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Mitch Nihilist Oct 2015
open wide, take the barrel, caress the lips
let the trigger be something
thats figured afterwards
as one thing held by
the stress of life,

let the burden of breathing
take the wind and dwindle
the passion you have left
to rekindle your passion to live
reloading the rifle
reviving every spiteful
feeling edging you closer to
the side of the high rise
in malevolence disregarding
the benevolence of why
you’re still sitting here
reading this; ignorance to bliss

let the goodwill of life foreshadow
that every stroke brings deep to shallow
letting life take the noose and tighten
until you loosen and righten
every wrong

let life bring your cuts to a heal
so that you know every human can feel
a pain get better and watch the weather
go from dark skies to milky clouds dripping light
and have the poor weep then sing together

so let life strife your feelings of self
so that you hear the whisper from
the storm pass,
and open your eyes,
don’t let the precedent of today
dictate the incident of
a familiar tangent
because with every feeling of pain
is followed by compassion of
the morrow
This specific piece was just chosen by a poetry publishing company to be published in their newest book Extreme Perception!
Raj Arumugam Oct 2014
so the Manager called in
a staff member
and he said:
"Tom, take this new guy
round the workplace
and smarten him up"


So Tom took me round
the office and then
we went to see the Secretary
and he said to her:
*"Do check my Department report
My language is perfect -
just  righten up my punctuation"
handsinspace Feb 2016
drifting at sea
without
your voice the rudder
my soul
the wind
gusting and twirling
under
our constellations
now
now
catch and billow
righten
in joy
our dawn
rising on the edge
looking for
your smile
to me
Austin Martin Feb 2016
.        nely                                    surmountable        ­     reak                    
A lo           moment has the in                power to b             your day.
       vely                                     credible                     righten                  


-AM
B** righten others' days.
L ove without restrictions.
O pen up your mind.
S hare your joy with others.
S mile like it will be your last.
O pen your heart.
M ake your life worth living.
Acrostic Poem
Ann Nicole Dec 2014
And as I sit uselessly in a place where I have every choice to not be there
I realize that I may just be what they said
Every word they ever breathed about me
But does that mean that's all I am?
I'm a *****, yes, and I'm not afraid to admit that truth
But I can be kind and caring if I feel the need to be
I'm inconsiderate in so many different ways, yeah
But I might just give you the best advice that leads you to righten yourself
And I may just be lazy
Or preparing for all the drama you're going to throw at me
Yeah I'm depressing, but I'm also girly and loud and popular
Which leads me to believe that we're all everything we call each other
We are what we say and probably what others say
But we deserve nothing but the best
Because we may not be perfect, but we're all we've got and will ever have
David Hilburn Jan 2020
Fresh and disciplined?
Focus and method, to serve an hour me?
Safety in a grossing halt of when, silence has come
Through an ironic storm and over the seasons, I see a lead keep

Long in the tooth, if not the use of truth
Suppose and fear, the counting we hold, to live
And let means be are's many, in hopes of youth
We give the news of courage, a new name to since

Properness
And the light of a lucre we afford with evidence
And its moment with love, to compare a wisdom
Of contrivance, to a welcome fury of what was our chances

With time, to till a question in the wind
Meaning a sorts and cohorts we make, in patience served
And patience looking for a nightmares kiss, mind
Us, we have screamed in vanity's ear, but know the price of a turn

Of conscience into a lover of our ideas
Our mystique and its offered job, joy costs an alienation
Priced exactly nothing of strength and cope, in these freedom's
Was a mindful seldom enough to consider any a prayer under our intention's?

God, and the voice of his angel's
Mated with atrophy incarnate, the taste of acceptance of sin
More than ought, and else to whether the silence we knew, fell
From history for a hand of sense and its idea, are we that we are, amends?

Confirmation of a star one night...
From the best and the blessed of meager vice anon
Sanity is a jaundiced hurry with a chastity to righten
Itself among the throng, when all have seen it, the charisma to look among
Sick, Dane And Jot, were having a party...

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