Long Shut away Poems

"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive 
before words, they are cast 

in the...

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I have a story that needs be told
A story I never knew if words can transcript
For it belongs when in dreams I enroll
Visions before or an afterlife if I shall seek

If it all shall begin…...

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You were standing with your face held to the warm air. The sea licking your feet and your thoughts were all of her. For back at the apartment she would be lovingly cleaning your clothes...

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An Aria Beyond A Silent Dream

Just yesterday, I was dreaming some love I’ll never have
And now I’m sitting all alone, smoking… this night
Some soul within that never was mine, seems to have left
Like falling stars...

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I listen, and I’ll always listen because I will do anything for you, I would die to keep you safe and alive. I would do whatever to make you feel better. And so, I listen...

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In a second my life changed like i could never imagine
The world was all Topsy turvy 
and i a floating object in the turmoil
A simple six letter word
Thats all it took to take my stable...

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when the universe find the sextet his submission shall be held up, give the code IVICCC the lord of power shall destroy all those who remain on earth. given his rights to do so. than...

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Perilous addiction hell bent completion deluded cohesion.
Negative infusion feathered motion, spiraling down like a crispy weathered October leaf.
Faded grasp like the winter sun in vision the same but a difference so vast 
The echo of...

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I never really got the chance
To thank you
For these glasses that
Have made me see

The beauty in this world that my nocturnal spirit
Has shut away
Like the wings of a bird
Shielding itself from the scorching sun

Summer fields
Cherry...

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Through fading light
And falling rain
And hope's last torch upon the pain
I'm unstirred by any winds of strife 
Because I acknowledge the love in my life. 
I have had enough of life's sorrows
I am ready for...

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Knocking on the door, can your mate come out to play?, 
or is she grounded for yet another sunny day?.
Meeting up with your mates, hanging around the park, 
getting up to no good, until way...

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Usually I don't condone this kind of behavior
but whenever he is around all I can is savor 
his every word. 

He leaves me breathless 
I have late night dreams of  lying on his
bare chest.

I...

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Villanelle: Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray

Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray
Mistakes you have made must of needs be also made
Don't guiles lies with smiles guide all...

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Smeared it in pure black hate,
Until it was completely covered. 
A black heart engulfed me,
Only telling me to destroy, destroy.

Without realizing my ugliness,
I felt at ease.

A long time ago, I once loved this world. 
Countless...

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I tried to change my life, so I fit in
But still I am another outcast in the crowd
I wanted to be liked and just to have friends
But I was only another face in the picture

I...

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The waves are coming in
The sound of the water is all but familiar
I would let it touch my skin
I would let it wash me away from the world forever

As I held my breath and sunk...

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Atypically,  she was alone
and silent,
wig askew,
all the muzak shut away
behind her half-closed door.
I knew that she had also  drawn
the blinds within her mind,
to soften the impetuosity
of joy.

She struggled
to pull back the thoughts
that like...

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on a blank canvas
i begin painting
as one builts 
a great big wall 
So high, 
trapped in myself 
Shut away from life's hurt 

Dreaming of greener pastures 
One with happiness 
Safe in my Dreams, 
An apparition...

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He hurt us, you didn’t know
Once the bruises healed, there was nothing to show
You didn’t protect the child I was
You didn’t want to make a fuss
I don’t want to put this all on you
You always...

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The Dark Poet

The poet losing touch with life
Faces fear untold
Reality just slips away
Powerless to make it stay
When his demons seize a hold 

Deep dark thoughts pervade his mind,
Worms infect his brain.
Empty void of utter darkness
Shut...

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It was morning
and I found myself mourning,
for the child who'd disapeared.
In this court of illusions
I got caught in the madness;
my fatal flaw.

Now wrapped in sadness,
caressing the floor,
anonymity the honored guest.

Perhaps I should have guessed this...

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Harry Potter a boy with no real family
Living under his cousin’s stairs, in a closet’s gizzard.
Shunned and shut away as a nambly-pambly
In another world, a known, famous wizard.

Hagrid helps him get to Hogwarts where he...

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I hope people will open their eyes 
Open them to what I'm saying
Listen to what the minority are saying. 
I pray they stop pushing us away 
That they start listening to what we have to...

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Cave

There is no cave
Can hide your light
No hidden place
For Joy so bright

There's nothing
You should shut away
Your beauty needs
The light of day

As friends we'd scale
The highest heights
Clear all the wrongs 
Replace with rights 

To let you...

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What if by chance we meet, embrace once more,
And to that place we go where no one sees
Or even knows, we quietly close the door
And shut away the winter’s cooling breeze.

The scent of hyacinths still...

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