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Premium Member An Interior Mechanism

Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.

I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mechanism, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse



It's An Illusion
(one-act play)

The patient

They call it a sickness, a psychosis, an insanity, but I know: this is the leverage 
by means of which I can set...

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Categories: mechanism, world,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member In Anger Tinged With Pain
make love to me in anger tinged with pain
for death is lurking near my soul to reap
the world is closing in, I can't keep sane
at...

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Categories: mechanism, anger, life,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Chameleons
Chameleons

  Chameleons we must be

      In a world forever changing

         ...

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Categories: mechanism, life, people, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
Am I Turning Into a Lizard Serial Killer
Hmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...

Let me back...

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Categories: mechanism, angst, animal, how i
Form: Narrative



The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 1
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel

The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha.


When first time I looked 
At the Wooden Charkha*
With a...

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Categories: mechanism, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desired Truth
The
wedding
is supreme
occidental 
mechanism to control other’s body.
When desire tends to be problematic,
to libido
we give the
order
then.
That order is marriage, monogamy,
and faithfulness.
That is the
desired
truth.

   ...

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Categories: mechanism, desire,
Form: Tetractys
Man Made and Manufactured
The human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...

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Categories: mechanism, creation, future, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gluttony
ghastly gluttony 

one of seven deadly sins
with appalling good reasons

total self disrespect 
abusing one's own body
that wonderful mechanism

no remorse no thought
millions starving and dying

balancing haves...

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Categories: mechanism, abuse, appreciation, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Choka
Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: mechanism, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
On Poetry and Prose
A bridge from colloquial to courtly 
fare
A span where idealism and fantasy 
pair
A railway to the existential realm; 
celestial lair 
A conduit through which rational...

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Categories: mechanism, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Story Condensed
My life hasn't been easy 
I've experienced much pain. 

As a young child, I had a some- 
what of a normal childhood. 

I didn't have...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mechanism, change, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Seeping
Crazed beyond this fragile manuscript
  ink now bled out in caustic flow
emptying my mind of the clutter
  pouring from a heart beat’s mechanism
grinding...

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Categories: mechanism, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cubism Is My Favorite Art
Cubism is my favorite art.
I love making silly blockheaded people, pretending 
Ignorance as to why I would have drawn certain 
Wonderful people in this manner.

I...

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Categories: mechanism, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Coasting
I pretend I'm alright
And put my best stance forward
Wear my brave face
Tryin to be smooth
Just tripped on my shoelace
What's a girl to do

Busted, razed, flat...

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Categories: mechanism, anxiety, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs