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"monotonous" poems
I don't know why, My feelings have died, I am a fuckin' rock, May be I have felt too much, That I started to feel nothing. Nothing seems new, Nothing appears exciting. May be this just happens with age, Or may be I am just too bored of everything. Everything feels less, everything feels void. Morning breeze is chilling no more, Rain doesn't wet me anymore, Holi appears colourless, Diwali not so illuminating any more. Festivals now only means a holiday. Outings are not so exciting. ***** doesn't effect me much. What is it , does that happens with everyone or is it just me.!? Where's all that excitement gone,? Life has become monotonous and everything is blown! What I need is a CHANGE.!
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 11:05 AM UTC
I feel nothing!
In person body language for the quickest returns and obvious signs of disinterest and distress Telephones for voices; plain, animated, or faking it Letters for gesture, or a classic long slow catch up And texting... I know you got it I may even know you read it What's your excuse for delay? Perhaps a brain lapse, perhaps some monotonous busyness Perhaps I'm now an ignored fad, maybe you got better plans Yet, could it be, our collective muscle memory pines for saying things by other means?
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 11:28 PM UTC
The Rhythm of Communication Means
Every day is the same; they wake up in the same bed, at the same ungodly hour, to the same monotonous ringing from the alarm clock. They grumble their ‘good morning’s; whether they believe it is or not, rolling out of opposite sides of the duvet. They dance around each other in the bathroom, the heat of the shower creating a fog through which neither of them can see; causing him to stub his toe on the toilet or the counter, and steaming up the mirror so she can’t apply her make-up. They continue their ritual into the kitchen; flicking on the kettle, popping in the bread, pouring the orange juice; stirring the tea, catching the toast and spreading the butter and jam. Crunching and slurping together at the table, mumbling about what their days have in store; tapping texts on their phones, crinkling newspaper in their hands. They peck each other a kiss goodbye and mutter a ‘see you later’ before going their separate ways. But then Monday comes... Mondays are different. He knows she doesn’t like Monday mornings. It’s the very beginning of a new, long, tiring week. She never looks forward to Mondays. So he changes that. He sets the alarm on his watch a little earlier than other days; shutting it off before it can wake her. He slips silently out of bed and tiptoes quietly into the bathroom to shower; leaving her smiley faces and love messages on the steamy mirrors. He creates her favourite tea and makes her toast with raspberry jam; just the way she likes it. Picking a flower from the garden; whichever one looks the happiest and brightest, he places it all on a tray and pads back up to the bedroom to wake her. She no longer sets her alarm on Mondays. She knows he’ll not let her oversleep. He places the flower in her hair and drops delicate kisses; full of his love and affection for her, to the corner of her mouth, until she stirs gently. She smiles on Monday mornings. They eat breakfast in bed, covering the sheets in crumbs and giggling contentedly as the cat licks them up. She hums in the bathroom while he clears away crockery, and always re-emerges with the flower tucked behind her ear. It remains there ‘til night fall. They never once look at their phones or the paper, far too focused on each other to pay anything else mind. Their kiss as they part reminds them of their love for each other and of the good things in life; like strolls along the shore, strawberries dipped in dark chocolate, smiling sunflowers that open to a beautiful summer’s day, and of course, Monday mornings.
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 5:17 PM UTC
Monday Mornings
Every day is the same; they wake up in the same bed, at the same ungodly hour, to the same monotonous ringing from the alarm clock. They grumble their ‘good morning’s; whether they believe it is or not, rolling out of opposite sides of the duvet. They dance around each other in the bathroom, the heat of the shower creating a fog through which neither of them can see; causing him to stub his toe on the toilet or the counter, and steaming up the mirror so she can’t apply her make-up. They continue their ritual into the kitchen; flicking on the kettle, popping in the bread, pouring the orange juice; stirring the tea, catching the toast and spreading the butter and jam. Crunching and slurping together at the table, mumbling about what their days have in store; tapping texts on their phones, crinkling newspaper in their hands. They peck each other a kiss goodbye and mutter a ‘see you later’ before going their separate ways. But then Monday comes... Mondays are different. He knows she doesn’t like Monday mornings. It’s the very beginning of a new, long, tiring week. She never looks forward to Mondays. So he changes that. He sets the alarm on his watch a little earlier than other days; shutting it off before it can wake her. He slips silently out of bed and tiptoes quietly into the bathroom to shower; leaving her smiley faces and love messages on the steamy mirrors. He creates her favourite tea and makes her toast with raspberry jam; just the way she likes it. Picking a flower from the garden; whichever one looks the happiest and brightest, he places it all on a tray and pads back up to the bedroom to wake her. She no longer sets her alarm on Mondays. She knows he’ll not let her oversleep. He places the flower in her hair and drops delicate kisses; full of his love and affection for her, to the corner of her mouth, until she stirs gently. She smiles on Monday mornings. They eat breakfast in bed, covering the sheets in crumbs and giggling contentedly as the cat licks them up. She hums in the bathroom while he clears away crockery, and always re-emerges with the flower tucked behind her ear. It remains there ‘til night fall. They never once look at their phones or the paper, far too focused on each other to pay anything else mind. Their kiss as they part reminds them of their love for each other and of the good things in life; like strolls along the shore, strawberries dipped in dark chocolate, smiling sunflowers that open to a beautiful summer’s day, and of course, Monday mornings.
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I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible-- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect. the old composers -- Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms were the only ones who spoke to me and they were dead. finally, starved and beaten, I had to go into the streets to be interviewed for low-paying and monotonous jobs by strange men behind desks men without eyes men without faces who would take away my hours break them **** on them. now I work for the editors the readers the critics but still hang around and drink with Mozart, Bach, Brahms and the Bee some buddies some men sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.
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Friends Within The Darkness
You should smile more. It creates a rippling effect greater than that dark waves of your hair. Your voice puts me in a monotonous trance. It wakens up my soul yet could put me in a lucid dream. That colorful sleeve on your arm reveals your true beauty Although I cannot decipher it. It has a way of speaking to me;            Who you are.
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Oct 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM UTC
Tattoo Guy
Monotonous existence I am veiling my daydreams I am drowning it seems Alive I am dead Ignoring thoughts in my head Monotonous existence
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 11:22 PM UTC
Double Haiku
One monotonous day is followed by another monotonous, identical day. The same things will happen, they will happen again -- the same moments find us and leave us. A month passes and ushers in another month. One easily guesses the coming events; they are the boring ones of yesterday. And the morrow ends up not resembling a morrow anymore.
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Monotony
Fill the hollow crevice of my existence With light, show me a warmer way Stop numbness from taking over I am slipping further0 into dismay. Down the senseless pit of despair My direction is out of control Darkness paralyzes my mind Strangling thoughts that crawl and roll Constricting my body until I give up I kick the air but cannot land a blow The empty space will never stop resisting The sound of my own scream has become my foe. The endless void swallows my voice Here the tears I cry fall forever The lies I have told mean nothing now I knew my will was always meant to sever. Faced with nothingness all around This is my life; a big black hole It's slowly shoving me outwards Little by little, pain taking over my soul. Chaos has reality gripped In a tight but unsure grasp Confusing the mass of color And motion contained in its clasp Bullied by the tidal wave of isolation Head above water though it is strong Giving up the ability to move Surviving by the current floating me along. My consciousness is traveling lethargically I no longer feel my torso or limbs Attempt to wiggle a finger but it won't budge It takes all my strength to speak and part dry lips. This is where existence ceases Where time's beginning meets its end An unending loop of monotonous emotions displayed A breif instant in which Eternity life does suspend
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Mar 28, 2018
Mar 28, 2018 at 6:35 PM UTC
Fill Me Up
My leg hurts The jaws of this inhumane trap engulf my lower shin I have the tool to disarm it and free myself But I muttle in my adolescent egocentric pain Caught within monotonous routine and self interest I rot like my peers I've sunk to a level of self loathing, that I enjoy pulling myself down I Am Disgusting. I Need Help. I cry for things I can give myself but alas I withhold it to feel sorry for myself Me and my fellow youth Equally as useful, equally as useless Although I am free of the crowd I am still blinded by my adolescence Purpose Interest Intellect Great-fullness Peacefulness Generosity Love PURPOSE all I've know is I am here to be a vessel for knowledge and indoctrination I am here to have an opinion I voice, but does not matter. I do not matter. This function is welded to me However... The voice of destiny reasons with me again and I hear: Seek what's within Garrot it. Place yourself into the walls of meaning and the murals upon't Serve others in selflessness. Share with others in selflessness. Learn from others in selflessness. Teach others in selflessness. Your a pawn in the samsara. Do your duty within its game. Gain higher consciousness so you can share the path to it. Become a giver, not a taker. Interest Intellect Great-fullness Peacefulness Generosity Love Six lessons left, define yourself within them. Or perish within your self indulgent pitiful hole.
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Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 5:13 AM UTC
Fictional Fixedness
a)  i am the mortar incurring blow after blow      from the abrasive quality of your negligence.       no, i am herb between pestle and mortar       the full realization of 'rock and a hard place' b)  i am the mortar between each brick you lay,      in blue collar glory, or rock star slumming,      to bind shaky corridors of past serenity      and bear indiscretions on my limestone shoulders c)  i am the mortar you fire before crawling under covers      for inexpensive *** and trashier beer      by a lake on a camping trip where tents trump love      like the queen of spades in a hand of hearts        d)  in fact, these are false, merely possibilities --      actuality: you were never enough       to make me spew homonyms in metaphor       because you were nothing like them,       always appearing changed but monotonous in meaning,       and if you're so into contraposition,       are we not but names for each other?
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 3:28 AM UTC
the final will not be multiple choice
******* feelings, I wish I didn't have them. I wish I wouldn't be jealous over any little thing. I could go on with life without any type of remorse. I could go on with this monotonous, existence. But without you of course. Because love is mother nature's most powerful force. But without it, I wouldn't have any passion to chase you. And i wouldn't want to be in love, because I wouldn't have to. But that isn't real, it's really not possible. All of these feelings I hold are unstoppable. Under all this emotion, i see clearer than ever. Ready to conquer any ******* endeavor. I need you like water, without you, I'd die. Like a bird needs it's feathers, minus you, I can't fly. You're this constant itch, i feel on my lips. And when I scratch it, I take in huge hits of bliss. So All of this time, I could have felt this? And now that I've tasted you, I know what I've missed. You are the best cuddles, tip top of the list. The most amazing sensation, everytime we kiss.
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May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 11:16 PM UTC
Hits of Bliss
there is nothing i love more than being a girl i love the way i speak, with slang only teenage girls use i love wearing dainty clothes, feeling beautiful wearing them i love collecting, knick-knacks, records, crystals above all i love the wonder of girlhood romanticizing my life perceiving my monotonous existence, as a life worth writing about
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Dec 4, 2022
Dec 4, 2022 at 9:53 PM UTC
girlhood
Alone into Rainy, twist a Dai clove, pattering rain, wind lingering foot Yuhuan, lengthy dark gray rain curtain hung plaintive, oblique rain splashes dusty track marks, those rainy season, those day's dependent, those nostalgic every night in this late spring rain, scraping completed my cold lonely, rain turned into a long and narrow alley Resentment, thwarted flows into atria, cool diffuse through the apex. Do not turn around in your mind of the day, I count, chatter thoughts of you, and for your Ai resentment, Acacia entanglement, filled Chu pain, no know what to say, but unfortunately does not help, once the owner of the rain falling, once clouds drifting sea oath, I never touched your warmth, sigh Lane is a rain: Wife - Why shallow edge. (yiwu export) Came alone intersection, waving a monotonous right hand, held in our left vague shadow, the breakdown of the raindrops bounce dust, Red rain, your shadows, swaying like a willow in the rain erratic, like a hard rain exhibition wings flutter Ling heavy, like rain, pedestrians hurry hurry ...... once Pengguo footprints Bingqing appearance of your hands, had led a faint in the rain blessings Juyi Peng broken tile rain dream, comfort our goodbyes, we pay homage to the past. Acacia is the way the dust, whisk Yang is confusion of resentment, lost pain. This year's rainy season to refresh my mind, I view Acacia dream dreams, the pain, resentment cut into the rain, stuck into the soil; tears into the hands of deep stone, sank; to have a bunch of rendering painful injury worry text buried in the memory, so that resentment heart of the sea to swim, let the pain out of the bone marrow, dusty track once marks, wound treatment desolate, firmly stand in Kuwata, enterprises no longer envy sea water. (yiwu export agent) Let love and hate, love and hatred, grace and resentment, thinking and pain in the rainy season falling, drifting in the rainy season. I left alone a pool of water, the flow of soulful call. (Yiwu buying agent)
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 5:03 AM UTC
The call from the rainy season
Alone into Rainy, twist a Dai clove, pattering rain, wind lingering foot Yuhuan, lengthy dark gray rain curtain hung plaintive, oblique rain splashes dusty track marks, those rainy season, those day's dependent, those nostalgic every night in this late spring rain, scraping completed my cold lonely, rain turned into a long and narrow alley Resentment, thwarted flows into atria, cool diffuse through the apex. Do not turn around in your mind of the day, I count, chatter thoughts of you, and for your Ai resentment, Acacia entanglement, filled Chu pain, no know what to say, but unfortunately does not help, once the owner of the rain falling, once clouds drifting sea oath, I never touched your warmth, sigh Lane is a rain: Wife - Why shallow edge. (yiwu export) Came alone intersection, waving a monotonous right hand, held in our left vague shadow, the breakdown of the raindrops bounce dust, Red rain, your shadows, swaying like a willow in the rain erratic, like a hard rain exhibition wings flutter Ling heavy, like rain, pedestrians hurry hurry ...... once Pengguo footprints Bingqing appearance of your hands, had led a faint in the rain blessings Juyi Peng broken tile rain dream, comfort our goodbyes, we pay homage to the past. Acacia is the way the dust, whisk Yang is confusion of resentment, lost pain. This year's rainy season to refresh my mind, I view Acacia dream dreams, the pain, resentment cut into the rain, stuck into the soil; tears into the hands of deep stone, sank; to have a bunch of rendering painful injury worry text buried in the memory, so that resentment heart of the sea to swim, let the pain out of the bone marrow, dusty track once marks, wound treatment desolate, firmly stand in Kuwata, enterprises no longer envy sea water. (yiwu export agent) Let love and hate, love and hatred, grace and resentment, thinking and pain in the rainy season falling, drifting in the rainy season. I left alone a pool of water, the flow of soulful call. (Yiwu buying agent)
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Ten years ago it seemed impossible That she should ever grow so calm as this, With self-remembrance in her warmest kiss And dim dried eyes like an exhausted well. Slow-speaking when she has some fact to tell, Silent with long-unbroken silences, Centred in self yet not unpleased to please, Gravely monotonous like a passing bell. Mindful of drudging daily common things, Patient at pastime, patient at her work, Wearied perhaps but strenuous certainly. Sometimes I fancy we may one day see Her head shoot forth seven stars from where they lurk And her eyes lightnings and her shoulders wings.
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In Progress
Just a crack in the brick wall A red rubber ball The last time you can't remember When you stood tall The monotonous hologram The seaside hotdog stand The regrets piled higher than any mountain can Four stringed guitar Home in an abandoned car Courage in a bottle Wishing still on the first star Still he caresses the neck Presses down the frets Sings three octave blues On life's reef of wrecks He's free lost in the chords The music opens doors The pathway is as bleak as sin While inside he reaches for more He goes off to sleep He has his dreams deep About a paradise for losers And a five string guitar
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 10:12 PM UTC
Four String Guitar
This is just a boring sadness; a low-lying, flat sort of sadness, just a grey sea on a drizzly day. There’s nothing major going on here, nothing monumental, nothing tragic. It’s all just a bit blue round the edges. This isn’t an explosive sadness, it isn’t a torrent and it isn’t rock bottom. It’s just a boring sadness that hums steadily and it’s fine, really. It’s fine. It’s just a sort of storm globe sadness, willing to become tempestuous when shaken. The waves rush, lightening darts, thunder bellows, but it all happens behind glass. And it’s fine, really, because it settles itself quickly. The sea goes flat again and it’s fine. It’s just a monotonous sadness, the sort that makes life dull and hopeless. It keeps you in your bedroom and it ticks off the years and still, you’re in the bedroom, yet to have your first kiss, your first heart break, your first night out, your first airplane ride, your first concert, your first car, but it’s fine, because it’s a sadness that comes down like a fall of paper snowflakes and it’s fine. It’s all fine. It’s just a boring sort of sadness, so you watch other people’s misery instead and you wish you could spare them the pain. You become a twisted sort of sadness covet, a sadness thief, stealing sadness that isn’t boring, stealing sadness that seems worse than your own And it hurts you and makes you feel worthless, all these bungled attempts to rob sadness but it’s fine, really. At the end of the day, you’re fine. It’s just another bit of boring sadness and you are fine.
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May 3, 2018
May 3, 2018 at 4:23 PM UTC
It's fine.
This is just a boring sadness; a low-lying, flat sort of sadness, just a grey sea on a drizzly day. There’s nothing major going on here, nothing monumental, nothing tragic. It’s all just a bit blue round the edges. This isn’t an explosive sadness, it isn’t a torrent and it isn’t rock bottom. It’s just a boring sadness that hums steadily and it’s fine, really. It’s fine. It’s just a sort of storm globe sadness, willing to become tempestuous when shaken. The waves rush, lightening darts, thunder bellows, but it all happens behind glass. And it’s fine, really, because it settles itself quickly. The sea goes flat again and it’s fine. It’s just a monotonous sadness, the sort that makes life dull and hopeless. It keeps you in your bedroom and it ticks off the years and still, you’re in the bedroom, yet to have your first kiss, your first heart break, your first night out, your first airplane ride, your first concert, your first car, but it’s fine, because it’s a sadness that comes down like a fall of paper snowflakes and it’s fine. It’s all fine. It’s just a boring sort of sadness, so you watch other people’s misery instead and you wish you could spare them the pain. You become a twisted sort of sadness covet, a sadness thief, stealing sadness that isn’t boring, stealing sadness that seems worse than your own And it hurts you and makes you feel worthless, all these bungled attempts to rob sadness but it’s fine, really. At the end of the day, you’re fine. It’s just another bit of boring sadness and you are fine.
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I wait for you to come closer, To draw closer and tell me That you can't deal with me Any more. Not with my Insane, bordering on Psychotic, behavior, and My bipolar mood swings. But, you draw closer And you smile right at me, And draw me into a hug For a second, that little voice, Which I am always aware of, Which tells me I'm never Going to be good enough For anyone to accept or like, Let alone love, Fades to the back of my mind. I let myself relax Into your warm embrace and I let myself be and believe. I turn to smile at you... Before I can see your face, Your features, I am woken up From my daydream By the bell signalling the End of school. I pack my bag And head towards my carpool, My movements sluggish- Even cheerily wave goodbye to A few stragglers. I reach home and eat lunch alone. I go for tuition, let myself Become numb to everything But learning and understanding. It becomes darker and it's almost 8, I come back home again. I had been out from 7 in the morning. This time, my family's there and We eat dinner together, though, I am barely there with them. They're discussing important Things like business and will Talk to me later. I finish eating And go sleep. Tomorrow's going to Be the exact robotic same.
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Aug 6, 2012
Aug 6, 2012 at 7:53 AM UTC
Monotonous
‌  ‌‌*The desperate pounding   ‌          on the wall can be heard* "Love Love Love" I can't believe you're so shallow.    You refuse. You die.    You vanish like a burning hay,    right here, on the blackened way. Candy peaks, monotonous points in the sea       Let me descend     Open you a bit                         River,                         Sun,­    ­                     foamy stream,                         You drown,                         Love, dream, dream!                         TV screens                         Times square                         Light-ants                        ­ Electric signals through wires                         deep dark night flooding rush                         Volcano erupting                         Surface! Screammm!                           Neons                         A­lcohol on glass                         Old charwoman rubs it                         with rag                         Hands shake you                         in the foamy stream                         Ha!                         Who was right?      The night staggers you      with thousand stars      Wolves howling      Moon      Mushrooms      Dew & violet & knights      & Mysteries      Welcome to the old days      Tomorrow you will be introduced      to the wise King of England A rocker picks up stuff and scatters the TV screen bottles of liqour are smashed in his house Glass scattered, guitars wrecked - he's crazy, pulling out hair, gnashing teeth -You all killed him     and You are not even aware      Meanwhile a man strolls the woods       searches for mushrooms        on sunny autumn day        he smells moss, bark and undergrowth        He's contemplating the topics of              childhood & ******         Red lipstick smears all over her lips                  She's the animal queen                      All belongs to her                    Thanks to her claws,                      cat-moan, and the                           short living                      aggressive cinder                             she owns.             Leather jacket be her weapon,                   Night be her moment. I am the Eye, and what I see is a child picking yellow petals of sow-thistle kneeling in the sun in his timeless summer. Who would know, that this chapter would be closed one day and the brown leather book would become dusty someday
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 6:10 PM UTC
Streams
‌  ‌‌*The desperate pounding   ‌          on the wall can be heard* "Love Love Love" I can't believe you're so shallow.    You refuse. You die.    You vanish like a burning hay,    right here, on the blackened way. Candy peaks, monotonous points in the sea       Let me descend     Open you a bit                         River,                         Sun,­    ­                     foamy stream,                         You drown,                         Love, dream, dream!                         TV screens                         Times square                         Light-ants                        ­ Electric signals through wires                         deep dark night flooding rush                         Volcano erupting                         Surface! Screammm!                           Neons                         A­lcohol on glass                         Old charwoman rubs it                         with rag                         Hands shake you                         in the foamy stream                         Ha!                         Who was right?      The night staggers you      with thousand stars      Wolves howling      Moon      Mushrooms      Dew & violet & knights      & Mysteries      Welcome to the old days      Tomorrow you will be introduced      to the wise King of England A rocker picks up stuff and scatters the TV screen bottles of liqour are smashed in his house Glass scattered, guitars wrecked - he's crazy, pulling out hair, gnashing teeth -You all killed him     and You are not even aware      Meanwhile a man strolls the woods       searches for mushrooms        on sunny autumn day        he smells moss, bark and undergrowth        He's contemplating the topics of              childhood & ******         Red lipstick smears all over her lips                  She's the animal queen                      All belongs to her                    Thanks to her claws,                      cat-moan, and the                           short living                      aggressive cinder                             she owns.             Leather jacket be her weapon,                   Night be her moment. I am the Eye, and what I see is a child picking yellow petals of sow-thistle kneeling in the sun in his timeless summer. Who would know, that this chapter would be closed one day and the brown leather book would become dusty someday
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it was the Cubist who created the space and color that everywhere today assails our eyes in    uniform architecture and monotonous design; the various branches of modern art through tedious & exhaustive experiment      & research creating a massive cultural sinkhole whose banal discoveries unveil for all the sameness of form, line and color; Quote from Gorky's 'Camouflage', 1942: I like the heat; the tenderness; the edible; the lusciousness; the song of a single person in a bathtub full of water.                            I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings    of Seurat and that man Pablo Picasso;                I measure all things by weight.                In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series,                26 June 1942 I love Mougouch, Gorky's wife.                What about papa Cézanne; I like the wheat fields, the plow, the apricots, those flirts of the sun.    And bread above all. My lever is the purple; About 194 feet away from our house in Armenia on the road to the spring my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired                              from giving fruit; this garden was identified as the _'Garden of Wish Fulfillment'_ often I had seen my mother and the other village women exposing their naked bosoms, taking the soft, dependable ******* in their hands & rubbing them on the rocks; above all this standing an enormous tree all bleached under the sun, rain & cold,  deprived of leaves. This was the Holy Tree [quoted in 1942] In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series, 26 June 1942 I don't like that word 'finished'.     When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness; I never finish a painting –   I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I can never come to the end of; sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out.    Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time; I do that       b/c I want to – b/c I change my    mind so often; The thing to do is      always to keep starting to paint;      never finishing the painting [quoted in 1948]
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 4:39 PM UTC
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it was the Cubist who created the space and color that everywhere today assails our eyes in    uniform architecture and monotonous design; the various branches of modern art through tedious & exhaustive experiment      & research creating a massive cultural sinkhole whose banal discoveries unveil for all the sameness of form, line and color; Quote from Gorky's 'Camouflage', 1942: I like the heat; the tenderness; the edible; the lusciousness; the song of a single person in a bathtub full of water.                            I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings    of Seurat and that man Pablo Picasso;                I measure all things by weight.                In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series,                26 June 1942 I love Mougouch, Gorky's wife.                What about papa Cézanne; I like the wheat fields, the plow, the apricots, those flirts of the sun.    And bread above all. My lever is the purple; About 194 feet away from our house in Armenia on the road to the spring my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired                              from giving fruit; this garden was identified as the _'Garden of Wish Fulfillment'_ often I had seen my mother and the other village women exposing their naked bosoms, taking the soft, dependable ******* in their hands & rubbing them on the rocks; above all this standing an enormous tree all bleached under the sun, rain & cold,  deprived of leaves. This was the Holy Tree [quoted in 1942] In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series, 26 June 1942 I don't like that word 'finished'.     When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness; I never finish a painting –   I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I can never come to the end of; sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out.    Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time; I do that       b/c I want to – b/c I change my    mind so often; The thing to do is      always to keep starting to paint;      never finishing the painting [quoted in 1948]
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The listening stopped a while ago. It’s like the monotonous sounds spewing from your mouth just didn’t meet the qualifications of entering my ears. It wasn’t always like that, though. You used to deliver information to my being like you were the great Giving Tree. And I was a nearby flower. A delicate, nearby flower. A flower that went about its normal routines, such as photosynthesis or pollination or other flower things. Ah, those flower things. To me they are everything. This flower would blossom in the spring and wither in the winter. I would spend my flower days in the summer breathing in the glowing sunlight and living my flower life. And in the fall, I would spend my flower nights rocking in the breeze, waiting for winter to come and bring me my renewal period. I would look with my flower eyes toward you, the great Giving Tree. Tall and ***** like the unstoppable force. And I, there on the ground, the immovable object. Your knowledge was so delightful at first. It lit up my surrounding flower world more than the Sun ever could. Your knowledge would come at all hours of the day, no matter rain or shine. I remember once a long time ago when I was a little, tiny flower. It was raining on my little tiny flower head. But you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. The rain that would beat pitter-patter on my pedals. The water that would run down my stem. You with your knowledge would tell me “Soak up the water my son. You need as much as you can hold.” And I did just what you said. Because I knew you were an unstoppable force, and could never be wrong. And I, as the immovable object, would never let something stop me. And then there was the time when I was an older, bigger flower. The Sun was shining on my older, bigger flower head. And you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. The sunlight that shine zig-zag on my pedals. The shadow that would cast from my stem. You with your knowledge would tell me “Soak in the sunlight my son. You need as much as you can hold.” And I did just what you said. Because I knew you were an unstoppable force, and could never be wrong. And I, as the immovable object, would never let something stop me. But now I am a current, normal flower. The world is passing by my current, normal flower head. And you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. You with your knowledge…. Said nothing to me, your son. I didn’t know what to take in. So I did just what you didn’t say. And I just kept watching the world float by you, great Giving Tree. You, the unstoppable force. And I just kept watching the world float by me, the delicate flower. Me, the immovable object. And for the rest of our days you said nothing to me. You don’t pass your knowledge to me, your delicate flower son. Your immovable object. And I stop listening to you, my great Giving Tree. My unstoppable force. The monotonous sounds spewing from your mouth just don’t meet the qualifications of entering my ears anymore. The relationship we had has faded away. But I had a feeling neither of us would win when we first met. “Because you know what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.”
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Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015 at 10:11 PM UTC
Just Shoot Me in the Head and Call Me Narrow-Minded
The listening stopped a while ago. It’s like the monotonous sounds spewing from your mouth just didn’t meet the qualifications of entering my ears. It wasn’t always like that, though. You used to deliver information to my being like you were the great Giving Tree. And I was a nearby flower. A delicate, nearby flower. A flower that went about its normal routines, such as photosynthesis or pollination or other flower things. Ah, those flower things. To me they are everything. This flower would blossom in the spring and wither in the winter. I would spend my flower days in the summer breathing in the glowing sunlight and living my flower life. And in the fall, I would spend my flower nights rocking in the breeze, waiting for winter to come and bring me my renewal period. I would look with my flower eyes toward you, the great Giving Tree. Tall and ***** like the unstoppable force. And I, there on the ground, the immovable object. Your knowledge was so delightful at first. It lit up my surrounding flower world more than the Sun ever could. Your knowledge would come at all hours of the day, no matter rain or shine. I remember once a long time ago when I was a little, tiny flower. It was raining on my little tiny flower head. But you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. The rain that would beat pitter-patter on my pedals. The water that would run down my stem. You with your knowledge would tell me “Soak up the water my son. You need as much as you can hold.” And I did just what you said. Because I knew you were an unstoppable force, and could never be wrong. And I, as the immovable object, would never let something stop me. And then there was the time when I was an older, bigger flower. The Sun was shining on my older, bigger flower head. And you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. The sunlight that shine zig-zag on my pedals. The shadow that would cast from my stem. You with your knowledge would tell me “Soak in the sunlight my son. You need as much as you can hold.” And I did just what you said. Because I knew you were an unstoppable force, and could never be wrong. And I, as the immovable object, would never let something stop me. But now I am a current, normal flower. The world is passing by my current, normal flower head. And you knew what to tell me, great Giving Tree. You with your knowledge…. Said nothing to me, your son. I didn’t know what to take in. So I did just what you didn’t say. And I just kept watching the world float by you, great Giving Tree. You, the unstoppable force. And I just kept watching the world float by me, the delicate flower. Me, the immovable object. And for the rest of our days you said nothing to me. You don’t pass your knowledge to me, your delicate flower son. Your immovable object. And I stop listening to you, my great Giving Tree. My unstoppable force. The monotonous sounds spewing from your mouth just don’t meet the qualifications of entering my ears anymore. The relationship we had has faded away. But I had a feeling neither of us would win when we first met. “Because you know what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.”
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Take my hand hold on through the quicksand of my expressed agony for I’m trying to bring us past the vanity and the demonic hailings I paint can as swiftly change to angels sailing past the hate my words can take you from a pearless white night with only the moon in sight then twist that light back to the sun’s beaming might surround you in a blizzard with imagery so vivid it cuts through the snow like a rock in a rivers flow bring you from the crumbles of earthly ruins to the humble pearly white gates of heavenly viewings invoke you in anger & apathy a firery rage bellowing until you hear a fazed echoeing pulling you from the depths of mind to the paradise I envisioned for mankind corrupt you with illness of doubtful hate then present a panacea of a hopeful fate I know I’m just a man, but take my hand and I’ll show to your there’s more to us than a monotonous plan
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Dec 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018 at 3:07 AM UTC
Vivid
Goodbye! Goodbye! and so I bid, Silent Farewells; as tears I hid, behind myself; accede to die. As you lie unconscious, In all your might you sleep. I sit beside you two, ruminating deep: "My life without you; how monotonous."   Then gather the bits that remained intact, to press my lips against your cheeks. Without you knowing all of these, I will forever bury this poignant fact. Now I leave to do the things, I need to do as I turn my back... on you my dear brothers, one thing I promise. i will be back. s  o  o  n    e  n  o  u  g  h.    I   W i l l   B e   B a c k                                                                                      .
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 5:20 AM UTC
Fragmented Triumvirate.
Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That same hideous nightmare thing, Talking, as he lapped my blood, In a voice cruel and flat, Saying for ever, "Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!..." That one word was all he said, That one word through all my sleep, In monotonous mock despair. Nonsense may be light as air, But there's Nonsense that can keep Horror bristling round the head, When a voice cruel and flat Says for ever, "Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!..." He had faded, he was gone Years ago with Nursery Land, When he leapt on me again From the clank of a night train, Overpowered me foot and head, Lapped my blood, while on and on The old voice cruel and flat Says for ever, "Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!..." Morphia drowsed, again I lay In a crater by High Wood: He was there with straddling legs, Staring eyes as big as eggs, Purring as he lapped my blood, His black bulk darkening the day, With a voice cruel and flat, "Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!..." he said, "Cat! ... Cat!..." When I'm shot through heart and head, And there's no choice but to die, The last word I'll hear, no doubt, Won't be "Charge!" or "Bomb them out!" Nor the stretcher-bearer's cry, "Let that body be, he's dead!" But a voice cruel and flat Saying for ever, "Cat! ... Cat! ... Cat!"
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A Child's Nightmare
In your ocean of fury and confusion, I’m a quaint coral reef, representing all that you are not. I am one, singular blinking light, on an antique arcade game. Contributing to the violent light show of the device, yet serene in my own monotonous repetition. I am alone.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 2:48 PM UTC
I am the Calm Center of the Universe
The sun awakens And i do too Should i study today? Or just hulla boo? Need to finish my syllabus But it is so monotonous To learn it word by word I'd rather eat ****
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM UTC
Pseudo Nerd