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GodThere is a God. I have seen him snap the necks
Of children and inspect their hollow remains.
Pushing past the sinews, there is nothing there.
No prayers clogging the arteries, stopping the rush
Of blood, a blackened jet.
Their mouths had not yet learnt how to
Form 'hail mary's'. Tongues twisted at the sound.
The syllables choke.

There is no use lying to a child who when asking
For God, finds only silence.

He is not interested in them. The purity sickens.
There's a boredom in innocence that causes him
To turn away. His eyes are better fixed on those
Who can praise him. The shallow whore who never
Thought her life would take thi
A Legacy of WisdomYou have scribed your words,
wealthy wreaths of wisdom,
on paper never torn or worn.
You have etched your passions
on my brow.

You have left this wallowed world
victorious; eyes resplendent
with the wisdom you wrote and wrought.
Your passions shall echo in my ears
unto eternity.

And should I stray into some
sullen storm, or get caught in
the torrents of the monsoon, I’ll know
that Lear’s been there before, and
I’ll not swoon.

And if Hades’ doors open up
before my stranded soul, and scorch
it with the heat of hell, I’ll recall that
I am not the first – Dante’s been down
there as well.

A
NonexistenceI pray to a God I have never seen,
who lives in a world that has never been,
to save my heart that has never felt,
from eternity's failures, eternity's guilt.

My feet step on grounds no men stepped before,
my lips taste the poison, bitter and sore,
yet it does not kill me,
does that mean,
that I am immortal,
or that I've never been?

I pray to a God that may not exist,
while the iron shackle tears up my wrist,
to tell me the difference of being and not,
to show me the memories that I forgot.

My mind flies to places nobody has reached,
to learn that the stars are nothing but bleached,
spots on the dark, they're not even light,
AnarchyScream the anthem of the anarchist!
What is it? Exactly.
I won't tell you; make it up.
Go away. Blow it up.
Burn it down. Deface the town.
But don't give in,
Never -- no.
That's the song we all love so.
Freedom past extremity.
Far away, in my backyard
I own the world; I am a bard.
I wear a beard and shave my head;
All the normals want me dead.
I won't give up; I ramble rave.
You'll never make me behave.
My brother, loser, freak, meek geek
You know-- the beatnick, hippy, punk--
The rock bands my parents debunk--
We treasure what we cannot have:
No allegiance to any flag.
out of Gardenwhat sea
how it is welling your eyes a wet mess

what tide
where urchins of the ocean will spill to howl their elegy
where mermaids will turn widows
once brine has swallowed whole their sailor babes

stewarding the land instead
is why i never set sail with you

but to lay in gardens, oh…

a bed sheet rotten by the ultraviolet
and our laps full of stars

what black soil will pervert your knees there
where moonlight will mirror out from your teeth
to run fanatic toward cosmic space
after bathing in the space among us

where walking air pushes every dust

one of sun-dried butterflies
one of beaten rug with broom
one of hone
Perspectives of a Hallucino...Comfort. The softness of the basement couch. Misery loves company.
Trickling through my fingers. Whispering across my face, her disappearing
lips trace across my cheeks. The smell is sweet, but she is rough against
my throat. Her smell isn't so much intoxicating as it is suffocating, yet
the smoke paralyses my senses and touches my soul. Her street name is
undeserving of her effect on me. Forever, she shall be known to me as
Mary-Jane. I will never know her beauty.

                                                                                                                 r

                                                 
the plasticized quantum theory
alabaster immortality
une voleur honteux
slip of the tongue
in each saturated pore
spectrum rehearses its symphony

crooked whispers of a flute
a glimpse of blue infinitude
quiets the confines of los alamos
¿quién es él? eso piensa
en kaleidoscopes

paralysis in the peristalsis
jewel in the vitreous humor
phosphorescent anti-matter
until it watercolors
the poison of psyche

papillae the plagues
oxidizing ash and ember
a quivering effigy
splinters the moon
instinctually

the mirrored hand exhales
swept the epileptic ceiling
dissolving tendrils of mahogany
detached from the retina
unblemished

tranquil, t
existentialist pick ups...where have I been all my life?
ScrutinyAnd when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin…
~ T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I am going through the keyless gate
to watch and wait,
to wander here and there among the proud,
among the white and old whose wisdom rots, repressed, untold:
the soporific royals wreathed in leaves of gold.
And to them I shall read aloud from the Book,
read of the sins their lips have took
and upon me they shall look and patiently reflect…

“I am lost in my own depth,” I will say
in a slight, impartial way
(for I lack violets and an antic prin
Vampires heartacheI awake in the night;
I can no longer sleep.
I don't see myself in mirrors;
I see somebody else.
I am alone.
I am dead.
The red stripes on white flesh
Keep me somewhat Sane.
I stare at the ceiling;
It is as cold and dead as I am.
The pain burns within;
as my life slowly fades away.
Wolf's Rain
Snowflakes fall, blood is in the air,
Covering white figure of pride,
Lying forceless on the ground,
Having no strength to fight with the snow,
Nor even with reality,
Which drifts down from the empty sky,
Where the moon cannot be seen,
Where birds cannot be heard,
At which wolves can only howl.
Suicide
I'm so sick of suicide
It's everywhere I look
Pictures, and in movies
In poetry and books

I'm so sick of suicide
It's pathetic and it's weak
Blah blah blah so awful
Outlook always bleak

This life's just not worth living
Could they be any more cliché'?
I know that I just can't go on
Isn't that what they say?

Do you live in China
Without freedom's basic choice?
Are you a woman in Afghanistan?
Forbidden to have a voice.

Are you starving now in Africa?
Surrounded by disease
Or under corrupt dictatorship
Forced upon your knees

These people rise to challenges
We cannot comprehend
They live their lives from day to day
And triu
Procremationso he said let's make a baby
she said let's just make
          love
     and he said
What's the difference?
She said
                  A snakeskin
             or a little pink pill
And he said
                 Isn't it about time...      she said
    You're never old enough
                             to die
She said   Make life-- make
                              death
                  and he said
What's the difference?

I like my life she said
              he said that won't last
     she said I feel
                     no need...
 he said
Well, maybe I do

She said Sow your seeds somewhere else then
Emo
Emo is black.
Emo is red.
Emo is a love of darkness,
But always needing some light.
Emo is the way you look,
But more the way you are.
Emo is resisting the world
Because you can't stand routine.
Emo is loving everyone you know,
Even if sometimes you wish they didn't exist.
Emo is hurting yourself or your body
When deep down you really love them both.
Emo is making your own choices,
While relying on your friends to make it through.
But really, emo is not caring how fucked up you are,
Cause there are so many friends just as fucked up as you.
Emo isn't hate.
Emo is love.
the god memorandum
To: You
From: God

Take counsel.
I hear your cry.
It passes through the darkness, filters through the clouds, mingles with starlight, and finds its way to my heart on the path of a sunbeam.
I have anguished over the cry of a hare choked in the noose of a snare, a sparrow tumbled from the nest of its mother, a child thrashing helplessly in a pond, and a son shredding his blood on a cross.
Know that I hear you, also. Be at peace. Be calm.
I bring thee relief for your sorrow for I know its cause ... and its cure.
You weep for all your childhood dreams that have vanished with the years.
You weep for all your self-esteem that has been corr
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Heather Cook, lost at sea

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I.
November sky lashes out
at darkened sea’s upward rage,
So vain it is for mortals
to fight in such a battle.
                           
II.
Radiant she looked, young and confident
in that photograph from so long ago.
But the sea recast her comely form--
a bloated mass in a floatation suit,
thrown to an unknown Alaskan beach,
food for ravens and wild animals.

I wish that the fair girl-graduate
had worn the shadowy robes of death
instead of a pleated orange skirt
and pale bones instead of a crisp white blouse,
thus to reveal what she soon became,
a ghost at the portal--teaching, warning.

III.
When a sailor dies in the lawless deep
they belong to God for Him to keep
until judgment day when they all come forth
and look for passage to the stormy North.

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Heather Cook, lost at seaby *SitkaReign

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A remembrance at a school reunion.
©2008-2013 *SitkaReign
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^Beccalicious Feb 9, 2010  Professional Writer
This is so sombre, but so well written. Glad I stumbled across is.
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*SitkaReign Feb 10, 2010
Glad you liked it. Written about 25 years past the loss of an old chum.
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~everwalker Jun 22, 2008  Hobbyist Writer
Fantastic imagery, as always. I love the changes in style and rhythm between stanzas.
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*Mattsma Jun 22, 2008  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
This is beautifully put........and reminds me of all the others who have been lost to our waters up here that don't even leave so much as an article of clothing or flotation device, they are just................gone :(
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*Garnet-43 Jun 16, 2008
"Don’t do it! Don’t go..."

Yeah, how many times we wish we could re-wind... :no:

Poignant poem.
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*SitkaReign Jun 20, 2008
Heather was a school chum who tried to make the crossing from Kodiak to Yakutat (across the Gulf of Alaska) in a wooden troller during the stormy time of the fall. Her boyfriend's body washed up on a Yakutat beach in his survival suit. Heather was never found.
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~bone-white Jun 14, 2008   Writer
Poignant and succinct : effectively touching. :heart:
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~noisemonkey Jun 11, 2008
really strong composition. i especially like the building metaphor concept of the last four lines. it's very sad, when you're forced to start thinking about changin the past.
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*SitkaReign Jun 12, 2008
Thank you for the comments!
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~xCamix Jun 11, 2008  Hobbyist Writer
It's a sad, beautiful poem. You chose some words that really hit the reader.
The last line it's my favourite--it is really strong in my opinion.

I'm sorry for your lost :hug:
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