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"slideshow" poems
Scene one, Childhood I never really learned to emotionally regulate, Taking clues from Nickelodeon more than parents who set good examples, Screaming fights and bruises and broken glass Too much drinking, the smell of cigarettes Moms broken bones Make yourself small, make yourself gone They may not notice you. We played family a lot, curtaining blankets over a bunk bed to block the outside, and in family, I always took care of my babies. Scene two, 18 I never really learned to emotionally regulate, taking clues from the friends around me more than parents who set any example. A false father leaving, a mom losing her cash cow The smell of Arbor Mist and ***** still makes me sick, mom’s incoherent fists still make contact in my sleep, I still wouldn’t have given her the keys. We don’t play anymore. We’re mostly estranged. But we work. And in family, I always took care of my babies. Scene three, 28 I’m trying to learn to emotionally regulate, the slideshow of couches and faces of therapists trying to set an example. A son born to trauma, a marriage of consequence, I’m still learning to love myself, please, the sound of yelling still makes me sick, I don’t know how to do this. We are grown now, we are mostly put together. And now we live. But this is my family, and I will always take care of my babies
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Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022 at 10:47 PM UTC
A Tragedy in Three Parts
I loved you in the timeless hours of a dark city. In the morning, who you were had been replaced; the people that we were together no longer there. All the memories erased, so you could love somebody new. But the shadow of you still lingers incompletely; wandering through my slideshow memories like the glimpse of your eyes fleeting round the carousel. A flash under the cinema lights, over before it began. Now I'm on someone else's mind but I'm still under you in mine.
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Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019 at 9:12 PM UTC
Dark City
tinyurl-dot-com/d-m-latest-poems That's a shortcut to my poemhunter poems. The search my poems option helps ME find my poems. Visit the standard webpage or the print-friendly text version. The end of October 2013 has meant quite a few poems were added. Some were about the Stephen Gayford wildlife prints. They are being sold on UK TV's Shopping channels. I visit their websites and view the images and watch the TV demos. Since joining hellopoetry, I visited several members' blogs and websites. I've also visited the youtube-dot-com website to see members' videos. My Stephen Gayford blog is here: denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com I've checked Google for any websites that have used my poetry. The images search also found lots of fantastic websites, too. The deviantart-dot-com website features lots of fantasy art images. They can lead poets to brand new poetry description ideas. Just use the search site option for a desired poetry topic. My Fantasy Art click-a-pic slideshow has some Superhero artwork, view the wonderful galleries here: jennifersjpgs-dot-shows-dot-it and some of my Superhero poems have been published based on these. The Google image 'my name' search found lots of images like never before. Regards, Denis Martindale.
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Oct 25, 2013
Oct 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM UTC
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your George Klooney appeals to your filter. you brunch with Tungsten and straight up toxic marriages. the mob rules the Jupiter, so therefore and ever after you mop Hell's kitchen while you slideshow your thumb through the wreckage of your tender aggressions in the marsh where the hard sky lobs acid and false globs of character... we blur the chi chi's and wiz bang the last dirge we incur the wrath of our blissful innocence and sweeten the Lama with our Lambda,  " all back of the bus, and ****  " we betwixt the twain. and that's the grease in the varmint. the tuft of luscious. you gob-smack the kiwi and chip away at the porcine thunder of our pagan banquet. the lungs you drum with; are even now less equipped to sermon the mount where your meek inherits lengua tacos. and your life means nothing, really....
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Mar 6, 2013
Mar 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
Bizarre Foods America
god stood by me, he hid in my pocket like a piece of amethyst when i ran he turned into the forest to envelop me his spirits became soft grasses, scented woods and colorful flower The elderly woman in her garden in the early morning before the sun rises too high. She never sprays chemicals to get rid of the snails, instead she works and plants for and around them. This garden is to celebrate life, not to take it away. The wooden fence bordering her property is low and unoffensive enough to allow through woodland creatures who are never shooed away for taking a walk or a bite through the herbage. Perhaps she is atoning for a life of death and destruction. Or perhaps she is a saint. They enjoyed things like making forts out of sticks and blankets and cardboard boxes and dressing up and going to the opera. Memories, fresh like a wound. Sometimes something so small. Going to the post office. A slideshow of post offices in my life. The disinfected paper smell, the lines of people waiting to mail a package, the solid colors of the interior, gray, black, white. A scrubby short haired black carpet, well worn. I turned into a set of wings made out of crayon or colored pencil markings. As if pushed and pulled by the wind I stunned through the air, waving in the sunlight, pencil dashes of red and blue and purple. Like an animation from Reading Rainbow. Thrown and tossed about like a lightweight wale in the sea. An enormous behemoth of grey and blue leaping like a kitten among the waves. It should be terrifying and would be if its teeth were any larger or sharper and if there was not such a happy gleam in its huge eye.
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Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 10:49 PM UTC
compilation; shorts
god stood by me, he hid in my pocket like a piece of amethyst when i ran he turned into the forest to envelop me his spirits became soft grasses, scented woods and colorful flower The elderly woman in her garden in the early morning before the sun rises too high. She never sprays chemicals to get rid of the snails, instead she works and plants for and around them. This garden is to celebrate life, not to take it away. The wooden fence bordering her property is low and unoffensive enough to allow through woodland creatures who are never shooed away for taking a walk or a bite through the herbage. Perhaps she is atoning for a life of death and destruction. Or perhaps she is a saint. They enjoyed things like making forts out of sticks and blankets and cardboard boxes and dressing up and going to the opera. Memories, fresh like a wound. Sometimes something so small. Going to the post office. A slideshow of post offices in my life. The disinfected paper smell, the lines of people waiting to mail a package, the solid colors of the interior, gray, black, white. A scrubby short haired black carpet, well worn. I turned into a set of wings made out of crayon or colored pencil markings. As if pushed and pulled by the wind I stunned through the air, waving in the sunlight, pencil dashes of red and blue and purple. Like an animation from Reading Rainbow. Thrown and tossed about like a lightweight wale in the sea. An enormous behemoth of grey and blue leaping like a kitten among the waves. It should be terrifying and would be if its teeth were any larger or sharper and if there was not such a happy gleam in its huge eye.
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Was I maudlin over our breakup? For a minute. If I think of you now, it’s like a slideshow of unflattering images. At the time, my breakup buddies reminded me you were a bad choice - like a brand of deodorant that gave me a rash or fashionable shoes that chafed, even after they were stretched. “Ruca,” my girlfriends would say, “you’re shootin-terrible, they’re a million pork-swords in the sea.” Finally, I pulled the trigger - double-tapped us. At first, reminders of you, those siren whispers of nostalgia, were everywhere - like the moon - which, I just had to live with. You passed from memory though, that’s how memory works. Events fade, like last week’s chemistry test, or yesterday’s lunch. Now, if someone asks me, “Hey, remember, what’s his name, your big love from high school?” I say “Nope.” I chose to laugh, dance - and shoot birds at the moon.
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May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023 at 8:37 PM UTC
shooting birds at the moon
It's when your stomach hurts and you dont remember why you were sad and nothing is really super important except yourself and you just laugh because you can and the sky is so pretty and you can feel sunshine's essence exuding from the holes in your skin and your bones are filled with electricity but it's rubber and you can do anything ANYTHING anything because you're you and nobody else can be you and the world is there to look at, so full of pretty things and it doesn't matter if there's somebody or nobody or everybody by your side because it's just that perfect moment when the love in you body is a droplet it hits the ground and wrenches itself into shapes patterns that coalesce you are enraptured, the sight is burning into your retinas the perfectional bliss that is being the will'o'the'wisp that is your soul entangles with the white light and branches the creature that is imagination and folly folly with soft ears and kawaii smirks ***** patches of grass the birds are landing in your branches now congregational hazards social anxiety disillusioned, giving in but you don't mind the flocking free-loaders YOU'RE A STAR stellar beings never slow down for a moment unless they are enjoying the view witness the retching as spectrum slideshow the colors spill out, tumbling across the sidewalk out of her veins she is god we are free be happy lift your arms be happy
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 9:45 PM UTC
what is this happy
Certain people see things differently. Now why do we do that? Is it a lack of closeness? Maybe communication? I have questions for the pastor/Pete Campbell clone at Immanuel Bible Church. Like, why does your sermon feel derivative? How often are songs played in-between the sermons? Are these songs a necessary transition? A slideshow? A distraction? I still don’t know how to sing, or keep tempo with claps. Pavlov’s dog is hated, by you. Do you hate the dog? Or do you hate the results of the experiment? Is science, a deceitful ex-girlfriend to you? Someone you don’t trust? If so I can understand you. But I don’t understand you. Because you have your truth. And I have my truth. Peter said to me truth is an abstraction. I’m telling you your truth is yours. But, cup your hand and press it against the wall of my truth, listen and you will hear a man and a man talking to each other. Their naked bodies are sealed by an anchor that you have never seen. The first man leans forward and kisses the second man on the nape of his neck. Then, the second man kisses the first man on the left part of his chest. Should I stop? Am I scaring you? Do you want to watch a blonde girl stick her tongue down another blonde girl’s throat, Until her breath cannot escape and float and trail off her lips. Like the dove white spaceships that launch into the expanding horizon of darkness. Am I making sense? I want you to follow my words. I want you to respect me. The first man is talking. The second man has his arms folded behind his back like a Korean man, and he’s looking out the window, gazing at the dove white spaceship Propelling into the incredible shadow, the one that is swallowing up everything we love. Pete Campbell is the shadow. Do you care about POV? Are you bothered when another person is talking about a person in the third person? I consider your opinion, Even when you don’t consider mine. Does that make me weak? “Television turn off the mind,” that is a quote that shot out of your mouth, like an arrow from the Green Arrow dressed in Cupid’s apparel. Or is that the flesh? Carnal. I digress. Tangents happen. I was rude. I am sorry, And I know sorry is a word, And you do not value words. But I am a poet. Words are my salmon and red wine Rewind the cassette.
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 2:43 PM UTC
Sunday Notes Written for The Illiterate
Certain people see things differently. Now why do we do that? Is it a lack of closeness? Maybe communication? I have questions for the pastor/Pete Campbell clone at Immanuel Bible Church. Like, why does your sermon feel derivative? How often are songs played in-between the sermons? Are these songs a necessary transition? A slideshow? A distraction? I still don’t know how to sing, or keep tempo with claps. Pavlov’s dog is hated, by you. Do you hate the dog? Or do you hate the results of the experiment? Is science, a deceitful ex-girlfriend to you? Someone you don’t trust? If so I can understand you. But I don’t understand you. Because you have your truth. And I have my truth. Peter said to me truth is an abstraction. I’m telling you your truth is yours. But, cup your hand and press it against the wall of my truth, listen and you will hear a man and a man talking to each other. Their naked bodies are sealed by an anchor that you have never seen. The first man leans forward and kisses the second man on the nape of his neck. Then, the second man kisses the first man on the left part of his chest. Should I stop? Am I scaring you? Do you want to watch a blonde girl stick her tongue down another blonde girl’s throat, Until her breath cannot escape and float and trail off her lips. Like the dove white spaceships that launch into the expanding horizon of darkness. Am I making sense? I want you to follow my words. I want you to respect me. The first man is talking. The second man has his arms folded behind his back like a Korean man, and he’s looking out the window, gazing at the dove white spaceship Propelling into the incredible shadow, the one that is swallowing up everything we love. Pete Campbell is the shadow. Do you care about POV? Are you bothered when another person is talking about a person in the third person? I consider your opinion, Even when you don’t consider mine. Does that make me weak? “Television turn off the mind,” that is a quote that shot out of your mouth, like an arrow from the Green Arrow dressed in Cupid’s apparel. Or is that the flesh? Carnal. I digress. Tangents happen. I was rude. I am sorry, And I know sorry is a word, And you do not value words. But I am a poet. Words are my salmon and red wine Rewind the cassette.
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A frail old man wanders aimlessly along the boardwalk of a deserted beach Hunched over like the the boughs of an oak tree weighed down by its branches Things burden this man. Heavy in weight on mind and body Once swarming with tourists in a way similar to flies around a porch light this beach is now dank and dismal to the eye The preconceptions of flashing lights and rowdy parties filling its strip just reside as a distant memory in the depth of the deep blue. On which he gazes out to after taking a long wheezing breath into his shrivelled lungs. He stands alone reminiscing about previous conquests from his long distant youth Thinking about all his relationships with friends and loved ones Perusing through his memory bank as of he were a granddad proudly giving a slideshow to his only grandchild And as a tear slowly trickles down his weathered face he reconciles with himself that like seeing the last copy of an acclaimed novel being sold he definitely let the one get away. As this fact dawns on him, knowing he shall always be alone He takes a deliberate pace towards the steps leading to the sandy wasteland that used to be so glorious and golden. Gradually picking up speed and stumbling over himself he makes the journey to the edge of the water Fully aware of the desire that is overtaking his mind, body and soul The sea begins to seep into his shoes then dampens the tip of his trousers Now with the water up to his waist he is shivering and struggling to catch his breath But onwards he walks becoming stronger as he battles the waves cascading against his body. Is this really what it has come to, but as the last strand of his silky grey hair disappears into the salty blue He feels the weight of the past float away and he is at peace The water has cleansed his soul, rinsed his mind Deep in the depths of the sea shall his regrets remain forever. And as his body floats to the surface his soul rises higher and higher up to the clouds Reaching the end his eyes catch a glimpse through the pearly whiteness Of a silhouette he recognises It stands facing away seeming to exude beauty like a single rose in hand of a romantic gesture When he steps through the gates The silhouette senses his presence and turns He knows in that moment, he has made it He is in Heaven.
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM UTC
A Shore Thing
A frail old man wanders aimlessly along the boardwalk of a deserted beach Hunched over like the the boughs of an oak tree weighed down by its branches Things burden this man. Heavy in weight on mind and body Once swarming with tourists in a way similar to flies around a porch light this beach is now dank and dismal to the eye The preconceptions of flashing lights and rowdy parties filling its strip just reside as a distant memory in the depth of the deep blue. On which he gazes out to after taking a long wheezing breath into his shrivelled lungs. He stands alone reminiscing about previous conquests from his long distant youth Thinking about all his relationships with friends and loved ones Perusing through his memory bank as of he were a granddad proudly giving a slideshow to his only grandchild And as a tear slowly trickles down his weathered face he reconciles with himself that like seeing the last copy of an acclaimed novel being sold he definitely let the one get away. As this fact dawns on him, knowing he shall always be alone He takes a deliberate pace towards the steps leading to the sandy wasteland that used to be so glorious and golden. Gradually picking up speed and stumbling over himself he makes the journey to the edge of the water Fully aware of the desire that is overtaking his mind, body and soul The sea begins to seep into his shoes then dampens the tip of his trousers Now with the water up to his waist he is shivering and struggling to catch his breath But onwards he walks becoming stronger as he battles the waves cascading against his body. Is this really what it has come to, but as the last strand of his silky grey hair disappears into the salty blue He feels the weight of the past float away and he is at peace The water has cleansed his soul, rinsed his mind Deep in the depths of the sea shall his regrets remain forever. And as his body floats to the surface his soul rises higher and higher up to the clouds Reaching the end his eyes catch a glimpse through the pearly whiteness Of a silhouette he recognises It stands facing away seeming to exude beauty like a single rose in hand of a romantic gesture When he steps through the gates The silhouette senses his presence and turns He knows in that moment, he has made it He is in Heaven.
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When the sun goes down and everything gets quiet The slideshow begins to play A flashbulb memory of you dancing wildly around the piles of decay Forever tormenting me and feeding on any bit of happiness that dares to shine through Shining a light on you kissing her, and me kissing you… I feel so disgusting… I feel so used… I feel so worthless… It feels as though all of the love I ever gave you was abused… The light burns my eyes I’ve been in the dark so long It hurts even more now that I know this has been going on all along Did I ever mean anything to you? Did you ever really care? Or was I just there to fill the space? I ask these questions, but the answers I can’t bare… So many nights spent alone, pining for your love Looking for just a small shimmer of hope… Or just one kind word from you to think of… I don’t have the heart to tell you everything… What I did while you were gone Sitting in the dark alone… Praying not to make it to dawn I keep these thoughts to myself… It would only break your heart After all this is our chance to make it better This is our fresh start Still, it eats at me everyday… Every hour, and every second I have to wonder if what you say is true I have to wonder if you really meant it Are you really ready to come home? Or was I what you settle for? Did you come back because you wanted to? Or did you come back because she wasn’t an option anymore? How will you deal with temptation? Will you do it again? Can we put this all behind us? Can our hearts ever mend? Will you make it to the top? Or is the mountain of guilt too high to climb? Should I try to move forward with you? Or am I just biding time? I’m just waiting for the hurricane to swoop in… For it to take everything I ever cared for Leaving me alone again… I can’t watch you walk out that door anymore… You are always leaving… Leaving me behind Your words forever haunt me They never leave my mind… Why would you do this to me? Why didn’t you offer me mercy before now? I hate what happened to us… I want to move forward, but I don’t know how… I don’t know how to live with everything you have done Every broken promise ever made Every lie you have ever spun How do you come back from that? How do you crawl out from the debris? How do you forgive these trespasses? How do you forgive adultery?
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Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 2:44 PM UTC
Forgiveness and Adultery
When the sun goes down and everything gets quiet The slideshow begins to play A flashbulb memory of you dancing wildly around the piles of decay Forever tormenting me and feeding on any bit of happiness that dares to shine through Shining a light on you kissing her, and me kissing you… I feel so disgusting… I feel so used… I feel so worthless… It feels as though all of the love I ever gave you was abused… The light burns my eyes I’ve been in the dark so long It hurts even more now that I know this has been going on all along Did I ever mean anything to you? Did you ever really care? Or was I just there to fill the space? I ask these questions, but the answers I can’t bare… So many nights spent alone, pining for your love Looking for just a small shimmer of hope… Or just one kind word from you to think of… I don’t have the heart to tell you everything… What I did while you were gone Sitting in the dark alone… Praying not to make it to dawn I keep these thoughts to myself… It would only break your heart After all this is our chance to make it better This is our fresh start Still, it eats at me everyday… Every hour, and every second I have to wonder if what you say is true I have to wonder if you really meant it Are you really ready to come home? Or was I what you settle for? Did you come back because you wanted to? Or did you come back because she wasn’t an option anymore? How will you deal with temptation? Will you do it again? Can we put this all behind us? Can our hearts ever mend? Will you make it to the top? Or is the mountain of guilt too high to climb? Should I try to move forward with you? Or am I just biding time? I’m just waiting for the hurricane to swoop in… For it to take everything I ever cared for Leaving me alone again… I can’t watch you walk out that door anymore… You are always leaving… Leaving me behind Your words forever haunt me They never leave my mind… Why would you do this to me? Why didn’t you offer me mercy before now? I hate what happened to us… I want to move forward, but I don’t know how… I don’t know how to live with everything you have done Every broken promise ever made Every lie you have ever spun How do you come back from that? How do you crawl out from the debris? How do you forgive these trespasses? How do you forgive adultery?
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These thoughts grind my teeth through sleep. These dreams make waking up a gift and a chore. Morning injects me into reality Like a vaccine: a deadened virus that will keep you safe. I cannot stomach this infertility, Not yet. I am not what I am The eyes of those who pretend to see: As benevolent as a mouth full of razors. The mouths that I always want to kiss. The lips that I always seem to pursue. The cuts that I always pretend to cherish. The ancient lust shakes my blood. And I am forced to embrace nostalgia as She and She and He and Then penetrate my mind: a time long past. What is memory but a slideshow of regrets? Every word becomes a mistake. All triumphs a fleeting matter worthy of none. Eviscerate my joy and live in its corpse. It is April and we are frozen: Stuck in a world we never knew In a love we thought we felt A life we never lived. Entering this house is the last twist of the knife. You're breaking my soul upon your eyes: No birds sing. Life isn't very long. Even roses wilt. It's rude to stare. High on sidewalks and streetlights, The sun has set: will it rise again? What is to become of this, My darkness? There is no clock tower here, and My full moon is setting too fast. Day will come, day will come. Feeling too much or nothing at all. My heart races and I've no clue why. And I will come home, to a sepulcher Void of all light and screeching like the Storm. I lift the knife to my side, I look at you, and I sigh.... These thoughts grind my teeth through sleep.
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Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010 at 7:55 PM UTC
No Way But This:
These thoughts grind my teeth through sleep. These dreams make waking up a gift and a chore. Morning injects me into reality Like a vaccine: a deadened virus that will keep you safe. I cannot stomach this infertility, Not yet. I am not what I am The eyes of those who pretend to see: As benevolent as a mouth full of razors. The mouths that I always want to kiss. The lips that I always seem to pursue. The cuts that I always pretend to cherish. The ancient lust shakes my blood. And I am forced to embrace nostalgia as She and She and He and Then penetrate my mind: a time long past. What is memory but a slideshow of regrets? Every word becomes a mistake. All triumphs a fleeting matter worthy of none. Eviscerate my joy and live in its corpse. It is April and we are frozen: Stuck in a world we never knew In a love we thought we felt A life we never lived. Entering this house is the last twist of the knife. You're breaking my soul upon your eyes: No birds sing. Life isn't very long. Even roses wilt. It's rude to stare. High on sidewalks and streetlights, The sun has set: will it rise again? What is to become of this, My darkness? There is no clock tower here, and My full moon is setting too fast. Day will come, day will come. Feeling too much or nothing at all. My heart races and I've no clue why. And I will come home, to a sepulcher Void of all light and screeching like the Storm. I lift the knife to my side, I look at you, and I sigh.... These thoughts grind my teeth through sleep.
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All hopes of concentration have been lost I'm astral projected out of this dungeon Swooping with the monarchs before the frost They are royalty in the insect kingdom This is their time As it is mine To frolic and to remember What comes with November Remember, remember? Soon the leaves will decompose Then the chill won't leave my toes Once Old Man Winter settles in Let the internal slideshow begin Fall is here and you're away And I'm not sure if that's okay
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Nov 7, 2012
Nov 7, 2012 at 4:04 PM UTC
Remember, remember?
I went and shot down a star today Watched it zoom right past the moon It nudged by Mars and asteroids and it slammed straight into Neptune I laughed as all the sparks flew down They fell past some clouds in the sky While beholding this amazing sight I thought, “Who would want to die?” Not everything is so impossible Everyday less becomes improbable As long as your brain functions your imagination is unstoppable So much has been accomplished from so many creative minds Airplanes cruise faster than sound and some cars can stop on a dime We possess instant communication, keeping in touch with all in relation to maybe take them on vacation containing multiple destinations There’s so much to still be done Have you floated past the sun in a brand new, shiny rocket ship while playing with your son? Maybe someday you’ll be viewed in a slideshow within a room packed with friends and family laughing because it’s so cute to see you live out every dream as you smile the entire time They can see the whole universe as they look directly in your eyes
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
Advanced Placement
*Visions of a backlit childhood Of golden-haired halos and shadowed eyes Slideshow in flashes of painful yesterdays For those still unfamiliar Longing to hold the child as he cries Those tears cannot fall in confusion's void And fear darkens all roads 'can be seen Still here, in their nightmare, Like it was my own Is a truth told in smiles and jellybeans Long since gone away*
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 3:20 AM UTC
In Dreams They Come
The night started off right, good friends, good vibes, all love. Downtown Charm City and it was all about us. Got a couple rounds of shots, pretty soon it was all hugs. I was fading, for real. Here’s a good pic of a girl all in my ear. Telling me everything that I probably wanna hear. I think I said “Girl I’m from the Old Bay.” And then she said “Mmm bring it my way.” Put in a request for the DJ, he said Alright, okay. We kept drinking drink after drink, we’re tipsy. Now we’re on the floor cutting loose, acting like a fool. She gave me a kiss? Did I kiss back? Oh **** don’t remember that! How much did I have to drink last night? I woke up with a total stranger. She had her grips on me. Here’s me in the car with her. Made me feel like a king. I made a slideshow with her? Everything’s such a blur. I woke up in her bed while she's downstairs making eggs. Am I alright? I’m okay.
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Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021 at 4:10 PM UTC
Slideshow
Sea pulse asurge, your pores brace for influx: the scrub of sixteen salts whose rigid karma scrapes us down. So sound the signals (likely sales) from shoehorned sleeper towns. Their patron wasn't long for earth; a grid (what genius!) takes a bow, puts slideshow on, and all we hear is how. When sunlight stirs again we'll chisel feeble errors, chip a bullet out of stone. We'll see which skulkers have a six at home, and toast the night in sheetery. When devils drain the foosty runoff of your prim report to primal center, sweep up white-horse myths bleached out of paved-gray lots. Submerge in steam of favor, frenzied in unseen replies (no sharper catching eyes as coffees, tipped to spoon in drowse-A.M.s from furtive nights) -- Behold (unsold to rights) uncensored action, living truth! Untempted nine-percenters, go-betweens for stunning tens ground out of poison pens. Abrade with noise what was to clean our lens.
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 11:58 PM UTC
Road Salt
Suppressed memories are a slideshow inside her mind. Like a nightmare playing through a projector. These images shadow her from the truth. They're filled with selfish thoughts, feeding her addiction. Cold sweats bleed from her forehead, and restless hands grip her bedsheets with desperation. She shrieks words of terror and no one answers. Absolute loneliness is her realization. The sinking sand beneath her grows hungry. Then swallows her whole down into its belly. A heavy silence fills the room... Never to be seen again this horror cannot be forgotten. For all along her family was by her side.
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM UTC
Last Breath
- i took no pleasantries in that adjustment from the top shelf of Pastry Perfection to the wicker-wire dust bunnies at the "sole" level of humanity after i mistakenly thought —you—  took some element of freeverse i had posted a couple of years ago at one of the more-read poetry sites on the internet- then i realized something, Poet.. that for all those sleepless hours you spent cramming for the SAT— i posited on how many welding rods could be burned down during a two hour period of trade school and with respect to those thousands of words diligently packed into your undergrad dissertation— (*including that humorous description of a knitted strap you used to keep the pencil from rolling off the table*) i wrote a brief essay of commonalities on how much Gerald R. Ford and Elwyn Brooks White actually disliked football, and to those thoughtfully crafted lectures in front of scores of distinguished scholars and senior staff— i was projecting shadow puppets onto a screen during a slideshow while the teacher excused herself to the restroom. basically this;   as to the volumes of books you have published over the decades— i have a few thousand words of amateur poetry posted online inside of a few years. That Said, for those carefully-placed words (of mine) you incorporated into your latest masterpiece, realizing poets will not always happen upon the same instant at any given intersection, i recognized that most familiar sensation we Both get when having correctly delivered the punchline to the funniest joke of the evening. we —in fact— have only the readings of fellow writers to blame for each other's blending of creative impulses, that during these miraculous, yet humble birthings of verse— i have it now on good authority, that we all could possibly exist within this capacity                                       as mere equals... "The Lanyard of Amateur Poetry" © 2020 by Seranaea Jones all rights reserved .
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Oct 7, 2020
Oct 7, 2020 at 6:53 AM UTC
The Lanyard of Amateur Poetry
- i took no pleasantries in that adjustment from the top shelf of Pastry Perfection to the wicker-wire dust bunnies at the "sole" level of humanity after i mistakenly thought —you—  took some element of freeverse i had posted a couple of years ago at one of the more-read poetry sites on the internet- then i realized something, Poet.. that for all those sleepless hours you spent cramming for the SAT— i posited on how many welding rods could be burned down during a two hour period of trade school and with respect to those thousands of words diligently packed into your undergrad dissertation— (*including that humorous description of a knitted strap you used to keep the pencil from rolling off the table*) i wrote a brief essay of commonalities on how much Gerald R. Ford and Elwyn Brooks White actually disliked football, and to those thoughtfully crafted lectures in front of scores of distinguished scholars and senior staff— i was projecting shadow puppets onto a screen during a slideshow while the teacher excused herself to the restroom. basically this;   as to the volumes of books you have published over the decades— i have a few thousand words of amateur poetry posted online inside of a few years. That Said, for those carefully-placed words (of mine) you incorporated into your latest masterpiece, realizing poets will not always happen upon the same instant at any given intersection, i recognized that most familiar sensation we Both get when having correctly delivered the punchline to the funniest joke of the evening. we —in fact— have only the readings of fellow writers to blame for each other's blending of creative impulses, that during these miraculous, yet humble birthings of verse— i have it now on good authority, that we all could possibly exist within this capacity                                       as mere equals... "The Lanyard of Amateur Poetry" © 2020 by Seranaea Jones all rights reserved .
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She breathes against my neck. It's a slideshow of sounds growing and falling around me. I don't know where it's coming from. Her skin slides against mine like we are a piece of machinery, working towards the same goal. Keep moving, keep moaning. Her hips bucking and my hand over her mouth to keep anyone from hearing us-- from entering our world. The wind is knocking at the window, trying to throw us off. I grab her chin with my hand as the other grabs at anything it can reach. Her eyes are blurry. They have a hard time focusing on mine. Are you scared, baby? I'll go slower. I torture her. Make sure she's paying full attention. Make sure she's losing her mind. Her body makes waves against mine. We lose ourselves to each other and the wind keeps trying to get inside.
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Apr 19, 2013
Apr 19, 2013 at 4:27 PM UTC
Escaping to the suburbs~ NSFW
Its nights like this where I just want drum out the beats of your heart with my fingertips. I want to feel the resistance to separate each and every kiss. I want to see your dark brown eyes illuminated with starlight and moonbeams dancing between the thick black strands of your hair. I want to sing lullabies and then wake you from sleep to remind you I'm still there. I want to whisper dreams across the pillowcase and wrap your arms around me until we've fallen in too deep. I want to make dances out of your restlessness and poems from your mumbling. I want to be the reason you’re bursting with color and in the dark I want to us to love one another. It’s those nights that I long, but here, by myself, the nights drag on. I close my eyes and reminisce through a slideshow of memories filled with pure bliss. I hope that one day we’ll live like that. Where our scattered clothing makes a perfect picture on the floor and the sliver of light coming from under the door will warn us of morning. I want to be there when it’s too early to for your mouth to form words and your irises are born anew. I want to walk with you through winter, spring, summer, and fall. I just want to feel it all. Every little smile and stupid little joke; I want to live through the fire and the smoke. I could give you the world and it still wouldn't mirror what you're worth to me. I want to dig so far and wide and long and deep that we unearth heaven from under the sea. Imagining forever with you has become my sleepless obsession. So when the darkness holds your breath and the wind bites at your cheek, just know, those are the nights where I give you my heart piece by piece. And on nights like tonight remember that it is yours to keep.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 12:04 AM UTC
Lagniappe - A Special Kind of Gift
Its nights like this where I just want drum out the beats of your heart with my fingertips. I want to feel the resistance to separate each and every kiss. I want to see your dark brown eyes illuminated with starlight and moonbeams dancing between the thick black strands of your hair. I want to sing lullabies and then wake you from sleep to remind you I'm still there. I want to whisper dreams across the pillowcase and wrap your arms around me until we've fallen in too deep. I want to make dances out of your restlessness and poems from your mumbling. I want to be the reason you’re bursting with color and in the dark I want to us to love one another. It’s those nights that I long, but here, by myself, the nights drag on. I close my eyes and reminisce through a slideshow of memories filled with pure bliss. I hope that one day we’ll live like that. Where our scattered clothing makes a perfect picture on the floor and the sliver of light coming from under the door will warn us of morning. I want to be there when it’s too early to for your mouth to form words and your irises are born anew. I want to walk with you through winter, spring, summer, and fall. I just want to feel it all. Every little smile and stupid little joke; I want to live through the fire and the smoke. I could give you the world and it still wouldn't mirror what you're worth to me. I want to dig so far and wide and long and deep that we unearth heaven from under the sea. Imagining forever with you has become my sleepless obsession. So when the darkness holds your breath and the wind bites at your cheek, just know, those are the nights where I give you my heart piece by piece. And on nights like tonight remember that it is yours to keep.
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It all moves out of view This spacial slideshow of curious imagery If you know the place, the images cast nostalgia, a padded sense of familiarity and recollections dragged out of dusty boxes If you don't know the place, the images leave an odd awkward sense of speculation, the stories taken for granted behind other irises that leave you pondering If the driver doesn't want music, the mind types itself out, fingers picking through the paperwork The hum gains its repetitive dulling thud, and you have two friends Sleep or boredom They both **** If the driver wants music, boredom still looms in the air, hanging from the rafters from coils made of dust But the potential for the pretty little day dream to drop across your lap is something to be admired Here's where you learn whether you respect your driver's taste And whether your man enough to say anything about it And so you are polite, whether you like the music or not The world outside still takes your eye between the small talk Billions upon billions of cells joining in sweet matramony so many times over its a wonder so brilliant that it would break the mind Joining to form that house. Oh it's gone. Your mind fills with your life Two parts goals, work, study, ambitions One part relationships, lovers, friends, fueds A dash of media intermission, those things you saw that were cool All stirred for 3 hours with a touch of day dream sauce Wait until the journey ends and you can forget all about it
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Mar 11, 2010
Mar 11, 2010 at 3:30 PM UTC
Sitting in the back seat
Indearment relates to the conscious mind in strange and inferring terms. Too often and seldom hath thou image been engraved amidst the fluttering pictorial slideshow lining my psyche. When I want you, I need you ; desire sprouts from my arteries and spreads like wildfire. But in rare moments of absolute tranquility (for example the the little death one experiences after ******  do I realize the futility of that very emotion I held to be sacred only seconds prior. "Love" is merely an emotional adaptation to a physical necessity Self-indulgence is the name of the game. Wanna play ?
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 2:11 PM UTC
Wanna play ?
Aren't we all Just waiting for our time to be up? The day when Body and soul come undone When everything that mattered Doesn't anymore And you see your years in seconds- A paparazzi slideshow Your sins left behind For loved ones to collect Like a forensic Easter egg hunt Then you drift In the parallel lines That blur religion and reality Too late to question Everything you've ever known Too soon to regret Sunday's Idol Eyes
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 10:42 PM UTC
The Transition
I see things, Naked to the normal human eye. I relive the past And experience the future. The strangest throbbing pain in my abdomen. A slideshow of events screened inside my eyelids; Shivers and shakes. Convulsions. Icicle tears. My preparation for tomorrow, For tomorrow; Will come but with difficulty For you and for me. Some may call it de ja vu, I call it premonition.
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC
Premonition
I put the words before the mouth Leaked out into to your ears I watched your eyes As the process reference dilate When thoughts Brought heat to your chest And blood to your face Torn up words bleed in your throat Red lava boiling up below the surface Looking for a weak spots Where you could place your fingers Straight lines of hair fall perfect Guided each by wind Wondering about skin And its warmth As raging core temperatures rise Skin contact Radiates Into My brain You took my mind and smashed it like a glass bottle Letting it cut the skin and scrape your bone Yet you hold it Letting me bleed in Cell by cell A clone Soft lips dragged me up like hot coffee you put me down like the needle to the vein Infecting me with silence and malice, lust and sadness
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Feb 9, 2012
Feb 9, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
Slideshow slow motion super magic soundtrack