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Devoid

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

I wept but you were still deadmarks of a thousand needlesdotting your armit fell ashen to the floor.Eyes staring, vacantno legacy remained of you,you were gone.Just a tomb of human fleshdevoid of self, devoid of lifejust void, just nothing.More street detritus to be swept away,away from the uncaring worldaway from me.

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Word salad

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

I ask for you to let me knowJust how you felt,You said“the juxtaposition of want/needme/you to frame our sensibilitiesseems phantasmagorically quant.”Pardon, can it be a bitless wordy“yes, yes, of course mon amiI only suggest in an idiosyncratic waythat peculiarities of the congruence of our associationcannot just be base on coveting and claiming.”But..but.. mumSalad for tea?

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Insomnia

Posted on 07/31/2025 by admin

Sleep has fucked right offdeserted me as I crave,the silence of a quiet mindset to dream instead of rebelliousthoughts rioting.Pacing around the living roomawake, cursed and cursing.Fused in a fugue stateof frozen zombie mumbling.The thoughts keep colliding.Pushing me onaway from the sanctity of Bed.The longing for duvet wrapped aroundKeeping away the cacophony,but tonight it will…

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Colours

Posted on 07/31/2025 by admin

I was born on a blue daywhich was in an indigo montha part of a periwinkle year. I have been green with envyseething chartreuse with covetousnessand jade with jealousy I have loved in falls of roseruby blushes with raptureand carmine with concupiscence I have was night black in bitternessdarkest coal fuelled my depressionand obsidian with…

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Lovers

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

Arms entwined,Breathing the scent in deep,The heady perfume of each otherlight headed with dizzy satisfaction.Whispered soft affectionsTwo halved wanting to be wholeAs the quintessential youDissolves as we become one.Both lost body and soul in each otherThe two halves whole, joinedMoments lasting into infiniteTogether in esoteric blissAs love eclipses deed.Yet,We part, no longer whole,Still arms entwinedGentle…

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Relief

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

Sliding slowly into silken reliefslumbrous eyes awash with sleepsomniferous dreams cascade at lastshowing images from an imagined past.Fragmented illusions cavort aroundanaesthetizing fears to stay bound,dormant and lulled to drowning depthswaving bye to those that seeks to wreckand diminish all that I have becomebanish the nightmares so I won’t succumb.

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Pirate dreams

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

Being me is pretty often boringI’m not a ninja, cowboy or piratejust someone who could be snoringthough I guess a pirate I’d admire it.A red parrot would adorn my shouldersquawking at my desperate rowdy crewhoping to make them more emboldenedwhen we attack people they run them though.Cutlasses red, slick with blood and goredoing piratey thing…

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Night walking

Posted on 07/31/202507/31/2025 by admin

Walking at night to clear the mind debristhe orange luminescent glow of lampsoverhead, electricity hummingfending off the darkness with pools of lightspilling over the greying tarmac path.Night’s silence interrupted by nature,the foxes’ serrated screams, the owls hootshaunting from trees clothed in inky shadow.Not frightening, happily welcomingno longer I travel in solitudebut have the company of…

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Candle light

Posted on 07/30/2025 by admin

The night draws on for evermoretears of wax lining the candle wicktallow rivulets upon the taper boretime drips by, crying and histrionic.Darkness warded away with lightflickering and fluttering in the breezecavorting with shadows, impractical fighta play, a poem, an animated frieze.Performer, juggler, a flirting flameflitting, spluttering and rejuvenatingUnabashed and wholly unashameddefeating the night and elucidating.My…

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The hangman

Posted on 07/30/2025 by admin

The hangman drew the hanged manfrom the bleeding tarot deck,thinking that his future must changeor hell would claim his debt.The Devil laughed at the confusionwritten all over the hangman’s facethinking that he could escape his fateor rewrite it, seemed misplaced.The Devil mentioned politelythe hangman had a duty to performand in that moment all was naughthe…

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