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AstrologicalI have lost myself to
Venus & Mars,
tangled in their mismatched limbs.

Just dream dust & shattered prayers
begging for a new set of skin
(she can't remember where she orbits).

Pluck these fractured wings;
the Sun & Moon no longer ache
to see me fly in their luster.

lies, she wrotei. just a mimicry, really;
uncompromisingly
desperate to shine.

ii. counterfeit & clockwise,
tasting words on her
unworthy tongue.

iii. with a dysfunctional mind
& apocryphal dictionary,
she cannot clone it all.

iv. "say anything," the pen
whispers as she trembles
among ink-scented fraudulence.

v. but she just laughs & plays the part,
forgetting what the pages told her:
"truth is stranger than fiction."

The Pen, The SwordJust lovely
I was happy to fall asleep
in the welcoming arms of your words and
you were unaware that you held me
so close, and so carefully
from the moment I didn't hear you speak
to the taste of every sentence you spoke
I knew you were the very truth that I'd
been seeking all along
Just barely
I was loathe to fall so deep
in the sharpened edges of your words and
you were too aware that you had me
so close, and so carelessly
from the second I heard you break
to the taste of every sentence you broke
I knew you were the very truth that I'd
been avoiding all along

Death of the PoetDear poetry,
This is your challenge,
my eternal chore,
to restate the truth
like never before-
but I’m imperfect
at my very core
and hypocrisy
is what I abhor
so you may expect
my work to be poor
enough for me to
be crushed into gore
with failed attempts
to take wing and soar
when all I wanted
was something much more
than emptiness and
inherited war
and pointless details
of imagined lore
which most of us tend
to simply ignore
at the piercing sound
of a lion’s roar
or the convenience
of a nearby store…
what am I truly
writing these words for?
Let’s merely pretend
that this isn’t me
but the voice of God
or L. Ron Hubbard
or whoever you
wish for it to be
since facts remain facts
no matter the source,
no matter the cause,
since the trustworthy
are also humans
prone to failure;
so prone to a fault
that we hold dearly-
the sum of our faith
measured in dollars-
rewarded by credit
and paper money…
for some odd reason
I find this funny!
So I conclude

False EternityDisillusioned youth was less common in those days,
I assure you, the people even more set in their ways,
murderous and unforgiving, yet unaware of the lie they were living
convinced that faith is stone, they cut faces into gods, they thought
ignorant that being made rendered useless the very gods they wrought.
Shiny carvings into stone, faces, figures, blessed unknown,
Murders, slaughters, sacrifices of the weak, preaching sins and what they seek.
Forgiveness is not for all, all who do not have will now fall!
Greed consumes the mortal mind, rage is all that's left behind!
Amidst it all I rose and found the sun, disowned him for the moon
then sought the horizon, again and again warned my father that doom
would befall him if he didn't seek a better way to live and be
I wasn't willing to follow the dark and deadly rules,
trying to bring some light into the lives of these fools.
Guilds of anti-gods were formed, wars rose higher, nothing to atone!
They all represen

ArrheniusThe birds are
keeping to themselves
this evening
as the earth shifts
slightly-
ever so calmly
(for when you are
this powerful
you only have
to move).

Here and there, I
witness these
beautiful strangers
with perfect bodies
and long hair
walking down the road
in tightly knitted packs.
They are animals
like we are animals-
like we are
animals without
claws and fur,
with scratches on our
skin that yields to
fragile and
familiar hands.

The winds respond
as quiet birds rush
from telephone wires
in panic and
in beauty; she
tries to brush the hair
dancing circles in her eyes
(for when you are
this powerful
you only have to move).

False ProphetsPoems and love songs breed dead dreams,
strangled by weeds, face down in the ground
with no roses to mourn them.

Singers are poets that croon
(if you happen to lose your little heart to their tune)
and poets are false prophets -
true love will last forever
if they care to write it,
but not if you swallow the lines...

yet, they always do.

We all have a place
set for us in the shade
in our own private garden of weeds.

False eternityDisillusioned youth was less common in those days,
I assure you, the people even more set in their ways,
murderous and unforgiving, yet unaware of the lie they were living
convinced that faith is stone, they cut faces into gods, they thought
ignorant of the fact that being made rendered useless the very gods they wrought.

Shiny carvings into stone, faces, figures, blessed unknown,
Murders, slaughters, sacrifices of the weak, preaching sins and what they seek.
Forgiveness is not for all, all who do not have will now fall!
Greed consumes the mortal mind, rage is all that's left behind!

Amidst it all I rose and found the sun, disowned him for

Within A BoxIt's a prison for the minds of haunted souls
an odd prison, not large enough to contain its prisoners
and yet it encompasses every fiber of their being
in silent, silent spaces.
Haunted souls are searching for the key
there is no key, but they don't know any better
and what harm could it do? Hope is better than nothing
here's an unlocked open door for you.
Little trinkets haunt souls with their questions
and we want answers, but they won't give
anything away. Very smart,
you know the world is ending soon.
(The best of which are only
crude descriptions of the magic
they are looking for.)

On The Collapse Of Modern Society"I've never seen so many folks
putting their hopes
in packaged air,
as far as I'm concerned,
and from what I've observed
misplacing material worth while
rushing back and forth
to get nowhere."
my Grandma said,
shaking her head.

VoicesDo you hear the moan of morning rhymes
By the people in their endless time
As the morning dew breaks the day
Back to where the city-lights once laid

The lamp-posts are filled with black starlight
As the children run in their flight
With cries of sorrow, cries of pain
The old houses creaking with disdain

Acidic puddles of blood-wet tears
Remain on the street through all these years
As the cracks have hid the crumbled dust
Within these roads of bone and rust

The melody of the birds is lost
To the screeches and screaming loss
There are people cowering in the dark
Murmuring, whispering their tortured remarks

Flames ignite the world in fire

Lovers and assassinsNight
walk

You're not living, you're survivingDo you know the difference between people and animals?
People and animals have a key difference,
People live,
Animals survive.

Don’t do anything without thinking
Because if you do,
You’re not living,
You’re surviving.

Don’t be without love
Because if you do,
You’re not living,
You’re surviving.

Don’t waste your time,
Because if you do,
You’re not living,
You’re surviving.

Don’t regret the past,
Because if you do,
You’re not living,
You’re surviving.

This life is so precious to just survive.
Human life is done for it to be lived.
Animal life is done for it to be surv

WakefulI remain awake with dreams on my mind
and stories that wait to be knit into books.
To never find comfort until my pillows are
stuffed with thoughts instead of feathers
To never let go until I made sure that
the moon smiled back at me
Until the trees, the grass, and every night creature
has whispered good night...
And yet I'm still as wakeful as an owl
afraid that sleep would somehow
grab my neck and drag me to my grave.

bad nightmy mistakes are on my head,
and the cigarettes taste like metal;
on the street curb of a suburban block,
the lights jaundiced and flickering
like drunken fireflies, your reflection
that emanates from me covers every face.

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I- At the Jetty.'A body of water floats ahead; a corpse, a corpse!
A tinge hotter.

'A storm spotter flags red; it's dead, it's dead!'
The ocean life said.

A crack to the head; you nursed me to health
At the jetty—
The sun had set in red—
But delight was away with the sailors.

A body of water floating face down.
A body of land kissing its mouth.

Blue Fields.why don't you go ahead and
purge me?

i need a good amount of learning

my fields are blue
azure fan-blades, paint stroke shields
the power of 'never knew'
courses inside a system sealed

i think my soul needs to be healed

naked on the floor, crying
i heard your window sighing

i'm not but you say i'm lying

my fields are blue
i feel like slowly dying

whenever i know what's true

i'm vulnerable in a new milieu
nostalgic summer art beaulieu

could i be a nazi, too?

Parthenogenesis.Roses in mouth, thorn in tongue mystery.
The cuts in the sky are just a memory.
Blood grown garden tapestry,
cloud carved carnage above me.
And to think of the minor deity
that made us into windswept enemies...

Sand castles in wave decay,
summer slept your life away.
Erosion's just a game we play
as we rot through Saturdays.
And to think we are everything,
we could never be without this ring...

I hate and love you equally.
Slow moving train wait on fast moving me.
Magnets feel a binding duality;
our repellents are mostly sensory.
Rebel hobo jump my track,
vagrant lover don't look back.

I feel solid in this rivalry,
re

Melismatic No MoreI'll have no opaque friend of mine
Do tactful tricks for Balanchine;
Let's just say that I'd prefer a butchered stitch of Frankenstein—

That spontaneity is working fine—

To a dog-breathed procedure-swine.

Let's break the roads that run straight lines.........

Couldn't we just deform?
Melismatic no more
To be

Concave bodies on a hot sidewalk
Cracking under the pressure of doves taking off
Rhyming with the sounds of thunder
Moonwalks on the sun
Art painting itself
Sex with no interaction
Fingers on piano keys, playing in reverse
Reverberations returning
Atoms de-colliding
Deflated balloon animals
EMPTY EARTH

I Am 2nd Place.i have no plans anymore

you've swept my ashes in a pile by the door

how will i rebuild?
i never was skilled...

ah, but at least this chorus gives me chills...

the simplest thrills
(forget)

i miss when i thought
i knew

what to do--

now the sun's up and the dew
soaks my skin
soggy jeans, broken grin

i am sad all over again

an architect? a waiting game;
religious sects and their flames
teach me something about myself--

(i'll never get out)

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by *claytonwoolery, Nov 28, 2012, 8:18:14 PM
Literature / Poetry / Human Nature / Free Verse

fainting knees
stripes horizontal
perceptive doors
open toward the soul
bump up against morals
tips self control over.

now alone
and naked in the flow
river of winter in summery ocean
linen and citrus
vertical sunset.

side with dignity
earth pulls drapes
wind takes the handle
even the air.

sucked out the windpipe
salt and lungs
with skulls breeding fishes.

brave new stripping
of street attire
stretching tear ducts
to fit around shuddering
anatomies.

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this is so deep is it about tampons?

*archelyxs Nov 29, 2012

So much love for the words you use. (:

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