Don't Blink

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by shaina, Feb 24, 2006.

  1. shaina

    shaina No War Know Peace

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    Happily ever after.
    You can't tell me you don't see it,

    feel the
    pressure threatening to
    explode
    your internal pulsate.
    (Hear the snapshot)
    flash exposing all your
    not-so-little
    white lies.
    But I'd rather dip my brush,
    And paint them
    blue (for tears they cause)
    'Cause that's what the world
    would've said
    (and done.)
    That's your obvious innuendo:
    To be caught red
    handed.
    Can't get out of the color-craze,
    (swing, baby, swing to the
    disco ball in the sky.)
    Only then can you
    escape yourself.
    Holding on and
    Held down.
    By your very own hands.
    Some things can't be fixed,
    but we'll have given up
    at that point.
    And we'll title this
    tomorrow; identified
    by the eyes that see through
    The mirror you couldn't suppress,
    The distorted reflection you feel

    (is me,)
    a pseudo-knight in shining armor.

    Chivalry isn't your obvious forte,
    No please, pretty please.

    I must confess you beg,
    and it's not too..
    charming.
    Two cubes of sugar, if you may,
    with spellbound deception
    (to taste.)
    Another chapter you skimmed through,
    but
    then again,
    a watched pot never boils.
    But I wouldn’t put it past you
    to break the
    concrete.
    At least it isn't coal
    under the tree ---
    (This year.)
    Only because the gaseous sphere shone
    too bright.
    Unconcealed, you crumble.
    (It is obligatory,)
    no one laughs at your antics,
    Anymore.
    Blame it on being
    intoxicated.
    Bring you back to the dancing days,
    so you can block out (my
    sadistic tone.)
    Just up the shutters and force
    the fairy tale,
    (that is not life,)

    To begin.
    Another ridiculous damsel in distress.

    Protect you,
    From yourself.

    Sometimes I'm petrified,
    (and to be redundant) horrified,
    that you'll reach
    The last page --- The End.
    And what you expected will
    come.
    Just a little morbid, but there's no
    graves to dig up,
    (not this time.)
    You can't blame me for the fact,
    you haven't learned,
    To love yourself yet.
    Starve me and call me fat, then
    Whip open blinds and let the
    light blind us.
    (Can you handle that?)
    But I am your partner,
    in crime. Or am I
    a double-agent?
    Are your eyes burning, or is it
    a trick of my
    imagination?
    The static we hear is only
    synthetic.
    Grin in spite of ourselves.
    We believe the,
    not-so-little
    white lies,
    (When we say it enough.)

    Then we'll both drop dead,
    Once upon a time.
     
  2. osiris

    osiris Senior Member

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    What always amuses me about catching people red-handed in a lie is that there are really only two possible responses(which are, however, subject to variation in detail):

    1.) Simply acquiese to being caught and accept the consequences.
    2.) Act belligerantly outraged to the point where communication of any kind is intolerable and impossible.

    2 is far more amusing than 1. In retrospect.

    :)
     
  3. DoyalConQueso

    DoyalConQueso Member

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    this is good stuff, i dig the parentheticals, adds a very interesting rhythm change to it, like breaking the fourth wall and muttering under your breath. Paint your world in words
     
  4. shaina

    shaina No War Know Peace

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    thank you
     
  5. fabioula

    fabioula Hip Forums Supporter HipForums Supporter

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    i felt like that before,but your poem was deep i could feel your pain.reality written at its best.
     
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