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Best Poems Written by Iris Van Dongen

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Love Explained By the Letter H

Humming Humbleness
 Harmony Heroism 
   Hustling Hesitancy
     Hugging Haziness
       Hopeful Hues
         Happy Haggles
           Howling Hurricanes
              Honey Hicks
                Hacked Heart

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Tell Me Not

Tell me not that the sun shines brighter 
In the water.
For it glistens in your pupil
As if everyday your smile awakens Spring.

Tell me not of storms and thunder.
For your kindness is too 
Soft a breeze to stir hurricanes
Inside the clouded corners of my mind.

Tell me not of religions and war
When you challenge Gods and powers
To create greener grounds than the paths you walk on,
Which are deemed the holiest of grounds.

Tell me not of sadness and tears
When the rain outside parts when your laughter
Echoes away the gray and sullen skies,
Allowing the sun to warm my face.

Tell me not of thoughts 
When your spirit has long surpassed my mind
And fastened itself within my heart.
Making me surrender my body and my world
For only your Soul.

Judge me not when three words:
I love you
Are the only expressions I have to
Tell you how much you embody
The best energies life has to offer.

Tell me: I do not deserve such beauty.
For your magic has made a blind man
See this part of life that only
The night's dreams could of revealed 
To a man not in love enough with life
To witness angels outside of heaven.

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The Hurricane

There is a Hurricane inside my head.
You see a warm horizon
With my eyes reflecting like the stillness of water
And my gaze penetrating like dew clouds in the summer.
Little can your Homosapien eyes see 
Past the mortal features of my willowing skin
There is a hurricane inside my mind.

How softly my voice floats. 
Like Autumn leaves from the branch to the ground.
Though the temperature be cold and chilling,
As my thoughts surge from North to South,
My voice is rooted like the stem of the snoozing tree
Waiting for the frost to arrive and reveal
There is a Hurricane inside my mind.

Calamity is my greatest trick.
It glides like a swan on mellow water
Focusing the viewer on it's stillness and serenity
While frantically underneath the water it kicks.
A thousand thoughts underneath the water like Fish
Who would suffocate if they came above the surface.
They see me struggling to swim and stay afloat.
There is a Hurricane inside my mind. 

Little will I ever let you notice
How rage attacks my mind.
Hitting, attacking,
Thrusting the rocks and 
Cliffside's of my mind into turmoil.
Beating the Brain
And raising the blood like how the 
Flexible Ocean 
Ascends during the heavy Storms near the Shore.
I wish you never near the Shore.
I wish you far away from those Waters.
There is a hurricane inside my mind.

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I'D Like To See You Try

You may tell me to surrender
I dare you to try
For villainy and Supremacy
Are all the things I fly by

In order to feed my courage
I dare you to tell me not
You can put me in a faraday cage
But to burn 
I will not

I see you trying to suppress
It amuses me that you can
For Men in ties are full of lies
When they are gifted the bigger end

Of the Stick
You see it as a glistening Sceptre
A permission to free all hell
But though you cry
In your burning lie
To challenge me...

I'd like to see you try.

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Giving Up

I don’t recommend setting boundaries inside your head.

Why would you even try to protect yourself?

When death and terror look you in the eye

Every single day inside you mind.

 

You wonder how long it took to put up this cage around you.

To protect you

From politicians, from neighbors, from loved ones…

How numb it has made you.

As a burning fire with no flames…

No warmth.

 

Your mind is a concentration camp.

When negativity parades through your mind

As invaders have claimed your body their land,

Attacking endlessly the self esteem that you have left.

Your mind has declared war against your body.

 

Vincent Van Gogh could have painted your smile.

For your face is painted with color

But the story behind the face…

The artist in your mind

Has gone one step beyond giving up

And all love is gone for his art…

Life.

 

So don’t try to stop me from going.

If I stay

I will be killed eventually anyway…

Like Hamlet

Awaiting the sword in the heart.

I can neither stay for my loved ones anymore.

I don’t want to poison them with my 

Feelings

Thus I take my leave.

 

 

Who really loved your soul at the end of the day anyway?

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The Night

Leaping light in dull darkness
Moonlight mambo in nightfall nets
Mediative minds in spurring spaces
Vocal visions in vacant vicinities
Enlightened eyes in doubtful decisions
Queuing quietness in spooky serenities
Peaceful presence in rambunctious reality

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Is Love Not Timeless

"Beating bulls blazing your mind."
Is one sentence affective, perhaps,
To describe you of late.

Pouncing around the Kitchen
"I am not good enough! I am not good enough!".
A positioned me waiting in the corner
Witnessing a manifestation of wailing and weeping
Which resembles us both.
Making me the knight unable to
Control your Trojan horse.
Wheeping.
Wailing.
A helpless presence about as useful as the furniture.
Immovable.

Dear Lady:
You will spend years fighting a war 
Between the left and right side of your mind.
One proving to be correct in everything the opposite states.
As mistakable as those who charge in 
Battles gripping the same cross but having read 
Different bibles.
A war based on subjective opinions.
A war where everyone is right without the 
Exception of peace.

Have you ever listened with those pretty ears
That have grown inward?
In the past did they hear me screaming 
"You are good enough! You are good enough!".
Is it not on love's interest to steer away 
From one's self to sail ships and
Harbour in my heart?
To port in my good opinion?
Or are you love?
If so, why is it not protecting you?
When did your mind become your mother?
Shouting at me:
"You are not good enough! You are not good enough!".
When did love become an absence 
In a world where time never stops?
Is love not timeless?

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I Hope I Learn Soon

You chase rainbows only to find storms.
You forget that life is about journeys and not destinations. 

That life is about freedom to explore. 

I hope I learn soon. 


Loneliness creates illusions.
Illusions create doubts.
Doubts create unstable relationships.
Unstable relationships creates blame.
Blame creates self-harm 
And self-harm creates loneliness.