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"repress" poems
I watch the prom Dance, In an awkward stance, my friends walk in with dates, and the excitement Abates. Alone in a corner, I mope like a mourner, With no partner to dance with, No gentleman to prance with. Amidst the mirth and cheers, My eyes fill up with tears. I rush out into the open air, And by Jove! I see Voltaire! With his satirical charms, He draws me in his arms. As I sway to the beats, I'm waltzing with Keats. Causing my funny bone to arouse, Enters P.G.  Wodehouse! Using nonchalant wittiness, He acknowledges my prettiness. And then walks in Shakespeare, Who  wipes away my tear, And my senses curdle like curds, As he showers me with words. While I repress the excited child, I'm swaying with Oscar Wilde. I'm rendered helplessly mute, With his phrases so astute. With a proposal so verse-y, I'm serenaded by Shelly  B. Percy. And before this fantasy can spoil, I fox trot with  Conan Doyle. And thus literally seduced, into putty I'm reduced. I am platonic-ally smitten, By the genius of what they've written. The dating circus can’t make me cry, because a host of paramours have I.
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
Literary Seduction
What might it be that doesn't let me compete to three verses ? Perhaps it is that I tend to write longer poems, perhaps the lengh shouldn't matter so much as the message is carried through. From mind to heart, then to ones soul I try to reach out with no goal. Yet am beaten, brought back down, by three verses which show up with such malice, ominous, threatful aura, they have approached me. I pretend not to mind, I pretend not to have seen it, yet the simple, silly, broken stream in my thoughts has already engaged it. So that it once again, cannot repress, envy on such a level. My writing style might have been through changes, might have come to a disliking to those who prefer a clear, structured, yet well recorded, beautiful and magnificent rhyme pattern. That should surely catch one's eye, perhaps fill them with glee and bliss, happy thoughts that they would miss once they are gone. But no, I cannot turn, this path was chosen, locked, destined to be walked upon on an journey which has become endless, by time which had stopped passing anymore. So now it became unrecognised, forgotten, left in an abyss without any light to expose it to the world outside my head. Such is the fate, which I will gladly bear with, for this, has been a  route, from which I learn and educate. So go ahead, you can take my flame thrice, even if I might not be able to burn this image into your eyes, this ember, about to go out from the cold, windy, airless area, will only burn brighter. As it rises from the ashes and yet again, goes ablaze ~ Umi
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 6:55 PM UTC
Despair
What might it be that doesn't let me compete to three verses ? Perhaps it is that I tend to write longer poems, perhaps the lengh shouldn't matter so much as the message is carried through. From mind to heart, then to ones soul I try to reach out with no goal. Yet am beaten, brought back down, by three verses which show up with such malice, ominous, threatful aura, they have approached me. I pretend not to mind, I pretend not to have seen it, yet the simple, silly, broken stream in my thoughts has already engaged it. So that it once again, cannot repress, envy on such a level. My writing style might have been through changes, might have come to a disliking to those who prefer a clear, structured, yet well recorded, beautiful and magnificent rhyme pattern. That should surely catch one's eye, perhaps fill them with glee and bliss, happy thoughts that they would miss once they are gone. But no, I cannot turn, this path was chosen, locked, destined to be walked upon on an journey which has become endless, by time which had stopped passing anymore. So now it became unrecognised, forgotten, left in an abyss without any light to expose it to the world outside my head. Such is the fate, which I will gladly bear with, for this, has been a  route, from which I learn and educate. So go ahead, you can take my flame thrice, even if I might not be able to burn this image into your eyes, this ember, about to go out from the cold, windy, airless area, will only burn brighter. As it rises from the ashes and yet again, goes ablaze ~ Umi
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Feeling so worthless, Worthless, I can't digress, I'm just worthless. I never take the gold, This is getting old, All the racers pass by, Me, You see, I'm worthless. Wish I could repress, The fear in my chest, That I am just worthless, Worthless. I'll never be there, For all to stare, Lifted high above, I'll be alone, At home, No one there because I'm... Worthless, A pest, Retreat to my nest, Where I am more than less. Can't escape that bar code, Bars me to a price. But feel free to take me for free, Since I am a grain of rice. Worthless.
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Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM UTC
Worthless
# *Souls embroidered with sweet sighs of passion Musing of nights in lace & white satin On a vista of flesh, flushed with desire Riding the flames on a passage of fire The beating of drums, commanding the night To the rhythm of hearts, passion ignites Wrapped in immortal flames of the sun Burning together, two become one Flesh upon flesh, a spirited dance Welded by whispers of love, of romance Temperatures rise in a fever of lust Stoking the flames, ****** after ****** Riding the swell, in a race to the shore Try to repress, but needing it more Virtue be ****** in the rage of desire Flames rise in hunger, higher n' higher Charging the crest, temperance slips Drawing the reins in a white knuckle grip Crashing of waves unleashes the flood Quaking the heart, and searing the blood Spewing of flames in the crash of the tide In a warm sheen of sweat, fervor subsides Energy spent in the throes of release Collapsing together, the story complete* #
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 7:48 AM UTC
In Lace & White Satin
So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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Mar 15, 2014
Mar 15, 2014 at 8:25 PM UTC
****** (slam poetry #4)
So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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As much as I can I repress the one part of myself that I can't stand the hopeless romantic that sits in my brain trying to change the things I think drown them down the kitchen sink
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 8:43 PM UTC
Hopeless Romantic
stress like the rest I’m trying to get something off my chest. its a weight so great my body begins to shatter all i want to do is yell but this weight is hell it pushes all the air from my lungs till they are bare. do you even care? are you even there? stress is the pain in my chest it feels like cardiac arrest i feel like i should be wearing a bullet proof vest because I’m wearing a red target on my chest. just something to aim at. stress is a mess with no clear way to clear a path without being cluttered by fear. it will bring tears, it will make you think of the ones you hold dear, stress is that weight on your chest making you feel oppressed. its something i deal with normally dont worry i dont repress. i paint it on this page with each move i make a digital valve releases letting you read this.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 12:38 AM UTC
stress
therapy and resistance how is it that therapy becomes the excess of class war or the oppression thereof? When the struggle of the individual is made to seem self induced when it is easily and clearly directly a result of the failures and complacence afforded by the majority of the group. When in a therapeutic environment it is important to distinguish the opportunities of resistance from the experience of trauma. there has always been individuals who establish groups that are in a realm of desperation. Understanding how this process has unfolded institutionally is just as valid as treating the individual. This gives the individual the choice and resources needed to heal. The healing could look like resistance rather than assuming aspects of class war or oppressive culture to be normal. Otherwise therapy is nothing but the means to normalize the process of oppression. The traumatic state needs to be able to decipher its organic existence from that of organized oppression and its institutional cooperation. the neglect of deciphering or distinguishing these differences causes individuals to make a competition out of trauma. This minimizes certain trauma of individuals and causes the group to have less of an opportunity to resist organized oppression of the institution. Those that are in the realm of desperation or traumatic state are given no choice but to repress in order to continue being social or a member of the group. in excess the hierarchies of gender, race and class are reinforced to an almost superhuman level. To the desperate or traumatic state… what needs reinforcement is that there are humans just like us who have resisted oppression and caused the normalcy of the group to be more inclusive and aware of the processes associated with organized oppression.
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Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 7:30 PM UTC
poetry on essays
therapy and resistance how is it that therapy becomes the excess of class war or the oppression thereof? When the struggle of the individual is made to seem self induced when it is easily and clearly directly a result of the failures and complacence afforded by the majority of the group. When in a therapeutic environment it is important to distinguish the opportunities of resistance from the experience of trauma. there has always been individuals who establish groups that are in a realm of desperation. Understanding how this process has unfolded institutionally is just as valid as treating the individual. This gives the individual the choice and resources needed to heal. The healing could look like resistance rather than assuming aspects of class war or oppressive culture to be normal. Otherwise therapy is nothing but the means to normalize the process of oppression. The traumatic state needs to be able to decipher its organic existence from that of organized oppression and its institutional cooperation. the neglect of deciphering or distinguishing these differences causes individuals to make a competition out of trauma. This minimizes certain trauma of individuals and causes the group to have less of an opportunity to resist organized oppression of the institution. Those that are in the realm of desperation or traumatic state are given no choice but to repress in order to continue being social or a member of the group. in excess the hierarchies of gender, race and class are reinforced to an almost superhuman level. To the desperate or traumatic state… what needs reinforcement is that there are humans just like us who have resisted oppression and caused the normalcy of the group to be more inclusive and aware of the processes associated with organized oppression.
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What see I sitting on her knees? It’s you A part of nature you are this morning. A silhouette against the sky in blue. Atop a cliff, the earth to you doth sing. I stand in awe of grace so beautiful From you just sitting still in lone repose. While standing watching this, I feel a pull To greet you and give you a fitting rose. Then suddenly I am beside you now. For how I came, I can’t begin to guess. But as you turn and smile, I take a vow: I will not ever this moment repress. I could forever now sit here with you, In fact that is just what I plan to do.
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Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 2:08 PM UTC
Silhouette
you know when you miss someone so much it’s like tsunami tides washing over you and it almost hurts to breathe you just stand there, not knowing what to do overcome with emotions that makes you think of days long gone and people that have walked away from you. i didn’t expect you to be gone so soon— i feel like our conversation is still hanging in the air just waiting to be continued i still have so many things to say to you but i guess they’re going to have to be left unsaid, forever stuck in my throat sometimes i sit here with my heartache raging quietly inside of myself and i don’t know what to do with my hands my chest feels tight and i feel like i am drowning i want this feeling to stop now but i know it’s going to take a while so i just sit here and try to repress it because i don’t want to let it overcome me.
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 1:47 AM UTC
tsunami tides
Through so many years I ran Afraid and ever cowering The darkness always at my back Voracious, all-devouring Through my mind its black claws reached And picked apart my sanity They scraped all chance of joy away With endless inhumanity Through the days and months and years it chased and clawed relentlessly Eventually I wondered why I ran unending breathlessly Through the dark I turned and looked Pursuit suspended nervously I granted it a name and face It glared with vicious fervency Through its threat I held my gaze And ventured forth an inquiry Its flare of rage could not repress My newfound curiosity Through the long nights we conversed Debating, chatting, bickering The darkness that devoured my life Shrank back, diminished, flickering Through the darkness I now saw With unexpected clarity We spoke as friends, no longer foes Embracing newfound parity Through the dark I look, and laugh My friend now laughs along with me Despite how it had always seemed The darkness is a part of me
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 2:11 AM UTC
Through the Darkness
Immunity at the cost Of false patriotism. Immunity at the cost of A heart... a life. “You’re doing God’s work, Son.” You hear as you march. March in to the pit of ****** and blindness. “He had a gun!” You cry. “He was only a child.” I reply. You take validity out of the words of the oppressed. You take money from the pockets of the poor. How many memories must you repress To feel empowered enough, to drop the innocent to the floor?
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 1:14 PM UTC
Death Siren
I see the sunrise over sin, Repress what I did once again. Shadows me like its prey, Lurching out of me eagerly. I see the sunrise over sin, It’s boiled over once again. Scolding from white hot shame, My guilt has the power to lame. I see the sunrise over sin. Push it down before it begin. The moon rise over blame, She brings clarity and aim. I see the sunrise over sin, Connects us all a kin. Judge others harshly without perceptivity, Ignorant of the hypocrisy. I see the sunrise over sin, Should **** someone but who’s in? Let’s all perish together again, Cleanse this place of our contagion. I see the sunrise over sin. Let’s live samsara again. Improve from the last time. Not just a rhyme.
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Nov 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019 at 11:26 AM UTC
Sunrise Over Sin
You saw by panes held by thin wire. Two-ways seeing crumbled fire. I remember autumn Checking at the bookstore In your vans on film you wore No conception of bottom. A kid from Mexico, 15 Convincingly my age unclean Walk summer down West Sylvester Powder sugar walkway, tester The ******* **** is blue Wild eyes tell me you knew. Back across the fairchild lot He slid to drive; I told- we bought They'd taken off without their lights He barreled lone known route recites As I scream STOP IT ISN'T WORTH IT I'LL GET YOU BACK PULL OVER, **** No one taught us how to quit We rotten without teeth to grit
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 3:51 AM UTC
Repress
I watched the old gray haired son of a ***** approach my fence in the back yard today, he - looking up at the beautiful work of art, a brilliant Magnolia that had just flowered like a proud yawning lioness at sunset, his gilded tool with it’s dangling rope to hang a miracle because it had spilled into his yard like pink paper leftovers everywhere, he decided to repress it bordering the fence it was annoying him and his domain Rousseau was dead-on about my chained freedom the manacles were dangling and I could hear him severing and slicing her arms it somehow made him feel better and he moaned his wretched realm on his side of the trellis and he walked away after the limbs had fallen to the ground to make his cheap *** ground chuck on rye – it smelled like **** the amputated Magnolia and grease spinning around my head I stood there, quietly thinking how this was so unwarranted and what a waste of time this was, the tree crying out to me and somewhere else on earth another yawning with laughter.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 8:55 PM UTC
Severed Magnolia
it has been over two years and i am proud of my growth. my main focus this year is to finish my grieving so that i may continue my life in an efficient manner. the process of grieving is commonly known as, but not limited to: denial anger bargaining depression acceptance my denial proces: many times the easiest way to get over trauma is to repress it. i was 15 when i was ra ped. legal age of consent is 16. he was 18. i was naive, and could not imagine the man i loved doing that to me. i believed that it was an accident and neither of us knew what was right or wrong. I had assumed that because i had previously given him my body, he was able to ignore my pleads to stop this time. i blamed myself more than i blamed him, and he blamed me. i had been so infatuated with him that i had pushed away the people who cared most about me. when i told them about being ***** our bond was already so far gone that they could not feel anything more than pitty. i was terrified of losing him, so i convinced us both it was an accident. ra pe is no accident. through denial became anger: i became genuinely angry for the first time in my life. i was angry at him for being somebody that i had trusted and loved. angry that i had let this happen to myself. angry that i had no strength nor respect to stand up for myself. if i had told him to stop one more time he would have. i understand now that i should not have had to say no more than once. i was angry because i let myself down, but I’m more angry that i could not blame him. being angry was the easiest part of grieving. it is okay to he angry. bargaining is a toxic healing method: i became really good at bargaining with myself. after he was gone i had begun to understand my emotions, but i could not control them. my fear of more being taken from me fed my overcompensation. i began to give my body away, so that it could not be taken. it was an unhealthy coping mechanism. my body is not meant to be given nor taken. depression hit hard: i began to reflect on all of the points in my life that had lead me to this one. i became close to restarting the grieving process. i spent a long portion of the depression stage in denial. then i was angry that i had backtracked to the beginning. i had more meaningless se x that i now regret more than anything. i saw how good his life had been going and how poorly mine was. it was obvious that i needed help. acceptance: this entire passage was my process to acceptance. i reached out to my therapist. i made new friends. i stopped wallowing in self pity and i began to recover. i stopped begging to forget my flaws and began to forgive them.
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Jan 4, 2019
Jan 4, 2019 at 1:50 AM UTC
new years resolution
it has been over two years and i am proud of my growth. my main focus this year is to finish my grieving so that i may continue my life in an efficient manner. the process of grieving is commonly known as, but not limited to: denial anger bargaining depression acceptance my denial proces: many times the easiest way to get over trauma is to repress it. i was 15 when i was ra ped. legal age of consent is 16. he was 18. i was naive, and could not imagine the man i loved doing that to me. i believed that it was an accident and neither of us knew what was right or wrong. I had assumed that because i had previously given him my body, he was able to ignore my pleads to stop this time. i blamed myself more than i blamed him, and he blamed me. i had been so infatuated with him that i had pushed away the people who cared most about me. when i told them about being ***** our bond was already so far gone that they could not feel anything more than pitty. i was terrified of losing him, so i convinced us both it was an accident. ra pe is no accident. through denial became anger: i became genuinely angry for the first time in my life. i was angry at him for being somebody that i had trusted and loved. angry that i had let this happen to myself. angry that i had no strength nor respect to stand up for myself. if i had told him to stop one more time he would have. i understand now that i should not have had to say no more than once. i was angry because i let myself down, but I’m more angry that i could not blame him. being angry was the easiest part of grieving. it is okay to he angry. bargaining is a toxic healing method: i became really good at bargaining with myself. after he was gone i had begun to understand my emotions, but i could not control them. my fear of more being taken from me fed my overcompensation. i began to give my body away, so that it could not be taken. it was an unhealthy coping mechanism. my body is not meant to be given nor taken. depression hit hard: i began to reflect on all of the points in my life that had lead me to this one. i became close to restarting the grieving process. i spent a long portion of the depression stage in denial. then i was angry that i had backtracked to the beginning. i had more meaningless se x that i now regret more than anything. i saw how good his life had been going and how poorly mine was. it was obvious that i needed help. acceptance: this entire passage was my process to acceptance. i reached out to my therapist. i made new friends. i stopped wallowing in self pity and i began to recover. i stopped begging to forget my flaws and began to forgive them.
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Tall men think of robust ladies Shorter ladies dream of length, Toothless people fantasize Of mandibles of white, bright strength. Porcine women lust for thinness Breast less girlies long for ***** Dissatisfaction fills the air It's greener grass or down the tubes. Black man hopes for pale complexion White girls bake to raise a tan, Brown eyed lassie's envy blue-ness, ***** lesbian's, a man. The wealthy want the easy life Beggars yearn for cash, Dissatisfaction's in the air And mirrors are so trash. Across the human spectrum far Mankind wants for more, The grass is always greener Looking through another door. It's bigger, better, brighter, best The quest is always there Relentlessly pursued with glee, Bright eyes and bushy hair. Results are mixed and varied here Some reach the holy grail To watch it slip beyond their grasp Then founder, fall and fail. Some teeter on a platform, Some grasp the prize and run, Some hit their stride at bounding pace To see the contest won. But by and large there's misery Few climb the road to joy, Frustration be my brother Dissatisfaction be my ploy. Limitation is our lot in life. Our secret to success Is to love the mirror warts and all All other **** ...repress !! MERRY CHRISTMAS Marshalg @theBach Mangere Bridge 23 December 2009 www.worthyofpublishing.com
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Dec 22, 2009
Dec 22, 2009 at 6:15 PM UTC
Love the Mirror
it's hard for me to realize you're actually gone. you died 3 months and 2 days ago, but it still feels surreal. why am I here and you're not? gladly I would trade places with you. at times like these, I feel a weight on me. it's pressing down on me, my hands are heavy, I can't open my mouth, I'm completely stuck. I repress the memory of death and live as if you're still here, but then the time comes when I want to call you want to tell about my day want to tell you how my junior year is going I want to show you my homecoming dress I want to tell you about the girl I love tell you how great my grades are but I can't. you're gone and I can't bring you back but I don't know when I'll finally accept that.
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 1:36 AM UTC
forever in my heart
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne’er forget; And though we ne’er may meet again, Remembrance will thy form retain; I would not say, “I love,” but still, My senses struggle with my will: In vain to drive thee from my breast, My thoughts are more and more represt; In vain I check the rising sighs, Another to the last replies: Perhaps, this is not love, but yet, Our meeting I can ne’er forget. What, though we never silence broke, Our eyes a sweeter language spoke; The tongue in flattering falsehood deals, And tells a tale it never feels: Deceit, the guilty lips impart, And hush the mandates of the heart; But soul’s interpreters, the eyes, Spurn such restraint, and scorn disguise. As thus our glances oft convers’d, And all our bosoms felt rehears’d, No spirit, from within, reprov’d us, Say rather, “’twas the spirit mov’d us.” Though, what they utter’d, I repress, Yet I conceive thou’lt partly guess; For as on thee, my memory ponders, Perchance to me, thine also wanders. This, for myself, at least, I’ll say, Thy form appears through night, through day; Awake, with it my fancy teems, In sleep, it smiles in fleeting dreams; The vision charms the hours away, And bids me curse Aurora’s ray For breaking slumbers of delight, Which make me wish for endless night. Since, oh! whate’er my future fate, Shall joy or woe my steps await; Tempted by love, by storms beset, Thine image, I can ne’er forget. Alas! again no more we meet, No more our former looks repeat; Then, let me breathe this parting prayer, The dictate of my bosom’s care: “May Heaven so guard my lovely quaker, That anguish never can o’ertake her; That peace and virtue ne’er forsake her, But bliss be aye her heart’s partaker! Oh! may the happy mortal, fated To be, by dearest ties, related, For her, each hour, new joys discover, And lose the husband in the lover! May that fair ***** never know What ’tis to feel the restless woe, Which stings the soul, with vain regret, Of him, who never can forget!”
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To A Beautiful Quaker
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne’er forget; And though we ne’er may meet again, Remembrance will thy form retain; I would not say, “I love,” but still, My senses struggle with my will: In vain to drive thee from my breast, My thoughts are more and more represt; In vain I check the rising sighs, Another to the last replies: Perhaps, this is not love, but yet, Our meeting I can ne’er forget. What, though we never silence broke, Our eyes a sweeter language spoke; The tongue in flattering falsehood deals, And tells a tale it never feels: Deceit, the guilty lips impart, And hush the mandates of the heart; But soul’s interpreters, the eyes, Spurn such restraint, and scorn disguise. As thus our glances oft convers’d, And all our bosoms felt rehears’d, No spirit, from within, reprov’d us, Say rather, “’twas the spirit mov’d us.” Though, what they utter’d, I repress, Yet I conceive thou’lt partly guess; For as on thee, my memory ponders, Perchance to me, thine also wanders. This, for myself, at least, I’ll say, Thy form appears through night, through day; Awake, with it my fancy teems, In sleep, it smiles in fleeting dreams; The vision charms the hours away, And bids me curse Aurora’s ray For breaking slumbers of delight, Which make me wish for endless night. Since, oh! whate’er my future fate, Shall joy or woe my steps await; Tempted by love, by storms beset, Thine image, I can ne’er forget. Alas! again no more we meet, No more our former looks repeat; Then, let me breathe this parting prayer, The dictate of my bosom’s care: “May Heaven so guard my lovely quaker, That anguish never can o’ertake her; That peace and virtue ne’er forsake her, But bliss be aye her heart’s partaker! Oh! may the happy mortal, fated To be, by dearest ties, related, For her, each hour, new joys discover, And lose the husband in the lover! May that fair ***** never know What ’tis to feel the restless woe, Which stings the soul, with vain regret, Of him, who never can forget!”
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I wanted to impress you... but I am afraid I have failed I wanted to impress you so I shaved my face, letting you know that I am proud of every young wrinkle and of every scar that I once hid. I wanted to impress you so I wore a shirt with buttons to show you getting my shirt off takes more work than just a slip of the hands. I wanted to impress you so I wrote a poem with 17 words that have more than ten letters in them to show you I am smarter than those other boys. I wanted to impress you so signed myself up to read my words to a group of strangers putting my own pride on the line to show you there are more important things to me. I wanted to impress you so I walked 3 inches taller with my shoulders back and my waist cocked tightly behind to show you I don't care that the world can see my whole face. I wanted to impress you... until I found out that the only person that you are impressed by is none other than your self. so now I repress you and your words and your day to day verbs to show you that I am not impressed by you.
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Jul 9, 2010
Jul 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM UTC
I wanted to Impress you
Tell me when it was The first time you learned to hate yourself The first time you tripped over your own fault lines And started taking caution in every step When did it happen? Was it at 10? When your shaking hands couldn't hold still And the shame of them drove you into isolation Maybe it's because others noticed Or because they did their best to make it clear you were different I don't think you know That the rhythm you had and still have Is unlike the rest It is crooked and uneven but beautiful nonetheless You didn't know it then And accepting unsteadiness is easier said than done Tell me when it was The first time you learned to hurt yourself Could it have been at 13? When the weight of too much pressure motivated you to lose it To the point where bones stuck out more than your voice Loud girl became quiet that year And then even more so the next When your changing body didn't morph the way you would have liked it to Left you shaped uncomfortably A little too top heavy The kind that drew unwanted attention At a time when standing out was the last thing you desired You turned skin into a battlefield into remnants from too many losses Wrists became front lines, then hips, then neck until You became too much destruction to keep the war going You learned that it is impossible to win in a fight against yourself Tell me when it was The first time you learned to forget yourself Was it at 15? When the sacrifice of your body wasn't enough To make a careless boy love you It was a silly thing to give it all away When you barely had enough of you for yourself Your efforts changed after that Trying too hard turned into not trying at all Feeling too much turned into feeling nothing at all You learned to repress and erase And start over in the morning You have been heavy from trying to hide away for so long Tell me when it is The first time you learn to love yourself Will finally be after all of the years of disappointment? Of self-deprecation? When you realize you deserve more Than to be the dust swept off to the side Deserve better than to be an ashed out version of your potential You were not meant to be wasted You were not meant to be washed out and pushed down You were meant to stand tall The first time you learn to love yourself Will be when you realize flaw is inevitable When your skin turns itself different colors And nothing can be done to change it You will then learn acceptance The first time you learn to love yourself Will be when you stop comparing When you look in the mirror and see only yourself in the reflection Nobody else You were meant to be here You were meant to embrace it all This body This skin This image The only one you will ever have The same one you will have to love And eventually you will, You'll learn how to.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 10:17 PM UTC
Learn
Tell me when it was The first time you learned to hate yourself The first time you tripped over your own fault lines And started taking caution in every step When did it happen? Was it at 10? When your shaking hands couldn't hold still And the shame of them drove you into isolation Maybe it's because others noticed Or because they did their best to make it clear you were different I don't think you know That the rhythm you had and still have Is unlike the rest It is crooked and uneven but beautiful nonetheless You didn't know it then And accepting unsteadiness is easier said than done Tell me when it was The first time you learned to hurt yourself Could it have been at 13? When the weight of too much pressure motivated you to lose it To the point where bones stuck out more than your voice Loud girl became quiet that year And then even more so the next When your changing body didn't morph the way you would have liked it to Left you shaped uncomfortably A little too top heavy The kind that drew unwanted attention At a time when standing out was the last thing you desired You turned skin into a battlefield into remnants from too many losses Wrists became front lines, then hips, then neck until You became too much destruction to keep the war going You learned that it is impossible to win in a fight against yourself Tell me when it was The first time you learned to forget yourself Was it at 15? When the sacrifice of your body wasn't enough To make a careless boy love you It was a silly thing to give it all away When you barely had enough of you for yourself Your efforts changed after that Trying too hard turned into not trying at all Feeling too much turned into feeling nothing at all You learned to repress and erase And start over in the morning You have been heavy from trying to hide away for so long Tell me when it is The first time you learn to love yourself Will finally be after all of the years of disappointment? Of self-deprecation? When you realize you deserve more Than to be the dust swept off to the side Deserve better than to be an ashed out version of your potential You were not meant to be wasted You were not meant to be washed out and pushed down You were meant to stand tall The first time you learn to love yourself Will be when you realize flaw is inevitable When your skin turns itself different colors And nothing can be done to change it You will then learn acceptance The first time you learn to love yourself Will be when you stop comparing When you look in the mirror and see only yourself in the reflection Nobody else You were meant to be here You were meant to embrace it all This body This skin This image The only one you will ever have The same one you will have to love And eventually you will, You'll learn how to.
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What is the ultimate evil Well pineapples on pizza Where is that stored In pandora's pizza box What the ultimate evil for men Talking about the deep stuff And no guys not *** The feels that we repress That we keep In our Mandora's box No these feels are like pineapples Some people are totally fine with them And even share them Though most people don't want them to But sooner or later You will come across pineapple pizza And just like the feels You can ignore it But it's still there on the counter And sure some could throw it away But then your throwing away pizza You could pick off the pineapples But there is still that juice Just like there is still that fear When you talk even selectively about feels Ok so just eat all the pineapples No chance not for you Not opening up to you But you got to open up to somebody And maybe they make the pineapples Taste like a meat lover deep dish Probably not but maybe Just a little better
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Aug 7, 2017
Aug 7, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
Mandora's box
don't say you love me, when you don't even know me, on tuesday, I will be attacked by fake I missed you's and uncomfortable, unnecessary hugs, because, I can't miss strangers, the same strangers that filled my living room this time last year, the same strangers, that give me things I dislike, and have nothing to talk about with, because they know nothing about me, our conversation, hangs in the constellations, on the night you stopped by, because no one looks hard enough to understand, what they are, you never, care enough, to understand who I am, you repress your emotion, like you clench nimble fingers, into, white hot, pain, I see it, it drips, from our name, you claim you love me, but I am not a fool, I don't understand the love you claim, for you use it like a tool, thinking, that seeing me, once a year, because of your, own, guilt, of not knowing, or caring, about your little sister, counts, as a relationship.
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Dec 26, 2016
Dec 26, 2016 at 12:08 AM UTC
you don't really love me.
The Great Outdoors Doors open every which way and it's impossible to escape you since you are behind everyone of them. The overflowing cascade that is your hair the splendor of the sun at noon that is your smile and the ever present flawless work of art that is your body. The gorgeous landscape of your chest needless to say how much I love the view. The great outdoors lives and breathes within you. Let me take you indoors so I could breathe you at dawn take off the weight of all those weary kisses and slowly nourish me in your lips. Let me spend an eternity attached to your hips. Let our anatomies condense into one another creating record setting heat. Let me taste the warmth of your mouth and feel the cold of your feet. Your implacable thighs, your indomitable abdomen the pearls of your eyes, your button nose and pillow cheeks. The softness of your hands as your fingers run all over me. The flirtatious ways of your walk inhaling your fresh essence in the air with your aura by my side knocking down the door to my lair and awake from my self-imposed hibernation to dedicate this loving prose in ode to Mother Nature's greatest creation. Like an impatient Great White I can still sense your flesh when I can't see devouring everything in sight and this hunger towards you it leads because my waters are yours I can smell your thick blood algae, seaweed or other life forms are not nearly enough to keep me from craving you and fulfilling this unfulfilling love to find a way to repress what my flinching body has become from the Savannah to the Sahara I can't suffice this longing night, afternoon or morning for your great outdoors.
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Dec 26, 2009
Dec 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM UTC
"The Great Outdoors"
The Great Outdoors Doors open every which way and it's impossible to escape you since you are behind everyone of them. The overflowing cascade that is your hair the splendor of the sun at noon that is your smile and the ever present flawless work of art that is your body. The gorgeous landscape of your chest needless to say how much I love the view. The great outdoors lives and breathes within you. Let me take you indoors so I could breathe you at dawn take off the weight of all those weary kisses and slowly nourish me in your lips. Let me spend an eternity attached to your hips. Let our anatomies condense into one another creating record setting heat. Let me taste the warmth of your mouth and feel the cold of your feet. Your implacable thighs, your indomitable abdomen the pearls of your eyes, your button nose and pillow cheeks. The softness of your hands as your fingers run all over me. The flirtatious ways of your walk inhaling your fresh essence in the air with your aura by my side knocking down the door to my lair and awake from my self-imposed hibernation to dedicate this loving prose in ode to Mother Nature's greatest creation. Like an impatient Great White I can still sense your flesh when I can't see devouring everything in sight and this hunger towards you it leads because my waters are yours I can smell your thick blood algae, seaweed or other life forms are not nearly enough to keep me from craving you and fulfilling this unfulfilling love to find a way to repress what my flinching body has become from the Savannah to the Sahara I can't suffice this longing night, afternoon or morning for your great outdoors.
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