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"massacred" poems
He is rougher then being dumped from the saddle of a bay mare, but perhaps she shouldn’t be riding ******** past vineyards of red rusted vines.   And if she is on fire then she should probably roll or climb into a hot tub on ***** Thursday and put out the flame ignited by the thought of hoping to God his parents can’t hear her.   She had always wanted to know what it felt like to slaughter someone. So when he placed his palms on the arch of her back and massacred her lips, I imagined her smashing his skull against a brick wall.   And when she is in the bathroom washing him off her hands, with a published poet in the next stall she shouldn’t yell **** you, I’m not a flower and start listing off the ten rules to **** ***   Because no matter how many times she uses him as her own personal merry go round or slams back beer after beer, he will never die in a coffin so that she can say he is already dead and buried.
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Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:12 PM UTC
The Ten Rules to **** ***
As Valentine Day is upon us now Sending a message to our loves Like chocolate and flowers With pictures of white doves Think back to 1929 And of The North Side Gang...men who Got a different type of message And it wasn't I Love You It was on the North Side Al Capone's gang took down nine They massacred these gangsters They crossed the prohibition line Five years before they also Killed the gangs leader in his shop His front was selling flowers Hey, it's Chicago....where's a cop? Now eighty five years later The gangsters aren't as bold But, on Valentines they're still there Running Chicago in the cold With prices for fresh roses Through the roof....you know the powers Are run like gangsters years before By the people selling FLOWERS.
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Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014 at 6:45 AM UTC
The Real Valentine Gangsters
Battle scars, of where I've been. How do you fix a childhood, this frightening? A first lust that gave you breath, a reason to sing, So you found another, a first true lover, and you picked up the pen. An emotionally abusive mother, who has terrified all of your friends. One that's massacred all your brothers heads. And many screws are loose in my head. How can I tighten them? Batten down the hatches? Open up to the wind and the masses? Hoping someone could understand, Maybe they'll have a proper screwdriver on hand. But such is rare. With not many hands on hand
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 2:04 AM UTC
My Body The Battlefield
I wish I could love my life and love myself a little bit more, fall on my hands and knees at every chance and praise the life I lead. I wish I didn't hate myself quite as much and I wish I didn't recoil at the idea of my life, the Grimm's fairy tale where Hansel and Gretel got eaten, Rapunzel never threw down her hair and Snow White was never kissed by Prince Charming. The hatred burns hotter when I think of myself, poor little rich girl, sat in luxury in front of a warm fire, belly full, as thousands of kids in Africa bloat to death with paper thin limbs, families in the Middle East are massacred and scattered across their countries barren landscapes, innocent, too soon nearly corpses whither away in hospital beds, sinking their teeth into whatever life they have left, clinging on. I'm stable on the mountainside. My family have never even seen a gun. I haven't missed a meal in my entire nineteen years. What the hell do I have to complain about? My unhappiness disgusts me nearly as much as I disgust myself. Sitting on a damp bus, watching beads of rain rush down the dusty windows in diagonals, like meteors crashing into Earth, I curse. I curse the vehicle, I curse the safe home it's taking me back to, the three course meal it's taking me from. It's ******* sick. I wish I could smile and mean it. I wish I could love and not hate. I wish I could love myself. I'm so sorry for not being able to fully appreciate my life, for taking it for granted, for sounding like a spoiled brat. You probably hate me as much as I hate myself. I. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ******* I. That's a vowel I'm going to try and use less of (at least after this poem), I promise. Oh the irony. I am not looking for sympathy. I am not looking to be compared to a dying child on the street. I am not asking for a single kind word. I just ask for a bit of forgiveness. I don't blame you if you can't seem to find any. Just know I'm sorry and I'm going to try. Now. *A E - O* U
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 4:25 PM UTC
First World Problems
I wish I could love my life and love myself a little bit more, fall on my hands and knees at every chance and praise the life I lead. I wish I didn't hate myself quite as much and I wish I didn't recoil at the idea of my life, the Grimm's fairy tale where Hansel and Gretel got eaten, Rapunzel never threw down her hair and Snow White was never kissed by Prince Charming. The hatred burns hotter when I think of myself, poor little rich girl, sat in luxury in front of a warm fire, belly full, as thousands of kids in Africa bloat to death with paper thin limbs, families in the Middle East are massacred and scattered across their countries barren landscapes, innocent, too soon nearly corpses whither away in hospital beds, sinking their teeth into whatever life they have left, clinging on. I'm stable on the mountainside. My family have never even seen a gun. I haven't missed a meal in my entire nineteen years. What the hell do I have to complain about? My unhappiness disgusts me nearly as much as I disgust myself. Sitting on a damp bus, watching beads of rain rush down the dusty windows in diagonals, like meteors crashing into Earth, I curse. I curse the vehicle, I curse the safe home it's taking me back to, the three course meal it's taking me from. It's ******* sick. I wish I could smile and mean it. I wish I could love and not hate. I wish I could love myself. I'm so sorry for not being able to fully appreciate my life, for taking it for granted, for sounding like a spoiled brat. You probably hate me as much as I hate myself. I. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ******* I. That's a vowel I'm going to try and use less of (at least after this poem), I promise. Oh the irony. I am not looking for sympathy. I am not looking to be compared to a dying child on the street. I am not asking for a single kind word. I just ask for a bit of forgiveness. I don't blame you if you can't seem to find any. Just know I'm sorry and I'm going to try. Now. *A E - O* U
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So many hopes have been laid to rest, snuggling tight and cozy where all dead dreams lie. There wasn't even time to say goodbye. Oh, my fighting spirit is now a sleeping spirit. It doesn't wake to sweet smell of fancy, to the buzzing of bees and all manner of honeys, no. It lies dead in the gutter, or should I say, asleep. The only hope I have left, is to lie of the pain. To wish away the wash of bitter taste and lie away the bodies of thought and waste. I have died too many times to count the carnage and how I massacred myself, past, present and future, there is no more potential, there is now just a rein lying slack for lack of force, the beast was too burdened... There is a constant whispering. Voices from a place I dare not venture. My hands are bent and scarred, like twisted puppets. How can I mend these broken dreams? I can no longer traverse the seams, now torn beyond are the hopes I knew. How do I mend the horses? Is it not the hand of God that restores life to dead things? Why do his hands look like mine? If I do not believe in myself, how might I believe in him?
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017 at 9:06 PM UTC
The Whispers of Dead Dreams...
species massacred for grazing cows rule the world the Brazilian rainforest is now 80 million acres of open range supporting our demise one cheeseburger at a time – 6700 gallons of water is the cost of a big mac when you factor in growing grain giving cattle drinking water and processing meat peak water and peak oil mean nothing when chewing cud – more than 50% of greenhouse gases methane from bovine flatus without a single environmental group working to stop this plague instead they openly swallow government lies about carbon and the role 300 million United States citizens have in saving the world of 7 billion by driving less and recycling – I laugh uproariously at the idiocy knowing our karmic retribution can only be extinction like so many other species we’ve killed off to make room for more livestock agriculture when everyone knows at this point we can survive and thrive off a plant based diet…. I’d write more, but I am starving for a bacon double cheeseburger –
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 1:23 PM UTC
cow **** catastrophe
O' bygone poet's, For where hath Thou gone; O' bygone poet's, I keepeth thee alive; In mine poetic song's. O' archaic poet's, Arise from thy sepulchre; O' archaic poet's, Hath thou gone Lost; massacred. ©Brandon Nagley ©lonesome poets poetry
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 10:07 PM UTC
O' bygone, O' archaic poet; for where hath thou gone?
For Idil Ibrahim In memory of Tim Hetherington - 1970 - 2011 I cannot stay and speak my truth while the front line has no voice. The carpet doesn't share substance with the blood-clumped dust of Liberia; Red wine doesn't stain nations and it hasn't changed the world. I cannot stay and walk these steps while the fragile youth stand. Our Sunday morning route doesn't cover landscapes of wounds and bodies; Central Park has never felt a thousand welted feet march for death. I cannot stay and see your face while molten plastic scars her world. Your delicate eyes have never seen the darkness of a child's grief; Our democracy cannot fathom the searing, slow drip after a family massacred. I cannot stay and feel worthy of your love while injustice goes unseen. My lens has immortalised what we held dear, but is yet to capture the human condition; I spoke to you like I spoke to them; Through decades of mortar fire I spoke to them.
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 10:08 PM UTC
Cause
I am angry in my grave, Filled with disappointment, animosity, disbelief, and resentment, Blacks had no rights, Blacks had no freedom, Whites had the rights, and whites were the leaders, Until I chose not to abide by the regulations of inequality, And led the Civil Rights Movement, Fought conflicts with kindness, Opposed to Hatred and violence, And tolerance between the two ethnicities was born But why? For the non-colored and colored could equally cause treason? Or for racism to still apply in many communities? I fought for no discrimination. That doesn’t mean to enslave each other, cause disruption, unfairness, and deaths within the same race. Gangs committing murders because they feel certain things are out of place, Pilots flying planes into towers, 20 innocent children being massacred, Drug dealers smuggling crack in homes, All I see upon my grave is what I devoted my life to being destroyed. For that, I am angry in my Grave. “But Dr. King, things have changed. Blacks and whites can be friends, and we even have a BLACK PRESIDENT.” Yes, but you have to acknowledge the fact Obama agreed, And supported what I stood for. I was a pastor, A pastor who used the Bible as my Code of Conduct, A Bible in which Obama laid his right hand on And sworn on during his inauguration, While with his left hand, he’s supporting, Adam and Steve, and babies saying goodbye before they leave their mother’s Womb. For that, I am angry. “Martin Luther King will never be forgotten and his morals will be followed. He was a great leader and may he rest in peace.” How can I? Each day in my grave I mourn, I’m frustrated and disgusted, If I were still alive til this day, My tears would flood America, I would speak amongst the country and say, You have been indoctrinated by the wickedness of mankind, Propaganda is being embedded to get wrong points acrossed, For that, I will continue and forever be, Angry in my Grave.
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Jul 16, 2013
Jul 16, 2013 at 5:25 PM UTC
I am Angry in my grave (Martin Luther King’s perspective)
I am angry in my grave, Filled with disappointment, animosity, disbelief, and resentment, Blacks had no rights, Blacks had no freedom, Whites had the rights, and whites were the leaders, Until I chose not to abide by the regulations of inequality, And led the Civil Rights Movement, Fought conflicts with kindness, Opposed to Hatred and violence, And tolerance between the two ethnicities was born But why? For the non-colored and colored could equally cause treason? Or for racism to still apply in many communities? I fought for no discrimination. That doesn’t mean to enslave each other, cause disruption, unfairness, and deaths within the same race. Gangs committing murders because they feel certain things are out of place, Pilots flying planes into towers, 20 innocent children being massacred, Drug dealers smuggling crack in homes, All I see upon my grave is what I devoted my life to being destroyed. For that, I am angry in my Grave. “But Dr. King, things have changed. Blacks and whites can be friends, and we even have a BLACK PRESIDENT.” Yes, but you have to acknowledge the fact Obama agreed, And supported what I stood for. I was a pastor, A pastor who used the Bible as my Code of Conduct, A Bible in which Obama laid his right hand on And sworn on during his inauguration, While with his left hand, he’s supporting, Adam and Steve, and babies saying goodbye before they leave their mother’s Womb. For that, I am angry. “Martin Luther King will never be forgotten and his morals will be followed. He was a great leader and may he rest in peace.” How can I? Each day in my grave I mourn, I’m frustrated and disgusted, If I were still alive til this day, My tears would flood America, I would speak amongst the country and say, You have been indoctrinated by the wickedness of mankind, Propaganda is being embedded to get wrong points acrossed, For that, I will continue and forever be, Angry in my Grave.
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My sleeping mind cannot contain                                                        {the horrid images of waking life} All that my waking mind soaks up                                                         {sponging filth from gutted city streets} Dreams turning into lucid experiences                                                               {the hypnotic effect of being drawn closer to a blade} All colors, sensations too intense to categorize                                                                           {molded into a colony of unthinking, unearthing drones} Wind down inside of me                                         {boiling tornadoes raging from the depths} Concentrated awareness of my subconscious obliviousness                                                                                                 {the benefits of obsidian isolation} I wish that I could weave them all together                                                                      {the stitches at the seams are wearing thin} Like tall grasses woven into baskets                                                           {like scythed grasses cut down by rampant Monsanto} Strong, unbreakable, able to withstand the heavy weight                                                                                              {pressure baring down on fracturing ribs and shoulders}                                                                                    Of my spirit                                                                                   {i feel alone} Instead I leak through the seams, tear through edges                                                                                        {leaving me tattered in a massacred pattern} Five am cannot keep me                                        {six am will never know me} My thoughts scatter                                  {my mind dances with madness}                                                                             Drifting in and out                                                                           {drifting in and out}
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May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012 at 10:27 AM UTC
Insomniac[s] Rant[ing] (with Brook Ilges)
My sleeping mind cannot contain                                                        {the horrid images of waking life} All that my waking mind soaks up                                                         {sponging filth from gutted city streets} Dreams turning into lucid experiences                                                               {the hypnotic effect of being drawn closer to a blade} All colors, sensations too intense to categorize                                                                           {molded into a colony of unthinking, unearthing drones} Wind down inside of me                                         {boiling tornadoes raging from the depths} Concentrated awareness of my subconscious obliviousness                                                                                                 {the benefits of obsidian isolation} I wish that I could weave them all together                                                                      {the stitches at the seams are wearing thin} Like tall grasses woven into baskets                                                           {like scythed grasses cut down by rampant Monsanto} Strong, unbreakable, able to withstand the heavy weight                                                                                              {pressure baring down on fracturing ribs and shoulders}                                                                                    Of my spirit                                                                                   {i feel alone} Instead I leak through the seams, tear through edges                                                                                        {leaving me tattered in a massacred pattern} Five am cannot keep me                                        {six am will never know me} My thoughts scatter                                  {my mind dances with madness}                                                                             Drifting in and out                                                                           {drifting in and out}
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Falling in love is mutilating and murdering yourself. Sharing your love is carrying the dead body, showing it off, all around. For God’s sake, burn the book or leave it on its shelf. Or at least hide that horrendous corpse; bury it underground. But it’s a ****** cemetery, this witty world is. Every one bragging of decomposed dirt. Yours surely is more rotten than his. So smell the rot, you asinine little flirt. Life should come with a warning label. WARNING: DEAD BODIES EVERY WHERE. Ironic, to be born on a doctor’s table. Then die, massacred in deathly affair. But we can’t live without love, it’s hilariously tragic. For death lurks, immortal, in our hearts. Yet our minds, gullible, believe it’s magic! Beware, beware of Cupid’s darts. **** it up, Romeo, move on with life. Cleanse your soul; stop being sadistic. Sure it’s beautiful, but not when she’s your wife. It’s a dead body, you’re stupid and unrealistic.
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Dec 29, 2012
Dec 29, 2012 at 9:24 PM UTC
WARNING: Dead Bodies!
Believers vs believers A sign of judgement day Spilling the blood of mankind That is what the Lord forbade The one being slaughtered Is clueless as to why A brother is taking his life And the murderer also does not know the reason for picking up a knife The state of mankind Is beyond ******* up to be repaired Long gone are the times when strangers cared Every night is in competition with another to becomes the darkest and wildest Next of kin worried about inheritance And spouses taking out life insurance claims The soul is bruised But on a shell is placed a band aid Fine wining and dining Abundance leftovers in the bin Whilst the neighbour starves As people frolic in sin Slaves giving birth to masters Power in the hands of wrong And those buried six foot under Are suddenly the lucky one's Knowledge decreasing And ignorance on the rise We compete in the construction of the tallest building And mothers abandon their children Beauty pageants And *** selling cars The ship of the world sinks In broad daylight Yet we un-fasten our seatbelts And live by ride or die Yolo people Get an intoxicated high on a traitorous life A year passes like a month And a month like a week Nothing remains but a name Humans who massacred humanity
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 10:14 PM UTC
Yawm al-Qiyamah
Girls have beautiful legs and men have beautiful hearts, both I love to squeeze, both I love to open hide my gold locket inside like a ticking bomb: I use the chain to lasso arteries and muscles for me to chew on but the necklace unbolts for a souvenir collected inside. It could be the curly hair of his shin, one wisp from her neck I previously tugged on with my teeth. I performed open-heart surgery on a man and open-leg surgery on a woman both called me back to say a second goodbye and I wonder, I wonder which farewell will be the final. When will the mementos be massacred glued to a comatose form, deceased into an emotionless resin? I could amputate their limbs and turn off the pacemaker.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 3:44 PM UTC
memento mori
the heart aches like earthquakes. today i allowed myself to feel heartbreak one very last time for you. the sun was settling, silhouetting the city it felt like the burial site of massacred dreams.
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Apr 4, 2013
Apr 4, 2013 at 12:20 AM UTC
Quakes.
Massacred and double crossed this is not me crying from loss or sad poem about how everything I love treats me like **** this is me showing you how strong my back bone is and how from this point I refuse to take any of it Tear me to shreds I'll put myself back together again I'm not made of steal and I will falter but I am closer to resolve than I've ever been before
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 12:04 AM UTC
Backbone
Your travel has given me freedom. But what is freedom when you possess a soul divided? What is the chronic sea without its unfathomable dominions? My soul is thirsty for you. My cold and naked ankles mope around your desolated castle; Jinn, dust, and piercing silence is all that echoes in this darkened dungeon that I have succumbed to. And then there is me. A heavy-laden wasted artist with Spiny paintbrushes and faded color. I refuse to leave the spaces that you read and play. I refuse to exhale the memories of your sky painted blue irises. My skin hungers for your delicate surface. My teeth long to bite into your fleshy thighs. In the hour of the noontide I feel you most For our souls sahasrara blooms colorfully in the hour Of the sun-the ancient mother of our roots weaves Love with all of loves children and meets us with pneumatic cosmic kisses. This is when I feel closest to you. Without you, the world is just as it seems; the sun burned into cinders, Leaving the crops belonging to the sacred soils of my flesh to prune and wither . Ay! the droughts that you spread with your distance. These are the days of my reaping These are the days of my sulking. The gardens are now closed and the black raven cries out to a mournful mothers son. Your scent died along with the laughter of the flowers And the butterflies wont even flutter Without your lovely eyelash kisses. To live another day without the energy Your presence fills my heart with, Is to live an eternity hugging Your coffin with sobbing rage; fain would I take deaths hand. The suffering of your glorious dawn Wedded the universe deep beneath my skin. You are the light, And the absence of your holiness leaves me opaque and hollow. In my solitude I have watched the hours burn And in each hour your fragrant sighs escape with the dust motes Surrounding the beaming light that breaks through the cracks of the curtains. I sit in the depth of myself And listen for the echoes of your sounds. A mother am I and a pitiful one too. Like the rawboned mother with sunken eyes carrying a baby in the womb, draining all of the nutrition her body has to offer, Your distance maps a massacred trail Of my health and happiness. You are the mother of patience And the descendent of beauty and love. You are the tsunami, and the still waters. You are the uprising cub leading and mending. You are the sap that feeds the giving tree of life. You are the prince of wisdom. You are My flesh In purest form. - Arizona
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:37 AM UTC
About a Boy
Your travel has given me freedom. But what is freedom when you possess a soul divided? What is the chronic sea without its unfathomable dominions? My soul is thirsty for you. My cold and naked ankles mope around your desolated castle; Jinn, dust, and piercing silence is all that echoes in this darkened dungeon that I have succumbed to. And then there is me. A heavy-laden wasted artist with Spiny paintbrushes and faded color. I refuse to leave the spaces that you read and play. I refuse to exhale the memories of your sky painted blue irises. My skin hungers for your delicate surface. My teeth long to bite into your fleshy thighs. In the hour of the noontide I feel you most For our souls sahasrara blooms colorfully in the hour Of the sun-the ancient mother of our roots weaves Love with all of loves children and meets us with pneumatic cosmic kisses. This is when I feel closest to you. Without you, the world is just as it seems; the sun burned into cinders, Leaving the crops belonging to the sacred soils of my flesh to prune and wither . Ay! the droughts that you spread with your distance. These are the days of my reaping These are the days of my sulking. The gardens are now closed and the black raven cries out to a mournful mothers son. Your scent died along with the laughter of the flowers And the butterflies wont even flutter Without your lovely eyelash kisses. To live another day without the energy Your presence fills my heart with, Is to live an eternity hugging Your coffin with sobbing rage; fain would I take deaths hand. The suffering of your glorious dawn Wedded the universe deep beneath my skin. You are the light, And the absence of your holiness leaves me opaque and hollow. In my solitude I have watched the hours burn And in each hour your fragrant sighs escape with the dust motes Surrounding the beaming light that breaks through the cracks of the curtains. I sit in the depth of myself And listen for the echoes of your sounds. A mother am I and a pitiful one too. Like the rawboned mother with sunken eyes carrying a baby in the womb, draining all of the nutrition her body has to offer, Your distance maps a massacred trail Of my health and happiness. You are the mother of patience And the descendent of beauty and love. You are the tsunami, and the still waters. You are the uprising cub leading and mending. You are the sap that feeds the giving tree of life. You are the prince of wisdom. You are My flesh In purest form. - Arizona
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My blood is marked by genocide on the two sides of these Atlantic lines My fate was sealed with the blood stains of cotton workers from Marash slaughtered by the ottoman and the mixed blood of conquerors and massacred of masters and estranged slaves The rot of colonialism lurks underneath our 15 second democracy My eyes were numbed by what I hadn´t seen after the ***** war was over after the bowels of the Earth had vomited bones in Uruguay lifeless infant mummies in the soft heart of Africa after the tide brought in the loot of generals, green men of power and no shame My past was carved with knives on children´s bones in the mountains of Leninakan with hanged peasants on the slopes of Ararat My human pride was dumped in Rio de la Plata one summer night in a death flight that time when I had learnt to sing before I grasped the word The word was born from the colonial rot under our soil and under Africa The word was black and cast a deadly storm before the sun The word was Genocide
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Nov 23, 2009
Nov 23, 2009 at 3:12 AM UTC
The Word (New York, April 2006)
A pen in my hand Nothing in my head Pains in my heart Tears in my eyes Trembling hands Red eyes Stained face Swollen eyes A sharp knife thru my chest A puncture in my heart A wound I doubt Will ever heal. Sleepless nights Days of the same A scar That’ll never fade Broken into pieces Damaged beyond imagination Massacred to the extreme Manipulated to condemnation Words are worthless To what is felt A hole that cant be refilled A tattoo that cant be erased A mark that’ll last for eternity A complete infatuation Land I never thought I’ll be Broken-land A broken person One thing for sure The thing called heart Will be attached to you With epoxy Words are worthless To what is felt
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 9:49 AM UTC
Epitome of pain
At the Biafran front, I fought Tearing down Nigerians With shots of guns We fought like men Defending our lands But with risk and fear As some went blind Among our troops Were hatred and envy Tribalism of doom Had taken over our army. Alongside my brother We triggered together Tearing down men Like pales of feathers. As a boy of sixteen I saw terror in fifteen Behold dead men lay like weeds Vultures had enough to feed Among the dead people I saw my old father, he died still feeble. Turning to my right Lay my mother, sister at flight My hands became weak And my heart did bleed They were killed by the army Which I fought that they live. Biafra was in famine As children starved to death A thousand Igbos massacred at night As our troops retreat to die. Nigeria flew their jets Bombing no one but children and old women A grenade caught my brother And I knew it all be over. The seaways were surrounded Nigerian Navy locked us in our grave No weapon came to Biafra Even our camouflage had become rags Enugu; capital of Biafra had been captured There's nothing left, except to be raptured. Oron and Calabar fell Nigeria sent us hell So in battle front we had Nothing more than matchets and planks Our major had ran And we were left, to die at our hands. With fear, my fellows fell The fear of death, none could tell I ran through the forest Finding way for my escape Lo there was a tunnel And so I escaped Colonels. Fifty thousand fighters quite survived it They were buried alive In mass graves for their deeds. Down in my tunnel of sleep I saw my family in the deep Papa, I called aloud my father He said go for the war is over. Biafra had surrendered But I had lost an arm Millions had died Diseases did bade them bye The war, famine did sail them high Though a soldier I survived. I had lost my home family and lineage. What would I do with a withered arm? Flies had really fed it by As the last man alive, No one cared whether I die. So I died a lonely death With no one to cry
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
The Fight For Biafra
At the Biafran front, I fought Tearing down Nigerians With shots of guns We fought like men Defending our lands But with risk and fear As some went blind Among our troops Were hatred and envy Tribalism of doom Had taken over our army. Alongside my brother We triggered together Tearing down men Like pales of feathers. As a boy of sixteen I saw terror in fifteen Behold dead men lay like weeds Vultures had enough to feed Among the dead people I saw my old father, he died still feeble. Turning to my right Lay my mother, sister at flight My hands became weak And my heart did bleed They were killed by the army Which I fought that they live. Biafra was in famine As children starved to death A thousand Igbos massacred at night As our troops retreat to die. Nigeria flew their jets Bombing no one but children and old women A grenade caught my brother And I knew it all be over. The seaways were surrounded Nigerian Navy locked us in our grave No weapon came to Biafra Even our camouflage had become rags Enugu; capital of Biafra had been captured There's nothing left, except to be raptured. Oron and Calabar fell Nigeria sent us hell So in battle front we had Nothing more than matchets and planks Our major had ran And we were left, to die at our hands. With fear, my fellows fell The fear of death, none could tell I ran through the forest Finding way for my escape Lo there was a tunnel And so I escaped Colonels. Fifty thousand fighters quite survived it They were buried alive In mass graves for their deeds. Down in my tunnel of sleep I saw my family in the deep Papa, I called aloud my father He said go for the war is over. Biafra had surrendered But I had lost an arm Millions had died Diseases did bade them bye The war, famine did sail them high Though a soldier I survived. I had lost my home family and lineage. What would I do with a withered arm? Flies had really fed it by As the last man alive, No one cared whether I die. So I died a lonely death With no one to cry
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The moon shines over the forest, Lighting the paths for us. It’s quiet and calm, as here I rest, Peacefully in my den. In the peace, I faithfully wait, As my pups run about, playing. Soon he’ll be home, their father, my mate. With game for us to eat. In the distance I hear a howl, In excitement, I reply. Gunshots fire, I hear a growl. I stiffen and fill with fear. I gather my pups, hide them in the den. I whimper at them to stay, In the den, remaining hidden. Then I sprint towards my mate. I hear him whimper, I hear him cry. I feel my heart break. They hurt him, they did, but why? He only wanted to feed his family. I smell gunpowder and the blood, I am quickly nearing them. I silently run through the mud, I can hear his laboured breath. The man with the gun walks up to him I pounce in between before I think. I growl and snarl, I try to scare him. He just laughs away. He lifts up his gun, and points at me, Then I hear a screamed, “No!” Into the clearing runs a girl of eighteen, Pushes the man and takes the gun. She points the weapon at the man, Yells to get off her property, And to never near a wolf again. A shot, then the man takes off. She approaches us carefully and Calls her friend to bring First Aid. I step aside as my mate tries to stand. She soothes him back down. This girl is different, I can feel. I can’t help but trust her. Next to me, she does kneel. Stopping my mate from bleeding. We waited a while for her friend, And as we waited she comforted me. “He’ll be okay, this is not his end. I will make him better.” Into the clearing, comes a young man, Not much older than her. With a white box in his hand, He walks over to us. She takes the box, removes its contents, And they start working away. Over my love’s body, they are bent, Cleaning away the blood. She calmly whispers to me, “Go to you den, your cubs are waiting, Your mate is safe with me.” I hesitate but I run to my pups. My pups whine and whimper, And it feels like forever later, I hear the girl’s voice, barely a whisper, “It’s okay, boy. We’re almost there.” She comes to the den, With my mate close behind. I leave the den and greet them. My mate is back, he’s okay. The girl and the boy Come every so often, They take care of my love, They make sure we’re okay. I wish there were more people like this, To make sure that we aren’t massacred off. To protect us when we can’t protect our self. To make people see we’re not bad at all.
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Nov 26, 2011
Nov 26, 2011 at 6:22 PM UTC
Save The Wolves
The moon shines over the forest, Lighting the paths for us. It’s quiet and calm, as here I rest, Peacefully in my den. In the peace, I faithfully wait, As my pups run about, playing. Soon he’ll be home, their father, my mate. With game for us to eat. In the distance I hear a howl, In excitement, I reply. Gunshots fire, I hear a growl. I stiffen and fill with fear. I gather my pups, hide them in the den. I whimper at them to stay, In the den, remaining hidden. Then I sprint towards my mate. I hear him whimper, I hear him cry. I feel my heart break. They hurt him, they did, but why? He only wanted to feed his family. I smell gunpowder and the blood, I am quickly nearing them. I silently run through the mud, I can hear his laboured breath. The man with the gun walks up to him I pounce in between before I think. I growl and snarl, I try to scare him. He just laughs away. He lifts up his gun, and points at me, Then I hear a screamed, “No!” Into the clearing runs a girl of eighteen, Pushes the man and takes the gun. She points the weapon at the man, Yells to get off her property, And to never near a wolf again. A shot, then the man takes off. She approaches us carefully and Calls her friend to bring First Aid. I step aside as my mate tries to stand. She soothes him back down. This girl is different, I can feel. I can’t help but trust her. Next to me, she does kneel. Stopping my mate from bleeding. We waited a while for her friend, And as we waited she comforted me. “He’ll be okay, this is not his end. I will make him better.” Into the clearing, comes a young man, Not much older than her. With a white box in his hand, He walks over to us. She takes the box, removes its contents, And they start working away. Over my love’s body, they are bent, Cleaning away the blood. She calmly whispers to me, “Go to you den, your cubs are waiting, Your mate is safe with me.” I hesitate but I run to my pups. My pups whine and whimper, And it feels like forever later, I hear the girl’s voice, barely a whisper, “It’s okay, boy. We’re almost there.” She comes to the den, With my mate close behind. I leave the den and greet them. My mate is back, he’s okay. The girl and the boy Come every so often, They take care of my love, They make sure we’re okay. I wish there were more people like this, To make sure that we aren’t massacred off. To protect us when we can’t protect our self. To make people see we’re not bad at all.
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February 2nd: Dire was my day, every move I made was seen as a mistake.Malice my good intentions, I’ve been labeled as a hurtful, evil, and ugly man. Believed to be a demon, from the pits of hell; I am feared by all and eluded like a disease. February 3rd: My time is spent in isolation. Never desiccated are the tears that endlessly flow down my wrecked up face. My screaming is unheard. Nothing is heard in this room, I am alone. February 4th: Blood encrusts my massacred body, a true painting of affliction. I have run out of tears. Crying is now a more complex process, involving the bitter sweet touch of a blade. February 5th: Exile is slowly beginning to **** me. The hands of time have firmly grabbed my neck and with each passing hour its grip grows stronger.
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Mar 15, 2012
Mar 15, 2012 at 5:42 PM UTC
The Diaries Of A Mad Man.
Eleven strong went in to bat When dusk was in the air, Eleven strong did face the wall For others had shown flair. They'd mustered up a goodly score They’d shown they had pinache, They'd demolished Tunnel bowling And made our field work look a hash. Eleven strong went into bat With gritted teeth and ire, Eleven set the pitch alight With galantry and fire. The leather ball was massacred A pounding it did score With repetitious boundaries, Drilled cover drives and more. The marker looked excited The sweat ran down his brow And as the score did level He had to ask the Angels how? And the providences shone Upon this galant Tunnel team For Claude's classy, deft square cut Ensured we grinned the winning gleam. Cricket is to Englishmen As golfing is to Yanks, And cricket played with pageantry Make the civilized give thanks. And cricket played with elegance Fills the English heart with joy, And Victoria Park Tunnel Team Have downed an ale to victory's ploy! Marshalg Victoria Park Tunnel Auckland 17/2/2010
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Feb 17, 2012
Feb 17, 2012 at 5:53 PM UTC
Victory to the Tunnelers!
You stare as if you know how my blood runs through my veins. What wood are you? Did you not come from a clan of massacred trees chiseled by an inglorious machete? Were you the door that barred the perils to our house? Did you block the brutal sun from getting in? Who carved you? Was it not the ****** Was it not the thief? Was it not the murderer behind the bars? And you accuse me to have sinned when all you do is mimic the fingers of your god. Have you even opened those tinted lips to mutter a prayer? Why did you not dare to move or tap my back when I opened my zipper? Instead you feasted on my obscenity. Why can you not tell your god I attempted to fast? Come! Bleed and let these thirsty eyes witness your miracle! Idiot. ©04-10-13
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 7:34 AM UTC
Ode to a Canonized Oak
you gave me a neglected book and I mistook it for love. i tried to find hidden meanings lurking between the spaces. i waited for it to pop out from the pages to hit me in the head with all it's senseless rage, attempting to command me into belief with the words you couldn't find on your own. but alas, the words never arose, so, i massacred i pillaged i maimed and threatened your book from front to back i interrogated under the blinding light in a cold room without food or water and it gave up its muted fight. and spoke of page 47 and the weightless paper cup who rode the back of the western wind. ....... and I recounted my findings to you and what had lurked on page 47, but you had confessed to have never read the book before.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC
attaching meaning to a paper cup