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"substandard" poems
We are so close, but not just by physical touch; I can feel you the way I feel my cheeks warm up, after you have said something that inevitably causes me to blush. Its as though our souls are connecting on the same frequency radiating off the core of this Earth. This pleasure is unnoticed by most, but we can feel it like we feel the blood dripping down our thighs on a substandard night. Before we started talking, so many years ago, I never believed in true love or really love at all. I always assumed it was just all in the head, and two people could only connect to a point, unless you were related to each other. After the first year and a half or so of talking to you regularly, you proved me wrong. You proved what I grew up believing for 16 to 17 years was completely false. For if I had never met you, to this day, I more than likely would of continued preaching to myself, that everyone else who has experienced this feeling called 'love' was insane. Life without you would of still been bearable, but only because I would still be lost in ignorance. I am more than grateful you walked out of your way to meet up with me that night three summers ago. I owe you so much, and will cherish every moment I'm blessed with standing by your side. I'll make it a point to provide a nurturing life for you, one worth living for. You are my world, my inspiration, the main reason I look forward to waking up, or falling asleep cuddled in your lovely arms. I cannot wait to see you later today and hug you, while my heart races with satisfaction like the first time you put your arm around me. This is more than just some fairy-tale, this is still the beginning steps of our long journey together. So we mustn't give up when things go south, for if we do, it will be the undoing of what our relationship has always been about. You truly are my best friend, the one person who'll never let me fall if you know you are capable of preventing it, even if i don't want your help at all.  I appreciate that, even when my words or actions do not acknowledge it. You truly are the only reason i was able to climb out of that dark lonely tunnel of agonizing depression; for everyone else either dragged me father down or walked out. You are my life saver, my sweet guardian angel. I love you, my dearest, Chris, forever and always.
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Jul 24, 2015
Jul 24, 2015 at 7:12 PM UTC
Our unbreakable bond
We are so close, but not just by physical touch; I can feel you the way I feel my cheeks warm up, after you have said something that inevitably causes me to blush. Its as though our souls are connecting on the same frequency radiating off the core of this Earth. This pleasure is unnoticed by most, but we can feel it like we feel the blood dripping down our thighs on a substandard night. Before we started talking, so many years ago, I never believed in true love or really love at all. I always assumed it was just all in the head, and two people could only connect to a point, unless you were related to each other. After the first year and a half or so of talking to you regularly, you proved me wrong. You proved what I grew up believing for 16 to 17 years was completely false. For if I had never met you, to this day, I more than likely would of continued preaching to myself, that everyone else who has experienced this feeling called 'love' was insane. Life without you would of still been bearable, but only because I would still be lost in ignorance. I am more than grateful you walked out of your way to meet up with me that night three summers ago. I owe you so much, and will cherish every moment I'm blessed with standing by your side. I'll make it a point to provide a nurturing life for you, one worth living for. You are my world, my inspiration, the main reason I look forward to waking up, or falling asleep cuddled in your lovely arms. I cannot wait to see you later today and hug you, while my heart races with satisfaction like the first time you put your arm around me. This is more than just some fairy-tale, this is still the beginning steps of our long journey together. So we mustn't give up when things go south, for if we do, it will be the undoing of what our relationship has always been about. You truly are my best friend, the one person who'll never let me fall if you know you are capable of preventing it, even if i don't want your help at all.  I appreciate that, even when my words or actions do not acknowledge it. You truly are the only reason i was able to climb out of that dark lonely tunnel of agonizing depression; for everyone else either dragged me father down or walked out. You are my life saver, my sweet guardian angel. I love you, my dearest, Chris, forever and always.
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i. Agone day's, I kneweth not amour' mine godly Apostle I only understood fear, sorrow's, none outlook for tomorrow; Though I kneweth, ourn creator wouldst send me a seraph Twas I, was only a serf, I didn't not deserve a queen and a angel. ii. I never couldst discover where that secret treasure was hidden I looked, and waited, and hoped, also hopeless on the find; I wore mine heart on mine sleeve, waiting, waiting, none to be, But now I do knoweth, Jehovah hadst his plan, thee: one in tan. iii. Yahweh tooketh away, all the substandard's and ourn past strife's Just at his right moment, in his will, not ourn own, he made right; He parted the sea's, and moonlit dream's, for me and thee lover For me and thee queen, forever to be; eternally husband an wife. ©Brandon Nagley ©Earl jane nagley dedication ( Filipino rose) ©Lonesome poet's poetry
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Oct 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 at 4:18 PM UTC
Ang mag-asawa ( Husband and wife) filipino tongue
(Read from the bottom up) ~kns At the bottom. Old news. Dead. Nothing but deflated. Now I’m no one. the sneering planes. the disdainful clouds, the sarcastic stars, The mocking planets Past the laughing heavens. I’m falling now. POP. It backfires. Everything. Every ***** trick. Every lie. I use everything I have to get up there. I struggle. Higher. Higher. Higher. I need to go Yet, I’m not satisfied. The imperfect heavens. The shoddy planets. The second-rate stars. The mediocre clouds. Beyond the substandard planes. I’m at the top. To dwell in the shining heavens. To greet the egotistical planets. To outshine the fading stars. to test the pressure of the atmosphere. my greedy desire, I must fulfill my need, Higher than any cloud has ever reached. height. To float higher than height. in a competition of To beat each plane than to go higher. Nothing else matters Higher. Higher. Higher. I’m floating now. Freedom. I grab the chance to get out. releases its grip. It gets distracted and some cruel being. Chained to the ground by the claws of At the bottom.
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Mar 26, 2013
Mar 26, 2013 at 12:41 AM UTC
Balloon.
Once for Halloween I dressed up as Athena The Greek goddess My favorite Greek goddess And it was a decent costume Your standard iParty fare Paired with an elaborate hairdo and some 50 cent earrings And I knew I was only a cheap imitation Nothing close to the real thing For no one would ever build me a temple Burn cattle in my name Put on white robes and fall to their knees For me No, not for me But for Athena Oh, how they fell! How the ancient Greeks worshipped her very name Gave her their capital city And dedicated the most powerful force to her Wisdom That force which drove the philosophers The very energy That sustained Socrates And Plato And Aristotle And all those dead guys we read about in class I was in a class Reading the words those dead guys collected In their moments of clarity But all I could think about All I really wanted Was to throw on a white robe And fall to my knees at the Parthenon Begging for wisdom, wisdom Please, Athena, some wisdom! I don't care if it's heresy I don't care if you're a myth nowadays Because you once reigned You once stood on Mount Olympus In all your ancient power And watched your people crying out wisdom, Athena, wisdom! Please! I wish I could have been there I wish I could have seen The day the goddess cracked open Zeus's skull And was born Fully armed Ready for her battle Not the fight for wisdom, no The fight she faced was undying The war she would lead Would ripple through the ages Taking all civilizations And tearing at their social order For it was the men she was fighting The disbelieving fools who put her *** down Taking all women's wisdom And deeming it inferior Substandard Not good enough So Athena blazed in glory And for her, men believed Believed in their mothers and wives and daughters Saw in that enthroned goddess The sparks that fueled women's minds Yes, I wish I'd been there I wish I could have kissed her sword And asked her to stick around To blaze her way to the twenty-first century And make these guys tremble, too Instead I look around my 80% male college of engineering And wonder why I need to prove my worth Simply because I have a second x chromosome I wish that I could blaze in glory And dazzle them all the same That my Halloween costume could be enough to fool them That they would turn their toga-party bedsheets Into white robes And fall to their knees Gasping, "Wisdom, wisdom!" And that, for one moment I could be their goddess
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Nov 27, 2010
Nov 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM UTC
Athena
Once for Halloween I dressed up as Athena The Greek goddess My favorite Greek goddess And it was a decent costume Your standard iParty fare Paired with an elaborate hairdo and some 50 cent earrings And I knew I was only a cheap imitation Nothing close to the real thing For no one would ever build me a temple Burn cattle in my name Put on white robes and fall to their knees For me No, not for me But for Athena Oh, how they fell! How the ancient Greeks worshipped her very name Gave her their capital city And dedicated the most powerful force to her Wisdom That force which drove the philosophers The very energy That sustained Socrates And Plato And Aristotle And all those dead guys we read about in class I was in a class Reading the words those dead guys collected In their moments of clarity But all I could think about All I really wanted Was to throw on a white robe And fall to my knees at the Parthenon Begging for wisdom, wisdom Please, Athena, some wisdom! I don't care if it's heresy I don't care if you're a myth nowadays Because you once reigned You once stood on Mount Olympus In all your ancient power And watched your people crying out wisdom, Athena, wisdom! Please! I wish I could have been there I wish I could have seen The day the goddess cracked open Zeus's skull And was born Fully armed Ready for her battle Not the fight for wisdom, no The fight she faced was undying The war she would lead Would ripple through the ages Taking all civilizations And tearing at their social order For it was the men she was fighting The disbelieving fools who put her *** down Taking all women's wisdom And deeming it inferior Substandard Not good enough So Athena blazed in glory And for her, men believed Believed in their mothers and wives and daughters Saw in that enthroned goddess The sparks that fueled women's minds Yes, I wish I'd been there I wish I could have kissed her sword And asked her to stick around To blaze her way to the twenty-first century And make these guys tremble, too Instead I look around my 80% male college of engineering And wonder why I need to prove my worth Simply because I have a second x chromosome I wish that I could blaze in glory And dazzle them all the same That my Halloween costume could be enough to fool them That they would turn their toga-party bedsheets Into white robes And fall to their knees Gasping, "Wisdom, wisdom!" And that, for one moment I could be their goddess
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Pencils are opportunities, it dulls as you write, mistakes slowly burns the red rubber **** and sharpeners are luxuries or government help or socialism. But what about cheap pencils, whose lead dulls or breaks easily. Pencils are all equal if you look it in the outside but what you can't see is that these cheap pencils does not have a solid strip of lead inside, it has some small quantities of opportunities to write. I need to sharpen it once in a while so I can clearly write. But not everyone has sharpeners nor extra pencils, some even bought this kind of pencil with all the money they have and they cannot write their stories and their happy endings, when the luster of their leads are constantly fading into white, swallowed by the open free-market place of ideas blank paper. And I can't blame the poor vendor who sold me these substandard opportunities. However, I am blaming the owners of factories, for making such lousy imitations, for exploiting my hunger to write. I am blaming the government, for allowing such pencils to ever exist! Their lust for power, their greed takes away my opportunities to write clearly and continuously, I am blaming them for assuming that all of us have sharpeners! We should not pay for social sharpening services! Sharpeners and pencils should be free!
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 8:45 AM UTC
cheap pencils
My life is a paradoxical monstrosity A contradiction in itself Where to start? Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere perhaps Occupation, I play with words. How naughty does that sound? Really, I'm in a complicated relationship with words, terms, definitions, metaphors Writer by day, storyteller by night And of course I love what I do And I hate what I do How very poetic of you! Why thank you! Sorry, the inner child speaks. Back to writing, And the moments of fantastic ecstasy Where this jumble of verbs and nouns and adjectives you're trying to assemble Clicks. The bigger picture develops with crystal clear clarity No fastidious statements Or meaningless passages. Just words, feelings, meanings Soul. That doesn't sound so bad you say IT HAPPENS ONCE EVERY MILLENIA! For the most I am frustrated. Stumped to the point where rage overcomes and the only cathartic release is to sleep. When I do manage to squeeze something out of the depths of my mind, it appears substandard, to say the least. Zadie told me to get used to non-satisfaction So I am satisfied with never been satisfied; does this make me satisfied? Ow. Please, I need an answer I've been looking for answers for nineteen years, But have I been asking the right questions? Are there any answers? Another question No, that was the question Confusion and befuddlment ravaging through your mind? I recently realised there are no facts Only really good suggestions by excessively knowledgeable and esteemed I quite fancy being one of those guys A visionary complete with the stereotypical glasses and overgrown beard And I'd declare that being yourself is the first step to finding your purpose Fact. But what if finding your purpose is your purpose? I'll leave you with that. This is my life. Complaining would be ungrateful of me; it's a good one really. I can walk and run and play basketball and see my friends where we laugh endlessly. Oh and Saturday morning cartoons. I have problems, enormous world ending problems But it's all relative. Some think I'm strange, I prefer quirky. I wonder how life would be if I'd chose the 'normal' option Most likely, frightfully boring
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 7:36 PM UTC
My Life
My life is a paradoxical monstrosity A contradiction in itself Where to start? Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere perhaps Occupation, I play with words. How naughty does that sound? Really, I'm in a complicated relationship with words, terms, definitions, metaphors Writer by day, storyteller by night And of course I love what I do And I hate what I do How very poetic of you! Why thank you! Sorry, the inner child speaks. Back to writing, And the moments of fantastic ecstasy Where this jumble of verbs and nouns and adjectives you're trying to assemble Clicks. The bigger picture develops with crystal clear clarity No fastidious statements Or meaningless passages. Just words, feelings, meanings Soul. That doesn't sound so bad you say IT HAPPENS ONCE EVERY MILLENIA! For the most I am frustrated. Stumped to the point where rage overcomes and the only cathartic release is to sleep. When I do manage to squeeze something out of the depths of my mind, it appears substandard, to say the least. Zadie told me to get used to non-satisfaction So I am satisfied with never been satisfied; does this make me satisfied? Ow. Please, I need an answer I've been looking for answers for nineteen years, But have I been asking the right questions? Are there any answers? Another question No, that was the question Confusion and befuddlment ravaging through your mind? I recently realised there are no facts Only really good suggestions by excessively knowledgeable and esteemed I quite fancy being one of those guys A visionary complete with the stereotypical glasses and overgrown beard And I'd declare that being yourself is the first step to finding your purpose Fact. But what if finding your purpose is your purpose? I'll leave you with that. This is my life. Complaining would be ungrateful of me; it's a good one really. I can walk and run and play basketball and see my friends where we laugh endlessly. Oh and Saturday morning cartoons. I have problems, enormous world ending problems But it's all relative. Some think I'm strange, I prefer quirky. I wonder how life would be if I'd chose the 'normal' option Most likely, frightfully boring
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I favour the deep, impenetrable truth of the jungle Over the smooth ride over sleek black rubber; The ***** disturbing, demented disorder; The distortions of the lights we bathe on, Over outward alignments and the staleness of systems. I favour the cheap, rugged, bittersweet taste Of a late night's substandard drink, In the midst of true lights and shadows And the uncertainty they cast upon us, Over the orderly and satisfactory-- The dead pleasures and securities that Exist nowhere but in feeble projections. I favour the basic, primeval, animal grunt-- The dirt, the dizziness of true treading Across the muddy shallows--, Over the clattering of an overflowed, Certain mind. I favour doubt, earnest doubt, Unpalatable doubt, inescapable doubt-- A smile in a pitch-black room, A journey on a lukewarm air balloon, A half-finished sentence in a half-serious gloom--, Over hasty conclusions and tainted allusions. I favour the endearing messiness of reality; The chaos of light and dreams; The mystery, so out of reach, Of you and me and the space in-between; The stained, torn, shattered, burnt, Twisted texture we find ourselves upon, Over the smooth, marble-white, Sterile surface where false certainties Slide, grinning, before they find themselves On an impending collision with the infectious hesitation of the ground. I favour the acknowledging look Straight into the eye; A ladder with one step; A race with no competitors; A contentment without resentment; A bread on your table that's good enough, That doesn't tease you and promise you more, And more, And more, So that you forget what you should really care for, What lies deep under your skin, What stirs up the dormant contents of your guts-- You climb to the hilltop Which finally allows you to have A peek at the next one. I favour uncertainty and risk, And walking too close to the edge; I favour barely enough, And cutting it too close; I favour throwing all excess over the board, And lowering standards; I favour the taste of imminent failure And the adrenaline of a heart-wakening sprint; I favour meagre means And big dreams, free of currencies; For they all remind me what the world Really looks like, Who I really am, And what the winter-night winds Really feel like. I favour the ways of nature, often erratic, ***** ugly and convoluted, Often dumbfounding, Unintentionally intelligent and mysterious, Over the ways of fear-ridden constructions, For there is no such thing As a straight line.
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Jan 9, 2019
Jan 9, 2019 at 2:31 PM UTC
Wednesday Manifesto
I favour the deep, impenetrable truth of the jungle Over the smooth ride over sleek black rubber; The ***** disturbing, demented disorder; The distortions of the lights we bathe on, Over outward alignments and the staleness of systems. I favour the cheap, rugged, bittersweet taste Of a late night's substandard drink, In the midst of true lights and shadows And the uncertainty they cast upon us, Over the orderly and satisfactory-- The dead pleasures and securities that Exist nowhere but in feeble projections. I favour the basic, primeval, animal grunt-- The dirt, the dizziness of true treading Across the muddy shallows--, Over the clattering of an overflowed, Certain mind. I favour doubt, earnest doubt, Unpalatable doubt, inescapable doubt-- A smile in a pitch-black room, A journey on a lukewarm air balloon, A half-finished sentence in a half-serious gloom--, Over hasty conclusions and tainted allusions. I favour the endearing messiness of reality; The chaos of light and dreams; The mystery, so out of reach, Of you and me and the space in-between; The stained, torn, shattered, burnt, Twisted texture we find ourselves upon, Over the smooth, marble-white, Sterile surface where false certainties Slide, grinning, before they find themselves On an impending collision with the infectious hesitation of the ground. I favour the acknowledging look Straight into the eye; A ladder with one step; A race with no competitors; A contentment without resentment; A bread on your table that's good enough, That doesn't tease you and promise you more, And more, And more, So that you forget what you should really care for, What lies deep under your skin, What stirs up the dormant contents of your guts-- You climb to the hilltop Which finally allows you to have A peek at the next one. I favour uncertainty and risk, And walking too close to the edge; I favour barely enough, And cutting it too close; I favour throwing all excess over the board, And lowering standards; I favour the taste of imminent failure And the adrenaline of a heart-wakening sprint; I favour meagre means And big dreams, free of currencies; For they all remind me what the world Really looks like, Who I really am, And what the winter-night winds Really feel like. I favour the ways of nature, often erratic, ***** ugly and convoluted, Often dumbfounding, Unintentionally intelligent and mysterious, Over the ways of fear-ridden constructions, For there is no such thing As a straight line.
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my credentials in appreciating beauty dictates, to prefer a pair, sagging a bit, than those perfectly sculped, with substandard silicon.
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Jan 26, 2012
Jan 26, 2012 at 11:49 PM UTC
sagging a bit won't affect, but bad silicon is a serious health threat.
Its something about that crack   of the morning  solitude   Becoming one alongside the  energy   conveyed upon every full, comforting gust of  wind   with every frigid grain of sand collected   in the burrows between your  toes   How the proverbial crash and sizzle out of an alkaline  wave   can intimately caress ones depth of recollection   so swift and flirtatious,  passionate.   Reflecting the honest  actuality   Honorable substandard grotesque indifferent   Reminding us that we can  procure   tranquility within pandemonium   perfection in chaos and inadequacy    an erie absence of inorganic resonance   in an alone, but not lonely repose, comfort   pending that crack   of the morning solitude.
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 12:46 PM UTC
That Something.
To be defined as Conforming to standard To be just like any other ******* This is what is to be pandered The good name ‘Unique’ is slandered To be gerrymandered, Nonstandard, and substandard To be normal? Referring to the common type To understand ordinary hype To be stereotyped To have a good reason to gripe To be normal? To be defined as only average To live in societies cage To suffer such rage Looking for love on an empty page Missing out on a golden age To be normal? Bound in law isn’t free Conforming to minor guarantee To pay life’s admission fee If I were you, the joke is on me Normal isn’t what you should be
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Aug 2, 2010
Aug 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM UTC
Normal
4X6 inches *of perfection on a screen a hint of tortured possibilities carried in the pocket of a life built through blinders and the most beautiful denial* 4X6 inches *of hope undeniable the foundation of dreams dragging rough through cascading walls of a substandard fairytale that twisted joy unhappy* 4X6 inches *of a smile through a hurricane bleeding pain through evaporating tears a reality forged through time uncountable landing in the rays truth created when love proved the existence of fate* 4X6 inches *of peace over pain a wand in magical medicinals crashing through solitary anguish with eyes piercing armor weaved in passive aggression leading the lost home*
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May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 4:58 AM UTC
In Lieu of Xanax
As summer air swaddles me from ear to waist, the most benign of all sounds sets off a biological riot in me &nights; like these take my breath away enough to stir up in me the awarenessthat I am not what they want. Neither Satan nor Substandard could beg more than what I've been aching to portray. Both less than and less than hold their finely tuned scopes and too-broad knowledge to every detail I present. Neither more eager to please than the other, I blend devil's advocacy with indifference, but I still can't make either pair of eyes lips or fingertips meet mine. Oh & Satan,dearest when you take my hand I melt, I'm desperate to stitch it toyours. But you've no use for the doppleganger I'd become to coax approval from the masses. With that, I crane my neck to see the tower that you are, Substandard. Pleading indecency and scoffing at regret, I could almost mistake your saccharine tone of voice for the alluring Song of Satan. I gather up my sins into a bundle and leave them by your side while I plead with fate to condemn my soul, elicit a wisp of affection from you, something for me to hold onto until winter returns. What sort of discomfort can coerce a girl to pray for madness just to win inadequacy over?
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May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012 at 10:48 PM UTC
Pleonexia///March 2012
They stand with their hands in their pockets. One man adjusts his mesh cap, an excuse. Something tiny, precious, real bleeps furiously through cargo khakis. He types expertly with one finger and smiles chapped lips to himself. Leaning against the uneven coffee counter, he reaches for his latte and walks out the door with his fashion twin and best work friend: grown men who assimilate in substandard choices to fit-in years past high school.
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Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 3:02 PM UTC
judgement on a gloomy Monday
I mourn for me because mourning is all I feel. I mourn the souls forgone lost brethren denied the dawn of a new day I mourn the aborted children lights of the world shinning only in the beyond. I mourn for the breast that never gave suckle to a child and the child that never ****** breast. I mourn for broken homes The genesis of a rotten society. I mourn for children and graduates on the streets chasing vehicles and turning to our own Usain Bolt. I mourn youths basking in the decadence of morality. I mourn the ideology that everyone MUST go to school. Creativity lies dead and a certificate is the only aim in our head. I mourn because of what I see on TV Vixens displaying **** bodies like CV I mourn for my sisters, aunties cousins nieces; Victims of domestic violence. I mourn because they agonize in silence I mourn for inmates in cells, Cells worse than hell; I mourn for those innocent crimes those locked up for a little fine. I mourn for creative minds discouraged by the webbed hands of piracy. I mourn for the Fallen Giant, NIGERIA, chained hands and feet, Master of corruption and slaves of procrastination. I mourn the incessant fuel scarcity, half baked graduates from the substandard oven of our varsities. I mourn 'cause we have lost the way. These are what I mourn for, I mourn for this and more.......... when will yonder future glue back dreams with suture? shattered dreams is what I mourn for being amidst sorrows that hollow our fellow. I mourn for war victims in Gaza, Syria and Nigeria that wakes not with joy. look at that girl and boy their bloods spilled on our soil. I mourn for you, my queen and Roy. with piety I pray thee sweet eternity. I mourn for forgotten souls What does yonder holds for us? I mourn lost heroes; those that sleeps with saddened pillows. I mourn I mourn, how many wake to see the dawn?
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 8:06 AM UTC
Mourning!
I mourn for me because mourning is all I feel. I mourn the souls forgone lost brethren denied the dawn of a new day I mourn the aborted children lights of the world shinning only in the beyond. I mourn for the breast that never gave suckle to a child and the child that never ****** breast. I mourn for broken homes The genesis of a rotten society. I mourn for children and graduates on the streets chasing vehicles and turning to our own Usain Bolt. I mourn youths basking in the decadence of morality. I mourn the ideology that everyone MUST go to school. Creativity lies dead and a certificate is the only aim in our head. I mourn because of what I see on TV Vixens displaying **** bodies like CV I mourn for my sisters, aunties cousins nieces; Victims of domestic violence. I mourn because they agonize in silence I mourn for inmates in cells, Cells worse than hell; I mourn for those innocent crimes those locked up for a little fine. I mourn for creative minds discouraged by the webbed hands of piracy. I mourn for the Fallen Giant, NIGERIA, chained hands and feet, Master of corruption and slaves of procrastination. I mourn the incessant fuel scarcity, half baked graduates from the substandard oven of our varsities. I mourn 'cause we have lost the way. These are what I mourn for, I mourn for this and more.......... when will yonder future glue back dreams with suture? shattered dreams is what I mourn for being amidst sorrows that hollow our fellow. I mourn for war victims in Gaza, Syria and Nigeria that wakes not with joy. look at that girl and boy their bloods spilled on our soil. I mourn for you, my queen and Roy. with piety I pray thee sweet eternity. I mourn for forgotten souls What does yonder holds for us? I mourn lost heroes; those that sleeps with saddened pillows. I mourn I mourn, how many wake to see the dawn?
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My sadness makes no sense, Like what you said. It's substandard It's self-absorbed It's not fine. My cheerless comes from rejection Rejection to accept me To the world From myself I dread of rejection My sadness secrete in my shadow Behind my smile Behind my laugh Behind my happiness This sadness is forbidden My sadness comes from waves i am drowning, sinking, but slowly dying still smiling This kind of sadness is verboten So i covert With my pen And a paper To write a poem This sadness made a scar in my heart; a mark that will be remembered And i'm sorry that this sadness hurt you, the way it hurt me. Just like you, i hate this feeling overwhelming, and i'm sorry. j.d.p
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 11:46 PM UTC
Disconsolate
My poetry doesn't have to perfect. It usually sounds incomplete, Or sloppy And exaggerated. While mostly careless Written completely miserably It turns out substandard My poetry usually feels like you. However, on occasion my writing is immaculate; Reaching heights of beauty; No flower ever dreamed of being so elegant. Vines twisting into words forming sentence forming rhythm, Pristine sparkling letters dripping from each petal. I am euphoric and growing each day This writing is a mirror into the garden taking over your spot in my mind.
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Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 2:45 AM UTC
Roots
Spending good money on theater tickets for a fright when the six o'clock news plays for free each night ? Pay top dollar for " Spring water " bottled in plastic choking the oceans ? Sugar free sodas are nothing more than a cumulative poison just like all the others ! Marijuana is taboo , but fast food is cool ? Twenty years for selling it ! Perfectly fine to feed your kids rat poison with a toy stuck in it ! Pay no attention to a refreshing drink that cleans the terminals on car batteries ? Processed flour with roach droppings in it ? Antibiotics , genetically modified produce , earthquakes in Oklahoma from fracking ! Leveling trees in metro Atlanta to build substandard housing !
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Oct 14, 2015
Oct 14, 2015 at 4:36 PM UTC
Afternoon Rant
I can still recall the scent of my three loves. Every night, sleeping is torture for my restless, substandard emotions. I don’t want to keep living a life like this. I can’t stand being away from you for so long. Come to me and live with me, love me so. I need comfort. Comfort from your soft lips and voice. Concerts and friends and parties, none of it satisfies me. Escape into my fantasy worlds forever with a bullet’s help. But I couldn’t leave you behind to cry over me. Marshall left this building months ago. Call me his corpse. Revive me. Cry for me. Crave me. Lie for me.
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC
Feels Like Hell, a collection of 10 word poems.
Telling a lie Always wanting to shine When really I was polished the wrong way My heart was really on decline Saying her name Used to be a praise Now all it is Is just a way to go down And cry Wishing she was mine again When really she being gone Was my pilgrimage to a great revival Very vital For my arrival that I stay mindful Of my trifles Due to how I’m always tripping on the cracks That makes everything black Activating my brain And making me rage Since my temper is on edge With my neck That is carrying a lot of the sweat I get From ******* tryna wreak my moderation Tryna give me a education In how to be substandard And Rendered into something   Worst than America giving a Cheeto The leveage to all of our bombs So now I’m just thinking about what you did wrong Instead of my flaws I’m reminding you of what you missed on Always catching wrong Missing all shots Finally hit a home run But didn’t run Instead you walked away And became a snob Who couldn’t turn a **** As if it was Brittney telling a song Without hatred and love Always switching up to benefit your life But messing with my redefined mind Which has no space to give you my time So I’ma make this short and give you a new comprehension Don’t look at me Don’t say you gonna love Or that you gonna **** me Because all you really doing is lying to yourself Because I’m non penetrable Due to my thick skull That’s always getting dull from whenever you wanna score Instead you fumble Like the dolphins in the playoffs Now I wish you good luck Since your sorry *** just loss all your luck When you left me taking a piece of my ❤️
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Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 3:18 AM UTC
Pulling Through
Telling a lie Always wanting to shine When really I was polished the wrong way My heart was really on decline Saying her name Used to be a praise Now all it is Is just a way to go down And cry Wishing she was mine again When really she being gone Was my pilgrimage to a great revival Very vital For my arrival that I stay mindful Of my trifles Due to how I’m always tripping on the cracks That makes everything black Activating my brain And making me rage Since my temper is on edge With my neck That is carrying a lot of the sweat I get From ******* tryna wreak my moderation Tryna give me a education In how to be substandard And Rendered into something   Worst than America giving a Cheeto The leveage to all of our bombs So now I’m just thinking about what you did wrong Instead of my flaws I’m reminding you of what you missed on Always catching wrong Missing all shots Finally hit a home run But didn’t run Instead you walked away And became a snob Who couldn’t turn a **** As if it was Brittney telling a song Without hatred and love Always switching up to benefit your life But messing with my redefined mind Which has no space to give you my time So I’ma make this short and give you a new comprehension Don’t look at me Don’t say you gonna love Or that you gonna **** me Because all you really doing is lying to yourself Because I’m non penetrable Due to my thick skull That’s always getting dull from whenever you wanna score Instead you fumble Like the dolphins in the playoffs Now I wish you good luck Since your sorry *** just loss all your luck When you left me taking a piece of my ❤️
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what do we all really want? do we know? is it the unknown? is it familiar to strangers or loved ones and just unbeknownst to us? an odd thought...well not really but you know I hold myself in my own self proclaimed aura of power by holding my secrets close to my heart and letting others know, that i know, just exactly what i want. I mean i'm sure that's what we associate with power, right? who wants or even needs someone who has no singular recollection of controlling what the mind sporadically desires. I know what i want but that cancels itself out and leaves me thinking in a disjointed manner, just what do i want? and stemming off that, why? and stemming off that how? and stemming off that, does this ever stop? careful calculation, artistic determination, a 'so called' higher thought process, and lastly, an urge or a will. the ingredients to creation,success and maybe self fulfillment are so substandard, the faux, as I once lovingly called it. The faux, a careful concealment and fluorescent indicator to all around us. It's absolute ******** but so much fun
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 7:54 PM UTC
All she really wants
God Has A Plan God has a plan. A plan? What does it mean? And what is God? Not meaning to be mean, I want to take in Them’s that do and them’s that don’t Believe or doubt. If followed to the end, All roads lead home to Rome. Good-natured, good humored, Dastard, ******* Substandard, no standard Which means bad, good and all the world. The plan, a plan Is interesting indeed. To analyze, interpret, give word to, For we need A word to read, be heard, To take into the heart and head. If you are a keen observer Of the concrete and empirical, You see that things have patterns, (for example, thought and matter). Post- and pre- the pattern makes it lyrical. (That for fun – the main thing is the plan.) Laws to measure, near and clear, Self-evident, plain as the nose upon your face. (Water seeks the lowest space). Laws unclear, obscure, inferred, Laws that find no place in science. Plan, the God adored - is Law; Door short of adoration. There’s nothing wrong With seeing through those eyes, To please Those on the border Of belief and dis- belief. God Has A Plan 3.30.2017 God Book II; Circling Round Science II; Nature Of & In Reality; Circling Round Reality; Arlene Corwin
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Mar 30, 2017
Mar 30, 2017 at 2:52 PM UTC
God Has A Plan
Those eyes are broken Open up and really look The silly stupid mongoloid world you cloak yourself in is a substandard joke A token of esteem to your own mediocrity I wish I could climb back into the ground and use the earth to drown out the sound of this useless hopeless mewling trash heap.
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Mar 1, 2017
Mar 1, 2017 at 1:52 PM UTC
Rat Town
I'm always a substandard girl to you, I'm not always going to be what you want me to be, I'm average, You want perfect, I **** up, I **** up so bad that the gods would cry, And you won't accept that, It simply isn't acceptable to you, But when I **** up, When I do all these mistakes I learn, Better than your words can ever teach me, And I try, I really do, To be less substandard than you think of me, But I don't think it'll ever be good enough, To you I'm inadequate, And for that I shall forever be miserable.
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 8:32 AM UTC
inadequate
i am no longer a girl; my body has played host to the fourth of the Fates, and this is the twilight, unfolding. the midday has seen clotho, spinning the thread has seen lachesis measuring it, atropos cutting it. and here i sit, a figure in the sunset — a silhouette of a weaver in tattered dress my heartbeat, a substandard thread, a mess in my pockets getting shorter and shorter with each wound sewn shut and yet, a seagull's flap, a poke of a stick, and all these stitches come undone. a cautious breath, a loosened thread, and the sunsets learn a new shade of red.
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Jan 14, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 at 4:38 AM UTC
all the loose threads
Substandard Tires The customer rants and raves at me saying it’s all my fault And my colleague’s and my employer that he’s got no family He threatens all of us with court and is off to see the judge You’ll be in the dock all together he warns for ****** Treating me like I’m the CEO and God of ACME Tires I just answer the phone and reply to emails I never made the substandard tires on his car That failed and killed his daughter wife and sister He rants and raves and it lasts an hour All recorded he states finally stopping If I was employed by the Illuminati Making cups of tea would he sue me? For not making his tea sweet enough Now I nod and say what an ******** I’m so glad he can hear me His tires will soon fail…
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May 17, 2021
May 17, 2021 at 9:42 PM UTC
Substandard Tires