OPEN MIC ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY, 1998

Updated February 25, 1998

Only Me


Every time I see you

I see your twinkling eyes

That bring out the light

In those dark and weary skies

And every time you pass

It's like you can't see me

But I know one time soon

It's only me that you will see

Now just the other day

you stopped to talk to me

and even now I know

It's not me that you can see

Maybe you will learn

to look further you can see

and when it comes to love

it's only me that you will see

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i grow tired

of playing pretend

i feel empty

in pursuing your fullness

i am a cheater

by your rules

i draw my strength

from your fainting weakness

@---^--->Pixie

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how can you be content

with your play-acting of someone else

how can you sit there

being the thousands of personalities you aren't

how can you accuse me of being false

when you have no mind to judge, or accuse me with

not one thing of you is your own

@---^--->Pixie

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I'm alone in my crowd

thinking my own way

you, "people" flock to the new

while i just go along for the ride

am i worse for knowing you machine/people?

for trying as you do to fit in?

to avoid persecution?

i say "come, and let's break the mold!"

@---^--->Pixie

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"Elizabeth"

Hello, i've broken the window to my house

Everything leaks in

Look i am barefoot and surrounded by

Pieces of glass, and i can't move

My feet are lacerated and; worn

Everywhere i step cuts deeper

@---^--->Pixie

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"A Statue Has No Soul"

By: R. D. McManes

Standing all alone
Cast image of stone
Chiseled granite face
Not a hair out of place


Perfect image of man
Depicted as best man can
Made of solid granite rock
A place where pigeons flock


Cold marble eyes
Stare cross empty skies
Waiting for time's end
For it has no soul to mend

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Something I can never have is at my reach,

but I am astonish by the love I see.

A virgin to these many sights,

I wish I could touch me like that again.

Very graceful are her moves,

I cherish her every word.

And something? Someone? Is there that should not be.

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I could write these words forever
Collapsing in my mind
And bring a new death
Every time I pick up a pen.


But somehow I feel remorse
An uncertain guilt
For the days I let slip away
Without recording their lovely truth.


And as I've recognized
How these moments
Are gone the moment they arrived,
I've underestimated their power.


Still, I've come to learn
That though these words
Were not written so eloquently,
I still have the power to feel them.

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pinkish purple butttercup

leaving city air

like the brackish water sings

through her does it tear

painfully sweet

rapid thoughts

many times thoughts rumble forth

like the raging river

and the hapless little buttercup

colorfully wronged

like the earth surrounding her

many times over, wronged

adulterated by her own self

hapless little buttercup

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An Existential Babbler Ponders the Metaphysical Aspects of the Present Moment in a Past Romance

by Ron Sparks


It was a place you couldn't see

In a time I had invented

With a feeling you wouldn't know

When I imagined you and me

ronsparks@webtv.net

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Change


Everyday was the same day.

Everyday was another day.

It was to and fro, here and there,

Never changing, and never any cares.

Routines were more innate than learned

Never to be broken nor disturb.

I pray for change all through the night until the light of day.

Then one day change came and I was afraid.

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The Falls


There, it stands.
I feel the flow of the wind,
running through my body.
It's as though I am part of the falls.
It's as though they are pulling me closer.


Then, for one brief moment,
I get the strength to pull back.
The strength to escape the falls' rage,
The chance to be free.


But the I realize...
It's not the falls, it's me.
I can never be somewhere I don't want to be...
Then, I fall. And everything is all over.

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My Note


I have had the feel
of the very worst of anguishes,
of sadness dreadfully unbearable,
and sufferings transcendent,
the wound might be for ever


If then, by some merit of virtue in my soul
I do in the Lord's will deserve paradise hereafter
will anything wipe fresh the injury
can anything purge so deadly a stain?


By

Taimur Awan

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The Joys Of Life


Oh! What a joy
To see the Birth of a child
To see his hands and feet
To the meek and the mild


Oh! What a Joy
To see the Sun rise
To see that beautiful wonder
With our own eyes.


I thank you Lord
Even with the strife
Thank you, Thank you,
For the joys of life.

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Sky


Never ending, spinning around in circles all day long.

Round and round you spin until the end,

then come back again.

Looking at you I become lost.

Seeing the black emptiness within.

Like looking at a magical kingdom.

Blazing balls of light,

Sparkiling into the darkness.

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Morning Light


A dream is a peaceful thing.

Sending messages from some unknown place.

But what is more peaceful is complete nothingness.

Sometimes disturbing can be the first light you see in the morning.

Or maybe,

it's just as peaceful.

It's your place, your time, to be alone.

Or maybe,

it just depends on how you feel.

If you're happy, it's peaceful.

Sad, it's disturbing.

Find your place,

for the morning light is what you want it to be.


Written by: Samantha Cuypers

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-Glare-


I've picked up your framed picture,

And seen my reflection in the glass.

I stared at you and myself

At the same time.

I saw your face in my eye.

I've never seen us so "one",

Yet I've never felt so far apart.

But it's only a picture.

My loneliness weakens me,

And I have to set it back down.

I am again...without you.

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A NEW FRIEND


Today the pain has

begun

As sure as the day,

assuring as the sun

Unlike you pain is here

to stay

At least I can rely on it

to be here day after day

Everything I had I gave

to you

And now you left me

for somebody new

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Every morning


I get up


Everyday


I exist


Every night


I go to sleep


Every morning


I get up


Everyday


I exist


Every night


I go to sleep


morning


noon


night


I exist


Any questions?

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Updated February 21, 1998


I practiced traveling

through the woods at night

not a footprint, not a sound

to a quiet place inside

the sigh of a river

blood rushing my veins

the song of a tree

dancing in my lungs

peaceful and safe

and alone.

Until you called

with a whisper

teasing my soul

tempting my heart

fisher of dreams

make me tremble.

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(untitled)


Sometimes I wish,
That I had wings.
Don't tell me that I do,
Sometimes I need someone
To be as down as me.


Hide me,
Inside your picture book life.
Hold me tight,
In your arms of wealth.


I need you,
I love you.
You make me feel right,
Like I'm not the Anti-Christ.
You validate my pain,
Sell it back to me.


I love you,
I need you,
I want you.
I'll die without you.
I'd kill myself.

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If to be born

Is to die.

And to die

Is to suffer.

And living

Is also to suffer.

What is the

difference?

And how do you

decide to

live or

die?

Who cares?

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TORN


Torn between two people,

not able to see the happiness

that exists somewhere else.

All it seems to be is a never ending fight.

All that matters is getting back at one another.

I am torn.

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Wind Dancer


Her long gown,
Flowing,
As though nothing else exists.


Her long brown hair,
Dancing in the wind,
As though it's a bird.


Her feet,
moving swiftly across the ground,
as though they're floating in the clouds.


And the wind dancer,
She sings her sweet song,
Waiting, for the next swift breeze to come...

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He Had That Look In His Eyes


The moment he looked at me that way,
I knew we were meant to be...


When she told me him and I would be cute,
I knew we were meant to be...


While we were making our stupid jokes,
I knew we were meant to be...


All that time,
He had that look in his eyes...
The one that says I love you...
The one that burns love into your heart...


Then, there's no turning back...
He'll always have that look in his eye.

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I take my place in a vastness

Left behind

By the slayers of time & space

In a first world the electronically liberated

Have slandered into 'necessity.'

Here cold water is hand-stroked

From deep wells,

Here squirrels sing across a canopy

Of high branches.

Lost, discarded, left behind

By the joys of abbreviation

I live the longhand of bucket & firewood,

Of broom straw & walking.



Craig Steiger


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Here I Stand...


Here I stand alone...

Over a cliff

Over a mountain top

Under a storm

Under the rain

Against the wind

Against my face--

I am alone.


Here I stand crying...

For your love

For your touch

Above your body

Above the lust

In your heart

In your soul

I am crying.


By Ben Sanchez (Unfinished version.)

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SECRET NIGHT


Once while you were

Sleeping deep

I crept across the

Floor.

I dared not interrupt

Your sleep

And tip-toed toward the

Door.

I stepped across the

Shadows,

And out into the night.

I played amidst the

Shining snows

Beneath a beam of light.

In rushed a happy memory

Of days when I was young.

An essence of sweet purity

In air of winter hung

A secret smile on my lips

I melted with old

Innocence.

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Send me a canary through metric spaces surrendering as silver.
Send me a butterfly, gauze-like paper blue, beside sun slanting
and I shall send you a bleeding soul renewed.


I shall give you 15 disciplines of laughter while astride a tall, white horse
for you have cast the cage away
and let
your
wild love fly to me

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Updated February 17th



My hunger is quenched by my consumption;

You give me this so that I may enjoy;

Do you not expect that I should feed my emptiness?

Yet through your labor my heart must so remain;

like hunger I would to create;

but on me you bestow the urge and the law.

If this is to enjoy then by thy spirit condone,

but if not then take from me the hunger

and by take the entrapping hypocrisy

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Day of wrath,

Doom impeding;

David's word with Sybil's blending.

What shall I, frail man, be pleading?

Who for me,

Be interceding;

When the just are mercy needing.

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"Promises"

As i sit here waiting for a promise to be kept, i ask, "Is he thinking of me?"

No one answers.

I reply to myself, "More than likely.....no."

As i lay here expecting another promise to be broken, i ask, "Why does he hurt me like this?"

No one answers.

I reply to myself, "I don't know....but he promised he wouldn't anymore."

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She still doesn't believe me


Over Burger King I reminded her

that Valentines needed to be signed

once home and bathed.

That quizzical-roll-her-eyes-what's-

wrong-with-you-mom face lookin'

back at me.

Why does everyone call it ValenTINES?

TINES?

Because that's what it's called,

after Saint Valentine.

No it's not. It's ValenTIMES.

I don't know why everyone says TINES. . .


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Gulls peel away;

newspapers

in a sudden wind

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woman are from venus,

men are from mars,

travis is from pluto,

i wonder how he got so far.

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WRITER


Elongated dreams,

Stretched to size.

Strong metal beams,

Mesmerized.

Eyes of wisdom,

Glinting gold.

A mind of a baby,

Rather old.

Fingers like vines,

Rapping around silk.

Writing his rhymes,

Drinking his milk.

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Morning blossom sounds and

evening wind bouquets

teaching through secret songs

my bruise to slice away


D. Evans

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A Simple Wish


Is a wish simple if you make it simple?
Or is it like the snake?
Does it nag at you as you wonder if it's going to come true?
Is it peaceful at first?
Does that peace get destroyed as you come too near?


Or, is it more like a love-me-not?
You know it will or it won't come true.
When you get to the end,
It sometimes does,
and it sometimes doesn't.


Is a wish simple if you make it simple?
It all depends on how you define,


A simple wish.

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Want to die that or cry

see the wind feel the sky

grab the air breathe the sea

not for you but yes for me

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My arms so weak as weak as a child

My is so lost my brain beguiled

my feet they go but the rest of me stays

for i will follow you for the rest of my days

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but yet our soles will stay together
yet both our hearts will beat forever

for it is not distance that keeps us apart
for it is time and time only

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There is a path to follow, which way do I go?

I do not know.

Elders cry for an ear and shout for respect.

Who is in control?

Friends smile and say all right, meaning the contrary.

What kind of people are these?

Support is what is needed on this gloomy jaunt.

Down on your knees!

I will roam the way in which I choose, and heed to some advice.

For my heart flows with an enlightening blood,

I will write!

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Looking out of a hotel window

Feeling sure of what is to be

Waiting for the inevitable

The inevitable is sure to come to me


Yes those who wait for misfortune

Are the ones that it attacks

But those who fight to attract the light

Have fortune guarding their backs

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insanity is psychosis, an aberration in the mind

is my harsh world really that hard to find

taking advantage of time is abominable and severe

over and over i memorize my fear

my own eyes cannot force induction

life will end in helpless abduction


can we really know the worked, and all it contains

you ask for me and i come only when it rains

help me understand this harsh reality

me and you can obtain immortality...


by charleen johnston

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Updated February 13th.


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Cyberlove


It was the love of computers

The thing that brought them together

There names are engraven in bits of data

True love blooms

Still they have not viewed each other

With their hearts only to guide them

Their love brought them together

But only cyberspace can keep them together


The End

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Love isn't perfect


I sketch a heart of painful love,

I darkens my soul,

and lifts my spirit,

I colour it in,

outside of the lines,

A match strikes,

And romance burns through me.

I touch up the lines,

And erase the mistakes,

But I can't get it perfect,

For no love is.


--Shawna Biamonte

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LET'S CALL HIM BOB...


This guy lets call him Bob so he does not know

no idea friend or foe....

That guy Bob I think he's cute but to tell him to his

face??

That would make me puke...

I know that was crude and even rude but to talk about it makes me flutter on my toes!!

So with my mind made up I'll give him up and I think that will be enough!!



BOOMBALACHI@WEBTV.COM!!!

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Death knows the way, let him take your soul to a better place

The place were we are happy

The place were all is good

The place were everything is peaceful

The place that we all want to go to

Let death guide you to this utopia

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OUTSIDER


Your perfect smile upon your face
It hides the world, it hides disgrace
You know I see it, I see right through
Your soul at last has come for you


And when you are alone and down
I feel your pain, I wear your crown
You know by now that you can't hide
Your soul's washed up in the morning tide


The boat of freedom's coming your way
Jump aboard, leave today
The music will carry you down to the sea
Where you'll love and be loved and feel happy and free

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IN THE BORN OF SUNLIGHT

THE WATER WILL FADE TO FREEDOM

I CUT AWAY, I FALL AWAY

SHED BY LIVING GODS OF TEARS

DEATH COMES CLOSE TO FACEING ME

DARKNESS SMELLS THE FEAR I CRY.

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A Place Unfilled


A place unfilled lies in my heart
And grows empty when we're apart
Each lonely day brings a lonely night
As I await your call to make things right


A place unfilled lies within me
As I pray to God for you, on my knee
His answers always stay the same
Sound rings hollow as I cry your name


A place unfilled can be found
For love's heavy burden to I am bound
Deep inside is where it will be
Deep inside the heart of me
A place unfilled is what you will see

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This Stupid Poem
(This is a poem I wrote in LA class)

By: Alex Horton




This is one stupid poem I do not want to write.

Now that I'm writing I don't feel quite so right.

Now that I'm almost done I begin to cheer,

but "Sorry you get an F" is all that i hear.

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First spring swallows



First spring swallows
dusk chasers of insect shadows
and their own cries



So many dandelions
this rainy early spring
so many little suns



February breeze
swaying tall pine tops
and white boat sails



A golden eagle
disappearing slowly
in the golden sunset

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Your beauty is deathly
Your innocence scares me
Lifeless yet fearless
No feeling of happiness


Love left you dying
The moonlight left for crying
Ghostly and peaceful
What you said I will never know


Gray eyes that haunt me
Strangers that want me
Grieving yet over you
The foolish things that we all do


And now, now
The earth reclaims my heart
You found your way
Out of the gray
and left me there to fall apart

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My dad let me drive behind the wheels,

I press on the motor and the motor squeals,

I grab tightly to the steering wheel,

While driving, I hit a piece of steel,

The rubber black tires started to peel,

My dad kick me out with his heel,

I apologize and bend down to kneel,

but my dad had turned into a big fat seal,

Walking across the big black field.....


by pekkle18@aol.com.

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ISOSCELES




The tiny triangle



formed
where her
dress
crosses her



clenched
legs.

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"A Canton of Condemned Love"


A rare and unique beauty

Amber. My muse

Eyes flashing brilliantly

Pale. Sensual. Vibrant

Her hair shines, shines like gold

Bask in her glow

Her smile captures you

Pulls you in

When she speaks, softly

It echoes in your breast

Quickens you

O, to brush my hand across her cheek

Comfort her

Praise her

Feel the softness of her hair

Out of reach. Forbidden.

Not to be

Unless I were he


-- R.E.Braun

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A Poem


The Earth holds many secrets,

some, too wonderful to imagine.

Small things,

that only a child's mind can see the beauty in.

Large things,

some, too large to understand.

None of these things are unseen,

except to those who don't believe in them.

You could search for eternity,

but if you don't believe,

they won't be there,

but be fading,

into eternity,

searching,

for someone to believe,

to love,

to trust,

and to hope for tomorrow's sunshine.

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Cocaine


Cocaine that cuts,

and the blades that cut cocaine,

cuts hearts

till only blood, the blood as the blades,

that kills not only me,

but as induced kills us all

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Morning Tragedy

by Ron Sparks

the black is just there

waiting

like a void of darkness

trapped in a curvature of mass

within the realms of time and space

the white intrudes

creating a vortex

a whirlpool of conflict

leaving me in agony

realizing once again

I've put too much cream in my coffee

ronsparks@webtv.net

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HAND OF GOD

An eerie sound
Of the angel's cries
As God drops
His unmerciful
Hand of death.


They feel his wrath
As they angered him,
Challenged him.
They will be meant to suffer,
As God drops his unmerciful hand of death.


Into the hellfire they are sent,
To burn for eternity
Oh, how they cry,
How they burn.
An eternal nightmare
Of eternal torture.
This is the unmerciful hand of God.

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Could I possibly be dreaming?
If it is so please let me sleep
For this dream that I am having
Is delightful beyond belief.


If it is my reality
Then I choose to let it set in
For this reality that I have discovered
Is one which I wish to begin.


When I touch your face will it crumble
Like an old weathered stone?
For when I do touch your face I feel only softness
And it reminds me of the truth I have always known.

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I watch my tears

as I look in the mirror

my ending nears

and we're through

you said you loved me

and we'd always be together

now and forever

what happened to forever

so I did cheat once or twice

I paid my price

I've lost my mask

and forgiveness is all I ask

and if you truly did love me

I know you'd forgive me


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WRONG WAY


Walking walking walking

Looking looking loo

down the end of my nose

at some bum, some drunk

shuffling sidesteps

boom in my ears

Is he high, or am I?

By Jeff

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Lonely


Human

companionship.

I thirst for it.

A foolish man

In a foolish world.

Greed and deception

have become my twin brethren

Lies and deceit

Blind me with anger

Anger, like lava.

vomit sprays from my teeth.

My, friends, drink freely

and laugh, and carouse

and sing wonderful songs

Crashing their mugs

And drinking of more

of what I provide

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there are ways to find your love


there are ways to find your love

like in your heartbeat one hears

like in your shining eyes I see

and your sweet mouth

full of love and words for me

there are ways to find all things

and so it is with love that sings

its shines on

like a little song

full of tender and care

emotions we both can share

and so there are ways to find love

but you can also find all tears


By Peter

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I live in sadness

I drown in pain

I wallow in guilt

And still I refrain,

I hold in my glum

I sustain my ache

I maintain my remorse

But how much more can I take

No one can save me

So here's where I'll sit and dwell

Suffering in complete misery

In my own private hell

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i would have died to touch you...

to be with you

to be near you

to feel your hands

slide up my back

to feel you next to me

to share the same breath

to feel our lips collide

ooooh i would have died

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When I'm gone like yesterday

And when I'm high like heaven

When I'm dead like your soul

You'll notice i'm not there

You'll notice

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an endless deep blue sky sits empty

watching the world we're creating

unnoticed by the people

our lives slowly start disintegrating

working away at our future

piece by piece by piece

we tear apart our unity

and on a pool of blood we feast

we strip away our glory

we rip apart our pride

we massacre our achievements

and ignore the voice inside

no way to save us

so we'll just sit and dwell

only to find out to late

that we've created hell

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There is none like you
No one else can touch my heart like you do
I could search for all eternity life
And now there is none like you


A touch come from your hands
A felling come from my heart
A smile shown on your face
Some lovely voices came from your mouth


There is none like.....

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"THE MOTHER"


I COME TO THE MOTHER MENDING

LOOKING OVER HER CHILDREN

BUT I DARE NOT LOOK WITH HER LOVE

BECAUSE I AM JADED WITH BLACKNESS

SHE SAYS THE HORIZON IS HERE

AND SHE POINTS ME TOWARDS THE NIGHT


-YOWT

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I'll give up by S. Wu


I can feel myself giving up,
I can feel my tears drying up.
Don't even know who I am,
Guess I'll give up.


My soul is slipping away,
Look back as an angel,
On yesterday.


When I was human,
I felt your plight.
Now that I'm gone,
You're alone in your fight.
I'll pray for you up here,
And send some angel's light.


I can feel myself giving up,
Long ago my tears dried up.
Can't be human anymore,
Guess I'll give up,
And be an angel.

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Tree of love...

that grows in my backyard-

that blooms rosemary buds-

that carries the birds-

that sing sweet songs-

on a warm summer's day

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To touch

and feel

then withdraw

forward along each

in succession

following in thought

the path that leads

astray.


These are the footsteps

that I hear

here is the darkness

lit by

lightening synopses.

This is the ignorance

I fear

and long to hold

as fading being.

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Jade eyes rest on tapered mounts

of green angelic hue

tangerine and lemon twisted

into shapes of you

Soft feet pad across the bricks

sun dried sandy morning

falling fronds and salmon sunsets

but in it all- a warning

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infinity breaks

like a cresting wave

the radar shakes

and smells for other signs of life

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Settle down all, The Sun is shining today.

The diffusion of light through the plain glass

is as brilliant as any diamond

Drink it in.

Noel Mc Shane

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Imagine = image in

Who is creating the image?

Who's the one behind the one

running the screen.

The creator.

Image out = Life


Noel Mc Shane

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Gifting


A gift o' tha gab
T'is a powerful thing
Can be used for tha best
and tha worst of things
T'would make ya believe
that tha crow cou'd sing


But tha gift, aye tha gift
thats tha best ta be

S'not tha gift o' tha gab
but the gift ta see.


Tis a gift ye nae should take sa light
Tae see tha world
wae a poet sight.


Sae if mae words enlighten ye
Mae job is done
An it pleases me



Noel Mc Shane

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tis the season to be cheery
everything is new and nothing is weary


grass is green
pond is clean


flowers are blooming
squirrels are grooming


the birds have flown
the harsh breath of the wind has blown


picnics are multiplying fast,
that is because winter has passed!

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Love takes everything,

all your courage, strength and heart.

My love gives everything.

Hoping we will never part.

I have seen you often,

making promises you don't keep.

This time, baby, the hill ain't so steep.

So stop and think, honey, it's time you were mine,

You got to keep your promises,

Baby, just this time.

KT V.

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Things will calm

And the nights won't be long

Hang on to your love

for it makes you strong

Next time you feel weak

And the strength you seek

will be found in the eyes of me

Clear conscience is all you'll see

Don't give up and don't ever choose

It isn't a choice, it's a gift some of us loose

Hang on, no matter the fight

In the end it all works out right

Defend what is true

Show and give all the best inside of you!


Krystal Duclos, girsch@webtv.net

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Another passing day

Which holds me near

It pulls me closer

To my one fear

I'm not sure of what to do

For i can't change time

Neither can i say

I know you are mine

But if i had but one wish

To surely come true

I'd ask the stars above

To please, keep me near you!



girsch@webtv.net (sandy duclos)

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roses are red

violets are blue

i think i love you

mike

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(febuary 6, 1998)


If i could of given you everything,

believe me i would

but we're not about past mistakes and where i once stood

i can't go back in time

though it is something i wish i could do

i have to live with it as well as you do too

you are my present time

as well as i am yours

i have moved on

now it is time for you to close those doors!!!!

i love you david, krystal

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THE HEARTACHE AND TEARS

FROM THE DAYS OF OUR PAST

ARISING FROM OUR FEARS

FROM THE MEMORIES THAT LAST

THE ENDLESS NIGHTS ALONE

FROM TWO PEOPLE TOO PROUD

WILL FIND US ON OUR OWN

FROM THE CONFUSION TOO LOUD

THE INSECURITIES WE FACE

FROM WITHIN OUR HEARTS

THE LACK OF TRUST IN OUR PLACE

FROM NOT KNOWING OUR PARTS

I LOVE YOU DAVID FOREVER, KRYSTAL (2/6/98)

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I MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU THINK I SHOULD

AND I PROBABLY DON'T DO THE THINGS I COULD

IN FACT, I MAY LET YOU DOWN IN MANY WAYS

DISAPPOINT YOU IN THE THINGS I MIGHT SAY

WITHOUT FAULTS I AM NOT ME, I AM NOT RIGHT

YOU MAY BE DREAMING OF BETTER IN YOUR NIGHTS

BUT FOR WHAT I AM NOT, AND FOR WHAT I AM

LOVE ME FOR ME, AND YOU'LL COME OUT A MAN

IT'S WHEN YOU STOP TRYING SO VERY HARD TO CHANGE

THAT YOU'LL ACCEPT ME WITHOUT PRE-ARRANGED!!!

KRYSTAL AND DAVID, TOGETHER FOREVER!!!

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STRANGER

Hey stranger,

Why did I ever fall in love with you?

After all,

I hardly know anything about you.

Oh you don't know

How hard I try to hide my feelings from you.

But these damn eyes,

revealed my love to you.

Oh the things

I wanted to say to you.

But it just

Stayed in my heart and never came out.

Hey stranger,

Tell me, Tell me, why did I ever fall in love with you

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Now to Then



To live is to die

as to die is to experience


To love is to hate

as to hate is to be unaware


To cherish is to pity

to pity me no longer


>From child to adult

the adult with a childish mind

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Is it Love?


Is it love when you think

about a boy everyday?

Is it love when you see a boy

and don't know what to say?

Is it love when you get scared

to call him on the phone?

Is it love when you cry about

him when your alone?

Is it love?

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Watching my dreams

I will just sit here and watch my dreams fly by .

I cant grab them now for i am to young so i have to sit and wait .

My dreams are important but not as important as they will be

So i will wait and hold on to my dreams.

And i shall catch them when they need to be succeeded.

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Aliens


There once where some aliens that took me from my home,

they put my in a little dome,

and when I finally got back,

there was a triangle that was black,

and I was wraped in a package of foam.

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Don't Leave Me In This Cold


Don't leave in this cold,

This cold chill of life,

Don't go away,

For I love you and life without

You would just be a cold chill,

A cold chill forming into an arising mist,

The mist forming a barrier,

Blocking all hope for life,

The mist grows tighter, and tighter until

It starts to choke,

Choking all life from me,

Then on the ground, the cold ground I die.

Allie Proctor

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Tell Them


Since my life is ending,
Tell them all goodbye,
Mom, Dad and Lending,
Do not let them cry.


Tell them I'm not in pain,
That I wish I were alive,
But I did not die in vain,
'Cause I learned not to drink and drive.

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incensed by jealous tongues

i fear, the morning that

we burn in fear. i wake

with windows tore

anew. the daylight

sparkles a godless

hue. the machines are

running. the times a

curse. we stare at wounds

left uncovered. arms of

infinite uprisings. hands

of hollow gold. rings of

saturn. eyes of yellow tears.




siscoe@aol

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Normal--

I wonder what that is.

Drowning People

Sometimes Die

when fighting off their rescuers

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Aye My Lad

Aye my lad

would that old Irish

SOB say to me

while he downed his beer

and crunched the salt

from the peanut bowl

Aye my lad

As the Irish Republican Army

bombs the innocence

out of Ireland

And children go hungry

and wander the streets

And women prostitute

for bread money

Aye my lad

He would sit silent

The bullets would fly

And he would sit silent

Resting his fat head

On his fat fist

And crunching the salt

from the peanut bowl

By Jeff

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DEPOSIT - NO RETURN


I DEPOSIT MY TIME,
IN RETURN NOT ONE THIN DIME ,


I DEPOSIT MY SOUL ,
IN RETURN NOTHING BUT A WHOLE ,


I DEPOSIT MY HEART ,
IN RETURN IT GETS TORN APART ,


b.tyson

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Ireland

My little mother

is the lady Ireland

Celtic rhythm and song

erase all past wrong

Oh mother Ireland!

what a burden you bear!

Without purpose is war

fear breeds in us all

ULA, PLA, not one

differs from the other

When my friends are all dying

When they took mine own mother

O mother Ireland!

The tears I shed for you!

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Poetry

What makes a poet?

What makes a dreamer?

What divides the tender

from the weak?

What divides the violent

from the strong?

Why are there so many

lonely people in the world?

Why should there be

lonely people in the world?

Where do we go when we die?

What do we do when we get there?

We are children

asking children's questions

living strangely

segregated lives

Love and all that other stuff

Gives me itching oozing hives

By Jeff brzez@ao

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To Grandpa

by: Kelly Campbell


Swirling lights of heaven

Are pulling you near

Away from memories and loved ones

Away from me I fear

But still I feel you close

Cause' you are still in my heart

And as long as you stay there

Our souls will never part

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Moon on the goddess lake

shadow of the shining light

flooding like a symphony

chanting of a summer storm

the manipulating whispers of the wind

takes you to a dreamy place

crushing the sunny trip

pictures and visions are beneath the sky

delirious cries of the water

sweet moans of the sea

frantic as you live on one gorgeous day

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MIX AND MATCH


So that others may know
The fun that flows,


Cakes and pies
Attract a child's eyes


While mom and dad
See a coat or tie


To mix and match
To buy for cash.

mcc@webtv.net

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Some New haiku


for free
the squirrel's
highwire act



Softly
she sings
to her sick child



year's end:
burning the old
calendar



rolled newspapers
gather at the dead man's
door

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My rose of fury and fire,

Does run deep in my attire,

It has an infatuation with romance,

but this infatuation is not to dance,

searching for one true love,

that is sweeter than a turtle dove.

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An Interstate at Night

Easy-listening overtones through static Neil Diamond.
Singing softly, Illinois disappears behind us.
3 a.m. my eyes are wide and ringed with red exhaustion.
Familiar hill and signs rise up, looming full of memories:
K & I ditching the last party barefoot in the Mustang speeding through town --
Amazing it was this same road,


I struggle to remember the curves.

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Another day

Another sorrow

Another dream

For a new tomorrow

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Limousine eyelashes,

Dropped a tear in my wine glass,

Salted wine on my lips.

Garcia69@webtv.net

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punk

loud fast

just have fun

no respect for authority

offensive

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Memories -


Nights like these when I fumble and my notes turn sour and everything turns to ashes in my arms are when I get lost in nights of long ago when I was so

high I thought your skull was the sun and when we kissed half way over the

bridge. Then I relize no ones every gonna sop the car to dance slow with me again.

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HEAT


Slowly the drops of sweat

Painfully slide down my forehead

As the sun eats each one

Leaving nothing but a burning sensation

On my head

And the stench of what was once there

As I rip it off with the back of

My limp hand

Ready to encounter the develish liquid once more.


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My world is gone, My light has died

Can you see the tears I've cried?

I spent countless nights just thinking of you,

I never knew what to do!

Until I seen a light,

for once it wasn't dim, it was bright.

I found out that the one I thought of

was not the one I love.

The one I love is not you at all.

His heart wasn't small,

it was big enough, it fit me.

You were my fate, but he is my destiny.

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CAN'T YOU SEE THROUGH MY HEART


CAN YOU SEE THROUGH MY HEART

IT'S RAINING

ACID RAIN

BECAUSE IT HURTS SO DEEPLY

I'M CRYING YET THE TEARS AREN'T SURFACING

I'M ACHING PLEASE HELP ME

I NOW GIVE TO NO ONE MY HEART

I'M AFRAID

I'M SCARED OF BEING ALONE

YET I AM ALONE

THE THUNDEROUS CLOUDS ARE ROARING

THE PAIN IS EXPLODING IN MY HEART

I'M RELEASING IT CAN'T YOU SEE

CAN'T YOU SEE THROUGH MY HEART

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Alone with a Silhouette of Midnight

Grandfather chime twelve forty five
blending with rebounding
jazz caressing his ears-
warming the heart


Emotion defining the greatest devotion
trying to not let Grandfather go flying
by; sighing to the defeat
lying to themselves for the non-existent glory


Three minutes refuse to set free
though, twelve minutes was long ago
and to approach midnight
won't be any easier


...and here it is

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For C.S


The smooth pink

of summer burn

and delicious ache

of chlorinated crush

the plume of youth

curving like a tongue

the bone of your brown fingers

on my twelve year breast bone

the curve of calf

muscle twisting

like calla lily

a simple canoe unbalanced

by currents, now combing

the water, draining

the river and over

the dam you are

unfound and flashing

silver.


You are missed my friend, sadly missed and loved. G0D BLESS XOXOXOXO-B.

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Foolocracy speaks
for itself, can
you hear it?


The greasy charlatans
so hard at work,
creating their own


ideal world , and worth.
At our expense and
their enjoyment.


Vote for the clowns
with the painted
grins. They all


really believe in
who they are
Shouldn't we?

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so far away now.


beyond the darkness for which i can see
lies her emptiness, lies the plea


mysterious, like a red rose in winter
lies her mind, empty, calm and glimmer


turns her head to see me last
and not again


I watch her walk away
I know I shouldn't, and ask her to stay


But the world needs mysteries
something to seem unknown..


the answer never answered
the truth lie alone.

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"SPARKS"

As I gently

Brush my fingers

Across her rosy

Smooth cheeks, down

To her soft rounded

Chin. As I just ever

So slightly tilt your

Head, our lips embrace,

Fireworks explode,

Passion ignites,

Embers jump to

Flames. When

Its over and we

Part, our lips are

Still glowing with

Miniature sparks.

M.J.F.

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You hate the things that they like

You smile but wanna frown

your with a crowd but wanna be alone

When they think it's the begining you know it's the end

so hang on.

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SWING TOWN...



this pin-striped passion

...

of psychotic dreams

...

flips and turns

...

two-toned wingtips

...

throws and twists

...

swing bands gleaming

...

neurotic energy

...

excitement elongates

...

forever into night

...

couples abandon

...

as time creeps by

...

this is how i spend

...

time i don't have

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Own Angels


Everyone needs someone to love,

And each will find their own,

But some will steal what is not theirs,

And that's why I'm alone...

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How do i love you???


Roses, tulips, daffodils

The moon, The stars, The blue sky

Mountains, hills, plains

How do i love you???

water, fire, earth, air

grass, soil, flowers

rain, snow, sunshine

  How do i love you???

North, South, East, West

Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter

Emotions, Thoughts, Dreams, Feelings

How do i love you???

Guess!!!

Guess!!!

Guess!!!

All these things reminds me of YOU!!!!


By Kiwi

tayzacikehanson@webtv.net

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Letting go,

Is harder than holding on,

But I fear this relationship,

Has gone on way too long.

Your mind wants you to go,

And find the place you think you should be,

Nothing will ever change,

I hope one day, that you will see.

Everyday with every heartbeat,

I will remember our love,

And hope one day it will be written,

In the stars high above.

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Someone Special


There's someone special that I love
he's only meant for me.


The reason he's so special is
because he's mine to keep.


When I'm down and feeling low,
he helps me through it all.


I'll live him in the darkest days,
even when death calls.


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My Internet


My eyes drown in a pool of words she has said

I long to meet my mysterious love

I search for you like a curious dove

You fascinate me so, I think we are the same

But your answers are cryptic answers

And you won't say my name

"Smooth" she calls

Like she really thinks I am

For if I were, I would not fall

For a girl I will never meet again

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The Devil

Is sitting

Beside you

Look around


-Mike Paulus

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Secret Lover

Come in lay-your head upon my chest

I'm the one thing that will give you rest

when you need some one to hold, I'll be there soft and bold

I won't leave, I promise-I can't go

Even if you get another, I'll always be your first lover

Remember, I was the first to taste your sweat-when you make love to nett

Remember me? I Know You Do-- I'm your first and last lover!!!!!!

sincerely your pillow

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Death 10-30-96


Death is when its all over,

Death is when it begins.

Life as we know it is over,

But a new more complete one begins.

MBianca 98'

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When I think of her

My heart goes asunder

My legs get all wobbly

And my mind fails to wonder

She is full of beauty

With some to spare

When ever I see her

My heart starts like a flair

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