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"loudest" poems
She lives a quiet life, she tiptoes around, she whispers when she speaks, she hardly ever makes a sound. Although her words are quiet, her mind is very loud. She has so much to say, but no one listens for soft sounds. She's an invisible girl, who doesn't want to stand out, she just wants to be heard, without having to shout. Sometimes the loudest people, aren't saying much at all. Empty words and promises, just leave their mouths and fall. But whispered words fly high, and catch peoples attention, they're intriguing, so amazing, but only when they listen. So look outside the spotlight, because often the real star, isn't anyone on stage, but the mind behind it all.
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:31 AM UTC
Whispered Words
I heard the world's loudest **** today It echoed round the town enough to say *"I am a **** of great renown and fame, I am a **** who's worthy of the name Of*  KING of FARTS!"  Unthinkingly I sniffed And, let me tell you, I have never whiffed Aught so potent, dank and dread and foul Blasted out from heaving human bowel As that king of farts I smelled today And which took my ******* breath away. Who was the pumper of that putrid beauty? How many curries in the line of duty Had he consumed?  It must have been a man - No pong so strong ere blew from female can. Can no one answer yet my urgent question: And say who suffereth such dire indigestion? O heavens! his torment must be something chronic. Can no one subsidise a high colonic Irrigation to prevent another Noisier and more noisome than its younger brother?
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Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014 at 7:34 PM UTC
A **** For All Mankind
Follow the kick-drum of the heart to the point where it’s heard loudest. Spend ten thousand hours on the lungs: Read the textbook on what fills us. Dedicate a white board to what makes us collapse. Hold the bell lightly to differentiate your own pulse from another’s. Then drink, and dance, and pray, to relearn that they’re the same.
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Oct 22, 2017
Oct 22, 2017 at 9:35 PM UTC
What a stethoscope teaches
Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. Each emotion you feel tattooed to your skin the seasons wash away like chalk. Be kind to yourself. You are braver than you thought. No longer scared of what lies beneath your bed but what awaits when you wake up. Be kind to yourself. You are worthy of love. Only you give permission for forked tongues to leave passing words as lasting scars. Only you can adopt old failures and stack them as obstacles upon each new path. You cannot dictate what will be only – who you are. Be kind to yourself. You are doing enough. You cannot always be switched on. Sometimes you have to lay down and breathe – it is not greed. If you are always exhausted you cannot help anybody. Be kind to yourself. You did not grow from a single cell born from a dying star in order to feel so small. You did not close the door on friends when you expected more from them. Why beat yourself up for who you were before? Be kind to yourself. A faltering dancer who gets up again and again draws the loudest applause at the curtain call. A person who spent half their life at war with themselves knows the value of peace, the feat of getting out the house; the measure of good mental health. Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. They say ten thousand hours is the time it takes to master an art. You spent so much longer than that learning the patterns of your heart. You can pull at those common threads that keep you together even when you are falling apart. Be kind to yourself. You are stronger than you thought. Like Leonard says, “there’s a crack of light in everything. “ You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to live in the dark. Be kind to yourself. Make sure you get to the end. Do not worry how you stumbled at the start.
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Apr 18, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM UTC
Be Kind To Yourself
Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. Each emotion you feel tattooed to your skin the seasons wash away like chalk. Be kind to yourself. You are braver than you thought. No longer scared of what lies beneath your bed but what awaits when you wake up. Be kind to yourself. You are worthy of love. Only you give permission for forked tongues to leave passing words as lasting scars. Only you can adopt old failures and stack them as obstacles upon each new path. You cannot dictate what will be only – who you are. Be kind to yourself. You are doing enough. You cannot always be switched on. Sometimes you have to lay down and breathe – it is not greed. If you are always exhausted you cannot help anybody. Be kind to yourself. You did not grow from a single cell born from a dying star in order to feel so small. You did not close the door on friends when you expected more from them. Why beat yourself up for who you were before? Be kind to yourself. A faltering dancer who gets up again and again draws the loudest applause at the curtain call. A person who spent half their life at war with themselves knows the value of peace, the feat of getting out the house; the measure of good mental health. Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. They say ten thousand hours is the time it takes to master an art. You spent so much longer than that learning the patterns of your heart. You can pull at those common threads that keep you together even when you are falling apart. Be kind to yourself. You are stronger than you thought. Like Leonard says, “there’s a crack of light in everything. “ You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to live in the dark. Be kind to yourself. Make sure you get to the end. Do not worry how you stumbled at the start.
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I'm too shy to say my thoughts. I'm too shy to speak up. I'm too isolated to make many friends. I'm too isolated to defend. When you find me some paper, or a gentle screen, I'll speak up, and I will say what I please. I will rant, I will rage. I will create a war, though it doesn't seem me. The thoughts in my head, kept quiet until now. I have found some paper to make my crown. Don't put me in public, don't put me on stage. I will only blush and stammer away. I am an introvert, so quiet, you see. But I am the loudest of the three.
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 2:22 AM UTC
Introvert
How beautiful art thou; rain. Pittering and pattering, into nothingness. Dripping and dropping in a steady beat. Splitting and Splattering but soothing. What a feat. How beautiful art thou; rain. Small and light, crystal and clear. Sent from the heavens above. The gentle weeping and tear. What a sight. How beautiful art thou; rain. With soft drops to the loudest of splashes. Big but small, quiet but not so. Call upon the lightening, your company. What a sound. How beautiful art thou; rain. Washing away sadness and bring new life. Day or night, you see through everything. Morning or evening, your steadiness fails to change. What a night.
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 6:27 PM UTC
Rain
Lost Love He remembers that day many sad years ago it was sunny out, but soon a storm raged. He returned home early from work, eager to rest and nurse a cold. Eager to see his gorgeous wife fix him a delicious soup and give loving care, a remedy not. He caught a surprise. Was it then a hallucination? To see her ex's car in front of their house, fanning the flames in his heart? Or to imagine the house shaking, or to hear love noises howling from the rafters of contempt, as her fireplace warmed tempest. He sure hoped then... it had been a misfire it wasn't. He slowly opened the front door, walking decrepit and sad, like he was in hospice care. He could see the final script playing out, more so the tragic ending the trail of clothes, her ex-boyfriend's scent, calamity, and approaching closer the devil speaking louder. He opened the bedroom door to their parts caught in honey jars and scarlet red on his tainted wife over bed sheets of shame. Their eyes catch, both flush, and tearful, as breathing stopped, his melancholy eyes asking why? Why? What about the future  lily pods, our family, house, kids ... and you sell out. What about being fresh out of college with our dreams, passion and honor...us. What about the bonds, pinky swears, pricking of blood marital vows. Her eyes had no answers. She cried, loudest as her ex-boyfriend bolted not before passing the mill. He closed her door for good that mournful day, dismissing darkness, opening his wrath for her in his mind, yet what words or light can be exchanged? Uprooted and lost, he walked scarred over and over by her promise and lost love. That was thirty years ago and he still walks with her ghosts, and it still pains. LR-5/4/17
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May 4, 2017
May 4, 2017 at 11:31 PM UTC
Lost Love
Lost Love He remembers that day many sad years ago it was sunny out, but soon a storm raged. He returned home early from work, eager to rest and nurse a cold. Eager to see his gorgeous wife fix him a delicious soup and give loving care, a remedy not. He caught a surprise. Was it then a hallucination? To see her ex's car in front of their house, fanning the flames in his heart? Or to imagine the house shaking, or to hear love noises howling from the rafters of contempt, as her fireplace warmed tempest. He sure hoped then... it had been a misfire it wasn't. He slowly opened the front door, walking decrepit and sad, like he was in hospice care. He could see the final script playing out, more so the tragic ending the trail of clothes, her ex-boyfriend's scent, calamity, and approaching closer the devil speaking louder. He opened the bedroom door to their parts caught in honey jars and scarlet red on his tainted wife over bed sheets of shame. Their eyes catch, both flush, and tearful, as breathing stopped, his melancholy eyes asking why? Why? What about the future  lily pods, our family, house, kids ... and you sell out. What about being fresh out of college with our dreams, passion and honor...us. What about the bonds, pinky swears, pricking of blood marital vows. Her eyes had no answers. She cried, loudest as her ex-boyfriend bolted not before passing the mill. He closed her door for good that mournful day, dismissing darkness, opening his wrath for her in his mind, yet what words or light can be exchanged? Uprooted and lost, he walked scarred over and over by her promise and lost love. That was thirty years ago and he still walks with her ghosts, and it still pains. LR-5/4/17
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Their screams of terror Their cries for help Their weeps of sorrow Their the voices in my head They have grown so old They have become so loud Now they echo all day long I just wish for them to gro silent The voices in my head Grow more and more reckless That I can't even think Of the consequences to my actions But no matter what they say or how they say it They love you just as mush as me Yet you dont see the love in my eyes And you cant hear the songs that they sing The voices in my head Maybe sweet and comforting But most of the time Their sick, demented, and twisted They argue over whether or not I should Put a gun to my head And all but one agrees For me to pull the trigger That one voice who cares If I pull the trigger Is the voice of reason It's your beautful voice The voices in my head Are they wrong for wanting me dead Are they right for causing my insanity All I know is that I can trust them Every second of my time I spend listening to their screams Their cries and their weeps I realize why they do it The voices in my head Echo my pain Because they know it And know my demons The voices in my head Have never seen my heart Yet they know the truth to my lies And the tears not in my eyes Of all these voices Yours is the loudest Causing me to put this gun down And think of a better way to end it all The voices in my head Tell me you the only one I can and will ever love And the only one I can't hurt But I feel as if The voices in my head Want me to be hurt Due to the pain I have dealt I beg of them to stop And let me live on my own To die on my own terms But they continue on Then I begin to notice That all these voices Are the voices of those I have hurt Except your one voice of reason Could it be That all the pain Not only my own But the pain of others Is the reason to the voices in my head The voices in my head Laugh as I piece together A puzzle to bid to understand A puzzle not meant to be pieced together The voices in my head Grow louder and louder Even as I fight with them I realize why I write about war Because the biggest war is with myself As I reach for the gun To end their eerie laughs I know it will bring satisfaction So I load and **** it back Squeezing the trigger slowly Darkness engulfs me The voices stop Peace I don't have As tears roll down your cheek Another life I have wasted along with mine
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 8:20 PM UTC
The Voices In My Head
Their screams of terror Their cries for help Their weeps of sorrow Their the voices in my head They have grown so old They have become so loud Now they echo all day long I just wish for them to gro silent The voices in my head Grow more and more reckless That I can't even think Of the consequences to my actions But no matter what they say or how they say it They love you just as mush as me Yet you dont see the love in my eyes And you cant hear the songs that they sing The voices in my head Maybe sweet and comforting But most of the time Their sick, demented, and twisted They argue over whether or not I should Put a gun to my head And all but one agrees For me to pull the trigger That one voice who cares If I pull the trigger Is the voice of reason It's your beautful voice The voices in my head Are they wrong for wanting me dead Are they right for causing my insanity All I know is that I can trust them Every second of my time I spend listening to their screams Their cries and their weeps I realize why they do it The voices in my head Echo my pain Because they know it And know my demons The voices in my head Have never seen my heart Yet they know the truth to my lies And the tears not in my eyes Of all these voices Yours is the loudest Causing me to put this gun down And think of a better way to end it all The voices in my head Tell me you the only one I can and will ever love And the only one I can't hurt But I feel as if The voices in my head Want me to be hurt Due to the pain I have dealt I beg of them to stop And let me live on my own To die on my own terms But they continue on Then I begin to notice That all these voices Are the voices of those I have hurt Except your one voice of reason Could it be That all the pain Not only my own But the pain of others Is the reason to the voices in my head The voices in my head Laugh as I piece together A puzzle to bid to understand A puzzle not meant to be pieced together The voices in my head Grow louder and louder Even as I fight with them I realize why I write about war Because the biggest war is with myself As I reach for the gun To end their eerie laughs I know it will bring satisfaction So I load and **** it back Squeezing the trigger slowly Darkness engulfs me The voices stop Peace I don't have As tears roll down your cheek Another life I have wasted along with mine
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- Listening doesn't always mean understanding - Listening could mean getting lost in your own thought of tranquility - Or even your own devastational whir - Listening doesn't have to be with your ears - Just the exhaustion of emptiness that outlines your skull; - Or even the numbness that conquers every length from spine to external excellence of your mind; - Gliding from one emotion to another could be the loudest transaction without making a single clamor; - Listening doesn't always mean understanding - But the utter perplexity of ones thoughts drowning in the sound of nothingness.
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Jan 10, 2016
Jan 10, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
The Sound of Nothingness
Anything that makes noise Should not be done on a Sunday. Don’t mow the lawn, Don’t vacuum your home. Respect the stillness that is meant to be. There are but few exceptions (However, your yard work and Home improvement projects are not included). The birds singing, for example. Or the sound of breakfast sizzling Or the whisper of coffee pouring. The loudest thing that should be heard Is the laughter of company. Family and friends are what the day is for. If you don’t have those, then meet a stranger So that next week, you have a friend for Sunday.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 6:05 PM UTC
Sunday
the bus poets we are the modern day chimney sweeps, the ***** black faced coal miners of the city, digging up its grit, toasted with its spit, the gone and forgotten elevator operators, the anonymous substitutable, still yet glimpsed occasionally, grunts of urbanity provoking a surprised whaddya know! once like the bison and the buffalo, we were thousands, word workers roaming the cities, the intercity rural routes and the lithe greyhounds across the land of the brave, free in ways the founders wanted us to be us, the stubs and stuff, harder working poor and lower cases we were the bus poets, sitting always in the back of the bus, where the engines growls loudest, seated in the - the most overheated in winter time, so much so we nearly disrobed, and then come the summer, we were blasted with a joking hot reverie from the vents, but vent, no, we did not! no - we wrote and wrote of all we heard, passion overheated by currents within and without, recording and ordering the snatches and the soliloquies of the passengers, into poem swatches; the goings on passing by, the overheard histories, glimpsed in milliseconds, eternity preserved, inscribed in a cheap blue lined five & dime notebook, for all eternity what the eyes sighed and saw books ever passed onto the next generation in boxes from the supermarket, attic labeled, then forgotten beside the outgrown toys with our names writ indelible with the magic of black markers if you stumble upon a breathing scripter, let them be, just observe, as they, you, these movers and bus shakers, as they, observe you tell your children, you knew one in your youth, then take them to the attic retrieve your mother's and father's, teach your children how to read, how to see, the ways of their forefathers, the forsaken, the bus poets.
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Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 7:53 AM UTC
The Bus Poets
the bus poets we are the modern day chimney sweeps, the ***** black faced coal miners of the city, digging up its grit, toasted with its spit, the gone and forgotten elevator operators, the anonymous substitutable, still yet glimpsed occasionally, grunts of urbanity provoking a surprised whaddya know! once like the bison and the buffalo, we were thousands, word workers roaming the cities, the intercity rural routes and the lithe greyhounds across the land of the brave, free in ways the founders wanted us to be us, the stubs and stuff, harder working poor and lower cases we were the bus poets, sitting always in the back of the bus, where the engines growls loudest, seated in the - the most overheated in winter time, so much so we nearly disrobed, and then come the summer, we were blasted with a joking hot reverie from the vents, but vent, no, we did not! no - we wrote and wrote of all we heard, passion overheated by currents within and without, recording and ordering the snatches and the soliloquies of the passengers, into poem swatches; the goings on passing by, the overheard histories, glimpsed in milliseconds, eternity preserved, inscribed in a cheap blue lined five & dime notebook, for all eternity what the eyes sighed and saw books ever passed onto the next generation in boxes from the supermarket, attic labeled, then forgotten beside the outgrown toys with our names writ indelible with the magic of black markers if you stumble upon a breathing scripter, let them be, just observe, as they, you, these movers and bus shakers, as they, observe you tell your children, you knew one in your youth, then take them to the attic retrieve your mother's and father's, teach your children how to read, how to see, the ways of their forefathers, the forsaken, the bus poets.
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In the question of reassurance. The single solemn response cannot always end with one that causes the most anxiety. The involvement of social media, random dm's, the arrangement of severed ties mended with one thing in mind. For these reasons insecurity deepens. Eventually things fall apart. It's not always about opening your mouth. There are other ways to be vocal. Silence becomes deafening. Defeating the purpose of awareness. Tempers quickly raise and often the things that aren't meant to be said come out. Echoing the loudest. Petty arguments, the excuses that lead us into the messages we're quick to hide. Despite how much time we've invested, the easiest thing to do is walk away. Anxiety becoming the fear that pushes us the furthest into ourselves. It's not always easy. Opening up, vocalizing a single woe that begins the journey of a thousand, if not more. If forced, we too begin to shut down and contemplate the single best thing. Being seen as selfish, self-centered. Quick burst that justifies wrongful intent with one that's right. It's all about support. Care & understanding. The saving grace that bonds the realization that either of us are perfect. That there are deeper issues at hand that seep far beyond.  the way we see ourselves, whether we are too big. Too small, the things we find often too late, said behind our back. outside of everything else do you truly understand the quality of reassurance. the equivalent to the moment everything seems to come crashing down. The times any slight movement brings us down the most. Equally we both seek the same. The response reflects the moment. To defy standard and move to something meaningful. At a point, the question deserves an answer. Going in one ear, quickly coming out the other. To vocalize seemingly in one direction unless the role is reversed
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 9:41 AM UTC
Situationship
In the question of reassurance. The single solemn response cannot always end with one that causes the most anxiety. The involvement of social media, random dm's, the arrangement of severed ties mended with one thing in mind. For these reasons insecurity deepens. Eventually things fall apart. It's not always about opening your mouth. There are other ways to be vocal. Silence becomes deafening. Defeating the purpose of awareness. Tempers quickly raise and often the things that aren't meant to be said come out. Echoing the loudest. Petty arguments, the excuses that lead us into the messages we're quick to hide. Despite how much time we've invested, the easiest thing to do is walk away. Anxiety becoming the fear that pushes us the furthest into ourselves. It's not always easy. Opening up, vocalizing a single woe that begins the journey of a thousand, if not more. If forced, we too begin to shut down and contemplate the single best thing. Being seen as selfish, self-centered. Quick burst that justifies wrongful intent with one that's right. It's all about support. Care & understanding. The saving grace that bonds the realization that either of us are perfect. That there are deeper issues at hand that seep far beyond.  the way we see ourselves, whether we are too big. Too small, the things we find often too late, said behind our back. outside of everything else do you truly understand the quality of reassurance. the equivalent to the moment everything seems to come crashing down. The times any slight movement brings us down the most. Equally we both seek the same. The response reflects the moment. To defy standard and move to something meaningful. At a point, the question deserves an answer. Going in one ear, quickly coming out the other. To vocalize seemingly in one direction unless the role is reversed
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I have longed for this year since fourth grade When I learned what a val-e-dic-tor-ian was And realized I wanted to be one. I have longed for this year since I was fifteen And wanted to leave home Go out and explore the bigger world Free of parents and noisy siblings. I have longed for this year since my first college tour And I saw the hubbub The libraries, the labs, the dorms, the giant sweatshirts And noticed how small and quiet my high school was. We picked out caps and gowns Red We lead the pep rallies now The loudest yet We're taking physics, and calculus, and the SATs Feeling scholarly We picked out how our names appear on our diplomas First M. Last We have our licenses Drive to school We fill out college applications endlessly And endlessly... We picked our prom theme Great Gatsby We're getting lazy very quickly Senioritis Graduation keeps us going Graduation is the goal Graduation is the light at the end of the tunnel Graduation in June Graduation in red polyester Graduation in the sun Graduation is the end But wait. Hold up. Stop. Stop. STOP! Seven more months with you? You, who I've stared at for four years? You, whose smiles make my day? You, whose face I look for in crowds? You, who are the most amazing person I've ever met? You, who I haven't even asked out? You, who have no idea who I feel? You, who might by some miracle possibly feel the same way? You, who I'll regret never making a move with for the rest of my life? You? Seven. Months.? HOLD UP SENIOR YEAR SLOW DOWN GRADUATION THERE'S A BOY.
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Nov 2, 2013
Nov 2, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
Senior
I have longed for this year since fourth grade When I learned what a val-e-dic-tor-ian was And realized I wanted to be one. I have longed for this year since I was fifteen And wanted to leave home Go out and explore the bigger world Free of parents and noisy siblings. I have longed for this year since my first college tour And I saw the hubbub The libraries, the labs, the dorms, the giant sweatshirts And noticed how small and quiet my high school was. We picked out caps and gowns Red We lead the pep rallies now The loudest yet We're taking physics, and calculus, and the SATs Feeling scholarly We picked out how our names appear on our diplomas First M. Last We have our licenses Drive to school We fill out college applications endlessly And endlessly... We picked our prom theme Great Gatsby We're getting lazy very quickly Senioritis Graduation keeps us going Graduation is the goal Graduation is the light at the end of the tunnel Graduation in June Graduation in red polyester Graduation in the sun Graduation is the end But wait. Hold up. Stop. Stop. STOP! Seven more months with you? You, who I've stared at for four years? You, whose smiles make my day? You, whose face I look for in crowds? You, who are the most amazing person I've ever met? You, who I haven't even asked out? You, who have no idea who I feel? You, who might by some miracle possibly feel the same way? You, who I'll regret never making a move with for the rest of my life? You? Seven. Months.? HOLD UP SENIOR YEAR SLOW DOWN GRADUATION THERE'S A BOY.
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The finest singer in the sea I heard upon this morn And in that strange sonorous tone A universe was born The low melodic wailing touched And roused me from my sleep As the humpback lithe and languid Made a turn and sounded deep And as my mind awakes it turns To whales large and small To the snowy white beluga The canary of them all The clicking bursts of ***** whales And the California grey The fin whale speaks across the sea To those a world away The short and longfinned pilot whales With whistles quite complex The striking graceful orcas Speak in different dialects But it is the great blue whale That makes the loudest cry Though it is far too rare today With such an awful why But on this wondrous morning I Am filled with joyous glee That God has given life to whales And gave to them the sea Cori MacNaughton 24Oct2000
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 2:20 PM UTC
Upon the Songs of Whales
Where do I see you my blue eyed mum? In colours of rainbows lit up by the sun, In the chair by the window with your tea and a crossword, In the picture you drew of me when I was a young boy, In the last birthday card you were ever to send me, In the list that you gave me to help me get sorted, The photo of you holding me as a baby. The love that you showed never came with a maybe. How will I remember you my blue eyed mum? Thinking of others would name but just one, Camping with children from near and far places, Cooking meals in the kitchen for friends and for family, Changing the subject whenever you wanted, Asking me to speak louder because you could not hear me, The eggs that you bought for me every Friday, Making the dress for your youngest granddaughter. What did I learn from you my blue eyed mum? The list would be endless but here are just some, The listener learns more than the ones that are talking, Words spoken in anger may someday be regretted, Hate towards others will only consume me, The loudest voice heard may not be the wisest, Happiness cannot be measured in coins or possessions, Let beauty be seen in all colours, shapes and sizes.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 8:30 PM UTC
My Blue Eyed Mum
in the silence our thoughts are the loudest they're the creaks of the floorboards letting us know we are not alone whether the voices are good or bad the silence really will never invade our minds
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 1:01 AM UTC
Silence
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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The Phoenix And The Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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We are all victims of failed society They criticize They hate They judge and we all just stood there crying, tired, and broken. We are too numb to feel, We pretend to be deaf about what they say, We stay blind of the things they did, We are the outcast of this broken world, We remain silent creating our own vast world within our enormous minds—There, we stand taller than towers There, our inner voices speak the loudest There, our sight and imagination is boundless. I said "someday they will all fall, and I'd be too oblivious to hear all of their screams" —they made me like this.
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 6:18 AM UTC
They will all fall
A pin drop silence An unusual serene calmness A solemn way to start a day in an empty classroom Even the softest moan... the loudest roar Sighed... counting my own breathing as I was fidgeting to and fro in an empty classroom... 123 my heart was beating slow 456 my heart was moving faster 789 my heart was thunderous! blood boiled up to the head... from cheerful to moody from pretty to ugly smiles... yawns.. smirks... temper! the veins fighting in the face... dark red with anger burst! A sudden... gentle knock on the door.. broke the golden silence a sweet angel walked in with head held down "GOOD MORNING TEACHER" Applause... Applause... Applause... Thank you to the sweetest soul.. An empty classroom came to live...
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 11:58 PM UTC
An Empty Classroom
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:31 AM UTC
Sitting In An Airport With A Sign That Says "Who You Used To Be"
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
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I have loved you in the coldest of snowstorms that winter has to offer, Felt your warmth through the curve of your lips, The music of soft fingertips. My body is your piano, We write a different genre of music when we love. There are warm rays of sunshine cast over our flesh And the snow glistens with the light you shine in. I’ve never felt safer, wrapped in the protection of your arms During the loudest thunderstorm in the middle of spring; When the skies are dark and grey, lightning shooting like swords Against earth’s ceiling. I’ve held your naked body against my own, Drawing over the cliffs of your hip bones, the valley of your Belly button and the mountain range of ribs, The cage that protects your heart from the heat of the Summer temperatures that I hold within me, your warm Anatomy heating my body like the core of earth: From the inside out. I’ve ran my fingers through the sweet sweat resting over Your back, like droplets of dew on a leaf in the early morning Humidity of summer after a night of making love. We watch the leaves change color ad stroll softly To the ground in autumn. The temperatures begin to drop and the branches are naked And bare, like my skin in summer while we sleep. I’ve loved you like the snow that grips the bark. I am cold, but winter has always been your favorite.
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 11:11 PM UTC
Loving Someone Four Different Ways In One Year
So sell your daughters **** your sons Go break your spoken Vows in tongues For from these lungs I storm the loudest As my furies   Muse the proudest Wings endowed with shrouds of Nyx Baptized within the River Styx So wage petty crusades And feel Titanic wrath’s Achilles heel For in this heart   My lust will claim Entire Gaea’s Set aflame By bolts of my creative spark Be sure, I’ve never missed my mark So bend your knees And cross your hearts And mutilate Your private parts For by these hands The story spun The sickle swung And shed my young And led them to the glory sung Henceforth until the Fates are done
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Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 5:36 PM UTC
Zeus the Inimitable
She stupefy truth with her finely crafted lies that stand head held high without even the slightest sign of embarrassment. She waters the seeds with acid, deliberately even manage to get kudos for her 'kind intervention' Her 'collected venom' in real, is a counterfeit concoction more deadly than the real, that attracts unlimited attention and the loudest rounds of applause, for it's new shade of blue when displayed with special effects for all to view. In her presence, fairness loses its meaning foulness like her, usurps it, makes its own, becomes the reigning queen! Whatever she does has a dark beauty, even the true angel of evil would greatly envy her.
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 2:24 AM UTC
A dark deranged magnificience
Dinner is done everyone's settled the evening.....like the moon.....is full... the weight of the night has itself eased into mine, my expected moment of slumber...now distraught... the Heavens are purpled twilight drapes have fallen, winds of March...bellow .........my pillows ..............are hollowed .......................by my elbows ......as a distant rooster crows........ i lie on my abdomen...legs swing back and forth, catching inspiration, a word, a daydream...a thought, i grab a pen falling, i grasp a journal, a book, ...............everything is within reach but, not...the....long..................stretch of hours....of a sleepless night...whence ....spiced...spiked...and sugared memories... ..........accompany me...and sail with me .......as i cruise along this lethargic sea 'neath a silent dark, where aches are loudest .........domed, by an unworded loneliness, i am wearied by a flow, that is endless, .....this minute...imagination is ceaseless ........i reach for my mug....but, it's empty .........................i hear no liquid seething this moment,  a dark sea, should be brewing.... this hour, verses must be a river, overflowing, ...enfolding, this cool and starry, starry evening... .......i am caffeinated....even without coffee.... Sally Copyright March 23, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 1:49 AM UTC
Caffeinated