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Today tastes like Satisfied saturday lie ins and accompanied sleepy yawns Tea in bed toast crumbs Today tastes like Washing pegs I hold in my mouth while ******* things out on the line Today tastes like Saturday sweetie day peanut m n m's and other sugary treats hooray! Today tastes like a trip to the zoo animal antics fruit bats meerkats and tamarin tantrics Today tastes like My son's hearty hugs he's been away all week with the scouts a hearty dinner whilst he recounts his trip's losers and winners Today tastes like brightly coloured family television shows of sofa time and cheesey toes (before i put the boys in the bath) Today tastes like relaxation tea and more tea Maybe I'll allow myself a cheeky glass of wine to further relax and unwind!
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
Today tastes like....
He looks at her lying there sleeping with a smile on his face He shuts his eyes Opens them and sees her beckoning to him He goes to her Takes her in his arms and murmurs sweet nothings till she is asleep again He shuts his eyes Opens them again and he's still standing there watching her sleep He watches her as she speaks so animatedly The light from the harsh fluorescent bulb hardly diminishes the angles, the planes, the beauty of her face He watched the pleasure in her face turns to sorrow as she recounts her troubles And as he wished with all his might that he could take her in his arms to comfort her He shuts his eyes And opens them He goes to her Takes her in his arms Comforts her as she cries out her anguish He shuts his eyes Opens them again And he's still sitting in his seat Watching her pour her soul out He's standing by the door As she bids him goodbye She saunters over to him Hugs him goodbye As she walked away He shuts his eyes Opens them And hurries over to her With a whisper as soft as butterfly wings He says "I'm in love with you" He shuts his eyes And opens them again He's still standing by the door As she hurried away to her ride With the words still unspoken He lay down in his bed Thinking about the day As he closes his eyes He goes back to dreaming about her
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Mar 17, 2016
Mar 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM UTC
Open and Shut
We sit in silence, backs crooked, the couches' cushions caving in. The weight of passing hours and minuettes alleviating thinking in a miscellaneous metronome ticking to bring time to a heaving chest. Stay calm, the pain of realignment will pass. Burdensome they may be, burgeoning wings will free you of... Pressure collapsing this cage, walls torn from studs, leaving only this skeleton surrounding us as we find delirium the backbone of convulsing lungs watched, earthquake mute laughter marring the faces with jagged faults. The cost of cracking, we must accept the scarring permanent. Breaks unplanned infirmities, alone, our time line disrupted itself and the heavens came, tumbling down. In silence, we lay, arms barring our escaping words. Eyes overstep boundaries, slipping through the gaps, a second moment of clarification fractures restraints whilst beguiling brainstorms sparked our interest. Our tongues meet, shyly. rubies placed upon your breath slipping against molded clay. In sapphires you and I hold nighttime reflections of passion contained in coal, waiting. Ivory runs my length, bending to ecstasy, breathing shallow, asynchronous, failing to find it's end in persistence. In night the danger dropped us, longing that dusty light beaming down on the show, Act 2 is the comedy. Off. Parallel parabola line diamond reflections, allow for recall with brushed fingertips, horse hair undertones realigning smiles, abstract the paintings of today, of yesterday, stealing away tomorrow in a previous reiteration of our variant indifference. The wings of the demon opened in symbolic solace, fell far across this burning emotional harbor, aflame in angels' suicides. We've fallen, taken knees to grace, whispering eulogies the waves applaud. Sands wash away to cupped stone palms, caressing the troubled banks lost in time. The blood washes away, momentary marks, brown, stained, it passes. Demons foreshadow. In their shade we are seen falling into broken arms, sinew stitched through hearts, still healing strength gives way. Our tongues meet shyly, this reunion a mistake, now locked, staying stilled while attempting apologetic phrasing. We sit in silence, backs crooked, blank walls and barren recounts crashing in.
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Aug 19, 2012
Aug 19, 2012 at 2:32 AM UTC
Silence Crashing In
We sit in silence, backs crooked, the couches' cushions caving in. The weight of passing hours and minuettes alleviating thinking in a miscellaneous metronome ticking to bring time to a heaving chest. Stay calm, the pain of realignment will pass. Burdensome they may be, burgeoning wings will free you of... Pressure collapsing this cage, walls torn from studs, leaving only this skeleton surrounding us as we find delirium the backbone of convulsing lungs watched, earthquake mute laughter marring the faces with jagged faults. The cost of cracking, we must accept the scarring permanent. Breaks unplanned infirmities, alone, our time line disrupted itself and the heavens came, tumbling down. In silence, we lay, arms barring our escaping words. Eyes overstep boundaries, slipping through the gaps, a second moment of clarification fractures restraints whilst beguiling brainstorms sparked our interest. Our tongues meet, shyly. rubies placed upon your breath slipping against molded clay. In sapphires you and I hold nighttime reflections of passion contained in coal, waiting. Ivory runs my length, bending to ecstasy, breathing shallow, asynchronous, failing to find it's end in persistence. In night the danger dropped us, longing that dusty light beaming down on the show, Act 2 is the comedy. Off. Parallel parabola line diamond reflections, allow for recall with brushed fingertips, horse hair undertones realigning smiles, abstract the paintings of today, of yesterday, stealing away tomorrow in a previous reiteration of our variant indifference. The wings of the demon opened in symbolic solace, fell far across this burning emotional harbor, aflame in angels' suicides. We've fallen, taken knees to grace, whispering eulogies the waves applaud. Sands wash away to cupped stone palms, caressing the troubled banks lost in time. The blood washes away, momentary marks, brown, stained, it passes. Demons foreshadow. In their shade we are seen falling into broken arms, sinew stitched through hearts, still healing strength gives way. Our tongues meet shyly, this reunion a mistake, now locked, staying stilled while attempting apologetic phrasing. We sit in silence, backs crooked, blank walls and barren recounts crashing in.
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Ancient Athens demonstrated a demise of democracy into despair and squalor at the hands of the voters. Ancient Rome recounts a reduction of a Republic into nationalist rancor at the hands of the state. The United States of America is a sort-of culmination of both; of how a Democratic Republic may fail, impoverishing and subjugating it's own as well as it's proximity, reducing itself and any it can drag with it from a respectful idealization of Human Experience to a bloodthirsty, greedy, vapid shell of Fascisms past.
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 1:27 PM UTC
Democratic Republic
My father, Who never marched a drill, Nor fired an angry shot, Recounts fond memories I've heard so many times: How long ago, when I was very young, He and our neighbor, Up before the sun, Engaged in tractor battles (He's very sure he won). My father woke those mornings, Early 1960s, With the popping cough of Diesel International tractor cylinders Clattering out white smoke... Then blue and black, As engine heat and friction Tightened gaps and sealed compression, And the motor steadied into an even roar. Across the county road Our only neighbor led or followed suit, Sending smoke and sound To drown the morning songs of robins and meadowlarks. Fifty years later, Dad laughs in recollection, "We started rising just a little Earlier each day. Starting up our tractors In a sort of game Called, 'Who's out earliest?'" Six became a quarter of, Then five-thirty backed to four. One tractor or the other roared, Early and then earlier to pull Into the waiting fields. When three-thirty came around My mother shook her head, But if she said a word, I haven't heard. They even started engines up Before they ran, Milking buckets swinging, to their barns to chore. As early became earlier In the little farmers' war. One day in town, Entirely by happenstance, A meeting came between the two. My father, being younger, Had energy for more, But the neighbor shook his head, Grabbed his hand and said, "Let's stop this foolishness. I don't know about you, But I need my sleep." The farmer battle ended then. A hand shake and a smile Between two farmer friends, Created country lore, Remembered here a while, As "The Early, Earlier War."
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Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4, 2012 at 8:17 AM UTC
The Early, Earlier War
My father, Who never marched a drill, Nor fired an angry shot, Recounts fond memories I've heard so many times: How long ago, when I was very young, He and our neighbor, Up before the sun, Engaged in tractor battles (He's very sure he won). My father woke those mornings, Early 1960s, With the popping cough of Diesel International tractor cylinders Clattering out white smoke... Then blue and black, As engine heat and friction Tightened gaps and sealed compression, And the motor steadied into an even roar. Across the county road Our only neighbor led or followed suit, Sending smoke and sound To drown the morning songs of robins and meadowlarks. Fifty years later, Dad laughs in recollection, "We started rising just a little Earlier each day. Starting up our tractors In a sort of game Called, 'Who's out earliest?'" Six became a quarter of, Then five-thirty backed to four. One tractor or the other roared, Early and then earlier to pull Into the waiting fields. When three-thirty came around My mother shook her head, But if she said a word, I haven't heard. They even started engines up Before they ran, Milking buckets swinging, to their barns to chore. As early became earlier In the little farmers' war. One day in town, Entirely by happenstance, A meeting came between the two. My father, being younger, Had energy for more, But the neighbor shook his head, Grabbed his hand and said, "Let's stop this foolishness. I don't know about you, But I need my sleep." The farmer battle ended then. A hand shake and a smile Between two farmer friends, Created country lore, Remembered here a while, As "The Early, Earlier War."
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Just when you think the road leads to nowhere crops up the moss veiled house its crumbling bricks make greyer the sky with the hush of twilight and you rue with melancholy the night under its roof assigned for you but the old man like a seasoned spider lets you forget you're trapped for the night to his web spun from timeworn earth as you stare engrossed upon his face outlined by glowworm sparks he recounts it was all marshland he grew into bowl of harvest and how he was blessed with the most beautiful woman on earth then reaching the crescendo his words thin into whispers when he tells you his two poor eyes were not enough to hold her beauty so she putting a stone on her heart spread wings on a night like this the cornfield wilted he wizened into an endless wait with gracious death saving his bones to lighten his heart to a stranger who comes alone.
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Jun 21, 2016
Jun 21, 2016 at 10:51 AM UTC
To a stranger who comes alone
Ah, heedless girl! why thus disclose What ne’er was meant for other ears; Why thus destroy thine own repose, And dig the source of future tears? Oh, thou wilt weep, imprudent maid, While lurking envious foes will smile, For all the follies thou hast said Of those who spoke but to beguile. Vain girl! thy lingering woes are nigh, If thou believ’st what striplings say: Oh, from the deep temptation fly, Nor fall the specious spoiler’s prey. Dost thou repeat, in childish boast, The words man utters to deceive? Thy peace, thy hope, thy all is lost, If thou canst venture to believe. While now amongst thy female peers Thou tell’st again the soothing tale, Canst thou not mark the rising sneers Duplicity in vain would veil? These tales in secret silence hush, Nor make thyself the public gaze: What modest maid without a blush Recounts a flattering coxcomb’s praise? Will not the laughing boy despise Her who relates each fond conceit— Who, thinking Heaven is in her eyes, Yet cannot see the slight deceit? For she who takes a soft delight These amorous nothings in revealing, Must credit all we say or write, While vanity prevents concealing. Cease, if you prize your Beauty’s reign! No jealousy bids me reprove: One, who is thus from nature vain, I pity, but I cannot love.
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To A Vain Lady
A family man, running spandexed and puffing reaches into the stroller at the crest of the hill as the day sighs away the last of its dusk hands a three year old a flashlight and makes her a secret-wink promise. *You'll move so quickly on your path, it's your duty to carry a light with you to keep you and others safe.* A stern man and a hot scratchy washcloth removing a Spice Girls bubblegum tattoo from the nose of a seven year old, molecule by molecule. *As soon as you get caught up in superficiality, that's when you'll make mistakes. Don't make mistakes that will last.* A medic man returns from a surgery from a rural village with more kindness than money. Lays a basket of apples and a banana loaf on the table in lieu of a cheque and says: *There will be opportunities in your life for your actions to define the kind of person you are- always take them- and never forget your common humanity.* An animal man bursts into the room with a puppy as new as a sparrow gamboling, loving, seeking faces and laps. *When choosing your first dog, look for one that has more loyalty than shrewdness. Choose your friends that way, too.* A tired man breathes deeply instead of shouting at the quivering teen and the confession of the bumper and the scratch that shouldn't have happened. Hurt softly with the truth.... but never with lies. A romantic man recounts his history raising his eyebrows at the score of his frolics and makes me swear to fall madly in like with every soul who my heart should kiss- *but Love, reserve Love as the most sacred of words, deeds, beings. When you Love, you and he shall become one another, and be one life.* A sentimental man wears a silver crown at the head of his dinner table meditating in silence after the laughs and mayhem of his family clan have subsided to the fireplace. He looks at his daughter. She looks at her father. The fullness of her adult face and Polish eyes reflect in his irises blue inside blue inside blue inside blue- making any separation between them redundant, intangible, like- mirrors facing mirrors- as the roots of the Tree run as deep as soul itself and he murmurs: *The day you hear the cry of your firstborn child is the day you discover the meaning of your life- and nothing will ever, ever be the same.*
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM UTC
Lessons from my father.
A family man, running spandexed and puffing reaches into the stroller at the crest of the hill as the day sighs away the last of its dusk hands a three year old a flashlight and makes her a secret-wink promise. *You'll move so quickly on your path, it's your duty to carry a light with you to keep you and others safe.* A stern man and a hot scratchy washcloth removing a Spice Girls bubblegum tattoo from the nose of a seven year old, molecule by molecule. *As soon as you get caught up in superficiality, that's when you'll make mistakes. Don't make mistakes that will last.* A medic man returns from a surgery from a rural village with more kindness than money. Lays a basket of apples and a banana loaf on the table in lieu of a cheque and says: *There will be opportunities in your life for your actions to define the kind of person you are- always take them- and never forget your common humanity.* An animal man bursts into the room with a puppy as new as a sparrow gamboling, loving, seeking faces and laps. *When choosing your first dog, look for one that has more loyalty than shrewdness. Choose your friends that way, too.* A tired man breathes deeply instead of shouting at the quivering teen and the confession of the bumper and the scratch that shouldn't have happened. Hurt softly with the truth.... but never with lies. A romantic man recounts his history raising his eyebrows at the score of his frolics and makes me swear to fall madly in like with every soul who my heart should kiss- *but Love, reserve Love as the most sacred of words, deeds, beings. When you Love, you and he shall become one another, and be one life.* A sentimental man wears a silver crown at the head of his dinner table meditating in silence after the laughs and mayhem of his family clan have subsided to the fireplace. He looks at his daughter. She looks at her father. The fullness of her adult face and Polish eyes reflect in his irises blue inside blue inside blue inside blue- making any separation between them redundant, intangible, like- mirrors facing mirrors- as the roots of the Tree run as deep as soul itself and he murmurs: *The day you hear the cry of your firstborn child is the day you discover the meaning of your life- and nothing will ever, ever be the same.*
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Tired on the train I listen A young mother on her mobile solemn faced but beautiful eyed angrily confronts her daughters father with a maternal mantra *How do I tell her When I have all her tears and questions?* I guess he keeps hanging-up or the signal is lost The words repeat almost verbatim and repeat and repeat No-one looks everyone listens And then in the vestibule a smiling South African recounts with passion about the Jacaranda turning Cape Town purple around this time of year ...he missed his stop
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Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014 at 8:04 AM UTC
Just Passed Stoke
I see you in the sky , Far, afar off. I watch you from the earth, Far, afar off. Brightness enlightens the       vicinity from the grip of       elemental forces, Enveloping the entire arena and       beyond like the mother hen       brooding her children out       of the reach of seducing eyes       of a roaming hawks in the       sky. Your dome-shaped entity       distinctively standing aloof       like a magnificent rotunda       palatial in the Arabian oasis. Thirty nights of illumination, When we spreads our mats       to narrate tale under your       watchful eyes. When elders recounts narrative       and ancient panorama of       yesteryears. When we clap, When we sing, When we dance In the womb of your greatness. Thirty nights of total darkness, When lanterns endlessly       searches for light to       extinguish darkness, When the night-callers       terrorizes our quietness, When the guardsmen work       like wild wolves to fish       out the sons of Belial, When the night impels babies       to retire to their cradles, When the wiles of darkness       inculcate an aura of fear into        our minds. Prolong your circles and       brighten our hope. You produces light, You illuminates season. Your neighbor reigns over       days, While you control the affairs       of darkness.
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Dec 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018 at 11:26 PM UTC
LIGHT OF THE MOON
By: Cedric McClester Call me a chump But I’m with Trump When it comes to Carson He can’t be accused of parsing When he says pathological He’s being pedagogical Using the man’s own words Which completely under girds What the man said About the thoughts in his head And it’s no more than logical He said he’s pathological We must wonder hard If he’d still go that extra yard To practice his absurdity I know the thought’s occurred to me Cuz if you take a look Inside his true confession book You’re gonna be amazed As he recounts the different ways He showed off his temper With his mother front and center Then a friend or relative Who he tried his best to shive It may sound like a joke But thank God the blade broke Then there’s the guy that he rocked With a solid steel padlock But no one can recall Because the tales he tells are tall Though he insists they’re true But those who know him asked, "Who knew?" Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015.  All rights reserved.
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Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 8:55 AM UTC
I'M WITH TRUMP!
The poets all lied. Eyes are not the window to the soul. If that were the case, All humans would be empaths, And we'd be free from plague and war. After all, It's easy to gaze through the glass. Eyes, Are the manuscripts of survival, And it takes a trained researcher To decipher the ramblings And recounts of a life lived in full. Every glance. Every dart. Every blink. Every tear. Every eye writes words of trauma, And histories of realities, Which one cannot understand As simply, As one can stare through the pane.
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Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM UTC
The Empath and the Manuscript
The first attempt ended in nothingness. Ribbons flowed from the belly of mother hollow, and though they grasped at their own absence, their fingers broke like brittle leaves, returning to the mother’s flesh. This was the birth of change. The second attempt ended in madness. Shadows rose out of the nothingness in waves and cascaded into pools of being, but when being opened its eyes and saw its image, it let out a threshing scream. This was the birth of separation. The third attempt ended in lack. Fire poured from the cosmic maw and baked earth to blood; flesh gorged on itself, and pale figures gripped the edges of rivers, gaping at one another, unable to speak. This was the birth of despair. The last attempt ended in man; and nothing birthed after it. Appended File Source states the archaeologist was investigating the Mariana Trench. Strangely, he began displaying symptoms of decompression sickness on the descent. His state worsened, but, due to his insistence, the pilot continued the mission. The archaeologist began recounting, in “muddled and broken speech”, accounts of his wife and children. In interviews conducted after the incident, colleagues claim to have never met any persons matching such descriptions. Soon after, the archaeologist collapsed. The pilot recounts, in a shaken tone, “By all means he was out. Like—I called to him, you know.” When asked why he did not administer first aid, the pilot replied “I couldn’t st—he was out cold, I ******* swear. I didn’t notice it at first, moving my hand over his face, you know—staring into space. I grabbed the kit, turned back, and that’s when it hit me. His eyes weren’t glazed, they were fixed on me. Tracking me. Like—those weren’t his eyes, anymore.” When asked to expand on this, the pilot broke down and had to be escorted from the room. The archaeologist has yet to awaken from his coma. It should be noted his eyes are closed. — 37, Male. Cairo, Egypt.
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM UTC
Non-Entity 000
The first attempt ended in nothingness. Ribbons flowed from the belly of mother hollow, and though they grasped at their own absence, their fingers broke like brittle leaves, returning to the mother’s flesh. This was the birth of change. The second attempt ended in madness. Shadows rose out of the nothingness in waves and cascaded into pools of being, but when being opened its eyes and saw its image, it let out a threshing scream. This was the birth of separation. The third attempt ended in lack. Fire poured from the cosmic maw and baked earth to blood; flesh gorged on itself, and pale figures gripped the edges of rivers, gaping at one another, unable to speak. This was the birth of despair. The last attempt ended in man; and nothing birthed after it. Appended File Source states the archaeologist was investigating the Mariana Trench. Strangely, he began displaying symptoms of decompression sickness on the descent. His state worsened, but, due to his insistence, the pilot continued the mission. The archaeologist began recounting, in “muddled and broken speech”, accounts of his wife and children. In interviews conducted after the incident, colleagues claim to have never met any persons matching such descriptions. Soon after, the archaeologist collapsed. The pilot recounts, in a shaken tone, “By all means he was out. Like—I called to him, you know.” When asked why he did not administer first aid, the pilot replied “I couldn’t st—he was out cold, I ******* swear. I didn’t notice it at first, moving my hand over his face, you know—staring into space. I grabbed the kit, turned back, and that’s when it hit me. His eyes weren’t glazed, they were fixed on me. Tracking me. Like—those weren’t his eyes, anymore.” When asked to expand on this, the pilot broke down and had to be escorted from the room. The archaeologist has yet to awaken from his coma. It should be noted his eyes are closed. — 37, Male. Cairo, Egypt.
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I saw my first lesbians when I was 6. She was short with spiky hair, She was tall with curly hair. They held each other tenderly, Floating blissfully in the swimming pool, Absorbed in each other and unaware of The shaking head of my father And his outstretched arm As he shielded his children from the happy couple. When I was little, I held weddings for my Barbie dolls And I couldn’t understand why my parents made me stop. It wasn’t until they bought me a shiny new Ken doll That the weddings could start again. A few months ago Mum discovered her friends were lesbians And I beheld in her eyes the mixture of wonder and disgust. Wild-eyed recounts of intrusions on quiet embraces And the fear of the unknown heavy in every word. How disappointed they would be now! To know that I dream of my head between a woman’s thighs. That I remember with fondness The feminine lips that have pressed against mine. I am what you fear. The hell-bound filthy sinner Bent on destruction and lust. Sneaking into your society, poisoning your children. I am the monster you hate, the wretch you pity. But maybe you would understand If you saw how sweet this ********** is. If you knew how it feels To see sweet contentment and bliss In the arms of a woman.
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 10:57 PM UTC
in the arms of a woman
I miss our first days sometimes and like to reminisce at night There are times when I'm lucky and I can convince him to retell our stories to me after we turn out the lights. It always helps me to fall asleep; When he recounts our memories. I would love to lay together and hear him describe things to me but he doesn't like to lately
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Oct 11, 2023
Oct 11, 2023 at 9:03 PM UTC
When he recounts our memories
Raisins and pebbles jingle in your frayed pocket what else  have you lost? whilst repentance is at your leisure, the end is nye remember the rain recounts tears and wagon wheels ghosts memories stand tall if you can albeit at your own acquiescence.
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 3:46 PM UTC
Raisins rising.
Dinners under the chandelier Meaningless chatter and happy laughter The delicious smell of quesadilla Drifting through the air from the counter Grandma rocking in a corner Little ones sparked before her Marveling at her skill with the needle Entranced by the music from Grandpa's fiddle Stories by the moonlight Folktales by the fireplace Connecting dots with the starlight Losing track of time in space She never knew the word 'pain' Then she felt the pain of death Till the betrayal of Cain Till she craved the high of **** Now pain is all she knows Pain in all forms and doses Be it through bullets and blows Or even the thorns of roses She's grown so used to it It's started to feel normal She's grown so accustomed Without it she's incomplete As she sits near the cliff's edge She dares to think of happier times As she uses her foot as a wedge She remembers the oven clock's chimes She remembers mama's cookies Her favourite was chocolate She remembers papa's banters And Nana's beliefs in fate She recounts Grandpa's pipe His delicious mixed smells of tobacco and old person That must be where the crave started Her crave for the high of forgetting As the nostalgia washes over her She dares herself to cry She removes her footed wedge And begins to fly As she flies she feels nothing Only an empty fortress A fortress filled with echoes Echoes of happiness
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Apr 13, 2017
Apr 13, 2017 at 8:13 AM UTC
Echoes of Happiness
**With two frail hands, Grandfather sits of bygone years, he recounts the past talking to all in monotony stories from life as time unwinds. The regular beat, the pendulum swings heralding dusk, four strikes of the clock facing the mantle, drifting in sleep the seasons first dream... of hours turned back.** ...   ...   ...
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Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011 at 10:55 PM UTC
... Clock In The Corner [the] ...
The living legend is ****** into a rut of pining for his splendid playwright She was his everything A new breed of woman No societal entourage could compare No jovial jubilee could top her Her humongous measure of perplexity Her grace Her charm Her mystery He now despises himself for this moment of nostalgic weeping The mucus makes it hard for him to breathe with his deviated septum He looks for something to alleviate his sniffling And eviscerate all his emotional anguish Nasal spray and bourbon He can breathe but the alcohol only exacerbates the visceral issue And dampens his already flaccid spirit   Clouted with the disheartening reminder that it wasn't all her fault He fumbles with the bottle while retracing the event in his mind "It was the golden age of bronze metals" "She was asked to do as she was told" "A white lie" "A foul up" "An accusation" "An accessory to ****** "Madcap ad libbed alibis and recounts verbatim" "She turned on them, they killed her" The bourbon was gone, his nose was stuffed again Wheezing, gagging, crying   What's the word for when a living legend wants to die?
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 3:53 PM UTC
Turncoat Inamorata
Thousand thunderous tones continuously smash walls, Shouts, the constant shouts of deafening pitch shriek. Echoing vibes loudly quiver mimicking tyke calls, Make living conditions unbearable here so too speak. As passing hours swoop by, vision of pale white cheek Creates an environment within endurable in a mind, Still even now understands not why I left you behind. Those memories, that we are thankfully blessed with, Too simply close your eyes lie back and fly away. All the recounts of stories, song and a ye' old myth Held on a tip and flung just as quick the tongues sway, Gently fluttering the air in a kind of a childish play. Towards my god, I humbly give thanks so I thank. Within my heart, all memories of you I gladly drank. Prime flowers spray their scented aroma over green, Whilst the honeybees hoard yellow buds of ambrosia. Encircled by sweet tender winds and sun shines sheen, Bathing light duplicating your lips of the genus rosa, My lovin' breast heaves fondly with warmth of Jehovah. Fading squalls diminish dreaming emphatically of you Opportunistically implorin' to sweep up your essence hue.
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM UTC
Thousand thunderous tones
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ a song of gallimaufry!                    of that lively—                                                     lonely street                                                             a Troubadour a'play his fingers clog at fret passé                    as charming women bravely seek―――――                               “Red rouge and diamond eyes of gray                              this fair and mellow-mannered mare!”                                     his brilliant eyes went spying (and they stole the skies of May from there!)                                 to spite the clement nightmare!      of that pungent— porter street                                                 the cleats of noble mounts they pace the pleasance he recounts                 his smile and case lay wide and chic――――                                    “Red felt, if you would be so kind,                                               solicit further coin and bill!”                                  his learn’ed ears went hearing (and what ditty does remind him still?)                       of the love and subtle thrill!        of that gloom ick—                          ridden street a drunk man kinks apace an eager look be on his face                  in wayward want of his mystique―――――                                          “Ready nigh my pick-n-anchor                                             pick on of mutt-n-mutineer!”                                        his gentle heart went jarring (as did he of sob'ring rancor spear)                           t’ward gameless                                                   watersweet                                                       of that lone yet-                                   lively                                                                               scene                 . . .
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Jul 31, 2015
Jul 31, 2015 at 11:42 AM UTC
A Picker's Restless Peace
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ a song of gallimaufry!                    of that lively—                                                     lonely street                                                             a Troubadour a'play his fingers clog at fret passé                    as charming women bravely seek―――――                               “Red rouge and diamond eyes of gray                              this fair and mellow-mannered mare!”                                     his brilliant eyes went spying (and they stole the skies of May from there!)                                 to spite the clement nightmare!      of that pungent— porter street                                                 the cleats of noble mounts they pace the pleasance he recounts                 his smile and case lay wide and chic――――                                    “Red felt, if you would be so kind,                                               solicit further coin and bill!”                                  his learn’ed ears went hearing (and what ditty does remind him still?)                       of the love and subtle thrill!        of that gloom ick—                          ridden street a drunk man kinks apace an eager look be on his face                  in wayward want of his mystique―――――                                          “Ready nigh my pick-n-anchor                                             pick on of mutt-n-mutineer!”                                        his gentle heart went jarring (as did he of sob'ring rancor spear)                           t’ward gameless                                                   watersweet                                                       of that lone yet-                                   lively                                                                               scene                 . . .
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Your trailing starlight woven with silver needles Enters the mundane life of human days; And magical tongue recounts miracles uncounted, In magnitudes of unexpected ways. Your vision never balks at walls or ceilings; An artist's heart is not like other things, The words like hope in slowly burning censors Take to the sky, once given freedom's wings.
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Jul 30, 2010
Jul 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM UTC
Yelena
watch'ah watch'ah want? giggles? you got them... trans-gender males allowing civil partnerships and  all the loss of a taboo prodigy... the other side of the spectrum you have feminism gorging on the catwalk motto of 0... yep, with trans-gender males getting licorice stuffed pillows you deem to call ******* funny thing... those exfoliating breathing apparatus items **** i forgot the plural, and yes, correct, ascribing a quality to the **** word, moor adjectives with a sunset) pairs... now you have feminism on steroids with girl bodies too taboo for ****** and too into-it with muscular ***** wanks when fat was **** in painting and breast-feeding... so one spectrum-end (dual zenith-nadir, you choose) gets implants... the other works out with Arnie for a flat muscular chest that could breast-feed a tapeworm... but hey! our politics is a solid ace in poker... we better export this **** to the middle east and laugh about it... but i tell you... too prolonged the pyramids' influence on this region, had god interfered in the Aztec geography we'd see no dodo right now (inclusive of memory and memorable recounts of the Galapagos shortcrust debriefing in historical terminology suddenly inspected suddenly lost for want of cure so that history isn't just a deja vu - hubris Gemini hatching in a tetragrammaton)... buggers are really keen on proving the sudden eclipse... that's the global aspect of the plague... everyone cared for what happened with the sudden churn of wanting sleep... and the greatest modern pathos? insomnia... it's the great utopian counter - or a lack of interpreting dreams, equating to "life is meaningless". lack of freud to be exact, as in: the only hierarchy in theory is a hierarchic stance on applicability being vogue - everything else is hushed or broomed or ushered into Hades so that utopia is a sinking ship like Pompeii or Atlantis (Thomas Moore - or should i write Thomas Morse? cradle for the blind, a book of Braille for the sight-able hell-bent to make bureaucracy of obstructions in a game of noughts and crosses in the playground).
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 11:47 AM UTC
it's a comedy, right?
watch'ah watch'ah want? giggles? you got them... trans-gender males allowing civil partnerships and  all the loss of a taboo prodigy... the other side of the spectrum you have feminism gorging on the catwalk motto of 0... yep, with trans-gender males getting licorice stuffed pillows you deem to call ******* funny thing... those exfoliating breathing apparatus items **** i forgot the plural, and yes, correct, ascribing a quality to the **** word, moor adjectives with a sunset) pairs... now you have feminism on steroids with girl bodies too taboo for ****** and too into-it with muscular ***** wanks when fat was **** in painting and breast-feeding... so one spectrum-end (dual zenith-nadir, you choose) gets implants... the other works out with Arnie for a flat muscular chest that could breast-feed a tapeworm... but hey! our politics is a solid ace in poker... we better export this **** to the middle east and laugh about it... but i tell you... too prolonged the pyramids' influence on this region, had god interfered in the Aztec geography we'd see no dodo right now (inclusive of memory and memorable recounts of the Galapagos shortcrust debriefing in historical terminology suddenly inspected suddenly lost for want of cure so that history isn't just a deja vu - hubris Gemini hatching in a tetragrammaton)... buggers are really keen on proving the sudden eclipse... that's the global aspect of the plague... everyone cared for what happened with the sudden churn of wanting sleep... and the greatest modern pathos? insomnia... it's the great utopian counter - or a lack of interpreting dreams, equating to "life is meaningless". lack of freud to be exact, as in: the only hierarchy in theory is a hierarchic stance on applicability being vogue - everything else is hushed or broomed or ushered into Hades so that utopia is a sinking ship like Pompeii or Atlantis (Thomas Moore - or should i write Thomas Morse? cradle for the blind, a book of Braille for the sight-able hell-bent to make bureaucracy of obstructions in a game of noughts and crosses in the playground).
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in the small town land marked by it's single gas station, teens skateboard through the Walmart 15 minutes away smoke cigarettes in the baseball field of their high school rival spend Friday nights at waffle house after football games the hospital near Walmart is being closed down history replaced by churches and banks patriotism and school pride is sewn into the school t-shirts a memorial for the boys who drove drunk and died it's a community built on family values, everyone recounts their blessings and after years of collective prayer He even bestowed upon that town a Dollar General
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Jul 12, 2017
Jul 12, 2017 at 8:59 PM UTC
You Belong Here