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"mainland" poems
You are a sailor Drift way from the harbor Pull up the anchor That binds you down Set sail towards the horizon Take off the blindfold And hoist the sail Let the wind be your guide Sun and the Moon your compass Steering through uncharted waters Sometimes calm weather Or, inclement weather, rocking your ship Tackling the deep waters with alacrity Unfathomable depths, yet the ship sails Cutting through the waters The saline water, which is a part of you Seagulls guide you towards the shore Anchoring at the preferred destination Every grain of sand cushions your feet Welcoming you to the island of bliss Cut off from the mainland Yet, helping you connect with yourself Now it’s time to unwind And join the party after a successful voyage Ready to set sail for another expedition As a sailor, cruise till the end © Amitav (Radiance)
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
Set Sail
It's nice to feel the warmth The weather's never bad Living surrounded by the wai And by the sweet sounds Of the ukulele. Many people live aloha Living proud of their culture And friendly to another. Ohana is important And friends are part of it too. A beautiful tradition Giving of leis To someone special On a special occasion Or just any given day. It will be sad to leave one day There's so much sunshine. The mainland's all the same. Here there's so much diversity. I think I'll miss the food the most...
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Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 12:49 AM UTC
Hawaii Inspired
It’s not marijuana in Newfoundland In our fair Island we call it Product, b’ys Son, have you been smokin’ Product again? This is some ****in’ great Producttttttttt, ohhhhh, mannnnnnn Mr. Speaker, why is there a shortage Of Product in the province, Mr. Speaker, Not worried about the stocks of cod if we Can get stocks of Product, Mr. Speaker And if the shipment from the mainland stalls They’ll beam us some Product from Muskrat Falls
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Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 3:24 PM UTC
Marijuana in Newfoundland
I hate airplanes. I hate them More than Anything I've ever hated. Except the flight From Dulles To Ft. Lauderdale. I like that. Especially at night When it feels like Stars Can be caught with A thin fishing line Twenty feet away And eventually you Go off the mainland And can't tell where The water starts Or The stars stop. Then you see a Sudden line of lights below And beyond that An infinity of bright bursts Of lights And lamps. All darkness, Then suddenly Light. I really hate planes. But not the flight From Dulles To Ft. Lauderdale At night. I love that.
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Nov 28, 2013
Nov 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM UTC
Flight
*absolutely scandalous the way you are.. you treat me mercilessly for feeling cheerful .. so cruel attitude you are .. thou silent throughout my sense of my disappointment to smile .. truly evil your touch .. you whip my heartbeat pounding and carefree .. indeed bear your concern .. you fill up my weak with politely invincible .. really sneaky way you are .. you stole my heart a dozen years ago to freeze and harden .. indeed savage your sincerity .. you satisfy and pamper me until i could not walk on the mainland .. because you are the villain of heart of mine..!* ┈┈┈┈┈»̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶  ƦУ  »̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ sang penjahat hati..! sungguh keji caramu.. engkau perlakukan perasaanku tanpa ampun untuk ceria.. sungguh kejam sikapmu.. engkau bungkam seluruh rasaku kecewaku hingga tersenyum.. sungguh jahat sentuhanmu.. engkau cambuk detak jantungku berdegup kencang dan riang.. sungguh tega perhatianmu.. engkau jejali lemahku dengan santunmu hingga tak terkalahkan.. sungguh licik caramu.. engkau curi hatiku belasan tahun lalu hingga membeku dan membatu.. sungguh biadab ketulusanmu.. engkau puasi dan manjakan asaku hingga tak sanggup kupijak daratan.. karena enkau adalah sang penjahat hatiku..!
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 12:30 AM UTC
the villain heart
You have no idea, do you? You don't realize that every time you tell me you love me is another dig into my own grave. And every time I remember that you don't is another pinprick that never heals. I've got scars on my back from the last time you kissed me and there are bruises on my arm from when you last looked me in the eye. I miss you so much that I feel like every thought of you constricts my chest and makes it hard to breathe. All I ever wanted was to have your hand in mind and feel like for once I'd never have to be so alone every time I walk past another tree. I remember the last time you made me smile. You were lying on my lap the day before you had to fly off and you were listening to me talk about the other people I had known from my journey then to now. I was playing with your hair and I remember thinking that there was nowhere else I'd rather be and no one else I'd rather be with. I remember thinking that maybe I could finally set my roots and follow one path to one place, but you took that away from me. In the same day, you put a stake through my heart when you disappeared and said nothing, no call, no whisper about leaving so I started walking back home but waited at the end of the road for an hour to see if you would follow. You didn't. Love didn't. I was already in love with you then. And it hurt to realize you didn't really care all that much to make sure I got home safe. We ended things. Or at least I did. You argued that even if you were in the middle of a vast ocean and I was on the mainland, our love could've traveled distances and I reminded you that there was no love here and that you were the one who told me without saying a word that you held no love for me but expected me to love you in places beyond our reaches of the galaxy. But my hands could only stretch so far, and my heart could only take so much before the pain of being with you and without you all at once began to dance on my skin like folk songs around a bonfire. I know my heart and I know that it believes in the worlds away and it holds so strongly it can hardly take the pain but keeps pumping anyway. But for once, the blood pumping in my veins understand that it's alright. It's alright to let go of love and it's alright to let go of you. My eyes understand it's okay to weep and that my lungs breathe better without tears choking it. My hands will shake and be taken over by tremors but they'll know that you were never love and love would never again be you.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 9:01 AM UTC
A Eulogy For My Love For You
You have no idea, do you? You don't realize that every time you tell me you love me is another dig into my own grave. And every time I remember that you don't is another pinprick that never heals. I've got scars on my back from the last time you kissed me and there are bruises on my arm from when you last looked me in the eye. I miss you so much that I feel like every thought of you constricts my chest and makes it hard to breathe. All I ever wanted was to have your hand in mind and feel like for once I'd never have to be so alone every time I walk past another tree. I remember the last time you made me smile. You were lying on my lap the day before you had to fly off and you were listening to me talk about the other people I had known from my journey then to now. I was playing with your hair and I remember thinking that there was nowhere else I'd rather be and no one else I'd rather be with. I remember thinking that maybe I could finally set my roots and follow one path to one place, but you took that away from me. In the same day, you put a stake through my heart when you disappeared and said nothing, no call, no whisper about leaving so I started walking back home but waited at the end of the road for an hour to see if you would follow. You didn't. Love didn't. I was already in love with you then. And it hurt to realize you didn't really care all that much to make sure I got home safe. We ended things. Or at least I did. You argued that even if you were in the middle of a vast ocean and I was on the mainland, our love could've traveled distances and I reminded you that there was no love here and that you were the one who told me without saying a word that you held no love for me but expected me to love you in places beyond our reaches of the galaxy. But my hands could only stretch so far, and my heart could only take so much before the pain of being with you and without you all at once began to dance on my skin like folk songs around a bonfire. I know my heart and I know that it believes in the worlds away and it holds so strongly it can hardly take the pain but keeps pumping anyway. But for once, the blood pumping in my veins understand that it's alright. It's alright to let go of love and it's alright to let go of you. My eyes understand it's okay to weep and that my lungs breathe better without tears choking it. My hands will shake and be taken over by tremors but they'll know that you were never love and love would never again be you.
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Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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shapeshifter, son drunk & changing skins. he digs up skeletons of a spanish battalion buried by tigers on the garden key. suncresent spray of blood & oranges. new-fangled sailors once soaked in madness. now just starvation. the viking speaks: in limericks of new world poise. his antler woven mask, set nicely upon the shore. seod, turtle lord of space & time, appears only once every lunar eclipse. bound by treatise to the jellyfish triumvirate. his acolyte, bolivar t. shagnasty, wanders the mainland in search of water or meat of trees. kindness of men turns to dust & belly worms. forgotten, the plants mutate into root-rich empires of fish & figurine. million year armistice. dr. samuel mudd, shackled years to tide-slab & fort jefferson. he purifies the island of its yellow shivering death. hospital key. fastforward hundred plus years through mudd lifeline: battle weary sneakers, spokes sung by strum of card, the bmx stridden boy & his teenage mutant ninja turtle mask.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
dry tortugas, 1869
❝ while he runs from darkness   she purposefully turns off her light   he saves her flicker and makes it burn   like a california fire guided by his wind   she spreads through the mainland   curving through the hidden crevices of the world   her scorching heat;   felt and seen and adored   as he runs from the darkness,   her light continues to burn a fire blue   the shadows slowly melt away from her touch   and he feels her warmth and basks in it   she thought she has saved him from the monsters   she thought she has saved him enough to stop running   but the shadows crept back in   slowly, until it consumed him entirely   and off the ledge he went   her savior,   reduced to nothing but a pool of dusk   and emptiness   and sadness   she was but a flicker but he preserved her   a flicker which continued to burn in her heart   so she savored the beauty of his grey tones;   found and accepted his darkness   in all the bright places ❞
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Mar 23, 2023
Mar 23, 2023 at 3:32 AM UTC
ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Seven years I lived my life, fading from reality. Crossing into machinery. Robotics with which I am so unfamiliar. Machined, greased, lubricated parts. Built with a purpose. A meaningless purpose. Destined for failure. A broken down machine I stand. Sit. Lay. Run. Work. Play. Slide. Cursed and wretched as the demons which haunt the dreams of the fallen. I rise above. Skyrocketing through reason. Through the seventh layer of Heaven and Hell. On a false sense of cloud nine I currently float…awaiting the plummet. Its falling away from me. I sail through a shattered sea of broken glass. I closed my eyes and the tears could not flow. Blocked by my eyelids, restricting emotion. After all of this, I am amazed. The wall could be broken. Forgotten faded memories of which I have no say. Of past. Of present. Of gifts. Of futures. Of lists. Lists of black. Hit lists in my head. I live in my head. I am not what I wish. I am what I’m not. I am what I dream. A scream. A cry. Laying here, blank as the page on which I cannot create a scene. A scene behind my eyes, yet I cannot attain it on paper. These words flow meaninglessly, but not slow. Daedalus, Icarus, Thrice. Three times I roam. Randomized plains of thought, laid out on a digital page. Keys, not a pen. Ones and Zeros, not ink. Screens, not pages. Neat, not sloppy…yet my words do not understand one another… nor do I…. If we make the mainland, this song would not be made. Epic beauty, formed through misfortune and tragedy. Oh son…I beg you…keep a steady wing. For you are the only one who means anything to me. My wings are made of melting, shredding, fading elements. The sun, heating, lighting, someday dying. I understand that nothing is as it may seem. Nor is any seam as true as the seamstress believed. The Gods did not take the only thing which meant anything to you, father of legend. Your son is not dead…only afire. Acquired by the forces you believed to be merciful.
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Feb 8, 2012
Feb 8, 2012 at 9:22 PM UTC
Daedalus
Seven years I lived my life, fading from reality. Crossing into machinery. Robotics with which I am so unfamiliar. Machined, greased, lubricated parts. Built with a purpose. A meaningless purpose. Destined for failure. A broken down machine I stand. Sit. Lay. Run. Work. Play. Slide. Cursed and wretched as the demons which haunt the dreams of the fallen. I rise above. Skyrocketing through reason. Through the seventh layer of Heaven and Hell. On a false sense of cloud nine I currently float…awaiting the plummet. Its falling away from me. I sail through a shattered sea of broken glass. I closed my eyes and the tears could not flow. Blocked by my eyelids, restricting emotion. After all of this, I am amazed. The wall could be broken. Forgotten faded memories of which I have no say. Of past. Of present. Of gifts. Of futures. Of lists. Lists of black. Hit lists in my head. I live in my head. I am not what I wish. I am what I’m not. I am what I dream. A scream. A cry. Laying here, blank as the page on which I cannot create a scene. A scene behind my eyes, yet I cannot attain it on paper. These words flow meaninglessly, but not slow. Daedalus, Icarus, Thrice. Three times I roam. Randomized plains of thought, laid out on a digital page. Keys, not a pen. Ones and Zeros, not ink. Screens, not pages. Neat, not sloppy…yet my words do not understand one another… nor do I…. If we make the mainland, this song would not be made. Epic beauty, formed through misfortune and tragedy. Oh son…I beg you…keep a steady wing. For you are the only one who means anything to me. My wings are made of melting, shredding, fading elements. The sun, heating, lighting, someday dying. I understand that nothing is as it may seem. Nor is any seam as true as the seamstress believed. The Gods did not take the only thing which meant anything to you, father of legend. Your son is not dead…only afire. Acquired by the forces you believed to be merciful.
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Ferry Me Ferry me, but once more. The last ferry rides of Indian Summer, Always arrives on schedule which is Always and precisely, too soon. Then, the imprisonment months, Sentence, indeterminate. *A Grand Jury trial of months, I, and my co-defendant, My sanity, this time, the Oddsmakers say, Won't survive the lockup. The source perfume of driftwood words, Very ferry distinguishing marks, Sails and seagulls, diesel fumes and saltwater, Sunsets and seagrass, flying fish and multi-mollusks, The stuffing of my summer turkey, the currants of Poems and dreams, sad-eyed longings... Now, Evidence used by prosecution, Confession freely uncoerced, I Am A Summer Man Adjudged and convicted, Guilty of Winter's Discontent.* But it is these last few passages, Not of words, but over water, The absence thereof, crush, ravage, Worse than any grey calendar captivity, Forlornly, I mouth silently, repeatedly, Ferry me, but once more. The course, straightforward, Voyager, but a few minutes, but long enough to Love it deeply, need it like a fix, The mania of the mainland left behind, The island, thinly lit, more shadow than real, The approaching dark, shelters, comforts, embraces. Perhaps, likely, I deceive myself. No matter how the island comforts, The brain always rumbling, Can never make stop questioning, Prisoner of 24/7, But it is lessened, left behind, As I am ferried away both, In body and in mind.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
Ferry Me
—Flash Forward— A day of reckoning. A small boat crosses the Hudson River, no warning horn. Destination New Jersey, of all places. A. Burr isn’t warned that Hamilton will not fire his pistol. Destiny predetermined. “Death doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners and the saints, It takes and it takes and it takes. History obliterates.” —Flashback— General. Colonel. Aide-de-camp. Immigrant. “Don’t engage, strike by night. Remain relentless ‘til their troops take flight.” “We escort their men out of Yorktown. They stagger home single file. Tens of thousands of people flood the streets.” “Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. ‘Get your education. Don’t forget from whence you came.’” —Stepfather of the Union— Treasury secretary, author of the Federalist Papers, lawyer, speechwriter, confidante, opponent of slavery, member of the Constitutional Convention. “History has its eyes on you.” “I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it.” “The Federalist: Addressed to the People of the State of New York.” “Goes and proposes his own form of government.” —Family and Marriage— The Schuyler Sisters – Eliza. Maria and James Reynolds – adultery and bribery. Philip Hamilton – successor son and victim. Philip Schuyler – father-in-law. “And if this child Shares a fraction of your smile Or a fragment of your mind, look out, world!” “I know you’re a man of honor, I’m so sorry to bother you at home.” “I’m only nineteen but my mind is older, Gonna be my own man, like my father but bolder.” “Grampa just lost his seat in the Senate.” —Why, How, How long?— Why not?, biography, genius, rapid-fire rap, hip-hop, historical vertigo, Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House, a cast talented beyond measure, the Great White Way, 2017-18 and forever…. “…13 percent of the population is foreign born, which is near an all-time high; that one day soon there will no longer be majority and minority races, only a vibrant mix of colors.” ‒Jeremy McCarter, from Chapter I of Hamilton: The Revolution *© Lewis Bosworth, 12/2016 With credit to the book:* Hamilton: The Revolution
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Dec 7, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 at 11:35 AM UTC
A. Hamilton, Esq.
—Flash Forward— A day of reckoning. A small boat crosses the Hudson River, no warning horn. Destination New Jersey, of all places. A. Burr isn’t warned that Hamilton will not fire his pistol. Destiny predetermined. “Death doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners and the saints, It takes and it takes and it takes. History obliterates.” —Flashback— General. Colonel. Aide-de-camp. Immigrant. “Don’t engage, strike by night. Remain relentless ‘til their troops take flight.” “We escort their men out of Yorktown. They stagger home single file. Tens of thousands of people flood the streets.” “Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. ‘Get your education. Don’t forget from whence you came.’” —Stepfather of the Union— Treasury secretary, author of the Federalist Papers, lawyer, speechwriter, confidante, opponent of slavery, member of the Constitutional Convention. “History has its eyes on you.” “I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it.” “The Federalist: Addressed to the People of the State of New York.” “Goes and proposes his own form of government.” —Family and Marriage— The Schuyler Sisters – Eliza. Maria and James Reynolds – adultery and bribery. Philip Hamilton – successor son and victim. Philip Schuyler – father-in-law. “And if this child Shares a fraction of your smile Or a fragment of your mind, look out, world!” “I know you’re a man of honor, I’m so sorry to bother you at home.” “I’m only nineteen but my mind is older, Gonna be my own man, like my father but bolder.” “Grampa just lost his seat in the Senate.” —Why, How, How long?— Why not?, biography, genius, rapid-fire rap, hip-hop, historical vertigo, Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House, a cast talented beyond measure, the Great White Way, 2017-18 and forever…. “…13 percent of the population is foreign born, which is near an all-time high; that one day soon there will no longer be majority and minority races, only a vibrant mix of colors.” ‒Jeremy McCarter, from Chapter I of Hamilton: The Revolution *© Lewis Bosworth, 12/2016 With credit to the book:* Hamilton: The Revolution
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People yearn for peace through the night When they can only see by inferno light A flame that engulfs the world But begins in our hearts We've been tainting this pearl From the very start When ****** is part of their plan I honestly attempt to understand But the tears I hate flood my brain When fears create blood and pain I'm willing to lose my agency As long as they don't aim at me We bang our heads on the wall Until they roll on the floor They built a ceiling so we'll fall So we can't reach the door I am no longer the man inside the estate When I'm disenfranchised by the state So I'm pushed to society's outskirts For the people with whom I flirt And my perceived net worth But where one society ends another begins And they all claim that I've committed sins So I wander around Just not inside towns Where the bullets fly like the accusations And productivity drains all inspiration I live in the remote wilderness now I hoped things wouldn't be so loud I hear drum beats in the distance They're explosions killing infants But there's nowhere else to turn And my lawn is starting to burn Must I deal with the chaos colossus Or could I continue playing possum? Must I stare into the fiery abyss To make it onto heaven's list? Must I return to the mainland To experience my final stand? I will wrest sovereignty from them I will rest in poverty until then But I would rather have less money Than subtract family members They say you draw more flies with honey But all the flies die in December
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Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 3:25 AM UTC
Sovereignty
People yearn for peace through the night When they can only see by inferno light A flame that engulfs the world But begins in our hearts We've been tainting this pearl From the very start When ****** is part of their plan I honestly attempt to understand But the tears I hate flood my brain When fears create blood and pain I'm willing to lose my agency As long as they don't aim at me We bang our heads on the wall Until they roll on the floor They built a ceiling so we'll fall So we can't reach the door I am no longer the man inside the estate When I'm disenfranchised by the state So I'm pushed to society's outskirts For the people with whom I flirt And my perceived net worth But where one society ends another begins And they all claim that I've committed sins So I wander around Just not inside towns Where the bullets fly like the accusations And productivity drains all inspiration I live in the remote wilderness now I hoped things wouldn't be so loud I hear drum beats in the distance They're explosions killing infants But there's nowhere else to turn And my lawn is starting to burn Must I deal with the chaos colossus Or could I continue playing possum? Must I stare into the fiery abyss To make it onto heaven's list? Must I return to the mainland To experience my final stand? I will wrest sovereignty from them I will rest in poverty until then But I would rather have less money Than subtract family members They say you draw more flies with honey But all the flies die in December
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Blood felt in a caress Was the last gift of love I sent you home with. My thoughts gently clinging to the curled ends of your hair. The moon bright as a baby's skin The wind from the sea leaving nothing untouched I could think of a Springsteen lyric but this isn't the summer and my clothes cling too tightly To this body which I intend only to please you. I think instead of a friend telling me of a power-out When he lived in a minor Chinese mainland city of seven or 8 million And how all he could see for  miles around for an entire week afterwards was smog. And I contrast that With when in the relatively far west of this tiny island We stood laughing in wonder at how the stars hung so closely down on us And how smog is all that fills my head When I try to remember words you use When you speak of the moon.
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 7:34 AM UTC
Fugue
lead me far from the mainland: i have need no more for their custom. gore these umbilical cords i share: i no longer need their worldview, i have forsaken them they have, me writhing akrobatics! i whip my flagellated tail and prance defiantly into the danger zone, where the crispness leeches onto my body and i shudder in view of the sincerity i have forsaken for this my life has terribly been choked, ab ovo in principio, nothing, was i, but a mere ghost. caged-in oneirataxia: i cannot distinguish ( i was a saddened victim of kalopsia ) these prefab worlds: one, real the other, an illusion my life has captured me and coerced me - prisoner with blackened post 'round my neck wrenching exposure and blemish me. but there, there is a light past corridor's end and i see it, theoretically, finally and i remember the one good thing to come from Pandora's folly: hope. i no longer need their choices which have guided me past with harm i can fight alone without their armor which never did fit right, to start rummaging for the undertow in this ocean to take me far from home where i am embraced by my prime their volition: no more
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 6:22 PM UTC
à corps perdu
- 6 degrees Celsius From my balcony, yes! the atlas of my balcony; with the music of the masters pouring forth, from within, I follow the stars direction Norway and Sweden while around the corner one looks towards Iceland and 'those islands'. Cleeve is just across the way and Paris and Brussels down the road. This is my mainland!
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM UTC
- 6 degrees Celsius
fingers- i landed my boat here, when i first met you. your fingers twirled together absentmindedly and they still do and i'm still get lost whenever i wander onto the dark beaches. hands- i discovered these peninsulas when you pulled me along on your adventures after I landed on the beaches and they were so rough yet so wonderful and i honestly want to get lost here more often. wrists- i found these a bit more on the mainland, still flanked by water and they were so narrow that i was afraid i would fall off into the water and i wonder how those thick colorful bracelets stay on. cheeks- one day i wanted to go on a hike so i decided to climb up these steep mountains and whenever something beautiful sailed by you these beautiful red begonias popped up and i'm a little upset that i didn't make them pop up but i'm glad they didn't bloom around me because i got to see the natural red hills and i got to love them. but i made a mistake because i never went south and maybe i would have gotten lost somewhere else more beautiful but if i went south, i wouldn't have found the beautiful pools that some call your eyes and that would've been the real loss.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 10:51 PM UTC
your body is map and here is where I got lost.
oh sorrowful barbary coast they took your young daughters and sold them to sheikhs of the sand as water not so unlike college girls from the mainland disappearing now during spring break as midnight contraband
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Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 7:39 PM UTC
The Killing Jar
“Will you love the glimmer of dew that shines from the point of my shovel as I bury your body in the forest on the mainland?” He says as he demands that I terminate the only thing I know I’ve ever loved -forced abortion
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Mar 7, 2019
Mar 7, 2019 at 3:48 PM UTC
Life or death
I’m an island On another planet, I’m so far away I could die. The earthquake that made me Comes back around to shake me up And now and again I crumble away a little And the fish nibble at my toes. I’m an island, I’m surrounded, swallowed up By deep blue melancholy, I have a little melody That I whisper through my palm trees When the wind comes whistling ‘round. I’m an island And I’m beautiful For white sands and a volcano, I’m so beautiful you’d cry If you could see me, You’d try to free me But I’m stuck to the ocean ground. I’m an island, I write myself a novel, Because I’ve got no one else but Word, And my four peach- colored walls Become the horizons that I’m dreaming of And my floor becomes lagoons That beckon me to drown. I’m an island Because I cry, My tears are my existence, I’m my own wife and my own husband, And I am childless and bloodless and I’ll always be around. He is a rowboat Of weathered wood, Made of love and aged by making love To the elements that define him, And his wisdom and his readiness To cross the Seven Seas. He is a rowboat, His billowed sails prepare for passion, His oars anticipate his return home With two in tow. He is a rowboat, The only one who can And wants to reach his island in distress, He carries himself On wings of wind, He’ll carry us both When it becomes apparent that I can’t swim, He’ll row and row and row his boat To land ashore on the pain within And he’ll love me all the way to his mainland.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 12:45 PM UTC
I Am an Island
I’m an island On another planet, I’m so far away I could die. The earthquake that made me Comes back around to shake me up And now and again I crumble away a little And the fish nibble at my toes. I’m an island, I’m surrounded, swallowed up By deep blue melancholy, I have a little melody That I whisper through my palm trees When the wind comes whistling ‘round. I’m an island And I’m beautiful For white sands and a volcano, I’m so beautiful you’d cry If you could see me, You’d try to free me But I’m stuck to the ocean ground. I’m an island, I write myself a novel, Because I’ve got no one else but Word, And my four peach- colored walls Become the horizons that I’m dreaming of And my floor becomes lagoons That beckon me to drown. I’m an island Because I cry, My tears are my existence, I’m my own wife and my own husband, And I am childless and bloodless and I’ll always be around. He is a rowboat Of weathered wood, Made of love and aged by making love To the elements that define him, And his wisdom and his readiness To cross the Seven Seas. He is a rowboat, His billowed sails prepare for passion, His oars anticipate his return home With two in tow. He is a rowboat, The only one who can And wants to reach his island in distress, He carries himself On wings of wind, He’ll carry us both When it becomes apparent that I can’t swim, He’ll row and row and row his boat To land ashore on the pain within And he’ll love me all the way to his mainland.
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Midway- Surprise! We saw them Coming from a mile away. Japanese aircrafts and ships try and attack, And they get their butts whooped! And then we got the idea to island hop! Hop to Iwo Jima- Slowly.... Slowly.... Don't scare it, It's like a nest of bees! And we got it! Two air bases captured And one step closer to the mainland! Japan may be fortified, but we Have tons of muscle! Hop to Okinawa- this one was a doozy... The biggest amphibious battle of WWII, And contained the most casualties! Pretty harsh. Maybe you they shouldn't have attacked us in the firs place! We only meant to invade and use the island as a Springboard towards the mainland, but the Battle took too long. Just weeks after the fighting ended, Japan surrendered And we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki! We never got to invade...
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
In Order (2)
Black plastic nametag with white letters, slightly off-white and not-so-flat from a trip or two through a bachelor's dryer. I remove it from the bottom of the washer, lightly ********* the engraving, and ask what's your middle name, this letter T? From the kitchen you say, my grandmother named me, with a private grin. She might have been kinda drunk. Walking behind me, your caramel-rich low voice soft in my ear, TsuneoKawehiwehiokekuwahiwionouaioku'uhome. (saying with careful pronunciation) Tsu-nay-o-Ka-vay-hee-vay-hee-oh-kay-ku-va-hee-vee-on-oh-vay-ee-o-ku-u-ho-may and I was just sent No, she wasn't drunk, she knew exactly what she meant. Kapunawahine, holding her little mo'opuna kāne, sensed your father was restless with rock fever, would be moving away to the mainland with her first grandson soon, so she says to you This land of water and rainforest trees of the mountains, Hawaii, will always be your beloved home.
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 12:07 AM UTC
she knew
I just wanted to be your tugboat captain, your name engraved on the hull, my name enmeshed with your skull. Dance around in your tutu, yes, suspended on one toe, yes, now slip it off & crawl into the bath. I just wanted to be your tugboat captain, your skin wrapped around the mast, your skeleton draped upon the shaft. Look up at me with blue eyes, yes, open up your pink mouth, yes, now steer with your feet & take us to the mainland.
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 7:40 PM UTC
Tugboat
fireworks sparkle the darkened sky of my memory, sparkling through my soul in a pleasant wave, uncovering a walk in the jungle of my heartland and a guava tree. I’m in my kitchen, filling my nose with the delicate scent of ripening guavas from Mexico, palmed in the chalice of my hands, feeling my way to that jungle walk with my family when I was three or maybe two, in Hawai’i and the guava tree. as I bite through the fragile skin of the yellow globe, the seeds, like BBs, take me further into my remembrance, my family around me sharing the excitement and joy I felt when I saw and climbed the guava tree. after we moved back to the Mainland to a desert paradise I also loved, each Spring I came down with what I called my Island Virus: a deep yearning and homesickness for my heartland and the guava tree. c. 2017 Roberta Compton Rainwater
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Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 3:42 PM UTC
fireworks
My tears can no longer seek home in my eyes, They refuge to the mainland- flooding and filling every crevice- they take away life. Toxic and hot, They spurt out as if they are small spits of lava. I cause pain and devastation, I **** nature.
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Feb 13, 2020
Feb 13, 2020 at 8:14 AM UTC
Refuge