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"jenga" poems
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Your's truly, Travelogue.
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Our lives are a Jenga masterpiece, a collage of self-interpreted debauchery that we have been told is the work of R.F. Is it necessary to destroy ourselves for the things that we desire? Why do I have to be symbolic of an Irish dome of the rock? (have you ever touched the rock?) (has anyone?) I am tarot prophetic in my loathing of our distorted level. I am chronic mime gestures on the West Banks of the Jordan. We are rouge lipstick smeared across blue collars and twisted pretzels lounging citrus grove clean and sad. I am just a man. We are just people. The buildings are just Lego's we have crushed and spent combating azure tides to stand ourselves straight against that last wall... but I love you still, despite.
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Sep 29, 2013
Sep 29, 2013 at 12:50 AM UTC
(engineer)
I wish stars grew in your skin Next to the oxygen humming in your lungs To thaw your stagnant blood So I could watch you orbit your part of the planet Three hundred miles away, Because your heart would then permeate faster than life's speed limit, Scaling all the mountains between us to Float in my peripherals like Residual Chernobyl radiation. Dancing hazily, Constant reminders of my past And the jenga monkey ladder to my future. I never liked being insignificant. Now please infect me with your cancer So you can't escape again.
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 9:17 PM UTC
Insecurities
I found this love like playing tetris Anxiety at the falling of pieces too fast There are still holes in there And I stand like a brick wall now full of peep-holes and glory holes all places to let the cold in And maybe I held you like a blanket And maybe we played each other like Jenga pulling out bricks to restack somewhere else A smaller structure But stronger than we are
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM UTC
On Rebuilding
The Dentist's Assistant at the Dental Clinic is without man. For the 15 years I've gone there she has watched movies and has been single. She has a rabbit. Her life revolves around her DVR and trips to Disneyland, but the needle that holds her spinning universe up is that rabbit. Like an immovable Jenga brick, one as stone, the one that can't be pulled, held onto so tightly by the other bricks -- their love. But with enormous force, you can tear it apart. That one little brick and the whole tower collapses. Smashing the table. Destroying her. The simplest way to **** someone is to tear out their heart and show it to them.
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Mar 4, 2010
Mar 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM UTC
Brick and Needle
The amount of similies in love poems are ridiculous. They always remind me of how his eyes are as green as a Christmas tree or how his hair fell onto his face like a shadow or that when he blinked his lashes resembled butterfly wings or that his smile was similar to a crooked coat hanger. They never mentioned how his fingers were long and shaky like branches in the wind or how his shoulders hunched over like a good game of jenga or how the curve from his chest to his torso was as steep as a hill or that when I found the bruises on his stomach, they were like ink splotches all over a beautiful poem. They left out that his dad hit him like a train or that his mom lived in the house like it was a bar or that it would hurt like 16 bee stings when I saw a line of 16 scars on his left bicep or that the gasps in between his cries would sound like drowning or that his eyes can ombre to be as red as an egyptian sunset. They never warned me that he would come crashing down like an avalanche or how his constant expression depicted a shattered stain glass window- every piece beautiful but still apart. They could've said that reading the headline "local boy commits suicide" would numb me like paralysis or that hearing his last words would echo in my head like screaming in a cave or that his funeral I would say "loosing him was like an overcast of rain" except I lied, because losing him was like a flood and that his grave stood out like a redwood tree carved of stone or how his dad looked at his own hands like looking at maggots. Love poems never said that I would miss him like being homesick or that the drive to the cemetery would feel like skyrocketing to the moon or that I would refuse to play jenga with my little cousins or how I would hate hanging my clothes without seeing his smile. The amount of similies in love poems are ridiculous.
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Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Love Poem
The amount of similies in love poems are ridiculous. They always remind me of how his eyes are as green as a Christmas tree or how his hair fell onto his face like a shadow or that when he blinked his lashes resembled butterfly wings or that his smile was similar to a crooked coat hanger. They never mentioned how his fingers were long and shaky like branches in the wind or how his shoulders hunched over like a good game of jenga or how the curve from his chest to his torso was as steep as a hill or that when I found the bruises on his stomach, they were like ink splotches all over a beautiful poem. They left out that his dad hit him like a train or that his mom lived in the house like it was a bar or that it would hurt like 16 bee stings when I saw a line of 16 scars on his left bicep or that the gasps in between his cries would sound like drowning or that his eyes can ombre to be as red as an egyptian sunset. They never warned me that he would come crashing down like an avalanche or how his constant expression depicted a shattered stain glass window- every piece beautiful but still apart. They could've said that reading the headline "local boy commits suicide" would numb me like paralysis or that hearing his last words would echo in my head like screaming in a cave or that his funeral I would say "loosing him was like an overcast of rain" except I lied, because losing him was like a flood and that his grave stood out like a redwood tree carved of stone or how his dad looked at his own hands like looking at maggots. Love poems never said that I would miss him like being homesick or that the drive to the cemetery would feel like skyrocketing to the moon or that I would refuse to play jenga with my little cousins or how I would hate hanging my clothes without seeing his smile. The amount of similies in love poems are ridiculous.
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Board games, card games your games, my games, I can't get enough. Checkers, Chess, Stratego, Battleship, Clue and Risk require such strategy and a taste of boldness. For Twister and the Slip-n-Slide, you need flexibility and dare. Monopoly, Ultimate Frisbee and Slaughter Ball all require a good amount of aggression, where Senet, Operation and Connect Four only need clever patience. For Jenga and Topple, you need the skill of a gymnast. Rummy, Gin, Go Fish, Blackjack and War, you need only an opponent. Now, go play! Written By: Andrew D. Robertson
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM UTC
Game Time
concrete shades the yellow-lighted symphony. The peso-heavy take taxis; security valets motors steaming castle gates. I ask, which way is the 158? Indifferent, they say, walk straight neath the freewaythere is a bus stop two blocks away. **** **** **** Clocktower hands transpose Cindarella-brick to embers of electricity, a factory aside scrawled graffiti; fingers timidly ricket pitchfork fences. Palermo is 11 km north. Where is the north star? I look straight ahead, repeating what the travel blogs said like, Be lost, don’t look lost; flappy plastic maps scream vulnerability. Be lost, not rich; iPhones in gotham alleys are batman signals. Walk fast. Don’t pay attention to the eyes that pass. Careless ponytails and brass hair attract glances back. Two blocks deep into the homeless shelter beneath freeways, blankets in shopping carts toppled over, cars screaming away the symphony into shadowed silence between heels striking. Tunnel breath emerging on the other side, gasping past stacked Jenga towers, wired with antennas and empty clotheslines; families and crack ****** sleep inside. Safety’s herd thins as  couples dart left down cobblestone tributaries that either lead to bus stops or parked cars. I walk straight ahead with sleeve-covered hands that swing like sticks in the wind. The symphony turns to heartbeats and footsteps plucking quickly; fearing the 180 behind, to zombies with sunken eyes, thirsty for a thirty-cent high.
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 8:45 PM UTC
cultural corridor
Life is like a game of Jenga. There's always people and obstacles Pushing and pulling at you Until you or your body Gives in and crumble. Don't let your life Be a game of falling blocks. Build a solid foundation For yourself and your family. Don't let the pushing and pulling Earthquake your mind And corrupt you. Be strong, Be solid, And be mindful. Prayer builds you up like a tower And God is your foundation That holds you together. STOP worrying about What people say or think. STOP stressing about Unnecessary things. STOP complaining. STOP doubting yourself When God believes in you. Life is way more valuable And precious than materials. If Jenga is your life....Fall.... Fall to your knees And pray for restoration. Then start working On a new foundation. LIFE MATTERS......
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 10:05 PM UTC
LIFE MATTERS
I arrive at the party early and head straight for the kitchen. I half and half a fruity flavored ***** and cranberry cocktail juice in my red solo cup. It tastes bad. I drink fast It tastes better. My cup is empty. Refill. Hunch punch it is. ****** drinking games ****** music. I go out on to the patio. I'm greeted by a circle of hazy expressions And red eyes. 1 hit 2 hits 3 hits 4. Jenga truth or dare. lick the faces of three people Girl that dared me - one. Girl with purple hair - two. Guy with buddy holly glasses - three. Space Odyssey plays on the stereo. 5 4 3 2 I wake up fully clothed on a makeshift mattress made of couch cushions. I'm ******* freezing.
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 5:14 PM UTC
party foul
Poorly built Jenga towers Polka-dot the moor The cows and sheep, for centuries Have wondered what they're for Perhaps they're ancient ladders Leading straight to heaven But the last young lamb to try it Fell down and smashed his head in The cows tried them as markers To work out where they are But in their field that's useless As they never travel far
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Aug 1, 2012
Aug 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM UTC
On Dartmoor
I wonder when Jenga became a metaphor for my life Piece by piece, I am being stripped away Just so I can keep playing this game One by one, They are taken Leaving me off-balance and unfocused I wonder how long I can keep going Before I fall
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Apr 10, 2013
Apr 10, 2013 at 9:31 PM UTC
Jenga
four years ago i became a carpenter and started to build a wall between myself and the world. people came and went and tried to take out the bricks like they were playing jenga. and some people walked up to me with a sledgehammer in their hand and knocked me down with the wall. as the years went by my wall got taller and the people became fewer until there was no one left. i'm starting to rethink my blueprints because it's getting lonely over here and i forgot the windows. (a.m.c.)
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 2:10 AM UTC
{i am my own carpenter}
We're both writing notes to ourselves That we hope the other will find - Trying to poke and **** out our Jenga pieces But finding both sides entwined. She woke me up this morning With a cry. She'd walked into a wardrobe or something. I wanted to know why... She sent me for some Arnica I don't know where it hides By the time I got back She was already back inside the duvet covers. I put the tube of gel down Climbed back into bed And said nothing. We are strange lovers.
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC
Strange Lovers
I bought a carton of eggs this morning. Just a dozen. Along with about $100 of other groceries I needed. I didn't need the eggs though. That is to say, that I didn't need to buy them. (See, my sister has four fully grown chickens who lay enough eggs to cover her family's needs and then some. More eggs than she knows what to do with, honestly, and I could've easily gone to her place to get the dozen instead of buying it at the store.) But I didn't, as a matter of convenience. It was simpler to buy them while I was at the store; to make one trip instead of two. But then, when I was unloading the cart of groceries into the trunk of my car, that carton of eggs I bought, which (unbeknownst to me) had been placed on top of a 12 pack of toilet paper which toppled over after becoming unbalanced without the support of the other grocery bags that I had already unloaded, came crashing down. They hit the parking-lot cement with a smack. "Oh no, not the eggs!" That's what I'd said. I seriously said that out loud. I picked up the bag with the fallen eggs in it. I opened the carton to see if they were alright, though I already knew at least a few had broken. 5, maybe 6. Maybe more. I don't know how many broke exactly, just looking at it made me sick. I walked the dripping bag back up to the entrance (after playing with the idea of going back in and being like: "Hey, my eggs broke in the parking lot because your inept bagger's idea of how to stack groceries was clearly inspired by the game Jenga. I demand a new carton of eggs!") but instead I just tossed them. The whole carton. I'll just go to my sister's house before breakfast tomorrow.
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 4:02 AM UTC
A Matter Of Convenience or (Giving Up On Your Dreams for the Sake of Financial Independence and A Little More Comfort)
I bought a carton of eggs this morning. Just a dozen. Along with about $100 of other groceries I needed. I didn't need the eggs though. That is to say, that I didn't need to buy them. (See, my sister has four fully grown chickens who lay enough eggs to cover her family's needs and then some. More eggs than she knows what to do with, honestly, and I could've easily gone to her place to get the dozen instead of buying it at the store.) But I didn't, as a matter of convenience. It was simpler to buy them while I was at the store; to make one trip instead of two. But then, when I was unloading the cart of groceries into the trunk of my car, that carton of eggs I bought, which (unbeknownst to me) had been placed on top of a 12 pack of toilet paper which toppled over after becoming unbalanced without the support of the other grocery bags that I had already unloaded, came crashing down. They hit the parking-lot cement with a smack. "Oh no, not the eggs!" That's what I'd said. I seriously said that out loud. I picked up the bag with the fallen eggs in it. I opened the carton to see if they were alright, though I already knew at least a few had broken. 5, maybe 6. Maybe more. I don't know how many broke exactly, just looking at it made me sick. I walked the dripping bag back up to the entrance (after playing with the idea of going back in and being like: "Hey, my eggs broke in the parking lot because your inept bagger's idea of how to stack groceries was clearly inspired by the game Jenga. I demand a new carton of eggs!") but instead I just tossed them. The whole carton. I'll just go to my sister's house before breakfast tomorrow.
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Everyone is so scared. How could you not be? The only way that could happen is if you'd planned your whole life out from the start-- very carefully stacking block upon block, building your massive tower to your dream destination. What do you do when you get there, though, when you’re done? You keep stacking towards your next dream, rushing onwards, onwards to the next destination, the next layer, each one a little less solid than the last. And finally, when you get there, there, the end goal of your whole life-- the perch atop which you sit, staring down, with nowhere else to go, at the final place you’ve been dreaming of all these years-- hell, was it worth it? Worth all the anxiety and sweat and the meat being squeezed from your soul, everything you’ve been working towards forever? ... what the hell is it, what are you even looking at, tell me! I scream at you, “Tell me, what's so great about where you are up there-- the view?” But you are wise. You’ve got to be, you’ve lived your whole **** life already. You chuckle, and your wrinkles are friendly. “Come see.” I clamber up. It takes forever—you’re old as hell and spent your entire life building this thing. I keep climbing, and climbing, and the view keeps changing. I’m getting higher. I pause once, and glance behind me to see the sprawling architecture of every floor beneath. I have to remind myself to breathe and keep going. Finally, I reach you and shake your hand. I am standing atop an enormous tower, So tall I can’t make out the ground, Gazing back down at the intricate construction of your life. Layer upon layer, every block a different day, every floor a different chapter in your life. Maybe it's the thin air, but it finally dawns on me. It doesn’t matter where we are now. What matters is every day, every moment that you spent getting here. I look at you, and you sigh perfectly and completely. “So long, kid,” you salute me, and step off the edge. I watch you fall in wonder. But I know your legacy lives on in the enormous and complicated and twisting tower that remains, a tribute to your life.
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Mar 16, 2012
Mar 16, 2012 at 5:37 AM UTC
Jenga
Everyone is so scared. How could you not be? The only way that could happen is if you'd planned your whole life out from the start-- very carefully stacking block upon block, building your massive tower to your dream destination. What do you do when you get there, though, when you’re done? You keep stacking towards your next dream, rushing onwards, onwards to the next destination, the next layer, each one a little less solid than the last. And finally, when you get there, there, the end goal of your whole life-- the perch atop which you sit, staring down, with nowhere else to go, at the final place you’ve been dreaming of all these years-- hell, was it worth it? Worth all the anxiety and sweat and the meat being squeezed from your soul, everything you’ve been working towards forever? ... what the hell is it, what are you even looking at, tell me! I scream at you, “Tell me, what's so great about where you are up there-- the view?” But you are wise. You’ve got to be, you’ve lived your whole **** life already. You chuckle, and your wrinkles are friendly. “Come see.” I clamber up. It takes forever—you’re old as hell and spent your entire life building this thing. I keep climbing, and climbing, and the view keeps changing. I’m getting higher. I pause once, and glance behind me to see the sprawling architecture of every floor beneath. I have to remind myself to breathe and keep going. Finally, I reach you and shake your hand. I am standing atop an enormous tower, So tall I can’t make out the ground, Gazing back down at the intricate construction of your life. Layer upon layer, every block a different day, every floor a different chapter in your life. Maybe it's the thin air, but it finally dawns on me. It doesn’t matter where we are now. What matters is every day, every moment that you spent getting here. I look at you, and you sigh perfectly and completely. “So long, kid,” you salute me, and step off the edge. I watch you fall in wonder. But I know your legacy lives on in the enormous and complicated and twisting tower that remains, a tribute to your life.
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His nose was Cairo’s Bent Pyramid or a pair of ergonomic pliers And his loyalty was a slumped tower of Jenga pieces And his skin was a film of thick oatmeal or cream of mushroom soup, coating the bottom of an untouched *** His teeth, little tombstones sinking into the earth. His logic was a pair of safety scissors chewing through corrugated fiberboard And his insults were sharp staccatos And his humor was a steeped tea bag or curdled milk And his laughter was a Singer sewing machine choking on tangled thread. His eyebrows were gargoyle wings And his hair, a bushel of dry bear grass He sang, and it was cough syrup And his beard was a soiled litter box. His fingers, dried seaweed And the palms of his hands were month old dish sponges. His spine was a curved dipper gourd rotting in the sun His grin was a snagged zipper And his temperament pad-less brakes or a wasp in September And his kisses were apple cider vinegar and radishes And his eyes were two bottomless stone wells, foaming with moss. His gait was a vulture scrutinizing its prey. His chest was the backside of a dung beetle. His insight was a cataract ridden car headlight lost in a curtain of fog And his knees were skulls And his touch was a snug pressure cuff And his compassion was a guillotine And the last time we spoke, it was crucifixion.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM UTC
Dodgeball: The Resurrection
Jenga should only be played when you are absolutely sober
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Jun 22, 2016
Jun 22, 2016 at 11:02 PM UTC
Jenga (10w)
shadows long, fall on pavement wet and inside the teetering, jenga blocks, people reside in caves opulent and electric. and green is a colour, forgotten and  bluesky, a patchwork quilt, seen in fractured glimpses, on the way to and from. flowers bright and vivid, come delivered and earth the thing, we save by sitting. in the almost, dark for an hour a year. shadows short, fall on barren ground. as city dwellers, breathe grey air and expell trash and detrius muck no shadows now just black all around no dwellers, no sound.... perhaps we needed to sit in the almost dark much longer and love the ground on which our life is found.
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 12:06 AM UTC
shadowplay
I walk into this containment cell of lost souls Groping around hoping to succeed towards their parent'a goals We are all just playing another role A building block under their control But when you're the block that causes Jenga, heads start to roll They'll throw you into a hole Where you'll live your life like a mole An animal in a cage, a box, a cell, that's the tole Their real goal To lock you up and maintain control
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 5:22 PM UTC
School
Hold me close tonight, I need your arms wrapped around me Before the pieces of me tumble like a game of jenga, I'm trying my best to see the last page of my story, But I think it's only a matter of time till I decide to end my story, So hold me close tonight While you fill my head with beautiful fantasies, Before I decide to insert lead into it tonight, Intoxicate me with your voice, Before I intoxicate myself with deaths poison tonight, Give me the oxygen that I have been gasping for, Before I decide to close the path to my lungs tonight, Pull the mask off of me, So you can see past the illusion of my smile, So you can see that I'm in need of help, Hold me tonight, Before you have to hold the stone with my name on it.
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 4:07 AM UTC
A cry for help
In a little muddled cloud, a bubble, a thought Ideas float away unfettered of wings. Catching them proves to be unfeasible By any means possible it appears… Careful when you pull from My stack of Jenga dreams Taken from what sustains and place on my crown Begin tumbling, falling, scattering…game over. Hold in your hands an image of love Heavy, it seems, to the amateur captor Light as air, supple, shaped…radiant In the hands of the ancient, practiced devotee. Halls and mirrors seek hazy confusion Follow the seam and you’ll find the egress Where Hope patiently waits, distant calliope, poised To hold you and keep you, the spectacle of desire. “Come home” breathes the slender sprite Into ears unacquainted with compassion. Lullaby swing, tree limb unbroken, come sing The song in my dreams to make sweet.
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Aug 9, 2011
Aug 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM UTC
Dreamcatcher’s Lament
A night of drum beating, maraca shaking and guitar strumming, who would've thought that a moment sought could unveil thousands of possibilities. The odds in our favor, without cards on the table, unstable as it is, a hope through the night exploded like jenga blocks stumbled. With a much wanted polaroid, comes the 'see you again' likelihood but take it slow, take it slow; enjoy the night and each other's sight, put emotions on hold, don't let it show. A few selfie and some jokes thrown, we've explored the streets like its our own; realized something have grown yet we say goodbye -- the words we spilled like a mourn. I can't say its inevitable but free falling unto you is just highly probable.
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May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 11:11 AM UTC
Coffee Beans and Butterflies
It is out of habit for a poet to personify the oceans.  Write about how the waves kisses the shore each time the moon tried to pull it away; and then remind yourself how when hot meets cold, they're disaster-bound. Playing pretend was a habit of yours. After all, it was a form of survival- where you get the change in your pockets. You were fascinated by how the conch seemed to speak in waves no matter how far away you were from the ocean, as if it never depended its beauty in the place it finds itself. Its emptiness allowed itself to echo its surroundings. And if you'd uncover what was buried, you'd think it be a chest- an empty one that will finally be tipped full. When you mimicked the sound of the ocean, it couldn't lull me to sleep. It kept me awake every night for fear that I'd drown; see, your promises came like waves, with nothing in between. You gave your words away like the weight you had been carrying in you; and I almost thought you had spat your heart out in the process of cleaning your guts. There is so many things you poured out, and I guess I managed to save some- sorrow. When it stopped, you spoke in hushed tones and it sounded like canon shots in a distance. They say you are a product of your surroundings and you are filling yourself with everything you can find laying around, stacked so precariously high like a game of Jenga- the thrill was in watching it topple and fall. These pieces never belonged to you and you still have nothing to give when you are growing close resemblance to a shrapnel shell. When you are at war with yourself, there is no refuge: dig a foxhole until it blows over and that'd be your grave. How do you hide from yourself? Scream when you listen to the conch again- it's the sound of war. Break your habits before they break you; times like this, I wish you were an empty shell.
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 9:48 PM UTC
a monologue
It is out of habit for a poet to personify the oceans.  Write about how the waves kisses the shore each time the moon tried to pull it away; and then remind yourself how when hot meets cold, they're disaster-bound. Playing pretend was a habit of yours. After all, it was a form of survival- where you get the change in your pockets. You were fascinated by how the conch seemed to speak in waves no matter how far away you were from the ocean, as if it never depended its beauty in the place it finds itself. Its emptiness allowed itself to echo its surroundings. And if you'd uncover what was buried, you'd think it be a chest- an empty one that will finally be tipped full. When you mimicked the sound of the ocean, it couldn't lull me to sleep. It kept me awake every night for fear that I'd drown; see, your promises came like waves, with nothing in between. You gave your words away like the weight you had been carrying in you; and I almost thought you had spat your heart out in the process of cleaning your guts. There is so many things you poured out, and I guess I managed to save some- sorrow. When it stopped, you spoke in hushed tones and it sounded like canon shots in a distance. They say you are a product of your surroundings and you are filling yourself with everything you can find laying around, stacked so precariously high like a game of Jenga- the thrill was in watching it topple and fall. These pieces never belonged to you and you still have nothing to give when you are growing close resemblance to a shrapnel shell. When you are at war with yourself, there is no refuge: dig a foxhole until it blows over and that'd be your grave. How do you hide from yourself? Scream when you listen to the conch again- it's the sound of war. Break your habits before they break you; times like this, I wish you were an empty shell.
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I'm afraid too I afraid that the only thing Holding me together Are all the broken pieces I have spent so much time Taping the smashed splinters Into place I have spent so many hours Balancing all of the dust particles On top of each other Wedging them so carefully So that each one supports another I'm afraid that if I pull one out And show you They will all come Tumbling down
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Jun 7, 2014
Jun 7, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
Jenga