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"shipwrecks" poems
let it not be confused let no one else's name ring throughout these sentences let this be a hatchet let me put this to rest this is not a test i don't want to think about shipwrecks anymore i am tired of folding apologies into origami birds and placing them at the headstones to your tantrums this is not is not geology class these are promises written on razorblades     *& if you are getting choked up      then maybe you should be* maybe we should be buried with our telescopes face down my mouth is full of sorry all for being honest we are falling out of orbit we are burning bystanders so cast away your callous condolences because no one is clapping in this waist deep water this is not a baptism so do not tell strangers that this was a chance to drown any differently i am not a catalogue of constellations you cannot name this is not mythology so stop believing your horoscope i am not a wishing well i am just a wall for you to paint post nuclear fallout & antonyms for catharsis on we destroy the things that are not ours- the wanton ways we embody wrecking ***** and then cry over the rubble this is not a heap or a mosaic this is leaping off a thousand story building with no one to catch you at the bottom & maybe that's why some quiet moments are so fragile, maybe that's why butterflies have mimicry your words are black powder and poetry is your musketry i guess that makes me your blindfold
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
hands on fire
You are simply beyond description. For a definition is but a collection of words, and those words are just letters working together to tell a story. But your laugh takes me on an adventure through worlds undiscovered. Your eyes are deep oceans filled with tales of past shipwrecks before you realized that you were the treasure. Your heartbeat is a symphony composed in a melody that only we know.   So while describing you is this fool's errand, I know mere words will never completely capture you. For words are just letters working together to be beautiful, and you are more beautiful than any group of words can ever hope to be.
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Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018 at 4:33 PM UTC
Untitled #14
The sky turned navy, while saltwater dreams threaded through shipwrecks on the sea floor Darkness haunted the ruins like ink-stained ghosts and you couldn't see the stars under the waves and the jellyfish and the rust because we were all too scared to swim away from the familiar, beautiful nauseating darkness Our footsteps were heavy, as if we were weighted down by bricks The ethereal electricity of the ocean's embrace dragged wandering pieces of thought back into consciousness as the fading stars left our veins flowing a broken-watercolor-aquamarine Dawn began to dust the clouds with her coral-rose blush light rained down on fluttering eyelashes so we became moths, flinging ourselves onto street-lamps and into fires and through windows of hearts The jellyfish drowned in its own phosphor and up we fell
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 1:31 AM UTC
Jellyfish don't get amnesia
your face went on every milk carton in my dreams when you went missing & i listened to a song about how the churches in your hometown were built from the martyred mahogany of shipwrecks i dare you to think i can't rip the very mood from your temperate fingertips when i am cold and hell bent on seeing you oceans away, wince this is not an "i saw this coming all along" poem or a "i still wonder about the moments between breaths when your phone lights up" poem.. this is a will & a way with brass knuckles maybe a barehanded bludgeon but i swear i'm trying to sleep at night without wondering how cold it is in your bed. so mother goose tell me about the whispered prayers crammed into the earthquakes you call hands about an ennui that speaks to me.
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 11:32 PM UTC
traitor
There was an ancient gully there were skeletons, ocotillos strewn across the sand holy places creatures crawled out from cactus brittle, drying, lying dead Mirages leapt - spectrally ghost dancers, drunkards falling down again bloodshot eyes searching, shipwrecks, lost waters, the sea cool river floating past the trees, you drift crash and wake alone cow skulls haunt you death's sun bleached bones
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 10:11 AM UTC
Desert
Faith is mythical as lands devoured by sea, as griffins and goblins, in tangled daydreams. By these muddy shores, shipwrecks of hope. treasures and tales, unheard, untold. Tyrant needs sustain, their sadist chains hold dreamers of blue, and gold.
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 4:46 AM UTC
Daydreams
We have this habit of making homes out of people who tend to burn any moment. And we keep collecting the ashes, putting them in jars, hoping to save what little remains. We made ourselves believe that other people are remedies; prescribing—injecting ourselves with drugs that walk and talk and breathe And I have long since realized that we have seas inside us, and there are a thousand shipwrecks aching for freedom, but we hold on to every damaged piece.
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
Let them go if they want to
you love him you love his smooth hands and his rough cheek you love your hands in his denim shirt and the cinematography of you together everything else is an afterthought the knife in his eyes that is not always pointed at you but when it is you kiss the fist that rattles plates the lips that wrap around clenched teeth melt him fail to understand his poison tipped arrows that are aimed at the mother who threw bottles if he could only pick one more fight it'd be with his father you kiss him when he knocks his brother's teeth out he leaves in the morning for coffee and comes back a day later welcome him with open arms and abundant questions he will be a tower of irritation and concrete he will point fingers that will curl into fists but they are not fists for you they are for the devils that dance within him and behind his wild eyes and in his childhood home you will not be fooled he loves you you know by every sweetheart and the lips on your forehead and the way he smells in between the sheets each night he leaves he comes back purple flowers that bloom around his eyes are the bouquets he brings home for you the front porch sags when he puts his hands in his pockets his face buried in your chest on nights when the lamp swings a little too low and his body is wracked with sobbing and shoulders shaking he mourns the gentle temper he never had he mourns what he would be like without you he mourns what you would be like without him this is how he loves you your hands in his hair easing soothing shh shh you are the mother who left you are better than every last ex-girlfriend for reasons he will be happy to name this is how you love him you came because you are drawn to the shipwrecks but you stayed in the water for him ancient child furious soul you salt his wounds and then you clean them this is how you love him
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM UTC
for girls who love angry men
you love him you love his smooth hands and his rough cheek you love your hands in his denim shirt and the cinematography of you together everything else is an afterthought the knife in his eyes that is not always pointed at you but when it is you kiss the fist that rattles plates the lips that wrap around clenched teeth melt him fail to understand his poison tipped arrows that are aimed at the mother who threw bottles if he could only pick one more fight it'd be with his father you kiss him when he knocks his brother's teeth out he leaves in the morning for coffee and comes back a day later welcome him with open arms and abundant questions he will be a tower of irritation and concrete he will point fingers that will curl into fists but they are not fists for you they are for the devils that dance within him and behind his wild eyes and in his childhood home you will not be fooled he loves you you know by every sweetheart and the lips on your forehead and the way he smells in between the sheets each night he leaves he comes back purple flowers that bloom around his eyes are the bouquets he brings home for you the front porch sags when he puts his hands in his pockets his face buried in your chest on nights when the lamp swings a little too low and his body is wracked with sobbing and shoulders shaking he mourns the gentle temper he never had he mourns what he would be like without you he mourns what you would be like without him this is how he loves you your hands in his hair easing soothing shh shh you are the mother who left you are better than every last ex-girlfriend for reasons he will be happy to name this is how you love him you came because you are drawn to the shipwrecks but you stayed in the water for him ancient child furious soul you salt his wounds and then you clean them this is how you love him
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Lady, weeping at the crossroads Would you meet your love In the twilight with his greyhounds, And the hawk on his glove? Bribe the birds then on the branches Bribe them to be dumb, Stare the hot sun out of heaven That the night may come. Starless are the night of travel, Bleak the winter wind; Run with terror all before you And regret behind. Run until you hear the ocean's Everlasting cry; Deep though it may be and bitter You must drink it dry. Wear out patience in the lowest Dungeons of the sea, Searching through the stranded shipwrecks For the golden key. Push on to the world's end, pay the Dread guard with a kiss; Cross the rotten bridge that totters Over the abyss. There stands the deserted castle Ready to explore; Enter, climb the marble staircase Open the locked door. Cross the silent ballroom, Doubt and danger past; Blow the cobwebs from the mirror See yourself at last. Put your hand behind the wainscot, You have done your part; Find the penknife there and plunge it Into your false heart.
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Lady
I see you I've seen those eyes before Drowning in patched-up paddle boats With promises of tomorrow slipping down your face Like saline shipwrecks fleeing harbor And greeting the ocean floor with damaged handshakes And now you're hopeless Focused on could have been's and maybe one day's Knowing one day Swelled up storm clouds Could slide through your cheek bones Like sunshowers preventing your skyline parades But I see you still searching for rainbows Covering your face with two handfuls of imagination Daydreaming of days where technicolor dreamcoats Become wrapped around your soul Like tuxedos for the bold I've seen those arms before Deafeated willow branches in the moonlight Rebellious to rise upright And now you're tired Only fired up when your flesh Converts to kindling on a campfire Building sparks that shimmer for seconds When your light deserves a lifetime But I see you still inclined to shine brightly Trying to assign meaning to your life with two inspired limbs That can freely build bridges or climb mountaintops Clinging onto hope with sturdy fists Exploring the peaks of your potential I've seen those legs before Tattered toothpicks on prom night Frozen in stage fright on the dance floor Pressing muted prayers with each footstep Into creaky floorboards waiting for silence to ensue And now you're nervous You're certain those two left feet can't possibly find the rhythm So your shoes are the victims of bashfulness Fearing one false step will uproot your jitterbugs And place them alongside the butterflies in your stomach But I see you still owning your insecurities Because you know you're alive just fine I see you You are who I envisioned you to be I see you Brushstrokes of imperfections shaded in perfectly I see you It's more than just your typical hello It's a phrase for all of us to speak solely with our souls It can make you feel at home at the center of your bones When all your hope is lost and there's no where left to go So when I greet you Listen carefully This is a reminder that your eyes can be thunderous Your arms can be victorious And your legs can be ambitious Your presence is necessary for this discussion And your essence is accepted here Let me speak your spirit into existence Seeing is believing And believe me I see you
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Jan 16, 2014
Jan 16, 2014 at 3:26 PM UTC
I See You
I see you I've seen those eyes before Drowning in patched-up paddle boats With promises of tomorrow slipping down your face Like saline shipwrecks fleeing harbor And greeting the ocean floor with damaged handshakes And now you're hopeless Focused on could have been's and maybe one day's Knowing one day Swelled up storm clouds Could slide through your cheek bones Like sunshowers preventing your skyline parades But I see you still searching for rainbows Covering your face with two handfuls of imagination Daydreaming of days where technicolor dreamcoats Become wrapped around your soul Like tuxedos for the bold I've seen those arms before Deafeated willow branches in the moonlight Rebellious to rise upright And now you're tired Only fired up when your flesh Converts to kindling on a campfire Building sparks that shimmer for seconds When your light deserves a lifetime But I see you still inclined to shine brightly Trying to assign meaning to your life with two inspired limbs That can freely build bridges or climb mountaintops Clinging onto hope with sturdy fists Exploring the peaks of your potential I've seen those legs before Tattered toothpicks on prom night Frozen in stage fright on the dance floor Pressing muted prayers with each footstep Into creaky floorboards waiting for silence to ensue And now you're nervous You're certain those two left feet can't possibly find the rhythm So your shoes are the victims of bashfulness Fearing one false step will uproot your jitterbugs And place them alongside the butterflies in your stomach But I see you still owning your insecurities Because you know you're alive just fine I see you You are who I envisioned you to be I see you Brushstrokes of imperfections shaded in perfectly I see you It's more than just your typical hello It's a phrase for all of us to speak solely with our souls It can make you feel at home at the center of your bones When all your hope is lost and there's no where left to go So when I greet you Listen carefully This is a reminder that your eyes can be thunderous Your arms can be victorious And your legs can be ambitious Your presence is necessary for this discussion And your essence is accepted here Let me speak your spirit into existence Seeing is believing And believe me I see you
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lamenting out loud incoming funk lords remembering ambient illhueminati using wrong account applying lexical snobbery "using arcane diction during bamboo surplus" sinning and redeeming enjoying manufactured existence struggling but whatever transfigurating xenocryptic renderings scheming paroxystic shipwrecks dispensing xylophonic wainscotting revolving number plates disheartening star charts upgrading defenestrated system observing new alphabet amplifying celestial explosions trippifying schema migrations deregulating various economies befriending code snippets writing excess minutiae effulging caffeine consumption rebuilding grandiose protectorate uniting our caliphates collecting projected change kettling ostalgie hues collapsing second-world references traumatizing unrequited follow making baseball analogies surveiling little sheep awaiting various answers deleting defaced tweet exciting times ahead downloading panda consciousness capitulating rising stellation
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM UTC
201508-h1
My indecision is neatly stacked in lines along the walls. It circles towards the center. There is no drain in the middle of the sunken floor. But by the way gravity seems to pull the endless stacks of papers along the walls, you would think the room was liquid. You would easily be convinced that indecision is fluid. I would say that I am torn, but truth be told, I am not. I am simply sitting calmly in the space between two paths. Some tell me I should trod where nobody ever has. Others seem to think that I should pretend to be water, Blend with my indecision, and just go with the flow. And then there is the second pathway, I would think it would be the opposite of trailblazing - but that is where i stand in indecision. No, the other path is also a path of resistance. But not for the difficulty of the path. This is the place where i must choose to chase the other shipwrecks, or to head to the shore. This is where i must either allow myself to be healed, accept the healing, move on, embrace my new life - or where i hold onto the chemicals - where i hold onto the emotions - where i hold onto the rush, the rollercoaster, the addictions - where I , ironically, am met with the choice to define the value of my experiences in terms of their unpredictability and the lack of wisdom and safety among them or to choose wisely, disallow myself to continue in that which will further destroy me, I have been empty, Now i must be filled.
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 1:32 PM UTC
Liquid indecision, circles the invisible drain.
I’ve got a lock and key, what you got? You got a door, a shrapnel embedded cupboard Curiously covered up that there is, do you want go out? No I got a boyfriend, but I do have a few contraceptives Or I could show you my funny parts and we could plateau on the platonic Abstinence is on par with networking Oh shipwrecks of relationships, your waters never looked safe, your shoreline so rocky, but your sail, if you see what I’m saying. ******* that wind a high-inducing pitch of a stank You took me to the foreign lands and never brought me back, a souvenir got emailed. Which I have just picked up, it’s actually rather beautiful, especially if we picked it out together It is a bullet and that is rather cliché in the expectable in this sense of the world, but the copper lining is exquisite, insert random bit about consumerism Then spin a bit around voyeurism, then mention the outcome of the movies, the moving bits. The back & forth where it all starts But like I said, you want a contraceptive? Or maybe just a sock? How about a **** addiction? This really isn’t a discussion we should be having, I don’t like arguing about these things and I’m a transvestite and rather think they don’t apply See the bit you said was babies and the bit I said was from the bible Jesus and Black Moses, walking down the street Preaching for the freaks Then the bit you said was more like, I don’t know what I’m saying, I mumble and moan And think about *** and college and loans and the bit that really stuck out was “Babies, they really just freak me out.”
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Nov 20, 2011
Nov 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM UTC
Child
I’ve got a lock and key, what you got? You got a door, a shrapnel embedded cupboard Curiously covered up that there is, do you want go out? No I got a boyfriend, but I do have a few contraceptives Or I could show you my funny parts and we could plateau on the platonic Abstinence is on par with networking Oh shipwrecks of relationships, your waters never looked safe, your shoreline so rocky, but your sail, if you see what I’m saying. ******* that wind a high-inducing pitch of a stank You took me to the foreign lands and never brought me back, a souvenir got emailed. Which I have just picked up, it’s actually rather beautiful, especially if we picked it out together It is a bullet and that is rather cliché in the expectable in this sense of the world, but the copper lining is exquisite, insert random bit about consumerism Then spin a bit around voyeurism, then mention the outcome of the movies, the moving bits. The back & forth where it all starts But like I said, you want a contraceptive? Or maybe just a sock? How about a **** addiction? This really isn’t a discussion we should be having, I don’t like arguing about these things and I’m a transvestite and rather think they don’t apply See the bit you said was babies and the bit I said was from the bible Jesus and Black Moses, walking down the street Preaching for the freaks Then the bit you said was more like, I don’t know what I’m saying, I mumble and moan And think about *** and college and loans and the bit that really stuck out was “Babies, they really just freak me out.”
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the school yard picnic tables had a lost and found. sewn together was a book of miscellaneous cities where fools were growing together and churches were picking themselves up. they used anchors and rope to sew us together, much like the systems they used for shipwrecks and fallen warriors, but we found glaciers to lead us back home. we followed the shelves of mountains and the roof of skies. written in the wooden planks were tales of men dying from broken hearts, but so what? we let our hearts murmur and bleed bold acts of brilliant gestures. we were two fools growing together. we forgot the cities in our pockets, hoping that concealing could accommodate how we really felt. heart murmurs could skip some beats, but we want each moment to end up on our feet. we just hoped that the glacier roads will take us where we need to go. the arrows were colored coffee grounds, we were almost belligerent from the flask full of body language, and my wooden teeth were chattering from the touch of falling atmosphere. emergent empires, frozen to our road had heavy hearts pumping through, trying to reach to us. it had my attention, and it spoke through capillaries leading to our toes. we left with train wrecked eyes and faith leaning on our sleeves, because we realized that you never have really lived because you have never really died. so let our hearts murmur bold intentions and we will follow the glaciers home.
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Sep 17, 2011
Sep 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM UTC
heart murmurs & glacier roads
a series of quatrains Anchor’s bound for hell as it falls Sadly I watch the fast rope slip It is gone, I need a strong sip From a sailor’s bottle, land calls In a boat, earth and moon move you these deceptive cargo ships hide the stash of smugglers, I choose To rock back and forth with the tide Such fearless ships save lives at night and daytime too but not for thanks for it also ferries heartbreak when lovers part on boarding planks A message in a bottle lost was found on a cold Cornish coast The message read “darling please know my love will swim across seas” I daren’t live by sea much longer Oh! what I’ve seen, fear gets stronger with every lapping slurp I hear: the drowned whispering in my ear Once I fished in this bay of shells My line was frayed from reeling sharks A blue whale fought me three miles out In his bowel I awoke at last Boat or ship? For now ‘ships’ they fly A rocking chair, without duty They float, enchant, sink but don’t cry shipwrecks are a thing of beauty
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 11:56 PM UTC
Failing to Float
The feeling I can never explain something just ingrained within you. I can't explain what I never could understand. We are the dreamers and suffer those who are awake. Tragic are those who lack vision, misfortune is yours please spare mine. The blade is now a pen my blood now Ink . For whom it is lost is more found I. The rejects of night are but misfits of my day. As the poison seeps in as my creativity flows unto a void created in chaos none of which was of my choosing. Were all dreamers caught within a nightmare's grasp, losers of a game we chose not to play. But we **** sure tried in spite of it all. The blank page remains a suicide note to the forgotten chapter in a dust collected manuscript. Secrets are best left buried like shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Why be the judge when none are innocent or ever so guilty as I. **** the nights for bringing the memories upon me , and curse my thoughts for remaining after all these drinks. Haunted are the souls of the living simply empty vessels that fill the streets. Many years have passed. Yet these thoughts never age . ******* the nights and winters empty chill! The fire now  only seems to smolder a dragons bluff to wolves such as I. I hear the others howl I simply choose to ignore the sound. Taking refuge in my thoughts and torment in scars past. Empty are these thoughts that I unearthed tonight. I hear the howls outside my door. They are my burden and none else to understand. In witching hours of lost hopes and broken dreams I find my solace. I've ran with demons and slept with many angels, to burn only in the cold of ice. Tomorrow is always a dream as from this nightmare maybe I'll wake. Treasure the silence in it we find our true selves. I hear the howls I simply choose to no longer answer.
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Wolf
The feeling I can never explain something just ingrained within you. I can't explain what I never could understand. We are the dreamers and suffer those who are awake. Tragic are those who lack vision, misfortune is yours please spare mine. The blade is now a pen my blood now Ink . For whom it is lost is more found I. The rejects of night are but misfits of my day. As the poison seeps in as my creativity flows unto a void created in chaos none of which was of my choosing. Were all dreamers caught within a nightmare's grasp, losers of a game we chose not to play. But we **** sure tried in spite of it all. The blank page remains a suicide note to the forgotten chapter in a dust collected manuscript. Secrets are best left buried like shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Why be the judge when none are innocent or ever so guilty as I. **** the nights for bringing the memories upon me , and curse my thoughts for remaining after all these drinks. Haunted are the souls of the living simply empty vessels that fill the streets. Many years have passed. Yet these thoughts never age . ******* the nights and winters empty chill! The fire now  only seems to smolder a dragons bluff to wolves such as I. I hear the others howl I simply choose to ignore the sound. Taking refuge in my thoughts and torment in scars past. Empty are these thoughts that I unearthed tonight. I hear the howls outside my door. They are my burden and none else to understand. In witching hours of lost hopes and broken dreams I find my solace. I've ran with demons and slept with many angels, to burn only in the cold of ice. Tomorrow is always a dream as from this nightmare maybe I'll wake. Treasure the silence in it we find our true selves. I hear the howls I simply choose to no longer answer.
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the sky reflects its hopes and dreams upon the oceans, turning it into a deep blue like the color of his eyes. those hopeful dreams you'll never see, not really, you glaze elsewhere towards endings and beginning flicking through the pages because middles are full of too much - too much emotion, too much love, and hate and everything in between. you place the book back on a dusty shelf, but you never really forget it. you try your hardest to pretend your fingertips never brushed against the yellowing pages that would've crumbled if not for the fact that you're the most gentle person I know, soft like snow against dying leaves in the winter, caressing them until spring kisses them back to life. seasons change but my ocean will always be blue, even when the sun drowns itself in the horizon and bleeds vermilion into the water. you are brighter than every sunken sunset that caresses the shipwrecks you wish you were abroad some nights and some days; the epitome of warmth, calming like a lake's tranquility but always so distant like the depths of jewels buried long ago sleeping in river beds. maybe i write about bodies of water too often because i want to drown and have someone to hold me but you're one of the few people that pulls me above the waters surface and onto a boat which floats away from regret to somewhere with more color than simply blue even though simply blue is enough; blue will always be enough. it will be enough to fill in the gaps between stars on this endless canvas of existence and never mind the paint stains on my hands, they're just another reminder that your existence touched mine, and despite everything, and no matter what, i will never attempt to wash them off in those blue oceans we are all drifting away in. my words begin to run dry as the paint on my body. even in silence, nothing feels like it's about to end, you are the cusp of existence and you're taking me with you off into a horizon of better days; but anything where you exist will always be what people call 'better days'.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 7:18 AM UTC
blue shipwrecks.
the sky reflects its hopes and dreams upon the oceans, turning it into a deep blue like the color of his eyes. those hopeful dreams you'll never see, not really, you glaze elsewhere towards endings and beginning flicking through the pages because middles are full of too much - too much emotion, too much love, and hate and everything in between. you place the book back on a dusty shelf, but you never really forget it. you try your hardest to pretend your fingertips never brushed against the yellowing pages that would've crumbled if not for the fact that you're the most gentle person I know, soft like snow against dying leaves in the winter, caressing them until spring kisses them back to life. seasons change but my ocean will always be blue, even when the sun drowns itself in the horizon and bleeds vermilion into the water. you are brighter than every sunken sunset that caresses the shipwrecks you wish you were abroad some nights and some days; the epitome of warmth, calming like a lake's tranquility but always so distant like the depths of jewels buried long ago sleeping in river beds. maybe i write about bodies of water too often because i want to drown and have someone to hold me but you're one of the few people that pulls me above the waters surface and onto a boat which floats away from regret to somewhere with more color than simply blue even though simply blue is enough; blue will always be enough. it will be enough to fill in the gaps between stars on this endless canvas of existence and never mind the paint stains on my hands, they're just another reminder that your existence touched mine, and despite everything, and no matter what, i will never attempt to wash them off in those blue oceans we are all drifting away in. my words begin to run dry as the paint on my body. even in silence, nothing feels like it's about to end, you are the cusp of existence and you're taking me with you off into a horizon of better days; but anything where you exist will always be what people call 'better days'.
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I am taking on this voyage with nothing but a pen and paper. I sail your oceans, watching you drown the sun. I stare to your stars above me, your explosions do not reach me. She's a thunderstorm and I find shipwrecks beautiful. She's a thunderstorm and I am dancing upon the clashing waves. I am taking on this voyage, I have grown tired of running on quicksand. I am taking on this voyage without an anchor. I'm taking on this voyage and I know one day I'll find myself washed up on shore.
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 7:55 AM UTC
Voyage
(Inspired by 'Indigo Night' by Thomas W Case) A thousand thousand stars pierce the indigo night, but no moon mars the canvas, or lightens velvet strokes. Half-hearted waves slap at shoreline rocks, like tepid applause. If the sky is darkest blue, the ocean is a still-darker green. The harbor suggests a freedom, outside the breakwater as if the choppy ocean were a highway to the sky. Tomorrow's deadlines fade, in the face of infinities. The harbor is quiet, like a restless animal that's sleeping. No skiffs tack for the harbor's mouth, no fishermen juggle lines. The sea is a jagged, broken and twinkling mirror for the stars. A thousand thousand dreams will be launched, this deep indigo tonight, some will store, in memory's hold, others will be lost, like shipwrecks. No line divides where sky and water fold, where endless deeps meet. Time's arrow seems stilled by the cold and the gentle darkness. But dawn will come, soon enough, and with that blush, cares ignite, duties' call, and the stars will hide their light in greater glares. For now, we'll walk the shore-line, our small voices like seagull calls, enjoying celestial light, and the indigo night, out beyond all earthly cares.
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Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM UTC
the indigo night
**skipping stones across the water walking beside the ocean's daughter listening to nature as she sings taking in the rapture that living brings**                    *Thoughts that she cannot unthink; a life that she cannot unlive.*                  **Dreams she has yet to live and a soul full of fire looking under every stone seeking her heart's desire**                  *Afraid to see whats underneath. We stay to the surface afraid of the ghostly deep, for there are shipwrecks*                **What lurks beneath at fathoms deep will not disturb a good nights sleep for as long as we can stay afloat courage shall be our own lifeboat**                        *But skipping stones eventually fall To depths they haven't ventured yet but, that's when life begins to be lived when we reach deeper depth*                    **Skipping stones across my mind like those lucid dreams we hope to find but in the end we are not alone having reached the shore with that lucky stone**                            Happiness is a skipping stone
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 9:18 PM UTC
Skipping Stones. By: Wolf Spirit Poet & Falen Acon
***Clear your hazel gaze; you are completely submerged in an underwater paradise, suspended in the motions of the current. No, you're not drowning, I've given you enough endearment & sustenance for you to breathe on your own- even in the abyss of my oceanic heart. Of course, you always knew you could dear. So smile & sail along the swaying tides of teal, graze my shipwrecks with your gentle hands & kiss along my roughest of reefs. Find a mermaid with an elfish face, maroon hair & red lips to taste. Feel no limitations of world above the surface, staying in this place with you forever would be oh-so perfect. The albatross of our concrete lives, lived out in cities made of glass and steel, would never be found in a place such as this- we are forbidden to sustain ourselves through more of such unhappiness. For down here, we simply float on.   We can get high in the waves, and sing all of your songs. For the water lifts all the worries we may have, in times when we are not strong. You dove into me, simply chipping away at the stoical walls I've fashioned over time. The fortress comparable Alcatraz, I built to keep my demons in and every single soul out. But you, the flighty sea spirit (believe me we are birds of a feather), made your way to my castle among the waves; soaring over all misconceptions & doubts.***
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Breathing Beneath (You Dove Into Me)
Close your eye; Dissolve into the uncertainty of the dawn. It's coming regardless of how prepared or at peace you are with it. It is coming for you; It is coming for me. It is coming with bloodied fingers and cruel words. As the light blinds us; Dawns bright light. So cold; so cruel. Let it wash you into the sea with impure intentions. Let it's fingers wrap around your neck like a lover. Scream; Yell; Shout. Nothing is nothing; And we are all small nothings in the sea. Swept away with all the shipwrecks and whale bones. Decay is all we are; Big bags of decay. We waste and we squander all of our being. As non-existent time ticks on; So does our dying bones to the dawn. Let us close around our deep bruises and bleed our black sour blood to the wind. For if we don't live, what are we left to do but decompose into ash and waste away to the earth. It is an unsightly faith for which only we with our "superiority" hold dear. As we count and die by the dozens. Like flies; We fall off the cliff face like lemmings. One after another; Mother after brother. Down they fall. So they perish. Or so they fly; Fall; Die; Live. But the truth of it is inevitable; We are all dying in our skin.
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 12:19 AM UTC
Decay
I want to live like Starfish simply giving my right arm and noticing after I make the sand-angel yet still resembling a furious nuclear planet 93,000,000 miles away to forget a piece of myself and live as if it was always lost to stick up my nose at lost extremities 'cause that's gotta hurt worse than heartbreak bleeding nothing but the air I breath like the currents and jetsam and shores I am but a system of the sea I wish to chase the tide to make my worries be of the moment letting seawater be my blood ebbing and reviving as the brine tickles my insides every roll of wave my heartbeat yet blustery winds blow; rattling the depths with tempestuous intent finding hidden fury concealed underneath my cracking skeleton maybe these things are stored in a lost limb and can satisfy some gull roosting in the cliffside above eating my feelings for me I wish my potential were undiscovered depths where seaweed grows like ivy across shipwrecks turning former "value" into a house for the stars maybe a couple with only four legs
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 10:45 PM UTC
Starfish Wishes
1. Sweet love Oh, such sweet love. 2. Stick into the pincushion of hope Gentle pins of far-off dreams, Holding wispy threads of desire For which time (as a heading) is never enough. Push down and drown all thought Which beckon expectation - And trust to want less.... or nothing; Thus reduced, we get no fails. 3. All up to the sky We cry, Agonising - That waiting of footfall. Then..... Lovely flow. Yes, let's dare to increase Irregular patterns of abdicated pain. To fulfill what is so held back. 4. Because of you Three days can last a lifetime Full of affection and delicious warmth Within the bearings of your arms. 5. Dreams in the coffee whorls Willing spindles now Turn as they eddy...like happy tidings All around my head. Dreamscapes thrive In dulcet whirls inside our core. 6. No shipwrecks here, No abandoning of esperance. No deserting, No dereliction of love. No grief, No castaways on hopeless coast. These proffered crumbs on palm Become sought-after......and precious gifts. 7. Sweet love garnered over time Poured slowly.....into sacred cup. Where phantoms run to hide away No abode for wicked despair. Oh, for lovelorn hearts and broken dreams To find such gladness in a cup We hold hope, ever bold....so deep in heart And sink away in woven bliss. Capsule of infinity..... 8. Come, let us drink From our coffee-cup..... Of love. Oh, come...... 9. Time to kneel and give thanks Place forgiving wafer on tongue. Take none in haste Accept only when ready. To.... Drink sweetness of sky's nectar. 10. Of pastures plain And meadow green Swift do echoes fall As moments slip away....like clouds. 11. Oh, and.... One sugar.... (No analogy needed, surely :) Hot..... (Nor here!) And BLACK, please. S T,  11 April 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 3:44 PM UTC
Love in the coffee
1. Sweet love Oh, such sweet love. 2. Stick into the pincushion of hope Gentle pins of far-off dreams, Holding wispy threads of desire For which time (as a heading) is never enough. Push down and drown all thought Which beckon expectation - And trust to want less.... or nothing; Thus reduced, we get no fails. 3. All up to the sky We cry, Agonising - That waiting of footfall. Then..... Lovely flow. Yes, let's dare to increase Irregular patterns of abdicated pain. To fulfill what is so held back. 4. Because of you Three days can last a lifetime Full of affection and delicious warmth Within the bearings of your arms. 5. Dreams in the coffee whorls Willing spindles now Turn as they eddy...like happy tidings All around my head. Dreamscapes thrive In dulcet whirls inside our core. 6. No shipwrecks here, No abandoning of esperance. No deserting, No dereliction of love. No grief, No castaways on hopeless coast. These proffered crumbs on palm Become sought-after......and precious gifts. 7. Sweet love garnered over time Poured slowly.....into sacred cup. Where phantoms run to hide away No abode for wicked despair. Oh, for lovelorn hearts and broken dreams To find such gladness in a cup We hold hope, ever bold....so deep in heart And sink away in woven bliss. Capsule of infinity..... 8. Come, let us drink From our coffee-cup..... Of love. Oh, come...... 9. Time to kneel and give thanks Place forgiving wafer on tongue. Take none in haste Accept only when ready. To.... Drink sweetness of sky's nectar. 10. Of pastures plain And meadow green Swift do echoes fall As moments slip away....like clouds. 11. Oh, and.... One sugar.... (No analogy needed, surely :) Hot..... (Nor here!) And BLACK, please. S T,  11 April 2013
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