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Eve K Aug 2020
2AM. Anxiety rings
Insomnia with it, it brings
I wish to sleep, close my beaten
Eyes. My thoughts quieten, Retreat in
To the place where I no longer have to think
All the experiences of today and my past interlink
My subconscious taking over with pictures they slink
down into dreamworld I hope I'd go This time I think
But unfortunately, That's not the way it is.
So I lie awake in my bed.
Thoughts
Rushing
around
in my
head
inst
ea
d
This is getting ridiculous.... This is the 4th night in the row where I can't sleep...... 4th night in a row of 3 hours sleep... I just... want some unassisted sleep please....
Norman Crane Aug 2020
I must precipitate their pain;
When I pass,
their faces close like shutters before the rain.
Norman Crane Aug 2020
and one day the world will end
a winding road
missing its final bend
Norman Crane Aug 2020
every day
in the mirror i see
what looks a little more
like me
Guinevere Aug 2020
The breeze carries my thoughts away before i write them down
The trees and the berry bushes contrast with the clouds
Their roots firmly planted, still one with the ground
Surrounding my body, the thoughts rotate around
I am the trees but they are the clouds
Leaves fall, branches extend, extrapolating my woes.
Thistles in a rosebush ***** my fingers, the droplets of my blood match the red of the roses.
Like a beautiful psychosis.
Enchanting but dangerous, i cherish thorns and roses
Pain is my muse, like music infused with the ghost of my past,
It strengthened yet healed my fatal necrosis
Everlasting words haunt me, a faint shadow's imprint on the yellowing grass.
I cannot see growth without a ruler to measure
Embellishing my struggle for pleasure because the truth is unbearable
Yet my lies burn my skin, ensnaring my essence like sweet smelling ether
Entrancing but terrible.
Norman Crane Aug 2020
every tear
creates two rhymes
here and there
Norman Crane Aug 2020
morning hawk shrieks
awakening the goldensphere
arise heatmaker
evaporator of dewmist and frost
evoker of see rays
energizer of the scuttleprey
but beak waves impact the falling spray
in rainy day are lost
this day goldensphere will stay
adoze on her horizon home
meadow hush
cloud down begrace her sparkleface
comfortably monochrome
Norman Crane Aug 2020
Stick your knife into my crown,
Slice down to the chin,
Dig your fingers in,
And unwrap the skull within.
Stretch and dry this ****** leather,
Draping it over a conical framework of bone,
Ends glued together or sewn,
Next: sever
The skull from the spine,
Polish to a shine,
And ***** into the base of your lamp,
Plug in: electron flow illuminating my mind,
Aglow with ideas
Of a submission radiantly divine
Emily Joyce Aug 2020
If you must tell a lie, do so well -
Lies likely fall apart
Often crumbling due to bumbling
A speakers deadly demise
My passion is the lonely lie
Lone creates shine
A lie must deliver cleverly
Or all would align -
A poetic imitation of Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" I did for my poetry class.
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