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"unguided" poems
Day by day I fritter away Observing decorum as best I may Meet me as you meet — reserved somebody Leave me as you leave — dull nobody Dreary, weary, listless, spiritless A resting spirit clamours to emerge Unguided, wild, free and seeking Boldly defying reserved somebody But how, just how do I unleash this defiant spirit For it is to cross all conceivable limits Oh but a mask, of course a mask! The perfect accessory for this task! Careless of propriety Boastful of daring Acting against my will Or in tandem with it? This mask — just now I can't discern Ponder I do with great concern Does it shield my identity Or render truth to it? So now just what fun in masks One may ponderously ask Masks, bring to life fantasy Fantasy, a realm of our reality Reality, wherein lies multiplicity Multiplicity, within each individuality
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Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018 at 11:04 AM UTC
The One & Many
The seraph sky on ebony night, A white marble of placid light. Casting to the living glass, Haunting, the feeling's elapse. A time of gardenia drapes, Hanging the mourning wall. Scent of ambrosia fogging, The pavement covered in moss. Portraits of Celts amidst, Drifting upon moonlight mist. Eyes delving, ears opt to hear, Voices whisper of ancient fear. An oracle muses the unguided, As trees speaks the truth. Humanity strives to be the art, Yet only remembers by a few.
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Mar 31, 2018
Mar 31, 2018 at 2:45 AM UTC
◦ Moonbright
I Deserve to Die, A shout of Joy. I deserve to Die My life is a lie A flippant lie I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die In this world full of Love I fly like an unguided dove I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die If I could tell myself the truth I may be a better youth But, I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Too weak for this battle To grip for this struggle I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die The song I hear in the morning The door opened in the evening Ready to Die I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die The depressing things I tell myself The worthless value of myself I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Not a prayer From a player But I Deserve to Die I deserve to Die But who cares? The limitless growth of the stairs I Deserve to Die Who will save from my grief? Jesus? Do I even believe? Maybe not! Maybe I do! I’m not sure I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die But I don’t want to Will I have to? Do I need to? I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Shall I help myself? Maybe, Maybe, I shouldn’t Die Well, I Deserve to Die But He went ahead and Die Now I can’t Die A new beginning, A new life, Lord I Deserve, Will you let me Die? Hear my cry Save thee I Deserve to Die Don’t allow me to Die.   I Deserve to Die But I need to escape Open the gate of life Hear my cry I just need a way To run away I Don’t want to Die I cry…                                                                                              Esperanto
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Sep 18, 2019
Sep 18, 2019 at 10:56 AM UTC
I deserve to die...
I Deserve to Die, A shout of Joy. I deserve to Die My life is a lie A flippant lie I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die In this world full of Love I fly like an unguided dove I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die If I could tell myself the truth I may be a better youth But, I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Too weak for this battle To grip for this struggle I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die The song I hear in the morning The door opened in the evening Ready to Die I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die The depressing things I tell myself The worthless value of myself I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Not a prayer From a player But I Deserve to Die I deserve to Die But who cares? The limitless growth of the stairs I Deserve to Die Who will save from my grief? Jesus? Do I even believe? Maybe not! Maybe I do! I’m not sure I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die But I don’t want to Will I have to? Do I need to? I Deserve to Die I Deserve to Die Shall I help myself? Maybe, Maybe, I shouldn’t Die Well, I Deserve to Die But He went ahead and Die Now I can’t Die A new beginning, A new life, Lord I Deserve, Will you let me Die? Hear my cry Save thee I Deserve to Die Don’t allow me to Die.   I Deserve to Die But I need to escape Open the gate of life Hear my cry I just need a way To run away I Don’t want to Die I cry…                                                                                              Esperanto
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The bartender says “It’s time to go” “Because the moon has clamored high And the sun was banished low.” They were only speaking to me I raised my glass, took a swig belch, “i’m not even empty.” They grab and toss it in a bin The crash of glass, the waste of gin Pollutes the air and that is when They spoke. It was stern it was cold “Get out right now! Before I leave Your chest all gaped. Your chest all holed.” “I’m a patron,yet you’ve decided To push me out into the darkness Lonesome and unguided” “There are other bars out there,” “No need to bother us, They said I bit my tongue so as not to swear. I made a choice, a simple choice To sit and stay at the counter. I cleared my throat and raised my voice: “Do what you must. Let it occur, But understand this, we will not be deterred.”
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Jun 29, 2022
Jun 29, 2022 at 4:04 PM UTC
Time 1:00 AM
Crying girl on the side of the road, a broken girl and nothing more. A tainted soul, unguided ***** A broken girl and nothing more. Homeless man begging for some change, a homeless making minimum wage. ****** his life and threw it all away, for a ***** white in some nice lingerie. Tattooed man behind cold steel bars, thought he'd get away with stealing cars. Looks like he didn't get too far, another ****** ******* up our tax dollar! Drugged up man on the beaches of L.A., took his life and threw it all away, for used needles and a little ******* thought addiction was a game he could win, what a shame. **** it all and throw it away, looking for life in all the wrong places. I will admit though, just this one time, their life sure sounds more interesting than mine.
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 9:53 PM UTC
Living The American Dream
For now there is only ocean And skies The possessing blue expanse of it all One beautiful unending sameness Contently captivated. Tomorrow sitting on the horizon Swallowed by the sunset Yesterday a world away For now there is only stars And this body entirely Dipping and weaving her way Through darkness unguided
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 11:47 AM UTC
Sea blue sailing
Cooking up a blizzard. Lost and unguided tendrils of space hold me captive, the trebles of your heart beating leads me back to my my Home. That infinite gaze of yours into my dilapidated eyes, is like a portal to you to look into my soul. You blanket all my darkness With your semi-pixie cut. You’re my tree of knowledge I bask in it’s shade. Powdered Sugar coating on cupcakes. Your silk armour protects your vulnerability, My sincere apologies to all the arrows that gaped through. Cover me under your angel wings, Dab away my streaming reservoirs and replace them with pollen and sweet nectar. Your wishbone sacramental daydreams and dreams. I feel so lost without you. Bandage my old wounds with your tender hands, Kiss me with your lush lips sending jolts of star dust upstream, within my veins dancing with yours palpitating feet. My shot of euphoria and bleeding antidote. My poetry. You, Kalon. Let’s raise a toast to your beauté remarquable éternel, mon soleil your free spirit, your beauty of a ghost, your heart racing with joy, your heart steaming up with reticent sadness, build up anger that come crashing down like a typhoon detaching from the human perspecta. I miss you. Your emotional mess and literal mess, I’m your magic broom. You, my inspiration. You, my groove. You, my you. You. My everyone and everything. You’re fun filled supressed omnipresent electric feel. You, The only Solis in my galaxy. I love you. Sharing your grandoise orangy tinge yellow light. Bottling up a few star in a bottle of red wine, For her Luna. Solis is 21 a (000,000,000) today. You’re irreplacable.
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 10:14 PM UTC
Luna.
Cooking up a blizzard. Lost and unguided tendrils of space hold me captive, the trebles of your heart beating leads me back to my my Home. That infinite gaze of yours into my dilapidated eyes, is like a portal to you to look into my soul. You blanket all my darkness With your semi-pixie cut. You’re my tree of knowledge I bask in it’s shade. Powdered Sugar coating on cupcakes. Your silk armour protects your vulnerability, My sincere apologies to all the arrows that gaped through. Cover me under your angel wings, Dab away my streaming reservoirs and replace them with pollen and sweet nectar. Your wishbone sacramental daydreams and dreams. I feel so lost without you. Bandage my old wounds with your tender hands, Kiss me with your lush lips sending jolts of star dust upstream, within my veins dancing with yours palpitating feet. My shot of euphoria and bleeding antidote. My poetry. You, Kalon. Let’s raise a toast to your beauté remarquable éternel, mon soleil your free spirit, your beauty of a ghost, your heart racing with joy, your heart steaming up with reticent sadness, build up anger that come crashing down like a typhoon detaching from the human perspecta. I miss you. Your emotional mess and literal mess, I’m your magic broom. You, my inspiration. You, my groove. You, my you. You. My everyone and everything. You’re fun filled supressed omnipresent electric feel. You, The only Solis in my galaxy. I love you. Sharing your grandoise orangy tinge yellow light. Bottling up a few star in a bottle of red wine, For her Luna. Solis is 21 a (000,000,000) today. You’re irreplacable.
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qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem Bejesus we walked so far! It was beautiful country, mind, feet dappling through hedgerows that led from the city, in silence, to rest where all flesh shall come. I remember how it started, walled in with the others. Lord you could dance! How were they to comprehend that the kink in my arm and your off-beat jive could lead us unguided to narrow pathways forcing single file? By a river we sat together— amid long words and fingerprints your skin bled dark with guilt and for my part I saw coracles sprout upon your breath. We weighed down these little craft with the chains of our sins and tied fast the bones of our future as payment for the ferryman. One day perhaps, the river will dissolve to ash, revealing our two disciples discarded as the chance to heal, there will be love like a great and gentle pulse mingling with cold stones and memories our downcast eyes, cheekbones to the fore.
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Oct 22, 2011
Oct 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM UTC
Requiem
Before the thaw, my feet will be rooted Into this nation’s primordial freeze My muscles and bones will be acquainted with malaise The sun’s altruism will be refuted Before the thaw, I will struggle to find consciousness The frost will leak through the bedroom window And don the facade of a blanket The door will prove to be bottomless Possibilities will seem unachievable The brain will itch for what it can not have Buses will limp through congestion And the blizzards may feast on the feeble You may want to write of your misery But your automation will halt in cataclysm Because someone held a door open For the gust that billows bitterly Gastric emissions will become tangible As smouldering wastes contrast against the sky with rancour The wispy whites, marginalized into ***** And the world remains infallible I will lack the tools of incision To enact my life’s revisions I will weep for my unguided millions While I saunter into oblivion After the thaw, I will smile My expatriate soul will run in the whimsical wind Of the morning dayspring that will march unto me I will stand over a kingdom of honey-filled tiles After the thaw, the arks will converge Into the straits of the Bermudian Sea and the Elusive Caspian Forest, where I will learn to love again While bidding farewell to winter’s dirge In the waking world, I will ***** a limestone castle Where entropy will rule and the mind’s domain Is left susceptible to perennial reverence The sea, coloured true, nesting a fairgrounds vessel In this Great Revision, gargantuan skyways Will show the world how exiguous we are That we must not wait for exodus to come Should we fear to waste away Into icebergs
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Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 5:35 PM UTC
Seasonal Chronicles
Before the thaw, my feet will be rooted Into this nation’s primordial freeze My muscles and bones will be acquainted with malaise The sun’s altruism will be refuted Before the thaw, I will struggle to find consciousness The frost will leak through the bedroom window And don the facade of a blanket The door will prove to be bottomless Possibilities will seem unachievable The brain will itch for what it can not have Buses will limp through congestion And the blizzards may feast on the feeble You may want to write of your misery But your automation will halt in cataclysm Because someone held a door open For the gust that billows bitterly Gastric emissions will become tangible As smouldering wastes contrast against the sky with rancour The wispy whites, marginalized into ***** And the world remains infallible I will lack the tools of incision To enact my life’s revisions I will weep for my unguided millions While I saunter into oblivion After the thaw, I will smile My expatriate soul will run in the whimsical wind Of the morning dayspring that will march unto me I will stand over a kingdom of honey-filled tiles After the thaw, the arks will converge Into the straits of the Bermudian Sea and the Elusive Caspian Forest, where I will learn to love again While bidding farewell to winter’s dirge In the waking world, I will ***** a limestone castle Where entropy will rule and the mind’s domain Is left susceptible to perennial reverence The sea, coloured true, nesting a fairgrounds vessel In this Great Revision, gargantuan skyways Will show the world how exiguous we are That we must not wait for exodus to come Should we fear to waste away Into icebergs
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Growing up unguided and penniless Torturous upbringing pushing me down A handgun, speculating and rash Gluttony attempts to smother my eyes Wearing the condemnation of men Appropriating the virtues of girls Feasting in the winds of a fandango Weakening under the need for support Emblazoned under the influence of white powder nights Ceilings lights spinning out of control Locked up and discover the stars in strife Sweet seclusion with a Beelzebub for company Crawling through the gutters on all fours to get out Black and white key arias connected Caressing coloraturia platitudes on fire Busting a gut on the walkway to truth Peaceful vigilance a bismillah fraternity Deserted, drowning in civilisation Tanked, yanked and naked Is this Mama Mia    Standing on two feet Rebuked, not loved Rebellion, unshackled Revelations, so, not want to die Reciting bohemian poetry before the bullet strikes high                                                                        Scaramouche....
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Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 at 1:59 PM UTC
Scaramouche, standing on two feet
Wires & walls rats in bathroom stalls strained sinews drag a Camel into my lungs as I walk  over asphalted hills. Bridges span seas, but to no memories of a life unguided by highways' helping hands; all adventures are planned ahead. Cities grow as cameras roll to capture the movements of every breaking soul. Wires & walls rats in bathroom stalls beasts in a zoo which we all walk through, how miserable we have to be to lock up all as we do. Eyes to the night sky avoiding neon lies seek soothing drops of moonlight trickling down our crystalline, steel caves. Killers and lovers walk the parks together. Knife in hand, hand in hand all hope to find what they need. Cities grow as cameras roll to capture the movements of every breaking soul.
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Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 AM UTC
Wires & Walls
Only LOVE can save Earth and all living creations upon it. But to LOVE, one must first be loved. That is why it is imperative that the embryo must be loved. Then the infant, then the toddler, then the child, then the teenager, and so on. If you have never been loved, or not enough, you will have problems, serious problems. But it is never too late to be loved. I was not loved by my mom and dad. They had a terribly miserable marriage for 36 years. Neither was emotionally capable of loving me. But our maid, Maggie Woods, bless her heart, loved me. Did I care that her skin was black? If you have a garden that is drying up, do you care if it rains? Maggie loved me. She fixed me two poached eggs, grits (she grew up in southern Texas), and two slices of toasted wholewheat bread buttered every morning for years. She washed my clothes. If I needed a spanking, she spanked me. If I needed a hug, she hugged me. I could feel Maggie's LOVE. My biological mother never entered my bedroom when I was in it. Maggie did. I remember one incident in particular. I was a kid. I was sick in bed. I distinctly remember Maggie coming into my room with something to eat and a Squirt to drink. I had never drunk a Squirt before, but apparently Maggie loved it. (Maggie and Floyd, her husband, lived in our house in an apartment on the third floor.)  The Squirt unconsciously symbolized her LOVE for me. In my early 30s, I entered psychotherapy with Dr. Patricia Norris at the famous Menninger Foundation. We used what I was to refer to as "unguided" imagery. (Most refer to this modality as guided imaginary,) I worked with Pat, as I came to call her, a long time. In short, the way it worked was that as we sat in our chairs, we both closed our eyes and waited for something to come into my mind, which I then would share with Pat. The long story was that Pat became my surrogate mother. We experienced many loving moments in our "unguided" imagery. The LOVE I felt from Pat, though through imagery, was real. I was finally and fully loved, and that made me who I am today. Hate is not the opposite of love. It is the absence of love. Those who suffer from the paucity of LOVE unconsciously try to compensate for its dearth through becoming wealthy, then mega wealthy;  by garnering fame;  or by accruing power. None works. But LOVE works. The more of it you share, the more you have to share. Earth suffers so greatly from the lack of LOVE that it is dying. But even if one human being feels love, that love can spread like wildfire. Let's hope the wildfire of LOVE spreads over Earth entirely and soon. It is utterly plausible that it can happen. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Jan 27, 2021
Jan 27, 2021 at 3:01 PM UTC
LOVE
Only LOVE can save Earth and all living creations upon it. But to LOVE, one must first be loved. That is why it is imperative that the embryo must be loved. Then the infant, then the toddler, then the child, then the teenager, and so on. If you have never been loved, or not enough, you will have problems, serious problems. But it is never too late to be loved. I was not loved by my mom and dad. They had a terribly miserable marriage for 36 years. Neither was emotionally capable of loving me. But our maid, Maggie Woods, bless her heart, loved me. Did I care that her skin was black? If you have a garden that is drying up, do you care if it rains? Maggie loved me. She fixed me two poached eggs, grits (she grew up in southern Texas), and two slices of toasted wholewheat bread buttered every morning for years. She washed my clothes. If I needed a spanking, she spanked me. If I needed a hug, she hugged me. I could feel Maggie's LOVE. My biological mother never entered my bedroom when I was in it. Maggie did. I remember one incident in particular. I was a kid. I was sick in bed. I distinctly remember Maggie coming into my room with something to eat and a Squirt to drink. I had never drunk a Squirt before, but apparently Maggie loved it. (Maggie and Floyd, her husband, lived in our house in an apartment on the third floor.)  The Squirt unconsciously symbolized her LOVE for me. In my early 30s, I entered psychotherapy with Dr. Patricia Norris at the famous Menninger Foundation. We used what I was to refer to as "unguided" imagery. (Most refer to this modality as guided imaginary,) I worked with Pat, as I came to call her, a long time. In short, the way it worked was that as we sat in our chairs, we both closed our eyes and waited for something to come into my mind, which I then would share with Pat. The long story was that Pat became my surrogate mother. We experienced many loving moments in our "unguided" imagery. The LOVE I felt from Pat, though through imagery, was real. I was finally and fully loved, and that made me who I am today. Hate is not the opposite of love. It is the absence of love. Those who suffer from the paucity of LOVE unconsciously try to compensate for its dearth through becoming wealthy, then mega wealthy;  by garnering fame;  or by accruing power. None works. But LOVE works. The more of it you share, the more you have to share. Earth suffers so greatly from the lack of LOVE that it is dying. But even if one human being feels love, that love can spread like wildfire. Let's hope the wildfire of LOVE spreads over Earth entirely and soon. It is utterly plausible that it can happen. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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She could have wrote me a thousand words, But out of all the words in the world, In many of a different language, With a different tongue, She chose the word, Love, At first, she didn't know how to say it, But simply because, she couldn't In any way, we didn't know how, But she saw me, And with the way that she stared into, What seemed like dark brown eyes, The gloss in her eyes saw what was truly inside, We fell in love once, Not with the same, But with a difference, She loved one as I another, And as one passed by the other, We exchanged without visibility to arrange, Just fell in places we never dreamed, As days flew by, Feelings became stronger, Waiting felt longer, But, we would gaze and ponder, Enjoying what would feel like the rest of our lives, At that moment, A painful smile ran across through her face, But trips like these made her lost in her place, By the time she tried to make sense of it, Her mouth opened only to be choked by tears, Taking but a few steps back, It was hard to believe presence could destroy the essence, But she knew I saw too much, For her walls slowly began to close, The pain that was once written all over her face, Started changing words into "Okay", With cold hands, Her lifeless face was shown, Without a word to believe, She let go of her warmth, And conversations that once were, Simply became one-worded answers, From one thing to the next, Love showed like the text, Without emotion, She knew she couldn't say it, She wouldn't, Days would pass across unguided mirrors and silent floors, As ceilings would fall like how tears would pour, At first, her mind would set off, But as spacious she was, Her tears continued to fall, Throughout it all, I could see her drift farther from my reach, While her pain would show each and every moment, I grabbed her hand, Again I looked through the confusion of, Emotionally lifeless eyes, But before I lost her, I whispered in her ear, Love is Bittersweet
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May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM UTC
Love is Bittersweet
She could have wrote me a thousand words, But out of all the words in the world, In many of a different language, With a different tongue, She chose the word, Love, At first, she didn't know how to say it, But simply because, she couldn't In any way, we didn't know how, But she saw me, And with the way that she stared into, What seemed like dark brown eyes, The gloss in her eyes saw what was truly inside, We fell in love once, Not with the same, But with a difference, She loved one as I another, And as one passed by the other, We exchanged without visibility to arrange, Just fell in places we never dreamed, As days flew by, Feelings became stronger, Waiting felt longer, But, we would gaze and ponder, Enjoying what would feel like the rest of our lives, At that moment, A painful smile ran across through her face, But trips like these made her lost in her place, By the time she tried to make sense of it, Her mouth opened only to be choked by tears, Taking but a few steps back, It was hard to believe presence could destroy the essence, But she knew I saw too much, For her walls slowly began to close, The pain that was once written all over her face, Started changing words into "Okay", With cold hands, Her lifeless face was shown, Without a word to believe, She let go of her warmth, And conversations that once were, Simply became one-worded answers, From one thing to the next, Love showed like the text, Without emotion, She knew she couldn't say it, She wouldn't, Days would pass across unguided mirrors and silent floors, As ceilings would fall like how tears would pour, At first, her mind would set off, But as spacious she was, Her tears continued to fall, Throughout it all, I could see her drift farther from my reach, While her pain would show each and every moment, I grabbed her hand, Again I looked through the confusion of, Emotionally lifeless eyes, But before I lost her, I whispered in her ear, Love is Bittersweet
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Who is this impostor, glimpsed with horror in the department store window? He apes my movements but fails to capture their athleticism, spring-loaded inside an easy grace. Ladies and gentlemen, do not be deceived. Disregard those who think they know me. This shambling simulacrum is not me. Perhaps my Nobel prize is just a might-have-been, my endowments only imagined. But I am who I want me to be. All aboard for the unguided tour! Already begun, pre-planned by an unknown administrator, its detailed itinerary remains unpublished. The last stage is, they say, less delightful than the others. It passes through the poorer districts; one sees industrial squalor and boarded-up lives. I can leave the tour at any time. I am who I want me to be. Discomfort and dissolution do not belong in my world. I am not the kind of person to ever be distraught. So oblivion shall not swallow my love's soul. Not all at once, not piece by piece. Not even a little. Her identity must not be corrupted. We are who I want us to be.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:00 AM UTC
Ageing
As i walk through the city night And think about all that's been left behind You could forgive me for wondering why Anything that happens, happens in this life Mother made me promise not to think too hard About what everything means and how to read the signs That make me think too long anout what they mean to me So that all the time i think, my eyes don't see Everything beneath me that's at my feet And all of the pain, in the people who walk along side of me Walk with me through these condemmed streets, ribbons lace your golden hair I look across from the old schoolgrounds, there's ribbons everywhere I don't know what those ribbons mean, to mourn a loss or to hope for some freedom Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons everywhere i look Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons all around us So let me take out those blue ribbons, that flow freely through your hair tonight Tie them around a gate post and let mourners flock by candle light You will still look as beautiful as the ribbon that once held hair from your face And provide something we could never understand to the pople who flock to this place Missing people posters A face thats since been left behind People knock door to door Fromt pages of newspapers Desperation of an unknown kind If you walk past door at night, yellow ribbons are hope for those who have no hope People scream lost names at night, their face veiled by candle light smoke Walk with me through this strange world There's sorrow everywhere If it makes you feel better, tie those ribbons through your hair Sometimes they are all that we have To show we still think about those.we once had When it's all over, when it's all said and done They fly with the wind, like an unguided dove Clings to branches and settles there Let someone wonder what it's doing there They can find in it their own meaning and let it bring what comfort to them they need this time Walk with me through these condemmed streets, where ribbons lace your hair I look to the sky each night, ribbons everywhere
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Sep 20, 2017
Sep 20, 2017 at 4:09 AM UTC
Ribbons
As i walk through the city night And think about all that's been left behind You could forgive me for wondering why Anything that happens, happens in this life Mother made me promise not to think too hard About what everything means and how to read the signs That make me think too long anout what they mean to me So that all the time i think, my eyes don't see Everything beneath me that's at my feet And all of the pain, in the people who walk along side of me Walk with me through these condemmed streets, ribbons lace your golden hair I look across from the old schoolgrounds, there's ribbons everywhere I don't know what those ribbons mean, to mourn a loss or to hope for some freedom Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons everywhere i look Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons all around us So let me take out those blue ribbons, that flow freely through your hair tonight Tie them around a gate post and let mourners flock by candle light You will still look as beautiful as the ribbon that once held hair from your face And provide something we could never understand to the pople who flock to this place Missing people posters A face thats since been left behind People knock door to door Fromt pages of newspapers Desperation of an unknown kind If you walk past door at night, yellow ribbons are hope for those who have no hope People scream lost names at night, their face veiled by candle light smoke Walk with me through this strange world There's sorrow everywhere If it makes you feel better, tie those ribbons through your hair Sometimes they are all that we have To show we still think about those.we once had When it's all over, when it's all said and done They fly with the wind, like an unguided dove Clings to branches and settles there Let someone wonder what it's doing there They can find in it their own meaning and let it bring what comfort to them they need this time Walk with me through these condemmed streets, where ribbons lace your hair I look to the sky each night, ribbons everywhere
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*Calling ambition, loose manes intertwine not goaded, Creeping low, or unguided down, shh- Let it stand, tension eases naught-*
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 5:21 PM UTC
Listen
Whistle a Dixie marching song And wave the colored cotton Remember days when we were young Lest old ways be forgotten From Robert E Lee and freedom rides Was birthed our greater nation Where trust in liberty resides United with a passion Old voices echoed through the South Emboldened with a fervour As children full on sated youth Implore us to remember Judge not a man but by his deeds Lest lessons be forsaken Presume to know naught of his needs The less to be mistaken The past has passed, the future lies Unguarded and unguided, Whose liberties shall be denied Has yet to be decided Whistle a merry marching song Let each man show his colors Our children judge us right or wrong By how we treat our brothers
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 6:11 PM UTC
Marching in Time
In case you haven't noticed, I am dull, dull though tempting still to men who follow close behind their pointy bits Yes, I, glory and glamour, unattractive isolated child, great adventurer, efficient traveler, queen of my enameled laundry *** and tiny oar, fearless reader of uncomfortable old books about Africa and paperbacks, seer of mirrors for the first time, knower of a few obscure things, have been diminished, trapped in a cage of my own making hardly gilded $775 a month with torn floors and bruises, still a good deal, rent gradually rising I could strip my skin away to the milk inside or I could build a great, if dubious ship and float along the river of fate, unguided now, see how far I get, bailing myself out for as long as I can
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Jun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM UTC
sunk me
What do we gain from all our endeavors When all we can see is lost in the confusion Of a cold and dying world divided forever Between mindless love and mindless sin And us hiding from the truth of wisdom Hiding in the whole wealth of the world The false prize, the deceitful kingdom The dishonest end when all is unfurled Ignoring the thought that drives us mad The simple way out we all wish we had The one big thing that can make us or break us The one big thing that can fully overtake us It’s a small thought in a grinding machine Infinitely important, infinitely overlooked The guide we need to keep ourselves clean Trying to replace what the biggest lie took Trying to remake the perfect imbalance Always unguided and forever planned out Trying to smooth out this world so callous Blocking and shading the light we doubt Never acknowledging that which we feel Never acknowledging what is truly real
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Nov 28, 2011
Nov 28, 2011 at 9:07 PM UTC
False Endeavors
The storm is brewing and it's peaceful in here There are laughs to be heard, somewhere and it's peaceful in here When the wind hits, it's contained shelved books turn to tatters in my brain musicals lyricals questioned insane was the girl who slid down the mountain and landed in shame at the foot of the grave of the days that made gains at the back of her head, memories plated in fox fires and red cheeks creeps cheap - you gotta be to survive, sometimes, right? Freak? Strum, I'll strum my fingers numb or teach myself how Now The window is breaking under the pressure A million pieces of my heart are plastered on the walls, on the floor, in my calls lost to the no ones I shouted to Pillows Things to grasp onto Holes to tip-toe-topple into What have you got to lose? said the girl in the straightjacket whose shards of hair flew past your periphery like diamonds shattering in the moonlight out of sight out of sight what is sight? I heard a shriek- stricken sighs eyes eyes i's Stop predicting bad things. Blink. Step forward or you'll sink. The air is around us The air is surrounding you, you're alone The world is around me, am I home? openness - vast, deep, incomprehensible swallowed my stencils and connected my pencils to paper and then opening my mind to the stars 'thank you' spoken softly unguided but for the shadows cast on the ground by the clouds ghouls glittered in the moonlight and drifted into the cedars
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Feb 8, 2012
Feb 8, 2012 at 9:33 PM UTC
Request to the moon for an answer
The words That slipped unguided, that flew Into you ears Unsupervised, that leapt outward from My teeth, flailing Unintentionally, Those words were Deeply rooted betwix the life I lead & The one I merely Dream of... Those words were Drunken Whispers that clung to My lips in an Increasingly ravenous fashion the More I carried on. brought on by scented winds; Their fragrance intoxicating Any sense of inhibition I once Possessed, labeling me Inadequate In my Present form.
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Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 10:42 PM UTC
Evolution.
Beauty and grace, Sway from place to place. As you walk down this unguided line, Though signs are clear. And quite charmingly here, This choice of life's undying rhyme. So what cradled hand that made you, By the living breath that saved you. Not always clear cut or on time, But isn't quite clear? That's why life is truly dear, And cannot replace true love's chime.
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Dec 17, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 at 7:45 PM UTC
Beauty and Grace.
The inner tenacity of my machination is rarely understood by many, an introspections of certain recollections that ponder that question..why? But I need not tell you, about gum on your shoe, or the expletive deleted that come after. So I do open doors, and sit on floors, and give random flowers to random ladies. But I am sucker for a smile, an unpredictable trial, of something so innocent as simple happiness. But Then I surely do jest, at the most convenient time, to make fitting a punch line of a joke. And if merely opulence of thought was my only intent, then blushing is the inevitable conclusion. For if I am too boast, to little more than an atrocious manner, then I too am I fool, and love is the tool of a dumb and blind man's decent. As I oddly beg the question...do you have any cream for my coffee, then sit back and take in the wisdom, of times that are far beyond me. To place with no boundaries or burdens, no dying or decay, a place where I can live a life inside a cherished, loving way. For love is always fleeting, more often flooding in, I grab a cup and sit back, it's time to enjoy the days begin. Cause the sun is just about to rise and being to realize, this is some awesome free writin, that almost feel like I might just be bitin, some style that heard through words orchestrated from past memories flowing through an electrical breeze. But I am no artist, no rapper by design, I am merely a healer of the mind. Given the skills of mental manipulation over unguided emotional frustrations that are products of blinded attention to feelings within the heart. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.....but an unbridled heart can lay waste to it all! Logic is the mind...emotions are the heart...watch what happens when one pulls these two apart, into a tragic representation of what it means to be truly scared, a blessed manifestation of a ****** ******
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 9:06 AM UTC
Why for??
The inner tenacity of my machination is rarely understood by many, an introspections of certain recollections that ponder that question..why? But I need not tell you, about gum on your shoe, or the expletive deleted that come after. So I do open doors, and sit on floors, and give random flowers to random ladies. But I am sucker for a smile, an unpredictable trial, of something so innocent as simple happiness. But Then I surely do jest, at the most convenient time, to make fitting a punch line of a joke. And if merely opulence of thought was my only intent, then blushing is the inevitable conclusion. For if I am too boast, to little more than an atrocious manner, then I too am I fool, and love is the tool of a dumb and blind man's decent. As I oddly beg the question...do you have any cream for my coffee, then sit back and take in the wisdom, of times that are far beyond me. To place with no boundaries or burdens, no dying or decay, a place where I can live a life inside a cherished, loving way. For love is always fleeting, more often flooding in, I grab a cup and sit back, it's time to enjoy the days begin. Cause the sun is just about to rise and being to realize, this is some awesome free writin, that almost feel like I might just be bitin, some style that heard through words orchestrated from past memories flowing through an electrical breeze. But I am no artist, no rapper by design, I am merely a healer of the mind. Given the skills of mental manipulation over unguided emotional frustrations that are products of blinded attention to feelings within the heart. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.....but an unbridled heart can lay waste to it all! Logic is the mind...emotions are the heart...watch what happens when one pulls these two apart, into a tragic representation of what it means to be truly scared, a blessed manifestation of a ****** ******
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I'm a professor who professes to teach beyond the textbook lessons. To approach the very essence of the creative self-expression, Known as man and known as woman. Call you to a higher ed concessions, to appoint the very purpose of this presupposed oppression, Of your eyes, and of your mind, I wish you to the other side, of the unguided and unknowing creative self which lies inside. Cause what is life without perspective, and what are trials if you do not try, and strive beyond your own horizons, and slide down the back of the other side? Will there be shadows on the road, yes, will you trip and stumble, a couple of times, but never let yourself be doubtful of the potential you hold inside, To create the future, sculpt the present, and tread the clay where it resides. Because in class is where I see you, but in this life you use your eyes, To see the self-inside of others, to recreate what's on your mind. To be the difference and the vision, you have the tools to go and try, And share your view of the horizon, survive the frustration in stride. Become creative in your endeavors, and you’ll bring joy to me and my eyes.
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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 at 1:46 PM UTC
Profess
BLACK COTTON: Black cotton They don’t here me They won’t listen Didn’t even believe When Tupac shakur was here Y do we work like slaves And so hard We work hard but barely get paid We use to have troops But they killing off the youth They didn’t care When Tupac Shakur was here Black cotton I’m steady hoping over Enemy lines I hear the cries of our ancestors Which lies between our ears BLACK COTTON Which GODs are theirs As we watch them dictate our graves Roll one Pass some Live to blaze the pain away Never could I imagine Not a day That I didn’t get up and pray I say Let me live and breathe Another day Don’t let me go to jail today Because of the skin of my face Christianity you say Prays of CHRIST name Images of make America great False idolizing through faith Mask off our culture fame BLACK COTTON Be born to chase a dream Anything you want to be The race of our lives Is constantly Just a turtle trying to complete the race Contemplating my worth Just black words written To white out the ages Courages and so strong BLACK COTTON Written words of life Whose life? Unguided through the white light Too deep for your religion to season BLACK COTTON All praise to the most high
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM UTC
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