Emotions
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Split Sky
The sky before me Is split in two One side flashes with lightning The other’s a glorious blue One side thunders With looming black clouds The other is teeming with birds Making musical sounds One side crackles With bristling intensity The other side glows With a radiant glory A beautiful contradiction A perplexing paradox And… Continue reading
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Wrestling With Words
We writers We wrestle with words We grapple with Our deepest hurts We lasso letters Subdue sentences Assert alliteration On prose skeletons Phrases follow us Verbs vex us We’re haunted by imagery Of our past failures And all of this In desperate pursuit Of seeing our problems From a better point of view Continue reading
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Dance in the Rain
Black clouds thundering With dark sounds My golden notes drowning In puddles on the ground The rhythmic raindrops Beat me down Becoming the bassline For this sorrowful sound This miserable music Refused to go away So I started learning To dance in this rain And as I was twirling My golden notes rose Shimmering like… Continue reading
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Tumult
A wave approaches A towering black wall Foaming at the mouth As it begins to fall My mind becomes flooded Water on the floor Spilling out from every cupboard Are dank and terrible thoughts But I could not Beat this wave With force or stubbornness Fury or rage I had to surf its tumult Crest… Continue reading
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Oppression
I have felt the weight Of a thousand terrible tears And felt the claws Of my festering fears I have looked my anger In its red, cloudy eye And watched as despair Blotted out the sky I have felt the grip of dread Before a challenge begins And the endless emptiness After it ends All… Continue reading
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Empty Instruments
I try to drown out The terrible noise With a host of empty Instruments of joy I flood my senses With sugary notes Cherry-topped tunes On ice cream cones I bash my head With heavy bass lines To try to drive The sadness from my mind A mindless melody A simplistic symphony Repetitive lyrics That… Continue reading
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Heartquake
A deep sound Makes the ground quake It’s the beating of a heart That’s about to break It sends shuddering waves Through the floor Causes the locks to break On every door It causes teeth To chatter in their jaws And bones to rattle In a gruesome applause It vibrates through The creaking foundations And… Continue reading
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Writing Inferno
I write Because I must I have a creative inferno A fiery thrust It burns and rages On the inside of me Either I can let it consume me Or I can set it free It singes the paper With intricate scorch marks That somehow tell the story Of my aching heart And as I… Continue reading
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Misery’s Misty Mirage
An injection of misery Black poison in my soul Dragged my optimism Into a wretched hole Fed me sadness Stole sweet joys from my mouth Hung grey bags of misery To pin me to the ground A misty mirage To show me lies Replaying dark memories In my mind But a side effect It never… Continue reading
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Sticks and Stones
Sticks and stones May break bones But cruel words Turn hearts to stone You can get back up From a push or a shove But be crushed by the weight Of betrayed love Cuts and wounds Can be seen and sown While inner damage Hides in the unknown It’s the body’s nature To attempt healing… Continue reading
