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Every pointless trinket Diminishes my frame Shrinking to the obscure I am confined To my rusted brig of dismay I fill my sacred ground With trivial conquests Hollow offerings To embolden my stature To be hailed As an echo Heard by all Little by little I shrink with despair Adrift in loneliness In each idle…
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Anchored to silence He crafts Amidst the swerving tides Beneath the crisp, savory moon He honors her exuberance Defiantly slathering Charging the soaked canvas With streaks of gold And sorrowful blue The crimson’s scorch Madly in the distance Simmering the cold spectacle Into bold Faultless majesty Amidst the crash Of brooding dark He proudly wades…
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(I wrote this for a friend of mine) From a space I hardly knew Scoured over delicately Hours on end No detail was overlooked A cool beckoning was unleashed Soothing my battered hide Nursing the anguish Hidden away When pride had driven me to fear It was rejuvenation Sly in her ways A coveting wave…
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Round and round they toil Nestled within Their own quaint skin The nights erupt With jubilant flare A toast to the breathing As they dance and swear Round and round As done before Free to the whims That singe the core Still they dash for more Their excuse for sorrow That leaves some sore Nights…
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Kinship excels From the edge of her lips A free, permeating wisp So welcoming, warm and kind Courage serves her At every treacherous turn Ahead of the world’s fiendish ills She trudges proud Assured and unfazed She is the defiant display A showcase of liberation With many more fearlessly Blossoming at her side My reluctance…
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I’ve scoured the plateau The paramount of myself Starved of all hope Unfilled And softly waning The dry, mourning earth Cracks beneath my treads In each new ground conquered Taken, with heartache and distress My flat conquest erodes As others peer high Hungrily climbing With desperation and might Their towering structures Circle my dismay With…
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Vicious frostbite Climbs from my ankles An ascending conquest That binds me to panic I contain their advance With the warm luxury of song Set ablaze without melody Penned desperately against the tide I plant myself Further and further away Where the ever fretful cannot reach And inquiring minds, dare not pry The peaceful drone…
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Deep breathing Salvages a few A recovery of the scattered The frayed streams of thought Their currents race alone For the heart of desolation Sprawling far away Among stray particles of sanity The gravest sorrow known Bursts viciously from within A shrapnel laden horror Butchering stomach cavities With its sinister, bloody gash The pace of…
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I am the fugitive With mashed words Heaped upon his tongue Slithering along Through his treacherous labyrinth Ashing away His limited and precious time Into the breeze The days cave and wither Courted by the ghouls Of many more prior I bundle in silence Nursed by my own delusions Of quivering waves Brimming with color…
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From the full taverns Where elation roared He boasted his tales Of conquest and plunder That man tapered off Into the frozen goodnight Fuming with bourbon And nursing his pipe Plumes of delight Were garnished with song As he whistled soft hymns Along cobble stones home Through hushed alleyways Grazed by young romance Lurking hallow…