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Tiredness is overwhelming, The distress is stringing, Thoughts expressionless, Though my writings are endless. ~A.d | 16 Dec 2014
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 7:25 AM UTC
» Tiredness «
Just when I think I've known the world I come to the realization That I've only seen it Through my own two eyes. It eats at me Though I shouldn't be bothered And yet I can't help but wonder why. What do strangers see When they watch my favorite film And what do they hear In their favorite songs? What do others girl feel When they knowingly fall in love With someone Who's stringing them along? What do my parents know When they look at the roads They've walked down Many more times than I? What do babies think When the world's so unknown And they can only use their voices To cry? Where is the truth In others' opinions So very different from mine? Where lies the inspiration Of other writers As they steadily type Each line? In the end There's not much of a point Unless reincarnation exists. But frustration prevails Knowing my eye's the limit And my curiosity You see Persists.
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 1:08 AM UTC
my eye's the limit
Can I write you a love song I’ll sing it softy in your ear all night long Blow gently without words on my saxophone Diamond and Pearls behind the throne A beautiful ensemble meant for only you As I give credence too Take my hand Cross this journey with me as I sing about faraway lands Past Egypt pyramids shifting Morocco sands Lay back my love, allow your mind to silently drift Feel the enchantment of my piano keys as it spiritual uplifts I’ll sing love songs of old A cappella chorus echoed from deep within my enlighten soul I’ll sing to you about the blues, society’s injustice, and elements of darken storms Keep your heart warm, while playing my French Horn Enrapture foretold from this dedicated symphonic poem A music sheet of percussion, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and strings Harmony carrying the mind away as the joy of coming spring I’ll hum your favorite beats, can you feel the crescendo now Fiddle from the heart by the sweat of one’s brow Submerge your cerebral cortex, lose yourself in the sultry tunes Harp sounds bathe of light kissed from the illuminating moon Destiny overcasts in the lyrics Fate floating stratospheric Karma of others handled in the eyes of satiric Opera, I give you so grand in its grace French Creole dialect murmured among silk and lace Sounds of my flute resonant to face Allowing my Cello sounds to thoroughly embrace Can I write you a love song Body and soul serenading soprano to keep you standing strong My guitar stringing your philosophies along An equal equation, one plus one equals two Emotions, feelings, sentiments, its tenor expressed only for you No compass to my heart, my seasonal love found in hidden melodies Trombone guiding back and forth breathless as it please Orchestra sounds Ascending minds, bodies, souls, pass the opening clouds, divine and profound The last note sung by me as we gradually come down Beautiful music embraced, needs never to make a sound Shh, close your eyes Meditate on the music for a little while Hush sweet baby don’t say a word My heart softly tweets to a mockingbird If that mockingbird don’t sing Can I write you a love song created only for your being As minds are sightseeing Hearts fleeing Timpani drums guaranteeing Entwined of our divine wellbeing Emotions freeing Crooning of bodies heard as the day is long Can I write you a love song
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
Can I Write You A Love Song
Can I write you a love song I’ll sing it softy in your ear all night long Blow gently without words on my saxophone Diamond and Pearls behind the throne A beautiful ensemble meant for only you As I give credence too Take my hand Cross this journey with me as I sing about faraway lands Past Egypt pyramids shifting Morocco sands Lay back my love, allow your mind to silently drift Feel the enchantment of my piano keys as it spiritual uplifts I’ll sing love songs of old A cappella chorus echoed from deep within my enlighten soul I’ll sing to you about the blues, society’s injustice, and elements of darken storms Keep your heart warm, while playing my French Horn Enrapture foretold from this dedicated symphonic poem A music sheet of percussion, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and strings Harmony carrying the mind away as the joy of coming spring I’ll hum your favorite beats, can you feel the crescendo now Fiddle from the heart by the sweat of one’s brow Submerge your cerebral cortex, lose yourself in the sultry tunes Harp sounds bathe of light kissed from the illuminating moon Destiny overcasts in the lyrics Fate floating stratospheric Karma of others handled in the eyes of satiric Opera, I give you so grand in its grace French Creole dialect murmured among silk and lace Sounds of my flute resonant to face Allowing my Cello sounds to thoroughly embrace Can I write you a love song Body and soul serenading soprano to keep you standing strong My guitar stringing your philosophies along An equal equation, one plus one equals two Emotions, feelings, sentiments, its tenor expressed only for you No compass to my heart, my seasonal love found in hidden melodies Trombone guiding back and forth breathless as it please Orchestra sounds Ascending minds, bodies, souls, pass the opening clouds, divine and profound The last note sung by me as we gradually come down Beautiful music embraced, needs never to make a sound Shh, close your eyes Meditate on the music for a little while Hush sweet baby don’t say a word My heart softly tweets to a mockingbird If that mockingbird don’t sing Can I write you a love song created only for your being As minds are sightseeing Hearts fleeing Timpani drums guaranteeing Entwined of our divine wellbeing Emotions freeing Crooning of bodies heard as the day is long Can I write you a love song
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My poem is called how to be forced into a talent show. It's very easy to be forced into a talent show when you're me. No, I am not saying, "Ooooo" look at me I am Michael Ryan and I am the most talented person in the world. I'm more saying, "oooo" look at me, I'm such a nice person that I will do your talent show, even though I don't want to. Yes, that is what I am really trying to say, but not in a conceited kind of way, because that's not me. I was forced into this talent show from the very beginning. The very beginning, the very first sign up day. and I thought "hmm I don't have any talent", and she was like oh yes you do, well of course I believe her. And from that moment I've felt slightly uneasy, because to be honest she can't be there every day to tell me "hey you have talent." And to be honest all I'm doing is a SPOKEN WORD poem, which is pretty much just me talking. What a talent that must be...but not really. Then my friend tried to jump on board with me to do a duet of a poem, so I was forced even more in to this situation. But luckily that person changed their mind and so I was just stuck with my original oh you have talents person stringing me along into this over thought situation. Just to let you know I did eventually try to tell them hey I think I'm not gonna do(but then they cut me off), and told me once again you got talents, and please please please do my talent show. So of course I can't say no, that's not what a nice guy would do, which I am. And this is what came to me, how about I just write about how one is forced to be doing this in front of a group of people, even though you already said no soooo many times. And to be honest this is terrifying, because I just came up with this, 30mins ago. Even though I sat for many hours thinking what to write, it just never felt well right. And ugh seriously this is so stressful, that I really do wonder why I am even up here. I could be sleeping right now, but instead I've been convinced to do this. And there's no guarantee anyone or myself will even like this. But sleep, **** I know I would like to fall into that right now. Just dreaming, peacefully, to be sleeping and not on a stage, being gawked at by some strangers.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 10:55 PM UTC
The Talent Show
My poem is called how to be forced into a talent show. It's very easy to be forced into a talent show when you're me. No, I am not saying, "Ooooo" look at me I am Michael Ryan and I am the most talented person in the world. I'm more saying, "oooo" look at me, I'm such a nice person that I will do your talent show, even though I don't want to. Yes, that is what I am really trying to say, but not in a conceited kind of way, because that's not me. I was forced into this talent show from the very beginning. The very beginning, the very first sign up day. and I thought "hmm I don't have any talent", and she was like oh yes you do, well of course I believe her. And from that moment I've felt slightly uneasy, because to be honest she can't be there every day to tell me "hey you have talent." And to be honest all I'm doing is a SPOKEN WORD poem, which is pretty much just me talking. What a talent that must be...but not really. Then my friend tried to jump on board with me to do a duet of a poem, so I was forced even more in to this situation. But luckily that person changed their mind and so I was just stuck with my original oh you have talents person stringing me along into this over thought situation. Just to let you know I did eventually try to tell them hey I think I'm not gonna do(but then they cut me off), and told me once again you got talents, and please please please do my talent show. So of course I can't say no, that's not what a nice guy would do, which I am. And this is what came to me, how about I just write about how one is forced to be doing this in front of a group of people, even though you already said no soooo many times. And to be honest this is terrifying, because I just came up with this, 30mins ago. Even though I sat for many hours thinking what to write, it just never felt well right. And ugh seriously this is so stressful, that I really do wonder why I am even up here. I could be sleeping right now, but instead I've been convinced to do this. And there's no guarantee anyone or myself will even like this. But sleep, **** I know I would like to fall into that right now. Just dreaming, peacefully, to be sleeping and not on a stage, being gawked at by some strangers.
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There was a girl and she tried and tried She would try to fix your broken bones with the bandages in her satchel. But you looked away and never paid attention.   She’d come to your rescue before you need her too, but you turned her away and sent her home. She gained a voice in the back of her head, that told her all the lies she felt. The lies felt like truth, so she listened to them. She became abused and neglected, so she faded into the background. She sharpened her knives and took havoc. But she didn’t hurt you, no, instead she hurt herself because she loved to deeply and hurt so much. She began to fade away, the scene became quieter and quieter. You realized something was missing, when you were down and no one was around. You didn’t know where she was, you didn’t know she was alone in her room, dark shadows around, feeling numb to the feeling while sadness overwhelmed her. You needed her then and you need her now, but you pushed her away, and now she’s gone. So you paid her a visit, hoping for a few sweet words and the sympathy stringing, but when you came inside you found her body beaten and bruised. Because you weren’t there when she wanted you, you didn’t want her when you needed her, so she faded away permanently. Because the person she loved didn’t want or need her so she believed that was her fate. Now she’s gone and there’s no coming back from this. You should’ve been there for her when she was alive and happy. There was a girl and she tried and tried
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 5:25 PM UTC
The Girl Who Wasn’t Appreciated
There was a girl and she tried and tried She would try to fix your broken bones with the bandages in her satchel. But you looked away and never paid attention.   She’d come to your rescue before you need her too, but you turned her away and sent her home. She gained a voice in the back of her head, that told her all the lies she felt. The lies felt like truth, so she listened to them. She became abused and neglected, so she faded into the background. She sharpened her knives and took havoc. But she didn’t hurt you, no, instead she hurt herself because she loved to deeply and hurt so much. She began to fade away, the scene became quieter and quieter. You realized something was missing, when you were down and no one was around. You didn’t know where she was, you didn’t know she was alone in her room, dark shadows around, feeling numb to the feeling while sadness overwhelmed her. You needed her then and you need her now, but you pushed her away, and now she’s gone. So you paid her a visit, hoping for a few sweet words and the sympathy stringing, but when you came inside you found her body beaten and bruised. Because you weren’t there when she wanted you, you didn’t want her when you needed her, so she faded away permanently. Because the person she loved didn’t want or need her so she believed that was her fate. Now she’s gone and there’s no coming back from this. You should’ve been there for her when she was alive and happy. There was a girl and she tried and tried
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We sat at the table, waiting for our number to be called. Their pepperoni pizza, was our most favorite one of all. Our number is announced, George is carrying the pizza back. When close, he decides to act, as though he trips in his tracks. In slow motion, that pizza, slid so smoothly out of the pan. George's eyes got big as saucers, he saw the folly of his plan. There I was in my new outfit, that cost half of my paycheck. With pizza, upside down on my lap and sauce splashed on my neck. Amazingly calm, George scooped the pizza up in his hands. Melted cheese, stretching and stringing, from my pants in gooey strands. He stood there patting and pressing the pizza back into shape. That poor pizza looked just like a badly, bulldozered landscape. It lay there sort of twisted, pepperoni all to one side. Crust pieces stinking out of it, like a saucy red mudslide. Then he sat down across from me, silently as if waiting. I must have looked like a blonde fish, sitting there, just gapping. Then a chuckle escaped my lips, as his eyes raised to meet mine. He looked just like a little boy, who just got caught in a crime. I'm surprised we didn't get kicked out for making such a fuss. 'Cause, next thing you know, the whole place is laughing along with us. We couldn't stop, there was no way we'd been able. Not while upsidedown-lap pizza, stared at us from the table
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Oct 27, 2010
Oct 27, 2010 at 7:04 PM UTC
He Knew How To Impress
I didn’t love you. I loved the way you loved me. I loved the idea of us, I loved what I meant to you. I won’t ever love you. I'm sorry I couldn't fall in love with you, I'm sorry for pretending that eventually I would. I know when I walked away I left you shattered. I hope you're okay now and forgiven me. We had a good thing going I know that's how you saw it, we were perfect together. But we never were. I was looking for a way out before we began. You can put the blame on me, I led you on. All those late night conversations, you know so many things about me that I never knew about myself. We spoke about the future and you always put me in yours but I don't even know where I'll be a year from now. I am sorry. It wasn't you and I know that's cliche but you were never unkind or mean, you actually were the nicest, most honest guy I've ever met and I was so lucky to have you in my life for the time that I did. You took the good with the bad, even though there was so much more bad than good. I made you believe things were better than they were and I know now I should've let you know instead of stringing you along. I knew my feelings for you were changing and I tried to ignore it, because you were amazing. You were everything I ever wanted but it wasn't enough, it wasn't real. The hardest part about this was letting go, knowing you were crumbling inside yourself asking yourself what you did wrong. I received all the text and voicemails and it broke me to not answer but I had to let you go, you needed to know the truth. And to answer your question, yes I did try to love you but love shouldn't have to be this hard. I wish love was enough to keep me. I wish the love you have for me was enough to fix everything. I feel like I’ve been apologizing for days now and I know they seem like empty words but I had nothing but good intentions. I never meant to ruin you. If I could rewrite this ending believe me I would. I know its different now but I hope you’re well and you’ll always have a special place in my heart and I know that doesn’t mean much to you because your heart is sitting in the corner of my room where you left it. I know it’s different between us now and you don’t understand why I walked away but you deserve someone who can love you as much as you love me. What I need you to know is that just because I wasn't the one doesn't mean she isn't out there waiting for you. You keep looking and you will find someone you deserve, someone who deserves you and loves you equally. I’m sorry I couldn’t be what you needed but thank you for loving me.
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 5:13 PM UTC
I didn't love you...
I didn’t love you. I loved the way you loved me. I loved the idea of us, I loved what I meant to you. I won’t ever love you. I'm sorry I couldn't fall in love with you, I'm sorry for pretending that eventually I would. I know when I walked away I left you shattered. I hope you're okay now and forgiven me. We had a good thing going I know that's how you saw it, we were perfect together. But we never were. I was looking for a way out before we began. You can put the blame on me, I led you on. All those late night conversations, you know so many things about me that I never knew about myself. We spoke about the future and you always put me in yours but I don't even know where I'll be a year from now. I am sorry. It wasn't you and I know that's cliche but you were never unkind or mean, you actually were the nicest, most honest guy I've ever met and I was so lucky to have you in my life for the time that I did. You took the good with the bad, even though there was so much more bad than good. I made you believe things were better than they were and I know now I should've let you know instead of stringing you along. I knew my feelings for you were changing and I tried to ignore it, because you were amazing. You were everything I ever wanted but it wasn't enough, it wasn't real. The hardest part about this was letting go, knowing you were crumbling inside yourself asking yourself what you did wrong. I received all the text and voicemails and it broke me to not answer but I had to let you go, you needed to know the truth. And to answer your question, yes I did try to love you but love shouldn't have to be this hard. I wish love was enough to keep me. I wish the love you have for me was enough to fix everything. I feel like I’ve been apologizing for days now and I know they seem like empty words but I had nothing but good intentions. I never meant to ruin you. If I could rewrite this ending believe me I would. I know its different now but I hope you’re well and you’ll always have a special place in my heart and I know that doesn’t mean much to you because your heart is sitting in the corner of my room where you left it. I know it’s different between us now and you don’t understand why I walked away but you deserve someone who can love you as much as you love me. What I need you to know is that just because I wasn't the one doesn't mean she isn't out there waiting for you. You keep looking and you will find someone you deserve, someone who deserves you and loves you equally. I’m sorry I couldn’t be what you needed but thank you for loving me.
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I wish that I could fall in love with a female, for she would make a far better muse than the gruff sailors and musicians and drunks and men in general that I am inclined to crave. to write about a painted pout or skin that brushes against your own like nylon, sunlight shining through the window onto a Cupid's bow and dancing down to a delicate clavicle, or black eyelashes that bat and blink remorse into your cavernous heart, to muse over such aesthetic delights, would be ecstasy for my poetess heart. I linger, staring, at beautiful women, androgynous women, delicate, feline women, stringing words together in my head over long legs and hair that flutters like silk, and they think I'm crazy or in love with them. well, maybe I am crazy, but I crawl into bed each night with my snarling, gleaming, mahogany gentleman, and I love him madly, my rugged muse.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM UTC
women.
I am a bird chair Bird chairs may have not caught on yet but I promise you they soon shall I work well with a bird lamp Wave at Window and Book Me a How-To-Encyclopedia of bird chairs and lamps Chapter Four is all bird flags You know how hot suburban jungle gets Stringing lights around moon is not so difficult When wind is at your back much easier in a bird chair And with a bird lamp Shoe painting is mentioned in the glossary just in reference to sadness your bird chair might be experiencing If you wish to re-floor carpet bag bird chairs are perfect accompaniments Big things are happening in bird chairs Look out for bird jet next
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC
Bird Chair
*Do you remember those summer noon times when the sun painted the world with shades of warm butterscotch. We sat stringing daisies together; like unbroken chains of our conversations - that lasted till sunset - Swirling candy floss clouds, dissolved; leaving hues of soft pink that fused with the periwinkle sky. We'd walk home marvelling at nature's tie and dye. After all these years you've drifted away like wisps of floating clouds; But the warm colour of your friendship has splashed itself onto the canvas of my memories ..and I will always remember those vibrant summer days that I spent sitting by your side.*
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Dec 18, 2015
Dec 18, 2015 at 8:42 AM UTC
Candy Floss Clouds
I used to write with words Embodying my individual emotions In splotches of paint Now I write with phrases Stringing words together to paint a picture No longer simply splatter paint ... But a collage
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 11:42 PM UTC
A Collage
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just "on spec", addressed as follows, "Clancy, of The Overflow". And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar) Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: "Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are." In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy Gone a-droving "down the Cooper" where the Western drovers go; As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing, For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know. And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars. I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall, And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, ***** city Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street, And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting, Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless ***** of feet. And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste, With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy, For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste. And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy, Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go, While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal — But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of "The Overflow".
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Clancy of the Overflow
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just "on spec", addressed as follows, "Clancy, of The Overflow". And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar) Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: "Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are." In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy Gone a-droving "down the Cooper" where the Western drovers go; As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing, For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know. And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars. I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall, And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, ***** city Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street, And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting, Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless ***** of feet. And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste, With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy, For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste. And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy, Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go, While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal — But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of "The Overflow".
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The sadness comes and goes, but when it hits me I can't breathe my heart aches. I have never felt so much hurt and so much pain all at once. I broke your heart so why do I hurt? Why am i the one who can't sleep at night? Five years have passed and I still love you more than I could ever find words for. You came back though you say you love me and I just hope you aren't stringing me along. For what it's worth I have more than just words for you. I have a box of memories, I have the sad yet beautiful tragedy we became in the back of my mind. I remember it all. We were young and dumb. I never for a second thought you weren't my fairy tale ending, you have always been my superman. You know me better than I know me a lot of the time even after five years you know everything about me. Honestly losing you again scares me. You brought me out of my sadness. but having you around and questioning your intentions brings me right back in. I just hope I'm worth it to you. because I still love you.
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
Sad. Beautiful. Tragic.
You weave your stories like the night, stringing the moon with the stars; the finest of pristine pearls, threaded by twilight. Weaving the finest Varanasi silk with life as your celestial loom; laying down gold- and silver-threaded brocade, dormant gardens burst in bloom. Your pen is the philosopher’s stone turning lead hearts into gold; manipulating structure in stunning stanzas, inscribing on hearts in italics and bold. Nodding in acquiescence the sages of the ages, will then add your magnum opus to their papyraceous pages.
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 10:57 PM UTC
Threaded By Twilight
~ the true art of loving is to never stop touching! touching, holding, caressing, stroking... such is the nature of love's connection; a twine intertwined through touch, the stringing, the ********* the fingers that clasp, that reach out to grasp; oh marvelous, tenderest touch! why is it that any of us stop? would we, could we, if we really knew? that touch was a gift one of the few that gifts immortality, gives liberality; indeed, would we ever, or never stop touching? and God could only know why we would ever ask to be left alone, cold as a stone, the untouchable we; how could we deny that one, that only who for our heart longs truest mate of our soul. babies need it, toddlers do it, children want it, teens use it, young ones wish it, lovers gift it, mid-lifers pine and seniors return to it... there is never a stage or a cycle of life where we should or ever could cease to be needing it ever stop touching or being touched. for touch is love's connection, the umbilical chord, a neuron cable, the neutron bundle, oh blanket of hope... it feeds us, a life line, an air line that needs us; a love line to the divine that renews us, and will inevitably, ultimately, eventually, totally hold us, as we walk the path through, eternity past, present and what is to come! for touch... indivisible from love, and love never dies; love never ceases! yes, the true art of touching is to never stop loving! ~ *post script. we watched so many who loved stop touching through the years and then wonder what happened as embers once hot grew cold. touch is a gift, to be shared and not hoarded!*
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM UTC
touching
~ the true art of loving is to never stop touching! touching, holding, caressing, stroking... such is the nature of love's connection; a twine intertwined through touch, the stringing, the ********* the fingers that clasp, that reach out to grasp; oh marvelous, tenderest touch! why is it that any of us stop? would we, could we, if we really knew? that touch was a gift one of the few that gifts immortality, gives liberality; indeed, would we ever, or never stop touching? and God could only know why we would ever ask to be left alone, cold as a stone, the untouchable we; how could we deny that one, that only who for our heart longs truest mate of our soul. babies need it, toddlers do it, children want it, teens use it, young ones wish it, lovers gift it, mid-lifers pine and seniors return to it... there is never a stage or a cycle of life where we should or ever could cease to be needing it ever stop touching or being touched. for touch is love's connection, the umbilical chord, a neuron cable, the neutron bundle, oh blanket of hope... it feeds us, a life line, an air line that needs us; a love line to the divine that renews us, and will inevitably, ultimately, eventually, totally hold us, as we walk the path through, eternity past, present and what is to come! for touch... indivisible from love, and love never dies; love never ceases! yes, the true art of touching is to never stop loving! ~ *post script. we watched so many who loved stop touching through the years and then wonder what happened as embers once hot grew cold. touch is a gift, to be shared and not hoarded!*
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Unicorn Moments It was Maundy Thursday, an afternoon so lazy the words of the passion could sink hardly for my eyes were on the beading tray the unfinished bracelet was now awry off and on, i kept stringing the garnet rounds and pearls kept falling no more tiny brass rings to string in between i had to think of other ways...something also had to wash away the gray feeling. Searched inside my bedroom drawers and found silver flower spacers! i gloried at the thought of finishing two bracelets three, more, maybe even an anklet! Three, four hours had passed, i was so exhausted i had already showered the whole bathroom was spotless, smelling of ^Pandan leaves^ and flowers, i was so delighted! Outside the bathroom door, i stopped spotted the shiny silver spacers! on the bed, i almost dropped the silence was too loud, i couldn't stand the spacers' glare, nothing to say, nothing to offer... just a stare... "No! no way! i'm fine, i'm okay!" was that my voice that gave me away? moment of truth could never be held at bay... I held the cable wire to start beading but body and mind were one...refusing my fingers were limp...a bit trembling tired, from too much scrubbing. My finger traces the head of my unicorn figurine God knows, i have loved this magical creature ever since but, i'm not sure i even like these new visitors, these unicorn moments, they don't come often, yet, they're bound to happen. oh, well....i guess i have to be a bit bolder accept these changes that come with growing older... when this happens, i try to joke and laugh, and then people say......."you're tough!" i answer them with a smile...and a gruff! Sally Copyright April 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 7:02 AM UTC
UNICORN MOMENTS
Unicorn Moments It was Maundy Thursday, an afternoon so lazy the words of the passion could sink hardly for my eyes were on the beading tray the unfinished bracelet was now awry off and on, i kept stringing the garnet rounds and pearls kept falling no more tiny brass rings to string in between i had to think of other ways...something also had to wash away the gray feeling. Searched inside my bedroom drawers and found silver flower spacers! i gloried at the thought of finishing two bracelets three, more, maybe even an anklet! Three, four hours had passed, i was so exhausted i had already showered the whole bathroom was spotless, smelling of ^Pandan leaves^ and flowers, i was so delighted! Outside the bathroom door, i stopped spotted the shiny silver spacers! on the bed, i almost dropped the silence was too loud, i couldn't stand the spacers' glare, nothing to say, nothing to offer... just a stare... "No! no way! i'm fine, i'm okay!" was that my voice that gave me away? moment of truth could never be held at bay... I held the cable wire to start beading but body and mind were one...refusing my fingers were limp...a bit trembling tired, from too much scrubbing. My finger traces the head of my unicorn figurine God knows, i have loved this magical creature ever since but, i'm not sure i even like these new visitors, these unicorn moments, they don't come often, yet, they're bound to happen. oh, well....i guess i have to be a bit bolder accept these changes that come with growing older... when this happens, i try to joke and laugh, and then people say......."you're tough!" i answer them with a smile...and a gruff! Sally Copyright April 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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I tried to tint my hair red to light this night But it is dull and stringing out amidst my plant-stained fingers I tried to dissolve away the lines upon my skin to glow with luminosity But they are wedged deep and have left gouges of pin-pricks behind I tried to exhume the dead and the dry from my face to better breathe But instead it filmed over stinging and suffocates I tried to forget you in order to be free of this But I am not cleaned of you so easily.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 9:49 AM UTC
Cosmetikos
Looking at the times the way these dimes Droppin' like flies as time goes by thinkin' why? They living up to a ** status tryna to be the baddest But forget that you beautiful the way your are a shining star that's going dim Tryna impress them ? But they ain't seeing yo who do believe in? Me or next man Setting the masterplan at hand got **** She fell to the design that was planned Insecurities rushing cuffin' to a disease Invisible melodies stringing her menality Wake up and stop following these fakes in society Cuz they don't care about thee just another bill ya need to seal and **** These fakes tryna make fame off of a fake name Only to end up ashamed Now the next girl was giving her self to the world Eyes glistening like a pearl yo it makes me wanna earl She was lusting each scene for the cream and it seems She can't break away from the siblings Aphrodisiac beings spiritually killing Her soul outta control to many energies swarming a hole Thoughts dug deeper than an abyss soon to kiss A gravesite from having to many one nights Momentarily she's feels good from.the morning wood And if I could Change her views but she stuck in her ways So I guess the pain is there to stay floating away Me I'm on cloud nine tryna place my self in unison to the sun an unbecome a fallin' one Little lost women lookin' for men To take in can't amend Their problems but we all got problems Can't resolve 'em only evolve 'em above the rim Word to birdie lookin' for the enemies frenzy See the past I peeped the scenery since the age of three a golden taste of the coke and Hennessy Gave me a second chance to glance into the 9th D A Time traveler wisdom unraveler I'm the savior Resurrected from death in the form of a fetus Baby girl wipe ya tears no need to fear And compare against these buccaneers Most close their ears so they can't hear Ya sighs ...bawlin' no stallin' let's rise above all of those fallin'..now say...
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Sep 23, 2018
Sep 23, 2018 at 1:12 PM UTC
Lilith's Bluez
Looking at the times the way these dimes Droppin' like flies as time goes by thinkin' why? They living up to a ** status tryna to be the baddest But forget that you beautiful the way your are a shining star that's going dim Tryna impress them ? But they ain't seeing yo who do believe in? Me or next man Setting the masterplan at hand got **** She fell to the design that was planned Insecurities rushing cuffin' to a disease Invisible melodies stringing her menality Wake up and stop following these fakes in society Cuz they don't care about thee just another bill ya need to seal and **** These fakes tryna make fame off of a fake name Only to end up ashamed Now the next girl was giving her self to the world Eyes glistening like a pearl yo it makes me wanna earl She was lusting each scene for the cream and it seems She can't break away from the siblings Aphrodisiac beings spiritually killing Her soul outta control to many energies swarming a hole Thoughts dug deeper than an abyss soon to kiss A gravesite from having to many one nights Momentarily she's feels good from.the morning wood And if I could Change her views but she stuck in her ways So I guess the pain is there to stay floating away Me I'm on cloud nine tryna place my self in unison to the sun an unbecome a fallin' one Little lost women lookin' for men To take in can't amend Their problems but we all got problems Can't resolve 'em only evolve 'em above the rim Word to birdie lookin' for the enemies frenzy See the past I peeped the scenery since the age of three a golden taste of the coke and Hennessy Gave me a second chance to glance into the 9th D A Time traveler wisdom unraveler I'm the savior Resurrected from death in the form of a fetus Baby girl wipe ya tears no need to fear And compare against these buccaneers Most close their ears so they can't hear Ya sighs ...bawlin' no stallin' let's rise above all of those fallin'..now say...
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He sat there on the edge of my bed, playing with the strings on his guitar, stringing me along. Pulling me closer with his voice, beautifully bruised, carrying me in. The moonlight complementing his every note, every inch of him. Buried diep. Lost within a fantasy. Lost in this room with a melody, and a voice so addictive. He sat there, smoke and moonlight, playing his guitar.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
His beautifully bruised voice.
******* baby-voice-fake, carrying around that ego of yours (where'd you even get it?) stringing your hair into strands and straggles, painting your lips attention-whore red, parading around those scars on your arms - ******* try-too-hard-fake, making noise to make noise, words that aren't words and thoughts that aren't yours, i'm not hearing it. smiling and then secretly hateful and spreading lies (you were ***** you were molested, you were exploited, you were robbed) tip-toed on poser-high heels, chopping your hair into stunted shortness (a rat-nest red-chemical version of mine) you can **** off.
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Dec 9, 2011
Dec 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM UTC
a rant, a truth
Lazy afternoon rays shaft      Through Spring's full trees; The wind cuts laterally      Leaving the sea. Through deck lattice      The grass weaves A tartan plaid.      Electric lines,      Chimney tops,      Blossoming crops. I hold out my hands, Stringing fingers Through thinning hair. The artisan Wove and weaves. This is the basket, The rug, My coat. Entwine our fingers; Weave a basket. Collect your thoughts.
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 10:53 PM UTC
The Weaving
He is who you want to see at the airport, half asleep, pastel sweatshirt half zipped. Half length shorts ending just above the knees. Eyes matching the green and blue abstract swirls patterned into the carpet to hide passenger sick-up. The background to travelling japanese circus photos, they’ll look back in their scrapbooks, past the ponies on the baggage carousel, see him waiting for the delayed international arrival. Stiff legs tread quietly down grey hallways, stringing a stickered suitcase along moving walkways, thoughts caught between continents, in escalator’s teeth. Tiptoeing over the hot coffee spilled like oil, the taste of morning breath clinging to the back of the throat, chalky as chilled ashes, abandoned and unswallowed. When the taxis are cold and the day’s been worn out, before it’s even begun; patchy fabric stretched over toes rubbing thin on the inside of your shoes, he’ll circle your head like a daisy crown. To hold the tiny scars on his broad shoulders, traces blemishes like a mine sweeper, would be like orange juice at 40 000 ft. Intimate in a way only TSA agents know how to be, looking for explosives behind the ribcage, to the left.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 3:48 AM UTC
International Airport
Days become smaller as nights take over. You move faster as you go further, away with the sun. No more warmer as the tension grows stronger. The air is colder, the breaths are shorter. Time moves slower. Your grip gets tighter, as I start to waver. And everything I've bled for never even mattered. With you, it's just a sliver, filled with hope, as it grows weaker. The heart, it withers, and here we are, lost in whatever. Whatever this is, you keep me here, where I don't even want to be near. Let me go, I don't want to be lost in you, already consumed by the truth. Hesitation follows, as you stay leaving me hollow. There's no light coming through, and I'm losing sight of myself when it should have been you. So please, stop stringing me along, when all you're doing making the rights wrong. Nothing gets better; because of you, forever never comes closer.
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM UTC
Being second place is worse than losing.
You three believe in creating scarcity, NOT union. You build HOV lanes for your luxury cars, caring less how efficient they are. They roll royce cross your game board, fuming trails of money. Bell Atlantic bought Madison Avenue, you bought all the properties. Now tenants can't avoid the traffic or the noise of an internet rolled in palms and diced spiraling to speed limits ... ... ... ... and red highways ... ... ... ... and orange traffic cones that block hybrid cars, already swerving to avoid bankruptcy. We STOP the STOP people STOP moving, our preamble crumbles to a STOP, becoming a eulogy — an ideal dumb to power trippery, after Time Warner and Comcast merged, allies on opposite sides of the game board. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; together you own pretty much everyone but Fox and Disney, (yet have invested in them heavily). Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; your oligarchy is NBC, Universal, CNN, Warner Brothers, and now FullScreen, family-friendly nepotism that inbreeds bearing deaf drones bored of flying, over Why Beyonce is a Feminist. or Why Ferguson was racist, media's offspring just keep clicking, the headline genocide victims basking in concentrated lamps for a sliver of attention. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; Now you want the backend buffering, bulging eyes and emptying pockets of those Spocked into believing, hyperspeed was ever necessary. No choice when the exits are slow and there are no backroads. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T;, offspring of the Bell Atlantic Company, we will not let your ****** populate the internet. Call it Capitalism, but your playing Monopoly, yanking the carpet underneath to the wood of Tyranny. You shamed Bell's invention by stringing together telephone internet, and entertainment companies until you could be lazy. Monkeys who spent millions to shriek at government parties about the communication machine, a system downloaded so slowly, we did not act on cons piracy theories, when Amazon made online shopping so easy. Dear Internet Service Providers, so called ISP's, WE ARE DONE playing Monopoly. Our collective voice will shout blasphemy on your streets, hashtagged net neutrality, till you're counting pennies. So empty your Washington banks cause it's 3 a.m. and no ONE is winning.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
Dear Verizon, Comcast, & AT&T,
You three believe in creating scarcity, NOT union. You build HOV lanes for your luxury cars, caring less how efficient they are. They roll royce cross your game board, fuming trails of money. Bell Atlantic bought Madison Avenue, you bought all the properties. Now tenants can't avoid the traffic or the noise of an internet rolled in palms and diced spiraling to speed limits ... ... ... ... and red highways ... ... ... ... and orange traffic cones that block hybrid cars, already swerving to avoid bankruptcy. We STOP the STOP people STOP moving, our preamble crumbles to a STOP, becoming a eulogy — an ideal dumb to power trippery, after Time Warner and Comcast merged, allies on opposite sides of the game board. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; together you own pretty much everyone but Fox and Disney, (yet have invested in them heavily). Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; your oligarchy is NBC, Universal, CNN, Warner Brothers, and now FullScreen, family-friendly nepotism that inbreeds bearing deaf drones bored of flying, over Why Beyonce is a Feminist. or Why Ferguson was racist, media's offspring just keep clicking, the headline genocide victims basking in concentrated lamps for a sliver of attention. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; Now you want the backend buffering, bulging eyes and emptying pockets of those Spocked into believing, hyperspeed was ever necessary. No choice when the exits are slow and there are no backroads. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T;, offspring of the Bell Atlantic Company, we will not let your ****** populate the internet. Call it Capitalism, but your playing Monopoly, yanking the carpet underneath to the wood of Tyranny. You shamed Bell's invention by stringing together telephone internet, and entertainment companies until you could be lazy. Monkeys who spent millions to shriek at government parties about the communication machine, a system downloaded so slowly, we did not act on cons piracy theories, when Amazon made online shopping so easy. Dear Internet Service Providers, so called ISP's, WE ARE DONE playing Monopoly. Our collective voice will shout blasphemy on your streets, hashtagged net neutrality, till you're counting pennies. So empty your Washington banks cause it's 3 a.m. and no ONE is winning.
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Give me the sky And I will soar Among the mighty clouds Grant me the wind And I will fly Beneath the radiant sun Dare me to dance And I will learn Upon a golden lit stage Lend me an ocean And I will sail Farther than the tides Make me a promise And I will trust Grasping to it forever Bring me a melody And I will write Stringing lyrics by starlight Join me in life And we will laugh Finding joy side by side
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Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020 at 8:06 PM UTC
Unplaced Longing