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Poetry

233 works

Poem·Alex Mascarenhas

Alive – or Otherwise

I open my eyes Low and behold, to my surprise I am alive still Everyone but me dies and dies I go into the world Wearing my clear disguise, chasing highs I am still alive, man Looking down from a...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Feral mundane

Dark alley Where we met Maimed by your simper Lurking, patiently waiting, prowling For my heart to open Mauled by your love While drowning in the muddy gutter You dragged me to your den Throughout the night, beyond the dawn,...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Teardrop’s ash

What can I say, and how To make the words into shievers Where would I learn, and if I did, how would you know Sliding through rainless rainbows Letting Artemis longing for me into an ocean & In her tears’...

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Poem·Lifeasapoet

I saw you on the bus

I saw you on the bus. I never knew you, but I knew you when. When things were nice and quiet. If I could pile up all this crap into one big heap of shit, I'd have plenty of space...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Leftover love

I hid you in my thought Deep, in dark ravines Behind mountains of chores I chained you at the base of inescapable responsibilities I scrubbed with tar your taste your smell From fingernails, from tongue I ripped the memory of...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

The kiss, the satin & a year

The smile descended in the room past five One wall was made of shade the one erected on the pedestal of light is burning thin A kiss slipped thru the cracks of reason The other one, swimming across the table,...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Of all,

Unhatched, our past Laid rotten in the nest Even the runt flew close to the embrace Of a today, tomorrow Just now & then, swayed a bit Onto the decomposing whispers Before dissolving through the remaining thoughts, fetid Desireless even...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Quest

Looking for immortality in all the wrong places In the penumbra of life Through the attic of death Among the shivers of love Into the vowelles screams of torture At the moon On the wings of a melting myth In...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

UnAlphabetless

Should I spend the night with JustALizz? Nah! give her just a minute or two She’s almost in the middle, Mary’s that prudish kindda slut Change your mind & dial Your phone book's full Every letter's laden with love From...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

The dried and the rain

Looming atop a hill Some gallows They, somber Me, a jester The crowd as always Cheering before the curtain had been risen I took a drag, threw out a laugh The pebble dwellers went ballistic And then, the sky did...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Letting go… there

Let’s make love where the sky ends Come with me there, today I’ll pick you up at the end of the tunnel If you get stuck My breath will sweep you in my arms where you can rest Don’t bring...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

A play, two play

The shooting stars came out early today Like home alone brats Just to play Sliding on broken souls Kicking thoughts over fences Picking up shattered breaths Into an incomplete puzzle Just like that Orgasmically They faded into dawn like adults...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Incoming drought

Adio! My last kiss A meager trace of moist onto your lips The dusk is just upon us Before you glipse I’ll be where I belong In pathless realms Roaming, and dancing, and laughing, loving As a nocturnal dream At...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Incest

Just because I said I love you You don’t steer Just because I said I’d die for you You aren’t a god And just because I wasn’t

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

The bald peacock

In the meantime Love Between packaged thoughts & wrinkling dreams Where butterflies & gut are waiting for the bus toward unconquered 9to5’s Barren and responsible like all the mortals Love me the way you can I promise I will burn...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Ode to Stupid

You, you slaughtered methaphors in ditches Turned revolving souls into stomping flats I go to morgues On Monday mornings to check what happened during rest Who’s god is turning into ashes What mother let a womb succumb Who jogged to...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Been there, walked that

Laden with shoes His room was All worn From floor, onto the wall Until the immediate unreached The ceiling Upside-down Cigarette butt below the sole All his He looked at them, He was here, there At the inbehind Unhis A...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

mundane guillotine

What if die tonight Would your laughter get fuller? No You’d have to deal with it Yes I’m awake tomorrow, still Slaughtered in your dawning mind I escaped

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Milky men

Fact Good & bad True &false Weak & strong They say Heaven & hell Drunk of joy & despair Wait a minute I say Before I mumbled in whisper To myself Cheers! Then, They mute or, Me deaf Or the...

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Symboless

Let’s meet at + infinite where parallels roll in hay where love is capable of laughter right there universless & unawhere

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