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#261

The Moon Understands

When I am kept awake by my thoughts, I am comfortable in the night where can sit in misery and cry all I want. When the sun comes up I am faced with the...
The quiet night is comforting deep and understanding The moon will dance my sad song but as this story extends my time with the night is short and my worries are long A bowl of lava is taunting...

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#262

And If My Soul is Crying

And If My Soul is Crying was torn straight from the soul during an episode of almost unbearable abyssal sadness that took place some time in 2015. Image 2015.
It’s happening again, Such unbearable pain, And if my soul is crying As my heart is breaking, then that’s fine…   I’ve let so many people down, Lost so many beautiful opportunities I feel so failed and forlorn, But is that really...

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#263

The waters’ edge


As I sit here at the waters' edge, I see one lone goose gliding  over the water.  The sun is bright  as it begins to set. The weather is beautiful, the wind blowing, no...

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#264

My Sprokies verhaal

Die nuwe man in my lewe het hierdie gedig geinspireer.  En ek dra die gedig op aan hom.  Johan Putter van Kriel, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Ek het jare lank gedroom en gebid vir n man soos jy. N man wat my verstaan en laat voel so vry Ek het jare lank gesmeek vir God ons Vader Om lemand soos jy na...

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#265

VICTIM OF ENIGMA

Being a prisoner will cause you to be put In a position to see what society doesn't have time to see , AND you end up with this?


LAYING ON THE STONE OF SACRIFICE SURROUNDS THE MIND AS MYSTERY OF THE NIGHT -

ARCANE TO THE THOUGHT OF DEATH BUT JEALOUS OF BEING SWINDLED ONTHE WHATS LEFT-

OPPRESSED BY THE PROBLEMS OF LORE PERPLEXS...

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#266

Vessels


We are but vessels of the creator, within, the culmination. The culmination of the creators experiment. How we look, what color, what sex, what nationality, irrelevant. What we produce is what matters, what we...

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#267

scream

bullying


I want to feel that feeling they feel When the reality is just real

I want to know why they do  Such a thing out of the blue

Do they feel satisfied  When they go around...

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#268

Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Sometimes it's better that people can't see whats happening in your mind


~Yesterday,Today,Tomorrow I'm on the edge and slipping fast there's no control the mind is vast i can not see the way from here within the darkness i do fear it's all so empty no...

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#269

Controlled

Our lives are controlled by greedy people


~CONTROLLED Our lives are controlled by greedy men In Ivory towers who care not when The poor get hungry and try to survive They're not even aware that you are alive They're hand in...

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#270

The Story

This poem is about a person who has opened up totally, made himself subject to criticism, hoping that there is one person who will accept him for all that he is. It does this...

The book is open,

All the words are spilled;

Left to the mercy of the world,

To be interpreted, and have the good intentions killed;

Still there is hope, as at least one there must be,

One empty vessel...

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