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"swerved" poems
Every time the bucks went clattering Over Oklahoma A firecat bristled in the way. Wherever they went, They went clattering, Until they swerved In a swift, circular line To the right, Because of the firecat. Or until they swerved In a swift, circular line To the left, Because of the firecat. The bucks clattered. The firecat went leaping, To the right, to the left, And Bristled in the way. Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes And slept.
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Earthy Anecdote
our coolest babysitter lit a long joint and drove us to church in her well worn '87 oldsmobile with chipped gold paint a drooping side mirror and a tape player that smelled like stale london gin mothballs and a sunset butterfly heart at the same time it had a deep ocean green calcite mandala dancing from the windshield mirror and a steal-your-face tattooed on the back glass she used to blare brit-pop trying to make the speakers bleed that day when they finally oozed she swerved us left through the other lane and sunday morning fog to cut a jagged path through thick woods and into an oak tree with a soundtrack of slow motion oasis and screeching tires i clammored to the backseat to block the window glass from your beautiful angelic blonde head as dew sprayed into the vacancy from the ditch and when i pulled the seatbelt spiderweb out of your mouth and lifted you out of the car i was standing barefoot in a cluster of bright red sumac next to an ant hill pile of twisted steaming metal and you were dripping blood from your eye and knees asking me if we'd be late for sunday school but you were awake and trying to smile so we followed the powerlines back to the main road holding hands dizzy and sweating worried no one would ever find us limping while the springtime songbirds held their tongues for us but when the hot ringing in my ears finally stopped the sirens grew loud and close and the birds too began their wet lipped eulogy sometimes i think about missing church that day when the weather's bad on nights like last night sometimes i remember our babysitter when the fog rolls in over the road in the morning i wonder if she still gets high on the good stuff while she drives or if she's just a treehugger
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Aug 23, 2015
Aug 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
seatbelt spiderweb
our coolest babysitter lit a long joint and drove us to church in her well worn '87 oldsmobile with chipped gold paint a drooping side mirror and a tape player that smelled like stale london gin mothballs and a sunset butterfly heart at the same time it had a deep ocean green calcite mandala dancing from the windshield mirror and a steal-your-face tattooed on the back glass she used to blare brit-pop trying to make the speakers bleed that day when they finally oozed she swerved us left through the other lane and sunday morning fog to cut a jagged path through thick woods and into an oak tree with a soundtrack of slow motion oasis and screeching tires i clammored to the backseat to block the window glass from your beautiful angelic blonde head as dew sprayed into the vacancy from the ditch and when i pulled the seatbelt spiderweb out of your mouth and lifted you out of the car i was standing barefoot in a cluster of bright red sumac next to an ant hill pile of twisted steaming metal and you were dripping blood from your eye and knees asking me if we'd be late for sunday school but you were awake and trying to smile so we followed the powerlines back to the main road holding hands dizzy and sweating worried no one would ever find us limping while the springtime songbirds held their tongues for us but when the hot ringing in my ears finally stopped the sirens grew loud and close and the birds too began their wet lipped eulogy sometimes i think about missing church that day when the weather's bad on nights like last night sometimes i remember our babysitter when the fog rolls in over the road in the morning i wonder if she still gets high on the good stuff while she drives or if she's just a treehugger
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the ground is rumbling the crowd is cheering as the hardworking players tear up the field as he swerved around the opponent every roulette, every fake every slightest touch is a sparkle in the night it's amazing how this simple game so fun and so enchanting yet so emotional has taken over our lives football isn't just a game it is a lifestyle
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 10:54 PM UTC
Football
Deranged rocks, spread in albeit magnetic threads rattle the sky's mirror with impatience. Lay her feet on the ground, the young girl did. The touch of her soft, dampened scarf kindled the metamorphic calm. My veritas found its unwanted shrine-- The dreadful peace that let it dine, upon the well-being of its host nest its swine. The ****** amalgam in her eyes led its produce down her wavy brown vines. They hid her cheeks, and brought down traited drops of long-withheld tangy crust towards the lavender ascot. She grabbed onto her feet, warm and wrapped with white cotton and wool heat... she caressed the ornamental fabric, swerved her fingers along its threaded magic. Their lacy innocence familiarized her and made her smile, whence the memory of her veritas triggered in her mouth's isle. She lay her hopeful eyes on the silver-nitrate clad scarf, covering the now-calming rocks' quaff. Of my reflection her face saw only loss, for her recognition seemed forever trapped in virtuality, in moss.
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Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 11:39 AM UTC
Lavender mocks my stockings
(the birth of Christ - in Gen-Z slang) Mary and Joseph were tight-ship. Mary was a real-one, and no clout-chaser One night Angel Gabriel overstreeted with word that Cap-G made Mary chabby with soup-baby Mary was shook and big-mad but Joseph was baby-goggles for Cap-G’s quinlan fetus so Mary was “okrrrrrrrrr” A minute later Mary and Joe had to roll deep, adulting to Bethlehem with tribute to Augustus, the main character, but no mo-mo swerved em’ ghetto and asan Mary was Cap-G’s baby-mama! Later these bchaps rfts biters brang Cap-J some bag and herb to extra flex for Cap-G while angels lay in the cut with lowkey bop. ———————- translation Mary and Joseph were married and in love. Mary was an average girl not into notoriety . One night Angel Gabriel appeared and said that God made Mary pregnant with his child Mary was shaken-up and and angry but Joseph Was excited for them to have God’s beautiful child so Mary was had no choice but to say “OK” Months later Mary and Joe had to travel far together, As citizens, to Bethlehem to pay taxes to Augustus (Caesar). Emperor of rome, but a lack of motels caused them to Stay in a manger and there Mary had God’s child. Later these rich star followers brought Jesus some money and herb as gifts to impress God while angels gathered and sang to comfort the child.
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Dec 17, 2021
Dec 17, 2021 at 5:14 AM UTC
the nativity story (in slang)
Everytime you Whispered In her ear The car swerved Each time You slid Your fingers Over her shoulder I grew unnerved You looked At me And said Your fantasy Was between us I never hated you more than then She sobbed I cussed I hope Someday You know how it feels To want to **** a man And drive away
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Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021 at 8:06 PM UTC
I Still Day Dream About Gouging Your Eyes Out
<i>If your wife is murdered and the killer is never caught If your son is killed by a drunk driver who swerved his direction We always hear the word “closure” used in many situations It’s like putting a band-aid on a wound needing stitches It can’t bring a deceased spirit back to life It can’t find the man who murdered your wife It may bring some temporary relief from your grief But the word closure is never quite complete Search parties scour the ocean For that missing plane near Laos Radar say’s it went down over there But no-one can really say where It’s at the bottom of the sea To deep for the eyes to see In reality it’s a watery tomb It may never be found and all that we hear Is that word closure mentioned …oh dear The relatives are seen crying in disbelief Like it’s a bad dream and there’s no relief That closure word is so meaningless it’s almost comical I for one refuse to use it or mention it to family When I hear it at a funeral I just try to ignore it It’s easy for me to make that statement When I am the one doing the talking While another poor soul receives the bad news That word closure is giving me the “blues”
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 2:02 AM UTC
Closure ...is it really
The sun was up, and daylight blue Filled all the air, but in the streets An obsidian dress fast cloaked la rue As evil crept on stealthy feet Which seemed at first to be small threat And undetect; but threat was rife With subtle moves the spylings breathe The stench of death, they lower life In a malicious, abrupt way Bewildered me, made themselves known Enemies to Freedom they Serve only to protect the crown We tangled, thrashed, my soul abashed As in obsidian pall it drowned And so throughout the bleak days, years They barricade the street and skies Their poxy prisons bring me years As they cull freebird as he flies He nimble tells their secrets for dear Price, a price upon his years Whereon the chase upon my back The devils apace to do their Ill Behind, beside me hearts pure black Know only evil Love no thrill For ****** rank they have the knack Of making life turn still The car swerved in with metal groan I run past them ever fast They the inquisition to my Joan Freedoms flag upon my mast Such fearfulness I have not known Than that they inspire, all hope lost What will become of our good man? Their petulance stalks him, his friends If all this time with strength he can Put doomed world on the mend He hath outwit them, beat the man Even if to grave they him send It is about a year ago The hunt, chase for me was afoot As we pacing to and fro In that town of soot A town of beauty till I behold The black coats and jackboots
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
On The Crescent
He would ride up to the field God had lain so purposefully for him Along the final bight of an earthen track. Narrow, which climbed, as with him It swerved. He believed in God then. Fenced off, blades became thick as A dare, a moment—before confession Or asking out his girl, the one whose Crescent eyes in smile moonlit clefts In his time. He would see her moving Her body like His girl, exhaling His Name, as if He was her only breath. Through oceanic grasses she would Flow in his ear, all the warm hadal Mist of her. Aging wood throbbing From gusts of wind on the fence. Deep Enclosure of slender stalks and stems Swaying by the rhythm of an ancient Reverie. Crickets and junebugs, early Fireflies lilting, sung to him tunes of Indecipherable freedom. But not once Did he cross, not once did he ever Disturb a nature obeying the music. Only the torrid yearning he allowed To slip through the separation, knowing There it was reunited, home among The barely heard hum of the grasses Oneiric and bare. Years later, when The fence had disappeared, he once Walked through and was overcome By an emptiness thrashing against Emptiness. In a single gust, scented of His desinence, those years passed again And he thought. *Even if I’d crossed, Had joined—not disturbed. Even if*.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 8:23 PM UTC
Fenced Off, Blades Become Thick
At the risk of being critical You’re nothing but a criminal. You take what you want And even stop to flaunt You thinking you are pretty Makes you have no pity. You take all personal pride From how you look outside. You’re as deep as a saucer And before I go further Let me lay this fact on you Most of us are on to you. We expect so little of you, It makes it hard to love you. There’s so little more to see Than your superficiality. To be sure your looks served To attract me so I swerved And ran along beside you To learn what was inside you But imagine my great surprise To find nothing behind your eyes. As far as I soon came to tell It was like I was talking to a well. But it is okay, cutie, it’s all fine I’ll just move on down the line And find someone with a soul; A personality that is whole. I will find a person who cares About more than clothes and hair You can move on and have fun With some other image-oriented one.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 12:35 AM UTC
APPEARANCES
You were like nicotine for a while you filled me up and I felt whole but I didn't think you were toxic I remember like yesterday how you took my delicate hand with boney malnourished fingers with green and purple veins and you gently kissed it and for an instant I was fascinated But from those couple of seconds that were called an instant I became completely infatuated with my head in cotton clouds But it's been almost a year and you've moved on, onto your next victim And theres a hurricane of of emotions because you've informed me that you are happy and whole (Which was what I was trying to make you) but it hurt because it wasn't me making you happy It was the girl with simplicity stamped on her image and freckles that you probably enjoyed counting it was not the millions of pages I had written to you trying so hard to make you love yourself like I loved you And I still sit and wonder about you everyday And when the teacher asked us to write about the best day of our lives my mind swerved back to you but I knew that you were a few seats behind probably writting about your freckled face girl I still remember the warm ambrosia I felt fill me up like blood in veins and marrow in bones when our fingers intertwined and you stared into my soul I wonder if she feels the nicotine and ambrosia too
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 12:45 AM UTC
ambrosia
You know nothing – she said, Stepping out of the flames. At that moment I knew We ain't playing no games. With desire I burned. Her immaculate blaze – Nothing else did I yearn. Pure as pharos her gaze. … And we danced, and we swerved, Glints and flickers beside. So august our verve Which no woe would betide. …In a flash she took off – The mirage molt away, But my sorrow paid off – I live on for the day. 11-3-2017
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Mar 11, 2017
Mar 11, 2017 at 12:54 AM UTC
A-blaze
I was driving to work tonight and I almost swerved off the road because I was staring at Orion's Belt as it hung near the horizon of the sky. Please study the following photo and connect the dots on Orion, his belt, and his arrow: (A detailed answer will be on the back for comparison) I do not pretend to understand astrology nor astronomy.   Orion’s arrow always points north.  You can use it as a compass if you are traveling somewhere where there are not many signs of light.  In October, if you crane your neck and squint your eyes and maybe pray to God, Orion will shoot arrow after arrow off into the sky and you will be able to make your first wish upon a shooting star.  (If you are in a desert, and that is why you are navigating by constellations, pray for help.) His belt is made up of three sisters and I wonder if they talk to him in the night and keep him company? (Is it possible to be up in the Heavens, overlooking the world, while still feeling lonely and insignificant?) Constellations move minutely every year.  In this way, they are similar to humans.  Always roaming.  Always looking for change. When Orion boasted that he could **** any living animal on the planet, Gaia, the Earth Goddess, objected and sent a scorpion after him.  After his death, Zeus flung his body into the stars; fractured to pieces, glowing softly in the night sky, Orion continues to hunt his prey into the dark, cold depths of the Milky Way. Maybe, if you prayed to the Greek Gods, you could find yourself breathing in the stars, too.
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 10:31 PM UTC
For Best Visibility, Look up at the Stars in the Month of January, around 9:00pm
I was driving to work tonight and I almost swerved off the road because I was staring at Orion's Belt as it hung near the horizon of the sky. Please study the following photo and connect the dots on Orion, his belt, and his arrow: (A detailed answer will be on the back for comparison) I do not pretend to understand astrology nor astronomy.   Orion’s arrow always points north.  You can use it as a compass if you are traveling somewhere where there are not many signs of light.  In October, if you crane your neck and squint your eyes and maybe pray to God, Orion will shoot arrow after arrow off into the sky and you will be able to make your first wish upon a shooting star.  (If you are in a desert, and that is why you are navigating by constellations, pray for help.) His belt is made up of three sisters and I wonder if they talk to him in the night and keep him company? (Is it possible to be up in the Heavens, overlooking the world, while still feeling lonely and insignificant?) Constellations move minutely every year.  In this way, they are similar to humans.  Always roaming.  Always looking for change. When Orion boasted that he could **** any living animal on the planet, Gaia, the Earth Goddess, objected and sent a scorpion after him.  After his death, Zeus flung his body into the stars; fractured to pieces, glowing softly in the night sky, Orion continues to hunt his prey into the dark, cold depths of the Milky Way. Maybe, if you prayed to the Greek Gods, you could find yourself breathing in the stars, too.
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Fleas as a breed are troublesome And some much more than most There’s a vegan flea that lives near me By the title of Archibald Post He has a peculiar aptitude For the swift calculation of odds So he hunts for his prey on the high street Leaving peas sound asleep in their pods. When he leapt up and nibbled the ankle Of a bloke as he ambled on by He parked his parasitic posterior And gazed up at the open sky The bitten man stopped and scratched an itch And harassed his smitten limb When a blind man with a Labrador Careered straight into him He fell over and dropped his hamburger The dog lunged and caught it with speed But leading his man into traffic Was the price of this dastardly deed A car swerved and walloped a lamppost Which fell through the front of a florist The bulb set alight an entire display Like a fire in a miniature forest A girl in the office above the street Grabbed her phone to call out some help When she dropped it in her anxiety And it fractured her toe with a yelp She lent on the windowsill urgently And knocked off and apple she’d saved Its descent to the street was in moments complete And the apple was thoroughly paved Archibald smiled, breakfast was served **
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Jun 22, 2013
Jun 22, 2013 at 3:31 PM UTC
Archibald Post - Chaos Flea
I'm sitting in a bar. A place where they all collect. They come together with smiling eyes and open hearts and sit, drink and just shoot the **** They are all noteworthy people, not a boring or reserved soul among the bunch. And they share stories of their highs, lows and purgatories. One of them, his name's Jimmy, tells the story he always tells when he's teetering between coherency and slop-talk. He tells of how he died. He hopped in his car one day, and boy did he love his cars. And that particular car, the one his heart stopped beating in, was his favorite. He sped down the road, his hair blowing in the wind and his hand beating the side of the door as he sang "Strangers in the Night" as it blasted through his radio speakers. He wasn't drunk, he never really was fond of drinking when he was still breathing (he says being dead is depressing and alcohol is the only thing that "assures" him). His car swerved sharply, it was raining, and he just couldn't control the hunk of metal. His head hit the windshield before he even knew what happened. Jimmy looked down at his Jack and Coke and smiled. His eyes, now drowning in salt water, glistened off the cheap fluorescent lights. He told me he never got to tell his mother he loved her. Never got to tell his girlfriend that he thought they were meant to be. Never got to show the world that the man hidden behind so many layers of insecurity and recklessness was a man that was going to span time, generations. And I look back at him, my mouth curling a little and told him that he might not have gotten to talk to his mother or his girlfriend... But he **** well made his mark. After all, he's in a bar filled with dozens of people with stories not unlike his own. And he's talking to me. Me, with my chest inflating and deflating as it filled and emptied itself of sugary oxygen. Me, with my eyes alive and blinking and shining with life. Me, who is alive. At least, I hope to God I am.
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 7:16 PM UTC
I Sit in Bars and Listen to Dead People Talk
I'm sitting in a bar. A place where they all collect. They come together with smiling eyes and open hearts and sit, drink and just shoot the **** They are all noteworthy people, not a boring or reserved soul among the bunch. And they share stories of their highs, lows and purgatories. One of them, his name's Jimmy, tells the story he always tells when he's teetering between coherency and slop-talk. He tells of how he died. He hopped in his car one day, and boy did he love his cars. And that particular car, the one his heart stopped beating in, was his favorite. He sped down the road, his hair blowing in the wind and his hand beating the side of the door as he sang "Strangers in the Night" as it blasted through his radio speakers. He wasn't drunk, he never really was fond of drinking when he was still breathing (he says being dead is depressing and alcohol is the only thing that "assures" him). His car swerved sharply, it was raining, and he just couldn't control the hunk of metal. His head hit the windshield before he even knew what happened. Jimmy looked down at his Jack and Coke and smiled. His eyes, now drowning in salt water, glistened off the cheap fluorescent lights. He told me he never got to tell his mother he loved her. Never got to tell his girlfriend that he thought they were meant to be. Never got to show the world that the man hidden behind so many layers of insecurity and recklessness was a man that was going to span time, generations. And I look back at him, my mouth curling a little and told him that he might not have gotten to talk to his mother or his girlfriend... But he **** well made his mark. After all, he's in a bar filled with dozens of people with stories not unlike his own. And he's talking to me. Me, with my chest inflating and deflating as it filled and emptied itself of sugary oxygen. Me, with my eyes alive and blinking and shining with life. Me, who is alive. At least, I hope to God I am.
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***No one passes through here ever stays for long i can't even seem to catch sight of my own road home The body hanging at the end of my own line i don't recognize waiting for a change  ―  that never comes around Fleeting through the primrose path crossroads in a blur,... right now i'm standin' here like a brainless scarecrow all alone Just another familiar frost heave pothole barely shunt swerved around like an unmarked bump on this frozen lonesome road i let you see it and you told me what it was ,.. but the rear-view mirror only reflects the tracks left behind Looking for the Black Box to unearth the cause of the crash somewhere underneath a black and white rainbow i can't find If you see a wayfaring stranger that abides undone don't even stop to feel the ache that trickles down Just hit the gas and hold sway the wheels go round, look off---- the dead raccoon lay sullied at the side of the road No one passes through here ever stays for long i can't even seem to catch sight of my own road home The body hanging at the end of my own line i don't recognize waiting for a change  ―  that never comes***
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Nov 14, 2017
Nov 14, 2017 at 12:48 AM UTC
No road home ...
It was a kid-glove orange, a leaf, or a Dancy tangerine falling from the tree. I didn't see it. I was watching a dance of anger on TV while learning to swing in a way that left me needing my forlorn hope. The change did not occur. Outside, a drunk driver wearing zipper-skin orange driving gloves swerved sharply and hit my old, gnarled tree during imbuing my hearing with ****** innuendo. He could not escape his awkward accident. Much later, I heard that he had suffered from Saint Vitus's dance. In time, no one was able to heal the wounds of my soul. I wanted this Duvet day to end quickly.
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Aug 24, 2013
Aug 24, 2013 at 5:39 PM UTC
Duvet Day
HIS chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his twenties crammed with toil; "What then?' sang Plato's ghost. "What then?" Everything he wrote was read, After certain years he won Sufficient money for his need, Friends that have been friends indeed; "What then?' sang Plato's ghost. " What then?' All his happier dreams came true -- A small old house, wife, daughter, son, Grounds where plum and cabbage grew, poets and Wits about him drew; "What then.?' sang Plato's ghost. "What then?' The work is done,' grown old he thought, "According to my boyish plan; Let the fools rage, I swerved in naught, Something to perfection brought'; But louder sang that ghost, "What then?'
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What Then?
I wasn't afraid of you, you know. You had your team and your burning stares, but I wasn't afraid. Little did you know, I had my arrows pointed at you. We all had the same passion- In the beginning that is. We all wanted something out of this experience. But most importantly, we all wanted to be on top. So we started climbing the cold, ragged, stormy mountain to see who could make it to the there. I was behind in the beginning, invisible from their distance above. A tiny ant that could be stomped upon, an inconvenience. But in the distance below, through the evergreen trees and the cold rustling wind, I had my arrows pointed at you. I started gaining up seed, respect, gratitude, confidence. I saw the looks of your faces as I was passing by you. The defeat. Looking into the those eyes, I still had my arrows pointed at you. And I reached the top. With callused feet and sore muscles. With an aching heart and an uneven chest. I looked down below and then saw your laughs. Your smiles. I heard your words. You had your fingers pointed to me. They were now my demons, haunting me in the light. The were now scars on my heart, locking myself further and further away. But in the night and in the light of day, I had my arrows pointed to you. I’m dancing on this mountain, at least for right now. Because I’m at the top, so why not enjoy it. But my arrows are still like a live wire between my fingers pointed at you. I saw you today. I tried to look away, to keep you and your heartless soul in a distant memory stored away like a forgotten childhood trait. But you swerved your path and fell right into mine. Intentionally. You want me to be afraid. You want me to regret the decisions I made. You want me to be weak. But darling, you've got it all wrong. Because when success seeps through my veins and you’ll be forced to hear my name every day- to you, like nails on a chalkboard- remember this. That I was never afraid. I made the right decisions. I was never weak. Because my arrows were always pointed at you. And now the fingers of life are the ones that are letting these arrows target straight to your heart. And like always, I’ll always be at the top of that mountain with With callused feet and sore muscles. With an aching heart and an uneven chest. But this time you won’t be laughing and smiling and saying false words about me. You’ll be afraid because I’ll have my dignity and my team of burning stares with our arrows pointed at you
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
Arrows Pointed At You
I wasn't afraid of you, you know. You had your team and your burning stares, but I wasn't afraid. Little did you know, I had my arrows pointed at you. We all had the same passion- In the beginning that is. We all wanted something out of this experience. But most importantly, we all wanted to be on top. So we started climbing the cold, ragged, stormy mountain to see who could make it to the there. I was behind in the beginning, invisible from their distance above. A tiny ant that could be stomped upon, an inconvenience. But in the distance below, through the evergreen trees and the cold rustling wind, I had my arrows pointed at you. I started gaining up seed, respect, gratitude, confidence. I saw the looks of your faces as I was passing by you. The defeat. Looking into the those eyes, I still had my arrows pointed at you. And I reached the top. With callused feet and sore muscles. With an aching heart and an uneven chest. I looked down below and then saw your laughs. Your smiles. I heard your words. You had your fingers pointed to me. They were now my demons, haunting me in the light. The were now scars on my heart, locking myself further and further away. But in the night and in the light of day, I had my arrows pointed to you. I’m dancing on this mountain, at least for right now. Because I’m at the top, so why not enjoy it. But my arrows are still like a live wire between my fingers pointed at you. I saw you today. I tried to look away, to keep you and your heartless soul in a distant memory stored away like a forgotten childhood trait. But you swerved your path and fell right into mine. Intentionally. You want me to be afraid. You want me to regret the decisions I made. You want me to be weak. But darling, you've got it all wrong. Because when success seeps through my veins and you’ll be forced to hear my name every day- to you, like nails on a chalkboard- remember this. That I was never afraid. I made the right decisions. I was never weak. Because my arrows were always pointed at you. And now the fingers of life are the ones that are letting these arrows target straight to your heart. And like always, I’ll always be at the top of that mountain with With callused feet and sore muscles. With an aching heart and an uneven chest. But this time you won’t be laughing and smiling and saying false words about me. You’ll be afraid because I’ll have my dignity and my team of burning stares with our arrows pointed at you
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They promised me, a voyage to the moon One splendid celestial adventure The animate odyssey of the century An end to this peace finding venture. To catch a glimpse of the lunar eclipse on the way to the land of silver moondust to reside in its icy ambience where all your troubles turn to rust. Instead they swerved the ship - diverged headed directly to the scorching sun, Its' incandescent flames burnt & surged as my skin ignited in agony & formed- into charred fragments of despair - I'm ashes adrift in pitch black space out of reach & beyond repair gazing longingly at the moons' cozy face.
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Jul 20, 2021
Jul 20, 2021 at 1:05 PM UTC
Voyage to the moon.
No one to run to, no one to talk to No one to call, no one at all Separated from the world Isolated from family Departed from friends Same routine of the Lonely life again...and again When times of struggle When times of stress When times of pain Lonesome soul moving through the rain Nothing different its always the same Same routine of the lonely life again...and again Awakened to the silence day after day The sound of speech is so inside deep Unfamiliar with words, not even a peep Foreign sounds to the ear Lying down in deep despair Same routine of the lonely life again...and again Come to realize this horrid lifestyle The one that's been here for quite a while The one that brings no sort of smile The one that cause the pain and suffering The one that's the blame for that low self esteem For the weather outside has never been seen Afraid the world might seem too mean No one to call best friend, let alone any friend Everyday is the same question: "When will this end" Days, weeks, years gone by and yet its still the same Until one day there was a cease to this pain Suddenly swerved onto a different lane Realizing the previous lifestyle was nothing to gain Mentality transformed Its time for change Happiness is restored into life Even though it required some sacrifice Smiles, smiles from left and right Those lonely tears no longer in sight This lifestyle has been shifted into the light The world of darkness has ceased to occur For joy has regained his spot, I'm sure No more times of struggle No more times of stress No more times of pain the sunshine has dried up all the rain The same routine of that lonely lifestyle Never, never again!
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM UTC
Alonely St.
No one to run to, no one to talk to No one to call, no one at all Separated from the world Isolated from family Departed from friends Same routine of the Lonely life again...and again When times of struggle When times of stress When times of pain Lonesome soul moving through the rain Nothing different its always the same Same routine of the lonely life again...and again Awakened to the silence day after day The sound of speech is so inside deep Unfamiliar with words, not even a peep Foreign sounds to the ear Lying down in deep despair Same routine of the lonely life again...and again Come to realize this horrid lifestyle The one that's been here for quite a while The one that brings no sort of smile The one that cause the pain and suffering The one that's the blame for that low self esteem For the weather outside has never been seen Afraid the world might seem too mean No one to call best friend, let alone any friend Everyday is the same question: "When will this end" Days, weeks, years gone by and yet its still the same Until one day there was a cease to this pain Suddenly swerved onto a different lane Realizing the previous lifestyle was nothing to gain Mentality transformed Its time for change Happiness is restored into life Even though it required some sacrifice Smiles, smiles from left and right Those lonely tears no longer in sight This lifestyle has been shifted into the light The world of darkness has ceased to occur For joy has regained his spot, I'm sure No more times of struggle No more times of stress No more times of pain the sunshine has dried up all the rain The same routine of that lonely lifestyle Never, never again!
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It seemed like a story For Schrödinger Time and distance ensured that They were All things and Nothing At once And, in this way, they stayed in perpetual orbit She wondered if In another life      In another place           Time                Universe Their lives would have intersected Instead of diverging      Unrequited To haunt her with all that could have been It was the bitterest irony When at last their paths swerved together That both hearts had already been spoken for Somewhere      The Fates were surely cackling           As the air hung heavy                With all the possibilities                     That died on the vine Because time was never on their side How could one even cry for something they’d never had? She found herself heaving uncontrolled sobs Shaking with unfettered grief In mourning      For all the things           She had wanted to live All the bright dreams of their teenage years That had seemed so perfect Shattered by the bitterness of Growing up And that old ******* Father Time If she were honest with herself She’d admit it was not him She actually loved all these years But all the things he might have been —or rather— All the things she might have been with him What a different life she might have had if      One day           She had followed her                Wild teenage love Instead of living in this cosmic joke She’ll never know But she’ll heave sobs For all the parallel lives she is not living And the orbit she will return to Knowing she’ll never be satisfied      She’ll always wonder           Always be gazing off                Trying to glimpse a galaxy Where things turned out better
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 7:20 PM UTC
Cosmic Joke
It seemed like a story For Schrödinger Time and distance ensured that They were All things and Nothing At once And, in this way, they stayed in perpetual orbit She wondered if In another life      In another place           Time                Universe Their lives would have intersected Instead of diverging      Unrequited To haunt her with all that could have been It was the bitterest irony When at last their paths swerved together That both hearts had already been spoken for Somewhere      The Fates were surely cackling           As the air hung heavy                With all the possibilities                     That died on the vine Because time was never on their side How could one even cry for something they’d never had? She found herself heaving uncontrolled sobs Shaking with unfettered grief In mourning      For all the things           She had wanted to live All the bright dreams of their teenage years That had seemed so perfect Shattered by the bitterness of Growing up And that old ******* Father Time If she were honest with herself She’d admit it was not him She actually loved all these years But all the things he might have been —or rather— All the things she might have been with him What a different life she might have had if      One day           She had followed her                Wild teenage love Instead of living in this cosmic joke She’ll never know But she’ll heave sobs For all the parallel lives she is not living And the orbit she will return to Knowing she’ll never be satisfied      She’ll always wonder           Always be gazing off                Trying to glimpse a galaxy Where things turned out better
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She chants saccharine words Calamity dissolves into ruins The sweetest words I’d ever heard She chants saccharine words All focus swerved A conquest worth pursuing She chants saccharine words Calamity dissolves into ruins
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May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM UTC
Larkspur
August sun stung my eyes as sweat trickled down my brow waiting. Anxiety and Fantasy banged around in my head turning like a picture book i saw you emerge from the blinding lights and heat waves Baby i was smitten by you inhaling deep sweet smokes from the tip of a pipe i walked a concrete line as sweltering reality dipped and swerved dancing around your carelessly moving body Baby i was infatuated by you. resting in the shadows of the day I, i couldn't breathe you stole the breath from me as you kissed me i had an enviable lust for you Baby i loved you the gentle swerves became dodges I grew impatient with you having miserable meetings over your movements you chose to move with someone else when i went to the bathroom Baby i hated you. blinded by the words burnt into my head feeling her imprint where I I was suppose to fit! Baby i hated you! i gave you my heart and you burnt it! BABY I LOVED YOU! this monkey wrench beaten me into madness, impaled by my rage I ******* hate you! your gentle touches ripped the fabric of my soul you ******* murdered me! Baby you burnt me. leaving nothing but a ****** scarlet letter i scrubbed my skin with sandpaper And couldn't get rid of your traces Baby i longed for you. i needed you. i loved you. I love you.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 7:19 PM UTC
August sun
*You may find this hard to believe But I just saw a monkey Drive by me doing eighty In a Maserati Eating rainbow ice cream In a cone from Dairy Queen I don't mean to sound mean But should a monkey be eating ice cream Just then I saw a cat Right before he went splat Jaywalking will often do that And that my friend is straight up fact The monkey swerved to avoid him That's when he lost control and Into a brick wall he slammed As the ice cream went a flying Since a cat has nine lives He came to quite surprised As Keith Richards does most nights The ice cream landed just right The monkey's now in heaven The cat is ice cream licking The Maserati is a has been So I guess this must be the end*
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Mar 19, 2015
Mar 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM UTC
The Monkey, Maserati, Cat, and oh yea....Ice Cream