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"indiscernible" poems
Wild stallion live free Galloping unbound Always you flee Never chained to your ground Wild stallion how swiftly you fly Over distances and plains How courageous you try Hide your aches and pains Wild stallion your hooves beat the earth With fierce determination Let loose and be rid of your girth Be free from trepidation Wild stallion covet your solitude Embrace the run in silence Your formidable strides of fortitude Bound forth with repentance Wild stallion I see you there Mane billowing as you thundered across Grounds fly beneath you without a care Running without remorse, gliding without loss Wild stallion I was once like you Soaring to the ends on unrestrained wings A life that is now but an echo; a faint pathetic hue A life that is now filled with broken things Wild stallion keep on running free Keep galloping and know no bounds You're free, no need to flee Outrun the chains, leave them as faint indiscernible sounds Wild stallion how I envy you As you canter, your coat gleam in the light See me as you always do Just a reflection who has ceased to fight
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 11:31 PM UTC
Wild Stallion
I was once a boy who believed in words dipped in magic Carefully coated with sugar From a distance, they shimmered whispered fog in its wake surgically dipped into your heart at hummingbird speed these sweet tender words were easy to swallow however leaves a burning hole in your chest once it finds shelter in your body. Even though your lips produced sweet words I could never get the sour taste out of my mouth The most you could have done was give me something to wash it down with: the leftover tears in Samantha Thompson’s eyes above Wedgefield’s polluted night sky somewhere in the middle of an empty field inside his pickup truck between the words I’m and Sorry the cleanest and most deceitful of them all I doubted every word. I never cared much for the empty spaces between the lines of college-ruled paper They are only meant to be filled with even emptier phrases If I could, I wouldn’t fill in any spaces in the time we were together It would only make our story much more incredulous Adding more would make us less real. Two hearts in love need no words but in reality, you did most of the talking The ***** blanket of faith is a cocoon of words shared only between you and him. We, however, were alien to this Earth We dissolved amongst the shadows of light produced from lampposts, only to be thrown back into the light whether or not you wanted to show me who you really were You always fancied yourself in artificial lighting compared to natural lighting Fearing the natural light would show the colors you only kept to yourself. Lovebug ran to each light as quickly as he could for these lampposts can only cover so much of the unknown We’ll be together forever He ran to each one until he was alone Until he couldn’t find himself Each shadow that was passed before can be seen, traced however his new reflection is indiscernible You can try your hardest to look into dry puddles only to find something that is not so concrete. The only words worth believing in are the ones that are burnt slowly afterward Entre deux coeurs qui s’aiment, nul besoin de paroles. But no matter how much the lampposts grow taller, or how the spaces between ruled-paper continue to dance, the word love will always be the easiest word to swallow but the hardest to digest once it rots in the thick of your stomach.
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Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 at 2:20 PM UTC
Two Hearts In love Need No Words
I was once a boy who believed in words dipped in magic Carefully coated with sugar From a distance, they shimmered whispered fog in its wake surgically dipped into your heart at hummingbird speed these sweet tender words were easy to swallow however leaves a burning hole in your chest once it finds shelter in your body. Even though your lips produced sweet words I could never get the sour taste out of my mouth The most you could have done was give me something to wash it down with: the leftover tears in Samantha Thompson’s eyes above Wedgefield’s polluted night sky somewhere in the middle of an empty field inside his pickup truck between the words I’m and Sorry the cleanest and most deceitful of them all I doubted every word. I never cared much for the empty spaces between the lines of college-ruled paper They are only meant to be filled with even emptier phrases If I could, I wouldn’t fill in any spaces in the time we were together It would only make our story much more incredulous Adding more would make us less real. Two hearts in love need no words but in reality, you did most of the talking The ***** blanket of faith is a cocoon of words shared only between you and him. We, however, were alien to this Earth We dissolved amongst the shadows of light produced from lampposts, only to be thrown back into the light whether or not you wanted to show me who you really were You always fancied yourself in artificial lighting compared to natural lighting Fearing the natural light would show the colors you only kept to yourself. Lovebug ran to each light as quickly as he could for these lampposts can only cover so much of the unknown We’ll be together forever He ran to each one until he was alone Until he couldn’t find himself Each shadow that was passed before can be seen, traced however his new reflection is indiscernible You can try your hardest to look into dry puddles only to find something that is not so concrete. The only words worth believing in are the ones that are burnt slowly afterward Entre deux coeurs qui s’aiment, nul besoin de paroles. But no matter how much the lampposts grow taller, or how the spaces between ruled-paper continue to dance, the word love will always be the easiest word to swallow but the hardest to digest once it rots in the thick of your stomach.
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Mangled skirmish, of bespeckled olive-green serpents. Their sinuous anarchy runs cold upon her skull. Caravaggio, you immortalized the ***** immured her, hermetically sealed her within that shield. Her reflection was at once the face she never saw...stoned, she...then beheaded. I notice you've even painted the shield the color of her serpentine locks. Serpents registering her ontological shock-- retentive, entwining, dangling in an odd curl here and there. Blood spurting from her almost indiscernible neck, as if to draw a passable neck of blood, almost like rays of blood, Christ's pierced side. Her eyes seem so determined to chisel their way out of stone, reconnect her head to her body. Her face is stunning, an excruciating ferocity bulking stiff, slightly opened mouth about to... explode out of her eyes. Eyes hissing downward, sideways--there in the pitch black glint of them...a primordial drama to be continued.
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Oct 27, 2013
Oct 27, 2013 at 8:23 PM UTC
Medusa, Caravaggio
They say if you’re awake at 3am, you’re either inlove or broken. I say it’s neither. Perhaps it is the silent space between feeling too much and feeling nothing at all. The indiscernible sentiments of someone who has been long lost and is yet to be found. A soul that is neither gleeful nor wretched; And instead waiting to feel, pondering on certain circumstances, Or probably continually yearning for a type of serenity that time could still not dare to give.
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Jul 29, 2017
Jul 29, 2017 at 1:29 PM UTC
3am
His body lost temperature as he pressed himself against the chest of hers, seducing her with his love. With his sleepy **** voice, he hums her romantic morning lullabies. The gray walls of the room soon embosomed with gleaming hearts of their beauteous lust and speedy soft breaths, leaving nothing more but powder blushes of crimson on her flowery cheeks in the springtime dawn. The honeyed lust in the veins lit the bodies of two lovers like candles into eternal flames of romance. Under the chocolate brown duvets, Milky fragrances of the tea dances along the bare hands of two lovers, while he serves breakfast on bed to her in an old-fashioned way. Bleak morning mist tango around the vitreous skins of scratched windows, as fat hummingbirds' tinkling giggles paint beyond the nature's smiley meadows, sending a major abundance of lovable freedom and glee to the people. In the bathtub, Velvety calyx of dreamlover rose flows smoothly through the silk water. They shower each other and let warmth grasp their naked body. He kissed her dancing soul of chasms out and tie uncountable amount of butterfly knots to her pancake stomach. His abilities of heart possessions had captured the universe's breath. *Nothing has changed since day number one, everything is iridescent. Everything is swimming in a magical pool of scarred perfections.* As the sun sets to the west, The undarkened nightfall sings lulling melodies and let its harmonic fire burn the skies. The shadows of their love whirl out unstoppable romance that vanished away void hopes and pain. The lover's spirits echo and echo into spring gorges and dashing rivers, Feeding darkness with lucent fragments of light. Oh they were only two humans in love... Or only a size of two negligible lovedust in the mystical galaxies... But their endless love never fails to deluge the world with drizzling tears. A facile spark of romance can be an amazing set of fireworks that creates indiscernible fruitful happiness. Who in the world could resist this unpredictable power of their spingtime love?
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 10:28 AM UTC
Springtime Romance
His body lost temperature as he pressed himself against the chest of hers, seducing her with his love. With his sleepy **** voice, he hums her romantic morning lullabies. The gray walls of the room soon embosomed with gleaming hearts of their beauteous lust and speedy soft breaths, leaving nothing more but powder blushes of crimson on her flowery cheeks in the springtime dawn. The honeyed lust in the veins lit the bodies of two lovers like candles into eternal flames of romance. Under the chocolate brown duvets, Milky fragrances of the tea dances along the bare hands of two lovers, while he serves breakfast on bed to her in an old-fashioned way. Bleak morning mist tango around the vitreous skins of scratched windows, as fat hummingbirds' tinkling giggles paint beyond the nature's smiley meadows, sending a major abundance of lovable freedom and glee to the people. In the bathtub, Velvety calyx of dreamlover rose flows smoothly through the silk water. They shower each other and let warmth grasp their naked body. He kissed her dancing soul of chasms out and tie uncountable amount of butterfly knots to her pancake stomach. His abilities of heart possessions had captured the universe's breath. *Nothing has changed since day number one, everything is iridescent. Everything is swimming in a magical pool of scarred perfections.* As the sun sets to the west, The undarkened nightfall sings lulling melodies and let its harmonic fire burn the skies. The shadows of their love whirl out unstoppable romance that vanished away void hopes and pain. The lover's spirits echo and echo into spring gorges and dashing rivers, Feeding darkness with lucent fragments of light. Oh they were only two humans in love... Or only a size of two negligible lovedust in the mystical galaxies... But their endless love never fails to deluge the world with drizzling tears. A facile spark of romance can be an amazing set of fireworks that creates indiscernible fruitful happiness. Who in the world could resist this unpredictable power of their spingtime love?
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The chill of an autumn morning A rising steam as the fallen leaves exhale The lonesome trees have given up their glory A carpet of red, yellow, orange, and brown An overcast sky with no definition Is but a blur Movement indiscernible There is wisdom in the sky, revealed to a few The smoke of the day’s first fire ascends Wafting its familiar fall fragrances Brings warmth and comfort to the soul And campsite memories of long ago We pass the bleak and barren cornfield Stippled with autumn’s harbingers The Raven They stare with the blackest of black eyes
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 7:01 AM UTC
Autumn Morning
At this moment gun in hand lying broken unable to stand would one pull the trigger maybe no hope to regain vigor bones aching can it be done uncontrollably shaking ghastly gun can one raise their arm probably not but one does consider it yes? to cause oneself harm utterly distraught on occasion when so alone soul worn with abrasion smooth unfeeling stone overwhelmed smothered in despair oh to be free from a life so unfair eyes empty as a dead sea what is a man's last thoughts on the brink of eternal darkness soul tangled to indiscernible knots already a carcass
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM UTC
In The Eyes Of A Suicidal Man (Or Woman)
Some time Life is like a dark room, Indiscernible indulge to intuit incurring infusion Infusion of irrelevant and irregular, Leads to a moment of disappointment and despondent! ****** But when light penetrate Everything becoming vivid - vivacious and set up Valve to visions! ******* Allow light to break in and spread all over....... Make everyone spirited and shunt for Peace and progress!!!
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 3:59 AM UTC
Allow light to break in
What was her name? **** I can’t remember. It was a boy’s name made feminine with a little “i” at the end like maybe hearing it would make you think of some fat guy making pizzas until you see it spelled out or until it becomes attached to her lips and hair and skin. The “i” was not dotted with a little heart, (not her style at all) but I should have a picture in a box some where with more pictures. I don’t. I’ve got little notes, tiny thoughts scribbled on empty match book covers, on the backs of pretentious business cards, in the borders of the mutilated, amputated flesh of decrepit used up yellow pages,   ripped from a dead and disjointed phone book. I woke up from this dream and groped for something to scrawl on, anything, because it seemed significant at 2:38 am. In the desert somewhere, (I’ve never even been) you were looking out the window and the way the parched dry light crackled around you you might have been an angel or a sign partially occluded by glass advertising something I could never afford like family or god when suddenly you were not a silhouette, not back lit, but glowing. You were so in love, with who I don’t know, and you went into free fall back onto the bed pulled your knees up to your chest and kicked your legs giggling. I was part dead, half ghost and still happy that you were so happy. I said, “you’re pregnant?” knowing the way you know things without really having a way of knowing in a dream. You laughed again grabbed your little dog up in your arms, (I’ve no idea where the pup came from), and baby-whispered, “You’re going to cut the umbilical, aren’t you?” and I woke with the image of that mongrel chewing through the cord. I am waiting at the pharmacy and the… technician, is reading the cryptic symbols penned in indiscernible Latin, my prescription. She is not beautiful but very fuckable And in my mind I am constructing an image of her ****** likening   the shape, size, color, etc., to her mouth, when I see my own writing on the back through her precise fingers. The tech,   she is holding a snapshot of her. It might as well be a picture of me vomiting or ************ or defecating. This is what I have left, my version of a photo, my dream, scrawled on the back of my medicine. **** getting better.   I ****** it from her hand. I leave fast.  I will never go back. This is no chemical imbalance. This is not my inheritance. The loss and pain, sometimes, that's the pill we need to swallow.
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Oct 30, 2011
Oct 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM UTC
Disjointed
What was her name? **** I can’t remember. It was a boy’s name made feminine with a little “i” at the end like maybe hearing it would make you think of some fat guy making pizzas until you see it spelled out or until it becomes attached to her lips and hair and skin. The “i” was not dotted with a little heart, (not her style at all) but I should have a picture in a box some where with more pictures. I don’t. I’ve got little notes, tiny thoughts scribbled on empty match book covers, on the backs of pretentious business cards, in the borders of the mutilated, amputated flesh of decrepit used up yellow pages,   ripped from a dead and disjointed phone book. I woke up from this dream and groped for something to scrawl on, anything, because it seemed significant at 2:38 am. In the desert somewhere, (I’ve never even been) you were looking out the window and the way the parched dry light crackled around you you might have been an angel or a sign partially occluded by glass advertising something I could never afford like family or god when suddenly you were not a silhouette, not back lit, but glowing. You were so in love, with who I don’t know, and you went into free fall back onto the bed pulled your knees up to your chest and kicked your legs giggling. I was part dead, half ghost and still happy that you were so happy. I said, “you’re pregnant?” knowing the way you know things without really having a way of knowing in a dream. You laughed again grabbed your little dog up in your arms, (I’ve no idea where the pup came from), and baby-whispered, “You’re going to cut the umbilical, aren’t you?” and I woke with the image of that mongrel chewing through the cord. I am waiting at the pharmacy and the… technician, is reading the cryptic symbols penned in indiscernible Latin, my prescription. She is not beautiful but very fuckable And in my mind I am constructing an image of her ****** likening   the shape, size, color, etc., to her mouth, when I see my own writing on the back through her precise fingers. The tech,   she is holding a snapshot of her. It might as well be a picture of me vomiting or ************ or defecating. This is what I have left, my version of a photo, my dream, scrawled on the back of my medicine. **** getting better.   I ****** it from her hand. I leave fast.  I will never go back. This is no chemical imbalance. This is not my inheritance. The loss and pain, sometimes, that's the pill we need to swallow.
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(Preta प्रेत (Sanskrit) or Peta (Pāli) is the name for a type of (arguably supernatural) being described in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They are often translated into English as “hungry ghosts”, from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in Mahayana Buddhism.) The series of blurs that was summer 2006 makes me wonder what kind of evils we committed in past lives. What otherworldly desires plagued us with this need to feed upon the surging tidal wave of young blood? The days from May 16th to August 23rd were black mirror images, indiscernible. I kept the 1997 Honda Accord running, tapping my fingers to the beats of Built to Spill on the dashboard, waiting for you outside your father’s newly constructed home on ice. You would bleed forth, blue sun light reflecting off windows to face like an eight point filter. What we did with the day mattered not. It was as important to us as the script of action flicks. We were the only people that we wanted to know and we were the places that we wanted to go. The day lived and died, as the nighttime was when our karma sprung curse would take us. Turn off blurred screens, ignore details of the war, pull the hatch shaded curtains tight. We shared a bed in which we did not sleep, bodies silent, blaring alarms. The same hungry ghosts feeding and choking on ash all night. We burned out, successful slow turns into frail husks. It was then that we couldn’t get full anymore, we realized that we fit like clothes made out of wasps. It hasn’t gotten better for either, a ghoul roaming in the night, hunting for the next lay like a record skipping. We will asphyxiate on stones or have our throats burned by water. Hopefully we’ve suffered enough to respawn into more advanced forms. I hope I see you in the next life as anything else.
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Oct 14, 2012
Oct 14, 2012 at 7:16 PM UTC
Pretas (Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts)
(Preta प्रेत (Sanskrit) or Peta (Pāli) is the name for a type of (arguably supernatural) being described in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They are often translated into English as “hungry ghosts”, from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in Mahayana Buddhism.) The series of blurs that was summer 2006 makes me wonder what kind of evils we committed in past lives. What otherworldly desires plagued us with this need to feed upon the surging tidal wave of young blood? The days from May 16th to August 23rd were black mirror images, indiscernible. I kept the 1997 Honda Accord running, tapping my fingers to the beats of Built to Spill on the dashboard, waiting for you outside your father’s newly constructed home on ice. You would bleed forth, blue sun light reflecting off windows to face like an eight point filter. What we did with the day mattered not. It was as important to us as the script of action flicks. We were the only people that we wanted to know and we were the places that we wanted to go. The day lived and died, as the nighttime was when our karma sprung curse would take us. Turn off blurred screens, ignore details of the war, pull the hatch shaded curtains tight. We shared a bed in which we did not sleep, bodies silent, blaring alarms. The same hungry ghosts feeding and choking on ash all night. We burned out, successful slow turns into frail husks. It was then that we couldn’t get full anymore, we realized that we fit like clothes made out of wasps. It hasn’t gotten better for either, a ghoul roaming in the night, hunting for the next lay like a record skipping. We will asphyxiate on stones or have our throats burned by water. Hopefully we’ve suffered enough to respawn into more advanced forms. I hope I see you in the next life as anything else.
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Why they call me the fearful poet! (The Razor Thin Difference) *”but who am I to complain the  razor thin difference tween blessings and curses so thin, sometimes are they not, the same thing”* Aug. 2018 ~~~ this familiar line, well traversed, lives on the maps sketched indented on your palms and brow, at the edges of the crow’s nests, the eye’s keyboard witnesses, recording every stroke we tap in seeings, forming letters, letters into lines, lines into verse, as we alliterate, we walk unawares, of the razor thin difference tween blessings and curse, indiscernible until concluded, perhaps, not even then, the stanza’s probable outcome, always unsure, unknowing destiny’s decision so we walk, tread, plumb, shoutout “vive la difference,” hoping the blessing messengers hear us first, consummating our pleas on their favorable sight & side, ever fearful, we do not shout loud enough, do the blind hear, need me, possess my sacrificial offerings, my trepidations, burnt on the Temple’s altar who will breathe their smoke and understand their fearful origins? so we-write, cajole that our every moment’s fear, find the difference, that we don’t bleed from life’s razoring, the thinner thinnest needle threaded, **and fear is the threat, and fear is the thread, that holds me together** until the unraveling requires me to write again, the fearful poet
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Mar 22, 2019
Mar 22, 2019 at 7:18 AM UTC
Why they call me the fearful poet! (The Razor Thin Difference)
those of us in the middle muddle, do not know from sides, boundary lines, drawn by others, right-sided, left-leaning, mean nothing to us, who seek something solid upon to rest, when the clarity others profess, more than evades us, even escapes us, and the muddles of life seem to require simplest, middling answers that are unacceptably refused by grail seekers whose cause for cause, means cause to cost others regardless, for regard for the middle is disdained, by two-sided posts, the know nothings, and the know betters irony of irony, the rigidity of imposition makes me more adrift, more aimless, and the task of meandering through seems almost holy, for the obstacles of society, requirements of modern life, are so damning, wild expectations superimposed, truths not just hard to find, almost indiscernible, so I lay my pen down hard, awaiting for the whatever-while, for to return, to go walking with only the simplest grids to guide, meanderings in general directions, ahead, always ahead, keep moving, keep touching and when optimism returns, I shall be relieved once more, I shall be released once again, good words will be caught, released, returned back into the atmosphere so they will grow in size by the very act of sharing undated ————————————————- *Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said,* so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. ~Ray Bradbury (Book: Fahrenheit 451)
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Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 at 6:14 AM UTC
My Legacy: those of us in the middle muddle
those of us in the middle muddle, do not know from sides, boundary lines, drawn by others, right-sided, left-leaning, mean nothing to us, who seek something solid upon to rest, when the clarity others profess, more than evades us, even escapes us, and the muddles of life seem to require simplest, middling answers that are unacceptably refused by grail seekers whose cause for cause, means cause to cost others regardless, for regard for the middle is disdained, by two-sided posts, the know nothings, and the know betters irony of irony, the rigidity of imposition makes me more adrift, more aimless, and the task of meandering through seems almost holy, for the obstacles of society, requirements of modern life, are so damning, wild expectations superimposed, truths not just hard to find, almost indiscernible, so I lay my pen down hard, awaiting for the whatever-while, for to return, to go walking with only the simplest grids to guide, meanderings in general directions, ahead, always ahead, keep moving, keep touching and when optimism returns, I shall be relieved once more, I shall be released once again, good words will be caught, released, returned back into the atmosphere so they will grow in size by the very act of sharing undated ————————————————- *Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said,* so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. ~Ray Bradbury (Book: Fahrenheit 451)
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Stars shoot across the midnight sky And the drunkards shout outside my window, Screaming about nonsense that I don’t hear, Because I am dreaming . . . Behind my lids lies blackness, But in front of my eyes I see wonderful sights; I am an adventurer, strong and fearless. I have wings. I am me, unhindered by this-worldly chains - Chains like time and space and gravity (Which together are quite a tragedy) – Watching as the universe unfolds. Suspended in mid-air, haunted by places of the past And impossible visions of an invisible future, I see faces familiar and faces strange, Mixing the stages of a conscious life. Snuggled in the warmth of my worn blankets, I feel the comfort of your unseen arms around me, Holding me tight in my dream-world bright In a corner of indiscernible dark. I watch as the plot unwinds and thickens And disappears again to a timeline surreal. But the adventure grows stronger and the will more determined And I watch more vividly as my consciousness begins to stir. But before the war is won and the kiss received, Before I say the words unspoken, Before I die a victim of tragic death, The wish remains unwished. My eyes open and I’m left to the sound of alarm And the light of a morning too bright. My heart is beating fast, captivated By the wish it made that can never come true. A smile alights my waking-up face, Remembering fondly the adventures of my mind. But the day is to begin and will take from my memory The dream that has already disappeared.
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM UTC
"A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes"
Stars shoot across the midnight sky And the drunkards shout outside my window, Screaming about nonsense that I don’t hear, Because I am dreaming . . . Behind my lids lies blackness, But in front of my eyes I see wonderful sights; I am an adventurer, strong and fearless. I have wings. I am me, unhindered by this-worldly chains - Chains like time and space and gravity (Which together are quite a tragedy) – Watching as the universe unfolds. Suspended in mid-air, haunted by places of the past And impossible visions of an invisible future, I see faces familiar and faces strange, Mixing the stages of a conscious life. Snuggled in the warmth of my worn blankets, I feel the comfort of your unseen arms around me, Holding me tight in my dream-world bright In a corner of indiscernible dark. I watch as the plot unwinds and thickens And disappears again to a timeline surreal. But the adventure grows stronger and the will more determined And I watch more vividly as my consciousness begins to stir. But before the war is won and the kiss received, Before I say the words unspoken, Before I die a victim of tragic death, The wish remains unwished. My eyes open and I’m left to the sound of alarm And the light of a morning too bright. My heart is beating fast, captivated By the wish it made that can never come true. A smile alights my waking-up face, Remembering fondly the adventures of my mind. But the day is to begin and will take from my memory The dream that has already disappeared.
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Ages ago I asked a dreamer (A feeler and a magician, as well)  What love looked like on the inside When those who are in it cannot tell If it's tough enough, strong enough, red enough (And of course, to be honest, is it true) So that, if possible, we can avoid any pain And the mistakes and the whatifs, too. He told me: It appears like a rainforest drizzle, Somewhat expected, though still a blessing, And its term is always indiscernible Though in its haze, we still dance and sing. And I said: And what of the broken hearts, Those who thought what they held was good: They felt true things, they saw true light, But they lost it all in the woods.  He said:  What they had was worthy and fine, Though it seemed to bring nothing but pain,  For a shower can bring both cleansing and fire: And we call it acid rain. So I say: Why question the love you are given? Trying to name it, excuse it, or worse- Instead, let it pass over you like a rainstorm, Whether it floods, or if it's your first. Breathe in the scent and inebriation, Drown yourself in petrichor. For when love hits you, it hits you hard, And when it rains, it pours.
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 10:28 PM UTC
the weight of rain.
"It's not for anxiety," they said, tightlipped but concerned, they don't understand that I can't pay attention if my heart beats louder than my words, The sound of my thoughts coming at me like trains and bike and buses, honking at me to say something articulate, is much louder than their confused voices explaining that the blue pill is to stop the jitters, but I've got other issues. They don't see that there is a tea kettle bubbling in my stomach that shoots hunger through its long nose, in shrill whistles that pierce my insides. It's all I can hear when the TV is on and I haven't eaten. But that little chemical spreads inside me like a blanket of silence, quells the screaming children and the little girl constantly tugging at my heartstrings, making indiscernible chords that only echo as the sound of jealousy, fear and self loathing. She tucks her self in and keeps her hands to herself for a few hours. As the blue devils shovel more coal in the bed warmers, the sound of metal clanging is muted by their powers. Chipping away at the noise makers, the inhabitants of my tortured soul- I love the empty I feel on adderall.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 9:27 AM UTC
Central Nervous Intersection
Spent the evening walking nowhere streets dodging horns and sirens of hungry motorbike taxis. It was a parade of street-food vendors, security guards half asleep by bottles of whiskey. Every woman I passed was beautiful, laid their *** on the numbered tables as off-hand as their mobile phone, their purse; their bored men. Each one had their toenails painted, wore short skirts and vest tops in the stifling heat. The best of them wore tight dresses of black or red and ate their food in the same studious manner I imagined they would take to the zip of my jeans. Could feel the sweat roll down my back kicking gravel out my sandals every ten strides. The playboys rev their motorbikes as if it were a talent they had been working on, a kind of siren song to tempt the free women. Each one is on the lookout for a bargain. Each one streaks past to some indiscernible point where they will bury themselves amongst the massage parlours, karaoke bars, and short-stay hotels; Each one a straight-up brothel once you make it through the doors. I feel too awkward in this ******* town to order a sandwich let alone try out my second language to ask for a cheap ******* Every foreigner here had some kind of breakdown. Some kind of complex that drew them like a moth to flame to some place where white skin is enough to feign riches, stimulate desire and place you amongst better men. We steal a living for a year or two of forever blue skies. We eat good food and toast ourselves every evening with cold lager and palm leaf cigarettes. We cannot read a word in these humid streets where every single building holds a portrait of the King. Spent the evening with my shadow, both alive in the night beneath the heady aroma of cooking oil and street-food spice, both hurting to become, both slipping out of sight.
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Apr 26, 2017
Apr 26, 2017 at 3:02 PM UTC
Phet Kasem Road
Spent the evening walking nowhere streets dodging horns and sirens of hungry motorbike taxis. It was a parade of street-food vendors, security guards half asleep by bottles of whiskey. Every woman I passed was beautiful, laid their *** on the numbered tables as off-hand as their mobile phone, their purse; their bored men. Each one had their toenails painted, wore short skirts and vest tops in the stifling heat. The best of them wore tight dresses of black or red and ate their food in the same studious manner I imagined they would take to the zip of my jeans. Could feel the sweat roll down my back kicking gravel out my sandals every ten strides. The playboys rev their motorbikes as if it were a talent they had been working on, a kind of siren song to tempt the free women. Each one is on the lookout for a bargain. Each one streaks past to some indiscernible point where they will bury themselves amongst the massage parlours, karaoke bars, and short-stay hotels; Each one a straight-up brothel once you make it through the doors. I feel too awkward in this ******* town to order a sandwich let alone try out my second language to ask for a cheap ******* Every foreigner here had some kind of breakdown. Some kind of complex that drew them like a moth to flame to some place where white skin is enough to feign riches, stimulate desire and place you amongst better men. We steal a living for a year or two of forever blue skies. We eat good food and toast ourselves every evening with cold lager and palm leaf cigarettes. We cannot read a word in these humid streets where every single building holds a portrait of the King. Spent the evening with my shadow, both alive in the night beneath the heady aroma of cooking oil and street-food spice, both hurting to become, both slipping out of sight.
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Even with the mood lighting inside this lethargy induced spiced chai I find these things elusive like good cell phone pictures of concerts or, dare I say, a happy poet. Despite generations of artistic indulgence I find these things apathetic androgynous, as it were with indiscernible discrepancies drawing daft conclusions from the quick-sought eye. I too struggle to find the truth behind the lines. I craft as though I know my medium. I create broad sweeping arcs across my own right side brain but see them smudged and distorted, distended, dripping their dynamics through the cracks in my floorboards. Cinnamon vanilla maple ginger shots at first class from coach and here on my three foot throne I squander the warmth of my ******* latte.
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 3:25 PM UTC
Cafe Casa
Il dio è il miei testimone e guida, Sister Maria, the refectorian, had said, Sister Teresa remembered walking passed the refectory, touching the wall with her fingers. God is my witness and guide, she translated, feeling the rough brick beneath her fingers. She stood; turned to look at the cloister garth. Sunlight played on the grass. Flowers added colour to borders and eyes, she thought, letting go of Maria's words as if they were balloons. Ache in limbs; a slowness in her movements. Age, she muttered inaudibly. The war had taken her cousin's sons in death. Two of them. Peter and Paul. Burma and D-day. Three years or more since. She brought hands together beneath the black serge of her habit. Flesh on flesh. Sister Clare had touched. Not over much, not over much. Papa would lift her high in his arms as a child, she mused, her memory jogged by the sunlight on the flowers. Higher and higher. Poor Papa. The spidery writing unreadable in the end. She sniffed the air. Bell rang from church tower. Sext. She looked at the clock on the cloister-tower wall. Lowered her eyes to the grass. So many greens. Jude had lain with her once or was it more? She mused, turning away from cloister wall and the sight of grass and flowers. Thirty years since he died. Blown to pieces Papa had written. Black ink on white paper sheet. Flesh on flesh; kiss to lip and lip. She paused by church door; allowed younger nuns to pass; so young these days, she thought, bowing, nodding her head. Placing her stiff fingers in the stoup, she made cross from breast to breast. Smell of incense; scent of wood; bodies close; age and time. She walked to her place in the choir stall, bowed to Crucified tabernacled. Kneeled. Closed eyes. Murmured prayer. Heard the rustle of habits; clicking of rosaries; breathing close. Opened eyes. Sister Clare across the way. A nod and a smile, almost indiscernible to others, she thought, returning the same. Mother Abbess tapped wood on wood; chant began; fingers moved; sign of cross; mumbled words. Forty years of prayer and chant; same such of fingered rosaries; hard beds; dark night of soul and such. She sensed Papa lifting her high in thought at least; Mama's touch on cheek and head. Jude's kiss. Embrace of limbs and face. Il dio è il miei testimone e guida, she recalled: God my witness and guide. Closed eyes. Sighed. Sister Clare had cried; had whispered; witness and guide; witness this and guide, she murmured between chant, prayer, and the scent of incense on the air.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 1:23 PM UTC
SEXT 1947. (PROSE POEM)
Il dio è il miei testimone e guida, Sister Maria, the refectorian, had said, Sister Teresa remembered walking passed the refectory, touching the wall with her fingers. God is my witness and guide, she translated, feeling the rough brick beneath her fingers. She stood; turned to look at the cloister garth. Sunlight played on the grass. Flowers added colour to borders and eyes, she thought, letting go of Maria's words as if they were balloons. Ache in limbs; a slowness in her movements. Age, she muttered inaudibly. The war had taken her cousin's sons in death. Two of them. Peter and Paul. Burma and D-day. Three years or more since. She brought hands together beneath the black serge of her habit. Flesh on flesh. Sister Clare had touched. Not over much, not over much. Papa would lift her high in his arms as a child, she mused, her memory jogged by the sunlight on the flowers. Higher and higher. Poor Papa. The spidery writing unreadable in the end. She sniffed the air. Bell rang from church tower. Sext. She looked at the clock on the cloister-tower wall. Lowered her eyes to the grass. So many greens. Jude had lain with her once or was it more? She mused, turning away from cloister wall and the sight of grass and flowers. Thirty years since he died. Blown to pieces Papa had written. Black ink on white paper sheet. Flesh on flesh; kiss to lip and lip. She paused by church door; allowed younger nuns to pass; so young these days, she thought, bowing, nodding her head. Placing her stiff fingers in the stoup, she made cross from breast to breast. Smell of incense; scent of wood; bodies close; age and time. She walked to her place in the choir stall, bowed to Crucified tabernacled. Kneeled. Closed eyes. Murmured prayer. Heard the rustle of habits; clicking of rosaries; breathing close. Opened eyes. Sister Clare across the way. A nod and a smile, almost indiscernible to others, she thought, returning the same. Mother Abbess tapped wood on wood; chant began; fingers moved; sign of cross; mumbled words. Forty years of prayer and chant; same such of fingered rosaries; hard beds; dark night of soul and such. She sensed Papa lifting her high in thought at least; Mama's touch on cheek and head. Jude's kiss. Embrace of limbs and face. Il dio è il miei testimone e guida, she recalled: God my witness and guide. Closed eyes. Sighed. Sister Clare had cried; had whispered; witness and guide; witness this and guide, she murmured between chant, prayer, and the scent of incense on the air.
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The dissonance feels indiscernible now. My favorite bench became home for both of us. You didn't scorn, rather embraced me from the beginning. And the sky opened; the stars glowed only for you. Watch them glow, watch them sparkle for you. (I bet you didn't know this was for you) Only poetry was being written. A screenplay coming to life. Avant la prochaine fois, manquer, avant la prochaine.
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Jul 10, 2011
Jul 10, 2011 at 12:06 AM UTC
Until Next Time, Miss
Gods, I’ve been forsaken! I – formerly blessed by the sun – Cry out to you, you who leave My words unheard. Once a daughter to kings, I wait Inside an indiscernible prison For the fall of my beloved city. I predicted this, my people, but I cannot blame you, my people I spurned the sun, burned my fate And now no one will heed me. They tell me I am beautiful, I am brilliant, I am insane. They tell me To leave the future to kings. I spoke to you, my people The contents of the horse I spoke to you, my people When we shall catch our demise With axe and fire, I rush, Only to face the barrage of disbelief I hear them laughing, my people Those who will carve their place Where you once stood But you will not listen.
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Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019 at 9:59 PM UTC
Kassandra
The sound of conversation from another room    muffled soft by walls and doors.    voices    of comfort and security, Childhood memories of my mother and father Up late with dear friends as indiscernible words and conversation and laughter became a comforting lullaby For I was down the hall in bed with my cowboy sheets and brown blanket   Their voices, a mighty oath of safety and protection against the monsters that hide at night in the closets and dark corners of children's rooms Children who get to make believe their monsters I got to make believe my monsters And they were no match for my fathers laughter or my mothers offer for more coffee. And I think of you out there Who did not make believe your monsters. For whom the voices reaching bedtime ears were coarse and menacing, angry and cursing,   And sounds that children should not hear unfamiliar words, but their meaning unmistakable. Mothers crying and fathers yelling, strange men threatening At tender age, the familiar smell of alcohol  portending danger You need not make believe your monster For the roaring, and snarling, all too real was just outside your bedroom.      having consumed  mommy and daddy already, it was coming for you And perhaps, still does
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Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 1:29 AM UTC
Make believe monsters
from above the view is of checkerboard lawns sterile cement indiscernible pawns from below the surface is swirling with parts- and when the buddha farts an angel yawns
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Apr 18, 2010
Apr 18, 2010 at 6:16 PM UTC
ibetit woodsmellgood