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SimpleLife with you; And I remember the snow globe of the sky at midnight
How the stars looked like fireflies caught in cellophane
Obsidian pigments pulling them to space.

I can no longer remember the last time I was here.
I grasp at the wild lupine; an estranged softness grasped betwixt my fingers.
And I’ll miss you, even when I can no longer remember your name.
Because you are special in all the ways that wildflowers are not.Simple by ~EmaciatedandEpitaphs

Smoker's EpiphanySlipping through a puff of smoke
exaggerated wisps slipping through my subconscious
and I am emptier than before, less than I was
something subtle and hearty

Softened
smoothened and soothing
it's almost relief

almost.Smoker's Epiphany by ~EmaciatedandEpitaphs

I am what you made me to be.You know what this is.
(I never knew

beneath.)

No matter how hard,

typical of reptilian whores,
and you were dirty,
much the same,

alive in kaleidoscope
concepts.
(Intercourse at every

angle.)

Only in the seconds I
couldn't count

strings.
(We are but

puppets.)

Exhaling supernova
influence, tasting.

Control.I am what you made me to be. by ~EmaciatedandEpitaphs

Unsweetened CerealThere are great gulfs
in between each horror we face
We tell ourselves what we want to fear
We choose what we hear, as well, from those fears
inside our hearts - the smallest of closets

Ambition is like a t-shirt
covering up all our bruises
Like the search for orgasms and possession

We all want to be a voice
against the flux of all those cold, silent stars
Watching us with our revered delusions

For me, there is but one great Horror
One terrible truth that tries to prove itself
It isn't demonic
It is in fact, not supernatural in nature
It isn't loss
nor is it pain
nor even is it death herself

No, the greatest threat to my sanity
The one SUUnsweetened Cereal by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

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Best of the Best

nothingsometimes the dark is all that binds us
to one another.
light becomes deleterious,
sounding to somber seams
and threatening fractures.

we weave a blanket
of the void between us
and find comfort in our wanting.
even with my boyish fingers
i am not strong enough;
i cannot outlast
the mushrooming chasms.

i bury the empty in the rocks
of my stomach
but it blooms beneath my breast.
it pushes against me
filling my cavity
with a thing
that will never be destroyed.

i am free and weighted.
my breathing is hollow;
my anthem is jaundiced
and my spore-song
is suff-
ocating
all of
me.nothing by *Hfeather53

Bittersweet NothingsI have screamed at the sky,
Hammered at the ground,
Spat in the waters;
Cursed and questioned all I've found.

I have run around in circles,
I have walked in straight lines,
I have exercised to exhaustion;
But still not cured this restless mind.

And now I lay here,
Under thick canvas of black;
Muttering bittersweet nothings at the stars,
Who do not deign to answer back.Bittersweet Nothings by *IsolatedSystem

BittersweetIf I glanced at the world,
I'd see only black and white -
two sides at war.
Perfect days, the white overwhelms,
bright, lovely, carefree -
Echoing with the sound of laughter
and all of the best things.
And this is paradise
the world as it should be.
Yet, it is like waking
From a dream of fantasy,
when I find the - blackness
Covering the world.
These days we all stare-
frozen, unable to speak,
while Socrates would wonder -
but cannot understand,
as we would fail to -
comprehend.
Mysteries then,
Why the earth is wrong,
dark, sad, suffering -
emptiness, as tears fill an ocean
and it seems the sun has gone.
Years will pBittersweet by ~Chocolate-Waterfall

what it waswe weren't meant to die together,
but rather be invited into waiting benches
under trees sprawled sweetly as
the weather warms
         in love unaccounted for
I found you were off by seconds, miniscule
and uncanny, luminescent like green fireflies
outsinging fireworks in summer's faint allure
                  I was
born shivering,
        the ghost between two lights.

     We listened but summer never had it,
never knew the way to your house,
    never knew the thrill of
         being near you.what it was by ~hyperfluxy

Best of the Best

Darkness

Master and Slave by *NearlyInvisibleMind

Raw Hours (Part I)I’ve never had so much power pounding through my veins;
A deadly fire in which I’m battling the desire to hold it all contained.
Each beat of my heart sends these needles showering through my being.
Each fraction of the second I feel me rising from this sinking.

And this energy, this chaos surging within me,
It shakes me, burns me, leaves me barely breathing.
I’m trembling, its raging, it tries to claim my soul.
Im battling and clinging, like dangerous thunder, through my bones it rolls.

Over flowing, bursting, bubbling over. This feeling spilling, rushing through my whole.
This rush, this agony, this surging, attempt at Raw Hours (Part I) by ~singmyheartout4you

Chemical Stew by *NearlyInvisibleMind

LoveANDhatE by *NearlyInvisibleMind

Darkness

Life 101

Nigel Nathan Horrowitz by *NearlyInvisibleMind

The True ThiefBefore you know it you start to fall,
Fall down from everything that you know,
Everything is passing away in front of you,
As you lose all things of value,
Your life is a fragment of emptiness,
Joy is nowhere to be seen,
And happiness left before that,
And love disappeared as you choose,
Choose something over what was forever,
Before you know it,
It starts taking over,
Taking over your whole life,
Where you don’t know up or down,
And you dig deeper and deeper,
Deeper into the depth of it,
Wanting another because the last didn’t satisfy you,
Before you know it everything is gone,
The family that you had,
The friends you were closeThe True Thief by ~princesssudi

Feminine by ~ZadenWillowfyre

Encompassing the Mutilation by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Life 101

Fantasy

Bluebell DreamsI become lost in your dreamy skies,
sleeping beneath the sweet elixir,
bluebells chime their lullabys,
and somewhere inside,
I know they are all lies.

But I can only see fields of blue,
one forgets the distance
between the earth and the heavens,
but it is only an endless delusion.

Like the shifting colors of your eyes,
while drinking honeyed and flower wine,
here within the carnivores mouth
we all succumb to sweet little offerings. Bluebell Dreams by *SilverWynd

ConcreteIn the beginning there was darkness, and in the end that's what will be
But without order chaos reigns and the universe shall see
Infinite collisions and seemingly endless dreams of warfare
Followed by the cosmos collapsing and lands becoming bare
But even in a world where pain is king and love is queen
The endless struggle for perfection rages on, end scene
Violence and vulgar power displays once ruled the Earth
Yet we can't say for certain if we'll ever see the light
But if we stand up and rise we may just see new rebirth
And the world will thrive like a fire burning bright
Keep calm and carry on
Carve the mist, and then begone
Keep calm and carry on
Carve the mist, and then begone
Like a ghost in the night this won't last very long
It will come and it will pass, and is that so wrong
Keep calm and carry on
Carve the mist and then begone
Keep calm and carry on
Carve the mist and then begone
The celestial winds of change arrive to sort out the dysfunction
These winds are frConcrete by ~TheSkull31

Desire and DelightI'm all alone, sitting in the shadows of my own isolation
and with the bone of breath I am of an infinite imagination
that feeds on the wants and needs of my unreal perception.
Here am I, the great realist, a man of my word and yet
the days of youth are still in my very spirit, I bet,
clawing, scratching, sinking into my skin in forms of secret.
I think of many things and try to come up with the answers
of questions I can't answer, but still I sit waiting for whispers
of family to call my name and save me from the spaceless stairs.
Now I am free, an able-bodied spirit free to roam,
free to speak, free to do, free to feel the very foam
of the water that brings me closer to dreams of freedom.
I am finally out of the cage,
and now I can contain my rage
to save for a day of bloody sage.Desire and Delight by ~TheSkull31

The Knight

With bated breath,
I lie in wait.
Waiting for the fire,
And brimstone to fall down on me,
And cover me in ash.

I lie under the cloak of night,
Brandishing my steel sword as if it were my soul.
My iron clad body,
Holding steady,
As I wait for him.

The dragon of my fears.
With gleaming white fangs,
And a hard, cold stare
That burns flesh,
Like a winter's storm.

The dragon of the earth.
With such a brilliance,
And majesticness,
That it is unmatched by all other creatures.

The dragon,
With the jaded soul,
Jagged scales and strong legs
That carry his agile frame effortlessly.
The dragon
That is thought to be perfect and lethal;
Inescapable andThe Knight by =robostorm

Fantasy

Traditional and Fixed Forms

Your Storm Gray LoveI become lost in your shades of gray,
eyes like the storm of the rapture in my heart,
hold me fast before I can drift away.

How can I ask you to forever stay?
wandering the shoals with fear you may depart,
I become lost in your shades of gray.

Night begins to close heralding the day
and I am left pierced at the end of your dart,
hold me fast before I can drift away.

Through the fog have we found our way?
Are there words enough that my love I may impart?
I become lost in your shades of gray.

How lovely on your face the shadows play,
in this soft light there must be a place to restart,
hold me fast before I can drift away.

May the watYour Storm Gray Love by *SilverWynd

Ordinary Day“Ordinary Day”

Somewhere in this town are the sounds of gunfire
Certain people live while others expire
Across from this scene a truck has just delivered
Many groceries to a store located by the river

Dozens of families flock to buy food for their kids
Completely unaware they could be the next to go God forbid
Their children are in school sitting quietly in their seats
While the headmasters instruct because they have so much to teach

Elsewhere an organ bellows signaling the beginning of a mass
While a man’s car on the highway has run out of gas
The sun becomes masked by clouds as rain invades grass
Someone robbed a jewelOrdinary Day by =BleedTheDream180

You Are The Writer"You Are The Writer"

Speak to me through works of gallant poetry
Tell me of your fears and woes; goals and misery
Let syllables flow through use of rhymes and words
Let your voice be raised a pitch to sounds you never heard

Tell me of your troubled times through the use of fiction
Mask the pain in metaphors, prayers, and benedictions
You are the writer and the soul of the one you've come to know
Why not give your tale a happy ending before it's time to go?

Through the use of monologues, you can tell a ton
Like how you stunned the King or how your race was won
But maybe you prefer to give your tale a twist
The frog doesn't have to be a prinYou Are The Writer by =BleedTheDream180

The Fog"The Fog"

Every one of us has fog in our lives
Some more than others; some of us choke
And no matter the place where we reside
We're always gasping and breathing in smoke

This fog develops and envelops us whole
Blinding our very sense of direction
We often can't see which way to go
So we hide behind our fog's objections

This air becomes too thick to breathe
From the very moment of our youth
And often hidden below and beneath
Is the very essence of elusive truth

But we can not see all the ideals
Walking around lost in a cloudy haze
So we blindly guess at what is real
Hoping that we have found the way

But opaque roads are rocky and littereThe Fog by =BleedTheDream180

Traditional and Fixed Forms

Romance and Love

The Mosaic and The Wanderer.Yes this whole has been beaten down, broken now in decrepitude.
Scattered, thrown here or there by wanders kicking loose pebbles.
A stranger strolls and sees a stone to keep for his own collection.
He didn't hear the rubble cry as another part of them is stolen.

That was the day the sky turn gray with a storm of unknown magnitude.
Flooding rain washed what pieces remained into a shallow puddle.
In sediment they settled, put back together by this muddy concoction.
As the day exsiccates a mosaic is made and a soul has been awakened.
A woman rises from the sand to search for a man, and the part of her he's taken.

He loves to stroll and walk alone, his thought always so bestrewed.
Wander, meander where time doesn't matter. He's tired of a constant dribble.
Remembering the trinket he reaches in his pocket, and is startled with a pulsing motion.
Pulling out hiThe Mosaic and The Wanderer. by *Sinnomangirl

Bye-Bye BeautifulA beautiful girl
Experiences the fright
With a slap to the face
And I wish to imprint that place
I would let others know my anger
I would have given to save her
But now she wounded me

My fear for you, haunted me
My love for you, took over me
But now, with all your words
And what I learned
I know you not, at all

All must come to an end
Death cannot be forever evaded
Trees lose their strength
Animals lose their speed
Flowers lose their pedals
Machines lose their power
And one day, time will stop ticking

I was blind until I saw the light
We reached too long ago, the end of the night
I want you out of my sight
You left; 'tis time I do the sameBye-Bye Beautiful by ~Agent36496

Pet by *Jewel-Firefly

PretendWaking I know, it was a dream,
And you're still here with me.
I'm pretending that you're sleeping,
Things can't be what they seem!

When I shake the sleep away,
The process I now fear,
Tears come just as every day.
Since you're no longer here.

I built life on a fairy tale,
Where we'd never be apart.
And though I can not hold you,
You are cradled in my heart.

I dream of you every night,
I wish for you each day.
Sometimes, I get so sad,
Want to wish it all away.

Can barely pick myself up,
To get out of the bed.
Perhaps I'll just, still lie here.
Pretend some more, instead.Pretend by *NearlyInvisibleMind

Romance and Love

Political

Facebook Has Been Murdered by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Fatal Miscalculations by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Your Righteous Indignation About Liberals by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Artists and WarriorsThey have said that art is resistance
They have claimed that to create and share ideas is magic
I say they are both right, but nearsighted

The meme is in our social organisms
It breathes
It must convince, indeed evince that mankind is not
a one-trick pony

If it is controversial
You will find me there
If it is sensational
You'll find my mouth against that teet
If it leaves a pothole in perceptions
You'll hear my weapons of war engage

I am an artist
I am a warrior
The world is my chosen field of battleArtists and Warriors by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Political

Collaborations and Group Poems

Forever MoreForever More

It's said true friendship is strong
A tree hundreds of years old
yet I saw a withered leaf falling
And the green begins to fade

Look beyond the withered leaf
See past the fading green
Look down into the soil
Where strong roots do grow.

I can hear dry branches cracking
And all the oncoming storms
Black clouds darkening the sky
Are we strong enough to prevail?

Though the branches may crack
As the winds bend them back
Look beyond the darkening clouds
The rays of the sun can be found.

I don't want to lose what we had.
I don't want to see it die.
But the wind takes the leaves away.
A barren skeleton is wForever More by =DarlingAngel0565

Collaborations and Group Poems

Brutal Critique Folder warning

The Brutal Fucking Of Your Stain by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

The Shape of Fire by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

TV Guide by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Magic ManI know you constantly feel like shit.
You think the world doesn't want you
and you don't want any part of it,
so what would you say if I said
I could make all your pain go away
and make your smile appear out of nowhere
even though it's been lost for years?

I'm a magic man, but this is no trick
I don't rely on sleight of hand or illusions
and I don't market snake oil cures.
My magic is a hundred percent legitimate
so take a seat and get ready to be amazed.

With these shoulders I'll carry the weight
that has lived on your chest for so long,
just let these ears take them from your mouth first.
This heart will tell you the truth
and these eyes Magic Man by ~Maj0rWhal3WankR

Brutal Critique Folder warning

Prose - Fiction

The ListShe has a list.

She has a long, long list, spanning many pages in her notebook. There are pages upon pages, coated in a messy scrawl of blue gel ink that varies in freshness from hours to years.

Every night, she adds to it. Every night, religiously, ever since she can remember. She has to stay up as long as it takes to add whatever she can recall to her list, no matter how tired or how busy she is. If one were to happen past her house on any particular night, odds are the light would be shining brightly as she frantically scribbled in her notebook.

Her list is precious to her. She isn't proud of it, but she needs it with her always.

The lThe List by ~SourAir

Dear Jamie by =OHiNeedTea

Pigtown's Butcher by ~ResidentNobody

Justice Has No Face by ~WalkingWithMetaphors

Prose - Fiction

Prose - Non-Fiction

Life as a Medical Anomaly Part 8Asthma has many different amount of causes with numerous reactions to each cause. Some causes of asthma maybe harmless to a few, but it could be a major inflammation in others. People with asthma may have many different causes, compared to others that might have little or no identifiable ones. When it comes to handling asthma attacks and lessening the amount one experiences, depends mostly on avoiding the specific causes of asthma that have been identified. It is important, therefore, to keep a record of what triggers your asthma as this will help give you an overall cause for the asthma.

Handling asthma is no easy feat, there are timesLife as a Medical Anomaly Part 8 by ~princesssudi

Unstable Together - A Hurricane Katrina MonologueI’m heavy. So heavy. But I can’t stop. I can’t. Not even if I wanted too. There’s too much, just too much. And everything is spinning, spinning, spinning. And I’m moving, but I don’t know where. And I’m taking, but I don’t know what. I’m moving close – so close. I don’t even know where I am. There’s just water and grey and a screaming howl as I spin and spin and spin. It’s all around me. Where I go, it follows. If I could break through it, I would – oh I would. Just for the silence, just for the peace. If only for a moment. But I haven’t stopped. I&rsquoUnstable Together - A Hurricane Katrina Monologue by ~MadHat11D6

Life as a Medical Anomaly Part SevenThere are many things people do not realize about various health conditions, one is how serious certain health conditions can be, even with managing it with health care there are times our health conditions can take us by surprise. Many think that asthma is just something that can go away easily, and what people don't realize is that it is a disease. There are times the asthma will seem to disappear, but that doesn't happen to every person that has it, and sometimes certain medications don't do enough. That doesn't mean to give up hope or to stop trying.

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects “makes breathing difficult. With asthma,Life as a Medical Anomaly Part Seven by ~princesssudi

Life As A Medical Anomaly Part 6 Finding out that due to the combined factor of not having enough credits work wise to be able to get Social Security Disability, even if I was proven disabled, and not being able to get Social Security Income due to my husband’s income, therefore my case will be dismissed through my lawyer. It is a little frustrating I won’t lie, but in many ways I am relieved to know these things because if I didn’t I could have wasted time going, maybe winning, and then not being able to get anything. Alan, my lawyer, was also concerned that if there wasn’t those things in the way that the things that cause me health issues might Life As A Medical Anomaly Part 6 by ~princesssudi

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I am so very stoked to see new faces and more activity in the group! In the coming months, I intend to make this group a lot more lively, so I appreciate the effort you guys have shown, and for sticking this out. It will be worth it, long term, I assure you.