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"slammed" 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
I remember you told me I was like a lit candle - Warm and soothing, But dangerous, When left unattended. If I had known you’d leave, I would’ve burned down The house we built so Carefully. But when you slammed the door shut That last time, You put out my flame.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 9:19 AM UTC
candle
We’d been together so long, it seemed That nothing could tear us apart, We lived our lives in a world of dreams And Barbara lived in my heart, But frost had covered the window pane And then it began to snow, As Barbara turned, with a look of pain And said, ‘It’s best that you go.’ I didn’t know what she meant at first As I looked up from my book, “Go where?’ I questioned, but thought again As she quelled my heart with a look. ‘I said I want you to leave,’ she cried, And her face was set in stone, ‘We’ve come to the end of the path,’ she sighed, ‘I want to be left alone.’ Then suddenly all confusion reined I didn’t know what to say, Whatever had brought this mood on her, I wished it would go away. But she was firm, and she packed my things And ushered me out the door, I stood there shivering in the cold To be back on my own once more. I found a flat and I camped the night There was barely a stick or chair, I’d have to buy all the furniture To make it a home in there. But I sat and cried in the empty room As the question came back, ‘Why?’ I’d loved her so and my heart was torn, I thought I wanted to die. I went to her with my questions, but She slammed the door in my face, Whatever love she had had for me Had vanished, without a trace. It hurt so much that she cut me off With never so much as a sigh, I called that all that I wanted was To tell me the reason, why? The roses had bloomed so late that year Were still in the garden bed, We’d always tended the bush with joy, We both loved the colour red, So I snipped one off as I left one day, And planted it under her door, To let her know that I loved her still I didn’t know how to say more. Her brother called in a week or so, Said she was in hospital, She’d gone in just for a minor cure And thought that he’d better tell. So I caught the bus and I went on down With a quaking fear in my heart, She hadn’t said there was something wrong Before she tore us apart. The doctor came in his long white coat, His brow and his face was grim, I said, ‘Don’t tell me the news is bad,’ He said, ‘I’m out on a limb. Your wife just passed from the surgery, But she pulled, from under her clothes, And asked if I’d pass this on to you,’ In his hand was a red, red rose. David Lewis Paget
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Jan 14, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 at 1:10 AM UTC
The Rose
We’d been together so long, it seemed That nothing could tear us apart, We lived our lives in a world of dreams And Barbara lived in my heart, But frost had covered the window pane And then it began to snow, As Barbara turned, with a look of pain And said, ‘It’s best that you go.’ I didn’t know what she meant at first As I looked up from my book, “Go where?’ I questioned, but thought again As she quelled my heart with a look. ‘I said I want you to leave,’ she cried, And her face was set in stone, ‘We’ve come to the end of the path,’ she sighed, ‘I want to be left alone.’ Then suddenly all confusion reined I didn’t know what to say, Whatever had brought this mood on her, I wished it would go away. But she was firm, and she packed my things And ushered me out the door, I stood there shivering in the cold To be back on my own once more. I found a flat and I camped the night There was barely a stick or chair, I’d have to buy all the furniture To make it a home in there. But I sat and cried in the empty room As the question came back, ‘Why?’ I’d loved her so and my heart was torn, I thought I wanted to die. I went to her with my questions, but She slammed the door in my face, Whatever love she had had for me Had vanished, without a trace. It hurt so much that she cut me off With never so much as a sigh, I called that all that I wanted was To tell me the reason, why? The roses had bloomed so late that year Were still in the garden bed, We’d always tended the bush with joy, We both loved the colour red, So I snipped one off as I left one day, And planted it under her door, To let her know that I loved her still I didn’t know how to say more. Her brother called in a week or so, Said she was in hospital, She’d gone in just for a minor cure And thought that he’d better tell. So I caught the bus and I went on down With a quaking fear in my heart, She hadn’t said there was something wrong Before she tore us apart. The doctor came in his long white coat, His brow and his face was grim, I said, ‘Don’t tell me the news is bad,’ He said, ‘I’m out on a limb. Your wife just passed from the surgery, But she pulled, from under her clothes, And asked if I’d pass this on to you,’ In his hand was a red, red rose. David Lewis Paget
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It was the time of my Auntie Bee summers    I was small then    She had a parakeet that landed on my head    and a bathtub too    with water so deep!    and legs and claws!    **** thing nearly chased me down the stairs! She lived in slumbery Windsor Locks    where bugs hung-out in the haze    of teenage August    I played in the tall weeds    with a shoeless Italian boy    who ate tomatoes like apples    and cucumbers right off the vine!    He was ***** free and foreign!    We played— reckless, abandoned    behind the gas pump, under the tractor, in the barn       and through the endless fields    I didn’t know....    His name was Tony    I ate pizza with him—the first time At Auntie Bee’s I had to go to bed at eight    but I could watch night flowers    bloom on wallpaper    She came in to say good night    slippered, shadowy, night dress slightly open    and I peeped her *******    like Tony’s cucumbers!    I had never seen my mother’s wonders.... Night spread its wings from the old fan—    a bird of tireless exhaustion    whipped, whipped, whipped to death in its cage    tireless exhaustion    tic-tocking in time to a wind-up clock    stretched out on the whine    of the overland trucks    Route Five through the night of an open window In the grape arbor below— tremulous incessant    crickets    crickets    crickets tremulous incessant—insides of a child    a summer child    not yet ready for the fall of answers Auntie Bee had a daughter—Maureen    I followed her everywhere I could    I was small then--        do anything for a stick of Juicy Fruit I followed Maureen through my dreams    of being sixteen    and woke to Peggy’s “Fever”    while she tied her sneakers    against the mattress by my head I followed Maureen (in my mind)    tanned and bandanned    to work in the fields of shade tobacco    with all those Puerto Rican boys!    She knew where she was going! I was small then ...do anything for a stick of  gum “Mauney! Mauney! Mauney!”    ...through the goldenrod of roadside    through the smell of oil that damped the dust     I followed Maureen’s white shorts    and chestnut hair...to the corner store I followed the way the boys smiled    the way the screen door slammed    on her bright behind    the way her lips taunted and took    the coke-bottle’s green I followed Maureen I swear, I tried for hours to get that right! Must have been Peggy Lee’s “Fever” Maureen ties her sneakers in my face Flaunts her years above my head She has that look— “We kids don’t know nothin” (Little turds” that we be) …followin’ Maureen through the goldenrod of roadside tic-tockin’, beboppin’ “Fever— in the morning Fever all through the night….”
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 11:30 PM UTC
I Follow Maureen
It was the time of my Auntie Bee summers    I was small then    She had a parakeet that landed on my head    and a bathtub too    with water so deep!    and legs and claws!    **** thing nearly chased me down the stairs! She lived in slumbery Windsor Locks    where bugs hung-out in the haze    of teenage August    I played in the tall weeds    with a shoeless Italian boy    who ate tomatoes like apples    and cucumbers right off the vine!    He was ***** free and foreign!    We played— reckless, abandoned    behind the gas pump, under the tractor, in the barn       and through the endless fields    I didn’t know....    His name was Tony    I ate pizza with him—the first time At Auntie Bee’s I had to go to bed at eight    but I could watch night flowers    bloom on wallpaper    She came in to say good night    slippered, shadowy, night dress slightly open    and I peeped her *******    like Tony’s cucumbers!    I had never seen my mother’s wonders.... Night spread its wings from the old fan—    a bird of tireless exhaustion    whipped, whipped, whipped to death in its cage    tireless exhaustion    tic-tocking in time to a wind-up clock    stretched out on the whine    of the overland trucks    Route Five through the night of an open window In the grape arbor below— tremulous incessant    crickets    crickets    crickets tremulous incessant—insides of a child    a summer child    not yet ready for the fall of answers Auntie Bee had a daughter—Maureen    I followed her everywhere I could    I was small then--        do anything for a stick of Juicy Fruit I followed Maureen through my dreams    of being sixteen    and woke to Peggy’s “Fever”    while she tied her sneakers    against the mattress by my head I followed Maureen (in my mind)    tanned and bandanned    to work in the fields of shade tobacco    with all those Puerto Rican boys!    She knew where she was going! I was small then ...do anything for a stick of  gum “Mauney! Mauney! Mauney!”    ...through the goldenrod of roadside    through the smell of oil that damped the dust     I followed Maureen’s white shorts    and chestnut hair...to the corner store I followed the way the boys smiled    the way the screen door slammed    on her bright behind    the way her lips taunted and took    the coke-bottle’s green I followed Maureen I swear, I tried for hours to get that right! Must have been Peggy Lee’s “Fever” Maureen ties her sneakers in my face Flaunts her years above my head She has that look— “We kids don’t know nothin” (Little turds” that we be) …followin’ Maureen through the goldenrod of roadside tic-tockin’, beboppin’ “Fever— in the morning Fever all through the night….”
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oh yes, I remember when I was just a lad, I was really quite bad. I remember this one fall, I drove my parents up the wall. Up in the air the conversation flew, And to annoy them more I answered with a "mew". As I climbed the stairs and up into my room, I slammed the door with a loud 'boom!'. I stomped so loud on the floor, And thought "oh, what a boor!'. And up the stairs my parents sprung, Their nattering in my ears rung. I kicked and lashed out, not knowing what would happen next, As I looked down, I thought I was hexed! For if you stomp and kick, You will be changed quite a bit... Long grey ears grew high above my head, "Help, help me!" I plead. Hooves grew down to the floor, And I gasped as I saw... The little boy was no more. Frantically I looked to my parents who said, "I thought this would happen, I guess you need a new bed." Now the boy is no more, My parents bought a farm with a large moor. And I help out more now, As my job is pulling a plough!
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 11:14 AM UTC
Don't be naughty children
Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 3:54 AM UTC
Mom
Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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you, you get me. like a cold whisper wrapped in chrome, a sharp promise in a stranger’s home. you don’t knock. you don’t wait. you slip in, like silence disguised as fate. you found me, where ache sang loud, where sleep ran dry, where love and connection died, and nothin' was allowed but pain— and the desire to make it stop. so I picked you up. slammed hope down with the plunger, felt the fire hum as it rolled like thunder through my veins— and everything went quiet. and in that quiet, he was there.. in the burn, the gasp for air, his ghost pulled up a chair— like we were finally real. not just words. not in time. just this.. this ritual. this ruin. maybe it’s grief. maybe it’s love. maybe I miss him enough to hurt myself to get close just one last time. you, you see the real me. no mask, no dilution, raw, like nerve exposed. you don’t judge. you don’t speak. you sink in deep. you let me bleed. you gave me peace. you gave me space to dream of some place soft and slow— between the devil and death's kind relief— anywhere but here. you left tracks like poetry. the monster stirred but i didn't worry, didn't breathe a word, you brought me back, for seconds at a time. in that blur, in that high, feel the pull from within the tide, i sing the song of the the needle’s rhyme. that’s the madness— the comfort in staying sad. found home in loneliness. a box of ashes for my dad. you aren’t the high. you’re the hand that held it. the lie that knew I’d always sell it to myself. time and time again. o needle, you elegant reaper, you plastic preacher, you quiet sleeper, you stitched a father to his son in blood— not bond— and called it love. but I will reach again, with my hands undone. one more breath, one more run, still, every time I wonder, if the needle’s already won.
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Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM UTC
Ode to the Needle
you, you get me. like a cold whisper wrapped in chrome, a sharp promise in a stranger’s home. you don’t knock. you don’t wait. you slip in, like silence disguised as fate. you found me, where ache sang loud, where sleep ran dry, where love and connection died, and nothin' was allowed but pain— and the desire to make it stop. so I picked you up. slammed hope down with the plunger, felt the fire hum as it rolled like thunder through my veins— and everything went quiet. and in that quiet, he was there.. in the burn, the gasp for air, his ghost pulled up a chair— like we were finally real. not just words. not in time. just this.. this ritual. this ruin. maybe it’s grief. maybe it’s love. maybe I miss him enough to hurt myself to get close just one last time. you, you see the real me. no mask, no dilution, raw, like nerve exposed. you don’t judge. you don’t speak. you sink in deep. you let me bleed. you gave me peace. you gave me space to dream of some place soft and slow— between the devil and death's kind relief— anywhere but here. you left tracks like poetry. the monster stirred but i didn't worry, didn't breathe a word, you brought me back, for seconds at a time. in that blur, in that high, feel the pull from within the tide, i sing the song of the the needle’s rhyme. that’s the madness— the comfort in staying sad. found home in loneliness. a box of ashes for my dad. you aren’t the high. you’re the hand that held it. the lie that knew I’d always sell it to myself. time and time again. o needle, you elegant reaper, you plastic preacher, you quiet sleeper, you stitched a father to his son in blood— not bond— and called it love. but I will reach again, with my hands undone. one more breath, one more run, still, every time I wonder, if the needle’s already won.
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Most days, you're not a woman developer, you're a developer. You work just as hard, You (try to) talk just as fast You keep your feelings under the surface (barely) Actually, scratch that You're always a woman developer. you're just so used to internalizing these habits Trying to have confidence in your skills despite the impostor syndrome pulling you down each time slowly, like quicksand Trying to make up for the confidence you never had compared to someone who always had it all Trying to not cry in the kitchen because god who is allowed to have feelings Trying not to talk about men who made you uncomfortable because oh my god for the fact that people call women overreacting most men seem to make every little statement about them, have you noticed? oh wow, isn't this just reverse sexism? oh wow, can I even talk to women? Being so vocal about being queer and Indian but if you make one noise one sound one phrase about your experience as a woman because in such welcoming company you subconsciously thought why not You let down your guard But There goes the shattered glass as the topic of gender-based discrimination is finally broached There goes the thing nobody ever talks about There starts the debate you did not want to participate in "Oh wow you're so harsh to these guys" "We were just slamming what they were doing, you slammed their actual personality wow" "I just said they sounded like a brogrammer" "sure if you say so" "Isn't that just an arbitrary description" How do you explain How do you describe every nuanced experience about Every male in your life who have been exactly like this to you How do you explain the light discrimination The harsh discrimination The systemic problem as a whole How can you condense all this into a workplace environment talk Where you don't usually talk about this? Where you don't know if you can actually talk about this Where you know that you ultimately don't want to talk about this cuz how can you explain these feelings that they can never understand You shut up and move on with coding. But inside, you're conflicted with ideas of presentations to express the fact, or never speak about this again Because in the end, You're just a developer, not a woman developer to them.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 10:42 AM UTC
An Arbitrary Description (not really)
Most days, you're not a woman developer, you're a developer. You work just as hard, You (try to) talk just as fast You keep your feelings under the surface (barely) Actually, scratch that You're always a woman developer. you're just so used to internalizing these habits Trying to have confidence in your skills despite the impostor syndrome pulling you down each time slowly, like quicksand Trying to make up for the confidence you never had compared to someone who always had it all Trying to not cry in the kitchen because god who is allowed to have feelings Trying not to talk about men who made you uncomfortable because oh my god for the fact that people call women overreacting most men seem to make every little statement about them, have you noticed? oh wow, isn't this just reverse sexism? oh wow, can I even talk to women? Being so vocal about being queer and Indian but if you make one noise one sound one phrase about your experience as a woman because in such welcoming company you subconsciously thought why not You let down your guard But There goes the shattered glass as the topic of gender-based discrimination is finally broached There goes the thing nobody ever talks about There starts the debate you did not want to participate in "Oh wow you're so harsh to these guys" "We were just slamming what they were doing, you slammed their actual personality wow" "I just said they sounded like a brogrammer" "sure if you say so" "Isn't that just an arbitrary description" How do you explain How do you describe every nuanced experience about Every male in your life who have been exactly like this to you How do you explain the light discrimination The harsh discrimination The systemic problem as a whole How can you condense all this into a workplace environment talk Where you don't usually talk about this? Where you don't know if you can actually talk about this Where you know that you ultimately don't want to talk about this cuz how can you explain these feelings that they can never understand You shut up and move on with coding. But inside, you're conflicted with ideas of presentations to express the fact, or never speak about this again Because in the end, You're just a developer, not a woman developer to them.
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Electric sun twirls its lava skirt. Slammed woks. Peanuts, chilli, limes and oil Feeding him its lunch. Shelter to chilli cheeks and peppercorn faces. The air can't move its obese body to the rivers for a dip. Darkness is hard with sturdy edges. Curtains made of invisible beads and threads hang over the night in silence. They spill against the concrete under rough hooves and feet For the night falls like tight heavy lids. Dusk is a bruised tunnel of vision. Candlelit giants blinking rapidly. You don't speak For the night is never empty The silence never lonely Stampede of restlessness surrounding Grinning from squint to squint Raising embraces and chance encounters They scream loudly to frighten the dawn.
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May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 2:14 AM UTC
Roots
I Have Issues, I'll Admit, I Have Issues, Im Trying Not To Get Split, In Two, I Love You, And You, And You Too, But That Doesnt Mean I Don't Have Trust Issues I Am Green Eyed Monster, No Not Jealousy, I'm Running On A Wheel Like A Hamster, I Have Empathy, But Im A Little Bit Of A Disaster, I Don't Trust Anyone I Meet, No Matter What Our Chemistry, I'm Sorry But I Can't Compete, Because I Wander Around Hopelessly, Around The World, Feeling I Don't Belong, But I'm Only One Of 3 Billion Girls, So Maybe I Do Belong I Was Trusting Before, I Got Slammed In The Face By An Opened Door, I Thought I Was Able To Stand By Keeping Busy, But Honestly I'm Still Dizzy, I Was Welcomed In, But My Acceptance Was A Sin, My Thoughs Fly Like The Speed Of Sound, I'm No Longer On The Ground, Oh Poetry, Let Me Feel Your Therapy, I'm Sorry For My Issues, If Your Upset Grab A Tissue, But Inside I'm Just Afraid I'll Lose You
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:57 PM UTC
Trust Issues
There is a frozen lake with a grand piano in the center of it. There is an older man playing songs from our childhood as we stand around him and sing the words to his music. The cool breeze is getting cooler and snow is threatening to fall at any second... But there is soup on the stove and warm couch for us to sit together and lay down. Drink a glass of wine, raise a glass for all our times. Smiles, tears, dances and doors slammed. Children born, parents gone, friends say hello and just as quickly say goodbye... The old man is tickling the ivory and the ebony keys - songs like brown eyed girl and I guess that's why they call it the blues. He plays Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin tunes too... We hold hands and I want to take you in my arms and sweep you off your feet, fly away to another world...another time... But the lake is frozen, the snow is beginning to fall and the soup is on the stove...I can smell it from here... So say goodbye to the sadness, say goodbye to that old man, playing Fire and Rain...maybe tomorrow we can do this all again.
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC
Piano on a Frozen Lake
(explicit) **** my soul         with poetry            scream out my gracious name              slay me with words                that peel my layers                 and simultaneously                                    drive me                                            insane finger me slowly, hotly with just the right rhythm and rhyme     push me past my                  tender limits                        into tongues of syntax,                                                       sublime alliterate my senses    (in swift stac                     c-at                            o) until my mind is but blank verse     mess up my stressed               and unstressed syllables in unsung language, versed I will speak to you in vowels (the only sound        I will be able to make) as you stroke    my iambic pentameter              in the heat of frothed-up                                                      ache we are this heroic couplet, you see         even if the meaning seems veiled            no need for simile or metaphor                as I feel your chest rise                               in deep inhale we are a natural paradox        so many ironies abound          discordant harmony is our synaesthesia      in visible darkness found and I love this delicious enjambment as your aura invisibly slips                                into mine our lines have no beginning,                                  no end     as we undo           the boundaries                       of time
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 5:18 PM UTC
poetry slammed
(explicit) **** my soul         with poetry            scream out my gracious name              slay me with words                that peel my layers                 and simultaneously                                    drive me                                            insane finger me slowly, hotly with just the right rhythm and rhyme     push me past my                  tender limits                        into tongues of syntax,                                                       sublime alliterate my senses    (in swift stac                     c-at                            o) until my mind is but blank verse     mess up my stressed               and unstressed syllables in unsung language, versed I will speak to you in vowels (the only sound        I will be able to make) as you stroke    my iambic pentameter              in the heat of frothed-up                                                      ache we are this heroic couplet, you see         even if the meaning seems veiled            no need for simile or metaphor                as I feel your chest rise                               in deep inhale we are a natural paradox        so many ironies abound          discordant harmony is our synaesthesia      in visible darkness found and I love this delicious enjambment as your aura invisibly slips                                into mine our lines have no beginning,                                  no end     as we undo           the boundaries                       of time
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If you've felt the floor At the bottom of your cave After falling 40 feet Blood across your lips Body slammed across The field of rocks and dirt Unable to move Days go by slower All you can hear are screams As you shut your eyes If you've been there, my friend You've felt the thirst Which nothing can tame It's in the air at night In your bones at light The eyes are majestic The feeling is soft And your veins are cold It is all you want To reach out and take it Ravage it over and over As it asks for more ******* out the life And breathing into yours It drives you mad with frenzy! Rushing all over your body And you can't stop till You've had enough Floating away with the waves Waiting to come back for more
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Mar 6, 2017
Mar 6, 2017 at 4:18 PM UTC
Lust
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino men, old men. Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always Going somewhere. They knew I was there. Fifteen Years old and starving for them. Under my window, they would pause, Their shoulders high like the ******* of a young girl, Jacket tails slapping over Those behinds, Men. One day they hold you in the Palms of their hands, gentle, as if you Were the last raw egg in the world. Then They tighten up. Just a little. The First squeeze is nice. A quick hug. Soft into your defenselessness. A little More. The hurt begins. Wrench out a Smile that slides around the fear. When the Air disappears, Your mind pops, exploding fiercely, briefly, Like the head of a kitchen match. Shattered. It is your juice That runs down their legs. Staining their shoes. When the earth rights itself again, And taste tries to return to the tongue, Your body has slammed shut. Forever. No keys exist. Then the window draws full upon Your mind. There, just beyond The sway of curtains, men walk. Knowing something. Going someplace. But this time, I will simply Stand and watch. Maybe.
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Men
I knew she was like water, she'd probably wish to be compared to a sea but she was more like a lake. Still, calm, never moving without an outside force. But still I loved her. Her calming waters soothed my wounds and her reflective surface forced me to see myself the way I am. But still she never moved. I could ripple her surface, make her waters splash upon new sides of her shores, but in doing so I watched in somber wonder as she washed the people in her shallows up upon her banks, sore and bruised down to their hearts, and neither would reach for the other, trapped in the curse of stillness. She assured me she loved me, she assured me I'd always stay in the deepest depth of her heart. And yet slowly, what was once a depth so warm and vast, I found my toes grazing the bottom, and every time I did I tried to swim back, back to where the water was endless, bottomless, yet never could I stay there long. Other people were causing wakes, and fighting against them was becoming difficult, for I am not the strongest swimmer. I began to wonder whether I was still welcome, for her silences were getting longer, her ripples I could cause we're so much smaller, and in my self doubt those wakes moved me ever closer to the shore, and with each step I could take full footed along the bottom I began to sob. I tried curling myself into a ball in those shallows, tried to allow the water to cover my head and tell myself I still mattered. But the water here was so frigid, my lips began to turn blue and my lungs burned. I'd return to the surface and take long breaths and use them to scream silently. From where I stood, the water only knee deep I saw the figure of a man at her center, and as he raised his arms my scream became caught in my throat, and as his arms slammed upon her surface I saw the wave come rushing toward me, the longer it moved the more it grew and I said silently to myself "this is the end." In those surreal seconds I remembered the others, and was reminded of her stillness, and in those horrible moments I knew I was nothing anymore, just another piece of useless trash to be lying upon her shore.
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM UTC
A Woman Like Water
I knew she was like water, she'd probably wish to be compared to a sea but she was more like a lake. Still, calm, never moving without an outside force. But still I loved her. Her calming waters soothed my wounds and her reflective surface forced me to see myself the way I am. But still she never moved. I could ripple her surface, make her waters splash upon new sides of her shores, but in doing so I watched in somber wonder as she washed the people in her shallows up upon her banks, sore and bruised down to their hearts, and neither would reach for the other, trapped in the curse of stillness. She assured me she loved me, she assured me I'd always stay in the deepest depth of her heart. And yet slowly, what was once a depth so warm and vast, I found my toes grazing the bottom, and every time I did I tried to swim back, back to where the water was endless, bottomless, yet never could I stay there long. Other people were causing wakes, and fighting against them was becoming difficult, for I am not the strongest swimmer. I began to wonder whether I was still welcome, for her silences were getting longer, her ripples I could cause we're so much smaller, and in my self doubt those wakes moved me ever closer to the shore, and with each step I could take full footed along the bottom I began to sob. I tried curling myself into a ball in those shallows, tried to allow the water to cover my head and tell myself I still mattered. But the water here was so frigid, my lips began to turn blue and my lungs burned. I'd return to the surface and take long breaths and use them to scream silently. From where I stood, the water only knee deep I saw the figure of a man at her center, and as he raised his arms my scream became caught in my throat, and as his arms slammed upon her surface I saw the wave come rushing toward me, the longer it moved the more it grew and I said silently to myself "this is the end." In those surreal seconds I remembered the others, and was reminded of her stillness, and in those horrible moments I knew I was nothing anymore, just another piece of useless trash to be lying upon her shore.
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today i achieved the farthest state from meditation humanly possible i slammed down the horn when the wrinkled egg tried to place her stick in front of her. my cat's hunger is only met by my own intestinal growls, and it's my anniversary. i belong in a tribe of chimpanzees. i'm too lazy to shower, too angsty to sit still, too apathetic to lift even one limb from that sweet honey mud that clings to me, that bubble of no-space, and i have so many ideas. i want to do everything. but the pebbles turn to dark walls when they should be cobblestone, everyone cares and is trying to help me i'm alone, alone, alone.
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Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 12:18 AM UTC
sun in libra moon in pisces
'yo be my partner' you extended your partnership i accepted it gracefully we slammed the competition tossed the shuttlecock back-and-forth, back-and-forth everyone was in shock oh how that tiny shuttlecock soared okay, let's be a little realistic... 0-3 was our score we lost in pride and in demise   at least i could dream we were kind of good
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Mar 4, 2014
Mar 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
A Tale of a Game of Badminton
My sassy gay friend Is not an accessory When you go rooting through the closet and find him Lacing straight ties into chains Do not think that he will complete your outfit Just because a rainbow holds the hues that you were looking for Haven’t you seen that bruises also bloom in shades of purple and blue Fading into green and yellow With red far too often escaping veins that are supposed to hold it in Haven’t you seen what marks us And brings our identity to the surface of our skin When closet doors are slammed too often against our hands My sassy gay friend Is not a decoration You do not get to wear him at your hip To flaunt your acceptance And claim symbiosis As if he needs you to navigate the streets of heteronormativity Cutting short his words when communication is the best thing we have And when speaking fails us we resort to spending an afternoon Sending smoke signals into the sky Waiting for security in the focus that it takes just to Breathe My sassy gay friend Is not a collectible You do not get to gather us up into a complete set To line us neatly in an array Of rarities and charities And alternative identities Until you feel sufficiently well rounded In your attempted diversity My sassy gay friend Is not an icon A token character Or comic relief My sassy gay friend Is not meant to be romanticized Idolized Or fetishized He is human I am human You are human And if we see each other as sparkles and rhinestones We're all going to lose all the value That can't be found on price tags
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 9:20 PM UTC
Sassy Gay Friend
My sassy gay friend Is not an accessory When you go rooting through the closet and find him Lacing straight ties into chains Do not think that he will complete your outfit Just because a rainbow holds the hues that you were looking for Haven’t you seen that bruises also bloom in shades of purple and blue Fading into green and yellow With red far too often escaping veins that are supposed to hold it in Haven’t you seen what marks us And brings our identity to the surface of our skin When closet doors are slammed too often against our hands My sassy gay friend Is not a decoration You do not get to wear him at your hip To flaunt your acceptance And claim symbiosis As if he needs you to navigate the streets of heteronormativity Cutting short his words when communication is the best thing we have And when speaking fails us we resort to spending an afternoon Sending smoke signals into the sky Waiting for security in the focus that it takes just to Breathe My sassy gay friend Is not a collectible You do not get to gather us up into a complete set To line us neatly in an array Of rarities and charities And alternative identities Until you feel sufficiently well rounded In your attempted diversity My sassy gay friend Is not an icon A token character Or comic relief My sassy gay friend Is not meant to be romanticized Idolized Or fetishized He is human I am human You are human And if we see each other as sparkles and rhinestones We're all going to lose all the value That can't be found on price tags
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There, in the corner, staring at his drink. The cap juts like a gantry's crossbeam, Cowling plated forehead and sledgehead jaw. Speech is clamped in the lips' vice. That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic- Oh yes, that kind of thing could start again; The only Roman collar he tolerates Smiles all round his sleek pint of porter. Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. A factory horn will blare the Resurrection. He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.
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Monet was painting up my vision while the droves were driven out. We stepped out to the derision of a tenor waterspout. The town outside is dancing in the ruddy neon hues and I’m ****** whilst Amsterdam-ing by the slam-dunk cognac blues. And a cap was shaking coppers in an out cove by the way, where instruments and owners had begun to play. The bar stools are all swaying whilst the festival ensues, and I’m ****** whilst Amsterdam-ing by the slam-dunk cognac blues. With the rhythm of the rimjhim and the stamping our feet we sing our drunken-whim hymn whilst we stagger down the street. And we had sunken five; still sinking Im strung out, slammed, and stinking Four sheets to the wind and freaking about what I had to lose. so that’s when I got to thinking had an inkling to the linking between my errant drinking and the slam-dunk cognac blues…
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 6:37 PM UTC
The Slam-Dunk Cognac Blues
The mason trudges on night and day to finish his masterpiece. Clockwork, he waits like a prisoner yearning for the jurisdiction to fall in his favor. Each opportunity: he will steal it. Adhesive to stone and metal support: This wall will not fall. No, this one he will not let dissemble. Opposing the prior ruin, plagued with age and abuse, the once damaging blows instead drive this puzzle together. Attend carefully. Every door slammed behind to shut me out, Each painful stab in your glace lancing through my chest, into the black cavity life has consumed into me. He will work to layer his project, this projection of my cautions, until the last glimmer of light disappears behind the last stone in the last wall. Now a true prisoner, my mind lies in contentment.
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Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
Brick by Brick
She spread her legs and said "eat this ***** I said I couldn't, because it was Ramadan. She slammed her legs shut like a door closed in anger and told me to "eat **** then!" but I couldn't, because it was Ramadan.
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May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 at 2:53 PM UTC
Ramadan
silver flute sits in the case Studio awaits, soul suppress Space slammed silver flute rests on the stand Insecurity of melody Gasping for air Trembling, closed off silver flute plays a sweet song once, yesterday For Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, & for Uriel Resonance, chord floating, pure revelation last song of hope, courage last wild witch prayer Last organic sound, unplugged silver flute sits in the case Great Open Outdoors awaits, soul regenerates Have we arrived to the sacred tree? Silver flute will play Naked, wild, free! All ears wide open Open eyes, Open hearts, Open minds True human connection returns CODA Silver flute floats in my heart & hand
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
Silver Flute
It's been a year since you left, Six months since you last visited, (But I didn't see you then). When you left, I thought I'd never see you again. But when you came to visit I thought that that would be my last chance But you barely even left the house. When I heard you were finally coming back I figured that you'd be lazy And not want to leave you house. But your brother dragged you out And I finally saw you. As I turned down the road And saw you for the first time All I could think was "Oh God!  Not again!" An infinite amount of emotions Slammed into my heart All at once It was all I could do Not to throw myself into your arms And cry tears of joy. We fell into our comfortable insults and jokes Just as soon as we saw each other. It felt like you had never left; Like it was any other weekend. The next few days we just hung out Talking, joking, insulting one another. It seemed like we were thrown into the past When nothing had pulled us apart Before either of us made the mistake Of telling the truth. Watching movies And giving commentaries While eating pizza and soda As we lay of the bed. I wish we could rewind time Just so we can relive those amazing moments. But looking back on the past few days And all those years we were together I realized I really do love you. Never before (Or after) Have I ever been so close to someone (ANYONE!) Never have I told somebody so many secrets Never has someone known me so well Never has someone been able to say "Oh she would say this" Or "Don't say that, it'll make her mad" Never have I been able to be myself and not feel uncomfortable Never except when I'm with you. I wish we still lived in the same country. I wish there weren't oceans separating us. I wish that I had the courage to give you these poems. I wish you were here to help me through this move. I wish I was in Sweden with you (Or you were here in America with me) I wish I wish I wish. Only wishes are left. I wish I could tell you I love you I wish you knew how much! I wish you knew I never loved someone as much as I love you. I wish I had the courage The courage to send you all the poems I've ever written about you Because there are so many With so many words That you'll never hear. I wish I wish I wish
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
I Finally Saw You Again
It's been a year since you left, Six months since you last visited, (But I didn't see you then). When you left, I thought I'd never see you again. But when you came to visit I thought that that would be my last chance But you barely even left the house. When I heard you were finally coming back I figured that you'd be lazy And not want to leave you house. But your brother dragged you out And I finally saw you. As I turned down the road And saw you for the first time All I could think was "Oh God!  Not again!" An infinite amount of emotions Slammed into my heart All at once It was all I could do Not to throw myself into your arms And cry tears of joy. We fell into our comfortable insults and jokes Just as soon as we saw each other. It felt like you had never left; Like it was any other weekend. The next few days we just hung out Talking, joking, insulting one another. It seemed like we were thrown into the past When nothing had pulled us apart Before either of us made the mistake Of telling the truth. Watching movies And giving commentaries While eating pizza and soda As we lay of the bed. I wish we could rewind time Just so we can relive those amazing moments. But looking back on the past few days And all those years we were together I realized I really do love you. Never before (Or after) Have I ever been so close to someone (ANYONE!) Never have I told somebody so many secrets Never has someone known me so well Never has someone been able to say "Oh she would say this" Or "Don't say that, it'll make her mad" Never have I been able to be myself and not feel uncomfortable Never except when I'm with you. I wish we still lived in the same country. I wish there weren't oceans separating us. I wish that I had the courage to give you these poems. I wish you were here to help me through this move. I wish I was in Sweden with you (Or you were here in America with me) I wish I wish I wish. Only wishes are left. I wish I could tell you I love you I wish you knew how much! I wish you knew I never loved someone as much as I love you. I wish I had the courage The courage to send you all the poems I've ever written about you Because there are so many With so many words That you'll never hear. I wish I wish I wish
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