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"sentenced" poems
Disappointment is thrown strongly at my direction. Blame gathers in large quantities like a pest infestation. "It's your fault" and words like "You always make mistakes" evoke anger. Anger which I want to take out on myself and take out on others. I can excel in my work of choice, I know I'm more than average. The bad gets pointed out more and little praise is given for the good. Stunned by unmoving words. I'm like a prisoner sentenced to jail, released and expected to do worse. Destruction emerges from my enraged emotions, i wish your words could offer a solution. I want to be an alchemist and turn things into gold. It's ironic how I am a creator of words but cant create better words in my critics. Conversations lead to arguments because i want to be heard. I'm sick of revolving doors, sick of being slammed by your atrocious comments. "You have no common sense" you say to me, maybe I just prefer to be in a daydream, my mind drifting away because life is too dull. Realize that what you say has an effect and that effect can drive somebody or stop them in motion.
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Jun 21, 2014
Jun 21, 2014 at 5:38 PM UTC
Misunderstood 6/21/2014
Unaware of my crime they stood me in the dock. I was sentenced to life.... without her. Strange trial. No judge. No jury. I wonder who my visitors will be.
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Welcome Home
on tuesday, dylann roof was sentenced to his death. on tuesday we tried to make one body feel like nine. to make one body feel like justice. on tuesday we said there has got to be some price to pay for entering the house of god with a sinful tongue and a handgun. today, six days later, we remembered the rev. dr. martin luther king, jr. we looked at the world, called it a place with potential for change, called it that because there has to be some softer way to look at bloodshed, for sanity’s sake. if not then all that remains is a solitary image of dr. king rolling in his grave because he knows, knows that breathless black bodies are a constant, are transcenders of time, whether sunken in rivers, hung from taut ropes, or bathing in blood on historic church floors, singing, singing, screaming, shrill for some messiah bringing mercy, mercy, mercy. felicia sanders wants mercy: prays for it, wills it down from up above, unfolded from the hands of god so that it might fall upon the head and in the eyes and within the very being of the man who killed her son. it takes a certain grace — one so foreign to me i can hardly write of it — to see god in such men who deliberately defy Him, to ask that heaven’s gates be so indiscriminate and overt. i would want him to burn for this. but it is not my say, not my life, not my long, resounding, unflinching “hallelujah!” not my certain type of grace. breathless black bodies are a constant, are transcenders of time, a recurring motif. but so too, then, is the black body full of breath, that inhales and exhales faith without ceasing. such is the black body that sees a little bit of god in dylann roof, that prays that he prays for forgiveness, that thinks there to be but one kingdom, and he, too, a worthy subject. the solitary image of dr. king rolling in his grave is not a surprise. the black body has always known so well how to die. but felicia sanders hopes her son’s killer finds mercy. perhaps the one thing the black body has always known better is how to love. (a.m.)
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 8:07 PM UTC
mercy
on tuesday, dylann roof was sentenced to his death. on tuesday we tried to make one body feel like nine. to make one body feel like justice. on tuesday we said there has got to be some price to pay for entering the house of god with a sinful tongue and a handgun. today, six days later, we remembered the rev. dr. martin luther king, jr. we looked at the world, called it a place with potential for change, called it that because there has to be some softer way to look at bloodshed, for sanity’s sake. if not then all that remains is a solitary image of dr. king rolling in his grave because he knows, knows that breathless black bodies are a constant, are transcenders of time, whether sunken in rivers, hung from taut ropes, or bathing in blood on historic church floors, singing, singing, screaming, shrill for some messiah bringing mercy, mercy, mercy. felicia sanders wants mercy: prays for it, wills it down from up above, unfolded from the hands of god so that it might fall upon the head and in the eyes and within the very being of the man who killed her son. it takes a certain grace — one so foreign to me i can hardly write of it — to see god in such men who deliberately defy Him, to ask that heaven’s gates be so indiscriminate and overt. i would want him to burn for this. but it is not my say, not my life, not my long, resounding, unflinching “hallelujah!” not my certain type of grace. breathless black bodies are a constant, are transcenders of time, a recurring motif. but so too, then, is the black body full of breath, that inhales and exhales faith without ceasing. such is the black body that sees a little bit of god in dylann roof, that prays that he prays for forgiveness, that thinks there to be but one kingdom, and he, too, a worthy subject. the solitary image of dr. king rolling in his grave is not a surprise. the black body has always known so well how to die. but felicia sanders hopes her son’s killer finds mercy. perhaps the one thing the black body has always known better is how to love. (a.m.)
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers. Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May. There's one spoilt spring to scant our mortal lot, One season ruined of your little store. May will be fine next year as like as not: But ay, but then we shall be twenty-four. We for a certainty are not the first Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed Whatever brute and blackguard made the world. It is in truth iniquity on high To cheat our sentenced souls of aught they crave, And mar the merriment as you and I Fare on our long fool's-errand to the grave. Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate of man: We want the moon, but we shall get no more. If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours To-morrow it will hie on far behests; The flesh will grieve on other bones than ours Soon, and the soul will mourn in other ******* The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
I will always think fondly Of the park bench Near the sad man’s statue Whose beard of stone Was sloppily painted By a bunch of overenthusiastic pigeons That silly park bench Where we first kissed And had our first public argument About nothing at all And at the same time About everything we thought we had At first our memories Turned the grass greener And the skies bluer And sometimes it seemed That sad man smiled Though it might have been an malevolent grin But soon it became tainted A symbol of fleeting love Of passion’s mortality Its habit of swiftly disappearing Like cagey, distrustful pigeons And illusions fuelled by sentimentality Now I understand the sad man And consider his faith to be cruel To want and crave and hope Yet to be sentenced His life writ in stone Near an empty, broken bench
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 7:18 AM UTC
Park Bench #1
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I don't like your fashion business mister And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin I don't like what happened to my sister First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those And I thank you for those items that you sent me The monkey and the plywood violin I practiced every night, now I'm ready First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin Remember me? I used to live for music Remember me? I brought your groceries in Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
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First We Take Manhattan
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I don't like your fashion business mister And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin I don't like what happened to my sister First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those And I thank you for those items that you sent me The monkey and the plywood violin I practiced every night, now I'm ready First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin Remember me? I used to live for music Remember me? I brought your groceries in Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
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I should've known something was wrong when my dad started getting sick. My Stepmother is evil and for many weeks, she poisoned him with arsenic. It was five years ago today when she finished him off with the final dose. I hated my Stepmother even though Dad wanted the two of us to be close. It took me a while to get it done but I was finally able to have Dad's body exhumed. When high levels of arsenic were found in his body, my Stepmother was doomed. I was determined to bring her to justice and I knew that I wouldn't fail. She was found guilty by a jury and I was happy because justice prevailed. The judge sentenced her to life in prison with no chance of parole. I loathe that woman, I can never get back Dad's life that she stole.
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May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 2:17 PM UTC
Arsenic
Zeus had plastic surgery, his fingertips shaved off so he would not leave prints when he committed his archetypal crimes. He changed his name to Saturn then to Cronos then to Albatross Von Mariner, all this subterfuge just to disquise the fact that he goes borderline ballistic when he doesn't get his way. He pulled Icarus out of the sky, wounded Prometheus’ side, left Sisyphus on a steep lonely mountain, dared Demeter to save her daughter, yet these souls persist in mnemonic literary defiance of a single fact… No god is greater than you, the karma jury has come in and Zeus is sentenced to five years of community service on Interstate Highway 5. He will wear a yellow clown suit with a red rubber nose and floppy green shoes with a fast food tray hanging from his neck and he will walk in traffic snarls stopping at every car to clean the windows to sell hotdogs with purple relish and black mustard wrapped in grey buns as unappetizing and pathetic as the lies he has told us about ourselves for so long.
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 7:35 AM UTC
BAD ZEUS ON HIGHWAY 5
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a lobby with nine hundred windows. There's a tree where the doves go to die. There's a piece that was torn from the morning, and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws. I want you, I want you, I want you on a chair with a dead magazine. In the cave at the tip of the lily, in some hallway where love's never been. On a bed where the moon has been sweating, in a cry filled with footsteps and sand— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take its broken waist in your hand. This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death, dragging its tail in the sea. There's a concert hall in Vienna where your mouth had a thousand reviews. There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking, they've been sentenced to death by the blues. Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears? Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz, it's been dying for years. There's an attic where children are playing, where I've got to lie down with you soon, in a dream of Hungarian lanterns, in the mist of some sweet afternoon. And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow, all your sheep and your lilies of snow— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz with its "I'll never forget you, you know!" And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist— O my love, O my love Take this waltz, take this waltz, it's yours now. It's all that there is.
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Take This Waltz
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a lobby with nine hundred windows. There's a tree where the doves go to die. There's a piece that was torn from the morning, and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws. I want you, I want you, I want you on a chair with a dead magazine. In the cave at the tip of the lily, in some hallway where love's never been. On a bed where the moon has been sweating, in a cry filled with footsteps and sand— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take its broken waist in your hand. This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death, dragging its tail in the sea. There's a concert hall in Vienna where your mouth had a thousand reviews. There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking, they've been sentenced to death by the blues. Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears? Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz, it's been dying for years. There's an attic where children are playing, where I've got to lie down with you soon, in a dream of Hungarian lanterns, in the mist of some sweet afternoon. And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow, all your sheep and your lilies of snow— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz with its "I'll never forget you, you know!" And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist— O my love, O my love Take this waltz, take this waltz, it's yours now. It's all that there is.
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Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 7:20 AM UTC
Revolution : Part one
Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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by Danny Smith The old man rises from his chair gently cursing the ache that crept into his bones when he wasn't looking His slippered feet scuff the carpet making a journey they know without him to the window He watches down on the cars as they flash through the rain on an urgent journey somewhere Leaning forward to rest his forehead on the cool damp pane that shields him from it all his prison wall The cars seem to softly merge as fragments like a broken mirror tease and torment A lifetime of dreams and tomorrows that somehow became painful yesterdays much too fast Squeezing his eyes tightly closed he remembers her face and the soft scar on her cheek a perfect imperfection The laughter and cries of children running to him with chocolate smeared mouths grown now, gone now All of them to different worlds ones where he was afraid to travel to out there Plenty of time to make it through but the nights seem to skip the sunshine days sentenced he shuffles back to the chair lowering himself with limbs that can't be his removes his slippers Reaches for the polished shoes years old but hardly worn and still uncreased laces them Moves slowly through the house turning of lights, collecting a wallet a pack of cigarettes, a photograph pocketing them The old man stands at the open door just a fragment of someone elses memory, as he walks into the rain ©Danny Smith
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Apr 5, 2018
Apr 5, 2018 at 2:01 PM UTC
Just a fragment
an all purpose cleaner response to the how-ya-doing-question, as my vibe unmistakable; the hatred in the world directed at MY PEOPLE, is inexplicable, beyond reason, a hatred raw and pure in the tiny places we humans hide it, lest our ancient linkage to an unreasoned, embarrassing emotion, be revealed but now revealed it is reveled, as the freedom to despise is a valued thing is an ancient scar, now freshly wounded and the two thousand year old accumulated, callused, surrounding wafer thin, layered upon layer of tissue, wiped away in utter disbelief cleansed, a different kind of impure clean, “like” an ethnic cleansing, traceless, whisked away in a wink of moment, a goner. like hope, prior sentient optimism sentenced to life imprisonment and this sentence, and this very sentence! written finally understanding that it is a punishment far worse than the quick relief of death. c’mon, how about a few “fukk you jew” cri de coeur, heartfelt, genuine, pointless hate no, not I, no, not me, spare me the pithy comments, the pointless sympathy, glistening like evaporating water droplets before disappearing, I ask myself, not why they hate, why it persists, for this I understand and accept the foulness of what we are capable of is, beloved, as a secret pleasure, now secreted in torrents. no, I ask myself, why do I write poetry, for it is as pointless as the hatred directed at me, from birth, till death, and ever after, the humanity of poetry just another fraud another reason why this man cries in the bathroom,^ not from any shape of shame, because poetry is pointless in times of hatred, and now we know, recognize, it is always somewhere, nearby, always present and prescient, pointless hatred, itching to be pointed at me, makes for pointless poetry. To whom shall I point my poetry?
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Nov 12, 2023
Nov 12, 2023 at 2:08 AM UTC
“raggedy^ around the edges” (jew hatred, pointless poetry)
an all purpose cleaner response to the how-ya-doing-question, as my vibe unmistakable; the hatred in the world directed at MY PEOPLE, is inexplicable, beyond reason, a hatred raw and pure in the tiny places we humans hide it, lest our ancient linkage to an unreasoned, embarrassing emotion, be revealed but now revealed it is reveled, as the freedom to despise is a valued thing is an ancient scar, now freshly wounded and the two thousand year old accumulated, callused, surrounding wafer thin, layered upon layer of tissue, wiped away in utter disbelief cleansed, a different kind of impure clean, “like” an ethnic cleansing, traceless, whisked away in a wink of moment, a goner. like hope, prior sentient optimism sentenced to life imprisonment and this sentence, and this very sentence! written finally understanding that it is a punishment far worse than the quick relief of death. c’mon, how about a few “fukk you jew” cri de coeur, heartfelt, genuine, pointless hate no, not I, no, not me, spare me the pithy comments, the pointless sympathy, glistening like evaporating water droplets before disappearing, I ask myself, not why they hate, why it persists, for this I understand and accept the foulness of what we are capable of is, beloved, as a secret pleasure, now secreted in torrents. no, I ask myself, why do I write poetry, for it is as pointless as the hatred directed at me, from birth, till death, and ever after, the humanity of poetry just another fraud another reason why this man cries in the bathroom,^ not from any shape of shame, because poetry is pointless in times of hatred, and now we know, recognize, it is always somewhere, nearby, always present and prescient, pointless hatred, itching to be pointed at me, makes for pointless poetry. To whom shall I point my poetry?
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You asked me my name in your first remark We sat on opposite ends of a question mark You were dashing - made me pause, me, this independent clause standing alone, I made sense on my own But I answered you anyway. Ellipses. Now you are the verb in my heart’s contraction I am the subject and you are the action An Interrogative with a Declarative reaction An Exclamatory and then an Imperative attraction Ellipses. Your lips ease Me, the direct object of your affection, but never sentenced to an apostrophe’s possession perhaps more true- a plural “s” suggestion and the excitement behind an exclamation point’s inflection The semi-colon understands We can be on our own, but we want to stand together where our letters aren’t fetters, but the typesetter’s better measure of linguistic pleasure. We communicate through metaphors and similes Like the birds and the bees We speak across homophone lines to keep a census of our senses at all times Because words said aloud have allowed us to find meaning behind the utterance of sound- mere words and phrases jumping off of pages into brain and heart and soul when the parts become a whole And with the syntax, punctuation, grammar, and usage I’m a hopeless semantic always trying to ****** it Language- yours I understand through the myriad. Words can’t capture you. Period.
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM UTC
Hopeless Semantic
Tonight I learned what it means to be mortal. To have a fifteen year dream crushed publicly. To smile and be the man that lies, “it’s ok, God has better plans and I trust that.” Tonight my wings were clipped and I was sentenced to a life of soil and toil, forever forced to watch the eagles in orange soar in the clouds and sky that I know I was created to own. I love this place because it is more of a home than I have ever known. It is pure and navy and orange and majestic. I wanted to serve it and glorify my king and this institution. Alas, no. Not I but the vultures. How is it that carrion dominate? How is it that prestige trumps passion? How is it that title and gold trump heart and integrity? I lost respect for my home. I feel as if a stranger in my own walls. I gave more than sweat and blood and tears yet they were swept under the carpet to rot. Fester and rot. I hope my passion and time as leader was well spent, it was and always was for you, tiger, not me! Always! I sharpened your claws and defended your teeth until they ****** me. Why. This is not how it is supposed to be. I pray this love and three year passion was not for non. Not for me, not for nametags or orange jackets, not for titles or for comfort but for passion and unbridled love of the institution which ****** me have I served. I have yet to work through what I’ve learned through this but tonight I know a chapter has ended and it hurts. It’s not that the chapter ended and a period was placed and the next began, it’s the end of the climactical chapter and the next pages are blank. Existent, yes. But blank. And the white on the page pales in comparison to orange and blue. I hate white and it’s idle uncertainty. I hold the pen but tonight my hand was severed, my limbs they rot, and my heart is numb. I am jello and I am free. And I hate, with every inth of my fibrous being, this freedom. I miss my chains.
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Aug 27, 2012
Aug 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM UTC
i miss my chains
Tonight I learned what it means to be mortal. To have a fifteen year dream crushed publicly. To smile and be the man that lies, “it’s ok, God has better plans and I trust that.” Tonight my wings were clipped and I was sentenced to a life of soil and toil, forever forced to watch the eagles in orange soar in the clouds and sky that I know I was created to own. I love this place because it is more of a home than I have ever known. It is pure and navy and orange and majestic. I wanted to serve it and glorify my king and this institution. Alas, no. Not I but the vultures. How is it that carrion dominate? How is it that prestige trumps passion? How is it that title and gold trump heart and integrity? I lost respect for my home. I feel as if a stranger in my own walls. I gave more than sweat and blood and tears yet they were swept under the carpet to rot. Fester and rot. I hope my passion and time as leader was well spent, it was and always was for you, tiger, not me! Always! I sharpened your claws and defended your teeth until they ****** me. Why. This is not how it is supposed to be. I pray this love and three year passion was not for non. Not for me, not for nametags or orange jackets, not for titles or for comfort but for passion and unbridled love of the institution which ****** me have I served. I have yet to work through what I’ve learned through this but tonight I know a chapter has ended and it hurts. It’s not that the chapter ended and a period was placed and the next began, it’s the end of the climactical chapter and the next pages are blank. Existent, yes. But blank. And the white on the page pales in comparison to orange and blue. I hate white and it’s idle uncertainty. I hold the pen but tonight my hand was severed, my limbs they rot, and my heart is numb. I am jello and I am free. And I hate, with every inth of my fibrous being, this freedom. I miss my chains.
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It was hard to miss Jerry in the corner holding court over the bran muffin. Flurries of judgement and wisdom flying across coffee dappled pages as he sentenced a large cup of Paruvian Dark Roast to be ****** 7 am Dan never flinched steeling his tenured chair at a spot one section of stir sticks away calculably just out of reach of the regularly scheduled tantrum. An auburn-haired newbie fanes camoflage peeking over two pages of Obituaries she never intended to read. Her raised and nearly detached eyebrows hover above the dateline like a magic trick. And on every table fall scattered leaves of press print trees unsorted and littered with intent by careless absorbers of trivia. Disconnected ear-budded footnotes of humanity see nothing hear nothing using the disarrayed World News as enormous coasters unmoved by hyper-ventilating compulsives pushing panic buttons through desperate quests to uncover one alphabetically organized set of local news. Of the papers not strewn the remnant holds anxious on a distant wall a throng of flopping rabbit-eared step children dangling precariously from unaccomodating magazine racks like smoky orphans from windows in a fiery building. Disordered. Disrespected. Discarded...words are Jews in the holocaust. Death of a voice. We are irreverent in our silence diminishing genius through apathy put off by the imposition to be challenged choosing disposable principles above responsible knowledge. Everything is disposable - cameras, cars, relationships, loyalty, babies...and wisdom - crumpling Pulitzer prize authors and discarding WW2 veterans just to get to the cartoons.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 11:15 PM UTC
Daily News and Disrespect
It was hard to miss Jerry in the corner holding court over the bran muffin. Flurries of judgement and wisdom flying across coffee dappled pages as he sentenced a large cup of Paruvian Dark Roast to be ****** 7 am Dan never flinched steeling his tenured chair at a spot one section of stir sticks away calculably just out of reach of the regularly scheduled tantrum. An auburn-haired newbie fanes camoflage peeking over two pages of Obituaries she never intended to read. Her raised and nearly detached eyebrows hover above the dateline like a magic trick. And on every table fall scattered leaves of press print trees unsorted and littered with intent by careless absorbers of trivia. Disconnected ear-budded footnotes of humanity see nothing hear nothing using the disarrayed World News as enormous coasters unmoved by hyper-ventilating compulsives pushing panic buttons through desperate quests to uncover one alphabetically organized set of local news. Of the papers not strewn the remnant holds anxious on a distant wall a throng of flopping rabbit-eared step children dangling precariously from unaccomodating magazine racks like smoky orphans from windows in a fiery building. Disordered. Disrespected. Discarded...words are Jews in the holocaust. Death of a voice. We are irreverent in our silence diminishing genius through apathy put off by the imposition to be challenged choosing disposable principles above responsible knowledge. Everything is disposable - cameras, cars, relationships, loyalty, babies...and wisdom - crumpling Pulitzer prize authors and discarding WW2 veterans just to get to the cartoons.
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Can you hear the cry of my inner self sentenced to die? I'm shouting your name I'm was glad you came Save me from my own hell It's taking me, can't you tell! I can't keep doing this I can no longer swing my fist I feel weak a constant losing streak I need to see you darling Your love so startling But you have walked away Leaving with no words to say I think it's time to take The demons hand, and never awake
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 1:59 AM UTC
Inner Demon
Confined to eternal asphyxiation They live a suffocated existence No hope to regain what they took for granted They showed no regard for earth, air, or water This polluted wasteland, their planet They cannot love each other anymore Their punishment is solitude and xenophobia What privileges they had, once upon a time Affection and love, and interpersonal immersion Now doomed, forever, to be alone In this world destroyed by greed, desire, and lust For power, the human beings atone, They do not deserve to be alive, let alone To walk aware of their wrongdoings They should have been erased I would have loved to be the executioner Of billions sinful, lying, cursed, wretched, Vile, incessant, promiscuous, vicious, insidious, Slimy, wily, evil creatures humans are Instead I have become their saviour I feel no pity or sympathy for the Devils They became in exchange of their materialism I see them walk in masses of melancholy, loneliness As I once did for which they showed no regard for me And heartless, I ignore their silent cries for help You are sentenced to life in prison, one like no other Free to live in a society which shows more confinement Than any man-made cell or coffin Elements you took for granted shall be stripped away Your sinful quest for immortality has led you accordingly It is forbidden to breathe the air you polluted, Drink the water you tainted, eat the fruits of the earth you destroyed Your senses will be nullified and your spirits Crushed as this planet was insufficient For your corrupted existence .
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Dec 3, 2009
Dec 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM UTC
Oxygen Erase
Confined to eternal asphyxiation They live a suffocated existence No hope to regain what they took for granted They showed no regard for earth, air, or water This polluted wasteland, their planet They cannot love each other anymore Their punishment is solitude and xenophobia What privileges they had, once upon a time Affection and love, and interpersonal immersion Now doomed, forever, to be alone In this world destroyed by greed, desire, and lust For power, the human beings atone, They do not deserve to be alive, let alone To walk aware of their wrongdoings They should have been erased I would have loved to be the executioner Of billions sinful, lying, cursed, wretched, Vile, incessant, promiscuous, vicious, insidious, Slimy, wily, evil creatures humans are Instead I have become their saviour I feel no pity or sympathy for the Devils They became in exchange of their materialism I see them walk in masses of melancholy, loneliness As I once did for which they showed no regard for me And heartless, I ignore their silent cries for help You are sentenced to life in prison, one like no other Free to live in a society which shows more confinement Than any man-made cell or coffin Elements you took for granted shall be stripped away Your sinful quest for immortality has led you accordingly It is forbidden to breathe the air you polluted, Drink the water you tainted, eat the fruits of the earth you destroyed Your senses will be nullified and your spirits Crushed as this planet was insufficient For your corrupted existence .
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In the darkest of night Just at the same corner Hours after, Along the gutter Camera shutters In the darkest of night At the same corner A body rests at the arms of his mother In the darkest of night Records in the daily newspaper Death sentenced by the accuser We will remember
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May 27, 2017
May 27, 2017 at 6:43 AM UTC
Night Crawlers
Settle down, the court is in session, The esteemed Court of Validation, Where I stand trial for being And thus must attend this hearing To seek the sublime opinions Of the wise Jury of Champions Who've been there done that. Please lecture me on how to act, Tell me how I must dress, What to say under duress, To brandish my success, And my worth attest To finally be accepted among civilization With a stamp of approval from the Court of Validation. Here comes the verdict for the Judge to read. I'm guilty of possessing an identity. Therefore I'm sentenced to a lifetime of conformity To the status quo established by society. But Your Honor, there must be a mistake! There has to be another path to take. Sorry child, this is the only way, Or else you'd be imprisoned in the Cell of Dismay. Embrace your fate without hesitation; Indeed it's a gift from the Court of Validation.
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 10:09 AM UTC
Court of Validation
Elegant mistress of the lake how you dance with beauty. You spread your wings outwards too show those why you wear the crown, you feathers always whiter than the clouds. You are the queen that others do follow, pure in colour and aggressive in sound. If others do not show you the respect, the queen of the lake earns. Sentenced to the shore never to swim in the deep, only shallow waters as long as the queen is around. Elegant queen of the lake always dressed in your white gown. Those who respect you always beaks lowered, for you show your wings feathers stretched out, to show all around the majesty that is the swan. The lake, queen in her pure white gown.
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Mar 15, 2014
Mar 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
Swan
I know I promised I'd never write about you again but it's five am and I am left with this visceral feeling of loss and anger I use to think you stripped Me of everything Now I realize you didn't. See, I forgot about the cross The burden of love You sentenced me to Your name is Judas and I will accept the crown of thorns and become a martyr for ever believing that true love existed in your eyes
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 4:09 PM UTC
Judas
shed blood shall quench the skies angels smile hearing shouts pain frozen in steel memories sentenced to fade flesh is burning loneliness is hiding screams break the scar and let the hate to fill the water crimson scream bringing end to all dreams eclipse is hiding me from the sun in flames of the sea i am embracing my wounds
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 2:59 AM UTC
eclipse
Drifting in the shade of Hello Poetry's long lost grave In archive (a kingdom's history) the past that has been made Stepping on the bleached out bones The pale parade of long dead dreams Crunching fragments of sentenced themes burning books , poems stuffed inside the reams Epitaphs to their honor 2010 comments to poets Vickey , Fix , and O'Connor Poems to praise lost in time I hold in hand the words that bind Great poems whose eyes were never shed In a broken aspiration now lay dead Cruch , crunch , the landscape littered in 2012 Oh what sacred feelings not forthwith Here ! lay my poems to rest here In 2014 my poems of yesteryear
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Aug 25, 2025
Aug 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM UTC
Boneyard of Broken Dreams
Heart frozen, Mind broken, Soul stolen, Agony in the open, A life suffering for others. Unbearable fear, Scared every day, Scared every month, Every year, Scared every second of my worthless existence, Scared for other peoples wellbeing, Scared of losing those that I hold dear, Scared of being left alone for the rest of my years, Sat in my cell of darkness, Drowning in my own tears. Chained up, Locked away, Kept in the dark, Self esteem torn apart, On fire! Burning in my prison, Starving flames adding to this pain, This is how I feel, This is my daily torture, And I am my own executioner. My reflection provokes me, Chokes me, I'm ugly! Which mother ****** invented the mirror?! I might as well be dead, What could Emz possibly see in me? I know what I see, And sometimes I want to gouge my own eyes out, I'm a freak and I can't stand it! I sentenced myself to a miserable life because I dispise myself, Only Emily can keep me alive, She's the only one that can breathe life into me, She's the only one that can set me free, Please! Please help me!! Set me free from this prison of self loathing! I hate it more than I hate myself.
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 10:33 PM UTC
Daily Torture