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Poetic Anthology

I write poems sometimes. To express my emotions and thoughts, anger and sadness. I don't, as a policy, share them with other people. They're basically not edited. Grammar caliber varies. It's not for you; it's for me. But today I decided to let them out. Enjoy a curated collection of my emotion poems, never before seen:


An Unmarked Gravestone (March 2018)

They live their life

With dedication and with care,

With errors and with mistakes,

With love and with hate.

They live their death

Under an unmarked gravestone,


And when someone

Stops to look at it

If someone

Stops to look at it

All they see

Is an unmarked gravestone.


And when the world

Comes to an end,

If the world

Comes to an end,

All that’s lost

Is an unmarked gravestone.


Empty but Wholesome Kindness (June 2017)

Who cares,

Don't care,

Wouldn't,

Not my life,

Not my problem,

Not my world,

First-world problem,

Your first-world problem,

Your life,

Your idiocy,

Your fiasco,

Not my fiasco,

Not my idiocy,

Not my life,

Not my world.


Not my duty,

Insincere kindness,

Responsibility,

Not my responsibility,

Plaguing thoughts,

Run-on passages,

Moved to kindness,

Forced to relent,

Not my duty,

Echo in my mind,

What comes of it,

Who cares,

Don't care,

Wouldn't,

Couldn't,

MUSTN'T?!?!??

FINALLY

FORCED

INTO

YOUR

WORLD.


I

STAY.


EMPTY BUT WHOLESOME KINDNESS


hello (August 2019)

it’s me

i’m here

got it?

good


How Do I Fight It (April 2018)

How do I FIGHT IT

How do I LIGHT IT

How do I tell it what I really really want

How do I tell it I DON’T WANT IT

—and I DON’T WANT IT—

—WE’RE CAPS-LOCKED NOW,

CAN’T TAKE ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF YELLING

YELLING AND SCREAMING

FORCING AND SHOUTING AND

MAKING

AND

DOING

AND

BOLDING

BETTER. EMPHASIZED.

NO ONE WILL KNOW BUT YOU i hope

NO ONE WILL CARE BUT YOU i hope

NO ONE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BEAR i hope

WHAT I HAVE i hope

WHAT I WANT i hope

THAT YOU DON’T HAVE i hope

AND I’M SCREAMING IN THE SHOWER i hope,

MAKING, i hope

YOU NOT BE ABLE i hope

YOU WON’T BE ABLE i hope

JUST NO HOPE YET

JUST NO

JUST NO

JUST NO

just no whoo.


I vs. i (September 2019)

I vs. i

the constant battle,

for instance:


i should be happy

I know i should be happy

yet i’m sad

why am i sad???

I never decided to be sad


I is my brain;

the logic inside this great system of me.

I dictates what to do

in times of distress.

I is logical

I listens to arguments

and respectfully disagrees

I tells this body what it should do.


i is my instinct

illogical

primitive

can’t order it around

does what it wants

snap judgements

trust i when I’m too lazy

i tells this body what it does


i should be happy

I know i should be happy

yet i’m sad

why am i sad???

I never decided to be sad


I vs. i

the constant battle

they fight

I deserves to win

doesn’t always


thing is,

me isn’t I

it’s both I and i

so when my body does something

sometimes it’s I

sometimes it’s i

it can be both

so when


i should be happy

I know i should be happy

yet i’m sad

why am i sad???

I never decided to be sad.


It Is Unwelcome Here (July 2017)

It doesn't look like I've tried

But I don't know what to do

The paper sits in front of me

The homework does too


I can't figure out how to progress

Though it's all right in front of me

My brain can't handle it

Though it probably should be easy


I need to get it done

But I can't smash it

I can't smash the words out of my brain

Can't bash it


It is unwelcome here.


Muirbilique (October 2018)

Note: this poem is a palindrome taking words, instead of letters, as the relevant unit.

at life’s end

you walk that

deathless death

a dreamless dream

a breathless breath

last

the last life

after the living equilibrium

living

the after life last

the last breath

breathless a dream

dreamless a death

deathless that walk

you end life’s at


One Meat (January 2019)

you ate one Meat—

you don’t think you can call yourself a Vegetarian.

you tried a Thing,

which Failed.

and now that’s that and it’s not a thing anyone needs to Remember.

not now, not after you failed since you ate one Meat.

well you can say vegetarianism is a thing of the Past;

The Past: a sprawling panorama of the old and the new Intertwined.

well guess what, one Meat:

happens not to be one Life,

and you can be whoever you want to Be.

it doesn’t matter if that was once a resolution of the new Year.

it’s a resolution of Now,

so let’s go. Are you with Me?

we can go Places.

you can even be a Vegetarian—

it’s true you ate one Meat,

but that was then, and this is Now;

if you really want to do you can do whatever you bloody well da[r]n Want

You are hereby declared to be a Vegetarian.

yes Officially.


Unravelled (November 2018)

And so it unravelled

—nothing could stop it then—

it wanted to be stopped;

it slept

—dormant—

unawakened,

as it wished

to be.


We Use ACEGIKMOQSUWY (April 2018)

Note: This poem, designed to be sung, uses only odd-numbered letters of the alphabet, a collection which oddly contains all five vowels as well as S, so you can make an incredible amount of words.

Gimmicks come,

Make swim way icy.

So quick, make a mace,

So quick, make a scam.

Gimmicks come.


[Music]: So we assuage, massage, souse,

Assuage, massage, souse.

O masseuses, gimmicks’ maces.

O masseuses, gimmicks’ scams.

We assuage, massage, souse.


Say: “we make you go,

Gimmicks, so swim ice;

We make you go, maces,

We make you go, scams,”

Say: “gimmicks, go.”


[Music]


Mosque, a magic ace?

Come quick: magic mosque.

So quick, gimmicks’ maces,

So quick, gimmicks’ scams.

Go mice, go us.


[Music]


We swam icy ways, ago;

“Go, O ice ways, you go.”

Quick, we make icy maces,

Quick, we make icy scams,

We make gimmicks.


[Music]


We make gimmick ways,

Ways we use, amuse.

We make some maces,

We make some scams.

As a mouse, as a cake, as a cage, as a gimmick.


–beautifulthorns

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