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9/3/2008 5:54:04

Jjtee
Member

English summer

Rustling of dog eared pages,
My elbows dig through ground.
Birdsong of the ages
That distant calling sound.

The grass flails at my arms,
It sails in the breeze
Sweeping with all the calm,
In the endless green lit seas.

The book nuzzles at my face,
Reflecting rays of gold,
Shining all its glorious grace
Of skies far untold.

Time speeds and starts to wander,
As grey invades this isle,
Rain attacks with partner thunder
But all I do is smile.

Sonnet I
A pounding pace which pummels at my heart,
It signifies a whim of my false dream.
The longing of the stare warns of the start,
Tormented love for you as it should seem.
The seconds draw to hours as I wait,
Between the minutes and the months that burn
Away the selfless soul that is my fate,
Until the day that love will turn to spurn.
But now I realise that I loathe you more,
With hateful heartache which makes me insane
In darkness that you broke upon my core,
Amidst the searing serenade of pain.

The truth of Love I know this of my part
The endless cycle of Dismay restart.

Post #: 1

9/3/2008 6:00:54

Jjtee
Member

My finish line keeps moving

I run my race over paper,
Trailing snail marks of ink.
I'm breathing heavy,
These cold wet whispers of words
Escape my deserted mouth.

It's a critical marathon,
Make or break stuff.
A race I can't win with
The world's eyes glaring,
Judging this text.

Am I too cliched,
Trying too hard?
Breaking the mould that has already been
Set.

Go.

Why do I keep running,
When what I want keeps changing.
This race needs an end,
But I can't think of one for
You.

Lie with me

You.
Don’t come any closer.

My Lies will scald you,
These cards will cut you,
And this poker face,

It will Finish you.

A love of lies, shared by company in
Living love and Dying lies.

My bed is not soft, nor white.
But if you lie with me tonight,
You’ll risk it all.
If only for gold.

Please lie with me.

Audrey

You stare with impassive eyes.
The canvas,
Black.
White.
Your true colours bleed through.

Beauty held in stasis on my wall,
Elegance only a glance away.

Timeless, undying, perfect and classic.
Definitions people abuse.
You are the standard,
Others can only be measured.

Morals.
Charity.

All are forgotten.

Still shots remain and endure,
Our definition of You.

Those eyes.

< Message edited by Jjtee -- 9/3/2008 6:02:42 >

Post #: 2

9/3/2008 6:04:17

Jjtee
Member

The Conjurer

I seek shadows and applause.

I stand tall, sculpting cards of fire and night.
First painting the silence
With cold air of awe, grinding of sand grains
As Time starts to stall.

Hold this moment.

The tension of threads that do tie us.
Strains on the audience may
Force wonder to fail.
Play the right heartstrings and
Claim warm reward.

For your shallow shell.

Entertainment for faces of laymen alike,
Controlling not props, but real human spark.
Inking the page of performance secrets,
Creating a story like no other.

Stolen from a dead Codex.

We enter agreement,
You know you’ll be fooled.
I weave my fate, flourishing
My Fame.

Of fleeting glory.

Amazed are the audience,
Magicians control their Muses.
Feeding off praise,
No different from gods.

I become my mask and art.

Friends
They disgust me.
Inside us I imagine we are all the same, keeping our final secret silent.
We interact and love, it's in our bones and blood.
We are social animals.
We are Animals.

I speak my mind, breaking boundaries and laws. Freedom with friends.
But one taboo still stands.
I say it alone, whispering the pain to mirrors.
It goes beyond my envy and competition
as no matter how high above them I rise
the smaller you become
the smaller I become.

A Dot.

Only Violence can satiate me now.

The Path

All things worth saying have been said.

Striving and study fail even the most dedicated of souls,
there is no return.
Droning life, is but lucid dreams between reveries,
Intertwined with insights beyond our control.
Drifting between these realms reveals no promise and no despair.
Fact.

Uncomplicated and as real as imagined, hollering at our thoughts and itching at our minds.

Presque vu.

Trudging the steps of a temple seeking enlightenment,
A breakthrough that will lead us to the skies above.
But no brilliance is departed onto us despite distance travelled.
The mist still lingers.

These clouded minds of faceless individuals,
We do not remember them,
History does not recall them.
These shoes, worn by countless others before our time, following the same route that we follow; beaten, trodden, dead.
Where shall we find truth and salvation?

Post #: 3

11/26/2008 17:35:58

Jjtee
Member

Neon Spaghetti Nightmare

I pass through the unforgiving gates.
They snap and snarl and scream,
Trapping the tourists
Who now Belong to Boris.
I offer shellfish and gold to satiate the guards,
And begin my descent.

It's sweltering in the fetid belly
Of the mechanical worm.
Staring at the lost souls,
Life drained from their faces;
Payment to the Leviathan.
Don't get lost on the damned voyage,
Endlessly circling the Yellow one,
Unable to leave.

Breathing beneath the soil
Careering round town
Drinking in the darkness.
Mining lights marking tracks,
The holes and homes of the creatures.

At the junctions the monsters intertwine and
Screech harsh words as they pass.
Claiming their territory, urinating on their turf.
Decades of leaking lubricant
Leaves that stale dull smell.

I escape with the myriad of
Speechless faces.
Squawking and kicking,
Ascending from the depths,
Blinded by the day.

I have to face them again,
Face them everyday.
A dependency that I loathe,
For the Beasts that I love.

Post #: 4

6/17/2009 20:08:59

Jjtee
Member

My life thus far

I WILL drag you with me
Through my life, through my eyes
And you shall read
You must read.
Speak it aloud and hear it in your ears
As if I am there beside you
A guide through time that passes slow
Written now on this blank window.

It starts in black and white
My memories cowering from the light
An age of movement, of travel back and forth
Learning to read and discovering my worth.
Beaten sinister hand,
Making me write with right, these
Archaic rules and superstitions
Fill my life with indecision.
"What school, what country
What language should he speak?"
A time of indecision
With no decisions made by me.

Even then my parents were ambitious,
Forcing learning whilst I was swinging free
Though tethered to my Father's hand.
A push, then all I see is sky
Stretched out before me like
A satisfactory yawn.
"What's an invertebrate?"
Is not a question for a three year old,
Delusions of grandeur between two chains.
Being solo increases pressure
Makes you want to achieve something better.

Red sweaters now fill my mind,
As I enter this brick building for the first time.
A place of comfort, of education
Learning to colour between the lines.
A spot of yellow paint upon a
Brilliantly snowy canvas
Luckily in a land that's very harmless.
Even then I accelerate
Never holding on the brake
Striving, jumping through the hoops
Till the night and its deafening silence.

Too much reading made me anxious,
Gave me dreams that I couldn't shake
Even though I tossed and turned
Floundering around like a half chewed worm.
Darkness was my only fear
Firing adrenaline through my blood
Trying to convince myself
"There's nothing there, there's nothing there".

In my world "there's nothing there",
I measured the days with new encounters,
"Marvellous Medicine" and "Giant Peaches".
It was here my future was fated.
I dared to poke the universe
Ask it one big favour.
Daring not to hope
Squeezing on my breath
I implored the masters of my life.
Finally
A decision made by me
Among the indecision of eternity.

A tender age I left my home
Started life anew.
Reborn not in fire and future
But darkness and tradition.
Others now, just as me
Away from friends and family.

In this place I found myself
Realised what cards had been dealt.

I spent my mornings, days and nights
Walking on the stony paths
Enclosed all sides by red bricked buildings
With country mist sliding with me.
Marching made me feel accepted,
Walking side by sides with comrades
Friends and companions filling gaps
Where family dug the holes.
This was the time, the time
I made my face to show the world
Murdered some parts to create
A person that I should be.

Years went by, with same routine
Of classes, work and joviality.
I did my best, as I always do
But always fearing for the future.
Enveloping my world with all its presence
Pressing at my mind
It lingered.
I do not wish to see my life fly by
For my greatest moment to flicker.
I fear the reaper and his sickle
I fear his touch and I fear for others
But utmost
I fear to be forgotten.

But with resolve I realised
I was no seer
That I could be what I should be
That even through the struggling crisis
Through the weeping and the begging
The future was not so enticing
That the moment is surprising.

-Interlude-

I avoided it all my life
Seeing it all around,
Encased and packaged on certain days
With others flaunting it
Like a new coat.

But I had never tried it on
Let alone show the world its colours.

I was afraid what it would mean
How my life could change
Or what person I would become.
Now it's all strange

Strange like the turning of the season
When you miss it all together.
I must have been sedated
Because my vision is blurred
And the world seems different.

My friend is no longer a stranger
She says to me
"I'm just very confused right now"
I'm glad that she's confused with me.
Happy that its me she's confused with.

The meaning and the words are there
Hanging in the corner of your sight
But nobody says anything
We don't need to.

I like the cold, the frost, the bleak sky.
I like having someone to share the chills with.

I'm glad I avoided it all my life
It makes finding it that much better.
The fact is I don't need a coat
When I'm wearing it all the time.

-Interlude End-

My moments were surprising
With each day a new street and door.
I made the man I wished to be
Carved him from my fondest friends
Chiseled away my enemies.
Even with this I fell.
Fell at the last hurdle,
Scattering my plans like breadcrumbs
Soaking in the tears.
I wept and prayed, prayed and wept.
But decisions were firm
And so did I have to be.

But it brings me here.
To this very moment,
This instant that you are reading
That you are seeing, hearing
Feeling.
It's all determined by the past
By our chances and our gambles,
I'm here with you now
And although this is ending
The words are wrapped in dusk and shroud
The human voice remains and mine and your story
Shall continue
And I am not afraid.

Post #: 5

12/22/2010 6:16:15

Jjtee
Member

London is empty

I end the night upon a bus;
ears still ringing with heat and lust
but dampened by the steamy rain,
by the mosaics beyond the windowpane.

the ghostly shops and worn out bars
lined by gravestones: lonely cars.
with drunken mourners on their feet
praying to policemen on the beat.

but a mired man sleeps alone,
inside his sinking cardboard home
his breath still smoking in the air.
lingering like a longing stare

to where we pass a grey lit park;
reclaimed by silence in the dark
but broken by us turning right
a burning chorus composed of light

I tread the pavement, I'm truely trollied
My shoes and soul are duly sullied.
These moments after sin and booze,
I listen for my god, my muse.

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