The Roar Among the Quiet
As said but it came from none
Only the eternal struggle of sword and shield amongst the plains
Decades, centuries, even in the war you’ve seen and partake
War where cause and effect exists beyond where you’ve been born
Never left
That battlefield of steel and bone shrapnel
Tore even deeper than skin but the soul milked over the eyes
The heart which somedays breathes and sometimes seizures
I have made thousands of paintings I can’t remember
In a battle of oceans of words
New to repetitive metaphors in the anatomy of beauty and pain
Blessed, as well, by new waters which flow from pens of strangers
In this endless abyss of faceless allies and opposition
There is a strong desire
For good
Great for all that is and ever was
That which consists in a word I either never knew or always forget
I share to you my welcoming homefront
Awaiting when the silent fight breaks from the sky’s crackle
Which, in the abyssal darkness, thickets the void
With a single flash, a sprinkle of light
And a groan that crawls all that endlessly
The horn that brings back sound only for everyone and I to
Stand still and watch patiently in the moment
I am not sure what any of that means
Though, I present to you the I against I
All that is me
Oh Fortuna, I bleed a blood I can’t see
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In a Book, I Felt Loved by Someone
Fixated and and check the pivot
The move of the joint that which arms harm make radius
Swirl it
The straw in the glass rumbles of glass geometric the math of drunk
The ice which jingles once the eyes of love
She walked away and never came back in your second of infatuation
So your infatuated slowly ran from where you were
The drop of an arm that point strong the triangle the point it turns
The hammer it knocks the arm it knocks
The door gets clocked and the time you came in the met always watched
A rock that feels sorrow
The human which never moves
What be the blink of a mouth the sadness conversation could have evade
This terrible sense of a Shakespearean ending
It was true
all the words died in the end
What poison saw it in the quiver of eyelashes
How your hair droops wet in a warm cloudless sunshine of a day
What a Saturday
What is it like to sit and be numb in the ass and the heart
To sit for hours and forget what its like to cry
Could it be that if you could, it would wash away you?
It’s terrible to admit you are sadness
It’s horrifying to realize the sadness is who you are
Give it a rest; no, it lacks power naps
Essence of rest, handkerchiefs could hit pipes and if I dry this
Sandy desert eyes
The sent of tobacco atleast takes away anxiety
There is hope in clarity that learning will soon leave away from hatred
From the guilt and terror of the full knowing
and come in with the blessing that the same knowledge brings clarity
be it a blanket regardless how rough the texture the fabric may be
You can always sob into it and know
Eventually
Sooner or later
You’ll be able to stop soaking it with your sodium sands in your opticals
An original poem submitted by empathyundertow
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The King and the Stone Apple
Upon the throne with the dust of eternities forgotten
Was once a man who became so much more regarded than merely ____
A crown of metals and fabrics lost to time and power
Created by hands with the sole purpose of others to know
Sockets where once were eyes so fierce, they could pierce the earth
Both see, know, and swallow the soul of a cadaver
A skull which now falsely exposes the dusted teeth of man
Who’s was so powerful it made the knees of armies kneel and break
The torn attire which design could only be endless
In marvelous stitching which elegantly quilted the brightest and darkest
Of the words such a king spoke
Which once came from the throat
of a heart so pure yet so righteous
Gods were his mouthpiece
Where one’s own heartbeat could beat long enough
Could become more real than the world it was birthed in
Not a man, but something that very words could come true
And omen spring plague of all shades
His palms held an apple
and it was stone
It had been and always ever will be
Such a sight to the dead king of kings
Forgotten to the throne
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I kneeled in this dark, threaded corner of the world
Not in praise and faith to a forgotten lord I never knew
No
I am an archaeologist of a time and world long different
A place where the night sky was brighter than white
and stars which be voids to no end nor beginning
I expected far less of this place than of my own world
Yet I’ve seen a language
Heard of many memories
I do not understand
I kneel for I break and I weep
To a fear I can not understand
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Drawn From the Intoxicated Metaphysical
From the room of a strange land’s studio apartment
Remnants of spiderwebs ooze drip in fractured patterns from the ceiling
Like the point-press of a paint brush
Guess at heart I’m an artist
Even when the heart partly plays metaphorical in feeling
Like a seed in a cement brick in a water balloon at the bottom of the basket
of a hot air balloon rising in the atmosphere of straight gas foreign iodine
That was my eye, the line of sight where my other eye was on
Keeping close watch on myself and my functional parts
Clapped my face’s skin till the metal perspires and I weld from that chalk
A Pyrite to patch my own walking persona
Tip a nodded notion at the stranger last mention with sunglasses
Shades tipped very Christ-like
Holes opaque of the weathered experience in the limelight
That’s what breathing in the reflections at night was like
Through the destitute of a travel paragliding off the inertia from
only the most highest anointed of metals
I was blacksmithed in blacksmith in blacksmith in blacksmith
Forged to remember referring to the kettle as Kettle
Poured out the soul to no one but the solid sounds instrumental
and every turning point doing the mad dash past sun and moon
Such and such
Another reckoned thought gets wrecked until order’s bestowed
Least enough to be categorized as acceptable
Especially when the borders of law and chaos or whatever
might you subject to label as what
Occurs to be inevitable
Once voyaged to something known only as the soul destinated
Empirically throned by one as the end of what you started
Is the abstract of what the you considers what art is
Whether come to conclusion or dearly departed
That is where I wish to say my heart is
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Never had the urge to build a tower
I was too fascinated by the ground
All of it, all of it, all of it, made me cower
So I dug underground
In my shadows making stories, faked enlightenment
For what I thought worth to be profound
I looked at silhouettes with light in it
and there was no candle around
The cowardly loves history
So I became fascinated with the clouds
I think what puts fear in me
Is my influence of what surrounds
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This Little Town of Nowhere
It still all seems lost on me
Ability to perceive anything here in the centuries seemingly
Incoherently categorized
Making order and law to the chaos that of which surrounds me
I could not tell you the several dozen lifetimes walking in this
Internally eternal firefly lamp post light of the nights
Always awake, never fatigued
Yet never feeling anything other than curiosity
As the stories of all the unknowns and heroes and misfortunate
Are there, seemingly, solely for me to uncover and recognize
As either post-apocalyptic allegories that are strange in moral lesson
or fables which derive their meanings from forgotten Pagan rationale
I am truly of the belief I will never understand all the whys and hows
Only that it seems predestined for me to have to at the very least
Witness it
Breathe it in
Know, name, and subjugate every single tale to no one of this void
With each one is a little bit more of my senses lost
Memory gone and mind shattered
Slowly but surely
I await the only true death that I know
Of not being aware anymore
One day, I am no witness
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It Stormed the Night Before
Around 9:30PM to be called in with utmost haste
When the coffee grounds still didn’t escape the roof of my mouth
We were on the scene in room caked in cologne musk
Tobacco dust
and the aroma of a particular night some forlorn whiskey drinking
It was around the time I arrived a story was constructed on my arrival
Four friends at the card game, things slowly soured out
and somehow each one faded at the table without struggle
Almost like they willingly gave in to the drowsiness
Passed out to never wake
Wasn’t much else to gaze from this place besides no names
Playing fool games on rotten floorboards of a cheap room
Rain pelted the glass and that was the only sound to accompany
The soft, confused murmurs of my colleagues
An educated guess for what went down
I finished my smoke, finally leaving my full spirit with the rest here
Flipping hands of cards
Each winning, each lucky in respect to the Texas showdown
Of one of the cheap cigars, my finger goes along to the burnt ash end
Wet near the rim
Fentanyl
Guess this is a start to the understanding
The fact they lay here undisturbed with almost a smile in their peace
Leaves me with a sense of unease
Something so unsettling in this vague guess of how it all ended
The rest of the men continued their theories, but I suppose
This was answer enough
As soon as I felt the natural frown form on me
I could feel the wind carry me along
Soon, fading off into the depths of a rainy night
At a speed far too quick for me to really comprehend where I was heading
Through the atmosphere
and every moment of my life before
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Of Fortune
In come the light
Eyes open
Out of the bed to day break
The weather is nice
Cool
Of this week name change to Suns of August
Though a Southern Summer is always rain
Personally I prefer distance onlook to that backdrop
A warm ray is still welcoming before and after still
With so many people around on my way outside
Hard not to be painted with alacrity
I’m colorfully paranoid in that warmth
I feel alive
Cool, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Cool
Not as if this is something out of the ordinary
There is still definitely many days of light and sun in this world
I should say, there are many good days even without sun
Weather does not dominate that which the great sound and wonder may be
The air carried by the breeze, vented by the sky is nice in different shades
I think a picked picture perfect is preference but still good
I should be thankful to that
Cool, Cool, Yeah
Not like there is anything special to be alive to
Random Number Generation placed me nice and simple
Strategic position combined with my own intuition puts in
A fraction of a whole number’s percentage chance of possibly
“Not having a good time” to say it nicely
Though to not experience it really gives the satisfaction
To the opposite of that which is a fear implanted in the genetic
compounds of my genetics and brain
Coordinated by the multitudes of papers and dust and forgotten
visuals my ancestors left me in mere hairs of grand emotions
which randomly spiked in single events throughout their lives
All accumulating to the sudden moment which is now
Me calmly walking on a nice, distance watching of families
and those I don’t know
Jovial in their plans for the evening
I can’t help but put all the unnecessarily complex thoughts to the side
and just think that it’s a nice day
“Cool.”
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The Lenin Wastes
It takes 365 milliseconds in your one life
To suddenly experience the esoteric human curse
Where you stop moving the way you normally do
To ponder
As you just witnessed for the first time the self
Indefinitely from then on is the unwarranted signature of agreement
We textile amongst the rest of the living by the same regard
Considerate of the dress
Unchanged by the innovation of the culture of how to wear
Witness the up and coming new monarchy rained in cotton
Beholder the new theocratic martyr whose roughness by silk
Evenly displays next with a general and their fanciful leather
These endless patchworks of progress
One might think it unnecessary to think of every full turn
Of the wooden wheel which presses down the needle
Only which to weave it back up and continue
It is difficult to even consider way more to the second skin
The purpose it presents
Maybe all that we stitch doesn’t even need to be thought of back to the start
In all of all that we sow
Maybe that inside myself is too open to too many a ceremony
I just become lost in the idea of the living symbol
and every named icon that ever moved or laid still around me
Perhaps it is time to go over it one last time
Over what might have been missed
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The Aspect in All Eyes
I always wondered what image a god would take to me
I didn’t grow up until I learned I could never really know
yet I heard before all my thoughts the pieces lay in all
and others
I will admit to shamefully dragging my feet for years
Ascend to my elderly
Every recollection, the thumb fast paces a flip book
To every moment I recall
I can’t recall the expression I make
and I surely over-color the scenery
What was always left undrawn
Was the grand desire of the model to my life in others
For great monoliths of life’s experiences
To the testaments of another person to statue behavior to me
Have them monumented as obelisks of wisdom in my mind
As I reach to my elderly
I shamefully admit
I held scorn for not finding aspects of gods in any of their eyes
and I hatefully admit
I lacked the light in my own worth perceiving and giving
Hateful to admit that it stings
On harshly that is said and written
Without praise to what is said in stone
and what isn’t in stone
Regardless of how right it is or isn’t
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