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"sandpaper" poems
she is outspoken and bold bold like the sun bolder than an army of boulders falling from a hillside she is an avalanche when there is nowhere left to run she is despised by some and others wish to fill her with some old fashioned whisky i am sanctified by her ways and returned to my former glory as this poem has tasted far better days she is a morning glory her eyes are like the petals of a flower she is the Wordsworth of the decade a wordsmith dancing in her own decay i am essentially a target a lost projectile in the arrow's path she has coaxed me back to sanity with her sardonic gestures and her sarcastic use of wit i am a nitwit she said so i laugh and pick the flowers from her hair slowly and soporifically i am seaweed adrift in her bonnet sandpaper scattered along the shoreline remove the blind spectacles and eat the lines i’ve written a poem is just a candle anyway to spray the eyes of infinity with lightning mars is retrograde regardless so i’ll just sit here and pretend that i’m not too much of a target for her beauty
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 3:05 PM UTC
a target for her beauty
it hurt her; every single bits and pieces of flowers she vomits; they tasted like sandpaper, they hurt like the feeling of being stabbed in the back by the person you love the most (both physically and emotionally), but what hurt her the most is that he wasn't really worth dying for— but she was afraid of losing him; of forgetting the feeling of loving him.
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 5:55 AM UTC
hanahaki
if, somehow, you could see how high & dense your fortified groves has gotten you wouldn't be asking me why i'm trying to get to you like a giraffe gets to the leaves in the trees, because your barrier is like barb wire tangled around your wrists and, almost like a failed lobotomy, you're as mad as a hatter, and the ribbons that tied us together tightly unwoven it's knot, and i'm so careful in finding the pieces of worn bricks to tear down and not break you in the process the fear left me restless, without a doubt, you get helpless after a while and start believing that sandpaper and silk are similar, but they aren't textured the same in reality, yet who even really knows what is wrong and what is right? maybe the puzzle pieces get worn over time and they're not even considered to be pieces to a puzzle anymore, it's like putting together a falling apart pie - kra
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 1:02 PM UTC
standing upon giraffes
you liked the arch of my brow and the spirals of hair i'd brush off of my face yet after you all i would've liked was to be anyone else, to have the summer shade of my skin fade the curl of my hair to reach around my neck, choking me until i wasn't me anymore. until i looked like anyone else. with u, i was pretty. you made me believe that the way i would think was unlike any other yet after you, all i could think was why and why and why and how i missed the sandpaper sound of your voice and why and Why why why. with u, i had a maze of a mind and a heart worth more than gold
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Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 at 6:33 AM UTC
after u
A sandpaper tongue Brushed across my skin One last time. That alone was worth The 850 dollars it cost To say goodbye.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 3:18 AM UTC
Euthanasia
sometimes i feel like i’m two creatures caught b e n e a t h skin sharing one body. my tongue rough- sandpaper, broken glass, too many curses while the lips around it burn with apologies fleshy brooms sweeping up the messes of another woman. i feel like there are two animals each fighting for their right to shine through they’re voracious in this battle— it surprises me that their clawstalonssteeth don’t break through the thin expanse of flesh to the outside. i have two women living within my skull one wildroughfighting— slinging glasses and insults. face paint, bones and bottle trees, fire and ash wet pine needles under bleeding feet. the biting creature who leaves bruises on the lips of men. the warrior, Artemis. laughdancing through flames. a bear, a wolf, a cat, a bird. animal in nature. the other fights with words. elegant, gentle, soft, break able-- everything the other cannot afford to be. goddess of the hearth, she feeds her comrades like children keeps fires stocked with woods and binds bleeding arms. this woman carries pitchers of water writes sweet letters to missing friends and opens her soul to many lovers. am I some crude splice of these creatures? am I a ******* of these mothers— each passionate one biting, brackish tides, slow moving rivers, still ponds the other a warm, clean bath? am I both simultaneously, or am I wearing one face while the other watches behind mine eyes? I am the moon— full and loving, dark and hiding and something in between. yeah, that sounds about right. something in between.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM UTC
am i the moon?
sometimes i feel like i’m two creatures caught b e n e a t h skin sharing one body. my tongue rough- sandpaper, broken glass, too many curses while the lips around it burn with apologies fleshy brooms sweeping up the messes of another woman. i feel like there are two animals each fighting for their right to shine through they’re voracious in this battle— it surprises me that their clawstalonssteeth don’t break through the thin expanse of flesh to the outside. i have two women living within my skull one wildroughfighting— slinging glasses and insults. face paint, bones and bottle trees, fire and ash wet pine needles under bleeding feet. the biting creature who leaves bruises on the lips of men. the warrior, Artemis. laughdancing through flames. a bear, a wolf, a cat, a bird. animal in nature. the other fights with words. elegant, gentle, soft, break able-- everything the other cannot afford to be. goddess of the hearth, she feeds her comrades like children keeps fires stocked with woods and binds bleeding arms. this woman carries pitchers of water writes sweet letters to missing friends and opens her soul to many lovers. am I some crude splice of these creatures? am I a ******* of these mothers— each passionate one biting, brackish tides, slow moving rivers, still ponds the other a warm, clean bath? am I both simultaneously, or am I wearing one face while the other watches behind mine eyes? I am the moon— full and loving, dark and hiding and something in between. yeah, that sounds about right. something in between.
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her mouth was sandpaper. her mouth was sandpaper and she spoke like a smooth surface, words scraped into fluidity like a wooden sphere, turned over behind teeth ‘til all friction is lost. she spoke like the walls of a birdhouse in the room of a dead carpenter: pretty unassembled things. her mouth was sandpaper and every kiss chafed, rubbing raw my lips and tongue crafting with each touch drawing blood like juice from an apple, like sap from wood already cut from the tree. her mouth was sandpaper and she told me *i bite my lips, rip at the inside of my mouth, cannibalize myself cell by cell.* bone saws in her mouth. the only difference between teeth of jaws and saws is mercy (and she swallowed her mercy long ago). her mouth was sandpaper and she spoke like a carpenter’s hands: rough palms, tough pads, a utilitarian artist a crafter of dead flesh. a mortician for dryads and kodama. the art and the artist in lips tongue and teeth. her mouth was sandpaper and i brought mine to hers again and again, her bitten-rough lips opening like doors to purgatory. less entrapment than addiction - returning once more to nails and hammers, hell’s blacksmiths below heaven’s painters above. coming back home to the space between, to bone saws and a carpenter’s hands. her mouth was sandpaper and her voice was carpentry, her teeth bone saws her words birdhouse walls. her mouth was purgatory but her hands were hands. her mouth was sandpaper. i held her hand and chafed my lips raw.
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 12:26 AM UTC
why i need chapstick
her mouth was sandpaper. her mouth was sandpaper and she spoke like a smooth surface, words scraped into fluidity like a wooden sphere, turned over behind teeth ‘til all friction is lost. she spoke like the walls of a birdhouse in the room of a dead carpenter: pretty unassembled things. her mouth was sandpaper and every kiss chafed, rubbing raw my lips and tongue crafting with each touch drawing blood like juice from an apple, like sap from wood already cut from the tree. her mouth was sandpaper and she told me *i bite my lips, rip at the inside of my mouth, cannibalize myself cell by cell.* bone saws in her mouth. the only difference between teeth of jaws and saws is mercy (and she swallowed her mercy long ago). her mouth was sandpaper and she spoke like a carpenter’s hands: rough palms, tough pads, a utilitarian artist a crafter of dead flesh. a mortician for dryads and kodama. the art and the artist in lips tongue and teeth. her mouth was sandpaper and i brought mine to hers again and again, her bitten-rough lips opening like doors to purgatory. less entrapment than addiction - returning once more to nails and hammers, hell’s blacksmiths below heaven’s painters above. coming back home to the space between, to bone saws and a carpenter’s hands. her mouth was sandpaper and her voice was carpentry, her teeth bone saws her words birdhouse walls. her mouth was purgatory but her hands were hands. her mouth was sandpaper. i held her hand and chafed my lips raw.
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he spends his time rowing through the rugged, blockaded channels of my catharsis, the bitter staccato of ****** habit. his love can be as jagged as gashes in an Elvis Costello record thrown against the wall-- the frayed words of the last love song Billie Holiday ever uttered. he is two exclamation points lit on fire, kerosene pumping through tautly wound muscles and caressing our funny bones with sandpaper. he is dulcit woodwind melodies and jilted viola strings, epic poetry and grindhouse theaters, McQueen gowns and thrift store bargains, the kiss on the forehead and the nudge for a ******* he is a double helix. he is the beginning and end of every sentence.
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Sep 4, 2010
Sep 4, 2010 at 3:45 AM UTC
Purging Lilacs
so, with israel being re-established... why do we, us,hit europeans... even need to bother establishing authority,          utilißing the new testament? i quiete like the old testament logic of: oculus per oculus                    (eye for an eye)... because the saxon concept of justice: i rather see... the implosion of    blackstone's formulation... the 10:1 imploding to the 1:10 ratio of...       a shawshank redemption... there is... redemption... since! there's no justice within the post scriptum of the hillsborough disaster... watching people walk, the lunatic walk, 20 years later?    disorientated by the court of justice?     re-dem-ption... the whole aspect of: innocent until proven guilty is horrid! this... saxon vernacular of that branch of philosophy that's bogus... namely... within origins      of the forbidden fruit... i.e. and you know?!     really?!       no... but i'll **** to make a standing pivot of a pawn on a chess-board.                           savvy? who, among the europeans... actually needs such artifacts as new testament texts, credo, orthodoxy, sign of the cross greek exports?              the state of israel has been re-established...       i don't want anything to do with this judeo-grecian banality... you can have you little affair over                                 n        e                                                 w                                  s... don't worry... i'll make sure that i'm watching... people tell a lie... yeah: hum hum bubbly hum-hum... am i, or are there any arizona inbreds? who, the hell, needs, the news testament, within the confines of history, dispossessing europe of it, of an established jewish state?       one book among many... hence the scent of a yawn...                          when entering a library... i'll do one gesture, and one gesture alone... inclined to a replica...     ecce libra!              i wash my hands from                   having any investment in it. **** the greeks can have it...       they can keep it, cherish it, but they better not spaghetti the old testament with their... "ingenious" plot... not when the nag hammadi library emerged...       no... not now... not ever...         i detest this greek book of overt symbolism...   their pristine alphabet, their diacritical application,   with the pseudo-romans toying with: deaf... or blind... whichever it is... sandpaper... instead of a kangaroo pouch... of inflated... soft... flesh? i'll rip your heart out and feed it to my neighbour's dog,                   beside a bowl of water.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 8:32 PM UTC
ecce libra! re-emergence of israel **** liber)
so, with israel being re-established... why do we, us,hit europeans... even need to bother establishing authority,          utilißing the new testament? i quiete like the old testament logic of: oculus per oculus                    (eye for an eye)... because the saxon concept of justice: i rather see... the implosion of    blackstone's formulation... the 10:1 imploding to the 1:10 ratio of...       a shawshank redemption... there is... redemption... since! there's no justice within the post scriptum of the hillsborough disaster... watching people walk, the lunatic walk, 20 years later?    disorientated by the court of justice?     re-dem-ption... the whole aspect of: innocent until proven guilty is horrid! this... saxon vernacular of that branch of philosophy that's bogus... namely... within origins      of the forbidden fruit... i.e. and you know?!     really?!       no... but i'll **** to make a standing pivot of a pawn on a chess-board.                           savvy? who, among the europeans... actually needs such artifacts as new testament texts, credo, orthodoxy, sign of the cross greek exports?              the state of israel has been re-established...       i don't want anything to do with this judeo-grecian banality... you can have you little affair over                                 n        e                                                 w                                  s... don't worry... i'll make sure that i'm watching... people tell a lie... yeah: hum hum bubbly hum-hum... am i, or are there any arizona inbreds? who, the hell, needs, the news testament, within the confines of history, dispossessing europe of it, of an established jewish state?       one book among many... hence the scent of a yawn...                          when entering a library... i'll do one gesture, and one gesture alone... inclined to a replica...     ecce libra!              i wash my hands from                   having any investment in it. **** the greeks can have it...       they can keep it, cherish it, but they better not spaghetti the old testament with their... "ingenious" plot... not when the nag hammadi library emerged...       no... not now... not ever...         i detest this greek book of overt symbolism...   their pristine alphabet, their diacritical application,   with the pseudo-romans toying with: deaf... or blind... whichever it is... sandpaper... instead of a kangaroo pouch... of inflated... soft... flesh? i'll rip your heart out and feed it to my neighbour's dog,                   beside a bowl of water.
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Every time we speak I feel like things are looking up, no matter what we speak of, a residual glow is left behind, pineapple cake and birthday wishes; perhaps we can move to new york after all. Perhaps this will not be forever. Drawing lessons and 1 am photos are what is keeping me alive right now, a protective world to shield me from the sandpaper reality And I hope to god that when I call you at midnight you feel the same.
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
Pineapple Cake
the darkest of my fantasies whisper Your body is a scuba suit insist i breath with your ******* through your mouth dive deep into claustrophobic waters, sink heavy to the rock bottom where we petrify by gorgans gaze i know we'll turn to stone because, of course, the gorgans can't resist gazing at You nobody can resist gazing at You, land or sea. Our permanent legacy, lost under layers of life barnacles clinging, moss burying Our chimera god/snake skin i am without Your oxygen when breathing would terrorize the wind where words belong still, my forked tongue writes i'm a theif to say i only want You to be happy when i had You, it was still selfish the revolving doors of pain and perseverance more time invested in us then money invested in the Pills that kept me from killing You out of habit You begged me to beat You it's been seven hands dealt rubbing my 5 o'clock sandpaper chin on the tarot card of death my tolerance for vacancy a brownish red stain i've only the thin line of medication between necrophilia and sociopathy i want to lay with You at the bottom of the sea **the Pills... where are... please no, God. The Voice,            run!          get out!** *I would gladly go to prison to **** your lifeless body. I would gladly **** Myself in the afterglow of your affection. there is only one true Sin, Objectification. I indulge relapse in every memory, find your shed snake skin pull it on, like your ******* how disturbed I've become with you gone* how selfish of you of course "I" blames You when the Pills dull i indulge by studying Your location i know where You escape too i want to go there does that scare You? i want to bump into You apoligise for what i want "want" as a word is like plexi-glass, or kevlar standing between Us keeping the bullet safe. i want a hard impact in a school hallway where we drop all our Books and look up and You see my ghost, that would be enough for Me i want the impact to hurt. i want the tumbling of all our Book's i want the messy hair and ripped knees, then Our eyes to meet and linger I want to watch the fear fill you. i want to sit there, watching. petrify from parcel tongues as i gaze at Your gorgon body shedding skin if i shed my snakeskin, maybe i'll see You i can't leave this Poem i can't leave this Poem yet i won't leave this Poem please kick me out Poem Poem end Me .. end . I ..
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 8:17 AM UTC
the darkest of my fantasies whisper your body is a scuba suit a.k.a. this is why You have therapy / obsession is why i have therapy / let's acknowledge the stalker thoughts to **** the stalker thoughts
the darkest of my fantasies whisper Your body is a scuba suit insist i breath with your ******* through your mouth dive deep into claustrophobic waters, sink heavy to the rock bottom where we petrify by gorgans gaze i know we'll turn to stone because, of course, the gorgans can't resist gazing at You nobody can resist gazing at You, land or sea. Our permanent legacy, lost under layers of life barnacles clinging, moss burying Our chimera god/snake skin i am without Your oxygen when breathing would terrorize the wind where words belong still, my forked tongue writes i'm a theif to say i only want You to be happy when i had You, it was still selfish the revolving doors of pain and perseverance more time invested in us then money invested in the Pills that kept me from killing You out of habit You begged me to beat You it's been seven hands dealt rubbing my 5 o'clock sandpaper chin on the tarot card of death my tolerance for vacancy a brownish red stain i've only the thin line of medication between necrophilia and sociopathy i want to lay with You at the bottom of the sea **the Pills... where are... please no, God. The Voice,            run!          get out!** *I would gladly go to prison to **** your lifeless body. I would gladly **** Myself in the afterglow of your affection. there is only one true Sin, Objectification. I indulge relapse in every memory, find your shed snake skin pull it on, like your ******* how disturbed I've become with you gone* how selfish of you of course "I" blames You when the Pills dull i indulge by studying Your location i know where You escape too i want to go there does that scare You? i want to bump into You apoligise for what i want "want" as a word is like plexi-glass, or kevlar standing between Us keeping the bullet safe. i want a hard impact in a school hallway where we drop all our Books and look up and You see my ghost, that would be enough for Me i want the impact to hurt. i want the tumbling of all our Book's i want the messy hair and ripped knees, then Our eyes to meet and linger I want to watch the fear fill you. i want to sit there, watching. petrify from parcel tongues as i gaze at Your gorgon body shedding skin if i shed my snakeskin, maybe i'll see You i can't leave this Poem i can't leave this Poem yet i won't leave this Poem please kick me out Poem Poem end Me .. end . I ..
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touch bumpy sandpaper ridged crusty sight half moon shape yellow green purple taste lemony cherryee limey purpley smell good like sugar up my nose like lemons like cherry sound crunch squish crackle crackle yum yum
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Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
the watermelon
Many have heard that “No man is an island.” And over most circumstances, no one has control. So I ask you… “Have you found purpose for your life?” “With your identity, are you fulfilling your role?” Escape the snare of delusional grandeur, for God Almighty has an assignment for you. Are you prepared with your life skills and has your Kingdom mission come into view? Previous individuals came to you (before me) and broke the fallow ground of your heart. Has the message of Salvation burst within you? Are you wanting to serve, but have not started? Has the “sown seed” inside you… been watered? Are you on the verge of a spiritual epiphany? Do you require wisdom, guidance or experience? Can you determine, why you’re unable to see? The grittiness of human interaction serves us as “sandpaper of life”, softening one’s spirit. We’re to learn from each other, apply God’s Word and strive to live life… without earthly limits. Having vested interests in others helps us to sincerely love one another; walking in Godly unions and relationships, bonds us as Christian sisters and brothers. Remember the complete story of Queen Esther, whose success was possible by efforts of Mordecai. Become involved in the ministry of destiny helpers… For Christ promised to meet our needs against His Supply. Author Notes: Loosely based on: 1 Cor 3:1-10; Esther Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://www.squidoo.com/book-isbn-1419650513/ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2012, All rights reserved.
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 10:59 AM UTC
Poem: Destiny Helpers
Many have heard that “No man is an island.” And over most circumstances, no one has control. So I ask you… “Have you found purpose for your life?” “With your identity, are you fulfilling your role?” Escape the snare of delusional grandeur, for God Almighty has an assignment for you. Are you prepared with your life skills and has your Kingdom mission come into view? Previous individuals came to you (before me) and broke the fallow ground of your heart. Has the message of Salvation burst within you? Are you wanting to serve, but have not started? Has the “sown seed” inside you… been watered? Are you on the verge of a spiritual epiphany? Do you require wisdom, guidance or experience? Can you determine, why you’re unable to see? The grittiness of human interaction serves us as “sandpaper of life”, softening one’s spirit. We’re to learn from each other, apply God’s Word and strive to live life… without earthly limits. Having vested interests in others helps us to sincerely love one another; walking in Godly unions and relationships, bonds us as Christian sisters and brothers. Remember the complete story of Queen Esther, whose success was possible by efforts of Mordecai. Become involved in the ministry of destiny helpers… For Christ promised to meet our needs against His Supply. Author Notes: Loosely based on: 1 Cor 3:1-10; Esther Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://www.squidoo.com/book-isbn-1419650513/ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2012, All rights reserved.
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she sat on a driftwood throne at her feet lay the ruins of a stone man her hair a wild world of winds draws you into her hurricane eyes her lip a forest of meanings tender and soft a single loose tear like a wild horse run free she sat on a driftwood throne in all her glory sun and salt water cadence to the living breathing dream song of existence untainted and now another song intrudes one of loves lionhearted and bold seafarer's son come of age come seeking courtship of her soft hand to be bound in the silken desire's both hot and sweet and the dark ones such shy girl dare not speak he brushes away the sand from her soft thigh and within his mind romances such sweet tender spot with a reign of kisses but just then she arose graceful like the soft beatings of dove's wing and emerging from the veil of his minds fanciful dreams she laid before him her sandpaper eyes so intense that summer sounds like children at play and such soothing tones could not hide her behind he withdraws still no more than a child in her eyes she desires a stronger, a true love one that is not a fleeting fancy dream one of a man who can speak his heart the sand had invaded her driftwood throne so into the dusk she sauntered slowly with graceful flow trailing his eyes behind her like glories of wishes like worshiping doves for such beauties perfection he will return some day a man once he has learned
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
driftwood throne
I’d love you less if you were here crowding my dorm bed, nibbling me, rubbing me like sandpaper I’ve come this far all by myself I am a stone, leave me alone Let’s keep it nonchalant don’t kiss me on the lips don’t label this a situationship because then one of us would need to care
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Feb 19, 2022
Feb 19, 2022 at 9:50 AM UTC
so much less
One by one, I have watched each of my relationships dissolve into bitter words on my tongue, Like "I still look for your face even though you're a thousand miles away." "I am in love with someone who doesn't exist anymore." "You are the one thing I regret giving up." "Forgive me for destroying you. I didn't know to be with someone who wasn't as broken as I was." So you'll understand why I say that I was never one for love stories. Marriage vows sounded like the screaming echo of future arguments, Kisses looked like purple bruises, rather than happy endings, And the only absolute truth I knew was that getting everything you wanted was just a precursor to losing it all. Which is why this is not a cheesy tale of romance but of something much greater Of friendship that could shatter the world with its strength Of an empty shell of a person who only knew how to drown and the girl who taught her how beautiful it felt to burn Of two teenagers who may be microscopic to the universe but are worth galaxies to each other. This is seeing what love has the potential to be: Thinking the same thing so many times we could fill an ocean if people still said "you owe me a soda" Whispering into the phone at 3am to talk about high school drama and our favorite teachers and a boy we used to love. Biting tongues so that our bursts of laughter don't wake up our roommates. Talking about everything and nothing, all at once. This is realizing that love is not companionship. It is completion. So this is to my best friend: A long time ago, I made myself a new skin out of sandpaper and sarcasm to scare away anyone who could ever love me But now, I have never meant anything more literally than when I say that I cannot live without you. And if you are the story of my life, then I swear, it is the one that I will never stop re-reading.
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 2:40 AM UTC
She is the reason I'm alive, and I'm starting to realize she is also the reason I exist.
One by one, I have watched each of my relationships dissolve into bitter words on my tongue, Like "I still look for your face even though you're a thousand miles away." "I am in love with someone who doesn't exist anymore." "You are the one thing I regret giving up." "Forgive me for destroying you. I didn't know to be with someone who wasn't as broken as I was." So you'll understand why I say that I was never one for love stories. Marriage vows sounded like the screaming echo of future arguments, Kisses looked like purple bruises, rather than happy endings, And the only absolute truth I knew was that getting everything you wanted was just a precursor to losing it all. Which is why this is not a cheesy tale of romance but of something much greater Of friendship that could shatter the world with its strength Of an empty shell of a person who only knew how to drown and the girl who taught her how beautiful it felt to burn Of two teenagers who may be microscopic to the universe but are worth galaxies to each other. This is seeing what love has the potential to be: Thinking the same thing so many times we could fill an ocean if people still said "you owe me a soda" Whispering into the phone at 3am to talk about high school drama and our favorite teachers and a boy we used to love. Biting tongues so that our bursts of laughter don't wake up our roommates. Talking about everything and nothing, all at once. This is realizing that love is not companionship. It is completion. So this is to my best friend: A long time ago, I made myself a new skin out of sandpaper and sarcasm to scare away anyone who could ever love me But now, I have never meant anything more literally than when I say that I cannot live without you. And if you are the story of my life, then I swear, it is the one that I will never stop re-reading.
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Ragged mountains and rough terrains, Withstanding storms and heavy rains. Warm rays of sunshine bring light. Bearing hues of black and white. To the touch it feels like a freshly mowed lawn. A promise of tummy tickling at dawn. A relaxing walk in an uninhabited forest. A tempestuous hike to the top of Everest. You could be a renegade or a mad scientist An investment banker or electric guitarist. A biker's beard could be just as immaculate. Rough as sandpaper or soft as velvet.
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 8:00 AM UTC
BEARDS REMIND ME OF...
These hands have clawed with blind eyes Chipped nails on fingers working on knots and ties Fingers that recklessly point to reproaches and blames Never to self, righteousness through arrogant claims Now aware, these palms have covered my face in contempt For they've partook in activities; indulgent and unkempt Rubbed skin raw on life's coarse sandpaper Ever searching for the coming of the unanticipated saviour Broken flesh hopeful for newly formed skin Like tattered souls pleading for absolution of sin Only skin deep but unfavourable experiences do fester Expecting the proverbial infection to blow over Here they are, held unclenched and riddled with pocks Weathered and sore from time's infinite mocks Maybe thereafter, will be awaited healing Perhaps soon after, I will be forgiving See now... Hands faced up, parted as halves Asking not for alms but instead your acceptance as salve Take into yours, these knackered, gnarled up palms Let your porcelain-like touch relieve like life reforming balm
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
Absolution
there is a man in my dreams. he is tall with hair like gold, and his eyes that are the colour of a raging ocean and when i touch his face it reminds me of worn down sandpaper - a tad prickily, but it is home. with broad shoulders that make him look like he knows exactly where he's going he just grins like he knows the secrets to the universe. i hope one day im as confident and comfortable in the universe as he is.
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 10:27 AM UTC
Untitled
traffic in dreams the deeper the love the longer it will be to pay it off deeper the diamond to carve from your heart the darker the desire the more cold cash the harsher the wind in the lonely night take sandpaper to your luxurious soul but you keep its stain from your pretty eyes pretty face barter for fish n chips pretty words barter your bed and breakfast dress it all in fashion from magazines the strange combination of gloss and paper thin disguise the strange combination of truth and lies the greasy haired stranger peers with all his might into the mirror trying to find the man hidden within he traffics in dreams will sell you a plot of land and the rainbow that comes with ten by ten souls wide ten by ten deep sell em to you for a taste of the pretty sell em to you for a touch of the tender so rancidly reflected in his greasy smile you thought the weight was easy to bear thought that the lie you tell yourself suffices but dreams are brittle thin walls you hide behind watch the cracks spread across the pretty picture it is painted with watch the colors fade like sweet summer sunshine the sweet wine turned bitter like tears he sells you a dream that must be forever replaced with an ever darker version he sells you a lie that you will come to see vividly it won't taste so sweet for so long it will taste like dust it will taste like loss you seek him out once again in the dark city passage his greasy hair fallen long ago skin gone gray he found the man in the mirror he found his answer in all the chaos tastes like dust tastes like bitterness seek him out to find he is gone only a shell remains a brittle shell no-one gets cheap seats without paying the price
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 6:20 PM UTC
barter for fish 'n' chips
traffic in dreams the deeper the love the longer it will be to pay it off deeper the diamond to carve from your heart the darker the desire the more cold cash the harsher the wind in the lonely night take sandpaper to your luxurious soul but you keep its stain from your pretty eyes pretty face barter for fish n chips pretty words barter your bed and breakfast dress it all in fashion from magazines the strange combination of gloss and paper thin disguise the strange combination of truth and lies the greasy haired stranger peers with all his might into the mirror trying to find the man hidden within he traffics in dreams will sell you a plot of land and the rainbow that comes with ten by ten souls wide ten by ten deep sell em to you for a taste of the pretty sell em to you for a touch of the tender so rancidly reflected in his greasy smile you thought the weight was easy to bear thought that the lie you tell yourself suffices but dreams are brittle thin walls you hide behind watch the cracks spread across the pretty picture it is painted with watch the colors fade like sweet summer sunshine the sweet wine turned bitter like tears he sells you a dream that must be forever replaced with an ever darker version he sells you a lie that you will come to see vividly it won't taste so sweet for so long it will taste like dust it will taste like loss you seek him out once again in the dark city passage his greasy hair fallen long ago skin gone gray he found the man in the mirror he found his answer in all the chaos tastes like dust tastes like bitterness seek him out to find he is gone only a shell remains a brittle shell no-one gets cheap seats without paying the price
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I should have kissed you before you ****** on your smoke, Before the fluorescent elevator lights illuminated the flaws That danced and drifted along your skin. The thick smoke mingled with your shadow, A shadow of a man; no face, only a cigarette. You breathed in smoke, but your lips were positioned for a kiss. I don’t look like the other girls, the ones you used to kiss. I can still picture your eyes, reddened by smoke, And your lips as ashy as your cigarette. And I hoped you, too, could forgive my flaws. Like how my body casts too wide of a shadow, And the sallowness of my ordinary skin. Things that really shouldn’t remind me of your skin, like old leather books with burnt paper that I bet taste like your kiss. Such books I read in the shadow, And hide, like the way you hid behind your smoke. Because, like the way I love a bad book and its flaws, I could love you and your cigarette. I’ve held your hand, the one that holds your cigarette, And I felt the sandpaper of your skin. I smelt the airy cologne you use to cover the flaws. It smelled light; you used just a kiss. Now, I smell only smoke, And the memory of your touch is a shadow. In the hospital you were no longer a shadow, But a body, surrounded by walls as white as your cigarettes. Your voice cracked from the smoke, While needles pulsed life into your skin. Your lips were cracked with only blood to kiss. I saw you naked, and I saw your flaws. Your favorite vice was your fatal flaw, And the black fire of death became your shadow. It followed you around, and it saw our first kiss, Which was our last, because you chose your cigarette. So a charcoaled monster brooded beneath your skin, And your flesh succumbed to the white ghosts of smoke. You died in smoke, from your flaws. Your skin’s now dust, roaming with the shadows. So I’ll smoke a cigarette, ‘cause it tastes just like your kiss.
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 3:46 PM UTC
A Cigarette Sestina
I should have kissed you before you ****** on your smoke, Before the fluorescent elevator lights illuminated the flaws That danced and drifted along your skin. The thick smoke mingled with your shadow, A shadow of a man; no face, only a cigarette. You breathed in smoke, but your lips were positioned for a kiss. I don’t look like the other girls, the ones you used to kiss. I can still picture your eyes, reddened by smoke, And your lips as ashy as your cigarette. And I hoped you, too, could forgive my flaws. Like how my body casts too wide of a shadow, And the sallowness of my ordinary skin. Things that really shouldn’t remind me of your skin, like old leather books with burnt paper that I bet taste like your kiss. Such books I read in the shadow, And hide, like the way you hid behind your smoke. Because, like the way I love a bad book and its flaws, I could love you and your cigarette. I’ve held your hand, the one that holds your cigarette, And I felt the sandpaper of your skin. I smelt the airy cologne you use to cover the flaws. It smelled light; you used just a kiss. Now, I smell only smoke, And the memory of your touch is a shadow. In the hospital you were no longer a shadow, But a body, surrounded by walls as white as your cigarettes. Your voice cracked from the smoke, While needles pulsed life into your skin. Your lips were cracked with only blood to kiss. I saw you naked, and I saw your flaws. Your favorite vice was your fatal flaw, And the black fire of death became your shadow. It followed you around, and it saw our first kiss, Which was our last, because you chose your cigarette. So a charcoaled monster brooded beneath your skin, And your flesh succumbed to the white ghosts of smoke. You died in smoke, from your flaws. Your skin’s now dust, roaming with the shadows. So I’ll smoke a cigarette, ‘cause it tastes just like your kiss.
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For the girl who doesn't know how to say no: I have been a version of you too many times I have worn your body on frequent occasions Always physically neutral, stock-still Denying purpose into static Eyes open And breathing I know exactly how it is To not know how to refuse Or resist when rough palms press on your skin I know how it is To feel there is no other option But to lie still while eager hands pull at your body Uninvited lips stepping into your mouth How quickly a tongue becomes a weapon I know it all too well It is iron-clenched fists It is unforgiving friction And disintegration becomes second nature For a girl whose limbs Are already paper-made Stares burned into too many white walls A woman watching her own shadow And the word no never escapes the vocal chords Because there is never a question to answer to It is assumed That our shared pulse is enough yes And consent is an easy thing to ignore When it is hardly ever asked for Men are taught to halt Only if it is preceded by screeching I wonder how many silent cries Are covered by darkness and heavy breathing This is for the girl Who doesn't know how to say no For the girl who chokes on her words before they can leave her lips For the girl who freezes in uncomfortable situations For the girl who has played mime too many times For the girl who has been made surface to sandpaper hands For the girl who is always vocal But in a single instant became victim to chokehold silence This is for you I have been a version of you too many times I have worn the fingerprints on your phosphorescent skin I have pulled off your clothing after a night of detachment I see you in every mirror I look into Every stained glass reflection I hear you every time he doesn't ask It is so easy To forget you have a voice But I know with certainty that you do I know That you understand the stillness The quiet The hush The absence of language Words held hostage You are the only one Who bares the heaviness of night kneeling on your chest The added weight from all those Who have touched you without permission I want you to know I would carry it for you If I could I want you to know It is not your fault That your calmness Is often mistaken for compliance It is not your fault That you so quickly fall paralyzed Playing statue may seem Like the easy way out But you were never meant To stand still We are built to listen through our bones Your voice is a million vibrations Received through the skin You were made To howl our names into the ground Until the forest shakes its trees to their death And no one is around To hear it.
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:09 PM UTC
For The Girl Who Doesn't Know How To Say No
For the girl who doesn't know how to say no: I have been a version of you too many times I have worn your body on frequent occasions Always physically neutral, stock-still Denying purpose into static Eyes open And breathing I know exactly how it is To not know how to refuse Or resist when rough palms press on your skin I know how it is To feel there is no other option But to lie still while eager hands pull at your body Uninvited lips stepping into your mouth How quickly a tongue becomes a weapon I know it all too well It is iron-clenched fists It is unforgiving friction And disintegration becomes second nature For a girl whose limbs Are already paper-made Stares burned into too many white walls A woman watching her own shadow And the word no never escapes the vocal chords Because there is never a question to answer to It is assumed That our shared pulse is enough yes And consent is an easy thing to ignore When it is hardly ever asked for Men are taught to halt Only if it is preceded by screeching I wonder how many silent cries Are covered by darkness and heavy breathing This is for the girl Who doesn't know how to say no For the girl who chokes on her words before they can leave her lips For the girl who freezes in uncomfortable situations For the girl who has played mime too many times For the girl who has been made surface to sandpaper hands For the girl who is always vocal But in a single instant became victim to chokehold silence This is for you I have been a version of you too many times I have worn the fingerprints on your phosphorescent skin I have pulled off your clothing after a night of detachment I see you in every mirror I look into Every stained glass reflection I hear you every time he doesn't ask It is so easy To forget you have a voice But I know with certainty that you do I know That you understand the stillness The quiet The hush The absence of language Words held hostage You are the only one Who bares the heaviness of night kneeling on your chest The added weight from all those Who have touched you without permission I want you to know I would carry it for you If I could I want you to know It is not your fault That your calmness Is often mistaken for compliance It is not your fault That you so quickly fall paralyzed Playing statue may seem Like the easy way out But you were never meant To stand still We are built to listen through our bones Your voice is a million vibrations Received through the skin You were made To howl our names into the ground Until the forest shakes its trees to their death And no one is around To hear it.
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These streets they light into us like waffle cone whipped suns reeking permanent reprehensible dawn of afternoon trade - carnivore carton carts brimming blue rolling red their way down the coarse grain streets. Their wheels brown wood sandpaper rubbed brown smoke elbows smooth prattling bells bellowing for ice cream dark cookies ice cream and cream ice cream quite rocky, we are a road rising mellow and marsh dreaming mallow yellow lazy Sunday evenings. Street lamps dinning bright white cloth white ringing church bells gold smooth bells pure sugar, not cloying nor uneven pouring down levelled pavement catching its taste but forgetting its waffle cone crumbling -
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Mar 19, 2015
Mar 19, 2015 at 11:40 PM UTC
Selecta Ice Cream Anthem
Your hands are not sandpaper You can't round my sharp edges, Or scratch away the good parts of me. Your fingers are not cages Capable of capturing my hopes and dreams And tucking them into a dark corner To be forgotten about Until a rainy day When I go searching for them In every cardboard box stacked in the attic. Your eyes are not black holes That will **** me in And spit me back out In outer space untethered to anything So that I may float around Devoid of gravity And responsibility. Your hair is not a net Which will tangle my limbs And refuse to release me Until I submit to your commands. You are not a strong current Beating me endlessly Before sweeping me out to sea Because I am capable of standing On my own two feet And walking up the bank To dry land And safety.
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Aug 17, 2013
Aug 17, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
You Are Not
My love, your eyes are nothing like the sun, your long lasting gaze is dull and dazed, as for intelligence; you possess none and you leave me annoyed and unamazed. The way you make me feel is disgusting, sandpaper is smoother than your skin, and I just can't stand to hear you laughing, when all good humour you've forsaken. You are oblivious and selfish too, and you know I use this odious tone my dear because I truely detest you! so go now please and leave me alone, Take your coiffed hair, and your crooked nose go **** yourself and your asinine hoes!
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Sep 29, 2011
Sep 29, 2011 at 11:24 PM UTC
Chasing a Runaway Thought....