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"murals" poems
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC
Earth to Heaven: Navel High
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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gods and goddesses stilled mid-flight, immortalized in a glory fast fading. distilled sunlight filtering through, unheeded, as a devastating dawn for redemption awakens.      _dust scattering over marble hands, forever supple,_ as angels fall from grace, wings clipped and torn asunder. the sigh of a thousand lost souls, searching; the thunder of a thousand chariots, unbridled.      _a wing outstretched, a bow pulled taught;_ drawn, not fired. frozen heroes lifting voices unheard;      _the calm before a storm, a fight unforeseen,_ silver linings beckoning victories of heaven's epics left unsung. look up into the clouds and you'll see a history unwritten, for they speak to you in murals of smeared colors and pure light. but hush! sweet child, off you drift into an insincere sleep, until these stories buried beneath your lips,      singed, searing, burning away memories of the battles that    linger ,over your tongue  , are no more than a shadow of a flame.    and as his lashes flutter closed over blue eyes    and his heavy golden curls fall on white sheets    she whispers,         _the renaissance was not painted for you._
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 10:08 AM UTC
atlas captured
After dark, energies flow in manners that pleases them most braided together in lust, two king cobras were seen spiraling up when darkness like a camouflage sets in thickly around,you're the  marijuana of my mind, seeking far horizons of pleasure. I willingly seek oblivion, when pink pointed goosebumps like tarantula's love bites, results of mating time cruelty infest all over my body's landscape, signatures of ecstasy. I feel your lips become, moist, soft, honey from each drips never enough,for me, is it possible to get inebriated more? Your sighs and moans speak the vocabulary of a forgotten ancient language love hurriedly resurrected for us from past, brevity is the crux of that lingo of erupting jets of desire, it teaches you to moan in fifty different tones in all;even more? Your sharpened nails etch cave murals on my itching back that has the searing taste of blood, in hot hot chilly red. my taste buds of lust, begs for more and more of it. You are the marijuana fueling my narcotic flights that land in your misty land, enveloping my senses as a whole. "The night is still young, hear what the darkness whispers" I hear you speak like an oracle, on things about to happen.
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 11:50 AM UTC
A tryst with ***** narcotic moments
She was lost in East L.A. She was told she could be found That she’d feel something profound Once she walked over the streets Once she would smell, touch and hear Once she read the signs Admired the murals And entered each Laundromat.
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Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 3:23 AM UTC
Chicana Homeland
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
My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 3:58 PM UTC
My Sunglasses
My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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Nothing compares To shaking on top of an old Broken down windmill With you. Nothing compares To silent summers Sweating in the sweltering heat Of love. Nothing compares To bright blue brick walls Bringing about a brightening of bleary bland feelings. Nothing compares To dark auburn dreams Drifting down my darling's cheek. Nothing compares To radical rants On ruined romances raining rivulets of righteousness Upon those rotten adolescents. Nothing compares To myriads of murals Of most moved men Materializing Meandering In the fields below. Nothing compares To falling flat to fear Fretting and fanning To finish off This fantasy.
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 9:27 AM UTC
The Windmill
hammock and a stack of playboys. first emerged, boy. feature trees and teens and punch drunk lovers. chalk murals, girl. into the quiet density of love. quiet city. dance party, usa. we end up making movies about our fathers whether we know it or not. home videos. we double down on arcade tickets & spin for a kite to tangle. climb the town hill and bury our warmth. kiss to forget or remember this bliss & strange language. strange sprawl of lights seen. the homeowner’s association melt a pile of plastic flamingos into an idol osiris. dead god. & wait, wait for halloween. our parentals diligently sweat. they are conjurors of snacks and supper. they are creatures of the ritual routine. we ritual. we homework. we breathe easy, waiting for nothing.    (except for more holidays)
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 7:15 AM UTC
subdivision
an octagon tent wide enough that chucking rollies to the sand made impossible sprawled layers you turned to quote Dali told me how pale blue washed with lucy shimmered skyline into dimension acryllic-smeared sass drips canvas into murmurs circling dilation dimethyltryptamine stains painting dreams on my eyelids with flowerbrushes and silk, mushroom dust gathers in discarded hues on your pallet, where the colors of your irises dry into a nebula of night-blooming jasmine the scent of how you move when you sleep and sleeping is never so sweet as dancing through lucidity with you as my sheets. and i've traced your thumbprint so often i'm sure if it were stretched around a marble like buffalo skin on spirit-caller drums, a globe would be seen in which Greenland is finally proportionate-- the map on my wall always bothers you, but I do too, and everyone does, urging me under the geography etched into the sea of your surface by the crucible of your purpose and working me into empty behind your right below the 22 between i'ching and the forty two names of god clasping your fore in silver copper wound around my finger hamstrings woven like wire kambaba jasper, two to share you hang Tibetan tektites to elevate space meteorite fragments lodged in your helix, stardust blood, mandala sand from your mother, and our tendons wrappe by dexterous carpals make such a pretty pendant of my heart, for synesthesia mistakes not and my addiction to the pen has eased for you breathe murals and syllables never could match brushtrokes of carbon dioxide.
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 1:13 PM UTC
an epic (past due)
an octagon tent wide enough that chucking rollies to the sand made impossible sprawled layers you turned to quote Dali told me how pale blue washed with lucy shimmered skyline into dimension acryllic-smeared sass drips canvas into murmurs circling dilation dimethyltryptamine stains painting dreams on my eyelids with flowerbrushes and silk, mushroom dust gathers in discarded hues on your pallet, where the colors of your irises dry into a nebula of night-blooming jasmine the scent of how you move when you sleep and sleeping is never so sweet as dancing through lucidity with you as my sheets. and i've traced your thumbprint so often i'm sure if it were stretched around a marble like buffalo skin on spirit-caller drums, a globe would be seen in which Greenland is finally proportionate-- the map on my wall always bothers you, but I do too, and everyone does, urging me under the geography etched into the sea of your surface by the crucible of your purpose and working me into empty behind your right below the 22 between i'ching and the forty two names of god clasping your fore in silver copper wound around my finger hamstrings woven like wire kambaba jasper, two to share you hang Tibetan tektites to elevate space meteorite fragments lodged in your helix, stardust blood, mandala sand from your mother, and our tendons wrappe by dexterous carpals make such a pretty pendant of my heart, for synesthesia mistakes not and my addiction to the pen has eased for you breathe murals and syllables never could match brushtrokes of carbon dioxide.
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mom was always self conscious about her veins she veiled them with pants in eighty degree weather, constantly looking for cures for varicose and spider veins and always asked me if she looked bad mom never looked bad, not even mediocre. she was mom. mom shone through with a holy radiance of giving, i knew that when she got to heaven (even if heaven was never real god would make a heaven just for her) she would be blessed and her veins would be erased. i would write her a letter telling her how her veins were art on her legs with colors that were abstract for the human body i would tell her i love the paintings on her legs because they reminded me of all she did for decades, tiring her feet, never sitting down, giving her self up for half hearted people. i would tell her stories that her veins were paintings made by God to show her how unique she was, and he formed murals for her that would never go away, with lilac, violet and green paints that stained his fingers i would remind her maps and magnificent cities had veins of their own, they were the roads and tunnels that people traveled on to find their destination. my hope for her is that she remembers her flaws are art that don't have to be hidden in a museum
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 2:31 PM UTC
veins
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom? You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method. She always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really, she was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember her? …of course you wouldn’t. You would have her more like this: That weird nerd who doesn’t talk to anyone. has long hair and draws on his pants, is awkward in every conceivable way - and possibly gay. He spends all day in his notebook, writing who-knows-what. Who cares - - about what his dreams were? He was just another background character in your life. There was one time you cheered him on, at the hot-dog eating contest. The only time you ever touched his hand was to give him a high five for that. You always pitted him. silently. Never out loud. She was there. Hiding behind his eyes. And she loved you. As much as one could love someone in seventh grade. But you never loved her. You couldn’t have. She didn’t even know she existed yet.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM UTC
Remember Her? (extended)
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom? You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method. She always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really, she was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember her? …of course you wouldn’t. You would have her more like this: That weird nerd who doesn’t talk to anyone. has long hair and draws on his pants, is awkward in every conceivable way - and possibly gay. He spends all day in his notebook, writing who-knows-what. Who cares - - about what his dreams were? He was just another background character in your life. There was one time you cheered him on, at the hot-dog eating contest. The only time you ever touched his hand was to give him a high five for that. You always pitted him. silently. Never out loud. She was there. Hiding behind his eyes. And she loved you. As much as one could love someone in seventh grade. But you never loved her. You couldn’t have. She didn’t even know she existed yet.
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If life were a wes Anderson movie My wallpaper would be faded 70's vintage. I would live a hard life and love an impossible woman Who would shower me with misguided affection. If life were a wes Anderson movie I would have the knowledge to complete Completely useless tasks That would somehow be useful in any given situation, Like chiseling a canoe out of a solid oak tree Or weaving a hexagonal basket. My eyes would constantly be filtered With a color so vibrant my skin would glow chartreuse yellow. If life were a Wes Anderson movie My happiness would exalt and spread to those around me. My stories would fill pictures and paintings, My walls covered in obscure posters and murals that no one really knows the purpose of. If life were a Wes Anderson movie Bill Murray would be my father, Best friend, And lover. If life were a Wes Anderson movie Nobody would understand my purpose But everyone would love my presence just the same. If life were a Wes Anderson movie I would be king and crown those around me my subjects. My crown would be encrusted with the Latin phrase, sic transit gloria. I would be king and grace my subjects with timeless tales of ages past, of tear soaked laughter. If life were a Wes Anderson movie I would be king.
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 10:39 PM UTC
The Wes Anderson Lifestyle
My community is like a day at the beach. The warm water melts away the ****** seagull calls As we build sandcastles large enough for the biggest And most ridiculously hard to say umbrella that we can Manage to stitch together from our broken homes. We play volleyball with our hope The biggest beach ball we can muster Our net constructed of ally weave And it’s got flames and it’s super bad-ass and **** But nets are only nets And nets can only do so much You can’t play games without The people. We ride jet skis away from sharks Sharing the strong towers Of our middle fingers Because **** sharks I know only some of them are dangerous But after you see a body floating in the water Like a buoyed tomb It’s hard to forget the biting. The net asked us once Why we never have a funeral I guessed that it didn’t realize that We don’t have the time To bury all the bodies That’s like Asking us to count the sand Like telling us to collect the waves Like begging us to dry an ocean of tears But These aren’t tears They are a body count These aren’t sickles of sand They are our ancestors’ ashes These aren’t warm waves but walls of black blood And it’s here Amongst the ashes And blood That we build our sandcastles I look around in mine It is insulated in white The black blood Only begins to broach The moat outside If I never bothered To look I might never see it How much time Must we spend in Our sandcastles Before we can Smell the blood Outside How deep do we Have to dig our holes Before we silence the screams Outside Why are we just Looking at the walls Why aren’t we looking Outside We are not royalty We are not arbiters of Ash and blood This is NOT a Game Net’s don’t matter when All the players are dying. How many sandcastles Do we have to build Before we remember The stone riots that Built them Be spiked heel shoes Be rock and brick Be broken windows Be shattered bone Raise your fist against The biting tide Swim against the sharks Until you bleed enough To drown Them Be blood Be ash Be broken homes Be ****** murals In the street Be white sandcastles Then tear yourself down Until you get back to the Stone Walls of your foundation You know what, ever mind **** sandcastles They seem too much like sharks anyway
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Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM UTC
A Day at the Beach
My community is like a day at the beach. The warm water melts away the ****** seagull calls As we build sandcastles large enough for the biggest And most ridiculously hard to say umbrella that we can Manage to stitch together from our broken homes. We play volleyball with our hope The biggest beach ball we can muster Our net constructed of ally weave And it’s got flames and it’s super bad-ass and **** But nets are only nets And nets can only do so much You can’t play games without The people. We ride jet skis away from sharks Sharing the strong towers Of our middle fingers Because **** sharks I know only some of them are dangerous But after you see a body floating in the water Like a buoyed tomb It’s hard to forget the biting. The net asked us once Why we never have a funeral I guessed that it didn’t realize that We don’t have the time To bury all the bodies That’s like Asking us to count the sand Like telling us to collect the waves Like begging us to dry an ocean of tears But These aren’t tears They are a body count These aren’t sickles of sand They are our ancestors’ ashes These aren’t warm waves but walls of black blood And it’s here Amongst the ashes And blood That we build our sandcastles I look around in mine It is insulated in white The black blood Only begins to broach The moat outside If I never bothered To look I might never see it How much time Must we spend in Our sandcastles Before we can Smell the blood Outside How deep do we Have to dig our holes Before we silence the screams Outside Why are we just Looking at the walls Why aren’t we looking Outside We are not royalty We are not arbiters of Ash and blood This is NOT a Game Net’s don’t matter when All the players are dying. How many sandcastles Do we have to build Before we remember The stone riots that Built them Be spiked heel shoes Be rock and brick Be broken windows Be shattered bone Raise your fist against The biting tide Swim against the sharks Until you bleed enough To drown Them Be blood Be ash Be broken homes Be ****** murals In the street Be white sandcastles Then tear yourself down Until you get back to the Stone Walls of your foundation You know what, ever mind **** sandcastles They seem too much like sharks anyway
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My eyes slyly asked yours for a breeze But your lips quickly gifted a tornado. Uprooted, with you  I flew across like a bird, To an island where your sharpend  nails, Etched murals on love going sweetly violent, On every inch, making the pain pleasurable, All over the canvas of my down turned body.
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Aug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020 at 12:45 AM UTC
Quick fix
* *the prison is deep her walls masked in sewed flesh there is only a sliver of light that comes from the womb awakening the night brewing many storms into potent thoughts hide them well lest they pierce through the skin make a home of murals unwritten letters to no one that you keep inside let them return to dusk decay into the rose tinted sunsets there are no photographs to remind you of anything nothing has happened for years.* *
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Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023 at 8:29 PM UTC
rose tinted sunsets
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom. You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method and she always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She told me one day that she thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really. She was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember that chick? ...of course you don't.
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Jun 22, 2010
Jun 22, 2010 at 6:31 PM UTC
Remember her?
Remember that chick who pulled her hair back in a ponytail had glasses and wore ripped jeans that she Sharpied murals on out of boredom. You’d see her in class sometimes mumbling to herself and doodling while the teacher droned on about the scientific method and she always made you curious but you could never get close enough to hear what she was saying or see what she was writing. She promised herself that one day she’d keep a diary to keep track of the truth but every time she tried it turned into a collection of half-thought-poems and half-drawings of half-things half-human and half-something else. Never autobiographical never the truth. She seemed like the kind of girl who is a self proclaimed vegan scrawny little thing with ex-hippie parents like if you ever talked to her she would be all in for face about “going green man.” So she took you by surprise when she beat the fattest kid in the class at that hot-dog eating contest that chubby ******* didn’t stand a chance. She told me one day that she thinks the truth is just the lie that you tell yourself the most often. People called her “book-smart” because she wore glasses and was bad at math. But she wasn’t really. She was people-smart in the way a scientist is rat-smart. She’d sit on the swings at recess and watch people her eyes were concerned like there was something they had that she lacked. Her locker was always empty she took everything home every night she left no residue no aftermath no memory behind. She dreamed of living out of her car and opening a coffeeshop and being free. She knew she was destined to prove there was no such thing as destiny. That we make our own reality. And all of this you found endearing and admirable. Remember that chick? ...of course you don't.
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It is in those broken moments we find ourselves, Torn to pieces, with no explanation – A dark crevasse molded to fit our shape, Holding our deepest thoughts, encasing our forgotten spirit, We tend to allow ourselves to be encompassed by this abyss – Explaining to ourselves the need to dwell on the darkened past, Swallowed by its projection of memories, Sprayed upon the walls of our mind like murals – An endless catacomb of images, seemingly permanent in their manifestation… It is in those broken moments, that we find ourselves. Seemingly unbearable days, leading to sleepless nights, Dreading the thoughts that creep their way to our dreams – Resting in an endless adaptation of our subconscious, Playing out their roles, as if upon a Shakespearian stage… Each thought, acting its part with tragic precision, Layer upon layer, scene upon scene… Reaching back to grasp our inception of reality – Griping its contents, and strangling the ideas to exhaustion; gasping… It was in those broken moments, that we found ourselves, With a weighted world pressed firmly upon our chest, The ebbing soil began to crumble – Giving light to the somber path traversed… Filling the now hollow crevasse with purpose and meaning, Each memory defined by the silver lining expressed in love – The fleeting darkness, swallowed by the over-whelming feeling of home… Finding it in the simplicity of a kiss, and the certainty of an embrace, It is here that we find ourselves, In the intricate details and delicate idiosyncrasies –
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 7:21 AM UTC
Broken Moments
It is in those broken moments we find ourselves, Torn to pieces, with no explanation – A dark crevasse molded to fit our shape, Holding our deepest thoughts, encasing our forgotten spirit, We tend to allow ourselves to be encompassed by this abyss – Explaining to ourselves the need to dwell on the darkened past, Swallowed by its projection of memories, Sprayed upon the walls of our mind like murals – An endless catacomb of images, seemingly permanent in their manifestation… It is in those broken moments, that we find ourselves. Seemingly unbearable days, leading to sleepless nights, Dreading the thoughts that creep their way to our dreams – Resting in an endless adaptation of our subconscious, Playing out their roles, as if upon a Shakespearian stage… Each thought, acting its part with tragic precision, Layer upon layer, scene upon scene… Reaching back to grasp our inception of reality – Griping its contents, and strangling the ideas to exhaustion; gasping… It was in those broken moments, that we found ourselves, With a weighted world pressed firmly upon our chest, The ebbing soil began to crumble – Giving light to the somber path traversed… Filling the now hollow crevasse with purpose and meaning, Each memory defined by the silver lining expressed in love – The fleeting darkness, swallowed by the over-whelming feeling of home… Finding it in the simplicity of a kiss, and the certainty of an embrace, It is here that we find ourselves, In the intricate details and delicate idiosyncrasies –
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it is warped, a flash, altered fast, a hummingbirds heartbeat glances in mirrors reveal what couldve held elegance, but now holds no potential. a rose stripped of petals, cities smothered in fog, we are hurling questions into canyons hungry for echoes, imaged answers. on february nights I discover tight smirks and smiles. vampires to paper, my thoughts hold no reflection, I could capture syllables dripping like acid from your sick, posioned lips. loud apologies, pleading, forgiveness, and yet, I sense no guilt. love stories of bruises and scars spell beauty, murals, pansies of purple and yellow flourish, fill the curves of my hips. sighing at the blades trail, you kicked and shamed me. six months pass, marks splatter your arm needles now plant promises, whispers, lies you starved for. fingers dance against the pistol, never pulling. empty shivers, applause from the crowd, twisted approval only you could hear. eyes that once wept at my sickness glaze and fall heavy, water beaten, eroded valleys. syringes drain the handprints I left. three a.m. brings shaded skies your cries for help glow, a crescent moon. but I am asleep.
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 9:00 PM UTC
Illusions
In want of a headspace For to keep up with my thought pace An infinite cerebral landscape The consciousness reels and writhes through the labyrinth Sixty five BPM’s crack the whip Twist and turns Indian carpets and Egyptian urns Irrelevent Upon starry eyed fairytales they stand Architecture of a madman Brick and mortar Psychedelic caulking Foundation Screaming defiance against creation Murals Whispering fears of damnation Wake up mate It’s just your imagination I know.
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 12:43 PM UTC
Headspace
Little bluebird, don’t hang your head and cry tears of sorrow Don’t sit on this lowly sill and let your tears fall to the floor. Fly high and escape the fate of those below. Do not regard yourself with the un-winged mortal fellows below. Their fate is sealed, but you... You can streak the sky with brilliant azure murals. It is said the bluebird carries the sky on its back, and the clouds on its breast, but you... You carry the world, the Heavens, and all their beauty. Do not sit down below and stain your eyes with tears. No, fly high to your place in the sky Where joy and delight await you, after your burdened, trial-filled, life.
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 6:40 PM UTC
Bluebird
Clouds flat as pancakes line the sky hovering over rivers and lakes, roaming across prairies and bluffs Seasoned with a bitter sweetness. Some trees less lively than others, Some blaze with a unique aura. Wild reeds and wild weeds ride the wind-- Brown and rusted like train track bolts. Signs for a woodshop boutique lead down a road prancing deer wander. Sun rays hint shades of light through cracks Revealing a scene to be seen. The red, the orange, the yellow-green. Brown, sleeping stalks of corn in rows And the scare crow standing tall in The middle, still in nights silence. Lifeless leaves falling to the ground Leave colored murals on footpaths Soon to be covered with sheets of Snow as nature prepares to sleep.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 2:28 PM UTC
Beauty Sleep
We spent at least 15 minutes in the parking lot, Everyday. Itching in the grass and making up arguments. Waiting for my mom to pick me up from your house after school, Spraying mist out the water hose at each other and into the sky. Over invested in card games and extra-murals. Got locked out of your club penguin account. I lied to my mom about the pickup time, So we could play pool a bit longer. All that nothing might have been everything. Wait for the bus with me sometime again.
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Jul 29, 2024
Jul 29, 2024 at 3:21 PM UTC
Waiting for Godot
I watched her write Love on her arms it flowed like lava as the meaning was felt ripples of hardened flesh with hot plasma and her cooling kiss scratch that one off the bucket list (codetta) To tattoo love on my lids finding you between the highs and mids when the lights go off you are there then you reappear in the strobe and LED atmosphere All I can do is wish... you were here too unravel the shutters of my soul (segno) to embrace you in a place more real animate my memories to simulate surreal stimulate thoughts my body can not feel till my lids reopen to reveal a deck used to project a black massif sunset platters pressed with disco tech soluvum's spun to some rung of heaven I's reflect; eyes ***** to mirror mystery celadon mandela murals and memory a nebula of history (fine) When eyes see you come (:l) Below the surface afraid you'll run yet steady marching to a heart shaped drum echoing the song of the lord god capon we've gone deaf to the celebration Eyes close when kissing to lock in what's missing maybe to hear the rush of blood hissing maybe to capture the sound of oceans shifting maybe to feel the steady rise of hills below our feat maybe that's why we hum synchronizing our meditation Maybe to become one symbols like wedding bell vibration (dc al fine)
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Apr 5, 2016
Apr 5, 2016 at 8:34 PM UTC
Wedding Bell Vibration