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slipalong
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White Noise

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IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 16963

AEMelia564, thank you for your entry.

slipalong
Dangerous Mind
United Kingdom 41awards
Joined 1st Jan 2018
Forum Posts: 852

I am tinnitus

complex old  
childhood a long time ago
all is heard are closing doors
life just ground floor chores
 
of yesterdays in faded print
anecdotes to make friends yawn not grin
the walking sticks relentless tap
when age blind panic tips its hat
 
the maze that is dementia's way
with good reason drives a wedge
disabled and infirmed with gout
to toast before the gas runs out
 
retirement flyers and knowing looks
an epitaph of empathy carried like a corpse
loneliness its cancer without cure
its visits are so regular
 
tempis fugit a slippery slope
last memorial on a suicide note
self administered euthanasia's last step  
a dose that hangs on a cliff edge
 
to step upon deaths welcome mat
I am the me of future years mishaps
side step and dance to fates sharp claws
and jam the spring on deaths trapdoor
Written by slipalong
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Orc_Pirate_68
Sabrina Kirk-Caldwell
Thought Provoker
United States 5awards
Joined 29th June 2018
Forum Posts: 305

Broken Flames

In love we had been, married we once were,  
So sweet, a roaring flame that we had had,  
And a wonderful love that was so pure,  
I never thought that it would end so bad.  
I've never been fond of men my own age,  
It's older folk I've always fit in with,  
It was you who had brought me such courage,  
And for you I took every single breath.  
Little did I know, it would end like this,  
Just like it did for my parents,  
The whole thing had started with just a kiss,  
You changed, left our marrage in fragments.  
If only, in us, that flame could still burn,  
And that is the flame for which I do yearn.
Written by Orc_Pirate_68 (Sabrina Kirk-Caldwell)
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Angelast1
Dangerous Mind
Mexico 6awards
Joined 30th Apr 2018
Forum Posts: 40

I just noticed, I posted " soul snatcher" in the wrong comp. It belongs to the one called "Blank space" I think.  Can I delete it from here?

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IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
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Angelast1 said:I just noticed, I posted " soul snatcher" in the wrong comp. It belongs to the one called "Blank space" I think.  Can I delete it from here?

Yes you can.

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IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
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slipalong and Orc_Pirate_68 , thank you for your respective entry.

eswaller
Dangerous Mind
United States 31awards
Joined 22nd Dec 2015
Forum Posts: 762

Through the White Noise

I open my mouth to speak, but those people can only hear
The static come through like a radio that loses its signal.
To them it does not matter what I am holding near or dear
 
To my heart because I might as well be possessing a pistol
That is fully loaded because everyone is running the other
Way. No matter how hard I am trying to have things crystal
 
Clear people still choose to walk through the fog. The further
That they walk away on the wrong path they still blame me
Even though I already warned them about it. Every mother
 
Or father who loses their child’s love because they do not see
Or hear the storm warning coming ahead. I could be spitting
The truth and they will not believe me. I could tell that he
 
Would not accept it when I declare I love you as it is splitting
Him in half and not sure what side to be trusting. People may
Want to swallow the lies rather than listening to or admitting
 
To what is before them, the truth that that is shining like a ray
Of sunshine. You are going to be the one to make your way
Through the white noise because I am not here to play.
Written by eswaller
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Heart_symphony
Twisted Dreamer
Canada 3awards
Joined 17th Jan 2018
Forum Posts: 60

My Nightmare

I lay still
My complexion pale
My lifeless body on a table
 
Police tape around the crime scene  
My body sliced open  
Insides removed
 
I’ve been filled with black liquid  
It drips down my sides
Like ribbons of hate
 
My innards replaced with waste
My body used  
Mutilated  
 
I stare down at the gruesome scene
My corpse defiled  
Dehumanized  
 
Trapped in this nightmare  
Screaming, screaming  
My body doesn’t utter a sound
 
My soul has been ripped into shreds
My mind is in pieces on the floor
But I lay still
Just as I did before
Written by Heart_symphony
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IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
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eswaller and Heart_symphony, thank you for participating.

shaniadittee7
Avengers
Strange Creature
Bangladesh
Joined 29th Jan 2018
Forum Posts: 17

Grace
IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
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shaniadittee7 , thank you for participating.

runaway-mindtrain
Dangerous Mind
United States 8awards
Joined 30th July 2017
Forum Posts: 877

time frought with peril

 
As the young evening with an old clock on the wall...

Plucks oceans of rhyme from the pearls of swine
While pulling palms of groove from dates of time

They deceive, inveigle and then thru obfuscation
Set bedlams of abject pain in the deed causation

As the noon spotlights on a darkness curtain call...

Rota fortunae making an intuition path into luck
Line up in droves not to see the show that sucks

A shot in the dark makes the bullet seem generic
In the time when common sense sounds esoteric

As the older morning with a young sun in the hall...
Written by runaway-mindtrain
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IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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runaway-mindtrain, thank you for your entry.

carpemax
Lost Thinker
United States 1awards
Joined 6th Mar 2018
Forum Posts: 20

A Conversation with God

 
 
I bitch; And I moan; And I rant, 'til insane.  
And curse through spit, one spite-filled name.  
For, upon His high, I lower all guise,  
to castigate, this Lord of Lies.  
 
When comes 'lone times, wonder do I;  
What went wrong and as to, why?  
One day, sunny; the next, gray skies.  
Forever now, I only sigh.  
I shrug a shoulder for your gifts, Divined.  
Some gifts, I guess, best left behind.  
 
But, now am old and a wrinkled guy,  
whose better days have gone, bye-bye.  
Though, now I know more of self;  
the good, the bad, what life has dealt.  
 
For, the one thing age has made me see,  
is the god I've cursed is truly, me.
Written by carpemax
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