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"rift" poems
I want to feel you. Scraping against me. I want to taste the, Mango in your kiss. Drag from your chest to your neck. to claw from your ribs down to your hip. I want to feel you on me. And taste the citrus on your lips. Starving for the touch of, Hoping for your grip. Trying not to think too much. About your blackberry bliss. Distracted by your hammer hits. The water against the ship. The boat begins to tip. Spilling fruit into the wavy rift.
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 8:29 PM UTC
Mango
Science says that there's a mathematical equation that explains everything in life. But I say that not even physics bears an explanation for...the guidelines of attraction. Our primal reactions are multiplied in...the highlights of passion. These laws of love that linger like a lanterns lost illumination... Like the campfire light on a clear night, leaves coals of culmination. Sweat beads lead to bare threads and bare bodies. And oh my, how bare bodies lead to imaginations running wild. Cold winds inspire warm kisses and close skin. Sincere actions aren't sins. Bodies wound in union, formed by light and tightly bound. Together, these twisted vines penetrate the hardest ground... Together, harmonic souls produce passionate sounds. Yet, still somehow, love gets lost more than love gets found. This equation is unending...like numbers off lips that kiss the air. Body language spoken...Our physical bonds parallel eternity and pi squared. And you know that every moment that we share is nothing short of...molecular love for the masses... Now held captive by gravity and magnetism... See, the last full moon marked retrograde...and if the moon affects the tide of the ocean...and our bodies are roughly 75% water...can we assume that this is the only body powerful enough to keep ours apart? This gravity... This pull... It's pulling me apart...so let me pull you closer, stop pushing me away! Hold on tight, dont let these planets drift away into a dark rift of decay. Let your love lap upon this solid stone like a river riffles smooth sandbars into hills of higher ground. Because baby, without your water on my beach... I'm nothing but a desert, dry and deserted.
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Nov 15, 2010
Nov 15, 2010 at 10:53 PM UTC
Physical physics
Science says that there's a mathematical equation that explains everything in life. But I say that not even physics bears an explanation for...the guidelines of attraction. Our primal reactions are multiplied in...the highlights of passion. These laws of love that linger like a lanterns lost illumination... Like the campfire light on a clear night, leaves coals of culmination. Sweat beads lead to bare threads and bare bodies. And oh my, how bare bodies lead to imaginations running wild. Cold winds inspire warm kisses and close skin. Sincere actions aren't sins. Bodies wound in union, formed by light and tightly bound. Together, these twisted vines penetrate the hardest ground... Together, harmonic souls produce passionate sounds. Yet, still somehow, love gets lost more than love gets found. This equation is unending...like numbers off lips that kiss the air. Body language spoken...Our physical bonds parallel eternity and pi squared. And you know that every moment that we share is nothing short of...molecular love for the masses... Now held captive by gravity and magnetism... See, the last full moon marked retrograde...and if the moon affects the tide of the ocean...and our bodies are roughly 75% water...can we assume that this is the only body powerful enough to keep ours apart? This gravity... This pull... It's pulling me apart...so let me pull you closer, stop pushing me away! Hold on tight, dont let these planets drift away into a dark rift of decay. Let your love lap upon this solid stone like a river riffles smooth sandbars into hills of higher ground. Because baby, without your water on my beach... I'm nothing but a desert, dry and deserted.
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I wake as your  friend                                     You wake as my lover I speak as your lover                                       You speak as my friend I act as your possession                                   You are my possesion I rebel as your cover                                        A means to an end I hurt for your compassion                             You live for my acceptance I injure for your respect                                  Though it's never been withheld I confide for your emotion                              You crave my direction I give and you collect                                      Never will you rebel This is madness                                               This is Sparta This is insanity                                                This is the price of exellence I can't be everything for you                          I am your everything You can't be everything for me                     I am magnificence You treat everyone the same                         I am fair and righteous As a friend, yet as a lover                              And yet you seek more And it's a cruel, cruel game                          Dare you grow capricious From your twisted love, no one recovers     You'll become one I abhor I am done                                                       You are confused (I am never done)                                          And I will not calm you I am sick                                                        *As I am amused* (But I'm not tired)                                         As I drop little clues   I will run                                                        You'll never leave me (I won't run)                                                  But I'll abandon you Because I love you                                        You'll always need me (A better word is 'desire')                             And I'll never need you Let me go!                                                    My grip is vice-like (But you're not holding me)                       I'm not ready to let you go Bring me back!                                            If I lose you, 'my dear' (But I never left)                                          I must find yet another 'beau' Love me only!                                             And I've not the time to put effort (But you love equally)                               In little minions like you Push me away!                                          I've not a care to give for (Or bridge this rift)                                    You insects I never knew Please, disappear                                       I am your torture One day you'll understand                      But I am your salvation That the twisted way you love                 I am your executioner Could coax death from any human        And I am your redemption Please, disappear!                                     You'll wish me dead forever Though I'll weep when you're gone        You'll wish me dead I know I know sanity will return                          And you'll wish yourself deader And I'll eventually move on.                    When away I finally go.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 8:25 PM UTC
Parallel Insanity
I wake as your  friend                                     You wake as my lover I speak as your lover                                       You speak as my friend I act as your possession                                   You are my possesion I rebel as your cover                                        A means to an end I hurt for your compassion                             You live for my acceptance I injure for your respect                                  Though it's never been withheld I confide for your emotion                              You crave my direction I give and you collect                                      Never will you rebel This is madness                                               This is Sparta This is insanity                                                This is the price of exellence I can't be everything for you                          I am your everything You can't be everything for me                     I am magnificence You treat everyone the same                         I am fair and righteous As a friend, yet as a lover                              And yet you seek more And it's a cruel, cruel game                          Dare you grow capricious From your twisted love, no one recovers     You'll become one I abhor I am done                                                       You are confused (I am never done)                                          And I will not calm you I am sick                                                        *As I am amused* (But I'm not tired)                                         As I drop little clues   I will run                                                        You'll never leave me (I won't run)                                                  But I'll abandon you Because I love you                                        You'll always need me (A better word is 'desire')                             And I'll never need you Let me go!                                                    My grip is vice-like (But you're not holding me)                       I'm not ready to let you go Bring me back!                                            If I lose you, 'my dear' (But I never left)                                          I must find yet another 'beau' Love me only!                                             And I've not the time to put effort (But you love equally)                               In little minions like you Push me away!                                          I've not a care to give for (Or bridge this rift)                                    You insects I never knew Please, disappear                                       I am your torture One day you'll understand                      But I am your salvation That the twisted way you love                 I am your executioner Could coax death from any human        And I am your redemption Please, disappear!                                     You'll wish me dead forever Though I'll weep when you're gone        You'll wish me dead I know I know sanity will return                          And you'll wish yourself deader And I'll eventually move on.                    When away I finally go.
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Fold me like you always have, Run your nails to set the creases, Shape me to the form you crave, Bend me into the art of your wishes, My form forever yours to toy with, I conform to your will and desire, Expose my surfaces, above or beneath, I will always be there for you to admire, I can be flexible or I can be stiff, That depends on what you want, I am here to help fill your rift, The one who says you can when you can’t, Craft that which you seek of me, I am but your art, your origami.
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Oct 25, 2019
Oct 25, 2019 at 1:23 PM UTC
Origami
I did my best to keep you around But you left me hanging and you strayed away From where I am, I’ll stand my ground Knowing that I can’t make you stay Every sleepless night I think about you How much love for it to be true The look in my eyes is so blue Wondering what I put you through I see your face in every girl The longing for you grows more and more Love, you’re all I’m searching for Even though things aren't the same anymore Trees will grow, Flowers will bloom The Sky will turn black and blue But my love will always embrace Always near you, soaking Like how the sun shine on you in the morning Time passed and days gone by The rift that keep us apart will be mend Towards the moment that we've all been waiting for For you and I To come out and pour our hearts out It came, the words that I’ve been so afraid To hear The feelings that’s been kept for so long To feel The way our eyes are lock on each other like never before To see That your heart is not the same as mine I did my best to keep you around But you left and never looked back I did my best to keep you around To you The person I've never had
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 9:03 AM UTC
Unappreciated
My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
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Clown In The Moon
"And in a funny way, the shaving of my, uh, head has been a liberation from, uh, a lot of, uh, stupid vanities really. Uh, it has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors maybe." - Stephen Malkmus, Jo Jo's Jacket the first layer of skin i shed was the bra rid of the foreign metal sculptor producing a deep rift between skin my third eye, swallowing gazes rid of my **** , my ***** , my rack replaced with sacks of fat and nerve and milk ducts hanging, existing, for no one else not even myself the second layer of skin was the painting of the face the concealing and erasing of imperfections, the lines of laughter of sorrow of life redirecting attention and importance to the bow and symmetry of the lip no longer did i have to put myself on in the morning i woke up as i was, as i needed to be, bare and uninhibited my skin now breathed, and for no one else not even myself and then i grew another layer of skin, made of dank tangles to protect my age, i stopped shaving the years i'd walked this earth, shedding my womanhood the skin grew to my armpits, little tufts of sweaty, odorous mother nature dozing in a fleshy convex nest and to my legs, were the tangles wrapped around my ankles preventing the spreading of the legs for every life for not every life wanted what was not tame and what was not tame no longer wanted to be. my body did not conform, for it was not brought into this world to be consumed for the pleasure of others it exists for no one else, not even myself and as i was engulfed in this hairy wonder of my own body i shed the last layer, the shaving of the head my brain, my being breathed porous and exposed vulnerable to weather and whispers but i was all at once naked and calm, having finally peeled away the layers of ***** over-sexualization and constrained femininity that had molded this meat sack that serves me, a bundle of circuitry and solution balancing and bobbing on the neck for i exist for no one else, only myself
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 10:48 AM UTC
Mae Mae's Jacket
"And in a funny way, the shaving of my, uh, head has been a liberation from, uh, a lot of, uh, stupid vanities really. Uh, it has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors maybe." - Stephen Malkmus, Jo Jo's Jacket the first layer of skin i shed was the bra rid of the foreign metal sculptor producing a deep rift between skin my third eye, swallowing gazes rid of my **** , my ***** , my rack replaced with sacks of fat and nerve and milk ducts hanging, existing, for no one else not even myself the second layer of skin was the painting of the face the concealing and erasing of imperfections, the lines of laughter of sorrow of life redirecting attention and importance to the bow and symmetry of the lip no longer did i have to put myself on in the morning i woke up as i was, as i needed to be, bare and uninhibited my skin now breathed, and for no one else not even myself and then i grew another layer of skin, made of dank tangles to protect my age, i stopped shaving the years i'd walked this earth, shedding my womanhood the skin grew to my armpits, little tufts of sweaty, odorous mother nature dozing in a fleshy convex nest and to my legs, were the tangles wrapped around my ankles preventing the spreading of the legs for every life for not every life wanted what was not tame and what was not tame no longer wanted to be. my body did not conform, for it was not brought into this world to be consumed for the pleasure of others it exists for no one else, not even myself and as i was engulfed in this hairy wonder of my own body i shed the last layer, the shaving of the head my brain, my being breathed porous and exposed vulnerable to weather and whispers but i was all at once naked and calm, having finally peeled away the layers of ***** over-sexualization and constrained femininity that had molded this meat sack that serves me, a bundle of circuitry and solution balancing and bobbing on the neck for i exist for no one else, only myself
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................A gaping         written curse...                black hole         of a mere                             in my     the vacuum                              space time     put out by                                continuum...          Flames                              Tearing a        supernovae...                         huge rift           of stellar                      in my very          fireworks              universe...       Cataclysmic .
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Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 9:11 AM UTC
Rift
I'm on the run And not for fun The police are chasing My heart is racing When my life is at stake My morality I'll break The police release the hounds I can hear their deadly sounds They want to maim me I want to stay me I decide to fight the charging canines Because I just snorted a ******* line My judgement loses length To my influx of strength I break the dogs' legs Until they beg That's not enough Sorry Scruff The steel gun I fire A furry cop retired The police attack me For defending myself They refuse to see The danger to my health They chose to use crazy canines So I feel the fault isn't mine That doesn't change their decision For me to die slowly in prison I am in the teeth of the government Much to my human wonderment This is the way I'll spend the rest of my life For the decisions I made at the end of a knife The irony is cops **** dogs all the time Yet they obstruct their vision of the line Where it ceases to be man versus society And becomes man versus nature When a man is in peril He must turn feral But in a country that blindly idolizes aggression The police don't acknowledge this discretion They dig their teeth into our skin While draining us financially The only way we'll ever win Is if things change substantially Sadism fervently fuels the flames of conflict With an exasperated public sick of being kicked Cruelty is what they witness To lose their mental fitness How can they protect their babies When the police have rabies? The police relationship with the effected public will never shift When there's a Cereberus between them maintaining the rift
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Oct 24, 2017
Oct 24, 2017 at 5:35 AM UTC
Canine
I'm on the run And not for fun The police are chasing My heart is racing When my life is at stake My morality I'll break The police release the hounds I can hear their deadly sounds They want to maim me I want to stay me I decide to fight the charging canines Because I just snorted a ******* line My judgement loses length To my influx of strength I break the dogs' legs Until they beg That's not enough Sorry Scruff The steel gun I fire A furry cop retired The police attack me For defending myself They refuse to see The danger to my health They chose to use crazy canines So I feel the fault isn't mine That doesn't change their decision For me to die slowly in prison I am in the teeth of the government Much to my human wonderment This is the way I'll spend the rest of my life For the decisions I made at the end of a knife The irony is cops **** dogs all the time Yet they obstruct their vision of the line Where it ceases to be man versus society And becomes man versus nature When a man is in peril He must turn feral But in a country that blindly idolizes aggression The police don't acknowledge this discretion They dig their teeth into our skin While draining us financially The only way we'll ever win Is if things change substantially Sadism fervently fuels the flames of conflict With an exasperated public sick of being kicked Cruelty is what they witness To lose their mental fitness How can they protect their babies When the police have rabies? The police relationship with the effected public will never shift When there's a Cereberus between them maintaining the rift
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Listening to these depressing songs. It's ironically giving me the will to be strong, And I don't mind if they're being played for long. They're making the oceans of my heart rift, Letting my soul drift in the cold water. Staring up into the sun, Ironically it seems fun. Dipping in my own sorrow, Urging me to press play, Again and again, Making me feel a little bit insane. I'm enjoying dwelling in my inexplicable pain, Making me realize, That maybe, Sometimes, One can be happy by just being sad.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 7:59 AM UTC
Ironic
I am a controlling boyfriend. No, I am not a male, nor do I have a girlfriend to abuse. But I am the crazy stalker controlling boyfriend. I have realized something in myself: I am free with my boy and his casual flirtations, but am extremely jealous and possessive of my girls, when I have one. Or even in my present case of not having one, I want to possess her as she has possessed me. I want all your time, all your thoughts, as you inhabit mine. “How do you handle the jealousy??" It's funny, I don't get jealous when I have both partners in my bed, or in my arms. That is when I’m most content. I get jealous when outsiders are flirtatious or show interest. It's also funny, I'm more annoyed when people flirt with him thinking he’s unattached. I don't get it either; just a quirk of mine. Perhaps my nonchalance with my boy is merely grown out of our time together. In nearly seven years, not one has managed to create a rift. Those who have tried have failed, and he and I have come out the better. Patience is a virtue I do not possess, and the longer I go on incomplete... mayhap my own fears make me dig my claws into a new potential. Fear that someone else will charm such a rare unicorn away from me/us, and we’ll be left again, searching. Nor is this a new feeling, for this young woman. A year ago, I felt the same overwhelming possessiveness. Then again, it would not do to compare the two; they are two different people, who hold different qualities. The bitter jealousy I now project I have tasted before. The shock that I’ve become my own controlling high school boyfriend fills me with disgust. Unbeknownst to her, I imagine her not only in my bed, in my arms, in my life… but also on my knee. I’ve never before considered someone as both lover and submissive. Unbeknownst to me, would that make my jealousy grow or fade, were I to possess her in every way I’ve imagined? Obviously I have some things to work on. Firstly, finding our unicorn.
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM UTC
Reflections of Myself v. 2.0
I am a controlling boyfriend. No, I am not a male, nor do I have a girlfriend to abuse. But I am the crazy stalker controlling boyfriend. I have realized something in myself: I am free with my boy and his casual flirtations, but am extremely jealous and possessive of my girls, when I have one. Or even in my present case of not having one, I want to possess her as she has possessed me. I want all your time, all your thoughts, as you inhabit mine. “How do you handle the jealousy??" It's funny, I don't get jealous when I have both partners in my bed, or in my arms. That is when I’m most content. I get jealous when outsiders are flirtatious or show interest. It's also funny, I'm more annoyed when people flirt with him thinking he’s unattached. I don't get it either; just a quirk of mine. Perhaps my nonchalance with my boy is merely grown out of our time together. In nearly seven years, not one has managed to create a rift. Those who have tried have failed, and he and I have come out the better. Patience is a virtue I do not possess, and the longer I go on incomplete... mayhap my own fears make me dig my claws into a new potential. Fear that someone else will charm such a rare unicorn away from me/us, and we’ll be left again, searching. Nor is this a new feeling, for this young woman. A year ago, I felt the same overwhelming possessiveness. Then again, it would not do to compare the two; they are two different people, who hold different qualities. The bitter jealousy I now project I have tasted before. The shock that I’ve become my own controlling high school boyfriend fills me with disgust. Unbeknownst to her, I imagine her not only in my bed, in my arms, in my life… but also on my knee. I’ve never before considered someone as both lover and submissive. Unbeknownst to me, would that make my jealousy grow or fade, were I to possess her in every way I’ve imagined? Obviously I have some things to work on. Firstly, finding our unicorn.
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Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM UTC
Fatima Latima
Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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She’s the daughter I never had, All grown now, I am not her Dad. All her childhood, I did not see And yet, somehow, she seems like me. She’s the daughter I never knew, Only close to her a time or two. Of my influence she's completely free, And yet, somehow, she thinks like me. But now I have a fleeting gift, Of time with her to fill the rift. Paths long parted finally blend, I believe that she is now my friend. Even if we had never met, Her path to success has long been set. She needs nothing that I have to give, To live the life she is going to live. And so, although I’ll never be a Dad, I hope to provide what she has not had, Shade underneath my family tree, And a chance to know someone like me.
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Mar 25, 2011
Mar 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM UTC
The Daughter I Never Had
Master, have mercy. I am Master. I Have no Master. The planet is atrocious. I am It. Planet Earth is atrocious. I am It. Why is it so hard to see be yond peace? Why is it so hard to be who you want? The mind, secluded in a prison rift of copy paste makes waste. Where is my paper? Where is my pen? I write for me! I repeat as if I will soon believe. I write for me! (logging on again) The planet is horrid. I am part of It. Oh, Peace & War, do we know it. Yet with an audience, my imagination grows stagnant. The once in abstract gathers into form. I did this misdeed. A disservice. Once a dreamer. Now a journalist.
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 12:36 AM UTC
Match & Pitch: One Dead Eye
I was never one to pick one over the other They used to function together as well as brothers As time passes, their relationship sours One works hard and focuses for hours The other struggles to relay to the main tower Dripping with blood is this brother Dripping with liquid salt in worry is the other Together they used to form pictures in the clouds Now one peers through a fog stitched shroud Teamwork is a thing of the past The rift between them is filling with fog, fast They still both serve under the same mast But one is absorbing as much sun as he still last
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM UTC
Lefty
I stumbled across a letter from an old friend, its contents were long and wordy but they had their end. It was just her way of saying she appreciated our friendship. A friendship unanchored, blew away with the wind with paper sails that have only thinned. Birthdays used to be a grand affair; a day to celebrate but each year the wishes dwindle down so I reciprocate. Radio meets silence while we're both aware of the days until it becomes a memory of the song that no longer plays. Too busy trying to navigate channels that changed. Then an invitation to a graduation came to me one year a wedge of uninterrupted distance bridged by a, "Dear." I don't know if olive branches can hold my weighted heart but I sent my response to expect me there before I decided to not care. When the day came you said, "I didn't think you would come!" I kept quiet how I cried in my car a block from your home. I hid my face in your arms and squeezed you tight because the wedge between us was five-years wide. "I said I would," is all I replied. And we asked each other questions that friends don't ask. What did you study? Where do you live? What do you do? We joke around but do not laugh as hard as we used to. My past brought to my present like a nostalgic gift. A chance to heal over our ocean-wide rift. And there were no known reasons! I can't turn back the clock! I just drifted like a small boat barely tethered to its dock until a storm came and everyone forgot to tie me down. Or maybe it was on purpose, or maybe I couldn't secure me. I was the fourth in a unit of three, send me out to sea. But there is a positive to all of this turmoil there is a reason the invitation made it to my door. I rowed myself through the five-year waves back to shore and tethered my boat and checked the knots times ten. When friends become strangers we get to meet again.
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May 20, 2020
May 20, 2020 at 1:15 PM UTC
When Friends Become Strangers
I stumbled across a letter from an old friend, its contents were long and wordy but they had their end. It was just her way of saying she appreciated our friendship. A friendship unanchored, blew away with the wind with paper sails that have only thinned. Birthdays used to be a grand affair; a day to celebrate but each year the wishes dwindle down so I reciprocate. Radio meets silence while we're both aware of the days until it becomes a memory of the song that no longer plays. Too busy trying to navigate channels that changed. Then an invitation to a graduation came to me one year a wedge of uninterrupted distance bridged by a, "Dear." I don't know if olive branches can hold my weighted heart but I sent my response to expect me there before I decided to not care. When the day came you said, "I didn't think you would come!" I kept quiet how I cried in my car a block from your home. I hid my face in your arms and squeezed you tight because the wedge between us was five-years wide. "I said I would," is all I replied. And we asked each other questions that friends don't ask. What did you study? Where do you live? What do you do? We joke around but do not laugh as hard as we used to. My past brought to my present like a nostalgic gift. A chance to heal over our ocean-wide rift. And there were no known reasons! I can't turn back the clock! I just drifted like a small boat barely tethered to its dock until a storm came and everyone forgot to tie me down. Or maybe it was on purpose, or maybe I couldn't secure me. I was the fourth in a unit of three, send me out to sea. But there is a positive to all of this turmoil there is a reason the invitation made it to my door. I rowed myself through the five-year waves back to shore and tethered my boat and checked the knots times ten. When friends become strangers we get to meet again.
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Wind blows its way right through my senses All my thoughts have but slowly disappeared One more large smoky glass of cheap whisky One more sad lonely night that you're not here. Loneliness set in as the door quickly closed Using the back door now and keeping that one shut It will stay like that until ever you come back But I've a notion now that it will stay put. Old sore wounds that somehow resurfaced Caused a bitter rift long forgotten to return And the memories and the tears from the last time Hit the heart, exploded and then burned. So I sit trying to write and supping whisky As I wait to hear your key in the front door I hope with all my heart that you'll forgive me I can't bear to be alone here any more. The wind is getting stronger now and I thought I heard the latch But it was just some fighting creatures out in the dark So I'll wait as I do each night with my whisky and my pen Sitting here and waking up with the sound of the lark. ©Joe Wilson - Whisky and my pen 2014
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
Whisky and my pen...
It wasnt long before the baluster flapped somewhere in the distance and Icarus knew how old he had been on the day of his birth. For whatever reason, the snow capped cappuccinos he had willfully destroyed in a heated debate on fiscal policy had him beginning again. Why was there always a beginning where there was an end? Fur traders used to circumnavigate the Hudson's Bay of his humanity when he was young, sharing drinks and fire water whiskey like it was all an H2O ready for the soul search. Sadly, many ended up in Hitlers concentration camps weeks after the **** invasion of Poland, about a month or so before the fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning with a last breath, Icarus strode off the plank with a new-found confidence unnatural in his niceties of long past. It was as if 1 minute and 35 seconds was enough to dish a clamouring populace onto the dinner table before the fat step-father gleefully orders everyone to 'dig in, everyone!' Cancelling everyone's appointment with Dr. Pardon meant the gaining of a key participatory certificate in El Dorado, and the gold lingering in dusty sun-beams was sifted for the taking. Some got rich, the rest got miserable. The rest used to imagine the gold, staring at ivory towers and lottery tickets, apple cores lording over old public servant applications near the city hall drain pipes as the modern world collapsed into a flash-mob image of Ronald Reagan. Icarus was a sliver of duskish light flittering a top distant windowsills, all cupped in an intentional light because happiness was as possible as sadness. Not that considering either would make you either. Icarus slept as his wings incinerated at the first glimpse of the solar system. He now believed every single proverb the old ***** slumbers had whispered their children as they woke to find themselves adults. In the beginning he found the beginning beginning again. It made him feel however you wish. Both were just as possible. Both were just as much a jazz configuration as a smooth and easy guitar rift. Ahha!
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Apr 1, 2013
Apr 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
Icarus Inside
It wasnt long before the baluster flapped somewhere in the distance and Icarus knew how old he had been on the day of his birth. For whatever reason, the snow capped cappuccinos he had willfully destroyed in a heated debate on fiscal policy had him beginning again. Why was there always a beginning where there was an end? Fur traders used to circumnavigate the Hudson's Bay of his humanity when he was young, sharing drinks and fire water whiskey like it was all an H2O ready for the soul search. Sadly, many ended up in Hitlers concentration camps weeks after the **** invasion of Poland, about a month or so before the fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning with a last breath, Icarus strode off the plank with a new-found confidence unnatural in his niceties of long past. It was as if 1 minute and 35 seconds was enough to dish a clamouring populace onto the dinner table before the fat step-father gleefully orders everyone to 'dig in, everyone!' Cancelling everyone's appointment with Dr. Pardon meant the gaining of a key participatory certificate in El Dorado, and the gold lingering in dusty sun-beams was sifted for the taking. Some got rich, the rest got miserable. The rest used to imagine the gold, staring at ivory towers and lottery tickets, apple cores lording over old public servant applications near the city hall drain pipes as the modern world collapsed into a flash-mob image of Ronald Reagan. Icarus was a sliver of duskish light flittering a top distant windowsills, all cupped in an intentional light because happiness was as possible as sadness. Not that considering either would make you either. Icarus slept as his wings incinerated at the first glimpse of the solar system. He now believed every single proverb the old ***** slumbers had whispered their children as they woke to find themselves adults. In the beginning he found the beginning beginning again. It made him feel however you wish. Both were just as possible. Both were just as much a jazz configuration as a smooth and easy guitar rift. Ahha!
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perpetual expeditions amidst this hazy twilight, periwinkled vistas ensnaring me in buzzzzzzzzzzzz the sound penetrates my ear drum black and yellow rabble-rouser this rambunctious little menace a pomegranate eternally ripe, giving me life gilled, scaled, underwater creature emerging from the deep, boundless rift two tantalizing tigers troublesome, treacherous and she laid there— undisturbed, unaware jabbed in her side by a M1903 Springfield soothed state rattled, shattered wincing from the poke of the blunt end of the gun the sleeping lady slept no more poor fellows, how were they supposed to hold on to it without opposable thumbs? the distressed damsel appeared grotesque, flailing and fidgeting at the sight of her surroundings surface rocking beneath my feat, my trusty elephant’s weak ankles shattering my already shattered stability i had no more time for such nonsenses buzzing sounds burned deep into my psyche the soft-spoken horizon called out to me calling for me to continue on into the enigmatic expanse
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 12:14 PM UTC
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
impale olympic skies! their pacific avarice, turbulence, mai-tai-dyed oxycontin contradictions pull out deep convictions to rift meteoric and fall apart. happiness apart.
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC
entertainment, in-flight
Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
AFRICA
Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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Sunrise coffee in reticence; Wonder what has caused the rift? I’ve danced with every elephant in every single room; Wonder why I always shape-shift? Distance never made my heart grow fonder I crave to be far more removed. I search for other types of anguish; Do stars gleam brighter when you stand on the moon? So many paths I could have taken, but I chose to carve mine blind through the mist; On the brink of dusk when wild violets are shrinking Grief is simply love adrift.
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Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022 at 6:54 AM UTC
a flicker in time
The impetus                      Of being Always on the run                Through pinwheel eyes                               Those standing by                                           The mystic roadway :    River Blues yet to be brushed                       or in blush                            Of evening chill's breathing a canvas like windows dreaming felt All mindful And chockfull O'                               Wonder Then ponder                 Yonder "window breaks"                          Past the wilderness' sleep Bone heavy wood                              Umber earth                              Past whoosh and rush of liquid Folding on itself / a soundtrack       Listen now       Pedestrian be Mindful of the cautionary whales                                                Old Ahab’s yell                                   Obsessions                            Fears                                    Or loathing. If one is drowning in one's sleep Look wildly                   widely                               Blithely                                     Down river   Or up there beyond finger's point                       Sidewinder snake journeys Until sky and below it All meet The distance         Now only a line                  Coalescing what is beyond                       Our ability to see Far and away     Evanescent          Effervescent                      Ever after                                    River.     Life. Here we are And proud      The free spirit is fluent            With the rapid rivers loud                             Always on the run Currents like a child's curiosity ... How then, When or why                         does it end ? Where do we go?                      Like most things existing,            Will lead to the high art / love's deep oceans...            We often forget to seek                               And mind                                      the sublimations/                                                             d¬¬rift wood. So then, Begin with a dot . A speck of dusk                      A burst of light                                         A starry sky, pieces to mastering                    Raging fragility of water Liquid undulations                       Folding itself in / volumes Or falling from on high        A droplet cry Then the lightning                    (crash or bloom) From the heavens                                  like electric rivers So brilliantly                    Festoons Where do we go (so low)        There and here / underfoot /                    Over north / southern sleep                                    To oceans twilight deep? Go wrapped or map-less Or no.             Up                 Way        Up yonder There up there                     Everywhere                     All without fear... My heart like the river yearns                  To go toward the sun                        A flow /                                      the beating drum Always on the run And      Yet             Still                     Here.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 3:58 AM UTC
RIVER
The impetus                      Of being Always on the run                Through pinwheel eyes                               Those standing by                                           The mystic roadway :    River Blues yet to be brushed                       or in blush                            Of evening chill's breathing a canvas like windows dreaming felt All mindful And chockfull O'                               Wonder Then ponder                 Yonder "window breaks"                          Past the wilderness' sleep Bone heavy wood                              Umber earth                              Past whoosh and rush of liquid Folding on itself / a soundtrack       Listen now       Pedestrian be Mindful of the cautionary whales                                                Old Ahab’s yell                                   Obsessions                            Fears                                    Or loathing. If one is drowning in one's sleep Look wildly                   widely                               Blithely                                     Down river   Or up there beyond finger's point                       Sidewinder snake journeys Until sky and below it All meet The distance         Now only a line                  Coalescing what is beyond                       Our ability to see Far and away     Evanescent          Effervescent                      Ever after                                    River.     Life. Here we are And proud      The free spirit is fluent            With the rapid rivers loud                             Always on the run Currents like a child's curiosity ... How then, When or why                         does it end ? Where do we go?                      Like most things existing,            Will lead to the high art / love's deep oceans...            We often forget to seek                               And mind                                      the sublimations/                                                             d¬¬rift wood. So then, Begin with a dot . A speck of dusk                      A burst of light                                         A starry sky, pieces to mastering                    Raging fragility of water Liquid undulations                       Folding itself in / volumes Or falling from on high        A droplet cry Then the lightning                    (crash or bloom) From the heavens                                  like electric rivers So brilliantly                    Festoons Where do we go (so low)        There and here / underfoot /                    Over north / southern sleep                                    To oceans twilight deep? Go wrapped or map-less Or no.             Up                 Way        Up yonder There up there                     Everywhere                     All without fear... My heart like the river yearns                  To go toward the sun                        A flow /                                      the beating drum Always on the run And      Yet             Still                     Here.
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There's a line drawn in the sand It's a line drawn by the man It's a line drawn by the hand That feeds Our breed Misery There are lines drawn on our faces As sand hits the ground These fault lines are from the races Our lives have found The lines get deeper Like cuts on our skin The lines get steeper Like our chance to win We're thrown into a landslide We see the ground collapsing For all the silly things we lie And the things we say in passing The momentum of this earthquake Will never cease, only take And these tectonic plates shift When we live a hectic hate rift I need safety To embrace me And save me from my world imploding Before anyone can say they know me But the planet is shaking My mangled mind aching I trap myself inside a steel vault Never forgetting this is my fault
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 2:18 AM UTC
Fault
darkness consumes all the black night swallows our thoughts Vomits back our fears Shadows pollute minds Specters of the past revive They taunt tease and laugh We give in so quick Victims to our own morals destroyed by self doubt Quick to love others so fast to hate ones own self So slow to forgive The mirror whispers The wind curses so sweetly The blade kisses you It tenderly glides Slides against ebony skin Gaping rift remains Scarlet life erupts History of an empire Contained in those veins Osiris Horus Pharaohs Gods ,and rulers.Kings Contained in those veins Isis Hathor Bast Greats queens, protectors, healers Contained in those veins Garden of Eden Cradle of our mother Earth Contained in those veins Newton,King,X,Parks Men and women with Brave Hearts Contained in those veins Swift minds,Diamond tongues hip-hop jazz blues rock, our sound Contained in those veins Firm hands,and strong arms The power to hold the world Contained in those veins A deep rich opus there is his story and hers Contained in those veins Our blood stains the soil Why destroy the tapestry Contained in those veins
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 10:05 PM UTC
Veins