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Poems from November, 1998

FELT TIPPED PEN POEM #2


SPOKEN WORDS,

VERBAL,

KISSING MY EARS.

WRITTEN IN RED FELT TIPPED PENS.


POEMS:

RYTHMATIC FREE VERSED WORDS.


THE WIND ON YOUR BACKIN FREE FALL.

THE ORGANIC TEMPO OF THINGS.


SCREAM LOUDER YOUR SPOKEN WORDS,

YOUR VERBAL, HALF TAINTED SPOKEN WORDS,

WITH YOUR BLOOD LIP PRINTS ON MY HEART,


BUT MY HEART IS A PAGE,

AND IF I LIVE TO SEE GOD,

I'LL WRITE HER A LOVE POEM ON IT.


BY;RAYHAM DeLIONCOURT

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I long to be

The snowflake

Melting gently

Down your tongue


When winter makes

Your hands grow cold

Fire

I wish I was


I want to be

The clean white blanket

Sparkling

In the sun


I yearn to be

The ground beneath you

Angel

Spread your arms

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Logical Haiku


Drifting in space are two

it is dark

One has all the answers in the universe

The other has found God

still, no light.

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Just So That You'd Know


You are the sunshine of my life

And I'll love you forever

We have hope and we have love

And we'll always be together


You shower me with love

And sometimes with roses

I know it won't be hard

To conquer what life poses


We'll encounter some problems

Though little foothills they are

But mountains nor oceans

Could keep us afar


You are my Prince Charming

And I love you so

I wanted to tell you this

Just so that you'd know

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Every small expression that was you

lead me upon that strange Journey...

that Feeling I can't let go of

long felt impressions...still lingering

my heart still whispers your name...so often

forever...you hold my highest regards

your Manhood...always highly respected

for I saw beyond what you expected me to see

and still fell in Love with you.

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The trees, they whisper

For love to come hither,

The blooms no longer cry.

She finds in him,

a deepness within

That makes her soul to fly.

The feelings created

seem to be illustrated

across her blush touched cheeks.

Her hands begin to shake

and the Earth seems to quake

True love she longs to seek.

With a soft spoken word,

He enraptures her

and she is lost to his embrace.

The love that is shared

between two lives that cared

are written upon each face.

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Red Wine


A dream is like a fine wine aloft

dripping on the clean linen tablecloth

Seeping into the perfectly white threads

Forever staining in all shades of reds

and never forgetting

You can try to wash it away

but it will always stay

Remembering the past

and making present memories last

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When The End Will Come
by A. Brown


When the end will come,
What will it hold for us all?
Is it peace at last?

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Autumn
by A. Brown


When nature exhales,
Yellow, orange, brown leaves fall
Like tears of a tree.

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This Time:

Just remind yourself how hard you tried to intervene within

How much effort you put forth to keep him your best friend

How you invented rumors to sway his love your way

Knowing all the time his trust in you surely would not sway

The deceptive web of "love" you wove so many had fallen to

This time it fell upon someone, that I love more than you

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My stars are fading

Dying out-- Like my life

Has become

From hiding behind my mask


Drops of liquid pain

Rolling like waves-- But only watching

The vast black ocean

Losing its pebbles


A sobering thought-- yet

The truth-- I know

So hard to admit

I realize


My stars burned out long ago

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with one word, I shall name death

and honor its duty;

for as I breathe my last breath

I shall name it beauty.

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Angry flowers dangling from vines, wrapping teeth around fragile seeds

Innocent grapes out of reach. Children on fire, flame burns bright with closed doors

Crying trees tortured, fear of flowers, doubtful soul, Kill the seed.

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"Mud and Time"


The frogs are all asleep

beneath mud and time

You and I are buried

beneath distance and pain

I need to breathe

want to feel life again

You are my soul

The part that is not buried

It is in the mud

Not stuck

We never were

always will be

You are inside of me

Don't push me out

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A year and a day with you, and all I knew,

was I did not know you.

A year and a day I spent trying to learn your game,

and all I learned was not enough to play.

A year and a day I had to find your hidden secrets,

and all I found was nothing.

A year and a day I used to give you my love,

and all I i did was give.

A year and a day you had to give me your love,

and all you did was take.


by: Christy Rose Hutchinson

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Redemption


I see the death in your eyes

The hollowness that your soul has become

You must hurt others to feel all in-powering

Soon you will feel the pain we all experience


I stalk you in the daylight, though you can not see me

Plotting your redemption for the whole world to witness

In time you will the shadow on the ally wall

Passing through this life, noticed by none


I pity you only for what you became

Loved you for what you could have become

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What a world we live in

A world of love

A world of sin

For every grin, there is a frown

For every smile, there is a tear

For everyone that is happy, there is someone filled with fear.

For everyone that is glad, there is someone that is sad.

For every child without a mother, there is another without a dad

For every child without a home, there is another with a mansion

When one dies another is born

Equality

Balance

Its what our world adores

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The Clay Bank


With their games the children will play,

Upon the bank composed of clay.


A gathering of playful boys,

With their tanks and their toys.


To the victor goes the prize,

Holding a moch trophy, sun shining in their eyes.


In their world, where roads and paths are driven deep,

The cars will pass the pond as the water will seep.


Until the sun begins to burn the sky orange and red,

The boys will run home for supper to be fed.

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Tonight I felt you by my side,

I could feel you watching me

The warm winds were like

Your breath upon my neck.

I felt so at ease,

As if you were here.

The mood just feels right

And if I had you here tonight,

I'd make sweet love with you.

We'd lie beneath the stars,

You'd hold me in your arms.

Two come together as one,

Doing things never done.

Feeling you inside of me,

Flying high,

And feeling free!

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"The Feeling"


The suns rays dip below the horizon seeming to drop into the warm waters of the ocean. Two lovers sit on the beach watching as the beautiful blues turn to iridescent orange, to crimson red, and finally into a majestic purple. The lovers look deep into each others eyes and touch the others immortal soul, then embrace in a long and loving kiss, only to become lost in the moment for all eternity. That's love!

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My mind falls to the floor when the silver moon rises.

When the glass is tipped up, I loose all bad life.

My love disappears to the cold dark vacancies of my heart.

Underneath the colors I wear a thin layer of life, my own desires.

The lining on the moon begins to fade, and I slowly become sad.

Reality soon jumps back into the picture, unnoticeably.

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Everybody Get Up


Like an old clock ticking down,

Beneath a layer of dirt.

We approach the dark days of winter,

Still clinging to the baggage of youth.


They say we can look forward to the millennium.

But only in the sense of looking,

At the x-ray that confirms,

The tumor is terminal.


The collapse is sure to come,

And whether it is personal or global,

Will make no difference.

In the dark days of winter.

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All I need is you,

When life no longer seems worth living,

there you are,

Taking the gun from my mouth.

When it's all too much to handle,

there you are,

telling me it will be all right.

All I need is you.

All I ever wanted is you.

Turn night into day,

sun into rain.

your eyes are the stars that guide me home.

To you.

Where I belong.

All I need is you,

To take the knife away from my wrist.

To help me,

fall in love with life again.

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7 days of 7 floods

treading water through blood shot mud

to change its attitude,

candle lit, dinner table for two.

holding receipts with fire in each hand

with lightning rods and ice picks

for no reason except tax cuts

and raises in the fields

the winds to strong for me to feel

fingers numb from wet wax candle burning

cutting table reflex has nothing to do with

alcohol and loaded weapons

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the sky it cries

when i don't wake up at her side

she left me so cruel

i swear i hear angels sigh


i smoking my life away

but I really don't mind

since my baby left me

the world seems so unkind

boo-hoo

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THANATOPSIS


your thanatopsis

so real.

sealed with a kiss

you can feel.

By the coffin

you kneel.

with the devil

you deal.

the knife in your mind

will not heal.

the fate of your life

you will seal.

because your thanatopsis

is so real.

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Ashes to ashes

There's dust on my bones

Thousands of people are with me

Yet I remain all alone

And Lost


Tears in Heaven

Are impossible for me

For I just don't believe

That such a place can be

Can there?


Undying love

I will never find

For when it comes to loving

I have a block in my mind

Because I was hurt


Someday I'll be different

My feelings may change

But before that can be

My life need be arranged

Can that Happen?

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shadows

to have lived a life in hiding

existing only in the shadows

then one day, taken by the hand,

you are led into the shimmering daylight.

the sweet breeze combs its fingers through your hair

the golden sun lays kisses of warmth upon your skin

the magical sounds of life embrace you.

for the fist time, you feel love.

but to be taken back into the darkness

after a taste of light

so few of us could be content

to subside again in shadows

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She died in the autumn

And so the bright leaves

Are a reason to weep.


Slowly they fall

One by one


Till they cover the ground

Like a carpet of butterflies

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It doesn't matter anyway


I

it tells me nothing

you tell me lies

i really can't care

about that anyway

why would a good man

feel so unworthy

for what's becoming

of his life

No one can tell me

how i should feel

i don't think jesus

would interfere

anyway

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THE FIELD OF DEATH


DON'T GO ON THE FIELD OF DEATH IT HAS DEAD TREES AND BUSHES,

WITH A CROW FLYING UP TO A TREE,

THE SUN IS LOOKING AT THE FIELD,

THE FIELD IS BURNING WITH FRIGHT...

THE FIELD IS DEAD NOW BECAUSE OF THE SUN THAT IS FULL OF DYNAMITE!

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Hurricane Mitch


Listening to National Public Radio

morning edition news

twenty one minutes

before the hour


five thirty nine in the morning

trying to make sense of things

looking for answers

but there aren't any


three hundred thousand

Nicaraguan's are homeless

after the storm.

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If i could dream of you and i

alone we'd sit and side by side

it's where i'd go when things are bad

the purest where nothing's sad

but each time i would awake to find

that you don't exist the way you do inside my mind

in one world you and i hold hands

and in the other we come from distant lands

so my heart just offers this friendship

silenced by my fear

scared to death that one day soon you'll completely disappear

BY ANTHONY PATTON

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where lasting friendship used to play

your not strong enough, you'd give yourself away

to anyone who wants you

you've lost your heart on spite

so no one can be right, since your not right

the path we choose decides the way

so can you forsake distrust

to make it another day

and shed this curse that controls you

re-learning how to feel

where there is no one to say what's real. so what is real?

BY ANTHONY PATTON

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i wonder why we are all on a planet

that floats in space

is this place all in our head

i wonder why it is that we are not gray wolves

we're humans by chance

or an omni-present being in a trance

what would we be if that being was woken up

if we're only in his head

why cant the truth of where we're from

be shown to us, because its falling further from you

now it's falling further from me

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I Will...


I will give to you my heart

If you will take away this ache

I will give to you my lifetime

If our love you will not forsake

I will give to you my soul

If you will take with you my love

Through the wings of eternal life

On the wings of heaven's dove


Melissa J. Hill

November 9, 1998

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Can you swim

Would be the question

Because this dark

Crawling ocean

Can't teach such skill

Hear its threatening din

Above the calm

Those rolling warnings

To learn

And strive and strive

To keep the moon dry

And clear.

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Snow crest pine

Moon drenched forest

Walking alone

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we talked last night for the first time in ten months

petty talk accented with casual laughs

and i remembered how it was/how it could've been

and for a second i forgot it was you that broke my heart

*miche'le

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A popsicle poem--

It's all that I have.

There, did you like it.

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Shadow forms, and I see the reality of it all, contentment.
But happiness? A laugh! Just out of reach, for me.
I never even mattered to you, did I? Has anyone?
I feel your hand in mine, warm, friendly,
yet the ice within your eyes tells the tale.
Quietly the yell at me, for not being who you want,
for not being good enough in your eyes... too old, too ugly, too fat, too loud.
Your eyes scream at me with every glance, why aren't you perfect? Like me.

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TOGETHER

I hear you whisper lightly unto me

And my passions are uninhibited

to the sound of your quiet heartbeat

I see with crystal vision

The love we both see

Everybody dreams of lonely days

Made sweet

With what we have

Sex and emotion pumps through my body

With every thought of you

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BLED


I WAS THERE

IN YOUR BLOOD

I BLED WITH YOUR AGONY

CRIES OF SORROW DROWNED ME

IN TEARS THAT BECAME A FLOOD

YOU WERE GONE

WHEN THE LIGHT TOOK YOU

AND I FELL TO EARTH'S PULL

YOUR PAIN PUSHED MY HEART SORE

NOW MY MEMORY REPEATS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD

A BROKEN RECORD OF WAR

BLESS YOUR SOUL

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LADY

LADY PRETTY YOU

OUTSIDE GORGEOUS TRUE

INSIDE UGLY BLUE

HOW DO YOU DO?

LADY IN DRESS

LOST IN CATWALK FLESH

SMILE NOTHING TREND

LIKING IT PRETEND

LADY PERFECT MEASURE

TO DIE FOR AND TREASURE

POSE NAKED IN VACANT

CAMERAS MISTAKEN

LADY SKIN AND BONES

HEALTHY LIE DISGUISE

EMPTY FEELING DESPISE

LIGHT HEAD RISE

LADY ONE AND NO ONE

FIVE MINUTE CASH

GONE IN SECOND FLASH

DROPS OF DEAD EYELASH

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POETS ARE DONE

FOR WORDS ARE NO MEANING TO EMOTION

CAN YOU REALLY SPEAK YOUR SECRETS

ARE YOU REALLY THE TRUTH

I KNOW YOU FORSAKE

FORSAKEN AND NAIVE

BECOME THE DREAM

AND YOU BECOME FORGOTTEN

FORGET YOU

PERFECT YOUR IMAGE OF TRUE POETRY

GRACE, AND KNOW THE RAW OF YOUR FLESH

MIND AND SOUL BE ONE WITH POEMS

LET IT BE STOLEN BY EARS OF HEARTS

AND YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED

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WINDS WHISPERED THY HATRED

AND IT BROUGHT IT TO THEE

COME SIN IN MY FRUIT OF YOUTH

COME FAULT IN MY INNOCENTS

AND BE LOST LIKE THE FORGOTTEN

CONDEMN THE WORLD

CONTROL THE WEAK

LYE BENEATH THE GRASS OF THE GROUNDS

LAUGH AMONGST THE MOURNFUL

HOLD THY STONE FISTS TO THE ROLLING CLOUDS

REPRESS THE PAIN

EXPAND THY RAGE

EXPLODE TO NO LIMIT

BRUISE THE SUN

DESPISE ALL HAPPINESS

DARKEN THE SOULS THOU HOLD CAPTIVE

CURSE AT ANY WILL

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I RUB MY DIRT FINGERS INTO THE PURE LANDS

GRASS TURNS BLACK

AND I SEE THE CHILDREN

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ALONE


I AM ALONE

SITTING STUPID

THINKING THOUGHTS

TILL I'M DISGUSTED WITH MY MIND

MY SENSES TALK WITH THE WALLS

MY BODY HUGS THE GROUND

BUT I'M STILL ALONE

GONE INTO THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD

YET REMAINING INANE IN MY BEING

TIME PASSES, AS I SIT IN MOMENTS

THE LIGHT AND AIR FILTER MY BLOOD

AS I REMAIN ALONE

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Time


Time plagues us everyday

We age to much

Age is nothing to Grandfather Time

He is older than time

If you die, time stands still

So will you unless you wish this too

Time can hurt

Hurt the mind

Time twists its self

Contortions in time

Can boggle the mind

Can also destroy the desire to mess with time

Time can fly across the warp

How warped can time get

Time is warped

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IN MY DREAMS

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In my dreams,

I am happy, but alone,

I want friends,

I want love,

But no one comes.

In my dreams,

I died, and I'm in heaven, I can fly,

But I am sad and alone.

In my dreams,

I do good in school, I have friends,

But I want to be alone,

But went I am alone, I want my friends.

In my dreams,

I am faraway and alone,

I'm faraway,

Never to be found.

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The day was long

My mind was gone

and it was time to hear her bitch

She opened wounds

and found out soon

Just how mean I could be

I grabbed an axe

and gave her a whack

Right upside her head

She fell to the ground

She fell down dead

It was all I could to laugh

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we are gremlins in the dark hungry for the hunt

ready to fight strong

jaws of might break it or take it is the only choice

human balance has no mystery so splendid is the way its trashed

denounced for every can't it speaks

the force of our light grows weak in the darkness

shall come our reign feeding on top of children's pain

another ones shame is another ones power our brain stems getting shorter

will it weaken to its core or burn despite its ignorant sperm

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What yesterday felt like I could not say

How the world revolved I could not tell

But today as a thousand pains pierce the heart

And a million sorrows crease my forehead

I remember the heartache

And the lonely pain burning in a naked flame

Plunging into depths of long forgotten passions

Emerging into a dark world of lost dreams

Touching intricate words of yesterdays wisdom

And asking emptiness one simple question

Why do I exist?

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it's easy to be alone

no convicting ways

it'll keep me away from the phone

nights and bright young days

I've tried my luck with you

but nothing stand ever still

now this time seems almost through

I'm crossing over the hill

you gave me no reason at all

I waited for hours in grief

relationship that is stall

is better to free and relief

its easy to be alone

no convicting ways

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Winter Haiku


winter is a song

of snowflakes and frost roses

each time a new tune

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Secret Admirer


If the sun and moon

should fail the earth and die,

All fear would wither

by the fire in your eye.


And the everlasting darkness

could never dare come near,

To challenge the brilliance

I'm observing from here.


-Danny Williams

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take my love

take my name

let it burn inside the flame

I had hoped

and I have found

all these matches

all these games

I'm loving the world

as it is

all my love is there

all my wish

from the 1st time

I saw it

it was a burning flame

it was inspiration

dreams and flows

all in life

and what with it goes

a river of thoughts

that continues and grows

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inspiration and again inspiration

is the building material of a nation


poets, musicians, writer............

are the strongholds are the fighters


hopeless nations sinking into oceans

are those that have dried up their artistic lotion


honor and hope are hopeless to those

that held to faulty rules so illumination froze

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"The Horse"


Standing square and long on circles,

whispers of free wind

bend him outward.

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"On Surviving Heartbreak"


Pain fills my belly

Gnawing at my heart.

My lungs expel parts of it.

My eyes wash mere specks away.

Standing to shower the dirt of you;

Sitting, I expel you.

Flush it all away...

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Lost Love


I love you with a passion,

even if you don't love me

I cry in the Darkness unhappily

For when I dream

I dream of my hand

through you beautiful hair

-Scott Drnec

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will you please

do your song

to the winds melody

will you please

do this now

for the winds of the free

I have opened

my heart

from the moment

the song of the wind starts

it's the beginnings of magic

it's the deepness

of the sky

it's the feeling of everything

it's the MOMENT

it's I

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Life

Life is like a flower,

First, a gentle bud,

Then, a thriving flower,

Last, it's leaves petals are wilted and falling off.

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Hoards of People to Whom I am Vastly Intellectually Superior


The other day I realized

that there are hoards of people

to whom I am vastly intellectually superior.

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The steaming wreckage of burning wisdom

engulfs pregnant consciousness

with eons of lost destiny

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The burning pimps of No man's land

set out to chase us down

returning to the snowy waste

they break the ice and drown


If every man's an island

and every fish a bee

I'll drink this fizzy potion

and let the matter be


I stand down by the seashore,

and mussels cut my feet

While two young boys make castles

and dream of eating meat


The yearning wimps of Samarkand

let gout goo faces frown

When spurning blue fist foamy taste

hey snake - these mice are brown

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I was so cold that very day

It was in March, but now is May

I've felt the wind, I've seen the clouds

It was so quiet now it's loud

It was a time of peace and cheer,

But that day has past this new year

I've been around to see it all

The seasons change from Spring to Fall

But as the time is moving on

I see the deer and brand new fawn

Time will tell but I'm pretty sure

Peace and cheer will be here once more

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The Red Dragon


The evil Red Dragon

breathes fire so red

that its blood like color

matches its head

Run take your children

away from here

Where the sound of

burning houses

will not reach their ear

for this evil being

is a reason worth fleeing

and if you value your life

he is not worth seeing

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I thought death was far away so I put it behind me for just one day.

The next day came and without warning so did my demise.

As my family buried me all I heard them say was she shouldn't have put death off one more day

As I passed through the gates of heaven I said Lord forgive me I became selfish and put death at the back of my mind.

He said my child you need not worry for up here you shall live again.

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Under the car

surrounded in blood

the poor puppy dies


His mother

watching him

fells his pain


the puppy breathes

he is still alive

but can't move


the vet comes

but the puppy isn't scared

he knows she will help


the puppy runs

healed at last

just a few hairs off his butt


Ash

(ashly_22@hotmail.com)

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Snow blowing wind raging,

will this fury never stop?

Icicles on the windowpane

Me watching in vain

longing for better days

when I got warmed by the suns rays

The wind wiped my shirt

as I played in the dirt

yet those days are gone again

until the icicles melt from my windowpane.

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My life is spun up tight

as many spiders crawl up it

they wait until the middle of the night

to viciously catch their prey

My life is a push and a shove

as the spider and the fly fight

merciless the spider gives off no love

as it hungrily devours the fly

~Kristen Craner~

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Who Am I?

I love life but

I hate life.

I love you but

I hate you.

I know but

I wonder.

I see but

I'm blind.

I follow but

I stray.

I see but

I'm blind.

I hear but

I'm deaf.

I speak but

I don't know what I'm saying.

Who am I?

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My knees start to shake ,

when your in sight.

my mind is filled with wonder,

my heart with fright.


when will this feeling stop?

when did it start?

how can i listen to my mind

without breaking my heart?


I'm so confused.

what should i do?

I can't think of anything,

except you.


should i ignore you,

or just give it time?

i can't think straight,

my heart controls my mind.

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a thing called a poem



she sat there

typing away

hahaha

please release me

i want to be inside

and other vague resemblance of poetry

i never really

understood..

die for an art

swim in your ego

it makes her feel so much better

it makes her smile

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The light from

your eyes is

the sparkle of

life

Inside

glittering

glowing

amazing

beauty

given as

a gift

from above

all these things

are what

Make

you complete

you fulfill my

dreams and make my

heart beat at

an unusual pace

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I was here

when the Stars were born.

I will be here

when they die.

I was here

when the Sun had only begun

to warm the icy Earth.

I will be here

when it burns her to ashes.

I was here when Life sparked into being.

I will be here

when it ceases to exist.

I am the Creator

and the Created.

I am the Light,

and the Dark.

In the end only I

will continue to be.

To begin the Cycle

again.

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MONTAGE

MATRIX OF MATRICIDE

WONDER OF SELFISH GRANDEUR

A SORROWFUL MATINEE

PRISON ENVENOM

ENVIABLE CINDER

AN ENDLESS CHAPTER

ENORMITY OF HATRED

LOBBY OF FATALIST

SEVER BLADED

APHASIA FADED

DISOBEDIENT MALICE

YOUR CONVENT OF SILENCE

MIND EROSION OF YOUR DEATHS DEVOTION


W,B

ANDREW N CRANE

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My eyes use to ache from lack of sleep

from nights awake with you

Now they ache from the tears

from lifetimes without you


My heart use to leap with joy

but it leaped too far

plummeting to its death

and now lies their in agony

for lifetimes without you


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WORLDS BLISS

As the tide rolls inn the shells make there entrances ,

The glass shimmering water blazes through the greenery like an optical illusion,

and the mystical splashes of the ocean soothing my mind'

The fiery ball readys itself for the next cycle of the hours,

as the salty sprays mist off the havened reefs'

I think to myself what creator of time might have thought when creating this tropical bliss,

this is surely heaven...

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I speak but no one hears me

I walk but no one sees me

I die and no one cares

I feel like a ghost because of these things

And I am beginning to wonder am I?

Or am i just going crazy?

No

I could scream but no one would hear me

I could commit suicide but no one would stop to wonder why

Why did she want to die

Now I know why

I'm already dead

I'm a ghost

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