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Alternate a line of four

with a line of three

-

and you can pedant a form of

musicality

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"We all deserve love

even on the days when we aren't our best

because we all suck

but love can make us suck less."

-Bo Burnham

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the old masters; seek what they sought.

-Matsuo Basho

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I learned today that low self-worth

is a necessary feature of loneliness.

Imagine for a moment that I deserve

nothing for myself. What do I miss?

-

Is it not this: seeing myself with others?

-------------the upper case I? the we?

-

but when I feel I am good enough

Augustinian salvation rears its head

and genuine community emerges -

even when I'm alone.

-

when I see that everyone is flawed

just like me and

everyone has redemptive traits

just like me.

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I need to come clean

This whole time you may have thought

that I have something to say.

-

I don't.

-

But,

you see,

I would

very much

like to.

-

you see, I love to write.

I love the flowery film on top of words.

I love the music they contain.

-

So I will write anyways

and hope for something to say.

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Delicate Hero

The protagonist of our story

could not be here today.

She was too shy to come.

But we do not need to meet her

to hear of her noble deeds:

crossing Timbres,

fighting Thou-Shalt,

defeating the deafining Screech,

but most importaintly of all is

folding life into discrete layers

so that we can machine our parts together.

Our protagonist should be here by now,

though, it is hard to fight back the nerves.

no one doubts she will prevail.

Against whom?

herself

for she is her own worst enemy.

No. This is not a story

on which to found a people.

No. This is no tale of war.

This is of self-overcomming and not

as you may have supposed

something to take lightly

as if detatched from you somehow

No. Our protagonist has been here all along.

Our protagonist is you.

Will you accept that role?

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Villa nelle

There is a flame burning in me

That feels so dense and forever

So that when I cry, I'm empty

-

What makes it worth contending

oneself versus another?

There is a flame burning in me

-

It's full and here and spinning

It makes me warm and colored

So that when I cry, I'm empty

-

There is no room for more to be

Although it is sometimes smothered

There is a flame burning in me

-

There is only one thing I see

It is that with which I am covered

So that when I cry, I'm empty

-

My tears cry out the flame's peak

And thus the two do fight whenever

There is a flame burning in me

So that when I cry, I'm empty

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My mind keeps circlining me in circles

as it continues to spin repetitive tales

not at all clear and universal

-

It burns but with no source infernal

as, in this verbal jail,

My mind keeps circlining me in circles

-

It must be something internal

It must be water to bail

not at all clear and universal

-

It must be something eternal

at lest, that's what it seems to entail

My mind keeps circlining me in circles

-

I yearn for my dispersal

I see cohesion almost fail

not at all clear and universal

-

I'm chained to this rehersal

my minimalist mind rails

My mind keeps circlining me in circles

not at all clear and universal

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My coffee cup is black and white -

jitteringly fine -

and with a deep intensity

and just as deep desire.

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Natural Beauty

I've never seen such orange on a tree

The ground is full, I cannot see a blade

The color slashes with ferocity

And scorches all around with great delay

-

There seems to be a wrinkle in design

I feel a distance from this work of art

What seperates it from this heart of mine?

The space that stretches all the worlds apart

-

Why should nature shine without a reason?

A bit of no in comparison pales

To this beauty: nature's change of season

How without a why could the world prevail?

-

What world, what color could be so intense

If it, the world, were driven by nonsense?

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Need vs Ability

If every moment does contain the next,

then this moment is in each one past,

And this moment has it's history fixed,

If every moment does contain the last.

-

Still I resolve the bonds of time and need

toward a goal which I have set myself.

Through the trudge of time my mind proceeds

toward the thrill of some harmonious health.

-

Or might another through my phantom see,

Though running off in front of me it goes,

Still fixed the chain of cause dissolving me?

Although they think themselves free even so?

-

Does it really matter if there is some

great chain which fixes us and our freedom?

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You aspire to

What inspires you.

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Beaux Esprit, that's me!

The voice of a generation!

I’m so poetic with my prophetic tone!

Aren’t I obscure? Aren’t I profound? Yes, of course I am!

Incisive? What does that mean?

Follow me! All others are epiphenomena!

[wordsnquotes]

I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.

Paulo Coelho (via wordsnquotes)

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Bye again forever srsly

[yeahthathappened]

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