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talkshows and the yellow press get excited in excess over his shenanigans that delight his faithful fans rumors of these *** affairs strong words for all macho players      in the game of social thrones texts with threatening undertones      for minorities and women      treating immigrants like demons neither fans nor his opponents  seem to notice the components of the white house strategy      throw them bones      fodder for the yellow press and while  they fight clandestinely out of sight works the Trumpian policy   money laundering   blatant lies scolding allies   breaking ties adoring foes   praising those      usurpers of democracies      experts in atrocities slowly yet persistently      undermine  civility        with foul language  fill all courts with servile judges court the aristocracies           of oil sheikdoms in the East praising communist dictators who have helped him build his towers step by step he‘s leading US from the groups of international powers to an isolation desert at the margins of the world slogans we have rarely heard over decades         now re-nourished twittered with presidential flourish make America small again warning voices call in vain no wonder the statue of liberty is hiding her face in misery (*)
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 5:24 PM UTC
fake president
Her sweet nectar, drips from her succulent lips, soaking her satin's ripe with lust her fragrance, her presence enticing his essence persistently the urges persist
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Jan 17, 2018
Jan 17, 2018 at 8:06 PM UTC
Wet
Briskly walking with his head ***** Money and treasure, he aims to get He is in a stampede, chasing wealth Acute shortage of ‘humility and gratitude’ Compels him to slaughter a multitude The desire for more than enough It has crystallized and made his heart tough Oblivious about ‘humility and gratitude’ Man agrees to squash the destitute Unaware, that he may face the same fate Even then he piles up his plate When would he be humble and grateful? For the things which make his life blissful… Even while swallowing all that is unlawful He persistently denies being shameful His conscience reminds him of ‘humility and gratitude’ But he refuses to change his haughty attitude Let me remind you that life is temporary Nothing in this world remains stationary Just like dust your stay is transitory These two traits, ‘humility and gratitude’ Can help you to acquire beatitude Don’t forget your final abode Where good deeds won’t be sold Remember, the fables of the brave and the bold All of them possessed ‘humility and gratitude’ From all this, you may conclude It is the purity of our intentions What Creator expects from his creation Everything else is mere illusion Being a human, demands ‘humility and gratitude’
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM UTC
Humility and Gratitude
My family is a bunch of animals. My mother is a lioness, strong, brave, and full of pride, with claws sharp as knives, for anyone that harms her cub she will strike. my father is a hyena, foolish, never serious, and a lazy scavenger, that doesn't do anything but eat the crap that he creates. My grand parents are elephants, big and strong during the day, blind and helpless during the night. My aunts and uncles are the herd of gazelles, they graze when they can, but when the lioness comes they silence and run away with fear. My dogs are the shade that comforts me from the burning sun of life. The day has come when the lioness shall not roam the tall grasses of the Serengeti. Without the lioness the gazelles are persistently grazing, depleting the grass, grazing and depleting until there was no grass left for me to hide in, they rammed and bucked at me like I had no right to grieve. I was a helpless cub on that day and I still am, wondering when the lioness will show up to be my heroine again. But as the gazelles buck and ram, a kangaroo and a zebra rush in, embrace me, and take me in, I now have a second family with: a savage tiger, Italian chipmunks, boxing kangaroos, kick-ass monkeys, elderly turtles, burly bears, religious zebras, and untimely rabbits. My second family is diverse, but they never do the worst just as my first. This is a story that I usually don't tell, but this my past life so I must tell, tell, tell... This is what God raised me to be, This for me and only me. One day the light will show for me, and me and the lioness will forever again be free, to roam the plains in the skies above, just like a dove.
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 3:55 AM UTC
Family Doesn't Always Mean Blood
My family is a bunch of animals. My mother is a lioness, strong, brave, and full of pride, with claws sharp as knives, for anyone that harms her cub she will strike. my father is a hyena, foolish, never serious, and a lazy scavenger, that doesn't do anything but eat the crap that he creates. My grand parents are elephants, big and strong during the day, blind and helpless during the night. My aunts and uncles are the herd of gazelles, they graze when they can, but when the lioness comes they silence and run away with fear. My dogs are the shade that comforts me from the burning sun of life. The day has come when the lioness shall not roam the tall grasses of the Serengeti. Without the lioness the gazelles are persistently grazing, depleting the grass, grazing and depleting until there was no grass left for me to hide in, they rammed and bucked at me like I had no right to grieve. I was a helpless cub on that day and I still am, wondering when the lioness will show up to be my heroine again. But as the gazelles buck and ram, a kangaroo and a zebra rush in, embrace me, and take me in, I now have a second family with: a savage tiger, Italian chipmunks, boxing kangaroos, kick-ass monkeys, elderly turtles, burly bears, religious zebras, and untimely rabbits. My second family is diverse, but they never do the worst just as my first. This is a story that I usually don't tell, but this my past life so I must tell, tell, tell... This is what God raised me to be, This for me and only me. One day the light will show for me, and me and the lioness will forever again be free, to roam the plains in the skies above, just like a dove.
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Where goes the time when it flies? Simplified by expression, and stained by clarity. Smudge by lucidity smeared by simplicity tainted by intelligibility. Tempus fugit as in time flies. Sharply distressing with painful feelings to the point of mental instability morning or night we become possessed with its mystic dealings. Where goes the time when it runs? Not a solitary explanation is found. It happens and it won’t stop until life terminates as well without cause. Derived of rationalisation lacking understanding short of justification bursting with vindication persistently and with conviction. Where goes the time when it sails? From the second that we’re born. Where were we existing? We cannot be so sure Cannot recollect the past Not for the first five of our years Memory so blur, so shadowy Hazy with distortions obscure and confusing Unit our mind starts slowly to recollect. Where goes the time when it escapes? The chronology of life so mysterious. Nothing can solve its ambiguity for time is a complex case with an infinity of secrets. What’s the obsession when we have so many setbacks drawbacks and obstacles obstructions and conundrums to take care of before time perishes away and leaves us stranded in oblivion. Oh time, you magnificent of all mysteries, the high and mighty of ambiguities. Show us mercy and explain we are not detectives of secrecies your spell with us reflects on the whodunits. Oh time of things past and yet to come give us a clue as to what is to derive! “Remember” it softly replies “Make most of your lives” “Once I fly away no one can have a replay”.
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Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013 at 6:11 AM UTC
Ode to Time
Where goes the time when it flies? Simplified by expression, and stained by clarity. Smudge by lucidity smeared by simplicity tainted by intelligibility. Tempus fugit as in time flies. Sharply distressing with painful feelings to the point of mental instability morning or night we become possessed with its mystic dealings. Where goes the time when it runs? Not a solitary explanation is found. It happens and it won’t stop until life terminates as well without cause. Derived of rationalisation lacking understanding short of justification bursting with vindication persistently and with conviction. Where goes the time when it sails? From the second that we’re born. Where were we existing? We cannot be so sure Cannot recollect the past Not for the first five of our years Memory so blur, so shadowy Hazy with distortions obscure and confusing Unit our mind starts slowly to recollect. Where goes the time when it escapes? The chronology of life so mysterious. Nothing can solve its ambiguity for time is a complex case with an infinity of secrets. What’s the obsession when we have so many setbacks drawbacks and obstacles obstructions and conundrums to take care of before time perishes away and leaves us stranded in oblivion. Oh time, you magnificent of all mysteries, the high and mighty of ambiguities. Show us mercy and explain we are not detectives of secrecies your spell with us reflects on the whodunits. Oh time of things past and yet to come give us a clue as to what is to derive! “Remember” it softly replies “Make most of your lives” “Once I fly away no one can have a replay”.
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It was 3 PM on a Tuesday in the summer, just before my first semester of college. I went out on a whim and bought a cheetah print lava lamp for forty six dollars at some stand in the mall, despite you persistently advising me not to waste money on "insignificant **** The next day it rained from 7 AM until 5 PM and I forced you to lie in bed with me all day, with the curtains drawn & the lights out. I wanted us to observe the weird, red shapes forming inside my new cheetah print lava lamp... Something about it captivated me. I never had one as a kid, And you just sat there holding my hand for fifty eight minutes before I whispered, "did you see how pretty that one was?" You laughed gently and shifted your eyes toward my dresser, at which point I realized that was the very first time you looked away from me since we had laid down And with that thought, the butterflies woke so chaotically, I thought I'd never catch my breath
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 1:59 AM UTC
Cheetah Print Lava Lamp
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom of the Persians. (From him is descended our glorious king Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator). But here philosophy is needed; he must analyze the sentiments that Darius must have had: maybe arrogance and drunkenness; but no -- rather like an understanding of the vanity of grandeurs. The poet contemplates the matter deeply. But he is interrupted by his servant who enters running, and announces the portendous news. The war with the Romans has begun. The bulk of our army has crossed the borders. The poet is speechless. What a disaster! No time now for our glorious king Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator, to occupy himself with greek poems. In the midst of a war -- imagine, greek poems. Phernazis is impatient. Misfortune! Just when he was positive that with "Darius" he would distinguish himself, and shut the mouths of his critics, the envious ones, for good. What a delay, what a delay to his plans. And if it were only a delay, it would still be all right. But it yet remains to be seen if we have any security at Amisus. It is not a strongly fortified city. The Romans are the most horrible enemies. Can we hold against them we Cappadocians? It is possible at all? It is possible to pit ourselves against the legions? Mighty Gods, protectors of Asia, help us.-- But in all his turmoil and trouble, the poetic idea too comes and goes persistently-- the most probable, surely, is arrogance and drunkenness; Darius must have felt arrogance and drunkenness.
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Darius
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom of the Persians. (From him is descended our glorious king Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator). But here philosophy is needed; he must analyze the sentiments that Darius must have had: maybe arrogance and drunkenness; but no -- rather like an understanding of the vanity of grandeurs. The poet contemplates the matter deeply. But he is interrupted by his servant who enters running, and announces the portendous news. The war with the Romans has begun. The bulk of our army has crossed the borders. The poet is speechless. What a disaster! No time now for our glorious king Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator, to occupy himself with greek poems. In the midst of a war -- imagine, greek poems. Phernazis is impatient. Misfortune! Just when he was positive that with "Darius" he would distinguish himself, and shut the mouths of his critics, the envious ones, for good. What a delay, what a delay to his plans. And if it were only a delay, it would still be all right. But it yet remains to be seen if we have any security at Amisus. It is not a strongly fortified city. The Romans are the most horrible enemies. Can we hold against them we Cappadocians? It is possible at all? It is possible to pit ourselves against the legions? Mighty Gods, protectors of Asia, help us.-- But in all his turmoil and trouble, the poetic idea too comes and goes persistently-- the most probable, surely, is arrogance and drunkenness; Darius must have felt arrogance and drunkenness.
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Peoples’ lives are dying in consistency; Greed in their pedestal has corrupted this world’s societies. A fruitful opportunity, a gold rush was encountered! Underlying the main ambition of many unfortunate ambitious desires.    Persistently seeking an object of materiality, Children have become contracted to labor endlessly till mortality. The corporate pose has overshadowed humanity, Predetermining existence through living in a vision of obscurity.    Freedom has evolved in many attaining their dreams, Yet, failing to realize their limits in overstepping boundaries. Morality has been compromised to new opportunities. Ultimately, corrupting one’s essence in living spiritually.    We have eluded to perceive the subtle communication they have established you see. Projecting honesty while planting a seed, they enrich themselves invulnerably. Enabled through the loophole of ignorance attracted by social mediocrity, Revealing a battle between each other secretly disguised as insecurity.    Asking how do I seek success, freedom, and happiness endlessly. Indubitably, the answer relies inside, secreting awareness internally. Discovering that the war begins within may end the violence indeed. Extinguishing eternal destruction of the world through peace and harmony.    By: Michael M. De La Fuente
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 7:47 PM UTC
Greed
No strings attatched They loudly proclaim As I feel a subtle tug. This way, that way, Upwards, down: A guiding force So small, so menacing. No strings attached They tenderly whisper So close to my ear. Do this, play that, Lie here, forget: My tiny concious Easily crushed, easily displaced. No strings attached They persistently hiss As I back away. But why, what if, How come, explain: Life is a stage So who is the puppeteer?
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 3:51 AM UTC
No Strings Attached
It's been nearly a year, and it still hurts. It still hurts so much! It hurts to say your name, you still haunt me as persistently as last year. My ghost, my lovely ghost. I cried so hard last night I couldn't breathe. Doubled over and crouching down gasping for air. Why does it hurt me so much? When it's obvious you're fine. You're so much better off now, but I'm not bitter. I want you to be happy, but I want you to miss me. I want to know that I haven't been forgotten, that our friendship meant something to you. But I know how hard you're trying to erase me from your past. And I can't help but miss you.
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Mar 5, 2015
Mar 5, 2015 at 10:22 PM UTC
It still hurts
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM UTC
Babbling Stream of Consciousness
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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home is where I hear your footsteps rattling the foot boards, resonating at the same frequency of my heart's undulating palpitations. home is where I feel your haunting presence persistently passing through these crumbled walls of mine. home is where I see you in the mirror every time I look for me. home is where you twist, turn and shake up the whole **** house. home is wherever you are, no matter how far.
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 5:10 AM UTC
Personification of Home.
It is not enough to see a soul will manifest what has been sown immortal purple flame gnarled roots in stone the truth of nature an external blooming expression of the world a flourishing vision voraciously spreads animating the meadow with honey-scented breeze steep slopes sweetened magnificent blossoms open lavender wings to conquer the sky here the air is thin windblown seeds so carelessly thrown to harsh alpine soil become willful weeds persistently untamed internally unchained forever wild flowers
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Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
Lupine
I see you everywhere but beside me, the one place that I need you the most. I don’t know if you’ve just felt like hiding, but it feels like I’m being stalked by a ghost. I think of my life consisting of just time biding, with parasitic emptiness and I’m the host. This hits me like waves I am meant to be riding, and it follows me persistently from coast to coast. The grass didn’t seem so green back then I guess all that constant rain did pay off, ‘cause now this little future’s just a casual friend, and my god looking back the past was soft. It’s not like I always want to be drenched in sorrow, I find I look much better in brown, blue or grey, you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday. I hear every voice but yours in my ears, the deafening noise has made me forget that sound, since I’ve heard that sweet melody it’s been too many years, and every other pitch makes my static brain pound. I’m always biting my lip but now I’m fighting tears, I shake my head side to side and around. I’m quickly losing stamina from battling my fears and now looking forward to my hole in the ground. The skies never seemed clear and blue back then, it turns out that I was the creator of each cloud, I’m hoarding past calendars so that I can pretend that I’m back in time and making everyone else proud. If you’ve got a hour or two that I can borrow, I swear I’m good for it and whatever price; I’ll pay, ‘cause you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday. I feel you all over, laced in everything, if it wasn’t such a curse, it’d be a gift. You’re the peace in winter and the hope in spring, you’re the summer sun and autumn’s winds so swift. I’m relieving every memory, looking for a place to cling, I remember all of the details but the clarity is now adrift. Side to side, back and forth, I constantly swing, it pulls and drags me down but it can also give the highest lift. The sun never seemed to shine right back then, but maybe I was just too busy looking for artificial light. I was never one for second looks but I should’ve searched again, because everything I wanted was already in my sight. So I plant a seed hoping it will eventually grow and I sculpt all I wish for with clay, ‘cause you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday.
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 1:58 PM UTC
Yesterday
I see you everywhere but beside me, the one place that I need you the most. I don’t know if you’ve just felt like hiding, but it feels like I’m being stalked by a ghost. I think of my life consisting of just time biding, with parasitic emptiness and I’m the host. This hits me like waves I am meant to be riding, and it follows me persistently from coast to coast. The grass didn’t seem so green back then I guess all that constant rain did pay off, ‘cause now this little future’s just a casual friend, and my god looking back the past was soft. It’s not like I always want to be drenched in sorrow, I find I look much better in brown, blue or grey, you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday. I hear every voice but yours in my ears, the deafening noise has made me forget that sound, since I’ve heard that sweet melody it’s been too many years, and every other pitch makes my static brain pound. I’m always biting my lip but now I’m fighting tears, I shake my head side to side and around. I’m quickly losing stamina from battling my fears and now looking forward to my hole in the ground. The skies never seemed clear and blue back then, it turns out that I was the creator of each cloud, I’m hoarding past calendars so that I can pretend that I’m back in time and making everyone else proud. If you’ve got a hour or two that I can borrow, I swear I’m good for it and whatever price; I’ll pay, ‘cause you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday. I feel you all over, laced in everything, if it wasn’t such a curse, it’d be a gift. You’re the peace in winter and the hope in spring, you’re the summer sun and autumn’s winds so swift. I’m relieving every memory, looking for a place to cling, I remember all of the details but the clarity is now adrift. Side to side, back and forth, I constantly swing, it pulls and drags me down but it can also give the highest lift. The sun never seemed to shine right back then, but maybe I was just too busy looking for artificial light. I was never one for second looks but I should’ve searched again, because everything I wanted was already in my sight. So I plant a seed hoping it will eventually grow and I sculpt all I wish for with clay, ‘cause you know I’d trade in every tomorrow for just one more yesterday.
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I tried to look without blinking, I stared uninterruptedly for a long time It got blurry for a while and it I almost couldn’t visualize for a splitsecond until I blinked and there it was staring right back at me So I started drinking, Wine, spirits and a lil’ liquor, And with every sip and every glass I still felt my heart sinking from the weight of my troubled thoughts.. Day in, day out I was always caught by myself thinking, Pondering and wishing everything away.. It was persistently adamant, With it there was no going away, no shaking it off, no shrinking, no flinching.. Its sound piercing like tyres screeching, Its sight gory like stealing in a lagos hood when its punishment inevitably would be lynching It reminded me of an evangelist preaching, Its effect was adverse 'cause classes I never attended about it whenever they were teaching.. I got my self into this mess so I guess its time to stop ******** Brace myself up for some ditching and dissing I had it, I messed up and now its missing In its place this monster I have created, I nursed it, I raised it Now I gotta accept it, live with it and deal with it Its not just a part of me, its now whom I have become.. It taunts me, it haunts me and constantly reminds me that; I am a bad habit, I am an addict, I am eccentric, I am a misfit, and I am not going anywhere cause I am unique and I am you.. -r3d-
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 6:38 AM UTC
Distorted...
those that see beauty in everything feel the most discontent. there are extreme emotions that one who is creative must process-- an unforced authenticity and tenacity to stay focused on a subject, and to devote the same amount of attention to each entity, that you lose a sense of self and a sense of the world around you. we use stress as a way of pushing us forward, and only in moments of extreme stress does an amazing happening occur. and for this, we are deemed odd, as a normal person thrives where they are most comfortable. the originality that visionaries possess is exhausting, yet we admire it. we allow for many things to flow in our minds without halt, all notions and ideas taking up precedence, and this may be our greatest fault. day break to sunset, my mind is racing non-stop, constantly, to the point that sleep does nothing to quell the overthinking brain, as my lucid dreams act as a force to keep me awake at night. my mind is in a perpetual state of fantasy, sometimes during everyday life in bouts of daydreams, imaging new situations and being unable to describe it all. when I try to silence the thoughts that persistently flux through my mind, my talents feel wasted during this time of artistic deprivation, and only do I feel truly sound when I create new artworks for a few to discern. sometimes I feel as though my mind feeds off on my depressive states, as it takes the deepest of emotions to generate proufound art. while I wish to be happy, I have a need to be in a bit of a sustained disarray.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 10:28 PM UTC
musings.
those that see beauty in everything feel the most discontent. there are extreme emotions that one who is creative must process-- an unforced authenticity and tenacity to stay focused on a subject, and to devote the same amount of attention to each entity, that you lose a sense of self and a sense of the world around you. we use stress as a way of pushing us forward, and only in moments of extreme stress does an amazing happening occur. and for this, we are deemed odd, as a normal person thrives where they are most comfortable. the originality that visionaries possess is exhausting, yet we admire it. we allow for many things to flow in our minds without halt, all notions and ideas taking up precedence, and this may be our greatest fault. day break to sunset, my mind is racing non-stop, constantly, to the point that sleep does nothing to quell the overthinking brain, as my lucid dreams act as a force to keep me awake at night. my mind is in a perpetual state of fantasy, sometimes during everyday life in bouts of daydreams, imaging new situations and being unable to describe it all. when I try to silence the thoughts that persistently flux through my mind, my talents feel wasted during this time of artistic deprivation, and only do I feel truly sound when I create new artworks for a few to discern. sometimes I feel as though my mind feeds off on my depressive states, as it takes the deepest of emotions to generate proufound art. while I wish to be happy, I have a need to be in a bit of a sustained disarray.
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I sit on a droopy windowsill and gaze out at the stars above me in the stately sky of coal. I let the smoke fill me, pollute my corrupted lungs, ‘til it plugs me, completely consumes my sticky soul, and midnight sorrow blanket hugs the heart in my hole. I sit and I consider the sky with its million-and-one jewels that adorn the vast carpet of night and its one, lone cloud that slowly drools fat, drippy drops of deep fed'ral blues. The ashy, burnt taste is still in my throat; it lingers- a dull, cloying candy cane. The muted flavour chokes and jabs and pecks persistently, in the back of my brain and leaves a steel blue/gray trailing stain. Vague memories of fourth-grade English lessons take me with a deep sigh to forgotten thoughts of Roger McGough and unrequited love- dazed recollections of school poetry taught in obscure slate-blue classrooms, littered with blots. It seems feeling unreturned affection isn't quite as great as I’d thought after all. I must've been wrong, all those hazed years ago, when I yearned to feel unrequited love’s fall, convinced it would be a wondrous, dazzling ball Instead, I'm just ******* in the pale-ing sky that seems to be growing into lighter hues- the navy’s turned to electric, to powder, matching the sapphire in my soul of glue. I'm suppose I'm feeling somewhat, slightly blue. .
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM UTC
Blue.
‘Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day Fetched back from its thickening shroud of gray. Hence the only prime And real love-rhyme That I know by heart, And that leaves no smart, Is the purl of a little valley fall About three spans wide and two spans tall Over a table of solid rock, And into a scoop of the self-same block; The purl of a runlet that never ceases In stir of kingdoms, in wars, in peaces; With a hollow boiling voice it speaks And has spoken since hills were turfless peaks.’ ‘And why gives this the only prime Idea to you of a real love-rhyme? And why does plunging your arm in a bowl Full of spring water, bring throbs to your soul?’ ‘Well, under the fall, in a crease of the stone, Though precisely where none ever has known, Jammed darkly, nothing to show how prized, And by now with its smoothness opalized, Is a grinking glass: For, down that pass My lover and I Walked under a sky Of blue with a leaf-wove awning of green, In the burn of August, to paint the scene, And we placed our basket of fruit and wine By the runlet’s rim, where we sat to dine; And when we had drunk from the glass together, Arched by the oak-copse from the weather, I held the vessel to rinse in the fall, Where it slipped, and it sank, and was past recall, Though we stooped and plumbed the little abyss With long bared arms. There the glass still is. And, as said, if I ****** my arm below Cold water in a basin or bowl, a throe From the past awakens a sense of that time, And the glass we used, and the cascade’s rhyme. The basin seems the pool, and its edge The hard smooth face of the brook-side ledge, And the leafy pattern of china-ware The hanging plants that were bathing there. ‘By night, by day, when it shines or lours, There lies intact that chalice of ours, And its presence adds to the rhyme of love Persistently sung by the fall above. No lip has touched it since his and mine In turns therefrom sipped lovers’ wine.’
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Under The Waterfall
‘Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day Fetched back from its thickening shroud of gray. Hence the only prime And real love-rhyme That I know by heart, And that leaves no smart, Is the purl of a little valley fall About three spans wide and two spans tall Over a table of solid rock, And into a scoop of the self-same block; The purl of a runlet that never ceases In stir of kingdoms, in wars, in peaces; With a hollow boiling voice it speaks And has spoken since hills were turfless peaks.’ ‘And why gives this the only prime Idea to you of a real love-rhyme? And why does plunging your arm in a bowl Full of spring water, bring throbs to your soul?’ ‘Well, under the fall, in a crease of the stone, Though precisely where none ever has known, Jammed darkly, nothing to show how prized, And by now with its smoothness opalized, Is a grinking glass: For, down that pass My lover and I Walked under a sky Of blue with a leaf-wove awning of green, In the burn of August, to paint the scene, And we placed our basket of fruit and wine By the runlet’s rim, where we sat to dine; And when we had drunk from the glass together, Arched by the oak-copse from the weather, I held the vessel to rinse in the fall, Where it slipped, and it sank, and was past recall, Though we stooped and plumbed the little abyss With long bared arms. There the glass still is. And, as said, if I ****** my arm below Cold water in a basin or bowl, a throe From the past awakens a sense of that time, And the glass we used, and the cascade’s rhyme. The basin seems the pool, and its edge The hard smooth face of the brook-side ledge, And the leafy pattern of china-ware The hanging plants that were bathing there. ‘By night, by day, when it shines or lours, There lies intact that chalice of ours, And its presence adds to the rhyme of love Persistently sung by the fall above. No lip has touched it since his and mine In turns therefrom sipped lovers’ wine.’
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*you're haunting me still why? vibrations from your exit still lingering in my bones they crack and quake grating against themselves why aren't they healing? these wounds that I have been so persistently nursing why can I not mend myself of this? the needle is too dull the thread is fraying alone in this room with your ghost still sitting next to me gently touching my hand, laying its head in my lap to play with its hair smiling laughing a perception not the reality I keep my heart in a box under the bed next to treasured memories of a memory I want to burn it all I want to give it back to you I want to keep it it makes me sick when its dark I wish to travel to far away mystical places dance among the stars on cotton candy roller skates yet all I get is you your face fetal position, clenched jaws, toss and turn tortured still in a state meant for rest dream catchers strategically placed they're meant to save me from you ward off and expel YOU yet my soldiers of the night my dream wardens they're no match for the slyness of you you slip through as if made of air and elegance replaying all your proudest moments of my misery ive never felt such indifference toward someone I want you gone out of my head I wish I could peel you from my skin wring you from my marrow shed the skin of this serpent's memory wake to a new day finally feeling good finally feeling anything finally feeling*
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 12:21 AM UTC
star light, star bright, first star i see tonight...
Disaster can be enticing. I want to be the four winds that blow persistently - until the storm arrives. A storm that alters the balance. The shockwaves reverberating against the fabric of reality impact - where I once stood. If I were the winds. What would there be left in my wake destruction - before the silence.
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM UTC
Lachesism
I ate the poison with you. I fell right beside you And I helped you get back up. I kissed your scraped knees In the ghosts of your mothers lips But I was your friend. I resuscitated your heart When you stopped it from beating I drank your tears And cried them myself. I cared; I never once pricked you With the same needle The world persistently penetrated You with And I would have ****** out the venom From those snake bites If you’d asked me to, Knowing that you’d never Take that bullet for me, Even if I asked you to. But I still jumped into the fire To make sure you got out Alive. And somehow You thought you were alone. And somehow I ended up In front of the gun And you had no problem Pulling the trigger.
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 9:04 PM UTC
The Downside to Empathy
Paper soulmates Drawn together by fate Glued into each other's lives persistently As we are paper soulmates we are prone wear and tear Torn paper is truly unfixable You can only try to sellotape together what has been torn apart Scrunched paper can't truly be smoothed out again, there is still going to be evidence of past experience Our story Inked onto the pages of our body Stained by water, the ink smudges off of us Our stories ?? unreadable
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Jul 26, 2017
Jul 26, 2017 at 4:06 AM UTC
Paper soulmates
There should be much reason for joy these days the holidays are coming- instead, there is much sadness, sorrow, and grieving too much violence happening in this distraught world of ours. Christmas is near, Christmas songs should be played yet, a different kind of music persistently plays murmured by the wind stirs the heart and mind of many this desire for power is gaining audience- inflicting pain claiming lives sowing fear affecting the whole human race. once, we had a World in Peace, what we now have is a World shattering in pieces. Sally Copyright November 15, 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 6:45 PM UTC
MUSIC
there is an owl out there    somewhere in the darkness kept secret by whispering trees shrouded in shadow by leaf and cloud it seems to have a question for any who will listen politely but persistently it inquires pausing briefly awaiting an answer before asking again and again; whether intended or not this interrogation has infuriated the old boy and seemingly every other canine in the vicinity
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Sep 15, 2022
Sep 15, 2022 at 10:43 AM UTC
there is an owl
your choices don't matter they are not yours you are a puppet you have no control every path is connected intertwining like veins and arteries pulsing, moving,wriggling, squirming just beneath the fragile skin of reality your life is a lie a show for the government a play for a malignant god a game for a bored child you do not matter you are insignificant and yet here you are persistently resisting instructions why? why do you continue to resist? is it fear? desperation? spite? or just your useless need for control? you'll never have it so give in to them give in to these choices choices that will never be yours or you trust the choices trust the path the observer takes you down they'll become a friend from the future watching though a screen
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Jan 9, 2019
Jan 9, 2019 at 8:20 PM UTC
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