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The anatomy of my survival.

I am machine, cold, though I want to be devoured like sweet blood oranges. Scarred, crimson fruit in autumns alleyways. & for those unaware, this is a freudian slip. I have never known the meaning of silence. I am too loud, not loud enough. My knees are their own bruised universe as I ask for wisdom spread along my soil. My branches - they shake with insecurity. This cemetery cat: I want him to hurt me. Claw his way through my anatomy - into the darkest parts of me. This is not love. This is back-alley romance, untamed wanderlust & he begs for the chance to find it. - He is pieces, emotionally cursed. A black cat, & I am not sup

Things That Go Bump In The Night Contest

3 deviations
Not so far

Visual Poetry

343 deviations
Haiku-1 Image

HaikuWriMo 2015

16 deviations
Literature

Unreal World of Self-esteem

“Beautiful,” proclaim others of our blazing inner light. “What beauty?” We wonder, as it burns down our fragile house of pride. Casting shadows in our minds — forever noontime small — pinned in the cracks on the well-worn sidewalk that others tread upon, but none so heavily, carelessly, or so often as ourselves. The shadows change and shift — distorted images in the mind — a Funhouse inferno of broken bulbs and melting mirrors. We believe in what we see, giving power to Truth or to Illusion. This is the pitfall of Perfectionism, the danger of Doubt, and the reality of the hidden depths of the unreal world of Self-esteem.

Prosetry

332 deviations
Literature

Numb Yourself for the Greater Good.

Name your wait I don't want to talk about it we shouldn't have to feel this way I've said it before still don't feel like I'm being genuine make it easy for wanting more you have to get your sentence in

Lyrics

434 deviations
Self Portrait

Artistic Expressions, emotive art

2 deviations
Literature

Monogrammatica

Wer glaubt, etwas sei nicht nur böse gegenüber jemandem, sondern böse in sich selbst: ist böse. Alle sozialen Normen auszublenden, wäre das Beste, was gegen das Böse unternommen werden könnte. Argumente sind vom Teufel. Man kann entweder nach Macht streben, oder man kann nach Macht streben, indem man nach den Herzen der Menschen strebt. Die größten Fehler erschließen sich immer erst, nachdem es schon längst zu spät ist. Es ist mir unbegreiflich, wie intelligente, erwachsene Leute imaginäre Freunde haben können. Ich hoffe aber: dass diese imaginären Freunde einfach nur etwas sind, das sie sich „gönnen.“ Wie sie sich alles andere: auch schon „gegönnt“ haben. So lange es Menschen gibt, wird es niemals Humanität geben. Wohl aber: dieses Wort. Religion und Obskurantismus ist ein und dasselbe. Oder wäre das zumindest, wäre letzteres kein Fachausdruck des ersteren. (Nämlich einer, der immer nur andere Religionen beschreibt.) Der Grad, in dem westliche Länder vielfältiger werden, ist

Foreign Language

219 deviations
Literature

Purple

turn upon me like a hurricane upon the earth loathe me like humans loathe pity fight against me like religions fight wars defeat me like you kissed me (and fear me like you fear no one else)

2014 Summer Mini Challeng- Closed

5 deviations
Literature

Nope

One step        Two step                Three                         w                          h                           o                            o                             p                              s!

Six Word Story Contest- Closed

6 deviations
Literature

The Siren at the Sandbar

I'll pull you in with my glittering eyes And pull you down with my lonely hands. I'll tangle you in my sea-salt hair And tangle you up with heartfelt lies. I'll whisper a high-tide “I love you,” Listening to your uncontrollably human pulse. But those words are meant for me as well Because I want to believe it could be true. You’ll follow me to the water with a kind Of nonchalance still playing on my lips. You won’t be alive when I’m done with you But I’ll leave your body for another to find.

April Fantasy Challenge- Closed

2 deviations
Literature

An Odyssey

bound by a tangled map of veins where blood no longer chased, hidden by clouds    that sailed the sky, the air exhaled to herd the mists   would not return to my cage of life I sent my shadow to search the sun and his cloak of rays; I stole the moon to journey where darkness built his castle. and days ran through my weary soul like dancing children as if they were hurdles barely knee-high    a strand, washed white by the floods of loss, charged into my eyes, for first they scrambled shut    in emptiness, the unspoken passion that I buried alive, screamed and rang true the stars did not falter as they unraveled the grave    life p

April Music Challenge- Closed

8 deviations
Literature

they promised me a lamb

march, the middle child, smothers cruel crocus teases in ivory flurries

March Haiku Challenge- Closed

14 deviations

Winter Alliteration Contest- Closed

4 deviations
Literature

I miss my childhood

I miss the older times. I was care free back then. I wish for innocence again. Time's up: No more snacking and riding bikes, running parks, flying kites, trusting people blindly.

Butterfly Cinquain Contest

6 deviations