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"pseudonym" poems
A poet's supposed to only post poetry If I try to do anything different under a pseudonym They'd know it's me They're not too dim To shine a light on similarity Between two varying laugh tracks despite all the hilarity Been getting down to brass tax with a microscope I could read the fine print even if both my eyes were closed So tie the rope tightly around your own necks As I work far outside of my trajectory from how I make the bow flex If I was Archie mixed with Cupid I would Follow an arrows arc like an archery marksman whose targets are Betty and Veronica's beating hearts And when they get hit, They both fall pretty hard And meet me in my back yard where I get their backs archin' Point is, I've got precision aim When I'm shooting for emotions Make you never feel a thing Make you clear minded and focused Let you all in on my pain Have you buzzin' like a locust
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Apr 15, 2017
Apr 15, 2017 at 6:11 PM UTC
, Both the Artist and the Muse.
Four parts, woven together Uniting all universal truths What others do with it's powers Only the future will prove The first strand displays the world's true nature Destroying everything it creates We become unwanted children Who have learned to incorporate Killing in our communities Biting, grinding flesh and bone Swallowing with guilt free demeanors Only leaving foul-stenched excretions as evidence Second Strand speaks of our basic biological anxiety To deny the terror of death Imperatively born, emerging from nothing Given a name and consciousness Hopelessly abandoned from the beginning Only to be fated always with everlasting death Strand three We hide underneath the "Vital lie of the character" Pretend to be shining knights in armor Who will make us forget our Unconscious anxiousness of death We all work to attain prestige, money, and the Fleeting feel of immortality Worshiping Gods with clay feet And when our beliefs are attacked "Holy wars" becomes the pseudonym for Our immortality projects The last strand All the efforts we put into Making this Earth perfect By eliminating scapegoat "enemies" and "evil" deities We end up making everything filthy In the effort to make everything right and pure We turn the Earth's soil black and color the sky red We strived for utopias, making dystopians All these actions seem unconscious But it is not the animals nature or Evolutionary process It's just us trying to pretend We don't have perishable bodies; Trying to deny death
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
The Denial of Death
Four parts, woven together Uniting all universal truths What others do with it's powers Only the future will prove The first strand displays the world's true nature Destroying everything it creates We become unwanted children Who have learned to incorporate Killing in our communities Biting, grinding flesh and bone Swallowing with guilt free demeanors Only leaving foul-stenched excretions as evidence Second Strand speaks of our basic biological anxiety To deny the terror of death Imperatively born, emerging from nothing Given a name and consciousness Hopelessly abandoned from the beginning Only to be fated always with everlasting death Strand three We hide underneath the "Vital lie of the character" Pretend to be shining knights in armor Who will make us forget our Unconscious anxiousness of death We all work to attain prestige, money, and the Fleeting feel of immortality Worshiping Gods with clay feet And when our beliefs are attacked "Holy wars" becomes the pseudonym for Our immortality projects The last strand All the efforts we put into Making this Earth perfect By eliminating scapegoat "enemies" and "evil" deities We end up making everything filthy In the effort to make everything right and pure We turn the Earth's soil black and color the sky red We strived for utopias, making dystopians All these actions seem unconscious But it is not the animals nature or Evolutionary process It's just us trying to pretend We don't have perishable bodies; Trying to deny death
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Plumped rouge with pigment her lip fills to graze the ******** intent to disquiet the likes of de Sade autografted with ocular detachment should a Marquis wish to harness the song of the morning within a bandolier of Seine to ensnare any bustled Persephone gilted by discharge of ions into a ménage of torment through the Porte des Lions. Hers is the tincture of doxy caramelized and debrided of naivety, empowered by the eve of invention, swollen to curves and grounded in Paris. Illumination defies pervasion down to every gear and pulley she has hushed through mechanization and lulled by steam, swaging a cacophony of flickers encased in glass by the Lady’s watch, where every rivet of her plate glisters silken reverberation in cascade, elegant, caged, and towering, outspoken in silence, ever challenging the Champ de Mars. "Paris by Gaslight," written by Dionne Charlet, is the title poem to be featured in the upcoming steampunk anthology Paris by Gaslight, the third anthology in the By Gaslight Series from New Orleans small press Black Tome Books. Look for the first two collections of poems and short stories set in Victorian Times, New Orleans by Gaslight (ISBN 9780615801186) and Cairo by Gaslight (ISBN 9781516961528). Both collections feature poetry by Charlet, under the pseudonym Dionne Cherie.
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Nov 3, 2016
Nov 3, 2016 at 2:44 PM UTC
Paris by Gaslight
I wrote this for a slam to explain who I am It's PoetryByMAN Yes I am a pseudonym Mystery I provoke Take it in let it soak Word playing every stroke Savor every **** Next level set the tier I'm here to make it clear Though Twisted is the mirror Rhymes you shouldn't fear Competition vital Here questing for the title Who shall be my rival In this game of survival Hit with love Vibrating like a hub Ba doom Ba doom Hit like a Sub...Woofer... Heart full not hallow LIKE ME! If there was a button would you follow? Messenger I am Also I'm a fan Diggity **** he thinks he's a rapper man Simple..direct Vocabulary wreck All due respect.. Don't want to be correct Commercial break watch me pop my snapple Many skills acquired hope my talent is ample Kung fu poet Choose style I'll flow it Talent the seed Nurture grow it From my bones A melodic tone Comfort comes from coming home Shaman Buddha Hybrid to school you Sand a vibe Runs right through you Play my part In this world of art Butterfly to a new start Blow nose with prose Words without flow Stand on stage Put on a show Hope you enjoyed PoetryByMAN Spoken in 3rd I am Blogs on tumblr..Facebook can't stand Throw all in the air top rope poetry SLAM!!
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 7:03 PM UTC
SLAM
I've taken special precaution to protect myself. Meaning, I don't give my email to people I do not know. My phone number is clutched to my chest. Even my real name is never disclosed. I live by pseudonym. Pandarra, Pandakin or simply just Panda. And' If that's not to your liking. Try; Vearena, Vearona or even Vea. I have lots of names, all of them a mouthful as they roll off your tongue. I live with precautions, to keep people at bay. Too many idiots and pervert now-a-days. But that's not the worst, heathens and **** dwell as well. People who are working the angles to make a quick buck or two off the naive and the unknowing. So learn from me well; live with precautions. Keep people at arms length, because then, and only then, can they not sink their teeth in.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM UTC
Pseudonym
What's in a name? Let me tell you a story, Of how my life changed, And how my name changed, Every time it appeared on the newspaper. Replaced by a pseudonym, Something to do with courage, I was namelessly admired, slandered, and debated over, Media’s Exclusive Coverage! The newspaper headline read in big block letters: “14 YEAR OLD GIRL SAVES SIX KINDERGARTNERS”, That made me smile. Just maybe I thought we had come that extra mile. But no for I noticed, My name was changed, And the Printing Department was not at fault. That’s just how my country dealt with ****** assault. I never asked them to hide my name, They had presumed, of course, that I was ashamed, Of saving lives. It took me a minute to remember, I had called Jyoti Nirbhaya for years. I wanted them to know who I was, Hiding I thought was for criminals, Until I realized that I WAS one when, On returning from the hospital I saw, Pain in my mother’s, Anger in my father’s, And disgust in my relatives’ eyes. No idea why a part of me had come expecting pride. In school my “friends” guiltily refrained from talking to me, Neither were my teachers too happy to see, That I had returned to the same school, Bringing with me my painful story, Which I had mistaken as one of glory. And when I went to receive the “Bravery Award”, Only the trophy didn’t read compensation award. They looked at me with too kind eyes calling me a “hero” Their smiles told me they meant violated. As I received the award, I saw they were trying really hard, To not let it show, That they wanted me to know, The difference between: Bullet marks on the chest to bite marks on the breast, Blue around the eyes to blue around the thighs, Scratches on the fists to cuts on the wrists, Loud screams in the cold to muffled screams against the cold, The red of the torn ligament to the red of the torn ***** The difference between a soldier’s and a victim’s blood. And suddenly I felt as if I was, The rescued, Not the rescuer, The maimed, Not the fighter, The oppressed, Not the rebel, The hostage, Not the warrior, I thought myself to be. What’s in a name? Apparently, a lot.
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 11:36 AM UTC
What's in a name?
What's in a name? Let me tell you a story, Of how my life changed, And how my name changed, Every time it appeared on the newspaper. Replaced by a pseudonym, Something to do with courage, I was namelessly admired, slandered, and debated over, Media’s Exclusive Coverage! The newspaper headline read in big block letters: “14 YEAR OLD GIRL SAVES SIX KINDERGARTNERS”, That made me smile. Just maybe I thought we had come that extra mile. But no for I noticed, My name was changed, And the Printing Department was not at fault. That’s just how my country dealt with ****** assault. I never asked them to hide my name, They had presumed, of course, that I was ashamed, Of saving lives. It took me a minute to remember, I had called Jyoti Nirbhaya for years. I wanted them to know who I was, Hiding I thought was for criminals, Until I realized that I WAS one when, On returning from the hospital I saw, Pain in my mother’s, Anger in my father’s, And disgust in my relatives’ eyes. No idea why a part of me had come expecting pride. In school my “friends” guiltily refrained from talking to me, Neither were my teachers too happy to see, That I had returned to the same school, Bringing with me my painful story, Which I had mistaken as one of glory. And when I went to receive the “Bravery Award”, Only the trophy didn’t read compensation award. They looked at me with too kind eyes calling me a “hero” Their smiles told me they meant violated. As I received the award, I saw they were trying really hard, To not let it show, That they wanted me to know, The difference between: Bullet marks on the chest to bite marks on the breast, Blue around the eyes to blue around the thighs, Scratches on the fists to cuts on the wrists, Loud screams in the cold to muffled screams against the cold, The red of the torn ligament to the red of the torn ***** The difference between a soldier’s and a victim’s blood. And suddenly I felt as if I was, The rescued, Not the rescuer, The maimed, Not the fighter, The oppressed, Not the rebel, The hostage, Not the warrior, I thought myself to be. What’s in a name? Apparently, a lot.
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It chills like fire It burns like ice It's dark like day And so bright like night It's an oxymoron That makes paradoxical sense It's a pseudo-pseudonym Filled with disguise, thick and dense And it's become a fine mess In the years I've been gone The acute dullness Of the field seems so wrong But the change is the same And the routine is ever-changing And this name has no name As we look for what we can't see
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 6:10 PM UTC
Oxymoronic the First
I've always lived inside a shell, But i want to be free and fly, I've always felt like i'm nobody's, but all i wanted to be was everybodys', I wasnt hungry for fame, but deprived of love. I still am. I always thought i could never be loved, but i always badly needed it, I’ve always asked for Recognition, Because I’m never Appreciated, I’ve always called myself a loon, Because I think, I think too much dirt. I don’t think im pretty, ‘cause from near, When my demons are visible, I see myself My ugliness Reflects, Comes back at me. More hatred. When guys say , “ oh you’re so pretty, You can get any guy you want!” I shatter,because I think They pretend and lie and repeat. I don’t always get what I Crave for, Nor do I manage the relationships. Or maybe they don’t see the real, ‘ugly’, ‘crazy’,’silly’, Me. I don’t see any bright light, Darkness blurs my vision, As if morning Is still asleep, Causing me more Blindness. But all I wanto see is A ray of hope,shining at me. For once, I want to be called actually pretty, Hot,cool,amazing, From someone who’ll mean it and From the one I’d be able to believe. But I am not sure The pseudonym I choose To live with, Would let me Accept what I am wishing for. ……. That’s my issue, I’m locked in this personality-cage. I need rescue. Save me from rage Wake up. Smile.. Fill another page
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 5:37 AM UTC
PSEUDONYM&ME.
Princess! She was the princess of his dreams. Once. Not long ago. In a flash of power she wrote his name. She was not true beauty. She scratched her name across his heart. Left power of a memory. An itch he longs to scratch. Crazy people. Not mismatched. Be it not a pseudonym. Her being, gave him crazy blessings. Helped him love again. Once arose a smile within. Though love be lost. Once did win! By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
Princess!
I wrote this for the Poetry crowd A slam poem to be read out loud An intro as to who I am I go by the pseudonym M.A.N Central California is where I roam A gangsta lifestyle made me hard like stone Now I'm just a poet with a furious flow I flip it Kung Fu style just to show I got the skills to pay the poetry bills There are no rules I say what I feel Twisting up words as I open up my mind My imagination spills to the scene of the crime My soul in my words will always live on That's why I pack them with power and make them strong Will it stand the test of time? A masterpiece created from my mind Hmm I dunno or do I care My words like smoke floating in the air This is my notice for all to see On my quest to become the King of Poetry...
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Mar 10, 2014
Mar 10, 2014 at 6:03 PM UTC
K.O.P King of Poetry
i am human just like you grew up confused fused into a small hole quite the ***** up but focused we are all like lines i build escape plans through words every time I find myself stuck i find escape within me i find escape in books i took from my imagination and drew inspiration we are all like lines lines guided my curvy path life was a little like math class nothing but memorization strangers act like they don't remember that we were once friends last year, last month, last night or in the past life we are all like lines some of us meet with someone else and we intersect once we make contact and touch but funny enough we never really touch on an atomic level our atoms repel we are like lines perpendicular and never cross paths again but some of us meet with someone else never make contact or touch we are like lines parallel we go on forever but never intersect we are all like lines i saw lines in the way i manipulated the pen the pencil the brush the spray can i spray my pseudonym on your wall well because I can the paint dripping from the walls like blood streaming down my eyes the pain a distraction that kept me alive kept me awake at night kept me away from the safety of my home but also kept me away from the dangers of my home a contradiction i was living in the streets the days i never came home i was living in the streets the days i never came home i saw lines in capturing moments the symmetry in architecture in nature i saw myself as a temple a monument we are all like lines i saw lines in guitars and how i can change the sound each string makes in endless ways but in reality the guitar changed me it changed the way i tune myself i finally felt in tune with the world the fire was inside me when i took the first breath of air the water was inside of me science and religion   i was never thirsty the earth is really old is all i know growing up i never learned never learned how to say no always afraid of getting old i forgot the lines i forever rehearsed the day my mom found out i smoke **** my eyes were low and so was i
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM UTC
introductory lines
i am human just like you grew up confused fused into a small hole quite the ***** up but focused we are all like lines i build escape plans through words every time I find myself stuck i find escape within me i find escape in books i took from my imagination and drew inspiration we are all like lines lines guided my curvy path life was a little like math class nothing but memorization strangers act like they don't remember that we were once friends last year, last month, last night or in the past life we are all like lines some of us meet with someone else and we intersect once we make contact and touch but funny enough we never really touch on an atomic level our atoms repel we are like lines perpendicular and never cross paths again but some of us meet with someone else never make contact or touch we are like lines parallel we go on forever but never intersect we are all like lines i saw lines in the way i manipulated the pen the pencil the brush the spray can i spray my pseudonym on your wall well because I can the paint dripping from the walls like blood streaming down my eyes the pain a distraction that kept me alive kept me awake at night kept me away from the safety of my home but also kept me away from the dangers of my home a contradiction i was living in the streets the days i never came home i was living in the streets the days i never came home i saw lines in capturing moments the symmetry in architecture in nature i saw myself as a temple a monument we are all like lines i saw lines in guitars and how i can change the sound each string makes in endless ways but in reality the guitar changed me it changed the way i tune myself i finally felt in tune with the world the fire was inside me when i took the first breath of air the water was inside of me science and religion   i was never thirsty the earth is really old is all i know growing up i never learned never learned how to say no always afraid of getting old i forgot the lines i forever rehearsed the day my mom found out i smoke **** my eyes were low and so was i
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V. the ballad of briseis my heart is of the flesh of figs, and that which i cannot touch: grainy sweet garnet nectar pretty to behold but easy to bruise no god shall speak for me, briseis for this fig-heart, like the heart of man craves art as it does god and though i know you not by name, but only pseudonym: blood, words, and love, we are kindred souls i'd like to believe that we are cut of the same cloth hewn of the same mound of clay (or cast into the same iron, i suppose for we became one another's anchor the day we met) i once told you, my dear briseis, that if you taught me symbiosis i would teach you love for you found pragma in philosophy cold markov's blankets freud's ego, plato's cave whereas i found pragma in alchemy's poetry chekhov's gun freud's neurotics, plato's human it means nothing. the alchemy lies beyond the chemicals, beyond the seed and the egg, beyond our festivals of atonement, beyond my prima materia and your unfulfilled magnum opus it lies in simple interdependence, the oceans, the heavens, the forests, the deserts, the storms, the famines, the herds of wildebeest, the colonies of ants, the beady dew on the spider web and the purling river shallows, our acrid mouths yearning for mother's milk, the boy who makes us cry at night, the fiery logs roaring against the cold air, the hoot-owls and the faces on the wall (our skeletons never did stay in the closet) bathed in that slow, hideous wonder those interplays of love and symbiosis as i drown and die in reverie once more pray that the stakes may be forever higher that i find those eternal elysian fields so long as our achilles lives to fight again we are more alike, than you or i would ever dare to admit, briseis so humor this fig-heart: hold me and tell me that it'll be all right
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 11:57 PM UTC
iliad, a poem | no. 5
V. the ballad of briseis my heart is of the flesh of figs, and that which i cannot touch: grainy sweet garnet nectar pretty to behold but easy to bruise no god shall speak for me, briseis for this fig-heart, like the heart of man craves art as it does god and though i know you not by name, but only pseudonym: blood, words, and love, we are kindred souls i'd like to believe that we are cut of the same cloth hewn of the same mound of clay (or cast into the same iron, i suppose for we became one another's anchor the day we met) i once told you, my dear briseis, that if you taught me symbiosis i would teach you love for you found pragma in philosophy cold markov's blankets freud's ego, plato's cave whereas i found pragma in alchemy's poetry chekhov's gun freud's neurotics, plato's human it means nothing. the alchemy lies beyond the chemicals, beyond the seed and the egg, beyond our festivals of atonement, beyond my prima materia and your unfulfilled magnum opus it lies in simple interdependence, the oceans, the heavens, the forests, the deserts, the storms, the famines, the herds of wildebeest, the colonies of ants, the beady dew on the spider web and the purling river shallows, our acrid mouths yearning for mother's milk, the boy who makes us cry at night, the fiery logs roaring against the cold air, the hoot-owls and the faces on the wall (our skeletons never did stay in the closet) bathed in that slow, hideous wonder those interplays of love and symbiosis as i drown and die in reverie once more pray that the stakes may be forever higher that i find those eternal elysian fields so long as our achilles lives to fight again we are more alike, than you or i would ever dare to admit, briseis so humor this fig-heart: hold me and tell me that it'll be all right
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God help us, Imamu—stop playing the fool as you babble unhinged in your kente hat. Bebopping Mao is so very uncool; what up wit dat ? Flirtations with Castro (Fidel to the faithful) and free Cuba Libres imbibed with the Beats inflamed discontent when your verses turned wrathful in the streets. Predictable tirades where Whitey’s the foe, attacking your hosts like an Afro/eccentric gets old. It’s a stagnant unmusical show: dull dialectic. Who knows why the liberals that bankroll you love it? Who cares what your most recent pseudonym is? You old and you mad cause’ you can’t rise above it, mired in the shizz. Your lines are pure mannitol: dumbed-down ******* (The blow on the head by that riot-cop lingers!) The syntax is whack in your ghetto refrain. Snap fingers . . . Still you wait for your war—or the Black Star-Liner . . . Your rage was your royalty, paid in white money. Your verse sought to give the right wing a dark shiner— it’s not funny. Insulting, belittling others more noble; your legacy leaves nothing hopeful or witty Just putrid black waters, the flow uncontrollable under the city. Inside of your Kabaa are yet many idols. Your New Ark of verse did not save from the flood. You mau-mau and bludgeon with words all your rivals but draw no blood. Lighten up, wise Imamu. Your age is soon closing. You wrote for the stage and said some of it well. But your verse has gone rotten and yields, decomposing, a nasty smell.
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 8:50 PM UTC
Lines for LeRoi Jones (the Imamu)
I have just begun See me rise like the Sun All that is done becomes one With our eyes we see With our minds we be Destined to become King of Poetry Hello everybody you can call me M.A.N So mysterious I became a pseudonym I have no finish..I have no start Infinite emotions stir in my heart Lava flow seeps from my soul Volcanic personality shake the earth when I blow Some days I'm dark Some days I'm Sunny Write a Poem on paper call it money As I appear one year into this Poetry run I will scratch..I will claw I will devise..I will fall In the end rise above it all Leave poetry skeptics dazed and stunned Scorpio mind should be a crime I have just begun...♏
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 7:41 PM UTC
Just Begun
Leaping, leaping, leaping, down line by line, growling at the cadavers, filling the holy jugs with their **** falling into windows and mauling the parents, but soft, kiss-soft, and sobbing sobbing into their awful dog dish. No point? No twist for you in my white tunnel? Let me speak plainly, let me whisper it from the podium-- Mother, may I use your pseudonym? May I take the dove named Mary and shove out Anne? May I take my check book, my holographs, my eight naked books, and sign it Mary, Mary, Mary full of grace? I know my name is not offensive but my feet hang in the noose. I want to be white. I want to be blue. I want to be a bee digging into an onion heart, as you did to me, dug and squatted long after death and its fang. Hail Mary, full of me, Nibbling in the sitting room of my head. Mary, Mary, ****** forever, ***** forever, give me your name, give me your mirror. Boils fester in my soul, so give me your name so I may kiss them, and they will fly off, nameless but named, and they will fly off like angel food dogs with thee and with thy spirit. Let me climb the face of my kitchen dog and fly off into my terrified years.
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The Angel Food Dogs
Like water falling over a crest A swift rapid descent into a black hole The paradox known as my life Disguised as a pseudonym plunging Ever deeper into a swirling Of emotions into depths unknown Cascading over cliffs at ever greater speed Feeling out of control Coalescing into a bottomless pit The sheerness of the sides Ever sharper the deeper I fall Leaving no way out Holding my breath For the inevitable free fall Into a chasm of darkness Is this my destiny or fate Or just another nightmare among many That I will endure Until... Andreas Simic©
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Jun 18, 2022
Jun 18, 2022 at 8:49 AM UTC
Falling
i had a headache when i walked into class and even though you were at the opposite end of the classroom, it felt as though glass was crushing against the back of my skull and there were spots of black and blue and bruises in my eyes and i couldn't feel anything but the bile in my throat, not even my lungs could tell if i was breathing when i fell into the darkness which people often call the pseudonym of "passing out" and my instructor shook me awake, pulling me from the depths of the unfeeling (and how i longed to remain there), i couldn't answer the question of "why" and simply stated the cause to be dehydration instead of panic. you attempted to make eye contact with me whilst people had me ingest water against the currents of the bile and i just can't look at you without succumbing to all things you might've read about panic disorders and ptsd and lonely women and sometimes there's this wound nestled in my chest and it refuses to heal properly because you make me feel loneliness in the worst of ways. i don't want this. i don't need you. i never did.
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
on fainting and bruised eyes
Vicinit vicinit the gamut go round Progenies excogitate faster Ode to no eminent thing We all morph into matter. The atramentous inky and blackest dense; sprints and weaves in and out. Tenuring twains over head, under toe; Absconding ways in which we've never known A paramounted heretic defeat. Darkness that foliole footprints sooted deep; Seeping stenches of fowl un-scented reminiscent in attire of the welkin; Vastly sly making a skullduggery indent. CR2X let us pseudonym by hex. "No nomen no nomen for I matter dark" "Matronymic nix hold's my fine lark" "Nongermane logics are behind you and left" "I am not your scientific pet" Not a test, nix preliminaries" Matter of all is of all existing quarries" Spoken gallant and wise Need not ever a compromise "Matter dark matter dark it is you we embark!"
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Nov 8, 2010
Nov 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM UTC
Matter Annex Spoken
Humanity is so advanced Constantly pushing boundaries Solving the unknowns of existence Day by day, one step closer To all-seeing comprehension of reality So close to a cure Just short of a solution No knowledge can hide from us forever We press on to illuminate The dark depths of mortality Seeking truth We go where none have gone Pursue an answer just beyond our grasp Closer than ever before Yet still outside the realm of reality Or maybe our reality Is just a fabrication The materialization of a fiction Whose architect works by power of suggestion Under the pseudonym of "Sanity" A fiction of simple skeleton: Spine of logic and ribs of reason Whose blood flows rich in measured season Headed by calculated cognition Infinite, within the bounds of Sanity But we sink our teeth into each fact We cling to all we think we know We say "question everything" and "think beyond" Convince one another we actually do As we dance on our ropes pulled by Sanity      And we see as we wish to see      And we wish for all we ever saw
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM UTC
As We Wish
Swallows, and it follow Into the stream of blood Sorrows, of tomorrow Quenched along smoke thirst Poisonous oily liquid, description Stated literally Should be avoided, medical prescription Lingers in breath Smoker, person's pseudonym Enjoying for him(her)self Smoking, process's anonym Nicotine, isn't always a sin |AB|
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 5:06 AM UTC
Nicotine
A poet, One of our best, Got far Inside himself. He LOL a lot, Used emoticons And dots, To share Personal thoughts; Then he forgot His name. A pseudonym's A precarious thing; Its acronym Might fool you. But a nom de plume Becomes you, Like Twain, Orwell Or Seuss. So, when your writing Takes you far, It's important To remember Who you are.
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 2:13 PM UTC
Remember, Who You Are
INTRODUCTION *someone's following you online here, and you want to know why Well, here's why...take your pick* POSSIBILITIES 1) Oh, I follow you because you look good and though I never read your poems I come back often year after year to see if you age at all 2) you don't use your real name you use a moniker or pseudonym - and I'm just  going by the desperate hope you are Obama or Putin incognito and you might give me asylum one day if I'm outlawed by one or the other 3) I'm in jail for life and this is the only way I can stalk anyone 4) I was hoping you'd reciprocate and follow me too - so why the hell don't you, hypocrite!? 5) I'm your ****** boss in disguise and I'm at this site keeping track of how much office time you waste here, you ****** loafer! 6) I'm actually your wife and I got a thing or two to say to you about all those comments you've written for the women here Same old liar here and at home, aren't you? Just wait till you get home... 7) Well, I'm a ****** academic who never gets creative so I'm collecting all your poems and I'll publish them in my name and there'll be praise all round for me as academic, and poet, and novelist too (the novels I steal from my students) 8) you scratch my back I scratch yours 9) Why do I follow you? - but aren't you my mum? You never taught me to let go of your apron strings 10) actually, it was a mistake, see I was on my smartphone and I went tap, tap, tap and my index finger fell on "Follow" and I'm too darned lazy to set it right... that's how I ended up following you 11) My cult tells me the Messiah is here at this site so I just follow everyone in case it happens to be you - it is you, isn't it?
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 6:07 AM UTC
why I started following you
INTRODUCTION *someone's following you online here, and you want to know why Well, here's why...take your pick* POSSIBILITIES 1) Oh, I follow you because you look good and though I never read your poems I come back often year after year to see if you age at all 2) you don't use your real name you use a moniker or pseudonym - and I'm just  going by the desperate hope you are Obama or Putin incognito and you might give me asylum one day if I'm outlawed by one or the other 3) I'm in jail for life and this is the only way I can stalk anyone 4) I was hoping you'd reciprocate and follow me too - so why the hell don't you, hypocrite!? 5) I'm your ****** boss in disguise and I'm at this site keeping track of how much office time you waste here, you ****** loafer! 6) I'm actually your wife and I got a thing or two to say to you about all those comments you've written for the women here Same old liar here and at home, aren't you? Just wait till you get home... 7) Well, I'm a ****** academic who never gets creative so I'm collecting all your poems and I'll publish them in my name and there'll be praise all round for me as academic, and poet, and novelist too (the novels I steal from my students) 8) you scratch my back I scratch yours 9) Why do I follow you? - but aren't you my mum? You never taught me to let go of your apron strings 10) actually, it was a mistake, see I was on my smartphone and I went tap, tap, tap and my index finger fell on "Follow" and I'm too darned lazy to set it right... that's how I ended up following you 11) My cult tells me the Messiah is here at this site so I just follow everyone in case it happens to be you - it is you, isn't it?
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Women who think like men Men who act like children Children who act like they're forty and think they're adults I opened the box to find a crudely written IOU on the back of an expired Domino's coupon We tried to assimilate the whole thing My co-worker made a long distance phone call It was to the peanut gallery They told her she should have put another quarter in the parking meter so she could have avoided the fine "Fredrick Brown" Said my boss That was the name he gave us when he made the reservation Sounded like pseudonym the chiseler made up on the spot But all he ate was side dishes And a bag of corn nuts he brought in Now the investigation was in full swing The cops came Asking questions A description A name And what he ordered "Burnt french fries, uncooked calamari, re fried beans, a salad with only brown lettuce, a can of cranberry sauce, a porterhouse steak medium rare with mushrooms and onions and a hot fudge sundae without any ice cream" The officers perused the table and found that sundae and the steak were untouched And the can of cranberry sauce was only half eaten Days later a man was found screaming in the industrial park Yelling obscenities and wearing a bald cap While trying to listen to scratched skipping Cd's on his Walkman that had no batteries It goes without saying the man was deranged It was the very same man I waited on in the restaurant Police only released one statement on the matter They said when asked why he was in there in the first place He told them he was looking for work to pay a bill the he owed to a local restaurant who had top notch service His real name was Ercy ****** That name is now branded into my memory
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 8:10 PM UTC
Fredrick Brown
Women who think like men Men who act like children Children who act like they're forty and think they're adults I opened the box to find a crudely written IOU on the back of an expired Domino's coupon We tried to assimilate the whole thing My co-worker made a long distance phone call It was to the peanut gallery They told her she should have put another quarter in the parking meter so she could have avoided the fine "Fredrick Brown" Said my boss That was the name he gave us when he made the reservation Sounded like pseudonym the chiseler made up on the spot But all he ate was side dishes And a bag of corn nuts he brought in Now the investigation was in full swing The cops came Asking questions A description A name And what he ordered "Burnt french fries, uncooked calamari, re fried beans, a salad with only brown lettuce, a can of cranberry sauce, a porterhouse steak medium rare with mushrooms and onions and a hot fudge sundae without any ice cream" The officers perused the table and found that sundae and the steak were untouched And the can of cranberry sauce was only half eaten Days later a man was found screaming in the industrial park Yelling obscenities and wearing a bald cap While trying to listen to scratched skipping Cd's on his Walkman that had no batteries It goes without saying the man was deranged It was the very same man I waited on in the restaurant Police only released one statement on the matter They said when asked why he was in there in the first place He told them he was looking for work to pay a bill the he owed to a local restaurant who had top notch service His real name was Ercy ****** That name is now branded into my memory
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The way you have a way with words, I bless every book and every poem that has ever graced your sight. I praise the letters you've strung thus far, if I could, I'd stitch them with my own to make a blanket of letters that would cover and protect you in the next winter. Now I am writing astray, but from my original pseudonym I am never too far away. You are the one writing these poems, I am just your hands and the veins on them.
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Jun 23, 2022
Jun 23, 2022 at 3:23 AM UTC
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Give Away the Stone Heat the Ring of End Days Thesis Pseudonym needed Give Away my Gem Hope Earth holds under Feet Jeweled foundation cares Grip the Unknown, Strangle A Polished Sleek Gift Who are we to choose Breath in Drudgery four ago hope held little hands focus, dope knows no locus leaden shores anchor coast to coast Broken oh lord, Broken as John Milton Revels Gold as Gorillas Glowing Toxic as Glue, Bright as the Plasma Screened Skylight artificially I feed myself death to encourage Give away the Metal circles Bleed in Chalice Black & Angry
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 3:38 AM UTC
Ruby