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The Man and the MoonHer mouth corners hung themselves
and I began to wonder if that was the death of them.
A simple, quiet death;
without broken fingernails lining the walls
with the stripes of a despairing end.
I began to ache with the questioning in my heart
with the echoes reverberating in my capillaries
of her face scorching sunshine in her smile
right before it crumpled
and nothing was left but a frowning moon
set firm in its resignation to an upcoming eclipse.

Dandelion QueenI dream of the ocean;
that paper-thin line where
the current swallows the stars
and the water churns violet

(you tell me to be
quiet,

dandelion queen, we've
heard all these words before)

tonight
I will sleep heavy
and wake a few hours before dawn,
only to forget my name

my wave-weathered heart will cry,
I will cry (my biggest fear
is drowning in too many
of my own weighted words

you tell me to be
quiet
so I can hear the world breathe)

I want to go home

the scars on your shouldersthe scars on your shoulders
are braille to me, so that i
can read your skin, so that i
can know you better.

i like to listen to your heartbeat
and how it resounds differently
from mine, just so beautifully
like two songs played in tandem
to harmonise in rounds;

i like to hold your hands
and rub your back
so that maybe my love
can find its way through your pores
and seep into your blood
(never can i find the right words
to tell you just the way you feel to me)

and to think that and how i nearly missed you
makes me miss you more
every minute and mile we spend
elsewhere.
i can't sleep with another body
in my bed,
but sleeping without you
leav

He doesn't write poetry anymore.He doesn’t write poetry anymore,
even if he still collects it, reads it, saves it, treasures
faded verses from his wife the way connoisseurs
savor vinyl over metallic rainbows on disc.
I don’t mind not knowing, but I can’t stand not asking.

The record needle hits the groove wrong;
he stumbles over words that aren’t there,
rummaging for an answer he doesn’t really have.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore
and his confusion is strangely endearing.

But there’s a lyricism to his words that I love,
poetic lines inserted between the daily grind
of character names and who said what;
voiceless boys in white a

Overgrown ColorsRed like blood on a rose.
White like bone and stars.
Black like reclusiveness.
Green like dead air.
Orange like the savage instinct.
Purity like a god's heart.
Red like thawing hatred.
White like a frozen, severe cry.
Black like the night's deprived shadows.
Green like the wind in the grass.
Orange like the light in the shadows.
Purity like the sun rising.
So discharging through the moon in a wheeze is like luminous white, dispersed red.

PocketLeftover religion in the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
A key that unlocks nothing
A penny, a scrap of paper
With half of your name
Written in black ink

A song that is usually in my head
In the shriveled carcass
Of a long-dead dream
In the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
With the lint

with thanks to frosttwo roads diverged in a soulless dawn
and you pull over,
idling on the shoulder of route 50.
it's a polaroid morning and
the world is as grainy
and sleep-heavy
as your eyes,
and one million miles
is not far enough.
it plays back, filmstrip,
blurred along the length of
optic nerves,
and here you are:
facing a choice between
on
and
out.
and this?
this loosejointed, hollowbodied
weightless ache--
this is what
gone
feels like.

Condemnedbeneath the beaten earth they lay,
their dreams condemned to ashes,
and our restless bodies stretch,
for forgiveness, for direction –

survivors of the abyss,
amidst wide-eye, silent soldiers –
so many dead, so many maimed,

how many graves are we standing on, today?

Pull Her Hair/Stare At The StarsThe ghosts have crashed their ship
on the other side of town,
you can see it from the second floor
all the way over here.
You can see the white clouds
rising from the wreck
and a nova of heat, a big bright
nova of warmth pulling the moths and wolves
out from the woods (with their noses up and searching).
You can smell the yearning like bees
leaving the hive, like the grizzly brown bears
on the jagged white mountains (concrete and imposing).
They call it fear,
but I see these ghosts
scrambling up into the sky
and I like to think it's
something different entirely.

SisterSister

A sister is like a soul mate;
Someone who is always there
to guide me through fate.

A sister is,
a part of childhood that I cannot erase;
A sister like you,
is one that I would never replace
because you always know how to
put a smile on my face.

I know I can depend on you
to always be there for me;
This is one hundred percent guaranteed!

I've had great memories with you
in the past;
and I hope there are many more
to come,
in the future.

Life, Death And A Pork Chop SandwichAll tangled up, hard to breathe
This steel cloud day that swirls
With heat and pounding hammers
I shake in my boots and cough up
Blood, rust and damaged flesh
Waiting for the second coming
Maybe next time around there'll be
Some chance for more than this

A twisted barbed wire halo
Wrapped tight around my skull
Blinding white light aura
Swarming with flies I'm flying
To pieces, thousands of shards
Cannot be brought back together
But I will remember the summer
Of my first Chevrolet in each bit

Gleaming bits of glass in the desert
Each reflecting a different moment
Still, now, enduring until the waves
Of a new ocean sweep them away
No pain

Pretty little things called words and dustif you weren't a hypocrite,
you'd be wrapped in the sweetest
perfumes
(learning
how to engulf the ocean
with your lungs
and think of how to cup it
in your hands
despite
your broken prayers and
still be beautiful)

dance with the gypsies
'till noon
(a quake in
your hips like the thrust
of continents
and the faultlines
emanating from
your spine,
but still
so, so graceful)

sing with the nymphs
in tune
(your voice,
it's growing old,
raspy even.
your throat's burning dry
like a monsoon
faltering in a desert,

and tones
still octaves
powerful)

be nestled in a king's arms
soon
(oh, you precious
little thing.
how

Riddle My tears fall,

like invisible

diamonds.

My heart beats,

like soundless

drums.

Unwanted,

because of the

strings attached.

What am I?

A Night By the FireNo light,
The light sired by the night
All above whilst the day's delights
Now disappears from mortal sight.

Faded away is the sun's power,
Taking the stage now is night's sallow flower;
Now mortals may behold the stars and falling shower.

Set in a pit Nature's skyscraper ablaze
And revel in the emanating heat as you gaze,
Looking down on occasion when you hear a crack from the fire
And witness "fireflies" flying away from mother's blaze;
Dying shortly after but not lacking burning beauty do they desire!

I look out towards the teasing shore
And meditate as we sit upon her door,
Thinking on what my future has in store;
Who I am now and even

Why meI wanted sleep very badly
I tried my hardest to rest
I closed my eyes and laid there
But sleep didn’t come easy
I would doze off
And wake back up
Again
Why me? When I know I have to be up at 3 AM.

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Arsenic.

by =ToxicAlice92, Oct 4, 2012, 3:45:00 PM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

_{Please read artist's description for colour reference and excess breakdown information.

Arsenic

Tides crashing
People clashing
Falling skies

Nick of blades
Turn of new graves
A lover's cry

Chalk and death
Toxic breath
Air, too dry

Cold and damp
Claustro-cramped
Poisoned alive

Frozen}

Arsenic.by =ToxicAlice92

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

_{Colour reference for Arsenic: [link]
Colour 5, halfway down the page.

This poem was done for =SilverInkblot's Colour Poem Contest, found here. [link]

Taken from the description on this page: The colour arsenic is based around the element arsenic which is a dark grey-blue colour.

Keeping this is mind, for the 2,3,4 lines. I thought of stomy waves, people fighting, and the sky when the weather is in turmoil.

Arsenic is a metalloid that is often naturall found.
Lines 5,6,7 - Clashing of steel blades, the chink of a shovel when digging a grave, and the agony in the cry of a lover who's lost their mate.

When people buy arsenic poison to kill rats, it's typically a white powder.
Lines 8,9,10 - I used chalky to refer to the powdery state we typically find arsenic in, as well as how powders and such dry out your skin and the air. Death/toxic because you know. Poison and all.

It's in one's best interest to avoid exposure to/ingestion of arsenic, with its lethal effects.
Lines 11,12,13 - Dead bodies are ice cold, void of any heat and then cramped into boxes and packed under six feet of Earth.

Line 14 - Sum it up.

Written October 3, 2012}

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=SilverInkblot Dec 23, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Your take on the form was very interesting - it's deceptively simple. The subtle rhymes are a nice touch and add a little rhythm to make up for how brief it is. I got it well enough before the author comments, but I like that you offered that extra dimension of readers to plunge into. And arsenic certainly isn't a color I ever would have thought to use

=ToxicAlice92 Dec 23, 2012 Professional Photographer

`Infinite-Heart Oct 27, 2012 General Artist

Very deep and emotive. I love the structure and the intense imagery.
The line breaks are well done and the flow is good.

=ToxicAlice92 Oct 27, 2012 Professional Photographer

_{Structure an general idea is all thanks to =SilverInkblot. It was for their contest, after all! I thought it was a really strong structure, personally. I'm not a huge poet or writer or anything, so I'm not quite sure what my opinion means, but it was popular enough for her to do a contest centred around it!}

`Infinite-Heart Oct 27, 2012 General Artist

Ah I see

That's pretty awesome.
It is indeed.

*shadow-hobo07 Oct 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

okay that is pretty darn epic!

=ToxicAlice92 Oct 5, 2012 Professional Photographer

_{Oh, thank you!}

*shadow-hobo07 Oct 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

you're welcome ^^

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