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"volt" poems
This terribleness. The blur of traffic lights and puddles paints Los Angeles on my face at night. It's so hard to know who will doze in my blind spots. Sunflower seeds and ******* lining the carpet. I sat on the front porch for five hours gutting the wolves from my appendices. Usually the headaches go away with the squashing of the lights. Fluorescents are the worst, halogens second, and 60-watt 120-volt light bulb the bane of my existence. I look at my phone but I cannot summon a quirky 120 character quip. I need excedrin but all I have to grape flavored children's aspirin. I should have asked for the water. How many unfinished glasses of water have I left around this world? Maybe Bruce and I will squash after work. I can hear his weekly catalog of two night stands with those married transient women who drive from Santa B. I hate golf, I could have made carried a career in this resentment. Maybe rolling down the window will alleviate some of this pressure. Maybe it's barometric pressure, The Baby is here in time to drag the houses out to sea. It feels like Michelangelo is carving The David in my head and it's the chiseling I've never wanted. It's Tuesday and the drugs were horrible. They killed five of them today. We wrapped their heads in blankets from the Thrifty, and had to have the interns find clothes that would fit for the Christian caskets. Two days until Giving Thanks Day. I am wrapped in copper and stuck in amber. I am acquitted by nonsense and stipulation, sick with nausea and pushing my forehead into the steering wheel. This is all terrible. The lying I've never told myself. The people that don't even know it's lying. Her and I always seem to escape with our happiness and pleasure in tow. The odds are slim, but our clothes have never fit too tightly.
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 2:54 AM UTC
The Neon Alien Blouse
This terribleness. The blur of traffic lights and puddles paints Los Angeles on my face at night. It's so hard to know who will doze in my blind spots. Sunflower seeds and ******* lining the carpet. I sat on the front porch for five hours gutting the wolves from my appendices. Usually the headaches go away with the squashing of the lights. Fluorescents are the worst, halogens second, and 60-watt 120-volt light bulb the bane of my existence. I look at my phone but I cannot summon a quirky 120 character quip. I need excedrin but all I have to grape flavored children's aspirin. I should have asked for the water. How many unfinished glasses of water have I left around this world? Maybe Bruce and I will squash after work. I can hear his weekly catalog of two night stands with those married transient women who drive from Santa B. I hate golf, I could have made carried a career in this resentment. Maybe rolling down the window will alleviate some of this pressure. Maybe it's barometric pressure, The Baby is here in time to drag the houses out to sea. It feels like Michelangelo is carving The David in my head and it's the chiseling I've never wanted. It's Tuesday and the drugs were horrible. They killed five of them today. We wrapped their heads in blankets from the Thrifty, and had to have the interns find clothes that would fit for the Christian caskets. Two days until Giving Thanks Day. I am wrapped in copper and stuck in amber. I am acquitted by nonsense and stipulation, sick with nausea and pushing my forehead into the steering wheel. This is all terrible. The lying I've never told myself. The people that don't even know it's lying. Her and I always seem to escape with our happiness and pleasure in tow. The odds are slim, but our clothes have never fit too tightly.
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§ If I possessed all the riches of the earth I would lay them at your feet, just to see you smile. When your lips part, revealing your resplendent mirth, all else fades into darkness in comparison to your luminosity. Like a ten thousand volt electromagnet this iron body is dragged unresisting to you. It is almost a sin, no it is a sin to block that smile with my own light consuming lips. So I sin again and again, I cannot stop. So total and absolute is the power of your smile. Your lips are the closest thing to heaven that this blackhearted sinner can ever hope to experience. As our mouths connect I can feel the bold white radiance fill my body. It is impossible to believe that life holds a purer pleasure than this. If it does I don't need it. All the riches of the earth cannot compare to your lips.
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Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM UTC
Lips
The thing is, I always forget what it was I had realized after I realized it.   That sentence is how it feels. Like my mind doesn't really want an answer. Like it gave up on looking for one so long ago, at least consciously. There always remains a passive creep towards... Something. It's just YOU. Well then, who might You be?   I'm YOU. Three letter words with Special Capitalization Patterns remind You of God. Fill Your head with GOD. GOD. For those who believe in God, they say, GOD exists. What then of Me, rendered slowly and inevitably Fat With Disbelief? I am the milk in a bottle in a small town in Texas. I am the taste of nine-volt batteries. Watch ME shadow the Sun.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 3:03 AM UTC
Shadows of Me
Dear Human (at first I wrote narrow minded ******* This is not a hate poem, although it started out as one it's something finished before my time a game already won My tendons would love to stretch 15 minutes before beginning the race but I wake up every morning to a piercing toast, a celebratory guffaw of an after party having been exploited and raw there is no point for me to stretch metaphorically that is for if i don't stretch before I start my day I tweak like a bike in need of WD40 I can't speak because everything I saw deserves an explanation scratch that I can't speak because I'm afraid of judgement like heavy wet cement, I'll drown in my unspoken words though so I write these down back to the point Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a ***** if I don't stretch my aching quaking body can't **** right and if I can't **** right every other stressor strangles my already mangled mind and body Depression is wet cement dripping from my air vent molding my notches and bolts stone solid yet, I have to get up and stretch to walk amid, among, noodles Falling asleep is difficult because I want to get the night over with and Waking up is difficult because I want to get the day over with Not a study session waiting for snacks more my socks are stuffed with thumbtacks and I forgot everyone finished their after party so I'm pounding my feet sprinting for a finish line I'll never cross Like when I woke up in the hospital, banging my head against the wall believing I could smash my way outside on this day, three years ago My mania surged lightning bolt electric jolt a thousand watt volt I would never be released until normalcy increased so I spent every waking moment stretching desperately trying to release the desperate stress molded in my body Depression is wet cement, I have learned to slip through it's cracks by releasing the firey strength I hold inside my bones I hold inside my soul Oh human, please hear me with your open ears yet if you can't, I have no fear your judgement cannot touch me I am on fire, all victims of depression you, we, are not weak merely misunderstood by false desire we are misunderstood Blazing wet cement on fire
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 2:30 AM UTC
A Letter To Those Who Undermine Depression
Dear Human (at first I wrote narrow minded ******* This is not a hate poem, although it started out as one it's something finished before my time a game already won My tendons would love to stretch 15 minutes before beginning the race but I wake up every morning to a piercing toast, a celebratory guffaw of an after party having been exploited and raw there is no point for me to stretch metaphorically that is for if i don't stretch before I start my day I tweak like a bike in need of WD40 I can't speak because everything I saw deserves an explanation scratch that I can't speak because I'm afraid of judgement like heavy wet cement, I'll drown in my unspoken words though so I write these down back to the point Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a ***** if I don't stretch my aching quaking body can't **** right and if I can't **** right every other stressor strangles my already mangled mind and body Depression is wet cement dripping from my air vent molding my notches and bolts stone solid yet, I have to get up and stretch to walk amid, among, noodles Falling asleep is difficult because I want to get the night over with and Waking up is difficult because I want to get the day over with Not a study session waiting for snacks more my socks are stuffed with thumbtacks and I forgot everyone finished their after party so I'm pounding my feet sprinting for a finish line I'll never cross Like when I woke up in the hospital, banging my head against the wall believing I could smash my way outside on this day, three years ago My mania surged lightning bolt electric jolt a thousand watt volt I would never be released until normalcy increased so I spent every waking moment stretching desperately trying to release the desperate stress molded in my body Depression is wet cement, I have learned to slip through it's cracks by releasing the firey strength I hold inside my bones I hold inside my soul Oh human, please hear me with your open ears yet if you can't, I have no fear your judgement cannot touch me I am on fire, all victims of depression you, we, are not weak merely misunderstood by false desire we are misunderstood Blazing wet cement on fire
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#I'm as lonely as a station at night. The december mist and the moon peaking high over the iron fence dulled the low volt into weird halo. But like bats I reap the rewards of night. The buzz of the crickets rose in crescendo from the undergrowths around the track sounding as unreal as the silent platform abruptly cropping up on nowhere land doubtful if ever a train would notice it. *Days are dull actings dancing to strings yielding nothing to let you know you. I'm in full vision before the lightless mirror opening up alone but with the many faces the dreary day ruthlessly hid from me.* The mist was engulfing the iron railings and when a distant engine whistled there was no track or platform but only the lone flyer hung on the moon like a bat glued to the scent of night.
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
The Lonely Flier
Seeing the volcano from below just another mountain but this mountain speaks of the earth disgorging its molten guts of lightning arcing in ten zillion volt flashes of God's terrifying grace of geologic upheaval that happened before anyone knew anything about God that happened before anyone knew anything We were kids on a long weekend decrepit jeep pickup camper shell over the bed we stopped for an old Indian woman and her son hitchhiking I remember the strange musky smell of her sitting by me on the truck's bench seat like food I'd never eaten or a hand-me-down blanket from the last century We camped at Green Lake and green it was set out the next day fully unprepared for our climb But our young limbs carried us to a precarious summit the South Sister nothing but sky all around and dreams distant peaks the sleeping volcanoes of the Cascade Range stretching into the vastness of north and south Such peace And here now I drown in a deep web of tangled memories Vistas I once surveyed live and breathe in my mind people I once knew still whisper in my ear though they are long dead How do they live on? Who tends these grass-grown graves? Who speaks for these dead? And where do these memories go when we die?
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Jun 3, 2016
Jun 3, 2016 at 8:19 PM UTC
Lads on a Lark
I am not an outlaw, but I'm a gambler. Loaded my ole Colt, then closed my Henry's bolt. I'll rescue Sally and roam as a rambler. First, I'll shoot the sheriff and rob his bank volt. Ride into town, guns blazin', deputies die! Blow the safe, grab the girl, get shot in the thigh. Sally starts shootin', kills the corrupt sheriff. Posse's chasin', a cowboy's love life if rough.
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Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 7:06 PM UTC
Cowboy Love Poem (Part 3 The End- Rispetto)
i've had a flu for the last week and a half i can't sleep at nights anymore because i can't breathe but i haven't taken any medicine because i want to fight it myself i want to fight this myself i am stronger than these pills and i will fight with my own body my own strength i will go down fighting i cannot rely on external substances i cannot rely on something or someone to save me i have to save myself i HAVE to save myself i have to save myself save myself save myself it's my mantra: I HAVE TO SAVE MYSELF and i'm thinking of the time my luggage was wrecked and my purple lamp was in there and that lamp was a memory because i remember you turned it on while you lay on top of me so that you could see me just a little better (i wanted it dark so that i didn't have to see myself) you wanted to see the curves on my body because you loved me and i can see you infront of me right now while i type this there in those black jeans with your broad shoulders and your mouth just a little softer than my own and just like that lamp my love was wrecked and it came back in more than two pieces the ocean just wasn't kind enough wasn't soft enough it didn't care enough to transport my love with the care it needed and tell me do you remember the time i screamed save me no wait get away from me save me love me get away from me and you touched me then moved back because you didn't know what i needed you didn't know how to save me but you knew how to love me. that was enough. it was enough. you were enough. enough. enough. and just like the pills i refuse to take you were that drug i was too scared to need and that dependency broke me and that fear is breaking me and i love you enough for the both of us but like that purple lamp i'm just a little broken and i'm fighting to light up the room and see things just a little clearer and on my way back from school today i saw the electric boxes with warning signs and i opened the car door and walked to them and i tried pulling the 440 volt wires to touch them and fry myself; maybe i'd light up then but someone saw me and i ran and i ran to my house and my mom doesn't know that i'm suicidal but that's okay because i don't have the guts to **** myself anyway (but i tried today).
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Jan 11, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 at 10:22 AM UTC
2017
i've had a flu for the last week and a half i can't sleep at nights anymore because i can't breathe but i haven't taken any medicine because i want to fight it myself i want to fight this myself i am stronger than these pills and i will fight with my own body my own strength i will go down fighting i cannot rely on external substances i cannot rely on something or someone to save me i have to save myself i HAVE to save myself i have to save myself save myself save myself it's my mantra: I HAVE TO SAVE MYSELF and i'm thinking of the time my luggage was wrecked and my purple lamp was in there and that lamp was a memory because i remember you turned it on while you lay on top of me so that you could see me just a little better (i wanted it dark so that i didn't have to see myself) you wanted to see the curves on my body because you loved me and i can see you infront of me right now while i type this there in those black jeans with your broad shoulders and your mouth just a little softer than my own and just like that lamp my love was wrecked and it came back in more than two pieces the ocean just wasn't kind enough wasn't soft enough it didn't care enough to transport my love with the care it needed and tell me do you remember the time i screamed save me no wait get away from me save me love me get away from me and you touched me then moved back because you didn't know what i needed you didn't know how to save me but you knew how to love me. that was enough. it was enough. you were enough. enough. enough. and just like the pills i refuse to take you were that drug i was too scared to need and that dependency broke me and that fear is breaking me and i love you enough for the both of us but like that purple lamp i'm just a little broken and i'm fighting to light up the room and see things just a little clearer and on my way back from school today i saw the electric boxes with warning signs and i opened the car door and walked to them and i tried pulling the 440 volt wires to touch them and fry myself; maybe i'd light up then but someone saw me and i ran and i ran to my house and my mom doesn't know that i'm suicidal but that's okay because i don't have the guts to **** myself anyway (but i tried today).
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Mother Earth and Father Sky Sitting closely as I sing Flying gracefully in the night As I drift upon their wings Slow and sweet, lovely tunes Frolic through the sounds Looking upon the blissful moon As I float safely to the ground Losing moments in the heat As the night comes to a holt And the moon turns to defeat So the sun can spark a volt Shining softly through the sounds That the chorus makes Of defenseless little clouds Feeling pain they cannot take The trees will slowly turn to ash As the grass becomes a blaze Melting into the dusty hash So the world becomes a haze Mother Earth and Father Sky Protect me for I am trapped In between these pins and burns Slipping from your grasp Mother you cannot save me Now that the world is cold and still Father can't come hold me I am the one that makes him shrill I know you're busy with this world I'll be a part of it one day But inside my body's swirled For these words are brash, dare I say That now I'm floating in your air The breeze linked to my heart Close you're eyes, no need to stare For now I am a part Of this world you know so well Quiet and serene Nature turns and dare i tell It was no home for me                                         Alysia Marie 2015 ©
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 9:30 AM UTC
Home
Szertelen, szédült vadhajtások övezik zarándoklatom hajnalát volt egyszer egy képtelen álom azon hajtja be vágyam zálogát Érdekes, ahogy a köveket fújja kell, hogy legyen ebben szenvedély Otromba képzelgések szövik alakosra Azt, mit elhordott a pázsitos éj Sokan félik e száguldó vonatot Pillanatkép a mozgó vásznon Hisz létezésünk nem több a nyárnál, mely jégbe fúl a halálos ágyán Majd virágot küld énnekem s neked Rákulcsoljuk ujjunk, s együtt féljük a közelgő telet.
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 6:39 AM UTC
Évszakok
నీ ముఖ చిత్రం చూసి పడిపోయా చలనచిత్రం hero లా వెంటే ఉండిపోయా నీ focus కోసం ఎన్నో trick లే వేస్తుంటా నీ చూపే shift అయితే నిరుత్సాహాపడిపోతా నీ చిన్ని నవ్వైన వెయ్యి volt bulb లా వెలుగుతుందే నువ్వు ఉంటే నిమిషమైన యుగమంతా సంతోషమిస్తుందే World Cup Win కన్నా నీ ప్రేమ గెలుపే నాకు మిన్నా ఆశ్చర్యం కాదా నువ్వు చూసే చూపు ఏ పక్కకు చూసినా నాకోసం అనుకోనా.. Arvind Swamy నీ కానే నేను Alexander అంతటి వాణ్ణి కనే చెలి   ఓ మోస్తరు చూపులో ఉంటానే నేను అమితంగా ప్రేమిస్తానే నిన్ను ఆటంకం ఎదురైనా ఆవేదన కలిగిన నిన్ను మర్చిపోనే మరీ వెయ్యేళ్ళ వరమల్లె నా తోడుండిపోవే సఖి
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Dec 6, 2012
Dec 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM UTC
219. heroism లాంటి ప్రేమ
I put all your physical words in a box- "you are ADORABLE" scribbled on a receipt           the book with the pictures of           New York City and the one with the history of Christmas the map from the pumpkin patch           your band's cds a 9 volt battery           a button from the trails west           festival a ticket to the show your band played at your dream venue           my ticket stub from This Is the           End directions to Kim's house           the journal you gave me for             Christmas with a letter from you           on the first two pages a napkin I kept hidden in my wallet with "you are very cute" written in your smallest print           a Virgil's Rootbeer bottle cap           from our second first date (god did you know I had kept all those things)- but I can't figure out how to package all the sentences you left swimming around in my head
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 10:30 PM UTC
it's nothing like closure
NZ lightning strikes but once never again shall not the rod conduct the heat and weld us both transfixed in light immortality seconds per volt per death a pain releasing joy to the wind itself throwing up shade on the universe unified with the skylark ground to the hedges hogged by Z N by 3 south by northwest too true to hold calimity cola amity CALAMITY JANE! sharps rife with ills shot down by the freedom to lie to marry never and die twice once every day and then at 87 said promised oriental accidents of falling loads to those who claim others are ant hinge thing but WHYS whi wi why? we no death
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 3:24 PM UTC
ZN
My God, my God, my God. Thrice said, As I lie here. My heart racing, My muscles aching, My body buzzing Like a tongue pressed to a nine-volt battery. Why am I here, when my mind takes me elsewhere— To places so fantastic, So alive, That to write them into existence would take ten-fold genius And the ink of ten-thousand pens. Landscapes spread across my vision. Innuendos play in my brain. Though, when I return to the moment, All I see are my stubby toes Wiggling from under black sheets, In a nearly-black room Coated in drab paint, Hardly come alive by some utterly generic wall ornaments. I wash in the same bathroom, I spray the same perfume, I dress in the same clothes, And I thus transform myself— Again— Into a copy of the man that lived a day before… Having created nothing, Only holding the vastness of a universe In his dazed, beleaguered mind. Thrice said, a phrase becomes magical— At least, that is what I’ve seen... So, I say three times: My God, My God, My God.
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Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 8:44 PM UTC
Thrice Said
Sat on a train and I gaze along face after face of strangers that all share this same moment in time and space and yet they're all so vacant, staring into space and time bears no relevance, cause its the same thing day in day out, all of us sat there, headphones intact listening to our own soundtracks as we make our way through tunnels unaware of the tracks sound as we're shuttled around and I'm dumbfounded by how wisdom is found in the loss of interaction, sat across a man in a suit  clocking up percentages and in a fraction, I've took stock and mocked up a story for him through his action , this one man of many in this age of distraction Until  this traction  created by volt-age comes to a halt as this train stops at the station, my station in sight, this stationary moment of insight interrupted as doors open, my form plateaus as I step onto the platform, leaving this train of thought for another one, adjourned as I Journey on.
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 4:13 PM UTC
Train of Thought
Move as though on castors Swept in to subdued void Pierrot lacking puppet master Shrunken waxwork melting             I rivet in two eyes black blue             For a scrap of validation             Mirrored tunnel dark chute             Deep abysmal contemplation Blether. Prattle. Jabber on Deaf ears nescient; inattentive Blithely callous their indifference Never yet shall be emotive              A flashlight glare. A glint?              Volt? Amp; electric neuron              No never see; pulse, or breathe              Frigid flesh left life extinct. ©pofacedpoetry (Billy Reynard-Bowness 2018 – All rights reserved)
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 8:20 AM UTC
WAITING
If I appear to you as happy Then I've put on another successful show I have mastered the art of masking Masking all of my weaknesses and flaws If you can confide in me your secrets Then I've gained the security of your heart I've mastered the art of trusting Trusting in myself, in you to understand I hope you will understand The reason I can't always talk at night The reason I wear long clothing in the summer The reason I can't always be touched in certain places No! It's not you baby , It's me My skin is just sensitive right now Wait for me to heal please Then I'll be ready for the show again. Then you can once again confide in me I'll be back to service you once more. Sometimes I forget that I'm needed. I forget that I'm a part time therapist I forget that I have people dependent on me I even forget there is a me, until night fall When everyone goes to sleep When the messages stop When there's no more people When there's only… me That's when the world breaks down My skeletons come out to play The voices rush through my mind My Hell is unleashed and I am alone. Just me and the weapon of my choice Sharp and ready Ready to conquer my demons Even if just for a night My therapist is my scars My performer is my blade My volt is the blood shed And no one knows them but me. They don't know what I been feeling What I'm still feeling They are not aware of my trials and tribulations They don't know I need help too
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM UTC
I'm here to please you
When the time comes For the reconcilliation of the Hermit I will be there Sixty-nine guns And one more, please, makes seventy ...and I've got what I need 7-0 for the Hermit When the rhymes slow And yer listeners don't know or care 'bout the Hermit I shall believe Sixty-nine suns ...Eleven more makes eighty, see? ...and I've got what I need 8-0 for the Hermit If the Hermit sees the reconcilliation coming He'll turn the other way and start to running They don't call him the Hermit for nothing And I got a double-ought nine volt battery, I'm gonna stick it on his tongue If your mind's numb And you're as rum-dumb as the Hermit I'll shed a tear Ninety nine nuns ...one gave birth and that makes a hundred Sixty nine to the Hermit Sunshine to the Hermit I bless the life of the Hermit I put the knife to the Hermit
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Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 10:36 AM UTC
The Hermit
On the edge of the balcony, The world teaches my head to rotate, My spine surrenders its balance, My hopeless body waits. Fed up with human-crafted idealism, Along with all human functions, I bottle up all emotions, And set this dim night to action. The volt is raised, The time, a haze, The night, a home, The cold, so warm. The picture is now ruined, Each shred its own standalone story, All I feel is coursing adrenaline, As I dig a deep hole to bury all my glory. Standing in line with hollow light bulbs, I wait like an addict for the dose, Every last memory not convincing enough, As the switch is finally being closed. The volt is raised, The time, a haze, The night, a home, The cold, so warm And the metaphor become reality, As I become addicted to the echoes, The world shut out like an outage, So the only thing alive is my voice. Speed limits, all but a dream, No remorse nor guilt to hit the breaks, I'm alone with no ties, Don't believe in friends or family's sakes. I find more and more like me, Vanity and selfishness put in a mixer, Dim mutant stars living an eternity, With only thirsty desires to be watered. Birth date and place, the advocate night, It spreads its arms till we prevail, Humanity switch is now a temptation, To more animals with 4 limbs and tails. Now that scene on the balcony, Such a long walk from there, Comparing that volcano, To this new software. I am now a blank canvas, With no pressure to spill colors, I just exist to be, Haven't got a nerve to suffer. I see them pure people in my memories, Now drinking the virulent night, Two worlds being carbon-copied, Death suits being worn alive. The smoke colors the universe, A place no longer suitable for life, Who would abide to the rules? When we've all lost humanity signs. Hearts, now glazed, Time, no longer a grace, The cold, a curse, A search for another earth.
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Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 1:08 PM UTC
Humanity Switch
On the edge of the balcony, The world teaches my head to rotate, My spine surrenders its balance, My hopeless body waits. Fed up with human-crafted idealism, Along with all human functions, I bottle up all emotions, And set this dim night to action. The volt is raised, The time, a haze, The night, a home, The cold, so warm. The picture is now ruined, Each shred its own standalone story, All I feel is coursing adrenaline, As I dig a deep hole to bury all my glory. Standing in line with hollow light bulbs, I wait like an addict for the dose, Every last memory not convincing enough, As the switch is finally being closed. The volt is raised, The time, a haze, The night, a home, The cold, so warm And the metaphor become reality, As I become addicted to the echoes, The world shut out like an outage, So the only thing alive is my voice. Speed limits, all but a dream, No remorse nor guilt to hit the breaks, I'm alone with no ties, Don't believe in friends or family's sakes. I find more and more like me, Vanity and selfishness put in a mixer, Dim mutant stars living an eternity, With only thirsty desires to be watered. Birth date and place, the advocate night, It spreads its arms till we prevail, Humanity switch is now a temptation, To more animals with 4 limbs and tails. Now that scene on the balcony, Such a long walk from there, Comparing that volcano, To this new software. I am now a blank canvas, With no pressure to spill colors, I just exist to be, Haven't got a nerve to suffer. I see them pure people in my memories, Now drinking the virulent night, Two worlds being carbon-copied, Death suits being worn alive. The smoke colors the universe, A place no longer suitable for life, Who would abide to the rules? When we've all lost humanity signs. Hearts, now glazed, Time, no longer a grace, The cold, a curse, A search for another earth.
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It all looked clean, crisp, picturesque postcard promise The river reflecting skyblue shimmers Mists rising wisps of secrets Trees and plants glossy, full bellied, nutritious happy The birds practising new song and twitching wings of fancy in the bright 440 volt sunshine Filtering through the senses to settle softly. All was really not that clean and crisp. The photographer could not zoom in On a dead kea choked on a 1080 trap Dropping from the sky like a manna treat Four fish gobbling pellets pulled upstream Mouth agape as poison shut the fluttering gills Two other magpies lost their raucous tone Deprived by early morning bait Possums slept softly high up in the tress With last nights buds bursting in their full bellies The photographer could not see beauty and ugliness Together. The lens could not question the crystalline view The click was not from gun digital film rolled irrespective And his dream of a pristine forest with no pustules told one side of the story. The other side Balanced the books And tore the heart of the very creatures That spoke beauty with being there. The picture was captioned; Clean and Green. Was it? A picture speaks a thousand words Sprinkled with three hundred lies and lives. Author Notes This poem accompanied a lush photograph of forest with a little stream flowing through. In the same area where the photograph was taken, helicopters bombed the forest with 1080 poison pellets to knock off the possums which were eating through the fresh shoots and leaves. The end result was more than the possums going to thy kingdom come. There are serious environmental undertones in this poem. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid;=11260667 © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, 18 days ago
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 4:30 PM UTC
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It all looked clean, crisp, picturesque postcard promise The river reflecting skyblue shimmers Mists rising wisps of secrets Trees and plants glossy, full bellied, nutritious happy The birds practising new song and twitching wings of fancy in the bright 440 volt sunshine Filtering through the senses to settle softly. All was really not that clean and crisp. The photographer could not zoom in On a dead kea choked on a 1080 trap Dropping from the sky like a manna treat Four fish gobbling pellets pulled upstream Mouth agape as poison shut the fluttering gills Two other magpies lost their raucous tone Deprived by early morning bait Possums slept softly high up in the tress With last nights buds bursting in their full bellies The photographer could not see beauty and ugliness Together. The lens could not question the crystalline view The click was not from gun digital film rolled irrespective And his dream of a pristine forest with no pustules told one side of the story. The other side Balanced the books And tore the heart of the very creatures That spoke beauty with being there. The picture was captioned; Clean and Green. Was it? A picture speaks a thousand words Sprinkled with three hundred lies and lives. Author Notes This poem accompanied a lush photograph of forest with a little stream flowing through. In the same area where the photograph was taken, helicopters bombed the forest with 1080 poison pellets to knock off the possums which were eating through the fresh shoots and leaves. The end result was more than the possums going to thy kingdom come. There are serious environmental undertones in this poem. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid;=11260667 © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, 18 days ago
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A volt or amperage an ampule injected not grounded a spasm or epiphany a reckoning encompasses I melt voltaically into warmth and jolt concurrently metered by hair standing on ends legs arms nethers convulsing like two phased polarity not grounded! I short out, positively!
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 10:47 PM UTC
I sing of her electric body
And the zephyr teases, Tossing to-and-fro saplings fresh' Which tantalise the Currawong, cowering its call, And glistening crystalline on dewy morn's. --------- You ***** You moan' You complain, And you whinge. --------- Hello, Can I help you? Or, better still, can you help me?!? I've lost my mind, Though I'm never sure I possessed it; And if I did - I regret its escape. --------- The pretentious poverty of money - They think they look good, but what's really funny Is the narcissistic approach that they tackle life - Like everything is owed and nothing earnt; Lucky to live amid so few excursions into reality. --------- 240 volt vac, attached to one's ******** Jaw slack until the power is racked - Up goes your nuts and voice pitches To new dimensions, shrill and pre-pubescent. Tears that masculinity denies appear in the corner Of eyes steeled, and vacantly appreciative. --------- You, my friend, can kiss my **** The **** you speak is but a farce - Unrelated to the life we realise, experience; Alien to any who maintain their conscience.
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Mar 9, 2014
Mar 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM UTC
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