Tag: writing
member name: Okang Ashiwel O.
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April 05, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
time flies
and night draws near.
pillows become sodden
and hearts become heavy.
oh, the things we do for love.
thoughts fly
to faraway places, loved ones.
memories come pouring forth
like the . . . more
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March 03, 2007 01:45 PM EST --
i came into your room
to kiss you on the cheek
but you scrambled to kiss my lips.
i smelled him onyour lips
the stranger.
i can see the empty bottle
and two glasses, see your
eyes darting as you try . . . 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 21, 2007 11:33 AM EST --
the words refuse to come.
only tears.
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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 17, 2008 03:45 AM EDT --
i waited with outstretched
arms from accross the street,
payiently counting the last
seconds before you'd fall
into the arms that had
waited all these years for you.
i closed my . . . more
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January 25, 2007 07:56 AM EST --
everyday
you just pine away
in grief unspoken, unshown
unrevealed, in blind stoicism.
i can see the tears of your silence.
your sadness generates more sadness
and your painting hangs on the empty . . . more
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February 10, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
sleep is a stranger now.
maybe a foe.
i just can't, soulbrother.
i can't shut my eyes.
that is when the nightmares come.
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February 03, 2007 01:28 PM EST --
last night
i . . . 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 16, 2008 01:50 AM EDT --
i keep wishing
i could write words
made of feathers.
i'd make those feathers
into wings for you
and you'd fly to
the city of shadows
where you always wanted
to go.
i wish i . . . 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 07, 2007 01:20 PM EST --
voices fill up the
empty spaces inside,
echoing through me
in their relentless
pursuit of each other.
but i cant be crazy,
because i'll find no
solace in the single
tear that drops, along
to the beat . . . more
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February 10, 2007 12:09 PM EST --
last night,
earth bled.
i stood by my
open window
and reached
out for a snowflake.
the snow
was crimson.
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March 02, 2007 03:28 PM EST --
we've created memories
out of fantasy
and elevated emptiness to
take the place of mater.
turn the pages of the
book of strange dreams
and tell me what my
nightmare means.
life is haunted . . . more
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February 01, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
PART I
a parcel came in the mail
first page:
these were my dreams
when i had a life.
pages spilled memories,
colour and emotions.
smiles.
PART II
a large scrawl,
familiar handwriting.
one sentence. . . . more
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February 06, 2007 12:12 PM EST --
all my life,
i've written
words on the
pages of my
heart, on the
barks of pines,
on walls and
on beach sands.
words for you,
practice, you
might say.
all my life,
i've waited
for the chance
to . . . 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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