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The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence, You are seen in the Cosmic Reality herself, You are the female part of Christ, called Wisdom and Intelligence, Your Cosmic Math's is a beautiful thing to behold, That a unlearned person like me who loves sports like me who is too unlearned in the world's eyes to understand the beauty of the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, So only the real genius mind's understand your true beauty in the Cosmic Reality herself, But I was good enough at math's at college to get a 98% in a test score and student tutored a girl in class called Bev. But Wisdom and Intelligence; you really enlightened great minds like Newton, Einstein and Hawking's? So Wisdom and Intelligence hear my simple math's plea, I am alone and the math's of Wisdom and Intelligence say's its not right for man to be alone? So make the one alone into two and then the two become one again? So my math's is simple and unlearned by Wisdom and Intelligence's mathematical eyes; but its the most beautiful sum in the Cosmic Reality herself? So Wisdom and Intelligence says I've done the math's? I've marked your sum; I have graded your test paper A+ and gifted you a younger sister bride to be the sum of sums for all eternality, This younger sister bride will never divide her love for you, Because one divide into two should stay two, but by theoretical mathematician's the two become the perfect nought number of one raised to nought or zero power nought or zero is one for all eternality, You shall always be one in body, heart, mind and soul, You will always have Wisdom and Intelligence tutoring you about the beauty in the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, But never forget to look up at the star's, nebula's and galaxies together and the two who are one see the Math's of love in each other's eyes and the math's of love in the Cosmic Reality herself.
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Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 at 11:14 AM UTC
The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence
The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence, You are seen in the Cosmic Reality herself, You are the female part of Christ, called Wisdom and Intelligence, Your Cosmic Math's is a beautiful thing to behold, That a unlearned person like me who loves sports like me who is too unlearned in the world's eyes to understand the beauty of the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, So only the real genius mind's understand your true beauty in the Cosmic Reality herself, But I was good enough at math's at college to get a 98% in a test score and student tutored a girl in class called Bev. But Wisdom and Intelligence; you really enlightened great minds like Newton, Einstein and Hawking's? So Wisdom and Intelligence hear my simple math's plea, I am alone and the math's of Wisdom and Intelligence say's its not right for man to be alone? So make the one alone into two and then the two become one again? So my math's is simple and unlearned by Wisdom and Intelligence's mathematical eyes; but its the most beautiful sum in the Cosmic Reality herself? So Wisdom and Intelligence says I've done the math's? I've marked your sum; I have graded your test paper A+ and gifted you a younger sister bride to be the sum of sums for all eternality, This younger sister bride will never divide her love for you, Because one divide into two should stay two, but by theoretical mathematician's the two become the perfect nought number of one raised to nought or zero power nought or zero is one for all eternality, You shall always be one in body, heart, mind and soul, You will always have Wisdom and Intelligence tutoring you about the beauty in the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, But never forget to look up at the star's, nebula's and galaxies together and the two who are one see the Math's of love in each other's eyes and the math's of love in the Cosmic Reality herself.
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Consequences: made for learning lessons I convert unlearned lessons Turned to abnormal blessings Stretching the truth to hold you Pricked by your gorgeous daze I bleed profusely, yet don’t turn away The love I swore to keep My blood tells other tales Intoxicated from your smell Continuing to caress your sides Wincing in pain Feeling as if there’s something to gain No end to my quest in sight Finding the rose I thought I would need Loving the one that caused me to bleed
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM UTC
Thorns
Step by step it flows Unleashing trapped desires Edifying body and soul Unifying humankind in entire. Reaching within depths untold Possessing, with grooves so bold With rhythmic waves and strides Varying from tribe to tribe. Dancing is a rite Not a mere reaction to music Dancing is a language Spoken in the voice of the body As music transpires with bodies Bodies of beautiful maidens Bodies- voluptuous, with sweat Leaving our warriors gasping! Dancing to the beats Dancing to the rhythm Dancing in the heat Like horses never ridden Dancing is a bond unbroken An expression of feelings unspoken Well spoken by the untrained Well grasped by the unlearned Birthing in the cries of Ogene Riding on the waves of Udu Floating on the wings of Ekwe Gliding in the ripples of Oja It is the essence of our tradition Passed from generations of old We express it proudly As we answer the call of Igba. © Raphael Uzor
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 8:14 AM UTC
Body Language (In Igbo Land)
-for Zukiswa Mvunguse~ and for ~ Jul, who once again, loved each line best~ having already deduced that: “the unplanned is his plan, it’s his faceted flaws that refract his coloratura”^ the titled alliteration teases him into thinking there, is more to be said, more to be prayed, the unplanned lesser lesson is as-of-the-yet unlearned, and the sunburst of a full fledged lying-in-bed born from a static spark of kinetic energy, awaking in an unfamiliar bed or a too familiar state of mind, begs for birth and vainglorious death-by-anon/amity of another poem   I have written poems commissioned, “write about suicide,” asked a friend, “take this word and artfully knead it,” once, was once an oft request, twisty manipulate your scheming resources into finely assaying a field rock raw, laboratory mind-mine it into an essay that delve dives where you fear to treacherous tread, resultant, an awkward prayer, now, a valued mineral no poem is truly planned and no prayer ever truly answered, but as you compose, pushing the last, next word ever farther to the right, you self-confess, expecting no absolution, that the poem, this one as well, and the next, and the next, and the next has always been planned since your inception, always a prayer asked, and in creation conception, answered even if not directly answered, for in the bare minimum asking, is the answering, is the planning, is the poem and the prayer, is his owned alliteration
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 8:16 AM UTC
poetry, planning and prayer (and answers)
I was enriched, not casting after marvels, But as one walking in a usual place, Without desert but common eyes and ears, No recourse but to hear, power but to see, Got to love you of grace. Subtle musicians, that could body wind, Or contrive strings to anguish, in conceit Random and artless strung a branch with bells, Fixed in one silver whim, which at a touch Shook and were sweet. And you, you lovely and unpurchased note, One run distraught, and vexing hot and cold To give to the heart’s poor confusion tongue, By chance caught you, and henceforth all unlearned Repeats you gold.
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Magnificat In Little
I have exhausted my ink, my pen, my hand. My tongue has unlearned all languages, all terms of endearment and soft sayings. I am no longer flesh, no longer blood, but have transformed myself into wind: a wind that has traveled the oceans for you, a wind that has discovered Africa's worth, that has lifted me into an African skirt where the origin of everything began.
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Jul 6, 2015
Jul 6, 2015 at 2:30 PM UTC
African Skirt
Life lessons - left unlearned Our compulsion to stare at the sun - leaves eyes burned Victory through union and acceptance - easily gained. Escaping loneliness and its crimson stain ( entered in soulpoetrysite.com Acrostic competition---Jan 2010 WINNER) ** Loneliness- Overcome Vapidity- Escaped. ( entered in soulpoetrysite.com Acrostic competition--) ** Lessons learned, Our unblind hearts reveal our most Valued visions are Everywhere ** Life Lessons learned, Our unchained hearts reveal Victorious vision Escaping ** Leaving Out Vaccuous Emotion
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Jul 18, 2010
Jul 18, 2010 at 2:45 AM UTC
LOVE Acrostics....
I love too much, but not too often. My heart gets broken, but I keep going. I am transparent, iridescent like glass, So when you strike with the force of a hammer you leave more than a crack. My heart is fragile, a bird with a broken wing. I thought you would fix it and make it continue to sing. I stand tall and confident in all my feelings, Something that’s scary to you who is not used to these dealings. I feel shame for the way I am. Feeling love and passion for you that I wish I could bury in the sand. A treasure left for you to uncover, Not something I should have exposed to you undiscovered. I tend to frighten away the one my heart wants to hold, Do you see me as crazy, uncontrolled, too bold? I often take broken loves words and wear them as scars. Reminders of lessons unlearned and love unforetold by the stars. I try their words on as an outfit of choice. If I can change who I am, maybe for once someone will appreciate my voice. But often times it’s too late.' My true self exposed in revelations of hate. No matter how hard I try to mold and bend, I can’t change who I am, I can’t please every man. But for some reason I never stop trying. I can never give up my mind and hearts constant fighting. I literally drive myself insane for a chance at true love. I let my mind run wild for an ecstasy that will never come. Because if I am changing who I am to achieve what I was fooled to see as true, I’m mistreating myself and I assault my love leaving it ****** and bruised. It’s funny how the world can constantly build me high, But it only took you to send me crashing through the sky. And when I fell and hit the ground, The armor I built was shattered around. Underneath it all I could finally see, The only thing that remained intact was the original me. I, myself, am my greatest force of nature. And when I try to change who I am I’m in immediate danger. The second I wear a mask to fool someone I love, Is the second that my love is broken, recanted, torn up. It’s not love if I’m not myself. It’s not true if I pretend to be someone else. I’m done being a victim in your insecure schemes, But I’m also done pretending I walked away perfectly clean. Yes I am hurt, and yes I wanted our love to be, But I won’t sacrifice myself for you I’d rather let you go free, Because somewhere, out there, there’s someone who wants me. All my imperfections and everything you made me see as faults, I consider beautiful, rare, a gift to make someone’s world halt. I’m not sorry for the way I express myself. I’m just sorry it has to be for someone else. I love too much, but not too often. My heart gets broken, but I, I keep going.
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Nov 2, 2013
Nov 2, 2013 at 12:55 PM UTC
Changeling
I love too much, but not too often. My heart gets broken, but I keep going. I am transparent, iridescent like glass, So when you strike with the force of a hammer you leave more than a crack. My heart is fragile, a bird with a broken wing. I thought you would fix it and make it continue to sing. I stand tall and confident in all my feelings, Something that’s scary to you who is not used to these dealings. I feel shame for the way I am. Feeling love and passion for you that I wish I could bury in the sand. A treasure left for you to uncover, Not something I should have exposed to you undiscovered. I tend to frighten away the one my heart wants to hold, Do you see me as crazy, uncontrolled, too bold? I often take broken loves words and wear them as scars. Reminders of lessons unlearned and love unforetold by the stars. I try their words on as an outfit of choice. If I can change who I am, maybe for once someone will appreciate my voice. But often times it’s too late.' My true self exposed in revelations of hate. No matter how hard I try to mold and bend, I can’t change who I am, I can’t please every man. But for some reason I never stop trying. I can never give up my mind and hearts constant fighting. I literally drive myself insane for a chance at true love. I let my mind run wild for an ecstasy that will never come. Because if I am changing who I am to achieve what I was fooled to see as true, I’m mistreating myself and I assault my love leaving it ****** and bruised. It’s funny how the world can constantly build me high, But it only took you to send me crashing through the sky. And when I fell and hit the ground, The armor I built was shattered around. Underneath it all I could finally see, The only thing that remained intact was the original me. I, myself, am my greatest force of nature. And when I try to change who I am I’m in immediate danger. The second I wear a mask to fool someone I love, Is the second that my love is broken, recanted, torn up. It’s not love if I’m not myself. It’s not true if I pretend to be someone else. I’m done being a victim in your insecure schemes, But I’m also done pretending I walked away perfectly clean. Yes I am hurt, and yes I wanted our love to be, But I won’t sacrifice myself for you I’d rather let you go free, Because somewhere, out there, there’s someone who wants me. All my imperfections and everything you made me see as faults, I consider beautiful, rare, a gift to make someone’s world halt. I’m not sorry for the way I express myself. I’m just sorry it has to be for someone else. I love too much, but not too often. My heart gets broken, but I, I keep going.
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Doctor, tell me, what's good or bad for me give me guiding tips, health's recipe what I should eat, and foods to be shunned I find my years wasted, with most things unlearned! Doctor, please tell me, do I eat more or less show me the way, to a healthy happiness chart for me, the most balanced diet I find my years wasted, and little learned yet! Doctor, tell me the secret, of staying healthy in strife to remain in glowing health, for a rewarding marital life prescribe me one potent pill, to make my groin burn I find my potence wasted, with still many things to learn! Doctor, now I seek your advice, in the matter of heart tell me, how I keep it broad, before I depart tell me if it's a broader heart, that's more easily burned I find my years all wasted, with so many things unlearned!
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Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM UTC
Recipes
And no matter how we feel The world will keep on turning Some will fill their lives with love While others fill with yearning We can choose to live uncertain lives too scared to take a chance Or be bold and find our happiness the music to our dance No matter how safe we play the game at some point we all get burned But the only time it’s a mistake is when the lesson goes unlearned So some will end up broken shattered, cast aside But the ending you will face is one thing you alone decide
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Nov 15, 2010
Nov 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM UTC
Alternate endings
under the core of time, there's the beach of dreams bathed by the water of wishes, attachments and fear nothing can you bring to this place, it's all there guarded by ancient creatures, made of clay and stone everything a being knows will be forgotten there all abilities and skills will be unlearned for good misunderstandings will be solved, time stops ticking the word "why" loses its function under the core of time pearls of rain fall on the ground to stroke people to redeem them from the arrogance of living on earth and a mist of gold and light belts the sleeping ones under the core of time, space becomes infinite and clear a kingdom, where love shall be king and law, peaceful
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Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 10:49 AM UTC
Under The Core Of Time
first, make sure you are very concerned with unlearned or silenced or misread minorities. this establishes that you are a rarity, a person of charity, a champion and deity of the small and the voiceless. you’ve made the right choices swallowed the right poisons so now you’re not pointless, you’re with the top few of the economic disparity. do you aver verity? not so much. you just make the choicest noises. second, it is very important that you stud your vernacular with words like deictic, post-spaciality, and sub-simulacular. when you, font of knowledge, squeeze out pearls like turds in twelve-point, double spaced, times new roman rows, lined up like crows or some other ***** birds, be sure to write no sentence shorter than thirty words, and see to it that two thirds of these words have more than ten letters that even the nerds in their plaid-patterned sweaters have not once ever heard. when you walk, A paper in hand, from your car to your apartment, past four vagrants, do not look at them. do not look into the eyes of the man standing in the rain, barefoot, black, green, and yellow toenails oozing and crusting, nodding his head and shouting at no one, and do not wonder whether or not he’d be there had he been educated. lexicon is not eloquence. erudition is not wisdom. intelligence is not a prerequisite for rights. you have no rights. take a dictionary and shove it up your *** and while you’re at it, shove one up mine, too.
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 4:54 PM UTC
Postmodernist Vomitus: or, how to be a sanctimonious educated ***** like me
You've been on my mind, Since a very long time. You've got no clue, How much I'd loved you. But then, last night When I saw you; I saw you with Someone new. You were with her, Almost all the time. Oh, I thought I would lose my mind. I saw her leanin' on you; As if you were  h e r  boo. And slowly as you kissed her, I unlearned your name; And now it's all a blur.
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Dec 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018 at 6:41 AM UTC
Blur
the women on my father's side of the family are quiet they are traditionalists, rooted in the ways of the women who came before them i have watched them shrink before the voices of men wilting like flowers do when the nights are longer than expected it is not their fault they have not been taught any differently the women on my father's side of the family are small delicate bones and feet made for tip toeing around hushed rooms voices made for apologizing for things that they can not control their lineage traces its way back through generations they have shaky hands, yet have mastered the art of threading needles i watch them, and something tugs at my heart, but i do not know why i fear it is pity the women on my mother's side of the family are loud they have laughs that carry like the notes of a symphony bold and unapologetic, sure footed in its own presence they are the center of attention at times the center of gravity as well the women on my mother's side of the family are tall they take up space and are not ashamed of it sometimes it is called brashness i always saw it as courage they taught me how to sleep in on sundays and how to walk like i am not afraid and how to hold my keys in between my fingers like daggers i watch them, and something tugs at my heart, but i do not know why i fear it is because i do not know if i will ever be able to be like them you see, i am equal parts one as i am the other as much as i would like to be brazen and unafraid i cannot forget the reflexes inherited these things cannot be unlearned they have been ingrained into hollow bones however, if this is true, it must also be true that somewhere beneath this lies the kind of fearlessness that dances on tables and is not afraid of who watches i have seen this courage in my mother, and her mother, and the women before them one day i will steady these shaky hands and find that courage until then i tip toe around hushed rooms and apologize for things that i cannot control i am equal parts one as i am the other
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May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 at 5:56 PM UTC
heritage
the women on my father's side of the family are quiet they are traditionalists, rooted in the ways of the women who came before them i have watched them shrink before the voices of men wilting like flowers do when the nights are longer than expected it is not their fault they have not been taught any differently the women on my father's side of the family are small delicate bones and feet made for tip toeing around hushed rooms voices made for apologizing for things that they can not control their lineage traces its way back through generations they have shaky hands, yet have mastered the art of threading needles i watch them, and something tugs at my heart, but i do not know why i fear it is pity the women on my mother's side of the family are loud they have laughs that carry like the notes of a symphony bold and unapologetic, sure footed in its own presence they are the center of attention at times the center of gravity as well the women on my mother's side of the family are tall they take up space and are not ashamed of it sometimes it is called brashness i always saw it as courage they taught me how to sleep in on sundays and how to walk like i am not afraid and how to hold my keys in between my fingers like daggers i watch them, and something tugs at my heart, but i do not know why i fear it is because i do not know if i will ever be able to be like them you see, i am equal parts one as i am the other as much as i would like to be brazen and unafraid i cannot forget the reflexes inherited these things cannot be unlearned they have been ingrained into hollow bones however, if this is true, it must also be true that somewhere beneath this lies the kind of fearlessness that dances on tables and is not afraid of who watches i have seen this courage in my mother, and her mother, and the women before them one day i will steady these shaky hands and find that courage until then i tip toe around hushed rooms and apologize for things that i cannot control i am equal parts one as i am the other
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To love me is to put up with a messiness I inherited from my mother. The displays of self loathing and self sabotage i work on daily. The clothes I leave on the floor. The coffee cups in the sink. The bed unmade and the too many shoes. To love me is to deal with an annoying amount of independence I inherited from my father. The acts of self serving that I work on daily. The know it all moments when I’m working on something or fixing something. The confidence in my work ethic, my persona & who I am. The laughter I have over everything. To love me is to know the loyalty and respect I’ve inherited from my stepmom. The empathy I still long for and work to find daily. The care over details. The nurture I give when you’re sad or sick. The standing up for you but also putting you in your place. To love me is to cope with the stoic coldness and wandering spirit I’ve inherited from my grandma. The parts of me you’ll never fully know that I work to show you daily. The look of dismay I sometimes don’t know is on my face. The inability to stay in one place for too long without going insane. The moments I want to run away and never look back. To love me is to cope. Cope with knowing sometimes I’m mean. Sometimes I’m sad. And sometimes I love fiercely and passionately. To love me is to love all of me. Everything I’ve inherited and everything I’ve learned and unlearned over time. To love me is to be loved in return.
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Nov 29, 2023
Nov 29, 2023 at 10:02 AM UTC
Loving the Real Me
From a pulsating heart…ecstasy encloses gentle utterances… Causing your body to collapse inside with butterflies Desiring a soft sensation of love without pain… Something gentle evolves…unlearned…a yearning. The birth of innocent emotions comes anew, and… With a whispering acapella sounding in the distance, Charity is melodically voiced proudly… Aloud…unconditional. © 2003
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 5:20 AM UTC
Agape’s Song
I wanted to find something to bring back to life. Lately, these stanzas have been on repeat. My words: resurrected. Stories engrave themselves in my synapses A memory forms and then collapses A Heart skips beats and then relaxes Powerhouse of nerves in through the spine Messages from hands moving to the mind No rush, steady-paced climb Following the crooked lines Pulled apart, then pushed together Overloaded with the Doing and undoing tether Smiles slowly building the road to better Best medicine is the sound of laughter The world spins, and spins faster Without even a second thought Of what happens after Los secretos, el momento, Las caras que vemos Pero aqui, en sonrisas, Aqui nos quedemos En los ojos siempre, Facil nos perdemos Cada maravilla es diferente que vemos Es que las cosas no son tan complicadas La vida esta llena de cosas delicadas Pero es una lucha, ya sabes eso Toma un corazon fuerte en el pecho Exposure, exposure, to the other moving closer Admiration reaching and pulling voices over Of passion, and into the seas of liberation Speaking a language with no available translation Rules broken, laws and regulations Systematic arrangements of our kings and queens In different moments, places, Different things But the beauty is more than the perfection Or imperfection in the seams Lining the different parts of la vita bella Every part of the whole of what we fiend Filling the empty spaces sitting vacant in between From past, told and untold dreams The path in life winds and turns Full of chances and opportunities to get burned Full of the learned and unlearned Growing pensive, Minds fill with the incentive To rise above, Intentionally connected v.xxx.xi
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM UTC
Life, Connected
I wanted to find something to bring back to life. Lately, these stanzas have been on repeat. My words: resurrected. Stories engrave themselves in my synapses A memory forms and then collapses A Heart skips beats and then relaxes Powerhouse of nerves in through the spine Messages from hands moving to the mind No rush, steady-paced climb Following the crooked lines Pulled apart, then pushed together Overloaded with the Doing and undoing tether Smiles slowly building the road to better Best medicine is the sound of laughter The world spins, and spins faster Without even a second thought Of what happens after Los secretos, el momento, Las caras que vemos Pero aqui, en sonrisas, Aqui nos quedemos En los ojos siempre, Facil nos perdemos Cada maravilla es diferente que vemos Es que las cosas no son tan complicadas La vida esta llena de cosas delicadas Pero es una lucha, ya sabes eso Toma un corazon fuerte en el pecho Exposure, exposure, to the other moving closer Admiration reaching and pulling voices over Of passion, and into the seas of liberation Speaking a language with no available translation Rules broken, laws and regulations Systematic arrangements of our kings and queens In different moments, places, Different things But the beauty is more than the perfection Or imperfection in the seams Lining the different parts of la vita bella Every part of the whole of what we fiend Filling the empty spaces sitting vacant in between From past, told and untold dreams The path in life winds and turns Full of chances and opportunities to get burned Full of the learned and unlearned Growing pensive, Minds fill with the incentive To rise above, Intentionally connected v.xxx.xi
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Coffee stains on the newspaper because I was always so messy Illuminating the stories that hit close to home, drawing emotions I had no interest in possessing Lipstick smears on the cheek of a young man because I was always so quick to trust Allowing him access to the depths of my soul surrounding my heart and mind Stinging scrapes up my legs because I was always so clumsy Falling off of my bike countless times, though I should've learned the first time that the turn was too dangerous to master Paper cuts scattered about my hand because I always turned the pages too quickly With full awareness that I'd hurt myself because of the sharp edges, but I couldn't wait to keep reading because I was infatuated with the books and how the stories would end Bleeding lips because I always bit on them when I was anxious Despite the pain and unappealing appearance, my nerves took control so I never learned to kick the dreadful habit And seventeen years of my life Seventeen years of mistakes Seventeen years of trouble And I still haven't learned my lessons because I'll continue to be careless about my shaky hands holding my coffee in the morning And I'll still fall for boys who say all of the right things And I'll keep riding my bike around the sharp curve because I am not afraid of it And I'll keep turning the pages too quickly because the story is worth the paper cuts And I'll keep biting my lip when I'm nervous because it's all I know when everything is overwhelming me And I'll keep making mistake after mistake Because all of these things have become routine to me And I would not know myself If I was more cautious So seventeen years of lessons unlearned leave me fighting to the very end Crashing over every bump on the road
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 7:46 PM UTC
Seventeen Years
Coffee stains on the newspaper because I was always so messy Illuminating the stories that hit close to home, drawing emotions I had no interest in possessing Lipstick smears on the cheek of a young man because I was always so quick to trust Allowing him access to the depths of my soul surrounding my heart and mind Stinging scrapes up my legs because I was always so clumsy Falling off of my bike countless times, though I should've learned the first time that the turn was too dangerous to master Paper cuts scattered about my hand because I always turned the pages too quickly With full awareness that I'd hurt myself because of the sharp edges, but I couldn't wait to keep reading because I was infatuated with the books and how the stories would end Bleeding lips because I always bit on them when I was anxious Despite the pain and unappealing appearance, my nerves took control so I never learned to kick the dreadful habit And seventeen years of my life Seventeen years of mistakes Seventeen years of trouble And I still haven't learned my lessons because I'll continue to be careless about my shaky hands holding my coffee in the morning And I'll still fall for boys who say all of the right things And I'll keep riding my bike around the sharp curve because I am not afraid of it And I'll keep turning the pages too quickly because the story is worth the paper cuts And I'll keep biting my lip when I'm nervous because it's all I know when everything is overwhelming me And I'll keep making mistake after mistake Because all of these things have become routine to me And I would not know myself If I was more cautious So seventeen years of lessons unlearned leave me fighting to the very end Crashing over every bump on the road
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It's official: age is no longer a restriction. I have the anguish and the whole world in front of me. I used to look outside my windows with admiration, but now that I have to leave the house I flinch. Free birds fly for survival, but for me flying is a choice and now my mind alternates between willing to leave and willing to stay. Sometimes I blaspheme against my dreams and I regret having unlearned to be satisfied with a little but the truth is that Napoleon is a demon that lives inside me and always wants more and I can't achieve the world if I just behold it through the windows of my room. I must leave. Free birds fly for survival and I envy them because for them there is no other option. Because their minds probably don't alternate between fear of the unknown and a desire to fly away. Because their minds probably don't alternate between frustration and ambition. Because their minds probably don't alternate between comparing their own way of flying with others and wanting to make another bird's way of flying their own, even though it's wrong because every bird flies the way it needs to fly and the comparison is unnecessary. Because their minds probably don't alternate between the cry of giving up and anything else. They are birds and only this they can be. But what I am I need to find out. How should I know what I'll be, I who don't know what I am? Indeed, we are condemned to be free. It's official: age is no longer a restriction. I have the anguish and the whole world in front of me. It's time to leave the house. It's time to fly away. It's time to go. Goodbye childhood, goodbye adolescence.
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Apr 26, 2017
Apr 26, 2017 at 3:44 PM UTC
18-year-old bird
It's official: age is no longer a restriction. I have the anguish and the whole world in front of me. I used to look outside my windows with admiration, but now that I have to leave the house I flinch. Free birds fly for survival, but for me flying is a choice and now my mind alternates between willing to leave and willing to stay. Sometimes I blaspheme against my dreams and I regret having unlearned to be satisfied with a little but the truth is that Napoleon is a demon that lives inside me and always wants more and I can't achieve the world if I just behold it through the windows of my room. I must leave. Free birds fly for survival and I envy them because for them there is no other option. Because their minds probably don't alternate between fear of the unknown and a desire to fly away. Because their minds probably don't alternate between frustration and ambition. Because their minds probably don't alternate between comparing their own way of flying with others and wanting to make another bird's way of flying their own, even though it's wrong because every bird flies the way it needs to fly and the comparison is unnecessary. Because their minds probably don't alternate between the cry of giving up and anything else. They are birds and only this they can be. But what I am I need to find out. How should I know what I'll be, I who don't know what I am? Indeed, we are condemned to be free. It's official: age is no longer a restriction. I have the anguish and the whole world in front of me. It's time to leave the house. It's time to fly away. It's time to go. Goodbye childhood, goodbye adolescence.
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A friend once told me that all of his inspiration was lost, it was a half past 2. I wondered how much of himself it would cost to wander a bit, and try something new. Maybe this is out of the blue, but perhaps we can find inspiration in all of its absence, too. Inspiration is in me and it's in you. It's where you sit right now, just enjoying the view. It's the smiles that graze by you, if only a few. It's the change in the space that could never be replaced. A positive embrace that becomes written all over my face. I told him, "sometimes, we must change our questions and readjust our eyes. And by surprise, the sunset becomes the sunrise." The difference between a decline and an incline. The distance between looking forward and falling behind. Inspiration that is in front of us - The heart invested trust that sends us a rush that is never undone. The cold-hearted lust that turns to love under the sun. Your words are not lost, they have only just begun. To wander is to observe. We find inspiration between the fine lines of all the words that we've heard. I told him that I think we deserve to imagine our world... To become what you desire to serve. To see all the lessons learned and unlearned, in the midst of your hurt. My last words curved, without a slur - "Stay grounded. There is always inspiration implanted in the dirt." - L.G.
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Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014 at 4:54 PM UTC
Inspiration In Absence
I am not perfect. I am nowhere near perfect. I simply play the part, But only for you. I try to be the best. I aim for perfection. But like Cupid, My marksmanship is poor. I will always fail, I will always be, This same imperfect entity, All that is yours. If imperfection, Is perfect to you, Than I shall put down my bow, And aim no more. I am not a masterpiece, I am a forgery, Created by the perfect artist. You. I apologize for my texture, The flaws that give me away. For to an expert, I am nothing but a replica. To an unlearned eye, I may be something, Born of the renaissance, Yet I am nothing special. I was born of this age. An age where an artist's ideals, Are formed from past works. And I am nothing but a forgery. Not a forgery of Da Vinci or Michelangelo, But a forgery of these new age artists. Only a forgery of an idea's idea. Nothing more.
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Nov 19, 2012
Nov 19, 2012 at 5:02 AM UTC
Forger
You only wear dark clothes when you're sad now you're wearing black My hands are the coldest you’ll ever hold I think my heart is too I’ll never be big or small enough to fit in your arms                                               I always kiss    the wrong person goodnight Now ask me how many times you kissed me then how many times I actually felt something           Maybe we are just  a lesson that has gone unlearned                         Or maybe I just don't know how to end this.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 9:35 PM UTC
How To Become What You Hate
In a hospital with glass walls they can't hide their problems as the newborn screams and the cancer depletes the cycle of life is witnessed like a dream vivid in this reality the harshness of their insanity, purely demographically calculating each catastrophe Anxiety and depression, broken bones and unlearned lessons, overflowing pediatric wings and incomprehensible fallacies how many angels have to fall before they finally change something? the way it is just isn't working genetically modifying the health and well being of humanity is devil-like control that we've given out freely each one of us is just as guilty of giving in without even thinking they've designed it not only to be easy, but required, legally prepared for the community to not take it so peacefully "You can't make me" becomes a felony and a ticket can be written for anything don't get caught with your hands in your pockets day dreaming... you silly dreamer human being theres laws against speaking free, although the constitution disagrees the law wasn't given it's own set of wings and jealous was he so he created a scene and made it seem like a city was their dream when it never really came close to being handing out medications and monthly vaccines instead of homegrown natural remedies
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Dec 12, 2013
Dec 12, 2013 at 8:11 PM UTC
Different Wings
*"I miss you so much." "Run away with me." "You're my girl 3/23/14." "Ali was here." "Big kiss!"* Hidden notes. The pleasure of finding new pieces of you. Wanting, yet not wanting to search Because meeting the last one Seems like it might mean There is nothing left to discover. You are here but you are gone. You were my safety, but now You are my cell phone. You are my computer. You are a lived-in T and sweater Which I suffocate myself with In order to feign sleep without your touch. You are a used facecloth And an unwashed pillowcase. You are the crumbs in my carpet. You are the strands of hair that cling to my scarf and brush That did not come from the scalp I wear. You are the blooming lilies left behind. You are a faint aroma in the air And You are the steady thump of a heartbeat against an ear Deeply rooted in my memory. All these I know. But the one blue sticky note that still evades me… It is mystery. It is you, unlearned. It is my motivation. It is my vice. It is the sweet symphony That keeps me afloat in the dark water. Ocean waves. Blue squares. Where?
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 12:08 AM UTC
Pieces Left Behind
I wanted to find something to bring back to life. Lately, these stanzas have been on repeat. My words: resurrected. Stories engrave themselves in my synapses A memory forms and then collapses A Heart skips beats and then relaxes Powerhouse of nerves in through the spine Messages from hands moving to the mind No rush, steady-paced climb Following the crooked lines Pulled apart, then pushed together Overloaded with the Doing and undoing tether Smiles slowly building the road to better Best medicine is the sound of laughter The world spins, and spins faster Without even a second thought Of what happens after Los secretos, el momento, Las caras que vemos Pero aqui, en sonrisas, Aqui nos quedemos En los ojos siempre, Facil nos perdemos Cada maravilla es diferente que vemos Es que las cosas no son tan complicadas La vida esta llena de cosas delicadas Pero es una lucha, ya sabes eso Toma un corazon fuerte en el pecho Exposure, exposure, to the other moving closer Admiration reaching and pulling voices over Of passion, and into the seas of liberation Speaking a language with no available translation Rules broken, laws and regulations Systematic arrangements of our kings and queens In different moments, places, Different things But the beauty is more than the perfection Or imperfection in the seams Lining the different parts of la vita bella Every part of the whole of what we fiend Filling the empty spaces sitting vacant in between From past, told and untold dreams The path in life winds and turns Full of chances and opportunities to get burned Full of the learned and unlearned Growing pensive, Minds fill with the incentive To rise above, Intentionally connected v.xxx.xi
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 6:17 AM UTC
Life, Connected
I wanted to find something to bring back to life. Lately, these stanzas have been on repeat. My words: resurrected. Stories engrave themselves in my synapses A memory forms and then collapses A Heart skips beats and then relaxes Powerhouse of nerves in through the spine Messages from hands moving to the mind No rush, steady-paced climb Following the crooked lines Pulled apart, then pushed together Overloaded with the Doing and undoing tether Smiles slowly building the road to better Best medicine is the sound of laughter The world spins, and spins faster Without even a second thought Of what happens after Los secretos, el momento, Las caras que vemos Pero aqui, en sonrisas, Aqui nos quedemos En los ojos siempre, Facil nos perdemos Cada maravilla es diferente que vemos Es que las cosas no son tan complicadas La vida esta llena de cosas delicadas Pero es una lucha, ya sabes eso Toma un corazon fuerte en el pecho Exposure, exposure, to the other moving closer Admiration reaching and pulling voices over Of passion, and into the seas of liberation Speaking a language with no available translation Rules broken, laws and regulations Systematic arrangements of our kings and queens In different moments, places, Different things But the beauty is more than the perfection Or imperfection in the seams Lining the different parts of la vita bella Every part of the whole of what we fiend Filling the empty spaces sitting vacant in between From past, told and untold dreams The path in life winds and turns Full of chances and opportunities to get burned Full of the learned and unlearned Growing pensive, Minds fill with the incentive To rise above, Intentionally connected v.xxx.xi
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