February 2012
1 post
A Call to Action →
killingcharlemagne:
I am one of the few. The byproduct of war. And I came home whole, only with a few nicks and bruises and scars not easily seen. Losing too many of those I loved. Staining my skin in memoriam. But I have refused to complain. To come against and use this forum, or any other, as a soap box against our society. Instead turning memory into fiction, playing my role as a writer....
January 2012
16 posts
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“One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
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monday night (and day and night)
it’s monday night,
and i am thinking of you,
cold
my only companion.
nighttime
illuminates
the absence in this bed,
concrete walls
echoe lonely sighs
trapping them within
these basement bulwarks
never to
rattle
the bones
of
my desired
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“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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sometimes
i walk under
thunderous clouds
to challenge chance
with a target on my back
a new low….
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polished sapphires
those eyes of hers
shimmer and shine
priceless beauty
pain and suffering
to meddlers in the
middle
of me
and mine
With You
robertjw:
Sometimes there are Moments with you when i think that ivory statues must weep and the sun must fall this second. I think, It can’t be natural, this closeness.
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“Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed...”
– Mark Twain
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A Californian's North Dakota Winter Experience #7
What North Dakota winter?! I’m still a newbie to this strange land, but I’m pretty sure winter is lost somewhere and needs directions. Usually, though, regardless of climate zone, an unusually warm winter is often followed by kick-ass storms that make up their tardiness, and/or a spring from hell (when, of course, hell freezes too).
December 2011
35 posts
Refrain
aquietjoy:
It rained today, I thought of you
connections lost past hope.
I sent a song out from the blue,
prayers for you in melodic note.
heaven’s a place on earth with you
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These Flowers
“These flowers…these flowers are for you.”
May they bring a smile to your face,
and so, too— to mine,
May they spark an embrace
that releases none too soon,
May they erase all the hurt
that took place
under a blue moon
“Please take these flowers. They are for you.”
May they bring back the glimmer to your eyes
and the hope, to mine
May they be a...
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“But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”
– Joaquin Miller
this book grows weary of being judged by its cover
takingstockofwhatmattersmost:
dreaming dreams you can never ever achieve
loving loves that will never love you back
living a life which might as well be over
running races that cannot possibly be won
writing words which will not be read or heard
holding on to something but knowing it’s gone
hope…
Anonymous asked: i love how you're making all north dakotans sound like we're hicks. -__-
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“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
– Sylvia Plath
A Californian's North Dakota Winter Experience #6
North Dakota DMV: “So how was your experience at this DMV office as compared to the one you’re used to in [Fresno/Clovis] California?”
Me: “Oh, it was great! I didn’t have to wait four hours to see someone, I didn’t wait in a line that stretched a couple blocks, and the employees speak fluent English!”
North Dakota DMV: “Great, great. I bet the...
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“It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.”
– e .e. cummings
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House Arrest
drapery draping, hanging,
collecting dust
static, still, satin light-block
a futile knife-thrust,
letting looming luminosity
pierce stale air
(occluded from optical oxygen)
accelerates despair
I Get It
punkdbyeros:
You left a pair of shoes under my bed
And I walked around in them all day.
I felt like a fool.
Now, I get it.
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[midnight glances
of waking death,
mo(u)rning trances
in tortured breath]
forever sealed
screaming your name,
a lasting meal
the earth did claim,
unlove’s whispers
antagonize
decay’s fingers
anesthitize
(feigned [in]sanity—
a torpid guise
for agony
and her allies)
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“The greater the truth the greater the libel.”
– Lord Ellenborough
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A Californian's North Dakota Winter Experience #5
Me: “I admit…it is a little cold here in North Dakota. My fingers, nose, ears, and lips are all scattered across Bismarck. They froze and fell off…and FLEW AWAY IN THE FREEEEEZING GUSTY, BLUSTERY, FRIGID WINDS THAT WERE BLOWING ALL DAY TODAY!!!!”
North Dakotan: “This is a spring thaw, compared to what it gets later this winter!”
Me: [remember, my ears froze...
Eldorado
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old — This knight so bold — And o’er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim...
bodasdesangre:
Gone the breeze with noon, to gather shadows of birch for the crowning of the moon, to mourn in ritual of my birth.
of needles cried the orb of day, in bereavement of the breeze, fore’er lost in the sighs of my veins, buried beneath the wings of bees.
being who/what I am has gotten me no-where
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“She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And...”
– Lord Byron