Stories tagged “POETRY”
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Falling Out
Nestled in my lap, dense curls of red, Bouncy spindles of fragrance, Further down, soft white canvas, Her face, Little red vein under left nostril, Peaking behind concealer, Pursed doll lips, Summer eyes like algae at the bottom of a pool, Engulfing, A...
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Silk Starlight
Lukewarm rain Is like unseen blood Dealt from unfelt pain Not even a tickle of hair Stirs in the soft stillness That fills up this air With sun beams and spiders Unreeling starlight in silk Fading from the ceiling Cascading like milk
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Phallic Heads of The Rose (Free-Write Randomness)
Populate fate With a populous of optimists— Opportunists tuning the music Fusing clueless, useless, musing To fantastic, classic, grooving That’s fast, elastic, and moving Dance in accordance To the sentences sense of importance The ca...
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Faster Than Time Can Capture
How Does now, The present, Cement moments In increments Of instants That travel Such a distance At a standstill— At speeds faster Than time Can capture?— I’m fine It’s just that after I break Down each action I take Into it...
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Lily Shadows
Daylight slices Grass to blades It passes away as Lily shadows wilt to gray; The hills are Filled with graves They sway under night Like sharks in waves Their moonlit teeth Have come to graze On a waft of frost Where the leaf decays I strike a match ...
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Quick Courtship-- Poetic Pick-up Line
My likes Include Nice nights— The kind kind, Hot food, Spiced rice, A calm mind, And you— You’d suffice For a warm slice Of slumber under The morning skylights
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Gold Bits Amidst Numbness
Twirling a frayed thread Afraid of what it was I must’ve said Because It does Sting To be aware of So much Of such A comforting feeling High above Once valid Now stunting Pallid Infected by What I wanted To do Haunted I never did Instead I hid Fr...
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Sit There, Still and Quiet Now
A quick and dirty poem - - - - - Sit there, still and quiet now I’ll help you make it through We’ve been together for so long It’s the least I could do I’m here for you when boredom strikes To kill the hours away No reason to go exercise Or se...
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Your Patient Awaits Treatment, Doctor
He needs a neurotic antibiotic, If you’re not too hectic now. And a narcissistic antiseptic, If you’d conclude to allow. Call a cathartic medic. He’s heart sick With a nickel to his name. Rip the IV from his vein. Don’t worry,...
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A Cold Night in October
Standing amidst barren trees and under stars It is summer again Two people meet awakening tides of emotions Long since abandoned Blood roars along hot beds of both of their veins One wears a false face Hope and Fear battle for eons; for seconds She loo...
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To Love
It came soaked in tears Covered in blood And weighted by fears It came fallen and broke Alone and unsure Clung only to hope It came from a long, winding road Lost and misguided Yet, onward it strode It devoured despair And picked up the heart That lied...
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A Lovely Cliche
You’ve split my heart wide open And with each word gently flowing from your lips My soul is filling with devotion It’s the look in your eyes And the sound of your heart beating within mine As we wish we weren’t saying goodbye Love fil...
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And so he falls?
A two-step to the choice. A commitment made of the present As it’s very nature contorts and yields. As when by a superior force. Defenses shatter. Tender, sharp proves the doubt. But no counter-moves are allowed. Waves batter and the din’...
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An Untitled Poem
Drowning in your eyes Warm puddles of green. The water looked so inviting but now I’m drowning in you. To silence my choking cries Merely close your emerald eyes. Darkness and silence, I think I’d rather be buried. If you keep me captive in...
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Falling Up
For weeks I’ve spiraled down, Down into a dark despair.. For weeks I’ve been numb.. Numb and without a care. You were there, you were there. For days I’ve felt nothing, Nothing and nothing and nothing. For days I’ve been dead.. ...
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Rhythm of the Sky
Watching the clouds, Narrate their stories.. Of pure love and hate, the hist’ry of man. Float by the dragons, The demons of late. Cavemen and Kings, They’re all the same. Plagues and famine, rotting the land. Send in the flood, destroying i...
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He, the Night.
I have stolen. I have killed. I have captured people’s wills. In the night their blood is spilled, by my hand, their lives beholden to my whim and grand design. Who has fortune? Gone it is. After planned analysis, reputations are maligned, for my...
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Hello, Dear December
Hello, dear December, the last but not the least. Arriving opportunely when my sorrow is increased, You give a glimpse of hope, a light within this barren hour, Sustaining me through Winter, when all other hope has ceased. Hello, dear December. My hear...
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Worth
How have I failed entirely to prove the worth I feel must be inherent to my life? My soul has lost the drive for futile goals, their purpose now a mystery. I shrink within redundancy, my cries a hollow, lifeless plea for meaning in a broken world of ha...
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Whorship
In the cover of blackness -of night and scant dress- they boarded our vessel and forced us to wrestle. In each hand a gun they knocked all us down, all britches and garters battling with no quarters. They were not crazy, not even old Daisy even though ...
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Put Your Fear Away
You poor homophobes Slaves to misunderstanding- Who are you to judge? Which God demands hate? Righteousness doesn’t work that way Hypocritic critics Embrace the future Embrace each other in love Build a better world
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The Challenge of Love is to Overcome Fear [Rap]
Paralyzed with indecision, Pair of eyes seeing double vision Wishing I could just say hello, Sifting for gold at a bordello, Jello for legs, love is a plague No, love is a cage makin my heartbreak, Faking a happy life without a wife, Waking up crying w...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
I will climb on the shoulders of giants, and look to the sulking sky, never such withering boredom, never such a deafening cry. I will be eagerly searching for God, or maybe depose him and make up my own, I will chase the horizon and play with the clou...
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You Know Who You Are
Torment my mind and dispatch my hope to a barren landscape Wither and cry until nothing cheers me up…tangled in this sordid tale A farce about love…about my life I became a prisoner to HER emotions… I was lost when she found me and now I am a...
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Brittle
A clean break, you said. It will be better this way, you said. A hollow laugh escaped my pale lips. So why not take my frail, aged bones and give them a clean break as well? I tried to phone the doctor, to ask him his professional opinion on the mat...