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Monday Night Sabotagei've seen the vowels and
consonants battle upon your tongue,
a tongue-tied smile i kissed for
breakfast every 10'o clock weekday.

i've seen you regurgitate my love
onto Monday night prostitutes,
those splintered, bloody lips
smearing disease all over my
unconscious body,
and your investigative eyes,
cooking my innocence until
you tasted adultery, but
i wanted to see the
continents come together again,
so that you have no where
to run.

I want you breathless by the time i find you.

honor society blueswe are old souls, ancient at seventeen.
we wake, stiff-backed, to the same routine.

we're supposed to be dewy-eyed.
we're supposed to ask questions, we're supposed to cry.
we're supposed to break bones while trying to fly.

we scrape by.

we are honor-roll lovers
we come home to nagging papers,
make study dates,
don't procrastinate

the light has been robbed from us
we no longer see the point
in wasting time trying to please ourselves

there is work to be done,
there are places to go, people to see
[but not now]
we cannot allow time to distract us

i will not invest in you
because i cannot a

She Has No FutureI want to tie clocks to ceilings and shatter
them to pieces like a
pinata,
because time is my most
feared enemy.

Her Stolen Voicebox{my voice is shaking from your impulsive stares
and you got my fingers bent from the angry storm in your
gestures}

because i won't say i love you.

(i wish you could see that i do)

by that heart-shaped carving on my
collar bone with your initials inside.

[you got "actions speak louder than words"
engraved across your fleshy spine]

but you still let your jealousy yank the words off
my tongue.

I can write it a million times, but i'll be a apocalyptic
earthquake if speak in front of you.

conversei brought the rain with me

so that i could protect
you from an umbrella

Peacock Feathers!Dreamt last night I was resplendent
Peacock feathers in my hair
Orient gave rise to silken robes
Fragrant perfume filled air
Feet shod in softest of red leather
Walked cool coloured mosaic tile
As I gazed at emerald love tokens
Love birds sang for a while
In dream world nothing is impossible
You and I can regain youth
Youth and beauty fleeting attributes
Observation is the truth
Peacock plumage gives rise to vanity
Stout walking shoes are all I need
Expensive jewels suggest frivolity
Mosaic fragments weave this dream
Love birds spread fragile wings in flight
Perfumed air stirs and is gone
Awake it is daybreak receding night

enamorHer body like that of
a fawn,
trembling
unconfident
hesitant. He lays her
fecund bones on
the bed, plants them with woolen
fabric under the
covers
drapes her with skin,
his
and falls into her,
enamored
sonic sound

she is

embryonic,
amazonian,

but he
folds her like cloth
until she is but
a thin line
blanketing the astral
phenomena that is
his heart.

Never-wasI have peeled my skin

away, because you always

told me that I was

beautiful on the inside.

Garden of Lies...'don't close your eyes, she said.
'That's what makes it hurt..'

yet, you thought of her again today.

spent five long glorious minutes

wondering

how she was
and what she was doing..

drudged up crude words
like flammable,
oily earth.

she was the perfect particle.

vibrant colors
burning up
your insides

- a brilliant storm
beneath her clothes,

and you
wanted to be sucked up in it -
a part of the action.

Her love is hurting you.
it sounds...too territorial

and why bring her back now?

it'll smell.

bloody rags from a graveyard,
or the sour sheets
of a summer sweat.

And if asked -
I only stayed the night
hoping
to ma

xylophonicthe sound of your tipping toes - xylophonic
like little drums, they hunt for the rhythmic liberties of your

cardiac muscle
pounding, so delicate
without the fractional syncopes you used to have

hello, hello
it goes
hel-
lo

but there's no mutuality, not a word and you
trim the end of its vocal cord happiest heartlessness, you call it
as if it would ever grow back

and your
dearest chimeras tell you, it will

Blank VerseI dare not meet those eyes -

Standing here, petrified
knee-deep in throbbing doubt
and gagged.

- black and flashing as battles at sea –

Bound up with many knotted cords
woven from my own indecision
squeezing like the fingers of winter.

- expectant and piercing my forehead in search of thoughts –

Broken hands and tendrils
in my chest, won't let me breathe
through the tidal flood of silence.

- roving through my hair and across chapped lips –

A bloodless heart, white as
angels, coward, craven worn, that once beat only
for those eyes.

- waiting for a word –

Creaking teeth ground as tight
as millstones over dr

selfgazingmirrors, mirrors you loved everyone so platonically
but [mostly] yourself, the

owl has feathers and wisdom,
so you wish to fly
and learn dictionaries by heartyou'll have daily staring contests all you want is the sound of eyes watching over you
must feel must
feelanything no one tells you how to dance
so you just stand there

To RememberYour breath was a winter memory
Enflamed in summer's grasp
Fragile feathers imagined themselves lions in auras around your person
And the children at play would harmonise through your open window
With a laughter made lonely by an ironic dissonance
With the chattering teeth of the skeletons behind your cold closet doors

Ice-cold starlight chased the clouds from your tired eyes
Only in shadows does Venus remember our outlines against the night sky
As we danced a slow waltz 'round Saturn's circling rings
And sang secrets to Io's oceans, the kind that lonely morning sparrows sing
Your voice would carry me home

Where the remains of empi

Premature AnxietyIt is this fortune telling curse that
breaks my dreams in half and has my nightmares grow
like mold across my gullible membranes.

It's my future that scares me, because-
i don't see one with him.

PsychosisYou're more myself than I
Fingers searing my flesh
Restraints cling to my skin
As endless mirages entice

Fingers searing my flesh
Like the subtle whisk of a scalpel
As endless mirages entice
Begging for the slipknot

Like the subtle whisk of a scalpel
Bouncing, twisting in menacing sport
Begging for the slipknot
He adorns his crimson necklace

Bouncing, twisting in menacing sport
Horrors chirp in melding solace
He adorns his crimson necklace
Obscenely hail this curtain call

Horrors chirp in melding solace
Now black pavement guides us
Obscenely hail this curtain call
Begging the engine cease

Now black pavement guides us
Lig

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had shredded the night before.

and if i put your segments back in designed formation.

"Can i keep you?"

Pubescent SideAffects Of ArdorLet's pretend we can't wake up again;
sincerly because,
I need to make believe I can lay beside you -
for an ageless time.

                      (And i'll admit) -
                          for once,
                       i am just as flustered

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of my ribs breaking.

I gaze at that devious smirk that adores my afflictions,
and i can't help but kiss that smile.

Then i have my flimsy ears catching your fingers
peeling at my hang nails.

That delicious chuckle,
those whispered, slaughterous riddles;
how could i resist that so called embrace.

The way those hands manipulated my mannerisms
into pathetic knots, has intimidated the stability
we created.

With those vocal cords, shrieking -
"I want to marry you."
translates into
"I rather wear your veins than a promise ring."

Yet - - I'll keep my arms raveled along that waist

The History Of Falling In Love"I'm in love with you." she says.

And i wonder if he'll ever cave in;
like i have when he first rested
his angelic rips upon my rusted
mouth.

Will my obsession be the reason
she's more of a temptress than I am?

And i pray to God!
(even though - i don't believe in him.)
that he won't think i'm a scarlet women
because i want to pretend he's my first
lover - i know; too soon right? -
but i can't help my vulnerable self.

You'll abandon me; if i bestow this
tainted body.

No - - I don't have this curiosity
riding the hairs along my coarse skin.

No. I no longer craves those aches -
for my insanity will slay the remainder
of my ra

Those Hyper-sonic CascadingI apologize for jumping in too soon;
but i could not fall at the pace you expected.

Forgive me - for i have this battered instrument
that my ribs couldn't protect and your constant
  admiration crocheted it back to its restored
    ability.

Yet I'm still as fragile as the pillaging moon;
because i too steal from what's brightest in
  my atmosphere.

And now - i plead, don't ever mislead me;
for the sake of my decrepit toes.

They won't recover from this journey
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Chemical Equations of Undesired Love

by *atlantic-lungs, Feb 7, 2012, 10:43:47 AM
Literature / Poetry / Narrative / Free Verse

i carry hopscotch eyes across
unscientific minds,
but for just this one time -
i'll sustain this imprisoned gaze
upon you.

Chemical Equations of Undesired Loveby *atlantic-lungs

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i want my wandering eyes to know what freedom is.

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~OniOfTheShade Jul 9, 2012 General Artist

so much power behind short poems.. love it.

*atlantic-lungs Jul 10, 2012 Student Writer

thank you!

~OniOfTheShade Jul 12, 2012 General Artist

You're welcome!

*ArthurCrow Jun 27, 2012 Professional Writer

Brilliant my friend... clever and gripping!

*atlantic-lungs Jun 29, 2012 Student Writer

Thank you!!

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You're really good..

I'd like to collaborate with you. Very soon.

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Thank you!

indeed, we must!
i am fascinated by your works
and curious how both of ours would
look together,

when?!

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