Short Your Own Making Poems

You learn to embrace your very own darkening
When trapped in a prison of your own making.
When it is the lights that were always looming,
Yet never letting the light in for any healing....

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See no truth,
Hear no truth,
Speak no truth.
Follow the leader.
Don’t look to either side
Or you might see
In the mirror
Of your own making
Your cowardice,
distortions, self-absorption,
lies, and poor judgment.
Keep the blinders on.
Follow the leader
over the cliff....

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It really matters how you're facing
When with your sight you're gazing

Towards the light on the horizon staking
Your heart emotions shaking 

At the time of light's breaking
A moment of life’s relating

Twilight of life or the sunrise's creation
Is a product of your own making...

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Your transparency is like black paint 
Shrouded in silence and deceit 
Hiding in shadows of your own making 
But I see through your dark retreat
You cannot fool me with your lies 
Nor blind me with your fake allure 
Your transparency is like black paint 
But I have the solvent of truth...

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I wouldn't bother 
alchemizing language
into golden press releases
of your own making.

It never works long anyway,
grapevines get better reception.

A dog knows who flinches.
Moss grows where one lingers,
even silence
leaves thumbprints.

Say nothing. Say too much.
Either way—
they’ll know you....

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Freedom is captivity.
To be free,
You must lose liberties.
You’re heart can be open to the world,
But you’re body will be closed to joys—
Off the grid.
No authority.
A paradise of your own making,
Keeps you locked.
Hidden.
Shackled,
In a state of renewal.
Where there is no time for rest.
Only growth.


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Beauty Lies

Beauty lies in the eyes,
Of the beholder,
People find beauty,
In the places they look,
Beauty is a thing of the mind;
It is not pre-determined,
One man's food,
Is another man's poison,
It's your mind,
That has to be contented,
You find beauty,
In the manner you want,
The concept of beauty,
Is your own making....

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To be a psychopath,
No feelings to react to no love to feel
God of your own making
King of your own world
All my pain lost
But i feel all the pain you served to my soul
And no filter, no control
If karma exist i hope you never feel the way i do
tell me this is not love
I am the man that hopes for your happiness
While losing my own...

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you invited to the party
telling me to sweetly sing
you offered nonchalance
offering snide remarks
valour was not your end game
You rode on your proverbial chariot
telling me of your mental prowess

Drinking your iron lead,
in the dark
you shared your primordial ghosts
your lips didn't speak the truth
and you said let it be done
blowing out all the candles
to enliven the gloom
of your own making...

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Poetry is an expression that should come from within
Unencumbered by stodgy rules that are meaningless to the masses
If as a poet you feel it important to follow the course developed by others
God’s speed to you in your endeavor but ask yourself one important question
Do you feel comfortable that the originality of your works is yours and yours alone? 
Or does doubt creep into your mind as you apply a template not of your own making?...

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