Tag: people
member name: Okang Ashiwel O.
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January 02, 2007 01:03 PM EST --
i thought i was smiling
but i couldn't feel it
so i went into the
bathroom to check.
i found a stranger in the mirror.
i thought i was laughing
but i couldn't feel my own laugh
so i went into . . . more
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June 17, 2008 03:48 AM EDT --
all his life,
he wanted to burn
but now he fades away,
slowly, like an echo.
the pain brings me to my knees.
i cry for him.
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March 27, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
i've never felt so lost
within the confines of certainty.
i've never had to scream in pain
in the places where i find pleasure.
i found the girl of my dreams and she's
the hydra of my . . . more
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April 04, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
stay just a little while,
and i'll tell you words
i tell no one else.
stay just a little while
and i'll make you smile
in a way you've never smiled
before.
stay just a little while,
and i'll . . . more
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June 05, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
we talked for a while,
the conversation going
nowhere for a while,
just the soft words
that materialize when
two people trade words.
i don't know what you
watched for, searched for . . . more
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February 06, 2007 01:57 PM EST --
Part I [Sanguine]
i breezed
through this
earthly existence
with an ethereal
nonchalance that
defied remedies
till i found you
alone at a table for
two and looked into
your eyes, dark and
mysterious, . . . more
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February 10, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
a mass of humanity,
an exodus of vehicles,
the eyes took it all in.
he crawled along,
looking for a place to
taste home.
just one taste.
he turned into a wrong alley
and a gun took his collectables. . . . more
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March 27, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
i stand on the
threshold of a sacrifice
battling my demons,
praying for peace for
the multitude and me.
can you hear our prayers?
i see their shrunken sacrifices,
just like mine,
all of us victims . . . more
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June 05, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
I dreamt the world
Into existence, last night
And you were there with me,
Two people lost in
Thoughts we couldn't write.
That's what we were.
And you could have covered me
With your . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:03 AM EDT --
it was a bleak, stark land
with two hundred flies
and no buzzards.
skeletons of dying spirits
provided bones for our
makeshift shelter.
i saw the skeleton of
the love we once had,
dying . . . more
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March 17, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
I.
me.
a brook.
six hours and
a setting sun.
you didn't come.
II.
i hear voices,
i see air faces.
whether they are real
or a figment of my imagination,
i know not.
but when i look down . . . more
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March 23, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
I.
me.
a brook.
six hours and
a setting sun.
you didn't come.
II.
i hear voices,
i see air faces.
whether they are real
or a figment of my imagination,
i know not.
but when i look down . . . more
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February 10, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
love is for fools,
and you've been a fool twice,
staring out our window, nights,
and wafting sweet dreams to a soul
that lavishes in ignorance, bliss
of you.
pray harder.
your love loves another . . . more
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June 17, 2008 03:57 AM EDT --
you sat and sang
and danced and played
and laughed.
mother and child,
and i watched you
from under the picnic tree
with no branches,
nursing the leftovers you'd
wrapped for me in a . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:07 AM EDT --
friendship was when
i held your hand
and we walked by
dried up creeks
with dead spirits on the banks
and saw nothing but paradise,
i think.
love?
love was when you left
and the colours . . . more
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January 02, 2007 12:18 PM EST --
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Recently I got to thinking, pondering on the title of Mrs. Angelou's book, ' I know why the caged bird sings'. I don’t know about you but . . . more
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June 16, 2008 06:39 AM EDT --
it was valentine
but no one came
calling.
i know because i
watched from my
window same as you.
so i sent you a
black rose,
a black, metal rose.
you didn't understand
so you . . . more
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