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"subjugated" poems
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.
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August 1968
I last saw her in Santiago ******* drunkenly in a Sub urban taverna parading conceited pride in a twisted union with that ********  heinous maniacal harlequin each in vainglorious throes of their imagined septic mindfuck Debauch celebration of collaboration of succubus and incubus Some days she is saying Haloa in Hawaii adorned as Sainti Maria the ***** now as Madonna spewing words like a dove acting like a Nun in a Convent the fiendess with two faces hiding her ****** like the ace in lace the malignant serpent crawling in the duality of her neurosis I last saw her in Santiago In a sanctity of the poisoned insecures with exiguous minds consumed with flaming fears she begs acceptance for inclusion ******* for percieved reflected glory from her fathers' jailers The subjugated souls of chai wallah lives on in grandchildren So when Santi Maria flirts from honey to beehive Ready to ***** and part thighs and brain for minor pointing gun Feel sorry for a damaged child devoid of a prime core never made only obeisance to past rulers whose discarded cast-offs she wears Her poems  enchants but its virulent tools she takes in her body I last saw her in Santiago A slaved two-faced pretender who sings like a nightingale In sub urban dives she postrates to friendly pats and gropes Melting creeps and hot tigers begging subs for a heady drink Brilliant yet blindsided to **** on knees as her children will too Copyright@LaurenceA20thSept2018Allrightsreserved.
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 9:03 PM UTC
I Call Her Santiago.....
When education was restricted They ran to religion When solace was stripped away They ran to martyrdom Loved ones fell Hated ones rose As hearts sank To the depths of the maelstrom Fueled by the unholy trinity Value, vindication, and violence Bombs decimate Afghan villages With the precision Of a needle hitting a vein And as casually As a contractor putting a dollar in his pocket The rubble of their town Lost in a mist of dust The rubble of their minds Lost in a mist of vengeance The rabid dog chases the subjugated raccoon The raccoon discovers a sacred hole and hides in it The predator attempts to encroach the void The raccoon quivers in it's sanctuary shelter Finding relief as the hound becomes stuck And laughs as the infected beast starves to death But ecstasy turns to terror As the raccoon realizes it's only way out of this hole Is being blocked by the gargantuan corpse Terror turns to sorrow As the raccoon starves to death Alone In the dark It's holy land now hell For once it had protected the raccoon from unbridled rabies But since the hound's death It's Cerberus size obstructs all progression Holes become graves And prey are left to pray For someone to drop a bomb and clear a path
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Jun 7, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 at 4:45 AM UTC
Rubble
You think you know me. I think I know you. We know nothing As we move forward Slouched in our office chairs of despair Some moving full throttle, the others stay still Still All in the same place All at the same level The illusion of movement Competitiveness run amok and awry An experiment gone wrong An experiment in our endless longing, our search Our eventual journey As we seek greatness and perfection While shattering the thought of it. We have been taught to question Questions bring greatness Greatness is what we long for Greatness has been subjugated No longer an aspiration, but a trade Not a product of inspiration But a product of greed Art is dead Love is dead All is dead What once was an abstract concept Is now concrete And invisible Nothing A black hole Constructed from the shattered hopes and dreams Of millenials and those who felt like we do throughout history What does "millenial" mean anyway? In every context it encapsulates Consumerism Greed Selfishness Hypocrisy Art is dead Love is dead All is dead And we killed it We dealt the death blow. We lack heart We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with greatness Greatness comes from accomplishments Accomplishments come from knowledge Knowledge comes from aspiration Aspiration comes from inspiration Inspiration... comes from the metaphysical heart The hollow men had no soul and neither do we We lean together We do not embrace We do not take the next steps Only leaning We lack what we need to see it through We are incapable of maintaining relationships. For our stamina is gone In its place, divorce, infidelity, shallowness relationships based on looks and dreams dreams of perfection based on the wrong definition We are the hollow men We are hollow We are... despairing Despair why would we despair? if we did not care? are we then hollow? if we worry, is that not out of concern? is concern not out of love? does love... not stem from the heart? Sometimes I wonder Can you still have a heart If you have a mind in the way?
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 10:47 PM UTC
State of a Generation
You think you know me. I think I know you. We know nothing As we move forward Slouched in our office chairs of despair Some moving full throttle, the others stay still Still All in the same place All at the same level The illusion of movement Competitiveness run amok and awry An experiment gone wrong An experiment in our endless longing, our search Our eventual journey As we seek greatness and perfection While shattering the thought of it. We have been taught to question Questions bring greatness Greatness is what we long for Greatness has been subjugated No longer an aspiration, but a trade Not a product of inspiration But a product of greed Art is dead Love is dead All is dead What once was an abstract concept Is now concrete And invisible Nothing A black hole Constructed from the shattered hopes and dreams Of millenials and those who felt like we do throughout history What does "millenial" mean anyway? In every context it encapsulates Consumerism Greed Selfishness Hypocrisy Art is dead Love is dead All is dead And we killed it We dealt the death blow. We lack heart We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with greatness Greatness comes from accomplishments Accomplishments come from knowledge Knowledge comes from aspiration Aspiration comes from inspiration Inspiration... comes from the metaphysical heart The hollow men had no soul and neither do we We lean together We do not embrace We do not take the next steps Only leaning We lack what we need to see it through We are incapable of maintaining relationships. For our stamina is gone In its place, divorce, infidelity, shallowness relationships based on looks and dreams dreams of perfection based on the wrong definition We are the hollow men We are hollow We are... despairing Despair why would we despair? if we did not care? are we then hollow? if we worry, is that not out of concern? is concern not out of love? does love... not stem from the heart? Sometimes I wonder Can you still have a heart If you have a mind in the way?
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scars of a past I wanted nothing to do with led me to handcuff myself to a lampole for security. I had reached my consensus. I threw the keys to these cuffs in mental portals where I thought no one would dare to ever travel. Many tried searching but I intentionally obstructed access with deceptive rants of fear and caution. By then I was sure that I had thoroughly built walls of security; I was safe ...but who would've thought my aesthetically intellectual design had a weakness? The enemy came just as they all did, hoping to be let in... but this one reacted differently when the ranting came; I was now at a disadvantage because I had no other alternatives for defense. The enemy showed no care for my security; It was attractive And I succumbed while Never forgetting my plan Although it seemed my design was nugatory. My mental lampole and cuffs, gone. I was left subjugated at the feet of a queen who carried an aura with the most beautiful spectrum. Like a bull snake, promises of security grappled my core, draining it of all fear leaving behind no traces of deception. Although defeated, she still remains my enemy because serendipity never seems to stick around.
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 11:33 PM UTC
Defeated
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make and number and, as one bends his face towards your window, you catch sight of more on a hill beyond, eyeing with intent down cradled guns that hold you under cover and everything is pure interrogation until a rifle motions and you move with guarded unconcerned acceleration— a little emptier, a little spent as always by that quiver in the self, subjugated, yes, and obedient. So you drive on to the frontier of writing where it happens again. The guns on tripods; the sergeant with his on-off mike repeating data about you, waiting for the squawk of clearance; the marksman training down out of the sun upon you like a hawk. And suddenly you're through, arraigned yet freed, as if you'd passed from behind a waterfall on the black current of a tarmac road past armor-plated vehicles, out between the posted soldiers flowing and receding like tree shadows into the polished windscreen.
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From The Frontier Of Writing
1084 At Half past Three, a single Bird Unto a silent Sky Propounded but a single term Of cautious melody. At Half past Four, Experiment Had subjugated test And lo, Her silver Principle Supplanted all the rest. At Half past Seven, Element Nor Implement, be seen— And Place was where the Presence was Circumference between.
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At Half past Three, a single Bird
I sought satisfaction in stupid sheepishly and shallow strides. Scared subconsciously, I swallow and sustain substance for pseudo self esteem strengthening. I seemed of in service to slumber and stinging sadness, shots sank like ships, submerging into the sea of my swarthy stomach in seconds. I somewhat sympathies as a sailor, sweating, struggling and swimming in slipping sobriety saturated in my sulking style. Scanning swarms of serial swindlers, striking sculptures stances of self-doubt. I stammer in a storm of slurs, ******* down my safety, stopping myself at the stoop of the saloon I see a seductive silhouette staging the space. She stroke my sight, standing sanguine in scarlet, soul sold in high heels. The smoothest sculptures in seven square miles were subjugated into scree and I was ****** in submission. Stubborn staggering suitors, stand shaking silently as she is stopped by sharks stalking and snarling sycophantics. So straightforward in suggesting their secret starvation to strip sensations, seem by seem, like a sub-par **** cinema scene. They step and speak short. She smokes off, stranding the scree in smoldering slaughter. Its sad this soul-less sanctuary soaking up sorrows. So self inflicting, and so satisfyingly side splitting. She sported her spurned, scorned off into sadistic solitude and stained sticky stigma, sobbing to sleep. So spent from simple stocked, stored and supported senescence of ceremonial subjection of ****** status. I savior my sincerity, and stretched out of this strange stadium of stooges. So long scarlet sanguine I sang softly, as she stole my sight suspiciously in sync with hers. Sacrificial seconds split from smearing stolidity to sharing a smile. That's simple satisfaction, so I seen scripted in sitcoms and shows. Supporting sapiens in stasis to see sappy stunners on screen, to stare snoopy, as stabs and slashes strike socially into socialites of so called sanity and sovereignty. To sweetly pay salvage as slaves of soppy studio slander. Such is this sorry Saturday night, I am solidified in sedation.
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Dec 14, 2017
Dec 14, 2017 at 12:00 PM UTC
Saturday night (Alliteration in S)
I sought satisfaction in stupid sheepishly and shallow strides. Scared subconsciously, I swallow and sustain substance for pseudo self esteem strengthening. I seemed of in service to slumber and stinging sadness, shots sank like ships, submerging into the sea of my swarthy stomach in seconds. I somewhat sympathies as a sailor, sweating, struggling and swimming in slipping sobriety saturated in my sulking style. Scanning swarms of serial swindlers, striking sculptures stances of self-doubt. I stammer in a storm of slurs, ******* down my safety, stopping myself at the stoop of the saloon I see a seductive silhouette staging the space. She stroke my sight, standing sanguine in scarlet, soul sold in high heels. The smoothest sculptures in seven square miles were subjugated into scree and I was ****** in submission. Stubborn staggering suitors, stand shaking silently as she is stopped by sharks stalking and snarling sycophantics. So straightforward in suggesting their secret starvation to strip sensations, seem by seem, like a sub-par **** cinema scene. They step and speak short. She smokes off, stranding the scree in smoldering slaughter. Its sad this soul-less sanctuary soaking up sorrows. So self inflicting, and so satisfyingly side splitting. She sported her spurned, scorned off into sadistic solitude and stained sticky stigma, sobbing to sleep. So spent from simple stocked, stored and supported senescence of ceremonial subjection of ****** status. I savior my sincerity, and stretched out of this strange stadium of stooges. So long scarlet sanguine I sang softly, as she stole my sight suspiciously in sync with hers. Sacrificial seconds split from smearing stolidity to sharing a smile. That's simple satisfaction, so I seen scripted in sitcoms and shows. Supporting sapiens in stasis to see sappy stunners on screen, to stare snoopy, as stabs and slashes strike socially into socialites of so called sanity and sovereignty. To sweetly pay salvage as slaves of soppy studio slander. Such is this sorry Saturday night, I am solidified in sedation.
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Subjugated by the Not-so-loyal subjects: Mind | Body | Spirit Incongruencies None knowing their place Poor leadership I'll bet I can mind my way to a better place Better try Plutocracy So I grant citizenship To my cunning and intellect It works but After a time vibrancy Fades So I call in Spirit In the spirit of Theocracy Spiritual matters prevail But I've forgotten to eat For two days So I give Body A seat at the table Now we have a democracy Or do we? Remnants of the Plutocracy Gave cunning a vote So we reorganize Into a meritocracy < - - 3 pools - - > Mind ~ Body ~ Spirit 3 votes Something still isn't working So I ruminate Think Pray Chastise And turn things upside Down A king should be subjugated The best leadership Is invisible A True leader Follows Their own path I (the person) am ground I am the intersect I am the crossroads for Mind ~ Body ~ Spirit I am the King And I Follow
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 10:37 PM UTC
Baffled King
Being silent was best Ham is strong and he threatened me with a fatal accident Then there was a child Oh, my dear husband the tireless naturalist of the fermented juice of sweet grapes His old age has been tarnished by that made-up anecdote which hid the rapes under a moment of shamelessness But the punishment betrays it anyway, the eternal curse from the first scream of the baby, innocent Canaan, my youngest son His generations to generation subjugated and squeezed to death in the purple lowlands
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Jun 19, 2022
Jun 19, 2022 at 3:55 AM UTC
Emzara's complaint
billboard's calligraph -- past the haze of Manila infested by car sprawls and belching machines. magnanimous treatise of tarpaulins, people chin-up asking God with askance something like this "o god make this bearable like a mound of fresh fruits from ****** labour." maniacal sensurround: earth-shattering frequency of footsteps trampling the mouth of monolith shadows - the peak of this quake is our complete silence. rain's catharsis in effect sousing us in the blood of unreal light. this diastolic shrinkage jamming the beat of constricting vessels. the adrenaline surges within the dermis of this pretension. a collective of tired beings heeding the recherché of voice metamorphosing into form, a dagger-butterfly paring us skin to bone, cranial to visceral, soul to nothing - catapult of a trajectory spit plummeting in eased-up pace from Taft Avenue flyover to a subjugated wagon of scraps and empty wine bottles. today's paper reads: "Palace hits hiring of **** dancers" fancying to fall right in the spanked curved of this insatiate melodrama - something prayer could not save from this land's mutinous ignominy. we resume to fulfill our madness, hundreds of tack-headed people rolling down the streets of Makati, drenched with rain's trilling aftermath. squinting to look at no sun, only the grieving of skyscrape, thumbing down unidentified objects in the depth of loose pockets, desperate for home.
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
Hazy Manila Headline
Whether drops of dew Able diminish fire spark up in our home land? Whether rice boil in well-off houses Served the requirement of subjugated one of our home land? Whether peace installed in meeting hall Spread to countryside of our home land? Everyone is in shrunken With devastation malevolence’s follower, Who dream that, they will make everything golden! Therefore, my grandmother said “We are just with soil, water and air Don’t dream about gold or silver, it will wipe out your vigour to survive! Go for vocation to nurture soil; Bring in water, profoundly breath air... You will grow along with other!”
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Dec 25, 2014
Dec 25, 2014 at 3:36 AM UTC
Settle on vocation
There’s a sage at the doorway Negating affinity as a leeway. He never spoke to me though he’s there I shunned the thought lest I did care. Grew up in envy To those – they never saw right through me; How I yearned for that man’s attention And from others’ sage I longed discretion. A battle occupied his thought, A war seldom won, constantly fought. For such warrior was taken abashed Looked at me, ‘I can’t take you back.’ Grounded within me was the silence, Left and right I sought for solace. Never sure if could amount to anything in his eyes, Until I found out he too was never sought off despite. Desperate - in a sense As I took hold of a pretense; Had not the Divine stoop down to reclaim What I had yearned for the sage, I blamed. A treble in my throat croaked, “Father” Despite holding grudge I never bothered Spoke nor utter a thought in my mind. There, I froze with teeth to the grind. Truth encountered my despot idealism, Tried hard to renounce the criticism. It’s weight – truth only subjugated my hate; “Love – unless you embrace it, cannot placate” Fell on my knees, armor exhausted itself around, Wrung over my shoulders arms of the One who found Me clinging on the border of insight and despair, Only His Will my broken, calloused heart molds into repair. I glanced back at the sage, I met yearning eyes, Sought he, his worth for me and found no despise. All along, had I known, he too was a broken and contrite; Would not I, received much bestow what is right?
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
Ode to Fatherhood
There’s a sage at the doorway Negating affinity as a leeway. He never spoke to me though he’s there I shunned the thought lest I did care. Grew up in envy To those – they never saw right through me; How I yearned for that man’s attention And from others’ sage I longed discretion. A battle occupied his thought, A war seldom won, constantly fought. For such warrior was taken abashed Looked at me, ‘I can’t take you back.’ Grounded within me was the silence, Left and right I sought for solace. Never sure if could amount to anything in his eyes, Until I found out he too was never sought off despite. Desperate - in a sense As I took hold of a pretense; Had not the Divine stoop down to reclaim What I had yearned for the sage, I blamed. A treble in my throat croaked, “Father” Despite holding grudge I never bothered Spoke nor utter a thought in my mind. There, I froze with teeth to the grind. Truth encountered my despot idealism, Tried hard to renounce the criticism. It’s weight – truth only subjugated my hate; “Love – unless you embrace it, cannot placate” Fell on my knees, armor exhausted itself around, Wrung over my shoulders arms of the One who found Me clinging on the border of insight and despair, Only His Will my broken, calloused heart molds into repair. I glanced back at the sage, I met yearning eyes, Sought he, his worth for me and found no despise. All along, had I known, he too was a broken and contrite; Would not I, received much bestow what is right?
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Independence and autonomy are subjugated by the transnational bourgeoise; and a colorful Mediterranean cuisine is not dissimilar to the Machiavellian arrays of contemporary propaganda. Therein lurks a traumatic bonding from the origins of Stockholm, which is characterised by a cryptogram of questionable empathy. It truly is a lucrative business, oh hamster on the wheel of dissociative conformity. Have a consultation appointment with Salvatore Lucania of La Cosa Nostra. We are boiling in a fascinating and central superintendence. Therefore, my weary and ego-dystonic figment of contemporary virtual relationship: Do not express allegiance to your captor.
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 3:48 PM UTC
Political States of Trance
Maybe your mothers and fathers do not know right from wrong Maybe those that birth you cannot tell real from unreal The apples do not fall far from the trees that we know all along So no surprise when off-springs and all fall into the reel Unable to decipher the lost and damaged from their midst adorn My mother washed me in truth, honesty, sincerity and real love That's the only path that graces the soul and makes humanity So all my life I know what's real, true, honest from all else above You walk your path and serve your gods in all their profanity Your festered minds and putrid brains is not like mine thereof In superficial abodes, your falseness lies fakery has confused you No truth or honesty exists all around only deceits and raw fear You rot from the inside and feed from poison not breastmilk too from start you're ****** your brains from chemicals they rear Spooks with semblance no substance, serving satan them born fools I know what's real what's true what's honest and sincere or not That is me from real bosoms raised in edifying values not falsity Come in thousands you stink from a mile off satan demons squat Sincerity truthfulness if erred makes amends not sit discordantly Real Humanity embraces love and peace not mortal duels that's fact From negativity you drink in darkness lies your bread and joy miseries and fears you seek to share cause your souls lies in pain In cancerous fears you scheme and plot your ****** evils ploys Cause it destroys you to see goodness whilst your souls' in chain Weak corrupted dark and damaged subjugated to lucifers noise Gnarled old wrinkled before your years you envy my young looks Borne of inner joy and unafraid pious calm pathetics  spit zombie Too sick to know a clear conscience never pines or fears like crooks Pure and noble emotions caters no dirt or negativities like loonies Dignity and integrity offers granite to malevolent duds and hooks
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 10:16 AM UTC
Eve and Judas Incorp Ltd......
Maybe your mothers and fathers do not know right from wrong Maybe those that birth you cannot tell real from unreal The apples do not fall far from the trees that we know all along So no surprise when off-springs and all fall into the reel Unable to decipher the lost and damaged from their midst adorn My mother washed me in truth, honesty, sincerity and real love That's the only path that graces the soul and makes humanity So all my life I know what's real, true, honest from all else above You walk your path and serve your gods in all their profanity Your festered minds and putrid brains is not like mine thereof In superficial abodes, your falseness lies fakery has confused you No truth or honesty exists all around only deceits and raw fear You rot from the inside and feed from poison not breastmilk too from start you're ****** your brains from chemicals they rear Spooks with semblance no substance, serving satan them born fools I know what's real what's true what's honest and sincere or not That is me from real bosoms raised in edifying values not falsity Come in thousands you stink from a mile off satan demons squat Sincerity truthfulness if erred makes amends not sit discordantly Real Humanity embraces love and peace not mortal duels that's fact From negativity you drink in darkness lies your bread and joy miseries and fears you seek to share cause your souls lies in pain In cancerous fears you scheme and plot your ****** evils ploys Cause it destroys you to see goodness whilst your souls' in chain Weak corrupted dark and damaged subjugated to lucifers noise Gnarled old wrinkled before your years you envy my young looks Borne of inner joy and unafraid pious calm pathetics  spit zombie Too sick to know a clear conscience never pines or fears like crooks Pure and noble emotions caters no dirt or negativities like loonies Dignity and integrity offers granite to malevolent duds and hooks
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Alas, awakened to the glorious smell Of grieving petrichor and lichen Intoxicating scents of spells, Has left my thoughts forsaken. Aggrieved, unclean, I wash myself in the river, Alone again, once with my mind, The cold water does bring a quiver. Rushing gently across its bend, Its current does drag along A heartache inside a massive depth, A misery that floods it anon. It seeks to help wash stains of past, Blood from mistakes without thought, Caressing my hands as I dip them in, It cleans at the souls I’ve wrought. I’ve brought spite to all I’ve been, I bathe in hatred and stigmata, Correctional growth of paradigmatic folly, Proves equality to tumultuous fodder. - There has been death here, Drowning and sickness, Villainous nature subjugated To corruption and bleakness. Disparaging remarks whispered of men, Bring to light lost life and love, Discouraging thoughts of mine herein, Anticlimactic and soulless above. The trees began to whisper, Moving slightly in the breeze, I thought I would move quicker, But something that couldn’t trapped me. - Bringing about a fallout cloud That kept my mind thus smoked, It is hard to cherish anything That the water itself could soak. - I wanted to leave, But I was locked in the wood, I began to need it, Like any Stockholm would The treasure trove in which I was kept, Was something of a fairy-tale It hid monsters, death, And only one nightingale. Its swansong allowed me to sleep, Gorgeous at night, it cast in weep, A story of one so scared, The fear of bleeding out One day upon the growing creep. Vines and lies surrounded me, Its whole existence was false, Nothing could be this natural, And the dead forest scoffed. - Could there be someone else here? Doubtful, I began my search, Through vasts I spied, time again, But nothing upon this earth. The forest fell in love with my heart, Its emotions curious to her, She tortured me with affection, My reality was blurred. I found my way across her floor, Trekking miles to a never-end., Purgatory does not know this pain, Hopeless abandon, fell unto myself to fend. A trip, a fall, unique and random, I impaled myself with a sharp cry, A sharp palisade jutting out, I then whispered “What if I don’t want to die?”
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 4:15 PM UTC
The Wood.
Alas, awakened to the glorious smell Of grieving petrichor and lichen Intoxicating scents of spells, Has left my thoughts forsaken. Aggrieved, unclean, I wash myself in the river, Alone again, once with my mind, The cold water does bring a quiver. Rushing gently across its bend, Its current does drag along A heartache inside a massive depth, A misery that floods it anon. It seeks to help wash stains of past, Blood from mistakes without thought, Caressing my hands as I dip them in, It cleans at the souls I’ve wrought. I’ve brought spite to all I’ve been, I bathe in hatred and stigmata, Correctional growth of paradigmatic folly, Proves equality to tumultuous fodder. - There has been death here, Drowning and sickness, Villainous nature subjugated To corruption and bleakness. Disparaging remarks whispered of men, Bring to light lost life and love, Discouraging thoughts of mine herein, Anticlimactic and soulless above. The trees began to whisper, Moving slightly in the breeze, I thought I would move quicker, But something that couldn’t trapped me. - Bringing about a fallout cloud That kept my mind thus smoked, It is hard to cherish anything That the water itself could soak. - I wanted to leave, But I was locked in the wood, I began to need it, Like any Stockholm would The treasure trove in which I was kept, Was something of a fairy-tale It hid monsters, death, And only one nightingale. Its swansong allowed me to sleep, Gorgeous at night, it cast in weep, A story of one so scared, The fear of bleeding out One day upon the growing creep. Vines and lies surrounded me, Its whole existence was false, Nothing could be this natural, And the dead forest scoffed. - Could there be someone else here? Doubtful, I began my search, Through vasts I spied, time again, But nothing upon this earth. The forest fell in love with my heart, Its emotions curious to her, She tortured me with affection, My reality was blurred. I found my way across her floor, Trekking miles to a never-end., Purgatory does not know this pain, Hopeless abandon, fell unto myself to fend. A trip, a fall, unique and random, I impaled myself with a sharp cry, A sharp palisade jutting out, I then whispered “What if I don’t want to die?”
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Centuries far ago In the African state of Congo Trespassed by the heartless whites Civilizing the blacks, against their rights They invaded them under a false pretence They shattered humanism’s true essence Several men decayed, as malnourished For being skinned in charcoal colour they were punished The invaders sowed the seeds to racism It grew larger using euphemism It all spread like a malicious talk Darkness bowed when the white flesh would walk Subjugated with iron chains the slaves marched With empty stomachs and throats parched Killed unmercifully if they refused a task After all, the devil resided behind the white mask They looted several nations Leaving behind schools and railway stations But who would benefit from development of this kind? In the darkness, hearts had turned blind Oh, one day back then it all changed Hearts pumped louder through the ribs that were caged Unleashing those iron chains they chased; Till those heartless masters felt disgraced The dark cloak of slavery burnt to dust While freedom of sunshine sparkled on all the rust Each enslaved human fought for what is right No one could dare to break their might Blood was shed on both sides But they didn’t cease their stride Back then they made them flee But those racist seeds flew across seas The darkness never prevails From one land to another it sails Only the goodness in one’s soul, Can take the darkness for a toll! -Zainab Attari
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM UTC
Heart of Darkness
Exuberant ecstatic rapture Sardonic denigrating quip Joisting up an oaken rafter The cabin of a sailing ship Lucid eloquent recumbence Surreal retrospective grace Endless ocean’s myriad turbulence Infinity would set it’s pace Imbue spontaneous induction Exude efficient transience Exhort the mystic symbiotic construction For the course of our intransigence Litigant ludicrous licentiousness Coquettish audacious impunity Lecherous libidos atrocious impertinence Would pound id’s shore horrendously Derisive subjugated nuance Extol intrinsic unity Nebulous wisps of shaded quiescence With breeze and sky make harmony Predilect effluent effusion Tenacious taubla tapestry Alleviate the torrential confusion Acquire efficience for flights symmetry
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 12:39 PM UTC
Immunity
The darkened corners of forgotten yesterdays clouded the view as the gaping maw of need stared across the chasm at necessity .  Almost as if there was a reason for it’s contiguous constituency it reflected the myriad animations of it’s creator .  Crystalline forms in infinite diversity beyond the subjective sublimations of mass crowded the integral forms of it’s subjugated spontaneities perversions as the well of it’s unity sang of the cause for it’s being . The single-mindedness of it’s recumbent beginnings were all but lost to the ramifications of itself as the children of it’s repulsion waxed and waned .   The twinkling of an eye , the integration of ages , countless extrapolations of it’s *********** vanished into the nature of their being as the tainted refuse of their wanton progressions began their mutual processions back to the source , or wandered through the surrealistic ethereum of their eternally predestined nothingness . Causalities purity reigned as all became the reason for it’s own creation , and vanished into the implosion of it’s own ***********
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 3:54 AM UTC
The Vanishing Point
Intoxicated with 'Might is right! ' The moral dwarfs, With beefed up muscles And iron fists, Drove home fright Killing and leeching Alienated natives Day and night! They brutally Subjugated many, With bare hands, For God-given freedom Who have to fight! Up on gaining Back freedom Revolted by 'An eye for an eye! ' Mandela the moral giant Declared "Retaliation what for and why? A moral dwarf, like Ex-bosses, Degrade myself must I? Though I was robbed of Sunlight from a lullaby Almost to the day I die! The 'peace and considerateness' Placard is what we must Worldwide hover high! All of us are on our way out Let us make sure Behind us we leave Days bright! Also we must not forget Among the white The presence of The moral giants Who fight for Blacks' right!"
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Jul 14, 2016
Jul 14, 2016 at 10:34 AM UTC
Mandela, The Moral Giant
You can't believe this happened You fell into the trap You never believed that it would happen like that You said it would be different But it's very much the same And now you'll do anything to erase all the pain It brings back memories best forgotten It makes a grown woman fall apart And become the little girl you still are at heart It brings you back to when it used to happen all the time When you would live in fear of when you would be subjugated to the crime You remember the memories so well suppressed The ones you can't bare to get off of your chest And to think this is all because of some little game Something that you don't look at the same He didn't mean to hurt you, or at least that's what you think But just one violent touch makes you fall back and shrink He unknowingly caused a trigger that started everything else All those memories once forgotten have found their way off of the shelf You need a way to escape before you self destruct Because the crying and the screaming just make you feel amuck You find a savior in someone else willing to lend an ear Never really knowing exactly what they're in to hear They learn just how you're damaged And more of why you are the way you are They try to make you smile To see the future is alright to bear They help you through the pain a little at a time Until you can contain it again and put it away like you are fine But you just wait for the next time that this will all happen again Because you know you aren't as well composed as you tell your friend You can't be after what happened--your whole world is shaken up A once good guy became a bad guy before you could say enough is enough This makes you feel like the lowest of the low Like you've fallen into someone's trap Because you always told yourself you would be better than that Now you're not so sure and you'll probably never be All you can do is hope and pray that you are smarter than you think.
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Jul 29, 2012
Jul 29, 2012 at 2:23 AM UTC
Smarter Than You Think
You can't believe this happened You fell into the trap You never believed that it would happen like that You said it would be different But it's very much the same And now you'll do anything to erase all the pain It brings back memories best forgotten It makes a grown woman fall apart And become the little girl you still are at heart It brings you back to when it used to happen all the time When you would live in fear of when you would be subjugated to the crime You remember the memories so well suppressed The ones you can't bare to get off of your chest And to think this is all because of some little game Something that you don't look at the same He didn't mean to hurt you, or at least that's what you think But just one violent touch makes you fall back and shrink He unknowingly caused a trigger that started everything else All those memories once forgotten have found their way off of the shelf You need a way to escape before you self destruct Because the crying and the screaming just make you feel amuck You find a savior in someone else willing to lend an ear Never really knowing exactly what they're in to hear They learn just how you're damaged And more of why you are the way you are They try to make you smile To see the future is alright to bear They help you through the pain a little at a time Until you can contain it again and put it away like you are fine But you just wait for the next time that this will all happen again Because you know you aren't as well composed as you tell your friend You can't be after what happened--your whole world is shaken up A once good guy became a bad guy before you could say enough is enough This makes you feel like the lowest of the low Like you've fallen into someone's trap Because you always told yourself you would be better than that Now you're not so sure and you'll probably never be All you can do is hope and pray that you are smarter than you think.
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You would have me play their games conform to their ideals take their tests and obey obey their wishes obey their authority You would have me forfeit my individuality, essence, mind, soul you would wish me to walk the walk of the waking dead open eyes unseeing, open ears deafened by their voices, ranting, raving, gibbering salivating, drooling, gnashing their teeth in anticipation of consuming my hopes, dreams, morals, conscience but I refuse you and your lies I refuse to be one of the flock I refuse to be subjugated I refuse your will I refuse to live how you see fit I refuse to passively accept your burdens and your problems I AM ME I AM MYSELF AND I AM I You will never lay claim to me I REFUSE
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Dec 9, 2011
Dec 9, 2011 at 12:10 PM UTC
i refuse
50’s beach party complete with twitchy go-go dancers leather jackets and old Plymouths sand kicked in the faces of squares as little Suzie Goodtime roller skates across the parking lot picket fences shift from white to orange and pink as they capture the sunset on a perfect American day – free lovers swing signs written in crayon attempting to challenge the establishment create world peace through **** abuse and music in the park subjugated and relegated to building a retirement platform aged hipsters look at faded photographs imagining a time they changed the all – blown out coke head bent on disco ***** and easy living watches as Miami explodes CIA operatives feeding high grade dope to low rent projects in an effort to funnel money and guns into the Middle East – gas wars and brokers as billionaires death to glam rock and hairspray the rise of bling and swag selfies take center stage unabashed introversion as the skies are geometric grids and the crops **** pollinators – looking over a lifetime of altering perception and changing habits the habitual nature of humanity shines as a solid base from which all else stems forced to recognize my own place in the septic tank I stand as an observer and documenter cleverly bending the woes of the world into words for the lost –
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 3:54 PM UTC
a look back