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"persisted" poems
I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with rags and when somebody knocked I wouldn't answer and if they persisted I'd tell them in terms ****** to vanish. just another old crank with wings of gold flabby white belly plus eyes to knock out the sun.
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I'm getting back to where I was
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd - The little dogs under their feet. Such plainness of the pre-baroque Hardly involves the eye, until It meets his left-hand gauntlet, still Clasped empty in the other; and One sees, with a sharp tender shock, His hand withdrawn, holding her hand. They would not think to lie so long. Such faithfulness in effigy Was just a detail friends would see: A sculptor's sweet commissioned grace Thrown off in helping to prolong The Latin names around the base. They would no guess how early in Their supine stationary voyage The air would change to soundless damage, Turn the old tenantry away; How soon succeeding eyes begin To look, not read. Rigidly they Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths Of time. Snow fell, undated. Light Each summer thronged the grass. A bright Litter of birdcalls strewed the same Bone-littered ground. And up the paths The endless altered people came, Washing at their identity. Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigures them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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An Arundel Tomb
I'm crying for a girl who never existed. One who failed but always persisted, to try and figure out what makes one woman. these thoughts about gender felt like a shout, but this 'girl' was still figuring it out. Now this person mourns the loss, of this gender that felt like an albatross.
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May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 at 6:59 PM UTC
Gender
He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the daylong voice of Eve Had added to their own an oversound, Her tone of meaning but without the words. Admittedly an eloquence so soft Could only have had an influence on birds When call or laughter carried it aloft. Be that as may be, she was in their song. Moreover her voice upon their voices crossed Had now persisted in the woods so long That probably it never would be lost. Never again would birds’ song be the same. And to do that to birds was why she came.
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Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same
I could see right thru the fortress' walls, I knew what they enclaved Beaten by an ocean full of canary-yellow waves They glistened like the stars reflected from a moon-lit sky Scattered like a million diamonds, it's beauty; mesmerized   Tho seaweed dark as forest green did fill the ocean floor Both translucent, & befuddling   I could only wish to explore For I have never seen a castle rest in a sea of grime   & with its image now engraved Forever in my mind!   & tho it's walls we're callous; thick I thought it could still work If only I had persisted   (Instead, I went berserk...) But is love not an incendiary? For those who've gone insane? & so it's best to resist the urge-- Your heart you must contain!
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 9:59 PM UTC
Green Eyes
/                   as i am pretty sure all americana feels about "us": oh 'ook, 'ere comes old man europe,            no hemmingway, and no so: as the casual english expression solidifies exchanges: just across the atlantic:                             the, pond... haven't the foggiest...      i'm "new" here,    and even i find these english prims & pomps and idiosyncracies a bit debilitating... today i walked from my home with a knife in my pocket... why... why?!                          apparently it's worse than new york, a belt as a qusimodo boxing glove won't cut it,    given that that:    requires a formal introduction, prior to a fight...     guns guns guns...      over 'ere we 'ave knives knives knives... and politicians can't exactly ban them... no, not really... ban knives, soon you'll be banning forks, then spoons...    and then...    the whole ******* kitchen... we'll all be eating out, in public, cheap cheap cheap, cheap restaurants like the slovakians eat in...     can you even imagine that while in st. petersburg i didn't see, not one mcdonalds...     same so in moscow:                    not a single mcdonalds... it was like a: relief...   a bit like only seeing africanos only, but not elsewhere other than warsaw; erm: afro-saxons?             sure! we have them in england, plenty of afro-saxons...                 so now afro(x) is not pop-up frizzy hair, bundled into a french bun...                     type of... "thing"? **** yeah!                                 hit the spot! oh old man europe...       tired and yet, and yet tired of his riches,    how craving the old trenches of Ypres... the belgian mud, the rain,                         the rats and crows... europe: lament over libya... or even pseudo-neo-rome lamenting over carthage being destroyed... in reverse -               abbrv. into - orior carthago! was it cato the elder who persisted counter to this? as heidegger would have put it: that's not even question-worthy.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
old man europe and carthage
/                   as i am pretty sure all americana feels about "us": oh 'ook, 'ere comes old man europe,            no hemmingway, and no so: as the casual english expression solidifies exchanges: just across the atlantic:                             the, pond... haven't the foggiest...      i'm "new" here,    and even i find these english prims & pomps and idiosyncracies a bit debilitating... today i walked from my home with a knife in my pocket... why... why?!                          apparently it's worse than new york, a belt as a qusimodo boxing glove won't cut it,    given that that:    requires a formal introduction, prior to a fight...     guns guns guns...      over 'ere we 'ave knives knives knives... and politicians can't exactly ban them... no, not really... ban knives, soon you'll be banning forks, then spoons...    and then...    the whole ******* kitchen... we'll all be eating out, in public, cheap cheap cheap, cheap restaurants like the slovakians eat in...     can you even imagine that while in st. petersburg i didn't see, not one mcdonalds...     same so in moscow:                    not a single mcdonalds... it was like a: relief...   a bit like only seeing africanos only, but not elsewhere other than warsaw; erm: afro-saxons?             sure! we have them in england, plenty of afro-saxons...                 so now afro(x) is not pop-up frizzy hair, bundled into a french bun...                     type of... "thing"? **** yeah!                                 hit the spot! oh old man europe...       tired and yet, and yet tired of his riches,    how craving the old trenches of Ypres... the belgian mud, the rain,                         the rats and crows... europe: lament over libya... or even pseudo-neo-rome lamenting over carthage being destroyed... in reverse -               abbrv. into - orior carthago! was it cato the elder who persisted counter to this? as heidegger would have put it: that's not even question-worthy.
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If you were to ask me what boredom was, I’d tell you were boring and to stop asking stupid questions, but if you really persisted, I would tell you boredom is the tick tock on the white clock on the white wall of our English classroom. it’s the thrill of seeing how many dried crackers you can cram into your mouth before your mouth becomes a cracked and dried desert. Boredom is making up haikus, Alone but not quite knowing, How many syllables go on each line Boredom is haikus. Boredom is the decapitation of innocent grass blades as you listen to an unenthused sports teacher the blood of your unwitting enemies splattered on your fingers. Boredom is this boring poem Now you were never one for boredom; you enjoyed sitting on the grass, getting a soggy *** you enjoyed the crunch of crackers snapping on your tongue, you really enjoyed and I still do not know why making up haikus you enjoyed the long languorous spaces between lines... and I guess that really was just you. But recently the silence has been getting short its rudely interrupted by forced laughs and nervous glances from eyes that recently went shopping You jump at every crunch or crack, scared of well… I don’t know . And your poetry, Well, you barely write anymore because you just can’t seem to muster up the energy and you’re just tired and its nothing to worry about and it doesn’t matter anyway because you have an English essay due tomorrow yeah- And the grass misses your *** And I miss you And there’s someone in your place, a lethargic parody, too frightened to pick up the phone, frightened by nothing at all There’s a black hole in the shape of a friend hidden behind the comets of comedy and asteroids of avoidance there’s a small hole I reach in… grasping for a hand, I catch glimpses. tufts of hair. old coffee smiles but… nothing so, I try again I reach in, grasping for a hand, or even a bone I catch glimpses of skin, hair, teeth, bone. Nothing and each time I throw myself into the silent abyss, batter past the comets and asteroids and reach into that dark expanse I find less and less, I miss you I am right outside, whenever you’re ready to, we can talk a bit I’m trying my best , and I really care for you , but haikus are dumb accept it, it’s true. The spot of grass is waiting right where you left off, the crackers in the tin are there just waiting to be scoffed. if ever in that silence you feel yourself alone just know that in my house, you’ve found yourself a home.
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Feb 25, 2021
Feb 25, 2021 at 3:53 PM UTC
Boring
If you were to ask me what boredom was, I’d tell you were boring and to stop asking stupid questions, but if you really persisted, I would tell you boredom is the tick tock on the white clock on the white wall of our English classroom. it’s the thrill of seeing how many dried crackers you can cram into your mouth before your mouth becomes a cracked and dried desert. Boredom is making up haikus, Alone but not quite knowing, How many syllables go on each line Boredom is haikus. Boredom is the decapitation of innocent grass blades as you listen to an unenthused sports teacher the blood of your unwitting enemies splattered on your fingers. Boredom is this boring poem Now you were never one for boredom; you enjoyed sitting on the grass, getting a soggy *** you enjoyed the crunch of crackers snapping on your tongue, you really enjoyed and I still do not know why making up haikus you enjoyed the long languorous spaces between lines... and I guess that really was just you. But recently the silence has been getting short its rudely interrupted by forced laughs and nervous glances from eyes that recently went shopping You jump at every crunch or crack, scared of well… I don’t know . And your poetry, Well, you barely write anymore because you just can’t seem to muster up the energy and you’re just tired and its nothing to worry about and it doesn’t matter anyway because you have an English essay due tomorrow yeah- And the grass misses your *** And I miss you And there’s someone in your place, a lethargic parody, too frightened to pick up the phone, frightened by nothing at all There’s a black hole in the shape of a friend hidden behind the comets of comedy and asteroids of avoidance there’s a small hole I reach in… grasping for a hand, I catch glimpses. tufts of hair. old coffee smiles but… nothing so, I try again I reach in, grasping for a hand, or even a bone I catch glimpses of skin, hair, teeth, bone. Nothing and each time I throw myself into the silent abyss, batter past the comets and asteroids and reach into that dark expanse I find less and less, I miss you I am right outside, whenever you’re ready to, we can talk a bit I’m trying my best , and I really care for you , but haikus are dumb accept it, it’s true. The spot of grass is waiting right where you left off, the crackers in the tin are there just waiting to be scoffed. if ever in that silence you feel yourself alone just know that in my house, you’ve found yourself a home.
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Three hearts for thee divided, Lust battles with duty for attention, Making waves that drowned your cries, Yet you persisted. Three loves became one, Your heart the sole victor, To you go the spoils, And yet you persisted. One heart's love is yours entire, Overworked and overwhelming, Wounded soldiers make terrible bedmates, And yet you persist.
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 3:57 AM UTC
Love Persists
In the early hours of the morning, you asked me to marry you; I pushed it off, taking it as a joke, but you leapt up from our bed anyway, and I protested, saying there were no rings in sight, and yet, you wrapped paper, so delicately, into a ring for me. From the dim-lit room, I saw you kneel on one knee to ask me. I swore you were mocking me, but you persisted that we elope, and even then I couldn't take you at your word. Did you really love me like that? And if so, why did you leave?
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Nov 26, 2021
Nov 26, 2021 at 5:44 PM UTC
Elope?
1. Quite far you are,know not where, time and space remain fused, But, our love is still a wild flower, that takes new avatars Fully bloomed, defies sun and rain,other vagaries of seasons, This love is beyond the thrills of flesh, not even nocturnal togetherness. To plant a kiss of love on your lips,the wind will be my messenger, With a gentle caresses  you will be reminded how my lips felt on yours, In reciprocation, with your scent wind would envelop me on return. 2. Our love has faced many harsh climes, still we persisted, Fallen down and walked again limping, long distances, Our love has martyr's blood  running through veins,still brave, sings The song we loved, not together, a new light our love had found. Beyond the point of togetherness,love is indestructible, defying logic. 3. My flesh and blood would wither away,yours too have the same fate, Your beating heart and mine,one day will embrace stillness. Love has to live beyond the tunes of heart beats and our lives. In wind and water, earth and fire, all over the vastness of space, Millions would come together,in life, in death, sing love's paeans
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 9:01 AM UTC
Valentine's day promises beyond the limits of time
brick by brick. piece by piece. there was that night in the alleyway when you confessed that you loved me [*the words pouring out of your mouth like oil onto water*] and these words collided with my wall dropping abruptly to the ground like the raindrops that were falling from the heavens onto our eyelashes. day by day. each by each. it was that night in the alleyway when you admitted you love me and you see me and you hear me and you know me. and i know you. it was that night when one of my bricks toppled to the ground, liberated by your perfect imperfection. we are insane, yes. having known each other a minuscule fraction of a lifetime and wanting to spend the rest of it with one another. but these bricks [which were lying heavy on my sprightly soul] were ****** to the ground, emancipating me from my encumbering wall as you began to pour into the spaces where they once persisted. you replace my opposition to vulnerability with the kind of love i have fervently yearned for, craved and desired night by night. each by each. the clock strikes 11:11, it's always you i had wished for. for now i know; if you hope hard enough, it works. for a person like me [a person like us] letting this guard down is almost as arduous as quantum physics. or advanced chemistry. or seeing someone you love in tears. i feel that i am destined for you so much so that i can easily imagine being this older couple i once saw at the park, holding hands and living like they were still 21. and i wished to God that i would find that love. dear God, i don’t even know if i believe in you but... thank you for sending him to me. he is it. he is endgame. there are some things that a heart just knows. my god, i feel him with me when i am alone, [i can barely breathe without him] and know that he should have been holding my hand all along, holding my all, all along. he is my ultimate karmic retribution. [*chapped lips, countless kisses.*] never be scared, my dear. never doubt my love. for as you say you will never leave me, it will be in my arms that you will always stay. there are just some things a heart knows. brick by brick piece by piece day by day each by each we will crush our doubts and fears. hesitations and tears. i am madly, madly irretrievably and blissfully in love with you. my dear, we are meant to be. you are living, breathing poetry.
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 3:11 AM UTC
The Bricks
brick by brick. piece by piece. there was that night in the alleyway when you confessed that you loved me [*the words pouring out of your mouth like oil onto water*] and these words collided with my wall dropping abruptly to the ground like the raindrops that were falling from the heavens onto our eyelashes. day by day. each by each. it was that night in the alleyway when you admitted you love me and you see me and you hear me and you know me. and i know you. it was that night when one of my bricks toppled to the ground, liberated by your perfect imperfection. we are insane, yes. having known each other a minuscule fraction of a lifetime and wanting to spend the rest of it with one another. but these bricks [which were lying heavy on my sprightly soul] were ****** to the ground, emancipating me from my encumbering wall as you began to pour into the spaces where they once persisted. you replace my opposition to vulnerability with the kind of love i have fervently yearned for, craved and desired night by night. each by each. the clock strikes 11:11, it's always you i had wished for. for now i know; if you hope hard enough, it works. for a person like me [a person like us] letting this guard down is almost as arduous as quantum physics. or advanced chemistry. or seeing someone you love in tears. i feel that i am destined for you so much so that i can easily imagine being this older couple i once saw at the park, holding hands and living like they were still 21. and i wished to God that i would find that love. dear God, i don’t even know if i believe in you but... thank you for sending him to me. he is it. he is endgame. there are some things that a heart just knows. my god, i feel him with me when i am alone, [i can barely breathe without him] and know that he should have been holding my hand all along, holding my all, all along. he is my ultimate karmic retribution. [*chapped lips, countless kisses.*] never be scared, my dear. never doubt my love. for as you say you will never leave me, it will be in my arms that you will always stay. there are just some things a heart knows. brick by brick piece by piece day by day each by each we will crush our doubts and fears. hesitations and tears. i am madly, madly irretrievably and blissfully in love with you. my dear, we are meant to be. you are living, breathing poetry.
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Today I can write the saddest poem, like a beautiful birthday cake cut into pieces or a candle that is blown out after a wish is read or people congratulating you on all the achievements that you have persisted until now in your growing age. Today I can write the saddest poem, but not about my birthday, but about the days, about the months, about the years, that I've been through, everything was happy, yes I am very happy.
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Jun 18, 2022
Jun 18, 2022 at 5:06 AM UTC
The Ambiguity Of Being Happy
If you were to ask me what boredom was, I’d tell you were boring and to stop asking stupid questions, but if you really persisted, I would tell you boredom is the tick tock on the white clock on the white wall of your childhood maths classroom. it’s the thrill of seeing how many dried crackers you can cram into your mouth before your mouth becomes a cracked and dried desert. Boredom is making up haikus, Alone but not quite knowing, How many syllables go on each line Boredom is haikus. Boredom is the decapitation of innocent grass blades as you listen to an unenthused sports teacher, the blood of your unwitting enemies splattered on your fingers. Boredom is this boring poem
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Nov 23, 2020
Nov 23, 2020 at 6:00 PM UTC
Boredom.
staying up late just thinking of all the could-beens and should-beens that could and should have been us. what if we'd tried a little harder? persisted a little longer? held on to each other as tightly as we should have? would you be by my side then, instead of the empty void staring tauntingly back at me? would our hands be clasped together, interwoven, your eyes that once bored right back into the back of mind haunting me wherever i would go, your touch tattooed into the skin of my palms as they once were? what if i hadn't let go? what if i'd learnt fate's cruel lesson that possessing the trait of fickleness never awarded anything but everything slipping past, earlier? would you be willing to stay with me then, and forgive me for all the wrongdoings that i would inevitably cause? would we have ever evolved into more than just an idealized dream drawn from a fragmented memory, the idea of an irrevocable love that despite having been mulled over for what would've seemed like an eternity, has never seen the light of reality before? then again, everything does appear only better when it's all in your head. when i can still pretend that you are who i expect you to be, and i may be accepted for who i am truly, excess baggage of unneeded insecurities and imperfections weighing me down and all. is it better to be cleanly rejected or to be torn down bit by bit, night by night, spent just staring at a blank screen and waiting, hovering over imperishably, pure naive hope fuelling the drive to continue delaying the inexorable? foolishly believing that crossed fingers and any lingering feelings that hadn't yet been sieved away by the jaded culture we exist and drown in today would perhaps, even if accidentally, as if out of a fairytale that i starkly don't belong to, send me a text back?
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 7:06 PM UTC
send me a text back
staying up late just thinking of all the could-beens and should-beens that could and should have been us. what if we'd tried a little harder? persisted a little longer? held on to each other as tightly as we should have? would you be by my side then, instead of the empty void staring tauntingly back at me? would our hands be clasped together, interwoven, your eyes that once bored right back into the back of mind haunting me wherever i would go, your touch tattooed into the skin of my palms as they once were? what if i hadn't let go? what if i'd learnt fate's cruel lesson that possessing the trait of fickleness never awarded anything but everything slipping past, earlier? would you be willing to stay with me then, and forgive me for all the wrongdoings that i would inevitably cause? would we have ever evolved into more than just an idealized dream drawn from a fragmented memory, the idea of an irrevocable love that despite having been mulled over for what would've seemed like an eternity, has never seen the light of reality before? then again, everything does appear only better when it's all in your head. when i can still pretend that you are who i expect you to be, and i may be accepted for who i am truly, excess baggage of unneeded insecurities and imperfections weighing me down and all. is it better to be cleanly rejected or to be torn down bit by bit, night by night, spent just staring at a blank screen and waiting, hovering over imperishably, pure naive hope fuelling the drive to continue delaying the inexorable? foolishly believing that crossed fingers and any lingering feelings that hadn't yet been sieved away by the jaded culture we exist and drown in today would perhaps, even if accidentally, as if out of a fairytale that i starkly don't belong to, send me a text back?
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for a split second, the TV screen turned red, followed by a shrill beep. it was a small glitch, too small to be noticeable, so the television stayed. the longer she watched it, the more often it turned red, the longer the high-pitched beep. but she could never predict when the glitch would happen, and she waited for it to be normal. eventually, she adjusted to a perpetually red screen and an irritating, shrill hum until her friend came in, asking why the screen was red and where the noise was coming from. she brushed it off, claiming it was a glitch. the screen stayed that way, and the hum persisted. her eyes slowly became weary, and her ears started ringing. her friend took her away. her eyes and ears got a break, and she saw a different screen, one of many colors, showing life in its beautiful and tragic moments. she heard vivid, rich, musical voices. she went back to her television, exhausted, trying in vain to fix it, but it would not change, no matter how hard she tried. questions bloomed in her mind until it suddenly dawned on her. this was never a glitch. it was a complete malfunction. her heart and head were pounding as she held an antenna to her chest. it weighed her arms down, but she threw it across the room. it crashed into the television, and the screen went black. the hum stopped, and all was quiet except for her loud breathing. she wept as relief washed over her and she lay down, content at last.
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Apr 22, 2021
Apr 22, 2021 at 12:09 AM UTC
glitch.
I get scared easily. And I always have persisted to allow my mind to be torn out when I let it affect me. They say, "Worst case scenario is rare." in most situations. I have yet to seek why they ignore worst case, become it, leaving nothing left for the worst. Habitually it creates an aggression with associates: replacement and correlation. Without me noticing inevitably. Behind. This shadow that follows, desires its personification; Consequently the main man must fall, He will dissipate towards the rock where the one before him stood. Rather take a spot of one greater, it is that of less higher. A demotion of sort. In order for it to transpose into progression, a compromise is of order. The compromise of time, itself, playing the waiting game - (let us back step) …replacement…correlation… The understanding of this is of which I no longer feel that emotion; It is configured by the other, making a statement which is unrecognizable. So much, not even I, the speaker, can do anything to prove to you what I mean. --For keeps sake-- This is no where near a poor pardon for my actions. They are far from a credible stature. Far from a pity fete; Indeed a fare apology is in par. Yet this is a means of report to say in far value: worry. It is of pure arrogance that I state this claim. Keep this in mind. That I fear the replacement emotion shall take place in fair time once more. As the tail is coming back again, second time to be specific. And your steps in self-fulfillment climaxes, The steps to which I take are mimicked to that of the first tail. (The apex forms and your entitlement proclaims its spot.) I wish it not, to be furthered in my rut. As of the annum before, was explained by dis-valued ties. This is not to which I think. It is your confidence which speaks and separates your feet. Placing one foot in one path, far ahead from the other. As I stay with the other, while the other one is altered. Being free as it walks along with out I. I wish for an ignoring of replacement, and to this I will forcibly try. For you, my love.
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Jun 29, 2012
Jun 29, 2012 at 5:48 PM UTC
Adapt.
I get scared easily. And I always have persisted to allow my mind to be torn out when I let it affect me. They say, "Worst case scenario is rare." in most situations. I have yet to seek why they ignore worst case, become it, leaving nothing left for the worst. Habitually it creates an aggression with associates: replacement and correlation. Without me noticing inevitably. Behind. This shadow that follows, desires its personification; Consequently the main man must fall, He will dissipate towards the rock where the one before him stood. Rather take a spot of one greater, it is that of less higher. A demotion of sort. In order for it to transpose into progression, a compromise is of order. The compromise of time, itself, playing the waiting game - (let us back step) …replacement…correlation… The understanding of this is of which I no longer feel that emotion; It is configured by the other, making a statement which is unrecognizable. So much, not even I, the speaker, can do anything to prove to you what I mean. --For keeps sake-- This is no where near a poor pardon for my actions. They are far from a credible stature. Far from a pity fete; Indeed a fare apology is in par. Yet this is a means of report to say in far value: worry. It is of pure arrogance that I state this claim. Keep this in mind. That I fear the replacement emotion shall take place in fair time once more. As the tail is coming back again, second time to be specific. And your steps in self-fulfillment climaxes, The steps to which I take are mimicked to that of the first tail. (The apex forms and your entitlement proclaims its spot.) I wish it not, to be furthered in my rut. As of the annum before, was explained by dis-valued ties. This is not to which I think. It is your confidence which speaks and separates your feet. Placing one foot in one path, far ahead from the other. As I stay with the other, while the other one is altered. Being free as it walks along with out I. I wish for an ignoring of replacement, and to this I will forcibly try. For you, my love.
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In Lisbon, we blended ended the day with spectacular culinary Shopped and hopped side to side In Dublin, we vented as the whisky and Guinness was **** good Shipped the hire car to Galway In Italy, we invented dropped coins in fountains of love we already held From Florence, to Milan, to Rome, to Bologna In Paris, I rented alone in protests and hippies at Place De La Republique Dreamt of you as they skated In Romania, I persisted up on the icy Tranfagarasan highway traps I saw a bear and it had your eyes In Stockholm, we insisted As the Vasa sunk on tables of ***** Pecked on the trains and shied away. In London, we protested It was an ordinary day and the flowers didn't bloom The Thames was gloomy and stale In Oslo, we transmitted The reindeer meal and cranberry was a disaster The gloom followed us to southern skies In Copenhagen, you were sorted Smiled and amused by the Tivoli gardens The night became day and the wind withered In Amsterdam, we did what we did Stored the memories on the reclaimed lands Free-spirited in love and in eternity
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 6:05 PM UTC
Short Tracks of Europe
a liar once told me that i write good poetry i laughed and continued drinking, the sudden rush of despair, the wicked beast, the dry pages the man had no credentials but he persisted, declaring me an inspiration like seeing a strand of hair attract a magnet or amber jewels lolling in a dimly lit case imagination is a felony, i wagered as i poured another a combustion i know like the back of my hands i told him i dreamt of a morgue where everyone i ever loved sat upright as sunflowers, declaring their love for the sun and of a newspaper rife with disease and the passion of a janitor there is a raccoon near a river somewhere cleaning an apple with a heart as big as an artist in drunken euphoria taking better care of it than me when i sit down at a typewriter it's wearing a cape just like edgar allen poe and having better conversation with an oak tree than i've ever had at a party about the sunday crossword puzzle he completed   yesterday i drank myself into a masquerade ball arriving in a limousine being driven by a bearded mickey mantle i was the guest of honor, sword fighting on table tops and lecturing the guests about shakespeare through a garbage disposal while a horse played backgammon with my father's brother and there was a girl there behind the facade of an owl who danced like the wind and everlasting light and no one could stop her or look her in the eye i am the only connection between my mind and the paper merely a vessel, a john boat clearly breaching it's depth either drowning like a fish in a sand dune or being bounced like a baby on the knee of god slavery, i call it, and hand him a glass of warm bourbon as the splashing of my journal pages slap my crushed trachea the typewriter is padlocked and painted over with cement the metamorphosis trapped inside a bullet, boiling with sheer fury
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 11:23 PM UTC
imagination is a felony
a liar once told me that i write good poetry i laughed and continued drinking, the sudden rush of despair, the wicked beast, the dry pages the man had no credentials but he persisted, declaring me an inspiration like seeing a strand of hair attract a magnet or amber jewels lolling in a dimly lit case imagination is a felony, i wagered as i poured another a combustion i know like the back of my hands i told him i dreamt of a morgue where everyone i ever loved sat upright as sunflowers, declaring their love for the sun and of a newspaper rife with disease and the passion of a janitor there is a raccoon near a river somewhere cleaning an apple with a heart as big as an artist in drunken euphoria taking better care of it than me when i sit down at a typewriter it's wearing a cape just like edgar allen poe and having better conversation with an oak tree than i've ever had at a party about the sunday crossword puzzle he completed   yesterday i drank myself into a masquerade ball arriving in a limousine being driven by a bearded mickey mantle i was the guest of honor, sword fighting on table tops and lecturing the guests about shakespeare through a garbage disposal while a horse played backgammon with my father's brother and there was a girl there behind the facade of an owl who danced like the wind and everlasting light and no one could stop her or look her in the eye i am the only connection between my mind and the paper merely a vessel, a john boat clearly breaching it's depth either drowning like a fish in a sand dune or being bounced like a baby on the knee of god slavery, i call it, and hand him a glass of warm bourbon as the splashing of my journal pages slap my crushed trachea the typewriter is padlocked and painted over with cement the metamorphosis trapped inside a bullet, boiling with sheer fury
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A story of love aged with time, Enveloped and inmortalized in joyous rhyme. There once was a fae guided by the Sun, Showing the way, he need only follow and run. Kept under close watch by a vigilant eye, The fae boy felt that all must be ary. The world the sun showed him he was sure, Must be perfect, whole, and infinitely pure. But hardly was that dream so true, And with each moment, the sun's fervor grew. So demanding and resentful were the Sun's ways, The boy cursed with scorching, destructive days. But his will persisted, for he knew no other, Stranded and tired, trading loneliness to suffer. One evening he pondered on what to do, Escape back to suffering alone, but where to go? Then, with the gift of the sunset all was clear, For what came after was what he knew to hold dear. Before the fae arose the shimmering Moon, His eyes fixated on such a dizzying boon. The Moon wrapped him in bright, soft light, Assuring the fae that now all would be right. He felt comfort in the welcoming glow, At last a gentle soul wanting to see him grow! The fae openly proclaimed his adoration, The Moon's presence the source of his frantic creation. Weaving words of passion and desire, Finally free of the past destructive mire. Never once moving in such a flurry, Desperate to prove his love, but he needn't worry. The Moon enamored with him for what he was, And valued him for all that he does. With guiding light and a glowing heart, The fae boy knew they'd never want to be apart.
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Mar 16, 2019
Mar 16, 2019 at 5:24 PM UTC
The Fae and His Sky
A story of love aged with time, Enveloped and inmortalized in joyous rhyme. There once was a fae guided by the Sun, Showing the way, he need only follow and run. Kept under close watch by a vigilant eye, The fae boy felt that all must be ary. The world the sun showed him he was sure, Must be perfect, whole, and infinitely pure. But hardly was that dream so true, And with each moment, the sun's fervor grew. So demanding and resentful were the Sun's ways, The boy cursed with scorching, destructive days. But his will persisted, for he knew no other, Stranded and tired, trading loneliness to suffer. One evening he pondered on what to do, Escape back to suffering alone, but where to go? Then, with the gift of the sunset all was clear, For what came after was what he knew to hold dear. Before the fae arose the shimmering Moon, His eyes fixated on such a dizzying boon. The Moon wrapped him in bright, soft light, Assuring the fae that now all would be right. He felt comfort in the welcoming glow, At last a gentle soul wanting to see him grow! The fae openly proclaimed his adoration, The Moon's presence the source of his frantic creation. Weaving words of passion and desire, Finally free of the past destructive mire. Never once moving in such a flurry, Desperate to prove his love, but he needn't worry. The Moon enamored with him for what he was, And valued him for all that he does. With guiding light and a glowing heart, The fae boy knew they'd never want to be apart.
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Darkness. That was the only thing left. Apocalyptic nightmares turned true. Groups of families gather at Ralston Mansion packed tight into every room. Tents pitched and quiet talking. My tool was an axe that my family used for chopping wood.   I carried it effortlessly and would never let it go. The loss of millions seemed like a terrible joke. A joke of which nobody spoke. Exploring the giant abode was my new mission. Gleaming the crevices and dark corners, until I come to a large empty room. The walls are high, and centered in the middle of the main wall was a single outlet. From it out pored a strange dark stain that patterned a beautiful fractal. As I studied the design, the wholeness of the geometric patterns stunned me. There was something behind the walls. Bleeding through the ancient wallpaper, something lied hidden. I was undoubtedly enthralled and decided to force my axe heavily into the seeping image. Instead of a solid hard noise, a gushing chop persisted. I hastened my blows to my own disgust and horror.   For as the chips of wood peeled away the secret was revealed. Packed as tight as our putrid tents were, the masses of dissected corpses flopped and thudded and fell to the ground. Before I could move, I was piled. I was suffocating and gasping for air. Then it fades. When I wake up, I’m sitting on an airplane. I'm flying to London, and I cant remember what happened prior night.
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
The Dreamers Geometry
Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 12:31 PM UTC
Swiss Cheese
Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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Back by popular demand being a ***** persisted. I'm sick of yuppies in BMWs that glitter the highway like cheap tinsel and ruin my view of sunset on Sunset Blvd. On top of that, gift cards mixed up with chopped up plastic credit rattle at the insides of my plump little belly, and I don’t think its going anywhere. *Although, I'm getting nauseous, I wont ***** until the fat lady sings. And if that's not long enough for you then, I'll just see you in hell.*
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 2:50 PM UTC
The Glamour
My body ached I felt bruised Stretched to the limits I felt physically abused. My insides were moved To different locations It felt unreal It was a surreal sensation. My back hurt My bones shifted I felt sick The pain persisted. I felt like being ripped From the inside out They watched and waited As I continued to shout. Oh! The pain! Oh! The discomfort! I lay there out of breath As I pushed with all my effort. One last great push It will soon end I screamed I shouted Then stillness Silence fell My head plopped back I felt like I was under a spell. The silence was broken By a piercing wail It sounded like an angel And you were unveiled. Nothing ached anymore There you are My little angel My little shining star.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 2:44 AM UTC
Surreal
She was just a girl, Barely knew her name Such light behind her eyes That moment relieved my pain Maybe that is why... She was just a girl, But her presence addicted Combining fear and love It was she who persisted She was just a girl, Alone now, so long since I fell There will always be the moment When her eyes cast that spell She was just a girl, And I, a willing victim Still to this day But, I love her for that Sweet child of May
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 9:27 AM UTC
Saved By The Spell