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The Damage of an Intrusive Lie

Today’s slurs are like stagnant water Welled up in my skull, Like the full weight of ruin From a landslide’s fury - Like an infernal melody Leagues under my skin, Leaving villages of sonnets To sink away in ashes - These fire-tinged lies Were set long ago, From a fellow voice adrift In a mire of their design - These words cannot belong Encaged in either body Or afloat in the ether Seeking worlds to dissolve

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The Damage of an Intrusive Lie

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Dreams and Nightmares

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Daybreak

From our murderous daybreak The armadas crept devious Doused the savages in fiery lead And forced the pagans to a merciful guillotine! Our pristine saviors Wield an eastern sky's creed Fables of purity and redemption Binding foul beasts to a bountiful glory And so came forth their empire of dreams With eyes of damnation And a lustful spirit of greed Our father's wept endless In the burning of tyrants Their tears instilled with joy All boundaries in flight of victory Justice for all that fall in line All without blemish And for true Men of stature Their eyes turned a devilish green In their visions of legions Beckoned to

Political battlefield

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The Pink Magnolia

The wind howls his tearful eulogy Pardoning the comfort of summer eves Their twinkling lights, fade to black in the dead of night Unleashed a storm, assembled by his awful grief Haunting me forever more, with their swift departure The frost all gathered in prayer on my windowsill Wishing the lost well, seeing them to the other side Calling my focus, toward a greater awakening My harsh and profound realization A resilient heart, bustled with excitement Sprang head first the cruel relentless ice No longer subject to the tyranny of winter The lone magnolia, spite lurked behind her treacherous grin She hoisted her pink flag high, c

Romantic

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Flesh and Blood

We fell beyond our roots Captive to our own peace Cursed in our mounting distance No longer sibling, Nor mere acquaintance Speak! And the halls of my mind Shall beckon redemption The winding chaos, shall ease into bliss Comfort my demons and send them off Silence remains Emboldened, sly and devilish Our menacing sidewards glares to steal the heart of me No longer sibling Nor mere acquaintance

Emotional

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William The Lionheart II

September 2, 2010 Bring silence to the puppeteers Tyrants, swollen with greed Beheaded, the crooked and condescending He sets free the lowly robots Spirits dissolved at the hands of the covetous Day by day monotonous toil Reap only their lives, the clothes on their backs One glimpse, an instant He disappears Treading the dusty roads Through shadowy canyon, rusted metal Frail and shivering, wasted youth Clinging to his side, microscopic dreams Clenched teeth and hesitant Follow me, keeper of your own flame The bombed out cities, civilization turned inside out They crowd the streets, marvel these unknown travelers Th

From my Imagination

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Red and White Embers

Dusk Became a keepsake jewel Housed, in the hull of memory The clouds were aflame Rolling forth Toward oblivion’s Frozen embrace To be enslaved To be swallowed whole By surging tides of black I basked in the fall Their fiery decline As the earth Was garbed in shadow

Always thinking ahead.

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The Damage of an Intrusive Lie by Loftydreams101, literature

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The Damage of an Intrusive Lie

The Fading Glow of the Provider by Loftydreams101, literature

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The Fading Glow of the Provider

A machinery’s red -hot grind Is slowly revving to a stop, Consumed by the grime Of too many summers lost - The glow Of her senseless labor dims, Entangled by the webs Winding over her frame - The swarms of her crew Fill the veins of their city, Her bones left to rust In their livelihood’s tomb - Now songbirds Warble in the wake of her rest Giving life to her limbs, Building nests in the wires

The Monster and the Egotists by Loftydreams101, literature

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The Monster and the Egotists

He is the ghoul in their heroic shadows A changeling, skulking Through the treacherous bends Of a concrete maze - He is a sign of the times In his woolen black armor, Speaking in riddles When his mind is afire - He is trouble leering back Past their sequined layers, Through the balmy colors Of a far-away Eden - He is the quiet tempest Who lives in their reflections, The rolling thunder Waging war in their hearts

The Pale Arteries of Town by Loftydreams101, literature

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The Pale Arteries of Town

Long walks through the morning frost Sit heavy in my stomach As time marches me away From the safety of solitude - Another week turns In the pitch-black stillness As I wait to be inhaled By the oblivion I’ve designed - To live a life filled with greeting And grieving and groveling, Looming larger and larger Until the bittersweet collapse - How long can I Bear the weight of old screams? Hauling them along The pale arteries of town

A Soft Landing by Loftydreams101, literature

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A Soft Landing

Falling out of the morning’s rhythm With a childhood of burdens Tied around my waist As it screams to its demise - My limbs go slack During the steep decline, As a healing mantra blooms Over the desert swathe within me - Falling out of the noise Into a nourishing silence, The heavy past slides away And blasts apart upon impact - I meet the ground feather light Within the maze of it ruins, Sifting through the heavy shards For a fable or a blessing

January's Dead Weight by Loftydreams101, literature

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January's Dead Weight

Trapped Under January’s cold dead weight I’m alive, in defiance Still afire With love and laughter passed by - In spite of the frozen void Stretching over my mind, The slow creeping devastation Of its crushing solitude - But how can I budge free From this ghost-white reverie And ebb away to be received By a sea of warm colors? - How can I melt away These wide pillars of ice That pin me in place In their encircling gloom?

Escape Downriver by Loftydreams101, literature

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Escape Downriver

There's motion in the ice Crumbling to a collective rush, Charging out to sea With years of walled-away rage - The river overflows Out of its mountain prison, Sending the walls crashing down Into a riverbed of skeletons - Replenishing the valleys On its homeward voyage Giving back what's been stalled In the snow for too long - It builds and destroys On its well-meaning journey, In its heartfelt revolt Through a wilderness of ashes

Midnight Landings by Loftydreams101, literature

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Midnight Landings

Each year I’m like a sinking stone Among a swell of misdeeds, Weighted with exhaustion As the nightmare’s climb - Cast aside on warm sands To begin again To be claimed by the vines Of the preying unknown - Until the bountiful sea Simmers green with envy, Drawing me into the con Of its calm embrace - To pursue the stars In its nightly ire, Clutching life at midnight As I wade to shore

A Voice Withheld by Loftydreams101, literature

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A Voice Withheld

Words seldom dare to take flight, On the wings of my voice, They hide away in notebooks Echoing in the shadows - In the quiet they thrive With brave and bright colors Reclaiming the years Swallowed whole by sorrow - I sing them out loud In the encircling storms, In the dry and brown swathes Of drought and decay - When I’m paces from slumber Will they ring out the truth, For every fighting heart Trapped in fear and fury?

Snarled with the Rising Notes by Loftydreams101, literature

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Snarled with the Rising Notes

The lights of December Hold a strange and dismal glow, As the year’s few survivors Recall the loved and lost - Their colorful nights Ebb and flow into the gutters With the late autumn rain As their cold, grim guide - Warm hearts and full stomachs Wrestle with their bitter grief, For the busy lives quieted On the way to winter’s embrace - Every trill and melody Is haunted with the year’s ghosts, Snarled with the rising notes Of each drunken night’s chorus

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