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"impacts" poems
~ i am a preamble, seeking to evolve ~ ~ my every emotion, thought and deed, cascades, consequence ~ ~ your every touch forever impacts, in cascading consequence ~ ~ we are all sacred, equal in our worth, may we each, behave so ~ ~ paradoxically ~ ~ our security is rooted in our acceptance, of insecurity ~ ~ our cyclical attractions, and repulsions ~ ~ are the forces which bind us ~ ~ while i don’t understand all the motivations ~ ~ or all the machinations ~ ~ of the forces applied, to divide, conquer and control ~ ~ i deem they are parasitic, and thus ~ ~ reliant upon our cooperation, to survive ~ ~ when i haven’t worked myself out in perfect coherence ~ ~ i’m in no position to pass judgments upon any other ~ ~ in absence of fraud, deception or manipulation ~ ~ embracing sovereignty and free will ~ ~ i vow ~ ~ to wage peace, cooperation, creativity and love ~ ~ to seize opportunity to nurture ~ ~ our garden planet ~ ~ as a humbled gardener ~ ~ there is no spoon ~ ~ it was only an illusion ~ ~ there are no sheep ~ ~ just tactics to divide, and distract ~ ~ we are only ~ ~ children and parents ~ ~ friends and lovers ~ ~ sisters and brothers ~ ~ cosmic conscious explorers ~ ~ shaping our reality ~ ~ nurturing OUR Garden ~ ~ namaste ~
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 2:15 PM UTC
~ declaration, of interdependence ~
Today I walked into Barnes and Noble to buy my summer reading book which just so happens to be super thick and its boring **** me now!) Anyways, while we're there, out of curiosity, I asked if they had any John Green books (because everywhere else, they're either sold out or on hold) and they did. The lady brought me to a table. A few of my friends had recommended his works. Scanning the table of books, unsure of what to chose, a guy walks up to me. He looks about my age, maybe a year or so older. He's pretty cute, which is quite the pleasant surprise because usually guys don't talk to me. He says, pointing to The Fault in Our Stars, "I couldn't help but kind of overhear you talking, but I read this and it was amazing." He points at Looking for Alaska. "My girlfriend read this... said it was pretty good." So I say thanks and something awkward like 'I'll have to check it out,' and get The Fault in Our Stars. This small gesture has restored my hope in our generation. The guys in my school are mostly arrogant airheads with no taste in music, in my opinion, anyway. In addition to this experience with a stranger, today, while at a shopping center, I saw a girl wearing a 5 Seconds of Summer shirt, as I had mine on, too. I complimented her and she smiled and said, "Thanks, you too." This small gesture has also restored my hope in our generation. Today I learned that not everyone ***** and that makes me really happy. I guess that if you put yourself out there, ever so slightly, in the right places, you might learn things or make new friends.  What if I'd talked to the girl about 5SOS? Or asked the guy about other books he's read? There are so many opportunities every single day to improve the quality of our lives and we pass them up, because they're things that are thought of as small, but can have huge impacts. I believe that if each and everyone of us tried, just a little bit, to talk to  strangers, the world would be a better place. Not everyone wants to hurt you. I'm not saying to invite some random person  into your house, but to talk to people with common interests, or compliment someone on their shirt. Little things like that, as they did to me, can make someone's day. I walk to my mom with a pile of books. She turns to me and says, "Since when did cute boys talk to you at bookstores?"
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Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 11:20 PM UTC
A Rant about talking to strangers
Today I walked into Barnes and Noble to buy my summer reading book which just so happens to be super thick and its boring **** me now!) Anyways, while we're there, out of curiosity, I asked if they had any John Green books (because everywhere else, they're either sold out or on hold) and they did. The lady brought me to a table. A few of my friends had recommended his works. Scanning the table of books, unsure of what to chose, a guy walks up to me. He looks about my age, maybe a year or so older. He's pretty cute, which is quite the pleasant surprise because usually guys don't talk to me. He says, pointing to The Fault in Our Stars, "I couldn't help but kind of overhear you talking, but I read this and it was amazing." He points at Looking for Alaska. "My girlfriend read this... said it was pretty good." So I say thanks and something awkward like 'I'll have to check it out,' and get The Fault in Our Stars. This small gesture has restored my hope in our generation. The guys in my school are mostly arrogant airheads with no taste in music, in my opinion, anyway. In addition to this experience with a stranger, today, while at a shopping center, I saw a girl wearing a 5 Seconds of Summer shirt, as I had mine on, too. I complimented her and she smiled and said, "Thanks, you too." This small gesture has also restored my hope in our generation. Today I learned that not everyone ***** and that makes me really happy. I guess that if you put yourself out there, ever so slightly, in the right places, you might learn things or make new friends.  What if I'd talked to the girl about 5SOS? Or asked the guy about other books he's read? There are so many opportunities every single day to improve the quality of our lives and we pass them up, because they're things that are thought of as small, but can have huge impacts. I believe that if each and everyone of us tried, just a little bit, to talk to  strangers, the world would be a better place. Not everyone wants to hurt you. I'm not saying to invite some random person  into your house, but to talk to people with common interests, or compliment someone on their shirt. Little things like that, as they did to me, can make someone's day. I walk to my mom with a pile of books. She turns to me and says, "Since when did cute boys talk to you at bookstores?"
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We’re quick to blame those that break our hearts, Railing against lovers for our misfortunes, Consigning them to hell and so forth, When in reality, Our oft exhausted and defeated transgressors Serve merely as the catalyst for the internal destruction that follows For no one impacts your emotional wellbeing as much as you, And you birth your demons, your pain, After ‘us’ is no more, There is just you and your head, An entity far more dangerous than any borne of flesh and blood Do not judge those that hurt you, For they are as foolish and human as you, And remember that though Love may linger and torment, It is a reminder of what your heart can do, When it’s met its match
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
Catalyst
Jim, Clara, Lizzie, and Tim are sitting comfortably around a work meeting table drinking delicious coffee and eating delectable sandwiches which their manager provided for free; these employees love their manager. Jim, Clara, Lizzie and Tim area engaged in a ‘Quality-Circle’: A group of employees who meet regularly to consider ways of improving their workplace. Jim, Clara, Lizzie and Tim conceptualise themself as not slaves but cooperators with their manager to improve the functioning of their workplace for the benefit of the employees, and the benefit of the shareholders, customers, suppliers management and their whole society. Jim, Clara, Lizzie and Tim are exercising joyful creativity to identify problems and discover solutions which they will diligently implement to improve their workplace, to increase their joy and happiness in their workplace: by increasing ease of their work, by increasing efficiency of their work, by improving quality of their work, by increasing productivity, by increasing customer satisfaction, by improving environmental impacts, by increasing profits. Jim, Clara, Lizzie and Tim realise that a continuously-improving well-functioning workplace provides them secure and enjoyable employment; so, participating in the joyful creativity of a quality-circle striving to continuously improve their workplace makes them feel joyful and happy.
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 5:24 AM UTC
Quality Circle
Listen you don't need a Therapist Sure they help you but do they really help? They're never there when you are looking at the mirror and calling yourself disgusting, and that you're hideous. They're never there when you are on the verge of tears when something impacts you dramatically. They are never there when you want to cut yourself so bad. They ask how you are doing, they ask what you want and need. But do they really care? You just get money out of me do you want to help or do you want the money to survive. After this you always go back to your happy home planning the next family vacation But I always go back to the loneliness, the dark room that doesn't shut out the screaming behind the walls. I go back to feeling like I'm nothing and that I'm unwanted
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Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019 at 10:03 PM UTC
Therapy
One day you meet the people you think you could trust but everything that was turns to stardust, everything you loved seems to go so fast, Girl why didn't you realize they all wear masks, And your "friends" don't realize how she impacts you. You don't realize this are fake accusations, Why the hell do you people give me these complications? So congratulations! you made my life a complication!
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 7:41 PM UTC
Backstabbers
If my life were a movie it would be one of those films that gets hyped up to no end because I’m one of those kids with the rough childhood who just wants to make it When in reality it’s just a less action packed but just as dark dc movie My story has also been confused with a marvel movie since the protagonist is me And i can't help but cut my overbearing traumatic tragedies with self deprecating comedies But my life to me feels more like an edgar wright movie where the action isn’t as exciting as The fact that I was able to get out of bed this morning And my day to day reality will forever feel like a motion blur of edited out negative emotion I think Maybe my life could be a wes anderson movie stuck in one color palette for the rest of my eternity And my maturity tends to overwhelm me my journey is like an anderson movie because i tend to create a world around me Taking time to shape my own protected reality so that the outside world can’t hurt inside me If im being honest though i want my life to be a spielberg movie that grabs attention of all ages coming from all sorts of places I want to spin my truths into his fantastic fantasies where no one equates my past with me But at the same time I want my life to be a blast from the past john hughes movie where i find a way to stop my past from haunting me And everything ends up okay at the end of the day because my minds overbearing insecurities No longer have control over me Now i see that in actuality other peoples movies are just too much for who i truly want to be and how my trauma impacts me I mean between my all of those boring biographies and my abundance of favorite movies I’d want my life’s movie to be full of images depicting my fondest memories and all my angsty gen z tendencies If my life were a movie i’d make it about how I am, or was, or am going to be If my life were a movie I’d make it about me
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May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 12:24 PM UTC
if my life were a movie
If my life were a movie it would be one of those films that gets hyped up to no end because I’m one of those kids with the rough childhood who just wants to make it When in reality it’s just a less action packed but just as dark dc movie My story has also been confused with a marvel movie since the protagonist is me And i can't help but cut my overbearing traumatic tragedies with self deprecating comedies But my life to me feels more like an edgar wright movie where the action isn’t as exciting as The fact that I was able to get out of bed this morning And my day to day reality will forever feel like a motion blur of edited out negative emotion I think Maybe my life could be a wes anderson movie stuck in one color palette for the rest of my eternity And my maturity tends to overwhelm me my journey is like an anderson movie because i tend to create a world around me Taking time to shape my own protected reality so that the outside world can’t hurt inside me If im being honest though i want my life to be a spielberg movie that grabs attention of all ages coming from all sorts of places I want to spin my truths into his fantastic fantasies where no one equates my past with me But at the same time I want my life to be a blast from the past john hughes movie where i find a way to stop my past from haunting me And everything ends up okay at the end of the day because my minds overbearing insecurities No longer have control over me Now i see that in actuality other peoples movies are just too much for who i truly want to be and how my trauma impacts me I mean between my all of those boring biographies and my abundance of favorite movies I’d want my life’s movie to be full of images depicting my fondest memories and all my angsty gen z tendencies If my life were a movie i’d make it about how I am, or was, or am going to be If my life were a movie I’d make it about me
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Three Nails (...) Not so many as to denounce A job done to make me well. Three rudimentary spikes to nail A man's own flesh to wood. Three nails cannot Seem so much to proffer; Human efforts complementing God's sacrificial offer. A self-inflicted crucifixion? Yes, I would do my part; Would do me good, I think, To offer up an offering to God. So let this painful work, Human endeavoring, Perfection capturing, Begin. A simple thing, I think, To hoist and hammer Nails into myself, A manly job to undertake Impaling self To spare my God A little work. The first, perhaps Most painful... To stop the feet Their wandering ways, To give me pause for just a bit To meditate in pain And to reflect or to project Myself in better ways. . Then on to nail number two, One hand to hold the nail And one the hammer. The pain intense Impacts my good intent. . And yet, I've nailed number two, And finding where the problem lies, I have no way to nail thrice. My living flesh begins to writhe Its will-ward way, E'en though in sky-ward Agony my soul now wails. Then I remember Someone said, "Your crucifixion stands Upon a different hill, Hangs on a different tree." . . . Though I can never end my flesh, He paid my debt for me.
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Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012 at 9:01 AM UTC
Three Nails (...)
Our so-empty lives are filled with pointless plans, Every decision impacts life, and sometimes death. The earth split - death was in that sometimes day, Where unending need became the end of their world. Montana was my home-from-home in Haiti, Art deco paradise, an instant hellish grave. What of my shoeshine man with ***** shoes? Two hundred dead too hard, one is possible. Little things we do to change the world, The smallest possibilities in this nightmare, Saving lives each day with lifeline texts, Today we are the hand of God in hell.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 5:30 AM UTC
Earthquake
Beware the cavity of depravity Most people my age got lost in the game of parenting Elemental wisdom Or a sentimental prison You've replicated yourself innumerable times And still your nature is love Did you ever wonder what your lives might have been like If you had more often gone within You have to let me go to let me stay She said, I'm a reality ****** But it's been a rough couple of days Life in paradise or life imprisonment You never really know if its in the flow Until you have to let it go So what is this curse that says comfort must always come first I shall not abdicate my throne to anyone The vision of the voiceless is my kingdom We bide our time and strive for sanity As all forms fade and our encounters hibernate What impacts an emperor What impacts an empire Its all within my reach This compulsion to teach To create art That comes from the depths of our hearts Did you take your medicine today? She said, You are my medicine. I replied, Then take me already
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 11:54 PM UTC
The cavity of depravity
My room - womb: Self-furnished surrogate; Protective and exclusive; Umbilically attached to the Other Via electrons and electromagnetic waves, Stimulating half-dead neurons; Nourishing; pseudo-social life. A womb - my room: Self-imposed cocoon, Refuge and retreat; Amniotic psychic cushioning, 'Tissue-like; apathetic swaddling Absorbing impacts of buck-shot cultures; Allowing light mixed darkly - melancholy.
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Mar 9, 2014
Mar 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM UTC
A Womb with a View, or an Opinion
In the end it’s the smallest of things That make the biggest of impacts. It’s the last ripple of an earthquake Or of a skipped stone. It’s like how you’d rather cut open your leg Than turn a corner and stub your toe. It’s the smaller kiss on the forehead That follows the longer one on the lips. When saying goodbye It’s not the deep looks into each other’s eyes It’s the rear-view glance at that person’s Back that makes you cry.
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 6:23 PM UTC
Stubbed Toes.
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM UTC
Cwm Tawe - lovely ugly
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that no man is an island, whole unto himself/herself. Every person needs to feel safe to express his or her desires in as open and direct manner as is available. Each person should be told what is expected of them, and what can be done in the case said expectations cannot be met. Each person should be encouraged to pursue his or her own interests and given the tools necessary to do so. The striving of each person is as important as the collective aim of all mankind. We believe in a world which achieves its goals through the focused, deliberate behavior of determined agents. Any person striving against another’s interest or aim should declare their reasons for doing so. No person should secretly plot against another. All motivation for action should be weighed against the public good, and all actors should be held responsible for behavior directly hostile to the betterment of one’s neighbors. One should act with the mindful awareness of the impacts his or her actions could have on the other. We are indebted to each other’s needs and desires for our very existence, as it is the movement of the commodity market which ensures our existence and this is dictated to a large extent by real human demands. We are dependent on one another to use resources wisely and economically, bearing in mind that waste threatens the survival of our species. Being the bearers of a legacy stretching back to the haze of pre-history, and an even longer biological chain of inheritance, we as humans, are dependent on each other for a collective understanding and appreciation of the world. Without wasting time, we must acknowledge that it is in our best interest to act deliberately, without giddy outbursts of petulant exasperation, to solve the problems that our mutual dependence creates. There is no alternative to the necessity of working together to understand and amend the dire circumstances of our existence.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 6:25 AM UTC
Declaration of Dependence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that no man is an island, whole unto himself/herself. Every person needs to feel safe to express his or her desires in as open and direct manner as is available. Each person should be told what is expected of them, and what can be done in the case said expectations cannot be met. Each person should be encouraged to pursue his or her own interests and given the tools necessary to do so. The striving of each person is as important as the collective aim of all mankind. We believe in a world which achieves its goals through the focused, deliberate behavior of determined agents. Any person striving against another’s interest or aim should declare their reasons for doing so. No person should secretly plot against another. All motivation for action should be weighed against the public good, and all actors should be held responsible for behavior directly hostile to the betterment of one’s neighbors. One should act with the mindful awareness of the impacts his or her actions could have on the other. We are indebted to each other’s needs and desires for our very existence, as it is the movement of the commodity market which ensures our existence and this is dictated to a large extent by real human demands. We are dependent on one another to use resources wisely and economically, bearing in mind that waste threatens the survival of our species. Being the bearers of a legacy stretching back to the haze of pre-history, and an even longer biological chain of inheritance, we as humans, are dependent on each other for a collective understanding and appreciation of the world. Without wasting time, we must acknowledge that it is in our best interest to act deliberately, without giddy outbursts of petulant exasperation, to solve the problems that our mutual dependence creates. There is no alternative to the necessity of working together to understand and amend the dire circumstances of our existence.
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Forgiveness is a wild beast of an exotic land. I know it. Its shape, color, texture and particulars of its habitat, yet it means nothing in my day to day; at least nothing that impacts the path I walk or world I touch. It is as distant as a polar icecap and about as much help as a glass shard beneath my bare feet. This wild beast makes noises perhaps sour perhaps sweet to the ear but I do not know nor can I name them. Daily I set out and go stalking after it in my bare feet and soul ache unable yet to find it for myself or others, I make my ****** way along this un-exotic, piercing path. It is a way I cannot abandon but I must laugh at the folly of my purpose for I have long since washed the picture of this creature clean and thoroughly sloshed it remains in my mind. I am left to blame the blood and curse its trail tracking ever after me in the mud.
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 3:09 AM UTC
Forgiveness
BANG! up to action BANG! rising panic adrenalin BANG! swiftly to the window BANG! fluorescent yellow jackets they're here BANG! its the back door set the barricade BANG! will it hold? not for long BANG! they've come later than usual BANG! we'd thought not today BANG! we'd dropped our guard prepared food BANG! a meal cooked in vain BANG! the barricade starts to fail BANG! our bodies flung at the metal door BANG! summon strength hold it closed BANG! successive impacts rattle our bones BANG! screaming now rage and pain BANG! "open the door!" **** you!!" BANG! we wont make it easy for them BANG! but we know how this ends BANG! our home in chaos frantic packing BANG! save the tools we'll need them BANG! they're our keys to a new home BANG! our foes advance on another door BANG! they're determined so are we BANG! it breaks the door opens SLAM! somehow we kick it back shut SILENCE they've stopped why? VOICES the other door they're in.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 5:24 AM UTC
Eviction
Secrets, secrets, are no fun, unless you share with everyone. But what if the secret affects someone else? What if the secret negatively impacts yourself? Secrets, secrets I try to clear my mind, But it keeps popping up Time after time. Are no fun I want to yell, I want to scream, I want the whole world to know What's eating me alive And why I'm bursting at the seams. Unless you share with everyone I have been sworn to secrecy, And I cannot tell, I've sworn myself in, And with this I dwell. The past is heavy, But secrets weigh more, And with no one to tell, My heart and brain begin a War. I'm battling myself, At every given instance. And oh, how I wish I could return to my days of innocence. But I have been sworn to secrecy, And now I cannot speak of it, Such an invasion of privacy, And a secret I can't admit. But maybe, just maybe, One day I will. I'll get it off my chest And will no longer feel mentally ill. Secrecy does weird things To a person, And the longer it goes on, The more their mental health will worsen. Secrets, secrets, are no fun, unless you share with everyone.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 10:02 PM UTC
Sworn to Secrecy
We're all un-informed about something We can't know everything But when your ignorance impacts others Un-knowledged and un-aware It is not the same as un-mindfully aware Inflicting your imbecilic  infections Upon others I cannot abide in We need more un-derstanding To be un-bigoted We need to stand together In this un-certain world To do anything less would be un-reasonable Un-do your ignorance Un-screw your head from your ***
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM UTC
Ignorance
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired.... Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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May 6, 2010
May 6, 2010 at 12:54 AM UTC
Cwm Tawe - lovely ugly haibun
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired.... Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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as the kind of person i am, i don't regret any of my decisions because I've made my decisions and there is nothing i can do now they've occurred and i can feel bad about making them but i never regret them, because there's no use wishing i could change them this aspect of me becomes prominent after a loss recently it feels as though there's been a lot of loss and it's terrible, i hate the feeling of it but loss shows me a lot of things loss has shown me that sometimes it's not the losing that hurts it's the lost effort and feelings and time it's the lost emotion that hurts me most people walk in and out of our lives and we have no control over that fact but they take moments and little pieces of us along with them but we take a little bit of them as well and sometimes what we take hurts loss teaches us how valuable our moments are that every little moment is worth something regardless of how small we think it is because one day we or somebody else might not see it as miniscule but as a miraculous moment that is impacting on their life loss doesn't erase these impacts and hurts on us though it might even enunciate them and loss doesn't make the sadness of losing that person go away time does and even though time takes away that pain we have those moments you should never regret those moments whether they be good moments or bad moments you took them with you for a reason i think me as the person i am certain moments shine light on certain aspects of myself and loss shines light on my inability to regret moments although some may see that as a bed things and call me emotionless i view it as a tool to view moments a little differently than others to view them as valuable and worth remembering
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 11:46 PM UTC
the light is currently shining on loss and showing that aspect of me
as the kind of person i am, i don't regret any of my decisions because I've made my decisions and there is nothing i can do now they've occurred and i can feel bad about making them but i never regret them, because there's no use wishing i could change them this aspect of me becomes prominent after a loss recently it feels as though there's been a lot of loss and it's terrible, i hate the feeling of it but loss shows me a lot of things loss has shown me that sometimes it's not the losing that hurts it's the lost effort and feelings and time it's the lost emotion that hurts me most people walk in and out of our lives and we have no control over that fact but they take moments and little pieces of us along with them but we take a little bit of them as well and sometimes what we take hurts loss teaches us how valuable our moments are that every little moment is worth something regardless of how small we think it is because one day we or somebody else might not see it as miniscule but as a miraculous moment that is impacting on their life loss doesn't erase these impacts and hurts on us though it might even enunciate them and loss doesn't make the sadness of losing that person go away time does and even though time takes away that pain we have those moments you should never regret those moments whether they be good moments or bad moments you took them with you for a reason i think me as the person i am certain moments shine light on certain aspects of myself and loss shines light on my inability to regret moments although some may see that as a bed things and call me emotionless i view it as a tool to view moments a little differently than others to view them as valuable and worth remembering
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watch them dance. see the way the blood trails behind? vivid footprints, declarations of madness, a history lain in red paint and black ink a story, seeping from an open palm to pool with indifference across the college-ruled stage. watch them dance. the impacts, do you feel them? those collisions of thought and language wherein reason is sought through brutal force, berating the ears as they skate and sprint across the plastic tiled minefield of truth and bludgeoned metaphor. watch them dance.
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Oct 9, 2022
Oct 9, 2022 at 8:03 PM UTC
Blistered
Music is a wonderful inspiration It is one of the only things in this world that makes me feel such emotion that it’s almost a physical feeling I know that all emotions affect the human body physically But, music impacts me in a different way When I’m listening to The Avett Brothers I feel this wonderful and amazing pressure in between my chest and my stomach The closest thing I could describe it as is a light inside me I don’t know what I would do without music It is simply pure magic Magic that has the power to change moods touch hearts and even hurt people Music is one of the only things all human beings have in common Even if you’re one of those people who say they don’t like music It lies within every person I truly believe that music is born in us
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Oct 6, 2012
Oct 6, 2012 at 9:29 PM UTC
Free write 2
I feel so much and I try too hard But none of that impacts you at all. I give you everything you ask And everything more that I can. You always take it for granted Where your genuine thanks is rare And then the heart I give to mend Your own is just given away To the people who destroyed yours. You’re the kindest to everyone But me, who is kindest to you. I’m better off done.
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 6:28 PM UTC
Done
So When It Comes To Poetry... What Really Can Be Deemed... To Be A... " MASTERPIECE "... ?!? A Really COOL HAIKU... Where Words Number A FEW... !?! Or A Poetic... Stanza... With IMPERVIOUS Data... That HITS Like A Gun Clapper... !!! Or Verses That SHATTER... A Readers BRAIN MATTER... !!! Because Of Wordplay... That’s TRUTHFUL And BRAVE... On Subjects That Make... Most Writers AFRAID... !?! Or Masterpieces Releasing..... The PLAINEST of Speaking... And TRUE DEPTH of MEANING... ?!? Or... Poetry Seeking... ? To BREAK Through Glass Ceilings... !!! Where Judgements Are Made... About... What Is Claimed... To Be A... " Masterpiece "... Are Judges Like THESE... Those... TRULY WORTHY... of KNOWLEDGE And WISDOM... About... ALL Words Written... ?!? Are They REALLY Objective... About Words That They Credit.... As Being … IMPRESSIVE... ?!? Is A Masterpiece Short... Or... Can It Be LONG... ??? Can A Poem Be Thought... To Have Masterpiece Form... ?!? Like That of A Painting... Because of Its CADENCE... And POETIC Statements... ??? AND............. Whose Mind Can Decide... ?!? What It Is That DEFINES.. A... MASTERFUL Piece... of Verse And Poetry... ??? And What About WRITERS... ? Do We REALLY ASPIRE... To Have Our Written Works... Be Seen As GREAT VERSE... ?!? Or As A MASTERPIECE... of A... Poetic Breed... ?!? Sounds Like EGO To Me... !!! I’d Rather Inspire Young People To READ... And Write REALITY Within Their Poetry... !!! That ENSURES LEGACIES... of Words With... Qualities... That Breed MORE UNITY... That Have POSITIVE Impacts... On... HUMANITY... !!! Because THAT HONESTLY... Would Be The Kind of FEAT... That I TRULY Would See... As Something That Could Be... A POETIC Piece of GREAT Artistry... !!! That Indeed Could Be Deemed... As A REAL... ..... “ MASTERPIECE “..... !!!
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Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020 at 1:40 AM UTC
“Masterpiece” ... A Poem written by Big Virge 3/7/2020
So When It Comes To Poetry... What Really Can Be Deemed... To Be A... " MASTERPIECE "... ?!? A Really COOL HAIKU... Where Words Number A FEW... !?! Or A Poetic... Stanza... With IMPERVIOUS Data... That HITS Like A Gun Clapper... !!! Or Verses That SHATTER... A Readers BRAIN MATTER... !!! Because Of Wordplay... That’s TRUTHFUL And BRAVE... On Subjects That Make... Most Writers AFRAID... !?! Or Masterpieces Releasing..... The PLAINEST of Speaking... And TRUE DEPTH of MEANING... ?!? Or... Poetry Seeking... ? To BREAK Through Glass Ceilings... !!! Where Judgements Are Made... About... What Is Claimed... To Be A... " Masterpiece "... Are Judges Like THESE... Those... TRULY WORTHY... of KNOWLEDGE And WISDOM... About... ALL Words Written... ?!? Are They REALLY Objective... About Words That They Credit.... As Being … IMPRESSIVE... ?!? Is A Masterpiece Short... Or... Can It Be LONG... ??? Can A Poem Be Thought... To Have Masterpiece Form... ?!? Like That of A Painting... Because of Its CADENCE... And POETIC Statements... ??? AND............. Whose Mind Can Decide... ?!? What It Is That DEFINES.. A... MASTERFUL Piece... of Verse And Poetry... ??? And What About WRITERS... ? Do We REALLY ASPIRE... To Have Our Written Works... Be Seen As GREAT VERSE... ?!? Or As A MASTERPIECE... of A... Poetic Breed... ?!? Sounds Like EGO To Me... !!! I’d Rather Inspire Young People To READ... And Write REALITY Within Their Poetry... !!! That ENSURES LEGACIES... of Words With... Qualities... That Breed MORE UNITY... That Have POSITIVE Impacts... On... HUMANITY... !!! Because THAT HONESTLY... Would Be The Kind of FEAT... That I TRULY Would See... As Something That Could Be... A POETIC Piece of GREAT Artistry... !!! That Indeed Could Be Deemed... As A REAL... ..... “ MASTERPIECE “..... !!!
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