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"incisions" poems
within the solitude of the dreadful span of the blackened and bowed sky the deep withered grass bends in the moonless dark quieting the cold and murmuring earth hushing her into fitful sleep the air is hard and the wind lacerates the night razor incisions left behind in the icy flesh of obsidian hours open wounds howl like wolves on the trail of prey in flight I hunger for you under the restless stars
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Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM UTC
Winter Prairie
Asleep alone I got the light scare Of a nightmare With my plight there Which wouldn't fight fair Awake awaits Chirping is all I hear Dragging life into focus Getting the lens clear To see things are hopeless My aches and pains Are my body's refrain To remind me of existence Despite my mental resistance I am lucid I take my shoelace And loop it To run a new race Timidly trembling The violence in my dreams Matches the silence and screams That defile us and our team Making the nightmares real And the pain I can feel So it's love I steal A devil's deal Hell unsealed I can hear the vultures chirping Or maybe they're just burping Out the demons I ignored My forgiveness they implored To meet a silent scorn Like a muted tribal horn Banishing them to another realm With my ostracism at the helm Until the lonely are overwhelmed And I see the error of my ways Once I'm part of this chaotic haze Practically paralyzed I am lost In this game I've met the boss He and I the same He is a voice Chirping in my ear Saying I have no choice I should give in to fear And just drink beer Until the end is here Carelessly comatose The birds that once sang beautifully Now retreat dutifully When they see my thoughtless anger Turn me into a ruthless stranger Creating danger For those living righteously They start fighting me Trying to enlighten me Which is only exciting me Because I lack the sight to see What the world could be If we could harmonize Like the birds Not using argent lies But soothing words Yet there is no tax exemption For my reluctant redemption So my mind invented No incentive Soul slaughtered The tear jerking Birds chirping Constantly remind me Inside my sleep they find me Thrusting me into a life unwinding Through my window the sun is blinding When I start to fear my brother After seeing mirrors in others Reflecting my attitude Of ingratitude I had a nasty nightmare Of Camp Crystal Lake Filled with misfit flakes Paying for their mistakes With pain and suffering As deep as a submarine Being torn apart For every decision Hiding their heart To avoid incisions And once all these losers are slain The birds chirping start a new day
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Jun 29, 2018
Jun 29, 2018 at 4:14 AM UTC
Chirping
Asleep alone I got the light scare Of a nightmare With my plight there Which wouldn't fight fair Awake awaits Chirping is all I hear Dragging life into focus Getting the lens clear To see things are hopeless My aches and pains Are my body's refrain To remind me of existence Despite my mental resistance I am lucid I take my shoelace And loop it To run a new race Timidly trembling The violence in my dreams Matches the silence and screams That defile us and our team Making the nightmares real And the pain I can feel So it's love I steal A devil's deal Hell unsealed I can hear the vultures chirping Or maybe they're just burping Out the demons I ignored My forgiveness they implored To meet a silent scorn Like a muted tribal horn Banishing them to another realm With my ostracism at the helm Until the lonely are overwhelmed And I see the error of my ways Once I'm part of this chaotic haze Practically paralyzed I am lost In this game I've met the boss He and I the same He is a voice Chirping in my ear Saying I have no choice I should give in to fear And just drink beer Until the end is here Carelessly comatose The birds that once sang beautifully Now retreat dutifully When they see my thoughtless anger Turn me into a ruthless stranger Creating danger For those living righteously They start fighting me Trying to enlighten me Which is only exciting me Because I lack the sight to see What the world could be If we could harmonize Like the birds Not using argent lies But soothing words Yet there is no tax exemption For my reluctant redemption So my mind invented No incentive Soul slaughtered The tear jerking Birds chirping Constantly remind me Inside my sleep they find me Thrusting me into a life unwinding Through my window the sun is blinding When I start to fear my brother After seeing mirrors in others Reflecting my attitude Of ingratitude I had a nasty nightmare Of Camp Crystal Lake Filled with misfit flakes Paying for their mistakes With pain and suffering As deep as a submarine Being torn apart For every decision Hiding their heart To avoid incisions And once all these losers are slain The birds chirping start a new day
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careful incisions to the heart / cutting the main artery / nearest to the heart/ making this odd thing occur / feeling numb in a non-circulatory form / static insanity is a common side effect
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM UTC
flat tire(d)
108 Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit—Life!
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Surgeons must be very careful
I have secret skeletons That haven't seen the Sun From things supposedly fun Now all they do is make me run Skeletons exit my closet And enter my jury box All of whom I've met Then put behind locks Now they throw rocks Or find ways to mock They are ruthless Until I'm toothless I face a skeleton jury I face the skeletons' fury They seek vengeance Or perhaps repentance I play lawyer in my mind This job has become full time And I must laboriously linger Through skeleton stingers Until my mind is rattled By skeleton saddles They come from my past To shatter my glass The skeletons are attacking My bones are cracking Under their weight They are my freight They judge me And begrudge me I made many moronic mistakes I left laying at the bottom of lakes Now they are at the surface Of my fruitless furnace Skeletons remain Like a stain I look across the plain To see skeletal rain Precipitated by my dumb decisions Droplets make numerous incisions Each one callously cutting me to the bone Until the skeleton jury is my humble home
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Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 4:41 AM UTC
Skeleton Jury
She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC
Rhythm
She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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A ***** drills inside my core It nags, graps, pans, the hands They knot in spins and twists My crux left at the river side Breathing,gasping fast, faster Body out in the open rawness Persisting resistance of the force An outward shield winning Winged left,right, up, down Another day, a greater pace A passive taste, ranting in haste In bricks ***** all I taste is hate All walking in dead silence Heads shouting with dreams A roll of sweet and sour sate Echoes of taxes and budgets How will they evolve us? Snatching more from pockets The rockets burst to mock us Pulling our all to fund them Nuclear bombs creating tombs Distribution of lies and wars Missiles disposing as lyrics An objectification of reason Figure brushes on magazines Incisions of bits and **** hoots To boost of the hot posed *** No truth is scaffolded as real A psychological brainwash Pollutes and limits indefinately
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 2:59 PM UTC
!!!!Indefinite Indoctrination !!!!!
I'm born Airborne Forlorn In war torn Discord My ripcord I pull for liberation Alienation aviation Away from a station Of no relation Where their elation Lies in degeneration The fright fair Nightmare In sight there Is a right scare But light flares From an illuminated theater I dive into art To fill my meter I consume Darkened tomb Screen in room Is where I loom Inspiration blooms From a sense of doom My separation reparation That will lead to veneration My artistic fervor Drifted further Drifter's murmurs Lifted learners But gifted murderers Shifted girders Of shame and honesty To my grave of modesty Where they prey upon me This plagiarism Layered schism Cratered rhythm Of great decisions Now I make incisions With repetition And the definition Of words stolen from me They're all I can see And I can't get free Or just let it be Consumption disruption At this junction I can't function A plagiarist ****** mist Grips my fist Makes me wish I don't exist I must resist Before I miss My chance at bliss They're ****** me By aping me Making me Shaking trees Of bumblebees With rumble pleas On humble knees Drinking antifreeze Nobody cares What's fair They bear And share Blank stares Up stairs Of artistic compromise Integrity lost in lies They're not that wise I hypothesize My baby Caught rabies From Hades Now ladies Flock to a thief Giving me grief Beyond belief In my coral reef Sword in sheath I drown discreet
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 2:29 PM UTC
Plagiarism
i want to peel the skin from my limbs strip by strip with broken glass making jagged incisions then watch the blood drip down my body dark red is pretty. i want to scratch my eyes out i've seen too much now they'd look better splattered on the floor just like ***** blotched decor i want to pluck my nails out from the beds of my fingers and toes and with a torch burn it all, melt the cartilage off my ears and nose its too much extra baggage for when i jump off the ledge i like to mutilate myself i’m a ********* as well i love slicing deep into my skin or puncturing myself, with a needle or pin. seeing my blood escape captivity makes me feel more alive than if it was still inside me even more so when i carve out an artery it falls so gracefully down to my feet i want to display my own bones in my home and replace them in my body with metal poles i think feeling pain is better than feeling nothing and seeing a sharp razor to grate my skin is always enticing i love how it stings. blood is the liquid of life yet symbolizes death i corrupted my soul, now an expired body is left i want to reach inside my chest and grab my heart and squeeze so hard it oozes like jello through my fingers and stops beating forever.
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Nov 20, 2022
Nov 20, 2022 at 7:54 PM UTC
voodoo doll
Refuse to follow give in to your constant torture cause more harm than intended seek leverage and comfort in loneliness, seek joy + pleasure in the rich's failure I'm not weird I'm just trying to cope with my problems. Seek pleassure from seeing my enemies guts shredded hear them beg and plea Do I bother you? Yes, then it's working. Happiness is the reason I despise Humanity denying to conform to your mainstream ways shut-up, shut-up, SHUT-UP! There isn't that better silence was always a friend of mine. Hand me the knife now I need to educate this inhuman by making a few incisions How else does one learn about emotion. You need to shed to gain......
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 1:57 PM UTC
Hurt
is it love or the parasite ? my pilot bulk                       aims for relief        it pursues this via                             your romantic correction in public arena                   a library stair                     (i never prior encountered you) one step as foreigner         the approach and upon a swift internal pendulum i make witless incisions hurried mended sentences directed stuns invasive i demand the compromise                   of your company hastily push at boundaries and you're not so accommodating                                                  but on a further occasion same building we exchange a battering of conversation that    then        matures            into barter-like use of language despite my harassments   a civil cultivation is unearthed tongue within this intelligence effort i lessen loosen my demanding appearance disregard my dignity      a skin suit about the ankles you're open in a vein of similarity    you flesh out your own controls we've progressed quickly there's an aped conduct                  and flashing attitudes this time we share table space a nearby café we have become quite unmanned     repeated meet ups upon humours we adjust small habits     and shake on perceptions where we overlap it becomes    more an overlay of rationalities         than resented promises fast time passes and i move into your living space                                   i pick a wildflower                                                                    and put it in the tiny vase on your dining table we agree on its colour                                               we agree on a book to make our bible material we agree on the pitch of the tinnitus we share the clothes i am to wear i switch to your diet and you cease taking medications we sleep on your lawn like children and bring down the night sky for comfort during the day we wear our sleep               like a lubrication for our chores and go about our productivity               in genuine partnership yet i feel we're just out of reach             of some dark harm we are an excellent sample pair it is all vital we grow stronger the more we quiz it recycling our ********** refine our agreements await further impulses and come closer to plug so.. do we please love       or simply indulge a parasite ?
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Nov 23, 2021
Nov 23, 2021 at 10:28 PM UTC
a cultivation
is it love or the parasite ? my pilot bulk                       aims for relief        it pursues this via                             your romantic correction in public arena                   a library stair                     (i never prior encountered you) one step as foreigner         the approach and upon a swift internal pendulum i make witless incisions hurried mended sentences directed stuns invasive i demand the compromise                   of your company hastily push at boundaries and you're not so accommodating                                                  but on a further occasion same building we exchange a battering of conversation that    then        matures            into barter-like use of language despite my harassments   a civil cultivation is unearthed tongue within this intelligence effort i lessen loosen my demanding appearance disregard my dignity      a skin suit about the ankles you're open in a vein of similarity    you flesh out your own controls we've progressed quickly there's an aped conduct                  and flashing attitudes this time we share table space a nearby café we have become quite unmanned     repeated meet ups upon humours we adjust small habits     and shake on perceptions where we overlap it becomes    more an overlay of rationalities         than resented promises fast time passes and i move into your living space                                   i pick a wildflower                                                                    and put it in the tiny vase on your dining table we agree on its colour                                               we agree on a book to make our bible material we agree on the pitch of the tinnitus we share the clothes i am to wear i switch to your diet and you cease taking medications we sleep on your lawn like children and bring down the night sky for comfort during the day we wear our sleep               like a lubrication for our chores and go about our productivity               in genuine partnership yet i feel we're just out of reach             of some dark harm we are an excellent sample pair it is all vital we grow stronger the more we quiz it recycling our ********** refine our agreements await further impulses and come closer to plug so.. do we please love       or simply indulge a parasite ?
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I wish it was easier for people to forget, if things left their mind as easy as they let them in, tough skin wouldn’t wear thin as easy as it is right now, my past is full of imperfections and bad decisions, leaving unstitched incisions beneath the brink of sanity, but who’s isn’t? every time falsities start, my mind races with my heart to contemplations on when to finish, they tattoo the past of others on their insecurities, fuelling the fire that burns a hole into respect and reputation, creating a vicious cycle of revenge and envy, each gossip verbally vomited into naive ears pulls the marionette strings of perception into the road normally taken, two roads may have diverged at a yellow wood, but when the ignorance burns yellow to ash,  the road less taken seems blocked, so the next time you hear something about another, don’t be too quick spread the word, the game of telephone can get a little distorted when the next phone call you get is that they were found hanging from a rope.                                 MJB
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 1:37 AM UTC
Bad Decisions Left Unforgotten°
The human soul, as vile as bile, Savage Cruel disturbed infected and distort, The human soul, obsessed with foul style, Sinful confused mishandled and extort Devoid of ethical human feelings, Inflicted with raw sadistic hatred, Grotesque depraved dismembered killings, Ungodly occultism, unsacred Sickness requires resolute treatment, Stitches to repair ripped incisions, Reducing the risk of dismemberment, Catastrophe fractured by excision Ceased decaying crippled in dreadful despair Emerging from darkness, disturbed and aware. William James
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 7:30 PM UTC
The Evilness of the human soul
Make sure your heart isn't heavy from unrequited love, Or from love letters with "return to sender" staining the front in dark, black ink over your own meticulously crafted words. Make sure your heart isn't heavy from holding onto lost causes, And too full from tears and whispered curses when you're holding yourself at 2 am. Make sure your heart isn't heavy when you lose someone else's, Or when you see them walking down the street hand in and hand with another and you might just hold your own so that you don't feel too lonesome. Make sure your heart isn't heavy with the weight of the world And everything you've ever felt too strongly about. Make sure your heart isn't heavy with regret or hatred Towards anyone who did you wrong and left you heavy hearted in the first place. Make sure your heart isn't heavy- It'll weigh you down to the notion that you can't reopen it once the incisions have healed. Make sure your heart isn't so heavy That you fall to it's weight and forget what it means to be light. Make sure your heart isn't heavy- It'll lift you in more ways than one.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 2:34 AM UTC
Heavy Hearted, Pt 1
Phantom Fierce Pierce For Sally Do have the courage of fear? What! You heard me. Admit that we are all inhabited, Admit that we are all inhibited. Fear, the eleventh plague visited upon the Egyptians, Nothing more paralyzingly complete. Walking down an average day, an average street, A median day, a medium day that a Black disease from whence unknown, And you are a froze shadowed chalk figure Drawn upon the concrete, unable to move. What would you pay, anything, What would you give, everything, Cleanse it all Cut out the incisions That with precision Haunt your every Waking and sleeping moment. The deeds that did not get done, The deeds that cannot get undone, Both your undoing. A plague on both, a plague on me, My plague, unique to me, Free me from this whatever the cost. But it can't be arranged. No devil to sell back the things Of which you are ashamed, No stain stick extant to guarantee success. When the hollow is so great You feel non-existent. But you do not see what I see... Courage, raw and plain, admits These phantoms are not phantoms at all. Those figures try to break you. There is a beach, a path, where you know, Safety. Not easy to get there. The bus schedule unpublished. But the bus line exists. And you have the courage to wait, patiently Until it arrives. There is value here, if you read between the dashes And the dots. I see you for who you are. You are the phantom fiercer piercer. Shown us the way.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
Phantom Fierce Pierce
I venture outward Past those devoured Through endless hours This adventure tower Holds uncensored power In higher spires And liars' desires Ending when I perspire In a fire retire I must live When lust gives A chance at love I glance above A dusty cloud Through a crusty crowd To see love must be found In transcendence And dependence So I must trust And ignore rust To import thrusts Of night's passion Despite fashion Time vortex More or less As time runs out I must decide what it's about Others help with that decision They help by making incisions And letting time bleed My emotions they read For their corporal greed I tried to plant a seed But their environment is frigid Despite my attempts to bridge it I become detached From my potential catch By days and years And waves of tears That stave off peers Until I'm an old man Feet buried in cold sand I'll say that I tried Once I'm used to the lies
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Dec 16, 2017
Dec 16, 2017 at 6:47 AM UTC
Vortex
"And when your fourth love leaves you. You will want to **** yourself, but you won't Because you no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day" ~ Future Tense by Neil Hilborn. I keep hoping That if I keep writing enough about you About us What happened and what you did It'll be written out of the existence of my conscious That the memories will melt away As if they were frost coated blades of grass In a lukewarm spring morning I care you know About if you're happy now Maybe I keep hoping that if I bleed enough ink Everything will finally stop And fall And reorder itself That the past five years Will fade out Through the tip of this pen The insecurities will be gone The trauma will be gone The memories will be gone You'll be gone For good Never existing A total and complete stranger Because who you are now Isn't who I first met But that's life right? People changed I changed And it hurt like hell But after that Everything melded Faded together The sun and moon Will no longer fight for supremacy behind my closed eyelids Sadness will finally move out of happiness's home The unwanted roommate Never paying their rent Leaving behind tidbits of loneliness That would always cover Your vortex infused days of sun Cozy winter mornings have reappeared Snuggled in a blanket Snow caressing my window sill A gust turned into An extinct lovers laugh Because my days are brighter My pen is lighter And the ink that I've bled Over the past five years Has finally been staunched From the incisions On my ugly blue battered Gun powder heart.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 1:48 AM UTC
Untitled
"And when your fourth love leaves you. You will want to **** yourself, but you won't Because you no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day" ~ Future Tense by Neil Hilborn. I keep hoping That if I keep writing enough about you About us What happened and what you did It'll be written out of the existence of my conscious That the memories will melt away As if they were frost coated blades of grass In a lukewarm spring morning I care you know About if you're happy now Maybe I keep hoping that if I bleed enough ink Everything will finally stop And fall And reorder itself That the past five years Will fade out Through the tip of this pen The insecurities will be gone The trauma will be gone The memories will be gone You'll be gone For good Never existing A total and complete stranger Because who you are now Isn't who I first met But that's life right? People changed I changed And it hurt like hell But after that Everything melded Faded together The sun and moon Will no longer fight for supremacy behind my closed eyelids Sadness will finally move out of happiness's home The unwanted roommate Never paying their rent Leaving behind tidbits of loneliness That would always cover Your vortex infused days of sun Cozy winter mornings have reappeared Snuggled in a blanket Snow caressing my window sill A gust turned into An extinct lovers laugh Because my days are brighter My pen is lighter And the ink that I've bled Over the past five years Has finally been staunched From the incisions On my ugly blue battered Gun powder heart.
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i could go to the courtyard, if i wanted to. i won't, but i'll pretend to, so i get the heady rush of possibility. but i never told you why i love the smell of rain and you never told me why you love like rain i guess we're even, i guess we can't rely on karma to get by. i think you should know that i love you, or used to love you, or will love you i think you should know about the incisions. three over your heart and around it and, and darling, is it too late to tell you about the fireplace? i hope not. it's ashy and unused. we make a fine pair you can be the puppeteer, if you want i your perfect marionette (pale and pretty, pearls at my throat) your mind is racing. do you remember the cave, princess? sorry, i know, you hate it when i call you that. do you remember the blood on my hands? do you remember tipping my chin up, drinking it in first the blood and then me it was fast, but i understand. self control is a luxury we can't all afford to be precise. but, sweetheart, you misfired, didn't you? or didn't fire at all, meant to fire but forgot. you don't like hospitals. you don't like orders and you don't like order i know this. we both do. (i know why you sit the way you do, back ramrod straight. you're afraid of falling.) you're afraid of your reflection you ask me to paint you and when i'm finished you bite your lip. "you look like your father," i lie through my teeth you couldn't be more different. i love this about you. you listen to the same three albums on repeat when i get tired of hearing them i ask you, measured to please turn the volume down. you turn it up, smiling like you know a secret that i don't. i stop asking you for things. it's okay, this is normal. you stopped answering me a long time ago, anyway. when i turn to look at you, your fair hands are stained red. i do not breathe. we stay like this, quiet and unsure you filling the silence for me. if you do love me, it's not in the way that everyone talks about it's a hurricane love. this is not like breathing it's like drowning but you taught me to swim twelve years ago in a kiddie pool in the backyard and i know i will never leave you. my strings are clutched too tight in your fists. i move around but not beyond you. this is how it has always been. when you kiss me, i taste metal on your tongue. my mouth comes away red and i do not care loving you is a blood sport anyway. i will fold into you, become a bullet, cry myself hoarse. this is the only way i can be close to you. i could go into the courtyard, if i wanted to, but you're there and i don't want you to know about me.
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 9:10 AM UTC
marionette
i could go to the courtyard, if i wanted to. i won't, but i'll pretend to, so i get the heady rush of possibility. but i never told you why i love the smell of rain and you never told me why you love like rain i guess we're even, i guess we can't rely on karma to get by. i think you should know that i love you, or used to love you, or will love you i think you should know about the incisions. three over your heart and around it and, and darling, is it too late to tell you about the fireplace? i hope not. it's ashy and unused. we make a fine pair you can be the puppeteer, if you want i your perfect marionette (pale and pretty, pearls at my throat) your mind is racing. do you remember the cave, princess? sorry, i know, you hate it when i call you that. do you remember the blood on my hands? do you remember tipping my chin up, drinking it in first the blood and then me it was fast, but i understand. self control is a luxury we can't all afford to be precise. but, sweetheart, you misfired, didn't you? or didn't fire at all, meant to fire but forgot. you don't like hospitals. you don't like orders and you don't like order i know this. we both do. (i know why you sit the way you do, back ramrod straight. you're afraid of falling.) you're afraid of your reflection you ask me to paint you and when i'm finished you bite your lip. "you look like your father," i lie through my teeth you couldn't be more different. i love this about you. you listen to the same three albums on repeat when i get tired of hearing them i ask you, measured to please turn the volume down. you turn it up, smiling like you know a secret that i don't. i stop asking you for things. it's okay, this is normal. you stopped answering me a long time ago, anyway. when i turn to look at you, your fair hands are stained red. i do not breathe. we stay like this, quiet and unsure you filling the silence for me. if you do love me, it's not in the way that everyone talks about it's a hurricane love. this is not like breathing it's like drowning but you taught me to swim twelve years ago in a kiddie pool in the backyard and i know i will never leave you. my strings are clutched too tight in your fists. i move around but not beyond you. this is how it has always been. when you kiss me, i taste metal on your tongue. my mouth comes away red and i do not care loving you is a blood sport anyway. i will fold into you, become a bullet, cry myself hoarse. this is the only way i can be close to you. i could go into the courtyard, if i wanted to, but you're there and i don't want you to know about me.
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At trees reunited or the Great Timber-yard in the sky There are certain branches who remember the incisions made to fell their growth. spurts & seasons, and the wind rustling through imagined leaves of appendages long gone All the gunge symptomatic of sap coagulated won't replace the holes in the sky © Copyright David Bosworth August 2013
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Aug 24, 2013
Aug 24, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
the tree-fearers
I still deny the rules and social ties of citizen spies that i televise by shouting chanted anthems into the sky yet to comply with the codes of conduct i defy as you synthesize the number and size i am careful not to compromise the lost light within my eyes my cold gaze reflective of your demise and i scrutinize them until they realize they're being penalized for the lies until maggots monopolize your corpse through your cries until pulled away by the hissing of shadowed flies that fly into the lost light in my eyes until my pupils cauterize locking you inside institutionalised and i am imprisoned in a prism of realism as anti social collisions have me pulling my soul through verbal incisions seeping radioactive emissions from the legions of religions from the season of rhyme without reason failure to pay darkened tuitions is now treason as catastrophic cataclysms lock me away in my primal visions my verbal inflictions as though holy missions to infuse friction smashing through my divided contradictions and feeding my addictions good riddance
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 10:45 PM UTC
Facade
*He'd always leave at 2:53 P.M. Swoosh fwoump. It was only a matter of time, Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-ti* *I wanted to be free.* He'd strap me to a chair and whisper, sweet stories that you'd coo to a child, with sour breath running down my neck, his greasy forehead pressed against my tear-stricken cheeks; it'd deteriorate and culture in my ears. *His scent engulfed my mind, my body, my soul...* He made a grave mistake, dressing me in grimy socks, making me dance skin-to-skin, forcing me to kiss him, call him. *Oh no, you see, he should have known.* *I betrayed his trust, I'd pay the price, "Isn't that right, Leila?"* That's not my name. *"Now Leila, darling, you're going to be a good girl, for Daddy, aren't you?"* That's not my name. *"Leila, sweetheart, I can trust you, can't I? Hmm? This will be our little secret,"* That's not my name. *"Aw, don't tell me, dear, beautiful Leila, you aren't scared, are you?"* That's not my name. I knew him well, after a few months, and his smell was musty, only when I let it be. *He always liked sweets, like me.* He was disgusting, and my wrists ran red with incisions; he'd lick them clean. *He'd always leave at 2:53.* *"Oh Leila, sweetheart, I expect dinner when I get back, won't you be a good girl, and do as Daddy taught you?"* That's not my name. So I did. This kitchen was charming, as much as his worn dining ware, lined with cracked roses painted by Chinese overseas, wondering when they would be used. This was the first time I'd seen him genuinely smile, *"You look especially beautiful, tonight, Leila, perhaps it's the sparkle in your eye,"* That's not my name. He took a sip. His glossy eyes hovered above his glass, and his gaze drifted over to me, in my grimy socks and brown-stained apron, my long, dark hair drapped over my shoulders. **Another glass, another glass, another glass, glass, sugary sweet, sweet, down his lips, lips, lips, teeth, throat, liver. He liked sweets, sweets, sweets, dripping, sipping, sweet, sugary sweet, nectar, cool, smooth, antifreeze. He'd always leave at 2:53.** *Silence. Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-ti-* **2:53 P.M. Silence at 2:00- 2:00 2:00** *I'd heard him cry, "Leila, Leila, Leila,"* That's not my name. **He'd always leave at 2:53, 2:00, silence. He would never leave at 2:53, 2:53 P.M.** I left at 2:53. Silence.
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Apr 16, 2016
Apr 16, 2016 at 8:28 PM UTC
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*He'd always leave at 2:53 P.M. Swoosh fwoump. It was only a matter of time, Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-ti* *I wanted to be free.* He'd strap me to a chair and whisper, sweet stories that you'd coo to a child, with sour breath running down my neck, his greasy forehead pressed against my tear-stricken cheeks; it'd deteriorate and culture in my ears. *His scent engulfed my mind, my body, my soul...* He made a grave mistake, dressing me in grimy socks, making me dance skin-to-skin, forcing me to kiss him, call him. *Oh no, you see, he should have known.* *I betrayed his trust, I'd pay the price, "Isn't that right, Leila?"* That's not my name. *"Now Leila, darling, you're going to be a good girl, for Daddy, aren't you?"* That's not my name. *"Leila, sweetheart, I can trust you, can't I? Hmm? This will be our little secret,"* That's not my name. *"Aw, don't tell me, dear, beautiful Leila, you aren't scared, are you?"* That's not my name. I knew him well, after a few months, and his smell was musty, only when I let it be. *He always liked sweets, like me.* He was disgusting, and my wrists ran red with incisions; he'd lick them clean. *He'd always leave at 2:53.* *"Oh Leila, sweetheart, I expect dinner when I get back, won't you be a good girl, and do as Daddy taught you?"* That's not my name. So I did. This kitchen was charming, as much as his worn dining ware, lined with cracked roses painted by Chinese overseas, wondering when they would be used. This was the first time I'd seen him genuinely smile, *"You look especially beautiful, tonight, Leila, perhaps it's the sparkle in your eye,"* That's not my name. He took a sip. His glossy eyes hovered above his glass, and his gaze drifted over to me, in my grimy socks and brown-stained apron, my long, dark hair drapped over my shoulders. **Another glass, another glass, another glass, glass, sugary sweet, sweet, down his lips, lips, lips, teeth, throat, liver. He liked sweets, sweets, sweets, dripping, sipping, sweet, sugary sweet, nectar, cool, smooth, antifreeze. He'd always leave at 2:53.** *Silence. Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-ti-* **2:53 P.M. Silence at 2:00- 2:00 2:00** *I'd heard him cry, "Leila, Leila, Leila,"* That's not my name. **He'd always leave at 2:53, 2:00, silence. He would never leave at 2:53, 2:53 P.M.** I left at 2:53. Silence.
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Inhale. The icy air cuts your throat Like shards of a shattered past The incisions sting you Like the remembrance of her The mere thought pains you As they rush through Like a train, Leaving nothing behind. Exhale. Your breath leaves a cloud You hope it begins to storm Like the thundering emotions Rumbling though your soul Your breath leaves you empty With nothing left Just like she did. Inhale. You begin feeling sick Her perfume is like poison Its intoxicating scent Seeps into your blood Leaving you wanting more That you will never receive . Exhale. You are seeing more than stars The lights are spinning You feel faint Her look has you dazed And you fall for her. Hard. Inhale. As she walks past you And out of your life forever Then you are overcome with sadness From the thought of what might've been. Exhale. For the last time. As the rope tightens around your neck And you kick the chair over And fall again, for her With a sickening snap All because of her.
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Jun 22, 2014
Jun 22, 2014 at 8:58 PM UTC
Breathe
~Poet V-Ink (Viewtiful) Inside my head inspiration wars for territory/ my eyes inviting any and everything in it's path inside with a story that I'll tell it's story My mood doesn't always shelter my desires to be creative but my eyes never stop working constantly supplying me with inspiration... some times I don't wanna write..... so what's inside becomes impatient... So things decide to up and leave through the crevices in my face and.... It spills in its desired form so it's ink my skin is tasting.... I apologize ahead of time my gift and it's vision care nothing of your time it's wasting ~Rebel Flower Inside my head there is a place awaking the purpose to write like incisions on a platter like a golden sizzorr Cutting in time wasted where it could be used in skills practice to free a prisoner of rest Like leggos we stack purpose And speeches never frail There are times of a nothingness for ink flows and poetic thoughts yet naturally words yell at my window for spills a welcoming and re-entering Paving for my souls exertion editing exact details carrying in a song in my psalms I don't live in the gift the gift lives in me touring like a concert to sooth or even to feel Like a record playing on repeat This is my mental obsession. ~Poet V-Ink (Viewtiful) I'm obsessed with all the talent god has left me to possess but sometimes I get upset at the lack of control I have over the information my mind accepts/ granted a gift to project messages hidden in the mess life lessons usually left but I stress because that gift sometimes forces my tired hand to respect I struggle... some much on my mind absent the intention to invest... How do I turn off the switch to how my registry was blessed.. ~Rebel Flower Blessings of such a skill at times may be overwhelming I picture the gift of words a performer When need of pros we feed our drive as well as the audience We plumage into a well of urgent tunes then we tiré, and we are restless poetry never dies it will come back when need of a place of itself to live again and again. Every poet needs a light and the switch will dim in any time I'd worry more when it flips back on How great the light will be. © Copyright 2014 Poet V-Ink & S.T. Rebel of Eden.
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 4:27 AM UTC
THE STRUGGLE: collaboration w/Viewtifull aka Poet V-Ink & S.T. Rebel of Eden
~Poet V-Ink (Viewtiful) Inside my head inspiration wars for territory/ my eyes inviting any and everything in it's path inside with a story that I'll tell it's story My mood doesn't always shelter my desires to be creative but my eyes never stop working constantly supplying me with inspiration... some times I don't wanna write..... so what's inside becomes impatient... So things decide to up and leave through the crevices in my face and.... It spills in its desired form so it's ink my skin is tasting.... I apologize ahead of time my gift and it's vision care nothing of your time it's wasting ~Rebel Flower Inside my head there is a place awaking the purpose to write like incisions on a platter like a golden sizzorr Cutting in time wasted where it could be used in skills practice to free a prisoner of rest Like leggos we stack purpose And speeches never frail There are times of a nothingness for ink flows and poetic thoughts yet naturally words yell at my window for spills a welcoming and re-entering Paving for my souls exertion editing exact details carrying in a song in my psalms I don't live in the gift the gift lives in me touring like a concert to sooth or even to feel Like a record playing on repeat This is my mental obsession. ~Poet V-Ink (Viewtiful) I'm obsessed with all the talent god has left me to possess but sometimes I get upset at the lack of control I have over the information my mind accepts/ granted a gift to project messages hidden in the mess life lessons usually left but I stress because that gift sometimes forces my tired hand to respect I struggle... some much on my mind absent the intention to invest... How do I turn off the switch to how my registry was blessed.. ~Rebel Flower Blessings of such a skill at times may be overwhelming I picture the gift of words a performer When need of pros we feed our drive as well as the audience We plumage into a well of urgent tunes then we tiré, and we are restless poetry never dies it will come back when need of a place of itself to live again and again. Every poet needs a light and the switch will dim in any time I'd worry more when it flips back on How great the light will be. © Copyright 2014 Poet V-Ink & S.T. Rebel of Eden.
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Amid the morning traversal Isolated movement in peripheral optics Flashing visions caught my attention and passed so fast, then behind my back This contrast casts playful blasts Wondrous attacks upon question But the sights ****** with me, in a scarring way like cutting into me these incisions intent Almost as if she's demanding me to prefigure to anticipate her resolve in steps ready Trap and trace her shadowy inhibition An illusory female in swift glided mission She wouldn't be paying me attention If she didn't want me to see her in an apparitions condition Back and forth between ups and downs Omission transmits imagination, on repeat As she comes and goes Appears and disappears In a childlike hide and seek Transition to remission My jaunting disposition was put to shame While trying to chase and catch This, her silhouetted composition All the silent while I cursed blame on my beloved, for coming so close to smell her but not letting me hold her But in real time She kept reclusive in a remote wood... So many days without I would long and ache While her abilities are endlessly innate As determination continues to persevere She is alive, just away out there This figure I imagine is only that My need to see her presence is a desperate one Creating her graceful body in modes of bliss Any way shape or form these divine bits Her transparency I am offered Only it's the tangible I am wanting Her actual body and hair and hillside profile My style is my struggle As is this continual desire
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:26 AM UTC
Beloved in spectral
Amid the morning traversal Isolated movement in peripheral optics Flashing visions caught my attention and passed so fast, then behind my back This contrast casts playful blasts Wondrous attacks upon question But the sights ****** with me, in a scarring way like cutting into me these incisions intent Almost as if she's demanding me to prefigure to anticipate her resolve in steps ready Trap and trace her shadowy inhibition An illusory female in swift glided mission She wouldn't be paying me attention If she didn't want me to see her in an apparitions condition Back and forth between ups and downs Omission transmits imagination, on repeat As she comes and goes Appears and disappears In a childlike hide and seek Transition to remission My jaunting disposition was put to shame While trying to chase and catch This, her silhouetted composition All the silent while I cursed blame on my beloved, for coming so close to smell her but not letting me hold her But in real time She kept reclusive in a remote wood... So many days without I would long and ache While her abilities are endlessly innate As determination continues to persevere She is alive, just away out there This figure I imagine is only that My need to see her presence is a desperate one Creating her graceful body in modes of bliss Any way shape or form these divine bits Her transparency I am offered Only it's the tangible I am wanting Her actual body and hair and hillside profile My style is my struggle As is this continual desire
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