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"toying" poems
Your head feels foggy you sense yourself unwind, It’s the same dreadful demons toying with your mind. They wait till it’s dark or the lights are down low, unnerving sickly attacks through your blood and bones. You can’t hide your black heart the demons can see, they don’t allow any space in your head to breathe.   They tear your reason to shreds you need fixing. A worn stone sinking in an ocean that’s rotting, you decay miserably since you're forced to bend the knee. How much more agony can the universe bring. Not even your screams can get you out of the cold, and you’d rather give up and drown, than go it alone.
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Sep 14, 2017
Sep 14, 2017 at 11:34 PM UTC
Demons
You are annoying For you are toying This mind of mine Or the other minds of nine Stop being silly 'Cause it bothers me really I hate you for it I don't seem to like you one bit
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 8:45 AM UTC
Silly and Annoying You
Those eyes how they pierce into me and see all that I am. It's almost as though he's toying with me. He knows the way my body works. It's as though he finds pleasure in teasing me. Those eyes how they pierce into me and see all that I am. He knows he has me and I've become submissive to his touch. So weak to his needs, only wanting to be everything he needs. Those eyes how they pierce into me and see all that I am. Usually I have such control but he has me under his spell. Once again he has me wrapped around his little finger and he lets me know I am only his and his alone.
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Jul 29, 2015
Jul 29, 2015 at 9:09 PM UTC
Those Eyes.
Like a captive, I capture rapture wrapping around stakes that matter Joan of Arc battered Also tattered but, easily dismissive Refracted from fractured prominent phrases people play with Distinctly persuasive and evasive, dressed boyishly attractive, lax stature, dawning armor crafted by absence as if asked about it- I’m drifted Protection is principle prerequisite, when fire is lit I sort of implore your aorta before it’s incinerated to ashes Dethatched as a habit, with swords or hatchets crafted to singe heartstrings that attached it While I slash slick Rick as a quick fix, To fend for pretend pretenses or presumed tricks, I can’t quit Cause I hit lips against hash spliffs fashioned with dashes of passion all while rationing fireball cinnamon sips Martyr to avoidance I gaze at fabled dazed gossipers galvanizing grips on gritty grapevines while licking warning labels through smoke haze on blurred lines Capably unstable Other eyes attending scandal circles able to shout lies and rekindle handed arguments on tables with locked smiles stay boxed in Avidly amiable Searching for counterparts when combusted or branded Toying with matches loses meaning when rules reseed Those vagabonds claim love is some all end hard bent to mend what the same above can’t comprehend. Breaking boredom, I pillage pillows with night terrors And ardent arsonists yearn for flames that churn, turn, liquefy and learn learned thoughts and smoldered feelings Completely complacent Melting in one another they are completing each other like two candles tryst true at a wedding day However later the blaze is severed, smoke sears, and charred black wick stands alone for them. Aggressive and progressive. As for me never pleading, fire forever fleets to streets between iron bars I built that cage in deep heat and seep dire dreams once desired Suppose I’m a skeptic Roasted or disconnected Just jaded, just met you Always over it too soon Burnt but I’m amused. I’m useful.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
Martyr
Like a captive, I capture rapture wrapping around stakes that matter Joan of Arc battered Also tattered but, easily dismissive Refracted from fractured prominent phrases people play with Distinctly persuasive and evasive, dressed boyishly attractive, lax stature, dawning armor crafted by absence as if asked about it- I’m drifted Protection is principle prerequisite, when fire is lit I sort of implore your aorta before it’s incinerated to ashes Dethatched as a habit, with swords or hatchets crafted to singe heartstrings that attached it While I slash slick Rick as a quick fix, To fend for pretend pretenses or presumed tricks, I can’t quit Cause I hit lips against hash spliffs fashioned with dashes of passion all while rationing fireball cinnamon sips Martyr to avoidance I gaze at fabled dazed gossipers galvanizing grips on gritty grapevines while licking warning labels through smoke haze on blurred lines Capably unstable Other eyes attending scandal circles able to shout lies and rekindle handed arguments on tables with locked smiles stay boxed in Avidly amiable Searching for counterparts when combusted or branded Toying with matches loses meaning when rules reseed Those vagabonds claim love is some all end hard bent to mend what the same above can’t comprehend. Breaking boredom, I pillage pillows with night terrors And ardent arsonists yearn for flames that churn, turn, liquefy and learn learned thoughts and smoldered feelings Completely complacent Melting in one another they are completing each other like two candles tryst true at a wedding day However later the blaze is severed, smoke sears, and charred black wick stands alone for them. Aggressive and progressive. As for me never pleading, fire forever fleets to streets between iron bars I built that cage in deep heat and seep dire dreams once desired Suppose I’m a skeptic Roasted or disconnected Just jaded, just met you Always over it too soon Burnt but I’m amused. I’m useful.
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there's ethical idealism: where ethics is discussed... there's ethical relativism: where ethics is practised... there's ethical realism... where ethics is quantified as an improbability; and then there's ethical absolutism, where we supposedly "progress" - in this scenario are the laws of physics actually suspended: whereby oculus qua oculus is replaced - a loss of an eye is "relative" to 10 years in a cage... really?! ethics is ideal, realistic, absolute or relative... we're encouraged to live in "realistic relativism"... never in an absolute realism, since realistic relativism only compares itself to ideal absolutism... and nothing more... ever watched that film secrets in their eyes? you ever wonder what ethical idealism is to the ethnical consequence that can absorb a realistic libra? i can only believe in ethical absolutism, ethical relativism is horrid to me... relativism adorns idealism, absolutism adorns realism... a life sentence is worse than a death sentence, whether justified or not, prison is sadism, but at least ****** is simply ****** a space-time intact, a ****** penalty is not inhumane, nor a ouija board... it's time for time, space for space, the actual punishment comes with the missing adrenaline rush of the unexpected reception of the wielded weapon... either send these jealous plonkers to siberia, or sentence them to death, for you are no more than they are, nay, you are more... you're akin to cats toying, playing a sadistic games with half-mutilated mice... this is why i abhor ethical relativism of the crucifix... hence my belief in ethical absolutism in the paragraph of realism, which is perfected, by being exacted, and never, ever, being leisurely discussed, on a farcical palette with a grimace to boot: ******* a lemon; compensating the horrors within minutes, is never compensated with ordeals that last years... which is why i find the death penalty an act of authentic humanity, and not this quasi-humanitarian act of pardon, ******* hypocrites - i abhor the caged rat more than the rat gladly nibbling on a dead corpse... at least there was passion in the ****** waiting for death penalty is like killing a vermin with poison, disposing them with nonchalantly... the wise maxim states: ledo ferrum sicut id est calidi - strike the iron while it's hot... death is the dawn-broker - a new tomorrow promise - left intact, the fermenting process of ethical dynamism takes over... then again, the supposedly "evolved" preferred moral relativism to moral absolutism, because there was no moral realism to speak of, since morality could only be talked about in ideal terms of the supposedly so, supposedly fashioned via: it ought to never happen to me... and then it might, and then: oops... argument sinks like a wet fatty **** into shambles of keeping up with the presupposed pillar of argument being "impenetrable"; hey, genius, back to the blackboard!
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 8:50 PM UTC
4 tiers of ethics / oculus qua oculus
there's ethical idealism: where ethics is discussed... there's ethical relativism: where ethics is practised... there's ethical realism... where ethics is quantified as an improbability; and then there's ethical absolutism, where we supposedly "progress" - in this scenario are the laws of physics actually suspended: whereby oculus qua oculus is replaced - a loss of an eye is "relative" to 10 years in a cage... really?! ethics is ideal, realistic, absolute or relative... we're encouraged to live in "realistic relativism"... never in an absolute realism, since realistic relativism only compares itself to ideal absolutism... and nothing more... ever watched that film secrets in their eyes? you ever wonder what ethical idealism is to the ethnical consequence that can absorb a realistic libra? i can only believe in ethical absolutism, ethical relativism is horrid to me... relativism adorns idealism, absolutism adorns realism... a life sentence is worse than a death sentence, whether justified or not, prison is sadism, but at least ****** is simply ****** a space-time intact, a ****** penalty is not inhumane, nor a ouija board... it's time for time, space for space, the actual punishment comes with the missing adrenaline rush of the unexpected reception of the wielded weapon... either send these jealous plonkers to siberia, or sentence them to death, for you are no more than they are, nay, you are more... you're akin to cats toying, playing a sadistic games with half-mutilated mice... this is why i abhor ethical relativism of the crucifix... hence my belief in ethical absolutism in the paragraph of realism, which is perfected, by being exacted, and never, ever, being leisurely discussed, on a farcical palette with a grimace to boot: ******* a lemon; compensating the horrors within minutes, is never compensated with ordeals that last years... which is why i find the death penalty an act of authentic humanity, and not this quasi-humanitarian act of pardon, ******* hypocrites - i abhor the caged rat more than the rat gladly nibbling on a dead corpse... at least there was passion in the ****** waiting for death penalty is like killing a vermin with poison, disposing them with nonchalantly... the wise maxim states: ledo ferrum sicut id est calidi - strike the iron while it's hot... death is the dawn-broker - a new tomorrow promise - left intact, the fermenting process of ethical dynamism takes over... then again, the supposedly "evolved" preferred moral relativism to moral absolutism, because there was no moral realism to speak of, since morality could only be talked about in ideal terms of the supposedly so, supposedly fashioned via: it ought to never happen to me... and then it might, and then: oops... argument sinks like a wet fatty **** into shambles of keeping up with the presupposed pillar of argument being "impenetrable"; hey, genius, back to the blackboard!
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so, with israel being re-established... why do we, us,hit europeans... even need to bother establishing authority,          utilißing the new testament? i quiete like the old testament logic of: oculus per oculus                    (eye for an eye)... because the saxon concept of justice: i rather see... the implosion of    blackstone's formulation... the 10:1 imploding to the 1:10 ratio of...       a shawshank redemption... there is... redemption... since! there's no justice within the post scriptum of the hillsborough disaster... watching people walk, the lunatic walk, 20 years later?    disorientated by the court of justice?     re-dem-ption... the whole aspect of: innocent until proven guilty is horrid! this... saxon vernacular of that branch of philosophy that's bogus... namely... within origins      of the forbidden fruit... i.e. and you know?!     really?!       no... but i'll **** to make a standing pivot of a pawn on a chess-board.                           savvy? who, among the europeans... actually needs such artifacts as new testament texts, credo, orthodoxy, sign of the cross greek exports?              the state of israel has been re-established...       i don't want anything to do with this judeo-grecian banality... you can have you little affair over                                 n        e                                                 w                                  s... don't worry... i'll make sure that i'm watching... people tell a lie... yeah: hum hum bubbly hum-hum... am i, or are there any arizona inbreds? who, the hell, needs, the news testament, within the confines of history, dispossessing europe of it, of an established jewish state?       one book among many... hence the scent of a yawn...                          when entering a library... i'll do one gesture, and one gesture alone... inclined to a replica...     ecce libra!              i wash my hands from                   having any investment in it. **** the greeks can have it...       they can keep it, cherish it, but they better not spaghetti the old testament with their... "ingenious" plot... not when the nag hammadi library emerged...       no... not now... not ever...         i detest this greek book of overt symbolism...   their pristine alphabet, their diacritical application,   with the pseudo-romans toying with: deaf... or blind... whichever it is... sandpaper... instead of a kangaroo pouch... of inflated... soft... flesh? i'll rip your heart out and feed it to my neighbour's dog,                   beside a bowl of water.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 8:32 PM UTC
ecce libra! re-emergence of israel **** liber)
so, with israel being re-established... why do we, us,hit europeans... even need to bother establishing authority,          utilißing the new testament? i quiete like the old testament logic of: oculus per oculus                    (eye for an eye)... because the saxon concept of justice: i rather see... the implosion of    blackstone's formulation... the 10:1 imploding to the 1:10 ratio of...       a shawshank redemption... there is... redemption... since! there's no justice within the post scriptum of the hillsborough disaster... watching people walk, the lunatic walk, 20 years later?    disorientated by the court of justice?     re-dem-ption... the whole aspect of: innocent until proven guilty is horrid! this... saxon vernacular of that branch of philosophy that's bogus... namely... within origins      of the forbidden fruit... i.e. and you know?!     really?!       no... but i'll **** to make a standing pivot of a pawn on a chess-board.                           savvy? who, among the europeans... actually needs such artifacts as new testament texts, credo, orthodoxy, sign of the cross greek exports?              the state of israel has been re-established...       i don't want anything to do with this judeo-grecian banality... you can have you little affair over                                 n        e                                                 w                                  s... don't worry... i'll make sure that i'm watching... people tell a lie... yeah: hum hum bubbly hum-hum... am i, or are there any arizona inbreds? who, the hell, needs, the news testament, within the confines of history, dispossessing europe of it, of an established jewish state?       one book among many... hence the scent of a yawn...                          when entering a library... i'll do one gesture, and one gesture alone... inclined to a replica...     ecce libra!              i wash my hands from                   having any investment in it. **** the greeks can have it...       they can keep it, cherish it, but they better not spaghetti the old testament with their... "ingenious" plot... not when the nag hammadi library emerged...       no... not now... not ever...         i detest this greek book of overt symbolism...   their pristine alphabet, their diacritical application,   with the pseudo-romans toying with: deaf... or blind... whichever it is... sandpaper... instead of a kangaroo pouch... of inflated... soft... flesh? i'll rip your heart out and feed it to my neighbour's dog,                   beside a bowl of water.
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The way you play your harp, effortlessly weaving your fingers through those nylon strings is oh so captivating. The firm hold you have on your instrument, secure, yet light enough, being careful not to break the mahogany frames. The heedful ears you have, used to listen to the echoing sounds, your harp makes in response to even the slightest flick of your finger. The beautifully composed melody, brought forth by the dissonance and resolution of the sweetest sounds I’ve ever known. Wherever did you get the practice? Perhaps it was from toying with my heart.
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Mar 19, 2015
Mar 19, 2015 at 11:57 PM UTC
Harp
I hope that if you read this, you will understand fully the journey it took to get here. i've heard every excuse, i've heard every justification. you have to understand, the worst part of it is the feeling that it is something about me that makes them do it. i don't think you know how much it hurts, when you tease me about the mysterious stranger with whom you now share your bed. i know he is a stuffed animal, but until you stop teasing, until you stop toying, all i can feel is the ******* blood boil in my veins, and then the anger subside, and anguish churn my stomach. everyone has their trouble, and i have mine. the trouble with me, is that i trust you with my life, and at the same time, i have learned from experience that i will always be betrayed. it's not me, it's her. i just wasn't there enough. i just didn't care enough. i've always known that every excuse given was false, the truth is that i cannot provide anything but love and happiness. i cannot guarantee wealth, nor riches. and in a world where dreams die young at the hands of reality, i have no future. there is no world for me, only the corpses of my dreams, smiling cadavers, waltzing to their demise. this is a weary world for the honest and good. i want you to read this, and at the same time i don't. but most of all i would just like you to know that i love you unconditionally. i would like you to know that i trust you. and i would like you to know that the sick feeling i get in my guts when you're not here, is not mistrust, just bad experience telling me that things don't seem to change. i've been through so much **** i was broken until i met you, but you'll always be the one i think of when i wake, my soul mate.
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Jul 26, 2012
Jul 26, 2012 at 11:23 AM UTC
Don't read this.
I hope that if you read this, you will understand fully the journey it took to get here. i've heard every excuse, i've heard every justification. you have to understand, the worst part of it is the feeling that it is something about me that makes them do it. i don't think you know how much it hurts, when you tease me about the mysterious stranger with whom you now share your bed. i know he is a stuffed animal, but until you stop teasing, until you stop toying, all i can feel is the ******* blood boil in my veins, and then the anger subside, and anguish churn my stomach. everyone has their trouble, and i have mine. the trouble with me, is that i trust you with my life, and at the same time, i have learned from experience that i will always be betrayed. it's not me, it's her. i just wasn't there enough. i just didn't care enough. i've always known that every excuse given was false, the truth is that i cannot provide anything but love and happiness. i cannot guarantee wealth, nor riches. and in a world where dreams die young at the hands of reality, i have no future. there is no world for me, only the corpses of my dreams, smiling cadavers, waltzing to their demise. this is a weary world for the honest and good. i want you to read this, and at the same time i don't. but most of all i would just like you to know that i love you unconditionally. i would like you to know that i trust you. and i would like you to know that the sick feeling i get in my guts when you're not here, is not mistrust, just bad experience telling me that things don't seem to change. i've been through so much **** i was broken until i met you, but you'll always be the one i think of when i wake, my soul mate.
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Is the only thing worth counting on, Counting on that death is just ahead? While living is unavoidable. I would have given an answer to you, If I had never met you. Now my affection will subside. You can never return it. Right now, that’s okay. I don’t need you to feel for me, Like I feel for you. Just being is fine. But one day, I don’t know. If you start playing with my emotions, And toying with my heart. On that day I can’t be certain, And I don’t know if I will be able to control, Your death, Sagittarius.
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Feb 23, 2010
Feb 23, 2010 at 12:30 AM UTC
Death, Sagittarius
Reputation, Reputation this is how you play If you mess up your status will change B    e       W           i              t                h                            H                         e                            r Or      F        o           r             g               e                  t                                    H                        e                           r Be with me or forget me It’s your choose You’ve kept my letters We’ve taken walks together You’ve admitted you like me and want to be with me But apparently your rep means more So you won’t go around with the girl who’s a beauty behind a pokeball hat So I’ll sit here like a broken record repeating our good times together In my head over and over again and again Even though we part ways in the end Not that there will ever be anymore good times Not with us together anyway Just so you know I’ll be here for you Always What’s strange is you never got that...social with a girl except for me You act like you’ve moved on But there’s no other girl I think it’s pretty clear we both know you haven’t moved on But you still pretend to and ignore me While holding on to my words and drawings Sometimes it just feels like your toying with me You play the game for the trophy and nothing more What does that tell you
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 2:06 PM UTC
Reputation
Reputation, Reputation this is how you play If you mess up your status will change B    e       W           i              t                h                            H                         e                            r Or      F        o           r             g               e                  t                                    H                        e                           r Be with me or forget me It’s your choose You’ve kept my letters We’ve taken walks together You’ve admitted you like me and want to be with me But apparently your rep means more So you won’t go around with the girl who’s a beauty behind a pokeball hat So I’ll sit here like a broken record repeating our good times together In my head over and over again and again Even though we part ways in the end Not that there will ever be anymore good times Not with us together anyway Just so you know I’ll be here for you Always What’s strange is you never got that...social with a girl except for me You act like you’ve moved on But there’s no other girl I think it’s pretty clear we both know you haven’t moved on But you still pretend to and ignore me While holding on to my words and drawings Sometimes it just feels like your toying with me You play the game for the trophy and nothing more What does that tell you
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Every time You extend your hand I reach out to emptiness Vacant Words Toying with my emotions You play the game Always winning With your looks Pale skin Red lipstick Smeared on my collar Where your head would lie All of those times you lied You see it differently Of course you do Playing the victim Saying I’m always attached And that’s why you would never Take this dive with me In reality Terrified Of what would happen If you committed to something Other than yourself
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 9:40 AM UTC
Hollow
'The beggar boy is none of mine,' The reverend doctor strangely said; 'I do not walk the streets to pour Chance benedictions on his head. 'And heaven I thank who made me so. That toying with my own dear child, I think not on _his_ shivering limbs, _His_ manners vagabond and wild.' Good friend, unsay that graceless word! I am a mother crowned with joy, And yet I feel a ***** pang To pass the little starveling boy. His aching flesh, his fevered eyes His piteous stomach, craving meat; His features, nipt of tenderness, And most, his little frozen feet. Oft, by my fireside's ruddy glow, I think, how in some noisome den, Bred up with curses and with blows, He lives unblest of gods or men. I cannot ****** him from his fate, The tribute of my doubting mind Drops, torch-like, in the abyss of ill, That skirts the ways of humankind. But, as my heart's desire would leap To help him, recognized of none, I thank the God who left him this, For many a precious right foregone. My mother, whom I scarcely knew, Bequeathed this bond of love to me; The heart parental thrills for all The children of humanity.
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Limitations Of Benevolence
they're the worst, and i mean that literally imagine this, imagine that everything that terrifies you, from any age that you've been from the things that barely ***** you to the things that you are deathly afraid of under one tent, an old worn down halloween coloured carny tent, filled with broken down rides and fallen apart structures and lit only by the moon all with one intent, all of them working together to reach one goal to get you, and have their way with you and you can't fight back, every time you try to, they just get stronger so you do the one thing you can do at this point you run you run faster then you ever have before, and none of this weird *** dream running where you move slowly when you're trying to run i mean full out sprinting you run and try to escape but there's no way out, the holed purple and orange walls of the tent flap in the wind but when you go to touch them, they fill and turn solid solid concrete below three inches of dirt, and you can't see anything to climb you run and try to hide the lesser terrors might try to help you. trying to convince you that this place is safe, or to let them lead the others off of your trail but they never tell the truth, they only do one thing they help the greater terrors find you so you refuse their help, shooing them away, and you survive for a bit longer but its always the same, in the end, no matter what you try, every time it ends the same way they find you, hiding on top of one of the structures, in a little cave, somewhere in one of the rides and you're tortured you're tortured worse than you ever thought that a being would do sometimes your tongue is split into thirds from side to side, and is then cut from front to back sometimes your limbs and body are twisted and contorted into strange shapes, making you into human art you foolishly believed that these things might have a heart and not make it as slow and painful as they could well you're right for the first bit, they do have a heart of sorts after they're done playing with you after they're done toying with your body they don't just let you be, leave you where you are to stay there in agony no, they **** you nothing extra, nothing complex just a stab through the heart, a ripping off of the head, and you're gone unless they're being crueler at which point, you have the option of fighting back or letting them **** you in a gruesome way, hanging you from a rope over an open tank of water with lots of hungry creatures eagerly awaiting your fall at least, that's what you think they do, you're never asleep long enough to find out and that's why youre glad that they've only now begun to come and get you while you're awake
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM UTC
Dark Carnivals
they're the worst, and i mean that literally imagine this, imagine that everything that terrifies you, from any age that you've been from the things that barely ***** you to the things that you are deathly afraid of under one tent, an old worn down halloween coloured carny tent, filled with broken down rides and fallen apart structures and lit only by the moon all with one intent, all of them working together to reach one goal to get you, and have their way with you and you can't fight back, every time you try to, they just get stronger so you do the one thing you can do at this point you run you run faster then you ever have before, and none of this weird *** dream running where you move slowly when you're trying to run i mean full out sprinting you run and try to escape but there's no way out, the holed purple and orange walls of the tent flap in the wind but when you go to touch them, they fill and turn solid solid concrete below three inches of dirt, and you can't see anything to climb you run and try to hide the lesser terrors might try to help you. trying to convince you that this place is safe, or to let them lead the others off of your trail but they never tell the truth, they only do one thing they help the greater terrors find you so you refuse their help, shooing them away, and you survive for a bit longer but its always the same, in the end, no matter what you try, every time it ends the same way they find you, hiding on top of one of the structures, in a little cave, somewhere in one of the rides and you're tortured you're tortured worse than you ever thought that a being would do sometimes your tongue is split into thirds from side to side, and is then cut from front to back sometimes your limbs and body are twisted and contorted into strange shapes, making you into human art you foolishly believed that these things might have a heart and not make it as slow and painful as they could well you're right for the first bit, they do have a heart of sorts after they're done playing with you after they're done toying with your body they don't just let you be, leave you where you are to stay there in agony no, they **** you nothing extra, nothing complex just a stab through the heart, a ripping off of the head, and you're gone unless they're being crueler at which point, you have the option of fighting back or letting them **** you in a gruesome way, hanging you from a rope over an open tank of water with lots of hungry creatures eagerly awaiting your fall at least, that's what you think they do, you're never asleep long enough to find out and that's why youre glad that they've only now begun to come and get you while you're awake
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Wondrous whirling worlds of words Wander away. Smooth musical tunes from the Muses melt my mind And make my heart go boom. Sunny sylvan scenes ****** my soul. In a simmering silence Broken only By birdsong. It starts with simple wordplay, Toying with those letters Until some magic kicks in. Visions of versified viewscapes Mess with my head. Eureka moments marching across the mountains Of my brain like screaming Banshees. So thus a poem is born From seemingly idle play. Those words are worked again And posted here To brighten the reader’s day. Paul Butters
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:08 AM UTC
Wordplay
Screeeeeeeechhh! Thud! Silence! Hearts stopped Faces turned Jaws dropped Prayers began He left his assembled bricks and wood and furniture and ran ran towards the sunset with nothing but his silhouette following him even years later it felt like yesterday possessed he ran as fast as he could Prayers began blurry shapes hoarded around the car his eyes refused to close against the horror of what lay beside his high crushed into water his delusion failed him his brain froze He ran as fast as he could to the beach wanting to walk into the water wanting to stop breathing seeking unfathomable peace that final peace His brain froze get out of the car people shouted was a life lost he didn’t dare to find out he just wanted a few seconds back just a few seconds back please That final peace eluded him waves silenced by his cornucopia of emotions his eyes now refused to open the saltiness of the beach was overcome by tears that flowed in secrecy inflaming everything within reach embracing his cheeks toying with his lips Please callanambulance sheisbleeding somebody tieyourshirtaroundherbleedinghead isittoolate is it too late Toying with his lips tears turning into questions could I ever forgive myself his sobbing heart didn't acknowledge the question it just faded he lived with himself he died within Is it too late his wife asked holding his hands breathing heavily her eyes averred every moment that they shared their feuds their make ups their teasing their loving her eyes were done speaking and now they rested He died within wailing like a baby he slept there with parched eyes reminiscing her parting words etched in his heart etched so deep that it bled internally bled and ached to release a shriek through muteness muteness, deafening deafening his emotions making them oblivious to his existence his fists clenching the vacuum of solitude the moon and waves began their tango and the water rose higher and higher embracing him within maimed to be saved releasing a gushing hymn for she was now deemed forever with him.
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Jul 28, 2012
Jul 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM UTC
Accident
Screeeeeeeechhh! Thud! Silence! Hearts stopped Faces turned Jaws dropped Prayers began He left his assembled bricks and wood and furniture and ran ran towards the sunset with nothing but his silhouette following him even years later it felt like yesterday possessed he ran as fast as he could Prayers began blurry shapes hoarded around the car his eyes refused to close against the horror of what lay beside his high crushed into water his delusion failed him his brain froze He ran as fast as he could to the beach wanting to walk into the water wanting to stop breathing seeking unfathomable peace that final peace His brain froze get out of the car people shouted was a life lost he didn’t dare to find out he just wanted a few seconds back just a few seconds back please That final peace eluded him waves silenced by his cornucopia of emotions his eyes now refused to open the saltiness of the beach was overcome by tears that flowed in secrecy inflaming everything within reach embracing his cheeks toying with his lips Please callanambulance sheisbleeding somebody tieyourshirtaroundherbleedinghead isittoolate is it too late Toying with his lips tears turning into questions could I ever forgive myself his sobbing heart didn't acknowledge the question it just faded he lived with himself he died within Is it too late his wife asked holding his hands breathing heavily her eyes averred every moment that they shared their feuds their make ups their teasing their loving her eyes were done speaking and now they rested He died within wailing like a baby he slept there with parched eyes reminiscing her parting words etched in his heart etched so deep that it bled internally bled and ached to release a shriek through muteness muteness, deafening deafening his emotions making them oblivious to his existence his fists clenching the vacuum of solitude the moon and waves began their tango and the water rose higher and higher embracing him within maimed to be saved releasing a gushing hymn for she was now deemed forever with him.
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Siri. Type this: More memories. Less Facebook moments. Let’s go back to concerts filled with lighters — warm seas of flame, instead of stadiums filled with phones and waves of blue light that keeps us from sleeping at night. Our phones, it looks like we’re all telling one big ghost story around the campfire — our faces lit up from underneath in the dark. It’s like a part of our bodies, a mollusk’s shell, That we won’t outgrow until it’s torn from us and we’re eaten, still fresh. It’s like we call it Facetime because that’s what we need, but don’t have. Since when is being viral a good thing? Viral means an infectious disease. Viral Viral Viral. I feel like I need a ****** just to surf the web. I honestly can’t have a conversation with a person without toying at my phone anymore. We post our beautiful stories on snapchat, the colorful blurred days of our lives, and let it slip away into the ether. Your stories are still interesting even after 24 hours. Seeing that red notification, knowing I’m special, I’m wanted, I’m special. when it turns out to be another Farmville invite. Talk about crutches. Nitze called religion a crutch but at least religion helps people walk. Phones make people run into things. I wonder if the New Messiah will have a social media account. We are so close to just hooking up our phones to traveling robot vehicles and navigating our world from our home. The future’s hangouts will be phones arranged in a circle on a table, all on Facetime, as we take shots, in our rooms alone. Jerry smiles because he isn’t wearing pants but no one can tell. Our phones only show what’s on top. Please share this poem, by the way. For videos of my reading my poems, visit https://mateilatte.wordpress.com/content/poetry/
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 4:23 PM UTC
the #ViralPoem
Siri. Type this: More memories. Less Facebook moments. Let’s go back to concerts filled with lighters — warm seas of flame, instead of stadiums filled with phones and waves of blue light that keeps us from sleeping at night. Our phones, it looks like we’re all telling one big ghost story around the campfire — our faces lit up from underneath in the dark. It’s like a part of our bodies, a mollusk’s shell, That we won’t outgrow until it’s torn from us and we’re eaten, still fresh. It’s like we call it Facetime because that’s what we need, but don’t have. Since when is being viral a good thing? Viral means an infectious disease. Viral Viral Viral. I feel like I need a ****** just to surf the web. I honestly can’t have a conversation with a person without toying at my phone anymore. We post our beautiful stories on snapchat, the colorful blurred days of our lives, and let it slip away into the ether. Your stories are still interesting even after 24 hours. Seeing that red notification, knowing I’m special, I’m wanted, I’m special. when it turns out to be another Farmville invite. Talk about crutches. Nitze called religion a crutch but at least religion helps people walk. Phones make people run into things. I wonder if the New Messiah will have a social media account. We are so close to just hooking up our phones to traveling robot vehicles and navigating our world from our home. The future’s hangouts will be phones arranged in a circle on a table, all on Facetime, as we take shots, in our rooms alone. Jerry smiles because he isn’t wearing pants but no one can tell. Our phones only show what’s on top. Please share this poem, by the way. For videos of my reading my poems, visit https://mateilatte.wordpress.com/content/poetry/
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All these things, mean nothing to me, stop giving me gifts, you can’t buy me with things, I’m on a flight with no baggage, only carry on so carry on, just checking in I just checked in on a flight, gone into the light of the night so if you’re checking for me I’m already gone, on a flight with no baggage, can’t get used to taking this abuse, I mean I know we’re all monsters, but that’s no excuse, and I know we usually destroy our own lives, so why even try to improve I mean really what’s the use? Destroying our own cities, look what horrors we’ve become, toying with our own citizens, becoming old and alone instead of together and young, living long enough to see ourselves become the villains, growing ugly and old instead of dying beautiful and young, oh Lord what have we done? And I just want to escape, please I want to leave and go anywhere but here, see you don’t own me I’m not your doll, so don’t call me baby or sweetie or honey or dear, I am not any one of your things to be given, I am not responsible for your oppressed childhood tears, I am bigger than that, I am bigger than you, I am the Cheshire Cat, I am the moon, I am bigger than big, I am a monster to monsters, so no do not try and control me, because I conquer those that try and conquer, a monster, with metallic scales and electric hair, I grip your tiny Hell of a shell and crush your rig caged fury, I step forward the earth quakes and my black eyes rage, little man please, hitting me doesn’t make you’re weak self stronger, and I know I put up with your passive aggressive attacks before, but I’ve turned into a monster and won’t put up with it any longer, you’ve turned me into a monster, so I’m standing up, to all the times I’ve been knocked down, I’m getting you out of my life, and I’m getting me out of this town, out of this place, away from these things, and I swear to God I’ll cut off my fckn finger, if that’s what it takes to lose this ring, all these things, mean nothing to me, stop giving me gifts, you can’t buy me with things, I’m on a flight with no baggage, only carry on so carry on, just checking in I just checked in on a flight, gone into the light of the night so if you’re checking for me I’m already gone… ∆ Aaron LA Lux ∆
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Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC
∆ Colossal ∆
All these things, mean nothing to me, stop giving me gifts, you can’t buy me with things, I’m on a flight with no baggage, only carry on so carry on, just checking in I just checked in on a flight, gone into the light of the night so if you’re checking for me I’m already gone, on a flight with no baggage, can’t get used to taking this abuse, I mean I know we’re all monsters, but that’s no excuse, and I know we usually destroy our own lives, so why even try to improve I mean really what’s the use? Destroying our own cities, look what horrors we’ve become, toying with our own citizens, becoming old and alone instead of together and young, living long enough to see ourselves become the villains, growing ugly and old instead of dying beautiful and young, oh Lord what have we done? And I just want to escape, please I want to leave and go anywhere but here, see you don’t own me I’m not your doll, so don’t call me baby or sweetie or honey or dear, I am not any one of your things to be given, I am not responsible for your oppressed childhood tears, I am bigger than that, I am bigger than you, I am the Cheshire Cat, I am the moon, I am bigger than big, I am a monster to monsters, so no do not try and control me, because I conquer those that try and conquer, a monster, with metallic scales and electric hair, I grip your tiny Hell of a shell and crush your rig caged fury, I step forward the earth quakes and my black eyes rage, little man please, hitting me doesn’t make you’re weak self stronger, and I know I put up with your passive aggressive attacks before, but I’ve turned into a monster and won’t put up with it any longer, you’ve turned me into a monster, so I’m standing up, to all the times I’ve been knocked down, I’m getting you out of my life, and I’m getting me out of this town, out of this place, away from these things, and I swear to God I’ll cut off my fckn finger, if that’s what it takes to lose this ring, all these things, mean nothing to me, stop giving me gifts, you can’t buy me with things, I’m on a flight with no baggage, only carry on so carry on, just checking in I just checked in on a flight, gone into the light of the night so if you’re checking for me I’m already gone… ∆ Aaron LA Lux ∆
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**** mit ein(e) gernierung of... ****** MACDONALDS for the protestants MCDONALDS for the catholics... and **** the rest of it whoop di do d'ah whoopsie!    **** it...   i always called the IRA the ginger ninja brigade... ******* ***** ha ha! is that even permitted? like... oopsies?!    oh **** the steam-roller is giving it a shot at reading the earth,.. flat...    map on paper? **** me... no app....              ****** you ever navigate a car through the German Rhine roundabout? what's in it? Dortmund.. Essen...              you know that constipated part of the road map of Europe...                ever navigate that trippy conundrum ******** of navigation? beside me...               can't speak german, won't navigate in german, no matter how many Mercedes-Benz they pump out from the Henry Ford institute of the reclining chair, supposing    die krupps to be squidgy clean... i think the european translation reads: die Dortmund Ringe... das Rhine Ringe... **** allocating yourself to a rally car...    navigate through that sort of German ********           achtung achtung... autobahn ende!                vorwärtskreis might as well salute for a second coming of... hítlear!     shaking Stevens?   huh?!                knee on the no contra the know: bother... the english won't know... isn't that nay?    i listen to too much lawyer jargon...              i'd love to listen to poetry... but... i figured...    lawyers play the slight of the sly of hand that poets exasperate into toying with words to accomplish art... lawyers? the impasse of judgement?   **** me!                   apparently the argument goes: down syndrome... psychopaths... 'ere by god's grace...    much grace, my lord...              too much grace...          two salvation pointers: (a) i won't drink with them... (b) i won't eat with them, (c) there is no "c" that isn't a "d" that isn't an "e" "f", etc! you get a zebra... you get a null bonus! a ******* safari of an automated anti hamster Boston outfit!
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 8:23 PM UTC
schlang
**** mit ein(e) gernierung of... ****** MACDONALDS for the protestants MCDONALDS for the catholics... and **** the rest of it whoop di do d'ah whoopsie!    **** it...   i always called the IRA the ginger ninja brigade... ******* ***** ha ha! is that even permitted? like... oopsies?!    oh **** the steam-roller is giving it a shot at reading the earth,.. flat...    map on paper? **** me... no app....              ****** you ever navigate a car through the German Rhine roundabout? what's in it? Dortmund.. Essen...              you know that constipated part of the road map of Europe...                ever navigate that trippy conundrum ******** of navigation? beside me...               can't speak german, won't navigate in german, no matter how many Mercedes-Benz they pump out from the Henry Ford institute of the reclining chair, supposing    die krupps to be squidgy clean... i think the european translation reads: die Dortmund Ringe... das Rhine Ringe... **** allocating yourself to a rally car...    navigate through that sort of German ********           achtung achtung... autobahn ende!                vorwärtskreis might as well salute for a second coming of... hítlear!     shaking Stevens?   huh?!                knee on the no contra the know: bother... the english won't know... isn't that nay?    i listen to too much lawyer jargon...              i'd love to listen to poetry... but... i figured...    lawyers play the slight of the sly of hand that poets exasperate into toying with words to accomplish art... lawyers? the impasse of judgement?   **** me!                   apparently the argument goes: down syndrome... psychopaths... 'ere by god's grace...    much grace, my lord...              too much grace...          two salvation pointers: (a) i won't drink with them... (b) i won't eat with them, (c) there is no "c" that isn't a "d" that isn't an "e" "f", etc! you get a zebra... you get a null bonus! a ******* safari of an automated anti hamster Boston outfit!
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We're all looking for someone, Whose demons play well with our own Try to drown my demons But hey, The ******* can swim Learnt every trick in the book They've come to stay Toying with my emotions Their playground is my mind The day is done Light disappears Darkness settles They've come to play Shall they have their way? The dark invites them in They're inside having fun 'Just one cut', they whisper And it is done My razor-kissed hand, Is a pretty awful sight No more space for damage Where next shall I try? They want to feed off my pain They love to see my beautiful red blood run What do they gain? I've had it! No more! I'm taking back my thoughts I'm taking back my mind Kiss this place goodbye Play time is over
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Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017 at 12:34 PM UTC
Play time
Too many bottles of this wine we can't pronounce Too many bowls of that green, no lucky charms The maids come around too much Parents ain't around enough Too many joy rides in daddy's jaguar Too many white lies and white lines Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends Start my day up on the roof There's nothing like this type of view Point the clicker at the tube I prefer expensive news New car, new girl New ice, new glass New watch, good times babe It's good times, yeah She wash my back three times a day This shower head feels so amazing We'll both be high, the help don't stare They just walk by, they must don't care A million one, a million two A hundred more will never do Real love, I'm searching for a real love Real love, I'm searching for a real love Oh, real love Close your eyes for what you can't imagine, we are the xany gnashing Caddy smashing, bratty *** he mad, he snatched his daddy's Jag And used the **** for batting practice, adamant and he thrashing Purchasing ****** grams with half the hand of cash you handed Panicking, patch me up, Pappy done latch keyed us Toying with Raggy Anns and mammy done had enough Brash as **** breaching all these aqueducts; don't believe us Treat us like we can't erupt, yup We end our day up on the roof I say I'll jump, I never do But when I'm drunk I act a fool Talking 'bout , do they sew wings on tailored suits I'm on that ledge, she grabs my arm She slaps my head It's good times, yeah Sleeve rips off, I slip, I fall The market's down like 60 stories And some don't end the way they should My silver spoon has fed me good A million one, a million cash Close my eyes and feel the crash
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 12:06 AM UTC
Rich Kids
Too many bottles of this wine we can't pronounce Too many bowls of that green, no lucky charms The maids come around too much Parents ain't around enough Too many joy rides in daddy's jaguar Too many white lies and white lines Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends Start my day up on the roof There's nothing like this type of view Point the clicker at the tube I prefer expensive news New car, new girl New ice, new glass New watch, good times babe It's good times, yeah She wash my back three times a day This shower head feels so amazing We'll both be high, the help don't stare They just walk by, they must don't care A million one, a million two A hundred more will never do Real love, I'm searching for a real love Real love, I'm searching for a real love Oh, real love Close your eyes for what you can't imagine, we are the xany gnashing Caddy smashing, bratty *** he mad, he snatched his daddy's Jag And used the **** for batting practice, adamant and he thrashing Purchasing ****** grams with half the hand of cash you handed Panicking, patch me up, Pappy done latch keyed us Toying with Raggy Anns and mammy done had enough Brash as **** breaching all these aqueducts; don't believe us Treat us like we can't erupt, yup We end our day up on the roof I say I'll jump, I never do But when I'm drunk I act a fool Talking 'bout , do they sew wings on tailored suits I'm on that ledge, she grabs my arm She slaps my head It's good times, yeah Sleeve rips off, I slip, I fall The market's down like 60 stories And some don't end the way they should My silver spoon has fed me good A million one, a million cash Close my eyes and feel the crash
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A three-year-old boy in Cleveland, Himself a very young little kid, Shot a baby dead on Sunday night. The bullet hit in the face of the baby, Then it was rushed to a hospital, But was pronounced brought dead. Who is to be blamed now? The kid toying with the gun?? Or the irresponsible parents??? I think it is the society's fault, Needless are the guns in homes, Shouldn't the society repair itself? But are the blames enough now? Can blaming bring the baby back to life? No. A big NO!
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM UTC
A Big NO!
I am allergic to idiots. When their around I get mad. When I get mad, I'm scary just a tad. The sky is blue! How do I tie my shoe? How to stay silent, I have no clue. Oh, how so frustrating! Why do they have to try to be annoying? Stupid questions, left and right, With my patience, they are toying.
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Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 11:22 AM UTC
I hate idiots
Its a horrible feeling. It takes hold of your body. Suffocating almost. Toying with your mind, you become someone you're not. You want blood. It creeps up your throat, making you feel sick. Its cold, thin hands crushing your chest, causing your heart to ache. Emotions tangle with anger. A horrible, treacherous battle. Anger always wins. Always. Then you grow cold. Its sickening breath rolling over your shoulders and down your spine. It reminds you of your pain. And you cant bare it. The green monster has you by the throat, and it wont let go. Its always there. Always.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 11:01 AM UTC
Jealously
In the ballroom, half past the hour I struggle to find place where bleeding walls are curtailing chase. and in the crude mix of masqueraded hearts I found your true face I watched you stroll in and out of fits of love, destroying every good thing left to break In the ballroom, three quarters past the hour I felt your cruelty pierce my skin and bone to a core, childishly toying with an old doll that couldn't take the pain anymore so that one day when pride knocks on your door he'll bestow you upon the floor and may you rest there forevermore. but in the ballroom, as the hour ends, for now you say amen before you feast upon the fragile thin of souls that belong to men whom may never love again. and may love never forgive you for this sin. In the ballroom, for the rest of your extent, may all the lost souls never forgive nor forget you for this sin.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 12:20 PM UTC
The Ballroom
UPON thy purple mat thy body bare Is fine and limber like a tender tree. The motion of thy supple form is rare, Like a lithe panther lolling languidly, Toying and turning slowly in her lair. Oh, I would never ask for more of thee, Thou art so clean in passion and so fair. Enough! if thou wilt ask no more of me!
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Flirtation