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 . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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January 12, 2009 04:09 PM EST --
i should've known
there'd be times like this,
times when you'd come
across like a
whisper in the wind.
i should've taken my
time to listen to the
whisper . . .
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October 20, 2009 08:10 AM EDT --
i see colors, monochrome colors when you call my name.
three hours, and you looked at me, and didn't say a word, but silence is not empty.
silence speaks in colors.
so we spoke . . .
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January 19, 2009 11:12 AM EST --
dawn broke
and my heart broke with it.
suddenly i become empty
and my soul aches when
i call your name.
the sunrise feels your absence
and the sofa mourns.
dawn is beautiful like a sad virgin, . . .
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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, . . .
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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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May 27, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
so we prayed for God
to kiss our kiss-starved souls,
so our leaky eyes could heal
and we could navigate
this present darkness of days,
battered ships, each and every
one of us, wave-tossed, . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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January 23, 2009 10:27 AM EST --
i bought you flowers,
red flowers.
for the first time, i
made you cry.
you cried words
you had locked away
for sixteen days,
things you should've said
a long time ago.
your words bled . . .
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May 24, 2009 05:48 PM EDT --
love was cold tonight
and the fire in your eyes
was just a dim flicker
i love you, but i don't
love your personal demons
and you don't want to let
them go.
your blue eyes . . .
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May 24, 2009 05:25 PM EDT --
we watched
as they sang and laughed
and danced and played
and walked and talked,
and tried to copy.
we couldn't help ourselves.
they say the
days of legends are over. . . .
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