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"miasma" poems
i am much younger than i am my hair is dark and thick instead of pruned bald i am lean and meek feeling hollow as if weightless we are at an airport with no memory of getting there i had left my hotel room urgently in a jacket that is not mine i can't find my Swedish wife whom i miss like a panicked child and my Asian wife whom i've never never met before and know all to well is angry and could care less if i got lost forever i am going home to my parents house i remember that they are dead but we had just spoken there will be soup and Hors d'oeuvre's they wait for me on my way the streets and boulevards are unfamiliar yet old hat and no matter how long i walk i can never find their house located somewhere in Brooklyn on Haze street in San Francisco i have a business and retain no idea of what i do i left my cloths somewhere and i don't know why in a locality i cant remember for a reason that doesn't exist a beautiful woman smiles offers me *** she is friends with a girlfriend whom i'm committed too but do not know and never met i want to cheat with her but guilty kisses will ruin everything so i turn away murdering desire in an already anchor-less miasma i remember a past my life a continuum of disjointed vagaries tears well up i fear myself a figment a bodiless revenant stranded in a fog sparkles and smoke incandescence and shrouds a dis-junctured soul that clutches memories like braids of dust living in the eye of nothing a labyrinth of shades lighted by the sun of cognizance a wretched phantom transparent husk living a dark fiction my grave a womb i am the dead living
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Aug 26, 2017
Aug 26, 2017 at 10:27 AM UTC
*REVENEANT
i am much younger than i am my hair is dark and thick instead of pruned bald i am lean and meek feeling hollow as if weightless we are at an airport with no memory of getting there i had left my hotel room urgently in a jacket that is not mine i can't find my Swedish wife whom i miss like a panicked child and my Asian wife whom i've never never met before and know all to well is angry and could care less if i got lost forever i am going home to my parents house i remember that they are dead but we had just spoken there will be soup and Hors d'oeuvre's they wait for me on my way the streets and boulevards are unfamiliar yet old hat and no matter how long i walk i can never find their house located somewhere in Brooklyn on Haze street in San Francisco i have a business and retain no idea of what i do i left my cloths somewhere and i don't know why in a locality i cant remember for a reason that doesn't exist a beautiful woman smiles offers me *** she is friends with a girlfriend whom i'm committed too but do not know and never met i want to cheat with her but guilty kisses will ruin everything so i turn away murdering desire in an already anchor-less miasma i remember a past my life a continuum of disjointed vagaries tears well up i fear myself a figment a bodiless revenant stranded in a fog sparkles and smoke incandescence and shrouds a dis-junctured soul that clutches memories like braids of dust living in the eye of nothing a labyrinth of shades lighted by the sun of cognizance a wretched phantom transparent husk living a dark fiction my grave a womb i am the dead living
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It's dark. Sounds like a rainstorm and smells like fragrant fire. But the earth underground is thirstier than what sulfur and dead things and various excrements can quench. And the scent may be a brain tumor, or even better some drug-induced hallucination; either way it feels amazing. I'd just love to slap these stupid feelings in their pretty faces, I bet that'd also feel pretty amazing. a million oscillating fans and still so much heat. divine metallic miasma . Is there something pathological about how I like to see the hurt & desperation & the shock that I cause? Cuz I've been told this type of behavior is 'odd.' ...I don't see it. I mean, I do feel remorse out of narcissism & for my own wants & gains. It's just a ***** ***** game. Everyone plays one or the other.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46 PM UTC
****
. The waves spilled the rising tide back into the scattered footprints  in the sand deeply entrenched in life’s mystery, receding into every breaking wave A stiff sea breeze put back every grain of sand, elements of a larger object gathers, gravity firmed, into the silent shoreline chasms— a beheld essence washed out to sea by the fugitive tides and retreating sea-foam Soon all trodden traces visibly vanish; unmarked mileposts on a metaphysical pathway slip away back to a windswept shoreline and elapsing summer tide Seabirds glide in slow-motion, held sway into the shapeless gusts — as if feathered puppets hovering, hanging from the rafters of the burgeoning orange sky There's an uncommon peace in the renaissance; effervescent crisp ocean air filling the indefinable emptiness marooned within each heartbeat’s echo Each new breath inhaled,  disappearing within the unhealed hollow of every thing once believed; fully aware this life is unholdable as time, yet feeling many things deeply retained     in each passing moment— slipping away like a handful of sand sifting through all these hands once held Presence becoming wreathed in a miasma of stillness, space that levitates like an unpredictable fog that seeps into the gnawing voids of an unsated hunger harlon rivers  ...  August 1st,  2018
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
a fistful of sand
Criminal O Criminal This deceit you leak reeks Of sour lemons and urination. Criminal O Criminal This pride you flood smells Of blueberries and broken dreams Criminal O Criminal These miracles you bring leave a miasma Of grape Faygo and suffering souls Criminal O Criminal The peace I bring leaves an aroma Of blue raspberry popsicles and lonely depression
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Mar 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016 at 9:02 AM UTC
Criminal
Ouroboros nartoomid breath The winds ****** incense A current washing through us, The ethereal voice Morosely sussurant whilst thine Eyes mirror the cerulean truth of The morning dews eusophobic miasma; The rainbows spectrum of colours Mephitically clasping the soul Dyeing tristfully the silk of Kundalinis utopia Moulding archaic monuments With the azure clay of Lustrations evanescent cacodaemon, Peccantly flying like a flag- Reveries dreamcatcher idyllically Reflecting conjured shadows In the welkin mist. ELEETE J MUIR.
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM UTC
Nimbus Weaving
Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM UTC
The Precarious Vision
Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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Empty humans echo when tapped Ceramic heartbeats crunch through riverside air BETWEEN IGNORANCE AND WORTHLESSNESS TRAPPED Their senses vaporous, impaired. Those which melancholy cannot reach Across the Styx with curling hands DO NOT EXIST; THEIR WALLS WERE BREACHED With icy fingers, buzzing bland. Empty humans echo when tapped With icy fingers, buzzing bland FROM THE NIGHT BREEZE WHICH LAPPED Across the Styx with curling hands. Those which melancholy cannot reach, Their senses vaporous, impaired ARE A MIASMA ON THE BEACH Ceramic heartbeats crunch through riverside air. *Pottery people are all appearance And their hollows are touched rarely By their own sentience While waiting for the ferry--*
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Dec 26, 2010
Dec 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM UTC
Those Who Wait for the Ferry; Or, Death's Pottery Shipment.
The evening's still and quiet and the katydids abound. The flag is hanging listlessly as I listen to their sound. Desultory the summer air, as though the world awaits, "Something evil this way comes." the foe is at the gates. A feeling of impending doom accompanies the air. Nothing moves. A stifling presence hovers over there. Like a blanket, smothering t'is much too hard to breathe. And yet, my arms are paralyzed and sword, I can't unsheathe. I watch as shadows gather in miasma up the street. A harbinger of evil with an odor, sickly sweet. I feel it getting nearer and my heart beats fast with fright. What imagination ... on a stifling summer night.
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Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 8:16 AM UTC
On a Stifling Summer Night
Dostoyevsky said, “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” I've felt rage seething in my chest for as long as I can remember. I've felt as his talons ripped open my sternum, digging for a place to call home. this rage has nestled deep into my ribcage, devouring my will to survive while carelessly residing within my nightmares. I've surrendered to this forsaken depression fury has vacated deep in the confines of my irises - despite witnessing myself across grey-tinted glasses; a smoldering storm rippling miasma throughout my body, manipulating my hands into a devout pyromaniac; suffocating every chance to heal. I've known nothing but bitterness congesting my heart. My dreams were burdened dreadfully with the stench of wrath. it mutilated my arms; burrowing into capillaries, and asphyxiating my habit to vanish. This incessant sin I've endured has brought me to my knees, existing only to ***** out my ability to be a mortal in an unforgiving universe. I am not a cosmic metaphor, the iron residing underneath my skin has become impenetrable. I am adorned with stillness while this betrayal has bloomed into a supernova. the things in which I lack have ignited into an endlessly violent explosion - Atomizing my bones, swirling stardust into a forlorn emptiness. A world that was held by the unfaltering resistance I persevered against, it has ravaged my memories, my moribund existence trembled; shivering from the growl of the recoil - the remnants of creation kissed abysmal lips within the faraway distance of a boundless abyss, raining tears for the last time as the destruction leaves a life void of meaning. The last words ever heard in this universe spoke softly as if to lull the existential bereft into a long hiatus - "This was all for nothing, just as destitute as this vacant nothingness, human life is ill-fated to be star-crossed and powerless."
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Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024 at 6:51 PM UTC
Cosmic Metaphor
Dostoyevsky said, “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” I've felt rage seething in my chest for as long as I can remember. I've felt as his talons ripped open my sternum, digging for a place to call home. this rage has nestled deep into my ribcage, devouring my will to survive while carelessly residing within my nightmares. I've surrendered to this forsaken depression fury has vacated deep in the confines of my irises - despite witnessing myself across grey-tinted glasses; a smoldering storm rippling miasma throughout my body, manipulating my hands into a devout pyromaniac; suffocating every chance to heal. I've known nothing but bitterness congesting my heart. My dreams were burdened dreadfully with the stench of wrath. it mutilated my arms; burrowing into capillaries, and asphyxiating my habit to vanish. This incessant sin I've endured has brought me to my knees, existing only to ***** out my ability to be a mortal in an unforgiving universe. I am not a cosmic metaphor, the iron residing underneath my skin has become impenetrable. I am adorned with stillness while this betrayal has bloomed into a supernova. the things in which I lack have ignited into an endlessly violent explosion - Atomizing my bones, swirling stardust into a forlorn emptiness. A world that was held by the unfaltering resistance I persevered against, it has ravaged my memories, my moribund existence trembled; shivering from the growl of the recoil - the remnants of creation kissed abysmal lips within the faraway distance of a boundless abyss, raining tears for the last time as the destruction leaves a life void of meaning. The last words ever heard in this universe spoke softly as if to lull the existential bereft into a long hiatus - "This was all for nothing, just as destitute as this vacant nothingness, human life is ill-fated to be star-crossed and powerless."
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stand(ing) here alone in the dark like a head of tack pirouetting away to no music - only acrid scruple of this being with and not being with, one is always alone. space occupies the potteries in the garden as a steady arm of light stills in its mouth, a flowering dark. it is only 3 o'clock in the morning and the heat clambers the wall of the vacuously atrabilious moment of just plainly existing. the slender harlequin of moon, like an old lover having its own way with me, a child's yelp coming home — the hermetic air crushing the light, slivering it revealing all the ensconced phantasms too commonplace like a fork in the road that i know, or the wayward metropolitan that teems with a concatenation of roads and gutters bilious with the squall of day. a figure moves entering a warm miasma, receiving the star of aloneness, vacillating between place and placelessness telling this originary of repossessing the moon with a hand in my hand, pressing a question of where have you been all the raging while.
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM UTC
Night's Metonymy
it was like waking up to all white fume or a long washline — masturbatory, feeling something stiff like a hand gliding over a monsoon of emotions, the affect jazz and the crunch of fragrance forever like sandalwood; on my way to Dumandan, i conjure an inward miasma of thrill, unfurled yesterday, today, or was it before when our eyes were fixated on the passing of things in myriad ways without any relevance to what has died, say wilted, like a flower going away in closing seasons, children in hurtling speeds at twilight, gates welcoming a resounding sound of rusting hinges, slow rise of night, its vertical climb, shadows collapsing on the Hibiscus and the Poinsettia from the Cordillera, dreary men taking out ******* throwing them into metalloid beasts, verdigris painted, grisly caravan of steel and worthless scraps — past neighborhoods thinking about the simmer of onion and the hustle of the feral over rooftops, clinking wine bottles undulating full to empty — both unaware of acumen and only dizzying ourselves mirroring each other eye to eye and bridging this unclose-enough a gap in between, because you need it, and i want it, or simply in reverse, a sidewinding thought through dunes of afterthought. because you have to walk my side of the Earth and I have to meet you somewhere halfway where we can both lounge at each other's steady presence while the flyblown dry air ravishes the piquant morning, all-telling what this distance meant from its peak up to the very last traceable steps where i found you and you found me, trilling in the neighborhood like how void stills itself into all the mood of the Earth: all moony and fretting in the disquiet.
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 2:38 PM UTC
Past Neighborhoods
it was like waking up to all white fume or a long washline — masturbatory, feeling something stiff like a hand gliding over a monsoon of emotions, the affect jazz and the crunch of fragrance forever like sandalwood; on my way to Dumandan, i conjure an inward miasma of thrill, unfurled yesterday, today, or was it before when our eyes were fixated on the passing of things in myriad ways without any relevance to what has died, say wilted, like a flower going away in closing seasons, children in hurtling speeds at twilight, gates welcoming a resounding sound of rusting hinges, slow rise of night, its vertical climb, shadows collapsing on the Hibiscus and the Poinsettia from the Cordillera, dreary men taking out ******* throwing them into metalloid beasts, verdigris painted, grisly caravan of steel and worthless scraps — past neighborhoods thinking about the simmer of onion and the hustle of the feral over rooftops, clinking wine bottles undulating full to empty — both unaware of acumen and only dizzying ourselves mirroring each other eye to eye and bridging this unclose-enough a gap in between, because you need it, and i want it, or simply in reverse, a sidewinding thought through dunes of afterthought. because you have to walk my side of the Earth and I have to meet you somewhere halfway where we can both lounge at each other's steady presence while the flyblown dry air ravishes the piquant morning, all-telling what this distance meant from its peak up to the very last traceable steps where i found you and you found me, trilling in the neighborhood like how void stills itself into all the mood of the Earth: all moony and fretting in the disquiet.
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Stone slabs descended down, forming a staircase straight to hell. A sea of screaming miasma suffocated either side of the winding venture. The light of the world above no longer registered as darkness swallowed this place. It seemed that whether forward or back, this road was infinite. Finally, after endless time, the monument of this suffering came into view. The blackest Obsidian rose beyond comprehension and without feature. Voices wailed and tension bloomed in ominous agony. And as it called out, a liquid wave of familiarity poured in and around me. The door, once unmarked, split down the seam as I came within the final stretch. Understanding drowned my mind, as I pressed my palm against its surface. Instantly, with a deafening boom, it swung open on ethereal hinges. Walking through, in bewildering clarity, what was one became two.
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May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021 at 8:06 PM UTC
The First Door
We watched the sun fall down and scrape its knee again, across the horizon. Effusing amaranth, carmine, and cochineal across polluted vista. It felt petty to issue guttural laughs, or engage the myofacial crescents beneath its visual lament as the Earth turned its back again. We watched the sun rise, bruised, tender and shy this morning. Its muddled contusion obviated by the gauze of fog. A mottled neophyte - Luminescent crepuscular rays defied dregs of interstellar debris and cloud. Aching to kiss your skin - In stellar cloud nursery, it eschewed the torque of orbit and gravity - eras before verity of your essence. Humbly settling concentrically about oblate sphere, and gaseous tome. Latterly - It altered the atmospheric pressure on the other side of the planet a week antecedently, as you clung to your dream lattice, and Earth innately turned oblate nucleus. Its intent – A veneration of you. It bade the atmosphere convey a breeze echoing about your dermis, as it gilded your frame laconically, betwixt shaded steps beneath cloud and arbor. The sun yelled at me at its pinnacle today, Pallid bone – molten - miasma of rage Its core missive garnered inertia – coronal plasma warping ellipsoid factions in inflections of elusive filigree Pirouetting spicules spattered smelted torrents in the dismal anchorite Atomic schism – silent but felt It stoked humidity under shadowed niche - casual vaporous smears evinced no clemency. Flesh torqued, and seized beneath itself, briny globules shed from puckered pore. Culminations of sensitive fluid sacs scorched into the shallows of my chassis. Insignia knit in cellular shrapnel The sun ignored me today – or perhaps, it was I it. Enigmatic tenacious resolution – an echo of its gravitational collapse Inverse thermonuclear fusion It is not fear in a relationship that keeps you apart, it is neglect of the infinitesimal.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
Heliophilia
We watched the sun fall down and scrape its knee again, across the horizon. Effusing amaranth, carmine, and cochineal across polluted vista. It felt petty to issue guttural laughs, or engage the myofacial crescents beneath its visual lament as the Earth turned its back again. We watched the sun rise, bruised, tender and shy this morning. Its muddled contusion obviated by the gauze of fog. A mottled neophyte - Luminescent crepuscular rays defied dregs of interstellar debris and cloud. Aching to kiss your skin - In stellar cloud nursery, it eschewed the torque of orbit and gravity - eras before verity of your essence. Humbly settling concentrically about oblate sphere, and gaseous tome. Latterly - It altered the atmospheric pressure on the other side of the planet a week antecedently, as you clung to your dream lattice, and Earth innately turned oblate nucleus. Its intent – A veneration of you. It bade the atmosphere convey a breeze echoing about your dermis, as it gilded your frame laconically, betwixt shaded steps beneath cloud and arbor. The sun yelled at me at its pinnacle today, Pallid bone – molten - miasma of rage Its core missive garnered inertia – coronal plasma warping ellipsoid factions in inflections of elusive filigree Pirouetting spicules spattered smelted torrents in the dismal anchorite Atomic schism – silent but felt It stoked humidity under shadowed niche - casual vaporous smears evinced no clemency. Flesh torqued, and seized beneath itself, briny globules shed from puckered pore. Culminations of sensitive fluid sacs scorched into the shallows of my chassis. Insignia knit in cellular shrapnel The sun ignored me today – or perhaps, it was I it. Enigmatic tenacious resolution – an echo of its gravitational collapse Inverse thermonuclear fusion It is not fear in a relationship that keeps you apart, it is neglect of the infinitesimal.
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There is a void outside my window. Pitch cascading into itself. No. I am mistaken. It is just night. Someone was knocking on my door at some point. Nipah. Nipah. Nevermind. A curious hollow groan runs through the house. Perhaps a tap is being turned. Hiss. A moth catches in a stream. Wet dust clambers for existence, affirmed in the moment of death. Sometimes it escapes. There is a glow. A streetlamp lights up the void, strong enough to reveal a small part of the world, but too weak to remove the grain. The noise of existence. Blood rushes through vessels. Neurons fire. Silence is merely the body experiencing itself. The self subverted into the other. Oh. I have slept through the day. A train rumbles in the distance, sonorous and bleak. A bird cries out into the void. Nothing responds. A miasma blankets the city. The choke of lack.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 12:15 PM UTC
a moth catching in a stream
Emaciated creatures pace their pens Erasable features begin and end locked in hand locked by key Just demand Dreamless sea The miasma shrieks An impulse creeps Floorboards creak to disturb your sleep Now rest well Empty, undefined heaven or hell you decide
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May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
Contingency
Figures standing in my peripheral With eyes like the void, paralyzing me Illusions fade to reality now Drift into the nightmarish miasma I thrash to no avail Fighting to escape their dead gaze Evading my vision Silhouettes flicker in the dark Dancing in the pitch black dead of night Hallucinations of aberrations Whispering in the back of my mind Manifestations of apparitions Phantoms fabricating Horror permeating my core Nocturnal terror Haunting my soul Manic visions plaguing Every fiber of my being Panicked and screaming Please God save me Perchance a dream Facade of reality Stuck on repeat I can't tell the difference Falling into darkness   Hopeless to escape Painting a bleak foreboding dreamscape Minds eye collapsing to oblivion This existence consumed by shadows Trapped in this enigmatic consciousness My perception fleeting through the night
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 10:59 AM UTC
Dream Eater
As I sip succulent absinthe from the mouth of a cyan sea, I succumb to a seductive grin and sell my soul to thee.   There it is, a dappled smirk, on your sinful lips as well, and now that you are willing, we have a tangled tale to tell.   Come now my sweet euphoria. Caress me in your kiss. Send me a twisted alibi and wrap me in utter bliss.   I am the tainted murmur, I am the nimbus quick, and as one, we are miasma, to the sickest of the sick.   Your skin a sweet oasis, my hands a greedy verve, the sense of touch engulfs us, and we muster up the nerve.   No couple more visurient, none filled with more desire, no passion burning brighter than that which we perspire.   We slow from our nirvana, and slumber into mist, dreaming of how it all began with one etherial kiss.   By: Kevin Kurt Nepomuceno
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
Aeonian Passion
Incontinence of Pseudo-emotion has engulfed us from the 3rd grade. It festered dormant for a little under a decade before it’s vessel popped. A pore filled with ***** media which dehumanizes and objectives human beings While making a spectacle and esteem of being promiscuous. All that Dirt Lathered in an oil of misdirection. A misunderstanding of affection, empathy and apathy. Those who contrive the most emotion are perceived as actually possessing the most emotion. Nothing can be farther from the truth. This is the death of morality. A birth of Nihilism. The miasma of the rotting corpse of ethos and emotional connection. Is one that sits in the stomach and contracts illness not curable due to our understanding. We have been taught that promiscuity will bring us happiness, and yet it is the most depressing. Without understanding of that we are incurable from this ugly affliction. Momentary bursts of relief chafe the most sensitive areas of our skin. Without treatment. We will be encased in our handmade carapace which will indefinitely block us from emotion. Luckily someone invented lotion, soft tissues, and silicone.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 11:29 PM UTC
Rubbed Rawng
Shiny bricks and skeins of yellow grass Barely perceptible colours Hung with liquid haze Dog **** and thunder Heavy close and thick Miasma Clings to sweat Running with drizzle Clings to damp Drowning the pores of the skin Making collars clinging sticky Rubbing and abrasive In view of the towering flats The greyly awaiting wait Standing at the bus stop Speaking quiet weather talk In the distantly English way So safely meaningless This polite evasion Ignores their damp dilemma Soon, as they sit inside the bus These bodies shall steam Like cattle in a byre Kids hang around the shops Emptying and kicking cans The younger ones Run and shout manically Their elders spit And swear casually All hoods and shadows Asking adults to buy them lager Because they can't get served at the "offie" Rain changes nothing here A bedroom guitar plays Weakly electric And the Turneresque sky Swallows the sound whole and flat Sophisticated trash Crying into a cloudy breast Shaded darkly round Full and swollen Grey and sodden The distant rumbling Tumbling closer to home                                     By Phil Roberts
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May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM UTC
HEAVY WEATHER ON THE FAMILY ESTATE
Bells that chime with malcontent shall toll the sounds of dread. Whistles cry with detriment; the hour of death's ahead. Fields are razed, and valleys hazed; miasma shall ensue. Mountains crumble; end of days rides 'pon the heels of doom. Death has come for everyone; no cornerstone unturned. Putrefy to purify; with blood, your lakes shall churn. Sanctity's naught but a dream; rescind your factions few. It's all for one to come undone, and all shall burn with you. Clouds aflame, for in His name the sky comes thund'ring down. And when this land rests in His hand, He'll take our throne and crown. Tyrant-force with no remorse; from out the sea, He'll rise. He leads His thrall to conquer all, with fire in His eyes. Apocalypse shall head the Styx; the river shall run high. And to the banks, you stand in ranks and heed Lord Charon's cry, "File in, all ye of sin." His cackles crack the trees. *"Thy Earth undone, my kingdom come. Now sunder unto me."*
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 11:24 AM UTC
Charon
# The ocean's wave rolls and beats repeatedly carving a way into the soul of this precipice foaming at the mouth no, wait.... that's just your tongue coated in a miasma of a siren song you ******* liar   sunbathing on my pyre the whole town now congregates around with devil-red containers of gasoline while your devil-red lips act the fire Only the clever witches survived the trials the whole town now dances around feasting on the lotus petals that root in the palm of your hand look at them move locked in each others hands chanting "This will bring peace" while they nod and agree "Pour more gasoline" escapes between those sharp teeth happiness is a moveable feast at least your eating like a queen go ahead and **** the marrow out of these innocent bones tomorrow I will be gone once I thought of you as Ithaca now realize that these are Troy's stones it's time to sail back home. #
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 10:03 AM UTC
Incantations from a Siren
I feel the friction raising blisters to fingers. I feel the whispers of the smoke when it lingers, a siren rifling delirium and biting to the throat of a genius who questions how bad miasma hurts the singer. It's the quintessential fever dream between us Oh, he's so smart, look at his three page diatribe describing his rage, he's a machinist yeah Go join the dire parades of craven weakness. Admire reagents calculated to the T, brewed and created for playfully degrading, and raising heart rate, lying to you, and prying from your fingers. When they ask you why you're dying be facetious. Just sew the mask on to your face and make it seamless. Breath it in. Smell the plastic and bone. Relax enraptured in what half of us know. We drink the rumors from a chalice, sink in fallacies of balance, humor actuates the patterns, and its harder to battle the tumor after it's grown. Then we're just grass on the road, and we can laugh as we go, and we can act as if inaction ain't the crack in the stone. And we'll be baffled alone. We'll be the practical applicants of a graph of a lung, hung in a school. Drooling hospital drones. Stool in a bag on his side. Try to hide the agony in seeing lagging behind tank of life on a chain. Banking his breath on a check, and when it bounces he dies. It ends faster than you think it might. Don't even start.
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Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
Don't even start
his mate fancied himself Dr. Watson, or even Holmes, in a past life, but with the name, Jamsheed Razavizadeh, his friends, who chopped the proud pronunciation to J-Razz, laughed at such a great notion not Phillip, whose one brother had drowned only last Hallows Eve, which made Phillip a believer in all things from school, his mates walked the same lane past the spot, where his mother still lay wreaths every Monday morn, the vicar giving her the tired ones each Sabbath Monday Phillip took the long way home not wanting to see the flowers, on their own eve of wilting, a pitiable reminder fresh things don't last J-Razz was the only one who walked the long route with him, his own brother in the loam near Tehran, drowned himself by fire, not water each week, the wreath lay but a day, and the two from different mothers would again take the shorter path, where they would find slight solace in silence, their journey home often in merciful miasma near river's edge
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Nov 21, 2015
Nov 21, 2015 at 4:30 PM UTC
on the Thames, Tuesdays
Tossing to and fro as if combating a hostile sea/ dark thoughts cloud the inner sanctum of my mind/ the distress, the bitterness, the anguish, the grief, the sadness, the lonliness, the unfathomably lustful pain/ that I face burn with the intensity of the fires of hell that await me/ Guardians of chaos; harvesters of damsels come for me that I drown in their sins/ rip the fabric of my consciousness asunder/ my ***** sing an aria of sorrow, listen to the requiem of the ****** a miasma of death flood my bowels/ decay enters my womb and I plunge deeper into madness/  I'm an error; a fault of life as the demonic servants consume my flesh for what feels like a eternity/ as we desend in to the pit of blasphemy, defilement, pagans, and idol worshippers/ he deprives my spirit of the rightousness, tears it from its mortal bond and it unfurls into a ethereal cloud of emptiness/ being ravaged my capture looks off in the distance as if performing an exhibition/ with every touch I feel dead inside all the while the nightmare watches with a disgustingly grim grin.... This was written for a art history class inspired by "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli Tell me what you think of the interpretation!!
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 1:51 AM UTC
The Nightmare