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"waging" poems
**How many faces you wish? For you are not true to your own Can you bear the burden of many? Posing as everyone, but you Even the mirror will be flummoxed Ashamed to show the real you Maybe a face forgotten long ago Waging a war against yourself An army of many faces adopted Will bring you to the gallows That will be the end to your identity When you will be unmasked**
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 7:46 AM UTC
Deception
My mind is constantly occupied by the demons of my past and the omens of my future. Waging an impossible war, causing sickness, and torturing my conscience without remorse. I can hear the screaming of the casualties as I take one more sip, hit, or push. Begging for me to stop, but at the same time thanking me for the temporary numbness I can feel my heart exploding in my chest, as if it were trying to free itself from the slavery it is experiencing. Beat after beat it continues to grow weary and unsympathetic, Trudging through the chemicals and unrelentless lovers. all the while receiving no attention or appreciation. I can feel my soul, beautiful and full of life. As old as they come, with more stories than I would probably care to hear. Wise and wounded, healed and broken again. Becoming tougher and more layered much like the act of crafting an authentic samurai sword. Swift and elegant. Waiting to escape this imperfect body only to move onto another puppet of which it will guide and personalize. The beauty of these three broken and bruised vigilantes working in total harmony is the most beautiful and awe-inspiring thing I have ever come to know. I am greatful until the end, whenever that may be. I will enjoy the life that they have given me, and I will spread that energy to those in need of it. As ***** and tired as they may be, it is more than most will ever have the opportunity to experience
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM UTC
Vigilante
A series of short puffs from a rekindled cigarette expertly put out on the half reminds you of your fastidiousness now you feel like **** as you look at the wreckage site of a desk that is your own doing        That is what you do. While your ego floats like the unmelted coffee you put in cold water Hardly dissolvable to anything normal missing anything temporal You lash out once more waging a war with a nation of thoughts You kick the furniture to send the dust flying        That is what you do. You attempt to sheathe an intricate wound patterned on your knuckle, as detailed as the dystopia of your own human agenda that can be trivialized by just "I haven't been myself lately" when somebody asks because you're afraid they might see you find it hard to belong Slowly, the dust resorts to settle on the bedroom floor        And so do you.
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 4:31 AM UTC
I Haven't Been Myself Lately
Welcome to the battleground, Welcome to the fight. We're an army waging war, Soldiers armed with light. Living on through madness, For a cause we're standing for, We're going to be brave, To keep the oath we swore. We're going to be brave, When all around seems dark, When shadows bash our armor thin, When evil leaves it's mark, We're not fighting alone, We have a helping friend, So we're going to be brave, To the very end.
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 3:47 PM UTC
Going to Be Brave
I am in battle daily waging for possession of my soul...my life it is a losing battle I am so tired of fighting Demons constantly whispering just enough to make me doubt Where can I find strength to go on? Should I even continue to fight? Someone please help me
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:16 PM UTC
Demons
I walk the face of earth once more, a mindless puppet, my strings are torn. the creaky bones, the bad eyesight, yet the chance to turn wrong to right. wars-a-waging, old mans guilt, the worlds now on more then just a tilt. parents weeping, children slain, ****** thoughts, fear will reign. I look in the shadows, a creature did lurk, he whispered to me, hiding a smirk. "Thou shalt be killed if thee can't find, the demon lurking in thou mind." So off I ventured, to quench my thirst, of corpses piled with hearts-a-burst. And on that quest what did I see? The Wicked Path Of Destiny
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 11:56 AM UTC
The Wicked Path Of Destiny
Twisted reeds sway gently in the wind as black seabirds slice the sky overhead. Waves rolling one by one crash with increasing ferocity on to the rocky beach, And I watch the red sun set fire to the spray while  the tide encircles me. Tugging at my feet, pulling me forward, it beckons for my consent. I give in, And all is quiet even in such chaos. All is nightmarish and beautiful all the more. The blood red horizon seers my retinas; freshly unleashed tears take to the sea. These waves, such enormous swells, crash in on me; an unseen war is waging. They press  me down and back, and then drag me further into the endless blue. Over and over again, repetition loses count, my outcries die prematurely. Only seawater and air manage to sputter from my lips, cracked and worn. Not a whisper can be heard out here in such a true state of despair, but not all Castaways are without faith. The past I once cherished has been lost to the depths, Yet a knowing tingle in my gut keeps me searching for a message hidden merely 'Neath the surface. Drifting deeper into my pain, I notice a curious thing:   The force of the waves lessening as I gracelessly surrender to Sorrow and the sea. My feet torn by jagged rocks no longer felt, my eyelids blistered by the red Eternal sunset, a few waves push me under before the siege of the sea falters and I learn to ride the surf, taking each afront as it comes, whether predicted or Suddenly upon me. My pain ebbs away slowly with the passing of each episode, And with each wave I acknowledge my loss, relinquishing my burden. Like so many desparinging hearts before me shipwrecked in the sea of tears, I forcefully remind myself that one day the lush, inviting green shores of the Other side of the sea will appear in my line of vision. Yet, for now, I let myself Drift through the grief of grieving you, often unsure of whether I'm meant to float Or should let myself sink toward the blackest crags of my mind. Here alone.
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Apr 19, 2011
Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 PM UTC
The Surf
Twisted reeds sway gently in the wind as black seabirds slice the sky overhead. Waves rolling one by one crash with increasing ferocity on to the rocky beach, And I watch the red sun set fire to the spray while  the tide encircles me. Tugging at my feet, pulling me forward, it beckons for my consent. I give in, And all is quiet even in such chaos. All is nightmarish and beautiful all the more. The blood red horizon seers my retinas; freshly unleashed tears take to the sea. These waves, such enormous swells, crash in on me; an unseen war is waging. They press  me down and back, and then drag me further into the endless blue. Over and over again, repetition loses count, my outcries die prematurely. Only seawater and air manage to sputter from my lips, cracked and worn. Not a whisper can be heard out here in such a true state of despair, but not all Castaways are without faith. The past I once cherished has been lost to the depths, Yet a knowing tingle in my gut keeps me searching for a message hidden merely 'Neath the surface. Drifting deeper into my pain, I notice a curious thing:   The force of the waves lessening as I gracelessly surrender to Sorrow and the sea. My feet torn by jagged rocks no longer felt, my eyelids blistered by the red Eternal sunset, a few waves push me under before the siege of the sea falters and I learn to ride the surf, taking each afront as it comes, whether predicted or Suddenly upon me. My pain ebbs away slowly with the passing of each episode, And with each wave I acknowledge my loss, relinquishing my burden. Like so many desparinging hearts before me shipwrecked in the sea of tears, I forcefully remind myself that one day the lush, inviting green shores of the Other side of the sea will appear in my line of vision. Yet, for now, I let myself Drift through the grief of grieving you, often unsure of whether I'm meant to float Or should let myself sink toward the blackest crags of my mind. Here alone.
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My Reflection Written by Adam M. Snow See the mirror hanging there, with obligation stare. A glimpse an image, do I dare, peek my reflection standing there. The mocking image laugh and stare, with lights surround to give a glare; I see myself standing there, looming deep within despair. Do I dare? Do I dare, glimpse the glass, o mirror standing there? Oculus of glass I stare, waging war myself, standing there.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 3:25 AM UTC
My Reflection
Psychic spies from China Try to steal your mind's elation And little girls from Sweden Dreams of silver screen quotation And if you want these kind of dreams It's Californication It's the edge of the world And all of western civilization The sun may rise in the East At least it settles in the final location It's understood that Hollywood Sells Californication Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Celebrity skin is this your chin Or is that war your waging First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Marry me girl be my fairy to the world Be my very own constellation A teenage bride with a baby inside Getting high on information And buy me a star on the boulevard It's Californication Space may be the final frontier But it's made in a Hollywood basement Cobain can you hear the spheres Singing songs off station to station And Alderaan's not far away It's Californication Born and raised by those who praise Control of population everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Destruction leads to a very rough road But it also breeds creation And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar They're just another good vibration And tidal waves couldn't save the world From Californication Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Sicker than the rest There is no test But this is what you're craving First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication By Anthony Kiedis / Michael Balzary / John Anthony Frusciante / Chad Smith Californication lyrics © MoeBeToBlame
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 9:38 PM UTC
Lyrics to "Californication" (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Psychic spies from China Try to steal your mind's elation And little girls from Sweden Dreams of silver screen quotation And if you want these kind of dreams It's Californication It's the edge of the world And all of western civilization The sun may rise in the East At least it settles in the final location It's understood that Hollywood Sells Californication Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Celebrity skin is this your chin Or is that war your waging First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Marry me girl be my fairy to the world Be my very own constellation A teenage bride with a baby inside Getting high on information And buy me a star on the boulevard It's Californication Space may be the final frontier But it's made in a Hollywood basement Cobain can you hear the spheres Singing songs off station to station And Alderaan's not far away It's Californication Born and raised by those who praise Control of population everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication Destruction leads to a very rough road But it also breeds creation And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar They're just another good vibration And tidal waves couldn't save the world From Californication Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Sicker than the rest There is no test But this is what you're craving First born unicorn Hard core soft **** Dream of Californication Dream of Californication By Anthony Kiedis / Michael Balzary / John Anthony Frusciante / Chad Smith Californication lyrics © MoeBeToBlame
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You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because, in one of the spun sugar fragile sequences of the events in your life, it works out. There is a place, somewhere amidst star stuff and cosmic collisions, where you are not the problem daughter or the biggest disappointment or the most regretted kiss. There is a place where you sink into a desk in your eight a.m. class and a boy with bags under his eyes and a hole-y sweater pulled over his knuckles says, "hi." There is a place where your father comes back from the war with sand grit in his eyes, blood under his fingernails and lets you save him.  There is a place where you live in India, where you aren't afraid to love, where everything hurts less, where you stopped punishing yourself for the faults of your parents. You are a girl. Not a dart board or a guilty verdict or the final, desperate ****** of a sword through someone's chest. You are made of the same stuff as Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great and Elizabeth, and you can command the winds too. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because no one ever asked you about the scars on your thighs but that doesn't make them nonexistent or unimportant. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you've grown: stronger in some ways and weaker in others, but you are still a result of rhapsodies in violet and trees bowed to the sea and soldiers with wind burn on their cheeks. Tonight, you are going to wrap your own arms around your own chest and breathe, swaying silently to no music. You are going to memorize the sound of silence, and you are going to listen hard for the even, jagged, pitter patter of your heart. You are going to thank your body for waging war against itself, you are going to apologize to your head for bruising your heart. You are going to feel the roughness of the floor and the vastness of the entire world and all of the eventualities spread before you. You are going to remember that this is only one, that atoms and molecules are flighty, whimsical, prone to selfishness and longing for the promise of stability. You are going to press your lips to your own wrists and know, as surely as Anne Boleyn knew when she walked to the guillotine, that no one can save you but yourself. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you are not an accident of the multiverse. You are purposeful and beautiful and young and reckless with your feelings, but you are not a mistake. Listen to the trembling of your heartbeat and breathe. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM UTC
Why You Aren't Going to **** Yourself Tonight
You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because, in one of the spun sugar fragile sequences of the events in your life, it works out. There is a place, somewhere amidst star stuff and cosmic collisions, where you are not the problem daughter or the biggest disappointment or the most regretted kiss. There is a place where you sink into a desk in your eight a.m. class and a boy with bags under his eyes and a hole-y sweater pulled over his knuckles says, "hi." There is a place where your father comes back from the war with sand grit in his eyes, blood under his fingernails and lets you save him.  There is a place where you live in India, where you aren't afraid to love, where everything hurts less, where you stopped punishing yourself for the faults of your parents. You are a girl. Not a dart board or a guilty verdict or the final, desperate ****** of a sword through someone's chest. You are made of the same stuff as Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great and Elizabeth, and you can command the winds too. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because no one ever asked you about the scars on your thighs but that doesn't make them nonexistent or unimportant. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you've grown: stronger in some ways and weaker in others, but you are still a result of rhapsodies in violet and trees bowed to the sea and soldiers with wind burn on their cheeks. Tonight, you are going to wrap your own arms around your own chest and breathe, swaying silently to no music. You are going to memorize the sound of silence, and you are going to listen hard for the even, jagged, pitter patter of your heart. You are going to thank your body for waging war against itself, you are going to apologize to your head for bruising your heart. You are going to feel the roughness of the floor and the vastness of the entire world and all of the eventualities spread before you. You are going to remember that this is only one, that atoms and molecules are flighty, whimsical, prone to selfishness and longing for the promise of stability. You are going to press your lips to your own wrists and know, as surely as Anne Boleyn knew when she walked to the guillotine, that no one can save you but yourself. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you are not an accident of the multiverse. You are purposeful and beautiful and young and reckless with your feelings, but you are not a mistake. Listen to the trembling of your heartbeat and breathe. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight.
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Kepp working, stay on my grind. God, school and moneys only on my mind. Lovely women happen to come by and that's fine. Touch my paper and I will decline. Stress build, heavy weight on my mind. Trying to walk with god and take life one day at a time. People take what they want and ask for more. I don't hustle because I am poor (I'm not), its in my blood (a clot). Had my hustle ever reached my core, it would attack me and stop my beat. Soul song silenced for eternity for desiring to achieve greatness. Such a paradoxacal oximoron drifts throughout my body keeping me alive unbeknownced to my concienceness. My kryptonite is infact what makes me a super solider. For ever I will fight waging a mental spiritual war. I pull the trigger at whatever stands in my way and eliminate the prey for I am the predator. In future roles will switch and I will hear the heavenly bell ring, such a divine pitch. So for no I fight and fight I will. Untill the kryptonite reached my heart and it attacks me. My internal double edge sword. Hustle.
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 7:11 PM UTC
Hustle Blood
When you don’t have to see When it’s just a tv screen Muted voices scream But you can’t hear a thing When you’re not on the ground To feel the fear or hear the sounds Then it’s easier to look away It gets easier to stand and say That waging war is okay But when it’s your blood Or the blood of those you love When the price you pay is personal Then the decisions are made more carefully Too bad politicians and rich men Don’t have to send their sons and daughters Off to war to face an almost certain slaughter Maybe if the generals and congressmen The admirals and the president Had to stand in the thick of it I might trust their judgment
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 2:53 PM UTC
To Separated From The Consequences
Anxiety is not a feeling As some of you may believe You wouldn't be alone Because plenty of people place it in the same category as Sad, angry, elated But one of these things is not like the others. You see, anxiety is everything and nothing All at the same time. Anxiety is when no matter how spacious the room is It seems to be getting smaller Until you can see every intricate detail on every wall Each corner touches your skin And flattens your chest As it rises and falls Your breath is getting short until it stops And then you become as functional as a corpse After all, isn't that what you are? Anxiety is When your love stands over top of you Watching your diaphragm as it rapidly pulsates Wishing he could hold your hands as they sweat profusely Wanting to breathe life into your convulsing body But instead, he cannot even grasp the concept Of why you are not alright. Anxiety is Accepting that your reality is not truly real at all And deciding to realize that people wish they could fix you But understanding that they don't know what to do And you don't either. Anxiety is Learning from all the You're blowing things out of proportion's And You put to much pressure on yourself's When you begin to have these panic attacks In which you feel like death in imminent Over trivial things. Anxiety is Being with people who love you And still getting bursts of loneliness That ignite and explode inside your pores and underneath your skin The blood flowing silently through your veins reminds you That you are all alone. Anxiety is Relating each and every thing you do To how you are not adequate And how you must take charge of everything. It influences the things that tell you "Make yourself throw up" And "Skip that meal today." Most times, you shoe it away with every particle of strength that you have Other times, you are not so lucky. Anxiety is hard to personify But it is. And as I muster up the courage in my soul And the hope in my being I realize that those things need not be stored Because I use them every day as I fight this battle. We are all waging wars Mine just happens to be against This thing that is so intricately woven into the chemistry of who I am. It is a part of me But it is not all of me And my voice is louder than this sickness.
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 10:23 PM UTC
Anxiety
Anxiety is not a feeling As some of you may believe You wouldn't be alone Because plenty of people place it in the same category as Sad, angry, elated But one of these things is not like the others. You see, anxiety is everything and nothing All at the same time. Anxiety is when no matter how spacious the room is It seems to be getting smaller Until you can see every intricate detail on every wall Each corner touches your skin And flattens your chest As it rises and falls Your breath is getting short until it stops And then you become as functional as a corpse After all, isn't that what you are? Anxiety is When your love stands over top of you Watching your diaphragm as it rapidly pulsates Wishing he could hold your hands as they sweat profusely Wanting to breathe life into your convulsing body But instead, he cannot even grasp the concept Of why you are not alright. Anxiety is Accepting that your reality is not truly real at all And deciding to realize that people wish they could fix you But understanding that they don't know what to do And you don't either. Anxiety is Learning from all the You're blowing things out of proportion's And You put to much pressure on yourself's When you begin to have these panic attacks In which you feel like death in imminent Over trivial things. Anxiety is Being with people who love you And still getting bursts of loneliness That ignite and explode inside your pores and underneath your skin The blood flowing silently through your veins reminds you That you are all alone. Anxiety is Relating each and every thing you do To how you are not adequate And how you must take charge of everything. It influences the things that tell you "Make yourself throw up" And "Skip that meal today." Most times, you shoe it away with every particle of strength that you have Other times, you are not so lucky. Anxiety is hard to personify But it is. And as I muster up the courage in my soul And the hope in my being I realize that those things need not be stored Because I use them every day as I fight this battle. We are all waging wars Mine just happens to be against This thing that is so intricately woven into the chemistry of who I am. It is a part of me But it is not all of me And my voice is louder than this sickness.
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I'm sad and alone and everything I touch turns to gold, but that's the life, amirite? Money's the only matter that matters and some kids three worlds away are getting kidnapped and killed for quotas while these kids are worried about their quote of the day. And, by kids, I mean little girls at age three being sold on the streets and in between sheets in countries that aren't all that far away, and little boys whose coloring pages are filled with explosions and guns cause it's literal war they're waging. But down the way, parents are posting posters in their children's rooms prompting inspiration: it's something about peace and love-- I mean, that's what they all say. Well, I've made my peace with the pieces of this prayer, a priest standing golden over me as I throw my diamond-encrusted hands to the air and scream, "Someone save me." But these people don't care. I am a man of gold with a heart of stone and no one cares because, frankly, Neither do I. Statistically speaking, everyone in the States clings to the belief that if they just earned an extra fifteen percent wage annually, then they could live happily. But, darling, when everything you touch turns to gold, statistics don't quite fit the diagnostics. I am the outlier, the outright liar, the purveyor of pride that cost me my life but who cares? I mean, I've got my money. I've got my money in a capitalist country that feeds off circulation and circumstance that leads brains to short-circuit short-cut economic politics and slaughter chances, rather than enhancing the value of a life that money can't add up to. Welcome to the slaughterhouse. Welcome to the tolerance of intolerance of humanity. Welcome to the closing scene, where we can be seen on the Globe, on William Shakespeare's pun-fully named stage cause that's what all the world is, and so's this gold. It's a play, cause some day the curtains will close and all my props will remain on the stage and I am sad and alone with my heart still fo stone but without any gold. I've lost my touch, and without this cash I'll be nothing but a ten second news flash announcing to the rest of these underpaid actors that I've been knocked off my throne. I don't think I was ever a king to begin with, just a man who could forge fool's gold.
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 4:09 PM UTC
King Midas
I'm sad and alone and everything I touch turns to gold, but that's the life, amirite? Money's the only matter that matters and some kids three worlds away are getting kidnapped and killed for quotas while these kids are worried about their quote of the day. And, by kids, I mean little girls at age three being sold on the streets and in between sheets in countries that aren't all that far away, and little boys whose coloring pages are filled with explosions and guns cause it's literal war they're waging. But down the way, parents are posting posters in their children's rooms prompting inspiration: it's something about peace and love-- I mean, that's what they all say. Well, I've made my peace with the pieces of this prayer, a priest standing golden over me as I throw my diamond-encrusted hands to the air and scream, "Someone save me." But these people don't care. I am a man of gold with a heart of stone and no one cares because, frankly, Neither do I. Statistically speaking, everyone in the States clings to the belief that if they just earned an extra fifteen percent wage annually, then they could live happily. But, darling, when everything you touch turns to gold, statistics don't quite fit the diagnostics. I am the outlier, the outright liar, the purveyor of pride that cost me my life but who cares? I mean, I've got my money. I've got my money in a capitalist country that feeds off circulation and circumstance that leads brains to short-circuit short-cut economic politics and slaughter chances, rather than enhancing the value of a life that money can't add up to. Welcome to the slaughterhouse. Welcome to the tolerance of intolerance of humanity. Welcome to the closing scene, where we can be seen on the Globe, on William Shakespeare's pun-fully named stage cause that's what all the world is, and so's this gold. It's a play, cause some day the curtains will close and all my props will remain on the stage and I am sad and alone with my heart still fo stone but without any gold. I've lost my touch, and without this cash I'll be nothing but a ten second news flash announcing to the rest of these underpaid actors that I've been knocked off my throne. I don't think I was ever a king to begin with, just a man who could forge fool's gold.
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I walk the face of earth once more, a mindless puppet, my strings are torn. the creaky bones, the bad eyesight, yet the chance to turn wrong to right. wars-a-waging, old mans guilt, the worlds now on more then just a tilt. parents weeping, children slain, ****** thoughts, fear will reign. I look in the shadows, a creature did lurk, he whispered to me, hiding a smirk. "Thou shalt be killed if thee can't find, the demon lurking in thou mind." So off I ventured, to quench my thirst, of corpses piled with hearts-a-burst. And on that quest what did I see? The Wicked Path Of Destiny
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 2:51 PM UTC
The Wicked Path Of Destiny
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica-- Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause; Yea, and in future age shall Aegeus's host Revere this court of jurors. This the hill Of Ares, seat of Amazons, their tent, What time 'gainst Theseus, breathing hate, they came, Waging fierce battle, and their towers upreared, A counter-fortress to Acropolis;-- To Ares they did sacrifice, and hence This rock is titled Areopagus. Here then shall sacred Awe, to Fear allied, By day and night my lieges hold from wrong, Save if themselves do innovate my laws, If thou with mud, or influx base, bedim The sparkling water, nought thou'lt find to drink. Nor Anarchy, nor Tyrant's lawless rule Commend I to my people's reverence;-- Nor let them banish from their city Fear; For who 'mong men, uncurbed by fear, is just? Thus holding Awe in seemly reverence, A bulwark for your State shall ye possess, A safeguard to protect your city walls, Such as no mortals otherwhere can boast, Neither in Scythia, nor in Pelops's realm. Behold! This Court august, untouched by bribes, Sharp to avenge, wakeful for those who sleep, Establish I, a bulwark to this land. This charge, extending to all future time, I give my lieges. Meet it as ye rise, Assume the pebbles, and decide the cause, Your oath revering. All hath now been said.
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The Decree Of Athena
Midnight approaches Tick tick tock Won't someone stop The Doomsday Clock From striking oil Drilling rock Thirsting soil Aftershock Deserted hourglass of sand Shifts to resource hungry hand Tyrants of time assume command Greed consumes This wasted land First come the roaches Tick tick tock The bugs can't stop The Doomsday Clock With beehive brains No voice to talk And droning minds Comprise the flock As lone wolves feast On sheep they stalk Then fear encroaches Tick tick tock Too scared to stop The Doomsday Clock As violence claims Each city block Blood drawn on streets Like sidewalk chalk When Hatred's loaded Gun is cocked Beyond reproaches Tick tick tock How could they stop The Doomsday Clock When despots trade In human stock Waging war Upon this rock As profits slaughter More livestock The end approaches Tick tick tock No hope to stop The Doomsday Clock As poisoned skies Corrode this rock With toxic lies Controlling hourglass of sand Clenched by Atlas choking hand Titans of industry command Still Chronos rules This dying land
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Sep 4, 2016
Sep 4, 2016 at 2:09 PM UTC
The Doomsday Clock
If Napoleon had read Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' he would stay in bed all day long with Josephine instead of waging war in Russia.
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Apr 26, 2018
Apr 26, 2018 at 9:22 PM UTC
NONSENSE VERSE 5
This is to all those misfits To the Romeo car-washing in Inglewood inlets To the Hippy selling crystals on the Venice boardwalk The Magician swallowing 8-balls at the Huntington Beach peer The Rapper selling CDs in the Ranch Market parking lot The **** tatting in a makeshift garage The Poet slinging chapbooks at cafes and rec centers… Not androids pontificating from lecterns But grimy roots burrowing deep Seismic rumblings toppling down Insured ivory towers Smashing pilled-paradigms beneath Docs Hustling and slinging In the forbidden outshacks of civilization In tents, over barbed-wire, beside shards Desperate and burning For neither Truth or Beauty But for LIFE They do not tap wrists No,  they thump chests To feel it beat To feel it rage For fugitive fugues For new eternities They embrace ********** romance Graveyard necromance The holy hunger for change Defying commercials and charts Shivering and howling on streets Waging guerrilla war Liberating cubicled-hearts
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Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 at 8:20 PM UTC
Ode to Misfits
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told you the truth about my distancing myself. I've stopped worrying about my misshapen life. It was no better and no worse than the usual human tragedies. For over thirty years we have been waging our dispute As we do now, on the island under the skies of the tropics. We flee a downpour, in an instant the bright sun again, And I grow dumb, dazzled by the emerald essence of the leaves. We submerge in foam at the line of the surf, We swim far, to where the horizon is a tangle of banana bush, With little windmills of palms. And I am under accusation: That I am not up to my oeuvre, That I do not demand enough from myself, As I could have learned from Karl Jaspers, That my scorn for the opinions of this age grows slack. I roll on a wave and look at white clouds. You are right, Jeanne, I don't know how to care about the salvation of my soul. Some are called, others manage as well as they can. I accept it, what has befallen me is just. I don't pretend to the dignity of a wise old age. Untranslatable into words, I chose my home in what is now, In things of this world, which exist and, for that reason, delight us: Nakedness of women on the beach, coppery cones of their ******* Hibiscus, alamanda, a red lily, devouring With my eyes, lips, tongue, the guava juice, the juice of la prune de Cythère, *** with ice and syrup, lianas-orchids In a rain forest, where trees stand on the stilts of their roots. Death, you say, mine and yours, closer and closer, We suffered and this poor earth was not enough. The purple-black earth of vegetable gardens Will be here, either looked at or not. The sea, as today, will breathe from its depths. Growing small, I disappear in the immense, more and more free.
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Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told you the truth about my distancing myself. I've stopped worrying about my misshapen life. It was no better and no worse than the usual human tragedies. For over thirty years we have been waging our dispute As we do now, on the island under the skies of the tropics. We flee a downpour, in an instant the bright sun again, And I grow dumb, dazzled by the emerald essence of the leaves. We submerge in foam at the line of the surf, We swim far, to where the horizon is a tangle of banana bush, With little windmills of palms. And I am under accusation: That I am not up to my oeuvre, That I do not demand enough from myself, As I could have learned from Karl Jaspers, That my scorn for the opinions of this age grows slack. I roll on a wave and look at white clouds. You are right, Jeanne, I don't know how to care about the salvation of my soul. Some are called, others manage as well as they can. I accept it, what has befallen me is just. I don't pretend to the dignity of a wise old age. Untranslatable into words, I chose my home in what is now, In things of this world, which exist and, for that reason, delight us: Nakedness of women on the beach, coppery cones of their ******* Hibiscus, alamanda, a red lily, devouring With my eyes, lips, tongue, the guava juice, the juice of la prune de Cythère, *** with ice and syrup, lianas-orchids In a rain forest, where trees stand on the stilts of their roots. Death, you say, mine and yours, closer and closer, We suffered and this poor earth was not enough. The purple-black earth of vegetable gardens Will be here, either looked at or not. The sea, as today, will breathe from its depths. Growing small, I disappear in the immense, more and more free.
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All night the army came up from Gilgal To get to the killing field, and that's all. In the ground, warf and woof, lay the dead. I want to die in My own bed. Like slits in a tank, their eyes were uncanny, I'm always the few and they are the many. I must answer. They can interrogate My head. But I want to die in My own bed. The sun stood still in Gibeon. Forever so, it's willing to illuminate those waging battle and killing. I may not see My wife when her blood is shed, But I want to die in My own bed. Samson, his strength in his long black hair, My hair they sheared when they made me a hero Perforce, and taught me to charge ahead. I want to die in My own bed. I saw you could live and furnish with grace Even a lion's den, if you've no other place. I don't even mind to die alone, to be dead, But I want to die in My own bed.
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War Is Like Water and Whiskey Changing men Every shot Altering consciousness The more Shots one takes The stronger the drink War Take a shot Whiskey Take another And I wander How many People in bars Are still Waging war In their minds
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 2:45 PM UTC
War and Whiskey
Some throw themselves to fire Some to a raging wave We throw ourselves at words Doubly as dangerous…but brave We string along a sentence We bleed line by line Scraping along defences We grind the grit and rhyme Defying the babblers battle Waging war with a world where words have no meaning or power when they’re hurled We’ll never decay or go rotten We’ll be writing till we’re read They may shut us till we’re forgotten   But they’ll quote us when we’re dead
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May 4, 2023
May 4, 2023 at 10:17 PM UTC
Quote me
War of the worlds,                                 men bartering money Dollar bills left abandoned,                                                blown to smithereens Battling dusts of torment,                                             acceptance of surrender Waging a money war,                                        business men flee In the shadows rises,                                    a fallen angel Akin to a phoenix,                                 from the ashes She symbolizes a renewal,                                              dying in fires Sparks burning a nest,                                        immortality supplying coffins Diabolical legacies of past,                                              bow & arrow Punctured wounding broken heart,                                                              wings disallow flight Stumbling a splintered hip,                                                reborn a chance Of independent determined autonomy,                                                                     la Cuesta Encantada Fallen at the gates,                                 an enchanted hill San Simeon seeking redemption,                                                         death awaits her Carrying body & soul,                                        Santa María Maggiore Of Roman baroque temples,                                                  small cascading pools Death releases her body,                                          the Neptune pool She floats without dissension,                                                    sinking in grace In all her glory,                            Hearst Castle will Entomb body & soul,                                       memories of her release release release Absolution. © Sia Jane
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM UTC
Phoenix (from the flames)
War of the worlds,                                 men bartering money Dollar bills left abandoned,                                                blown to smithereens Battling dusts of torment,                                             acceptance of surrender Waging a money war,                                        business men flee In the shadows rises,                                    a fallen angel Akin to a phoenix,                                 from the ashes She symbolizes a renewal,                                              dying in fires Sparks burning a nest,                                        immortality supplying coffins Diabolical legacies of past,                                              bow & arrow Punctured wounding broken heart,                                                              wings disallow flight Stumbling a splintered hip,                                                reborn a chance Of independent determined autonomy,                                                                     la Cuesta Encantada Fallen at the gates,                                 an enchanted hill San Simeon seeking redemption,                                                         death awaits her Carrying body & soul,                                        Santa María Maggiore Of Roman baroque temples,                                                  small cascading pools Death releases her body,                                          the Neptune pool She floats without dissension,                                                    sinking in grace In all her glory,                            Hearst Castle will Entomb body & soul,                                       memories of her release release release Absolution. © Sia Jane
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"The global bull market has continued its seemingly relentless advance, unchanged by geopolitical concerns…….." • The Israeli-Hamas conflict now blazing in Gaza, Palestine, two military forces locked in a deadly struggle to the end, killing and maiming thousands of ordinary citizens. • Malaysia Airlines flight 17 blasted out of a clear blue Ukraine sky by the Bus surface to air missile              unleashed by the Pro-Russian Separatists killing 298 unsuspecting, innocent, international travellers.              Culpability denied by all. • Anwar Al Awlaki, the American born Cleric, directing clandestine terror attacks and assassination by Al Qaeda beyond the Middle east into Asia and Europe. • Deposed President, Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, responsible for terrorist activities including multiple car bombings throughout Egypt. • President Bashar Assad of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Syria’s Shiite religion, waging religious genocide against his own nations people              and now in open conflict with the Muslim uprising Sunni forces of the new Isis Caliphate. • The beheadings, slaughter and terror unleashed by the Sunni, Isis Caliphate uprising rampaging through Iraq. • Russia’s sudden invasion and forceful annexation of the Crimea. • Russia’s brutal pressure on the sovereignty of the Ukraine through its clandestine weaponry supply and sponsorship of the Pro-Russian Separatist Forces occupying the nations East. The Middle East is now…an Apocalypse. This epoch of cruel waste Where man kills man For God and gold, For power’s lust. Where the Sword of Calamity Wields destruction and death On those who can least afford it By they who should never impose it. **In the face of all this …..an unbelievable prioritization with this headline quote from today’s NZ Herald…. “There are financial risks to be endlessly jumping at shadows…to overreact to market noise!"** UNBELIEVABLE!!!! M. Auckland, NEW ZEALAND 31 July 2014
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 4:59 PM UTC
Perspectives of Priority
"The global bull market has continued its seemingly relentless advance, unchanged by geopolitical concerns…….." • The Israeli-Hamas conflict now blazing in Gaza, Palestine, two military forces locked in a deadly struggle to the end, killing and maiming thousands of ordinary citizens. • Malaysia Airlines flight 17 blasted out of a clear blue Ukraine sky by the Bus surface to air missile              unleashed by the Pro-Russian Separatists killing 298 unsuspecting, innocent, international travellers.              Culpability denied by all. • Anwar Al Awlaki, the American born Cleric, directing clandestine terror attacks and assassination by Al Qaeda beyond the Middle east into Asia and Europe. • Deposed President, Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, responsible for terrorist activities including multiple car bombings throughout Egypt. • President Bashar Assad of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Syria’s Shiite religion, waging religious genocide against his own nations people              and now in open conflict with the Muslim uprising Sunni forces of the new Isis Caliphate. • The beheadings, slaughter and terror unleashed by the Sunni, Isis Caliphate uprising rampaging through Iraq. • Russia’s sudden invasion and forceful annexation of the Crimea. • Russia’s brutal pressure on the sovereignty of the Ukraine through its clandestine weaponry supply and sponsorship of the Pro-Russian Separatist Forces occupying the nations East. The Middle East is now…an Apocalypse. This epoch of cruel waste Where man kills man For God and gold, For power’s lust. Where the Sword of Calamity Wields destruction and death On those who can least afford it By they who should never impose it. **In the face of all this …..an unbelievable prioritization with this headline quote from today’s NZ Herald…. “There are financial risks to be endlessly jumping at shadows…to overreact to market noise!"** UNBELIEVABLE!!!! M. Auckland, NEW ZEALAND 31 July 2014
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