Pioneering playthings
reconnect my sight
concussion prophets
find us away from reconciliation
If we live without fear
can we smile when we die?
Shove all of the signs
into the pyre
and recite the poems of disease
under the night sky
metallic pains taste of copper
unsettled issues cast out
Losing the future to the past
falling for just today
reap the silence of our accord
as the eyes stare your way
perhaps you will know
when they come to take you
running from a perfect dream
where nightmares can come true
bind the weak and docile in chains
Text me when you are through
make for certain there is no escape
the raptor’s eye and silent seas
are changing to cobalt blue
The last two lines. Gaaah!
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Yeah, it’s kinda dark
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There is great beauty found in the darkness.
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I agree. Reminds me of the ocean, capable of great beauty and also of great destruction. Great fuel for poetry, that’s for sure!
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Love this: “perhaps you will know/when they come to take you/running from a perfect dream/
where nightmares can come true/bind the weak and docile in chains”
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This is one of my personal favorites. Thanks C
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Oddly enough I feel like I have barely to you this week. Hope you are recovering from the flu.
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Working on it 🙌
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Reblogged this on Secret First Draft: A Site of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective and commented:
Powerful darkness from OldePunk at RamJet Poetry.
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This is amazing. And that ending!
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Thanks Sarah 🙏
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Always!
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“If we live without fear
can we smile when we die?”
I literally had chills reading this line!!! Such a savage for this piece… and I love me a bad ass…
You go so deep with your words and I love it!!! Keep it coming… needed to feel these words today!
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thank you so much Dom! i am glad it resonated with you. And you my dear, ARE a badass!!!
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Well thank you!
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🙂
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