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onlylovepoetry Jul 2023
how do you paint water, or clouds?

I could read poetry for the brief,
of my of remaining life, however brief,
and never be satiated, of love, and streams of water,
never stilled, always running in patterns that exist,
but for milliseconds, admired by clouds born in, of,
a moment of re-formation that is perpetuity long:
unending shape shifting, like the freedom of flowing water
currents, forming, reforming and unthinkable, nay,
inconceivable that human eyes or their spoken words
could capture their shiny white foamy essence

But of love, that we can do, paint, design, recreate its
endless loops of undulations, like the radiating circularity
of a pebble dropped gently to its burial sight in a quiet pond.

Humans know, understand and excel at clasping and grasping
at the synapsing of human cells from differing bodies: the
exogenous erogenous of human touch that like the clouds
and the water, who could paint that, who capable of capturing
said sensations that wrack and enliven the body with invisible
interior chemical reactions. I cannot. Thankfully better men and women have treatised  their entreaties to the powers of the universe and been rewarded with the skilled delicacy of weaving human tapestries, the milliseconds of connectivity, eclectic and electrifying of different currents and differing amperage’s forming and reforming like water moving, just  like the clouds changing in response to the externalities of wind and gravity and all the forces of nature that encourage us to study and stare at these flows, hoping to entrance them into standing still for but a moment, and instead, mesmerizing us into standing motionless for hours in awe of their freedom.

Love’s undulations too mesmerizing, and freezing us into
place, or alternatively caucus to run endlessly arms extending,
flying though not airborne , rocketing us upwards while feet never budging, but finding good wards, masterful metaphors to recreate and thus to share the fabulous mystery of this thing we know as love.


2:58AM
Friday
jul 22 (jewel 22) of the 23rd year of the 21st Century.


O.L.P.
inspired by the police of Oxford, Lewis and Hathaway
oh no Dec 2014
talk to me with your tongue on a trip wire
wake me up
[[open your mouth]]
I promise I’m not hollow gut me
[[show me what you’re made of]]
I’m collapsing synapsing light me up
come find me
if I hit this floor I’m gone for good
[[are you dying? are you there?]]
talk to god through the windows I am warping the floors
I’m diffusing hands bruising, close me up
[[shut your mouth]]
we’re the wild child, I told you
are you tired? are you scared?
we’re just bitter plants in bitter dirt
I’m not angry now. I told you
my chest is beating water I’ve got nothing left for this
when the walls come down, come find me
I’m collapsing synapsing
[[you’re a mess]]
i still got nothing left for this
Mark Donnelly Jun 2016
Star's in night sky an unimaginable number to the naked eye,
eyes travel through space searching for a glimmering star,
thoughts travel through the minds neural sky synapsing like bright inner stars,
from outer to inner space there is much to see,
eyes search for the wonderful sight,
thoughts search the mind for hope and reason that might,
the more we travel the more we learn,
experience opens the mind and the sky,
acceptance and love expands as we travel,
hope is gained the less we hold back and the more we ask why,
negativity lost as pain and hurt unravels,
through knowledge gained insight opens the door,
a door to a better life as that suffering parts,
a journey is long whether through mind or eye,
experience gained only with both open,
so lets open and travel far and wide.
I study psychology, and so i think sometimes as i look at the stars our mind is such. Light travels through space searching for something to shine on, our thoughts travel our mind searching for meaning. So i think both are similar.
Her alabaster skin washed o'er me
  Like an endless river.
I melted seamlessly into her porcelain
  Architecture.

The shrouded mist of her sweet breath
  Was the fog that danced through the
Synapsing forests of my love-stricken mind.

Her auburn hair created a Golden Gate Bridge
  Just for me to walk upon.
The verdant color in her irises splashed
  Light and hope just beyond the oaks of axons
And memories where I hide.

I have evolved. I have grown.
  Holistic and otherwise.
I have grown up the trellis of her spine
  And into the breadth of her heart.

I am complete...
  Completely in love.
Meerkats.
Rachel Sep 2018
A tiny seed plants itself in my head
an invasive species.
The roots spread quickly,
synapsing beyond my brain
    down my body
     down my arms
      down my legs
I'm frozen now. Rooted,
                                                                ­            but not grounded.

I open my mouth to scream--
branches pour from within,
grasping outward.
Anything my branches claw at,
desperately scrambles away.
                                                                ­                                          I'm alone.

I may be infected,
but I am not contagious.
jz May 19
It was a ruse from the start.
Ends bled into beginnings and I cruised through the wounds you cut mindlessly.
Don’t act like you didn’t know what you were doing to me.
The ghost of a child at sixteen
barricaded from passing on.

To mom and dad:
I don’t blame you, but where were you when I needed it most?
The only ones who could’ve stopped it
yet I would’ve resented you for it.
I’m sorry that you’ve been forced to raise a wraith.

But that’s what it is to be a mother.
Never letting her child have sleepovers to prevent the inevitable and be resented for it.
How does it hurt to know that the daughter will get herself hurt anyway?
That she thinks she loves the knife carving her apart?
And she won’t realize until twenty why.

But all you see is anger
because worst thing a woman can be is quiet
and that has made me oh so ugly.
But even when I’m loud they still ignore the refusals and take what they want.
My ghost rears its ugly head but it cannot protect me forever.

The worst part is I don’t think you even remember.
I don’t think it’s crossed your half synapsing brain twice.
Don’t you remember locking me in the car in front of my own house?
My parents were in there
and I should’ve been too.
A child.
Don’t you remember you were eighteen and I didn’t even know how to drive yet?
And I’m sure you didn’t even notice the irony of keeping me prisoner with the child lock.

I made so many mistakes,
inconsequential to yours— yet somehow I’m the one paying the eternal price
Most bad history eventually shapes us into better people but I could remove all of you and be much better for it.
She will haunt you forever
and curse you from this life into the next.

— The End —