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Brick fireplace.

After the harvest, grains fill the granariesAnd it's time for story-tellingWe surround the brick fireplaceInexhaustible knowledge and wisdom to embrace. Crackling firewood, the fire consumesFlickering...

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The Burden Of Poets

Sorry everyone 4 keeping away for so long(i'm presently doin' my 2nd semester exams) hope ya'll like this though.I'm back n aint going nowhere no more.feel this.A Pen Writes, From Left to Right, From...

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Long winds

A shoulder cracks under the pressureCompassion now weighing you down; seepingIndifferent to any real communion, save learned apathy You have become redundantShorten your thought process, friendThere is...

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Hope Like Dew

At Dawn, a sad roseIn a lonely, somber poseCrying “short is the life of a rose,Today, I wither to fertilizer, I supposed,The purpose I serve, the life I deserve,Is to decompose, and be food to a...

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In the stillness of the mind

Just found this on a piece a paper buried deep in my desk... it was a long time ago but I found it interesting to how much it complements one of my first posts... Actually its pretty disturbing I need...

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Words unsaid

Guess its safe to say LOLnot doing so well,with coping minutes seem like days and all i see is empty space.My heart may not be as hardbut it longs to beat again.Guess its its safe to confessnot doing...

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let it shine...

Rain doesn't begin in the clouds/it starts inside, its the pain that builds up these watersand causes them 2 flow over these walls/we've sold our souls, lost meaning of the word trustforcing the Gods...

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wish my skin was black

the sun is out, but somehow it feels like raini'm standing face up, hands to the heavensyou ask, from where wells my pain i, i, i ... wish my skin was blackwish my skin was blackso i could see the...

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3 Short poems

Close your eyesShut them tightlyNow see through the pitchLook past your redundant natureAnd accept the false iridescenceOf what your echo has achievedBecome illuminated through your own liesAllow for...

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Spoken Word Audio Project

If you're interested in spoken word poetry--Download (for free) my debut spoken word audio project, "The Renaissance".http://www.mediafire.com/?8nqqf67562y55x8Also feel free to visit my site for more...

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live bait

diaphanous perch devours the unsteadysuch is nature that ungracious hosti lie censored in the garden of exilesight lost in the filament of a fevered pitchmy skin splinters as my hair draws brittleteeth...

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Untitled

After several totsi connect live thoughtselectrocute the pagewith words thats high voltagei use tha irregular syntaxto unlock cuffs of victorian grammarma style aint shakespearbut i massage yo mindwith...

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godhead

Shift in perspectiveDelineated reasonIllusion of time_______________Meditated calmTalisman of the GodheadFabricated angst_____________Methodical loreLevelheaded communionHarmonious...

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nothing* (1st of many i hope)

Time consumes all but yet nothing* remains, out of fear of losing my love for you in time, I traded my love for nothing*, and now I feel nothing* for you, becouse time consumes all but yet nothing*...

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my poetry in motion (my first work though)

stepping into the realm of literaturerhyming purposefully, inserting poetic signaturesbeautiful piece flowing through my mind eyesburning endless night candles till the sun risethe fragrance of...

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Jewel Hunt

she was raised by divorce parents…. it seemed like a forced marriagejudged by the screaming of a hoarse larynxthe arguments ..confusion, where harboring abuses from a father who never bothered to...

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shhh .. listen

....... drip .......I heard the slow, distant dripinquisitive I turned a keen earI proceeded hesitantlydown the lit-by-my-mind, dusty hallthreads of the feces laden ruggrasped and tugged at my...

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Dumb Found

Corded strings, my piano harmony, every step ...i walk en syncwarm tone if i speak, polyphonic to my cellphone beepmy maneuvering drive of bodily jive, believe it if, I'm, second to noneGone are the...

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Dumb Found

Chorded strings, my piano harmony, every step ...i walk ensyncwarm tone if i speak, polyphonic to my cellphone beepmy manuevering drive of bodily jive, believe it if, im second to noneGone are the...

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My Ink's Worth.

Hieroglyphs on walls, sounds of natureArtistic impressions revealing the story's nakednessSudden rush that turns on my bride,The irresistible touch and vigorIs worth my inkDates and unleavened...

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