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"sourness" poems
Living freely in this world My vulnerability, feels so lost As it seeks the skies to escape all Perched high away and hiding My heart forsaken For my vulnerability Has left The little bird has flown My retreating heart lives behind Many layers of frozen ice The warm waters of my heart Have all frozen over Come back, come back little bird A teardrop falls For I see the loss of potential In this frozen pond Where waters should be warm My heart should sing Great rich jungles, it should bring My pride wounded by this world I stare into my murky depths My standing in this world falling As my legs are taken By the jaws of a giant beast Far away a bird twitches My stomach twists and turns Absorbed I am into the belly Of a great giant crocodile I begin to feel my vulnerability In these dangerous warm acidic waters As I merge into a crocodile And high above a bird leaves his perch As the ice layers break With the force of my tail New eyes see the self importance in people Of this earth, with all their arrogance I will bring you back to earth For I am the last living dinosaur Born from a time when T.rex reigned And even the birds had teeth For I still live in waters Where Piranha's seek to Frenzy on living flesh And I am to be scared of you I warn all of those who wish to disturb My open and most precious heart That rests in silence over my pond For your flesh will quiver With the sound of my ancient growl And your eyes will panic With the sight of my jaw A quiet bird flutters closer Bring your bitterness and all your sourness For I am hungry and love rotten meat And your disregard feeds my fury Circle my pond Where my heart rests softly With rich and green waters Bursting and growing in love For I am not scared to feel And I will lounge and grab As a tonne of me, slaps itself Bang, hard on this earth For I am here to feel it And not escape it But you will be blind And lost in my depths I will turn you over and Your arrogance will feed me As I grow stronger You will be ripped limb from limb   A little bird comes closer My heart free from noise A silence nestles in me And all innocence is seen Beautiful souls float freely Butterflies dance and play And my beautiful vulnerability returns in sweet song And rests softly in my jaw A strange paradox becomes so very clear With a little bird we hold so dear
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
THE JAWS OF VULNERABILITY
Living freely in this world My vulnerability, feels so lost As it seeks the skies to escape all Perched high away and hiding My heart forsaken For my vulnerability Has left The little bird has flown My retreating heart lives behind Many layers of frozen ice The warm waters of my heart Have all frozen over Come back, come back little bird A teardrop falls For I see the loss of potential In this frozen pond Where waters should be warm My heart should sing Great rich jungles, it should bring My pride wounded by this world I stare into my murky depths My standing in this world falling As my legs are taken By the jaws of a giant beast Far away a bird twitches My stomach twists and turns Absorbed I am into the belly Of a great giant crocodile I begin to feel my vulnerability In these dangerous warm acidic waters As I merge into a crocodile And high above a bird leaves his perch As the ice layers break With the force of my tail New eyes see the self importance in people Of this earth, with all their arrogance I will bring you back to earth For I am the last living dinosaur Born from a time when T.rex reigned And even the birds had teeth For I still live in waters Where Piranha's seek to Frenzy on living flesh And I am to be scared of you I warn all of those who wish to disturb My open and most precious heart That rests in silence over my pond For your flesh will quiver With the sound of my ancient growl And your eyes will panic With the sight of my jaw A quiet bird flutters closer Bring your bitterness and all your sourness For I am hungry and love rotten meat And your disregard feeds my fury Circle my pond Where my heart rests softly With rich and green waters Bursting and growing in love For I am not scared to feel And I will lounge and grab As a tonne of me, slaps itself Bang, hard on this earth For I am here to feel it And not escape it But you will be blind And lost in my depths I will turn you over and Your arrogance will feed me As I grow stronger You will be ripped limb from limb   A little bird comes closer My heart free from noise A silence nestles in me And all innocence is seen Beautiful souls float freely Butterflies dance and play And my beautiful vulnerability returns in sweet song And rests softly in my jaw A strange paradox becomes so very clear With a little bird we hold so dear
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Dear Nike, No better felling then when I get that new shoe smell Fresher than a spring breeze Like a wizard making a new spell I reach out and grab my Nikes Pull them on my feet They are Comfy as a the softest cloud Smooth as the purest silk Magnificent as a majestic eagle spreading its wings to fly off into a deep red sunset They make me feel relaxed as  sitting in the shade on a warm summer day When I wear you I feel as strong as the Rock lifting a thousand pounds faster than Usain Bolt shattering a world record and hearing fans cream his name All the pressure off It's just my Nikes and I I'm a blur with my nikes Fast as a cheetah sprinting after a desperately bounding antelope Can't even see me People try to keep up All they do is trip up When they glance up from the cold hard ground thick mud covering their face All they see are my beautiful piercing green Nikes Running down the court Legs pumping Muscles flexing So much sweat pouring off my face its like a raging river I taste the sourness of salt in my mouth Next thing you know It's all over The buzzer roars Everyones jumps on their feet All eyes locked on the ball flying through the air Fans screaming like angry banshees so loud it could make you deaf Swoosh And it's all over There's a reason Nike means victory It's because no one can even compete Before the battle is started they've already been beat People who don't wear them Just haven't realized that the shoes they wear are inferior Do their shoes give them the power to jump one thousand feet Sprint at the speed of light Make exery shot they take No On the torn up field On the scuffed up court It doesn't matter When I wear my Nikes They make me fly Around the world Through white wispy clouds surrounded by beautiful baby blue sky Across the endless oceans full of green and turquoise churning water and silver jumping fish Through fields full of long dark green grass Feeling the wind blow through my face like an angry hurricane Its like I'm in the flashing streets Hong kong Nike shoe game is just too strong Love, Zach
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM UTC
Nike
Dear Nike, No better felling then when I get that new shoe smell Fresher than a spring breeze Like a wizard making a new spell I reach out and grab my Nikes Pull them on my feet They are Comfy as a the softest cloud Smooth as the purest silk Magnificent as a majestic eagle spreading its wings to fly off into a deep red sunset They make me feel relaxed as  sitting in the shade on a warm summer day When I wear you I feel as strong as the Rock lifting a thousand pounds faster than Usain Bolt shattering a world record and hearing fans cream his name All the pressure off It's just my Nikes and I I'm a blur with my nikes Fast as a cheetah sprinting after a desperately bounding antelope Can't even see me People try to keep up All they do is trip up When they glance up from the cold hard ground thick mud covering their face All they see are my beautiful piercing green Nikes Running down the court Legs pumping Muscles flexing So much sweat pouring off my face its like a raging river I taste the sourness of salt in my mouth Next thing you know It's all over The buzzer roars Everyones jumps on their feet All eyes locked on the ball flying through the air Fans screaming like angry banshees so loud it could make you deaf Swoosh And it's all over There's a reason Nike means victory It's because no one can even compete Before the battle is started they've already been beat People who don't wear them Just haven't realized that the shoes they wear are inferior Do their shoes give them the power to jump one thousand feet Sprint at the speed of light Make exery shot they take No On the torn up field On the scuffed up court It doesn't matter When I wear my Nikes They make me fly Around the world Through white wispy clouds surrounded by beautiful baby blue sky Across the endless oceans full of green and turquoise churning water and silver jumping fish Through fields full of long dark green grass Feeling the wind blow through my face like an angry hurricane Its like I'm in the flashing streets Hong kong Nike shoe game is just too strong Love, Zach
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There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself -- Infinite, green, utterly untouchable. Angels swim in it, and the stars, in indifference also. They are my medium. The sun dissolves on this wall, bleeding its lights. A grey wall now, clawed and ****** Is there no way out of the mind? Steps at my back spiral into a well. There are no trees or birds in this world, There is only sourness. This red wall winces continually: A red fist, opening and closing, Two grey, papery bags -- This is what i am made of, this, and a terror Of being wheeled off under crosses and rain of pieties. On a black wall, unidentifiable birds Swivel their heads and cry. There is no talk of immorality amoun these! Cold blanks approach us: They move in a hurry.
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Apprehensions
The word is evil yet the feeling is sweet. Revenge is something we all want no one can disagree, though i never thought i ever would. Love, peace, smile, happiness is what i used to think.. i wanted to be the sweetness like in the movies the princess who are ever so kind, in the end they get everything they dream of! ...but that's not what life's about now is it, we all know its about this one, simple word, Revenge... Well of course i have met some nice people in my life not everyone can be considered bad as most, but some people just drive you insane! to the point that you just want to... get revenge of course. Yes i do believe the action is just as evil as the word but we all need to have a bit of fun every now and again and im sure everyone can agree on that. I mean what better way is to see the sourness, the betrayal, the hurt! on your enemies face... or friends, but you know most friends are enemies. Trust no one! that's what i say because everyone wants it... they all want revenge...
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Mar 3, 2011
Mar 3, 2011 at 3:48 AM UTC
Revenge
Every so often children throwing tantrums Catch parent faces, bracing fallen sourness Where outlines wrinkle rosy outlook sadly Raisins having pits Logan Robertson 1/16/2019
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Jan 16, 2019
Jan 16, 2019 at 8:07 PM UTC
Parent Coping with Child's Whine
Let me take you out to lunch Mrs Bryce said (she was a middle aged dame old enough to be his aunt) o.k if you like he said but her friend Lilly didn't like the idea (some jealousy of the lesbian kind maybe he later thought) and was quite reserved as they went to the posh upstairs restaurant he one side and they opposite Lilly giving him the cool stare her pinched mouth wrinkled forehead Mrs Bryce studied the menu her glasses on her eyes focused what you having Lilly? she asked and Lilly scanned her menu and picked out something in French and then she asked him and he said o the stew will do and the waitress came and took their orders and went off wagging her behind which he noticed but they didn't being that part sexually blind and then came the small talk the casual chat or this and that and Lilly straight faced thin lipped and icy eyes stare but he knew what Lilly didn't she had no idea about the *** or how the middle aged dame had it still could still turn on the fire could **** off his desire but Mrs Bryce never said a word not a hint she wore her middle age and middle class morals very well a mask of gentility or cultured good humour good manners on show but he knew she was hot and could go (her husband some middle aged guy with sourness and boredness in each greying eye) and she sat there giving it the small talk sipping the wine one finger raised her eyes pure as cut glass behind the specs and Lilly listened in soft admiration wanting to be nearer breathing in Mrs Bryce's scent dreaming of the two of them doing whatever in some bedroom spent but he had the real not a dream and as he watched Mrs Bryce sipping her wine thin lips on thin glass he remembered her that time lying there bright eyes greying but dyed hair he bringing her to a seventh heaven of yes and yes and more and Lilly sour faced sitting and listening to the small talk but wanting something other for sure.
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Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013 at 7:10 AM UTC
SOMETHING OTHER FOR SURE.
Let me take you out to lunch Mrs Bryce said (she was a middle aged dame old enough to be his aunt) o.k if you like he said but her friend Lilly didn't like the idea (some jealousy of the lesbian kind maybe he later thought) and was quite reserved as they went to the posh upstairs restaurant he one side and they opposite Lilly giving him the cool stare her pinched mouth wrinkled forehead Mrs Bryce studied the menu her glasses on her eyes focused what you having Lilly? she asked and Lilly scanned her menu and picked out something in French and then she asked him and he said o the stew will do and the waitress came and took their orders and went off wagging her behind which he noticed but they didn't being that part sexually blind and then came the small talk the casual chat or this and that and Lilly straight faced thin lipped and icy eyes stare but he knew what Lilly didn't she had no idea about the *** or how the middle aged dame had it still could still turn on the fire could **** off his desire but Mrs Bryce never said a word not a hint she wore her middle age and middle class morals very well a mask of gentility or cultured good humour good manners on show but he knew she was hot and could go (her husband some middle aged guy with sourness and boredness in each greying eye) and she sat there giving it the small talk sipping the wine one finger raised her eyes pure as cut glass behind the specs and Lilly listened in soft admiration wanting to be nearer breathing in Mrs Bryce's scent dreaming of the two of them doing whatever in some bedroom spent but he had the real not a dream and as he watched Mrs Bryce sipping her wine thin lips on thin glass he remembered her that time lying there bright eyes greying but dyed hair he bringing her to a seventh heaven of yes and yes and more and Lilly sour faced sitting and listening to the small talk but wanting something other for sure.
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Sorry mom I couldn’t be The child prodigy You always wanted Me to be Sorry dad I couldn’t be The most intellectual Of them all like you imagined Me to be I couldn’t be the dutiful Trophy daughter You always wanted Forgive me Papa Though I know not whose Fault is the sourness That dwells between us Maybe, it is the fact, That you wanted me to Stand out in the crowd And I chose to sink Deep in the ocean. ~Manu M.
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 5:11 AM UTC
Apology
Friendship It looks like the beautiful multiple colors of a double rainbow That emerges from the sky after a rainy day But it also looks like a huge flame of fire engulfing your body and burning it up As your skin sizzles and starts to melt away It smells like the sweet scent of lavender That calms you like it should But it also smells like nasty, spoiled, rotten eggs That no one wants to go near It feels like you are bonded by an imaginary leash That can never be broken But it also feels like you are getting stabbed with a knife Over and over again and the pain won’t stop It taste like sugar sweetness That can never be bad and makes your heart sing But it also tastes like the bitter sourness Of a lemon that makes you scrunch your face in disgust It sounds like a sweet little bird Chirping on a warm sunny day But it also sounds like the angry roar of a fierce lion That is loud as thunder and shakes the ground Friendship it goes one of two ways It’s good or bad, happy or sad It is friendship
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 6:30 PM UTC
Friendship
'Life is but a dream,' I question the value of it; at the edge of life, the edge of time, the edge of our reality; at the edge of this cliff, we edge ourselves to a falling death. But what if the fall to our death is like a dream—falling into a hole, gaining speed close to it's undersurface? We'd wake up before we hit the ground. But would I wake up in a cold sweat; or in tears, of longing to find what lies in the somber of a deep hole? Maybe my soul? Haha; it's outline must of been shaped by the mind's many dreams, my child. For what good was it; in the spirit ties of it being lost in the world?  A world at times that doesn't feel as real: _but just a life of a dream._ So by this edge, clutched by the winds of background; hold your breath before you and I jump. Time may, or may not slow in the plunge to the valley's undersurface. Still perhaps, this all could be a dream, and we'll both wake up before we hit the bottom. Surely it must be, because I don't know a reality to be as brave to commit such an act. Why pinch yourself, when you've been pinched by pillars of salt in life—sourness and bitterness? Oh my inner child, life is but a dream: and soon we'll both wake up from it.
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Jun 26, 2022
Jun 26, 2022 at 12:06 AM UTC
Monologue: Life is but a dream
I doubt, Therefore, I think Therefore, I am. I see. I take in the colours around me. The patterns, the lights, the rainbow. I see the night, and the stars that glow. I dream. Therefore, I think. Therefore, I am. I smell. The perfumes, the roses. The stench, the rotten, the putrid. The aromas, cooking. The green, the forest, the trees. I inhale, Therefore, I think. Therefore, I am. I hear. The noises. The people, the cheer. The wails, the screams, the tears. The rejoicing and happiness. I hear. Therefore, I think. Therefore, I am. I taste. The sweetness, the fire. The treats and savoury delights. The sourness, the bitterness. I eat, Therefore, I think. Therefore, I am. I speak. Short messages. Long speeches. Quiet whispers. Bellowing noises. I scream, Therefore, I think, Therefore, I am. I feel. The despair, the fear, the anguish. The joy. The pride. The seething. The envy, greed, and jealousy. The cold, the heat, the shivering. The pain, the sickness, the ageing. I die. Therefore, I lived. Therefore, I was.
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Dec 28, 2018
Dec 28, 2018 at 6:32 PM UTC
Dubito; Ergo Cogito, Ergo Sum. . .
you tasted like lemons, although that's my favorite flavor, the sourness should've been a warning
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 10:31 PM UTC
no sugar
So what if I have squint Or money I don’t mint I know my eyes blink a lot Or most of the tasks I just forgot What is the matter if I am a buffoon Or my life is much more doomed I know I hue and cry Or talking to chicks I’m a bit too shy To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am From childhood I did what you said From waking up to going to bed I am sorry I missed that one mark for DU' Now don’t look down at me in dread I deserve that seat more than that OBC" guy Or the seat that rich dad did buy Sorry I could not prove your expectation Courses are full, don’t worry ill do animation I’m facing blasphemies of life I’ll write satires on Modi or the wife To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am Sitting in the dark I forget, Sweetness, sourness is all I get Everyday having the bitter pills of fate Missing the time we chatted till late We bunked periods to find solitary places to sit You asked me to love you and I did Traded my emotions for a counteract to commit Now you know my faults and have gone so far Your confessions in my name Now just give you fame What all we dreamt now and then Now you have got someone to blame To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am I keep my secrets in my skin What all I did with innocence and ignorance Now dealing with my sins What all is left of me is in a cage To protect death from dying from my carnage I have done much, don’t expect anything from my life Let me be me, done enough truce and strife
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 3:59 AM UTC
AS I AM
So what if I have squint Or money I don’t mint I know my eyes blink a lot Or most of the tasks I just forgot What is the matter if I am a buffoon Or my life is much more doomed I know I hue and cry Or talking to chicks I’m a bit too shy To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am From childhood I did what you said From waking up to going to bed I am sorry I missed that one mark for DU' Now don’t look down at me in dread I deserve that seat more than that OBC" guy Or the seat that rich dad did buy Sorry I could not prove your expectation Courses are full, don’t worry ill do animation I’m facing blasphemies of life I’ll write satires on Modi or the wife To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am Sitting in the dark I forget, Sweetness, sourness is all I get Everyday having the bitter pills of fate Missing the time we chatted till late We bunked periods to find solitary places to sit You asked me to love you and I did Traded my emotions for a counteract to commit Now you know my faults and have gone so far Your confessions in my name Now just give you fame What all we dreamt now and then Now you have got someone to blame To those who understand I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand take me as I am not under your control I know where I stand Won’t change to suit your plan Take me as I am I keep my secrets in my skin What all I did with innocence and ignorance Now dealing with my sins What all is left of me is in a cage To protect death from dying from my carnage I have done much, don’t expect anything from my life Let me be me, done enough truce and strife
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A quiet kid, lonely in the rain, fingers the nickels and pennies in his pockets, waiting for the bus to splash around the corner, so he can get to work. He lives with a demon of a roommate, and shares snores with the roaches, Bathing in the shower of their incontinence. After college, he lost it and wrecked his mind in a haze of liquor so foggy it swallowed the moon for awhile. He stumbles through pitch black nights with an ugly soul and redemption on his mind; The worst kind of late night wanderer. Coffee and sugar keep him alive-- just like war and famine are the black angel's wives-- bringing him back into this liquid reality. In the mornings he breathes in this world, totally sober. It tastes like sourness and the milk of ***** entrapped in blue jeans in 100 degree weather all day. It was the worst kind of sobriety. All the horrors of birth. He lives many lives: One for his mother, where he plants fruitless kisses on her cheeks. Little wreaths of future disappointment. She hugs him so warmly. It makes him want to suckle his .45. One for work, all smiles and plumb submission. 9-5. 5-2. 12-9. 6-3. 4-12. And if he's lucky 12-4 on saturdays. All this in 5 dollar clothes and a rumplestiltskin attitude; trying to weave his own ugliness into truth. One for his girl, the one who'd hurl her tongue at Appollo, puke up her month's sugar intake, and curl her fingers so tight that she cut the cappillaries, making a red and white fist like a christmas cinnabon: If he ever told her who he really was. His love for her is secret. One life for himself, to keep the mirror happy. This kid. He's all or nothing.
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 10:54 PM UTC
kid.
A quiet kid, lonely in the rain, fingers the nickels and pennies in his pockets, waiting for the bus to splash around the corner, so he can get to work. He lives with a demon of a roommate, and shares snores with the roaches, Bathing in the shower of their incontinence. After college, he lost it and wrecked his mind in a haze of liquor so foggy it swallowed the moon for awhile. He stumbles through pitch black nights with an ugly soul and redemption on his mind; The worst kind of late night wanderer. Coffee and sugar keep him alive-- just like war and famine are the black angel's wives-- bringing him back into this liquid reality. In the mornings he breathes in this world, totally sober. It tastes like sourness and the milk of ***** entrapped in blue jeans in 100 degree weather all day. It was the worst kind of sobriety. All the horrors of birth. He lives many lives: One for his mother, where he plants fruitless kisses on her cheeks. Little wreaths of future disappointment. She hugs him so warmly. It makes him want to suckle his .45. One for work, all smiles and plumb submission. 9-5. 5-2. 12-9. 6-3. 4-12. And if he's lucky 12-4 on saturdays. All this in 5 dollar clothes and a rumplestiltskin attitude; trying to weave his own ugliness into truth. One for his girl, the one who'd hurl her tongue at Appollo, puke up her month's sugar intake, and curl her fingers so tight that she cut the cappillaries, making a red and white fist like a christmas cinnabon: If he ever told her who he really was. His love for her is secret. One life for himself, to keep the mirror happy. This kid. He's all or nothing.
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In my garden, feral and overgrown, I bear with branchings of the apple, Hunched and grey, laden with fallow Fruits, the tired, knottted fingers die Each year, under which are baubles Of sourness and stray, poorly drawn Circles of fodder even hungry deer Will not graze upon. The elder tree Slowly casts itself into Bonsai stone. Down a valley, in the grades of sun, Lay a stand of madrones in redden Fire, with deepest eyes of burnished Green leaves, some immortal Gorgon So beauteous, in form and branches Divine, of Olympian flame, held, atop Heavenly escarpments by the loving Skies. I see it for what it is, my love, Your body and hair, so tawny, so fair, Though, ever lost to me but in dream, Are dearly those red branches, a fable, Your eyes, green as sea, those leaves.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC
Apple and Madrone
I so badly want to say it back. It's on the tip of my tongue but Memories from before seal my mouth. They press my lips together to prevent the words from escaping, Forming a kiss. Your eyes lock onto my mouth and I know You won't give in until you taste The sourness- Though you mistake it for sweet. Despite my silence I have said it. I cannot seem to prevent myself. I go in for another kiss. This time I don't need the memories to move My lips. There. I said it. Are you happy?
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 2:43 PM UTC
Restriction
The air is damp and fresh, the scent of new rain perfumes all that surrounds me and thin mist lingers in the atmosphere. It caresses my face when I walk through it's path, a simple, happy path, like moth's wings on silk, and it no longer stings. A large oak tree stands tall and mighty, a magnificent display of solidarity - but not imposing. It is kind and bare and humble, and I see that we are both stripped in some way, raw and defrocked. I touch the last trace of green it possesses, the last bit of hope and the last reminder that things come back and that things move forward, soft moss under the pads of my fingertips, soaked and sponge like, and just there - clean and true. I turn up my collar against the wind and tighten the wrap of my coat around me, still clinging, but at least I'm shielding myself from the cold. I'm still allowed to cling just a little, I think. Sometimes we need to cling - to help us let go. And anyway, I know that change has arrived at last, no matter how small it is, because although the only embrace I receive here, aside from the fabric of my coat, is the bitter cold, I am not bitter. And this chill does nothing but bring peace, and somehow warm my heart this time instead of freezing it. A ruby under the wet russet leaves is what I see through the remnants of the rain. Peel away the outer layers so that I can remember what is beautiful. These colours do not look like blood anymore; they're a sunset: fading but with a guaranteed return. Beginnings, endings, departures and returns - that is an existence. But a life is when we look back with both longing and acceptance, to never forget but never dwell too long on what has been. Sweetness, bitterness, sourness: a weary traveler making his way along a path with Autumn meadow on one side: tranquility and rest, and Autumn meadow on the other: Summer is ended and so are you. I know which side I'm ready to seek now. For what is taken in Autumn, is also returned. And the evidence is in your being on this side of the path with me. I know - because I see the good things now. I see only the beautiful colours and the chestnuts and the mercifully short days. Yes. This Autumn will be different.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 1:32 PM UTC
An Autumn's Musings
The air is damp and fresh, the scent of new rain perfumes all that surrounds me and thin mist lingers in the atmosphere. It caresses my face when I walk through it's path, a simple, happy path, like moth's wings on silk, and it no longer stings. A large oak tree stands tall and mighty, a magnificent display of solidarity - but not imposing. It is kind and bare and humble, and I see that we are both stripped in some way, raw and defrocked. I touch the last trace of green it possesses, the last bit of hope and the last reminder that things come back and that things move forward, soft moss under the pads of my fingertips, soaked and sponge like, and just there - clean and true. I turn up my collar against the wind and tighten the wrap of my coat around me, still clinging, but at least I'm shielding myself from the cold. I'm still allowed to cling just a little, I think. Sometimes we need to cling - to help us let go. And anyway, I know that change has arrived at last, no matter how small it is, because although the only embrace I receive here, aside from the fabric of my coat, is the bitter cold, I am not bitter. And this chill does nothing but bring peace, and somehow warm my heart this time instead of freezing it. A ruby under the wet russet leaves is what I see through the remnants of the rain. Peel away the outer layers so that I can remember what is beautiful. These colours do not look like blood anymore; they're a sunset: fading but with a guaranteed return. Beginnings, endings, departures and returns - that is an existence. But a life is when we look back with both longing and acceptance, to never forget but never dwell too long on what has been. Sweetness, bitterness, sourness: a weary traveler making his way along a path with Autumn meadow on one side: tranquility and rest, and Autumn meadow on the other: Summer is ended and so are you. I know which side I'm ready to seek now. For what is taken in Autumn, is also returned. And the evidence is in your being on this side of the path with me. I know - because I see the good things now. I see only the beautiful colours and the chestnuts and the mercifully short days. Yes. This Autumn will be different.
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In my garden, feral and overgrown, I bear with branchings of the apple, Hunched and grey, laden with fallow Fruits, the tired, knottted fingers die Each year, under which are baubles Of sourness and stray, poorly drawn Circles of fodder even hungry deer Will not graze upon.  The elder tree Slowly casts itself into Bonsai stone. Down a valley, in the grades of sun, Lay a stand of madrones in redden Fire, with deepest eyes of burnished Green leaves, some immortal Gorgon So beauteous, in form and branches Divine, of Olympian flame, held, atop Heavenly escarpments by the loving Skies.  I see it for what it is, my love, Your body and hair, so tawny, so fair, Though, ever lost to me but in dream, Are dearly those red branches, a fable, Your eyes, green as sea, those leaves.
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Aug 8, 2012
Aug 8, 2012 at 11:37 AM UTC
Apple and Madrone
When life gives you lemons, You squeeze them in your eyes, You don't think twice, regret Or get to question why. For it is written in fate For it is how it is to be, You don't get to choose it , And you don't get to cry. You'll fight it, hate it, neglect it and whine, You'll curse it, resist it, run from it and hide. But it'll catch you one way or the other, It's better if it catches you this way than the other. For it stings like a bee, Then pains like a wound And you may think you are enough to take it, Before it comes back and bites you in the moon. One shot, two shot, three shot, four Glasses become empty but the lemons keep coming more. It's no fun with the acidic Sourness creeping into my soul. Yet it keeps coming more, more And more... Call it fate, Call it luck, Call it magic, Whatever you must, It is easier to blame others Than to put myself under the bus. A screw-up here, A ****** there, One by one my life has scattered everywhere. So I take these lemons that life owes And the ones that I already own, Trying hard not to put them all in my drink, Days go by but it feels like a blink, Maybe I do down them all Maybe that's become my thing. But hey, I don't whine about it anymore, Or fight it, hate it or neglect it Life keeps changing erratically, This is the truth, this is my new reality.
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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 2:01 PM UTC
Too Many Lemons
* * ~ I am a cynic and a romantic at heart. My skin hardened by experience My heart fearful of pain and trust. Many have tried to peel away my doubts and fears and try to add colour to my truth. My truth is my reality. And with that, no one can hurt me. So stop. Please stop. Don't look at me with eyes fascinated, eyes with pity, eyes of doubt. My heart's afraid and my mind's so convicted. You taste sweetness from my sourness and still... you think you can heal me...? ~ * *
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 1:40 PM UTC
Peel
Sweet n' sour is the taste you get when you drink lemonade, Sweet n' sour is the taste you get when you eat Sour Patch Kids, Sweet n' sour is the feeling you get when you think someone is telling you the truth, Then you find out that they aren't, But somewhere in between the sweetness, And the sourness of it all, You find the happy medium, Not sweet, Not sour, Just somewhere in between, Kind of like the color grey.
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 5:23 PM UTC
Sweet n' Sour:(grey)
My sweater smells like cigarette smoke. When I got out of the shower I put it back on. It's funny how things evolve. That scent used to mean cold nights And neon lights, A crowd of people full of piercings and my dad's silhouette ahead Pushing through the crowds on St. Marks, Lungs full of thick second-hand soot, Heart full of excitement and love for my city. It was a tunnel of smoke I had to get through fast, And I would hold my breath that entire street, Not wanting the burn of it in my mouth. As I got older it also started to mean That my best friend had found a new way to hate herself. I noticed a sourness to it, Something that hurt my throat, Like the feeling right before you cry. I never did like cigarette smoke. To me it meant A gruesome marriage of death and the desire to die, A fuck-you to a world whose clarity amazed me. I never liked cigarette smoke. And then I met you. And now here I am, with a bit of it clinging to my sweater, Comforted by burying my face in the soft fabric Because the fragrance reminds me of you. Funny, how things can change so completely. Whenever I smell smoke, now, I think of you, And I have noticed that the scent itself has changed Into a richer one, like incense. It's funny what loving someone can do, Huh?
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 11:27 PM UTC
Loving a Smoker
Talk to me Talk to me about half-finished journals and empty theaters Talk to me about the calluses on the soles of your feet Do you think they look like art? Talk to me about the bobby pins stuck between the sheets of your bed Talk to me about the broken doorbell in your childhood house Why have you never gotten it fixed? Do you think it says a lot about your family? Do you think it’s a metaphor for your parents’ relationship? Talk to me about the ghosts in your head I wanna see if they look like mine If they were friends in some past, unfulfilled life Talk to me about kites Talk to me about knee high socks What do they remind you of? Talk to me about spilled lemonade Does the sourness still linger on your tongue Long after the mess as been mopped up? Talk to me about your 10th grade English teacher Do you resent her blatant favouritism? Do you wonder why she didn’t like you the best? Do you ever wonder why It seems like nobody likes you the best? Talk to me about the peonies in the garbage chute Talk to me about untied shoelaces And an 8 year old’s skinned knees Talk to me about slippery floors Talk to me about illegal downloads Talk to me about Tarsiers Talk to me about oil pastels Do you prefer them over any other art medium Because they are dirtier, messier and more difficult to work with it? Talk to me about recycling Do you think it’s pointless? Or do you think it’s gonna make a significant difference? Talk to me about Broadway musicals Talk to me about Hercules Have you ever dreamed of being immortalized Through the whispering of the stars? Talk to me about god Do you think god made man Or did man make god? Talk to me about clay pots Talk to me about cacti Talk to me about the color grey Talk to me about plastic balloons When did you learn that the art of letting go Is closely intertwined with the tragedy of loss? Talk to me about films Talk to me about knuckles What do you tell your grandmother When she asks why they are bruised and wounded? Talk to me about Geishas Talk to me about roadtrips And that one time when you were 15 And you drove away in your older brother’s car Feeling young and reckless and so so alive Talk to me about pain Every stabbing hurt Every mouth filled with blood Talk to me about joy Both the abundance and the lack of it Talk to me about love And warmth And light And the sound of coming home Talk to me Write your life’s story on torn Christmas wrappers And I will hold them in my hands like sacred beads of prayer Talk to me Open the cracks of your spine and engulf me in the shade of your eyes Talk to me Let me in
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 5:19 AM UTC
Talk To Me
Talk to me Talk to me about half-finished journals and empty theaters Talk to me about the calluses on the soles of your feet Do you think they look like art? Talk to me about the bobby pins stuck between the sheets of your bed Talk to me about the broken doorbell in your childhood house Why have you never gotten it fixed? Do you think it says a lot about your family? Do you think it’s a metaphor for your parents’ relationship? Talk to me about the ghosts in your head I wanna see if they look like mine If they were friends in some past, unfulfilled life Talk to me about kites Talk to me about knee high socks What do they remind you of? Talk to me about spilled lemonade Does the sourness still linger on your tongue Long after the mess as been mopped up? Talk to me about your 10th grade English teacher Do you resent her blatant favouritism? Do you wonder why she didn’t like you the best? Do you ever wonder why It seems like nobody likes you the best? Talk to me about the peonies in the garbage chute Talk to me about untied shoelaces And an 8 year old’s skinned knees Talk to me about slippery floors Talk to me about illegal downloads Talk to me about Tarsiers Talk to me about oil pastels Do you prefer them over any other art medium Because they are dirtier, messier and more difficult to work with it? Talk to me about recycling Do you think it’s pointless? Or do you think it’s gonna make a significant difference? Talk to me about Broadway musicals Talk to me about Hercules Have you ever dreamed of being immortalized Through the whispering of the stars? Talk to me about god Do you think god made man Or did man make god? Talk to me about clay pots Talk to me about cacti Talk to me about the color grey Talk to me about plastic balloons When did you learn that the art of letting go Is closely intertwined with the tragedy of loss? Talk to me about films Talk to me about knuckles What do you tell your grandmother When she asks why they are bruised and wounded? Talk to me about Geishas Talk to me about roadtrips And that one time when you were 15 And you drove away in your older brother’s car Feeling young and reckless and so so alive Talk to me about pain Every stabbing hurt Every mouth filled with blood Talk to me about joy Both the abundance and the lack of it Talk to me about love And warmth And light And the sound of coming home Talk to me Write your life’s story on torn Christmas wrappers And I will hold them in my hands like sacred beads of prayer Talk to me Open the cracks of your spine and engulf me in the shade of your eyes Talk to me Let me in
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Only yesterday that your glass blew The flame was burning untouchable The disk spinning fast, un-reversible No home in a town so inhospitable A world where questions are daft Drafted to unravel an inbuilt psyche I stand out in the jungle countryside Strumming listening to “wild world” Each rhythm a wavy walk on a path Steps and strolls always sidetracked The poppy field faded in sheen redness When it turned cold and bled sourness It was me who was left by the riverside I sat by the bank and dreamed away Then viewed my mirrored reflection Melted in indecisions and intricacies Extreme ongoing cognition appraisals Silenced in the sound of the stillness The flash of the grassed field called me Embraced me as I paraded on the verge A resolving embrace of a stab erased I plead not to be understood or wanted For these riffles are fixated on our heads Bolted in our thoughts, wants and desires
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 9:30 AM UTC
Sidetracked by the Riverside (Additional Audio)