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#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
On the Macrocosm of Microcosm
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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The greatest challenge my nature presents: Love is harder to find Hate is easier to find Within myself and others Is rejection different for me? Everybody seems to know the pain of being unwanted And idle threats and empty words are no stranger to rejection But when you say you'll **** me if you ever see me again The intention is clear The existence of my attraction Is grotesque beyond redemption I thought I loved you... When appreciation comes my way It's superficiality amuses me Because I know all that needs to happen Is breaking down the wall to my mind Or unlocking the door to my heart And those appreciators will transform into detractors Especially if the hideous leviathan approaches their vessel Not finding women gross frustrates me Because I have no reference point For why people hate me so much Which provides a reference point For why I hate myself so much It's difficult not to be dominated by this damnation But there's no way people could understand The daily subtle nuances Why should they? I don't constantly consider their lives either Even if someone tried to comprehend my life I'm not sure it's possible I've been here the whole time and I'm still massively perplexed I display my emotions Disgust I shroud my emotions Indifference I **** my emotions Hatred Is there no escape? Even with sanctuaries along the way Life feels like Everybody swims in the ocean While I'm resigned to my lonely oasis Is it possible to feel more alone than completely alone? Like a cockroach consigned to living under the refrigerator It gets so cold and dark down here I forage for crumbs only at night Mortally afraid of human contact For I know that the boot follows the light And why not? In a world where our priorities obstruct our compassion How much consideration should a real human show to a lowly maggot like me When they have to worry about paying the exterminator?
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Jun 25, 2017
Jun 25, 2017 at 4:16 AM UTC
Loneliness
The greatest challenge my nature presents: Love is harder to find Hate is easier to find Within myself and others Is rejection different for me? Everybody seems to know the pain of being unwanted And idle threats and empty words are no stranger to rejection But when you say you'll **** me if you ever see me again The intention is clear The existence of my attraction Is grotesque beyond redemption I thought I loved you... When appreciation comes my way It's superficiality amuses me Because I know all that needs to happen Is breaking down the wall to my mind Or unlocking the door to my heart And those appreciators will transform into detractors Especially if the hideous leviathan approaches their vessel Not finding women gross frustrates me Because I have no reference point For why people hate me so much Which provides a reference point For why I hate myself so much It's difficult not to be dominated by this damnation But there's no way people could understand The daily subtle nuances Why should they? I don't constantly consider their lives either Even if someone tried to comprehend my life I'm not sure it's possible I've been here the whole time and I'm still massively perplexed I display my emotions Disgust I shroud my emotions Indifference I **** my emotions Hatred Is there no escape? Even with sanctuaries along the way Life feels like Everybody swims in the ocean While I'm resigned to my lonely oasis Is it possible to feel more alone than completely alone? Like a cockroach consigned to living under the refrigerator It gets so cold and dark down here I forage for crumbs only at night Mortally afraid of human contact For I know that the boot follows the light And why not? In a world where our priorities obstruct our compassion How much consideration should a real human show to a lowly maggot like me When they have to worry about paying the exterminator?
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Because the thirst wouldn’t simmer; it ruptured cities into boils, turned cultures into armies, an armageddon of cheeky stubborn Irish Catholics and thick veined Germans couldn’t imagine a world without their stout hearty headed pint. Because white dry protestant angels thought crime existed in a vacuum, in a filthy saw-dusted saloon, the hub spawn of evil. Because twice as many of those saloons were ******* by unlicensed blind pigs, not through free swinging doors on the streets, but in the domestic sphere; in the dark crept crevices of household sanctuaries.   Because bootlegging capitalist princes turned the industry into a stenchy liability with their home brewed distilled poisons. Alky cookers wrapped the commodity fetish and dubbed it moonshine. Moonshine – spirits for the poor and blind. Because this social reform was a moral reform lost in the oblivion of politics, lost in the timeliness of progressive spring-cleaning referenda’s. Because the ragged, toothless class had to be scold, striped clean of their traditional barings, because wisdom is everything and they’re spirits ran vilely wild.
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Sep 26, 2010
Sep 26, 2010 at 6:57 AM UTC
Why the 18th Amendment was a Joke
... Mystery; Such that you were to me But nervously I swayed in your direction Curious; I couldn't help but catch my breath as you spoke of this dismal city and your photography So caught in your wishes to escape back to your summer adventures to the hustle and bustle of Tokyo and Seoul; it was then you felt such anonymity So it was then you had felt free. I look to you again, piecing you in these things that you dare share with me; so easily, eagerly. Quiet now, you look to me but I apologize, I didn't know quite where to begin. Mist and fluttering snow Clouding over our concrete city, We walked below the looming Buildings until pausing, to take a picture of me. It seemed, in this hour, it was only us who chose to walk through these deserted snowed-in streets You suggested something then, offering to take me up to the top of the sleekest buildings, to your rooftop sanctuaries I longed to see until it was only in my view- small specks of life below me where I could only see my sodden shoes dangle down to nothingness, to air, weightlessly as I taste the mist upon my shoulders and frozen hair. In awe I would laugh at the beautiful sight before me- to Skyscrapers that cut above clouds in the glint of the sun reflecting back to our eyes, and our cheeks who also felt the bite of winter's winds. Shivering, Soaked in hair and feet and Again I turned to face you but here, with glittering eyes, ... wondered where You would then choose to take me on our second date?                                                                 P.K.
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 3:31 PM UTC
Mist
... Mystery; Such that you were to me But nervously I swayed in your direction Curious; I couldn't help but catch my breath as you spoke of this dismal city and your photography So caught in your wishes to escape back to your summer adventures to the hustle and bustle of Tokyo and Seoul; it was then you felt such anonymity So it was then you had felt free. I look to you again, piecing you in these things that you dare share with me; so easily, eagerly. Quiet now, you look to me but I apologize, I didn't know quite where to begin. Mist and fluttering snow Clouding over our concrete city, We walked below the looming Buildings until pausing, to take a picture of me. It seemed, in this hour, it was only us who chose to walk through these deserted snowed-in streets You suggested something then, offering to take me up to the top of the sleekest buildings, to your rooftop sanctuaries I longed to see until it was only in my view- small specks of life below me where I could only see my sodden shoes dangle down to nothingness, to air, weightlessly as I taste the mist upon my shoulders and frozen hair. In awe I would laugh at the beautiful sight before me- to Skyscrapers that cut above clouds in the glint of the sun reflecting back to our eyes, and our cheeks who also felt the bite of winter's winds. Shivering, Soaked in hair and feet and Again I turned to face you but here, with glittering eyes, ... wondered where You would then choose to take me on our second date?                                                                 P.K.
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Passover Moon's ****** hue eclipses the ordinary in veils of miraculousness obscure rouge halos illume elliptical arcs guiding footsteps in a righteous exodus across troubling waters forsaking hovels with painted doorjambs dripping lambs blood Mezuzahs bleat memories holy murmurs bespeaking lamentations of ancient hosannas our desperate supplications flesh out a distressed humanity seeking deliverance from the vengeance is mine Elohim may it be nigh we wait watching for an always faithful Good Deliverer to honor the covenant to lift despair with a liberating yoke lugging leaden burdens Oh Holy of Holies banished in the wisp of a bitter herb our distended bellies fill with unleavened grace sweet droplets of manna consumed with extreme gratitude arriving at journeys end to promised lands fully satiated and free to rest in sanctuaries of radical hospitality luxuriating in an infinite abundance for all sojourners Selah Music Selection: Big Mama Thornton Go Down Moses Oakland 4/15/14 jbm
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
Blood Moon
The local mall now has a Spenser’s Gifts; I remember that place fondly as Al and I make our way. It’s where I sneaked a peek at Samantha Fox’s **** for the first time, saw my first **** ring, wondering why anyone would want one. I bought my first Metallica shirt at a Spencer’s; spending twenty of my dad’s dollars. Spencer’s and Record Wear House were sanctuaries; my escape from what my classmates took for normal. I took my son into that store so that he could see the X-Men hats and Deadpool shirts, the banana and pickle pens caught his eye, but I had to point out one more. “What’s that one?” I asked. Alex made a face, but in the end he did what any 14 year old boy should, he chuckled. I took him in that store so that we both could escape. Earlier he walked the mall a good fifteen feet ahead of us. We stopped for ice cream. He chose a soda and wouldn’t sit with us. It took a second, but I figured him out. He was trying his teenaged self out; testing his wings. As we walked, he’d wave at classmates and be either sturdily ignored or given a cursory nod. It was obvious that he wanted so much more. It pained us, my wife and I. So, I took him into Spencer’s gifts in an effort to remove some of his innocence and awkwardness. It may not have been the wisest move, but at least, for a moment, both of us felt peace. -JB CLaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2014
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:17 PM UTC
***** Pens and **** You Hats
do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. for someone like myself will kiss you at all of the most beautiful places in the world, just like art galleries, beaches, and sanctuaries, because then you will never be able to visit such places again without having the taste of blood lingering in your lips. do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. if it takes remembering your name among the lonesome souls, i would forget my own if it means remembering yours. i will make you believe that storms are peaceful and that suffering is a pleasure. you will be swept away by the yearning in craving over something that is consistently reaching but never ready to hold you. do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. with someone who are reminiscent like me, i will wreck your home and hurl apologies at you, which will break apart on the floor and hurt you when you walk on them. i will come to fret about having loved you so passionately. i will always be regretful that i gave it my all without stopping to consider that i was becoming increasingly hurting so bad and exhausted. i will always be sorry that i let myself be fooled by the illusion of your love. do not let yourself fall in love with someone that obviously acts like me—loves like me for the reason that they are all ghosts from the pieces you broke in me. keeping your safe distance from someone like me is not something you should consider doing. people like me are time bombs; when my mission is complete, i will spatter sorrow all over your walls in violent hues that would let you regret your door had never known my name. i'll never master the art of being gentle. despite the weight of our shared history, i would not be flushed away by the chapter of our repressed memories. you will never be free of the shadows you left behind. and the ghosts will forever haunt you. humans will always find a way to end things and leave. we always do. and when i am gone, you will fully understand the reason why storms are named after humans.
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Jun 30, 2022
Jun 30, 2022 at 1:28 PM UTC
love & regrets
do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. for someone like myself will kiss you at all of the most beautiful places in the world, just like art galleries, beaches, and sanctuaries, because then you will never be able to visit such places again without having the taste of blood lingering in your lips. do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. if it takes remembering your name among the lonesome souls, i would forget my own if it means remembering yours. i will make you believe that storms are peaceful and that suffering is a pleasure. you will be swept away by the yearning in craving over something that is consistently reaching but never ready to hold you. do not let yourself fall in love with someone who is similar to me. with someone who are reminiscent like me, i will wreck your home and hurl apologies at you, which will break apart on the floor and hurt you when you walk on them. i will come to fret about having loved you so passionately. i will always be regretful that i gave it my all without stopping to consider that i was becoming increasingly hurting so bad and exhausted. i will always be sorry that i let myself be fooled by the illusion of your love. do not let yourself fall in love with someone that obviously acts like me—loves like me for the reason that they are all ghosts from the pieces you broke in me. keeping your safe distance from someone like me is not something you should consider doing. people like me are time bombs; when my mission is complete, i will spatter sorrow all over your walls in violent hues that would let you regret your door had never known my name. i'll never master the art of being gentle. despite the weight of our shared history, i would not be flushed away by the chapter of our repressed memories. you will never be free of the shadows you left behind. and the ghosts will forever haunt you. humans will always find a way to end things and leave. we always do. and when i am gone, you will fully understand the reason why storms are named after humans.
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i belong to the daybreak when humans with sleepy eyes and mousy morning hearts are brave enough to face the scarily mundane world once again. i belong to nature to the hidden wonders of the world there's unknown modern hanging gardens of babylon and the secret sanctuaries where the teenagers of the megalopolis go to rest. i belong to the ocean in the deepest trenches no man has seen where it is quiet and still and darkness reigns supreme. i belong to outer space in the galaxies who are strangers we'd like to know there's dark matter that swirls space dust coalesces and stars are born to die all over again. i belong to the rain when the sky cries and the typhoons turn to drizzle the water runs through empty houses and thrift stores in the gutters and on and on, to underground, to God knows where. i belong to the night to the time when the busiest people submit to slumber but a few who are not bothered by lightyears sit by their windowsills to watch the stars. *i belong to the world and the world belongs to me.*
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 9:31 PM UTC
I Belong
few new words, here. just the punk scene- feral, free. and the accompanying knowledge that others battle the tide, too, mouths as salty with sea water. others giving to become, dancing in the trenches, transported beyond classroom cubicles by the music of celestial fabrics, of me, of me meeting you, of whispers from the lips of God. we all set up shop there, use intermittent sunlight to grow and sell our bluebells, our quirky flower children. we all capture the poetry of moments, all maroons in cozy sanctuaries rich with the music of intuition, of loss of pride, and old book smells. How Much Time do i need for me, really? i want to sleep nights on Central Park benches. i want to buy a bookstore. i want to feel a horse between my thighs. i want to drape myself in Moroccan silks. Simple Solutions, i'd like you to meet Bureaucratic Barricades. is there real need for the two sides to every coin buried in bank vaults and sock drawers? but vessels to be filled. i want to reform the public education system. i want to become a nun. i want to be in the darkness with you. i want to see unicorns. just being (t)here, lost in idealism and the lines on my palms.
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Jun 24, 2012
Jun 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM UTC
Manifesto
The Gods are money sound these days. and priests have marketing degrees - The faithful, called to worship by giant plasma screens, in mega-shopping sanctuaries selling salvation through merchandising. At the Church of Holy Consumption all denominations are welcome – hundreds, twenties, tens. All the hymns are sung by Muzak - the readings daily specials. A sister spritzes us with holy essence (The bottle's 40 bucks an ounce).           Leave your offerings at the till - major credit cards accepted. When worship time is up, sign the dollar across your chest and bend a knee to the talking head cooing soothing benedictions, “Go in Peace, my child. You’re worth it.” January,  2007
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 3:05 PM UTC
Cathedrals of Bling
The Internet, for a good helping of the American demographic, is the highest-rated of sanctuaries. I use "sanctuary" in a filthy and blatantly pornographic manner, for every time we post on our nicotine-scented Facebooks that we're "so ******* bored" we "could die," there's at least one other hand snaking you along those fetishes you stash beneath your sleeve like black silk underwear; and no matter what you do, nothing will explain away those two consecutive Youtube videos: "Black muscle man in blue thong" followed spontaneously by "12 year old boy sings Judy Garland!", each, to the innocent bystander, juxtaposed like two opposing ****** in one ****** up candy shop. The grotesque meat show, always the same introduction, always right on time with the churn churn churning of his loneliness his rage his silence onto those sheets with no regard for the family and friends of fibers. It used to be hilarious, perfect lunch table standup, but once you learn that with *** there might be signs of love in the decipherable thrusting, that a plot is swimming helplessly in the oceanic camouflage of loveless living, sticky hands can really start to sting.
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM UTC
Loneliness
I took Billy Collins to lunch with me today. He kept me company, Horoscopes of the Dead and new versions of Dante’s hellish sandwich. My pasta was dry, but I ate it between stanzas and between pages. You walked in, backpack and all, at the top of the stairs. I choked on some graded cheese, because of the way you looked in your khakis. I hate the taste of cucumbers but I would have kissed you anyway. Even though, I sometimes laugh a little too loud in the mornings you still make sanctuaries out of my sheets, covering us in a layer of polka dots, craving each other’s skin, listening the lullaby the ruffles of the duvet make. And even though I sometimes know that wanting you has its clumsy consequences, I still lose my breath when you walk up to the lunch line, or when you grab my face with both hands, or when you say my name backwards between sighs. Maybe Billy understands, and maybe I can just stay a poet. Maybe, you would look good on me. I’d love to try you on. But I lost my breath when you walked in this afternoon.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
It's Your Khaki's That Are the Problem
Mishmash, that's my life sort of, I'm isolated Companion, acquaintance, colleague I left them, primly, nothing worth of trust Not that I know, how many out there, bungled It's been months since, I locked up myself by my realm of picturesque creation Zero delusion, illusion, hallucination Not to tell no one, where am I Glad to initiate, these, quarters of sanctuaries Landed massive words, of aspirations, ambitions, inspirations lift up my life, soul, spirit dwelling there, a hope No matter how wrecked my previous is I'm eager to take on new adventure. Life must go on
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Aug 30, 2015
Aug 30, 2015 at 8:00 AM UTC
Life's Worth It
Countless nights with my hand on my chin, In silence, in solace, in darkness at night. The hunger for knowledge and quest for the truth, Lead me to a desk with a small dim lamp, Where I sit and I ponder my questions in life. I wonder how many people like me, Have sat in their rooms or personal sanctuaries. Sitting alone on the verge of epiphany, Struggling to find the perfect words to define, Their thoughts or emotions or questions like mine. Einstein's theory of relativity. Tesla's ideas of electricity. Wilde's philosophy on the emotion of love. These men are defined by the great things they did, Because they defined the visions in their head. My pupils dilate as I stare at my walll. Time slows down when I'm in deep thought. Everything, all of it, rushes at me. I cannot describe the things that I see, When I turn on the switch of possibility.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 6:15 AM UTC
Possibility
I knew you once. We walked hand in hand, On roads, Paved with flowers In colors we did not know. We hatched a plan. We were going to start something new, something we had never done before. We’d leave the homes we knew, We’d start over, me and you. We came to find, That we could only walk on flowers for so long, Before they were crushed beneath our wake. So we made, new roads Forged new towns. Raised new cities. Cities became sanctuaries. sanctuaries became nations. Then nations birthed ideals. From ideals grew prejudice From Prejudice grew competition, And in the pyres of faded glory, Chaos overran our kingdom. Riots broke out. Hand in hand We watched As all that we created Was burned to the ground Reduced to rubble And ash The lives that we had started, The people we had fostered, The dreams that we had built, Vanished with the smoke You said that you could fix it You told me not to worry That all would be okay You would rebuild the cities, You told me you had to stay. I returned the way we came, Melted in the safety Of my father’s arms Evaporated in the warmth Of my mother’s gaze Now I watch you from the clouds Fall upon your face Roll down your cheek I am the rain, The river And the storm Let me calm your waters Dowse your fire And keep you warm. I can’t stand To watch you burn like they did.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 10:57 AM UTC
Phoenix
Adapted from pg. 571 of Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition The Black Swan Sanctuary will become a unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, following the crowd... In emphasizing Black Swanism as an integral component of the human genome, the social stigma associated with this condition will be blotted out... "Historians may one day recognize (BSS) to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship  of common suffering; on having a vast potential for the myriad of ills of (hu)mankind."
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 3:03 AM UTC
Black Swan Sanctuaries
The kingdom stretches out as far as the eye can see, Riddled with the regret of long distance, Ruined sanctuaries and remnants of a civilization that valued the bonds between both of us. I made a promise to the queen, That all of us would make a sacrifice, And yet as things progressed faster, We must confess that we professed too much about wanting and not enough about vices. If I could give you the world you want, Would you still steal the moon for light or would moonlight steal the sight of the world you sought? Some day I'll know, Someday, you'll be right and I'll reap what I sow, Past present, You were at once my present and now you've declared you no longer want my presence. To whom it may concern, To have everything, is a disease, A lesson I must learn. A casual reminder that what people must live on can easily be replaced, That I could be easily replaced and I am no longer a remnant of the kingdom, Yet to some, I am revered as the prince. I tried my hardest to make this worth it, To make this journey fit to the grip of the wheel of this ship. Will you keep this afloat? The thought of you once brought me peace, Now the nightmares...they will not cease.
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 1:55 PM UTC
Overwatch
I am merely a poet a writer an igniter of fire the designer of a prior desire to admire the harmonious choir but quick to tire of contriving liars as the potential buyers hold strangulation wires about to lay me in a pile of blood soaked fliers until my life expires and all this illusionary harmony is alarming me stalling me in its comedy they think they're disarming me with talks of peace and prosperity as i hilariously smash their conspiracy theories as i am seriously furious when i deliriously remove the sanctity from your sanctuaries sketching lucid rhymes in obituaries as corrupted school kids watch me curiously i see your timid hands when you approach me nervously as i hiss cyphers murderously while you atrociously fumble satisfactory rhymes i miraculously summon these mumbling mimes ducking before the holy and unholy shrines no god but father time laying low tumbling dimes still ducking swine from misdemeanor crimes making local news and the seattle times as they run and hide with their nines im packing verbal calibers of all kinds and splitting minds with my lines enshrined
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
Merely
Suspension Surpasses Stupendous S u p e r p o sit ions Serious-ly!? Silvery-gold Stars Smiling . . . Similar Sensibility Seen Swaying ~~~~ Sibling Sanctuaries ☺☻ Sangre Sanctum Sisters - - Save Satelites! Sermon Suspended, Sake Served.
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 2:28 PM UTC
Sensible Script
She has pictures of dead flowers In hidden sanctuaries Located in the depths of her soul. That´s where my love lies, Sleepy and peaceful. Please don´t leave me.
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 8:10 AM UTC
Sanctuary
Not in the ***** urban lakes or zoos and sanctuaries in her moorland stream and loch where spirits slow and ease dressed in white calm and alone a woman passes by try to speak then look around above you in the sky! tied to her loch by loves hard cord a tryst from ancient years awaiting her love who swore by his sword to save her from her fears the spell to break and set her free but his life was lost years past he fell in the desperate quest to return and eternities spell holds fast
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Feb 14, 2011
Feb 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM UTC
The Swan Women
idiosyncratic motions define circular thoughts and notions grasped ideals let go in the oceans of confusion scrambled morse code messages spelled out in brail depict battlefields and hospital wards sanctuaries for chaos, chapels for the wicked. devils hidden beneath PR departments and counsels. Put into place to distort and misplace, the bane of clarity, cancer to the soul. More should and could be made of this Alas aesthetics argue and compel us to believe lost in external endeavors, spiraling into catatonic outbursts. Has this become the norm? We've been conditioned to accept. The body of a man, running on the fumes of better days. Left with nothing but ideals looking forth to better ways. We've succumb to society and its rule. The leader points his fingers, declares them wrong and we play the fool, drinking from the puddles of congressional drool. Wrapped around their fingers, yarn to their spool, we've let them mold and take rule. Sold our souls, made way to power tools and flashy jewels. It's the gift of "freedom", buy and consume. Don't worry about this, they'll handle the rest.
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Feb 15, 2010
Feb 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM UTC
Mental Defecation
Mementos of a deity stained upon memory Each of my senses mumble with glee Flesh displaying flawless symmetry To sanctuaries of paradise we'd flee Her curves could entice optic moans The echoes ricochet with intense thrills Throughout the room may hormones roam Oh, how she flaunts beauty with skills Birth is given to stark vibes Howling through her frail veins Safe within frames I feel live Whilst mass enigma takes the reins Not a question of fear nor doubt shall rise For we revel in secure symphonies Thus faltering upon these ****** eyes Flourishing from refrains of infancy Beyond what we imagine In lieu of occult chasms
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Feb 15, 2012
Feb 15, 2012 at 7:33 PM UTC
S.A.F.E.
Lately there have been days where I catch myself looking for you in the strangest places; In train stations, sanctuaries, the corners of your room that you never set foot in, And there have been days where I feel so small that just leaving my bed seems like the bravest thing I've ever done. I blame it on the way you seem to swallow my darkness without absorbing it, The way my chest tightens at the thought of your touch, The way I cradle the ashes of what we once were. We ruined each other with passion and fire, And there are days where that fire still burns in my chest, migrates to my head, And my skull begins to feel like a whiskey glass in a bar fight. These days no one ever tells you about the difference between heat and warmth, You learn it yourself when his hands scorch your skin and his fire burns through you While he pours lighter fluid down your throat. I wake up as a stranger in my body these days and I whisper to the mirror, "I just want to go home" And thoughts of you remind me of how to get there. It seems like we're straddling the line between love and Stockholm syndrome And it's automatic for me to call you by your sins rather than your name, But these are the days when I need you to lap up this nectar and hear this truth, As well as all the blurred intentions behind every "I miss you."
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:24 PM UTC
The problem with missing you these days
We all have our own personal places, Whether you call them Sanctuaries Homes Or shelters, We all have somewhere (or some places) to be ourselves. We all have a mind, That central nervous system that runs our bodies, But yet is so much more. When we think, There's that little voice inside your head, That talks to you, Listens to you, And is there for you. We are our own best friends, In a way. Or maybe It's that little voice inside our heads Who we tag as "thinking" That is our best friend.
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Aug 2, 2011
Aug 2, 2011 at 2:26 PM UTC
Thinking