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From doors of despair to my dear almighty

Make a painting with sweats,

And resins from plants ;sweets,

Bitters and thoughtful meets

To form its themes,

Weaved lining of lines,

Hardly the Magnum opus; it might,

But to feed it's beauty to flames,

Just to escape cold,

 And warm hands!

Am I a meaningful painting

Or just a plaything

Lying like a firewood

With no good,

 Isn't it you behind this, o almighty...

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Hearts on Fire (Heavy Metal)

In the shadows of the abyss,
where light shatters apart,
hearts ablaze dance softly
in whispers of furious souls.

We cry out to the steel sky,
where pain becomes a song -
blood and steel, love and chaos
in the battle of existence.

Paths of fire and steps of hope:
among echoes of screams,
we awaken the lance.

Echoes of the past
are shackles that bind us,
but we are titans in free...

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shadows โ€‰ light โ€‰ metal โ€‰ heavy metal โ€‰ existence โ€‰ echoes โ€‰ fate โ€‰ fire โ€‰ past โ€‰ cry โ€‰ battle

Emotions Unveiled

In the fair of emotions, I lose my way
Among fruits and laughter, a mystery at play
Your eyes, like ripe avocados, invite me to peel
To take a chance, to discover whatโ€™s real

I want to know what love is
If itโ€™s samba on sidewalks or a sorrowful fizz
Is it dancing in rain or a dream that wonโ€™t last?
A wish for the future, a tie to the past?

The clock ticks away, but my heart skips a bea...

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love โ€‰ verse โ€‰ emotions โ€‰ echo โ€‰ way โ€‰ time โ€‰ rain โ€‰ future โ€‰ past โ€‰ clock โ€‰ dance โ€‰ cry โ€‰ flower โ€‰ chance

Sorrow's Bounty

In a world of plenty, where joy should reign,

A soul wanders lost, drowning in pain.

He has it all, or so it seems,

Yet inside, he's adrift in shattered dreams.

 

Possessions many, but feelings in drought,

Tears concealed, smiles worn throughout.

Once in a while, breaks down unseen, 

In the quiet ache, where joy's been.

 

Everything's there, yet nothing to hold,

A ...

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depression โ€‰ plenty โ€‰ abundance โ€‰ life โ€‰ sorrow โ€‰ cry โ€‰ pain

a crime shame

a cry is a crime shame
a laugh is a crime shame
a laugh is a laughter of a crime shame
a laugh cry a laughter
laugh is laughing at a crying laughter
laugh is laughing at a crime shame
a shame is a crying shame

a crime shame is a crying shame
a drop of tear is a drop of laughter
a tear is a tear of laughter
a tear is a tear drop of laughter
a cry is a tear drop of a cry
a cry is a tea...

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crime โ€‰ cry โ€‰ laugther

Undetectable

Iโ€™ve been sitting on the precipice of this

For a while

Unsure how to express my feelings

When I donโ€™t know what I feel

You see 

Iโ€™m hysterically nonreactive 

Iโ€™m worryingly unworried 

A switch 

From nothing to everything 

Because - like Whitman -

I contain multitudes

Many great thrashing waves

Like creatures 

They slip through nets

Canโ€™t be caught 

They...

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Explosive โ€‰ warning โ€‰ reaction โ€‰ expectation โ€‰ anxiety โ€‰ poker face โ€‰ heart on sleeve โ€‰ emotions โ€‰ society โ€‰ social pressure โ€‰ take advantage โ€‰ cry โ€‰ exploit โ€‰ burned out โ€‰ exhausted โ€‰ take

Vertical

years brimmed with men

their feats litter the years

lovers made me cry, life

not whole without tears

 

sprinkles of teardrop joy

tears of pleasure or woe

better than bland smiles,

tears with no place to go

 

tears springing universal

weeping tourists glisten

covering a million miles

for a man that will listen

 

each tear a badge of love

a validation ...

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vertical โ€‰ tears โ€‰ weep โ€‰ cry โ€‰ emotion โ€‰ vapour โ€‰ love

Paper Friends

 

Leaving seems so hard

Until you actually leave

 

The peculiar truth is

Leaving feels ludic, orphic, majestic

Leaving the places which seemed to matter

Leaving the paper people I once met

Leaving, forgiving & moving forward

 

What a trouvaille I encountered

To leave the paper connection

Leaving them as they are, incomplete & rustic

Leaving them in the ocean ...

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KARIN CRIES

Wasn't looking for her but she came out of nowhere and got in the way

I don't think that the Queen of England acts the same

No cure for what she has she is a victim of her own pain

 

Karin cries when she knows she not right

Living in her own mental lies

Karin cries at whatever she finds

Loosing out when it has nothing to do with constitutional rights 

 

Threaten to make ...

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Karin โ€‰ Cry โ€‰ Poetry

Dream Boat


Let the dreamless boy to cry 
If his wish to fly has gone 
How his tears going to dry 
If he stays far of sun


Ask dreamless boy be awake 
That the dream, is a part of us 
Tell him: "think of a better talk" 
And to change the dark glass 


Help dreamless boy to be here 
And clear his negative thought 
Once he comes to hear or share 
He will enjoy to dream in a boat 
 

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ask awake โ€‰ better โ€‰ boy โ€‰ change โ€‰ clear โ€‰ come โ€‰ cry โ€‰ dream โ€‰ dreamless โ€‰ dry โ€‰ enjoy โ€‰ fly โ€‰ glass โ€‰ go โ€‰ gone โ€‰ help โ€‰ here โ€‰ negative โ€‰ part โ€‰ sail โ€‰ share โ€‰ stay โ€‰ sun โ€‰ talk โ€‰ tears โ€‰ tell โ€‰ think โ€‰ thought โ€‰ with

ุฏูƒุชูˆุฑ ุนุตุงููŠุฑ (VET)

 

 

 

ุฑูŠุดู‡ ู†ุงู‚ุตุฉ ููŠ ุฌู†ุงุญ ุนุตููˆุฑู‡
ุฅูŠู‡ ูŠุนู†ู‰ .. ู…ุงู‡ู€ูˆ ุฑูŠุดู‡ุง ูƒุชูŠู€ู€ู€ู€ุฑ
ู…ุด ุญูŠุจู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุงู† ุฃุจุฏุง ููŠ ุงู„ุตูˆุฑุฉ
ูˆู„ุง ุญูŠู€ู€ู€ู€ูƒู€ูˆู† ู„ู‡ ูƒู…ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุงู† ุชุฃุซูŠุฑ


ุงู„ุนุตูู€ู€ูˆุฑุฉ ุงู„ุดู€ู€ู€ู€ุงุทุฑุฉ ุชููƒู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุฑ
ุฑุจู†ุง ุนู†ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุฏู‡ ูƒู†ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ูˆุฒ ุงู„ุฎูŠู€ู€ู€ุฑ
ู„ูˆ ุชุฏุนู€ู€ู€ู€ู‰ ุฑุจู†ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุง ูŠุฑุฒู‚ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู‡ุง
ุจุฏู„ ุงู„ุฑูŠุดู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุฉ .. ุนุดู€ู€ู€ุฑ ู‚ู†ุงุทูŠุฑ


ู„ูƒู† ุงู„ุนู€ู€ุตูู€ู€ู€ู€ูˆุฑุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณู€ู€ูƒู€ู€ูŠู€ู†ู€ู€ุฉ
ูˆู‚ู€ูู€ุช ุชุจู€ูƒู€ู‰ ุจุฏูˆู† ุชูู€ูƒู€ูŠู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ู€ุฑ
ุญุชู‰ ุงุตุญุงุจู‡ุง .. ุฒุนู„ูˆุง ุนุดุงู†ู€ู€ู‡ุง
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No title to this sad song

I feel no warmth in your stay,

only light flames from your exhaust lead the way. 

The deadliest parts of you,

I hold high and mighty.

โ€œClearly itโ€™s  not working outโ€

you tell me while Iโ€™m crying  

 

whatโ€™s wrong with me  

 

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The torture of the Heart

Watching, listening, waiting

An endless unmoving time

Pain thriving within her

Her heart is far from fine.

 

Feeling, hurting, crying

An endless stabbing pain

Giving up on trying

Her heart so full of strain.

 

Retching, whimpering, head swirling

An endless wrath of terror

Her fingers clasping, curling

Her heart forever slain.

 

Calming, numbing, unfeeli...

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heart โ€‰ loss โ€‰ heartbreak โ€‰ pain โ€‰ hurt โ€‰ cry โ€‰ love โ€‰ lost love โ€‰ endless โ€‰ end โ€‰ Throwback from college

A LIGHT in the dark

I would love to write about the : ) and lols

I would love to write about heaven instead of hell

I would love to write about those who rise instead of fell

I would love to write the life of a man who doesnโ€™t dwell

On the negative instead of the positive reactions

On the hopelessness instead of the hope that comes through passion

On the hate instead of the love thatโ€™s everlasting

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every word

โ€œ โ€ฆ. every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingnessโ€ (Beckett)

 

every word

Be born, live, cry, die; always cry.

Why cry?

 

Why not?

 

I am not on Earth

to fail to exist,

or any other madman's fantasy.

 

Sammy found something

worthwhile:

he found

- Nothing.

 

Eat, move, create, decay;

earthen in earth

for the Archaeologis...

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cry โ€‰ Earth โ€‰ fantasy โ€‰ Nothing โ€‰ earthen โ€‰ gnomic

Cast Aside

Cast Aside

A woman cries for now she knows

Her love is unconditional

Weeping at the empty kitchen table

One, two, three in the morning

None are awake but her

Right hand reaches out to air

She wails

โ€œThere was no choice to make!โ€

Yet she always knew, in some way

Either too much to handle

Or not enough

But always cast aside

 

Anger will not manifest

Her l...

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Tears

I feel like I am choking,

drowning in my unspilt tears. 

But the dams don't yet break even though the buoy in my throat is rising with the sea

and the canal that is my throat, tightens. 

 

No matter how hard my mind steers the sails away from the emotional storm within,

The crashing seas cannot help but spill over the edge of the boat. 

 

My tears are smooth like the PVC ma...

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Cry โ€‰ crying โ€‰ sad poem โ€‰ sailor โ€‰ sea โ€‰ water

TEARS

How many tears can one girl cry?

----

it depends on the lie...

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The world is often not what it seems

Broken hearts

Broken dreams

---

How many tears can one girl cry?

---

What seems real is often make believe

a part of the truth but not complete

My heart is often not considered

I am real and my heart beats

---

Beauty is skin deep

The heart is deepe...

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cry โ€‰ girl โ€‰ poem โ€‰ tears

My Baby Boo

Today my heart felt a blow,
By a view so divine.
I let my emotions flow,
Like a 30 year old wine.

There it was in that tiny box,
With pulses of energy shooting through,
That blurry image came across,
Like the inside of a Great Gray Kangaroo.

I felt her hand touching mine,
Held her hand - fingers entwined,
Watching my angel wriggle and shine,
With the life of Us combined.

Seeing y...

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heart โ€‰ blow โ€‰ view โ€‰ divine โ€‰ emotions โ€‰ wine โ€‰ box โ€‰ tiny โ€‰ pulses โ€‰ shooting โ€‰ blurry โ€‰ image โ€‰ hand โ€‰ touching โ€‰ angel โ€‰ shine โ€‰ us โ€‰ life โ€‰ arms โ€‰ fly โ€‰ chest โ€‰ cry โ€‰ mother โ€‰ hold โ€‰ close โ€‰ kissing โ€‰ rose โ€‰ future โ€‰ bright โ€‰ baby โ€‰ boo โ€‰ night โ€‰ Lord โ€‰ plan โ€‰ love โ€‰ you

THE UNINVITED GUEST

Oh deep, dark depression,

my uninvited guest,

the persistence of oppression

is precluding my lifeโ€™s zest.

 

The dark before sunrise

of a dawn that just won't break,

suppressed by a thirst for my soul

that only sorrow can now slake.

 

The wisps that you are weaving

are clouding my damp eyes,

a cold and cloying shroud

thatโ€™s covering all that I desire.

 

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DEPRESSION โ€‰ DARK โ€‰ POEM โ€‰ POETRY โ€‰ SAD โ€‰ CRY โ€‰ CRIES โ€‰ TEARS โ€‰ LOSS โ€‰ LOST HELP

Cry Petey, I See Bards Rounding the Bend

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Cry we all toward places unnamed

Rise above the crested hills

Yell we will - shattering door frames

Plundering thoughts of plovered wills

Tear at the wallpaper - reveal the grain

Ink the slate - etched by wound-dipped quills

Crouch, prowl - ready to pounce on game

Brandishing swords, blaring trumpets shrill

Arching backs, phosphorescent wicks ...

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