Poetica

  • Calix (Prose)

    Authored: January 13, 2024 It was off to the Brimstone Manor, you left Boar Hat Tavern, paid an extra platinum for your time there, paid for a couple of horses and left for your manor. They thanked you kindly and you left having not mentioned the little surprise in the room you were staying in…

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  • “When I come to meet you (death), I hope you will be Kind” (Prose)

    Authored: December 15, 2023 And then suddenly, i’m alone again. nothing but the wind flowing through the grass and trees to keep me company. my brain tries to find a reason “why wasn’t it me, why not me, why not me?”. I sway back and forth, hands on the sides of my head like I’m…

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  • Will You Love Me?

    Authored: May 30, 2021 It’s a goodbye not a farewellI’m lonely, lonely, lonelyLonely all the timeI’m lonely, lonely, lonelySo will you help me one more time.Thoughts of youTurn around inside my headAnd the only thing I knowIs that I always will regretAll mistakes that I have madeAll those hurtful words I’ve saidI wasn’t truly who…

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  • Silent Tears Swell to Form Rivers in the Alleyways of Cities

    Authored: August 22, 2017 We work, we toil, we scrounge to surviveDreams are that much harder to reachWhen the cost of living rises each yearSo, people struggle, they make doWhile the richer get richer and the politicians play gamesPoliticians say, “we feel your pain”What a laugh, if they did, the system would not be as…

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  • Sorry to Confuse You

    Authored: August 31, 2013 Sorry to confuse you, sorry to give you false hopes.But everything you thought you knew and knowis wrongWe’re flying the skies and we’re riding the trainsGoing places but going nowhereI looked into my heart and asked for answersIt was silence, as silence beckons beyond eternity.Sorry to confuse you, sorry that you…

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  • I Understand Everything and Nothing

    Authored: August 24, 2013 Barely a sound but the crackling of the BonfireAs I stared into the flamesOvercome I was for I reached a crescendoYou cannot understand Life without knowing DeathYou cannot receive happiness unless knowing PainYou cannot feel connection without redemptionAnd the flames danced and mesmerised me.If one cannot learn that the flame will…

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  • Gateshead

    Authored: July 20, 2013 On that fateful day you lost your battle, and you left meI held you in my arms so tenderly as you drew your last breathWe kissed as I felt you dieI stared into your open, yet empty eyes and I saw my reflection in themAs tears slid down my cheeks coating…

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  • This Momentary

    Authored: January 10, 2013 On these learned steps of my life,I seek Love.Loneliness is a state of mind, a choiceSo is love, but Love with the right lady.You cannot force love nor can you mold it.This very moment in time, at crossroads of thought and conceptionsI seek and attain clarity.As you seeketh the grail, you…

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  • Incongruent Truths

    Authored: March 5, 2012 We all seek not to be alone,To be loved, desired and held by anotherWe seek acceptance and understandingWe seek lust, companionship and honesty and loyaltyWe seek just not to be alone.But sometimes the only path for one,Is to be simply alone.That is the measure of a manWhen each budding relationship collapsesLike…

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  • At the Co-Syn Point

    Authored: November 18, 2012 With awakened eyes I saw the sunriseI held out my hands against the brisk warm windsOn the edge of this cliff, I standI closed my eyes and remembered my pastUnclenching my hands I opened them to receive the winds.I felt the rays of the sun on my face, caressingI saw in…

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