Heartbroken

© 2008 Faduma Yusuf

I’m broken in so many pieces,
got nothing left to prove.
Life has lost all of its sweetness,
I’m bitter from loving you.
With every step you take, I miss a heartbeat.
Everytime you’re near, you make my heart weak.

Can not stand this fake romance with all its lies and dalliance.
Thinkin that I wouldn’t notice, wouldn’t suspect
that your heart is no longer mine??
Life is built on cause and effect.
You take your love,I hurt inside,
you broke my heart but I’m more wise,
to the games you play and the words you say and
the sweet whispers that led me astray,
deep into the burnin pits of hell that is sprinkled with the ashes of my broken heart.
Far from the safety net of caution that kept me from falling apart.

Every promise you made were just empty words.
words that went from being in a sentence to becoming a verse.
I guess your hypnotic song is what stole my soul.
A snake charmer hell bent on mind control.

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February 27, 2008. General Poetry. 2 Comments.

Nothing Left But a Trace

© 2008 Marx Translator

The voice I used to hear is quiet,
And her face has gently drifted into memory.
That street no longer bears that note,
And all those fleeting moments have passed away.

It didn’t seem like to much to see her.
I’ve tried so hard to cancel her out,
Filling that space with ink
And soaking those words in flame.

Once my foot hit that step,
The last one next to her indifference,
The glowing night looked different,
Burning with fresh familiarity.

That scent inside still hasn’t changed,
Falling slowly all around me,
I start to sink into it’s mood,
Walking past where Winter hangs.

My eyes found her across the room.
Life exploded in my mind.
I’m back in that windy December,
Breathing all the moments I remember.

My foot fell on the floor before me,
Without command, she drifted to me.
Her eyes met mine, my breathing faltered,
And all those nights returned.

I realized I was alone with her,
Alone together in a crowded room,
And all of it was but a hope,
That soon was dashed in a single moon.

Those passions have long since fled,
Leaving me alone.
I still remember all the things you said,
Laying on that bed.

Then I returned to my place,
Standing there before her.
There was nothing left but a trace
Of ardent romance on her face.

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February 20, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

Nothing More to Say

© 2008 Marx Translator

Her voice echoed down the hall,
Bouncing off my everything.
Her breath drew in,
A hesitation.
A word.
Nothing more to say.
My pressing indifference resounds,
In a slightly subtle way,
Treading now on new grounds.

The last time that face met mine,
The sky caught fire,
Erupting with consciousness,
More intense than I’ve yet seen,
Now extinguished with common casualty,
With kind filler and doctored honesty.
That’s all there is for me.

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February 8, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

Flight From Fairbanks

© 2008 moe dey

Hunkered down in the trailer
40 below outside
Through a crack in the pillows I feel frigid air
And through a crack in my eyelids
I see the orange glow of the heater.

I must be asleep
Because these are not moose but wildebeest
Not elk but giraffe
Not lynx but lions following me.

I watch the baby gnus playing
Rounded tawny snouts and
Incipient stripes

I almost trip over two lions
Rolling in a mating dance
And then I think: not good

I hear snuffles and snorts behind me
Following
I crawl through the leafy bedclothes
Pierced with thorns
Where snores reverberate beside me

I sense them closing in
They were lean and anyhow
It’s never good to disturb lovers
I am in danger

I turn over
And through a crack between the pillows
I feel frigid air seeping in
Like claws that rake my back.

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February 8, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

WindTunnel

© 2008 maura

I was the violin making the music,
the wind blowing the melodie and musings
the cherry slowly growing,
lifting up the wings for the grooming
brushing and combing what my mother had tought.

Her hair had never been that long,
so how was she to know that with a stranger it might get caught?
that the sheets in the morning had to be washed,
and that the tangles from the night before
would have to be straightened before they were gone.

Even if you switch the perspective of the horizon,
there will always be a sky,
out of the universe, its out of her mind,
the posibility of ever roaming the world without having to take flight.

Who’s arms but her arms could she ever trust?
who’s love but her love could she ever give up?
minced up skin, lovely weathered green chins
stuck in the grass waiting to be one
waving her flag, shes waiving the tags and throwing away their math,
she calculating, formulating, one by one just fascinating the crowds
her scent is magnetic and filled with wagers
the blocks are crowded with walking stereos.

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February 6, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

Contemplation I

© 2008 Berkley

I’m almost certain,
That as a space ship leaves a ragged trail across the sky
and ceramic tiles flake and burn away
those inside shake like a can of paint
and one turns to the other and says
“y’know, we still got to be in outer space,”
and the other says
“But it’s all over now!”
They were right.

I’m almost certain,
that before getting mauled by a tiger
someone has thought,
“this is such a beautiful animal
to die by,
it sure beats Alzheimer”

I am certain
that as I lay awake
and think how it all ended up
I won’t be riding any spaceships
or visiting any zoos
for a long time.

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February 5, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

Contemplation I

© 2008 Berkley

I’m almost certain,
That as a space ship leaves a ragged trail across the sky
and ceramic tiles flake and burn away
those inside shake like a can of paint
and one turns to the other and says
“y’know, we still got to be in outer space,”
and the other says
“But it’s all over now!”
They were right.

I’m almost certain,
that before getting mauled by a tiger
someone has thought,
“this is such a beautiful animal
to die by,
it sure beats Alzheimer”

I am certain
that as I lay awake
and think how it all ended up
I won’t be riding any spaceships
or visiting any zoos
for a long time.

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February 5, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.

friday night enlightenment

© 2008 chelseareeves

last night
i think
i defiled my religion
and my government
about 100 different ways
each
i rode the bus alone
i had sex with a stranger,
i think i did
for like 10 seconds
i got lost
lost my friends
got locked out of the dorm
i walked the campus alone
i drank myself stupid
apparently
because i did all of the above
and what is it worth?
why do i do it?
i really can’t answer either of those questions,
Maybe
I do it
because that’s who i am
i’m a nymphomaniac
when intoxicated
i’m a party animal
i like attention
i’m caught in the sinful ways of the world
God is extremely disappointed in me
and the devil is patting me on the back
the devil is on earth
i’m sure of it
people who get caught up in money
alcohol
sex
and gambling
seem to have a better life.
hah
on earth that is
now, after that, i’m not to sure.
and i’m not too sure if there is even an “after that”
so maybe,
that’s the way to go,
or maybe,
i should just walk aimlessly
as i have before
and see where i go,
we all end up the same place anyway,
dead.

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February 2, 2008. General Poetry. No Comments.