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#51

A World


like no other. Tiny blue speck in a void unfathomably large. Self aware beings truly not aware of much. Self impressed with no reason to be.  Obsessed with sex and violence driving forces of...

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#52

My Daughter My Tribute

a poem about my beautiful daughter


My Daughter, My Tribute

 

I watch over her

          when she sleeps

I watch over her

          when she weeps

I watch over her

          through life’s ups and downs

I watch over her

          as she leaps and bounds

I watch over...

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#53

A gift from me and my exs

its based on a letter a friend of mine received from his girl friend but i twisted some words to make it interesting


i write this letter to let you

know about the gift I've entrusted you with

you gave me a gift of you heart and now i had broke it

but i give you a gift that can...

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#54

FORSAKEN TRADITION

FORSAKEN TRADITION IS ALL ABOUT THE RICH TRADITION THAT WAS LATER WIPED OFF BY THE COLONIAL MASTERS IN THE COLONIAL ERA


As we sit waiting in our illusion mind We await none but of the elusive time The birds in their nest Yet we think not what is best When their creepy noise is at...

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#55

Holding On

First published in 'Popshot Magazine'.


After you died,

I filled your clothes with air

and took you walking.

 

Inflated, you were new-born, elated:

a dashing, headless dandy,

all grand gesture:

a sweep of shirt sleeve and trouser leg.

 

My mouth had so much to say,

it ran...

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#56

LSD Flight


The party was like a night shift

on the line in a chicken factory -

- endless, sweaty and hostile,

disposable humanity ending in bins,

disposable dreams ending in bins

 

That night everybody seemed so ugly,

pathetic and fake!

So he...

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#58

words of destruction

Words of destruction I love you differenty to when I met you, I love you but can't promise I will love you forever, I dont know if i love you, i deserve to be happy, I...

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#60

The Woods of Change

I was inspired to write this poem after having an old friend say he was going to commit suicide. He then texted me the next day, as I was writing this poem, saying that...
Once I knew the path Into the Woods of Change What was once bright and sunny, Has become cold and strange Once I knew who I was: Hard-working, happy, secure No clearer an image of myself, But...

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