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Posted 21 May 2010 - 04:08 AM

I'm going to post some of poems and stories and other things that I've written

Starting with my most recent.
I wrote this two days ago, really fast and I have three versions of it, this is my most updated and definitive version, thought it's rather short.
The moment we met
you created a light in me
and in the dark evoked a life unseen
wrapped in satin sheets, perfume and your moon brushed cheeks
your legs, the hardwood floor and your long, soft moan, leave me wanting

your body, your soul, your sweat and your light
and to be used and ravaged and seduced with all their animalistic might,
left aching and intoxicated, melting like chocolate
on your lips and in your thighs.

I want you.


Here are so more. I lost all of my notebooks and I get depressed thinking about it... I wonder who has them
2-10 Unfinished
Beautiful Dreamer, your time has come
Transcend the mistakes of tender souls in love.
Life circulates through you and I
Ripples through our core

Love
It can radiate
It can intoxicate
It can bring the most vacuous people
into a state of fervorance that, if only for a milisecond
Can last a lifetime.
2-10
Every day is a new day.
You are the creator
You can change the world in which you live and the life which you will lead.
You have the ultimate power of freedom and control over your own self.
Make the right decisions; follow your heart and never second gues yourself.
Break down the walls and burn the film away.
Cleanse yourself and be born again
Lower your shield
Lower your sling and arrow
Expose yourself to life and all it's beauty.
Be the newborn
Live and create from within your own body.
and break the tracks of life.
It's time to live
Everything is eternal
There's a reason for all things
There is no yesterday
The only time we have is now
It's time to live.

Unifinished, 12-09
The black sky
backed by starry eyes;
those liquid brown holes
that stared so deep into my soul.
This land; dry, parched and cracked,
reminds me of the snow,
your baby breath,and how I want it back.

8-09
I Love You,
And I Breathe
Is there a difference?
They both happen naturally
We aren’t friends,
It was never meant to be.
We’re just lovers
Floating carelessly in the breeze
And when this world drowns
In the oceans of the deep
Forever to the end
You’re the one I’ll Keep
And when the fires burn my world
Leaving me with nothing
Don’t fear, little girl
You’re All I Need

Eve

A pure drop
In the ocean
To clam my thoughts,
To cast me out to sea
To the melding horizon
Melded in endless possibilities.
The hue of the crisp autumn scene
The leaves, the sky, the orange and green.
Myriads of colors dancing in melodies,
Perfect in rhyme with our dancing feet.
Whistling through the fields;
Our hands interlocked,
Her touch sends a calming numb
From toe to top.
Her eyes hum
With radiant thoughts;
That the feeling we share
Is what others have whole-heartedly sought,
And that the deepest oceans
Are just the start

I have to say this is my favorite piece, and I actually finished it but then I lost all of my notebooks, so I don't actually remember my final draft, but this one is the first draft, but I love some of the phrases and feelings that, even though it's not really that good, it's still my favorite and I love it completely, I would try to rephrase and add and make another finished copy, but this moments gone and there's not point in living in the past.

Summer '09

I'm leaving you my beautiful friend
Glorified; to the wind.
I've picked up the peices of my life
and fallen in love again

I'm starting over
Pining for something new
I'm a fool for loving her
But I was a bigger fool for loving you

I make her heart beat faster,
I feel life swimming through my veins
floating like we are underwater;
just two kids holding hands.

At dusk when everything becomes one
We watch the sun set like we never done
The fireflies illuminate her delicate face
She sings to me; and I fall into place

I'll hang out our ruined letters to dry
But I won't stop them, if they're just passing by
On this page, my beautiful friend, this is my heart
Even though this is the end, something new starts


Summer 09
Every night I see your soul shine,
dancing wild and naked in my mind.
I’m lost in a plot,
of claustrophobic thought.
A sigh of relief escapes me,
When it’s taken away,
But I search for it
Because I need your company.
My eyes gaze through your soul,
Tied to your ribs like a kite.
I’m tied to my mind,
Helpless to the power of the night.
Weep for me, Sweet Willow,
Wrap me in ribbons of oak,
Secure me in your roots,
Don’t ever let me go.

Summer 09 This is a story I'm working on and I named the chapters after lines in songs to remember what I was writing about as I skipped around and I have a whole other book to this somewhere lying around, but I'm never good at finishing anything

I also took some lines from some songs, like "clouds laughing" from JF's Interior Two, just because they're such perfect lines and I wanted to honor them
So Real (Chapter 1)
I could recall it all, if it weren’t for your hand by my side. The archaic white gates suited the Vesuvian landscape, as if someone had set out to create an art piece. Your adventurous footsteps seemed to rhyme perfectly in time with mine, they would’ve made any little drummer boy feel envious. I just felt alive.
I can recall it all; the summer sky had no better companion than the green grass. I’d never seen grass like this; it sticks in my mind as if it’s every moment I’m living. Now I understand something I never did, at this moment my face fills up to content and it’s no coincidence that my first thought is of the early morning dew that covered the grass so well. I could see every little, single drop, each one just being most significant drop of dew; it was the best grass I’d ever seen. I know what you’re thinking; it’s just grass, but you’re wrong. Not enough people stop to look at the world around them. But that morning, everything seemed to shine with that happy-eyed shine; you know the one where you see someone walking down the street, with a smile on their face, but their so happy it just leaks out of their eyes. Even the trees seemed to dance so carelessly. The world was alive that day, it was happy.
I felt alive that day, I was happy.
That friendly, summer breeze carried the smell of your simple, city dress.
It was a smell that, to this day, I will never forget.



Chapter 3 (?)
I stood frozen by the doorway. My apartment bared marks of being broken into. Have you ever noticed that when someone moves out of a house, it starts to fall apart soon enough, if no one moves in? The house becomes devoid of life and becomes nothing more than a hollow, empty shell. I was the robber.
I may have been living in the apartment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there was really a person there. I was as far from a productive human as you can get without being in a coma. At least friends and family come to visit you when you’re in a coma. I think I would felt a little better if I had been; you grow weary of the slum of your life after it becomes your day to day thoughts.
I was really getting tired of coming home to the TV moaning. There used to be a time when the world talked to me with words and it made me feel wholesome. I felt about as wholesome as the leftover Chinese food containers strewn about my apartment. You know your life doesn’t have much value when your house becomes so cliché it’s filled with leftover Chinese food. I didn’t even really like Chinese food, every book I ever read, or every washed up detective movie was just full of them. It was a nice place, don’t get me wrong, but I guess I didn’t treat it with the respect it deserved. It wasn’t the home of a man who gave him the respect he deserved.
I could feel my time crawling to an end as I stood there, I knew I had to get out; I couldn’t live in this skin anymore. I had created this, but I felt completely overwhelmed about the passion burning inside me.
My shuffling feet made the carpet groan, as I trekked to my bedroom. It was the only part of my world left unscathed by my apathy. All I had was a bed in there anyways, but it was my most valuable possession. I kept the satin sheets in such pristine shape, I didn’t want to deface my temple. It was the only place in the world I felt comfortable. It was the only place I could feel the faintest touch of an angel
Every night I saw your soul shine, swirling blissfully in cosmic fits in my head. It was so real to me. I only felt real in the dreams… my dreams were reality. Or they were the only place I wanted to be real



Show me unfocused fears in disguised (Chapter5)
“I’m trying, isn’t that all that matters?” I’d always had trouble tying a tie, but it had already been a bad night. I stared at her, “She’s stupid, I don’t even know what I’m doing here”. New York is such a filthy place. I’ve traveled the world, and even though I’m here with her, this is the worse place I’ve ever been. It’s worse than home. There are too many lights, and too much brick. I feel like I’m in a noir film.
I’m not going to lie, I don’t really remember anything she’s said; I don’t think I’ve paid attention to her since the day I met her. I just had one more commitment to fulfill and then I would break it off, besides, I had tickets for Paris in three days, it was perfect timing. I hoped she would understand, I

I’m reappearing and holding back (or) Any house is a frame (Chapter 8)
Today, I felt a sense of bewilderment; I saw the clouds laughing insane, our secret song played in the wind. I ran… I ran until my lungs burned and I could feel the bile in the back of my throat. I ran until my muscles were drowning, singed in acid, and I could hear their screams as they burned alive. Pedals fallen from the blooming trees swam in puddles on the sidewalk; they seemed to smear like some sort of expressionist art piece, veering on the edge of a psychedelic trip. This was no less than a psychedelic trip, if I could describe the sky as it truly were, you would call me insane.
It had been raining; the first spring rain. After winter ends, spring brings life back to Earth, this rain had washed everything away; it felt as if the Earth had started over again. I’d never felt so clean.
This thought was disrupted as cars passed me; I keep getting lost in my own claustrophobic thoughts. Even though I feel like it, I can’t forget I am not the only person in the world.
I ran until I got home and it felt good, every single house I passed was so familiar and had so much strange, newfound warmth; this was a family reunion I could enjoy. It felt good to be home, in a strange way.
I guess I could say today was a bummer day, it was only Tuesday, but it felt like one of those Sundays that you pushed all your homework on in high school, even though it never got done, because all your thoughts focused on the dreary rain.
It may not seem like it to you, but I still had travel plans. I’ve been across the whole world and there was only place left for me to discover;
Home.


Kiss my Mind, Leave me No Doubt(Chapter 10)
I still remember the exact moment I first saw her. She was so expressively mediocre; I was immediately attracted to her.


Sitting among the stars, dreaming, the way young lovers do(end)
I could recall it all; if it hadn’t been for your hand by my side. I traveled the whole Earth and the changing ocean’s tide, and I have to say, sitting here, listening to our secret theme, feels like I’m sitting amongst the stars. 
3-09
Take everything you know, everything you’ve learned and everything you’ve ever felt. Take everything that you are comprised of
All of it, don’t let any loose crumb break away

Just take it all and mix it
Pour it into one feeling, one statement, one memory, one component of yourself

Now,
Let it take over, let it take over your life and let it control everything.
That one instance that you put everything into was the most important moment of your life.

You almost forgot it didn’t you? That moment was so great, how could you have forgotten it?

You’re worrying too much. You move at a pace too fast for life. You’re not really living. Know you see it!
You see it clearer than you can see your hands in front of you

That one singular moment, it makes you incredibly happy doesn’t it?
Now think of any other moment after, until now

I can’t remember any of them either.
They’re all a big blur, they’re the same
That time you sat on your couch from the time you were at the pet store with your best friends
Oh, they were pissed off weren’t they?
Man that couch is really disappointed in you
It’s all the same
You couldn’t afford to throw away that couch
You don’t want to lose those friends, but compared to this feeling, nothing matters


That moment is the only part of your life that is really real. When everything else is gone, that moment will still exist
Forever and ever
Because it holds something special

It penetrates your soul
It’s love in the purest form


Why the fuck did you come back? One moment was spent dozing off, and then, at the barely conscious realization that the song I was listening to changed a bit
It was the most peculiar sound I heard
Just imagine twinkling stars flying through the universe, with the utmost joy in their hearts.

But for some reason it makes me sad, because it brought that moment to life
That moment was put to rest, I thought

In fact, the more I think about it, I don’t even recognize this moment, but just the feelings and it’s the worst feeling ever

It’s not that it’s a shitty, horrible feeling
Being sick is a shitty, horrible feeling

But it’s a lonely, nihilistic, happy, joyfully content feeling

Horribly happy
Sadly sound

It’s something you can’t let go or fight, because, whatever you’re missing at that point in life is fulfilled.
There is no such thing as world hunger.


I just wish you would forget me
Because I’m still around
I can’t tell what’s up
I can’t tell what’s down

I can’t forget you until you forget me
Everything has emotions, even dreams
But once that emotional context is gone
The dreams disappear and are forgotten

3-09
I breath in,
I breath in deep.
The air feels euphoric against my cold, metal lungs.
I touch you, your hand, and I feel humanity on my livid skin
This world is a dead, dry,
desolate place
The blistering heat nearly melts
my
prosthetic
face

If only for a moment I think these thoughts
and then it starts to
rain
The desert land is p o r o u s
I feel my friends feeling the pain

With you around
Everything seems OK
Everything seems so real
It begins to rain
(rainbows)
life's so surreal

I know that eventually you must go
and take the liquid life
back with you

I just hope I can create tangible life
light enough to nourish my friends
because even after you're gone
there will always be the sun

but before you go
would you mind
to help me
plant some marigolds?
2-09
It's been 16 hours.
16 fucking hours
Since I've been here, in outer space
The first 4 hours were the most unique. It was a cosmic swirling bliss, weaving in and out of the nebulae. It was a seize of emotion. I was deeper than Jacques Cousteau would ever venture
One moment was blissfully interrupted and substantiated by the next; though each were equally independent and equal in value; they were different from the previous one
Fucking 16 hours and I'm still here, I've lost all contact with any sign of life. It must be the slug of time; he oozes along leaving my transmissions trialing behind him as time goes by ever so slowly
It might as well have been 16 years, because up here, time doesn't matter

Time doesn't matter
I've most certainly ran out of oxygen- all the tanks are empty; bang their metallic ancestry like the ritual drums of tribal Africa to bring back the dead. But they're hollow and contain no value
You can't bring back the dead
Dance around a fire let it cascade across the horizon; LOW and HIGH and TO and FRO
LOW TIDE, HIGH TIDE, LOW TIDE, HIGH TIDE
They dance in circles; those infidels, as if to bring back the dead.
I must have a blood clot in my brain because it's so clouded that I can't differentiate one moment from the next, I must not have any oxygen in my brain

I have none in my lungs either.
I exhale and it's all smoke, burning, singing smoke- it can be enough that it can travel through your eyes and ears and burn every organ inside of you
I'm a dragon; a mystical epithet; a holy resurrect:

Cultus Promachos;

Diligo est meus absentis , meus animus voluntas , accerso is ut everyone,it's solus res ut mos superstes ullus quasi decimation ut could venio. Secundum totus est absentis , ut nusquam vel somes futurus a maculosus in bosom of vita , diligo mos subsisto ut alo orbis terrarum quod grow iterum Flowers mos grow quod orbis terrarum mos ver. Sulum vestrum est a astrum , vos must emanio diligo. Si vos can't operor sic don't operor quisquam Operor retineo miles militis trucido vos ; vos can have vestri permaneo spiritus Spiritus
Sicco:


But I can't complete my mission; It's not that I wasn't supplied with enough oxygen- in this world there's always oxygen, but I was sent here by my fellow man- the same dancing infidels who preach of the dead, without enough oxygen to endure my quest. That's the down fall
When you set out to complete a task and you set out to full fill the burning passion that is in your chest. The smoke that comes from the dragon inside of you, someone will extinguish it.
A banging footstep that brings fast heartbeats to your chest will most certainly damper your haven. You're somberness can't withstand the power of excitement and it most certainly vanishes if only for the moment until the excitement subsides.
The people will panic, but not you, because you're brain dead and your oxygen has run low
Shit you can't even feel your legs; they're so heavy. You couldn't even begin to feel any sense related to the feet beats that dance around the fire that beat the drums lapel.
Those feet you hear, they weren't your feet. In fact, your feet and those feet are so different that you can't begin to even permeate a distinguishable idea that would have any association

But you can always replace oxygen. Everything can be replaced. Nothing is definite. Why we hold dearly on to our momentary life puzzles me. It could be gone... NOW! It can be easily replaced as gasoline can be replaced with water to fuel a cry but our greedy clutches wouldn't pry loose if there were something 10 times better; Of course some of us would go as far to risk everything to get better things and to have more
They're never satisfied; so they can only hold on to one true thing- that's life. Because once this life is over they won't have anything because they were truly void in the first place- constantly grasping for something that would fullfill the gaping hole inside them
So accept the infinity that is out there; I'm here right now, in this infinitude. I don't need oxygen

You can survive with out oxygen

I can't recall the last 12 hours; mostly because I were sleeping, but my dreams were as vivid and real as could be. I was lost in a fairy tale surmised all of my dreams and purposes in this life.
They were as real as if I were watching a movie of myself going by in life; ignoring the meaningless things that waste our time and energy

Even my thoughts escape me. If I am not to produce them to a more permanent, physical apparatus they vanquish in to the air as quickly as I thought them up
I must live then; becuase if my thoughts that I am composed of began to dissipate than it will be soon before life begins to dissipate me and while slowly escape my breathe in the form of a whsiper
The smoke will diminish and my heart will be empty.

I would die.
Dragons would become extinct

At that thought the whole ocean could come from my eyes. Jacques would be proud of me
He is an essential explorer
He discovered it.
Others have discovered it too.

It's just a personal way to discover it. Everyone has their own form that their soul takes shape in, so everyone has their own way of discovery. It's great

I would drown in that ocean if i thought of it for too long.
No cul de sac would left busy with the animated buzzing of human interaction and I would feel alone on those empty streets.
Each person is their own, separately equal person who is equally separate from everyone else and each person would have their own fictitious envision of a personal flood
But for me it wouldn't be a ravenous, grasping spontaneous flood
It would just appear as the calmest sea with me the only person in it

I don't need oxygen but no fire could stay lit underwater.
It would not
This has fuel, but fuel runs out at the most untimely point. When you're feeling most ambitious and outgoing; ready to take on whatever comes your way- to explore and discover and pick the ripe fruit from your orgasmatree; you run out of fuel

I wonder what watery thoughts make me think so easily?
I know right now at this exact moment I'm just pouring some ancient, timeless information from somewhere that's a far off land
with cobblestone streets and white pearl columns that hoist every building These columns were built for a reason, you know that right?
Well when this flood comes, those columns will release their sales and hoist their building and traverse the tranquility and enjoy the lack of human life. Only then, when humans are gone, will this planet know peace
But I can't complete my purpose in life if humans are gone and then I'll just burn out. I'll wash away, and have lived a meaningless life

Fortunately what ever is inside of me comes from that time when buildings were prepared to set to sail;
It's glossolalia; pure and simple

When you lose oxygen you start to feel euphoric. That's what happens when you die. Your body releases all of it's chemicals so it becomes the single greatest experience of your life.

I must leave now before this ocean drowns me
I will emerge a different person
I shall come back from outerspace

Remember
Diligo est meus absentis
2-09
When with you
under the sea
I wonder what
watery thoughts
make me think
so easily
2-09
I'm standing in this line
and I hate your fucking guts
Why don't you learn to fucking vent?
You fucking hypocrite
All you spew is bullshit
Alphabetic slosh from behind others backs
You know nothing else, so that's how you act.

You're a sheep.
BAA!!
BAA!!
You're a sheep
BAA!!
BAA!!
You're a sheep

But no farm animal is as caustically ill as you
I don't believe in medicine
But if I did, nothing could cure you

This is from '08
When I fall into the Cosmos,
like a tiny speck.
You bring me back to Earth,
and show me what really matters
Your hand in mine
Together we'll transcend our bodies
and travel time.
In love
and
entwined.

Time has no boundaries
Love house none,
So they can last forever
Whereas...
Bodies, have a capacity
So when we leave this vessel
We're forever bound
7-08
From the skin scraped by the fall
To within, where nothing is better at all.

You can only be so lonely before you start to lose yourself.
You start to lose yourself after you lose everyone else.

and when you've got no place to go, no place at all
you can't look at life without seeing a fault

I want to live life, not sad
but the choices are so bad.

I feel like a stranger in the family I live
I feel like a stranger living in this skin
7-08
I have fallen in to an Abyss, all is dark and all is mist- there are no colors or no shapes, I guess I must climb my way back out.


I feel the Spirits;
The Portal Man,
Abandoning me
Once again.
Marked by
the dwindling Figures
I feel the hole
in my soul
getting bigger
and bigger
I sense Death,
in my skin
I sense nothing
once again
It's not a choice
only a fate
I thought I could
keep clean,
this shiny slate

Winter 09
Anytime you're given Life
You must address it

There's always light
Walking through the darkness

Release your soul
From its surface

Trust your heart
Let it surround you


When you're infinite
your mind
crosses a line
here and in between
nothing can't be seen
the past
the present
the future
time in between
blends and twists
time collides
but
they fuck your mind
and cum on your thoughts
and you become a robot
and take away time
and leave you to rot

kill your momma
kill your daddy
im the beastman
understand me???
kill all relatives
friends and family

Written: February 6th, 2008

The ending is an ode to John Frusciante

Daysleeper.

we

all

seek

alienation

alleviation

suffocation

its

just

a

matter

of

time

before

the

world

catches

up with us

and

takes

our

lives

then

one

day

we'll

feel

that's

when

we're

free


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Posted 21 May 2010 - 05:46 PM

I like the last 'un

a bit of a mantra to my minds bends

all seems very well writ poetry

I will read all of 'em a little later

( the story's hard to read what with the width )

greetings from some guy

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 07:09 PM

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 05:46 PM, said:

I like the last 'un

a bit of a mantra to my minds bends

all seems very well writ poetry

I will read all of 'em a little later

( the story's hard to read what with the width )

greetings from some guy

Thank you! sorry for the width on the story, I'm terrible with html and I just copied and pasted it/

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:47 PM

View PostTDKshorty, on 21 May 2010 - 07:09 PM, said:

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 05:46 PM, said:

I like the last 'un

a bit of a mantra to my minds bends

all seems very well writ poetry

I will read all of 'em a little later

( the story's hard to read what with the width )

greetings from some guy

Thank you! sorry for the width on the story, I'm terrible with html and I just copied and pasted it/

all i can say is that i think its meaningfull poetry

hopefully more people will read it

Is there some kind of reason there are so many talented people on this site

maybe im just an idiot (= g®eek for private person )

Nice use of the buckley lyrics

i copied it to read it so ...

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 09:16 PM

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 08:47 PM, said:

View PostTDKshorty, on 21 May 2010 - 07:09 PM, said:

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 05:46 PM, said:

I like the last 'un

a bit of a mantra to my minds bends

all seems very well writ poetry

I will read all of 'em a little later

( the story's hard to read what with the width )

greetings from some guy

Thank you! sorry for the width on the story, I'm terrible with html and I just copied and pasted it/

all i can say is that i think its meaningfull poetry

hopefully more people will read it

Is there some kind of reason there are so many talented people on this site

maybe im just an idiot (= g®eek for private person )

Nice use of the buckley lyrics

i copied it to read it so ...

Well I always felt like my poetry wasn't ever any good, but I enjoy it, it's just the emotion and fervor of other poets like Jeff Buckley and Bob Dylan and Ezra Pound and Ginsburg, it's something I want to achieve.

I tried editing it, but it wouldn't let me... maybe I'll repost it!

Here it is, it's the most recent version, I wrote alot on it a while ago, but never posted it anywhere... so here it with additions and alterations!
If anyone cares it's an autobiography of sorts or a memoir... I'm telling my story through another story, through someone else.

So Real (Chapter 1)
I could recall it all, if I hadn’t been so focused your hand by my side. The archaic white gates perfectly suited the Vesuvian landscape, as if someone had set out to create an art piece. Your adventurous footsteps seemed to rhyme perfectly in time with mine, they would’ve made any little drummer boy feel envious.
I just felt alive.
I can recall it all; the summer sky had no better companion than the green grass. I’d never seen grass like this before; it sticks out in my mind as if it’s every moment I’m living.
I now understand something I never did, at this moment my face fills up to content and it’s no coincidence that my first thought is of the early morning dew that covered the grass so well. I could see every little, single drop, each one just being the most significant drop of dew; it was the best grass I’d ever seen. I know what you’re thinking; it’s just grass, but you’re wrong. Not enough people stop to look at the world around them.
But that morning, everything had that happy-eyed shine; you know the one where you see someone walking down the street, with a smile from ear to ear, but they’re just so happy it leaks out of their eyes.
Ha, even the trees seemed to dance so carelessly.
The world was alive that day, it was happy.
I felt alive that day, I was happy.
That friendly, summer breeze carried the smell of your simple, city dress.
It was a smell that, to this day, I will never forget.
“You’re squishing me” even with the biggest smile, and a magical, childish demeanor, I managed to ruin the moment- I guess I should’ve realized I was past the jokes and little quips.
“Fine. Let’s go eat” she retorted and rolled over.
From previous experience I expected a smack produced of awe on my shoulder. Light enough to flirt, heavy enough to leave a sting. But nothing had gone as I planned it to.
Everything felt just right. This girl broke all expectations for me. I used to be a person who wasn’t really shocked by human behavior- we are after all prone to act on impulse.
I was a little disappointed; I didn’t really want her to get up, in fact, I could’ve just laid there for the rest of my life.
“I could lie here forever; I’m just so happy”
I didn’t really expect her to smack me, but I didn’t care because this smack didn’t leave a sting. It left something greater; her hand rested upon my chest, “Well, I’m sorry but they stop serving pancakes at eleven”

Chapter? (The BREAKDOWN)
I stood frozen by the doorway.
My apartment bared marks of being broken into. Have you ever noticed that when someone moves out of a house, it starts to fall apart soon enough, if no one moves in? The house becomes devoid of life and becomes nothing more than a hollow, empty shell. I was the robber.
I may have been living in the apartment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there was really a person there. I was as far from a productive human as you can get without being in a coma.
At least friends and family come to visit you when you’re in a coma. I think I would have felt a little better if I had been; I was tired of life.
I was really getting tired of coming home to the TV moaning. There used to be a time when I heard words and it made me feel wholesome. I felt about as wholesome as the leftover Chinese food containers strewn about my apartment. Has my life become so cliché it’s filled with leftover Chinese food? I didn’t even really like Chinese food’ every book I ever read, or every washed up detective movie was just full of them.
I lived in a nice place, don’t get me wrong, but I guess I didn’t treat it with the respect it deserved. It wasn’t the home of a man who gave himself the respect he deserved.
I could feel my time crawling to an end as I stood there, I knew I had to get out; I couldn’t live in this skin anymore. I had created this, but I felt completely overwhelmed about the passion burning inside me.
The carpet groaned at my shuffling feet, as I trekked to the bedroom. It was the only part of my world left unscathed by apathy. All I had was a bed in there anyways, but it was my most valuable possession. I kept the satin sheets in such pristine shape; I didn’t want to deface my temple. It was the only place in the world I felt comfortable. It was the only place I could feel the faintest touch of an angel
Every night I saw your soul shine, swirling blissfully in cosmic fits in my head. It was so real to me. I only felt real in the dreams… my dreams were reality. Well, they were the only place I wanted to be real.
But tonight was a different story. I couldn’t fall asleep no matter how hard I tried. I twisted and turned, my body yearned for a sleep that I knew would never come.
She ran through my thoughts and I was exhausted from chasing her. I had spent so much timing lying there that, eventually, my alarm went off.
I had to go to work.
I couldn’t take it anymore, I was tired.
Tired of my job
Tired of my apartment
Tired of myself
Tired of feeling this way
I was just tired.
I’ve had enough- I’m getting out of here



Show me unfocused fears in disguised (Chapter 3)
“I’m trying, isn’t that all that matters?”
I’d always had trouble tying a tie, but it had already been a bad night.
I stared at her, “She’s stupid, I don’t even know what I’m doing here”.
New York is such a filthy place. I’ve traveled the world, and even though I’m here with her, this is the worse place I’ve ever been. It’s worse than home. There are too many lights, and too much brick. I feel like I’m in a noir film.
I’m not going to lie, I don’t really remember anything she’s said; I don’t think I’ve paid attention to her since the day I met her. I just had one more commitment to fulfill and then I would break it off, besides, I had three days until my next destination, it was perfect timing. I hoped she would understand, I never wanted to hurt her, things just took an unexpected turn.
When you first meet someone you’re interested in you don’t pay attention to their flaws, and I’m not saying she had any, but this is the case. You show off all of your best movies the first weekend to impress her and then you hope there’s something tangible enough to keep you from being alone the rest of your life.
But when you’re best movies are somewhere between Die Hard and

I’m reappearing and holding back (or) Any house is a frame (Chapter 5)
Today, I felt a sense of bewilderment; I ran… I ran until my lungs burned and I could feel the bile in the back of my throat. I ran until my muscles were drowning, singed in acid, and I could hear their screams as they burned alive. I saw the clouds laughing insane while our secret song played in the wind.
Pedals fallen from the blooming trees swam in puddles on the sidewalk; they seemed to smear like some sort of expressionist art piece, veering on the edge of a psychedelic trip. This was no less than a psychedelic trip, if I could describe the sky as it truly were, you would call me insane.
It had been raining; the first spring rain. After winter ends, spring brings life back to Earth, this rain had washed everything away; it felt as if the Earth had started over again.
I’d never felt so clean.
This thought was disrupted as cars passed me; I keep getting lost in my own claustrophobic thoughts. Even though I feel like it, I can’t forget I am not the only person in the world.
It’s not that I’m selfish; at least I don’t feel selfish. The more you give the fuller your heart becomes; it’s a weird concept, but it keeps the world afloat. I don’t expect you to understand though; I got so lost in the feeling; nothing in the world mattered. I felt non-existent.
I ran all the way home and it felt good, every single house I passed was so familiar and had so much strange, newfound warmth; this was a family reunion I could enjoy, In a strange way, it felt good to be home.
I guess I could say today was a bummer day, it was only Tuesday, but it felt like one of those Sundays, in high school, that you pushed all your homework on, even though it never got done, because all your thoughts focused on the dreary rain.
My parents were at work and the only thing the left me with was the T.V remote.

It may not seem like it to you, but I still had travel plans. I’ve been across the whole world and there was still one place left for me to discover;
Home.


Kiss my Mind, Leave me No Doubt
I still remember the exact moment I first saw her. She was so expressively mediocre; I was immediately attracted to her.

Sitting among the stars, dreaming, the way young lovers do
I could recall it all; if it hadn’t been for your hand by my side. I traveled the whole Earth and the changing ocean’s tide, and I have to say, sitting here, listening to our secret theme, feels like I’m sitting amongst the stars.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 09:26 PM

Colorblind

For the longest nights
All I saw where the black and whites
No kaleidoscope 
Ever graced my soul or sights
But tonight Love smiled on me.
With her brown locks, from a breeze
And granted a life forever
Full of blue, gold and green
She dreams in colors
She dreams in reds
She shares her heart
And shares her bed
Through the flowers and the fields
Through the oceans and the shores
I’m colorblind no more

The "she dreams in colors, she dreams in red", I think it's from a Pearl Jam song, "Betterman" and it just struck me that I immediately wrote a poem upon hearing this song in the right place and the right time and based it around that theme.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 09:28 PM

in my snobinion most of them poems s very singabilly it has a sort of nature like vapour necessary for sung stuuff
" "

the story with the latin parts is my fav

anyway
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 10:25 PM

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 09:28 PM, said:

in my snobinion most of them poems s very singabilly it has a sort of nature like vapour necessary for sung stuuff
" "

the story with the latin parts is my fav

anyway
thanks
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Thank you! I wrote that when I was stoned, haha, but it's based off of true events, though I'll leave it open to interpretation, but if people are interested in the story, I'll explain it!

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 10:33 PM

View PostTDKshorty, on 21 May 2010 - 10:25 PM, said:

View Postnowordsysyworld, on 21 May 2010 - 09:28 PM, said:

in my snobinion most of them poems s very singabilly it has a sort of nature like vapour necessary for sung stuuff
" "

the story with the latin parts is my fav

anyway
thanks
person

Thank you! I wrote that when I was stoned, haha, but it's based off of true events, though I'll leave it open to interpretation, but if people are interested in the story, I'll explain it!

i'd say don't explain since
you did write it when you were stoned
it kinda has the movement of a trip
of course if it's better with the story ...

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 12:25 AM

I've really enjoyed reading your poetry and stories as well and I think you're pretty talented. The trouble is that you've posted so much of it that it's difficult to reply to! I shall try though. I love "Eve" and "Colorblind". I also like your use of imagery and metaphor in this version of Summer 09 [quoted here because there are two pieces of the same name]:

Every night I see your soul shine,
dancing wild and naked in my mind.
I’m lost in a plot,
of claustrophobic thought.
A sigh of relief escapes me,
When it’s taken away,
But I search for it
Because I need your company.
My eyes gaze through your soul,
Tied to your ribs like a kite.

I’m tied to my mind,
Helpless to the power of the night.
Weep for me, Sweet Willow,
Wrap me in ribbons of oak,
Secure me in your roots,
Don’t ever let me go.

I'm not as sure of the two bolded lines in this poem..but I really love the way you've used the idea of the trees to convey both softness/fluidity and sturdiness/stability. The duality in the line, "Wrap me in ribbons of oak" is clever. The combination of the malleable [ribbon] with the immovable [oak] creates a powerful and very poetic image.

Just a question: Why do you use different coloured font in some of your poems/stories? On the whole though, I like your work, but I wouldn't be quite so quick to abandon them and move on. Some of them would be much better if you revisited them and honed them a little more. :)

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 12:50 AM

Seeing as I'm more of a storyteller than I poet, I focused on your story... and I love these lines:

"The carpet groaned at my shuffling feet" -the fact that it groaned "at" them, rather than "under" them makes it special- a little thing I know but they tend to be the most important bits

"You show off all of your best movies the first weekend to impress her and then you hope there’s something tangible enough to keep you from being alone the rest of your life."- one of those startling thoughts that you've always known but never realised

"Would've made any little drummer boy feel envious" - I don't know whether I like this because I love references to music, but it's a cute little sentence

"I only felt real in the dreams… my dreams were reality. Well, they were the only place I wanted to be real." I like the second sentence, because the first tends to be a little over-used but the second makes it refreshing.

Other than that, overall this is beautiful, but if you want to make it a full story, you need to work on making the story more immediate. Currently most of your sentences are dreamlike which are good for description and depth but need to be padded out with sharp barbs of reality, otherwise the reader gains no feeling for the character or the plot.

But this is very beautiful and I feel, once again, inspired and competitive ;) Thanks so much for posting this, I feel charged with creative energy :)
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Posted 22 May 2010 - 03:25 PM

Thank you guys so much! My creative writing teacher beat me like a dead horse, haha. She hated all of my writings, but you guys make me feel good about them :)

I'll probably work on the story, but right now isn't the time, but I don't when it will ever be, because I'm moving in a straight path right now, and the story is autobiographical, but those were just rough draft, kinda pinpoints, to help me direct the flow of the story, since it's not done yet ;)

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 03:28 PM

From your nightmares I dwell
Grinding teeth and picking dirt
from what used to be fingernails
What's worse?
I paraded you so well
A belt first worn, now I'll use to hang myself

new one... written this morning.

Idk why it's multi-colored.
Fuck it.

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Posted 25 May 2010 - 04:15 AM

I wouldn't be as rough as your creative writing teacher appears to be, but in short - she's right. As a creative professional who was never writing classic conventional poetry and who has pieces that contain only of punctuation, I think I understand most of modern written forms...but this is where my brain melts and where I'm unable to give positive critique.

I took the time to read all of these and the only one that appears to be having somewhat of a potential is the one with sheep. The rest...they vary between tasteless puberty stoned ramblings (the first one - it reminds me of LL Cool J's mid-90s music videos - "Hey, Lover" in particular) and some sort of attempts to sound spiritual.

You have the potential. However, you're ruining it all by swearing in your writing (there are forms that demand bad words, but these don't strike me as such forms, they could do perfectly well without a bunch of fucks!) and by writing when you're in an altered state of mind, which might not be that bad the way it is, but it may develop into a fear of writing when sober. And that way, you're losing the truth of your expression as a writer. Once you've reached that point, you'll be able to write trippy stuff when sober - the trippiness would come naturally as an instance of your own imagination.
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Posted 25 May 2010 - 05:39 AM

View PostIva, on 25 May 2010 - 04:15 AM, said:

I wouldn't be as rough as your creative writing teacher appears to be, but in short - she's right. As a creative professional who was never writing classic conventional poetry and who has pieces that contain only of punctuation, I think I understand most of modern written forms...but this is where my brain melts and where I'm unable to give positive critique.

I took the time to read all of these and the only one that appears to be having somewhat of a potential is the one with sheep. The rest...they vary between tasteless puberty stoned ramblings (the first one - it reminds me of LL Cool J's mid-90s music videos - "Hey, Lover" in particular) and some sort of attempts to sound spiritual.

You have the potential. However, you're ruining it all by swearing in your writing (there are forms that demand bad words, but these don't strike me as such forms, they could do perfectly well without a bunch of fucks!) and by writing when you're in an altered state of mind, which might not be that bad the way it is, but it may develop into a fear of writing when sober. And that way, you're losing the truth of your expression as a writer. Once you've reached that point, you'll be able to write trippy stuff when sober - the trippiness would come naturally as an instance of your own imagination.


I've only written few things while high, most of my stuff I write in the moment, when words come to may, but sometimes they're in bad form, as you can tell :whistle:

I don't fear writing while sober, in fact the majority of my writings come from sobriety, but I don't smoke to write, I just smoke and then I think and I have to get it to come out somehow, I just write or type or run or ramble... though I haven't smoked in over a year, so anything post 4/09 is THC free!

But thanks for the criticism!

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:08 PM

That's a lot of work.
I like a lot of it some parts are amazing.

I really like how you descibe a lot of things in your poetry.
Can you maybe elaborate a little to me how you get into that train of though for description. it's something I've never been able to conqur.

Keep up the good work.

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Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:18 AM

View Posti love JF, on 30 May 2010 - 07:08 PM, said:

That's a lot of work.
I like a lot of it some parts are amazing.

I really like how you descibe a lot of things in your poetry.
Can you maybe elaborate a little to me how you get into that train of though for description. it's something I've never been able to conqur.

Keep up the good work.

I don't know how I do it, it just comes to me. Sorry I don't really know how to explain it, it's just my world, it's how I see things or how I interpret things... everything I write is real, it's based off of something that happened you know, and it's like how Omar Rodriguez Lopez distorts and adds effects to everything he writes to change it into something else and that's how I change my writing to be something else, that it's not a direct, textbook representation of my reality.

Sorry, but I really appreciate that you enjoy my writing :)

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 08:59 AM

just wrote just now

It is through the looking glass we peer, squinty-eyed,
At life's bounty; either gloriously or terrified.
No matter who's eyes digest it's extravagance,
Importance is only of the glass' perception
For if it be foggy or smudged
Too convex or concave
That looking glass will change
your world in many, many ways
My writing has been stale the past few months

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Posted 01 January 2011 - 09:34 PM

This one is about ten thousand times better than all of the others put together - good work!
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Posted 03 January 2011 - 12:16 AM

Thank You :D I really appreciate it!





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