apocryphal Pornographic phantasmagoria Fantastic fan-fictions Describing sacredly sadistic rituals Glorious duality Radically alters our expectations Yet manages to satisfy your frustrations In dissimilar situations We liberate our agitation and consternation Over magazines and barnacles We are more conspicuous Than an empty gap in the sky Made by two constellations Taking a long vacation Intrepid sailors raise their sails And navigate by stars and compasses Renaissance dancers are porous instigators They initiate our imitations We dream of political sovereignty To remediate these tragedies I breathe warfare and cleanse the air Of apathetic non-negotiaters Harboring criminals like butterflies Sometimes the means do justify your eyes Targets never argue And bullets never lie Finances and fiancées Certainly have some value Yet we underrate our skies Miles of lost continents Drift out from your skin We begin an embargo Hoping in the future we will win Metaphysical furniture Effects the state of mind you're in The record players turned down But you heat me up to begin
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Self-breed hatred so easily suppressed Taunted by the world, it’s waiting to explode No, there’s no true taste, we’re only meandering Listening to the menacing roar begging To be given breath to materialize Subtle commentary begins to eat at the flesh of self-belief Identity crises momentarily paralyze audacity’s ammunition True sights of self-aesthetic-beauty tremble Diminishing that part of self-worth Looming attacks threaten to pour over and reduce The value of internal splendor for it’s seemingly of no use Every praise never given to the self but to someone else A constant crack at the foundation of self-love, it subconsciously ensures She and she and she and she are said to be wonderful, but never the self Realization that from any angle the self is not good enough Leaves the mind discombobulated for lifelong sentiments of inadequacy Seems to be the only route Unconscious self denigration provokes false sense of value For the true inner wealth in self-worth is sullied and unidentifiable But the self is not merely self-loath and harboring of inadequacy For goodness in abundance is found a few peals away from the layers of insecurity
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Mar 16, 2011
Mar 16, 2011 at 4:42 PM UTC
The Self
I’ve had this red heart shaped locket for 12 years now. I got it as a gumball prize at a rundown Chinese restaurant (maybe in Germantown?) A lot of the paint has chipped off and the tiny keys to it are long gone. What shows beneath the paint is shinny tin. When I was a tacky teen I would wear it clasped around my neck imitating Sid but not knowing it. I always wanted someone to give me something like this but I impatiently jumped the gun and cranked the dial of the machine myself, and the tiny Valentine rolled out. (SINCERELY, YOURS TRULY) No sentiment to share. Now I’m nearly 30 and it hangs on my key chain, a teenaged 50 cent memory amongst adult responsibility. If you see me standing crossed arm at a show, and spy my red locket, know that I’m an advocate of living in the past, and harboring silly passions.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 1:24 PM UTC
red locket
The moon changes subtly Whenever we gaze away, As our worries evolve swiftly And our joys stay the same. Perhaps she is a beacon Baring light for our souls, Enticing us into her depths With glimpses of the heart's gold. Blessed enchantress, Affixed in a gentle way, Dragging all from ached misery And harboring us in her supple bay. Reject ye thy sun's beating rays & dispel lightning's spiteful bright tase, Look only to the night sky as it glistens If you seek to bask in nature's grace.
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Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019 at 6:28 PM UTC
Our Silent Keeper
You leave that dismal room And walk Past open doors And broken clock Down dingy corridors You creep While strangers In strange rooms find sleep You walk on carpet Stained and fading Designs all ruined Yet not abating Out where the housekeeper’s Cart is parked Her smile sunken Her manner dark She emerges from Behind a stack Of ***** blankets Folded back With broken teeth And burdened eyes Wrinkles worn In plain disguise Someone’s daughter Whittled down Her hair too thin Along her crown Yet harboring A warmth untouched Her shattered image Says too much Windows open On a courtyard scene Junkies nodding In the sun serene High altitude Of Denver streets Smell ***** smoke And searing meats In Civic Park The men that stare Sell rough-cut gems Which slice the air One calls you over With his hand More incantation Than command Says that he’s got Just what you need With eyes now begging To be freed You walk away And in his strife He calls to you “I’ve lived my life!” With eyes as dark As afghan hash He fades away As you move past In distant vistas Where the Rockies lie You hear that unknown Ancient cry You feel the motion You must move on The mountains are calling The city is gone
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Feb 21, 2016
Feb 21, 2016 at 2:58 PM UTC
A HOSTEL IN DENVER (REVISED)
Absolute bliss. The forest around me made me feel the most peaceful I had in years. The tall Redwoods reached up to the sky for a kiss, the bright, green moss climbed up the huge roots. Everything seemed to be paused. Like the world had stopped, as if everything had froze and stood still in this moment of pure beauty. The mist the only thing that seemed to be moving, like a heavy blanket hovering over the ground. My breath came out in puffs of condensation, the product of the invigorating chill of the morning. The sun just barely poked its arms through the gray and sent the dew glittering all over.              This was the most breathtaking thing I'd ever experienced. To feel so small among so many great things harboring beauty. I felt as if I could sit on this damp ground forever. My mind went completely blank here, my thoughts soared up to the sky riding along with the trunks of the trees. I'd never felt more free.              I layed my head down on the grass and let my body go limp. I felt safe as if nothing could ever touch me. Until something did, little raindrops fell upon my nose and slid down the side of my face. I opened my mouth and let the rain touch my tongue, it tasted pure and good. My hair grew damp along with my clothes, but I wasn't cold. I was absolutely content. I slowly sat up and listened to the rain pour over my little heaven. It was the most precious melody. The air around me was heavy, and everything seemed to be lit in shades of violet. I breathed it in, took it in.           I suddenly became afraid. Aware that I would have to leave this place soon. A tear slipped down my cheek. I felt weak, and helpless. I didn't want to return to the outside world. For I felt those moments, in this small opening , in a vast and shrouded forest, have changed a part of me. Or more-so, awakened a part. A part I never knew existed.           For the first time in what felt like ages.. I felt alive.
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 12:40 AM UTC
The Woods
Absolute bliss. The forest around me made me feel the most peaceful I had in years. The tall Redwoods reached up to the sky for a kiss, the bright, green moss climbed up the huge roots. Everything seemed to be paused. Like the world had stopped, as if everything had froze and stood still in this moment of pure beauty. The mist the only thing that seemed to be moving, like a heavy blanket hovering over the ground. My breath came out in puffs of condensation, the product of the invigorating chill of the morning. The sun just barely poked its arms through the gray and sent the dew glittering all over.              This was the most breathtaking thing I'd ever experienced. To feel so small among so many great things harboring beauty. I felt as if I could sit on this damp ground forever. My mind went completely blank here, my thoughts soared up to the sky riding along with the trunks of the trees. I'd never felt more free.              I layed my head down on the grass and let my body go limp. I felt safe as if nothing could ever touch me. Until something did, little raindrops fell upon my nose and slid down the side of my face. I opened my mouth and let the rain touch my tongue, it tasted pure and good. My hair grew damp along with my clothes, but I wasn't cold. I was absolutely content. I slowly sat up and listened to the rain pour over my little heaven. It was the most precious melody. The air around me was heavy, and everything seemed to be lit in shades of violet. I breathed it in, took it in.           I suddenly became afraid. Aware that I would have to leave this place soon. A tear slipped down my cheek. I felt weak, and helpless. I didn't want to return to the outside world. For I felt those moments, in this small opening , in a vast and shrouded forest, have changed a part of me. Or more-so, awakened a part. A part I never knew existed.           For the first time in what felt like ages.. I felt alive.
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*"What is your name?" Her Dark Eyes Reminded Me Of The Ocean At Dusk. They Were Dark, Deep, And Endless; Harboring Many Secrets. "My name is Sydney." My Lips Pealed Back Into A Smile Even Though Her Expression Was Quite Puzzled. "Sydney?" She Smiled.. The Sweetest Smile I Have Ever Seen. She Turned To Her Friend Who Had The Same Dark Eyes. He Smiled Too. The Corners Of His Eyes Morphed Into Sharp Points As His Plumb Cheeks Stretched Upwards. "We shall give you a new name." She Turned To Him. "What shall we name her?" More Of Their Friends Gathered Around Them. One Boy Approached The Group Which Had Congregated Around Me. "Let's name her Maudie." "Yes! That is perfect. Do you know what that means?" She Softly Stroked My Hair As Her Dark Eyes Locked Onto Mine. "It means Rose. Beautiful Rose." I Smiled, My New Friends Watched As She Took My Hands. "Maudie... Don't Ever Forget That This Is Your Name. Never Forget Who You Are."*
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 1:16 AM UTC
Never Forget
Sticks and Stones Sticks and stones will surely break bones leaving scares we cannot hide, but words can sting like bumble bees when two wrongs simply collide. Fractures can be fixed while broken hearts reflect, walls are built around the soul if only to protect. Sorry's such a simple word though seldom ever said, pride most often wins harboring anger instead. Sticks and stones we need not fear it's the bruises we cannot see, that hurt us must of all, I honestly believe. Written By Kathy J Parenteau Copyright © 03/13/2014 All Rights Reserved
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 7:22 PM UTC
Sticks and Stones
I shook the devil’s hand and looked him dead in the eye the night I put the barrel of a shotgun in between my lips While I stood on the edge of a chair with a noose around my neck. Killing two birds with one stone. The feathers of the bird deep inside me would be ruffled after the bullet raced through them, Shearing them apart like a combine moves through a field of corn. The bird on the outside of my body would finally learn to fly after the bullet struck the inside of my mouth like a flashlight lights up a dark cave harboring a family of bats And right before I fell limp to the floor, no longer able to hear my own heartbeat inside my ears, The noose caught my fall, tightening around my neck. The night I stood on a wooden chair, holding my own death within my hands in complete darkness around eleven because I wanted to be an owl instead of a raven, The chirping inside of me wouldn’t quiet. I heard the voices of wings outside the window in the tree I’d thought about soaring from; telling me to stop or cheering me on, I don’t know. But if I would’ve put the single round inside the chamber of the gun or slipped the slightest bit from the chair, I’d know how it feels to fly.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 9:03 PM UTC
Taking Flight