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253 · Jan 2016
Nothing
John B Jan 2016
Nothing to do

Nothing to chose

Nothing for me

Nothing but you
249 · Jun 2018
Silly
John B Jun 2018
Never underestimate

The folly of mankind

Allow yourself to bask in comfort

Knowing torrents come

Not to batten up the hatches or run

Just playing games and having fun
Untill the storm comes

{Apparently I've got to move by the 15th, think I'll play videogames and mess around with unreal 4 today)
249 · Jun 2020
My first pet exorcism
John B Jun 2020
I dreamed I was pined under a table

Fighting a daemon who had taken my brothers cat

A fleeting moment of sanity struck me and I rebuked it

"In the name of Jesus" in jest

So taken aback it stopped in it's tracks without breath to laugh

I watched it react, retract, and redact

From combat to convent

In mind and in body

The tables had turned

"In the name of the almighty then?" Who's names I've long known

Trying to be modest a feint of a smile I'd shown

With prey before me my heart is quick to be hotted, though

It's eyes locked with with mine in a bleak stare, it nodded...

A visible aura of evil passed from the creature

And If its color was any indication

The demon wasn't all that bad
None the less, my household is off limits, pets included...
247 · May 2016
Tears
John B May 2016
Wretched festering

This poison liquid in my eye

Salty acidic dihydrogenmonoxide
You know she does this to you, why do you pursue it?

Not it, its always there she just brings it out to be dealt with, give her its pelt as a matching hat and jacket!

What he said.

Which one?

Right?
240 · Jul 2019
Dashing
John B Jul 2019
Dastardly diehard downs dark draft
Ardent adventurers admire affectionately
Solemnly sure something serious stirs
Here handling hunger and homesickness
Ideally in ignoble inns
Not noble nor negligible
Gently grinning ****** gaucho gotcha
230 · Apr 2016
Inside
John B Apr 2016
I don't like to feel to think

To think the feel has leaned my inkling

To feel my thinkings wreak of feelings

I don't like to feel I think

I don't feel I like to think

When I think I feel like drinking

When I drink I feel like thinking

As I think I feel the meaning

Dreadful pains inside I'm screaming

Stop the feels

Stop the thinking

Stop the hurt

Can't stop the bleeding

Restless eyes can't stop from seeing

Through the tears I have this feeling

I will never be done thinking

Grave the thought of life's toward healing

Faint the itch of scars still reeling

Seems like my thresholds hit a ceiling
228 · Jan 2019
Wire
John B Jan 2019
Something so simple

As a straight line drawn by nature

In the distribution of flora

Can be like a touch of magic

For better or worse
Why are all the trees dead here?
220 · Sep 2020
sinew
John B Sep 2020
Unto Caesar what is Caesar's
Give the devil his due
As above so below
If not by us then who
216 · Apr 2021
Untitled
John B Apr 2021
I had a killer sequence

A formula for words

I came here to imprint it

Like raw metal found to shape

I came here to refine it thinking this would be the place

I forgot the melody

I forgot the rhymes

I forgot the feeling
And
I forgot the lines

I stood a gasp in wonder at what this place became

From A poetry journal with endless pages to a stupid political games

To the muses of my life
And
Inspiration wasted here

For all the venting done
And
Energy invested here

Another wave has come and the waters aren't so clear

I remember when the site creator tried to get my ear

I remember what I told them

A warning made quite clear

Of course they did not head it and the consequences reared

It's stunted growth a factor of its early brooding years

Now the complications surface from the damage done before

Things take a time to rot and die but stop and smell these shores...
Not sure where I'll back all this up but I think it's time I backed all this up.
213 · May 2016
Forever
John B May 2016
Do you promise?

I know you're unsure but I'll believe you.

Even knowing how bad it will hurt

When we find out you were wrong

I'll buy in and give my all to the ignorance

For the memories of something magical

Impossible

Eternal love
She once asked me what I wanted her to say, she must have known I was asking for too much, if only I could have put it in words, we may have had a laugh and not a schism.
206 · Jan 2019
Earth
John B Jan 2019
Double point of the human spirit

Without the strength to live

Without the strength to die
John B Jul 2019
An enigma wrapped in a hard taco shell
The musical based on the movie based on the novel based on the misical by Elton john's second cousin's former room mate Bob Obviously...
203 · Jan 2021
I Screamed
John B Jan 2021
She was there but could not hear me

Pain welled up inside

I realised why she was there

My eyes hung heavy but stay wide

She waits her turn with others

I truly start to cry

My whales shake the building

I want us all to die

I scream away the earth

I scream away the sky

I scream away the heavens

A new sun finds my eye

It's warmth is that of comfort

A reassuring embrace

One does not look at the sun

I have seen no face

The earth moved around me

The house I see no more

If this worry isn't for me

Someone better save the *****
Getting between me and my goals makes you an enemy. I don't care how viable you think the mission is. If I'm going and you get in my way that's being an enemy. Being my enemy *****.

If you send me home saying you got it and don't do it. That's treason. Traitors are infinitely worse then enemies. Enemies are a fact of life, often just as honorable, simply at cross ends. Traitors are ****...
202 · Sep 2019
I'll Never Forget You
John B Sep 2019
A long awaited meeting set the mood for a dream

Only intrupted by a piercing scream

I never could place how that came to be

Waking up again without you beside me

We walked on stardust and enchanted the sky

Nothing quite as bright as the sparkle in your eyes

Supose that maybe why I never realized

That sparkle was a tear and you were trying not to cry

Now I see it clearly as it's spelled out on the floor

Her blood spilled in cursive

"I don't love you anymore"
201 · Jun 2020
Open Mic Right?
John B Jun 2020
Crazy?
Maybe, or at least so you say to me
Hazy days phase me?
You've got a ***** loose not me.

Drugs?
Sure, my baseline state is baked
Do I struggle to concentrate?
My visions another vibration yet

shrugs
Where others quest in dreams
I've long allready been
Where acid whispers plans
Who asks just where they began
When mushroom people walk with you
Do you ask them?
Who they're walking with too?

****.
No, I walk with the vision.
I speak with the venom
Cuz I fear no evil
Not in past or in present
why do you?
Are you some kinda fool?
Don't imply an insult, that's foolish.

"Demons can't stand scorn"
Paraphrased from CSL in the preface to Screwtape Letters

Were you a fool?
188 · Jun 2020
Keyspin/Oldways
John B Jun 2020
Shoes in hand
Ready to go check the mail
I tried to put keys on my feet
My eyes crossed
Vission blurred and head spinning
I reeled back in my seat
I groped for the arms
I figured "oh that's a bit strange"
I was ready to think only of the keys
I was ready to take on tunnel vision
To avoid the terror of what I'd glimpsed

Last night I walked into the wall
I had turned out the light in my room
Standing on my phone in the dark
For however long it takes
To finish conversations
Turn on some music
Forget orientation

The light from my blinds
In the tired of my mind
Cast on the wall a line
That reminded me of home
Just a step and I'd be there
Must have remember where I'd been
My nose struck textured sheetrock
"What stoped me?"
The usless part of me retorts
Image of the thermostat burned
Itching in my periphery
Probobly Indigestion...
187 · May 2016
Got Any plans?
John B May 2016
Crying in my beer.
"Don't do that brother."

Why not?
John B May 2016
She held my heart like a peace of fruit

Took a knife and cut off the bruising

Took a bite and began confusing

Sour taste for wanton roots
Discarded waste left on the ground

Still all it wants is you
171 · Jul 2019
Harlequin Romance
John B Jul 2019
Cutely holding cards to their chest

Ones I've already seen

Tho to follow such bluffs would foolish

A smile would mark me as mean
Things done for birds are often for the birds because bird brained birds trained birds with bird brains.

Not saying don't do it! Just remember what's sane...
155 · Jan 2020
Today I
John B Jan 2020
lifted my phone with purpose

Brought my eyes to focus

Searched my mind for context

Gawked blankly at my phone

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