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CA Guilfoyle Feb 2013
Black fields - burning sun
fiery cauldron stirring
lava soaking earth
Wanderer May 2012
I do not feel myself today
Stolen stunned sparkle sunned
Crystallizing adrenaline ***** hypertension maniac
Overwhelming in here. Crowded.
Always willing to be the first to jump
Potent love affairs with rushing wind and endless heights
Break apart.
Come undone.
Let go.
More surreal than tangible
Fading softly into the mist of kilauea
Great fire mother blessing me with the burning
Ablaze, a Phoenix from the flames, rising into the night
Bursting all over the constellations, adhering to the cosmos
Third eye open
Awed.
Amazed.
Hope Aug 2013
take three hours of low-quality sleep,
and sprinkle lovingly with the midnight threats
of the racist and schizophrenic Madam Crazypants who lives on the next floor up.
for milder taste use the glowing red profanities that she hollers through the vents at the Mexicans who aren’t there.
for more spice use the white hot suicidal screams that saturate the night sky like streams of lava that shoot from Kilauea.
call the cops when she threatens to jump.
their lights and sirens will render waves of space
into solid panes of ice that smash into your head in surges.
go to school and simmer in silence until it’s execution time.
while the blood is still flowing from the bullet holes that you gave yourself,
pour on half an hour of "constructive" criticism from your professor
which will burn like lye or battery acid depending on the day of the week.
wash down with caffeine. simmer for three hours in a soulsucking class.
go home.
drink beer.
play Halo.
bury your anguished cries beneath your vice
and that secret codeine
and the bottle of wine you sequestered
and the cough syrup
which makes the world warm and salty and drippy and noodly
like a good bowl of pho.
let it sit in the oven
but don’t turn it on
and then pull it out on Monday
wrapped in a cotton blanket of cold *****
bleeding from the brain and fingers
empty of meaning.
and when the sun blows a fuse
well I guess then you can eat it.
Corey Smith Jun 2018
Lava yonder chase
Ne'er to rise a crop from grey
Ash cloud drip as rain
Stay safe dear friend's and family.
Johnny Noiπ Jun 2018
dedicated to the people effected by Volcano Kilauea

a                            innnnnnn  t th                              e very beginning of
every                                           advanced                               society
           one finds something      the Sunday                                     Funnies used to
be the                         cutting edge;
The Colossus of Rhodes        /roʊdz/ (Ancient Greek:      ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος,
                  transliteration.                  ** Kolossòs            Rhódios) was a          statue of the Greek sun-god                      Helios,      designed in part    by the world      renown                     genius
     engineer                Archemides    , gigantic L e B ron man straddling  to be      erected             as a m sentinel     to guard      over   in the to look o city of  
   Rhodes,              on the Greek i            sland           of the same name, by Chares
         of Lindos        in 280 BC.       One of the            Inana              bronze        Seven Wonders of   the
nnnnnnnnnnn                         /    Ancient World,     /     originally of the seven veils     designed                       to a mechanical man;    
               it was constructed      to celebrate            Rhodes' victory over Cyprus
  & Antigonus I                               Monophthalmus,               whose son then           unsuccessfully
n               attacke        d                        Rhodes in 305 BC.
                        that looks like a comic;
     they end
book; pictographs give                  graphic novels are read more closely
                       than actual news  
                     ;newspapers;                       all lie in social decline
              way to hieroglyphs         (mythic                    monuments told tales;                                      &                "Mother of the Sun,     Theia
                   of many names,            for your sake men             honor gold as more powerful       than anything else; and                 through the         value you best             ow on them,                             o queen,                        ships contending on the sea
               and yoked               teams of horses                       in swift-whirling contests                               become marvels."
                      soon we'll all know                        Chinese.                  the Colossus stood 100 feet high—                    approximate
height                                  of the modern                              Statue of Liberty
        from feet to crown;                which was  originally           designed    as  a massive naked                woman representing Liberty;
Kilauea volcano
Jim Marchel Aug 2018
Inspiration is
A trip to Kilauea
But on a snow day

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