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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: ? The pale unknown curves To appease His starved And reckless whims ? In crumpled sheets Molded and mangled Lost, in the throes Of lofty words ? He lays claim To every spire Each ivory mountain Of imperfection ? Swallowed whole In the vise The maddening chorus ? The will…
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Let freedom ring as promised long ago In the hopeful hearts of travelers Who graze our shores Let us stoke the hearth Within all who aspire, Who roam the back-roads, Cradling a purpose Embolden the promise Spin the fabric of a dream That has rambled so far Against all odds
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I hailed from a shadowy corner To the rise and the fall of a chorus Devoid, of any shame I’ve been lead Through the smoke-laden halls Into a lair of poetics And mercy, was freely dispensed I was slowly enthralled Then involved In the frantic affair Scrawling Screaming Then simmering, Satisfied and silent
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Shame always wrings me dry. Like a mangy sponge; Forgotten and shriveled In the bathroom sink.
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I have finally quenched the fuse That would have fed me to the flames, Tumbling and wheezing as shrapnel I have taken a parcel of ease Where the wooded frames of tomorrow Will shelter, The growth of young dreams Stalling the pillars of smoke That will someday leap From the ashes of a fragile peace…
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These days I resemble The vault of the sun Obscured, in silver skies Mirroring, the death of its arc In the same faint shades of red That spill into black I lunge for the heavens Again and again All to burn off the veil Of stagnating sorrow Forevermore, Seeking, A breach, In all the worry
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Floating, on a gradual wind Is the sweet-relief of words Repaid in full A parcel Offering, peace of mind Having braved the great plains For the salted breeze of the west The rise of her vital signs Will move me to scrawl Into rivers of sweat Drawing me close To being wholly engulfed By her…
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Won’t time Simply drain away Giving up new ground To the hush-filled hours I adore? I’d prosper, Gratefully Like a youth on the eve Of purity lost Won’t time simply budge From atop the heave Of this dying form? So that I might be flooded With certainty at last
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I am always tied Into a series of homemade knots; Always waiting For the curse and the crash Of calamity’s voice









