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A Cold Winter Sigh

A frost cloud hovers above me
Numbing my senses
Trying to freeze a vital organ inside you see
Sometimes it gets so cold nothing seems to matter
As im put in a deep freeze
I spit it up
And cough out my lungs
Feeling dissappionted with the world
As im sure it will be also with me
I guess i could live a life unsung 
Because all this frustration in me builds pressure
Oh how i wish i could just run and fly 
What's the point in being sober
If you still feel like you want to die
Just want to run and hide
Waste away
And burn out in a twinkle of an eye
So are these thoughts in this cold winters sigh
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The Surly Sort

Semblance veneer, a city's fear,
cadence for ears, all who are brave.
The rash of feet, like fleeing deer,
No rest until their souls are saved.
Canyons of steel and glass allow,
crossed windowed eyes that do not trust.
The same old story comes hollow
to the unconcerned, just like us.
Smack the facade, a headstrong plea,
from lack of yield on some cold ground.
For every crack, a fantasy,
and from each step, a hollow sound.
It's the snare of the promising,
the hit mode of the undeterred.
Not lacking the street-racked sounding,
by one, to be observed.
A thousand fearless and one bold fictions,
soles worn thin against the gray.
A pledge for their inclinations,
conquer another taxing day.
Bang the surface, a steady feat,
A benchmark of yearning we hold.
To gain a spot on this grand street,
Not to be measured with the old,
the failed, shattered, and the muted.
Who fell before they gained their goal?
We grow and push, we're not routed,
metro's our will, no claim, no hold.
Smash the dumb mask, a damnation,
It's evidence of what we face.
We tread ahead, we don't question,
Our nature molds a nonstop pace.
In this arcade, snakes slithered maze,
We find our meaning, find our grace.
Rest our weary bones on some chaise,
We're winning in this urban race.
Stalked digi-miles to cough out debt,
found in scruffy leather and frayed.
'Hail Mary' caused tears as they wept,
bills paid, I'm made whole, time for trade.
Form:

Premium Member Songs of Ophelia

I sing the songs of childhood
A forgotten time...
Before illusive fantasies of womanhood
Before hearing of the murder of my dreams
By the hand of my lover
Who demands of me
Things I cannot give
Forcing issues of loyalty
Between people I love
And a woman’s heart rends
Behind the curtain
Hidden concern bleeds to death
Overwhelmed
By the accusations
The violent demands
The questioning eyes
Slowly going insane
Wearing my mourning gown of pain

I sing
I dance
I twirl
Ophelia’s songs
Running through my head
Flowers in my hands
I dance 
Traipsing towards….
The water’s edge
I wade in
Clothes and all
Looking for my cradle of solace
I lie back
Looking up at the azure sky
Songs of childhood
Of innocence lost
And heartaches won

A bird catches my eye
Soaring free
I stop singing
Slowly tilting my head back
The water covers my forehead
Nestles over my open eyes
Soothing me
Singing its own lullaby
A lullaby of childhood
Of happy times
Welcoming me
I push further back
And let the water 
Surge into my open mouth
Through my nostrils
I drink it in
A moment more….
And I’ll be soaring free

I cough out water
Gasping for breath
I hear noises
A young girl crying
“Mama, Mama….breathe!”
A man’s arms are around me
Holding me to the side
Patting me on the back
As I cough out more water…

Spent
I lie back
And look into the sun
Close my eyes
I open my mouth
And sing songs
Songs of my childhood
I hear the young girl cry
I hear the man sigh
I hear the people around whisper
“She’s gone mad”

I sing
I open my eyes to search the sky
For a lone bird
Flying high
Singing….singing
Ophelia’s songs
Till my day turns into night….

For Anne Currin's Suicide Contest
August 2, 2013

Premium Member Fun Facts

In Scotland, it is illegal to be drunk in possession of a cow

But is it legal to make love to a cow while drunk

A man named Ronald MacDonald once robbed Wendy's

That sure sounds like a whole lot of burger bunk

There's actually a city in Turkey called 'Batman'

The law states all young boys must be named Robin

'Climax', Cumming' and 'Gay' are city names in Georgia

Need to be very liberal minded in the land of cotton

There's a city in Missouri named 'Licking' oh boy!

Also, one named 'Butts', that's a real hooter

A boy in a Florida was arrested for disruptive behavior

Excessive farting turned off classmates computers

Sony once accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders

That had the technology to see through people's clothing

Mozart wrote a canon entitled 'Leck mich im Arsch/

Translates to 'Lick me in the ****' naughty composing

Amazingly a man once wore 70 items of clothing

To avoid an airline's extra baggage charge

In a deck of cards, the only king without a mustache

Is the handsome debonaire King of Hearts

A Canadian farmer once rented ad space on his cows

His cows went on strike for a piece of the action

A book titled 'Everything Men Know About Women'

Filled with 128 blank pages which is only a fraction

Though they won't admit it, women fart as much as men

They cough out loud to disguise their big boomers

Takes forty-two muscles in your face to make a frown

Just four to smack someone's head needing a suture
Form: Narrative

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