i am quiet as
an iridescent, swan paperweight,
sitting and melting on sadness —
on sheets and sheets of it.
maybe this entire time,
i have been on the edge,
lying like a sand angel
and wading through dead buttercups.
i write a premonition
and call it a poem.
if these walls could speak,
they would call me a resident.
an outsider.
a hostage victim.
a sorry sight.
a paperweight sitting
in the middle of misery.
i am quiet as
an iridescent, swan paperweight,
sitting and melting on sadness —
on sheets and sheets of it;
oh, how i long
to fall and break
into a thousand pieces —
one, just small enough
to be invisible
to slip away
and have
no trace of pervasive sadness —
it glistens in casual,
technicolored mockery.
and i am quiet —
oh, so quiet.
oh, how i long
to fall and break
— fray narte
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checkmate, king me♟
how I'm supposed to read your lips
while I watch what I say?
one thing some folks don’t understand
is that beauty can’t be absorbed--
no osmosis, no endothermic reactions,
no lights, no cameras, no action.
they play chess when its checkers
and checkers when its chess-- I digress
second year in jail,
no case,
no face;
cellies with
with eyelash wishes
and wishful whispers;
to enslave a man-- first its the baptism,
then you must kill inside them
it the ability to dream-- hope is fine,
dreams are the opposite of capitalism.
I am limitless:
I breathe in hate
and exhale excellence;
bedfellows with chaos--
hope them cuffs stay off;
dreams out past curfew--
rain dancing-- I got sons
to give my earth to;
lesson number 1:
write them words down, son;
put them flowers in some water;
my mother's father had a daughter
one who never bothered with her son, damn;
we was all to the slaughter but
lions go different than lambs-- I stand.
I ain’t going along with the world’s plans
MLK, Frederick Douglas, and Malcolm X
could form a shaky alliance
to curb my defiance
they’d take one look in my eyes
and they’d lose
by a landslide;
I chose to conquer myself
regardless of abundance
or wealth,
regardless of feelings
or health
just self.
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someone mentioned the space between heartbeats today and flashbacks of the last thing you said to me rushed blood to my head and
my heart
it didn't stop or skip,
it just pelted, furiously on the walls of its cage
like the drumming
an ethereal strumming of watery melodies
swam through my body ~
and in that lucid moment
I knew the heat of you would be remembered in my blood
~
forever
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Darling, I never
Lost it; it was you who did
Come find me again
— The Muse
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I feel like I'm writing from my shadow. Sunken, drowning with endings, filled with incompleteness. Or something of that nature.
drawing the clasp of her necklace close, your hands trailing over the gilded stones, skimming over a loose gemstone. poached pears sinking into your teeth, a honeyed coating over your tooth // archaic remains 60
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the sun shines its special
on melancholy
creating nostalgia
with room to spare
as the shadows of leaves
leave me in awe
at your portraited face
on the backdrop I stare
it really was you
for a blink of a moment
telling my eyes
that you still exist
even as though
I sadly know
together's the time
that we have missed
.
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Only to the side
The place where I reside
Shimmering kisses along
With the darkend sky
Was it or was it not
The next in line at the gold pawn shop
Selling hearts,
While you steal silver
Do you believe him
Or do you believe her?
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Drop
A certain tear fall down the cheek speaks so many words
More profoundly than we speak
Ancient rivers become deserts when this tear is born
It tells stories of massacres
And secrets of tombs and bedrooms, this tear
So be careful when you cause a tear to fall
As a hurricane is born after a storm
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we are made up of bones
and flesh and our hearts
are ghost towns
of memories we no longer
wanted to revive
but my mind is a mess that
i keep on peeling my skin
leaving the parts where
your name was tattooed
untouched and i keep on
finding the words you said
and the traces you left behind
thinking that if i found them
you would come back
and fix me
but i was wrong
i was just breaking myself
again and again
cracking my bones
again and again
and crying
it was clear
that no one's here
that you're not here
and that no one would fix me
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24.03.18. halt. . let all the moments sink below this horizon. may every blossom either under the sun. heave all signs entombed in thy windpipe. let me build graves, bypassing hell's gates & skies. t'is only a haven than a cavern for her broken mind. blissful meadow spread out across wide is none appealing to I- a child scorched by light. chilled by whisper of truth, only hollow in the midst of lies. paralyzed in this parallel haze one can catch a glimpse of myself- the obedient scholar, the survivor of death, marching onwards nevertheless. I, in thine eyes she in my mind carves out a vicious line- one near to a crime. "halt! none may mass these holistic bounds of mine!" . - hiar (@hiarpoetry) . . #hiarpoetry #lankanpoetry #poetry #poetsempire #poetsofinstagram #WRITERS_DEN_ #writersofinstagram #heartofpoets #bymepoetry #artisticwriters #wordswithqueens #doortooursouls #untwineme #globalpoetcult #abodeofpoets https://www.instagram.com/p/CEV4blrpNQw/?igshid=13sk5n3gx1lqi
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the oldest god of war
you can’t smell it
you can’t hear it
sometimes you can’t even feel it
but betrayal is the realest--
the oldest god of war.
roar--
no onomatopoeia;
soar--
I wouldn’t want to be ya--
I wouldn’t want to be me
see-- my spirit animal is a cannibal--
I mean, like, I’m eating myself
don’t equate want with need
people bite the hands
that don’t feed
read:
books and people
and when it comes to the fam
best to keep all things equal--
the only thing justice is blind to
Is its own arrogance--
you can’t just give reality rules--
Ok; so you made the game-- cool;
but how I’m supposed build my own
Without the tools?
man created the systems
the idols
the monoliths
the word recitals
the hero and the antagonist
the plot and the sequel--
the system ain’t equal
You’ll hear the voice of god
in that gavel bang
“Let him hang”
She wrote the blues
And I sang
20 years a slave
From the cradle to the grave
Or
the cradle to the cage
You choose:
Red pill of blue?
One hit or two?
You want to keep it mysterious
Or do you want a clue?
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