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A Machele Aug 2012
lost, confused; floating, lonely
dying slowly, fading quickly
time passes
no notice.
another day gone
no one to share with the beauty of life;
the way the sun peaks thru the windows in the early morn'
how the wind feels on my skin as i step outside
the goodbye kiss that never touches my lips..
the silent drive over the river
the endless work days;
fingers typing, brain fuzzy, heart focused on you
inevitably the day ends
minute by minute, that much closer to home
the seconds drag as i long for your embrace
rejected.
distracted, by a beautiful child whose loving eyes say it all
vision blurs as my eyes fight a never-ending battle with these **** tear ducts
an emotional wreck.
all bottled up, waiting to explode
hoard it all away..
dont ask, dont tell
even if they do ask, still dont tell
pff.
who really wants to know anyway?
the secrets of my heart go unlistened to; forever unheard
my words float by, grasping for attention
none.
i am a failure; a disappointment
understood by no one, admired by few
lost in a sea of loneliness
broken
i am empty.
fort myers fl
Emma Henderson Oct 2014
***
A,

pretentious guitar wielding battle warrior quoting Nietzsche,

listening to old songs they don’t play on the radio anymore

and burning at night, burning alive with smokey lungs and charred fingers

and curls soaked terribly from desert rains in May,

lankey arms exposed for hours at a time in hottest weather, basking in sunlight,

still keeping pale but maybe his eyes darken a little.

marron, they say in french, those pretty eyes with lashes like down,

so long you could sweep the floor with them.

what a baby-faced angel sonofabitch smelling sweetly of **** in the afternoons,

a walking catastrophe Dean Moriarty flailing arms around,

a terrible dancer.

a terrible lover. a terrible terrible boy.

involved in a *******, no doubt,

by God he has all the little girls under his thumb,

under his bleeding fingers as he serenades them

songs they only know of because of him.

all the ***** characters from smokey back rooms in the 20’s, 50’s

he knows them all

and hammers out their songs bang bang bang on his guitar like a visionary

of jazz, ***, pills and powders all secrets hidden behind his eyes.

The ******* child of the stars

I am forced to hate him

But my love for him gnaws away at my sanity

all his friends are cracked,

deadbeat downtrodden unlistened to voices of our time.

he says he is a pacifist, but he’s killing us all.
A W Bullen Oct 2021
Light
is everywhere,

it is everything

mirroring off rock,
demolishing
ambit

cat pawed with downdraft,
blustered by gale
the channels scud havocs
of pyrite,

The sky, huge
an impossibility
of blue, defies
description

words are formed
tried and retired
tossed
on a blather
of gust,
unlistened.


A syrup of larks tongue,
-an ash of a song-,

Is all that is heard
on the day..
wind rhythm
Cassie Jul 2019
I hate how I feel so unlistened to at times
Yet sometimes I'm so focused on being listened to
That I don't listen to others
Why can't I understand others are probably doing the same thing (I can later- but in real time)
Richard j Heby Aug 2015
i am looking for words to make me speak again.
being stuck unlistened, and chastened to my own,
your own thoughts, has me forgetting how loud
i can yell. Your name
means nothing to me— that's a lie. But I can't be close
to it. Don't worry it's a "that thing and mean" kind of
hate, where that thing is the only thing i think
about. you, you were once so significant, and now
you are depleted to ash with all your hate for me
and mine for you.

at least it makes something, writing
To capture, nurse, and, hold,
the unfairness of it all.
The rapturous, coal-
heartedness, of Hellish
snares, beneath, the Mall.
When, afterwards, those
cauldrons, spout nightly
mares, of, bridled gall.
The captor cursed, his embold-
ened heir, is, a;
hairless toupee,
sheared, and, effortlessly, shorn.

The flesh, is, pierced,
and, punctured, by, the
blade of wickedness.
A chest, buried, by, the weir
-y, encumbered. Wreaths are
laid, by, Triffid's Bliss.
Sounds of stress, fierce,
and, repugnant, line, the
glades, of, Inner Wist.
As, the Rest, rely on tears,
while, torn asunder, cutting
their way, through, thicker mist.

The end,
much like, the start,
starts with,
a flashing in the pan.
As, the friend-
ship sunk, apart,
embarks, for Unhappiness,
with, Sad.
Send your dogged
embittered bark,
hearts hear no sorries,
in a lost, unlistened land.
And, you can't mend
a broken heart,
when broken hearts
is all we've had.

© poormansdreams
A lament to the notion of kind-heartedness.
Piyush Mar 8
An Early Morning
A Broken Man's First Earning
Children's Laughter
A Beautiful Disaster.
A Rainy Night
Two Lover's First Fight
Matching Clothes
Silenced Voice
Slow Rain Coming From Her Eyes.
A Lover
A Light
A Horrific Sight
A Book That Has Seen All The People Overlooking It On The Shelf
A Girl Who Loved EveryOne But Not Herself.
An Abandoned House
A Homeless Family
Sunsets
Sunrise
A Beautiful Surprise
A Pair Of Eyes With Baked Tears
A Smile That Hides Fears
A Shoe Without Shoelaces
A Hand That Has No One To Hold
A Story That Has Never Been Told.
A Fair Hour,
Candies That Taste Sour
Lilies And Lavender
A Loud Thunder
A Mourning Silence
A Justified Violence
An Unanswered Question
An Unrevealed Letter
An Unlistened Prayer
A Dying Candle
A Forbidden Scandal
An Underrated Singer
A Million Things That I Could Count On The Tips Of My Fingers
Everything That Makes Your Thoughts Linger
I Wonder If Only You Knew
Everything That Reminds Me Of You,
The Voices In My Head
Are Words That Were Said
By Someone That Spoke True
They Remind Me Of You.
Violet Sep 2018
Just called to say I'm alive but I am living in your absence



Just called to say I'm fine and by fine I mean distracted



Distracted by the thought that we were never meant to be



That punch in the gut of a fact hit me this morning at half past three



Cause if we were meant to be then we sure as hell wouldn't be where we are now



Taking everything we had built up and burning it straight to the ground



I wonder if you ever think of me are your dreams splattered with my face



But that implies that I would've meant something to you in the first place



It's ******* how you told me I could call you and talk to you at any old time



Cause this voicemail will go unlistened to even though I can see you're online



It's fine I'll just keep looking for your car, your face, and a sign that you ever cared



Leave a message at the sound of my voice, please pick up I know you're still there
Idc how ****** this is I just felt like getting the pain out...
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Kayli Kilzer Apr 28
I.

My full time job is watching sand blow in the wind
but that is normal when you wear cowboy shoes.

I would wear boots like my comrades or spurs
but I walk a mile in your soles instead.

Lead-trodden, of quicksand glory,
walking feels like falling and I grasp onto anything I can.

But you pitched a tent in each grain and
sand is not meant for catching.

Cowboys don’t cry and so I built this plateau filled life
and fold criss-crossed, wrung-out flannels for one.

Fire flies and time dries and I see your face
in every passing cloud and cactus spine.

I am not a real cowboy because I wear shoes
and this life isn’t really mine but still the sand blows.


II.

I don’t know why we can’t just try, because what if I am missing out on the greatest thing to happen in my life? Her words bounce like rocks in my brain and dent each surface they hit but my eyes are as dry as sand, and I am not allowing myself to think anything and so I feel everything.

Why can’t     I try.

I want to buy a crab to keep in my pants so that the pinching keeps me awake in this expiring dream. Promise that when you are ready, you will find me. I vow that day to become a cowboy in tennis shoes.
Heat contained salt on lips—

leaving         something       so      good    can   only  hurt sobad.

I keep adding songs to a playlist unlistened to, a time capsule of teleportation that could inject your unused love drug into my brain. Teeth marks  t a t t o e d  on my collarbone and a r/e/v/o/l/v/e/r in my eardrum call me to the life of caked mud. It all drowns. Horses and spat gum and your name I threw in the river that I wish would bob to the surface.  


III.

Tongue on top lip and spicy spider-like showmance,
A web of tastebuds and sticky fingers spool

in 1950s romance film.
Your name is mine in seventy different languages,

In my past life I hated cowboys and
everyone that wasn’t you.

We two step under fluorescent skylights and kiss
in soaking clothes and absorb grass stains on our skin.

Every book ever written is about us and
tonight we are cowboys under the evening strawberry sky.

In every life you nap in my shadow and
God stitches your outline to my silhouette Peter-Pan style,
and I harvest your veins and braid them into mine to make
a cross-hatched blanket I can sit on in the sand.


IV.

I open my mouth to swallow sand and it tastes of rubber and sweat and anything else your tennis shoes may contain. It may be all that's left of you and so instead of necking it down I hold a mouthful in the space between my teeth and tongue and lay myself down on your shadow to sleep.

— The End —