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"missteps" poems
*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 11:50 PM UTC
Scent
*Blue clouds gaze the wrapped sun frozen kisses in my blood travelling a thousand miles to meet up with you. There is none else walking down this path where memories wake up and dance inside my armored heart. I peeled off each kisses embrace out of my parched lips. I shook off the tree, where your scent had blossomed.* ***Every step down this scarcely trodden path saw... Each peel fall with helpless, damsel-like grace. Brown leaves shone amber touched by fingers of the sun Invasion of warmth through my greyed bony carapace. Gentle tremors reverberate within with subtle anguish. Sweet scented portal that took me back, To the illusion of time where we once were... In drunken stupor...laying under a star strewn canvas of black. Senses that spoke of a great fantastical tale. You are still here... In this cloying void with no one around... Only that scent...your scent tugging on my core Invisible tendrils berthing my feet back on ground.*** *Alone and wanting don't want to be anymore. I want to feast my lungs on your skin once more. I want to vibrate under your touch again, In anguished anticipation and sweet pain. I hurl your name to the echoing wind, Blowing ferociously over the closed passage. Only to find that I'm but elongating the distance between our fading wishful stars.* ***Fading far only to find that I'm lost yet again, Still harvesting a basket full of ripened hope. Traversing planes with warped, slanted doorways, Frantically seeking purchase on knobs with fevered gropes. Heavy layered breaths inhaled too shallow... Tracing missteps to decipher what it all meant. When all is moot...weary, weathered and futile, Forever I'll be bathing in the familiarity of your soothing, nectarous scent...*** Dajena M ryn
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. How do we mend wavering pedestals... When the ground beneath is parched dry. Stemming off loose foundations that time had weathered wry. How do we mend broken gazes... When watchful eyes which were meant to see, are blinded by the onslaught of half-truths and fallacy. How do we mend burnt bridges... When we never look back to trace heavy missteps. We fail to admit to consciously springing obvious traps. How do I mend ailing hearts... When familiar corridors seem warped to a bend. When my own is struggling and perpetually on the mend.
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May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016 at 3:59 PM UTC
On the Mend
It's a dance It really is Skip and prance Lifelong practice Loop of songs Never ending Of various genres Life is playing There's the spotlight World is awaiting Pressure of eyes Silently watching Take your place Assume your position Execute with finesse And flawless precision Spin your pirouettes Don't get dizzy Maintain your poise In this revelry Along comes a partner Present as a duo The game now altered From when you were solo Two bodies now Move in unison Reciprocate and reply Through steps made in heaven Flighty feet Intertwined bodies limbre Sweet little performance Elapsing into forever With grace of ballet Each other you'd catch Intimate display Think you've found your match There'll come such time Both will not be in sync Episodes of missteps Push you to the brink Alone again Or switch of partners Find solace in groups Still dancing for answers Dancing with others Much you can learn From hip hop to the waltz Together or in turn Try to adapt To different styles Soak up all you can May take a while I've danced all my life Can't say that I've mastered Fair share of jeers And accolades I've garnered Always clumsy Exceedingly awkward Tripping and falling Barely proceeding forward It's just this dance One with syncopated beats It's just this prance That my gait can't meet It's just this stance I often use as retreat I realised in a glance That I have...but two left feet
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
Two Left Feet
as a Pisces, I am swimming upstream, the salmons last run. fighting, pulling to grip those soft rocks beneath. those beasts that keep some stuck. salmon are based in diversity needing to have a wide gene pool, as their kin die quickly from those rocks. getting stuck, swimming around and around… insanity defined, and time doesn't stop. so, to the work. swimming up stream, dedicated to being a mother. creator, incubator. children stored in the belly of the beast. preparing to break free, be set alive, to roam free. the wombs embrace, the face of LOVE. currents of the calls are so loud, rushing past my gills. I feel the whooshing sound, the pressure bearing down, taunting me out. calling me out… are you sure, are you confident? constant tests to check and check and check for missteps. ones that feel out of step. no more time for those. the path is clear, yet the water is cold, bearing down on my scales built, molded for this. built in this system of birth and death. choosing each step from above. below, here I feel at home and I feel ME breaking out. she's broken out, there will be clouds, rain, thunder all the things. let it  be. and the beast is free, she has descended, dug down deep, anchored, prepared for reception. just like the trees, they grow so well with others. interdependently nourishing the diversity.
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Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 5:34 AM UTC
diversity
Roaming in the dark seeking life to take apart Once a creature with a higher purpose But after your missteps you began to hurt us Destruction is what you live for You want us to suffer because of our nature "Baphomet I know it's hard, you don't know regret." Try to be logical avoid your hateful thread. Helping you is like a deathwish; we know the dangers but we still accept it. There he stands the creature of deception In the eye of the beholder, he makes no exception..
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 6:55 AM UTC
The ballad of Baphomet I
I am not a difficult child. You are not a difficult mother. But, sometimes we have things to say and sometimes we say nothing at all. This, I suppose is where we are difficult. Because being human is difficult. I cannot imagine why so many years ago you chose to have us. Not because I think you do not love us, I know you do, but because of the sorrow my sleep brings to you on the Sunday mornings I sleep in. Love, I imagine, is returning from church and still bringing bread to those who wish not to consume it in any meaningful sense at all, or, if consumed, to satisfy hungers so basic you marvel at what that converted energy is used for. I have failed still to explain that I pray in different and marvellous ways that I don't think are invalid but will still hurt you nonetheless. This is part of growing up.   There are many dances that you and my grandmother have surely danced that I do not have the rhythm for, but there are many dances that you and her and I have that are the same, just as in the Old Testament there are so many prayers and blessings and cursings and legacies passed on from one child to another to another child. During these passing-ons there are surely missteps where some son is bound to step on some mother's left foot as the rhythms change on time's dancefloor. There are many examples of this that exist that don't need to be said. It is all the same. It is all different. I have pointed these things out before. Before I finish, let me point out that when I point out these things after laughing it is not because I am making fun of you, but only because I love you enough to point out the seriousness of everything in this world with a smile on my face. How else could I possibly repay that great push you gave all those years ago to allow this poem to breathe in this form?
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 8:37 AM UTC
A Birthday Poem for My Mother.
I am not a difficult child. You are not a difficult mother. But, sometimes we have things to say and sometimes we say nothing at all. This, I suppose is where we are difficult. Because being human is difficult. I cannot imagine why so many years ago you chose to have us. Not because I think you do not love us, I know you do, but because of the sorrow my sleep brings to you on the Sunday mornings I sleep in. Love, I imagine, is returning from church and still bringing bread to those who wish not to consume it in any meaningful sense at all, or, if consumed, to satisfy hungers so basic you marvel at what that converted energy is used for. I have failed still to explain that I pray in different and marvellous ways that I don't think are invalid but will still hurt you nonetheless. This is part of growing up.   There are many dances that you and my grandmother have surely danced that I do not have the rhythm for, but there are many dances that you and her and I have that are the same, just as in the Old Testament there are so many prayers and blessings and cursings and legacies passed on from one child to another to another child. During these passing-ons there are surely missteps where some son is bound to step on some mother's left foot as the rhythms change on time's dancefloor. There are many examples of this that exist that don't need to be said. It is all the same. It is all different. I have pointed these things out before. Before I finish, let me point out that when I point out these things after laughing it is not because I am making fun of you, but only because I love you enough to point out the seriousness of everything in this world with a smile on my face. How else could I possibly repay that great push you gave all those years ago to allow this poem to breathe in this form?
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Walking in the morning fog, icy patches, watch those missteps, the mist it hovers, street lights get glowing eyes, squinting, sizing up their appetite, as you are devoured going forward. Then out of the soup that tastes like every asthmatics worst nighmare, comes a howl and a growl, we will call him greybeard, and it was weird how a grown man, growled and howled while he sat on frozen wood, at five fifty-six AM and growled and howled at the glowing eye above him as there was no moon. He never saw us as we moved past, picking up the pace we moved fast, he must have ice in his veins, ice on the road, and sidewalk, veins of light and in his body, must have been the hand sanitizer, coursing through his veins, having a howling goodtime, with the cold empties lined up behind. DWE012014
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 11:38 PM UTC
Ice in his Veins
have ten thousand hours come and gone,                  master? can time go faster?? have feet taken ten thousand strides or walked               ten thousand missteps?                                   no regrets is there ten times one thousand miles of ink            in these dusty notebooks?        constant flipping pages with                            darting looks at each page seeking to add it all up. read ten thousand books to write one story, surreal ratio live a thousand days time ten doing one thing very well with out your head to swell and you will be a master, not by your own admission      not of your own volition only to begin your mission to give back what you have                           learned, that a talent is a gift only, once it is given freely away while shared. ©DWE102013
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Oct 13, 2013
Oct 13, 2013 at 12:41 AM UTC
A journey
I’m sitting staring at faces so unfamiliar they don’t know me, no stares no afflictions or brief awkwardness I am alone, surrounded by souls that don’t know I exist, please someone say hello, someone needs to read my palms and tell me my lifeline in so that I know I’m needed, I know what my worth could be but I need purpose to believe in because I’m struggling inside, I feel like crying constantly in corners facing away from a society of glances from strangers, I walk in circles and circles and circles trying to find direction for my future, I’m being mislead by life’s curriculum and I feel like I’m above average in general miseducation, I’m screaming silently help me! I don’t want to deal anymore but I want to hold on if not for my sake then for those that need me more because I have to believe that in order to be, How could you all not notice me, I’m yelling internally, I’m jumping and prancing in the bathroom away from everything not even staring me in the mirror, I’m closing the doors before I open them so that I can never hurt again, I’m avoiding chances and taking backward leaps to make sure that I can’t be touched, burned, or disturbed, I’m going to find me first because I don’t know who the **** I am anymore, I’m not even sure I ever knew which makes this challenge even harder, I don’t even see it as a challenge because if I did the semantics would take over me, I equate struggle and failure with success and greatness because I fail at all, I’m reading my mind closer than ever before making sure I spell out my intentions to myself before I take one step out the door, I feel as if I have OCD making sure that everything feels 100% right and if it isn’t I will not move, I will not progress and maybe even digress to fix my missteps from prior years, I don’t know where to go from here, but I guess I’ll start with whistling and whispering in someone’s ear.
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Jan 9, 2014
Jan 9, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
Whistles and Whispers
I’m sitting staring at faces so unfamiliar they don’t know me, no stares no afflictions or brief awkwardness I am alone, surrounded by souls that don’t know I exist, please someone say hello, someone needs to read my palms and tell me my lifeline in so that I know I’m needed, I know what my worth could be but I need purpose to believe in because I’m struggling inside, I feel like crying constantly in corners facing away from a society of glances from strangers, I walk in circles and circles and circles trying to find direction for my future, I’m being mislead by life’s curriculum and I feel like I’m above average in general miseducation, I’m screaming silently help me! I don’t want to deal anymore but I want to hold on if not for my sake then for those that need me more because I have to believe that in order to be, How could you all not notice me, I’m yelling internally, I’m jumping and prancing in the bathroom away from everything not even staring me in the mirror, I’m closing the doors before I open them so that I can never hurt again, I’m avoiding chances and taking backward leaps to make sure that I can’t be touched, burned, or disturbed, I’m going to find me first because I don’t know who the **** I am anymore, I’m not even sure I ever knew which makes this challenge even harder, I don’t even see it as a challenge because if I did the semantics would take over me, I equate struggle and failure with success and greatness because I fail at all, I’m reading my mind closer than ever before making sure I spell out my intentions to myself before I take one step out the door, I feel as if I have OCD making sure that everything feels 100% right and if it isn’t I will not move, I will not progress and maybe even digress to fix my missteps from prior years, I don’t know where to go from here, but I guess I’ll start with whistling and whispering in someone’s ear.
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Confident sassy and brave All of 13, on her way Chasing a boy she thought she could love She’s coyly flirting Civilizing him As only the fairer *** can do They’re innocents Pulled by that mysterious force It usually starts around this age Of course, there are missteps Guffaws along the way Romance at any age Exciting, enticing So inviting Young emotions Are volatile, fragile Compelling Dangerous Wholesome Sometimes puppy love Turns into real love
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 3:26 AM UTC
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it is temporary the mirrored faces reflecting back into one- it is as temporary as the sun. it is temporary, this burning body of youth. it is temporary insanity and temporary truth. it is movable pieces in the bottle of corked vermouth. it is ungrateful youth and all her fantasy her ****** opportunity- the days of endless sunshine fogged with cascading rain, full of superficial pain, that only sets into the skin to rise up much later. blemished traitors of your failing past. it is temporary, the primping of memories undone- it is as temporary as the blazing gun. it is temporary, it is fleeting and no matter how these products keep us believing they are nothing more then distractions, they are deceiving. as the sand is thrown in our glossy eyes and stars that once opened in the night sky just for us- open no more. we retire from the bridled gore of youth and her tireless war and forever more, must sing the songs of fading youth. must curse the uncouth, the way the years have wandered by without any proper goodbye and we, as strangers in this looming unknown we must come to know as past our prime, past our time, and be spectators into the theatre of vanity we are now excluded from. oh, how we wish we’d undone the regrets and missteps- but we are denied to ever confide the wisdom we’ve gained since beauty and youth have fled- we are condemned to be voiceless passengers on our train ride to the end. yet, this is temporary. as temporary as you and i, the ailing sky, the aching stars, the rolling hilltops, tracing to the mouth of the river and when we are at once delivered to a final resting stop- we pray, we hope as tooth and nail dragged we try to cope, to be temporary no more- temporary no more- temporary no more- temporary no more-
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Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010 at 7:11 PM UTC
it is temporary
it is temporary the mirrored faces reflecting back into one- it is as temporary as the sun. it is temporary, this burning body of youth. it is temporary insanity and temporary truth. it is movable pieces in the bottle of corked vermouth. it is ungrateful youth and all her fantasy her ****** opportunity- the days of endless sunshine fogged with cascading rain, full of superficial pain, that only sets into the skin to rise up much later. blemished traitors of your failing past. it is temporary, the primping of memories undone- it is as temporary as the blazing gun. it is temporary, it is fleeting and no matter how these products keep us believing they are nothing more then distractions, they are deceiving. as the sand is thrown in our glossy eyes and stars that once opened in the night sky just for us- open no more. we retire from the bridled gore of youth and her tireless war and forever more, must sing the songs of fading youth. must curse the uncouth, the way the years have wandered by without any proper goodbye and we, as strangers in this looming unknown we must come to know as past our prime, past our time, and be spectators into the theatre of vanity we are now excluded from. oh, how we wish we’d undone the regrets and missteps- but we are denied to ever confide the wisdom we’ve gained since beauty and youth have fled- we are condemned to be voiceless passengers on our train ride to the end. yet, this is temporary. as temporary as you and i, the ailing sky, the aching stars, the rolling hilltops, tracing to the mouth of the river and when we are at once delivered to a final resting stop- we pray, we hope as tooth and nail dragged we try to cope, to be temporary no more- temporary no more- temporary no more- temporary no more-
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ELYSIUM is as far to us As the gentle winds of dusk - And the very nearest gloom That Death shall doom If in that doom, thou may await We shall see our Fate - Serenity of doom, Or clarity of gloom. What fortitude your soul contains! - To fight through our loving pains, To search for our love’s cure, Such adversity it must endure! Only the Lord must give you strength, To see out our missteps at length - As the gloom of clarity, Our love’s Serenity.
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Nov 29, 2015
Nov 29, 2015 at 5:38 PM UTC
Elysium
Donning the mantle of godparent cannot be blamed on an accident it is both a gift and a choice in which the child has no voice. If it is a decision lightly taken the deciders should awaken to the burden it imposes and the thorns of the roses. An honor to the invited it might seem but think about what it means to the parents of that baby and how vital to them it may be. For if this is to be your child it will not be for just a while but for a lifetime of growth and pains a multitude of joys and strains. In a manner quite distinct you are asked to be linked to this person in the ups and downs to hear both tender and awful sounds. And think of where you may wander in your journey out yonder how your beliefs might alter and your path might falter. Wherever you go whatever you do know this person is joined to you through your good and bad breaks with all your missteps and mistakes. And above all remember you are kin. You don’t lose.  You don’t win. You are never never exiled from Love, for you are both God’s child.
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Dec 31, 2018
Dec 31, 2018 at 3:13 PM UTC
Godschild
****lovely Saturday morning....       might we dance a bit today          to ease off some sadness?**** DANCE (A repost...some editing done) The neighbor's stereo was playing tango music       too loud, it made me  look at my red painted toes... i realized, my feet hadn't even swayed for so long now, they've grown timid...and wary    All i want is to dance, to be safe, warm, close to one, as close as cheek to cheek, go left, then right, lean, cling, then hold hands, be held on the waist, dip, then circle gracefully, and step, a stretched arm away, be brought closer once again, hearing clearly the sighs as the music reaches a high. But, it was a chicken dance i had joined then, the shaking and jiggling were so repulsive...convulsive...confusing. it mattered not who fell out of the beat the desire waned, fires die, fires died, alright. My feet are raring to swing back, to be alive once more on life's dance floor no more falls, trips or missteps this time just steps with a slower beat with more grace now, who knows, this could be my best dance ever! This has got to feed my jazzy mood play my chosen music maybe do the shimmy for a while, then shift to the bossa nova, swing to its cool, hip-py rhythm. Whatever the beat may be, my partner and i, we shall blend in while we do the mambo, the rumba, cha-cha, even tap dance, to celebrate this new chance on life. I only  wish that on our first dance together, we may dance the samba on the wide floor, let the hours fly by. Then, with a waltz,  we'll take it easy until we finally get weary, until we decide....to slow drag the night away. ************ Sally Copyright 2014 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 11:23 PM UTC
D A N C E
****lovely Saturday morning....       might we dance a bit today          to ease off some sadness?**** DANCE (A repost...some editing done) The neighbor's stereo was playing tango music       too loud, it made me  look at my red painted toes... i realized, my feet hadn't even swayed for so long now, they've grown timid...and wary    All i want is to dance, to be safe, warm, close to one, as close as cheek to cheek, go left, then right, lean, cling, then hold hands, be held on the waist, dip, then circle gracefully, and step, a stretched arm away, be brought closer once again, hearing clearly the sighs as the music reaches a high. But, it was a chicken dance i had joined then, the shaking and jiggling were so repulsive...convulsive...confusing. it mattered not who fell out of the beat the desire waned, fires die, fires died, alright. My feet are raring to swing back, to be alive once more on life's dance floor no more falls, trips or missteps this time just steps with a slower beat with more grace now, who knows, this could be my best dance ever! This has got to feed my jazzy mood play my chosen music maybe do the shimmy for a while, then shift to the bossa nova, swing to its cool, hip-py rhythm. Whatever the beat may be, my partner and i, we shall blend in while we do the mambo, the rumba, cha-cha, even tap dance, to celebrate this new chance on life. I only  wish that on our first dance together, we may dance the samba on the wide floor, let the hours fly by. Then, with a waltz,  we'll take it easy until we finally get weary, until we decide....to slow drag the night away. ************ Sally Copyright 2014 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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You've taken a step into dangerous territory Unbeknownst to your wide, naïve eyes You're heading into a deep abyss Where only the lucky have survived Before you proceed any further I will give you this warning now I'm utterly and dangerously fragile And my patience is running out My warning signs are on full display For those who dare on this journey Caution is written everywhere So that I know you won't take this lightly I see the longing looks you're giving And I can tell you see me as a challenge Your cockiness will lead to your missteps A guarantee I experience irrevocable damage You think you will treat me different But I know you'll ignore the signs I carry There's no easy way to let my guard down When your intentions with me make me wary You continue to walk into dangerous territory Unbeknownst to your wide, naïve eyes Foolishly, you jumped into the deep abyss But you were not lucky enough to survive
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May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021 at 1:49 PM UTC
Caution
To become aware of the single moment that needs interpreting To be jolted from sleep between sheets creased in the tribulations of dreamscapes Clammy hand pressed to neck you remember yourself And before it slips and crumbles spiraling up to the cosmos it is captured Pinch your eyes together and draw the cool water from the well A friend’s arm around your shoulder; a sweaty smile, meandering through The crowds of faces, each one drab and still, motionless for you Tendrils of tenderness wandering o’er a body consumed in secret greed and corrosion And the cheeky faced attached returning curiosity masked in love Flitting up and down the stem of the one you knew to be yours Yearning for her to open her petals and reward arduous labor The repose of correcting ages of missteps and the satisfaction of Correctly placing lost experience Enjoying the rhythm pounded out by drums of progress, and then pacing To one all your own Reasserting brutal individuality in spite of legions upon legions of conformity Then ironically setting the trend Once seized, every vague trapping melts down weary head, past hunched back Beyond knees bend to reach toe tip Revitalized by the comfortable shade of your whole self, the parts unwanted, unseen Usurped, intangible, inconceivable, and most illustrated purely glow A self if surely sacked, a reanimated soul now softly speaks, and sexuality is assured in Each slow step
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 2:45 PM UTC
Self_Actualization
In love's tapestry, a tale unfolds, Where Cupid, the archer, his story molds. A fateful day, his aim went astray, The wrong arrow struck, leading hearts astray. A quiver full of arrows, each with a role, One for passion, the other for the soul. But Cupid, in haste, confused his art, Shot the wrong arrow, tearing love apart. In the labyrinth of emotions, I found my way, Entangled in love's web, where shadows play. The arrow meant for joy pierced my heart, Yet sorrow's seed grew, tearing love apart. A tragic chapter, my love story unfolds, As pain and heartache, in its pages, molds. Cupid's error, a twist in the plot, A love story woven, then tangled in a knot. People say it's a folklore, a tale to be told, Of love's missteps, where hearts grow cold. A saga of pain, with a sad, bitter end, Yet in its telling, generations transcend. For love's not always a tale of delight, Sometimes it's pain that colors the night. A twisted arrow, a love story's bend, A folklore passed on, from friend to friend. So, in the echoes of the cupid's wrong aim, A love story born from sorrow and pain. A folklore woven in the fabric of time, A cautionary tale of love's subtle rhyme.
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Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 at 9:12 AM UTC
when the cupid used the wrong arrow on me
This is my mountain My greatest challenge Although I began strong I found I can't finish what I start Now lying at the bottom I can see all the mistakes All the missteps, the faults, and the cracks That caused this avalanche Every inch I get closer, every step It's a new chance for failure The peak is hidden With the mist and clouded judgement So how close am I? There it is again That familiar rumble of demise What started as a pebble Became my downfall Falling down Getting lower And lower Until I Hit Bottom Crushed by the snow My fears and regrets Frozen Numb Lifeless Now what? I dig my my way out But Why? It's only going to happen again Like so many other times The fine powder so heavy The face so steep Yet I persist I have to finish I'll go down fighting This internal War is getting to be too much Higher and Higher I ascend but it's always the same I continue to be knocked off, far from finishing, but it's not enough I have to reach my goal These obstacles only motivate me But I can't overcome them if I can't amount to them So here it comes again That agonizing rumble The crushing weight Slowly crushing my hope I give up
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 10:33 AM UTC
Avalanche
I've walked upon the roots of trees for long enough to know the deeper in the ground you are the more you'll have to sow For what is surface but a skin that boils in the sun then turns to dust our fragile bones the second we are gone Let's trace the lines our veins have mirrored underneath this earth and reconcile missteps we make for everything they're worth The pulse of Life is beating now and asking you to breathe "Come find Me in the stillness where you'll never cease to be"
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Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
The Aspen Color I'd Know
Postopone the trip To help another Continue the journey Postone the trip Embark a new one With your soul You are the mistress Of the path From tears to fight Repenting missteps All your way By filling others With delight Postpone the trip And understand The real purpose Of all travels To find a truth Not reach a place Inside your mind Not on the map Postpone the trip And you shall find The source of light Inside your heart Postopne the trip You are your home Regardless of Where you shall live Be the destination You want to see Be the change You’re looking for Postpone it And you will realize The end is you It’s always YOU...
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Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 12:58 AM UTC
POSTPONED
"plan a" was to be cordial: you said, "coexist." we toasted with our cappuccinos, "to coexisting," before replacing our masks. smile. wave. be polite. I suppose some dozen missteps by me rendered this plan useless. "plan b" is much harder. put your hand on the table. the knife comes down, quick, press the hot metal to the wound. amputate. cauterize. use your friends as a tourniquet, like the one I've been twisting you into for the last year and a half.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
plan b
Why are you here What is your importance How were you created Does it feel emotions Is it excited that I’m here He recognizes that I’m living And that I can interact Having something else to interact with I think that makes him happy He’s running From the back of his cage To his wheel And then he returns to the feed That’s all we’re doing Except our idea of a “cage” Is much larger He scratches out of the cage For what looked like a corn nugget I picked it up and gave it to his hands And he took it Sat and ate I just helped that animal It couldn’t reach the nugget And that made him sad Because it’s something he can usually get But when it’s out of his reach His internal cycle missteps Causing him to break down He jumped on the side of the cage Revealing his genitals Shaking them is somewhat of a snooty fashion Does he know what humor is It doesn’t have cognitive thinking It can’t decide for itself Why did it do that For what purpose What is driving this animal to do anything at all What is the significance of its existence How were you made What the hell are you Humor, sadness, joy Can it feel all emotions It’s so basic So simple Does he only feel one emotion One emotion All the time I am such a complex human being I can’t even image a life An existence Where I only have one emotion And that’s what makes us special And that’s what makes us human
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Dec 28, 2010
Dec 28, 2010 at 1:58 AM UTC
Chinchilla
Another day, another night. You say their debt outweighs their death. Logic dispels the search through trash and mildewed lore. Makeup runs and your choices stay. Becoming much thinner now yes? The air is unintelligible. These things will last. Abandoned not loved, the fate of your newest choice; a most crystalline series of poor choices, calculated missteps and those carefree mistakes. Like the smoke flown from your lungs over the roof of neon discotheque. Either/or. You smell of spoiled treasure. Move past the decay, past perfumes and powders. There is you, skeletal and shaking on a small bed in the middle of a dark place with a hint of light all around you, shadows form on the edge, the mythos surrounding your empty head, but never bending to enlighten you. Stay still.
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Jun 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016 at 11:06 AM UTC
Between the Butcher & Policeman
Remember art class in the big room with spray painted concrete ground where you were given a tiny mosaic square and asked to recreate it on a much larger piece of canvas when you knew full well you weren't an artist and you never would be? You spent the time mixing blue and white acrylic paint together on a small piece of a former gallon of milk, adding and adding until there was more than you would need but the color matched perfectly and of that you were proud. Now you're older and you know a bit more about hue and saturation and how difficult it can be, working with imprecise mediums, to do that, to make something to fit a very precise set of guidelines with no missteps, no miscalculations, no question as to its perfection. You wonder if the color really did match back then, or if you are remembering something that never really happened, if you wanted it bad enough that it changed your recollection. That day, everyone's large square canvas pieces went together into designated spaces on the wall to make a composite image and all the blues were different shades and that made you frustrated and nervous and disappointed in the other third graders sitting around in a circle on wobbling stools wearing dad's old dress shirts as smocks and throwing brushes at each other and giggling as eight-year-olds do. You stared at the tidal wave on the wall made up of all these disparate pieces and you told yourself that you'd notice when things matched as though they were meant, as though they were destined and divine. You see the waves lapping at the beach as we stare out at the vast Pacific. We stand on the shore and you tell me that my eyes match perfectly the colors of the Sitka spruces reaching their arms out wide behind me. Your flannel shirt matches the gray November sky. It took all the way to Oregon until it happened again, but you keep your promise to yourself. You notice the matching colors. You smile to yourself and look down at me. You grab my hand and pull me closer.
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 6:29 PM UTC
Waves
Remember art class in the big room with spray painted concrete ground where you were given a tiny mosaic square and asked to recreate it on a much larger piece of canvas when you knew full well you weren't an artist and you never would be? You spent the time mixing blue and white acrylic paint together on a small piece of a former gallon of milk, adding and adding until there was more than you would need but the color matched perfectly and of that you were proud. Now you're older and you know a bit more about hue and saturation and how difficult it can be, working with imprecise mediums, to do that, to make something to fit a very precise set of guidelines with no missteps, no miscalculations, no question as to its perfection. You wonder if the color really did match back then, or if you are remembering something that never really happened, if you wanted it bad enough that it changed your recollection. That day, everyone's large square canvas pieces went together into designated spaces on the wall to make a composite image and all the blues were different shades and that made you frustrated and nervous and disappointed in the other third graders sitting around in a circle on wobbling stools wearing dad's old dress shirts as smocks and throwing brushes at each other and giggling as eight-year-olds do. You stared at the tidal wave on the wall made up of all these disparate pieces and you told yourself that you'd notice when things matched as though they were meant, as though they were destined and divine. You see the waves lapping at the beach as we stare out at the vast Pacific. We stand on the shore and you tell me that my eyes match perfectly the colors of the Sitka spruces reaching their arms out wide behind me. Your flannel shirt matches the gray November sky. It took all the way to Oregon until it happened again, but you keep your promise to yourself. You notice the matching colors. You smile to yourself and look down at me. You grab my hand and pull me closer.
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I need balance I’m too extreme like my beliefs Far too sorry to apologize Forgiveness would be a lie I couldn’t live with Balancing under pressure became a crushing defeat Misfires and misdirection can land the highest man beneath Untreated wounds breed infection The lessons learned are easy to remember Dismembered and off-kilter Unbalanced drunkards lay wasted like death Effigies of what used to be **** it¨ attitudes Added to the frustration Of falling and failing, my fault I brought shook hands Like an addict Moderation is balance My mode is moody ****** off and impatient I meditated to medicate anger ¨Endangered species fighting for survival!¨ Was the greatest lie I ever told I fought a war for peace More violent than buddha’s And I won I won a deadly victory Balance was not built for chaos I’m a riot, raunchy What I want no longer haunts me I’m not a victim of crime Im the victor Missteps led me away from destruction My mistakes were made To save me
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC
The Axis of Evil