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"straggling" poems
I don't understand. Am I the only one? Who doesn't agree with society When the day is done. Bulging hip bones are key, With gaps in our thighs. But have you ever thought, Society lies? "Happiness can't exist, With out a man by your side. And you can't get a man, Unless you put down those fries. But have a good time, Go smoke and drink. Have you tried this drug? It's better than you think. And don't get a job, Or save all your money. Just meet the right guy, And there you go honey! But he wants a certain girl, Flawless and stunning. So go buy this makeup, And your in the running. By the second date. Open your heart. And open your legs, Your relationship will start. He'll always love you, And he says it all the time, Luckiest girl in the world, With a hot guy by her side. All muscle and gorgeous, It's just perfect, No fights, just love, This was totally worth it." Really? You you really want that? Hate to break it to you, But that's total crap. Reality isn't this life, It's fantasy if that. Society is a demon, That tells you your fat. It's a size you can't fit. It's a race you can't win. It's a pathway death, From girls dying to be thin. No one can fit the standards, That's how money is made. Society feeds on that, And innocent people that paid. Guys and girls. Of every age, Feel the affects, Of society's rage. And yes I said guys. They too feel the hate. If they don't have the look, Girls don't wanna date. "Too fat, too thin, Where's the 6-pack? Yeah nice personality, But who wants that?" I want that. Yeah I said it. That's real love, And that's where I'm headed. I want a long life, I look a head, And yes I want to enjoy it, Before I lie dead. Your journey is not over When your thirty or forty You might have kids to raise, You have to get up in the morning. You get to grow old, With a husband you love. The one you married, For the brains up above. Not for the looks, Because time fades it. But for the personality. That's what is truly infinite. He should love the same way. No pressure, no harm. And if he ever does, It should sound an alarm. Because your better than that. And don't compare. I know its hard. So be prepared. I'm here to warn you, Of the road your traveling. You will hit a dead end, And life will leave you straggling. Change your ways now, Open your eyes, To the truth of life, Society lies.
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM UTC
Society Lies
I don't understand. Am I the only one? Who doesn't agree with society When the day is done. Bulging hip bones are key, With gaps in our thighs. But have you ever thought, Society lies? "Happiness can't exist, With out a man by your side. And you can't get a man, Unless you put down those fries. But have a good time, Go smoke and drink. Have you tried this drug? It's better than you think. And don't get a job, Or save all your money. Just meet the right guy, And there you go honey! But he wants a certain girl, Flawless and stunning. So go buy this makeup, And your in the running. By the second date. Open your heart. And open your legs, Your relationship will start. He'll always love you, And he says it all the time, Luckiest girl in the world, With a hot guy by her side. All muscle and gorgeous, It's just perfect, No fights, just love, This was totally worth it." Really? You you really want that? Hate to break it to you, But that's total crap. Reality isn't this life, It's fantasy if that. Society is a demon, That tells you your fat. It's a size you can't fit. It's a race you can't win. It's a pathway death, From girls dying to be thin. No one can fit the standards, That's how money is made. Society feeds on that, And innocent people that paid. Guys and girls. Of every age, Feel the affects, Of society's rage. And yes I said guys. They too feel the hate. If they don't have the look, Girls don't wanna date. "Too fat, too thin, Where's the 6-pack? Yeah nice personality, But who wants that?" I want that. Yeah I said it. That's real love, And that's where I'm headed. I want a long life, I look a head, And yes I want to enjoy it, Before I lie dead. Your journey is not over When your thirty or forty You might have kids to raise, You have to get up in the morning. You get to grow old, With a husband you love. The one you married, For the brains up above. Not for the looks, Because time fades it. But for the personality. That's what is truly infinite. He should love the same way. No pressure, no harm. And if he ever does, It should sound an alarm. Because your better than that. And don't compare. I know its hard. So be prepared. I'm here to warn you, Of the road your traveling. You will hit a dead end, And life will leave you straggling. Change your ways now, Open your eyes, To the truth of life, Society lies.
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XXIX I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree, Put out broad leaves, and soon there ’s nought to see Except the straggling green which hides the wood. Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood I will not have my thoughts instead of thee Who art dearer, better! Rather, instantly Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should, Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare, And let these bands of greenery which insphere thee Drop heavily down,—burst, shattered, everywhere! Because, in this deep joy to see and hear thee And breathe within thy shadow a new air, I do not think of thee—I am too near thee.
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Sonnet 29 - I Think Of Thee!—My Thoughts Do Twine And Bud
The bush that has most briers and bitter fruit, Wait till the frost has turned its green leaves red, Its sweetened berries will thy palate suit, And thou may'st find e'en there a homely bread. Upon the hills of Salem scattered wide, Their yellow blossoms gain the eye in Spring; And straggling e'en upon the turnpike's side, Their ripened branches to your hand they bring, I 've plucked them oft in boyhood's early hour, That then I gave such name, and thought it true; But now I know that other fruit as sour Grows on what now thou callest Me and You; Yet, wilt thou wait the autumn that I see, Will sweeter taste than these red berries be.
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The Barberry Bush
Seeking a reality, bridges, boats, and canopies. Calamity surrounds and swarms my skin of wicked tragedy. A cavalcade of traveling; a taste of fleeting sanity. Settle with the is or question off into the can it be. Bridges, boats, and canopies, Bridges, boats, and canopies, Ripples in the water always fade but follow straggling. Bridges, boats, and canopies, Vistas, view or craft the scene, Settle with the is or question off into the can it be.
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 1:20 AM UTC
Bridges, Boats, and Canopies.
Forty days and Forty nights Kachina dolls danced pounding deer skin drums rattling snake gourds whistling circles of flustered chicken feathers and totem poles around the drooping firmament here and there wisps of sunken chested, shrunken breasted castrated clouds dragging their empty rain barrels could be seen straggling across heat infested waves at times I swear I could hear the wind cussing through dry crackling branches Pine wearing wide brimmed straw hats squabbling with over bleached blond Palms How we languished and thirsted for the dulcet, pure, pellucid taste of Your crystal kisses lavender squeaky clean smell of rain-bells oh! to feel those torrents gushing down our upturned faces, slicked back hair, engulfing our flowering ***** drenching us to the bone then this morning we heard an unfamiliar sound fairy feet tap-dancing on rooftops excited I ran outside crowing the Gayatri mantra flapping prema pink wings waddling like a duck in slap happy puddles Yes, Dear God a grateful, thankful swan, gossamer reflection glistening fervently up at You from diaphanous depths inexhaustible wellspring diamond spa of Your Love Hari Om Visit my author's page: https://www.facebook.com/sairapture amazon.com/author/sonyatomlinson and my website: sairapture.com
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Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 8:47 AM UTC
Raindance
I am in a ********* I know what you’re thinking ‘Really? You? Standards must be sinking’ But you see My lovers guard me, they are my protection On my left is Anxiety And on my right is Depression They both think I am…smoking hot Like I am something worth fighting over Both claiming my thoughts as belonging to them each As though everything I learn is all what they teach Depression likes to mess with my body as well as my thoughts Running its sharp and callous hands over the flesh of my limbs believing I get pleasure from its touch While Anxiety gnaws at my wrists like a rubber band ping, ping, pinging As though I don’t have better things to do like living. Three is a crowd And we have tried breaking up But Anxiety is clingy And even when I change the locks it still manages to nit-pick its way back inside Depression is so addictive and likes to hug Wraps its arms around me and even when I cover my ears I still hear it whisper it look what you’ve done D and A are similar in ways They both like to put me down, tell me I’m not good enough And then hold me until I believe they have me picked me up And saved me from killing this part of the trilogy I am the last part I am so far unwritten The last piece of the puzzle That makes up the picture Of a self-destructive girl In the midst of something she can’t understand She has a nice smile though and a good heart But the lovers are not attracted to that Though they don’t mind ripping them apart Until her lips are too battered to smile anymore The ***** that once pumped double time is so unsure Of itself it finds it difficult to even try You know what, **** it I can do this I will break up with them They have done this to hundreds of people before And they’ll do it again This is not right This is not how I should be treated I am a strong independent woman I will not be defeated. To Anxiety and Depression, you’re not getting custody Not of this mind and not of this body I am not letting you through the gate anymore I will buy stronger locks And not let you in even if you politely knock There is no home here for you You go hand in hand Like young naïve lovers Straggling for attention Even under the covers I will not call you again We once were lovers but you were never my friends.
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM UTC
A letter to the rest of the love triangle...
I am in a ********* I know what you’re thinking ‘Really? You? Standards must be sinking’ But you see My lovers guard me, they are my protection On my left is Anxiety And on my right is Depression They both think I am…smoking hot Like I am something worth fighting over Both claiming my thoughts as belonging to them each As though everything I learn is all what they teach Depression likes to mess with my body as well as my thoughts Running its sharp and callous hands over the flesh of my limbs believing I get pleasure from its touch While Anxiety gnaws at my wrists like a rubber band ping, ping, pinging As though I don’t have better things to do like living. Three is a crowd And we have tried breaking up But Anxiety is clingy And even when I change the locks it still manages to nit-pick its way back inside Depression is so addictive and likes to hug Wraps its arms around me and even when I cover my ears I still hear it whisper it look what you’ve done D and A are similar in ways They both like to put me down, tell me I’m not good enough And then hold me until I believe they have me picked me up And saved me from killing this part of the trilogy I am the last part I am so far unwritten The last piece of the puzzle That makes up the picture Of a self-destructive girl In the midst of something she can’t understand She has a nice smile though and a good heart But the lovers are not attracted to that Though they don’t mind ripping them apart Until her lips are too battered to smile anymore The ***** that once pumped double time is so unsure Of itself it finds it difficult to even try You know what, **** it I can do this I will break up with them They have done this to hundreds of people before And they’ll do it again This is not right This is not how I should be treated I am a strong independent woman I will not be defeated. To Anxiety and Depression, you’re not getting custody Not of this mind and not of this body I am not letting you through the gate anymore I will buy stronger locks And not let you in even if you politely knock There is no home here for you You go hand in hand Like young naïve lovers Straggling for attention Even under the covers I will not call you again We once were lovers but you were never my friends.
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Thatcher vacuum seals nicotine Slurps cigarette like mosquito Ravenous lungs gnaw and grind for the slow pander, Thatcher’s just another name for the labeling We plaster and pine for an out, Stitch that finite lie beneath squeamish child skin, Thatcher’s the black lung paradise, ******* infancy coddling cigarette stifle, The caloric crack of his canines fletching out lust and sickly groove As he’s scopes out fiend and vexed vandals, Clutches the sick theistic ********** Cuddle those bruise licked hips Give God the gross percent, Cause heaven’s in those greenbacks and God’s in the ******* kick, Suckling bout the American tip The Christian capitol, Seething on shadow puppet ****** and American dream, Gods got nothing to do with the slickened crinkle of gain and glamour, Thatcher’s just the candy man give and cult, Cough the crutch of contagion greed And clutch the cuff of your porcelain sleeve, Thatcher gleans your blackest suite tight, Struts raven blade shoulders perched on American made spine, Thatcher does as Thatcher please, Thatcher thinks as Thatcher bleeds, And Thatcher bleeds venereal blend, Gout with the American veneer of broken girl and scabbed moral traumatic, Trauma tastes as the hollow pixies give out the get out, Bandaged baby girls, The teenage horror show, Just another blazoned hit of one two take the hand me down generic give away, Desensitize the humanize, Girls got to get the days glossy puff and sniff, Thatcher’s content to satisfy, Callous coroner a spectator suckling Marlboro lick, Lodging thick smoke and toxin between spittle slick lips, Albino plumes clotting and unfolding, Thatcher clicks back the cartridge Filter and cigarette, Thatcher gulps back the need because brain’s got a favoring kink for the buzz, Thatcher sings with the screaming in his straggling lungs, Hums the western creed Laughs fickle with God at his need, Thatcher’s the true American dream
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 5:17 PM UTC
Cancer, the American Made
Thatcher vacuum seals nicotine Slurps cigarette like mosquito Ravenous lungs gnaw and grind for the slow pander, Thatcher’s just another name for the labeling We plaster and pine for an out, Stitch that finite lie beneath squeamish child skin, Thatcher’s the black lung paradise, ******* infancy coddling cigarette stifle, The caloric crack of his canines fletching out lust and sickly groove As he’s scopes out fiend and vexed vandals, Clutches the sick theistic ********** Cuddle those bruise licked hips Give God the gross percent, Cause heaven’s in those greenbacks and God’s in the ******* kick, Suckling bout the American tip The Christian capitol, Seething on shadow puppet ****** and American dream, Gods got nothing to do with the slickened crinkle of gain and glamour, Thatcher’s just the candy man give and cult, Cough the crutch of contagion greed And clutch the cuff of your porcelain sleeve, Thatcher gleans your blackest suite tight, Struts raven blade shoulders perched on American made spine, Thatcher does as Thatcher please, Thatcher thinks as Thatcher bleeds, And Thatcher bleeds venereal blend, Gout with the American veneer of broken girl and scabbed moral traumatic, Trauma tastes as the hollow pixies give out the get out, Bandaged baby girls, The teenage horror show, Just another blazoned hit of one two take the hand me down generic give away, Desensitize the humanize, Girls got to get the days glossy puff and sniff, Thatcher’s content to satisfy, Callous coroner a spectator suckling Marlboro lick, Lodging thick smoke and toxin between spittle slick lips, Albino plumes clotting and unfolding, Thatcher clicks back the cartridge Filter and cigarette, Thatcher gulps back the need because brain’s got a favoring kink for the buzz, Thatcher sings with the screaming in his straggling lungs, Hums the western creed Laughs fickle with God at his need, Thatcher’s the true American dream
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In this life, I have seen the valley of broken dreams filled with the souls of taqueria entrepreneurs. I have seen gleaming grills, Hispanic frills, greasy thrills. I have seen spirit thrive in the eyes of men armed with bank loans and family recipes. I have eaten their food, delicious beyond necessity. I have experienced the magic of taquerias and restaurants. And I have seen that magic die. I've observed the life unfold, unfurl with a magic to behold. I have seen that magic served in a half-empty restaurant that Frontera has outsold. I have had the magic gone, replaced by payday lenders and takeout from Taiwan. I have seen empty storefronts and the straggling last days of taqueria entrepreneurs. And I grieve every time at the lost loans and lost hopes left behind. But tonight, there will be no grieving. Instead, Let us eat magic in their memory, enjoy the grease that will surely send us to infirmaries. Let us celebrate the time they had, the tortas, tamales, and leftovers taken home in a bag. Let us celebrate the doomed Mexican restaurants.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 11:20 PM UTC
Taqueria Entrepreneurs
Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine; Unless I learn to look at Grief Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes, And take from Pleasure fearlessly Whatever gifts will make me wise— Unless I learn these things on earth, Why was I ever given birth?
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Lessons
--To A. J. A black and glassy float, opaque and still, The loch, at furthest ebb supine in sleep, Reversing, mirrored in its luminous deep The calm grey skies; the solemn spurs of hill; Heather, and corn, and wisps of loitering haze; The wee white cots, black-hatted, plumed with smoke; The braes beyond--and when the ripple awoke, They wavered with the jarred and wavering glaze. The air was hushed and dreamy. Evermore A noise of running water whispered near. A straggling crow called high and thin. A bird Trilled from the birch-leaves. Round the shingled shore, Yellow with **** there wandered, vague and clear, Strange vowels, mysterious gutturals, idly heard.
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Attadale West Highlands
Upon the announcement of my arrival my ancestors weaved brillant threads to make a quilt for my bed with steadfast hands, they weaved themselves a plan who i was to become, what kind of man upon the days of my arrival my ancestors fantastically wrapped me up in the quilt of blue and red this quilt housed me for many seasons itched me, pinched me, left me cold at night bit me, tripped me, straggling my rights the brillant quilt made to protect became my golden cage instead their plan created my strife their plan corseted my life after years spent suffocating in the threads i decided to break away from the plan emerging like a little chick out of an egg i chose to live my life today still the foundation laid was unscathed every trigger sent my heart into disarray independence fortified, return to the egg the quilt might be itchy, it might be tight but it is easier than learning how to fly
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Jul 12, 2023
Jul 12, 2023 at 1:55 PM UTC
quilt of shame
These two things I remember: the lights dimmed slowly and then went dark, and my mouth was filled over the teeth, to the lips, with dirt-ripened maggots. Those little mongrels had grown inside me, my saliva was their nourishment, my cheeks, their protection. They nestled so deeply into my gums, in the crevices where cavities were to grow on the walls of their ebony buildings. We were beautiful but none would call it symbiotic. Illumination ran away, far off, bounded for the infinite fields. The light lightness left me. I don't know who was in charge of sending the charge through my electric chair. I grew to embrace the seat, that splintered piece of wood, the pain in my sweating palms, and the metal clasps which restricted my arms. It gave security to impending doom, the promise of finite end. The wooden back gave rest to my love-ridden bones so I tongued my friends straggling about my chops in comfort and pleasure. That chair, those lights, they were empty vessels. Built for, but never meant to, fulfill their purposes. That is, until a bulge-eyed, masked man connected the current. The lights went out and maggots filled my mouth.
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Aug 24, 2012
Aug 24, 2012 at 8:36 PM UTC
Tao-Filled Vessels
*We loved With a love That I didn't know existed.* This is not a love poem; This is a ballad Of all the sweet love songs that finally made sense, This is a dictionary Defining the new outlook on life you gave me, This is the final scene Of something so perfect, It had to be nothing much more than fiction. God stitched together All of my cuts and wounds With thread made of your touch, Your scent, your voice, Your laugh, your hair flip, Your 'I love yous', your leftover strands of hair Still clinging to all of my clothes, As if this distance between us Was never there in the first place. We were like Romeo and Juliet, Discarding what everyone had to say. I loved you like I was an abused dog Straggling along, pouncing on any piece of meat That came my way Until you held me tight close to you, Letting me know that It'd all be okay. Your love rivaled that Of the Sun and the Moon, You had shed light on my world When I couldn't see Past my insecurities and downfalls, And brought shooting star showers down upon me When it seems like the bad days could not get any longer. We trekked over hills and valleys And sure, sometimes, we slipped - but we always made sure That we got back up and kept going. Our love was a perfect melody, And sometimes, we struck a sour note, But your voice was always a beautiful symphony That slowed everything back down to its right pace. I loved you like diamonds yearning For the perfect ray of light To grace its surface So that it may project a perfect spectrum Upon your naked left ring finger That i had daydreams every day Of staking as my territory. We were a binary solar system In supposed equilibrium Until your gravitational pull Ripped away all my outer layers And you left me vulnerable, so that you could use all my flaws To become a black hole and tear my whole being to shreds. I loved you Like the breeze loves flowing through Your hair, making a cascading waterfall that left me drowning in your beauty. But now - You're not mine anymore. And I'm not okay with that.
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 12:36 AM UTC
Your Last Few Thoughts
*We loved With a love That I didn't know existed.* This is not a love poem; This is a ballad Of all the sweet love songs that finally made sense, This is a dictionary Defining the new outlook on life you gave me, This is the final scene Of something so perfect, It had to be nothing much more than fiction. God stitched together All of my cuts and wounds With thread made of your touch, Your scent, your voice, Your laugh, your hair flip, Your 'I love yous', your leftover strands of hair Still clinging to all of my clothes, As if this distance between us Was never there in the first place. We were like Romeo and Juliet, Discarding what everyone had to say. I loved you like I was an abused dog Straggling along, pouncing on any piece of meat That came my way Until you held me tight close to you, Letting me know that It'd all be okay. Your love rivaled that Of the Sun and the Moon, You had shed light on my world When I couldn't see Past my insecurities and downfalls, And brought shooting star showers down upon me When it seems like the bad days could not get any longer. We trekked over hills and valleys And sure, sometimes, we slipped - but we always made sure That we got back up and kept going. Our love was a perfect melody, And sometimes, we struck a sour note, But your voice was always a beautiful symphony That slowed everything back down to its right pace. I loved you like diamonds yearning For the perfect ray of light To grace its surface So that it may project a perfect spectrum Upon your naked left ring finger That i had daydreams every day Of staking as my territory. We were a binary solar system In supposed equilibrium Until your gravitational pull Ripped away all my outer layers And you left me vulnerable, so that you could use all my flaws To become a black hole and tear my whole being to shreds. I loved you Like the breeze loves flowing through Your hair, making a cascading waterfall that left me drowning in your beauty. But now - You're not mine anymore. And I'm not okay with that.
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yellow city, black sky massive architecture, flickering liquid glass oceans along the cold canyons of San Francisco wavering illusion upon reality disfigured sideshow reflections of disembodied achievement trapped in themselves, our selves no longer nourished by the roots, a hunger imposed upon the planet like a suffocating blanket that people pave over and **** on until it's buried so deep that even the heart has trouble breathing, trouble beating out its rhythm; a musical act of joy now stuttering along like a gasping survivor straggling across the ruins of Pompeii crying out for what? help? no, the end of suffering, a swift death instead of the long parasitic drawl that man so eagerly inflicts upon the earth, himself claiming the Kingdom for the eternal barbarian, deep in the veins coursing through the apparatus which creaks beneath the weight of our guilt and stultifies in the monstrosity of our ignorance, yet it continues to run, as if to see how far we'll go, as if life were merely an experiment to see how spectacularly it could end
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Oct 14, 2011
Oct 14, 2011 at 7:13 PM UTC
yellow city, black sky
i remember trying to convince you when you were at 50/50 to take me back when you're the one that broke my heart i remember begging and now i am mad IM MAD AT MYSELF cause like you said i have no control i have no control of my thoughts even that i didn't know what was wrong last night i don't know YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE but i'm afraid you will leave not for someone else not because you got bored but because you can't handle me you don't love me anymore well what is love when it's disappeared love stays forever it doesn't fade i remember when you said you were afraid you didn't love me anymore well now i'm afraid im so afraid im on my toes telling myself to expect the unexpected im so scared of you leaving cause when i look at you i get this burst of feeling i can't describe in words but ill try like someone lit a warm fire inside my chest and my heart starts beating fast and i just want to blurt "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH" and that's not even close to how i feel ME LOVING YOU IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT i cannot fathom how much i love you i know you feel love for me but sometimes i wonder if it's the same thing "does he feel like this all the time?" "does he think about me as much as i think about him" "does he always think of me as the love of his life or only in the good moments" all these questions toss and turn in my brain i can't decipher any of it so i go insane and then i shut down and that's why i shut you out because sometimes it's too much time and too much thought and i can't handle the thought of losing you and i don't want to hear words i want to see i want to be proven to me that you won't leave me anymore and you have been doing that but i guess it's just me being irrational cause you're too perfect to me
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM UTC
"I'm struggling to breathe cause my thoughts keep straggling me"
i remember trying to convince you when you were at 50/50 to take me back when you're the one that broke my heart i remember begging and now i am mad IM MAD AT MYSELF cause like you said i have no control i have no control of my thoughts even that i didn't know what was wrong last night i don't know YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE but i'm afraid you will leave not for someone else not because you got bored but because you can't handle me you don't love me anymore well what is love when it's disappeared love stays forever it doesn't fade i remember when you said you were afraid you didn't love me anymore well now i'm afraid im so afraid im on my toes telling myself to expect the unexpected im so scared of you leaving cause when i look at you i get this burst of feeling i can't describe in words but ill try like someone lit a warm fire inside my chest and my heart starts beating fast and i just want to blurt "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH" and that's not even close to how i feel ME LOVING YOU IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT i cannot fathom how much i love you i know you feel love for me but sometimes i wonder if it's the same thing "does he feel like this all the time?" "does he think about me as much as i think about him" "does he always think of me as the love of his life or only in the good moments" all these questions toss and turn in my brain i can't decipher any of it so i go insane and then i shut down and that's why i shut you out because sometimes it's too much time and too much thought and i can't handle the thought of losing you and i don't want to hear words i want to see i want to be proven to me that you won't leave me anymore and you have been doing that but i guess it's just me being irrational cause you're too perfect to me
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An age-fog hangs in heavy drapes Around my head, a thickening gauze, And memory of your love escapes This numbing mist that's sealed my doors. My straggling wispy hair you stroke, While whispering of a life-long love; Your shafts of sunlight **** and poke But cannot pierce the cloud above For staring at this window I Avert my gaze, your touch resist. My memory dulled, with glassy eye And drooling mouth,I face the mist.
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Jan 12, 2010
Jan 12, 2010 at 9:31 PM UTC
Age Fog
Depression is an overused word It might make an easy rhyme For poets who labor under the impression That they can climb to the heights of expression By showing no discretion with each and every Narcissistic emotional self-obsession confession. But of all the poetic depression transgressions From the front of the procession To the straggling indiscretion The worst and least touched on Is that it's boring... Depression and talk of it Leads to the inevitable compression Of each and every tidbit Or texture that prevents a poem from becoming a lecture It flattens the curve It scans the sculpture A man of depth dwindles to a nerve But depression doesn't let them see how it narrows their view The circle it drew around appropriate questions Ignore the censor and suppression Be vigilant of the slightest dispossession Starting to understand this oppression? Don't let it convince you that you can see more clearly From the bottom of a pit You have no idea what you're missing
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Mar 19, 2021
Mar 19, 2021 at 5:11 AM UTC
Depression
I rode the train with my girl today across the barn swept hollows Past lush fields of emerald green with the life and love that follows The train car tapped out a lullaby beat which spent our time lost in leisure The smiles past came by in the peace small sweet gifts we couldn’t measure A man had set across the aisle of us he seemed so different from me Clothes tattered, torn and weathered homeless and likely worn hard was he I couldn’t help but to take the notice his features hewn and deeply lined Drawing a map of where he'd been red eyed he looked half blind Something alone in his vacant stare said It was me that he resembled The thought had taken me a-fright I looked hard, long and trembled I saw my lover look over him too noticed the hair might be the same Except for straggling beard and decay I had felt a deep sense of shame Could that be what would happen to me what fallen angel had led him astray A nightmare vision of life’s full truth eyes of pain in the heart they betray Then my lover looked back upon me her thoughts she sought hard to repress How kind her teared eyes that hid the truth from her lips that would never confess Tate
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM UTC
A Lesson Learned
This hot season left the grass, dry and arid the roots struggled for the straggling moisture, as the the Sun defied all , stronger or weaker the dessicated faces the wilting flowers and shedding of leaves, the unrest humanity suffering from agony, of all races, the downtrodden's suffering, and sagging ******* of a child's mother, dying with hunger, whose hands begged for a morsel of a bread. And, the wind lifted, the poet's poem to the place unknown, laden with love, soft and pure, grandeur and sublime, mongering goodwill, it was then that I noticed an emotional deluge when the sky poured down droplets of rain, as if, some one wept away, far away, no where..... that filled the air with the moisture everywhere, here and there....
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Jul 30, 2016
Jul 30, 2016 at 10:17 PM UTC
This Summer
I am so hungry—though I will not eat. I am so tired—though I will not sleep. And to think just moments ago I was breezing down the highway, Speakers blasting, vibrating sweet Rhythms along my thighs: It would Make the sky weep. I sit at a window and for once my world is engulfed in total silence. The sun shines through my window. I’ve never seen a window so real. Never have I fogged up the glass with more zeal, as my adamant fingers scribble an “M.” and it fades. You see, I am just that—“M” nothing defines me more acutely than the letter —how I desire to truncate the remaining, straggling letters of its completion—it is sinful. Because, really, all I want is to be alone, and ain’t that selfish? Ain’t it selfish to desire silence when the world is alive with the sounds of love, song, laughter. I reject those things. Everything is temporary and it seems easier to lose them than to never have had them at all. And, oh, it hurts. So sick am I of being hurt. Though it is easier to sacrifice than to be sacrificed. And so I forsake thee, sounds of the universe. I shall sit in my quiet corner. And lady time nor the remaining letters of my name shall be the wiser.
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May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011 at 8:43 AM UTC
Silence
There is a pleasant silence in my head And dreary pressure joins my dreary thoughts. The color from my waking dreams turns grey Likewise my cloudy vision fills with spots. You cannot know how much relief I feel For you, alas, have skipped and are not here. You left my home and my bronze heart And everything through illness came quite clear. The tree outside my window stands the snow To carry straggling dabs of wintry life. I see more birds in frost than I had before When summer, summer smothered us with strife.      You've left: my mouth is cracked a thousand miles.      The earth around, I've wrapped with my queer smiles.
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Mar 5, 2011
Mar 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM UTC
Adjust World
The permafrost recedes and the animals peeking their heads out of the burroughs they were buried in and they begin their quest for a lover, to repopulate the species again and to feed after the long harsh winter, and to gain experience and memories of how to do so. The frosty winds turn cool and the sun warms their faces and souls. The hope of meeting their potential partners are enough to defrost and soothe the ice on their coats, rendering them capable to breed. With their legs stretched and active, they search. They hunt and breed for the whole spring within their respective community. The revirie of their population gaining on other predators give them a better chance for survival amongst all odds. I have been buried in ice for thousands of years. I have been waiting for my turn to hunt and search for my lover, my community, and my wife. I have been straggling behind my species for a lifetime. Is it my turn yet? Is it my chance to do well amoungst the Mohikans? I certainly hope so. Happy Spring, poets.
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 11:24 PM UTC
Nature and Instincts
Earthen desires, these are diamonds, that shield our veiled eyes, trance like sheathed sward, hidden in the mantle, a top the mountain, creatures lurk atop, Deviled in the mist, splattered in Lumios, The crone and spit; they really are a horrorshow, Straggling around, hovering, hurtling toward, *Unknown Territory!
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 10:17 PM UTC
UNKNOWN TERRITORY
It feels like ants are crawling over my hands and removing the skin to carry back to their hill. My eyes are like two cotton ***** dry and heavy. There is a blockage in my throat like a python has curled up in a ball right at the back of my neck. And now my torso is no longer connected to my legs, they are two separate entities. One scrambling around the room trying to find something to do while the other half lays stuck in bed, too heavy to even lift a skeletal finger. The ants have take away all the skin and muscle from my hands to build their nest. But it's not enough so they make their way down my throat, past the python, to my stomach, where they begin devouring me from the inside out. Once all that’s left is a graveyard of bones, the ants move along, onto the next source for their ever-growing hill. My skeleton is left to the elements, well as much of the elements it can be exposed to laying in a pile of sheets and comforter. I shed one last tear from my eye socket even though there are no tear ducts left for me to use. My soul fades completely from the scene as the last straggling ant jumps from my skull and the python abandons the vertebrae left behind, needing a new food source to thrive. A sad sack of bones, what’s left of me lays in the bed as everything around it falls apart year after year. Until all the decay is over and the process of rebirth begins. Saplings shoot up through my ribcage and flowers grow through the eye sockets where my tears used to fall silently. Beauty replaces the feelings of death and dread as the last piece of my soul is finally laid to rest.
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 11:16 PM UTC
Anthill
It feels like ants are crawling over my hands and removing the skin to carry back to their hill. My eyes are like two cotton ***** dry and heavy. There is a blockage in my throat like a python has curled up in a ball right at the back of my neck. And now my torso is no longer connected to my legs, they are two separate entities. One scrambling around the room trying to find something to do while the other half lays stuck in bed, too heavy to even lift a skeletal finger. The ants have take away all the skin and muscle from my hands to build their nest. But it's not enough so they make their way down my throat, past the python, to my stomach, where they begin devouring me from the inside out. Once all that’s left is a graveyard of bones, the ants move along, onto the next source for their ever-growing hill. My skeleton is left to the elements, well as much of the elements it can be exposed to laying in a pile of sheets and comforter. I shed one last tear from my eye socket even though there are no tear ducts left for me to use. My soul fades completely from the scene as the last straggling ant jumps from my skull and the python abandons the vertebrae left behind, needing a new food source to thrive. A sad sack of bones, what’s left of me lays in the bed as everything around it falls apart year after year. Until all the decay is over and the process of rebirth begins. Saplings shoot up through my ribcage and flowers grow through the eye sockets where my tears used to fall silently. Beauty replaces the feelings of death and dread as the last piece of my soul is finally laid to rest.
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You are pushing pressure down below my pulsing muscle But I felt that force turn around and push you away You have the strength to fight against this wave that has a karma affect taking place And my straggling candies are melting setting me free from this drowning sea I'm wondering to myself when is it time to BURST AND BLOOM into me.
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Dec 6, 2012
Dec 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM UTC
Burst and Bloom