OPEN MIC ARCHIVES
MAY, 1988

Updated (finally) May 22, 1998


I thought i could write good poetry

But as time went by all i could write was your beauty

Your a song and a poem in my heart

You turn my darkest days bright

and when time falls upon its victims i know i shall be with you....always.

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The Mudpies and Summers in Georgia


Remember being ten years old?

Never caring how we looked,

With our legos and our G.I. Joes.


Remember being ten years old?

All the girls had cooties,

And best friends had brotherly love.


Remember being ten years old?

When everything was good and fun,

But we are all older now, and our work is never done.


Chris Parker

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The Invisible Man


I know you don't see me,

And perhaps you never will.

I try to make you happy,

But I can't climb that hill.

I know you don't see me,

And I know you never will.


Chris Parker

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Life


I'm standing at the edge

It's one more shot through the heart

One more ship lost at sea

One more noise that is deafening

One more step...

Now it's silence

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I lost a friend, it was my Grandpa, so I give a

symbol of a red rose to my heart. My mom

and dad said that he is dead but I think he

is still a live in my heart. I will never forget

you . I will remember the good memories of

us together.

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Shattered, my eyes

like the days of my youth

In my arms are

pictures of you

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OF WOLF AND MAN

YOU CAN SEE THE DEFIANCE BURNING IN HIS

EYES.

THE NUMBING HATRED WHICH YOU DESPISE.

THROUGH BLINDNESS AND RAGE YOU KILL

WITHOUT THOUGHT,

A LIVING SOUL TOO SOON TO ROT.

YOU FEAR NO MORE HIS FANGS OF DEATH,

THOUGH FEAR STILL LINGERS BURIED BY DEPTH.



BY: ELISHA POULIN

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Starry nights and moonlit skies, beside an oak tree a poet lies.

Churning and turning watching the sky, thinking and shrinking wondering why?


The sun and the moon, are the same in a relative way.

They are always together and together they stay.


One always follows the other, night after day, day after night,

always the same in there astronomical flight.


Everything changes the question is why?

Scientist say that even stars do die.

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One


Come to me my love

Like a thief in the night

stealing softly my desires

anticipation unfolding with its magnitude.

Moonlight dances across our faces

with silver slivers of light.

Shadows of two entwined souls

is only then enhanced by

a sweet sigh of bliss.

We are now

and will forever be,


One.


Linda S. Snider

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haiku


Head down with tail up,

His fluke splashes the water,

Again and again.

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haiku


Cetaceans leap

head first out of the water

feeding on their prey

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One more breath of air

blown out in the foggy mist

Descending back down

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Humpback rises up.

Gazes at the world above.

Sinks under slowly.

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splashing and splashing

the water with his big scarred flukes

coming up with food

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I went down town to see Charlie Brown. He gave me a nickel so I brought me a pickle. The pickle was sauer so I brought me a flower. The flower was dead so hears what i said hot dog babby chicken and gravy moma came home with a bald headed dabby.

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day tripping alone

in those hours just before noon

- - earthworm in the grass.

By Peter

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i cast myself down the road into the unknown

i throw out already forgotten past shadows

waking up to find myself in continuous movement

for the sake of...

trees that spellbind me call me forth to languish in

their shades of green

i will seek them out and beg them to whisper to me

forgotten no more i will listen

i cast myself into the unknown

down the road.

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THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO WHOEVER WANTS TO KNOW WHERE I GET MY CLOTHING.


~WHERE I GET MY CLOTHES~

people always ask me

where I get my cloths.

And I just have to answer ~

"from up your nose."

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My Love-


Our passions, our sorrows, our love

and pains are puled together into

one heart.


When we kiss so many blisses.

When we make love it reminisces.

My heart belongs to you.


(I have a block and need someone to fish my poem.)

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Interface


Collecting whispers

as others do it with stamps or badges

Convert them to whistles

of trains or memory patches


You are there

on the edge of a beautiful world

I am clear of mine

and fit in the purer mold


"Bip-bip" the alarm

I jump from my dream

(Bang, tinkle & bump)

My ear 's treasure

of eerie, yet dance prompting sounds

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Night is leaving, six A.M.

insane beeping wakes you again

your eyes open to a pale dawn

another day is coming on

full force

straight ahead

will to move

already dead

wishing for nightfall

and the death of this draining light

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Lonely Again

I conjure your body

dream your arms around me

the distance between us grows

with each toss and turn

here I yearn

Lonely again


Awake again

I drown out the silence

playing CDs--repeat, repeat

the hum of silence grows

the static of darkness calls

asleep I fall

and Awake again


Freezing again

only the heat of your body can warm me

piling on blankets and shivering

thinking of you and quivering

but here I lie

Freezing again

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There is a silent in us all,

winter, spring, summer, fall;

when loneliness to us call,

further down the mall.


There is playfulness there too,

when joyful things we do;

if you can feel this, in you,

you don't need further proof.


My conclusion therefore is:

Take moments you think you miss,

for every hour like this,

is a moment you surely wish.


There is a silent in us all,

winter, spring, summer, fall.


By Peter

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digital clock

0:00

owls hooting

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The Crush


I stare into his eyes of blue

he sees but does not recognize

so deep I get lost

caught up in emotions

and yet he still does not see

he moves

my eyes follow

suddenly he notices

stares back, then waves

I wave back, smiling now

my heart filled with excitement

filled with joy

he walks away

excitement lost, but still filled with joy

I turn to tell my friends

by Robin Stuart

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untitled


wait until you can read what I wrote

you will not be sorry you loved me

look at this exciting news

can't you enjoy the moment?


Michelle Filiszar

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friday's with frankie


you fall like the willow tree

your dead blue eyes

shining like desperate miracles

some kind of misfortunes

are the roots of your pain

we hung like the cobwebs..

as i lay with open eyes

wondering-how i let you hurt me

the way you come through

walls caved in my bedroom

you fell in.

you watch i break-

in crazed, absurd silence

you sleep while i'm awake.


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CAUSE TO APOLOGIZE

I apologize for the pain and sorrow

that I caused you past tomorrow

I apologize for the suffering and sadness

that I caused with all this madness

I apologize for the misery and depression

that I caused with my wrong decisions

I apologize for the anguish in your life

that I caused --my dear sweet wife--

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they took my blow up doll away

and gave me a white shaved poodle

who's name was spankie

spank me.

every time i count my fingers


just one's good.

So many people died today

and i can't spell

walla walla walla

who who who

bite me

for i know not the ways to express my need

for speed

my friend has an extension for her monkey

i gave it to her

in a monkey

i'm so talented.

bye for now


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If your legs are weary and your road is long

your nights lonely... without song.

Look to your heart there you will find me

loving you always and always... I will be.

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Untitled


A cold, dark depression,

Above any Heaven,

Below any Hell

Festering away at my core.

And all around me

A black aura,

An ebony halo.

Despondence,

My sable lover.

Embrace me,

Love me, Tam

No one else will.

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Tell Me


Look into my eyes and tell me you lied

don't spare my feelings, I've already cried

Tell me those words that will tear me apart

don't even feel bad, I already have a broken heart

Tell me the truth and don't feel ashamed

because I've already started to despise your name

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...but it stays


I inhale to numb the pain,

exhale to push it away

but it stays

I close my eyes to block the image

open them to watch it fade

but it stays

I whisper, "Everything will be okay."

hoping that will make the hurt go away

but...


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Everything

Everything I do

I wanna be with you

From the day I'm born

Till the day I die

Everything I do

I wanna be with you.

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SHE IS A BUTTERFLY OF THE LORD

SHE DANCES AROUND SINGING HIS HOLY WORD

SHE HEARS HIS VOICE IN HER DREAMS AT NIGHT

SHE IS A LAMP OF A CITY VERY BRIGHT


SHE TAUGHT ME THINGS OF SUCH GREAT WISDOM

SHE IS A LOVER OF GOD'S HOLY SON

SHE SAID "IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE,

IF YOU TRULY WANT TO BE FREE"

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In this sorry sight I see a place that wasn't meant for.

Were Seas are all to far, And there is a land of gray whats only to

say "that the journey you never found were lovers, crossed and

lives are found, are all to for now you will never seethe

land that was meant for me.

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THAT CANDLE


Using the flame within my heart


to light that candle there


Sacrifice and honor justified


nothing in the end


And now I use that candle


its flame as red as blood


to light my way to freedom.



Joann Renee' Muszynski 1998

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The Night Is Darkening Around Me


The night is darkening around me,

The wild winds coldly blow.

But a tyrant spell has bound me

And so I cannot go.


The giant trees are bending,

Their bare boughs weighed with snow.

The storm is fast descending

And yet I cannot go.


Clouds beyond clouds above me

Wastes beyond wastes below;

But nothing bad can move me;

I will not, cannot go.


*I hear the Crawling Chaos that calls beyond the stars.*

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ONE LINE


How to confine;

To one plane,

With one line,

Mind; infinite-

At the least...

To confine,

With a line,

The in-finite,

sublime....

That other eyes,

May feast?


Maurice Friedman

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"In the End"


I try not to think about it,

but I can't do without it

in the end.


I think I'm going to win,

but I'm directed by my sin

in the end.


I think I've finally won,

but there is never anyone

in my end.


I thought I'd play this game,

but it finally drove me insane

in the end.


I just want to go home,

but I've been left here all alone

in the end.

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Disease

I'm a killer

my name could send a chiller

up a grown mans spine

when I kill you the credit is all mine

I've killed hundreds maybe millions

I've killed the poor and people with millions

I have no cure

and I strike the innocent and pure

I cause death and pain

my evil is like rain

I will create havoc for all

and then kill them all

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Day After Day


day after day

you lie there empty

awake and alone

yearning so gently


day after day

the pillow rests one head

and the mattress remains

beneath the bed


week after week

you wish long nails would run your back


month after month

memories keep floating back


stars shine beyond the window

glazed and shimmering

her eyes before you?

hazel glittering?


and if its all just a dream

she may never appear

i'll lie here alone

eye shedding a tear

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Dreams

Dreams are good and dreams are bad.

Some of your dreams can make you sad.

Dreams come true so watch you steps.

They can catch up with you when you least expect.

Dreams can sometimes tell you the future or the fortunes

you may receive.

So don't ever forget your dreams cause your dreams are what

make you believe.

ivysdreams98@hotmail.com

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Everybody. .


Everybody looks the same.

Everybody is obsessed with fame.

Everybody has love.

Everybody has a dove.

Everybody...

Everybody...

Everybody but me that is...

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Untitled


An empty room,

many faces.

A reassuring smile,

a welcoming nod.

A wardrobe,

a knife.

A stab in the back.


looking back,

it was just

an empty room.

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Burning Blood.

By Aimee Kling age 8



My blood burns like fire sometimes. The scary wilderness darkens my mind.

After a meal I start to feel like burning blood is starting to be mine.

I get scared and run away and don't come back till thanksgiving day.

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Death is like a planet that no one's traveled to before.

An unknown voyage that you don't know what you're there for.

A subconscious feeling that you have in your heart.

You soon come to realize you've met death.

And we part.

Love in our hearts and tears in our eyes

We cry cause we love you

And not because you died.


Jamie Hook

5/12/98

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Daughter


intensity and intention

we will love each other


fierce eyes and

sensitive soul

everything is all

or nothing


openness and need

we will love each other

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2 Summer Haiku

You look for beauty,

- there it is before your eyes:

rebirth of summer.


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The grass of summer,

is growing even fresher,

-then before cutting.


By Peter

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Under Gray Skies


The bluest skies will turn to gray

It saddens not my heart

the wind of storms will warm my blood

and often romance starts


The smell of rain the sound of wind

and now a life begins


a seed is planted within a soul

that's touched by natures kiss

could I get lost within this storm

to understand such bliss


now we lay together and welcome back

the sun still hot from natures rain

completely unaware

a new life has begun

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Like sand through an hour glass,


it falls....


Falling...falling...it sinks....towards....nothing.


Until.....


I loved.


Now,...


I am.


I am........

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the still 'ness here

the villain is me

a word too smooth to be swallowed I am he...

the temp'ture the willing

fold me and put me away like a phone number

or mistakes of youth..

I am he.

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With all existing matter

In all existing space,

Not even Jesus Christ

Can be immortal.

Greg Hoffman, Macanudo9@aol.com

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On the other side of the earth,

There is a war.


On the other side of town,

There is a wedding.


In the desert,

There is an execution.


On the moon,

There is a probe.


On the other side of the universe,

There is a great explosion.


With everything going on on

In this state

Country

Continent

Planet

Galaxy

And Universe,

I understand why it seems like God has no time for me.

Greg Hoffman, Macanudo9@aol.com

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In a cold sweat,

A dying man rises from his bed

In the middle of the night,

And realizes that

His life was meaningless.

Greg Hoffman, Macanudo9@aol.com

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He looks in the ground,

With a pine box looking back,

For one last goodbye.

Greg Hoffman, Macanudo9@aol.com

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Peeking out from under the bed,

A small boy looks out

and sees the drunken man

That he has known his whole life,

Yet never known at all,

And prepares to be struck by his fist.

Greg Hoffman, Macanudo9@aol.com

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Eagles dance upon

the mighty azure blue sky

with fluffy white clouds

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ADONIS


Particles bounce of his burning skin

Blinding me with their invisible radiation

My bronzed boy wipes the beads

of pure brilliance off his forehead

He glistens with perfection

He is melting

Sublime flakes of

My god

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Love is what you make of it,

- everything you wish;

embrace it may, and even split,

- you can enjoy or miss.


Sorrow comes from it too,

if a heart is down broken.

So its better to be true,

to every word that's spoken.


By Peter

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Now, rain is falling from a cloud

and sun is absent for a while.

Storm is running all about,-

in an early spring whether style.


Yes, every flower needs for thirst,

the water from a cloud in sky;

and when a raindrop falls down first,

they know, they live - not die.


By Peter

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A word is a word,

full of meaning and space;

a black letter bird,

with a typesetters face.


Ha ha ha a joke,

if the meaning you understand;

a keyboard stroke,

that you command.


By Peter

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Isolate your mind, that's to meditate,

Isolate your friends, because of all your hate,

Isolate yourself, because their better than you,

Isolate you guy, time for someone new,

Isolate your heart, before it is his,

Isolate your fear, to find what it is,

To all my bad thoughts I don't have a cure

I must Isolate myself until I am pure.

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If you are tired and worn out,

take better care and rest.

You shall find your way about,

as before and do your best.


Life is not all pleasure,

it can make you a cry;

but you shall find its treasure,

if you give it a try.


If you are tired and worn out,

build your spirit up.

You should never have a doubt,

what's in your life's cup.


Life is not all in vain,

we can always do our best.

Even though of all this pain,

we should in God trust.

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We must go on in our lives,

to try out our - best in luck;

soon the weight of that arrives,

and maybe that solid rock.


For what we do well and nice,

shall always make a difference.

This should not come as a surprise,

for there is an equal change.


By Peter

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To both the wise and unwise,

what really counts or matter.

Is always in disguise,

so we can put it better.


Otherwise, we'd get lazy,

in cleaning up all the dust;

and even maybe get crazy,

- if everything was a must.


By Peter

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Hate


Hate is like a speeding freight train.

You can't hide it and you can't control it.

Hate never stops.


-J.Case


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In faith we can be certain,

there is another life;

so , this life is a burden,

until the next arrive.


But love could make a different,

and even a joyous one;

- pride you must first bend,

and then begins the fun


By Peter.

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Mommy

Can you hear?

Can't you see?

Of silence prevailing

And presence remembered

I can see you

Yes, I can hear


I feel your touch

Your loving embrace

The one that wont leave

The one that wont follow

Death's merciless trace


You left behind

Your heart and your soul

For us to remember

To try and remember


*Dedicated to Mom who passed away on August 22,1997 Thanks for all 14 years...Love Matty

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I Feel Like the Empty Pen


Lonely, empty, suffering,

Left in a dump,

Among wrinkled, creased,

Ripped up, and crumbled wood.

Remembering when I was needed,

Special, and had a use in life.

When I was full of spirits,

Stuck in a clean, washed, dry shirt pocket.

Riding high, looking down on the world.

But now looking up with hope,

and happy thoughts to be picked up

By a person who will hold me the same as before.

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A red rose has a aroma that lingers about and stays within our souls for an eternity .It's beauty shimmers from dawn to dusk. Awakens our minds to a new day filling it with new thoughts and ideas for exciting ventures.


mary

(dat@ mnsi.net)

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vision shores

It's 9 am on a fine may morning .I love my morning stroll by the shore .feeling the cool breeze against my fair skin. listen to the magical sounds of the waves as they rush against the sands of the tropical beaches .I enjoy the music the waters as it creates a vision of peacefulness to the world.

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"SUNS"


final suns

will always thrive

in shallow

streams and rivers passing.

or if suns

were something more,

left to less,

a token

of gratitude

impedes my air

in traps of earth

left touchless,

but to touch my very soul.


-to the divine

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Death for me

would be reality.

For if I slice my vein

I will feel no pain.

Unlike my heart

which is falling apart.

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Walk with me tonight

Let me show you my dreams

Let me hold you close

Let me lay a kiss

So much time i wish to spend

And even though you run and even though you say all isn't right

I know deep down that your right

My heart wont accept it

my mind wont let it

and my soul wont succumb to it

Walk with me tonight

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I am walking lonesome

down the street,

teardrops falling at my feet.


Raindrops falling from the sky,

little cloud why do you cry?

- Have you the same reason as I?


By Kristjana Quinn

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Spring Haiku


the grass is growing

birds are flying to the north

now new lives are born


By Kristjana Quinn

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Spring Haiku


garden of roses

of summer and sweetest love

is worth waiting for


By Peter

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The devils advocate, gnawing at my experience

And reaching into the pit of my fear

He seems to know what i think

And what i cling to


Swimming for someone to save me

In this vast sea of the unfortunate

While i wallow in despair

Clinging to the memory

Of what i knew i had

But never again held


Please anyone who reads this just give me a little critique and direction if you think its needed. Your help is greatly appreciated

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if you wish critique, you need to add your name and email address - jr

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Dancing

walking through dreams

floating above...beyond

carelessly sliding down rainbows

Clapton

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Can you pick me up from bottomless pits

where the bile of life has left me?


May I look into your eyes and liken them to daggers?


You can pull me up from pits of life

cruel turns and twists,

I may look into your eyes,

stare at you and wish.


GUMBIGOLD.webtv.net

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Football

Football Football

its the game for me

I love to run I love to kick and I love to

throw the ball.

And its a touch down

She in the lead and another ,another

there no stopping me!


Football Football

it the game for me

I love to take lI love

attack and I love to though the ball.


And it a touch down

She in the lead

and another ,another

there no stopping me.

by Cassierae

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Cujo,Cujo you rule,

Cujo,Cujo is cool,

He is the best,

Way better than the rest,


He'll out play anyone,

And still have tons of fun,

2 periods 2 games without a goal,

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Kittens


Rumbly,dainty little kittens

running everywhere.

Cute,cuddly little kittens

tumbling here and there!!!

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Star light,

Star bright,

Kick some star butt tonight.

Go Oilers

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Town of Candy

There is a town of candy

Owned by a little old granny

There's the Mr. big bar

That travels really far

When I need candy the town will come in handy

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The Dolphins


What would it be like to live in the seas,

to glide under the waves at huge speeds.

To jump graceful and light,

to jump with all your might.


To go such deeps,

to have great leaps,

that is what the dolphins do.


To go great depths in the sea,

to see the corals to see

all the wonders of the deep

are all the secrets it must keep.


To go such deeps,

to have great leaps,

that is what the dolphins do.

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Believing


I believe all should share,

I believe all should give,

I believe all should care,

I believe all should have a chance to freely live.

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Love floats

like stardust on my soul

The same reflection sparkles in your eyes


frappucino@hotmail.com

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Walking along the creek

hoping to see some beavers

beaver beaver hope your big

come closer so I can shoot you

with the twenty- two- magnum

bang shoot I missed him dang!!!

him and his stupid buck tooth face

thinking I wont shoot you

beaver beaver I hate you

this isn't easy because he is smart

but not smart enough

boom!! shoot you in the head

dive under float back up( dead)

beaver beaver nice thick red coat

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I know a person she has two eyes

And she is very wise

She has 10 fingers and ten toes

She has 2 lips and some hair.



(chorus)


Because she is my friend Katie Leigh McLeod


It such a preppy name to sing


She loves to sing Blue out loud!


She wear some glasses and her nose.

I just saw her grocery market picking up some wipton soup

to make her daddy better.

(chorus)

by,chalsie dahl

drayton valley AB


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STu

I knew a monster he was really bad

If you teased him he got really mad

He would steal loads of guns

` He thought that was loads of fun

He liked to eat little boys

Who were spoiled with lots of toys

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A Monster in Tomahawk


I know a monster who can't fly

And if he does he has to cry

Who plays a lot of jokes

On the old funny folks

For him to fly he has to try


David Brown

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Songs


Songs are like

The wind

Sometimes gentle

Sometimes harsh


Songs make you laugh

And put an ache in your tummy

They also put a twinkle

In your eye


Songs make you cry

Like someone is stabbing

You in the heart

with a dull Boy Scout's knife


I know

I have heard most songs

But the most pain

Comes from within

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Don't Worry

Don't Hurry

Do Your Best and

Leave the Rest


Yesterday is History

Tomorrow is a Mystery

Today is a gift

That's why we call it

the Present

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Angel


It came to me with such beauty and grace

but again with such pain an angel with black wings

it came to me with knowledge of the future knowledge

I mite have already known It spoke with great honor

It spoke of pain in the children's eyes

It spoiled of scared lives of children

who haven't seen a real home

who haven't seen a day with out sacrifices

a day with out torture

the angel spoke of the truth

for that night my wife gave

life to a newborn child

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A sonnet is supposed to be 14 lines,

14 lines about something-

but about what?

What if I can't think of anything?

I mean, 14 lines, that's a lot!

Actually, it is only two more than a dozen,

and dozens are good.

If there were 14 in a dozen-

that would be great!

Except for eggs, I hate eggs,

unless they're scrambled

or fried, with mustard on them.

Anyway, I guess I'm almost done-

hey look at that, I thought I'd just begun!


BY: SUMMER

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IN HER BELLY


more so than not

a spiraling nest,

luminous strands,

tight woven pouches

that hover above a poisonous spider

like a silk balloon.

A limb

tearing at the cocoon;

emerging

a vessel of vein.


Michelle Filiszar

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PILOTS


Iron pilots headed full into the light of the blast.

Cargo dropping hungry flies; mangled bodies aimless in fields;

Women bearing children in piles of shrapnel, disappearing into dim lit

barrenness, and waiting.

Bleeding out their fetus' into the hands of those metal men,

Iron pilots headed full into the light of the blast.


Michelle Filiszar

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REALLY LIVING


Tears like a raging river

Fury like a storm

All of this inside of me

Waiting to get out

Lost in this misery

Surrounded by such anguish

How can one live like this

Or is this really living

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I'll love you and you'll love me until the end of time

And even then, our bodies dead, our souls will still entwine.

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PEACE

As a beam of light on our life

A culmination of our strife

Serving a great purpose

One uniting the surface

A future that we will see

One that we know, we fight to be

Friendship that is eternally.


Is the purpose of the cause

Achievement for us, our greatest clause?

Trying to give it all our might

Supporting each other for the sight

Learning to love one another

And trying for the sinecure,

while fighting to convert the conniver.


written by sarah suitter

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A single flower blooms,

alone a color,

A splash of life,

on dull rock and sand.

It reminds me of

that love..

A solitary light,

in my bleak world

Of unique emotions.

still....

Like all flowers

it will wither and fall,

Having served its purpose:

to procure a seed

From which

like love......

Other flowers will grow.

perhaps,

This time

not so solitarily.

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Breakdown


thoughts have come

so close to mind

that I deem them


far to soon

to register to

passing people that

care less

for misleading things

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Summer has arrived

Children prance around in fields

The sun shines brightly


Beginning of Fall

Trees shed themselves of their leaves

Winter will soon come


Winter has arrived

Snow blankets the Earth's surface

All life has frozen


Beginning of Spring

The Earth's creatures are alive

Flowers grow and bloom

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THE SAME


I SEE THE WORLD AND TURN IN SHAME,

AND WONDER WHY WE'RE NOT THE SAME

YOU LOOK AT ME I LOOK AT YOU,

OUR MINDS ARE FALSE, OUR HEARTS ARE TRUE


JOSE IS BROWN

OH FROWN

JOHN IS WHITE

OH WHAT A FRIGHT


BEAUTY IS INSIDE THEY SAY

IT IS TRUE, I SAY

LET'S STOP PLAYING THIS GAME

OF NAMING NAMES


ONE DAY WE WILL SEE

THAT THE TRUTH LIES IN YOU AND ME

OUTWARD BEAUTY IS VAIN

INSIDE WE'RE ALL THE SAME

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(untitled)


Morning dew

upon their backs,

Ten thousand

blades of grass

bow,

Cowering at the feet

of the tyrant wind.

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Can thou be a someone?

True!

Anyone can.

Dream on in life,

You'll find the perfect man.


Describe to me the perfect man.

Isn't that the key?

To have a wonderful person,

That treats you with dignity.

So, In other words,

Just let him be.

He'll love you for yourself,

Wait...

You'll see!

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All my dreams are fast or slow.

All my dreams will stay or go,

and before you know,

a dream shall start to grow.


Sing a little song today:

We shall come together,

and our life shall come our way,

not counting on the weather.


All my dreams are fast or slow.

In a distance they shall glow,

but as the wind blows,

they shall again lay low.


By Peter

---------------------------------

If there is going to be rain,

let it in.

If there going to be pain

let it begin.


But never never let love die,

that's true and full of growth.

Because I would then cry,

or perhaps, we would both.


By Peter

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A Kind of Sweetness (Love Poems continued by Michael McNamara)


How sweet is our first kiss when reunited?

Sweeter than the first cherries of the season,

Sweeter than clover honey,

Sweeter than cotton candy,

Sweeter than I could imagine.

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When you walk an easy street,

will you ever find a taste;

no complex or strain on your feet,

- no thought gone or waste.


If you walk a tactless life,

will you find the small and wise;

if you never take a dive,

- everything will just be nice.


Thoughts are like progress,

sweeping forward another trend.

Sometimes cloudy and in a mess,

- but your mind must constantly bend.


By Peter

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why in the eye so beautiful

In my life I struggle only to be descent

Why my mind thinks of things so pitiful

When the crash come so recent


Strive for loneliness and joy

Find a friend called pain

Teach your life as a toy

Then try to pick my self up; a strain

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THE OCTOBER BELLS


I hear the bells, in my own contradicted field

Where laurels grow, and hard castles lay extinct

By some forgotten fog-messenger, wheeled

In some mole hut, a delicate, gold-plated rink


And I begin, the sightless weathers-of-stone

An omen glinting, reflected upon some sharp-tinted shield

As I brief the rats, and shellac the misty clover-crones

As here, I rot, and die away, and the bells go on and on, my field

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Blank, flat horizon

An waiting canvas calls me...

Silhouettes of birds.


Skimming over trees

I'm soaring above with them,

grass between my toes.

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Why cry?

I am in a continues loop

the sadness that you have brought to me

feels like it will never stop

I want to cry

but if I cry I will never stop

but I can't keep this up

even if I promised myself

not to cry no more

when I broke up with you

I cried for a very very long time

crying would make me feel better

all these memories chewing up my soul

as one tear falls down

and rolls off of my cheek

I loved you so much

I still do

why am I still crying?

------------------------------

i am

just a cloud

in darkness

drifting o'er

your sea of shadows

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Achernar

Really, what concern be it of mine

If the soul be made of air or fire,

Or divine atoms science can not find--

No abnegation, just a pawn in his satire--

To live lively is my only desire--

Forget your admonitions Hrothgar

There's no devil lying in wait, no eternal fire--

Pull another tube, wandering afar,

Drop to my knees worshipping my soul--Achernar.

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Is there any one

Who knows

Why poets

are so...

Abstract?

Why we differ?

Why we feel?

Society seems so hard from my point

Seems so..

Unlike me

I suppose I am being them

But...

I am a poet you know

~Rori~

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Wondering why I try

So hard to accommodate

Everyone

Everyone

Teen anxiety

Runs rampant

Through my

Shoulders

Which slouch.

For the weight

Of the world

Is a heavy one to carry.

~Rori~

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OH TO LOVE A FLOWER


To love a flower is a sin

To love a flower

Is to encase it

To bring it to you

and only you

To not let us see

That beauty

Simple shows your true ugliness

Admire the flower

Caress it

But do not

My friend

Love it

for it

is never yours


Rori

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there was a man of booth bay

who was making explosives one day.

But he dropped his cigar

In the gun powder jar.

there WAS a man of booth bay.

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serrated edge of insanity


Insecure is the blood,

that follows the serrated edge closely..

Tearing away the fibrous sanity,

plaguing your meaningless lives.

Your pain travels free when your scream chases danger.

My love you digest, and vomit thick hatred..

How can you see with your eyes wrapped in sandpaper?



by: cliff bortoletto (woodenboxx@aol.com)

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i stand



well, here we are again

lost in each others eyes,

and i can't understand,

how you can promise no more good-byes.


i stand


you told me from time to time

that i'll never understand,

how you feel inside for me,

and how it feels when you hold my hand.


i stand


waiting is now normal with you,

our life is a puzzle that's missing a piece and

it is up to you

to make me stand

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black line flashing

white screen rolling

where are they going

------------------------

shock and surprise, as confusion sets in.

The awkwardness begins.

A desire of where to be,

and whom to see.

Tells you one thing,

can I achieve?

The art to understand,

of what is to come.

Makes you strong,

never undone.

The goal of eternity, we'll just wait and see.

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REVENGE


Once again

the tables have turned;

and bashed in your teeth on the way around.

Oops, I'm sorry,

Is that your heart I'm stepping on?

I apologize --

sop up the blood with a sponge.

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Time, Precious time that begins now and ends never.

Time working, playing and being with.............

time of realization, time of action,

time of understanding and time to know the importance of........time.

Time we wake up for, time we sleep

time we count on, and time that keeps us on time.

A time I'm glad I know you, be with you.

Although the time is all wrong now

the time is all right with me

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Driving down a one-way road,

They tell me I should stop,

But never the less I spin,

And my life is hanging on a rock,

down and down I go,

In an endless spiral.

Driving down a one way road,

Wreckless for a while

JoyBong15F@webtv.net

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Faded

pictures

Tattered

letters

Lost

memories

Salty

tears

Cried

for you

Shed

from

Now

dried

Tear

ducts

I have

no

One

to

Cry

for

Now

that

I've lost

You

I don't

know

Where

I

Lost you

to

But I

wish

I

could

Be

there

To

be

With

you

You were

my

Best

friend

My

one

True

love

I relied

on you

And now

you're gone.

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it is making me sick

this is making me sick

she told me in a loving tone that this would make me well

now my stomach's hurling and i feel like i'm in hell

where o where could the antacids be

i think their hiding from me

i've searched the cabinets I've searched the drawers

i even checked the bathroom floors

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WONDERING


Each day i look at you

wondering


Wondering and Dreaming

is this really true


Do you feel the love for me

as i feel for you?


I hope that one day

we will be


One soul instead of two!

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dark


you are walking and suddenly

you fall

falling ever falling

then you hit the ground

a sharp pain goes though your body

you try to move and there is the pain again

your leg is broken

at the bottom of the well


you yell but no one answers

you yell again and again no one answers

then out of nowhere someone answers

"I'll get you out"


the next day you have a cast but other wise you're fine

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Clouds


Dotted against the deep blue

Drifting to an unknown destination

Crawling within silence,

They continue their journey


Through the storms,

And the icy weather

They are free,

And continue their journey

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There is a place where I would like to go

where there is lot's of snow

I'd snowboard around

until I was found

then I would go back to my town called willow.


By Matt Heinrichs

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Death


A lonely bird flying through the sky

Why do the good have to die

You all left me here but truly what for ?

I have no idea why because my life is a bore

And so i say to all of you

in which I once knew

all of my idols have one thing in common

they have all met you

DEATH

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Skating down the ice,

ice that looks like rice.

Checked into the boards,

sticks are used as swords.


N.H.L hockey

N.H.L hockey

N.H.L hockey is the best!


Helmets in the air,

way way up there.

The puck goes in the goal,

the goalies name is Cole.


N.H.L hockey

N.H.L hockey

N.H.L hockey is the best! YES!!!


Ballad by Erin Nault & Melissa McGregor

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" Existence "


As I cast my eyes,

upon,

The portals to your soul,

They appear to bring about,

An everlasting glow.

Your desire blazes deep,

Within,

Awaiting its release.

That sole burst of,

Unbelievable passion,

That ignites the internal

Wildfire,

That has ceased to exist,

During your entire,

Existence.


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Him and her and then there's me.

were always together as you can see.

I wish it was me rather then she.

Him and her and then there's me.


Him and her and then there's me.

There still together as you can see.

I love him more then life grants me.

Him and her and then there's me.


Him and her and then there's me.

I see him more then she can see.

In his window at night I creep.

Him and her and then there's me.


Jennifer Marie Price

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now here i place this broken heart

now here i leave its memory behind

when once i found this little heart

i cared for it carefully

yet my mind it tricked

my soul it stole

and now i leave it here to be

carried away by a bitter breeze

my mind regained

my soul anew

goodbye dear heart and now we part

your memory left behind

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DREAMS NOW SEEM SO USELESS

BRINGING ONE TO IDLE EXISTENCE

IN A WORLD

OF SILENT CHAOS

WHERE THOUGHTS FLOAT

WHERE WE GRAB THE COLORS

AND REARRANGE

THEM

TO FORM

OUR OWN

OUTRAGEOUS IDEALS

IN OUR SLEEPING

SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS

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I once wished upon a star,

to take me away.

I got my wish, and here I'll stay.

Stuck in this mind,

alone and afraid.

But still is my body, firmly laid.

In this box called a coffin,

so shiny and callow.

But it fits, for my grave is small and shallow.

I'll never again wish, upon that star

But, if I were clever,

I would have wished to live forever.

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Night from light receding

Flickers once

Resumes its feeding

On the darkness that surrounds


In a slow hypnotic trance

Shadows come to life

Begin to dance

In the light that now abounds


Flickers twice more in succession

Starts to dim

In regression

Darkness winning the game


Comes a breeze from open shutters

Begins to die

Quickly sputters

Night washing over what's left of the flame



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