Updated April 13, 1998
Crawl in a corner and pray and let the spirits fall down
they'll rest on your eye lids to help you see
they'll whisper in your soul and you won't feel a thing
they'll tremble in your body to keep you still
they'll take your hand and help you remember
they will loose you to the ends of the earth with no return
they'll vanish from your heart and leave you cold
they'll dance away your prayers and take you to the heavens.
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THIS IS FOR ROBIN MY TRUE LOVE
THINKING ABOUT YOU
I SIT AROUND THINKING.
LISTEN TO ALL THE RUMORS FLY.
I WONDER WHY?
I WAIT AROUND A WHILE JUST TO SEE.
I WONDER WHY YOUR NOT HEAR WITH ME?
I SIT HEAR WOUNDING?
WILL YOU COME?
WHY SHOULD YOU?
YOUR TO GOOD FOR ME.
OR ARE YOU?
TO MY GIRLS. JEREMIAH LATIMER
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LOVE AND HATE
THE FEEL IN MY HEART IS IT LOVE OR IS IT HATE?
I WONDER IF I LOVE OR DO I HATE?
I THINK IT'S LOVE BUT I'M NOT SURE.
COULD I HATE? I SHALL NOT THINK.
I CHOSE TO LOVE AND NOT HATE.
I WILL LOVE FOREVER AND NOT NEVER HATE AGAIN.
I WILL LOVE FOR HEART AND INNER BEAUTY.
SOME FOR BEAUTY AND NOT LOVE.
THE DECIDING BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE.
LOVE FOREVER!
ROBIN AND JEREMIAH
FOREVER
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In the eyes of an adult,
I am a child,
In the eyes of a child,
I am the adult,
In the eyes of my peers,
I am a friend,
In my own eyes,
I am me,
The adult,
The child,
The friend
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DREAMS
Woke up this morning
pillow soaked with sweat.
Thoughts I can't remember
dreams I won't forget.
Guilt spinning-spinning
turmoil beyond control.
Have I lost my sanity
will I lose my soul?
Fifty cups of coffee won't
keep these dreams away
Tonight they will return
no matter how hard I pray.
I cry out for mercy- I beg
the morning to come.
I can't escape these dreams
a sleeping body can't run.
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Open Arms
Never Near, Never Far,
Shining brightly like a star.
Enjoy the comfort of your friends,
Sad or happy it all depends.
Searching for faces you might meet,
While walking down an empty street.
Looking at your life in doubt,
A good friend you will not be without.
Friends may come and friends may go,
But I'll be waiting with open arms.
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MAKE-UP
Every morning
Every single morning when I wake up
I smear creams and powders all over my face
I coat my eyelashes with thick paint
Just so that you'll look at me twice.
But my make-up is lost on you.
Hours taken away from my life
To curl my lashes
make myself presentable
only wastes me away to nothing
As I melt into a puddle of
Cover Girl
And paint
and Maybelline.
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"Letting Someone Grow"
To love someone is to give them room to grow,
But to let them know,
Is the love you show.
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Allusions
All they are,
or seem to be--
my love and my mate:
Allusions of yesterday--
Allusions of happy songs--
The denial of my own past wrongs.
by Ben Sanchez
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(Untitled)
How creepy they must feel;
Those words you use
from a forgotten past;
those words that seem to be
growing as old as the mold
from last year's milk
that still sits in your refrigerator.
How gross they must look;
The thoughts you create,
while sitting on the can,
staring ever so attentively
at your porno magazine.
<work in progress>
By Ben Sanchez
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SEED
sow the seed of doubt,
it grows it chokes,
the bloom of love
falls to the ground
the farmer is proud,
the seed grows tall,
the flower is dead
it's beauty gone.
the wind blew strong,
the seed still young,
falls to the ground
like the flower once killed.
the farmer weeps,
the seed is dead,
the flower is no more...
there is none left.
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this is the poetry upon thee.
this is how i feel when i write about u ladie
let me know if these be the flow.
i broke open the black window.
you are the black widow.
what am i luckin' fo?
i need to know.
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ME AND THIS
this is me.
this is us.
this is a poem.
this is solid.
this is what it is.
this is night.
this is day.
this is untitled?
this is knowledge.
this is America?
this is forgiven.
this is crazy.
this is what you want it to be.
this is what we are.
this is my fancy automobile.
this is my book.
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crazy?
this is tight and i write.
i make day into night.
then i write.
this is tight and i write.
we make it crazy.
f*****s are lazy.
they hate change.
so rearrange.
this is crazy.
this is not lazy.
make it known.
this poetry is blown.
this is what we love.
this is what i think of.
my name be what it says.
play by the rules.
play with no more fools.
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Another one.
i like writing poems.
internet set.
this is the web site.
they ain't ready yet.
tell me this. . .
we will the earth miss?
i gave my black woman a kiss.
let it be known.
i wont throw a stone.
i rather that you leave it alone.
this is why we must do or die.
this is why it is up in the sky.
so i write this.
why and when will the earth miss?
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lonely
tears that fall in the dark of night,
when no one's there to see;
a lonely heart, a lonely mind,
a sad and lonely me.
love that brought much happiness,
now brings so much pain.
your love has gone, but mine has grown,
now teardrops fall like rain.
a broken heart that you walked on,
when you walked out the door.
a lonely heart, a lonely mind,
won't feel love anymore.
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Hatred bears no true reason,
it should pass...with each season
When understanding takes it's place..
then forgiveness fills that space.
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Something to Believe in
You can't get something for nothing.
Then you realize you can only get one thing.
You can't believe in everything,
Yet you believe in something.
Which is nothing to another.
It shows how different it is for each other.
And when something exists for all to see,
Only some of all shall see it,
But that is the between you and me.
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Mirror of Truth
Mirror of Truth As the hand of each day closes it' the perfect time to relax, introspect and look into my own mirror of truth To see if I need to communicate, educate or amend any actions or thoughts I've executed If we're gonna be at all Let's not ever fall.
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I'm feeling so secure in your arms
looking into the glassyness of your eyes
seeing
for once in this wretched life
seeing a soul
knowing you love me
no more insecurities
touch me
the way your soul instructs you too
know I love you
your telling me the
same story
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Listening to Billie sing her blues
Maniacal laughter
coming from my soul
Soul?
not me
giggling
at the thought
see me
Kiss me
feel me
never
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My Friend, Loneliness.
mad and bare
away we drool and ache
the juice of loneliness pumping
through indignant veins
and flowing like dreams that blow
through midnight's wind
enrapturing the dreamers
like shrouds fit for invisible men.
i saw it once
sharp and vindictive
waiting to pounce
eating away at the hardness
bone-tight and stuttering
it is swarming like virtue that bleeds
needlessly
and unfit for view
hidden like a broken heart
that had no beat.
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FEAR
Fear is sweaty palms,
before your first date.
Fear is adrenaline pumping,
before the first punch.
Fear is waking up,
with no one there.
Fear is crying aloud,
after you've lost your love.
Fear is being alone,
wondering if anyone cares.
Fear is losing your family,
left with no one for support.
Fear is walking in the dark,
thinking someone's there.
Fear is in everything,
it portrays our lives.
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yesterday i was the ocean
yesterday i was the ocean, my fierce waves crashing against the earth,
my roar thundering for miles, scaring children whose mothers told them to stay far away.
today i am the sandy beach being pushed from every angle,
comforted by only wet rocks and cold water, feeling desperately alone.
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My heart aches for you will never know,
the depth of my emotions and how I love you so.
I ran from our future,
to be caught in our past,
Our past is all that I have left.
You begged me not to run away,
but to no surprise I did.
You know that love is hard for me Marcus,
But also you know what we can be.
Please, open up and let me in,
So we may begin again.
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DANGER
HOW MUCH DAMAGE CAN REALLY BE DONE,
WHEN YOU SET OUT TO HURT OR DESTROY SOMEONE.
CAN YOU MAKE THEM WISH THAT THEY WERE NEVER BORN,
LEAVING THERE DREAMS SHATTERED AND TORN.
THERE HAS TO BE A CROSSROADS, SOMEWHERE TO DRAW THE LINE
THE PUNISHMENT IS NOT FOR YOU TO DECIDE, SO WHY NOT BE KIND.
ITS NOT REALLY THAT HARD TO SEE, IT'S NOT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS.
IT'S ALL THAT YOU CAN BE,,,,,,,,
All I want to do is love.
Love who? love you, love anyone.
Why is that so hard for me?
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A soap bar for the shower,
A hook to hang your clothes,
Remember where you put them,
To get them at your return,
But there is no returning,
There was no need for soap,
Not a shower but a gassing,
And it was the end of hope.
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Alone in my room at night,
I lie on my bed.
Wishing I never heard those words,
You shouldn't have said
I wish I had a window
so I could look into the eyes of the sky
Because unlike people,
stars would never lie
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"Polished"
by
+ johnny f.n.hollywood +
shining ,the
AXE
shining, the
AXE
Shine
shank break shank steak
polished till the sun don't shine
moonlight
polished
shining, the
AXE
shining ,the
AXE
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I dream-walked through your sleep last night,
Did you hear me creep along?
My voice was no more than a whisper,
But did you strain to hear my song?
I dream-walked through your sleep last night,
A floating ghost-like mist
Moving steadily like the early morning fog,
Slipping back once again to reminisce.
I dream-walked through your sleep last night,
As a dark and lonely shadow would.
You lay there so blissfully ignorant...
Would you reach out for me if you could?
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..in the empty hand i hold my soul
try my best not to let go
put it in a box with a fluttering dream
a life, a whisper and a butterfly's wing
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in her eyes
like ice on the sea
i am drowning
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she...she lies down with the leaves
because he has gone away and she somehow slipped between
and like rain or grains of sand
she fell between his heart and hands
now she waits for the wind to come again
and take the leaves away
she...she stares up at the sky
because the leaves have all left her behind
and she knows where they've gone
she just can't go
and so and so
she lets them go
and the wind lifts her up
it takes her away
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"I REMEMBER"
SUMMER TOLD ME
THAT HEAVEN IS DEAD,
DEAD TO SHADOWS
AND FORBIDDEN THOUGHT,
DREAM HER EYES
THROUGH IN
A SACRED LAND,
THIS POURING HOUR
WHERE
I MEET THE RAIN.
-TO NICOLE WITH ENDLESS LOVE
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"SKULL OF ME"
FREE THESE SCARS
AS DEATH HIDES,
BLACK LIGHTS BLOOM
BESIDE THE DAY,
AND REST
WITH GLIMPSES
OF GOLD,
THUNDER CALLS
IN LIKES OF DESPAIR,
BREATHE
AND FORGET.
-YOWT
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TRANSFORMER
Shotgun blast--
transformer blew,
civilization flees!
Silence. Forget the coffee.
Dying memory scatters in the computer.
The refrigerator groans, wounded.
Grab a flashlight, write a poem,
wait for the twentieth century.
Heat would be nice,
a warm shower, a little music.
I miss your browser's touch.
One missing link and it's great Caesar,
and Christ in sandals!
I understand the slow passage of their days.
What will the kids do without MTV?
Someone PLLLEASEEeeeeee,
light a candle!
Charles Albano, 1998
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Early Spring
by Craig Steiger
So amorous I feel
These exuberant first days of Spring
I even fell in love
With the old Japanese woman
Sweeping behind Kula Kula Restaurant
Who gave me penny candies
As I repaired Howard's deck
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UNTITLED
How do I live?
As if no tomorrows exist
How do I love?
Pure and True
How do I see?
Ahead and never back
Where do I go?
Always forward and never back
How do I hear
With my heart
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MY DESIRE
Baby brain,
In chunks of plenty.
Dancing upon my window sill..
The innards of my haunting prey,
diluted in your juice, now jell.
Eyes sewn shut with fishing line..
Optic nerves and parts of mine..
Sucked through this straw,
your tube of need..
To keep you strong,
and make me bleed.
by: cliff bortoletto (caffiene, woodenboxx)
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REST IN PIECES
Trapped within this cage of flesh,
my mind still dwells, will it find rest?
When maggots take refuge,
in this rotting corpse..
Freely I'll ride, on that fiery horse.
South on your path,
the trail through your mind.
To comfort the thoughts,
and secrets you'll find.
by:cliff bortoletto
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FANTASY LAND
A dream held close,
for which one breathes.
Brings endless desire,
for imaginary needs.
When dream finds truth, you will regret.
Hell finds yourself, your heart now stops.
What a time you had!
In your self-generated life.
You are nothing but my loss of blood,
yet you continue to dream,
and seduce, now dead.
For you are what you seem..
A life in my head.
by:cliff bortoletto
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Did We Speak
where am I
have you seen me
am I really gone
or was I never here
do you know me did we speak
or was it just a knowing glance
what are we ...are we lovers
or are we strangers just by chance
what is this.... is this something new
who am I do you know me
or am I really you?
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CHILDREN RUN IN GRASS
THEIR FORMS ARE WASHED IN THE SUN
THEY KISS THE SUMMER
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As the death bell tolled
you could hear their hearts breaking
saying I love you so
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The Teenager
My innocence is genius!
My speculations, the refurbished few,
are prophetic revelations!
insinuating insights-
my own exclusive view.
But such profound naiveté
has often been mistaken
for enlightened edification
by fools,
and i.
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An ant army came into town
They shot all the grasshoppers down
They ate all the treats
Including the beats
And the soldiers marched off without frowns
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In fall the leaves start to Quake
The trees start to shiver and shake
Leaves fall off the trees
with the greatest of ease
And some do fall into the lake
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What is a Whatchamadingle?
What is a Whatchamadingle?
Does it like to mingle?
Is it like a wrinkle?
what is a whatchamadingle?
Is it a mirage?
is it like a garage?
What is a whachamadingle?
Does it have fingers and toes?
What about a nose?
What is a whachamadingle?
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Through absence
presence of mind
knowledge of the heart
visions of the soul
a lone man
walking backward
forward in life
all alone
within a crowd
a piercing silence
seems so loud
not knowing whether
to come or go
a constant agony
all alone
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Over distance
a silent voice calls
an eager eye
gladly hears
a smiling word
a gentle laugh
a friend to share
this lonely path
maybe in time
as we follow through
I might rightly say
I.......
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I begin, if I understand that
In trying to reason my past
I lie to myself, consciously or unconsciously.
Then, I know that I must treat all answers I
produce as lies even though they may in fact
be truth. In knowing this though
do I not perpetrate another lie
and therefore come to the truth?
I begin again
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"Haiku Robin"
Red bellied songbird
Singing for an early spring
Pretense is your name
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I walked up to Death
And poked him in the eye.
"Core blimey!" He shrieked
As I put on my tie.
He tried to kick me in the pants
But I simply walked away.
I laughed at him and
Happily went my way.
Curses and screams came from him
As I kicked a stone.
I won't forget Death,
I call him Mr. Bone.
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thru my eyes
by kat
the Weight of the World
falls on my shoulders.
i crumble and fall...
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Confusion surrounds my emotions for life
Within my heart lies the truth
Ignored by all others but me
Who cares...cries the night
It all doesn't matter in the end
So I kept my feelings to myself.. or so I thought
Until the unforeseen demon led me to the flames of hell
Now forever to be punished for his crime
The what if's will still remain...although
They are lessened briefly by sleep
And the thought of tomorrows new day
And, hopefully, a brighter dawn
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Future stands upon us
Future stands upon us,
as we holler as we fuss.
We fight the pain,
in the sun and rain.
day or night,
we will still fight.
there is a beginning,
but never an end.
future stands upon us.
by. JENNA RICHMOND
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watching birds eat french toast
next to the hotel
it's way too early and occasionally
i can smell the coffee and
you're in the back of my mind
outside the wind is moving the trees and
it's about that time to leave
waiting on the waitress to bring me my bill
suddenly a coldness
takes my skin from out of nowhere
as you move across the room
with her
and all i can do is give you a fitting grin
turn around and leave the diner
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I think of you as the days go by,
And I want you to know,
Everything inside me too did go.
I find myself thinking of you,
And I don't know why,
Sometimes I see you and my heart wants to cry.
I have my own life now,
But sometimes its hard to move on
For the feelings I had for you were once too
strong!!!
!!!!!!!
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Gentle breezes
Waterfalls
foot prints in the sand
Misty mornings
Sticky fingers
A magical make-believe land
Sunsets
starry skies
A cottage in the wood
Tropical Islands
Secret loves
Thinking that you should
Summer shopping
Second language
Wild wonderful deer
Wild flowers
Love Notes
Secrets whispered in your ear
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I bow
to you Master
For you have accomplished
what we all are striving to find
Greatness
within
Or so you say
All others are a joke
*or just me!?* according to you
Sorry...
I was led here
I'm still wondering WHY
I don't cause all these problems, or
want to
I just
write what I feel
Aren't we all allowed that
I KNOW reality....but still
it sucks
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TRUTH IS BEAUTY
FROM WHICH WE SEEK THROUGH OUR DREAMS.
SO CAUGHT UP IN OUR "OWN" REALITY
WE SEEM TO FORGET
THE LOGICAL "PURPOSE" OF LIFE.
WRITTEN BY:
LAURA LEE
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Love Poems (Continued) by M. McNamara
Change
Once I lived in emptiness,
Of love unknown, in cold and ice.
But now I share our happiness,
Pure joy, and light, and paradise.
What was it then, before I missed?
Your heartfelt love, your sweetened kiss.
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Its as if the angels
Came out today
The clouds cascaded
Shards of light
On the brims of my face
Leaving me
With an essence of
Pure Joy
I felt the sorrows and angers
Of yesterday
Escape into the dark
Clouded corners of the sky
I felt
Pure Joy
When I thought of you
And for once in my life
The angel smiled down on me.
~Jenn King~
wrk01@ibm.net
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TRUTH SELDOM SPENDS THE NIGHT
Splintered bits of truth reside
Somewhere in the brain,
Taking refuge deep inside,
Refusing sure reclaim.
Truth may appear in sight,
Like a timid, shadowed fawn,
But it will not spend the night,
To be captive to the dawn.
Charles Albano
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it takes me some time to find the words,
because I have never felt this emotion before.
i am young and so carefree,
i never thought someone would find the walls inside me.
you took the time to love me,
and showed me that someone can exist.
without the intention to cause me pain.
i was lost and you made me found.
you gave me a second chance.
i can not say I love you,
for I know not what love means.
i can just say that you are a part of my heart.
erin gross
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Happiest day
Wedding bells
Confetti thrown at
me
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immersed in left brain focus,
the right side says,
"take a break!"
breathe and see what glory
floats before your eyes.
layers of gray and white and blue
and promises of crimson.
in this moment,
this is your gift.
this is your heavenly reward.
this is why the other half
works so hard,
that moments like these
can be known
with joy and wonder.
pass these up and
you may as well be blind.
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See the little girl jumping rope?
With a slight smile, she lifts into the air.
Darkness is coming with little hope.
She just keeps hopping without a care.
Night falls quickly tonight.
No one calls the girl inside.
There is no one there to hold her tight.
No one there to be her guide.
Everyone has left her now.
Never a kiss she will receive.
No mother or father for her now.
No dreams for her to believe.
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sensuous rain
drips from the fir tree branches
I hold a teacup
wild hen turkeys
cross the road to the woods
just here some bear scat
gray sky like a shroud
tulips prepare to open
in red and yellow
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Dealt me... a hand of five
I'll stick to my dueces
and just pray I stay alive, dang
you win...But wait
you made the rules
while I wasn't looking
I blinked and missed a whole lot of
action. Gimme...just a second
to collect my hand...wait
I smell a stinking rat, and it's
not me....or you
who all's playing
I think you mistook me
pardner for some other cowpoke
who cheats
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Take a left past my heart
onto the highway of your wildest dreams
I wish you luck and love....
and whatever will make you happy
It's just easier to forget that I
ever existed....feelings are much
easier to ignore...for you that is
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Silhouette
My shadow wears
a tight leather jacket
body glitter,
a fisherman's hat,
and she knows
how to let go. Her hair
she wears down and
never brushes it
and she lives
to be herself, she is
as plain as day.
May shadow is a leopard
who slyly swoops the
spotlight under her shoes
and hides nothing from
anyone, but creeps
slowly along in the grass
and persuades me to
wear her
hat.
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Tim Kelly
Slaughter will never be the same without you.
For you were the power and drive behind them.
The best in the world.
Your skill and talent was very powerful and moving.
Now I don't know what to do without you here.
You always made my day, Tim.
Now they will never be the same.
I look back to the first time I heard you and go
WOW WHAT A GUITARIST.
Your fans will never forget you.
I know I never will.
February 1998
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Love is...
Love is lonely, searching for a friend
Love is tears, dropping till the end
Love is doubtful, thriving on disbelief
Love is pain, hurting without relief
Love is deadly, killing without hope
Love is power, with which I can't cope.
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I wish
Fall is almost over
the leaves are on the ground
snow will soon be falling
i wish you were still around
i need you to keep me warm
on those cold winter days
i wish you were still with me
i need you in so many ways
why did you have to leave me?
i feel as cold as stone
i wish you were still here
i can't face the winter alone.
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Springtime
By Aimee Kling age 8
Springs the time when birdies sing Butterflies color up the sky people smile
rainbows shine and other animals like to dine with wine. They enjoy springtime
because its the laugh, play and sing time.
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Pain and Creation
Pain, it's pain
Not joy and jubilation
that sets pen to paper
brush to canvas
bow to strings
Heart wrenching pain
pain of choices made
pain of opportunities lost
pain of love dashed
Heartfelt words of sorrow
sentimental notes weeping a life's regrets
The heart bleeds Art, Music, Words
Blood, the paint of life
shed for love
love and pain
pain and love
pain and creation.
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Updated (finally) April 5, 1998
Wintry
Bone breaking cold
Soaking into flesh like sewerage,
Leaching marrow.
Brittle, hard ground
Splintered and frayed by winter's
Stay over.
Wind rushing past cruelly
Disregarding everything
But its path.
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Show not the eyes to sudden fear.
I stand before you, baring my naked soul.
Show not the eyes of sudden pleasure.
Giving you everything that is me.
So bare to me what your heart conceals.
I cry for your nothingness that taunts you.
Give life to what seems as death.
And with a kiss I give you that life.
SpunkySpice@webtv.net
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Forty-six degrees
overcast
observation
introspection
return to
you
diversion
recollection
full-circle
facing
you
I toil
I wander
I spin
my axis is you
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a world full of land and water
sand soft and wet at my back
lavishing dark colors swirl in the sky like a river of wishes
eyes sparkling by a tree of gold come to me
down a road i run until i am no more
an instant of awareness devastates my thoughts and beliefs
awaking to sounds so unfamiliar
a strange new world...
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Your silent portrait on the wall
Doesn't answer back at all
Memories of you remain
In the sun and in the rain
Captured moments turn back time
Relived kisses in my mind
But rules of life still do apply
How to live
How to die
Shallow people look to see
How they'd break up you and me
Can't you find my hand held out?
Do not fear me
Do not doubt
Wherever you go
Wherever they send
Just promise you'll come to me in the end
Pretend
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U Sae I Sae.
By Jose Aviles Jr.
Troubled dreams,
Expressions.
Y can't any1 stand me?
under
i sae it,
U want it:
Changed - to sound different.
And
Said - 2 b proper.
It's me, mi views.
How i c it.
Not you.
Eye leave u 2 reed.
2 comprehend what i rite.
Can't guess?
No clue?
Can't stand?
under
2 bad.
Eye rite it,
U reed it.
i don't change a thing.
U tri 2 c what i c.
Y i do what i do.
Don't tell me i do what i do is wrong.
U r not me.
stand that 1st.
under
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I gave you my heart
But you pushed me away
I professed my love
Day after day
You said
I'm sorry, I don't feel the same
15 minutes later
You had forgotten my name
But that's not the way
That I feel about you
I hope that one day
You'll love me too
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Darkness has taken over me,
It will never go away,
I feel it hovering over me,
Every single day,
People feel down,
Sometime in their life,
But this isn't sadness,
This is death with still life,
This is no depression,
This isn't something for tears,
My tears have diminished,
And there is nothing i fear,
You can kill me here and now,
As if I really care,
My soul has flown away,
Though my body still remains.
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Will You Be...
Will you be there in heaven,
after you turn seven?
Will you be above,
flying like a dove?
Will you be within me,
as my body grows like a tree?
Will you be there in the night,
shining with the stars so bright?
Written by
Sarah
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Loving you that way is truly a work of art
I feel your love touch me emotionally and spiritually
loving a man like you is like a puzzle
A puzzle that is well worth the effort and time
Continue to struggle to solve it without ending
Anticipating every move and then taking the initiative
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you
We would walk forever in my garden.
JMD
jennie-17@webtv.net
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Her Song
She is buried deep within the soul still she sings.
The song of prayer and midnight is her refrain.
Her voice crystal and strong.
To what outcome does she sing?
To call the angel demonic or to expel what already dwells within?
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My heart--
Your soul--
binds the heavens
and the stars into one
so that each--
from its individual self--
may define the word of love
into the eyes of each other
and share each other's passions
for all time--
under the same skies--
beneath the lovers' moon.
by Ben Sanchez
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Decisions
There once was a man from Peru,
who had ice cubes in his left shoe,
but in his right were hot coals of white
and he just didn't know what to do.
(So I bought him a new pair of shoes).
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The voice inside me,s he calls out your name,
If It means she's dying, will you take her pain?
The voice inside me she longs to be touched,
She's looking for your hand that denies so much.
The voice inside me, she feels so alone, she need your help,
You've become all that she knows.
The voice inside me she needs you, and she is apart of me
too,
She needs to know what more can she do?
JENNIFER DUCLOS
jennie-17@webtv.net
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Images From Our Past
Images from our past
go through my mind
of the way we were.
The way we used to be
which felt so right.
I don't know what this means!
It's almost as if,
were still meant to be.
I think all these memories
try to tell me something,
and to ease my pain.
As if one day in time
we will be,
once again...
Erika Dickson
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CAFFEINE
Darkness flowing thick, through these veins now clotted..
of saturated hate, for the love that speaks lies..
My heart pumps the desire, to seek pain, in beauty you behold.
Your eyes bring me closer to the butchering of my purity.
Anxiety inducing fluid, finds its way into my heart.
Dissolving hopes and dreams.. tears insides apart...
Now bleeding from the nose.. I think I've had enough.
But I feel so damn good... may i have another cup?
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Trust in yourself,
believe in yourself,
love yourself.
Words spoken to me ,
but by whom?
He was there with me ,
in my soul.
I could hear him,
feel him,
smell him.
Was he a dream?
Was he my reality?
Was he me?
Was he?
Am I?
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breathless skies
open to reveal
a deeper force.
And you flee from the world
tearing and tightening the bonds
that made you linger so long
and journey to a world
in which I have no passage.
Farewell my inspiration
farewell for present times
now that part of your eternal being
lives and sings
in my every beat and breath,
know that I wish and wait
for reunions beyond reckoning
when the torment of this world has passed
and clear skies come again.
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Love Poems (continued) by M. McNamara
Of Beauty
The moon shining on the sea,
And the oak, majestic in
the stand,
The birds singing in the trees,
And the waves
crashing on the sand,
The fields, plump with harvest grain,
And the stars
beaming in the skies;
But none of these can close compare,
Or match the
beauty of your eyes!
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Love Poems (continued) by M. McNamara
My Enemy
Who is my enemy?
My enemy is time.
When I am with you,
He makes the days end much too quickly.
He makes the
nights end far too early.
He makes us measure our
togetherness in minutes.
When we are apart,
He makes the days an endless torture.
He makes the
nights a lonely hell.
He mocks our separation with a cold
cadence.
I long for the day when our being together is beyond time's control.
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EPISTEMOLOGY
(Study of Knowledge)
FILL
me with your being
Even if my "I" cannot comprehend
SHOWER
me with your essence
And let me drink from my hand
PURITY, TRUTH, LOVE,
things everlasting
IN THIS QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE
Keith J. Hutchinson
(Boogie)
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I am a friend in your eyes,
You are a lover in mine.
I don't know how I can stand,
All these feelings inside.
Why don't you love me?
Why do I love you?
Why can't this be perfect?
How can this be true?
I don't want this to happen,
But it already has.
I don't like what this is doing to us.
I just don't want to be sad.
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"The Coming of Fall"
The tide waves its sweet goodbye
To the unsuspecting breeze
The summer is becoming a memory
Of warm days, and cool nights
A time when all is right
When people act as people should
Everyone is themselves
The beach is filled with millions
Wishing to wipe their troubles away
In a fun day in the sun
All of the memories are wiped away
In one season called fall
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Stand You Alone
Amongst the verdant stand, stand you alone,
In beauty
and life's joy, fair willow mine.
Wind caress'd arms, framed in night's starred
dome,
Softly beckon- Embrace my soul in thine!
Enchanting dancer, to thy side some I,
Over stream and
hill, and by paths anew,
To gaze on form sublime in moonlit sky,
Serene in
perfect grace- Oh wond'rous view!
Across forbidden glens I'll fain trespass,
Sweet
rapture- Can night's dim glow surpass?
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Sitting outside of me
looking in.
Seeing my threads wearing
oh so thin.
I don't have much patience
for what I see.
Sitting outside of me.
People think me, oh so kind.
I doubt they would
if they knew what was really on my mind.
Maybe you should take a good look,
and read what is written in my book.
As I have done. Sitting outside of me.
Afflictiun-H.C.
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Snowy Night in the Meadow
night is here... everything is quiet
feathers from God's pillow are falling from heaven
the breeze is whistling through the trees
the feathers dance in the air... then unwillingly float to the ground
rough edges become calm
more and more add to the sea
pure
smooth as silk
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I see you standing there
and you don't see me
What's the point of love?
if you know it will never be
So one day I picked put the phone to give you a ring
I talked to you a while them came a surprising thing
When I told you I loved you
it turned out you felt the same too
You set my soul free
and my heart in flames
One thing is so true
I love you
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MOON
The moon is rising,
The wind whistling through the trees,
A flower sleeping.
-- Brian Guth --
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NATURE
Beautiful flowers,
Miles of great green rolling hills,
Cool summer breezes.
-- Brian Guth --
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SUN
Shining rays of gold,
Extending out from the heat,
The hot sun is bright.
-- Brian Guth --
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There once was a tall boy
who wanted a small toy
he was always told
that he was too old
Poor big toyless Roy
by Artemio Belmontes
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What is....
by Tammie Dorsey
(Magic
Lady)
for what is in a name,
the name we label our hearts...
what is the meaning of this word we sometimes do utter,
capture the essence of this spellbound notion...
what is in this quote:
to make you stop and pause,
what is in this word or is it just because...
whisper it, say it loud I LOVE YOU,
damn that's profound.
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The sun sets in the west,
and the moon rises in the east.
Stars will begin to appear in the sky,
and the gate of new life will open,
Give me the peace of death,
and I'll show you the joy of life.
Author. *unknown*
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SURVIVAL
By Jeff Streba
Unfortunately,
Litter is not important.
Development is.
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Keeping with soul reminders-
Trudging towards sleepless slumbers-
Awakening disregarded emotions-
Climbing in blackened hearted
amusement rides-
Trying to feel-
Trying to hide-
Wish the girl was mine-
As outward I climb-
Inward I dream-
Backward I fly-
To the world as it seems-
Am I so blind-
Could I really hide-
Desperate alone-
Edging love back, close to home-
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i've looked into the eyes of despair
of love lost and
her golden blonde hair
i've heard that sweet song she sang
on every note my
broken heart hangs
as the wind sneaks through the heath
i smell that
sweet memory and weep
with distress she would crop and scold me
i close my eyes and think of her
on abated notions i
twist and stir
i'm tired of dreams and wishes
that don't come
true
Heath Van Fleet
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Sleep
Sleep is a Castle,
Far, Far away;
Mounted on top of
A Hill of Black
by hajile tloh
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Born today another babe
wading into wilderness
of men and things
lost machines
talking more for me
Taking on societies
a single lost endeavor
riding on the mind
can only be forever
Babe it's only life on earth
don't take it so tough
your speaking truth
old lies dilute
your end will be rebirth
Turn around in your innocence
it will not last for long
knowledge parts that sweet era
to twisting mad dilemma
Rusty Ford @ 1978
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FRIENDSHIP
I've had many friends
with whom
I've shared my words
But very few
with whom
I've shared my heart.
by, Paty Elizondo
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I fell in love once and he broke my heart,
Now it will be hard to have someone in my heart,
He had it all my love was true,
I just don't know if his words were true,
But now I know that we were meant to be apart.
By:
Ari G.
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When I saw you I fell
in love I won't forget the
moment I saw you.
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WHO KNOWS
Who knows where we are going,
who knows what will happen,
this world has no ending and
I am not happy I don't want to
die I don't want to
stay I don't know what's going
on so I will not say.
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THE BOY DID HIS HOMEWORK
AT HOME AFTER SCHOOL
WHILE WATCHING T.V.
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"Each One"
(haiku)
Here I am in a room.
And you at school.
We both thinking in each one.
By: Humberto Salinas
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At a little pond
there were some squarrels
jumping together.
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ONE OF MY FRIENDS CAPTURE
A EARTHWARM YESTERDAY
IN THE AFTERNOON.
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"Feelings"
(haiku)
Space is very big.
So are my feelings for you.
But are yours as big?
by: Humberto Salinas
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"Way I AM"
(haiku)
Night is black and Day is Bright.
That the way I am.
Unknown and Single.
By Humberto Salinas
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Parasites clinging to well rounded thoughts
Lingering in the most shallow of graves
We yearn to know
Yet cannot see
What it is we seek to save
The city of life lies on the corners
of Love and Death
People walk into the City blindly
and exit with open eyes
Is it here? Can we finally see?
While we still live
or
Is it parasites we be.
-Natural Creation -
(devastation
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sidewinder pilgrims
blowing in a warm autumn wind
sensing the raw power
of golden, streaming tints.
Blazing their random attacks
onto the backs of strolling men
and peeling back
layers of lost purple watermelon seeds.
The language they speak
strikes fear into cold hard omelets
and small ankles alike.
sidewinder pilgrims
grow in healthy soil
and shoot water at the stars
through their teeth.
who do they think they are?
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Love is like a water fountain,
You can only drink when you press the button.
Sometimes you get the automatic kind
where the water is an easy find.
At times the switch is hidden
or the fountain's been spit in,
The fountain might be nice and bright
but then you find the water's white.
Pick your fountains carefully,
'cause they sure don't come easily.
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FRIENDS
Has love come forth to me,
or more less did not see.
That all my love to thee,
just wasn`t meant to be.
Holding me from the start,
only to find us torn apart.
Will this endless sorrow,
Never be gone by morrow.
Now we must be friends,
to know it all comes to end.
That might we find that broken hearts do mend.
by Ronnie Morris
copywrite April 2 1998
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Thunder rolls over my wet head,
Fistfulls of grass are hurled at the sky.
Lightning crackles in the treetops,
I am screaming at the black rain.
The torrents beat me to the ground
with horrific beads of liquid and flashbacks.
Nothing can stop this downpour.
The night reaches out
and throws me headlong
into its gaping mouth.
The night has consumed
more than one layer of my mind.
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Froggy-Dogs
There once were some little froggy-dogs
Who thought that they were a set of pogs
They sat on a bench
And they were drenched
And Answered are we really a set of pogs
By: Misti Dawn Stein
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Jacquie
There once was a girl named Jacquie
She was very very wacky
She had no hair and it gave everyone a scare
Boy that Jacquie was wacky.
By: Tasha Marie Davis
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The Earthquake
By Derek Schlientz
Once there was a guy named Jake
Who ate all of his birthday cake
But when he went out
To hear himself shout
There just happened to be an earthquake
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BEAR
dangerous, vicious
slow, greedy, sleepy
angry, hungry, sad, pain
animal.
by Jeremy
Reed
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Rain is falling
Sleet is made
Tornadoes are made
umbrellas are need
after a rainbow forms
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Gone
Love has come, but I am not home.
Love knocks, but I don't answer.
Love cries, "Here I am," but I don't hear.
Love has gone, seeing no one home.
Why, Why, Why, when I was wanting;
Did I leave love standing at my door?
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Fish
Smooth fast
goes and eats little stuff
all fish are different
lies in water
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all is attraction
nature dances in spring time
offspring soon follow
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The Mean Old Slug
There once was a mean old slug.
Who was always beating up bugs.
So when he was in sight,
the bugs were in fright.
Man was that slug mean to bugs.
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Haiku by Adam Sorini
online poetry
written in the electric
for no one but god
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by Caleb Tyler
Dog
Big, lazy
Barks, runs, plays
Wags tail when excited
Mammal
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SHINE
I shine
I am always on time
I give my mom a hard time
My mom hates grime
I can't rhyme
I owe John a dime
By: Brett Darnall
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The Ferret
There once was a boy named Garrett
Who owned a man-eating ferret
It chewed and chewed
And people, they sued
And that was the end of the ferret
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I am
I am the sun shining down on the Earth
I am the moon saying good night
I am the grass lying down on the Earth
By Rodney T.Fencl
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H igher peaks
I nteresting
K ilometers to the top
E xciting adventure
By Joey Huettner
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Self
Self, I leaned to the self,
a reflection of the mirror,
protruding seamless smiles
which crept on the bleak forehead
to impress a promise of
blankness.
A promise segregated
into anti-self and self propping.
Words spouting,
anti-self was inflamed by treacherous rampancy,
colliding with unsubstantial
entrenchment of self believing.
Blankness was scratched
by a crayon of hesitancy
that drew out a curve,
winding across the mirror.
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"No Gray"
Choice yes
Choice No
Which to follow
One's better
One's worse
As he glaringly smerks
Preceding up
Preceding down
Where am I found
Right to Wrong
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"Untitled"
People around me
All laughing and having fun
But I'm still alone.
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Just before
Just before the first time, she spreads
Out her cards and shifts
Her back against his. "Explain to me
The meaning," he whispers, "of the expression
On the face of the hanging man." "Change empties,"
She replies, "from the pockets
of the limbo man. While his dimes rain
Into the pool, his eyes
Photograph the fall. It happens--
It's happening so fast. His pennies
Drag us down by the ankles."
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tortured by night
tortured by day
every whisper in your breath
every movement of your soul
flesh of blood
your paranoid veins
tangle my hopes for everyday
trapped in my mind
reflecting my fears
killing every inch of me
draining my body, from all that was left
taste my blood, eat my heart
suck my smile, tear me apart
i am the only sacrificed
minute by minute
hour after hour
You are Goddess
You are my POWER
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The words I seek are not there
I do not know how to tell you how
I feel about you my dear
Perhaps because their are no words
on Earth to tell you how I feel
Maybe life itself is not real
I have always said and I believe it so
That their is someone out their for everyone
but are you for me I may never know...
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What happened with her? by Aaron Smith
She scared me too,
I didn't know what to do.
I was helpless and...
alone.
Was it something I said?
I didn't mean any harm.
It's just "women" I guess.
Still, to hear her cry
over the phone,
makes me scared.
There's nothing that
I can do through
those telephone cables.
Not much, at least.
She didn't want me to come.
She'd rather melt
in her own sorrow.
Thus, I melt as well
in my tears.
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My Lord and my God,
will this ever end?
Constantly I am tortured.
Save me, oh my friend.
Sometimes I always wonder
why you even want me.
I take for granted so often
that I know you'll never leave.
Yes this is so true
but I want to bear some fruit
If love is unconditional
I'm glad that it was you.
by aaron smith
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"Dozen Bloody Roses"
I had a dream last night...
a dream of terror.
I saw you give me one last kiss
and start to walk away.
I fell to my knees and gave you my
heart, and as you turned to give me
one last look, your hand stretched out
and came from it...
A dozen bloody roses.
Slufoot1@webtv.net
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