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ColorblindI gave away my name today

and it might be a metaphor, but I think
we only remember the quietest suicides

the walls are thin enough to listen
as the angels try to scratch free;
bloodied fingernails and God says everyone
screws up, sometimes

I'm waiting for a silent night.

I only ever believed in solid ground
and depressions' tides, and sometimes,
those little wounds I nursed deep
within my vocal chords (because
my voice is dying, too)

I can see the beautiful people, now
overdosing on their own opiums of
self-acquittal and dissolution

they ran out of ways to ask for help.

I'm fragile, but my glass ribs
aren't holding much

and

ElegyReveries of pale silhouettes cavorted beneath her eyelashes
Skylarking with alluring steps,
Restless in her walking,
She followed them into the covert;
The hallowed and disembodied presence soon began to abscond
From the wretched and chitty girl, to somewhere beyond.

"Oh, my beloved John Doe, thine sweet redolence lingers with me,
Agony for a sufferer without a path,
How I cry for the immolation of thy memory, to let me flee
Far from the bane thee hurled onto me.
John Doe, prythee!, let us meet once again,
For my wounded spirit would not be able to abide
To a such loss, it will tear me in twain..."

Shadows come and go,
Filt

he came and he wentThe sky cracked open like an egg
Pouring its whites like shining bone dust
Collecting on the ground in ruins
Built up from pagan sorrows and pagan storms

He crawled from the runes
Scribblings like twig upon twig
To belt out a calling to the listeners
Be wary of your fires, for they burn my havens down

His echo was heard by haloed heads
Ribbons and fern twisted on necks
Their bodies retched open, letting the sun in
To sink into soil, like blood on their hands

ApparitionLittle girl,
You have out-grown
Yourself, and these
Childish notions of
Monsters in the closet.

Each morning,
She holds her breath
Until the sun rises,
Because no one taught her
How to sleep
With her eyes closed.

There is this
Delusion about you;
A belief that if
You stay awake,
There will be no darkness.

It is damaging you.

She lays,
Cold and silent,
With her darkened fantasies,

And remembers a time
When she was not-so-
Softly breaking
Into unrecognizable shards.

Careless drifter,
You have found your only
Escape
From all the lifetimes
You were
Too fearful to live.

Rest now,
Frightened child,

Night of the ViolinSeek you me in a grave shallow,
bleeding upon a blade of rusted steel
The mood of a rose ascends beyond ether
caressing souls in skies hoary

From the pitch of solitude she appears,
dark hair soaking upon winds quiver
(violin weeping in the dew of nocturnal sunrise)
As the moon whispers in twilight's fall
my thoughts swirl into a halo of numb reverie
Entranced in the gloaming of her love —
dripping within the lotus of her serenade
Beset in eyes of jade,
drowning in sensual delight
Seduced in a gothic sky

Deepest gaze unleashed into my soul;
she weaves a spell of turquoise feather
her violin brushes my skin in dreamy hues

Why I Married HimOur first date was
enchiladas and thumb wrestling
and a movie too awful
to forget and a kiss
that took forever and
didn't last long enough.

The Dangerous Art.Your fallen soul rests in your dress
And you will never know that you fell with beauty,
The others sought to have your heart in their hands
And they will never know about your secret kindness.

You loved and you gave from your withered heart
But no one did or ever will give in return,
Oh the pity that comes with…
It's a shame.

Your heart grew every time their eyes lit up
And you grew wide wings from your honesty,
But deep down inside you thought you were never enough
And you thought that everyone had forgotten you.

Shun the one with the kindest heart, they thought,
Never give them love to dwell on
For it will only make us we

The Inane DreamI'd never seen such great a forest,
As the one I saw with more or less
Shrills crawling down my frigid spine;
Guess we call it fear or too much wine.
In this place, I do not know,
Monsters lurk in every shadow.
The sense of fright ran over me,
While violins played dramatically.
I only wanted reality,
I think I got more actually.
The dreadful howlings, I feared see,
Came from behind the cherry tree.
Yet the scariest beast after me
Was the gigantic furry fairy,
She was hungry for she looked at me
And wanted to eat my whole body.
So I ran and ran into the dark
Hoping she wouldn't see and depart.
But she disappeared out of sigh

Crawling Out Of Lovea pit I have been cast in
my own choices force me down like gravity
hands scraping the stone on the plunge to the bottom
I had not been aware that I was falling

the sky looks like the rest of my life
free and beautiful and honest
I choke on the dampness of this abyss
crawling out of love is my only wish

Edgar allan poe statusI see your picture on the wall
'this story cant be true at all'
i hear myself say, underneath my breath
nearly half-dead, fulla regrets

'its too bad sad', i ramble out
at least from my point of view
I dont know about yours
I cant stand in your shoes

every tales got a start and end
i cant tell if this ones even began
cant even tell, yeah im that blind
sometimes ive gotta look twice

Carry on! i always say
make bad things turn ok
changes my perspective of things
makes a sunny day turn to rain.

8/26/12 11:39

Ocean Art!Ocean carved rugged coastline
Strong fingers of waves created
Nature's inspiration never sleeps
Work ongoing, never complete.

Winter time when storms prevail
Strong fingers of waves chip away
Pounding coastline methodically
Senseless sea thunders out in bay.

Ocean sculpts with brutal force
Strong fingers of waves weave magic
Nature the artist, gallery amazed
Abstract cliffs, splendour displayed.

2012 Delice1941
2nd October2012

The Black QueenBlack clouds gather as the storm begins to rise,
in shadows I watch you plan my demise,
my soul quakes in perverse delight,
the tempest I'll bring upon you in fright,
your mask cracks, and I see through your disguise.

Once I trembled with your twisted lies
now I'll topple you from abysmal skies,
Lucifer falling in thunder's light,
Black clouds gather.

Without remorse I close your dead eyes
and leave you behind with the worms and flies,
empty smiles in the waning night,
the darkness was mine to smother your plight,
no others will be mislead by your guise
Black clouds gather.

Suicidal TendenciesHe was left hanging,
a shadow in the rope that held her life.

He was left hanging,
dangling from a thread
wrapped around his heart
which continued to pull tighter
into a small,
suffocated bundle.

He was left hanging on the words,
creating a mirror of letters so
he could catch a glimpse of her again
in the image he knew her best –
dead.

He was left hanging,
swaying in the wind,
his feet unable to touch the ground.
A line had been erased,
no longer was it clear if he was her,
them,
or himself.
It did not matter,
they were all left hanging.

REMEDIAL SUNThe world I fathom rhetorically orbits
around the whirr of a dust-peppered
triad of turbine limbs
inbreeding infinitely as electricity's
treaty permits
into a smorgasbord whirl of
processed plastic white

A remedial sun I compose
to counter outside's oven bulb
in the world I do not fathom

Heat's sniper of humidity
is not lost on me
with no canonized sense
even to establish it with

And even my own remedial sun
restricts a reality-knighting touch
with its ozone cage pried open
in unseen haste - a victim
of college's fugitive waltz
encased in the jazz fusion dance hall
of the world I cannot fathom

Is there a dual left-footed

The Bride of AtlasShe met him when the world was new;
when wars were fought in the cosmos
and celestial beings deigned expose
and visit themselves upon the mortals.

In darkness he came to her;
somewhere between fantasy and the real,
disguised as a human, burly and firm
with want of a lover and yearning for release.

She knew him as a man
and he loved her as his wife.

A Titan he had always been
at battle with Olympians
who garnered all of humanity's love
and chose war over peace to keep it.

As lightning struck, thunder roared,
and waves destroyed the earth,
all grew quiet as Olympus rejoiced
and she knew that he had lost.

Zeus then rest upon

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Moth

by ~rrbb1313, Nov 9, 2012, 7:03:45 PM
Literature / Poetry / Romantic / General / Free Verse

I'm caught up in the funny
accent, and the rugged
goatee: blonde,
bleached blonde.

A smile wide and
White, straight teeth,
Illuminated dully in the
Overhead lights.

School is dull.

And yet, again, I find myself
Frowning, in something like
embarrassment at the
glare of your green eyes
on me, your face
too close for comfort,
I believe.

There is something like
Amusement
In your eyes, taunting
subtly, as you laugh
Out loud.

Such charm is
Intimidating,
Captivating,
Seldom seen,
Enough to draw the
Moths out
Of hiding.

Am I a moth?

Dear God,
I hope not.

Mothby ~rrbb1313

Literature / Poetry / Romantic / General / Free Verse

Ahhhhh, he makes me feel embarrassment for no particular reason. I hate life.

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~februaryblue Nov 17, 2012 Student Writer

I love how the poem is a stream of consciousness, but there's a point to it. It makes the poem interesting (the line breaks do too), but keeps it from being too heavy. It's very good.

~rrbb1313 Nov 17, 2012

Thanks!

~hyperfluxy Nov 12, 2012 Writer

This is extraordinarily clever, and i love it especially

And yet, again, I find myself
Frowning, in something like
embarrassment at the
glare of your green eyes
on me, your face
too close for comfort,
I believe.

lovely work.

~rrbb1313 Nov 12, 2012

Ahh thank you!! I always frown when I'm embarrassed. Like, a really big frown. I don't know why.

~hyperfluxy Nov 14, 2012 Writer

Hahaha. I am so glad <3. I hope its a good embarrased!

~rrbb1313 Nov 15, 2012

Oh, it's a joy, trust me.

~BelaRoseWolf Nov 11, 2012 Student Writer

This poem is so incredible!

The feelings and descriptions are amazing, and hold so many interesting nuances! This piece was fun to read, and extremely engaging. Great work!

~rrbb1313 Nov 12, 2012

Thanks!!

~BelaRoseWolf Nov 12, 2012 Student Writer

You're welcome! XD

~Naiah57 Nov 10, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Such an amazing poem! I love the lines and the descriptions of what you say. Everything makes me just feel like I'm there seeing what you're writing, so really great job on this; I respect you since I suck at describing in poetry

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