Category: Poetry
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Abandoned Self
Abandoned Self. Sanity’s laughter tempts reality….
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Powerless
So often sensing danger Each time Foolishly thinking If you do the right thing Right will happen. It never did The right Changing direction Taking advice Only to be more lost. Glimpses happened Of this day These changes These wrongs. Open hands Letting go While my heart breaks Of all it didn’t know. I know…
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Muse
The muse unaware Why I write The subject suggestive With what words I type. Holding back often In the tales told No point in revealing Or assuming a hold. Letting go as needed More turning away Neglecting facts Watching what to say. But the words are read When I choose to share No reply ever…
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Take Me
Make love to me Like you’ve waited years… Release me Like happy tears. Break me Then put me back right Tell me This is more than just one night. Touch me As though lust is love Kiss me Like I am all you think of. Map this So there is no end Then stay And…
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Darkness Awaits
Darkened room Absorbing light Lethargic limbs Losing fight. Slowly walls Closing in Without anything Pushing them. Heavy eyes Wasted breath No control Daily death. Goals hidden Right and wrong Forgetting points Depressing songs. Happiness fades Hope cries Trials mount Chance’s demise. Nature’s corpse And simple breath All things break Life forgets.
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Spring Who?
Not leaving Without a fight Inches coming Through the night. Winter’s lurking Under Spring’s veil What will break? Tomorrow’s tale.
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Lust
In love with you Or maybe the thought But I’ll see it to the end With all I’ve got.
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Leading The Way
Oh to be young again Those were the days Destroying the furniture And running all day. Having more energy Than people could keep up And for many years Acting like a pup. I’m older now And I rarely run But when my family needs me I get the job done. Now here you are With…
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Journey
You can do everything right And still be wrong Taking a shorter road Can make a journey long. Loving with all your heart Can make you feel pain… Knowing the rules While still losing the game. Doing the same thing twice Only doubles the burn While there are no promises There is always something to…
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Inspiration
I’m inspired to live Inspired to cry Give a hand And question why. I’m inspired to love Even to grieve When to stay And when to leave. I’m inspired to hope And to give care Resist the edge Offer to share. I’m inspired to stop And block you too No inspiration to hate Or compromising…
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Mindful Awakening
I guess I should have told you That your life was short Even when days were running long. I should have opened the mouth And pulled your ears To keep you from more wrong. I should have voiced regret And also concern For the excuses being made. I should have stopped the cycle And the…
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Reality Revenge
It was never spoken Or written in word No secret spilled Or story heard. Just the known And needed distance No anger helping Just required resistance. It’s not in the need Or even the want Just in what it is Nothing to flaunt. A loneliness so deep An appreciation shared Connection natural For those who…
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She Was You
Living in the present moment Healthy for the soul Until the present kills purpose The future takes its toll. Lost in the silence Then crippled by the noise Blinded from possibilities And where there was choice. Changes happening rapidly Even while standing still Legs are locked place Hope losing its will. The ghost of me…
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Living Moment
Knowing something Anything A thing of the past Capturing a moment Now For a moment to last. Could of been Often Lasting only in thought Now forgetting Everything Is the only shot. Pain in regret Yesterday Useless to feel Learning the discipline Living Now in what’s real
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No Good Deed
Callused by logic Confined by youth Ignorance for fun Pain to soothe. No lack of hope Just wrong and right Deaf to No Up for a fight. Alone with silence A past staying awake… Good deeds punished While watching you break.
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Mindfulness
An ancient melody When moments are spared Crickets and starlight A peace willingly shared. The invite appealing A dance to dream Surrounded by wonder And what it will mean. Thoughts abate Breath taken in Present in the moment Until we do this again.
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Phantom Decision
Flirting too often Consciousness and subconscious Happiness and sadness Real and fantasy. A toxic dance With sanity’s mistress Darkness forgives with debt Without choosing. Troubles common But balance shaken Control the delusion While patience teases a masterpiece. Sacred once were thoughts Possibilities believed endless Suddenly the chaos of choices Left none to be made.
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Lucidity
Useless thoughts take the day Mind and spirit too Sacred silence now taxing Worry making fears true. No finger pointing But blame the same… No justice in the outcome The winner of the game. No hindsight needed As all was seen and ahead… But ignorance in nothing Line the dreams of my bed. Drowning in…
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Search For More
What is known- Is there such a thing? Remembering dreams For reality to sting. Open heart If broken in two… Eyes wide open Seeing nothing new. Wanting a chance Like the one wasted before… Needless daydreaming In the search for more.
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Home
Home is where the heart is
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Dear Teenager
DEAR TEENAGERSeeing the world through your eyes Would make my hope pretty dark… Accepting your reality instead Would take away the needed spark. Compromising my rules Would bring a weakness I won’t like… Quitting the battle now Would cost more than just the fight. Old while learning nothing Is an idiocy you choose to sell……
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Letting Go
Black and white Logic a friend But just a moment Brings color again. Pain and anger Calculated space Clutching tightly So nothing is erased. Patience with time Praying for you Feeling helpless With so little to do. No way to show you Or words you will hear But patiently waiting While always staying near.
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Clarity
20/20 vision Blind nonetheless Reasoning a fantasy The problem a guess. Left in the dark While seeing light Heavies the heart Awakens the night. Intelligence in theory Rational in dreams Certainty escaping Through foolish means. Suddenly token clarity Too many years have passed… Time the joker The mind left harassed.
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Hope
Silent steps Along a road with stops. Noises vary Heart in knots. No plan before A blueprint now… Where you were And finding how. Two steps back Stop the pace- Find the forward Accept the race. Sunset an ending On a path just beginning You were waiting With hopeful grinning. Just a step But a…
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Darkness challenged
The sky a masterpiece Changing faster than any person… A blank canvas- Waiting to be more. Silver linings… Each cloud has a fate To which it will tell a story No plan beyond its purpose No fighting for something more. Now to move on peacefully After narrating a story Leaving behind another canvas- That for…
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Human Lesson
Importance is an illusion Often coveted by mankind… Top-down theories – Keeps reality blind. Fireworks are quiet To the sound of bubbles’ burst- And the mirror unforgiving- To fantasy’s deadly curse. Piles build mountains Luck fades away… The importance of the lesson Lost to yesterday. A helping hand is destined To follow the beggar’s need……
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Leaving It All Behind
Now that your gone I guess I expected more Tears or anger? When I walked out the door. I knew it was over And the years were gone… No amount of right Would reverse many wrongs. So now to start over Even if steps are new… As long as there is hope Making it to…
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Betting On Time
Needing to scream And through it have a plan. Wanting to care When no longer giving a damn. Find the focus And a reward is there to get. Just be honest… And keep the face from getting wet. It needs to be okay- Because so much will hurt being wrong. As the fool bets on…
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An Ending
A storm was building- Until the final day… The fury was released On everything in its way. Trucks were stopped- And buildings were turned… No tools left to stop it- And people were burned. But the next day comes- And rebuilding will start… People will survive- By unseen strength in their heart. Don’t look back-…
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Known
What is known… The moon is bright- The sky now dark The day ends right. Another breath From another day… Many blessings And a home to stay. No other thoughts If my discipline holds true… Living for now- And living through You.
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