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The Damage of an Intrusive Lie

Today’s slurs are like stagnant water Welled up in my skull, Like the full weight of ruin   From a landslide’s fury   – Like an infernal melody Leagues under my skin, Leaving villages of sonnets To sink away in ashes   – These fire-tinged lies   Were set long ago,   From a fellow voice adrift In a mire of their design  – These words cannot belong Encaged in either body Or afloat…

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The Fading Glow of the Provider

The machinery’s red -hot grind Is slowly revving to a stop, Consumed by the grime Of too many summers lost – The glow Of her senseless labor dims, Entangled by the webs Winding over her frame – The swarms of her crew Fill the veins of the city, Her bones left to rust   In their livelihood’s tomb – Now songbirds Warble in the wake of her rest Giving life to her limbs, Building…

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#Age #allegory #exhaustion #factory #labor #poem #poems #Poetry #rest #time #Work

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The Monster and the Egotists

He is the ghoul in their heroic shadows A changeling, skulking Through the treacherous bends Of a concrete maze – He is a sign of the times In his woolen black armor, Speaking in riddles When his mind is afire – He is trouble leering back Past their sequined layers,   Through the balmy colors Of a far-away Eden – He is the quiet tempest   Who lives in their reflections, The…

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The Pale Arteries of Town

 Long walks through the morning frost Sit heavy in my stomach As time marches me away From the safety of solitude   – Another week turns In the pitch-black stillness As I wait to by inhaled By the oblivion I’ve designed –  To live a life filled with greeting And grieving and groveling,   Looming larger and larger   Until the bittersweet collapse    – How long can I Bear the weight…

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A Soft Landing

Falling out of the morning’s rhythm With a childhood of burdens   Tied around my waist   As it screams to its demise – My limbs go slack During the steep decline, As a healing mantra blooms Over the desert swathe within me – Falling out of the noise Into a nourishing silence, The heavy past slides away And blasts apart upon impact – I meet the ground feather light Within the maze…

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January's Dead Weight

Trapped

Under January’s cold dead weight

I’m alive, in defiance

Still afire

With love and laughter passed by

-

In spite of the frozen void

Stretching over my mind,

The slow creeping devastation

Of  its crushing solitude

-

But how can I budge free

From this ghost-white reverie

And ebb away to be received

By a sea of warm colors?

-

How can I melt away

These wide pillars of ice

That pin me in place

In their encircling gloom?  

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January's Dead Weight

Trapped Under January’s cold dead weight I’m alive, in defiance Still afire With love and laughter passed by – In spite of the frozen void Stretching over my mind, The slow creeping devastation Of its crushing solitude – But how can I budge free From this ghost-white reverie And a ebb away to be received By a sea of warm colors? – How can I melt away These wide pillars of…

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Escape Downriver

There's motion in the ice 

Crumbling to a collective rush, 

Charging out to sea 

With years of walled-away rage 

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The river overflows 

Out of its mountain prison,

Sending the walls crashing down 

Into a riverbed of skeletons

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Replenishing the valleys 

On its homeward voyage

Giving back what's been stalled 

In the snow for too long 

-

It builds and destroys 

On its well-meaning journey, 

In its heartfelt revolt  

Through a wilderness of ashes 

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Escape Downriver

There’s motion in the ice  Crumbling to a collective rush,  Charging out to sea  With years of walled-away rage  – The river overflows  Out of its mountain prison, Sending the walls crashing down  Into a riverbed of skeletons – Replenishing the valleys  On its homeward voyage Giving back what’s been stalled  In the snow for too long  – It builds and destroys  On its well-meaning…

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Midnight Landings

Each year I’m like a sinking stone

Among a swell of misdeeds,

Weighted with exhaustion

As the nightmare’s climb

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Cast aside on warm sands

To begin again

To be claimed by the vines

Of the preying unknown

 -

Until the bountiful sea

Simmers green with envy,

Drawing me into the con

Of its calm embrace

-

To pursue the stars

In its nightly ire,

Clutching life at midnight

As I wade to shore 

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Midnight Landings

Each year I’m like a sinking stone Among a swell of misdeeds, Weighted with exhaustion As the nightmare’s climb – Cast aside on warm sands To begin again To be claimed by the vines Of the preying unknown  – Until the bountiful sea Simmers green with envy, Drawing me into the con Of its calm embrace – To pursue the stars In its nightly ire, Clutching life at midnight As I wade to…

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A Voice Withheld

Words seldom dare to take flight,

On the wings of my voice,

They hide away in notebooks

Echoing in the shadows

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In the quiet they thrive

With brave and bright colors

Reclaiming the years

Swallowed whole by sorrow

-

I sing them out loud

In the encircling storms,

In the dry and brown swathes

Of drought and decay

-

When I’m paces from slumber

Will they ring out the truth,

For every fighting heart

Trapped in fear and fury? 

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A Voice Withheld

Words seldom dare to take flight, On the wings of my voice, They hide away in notebooks Echoing in the shadows – In the quiet they thrive With brave and bright colors Reclaiming the years Swallowed whole by sorrow – I sing them out loud In the encircling storms, In the dry and brown swathes Of drought and decay – When I’m paces from slumber Will they ring out the truth, For every…

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#Anxiety #cautious #Introvert #poem #poems #Poetry #quiet #reserved #Self expression #Shyness #speaking #voice #Writing

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Snarled with the Rising Notes

The lights of December

Hold a strange and dismal glow,

As the year’s few survivors

Recall the loved and lost

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Their colorful nights

Ebb and flow into the gutters

With the late autumn rain

As their cold, grim guide

-

Warm hearts and full stomachs

Wrestle with their bitter grief,

For the busy lives quieted

On the way to winter’s embrace

-

Every trill and melody

Is haunted with the year’s ghosts,

Snarled with the rising notes

Of each drunken night’s chorus 

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Snarled with the Rising Notes

The lights of December Hold a strange and dismal glow, As the year’s few survivors Recall the loved and lost – Their colorful nights Ebb and flow into the gutters With the late autumn rain As their cold, grim guide – Warm hearts and full stomachs Wrestle with their bitter grief, For the busy lives quieted On the way to winter’s embrace – Every trill and melody Is haunted with the…

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Let Them Pass

Gently

The perfumed shroud

Of a teenage memory

Drifts into mind

To consume my tomorrows 

–

Those years only beam

Even warmer and brighter 

The further I trail 

Into the snarling present

–

Yet I know to let them pass

To wait out their illusion 

As the choruses of sirens 

Ring out their sweet lies 

–

May they fade from my soul 

Without a tremor of remorse 

And set again in the currents 

Pushing forward through time

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Let Them Pass

Gently The perfumed shroud Of a teenage memory Drifts into mind To consume my tomorrows  – Those years only beam Even warmer and brighter  The further I trail  Into the snarling present – Yet I know to let them pass To wait out their illusion  As the choruses of sirens  Ring out their sweet lies  – May they fade from my soul  Without a tremor of remorse  And set again in the…

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#Exes #Growth #healing #immaturity #letting go #pain #past #poem #poems #Poetry #time