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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Dew drop shining
    Our crystal ball
    Nature sends a message
    Out of foreboding
    From her to me
    Our future always in question
    But never our past
    I took her hand and held it
    She asked me a question
    I never got wrong
    But one more question
    Still hangs on my tongue
    Tomorrow I'll ask it
    Consult sun and stars
    Will the constellations protect us
    Will they preserve us at night
    From the biting conviction -
    Deep in the shadows
    Something stalks us tonight
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Your face, staining the memory of passers by
    Cruel grin
    Abuse
    You are living proof
    That witches still exist
    I wish I could vomit you out
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Say goodbye to everything that you ever knew before
    Say hello to nightmares, say hello to the floor
    Say goodbye to certainty, but welcome in the strength
    You didn't know it until you found it.
    And when you've come right through it, be sure to pay respects
    To the people that renew it with every heartfelt breath
    Give thanks for the small things
    Sunlight on your face
    Sleeping in the day
    The voices on the cool cool breeze
    Give thanks to those who say
    That every day's tomorrow
    And they're just glad that you can stay
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Early morning
    We say goodbye
    And I catch my train
    I look back and all I ever see
    Is that girl left behind me
    Me, you smiling now
    Waving goodbye
    She smiles slightly
    That still faded wistful lonesome smile
    Fading into the distance
    Trapped in a broken past
    As I move away
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Waiting for my stop
    Tracks rumble under me
    Daylight welcoming me home
    Memory and your fragrance
    Recent memory
    Fading from present
    To mind, eternally
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Shivering, fading
    As we get farther away
    You're only strong when I'm with you
    And then you punish me
    By collapsing the same day
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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    stunning

    this thread gets more and more beautiful and intense everytime i read it
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    electricxlovex wrote:
    stunning

    this thread gets more and more beautiful and intense everytime i read it


    Thankyou my friend
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    edited April 2011
    They told me off for 'inappropriate behaviour'
    I asked them exactly what was appropriate behaviour for a mental hospital?
    They didn't like me much after that
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    edited April 2011
    The moon rises above my bed
    Orange glow of argon and silver traces
    This night will be the longest I have known
    Door locked to keep them out
    Locked to keep me in
    Wailing in the corridors
    But it's the inside that is really haunted
    I watch the walls bend
    As their chemicals engulf me
    I watch the darkness creep in
    But the spectres are all around and under me
    To never know a night so lonely
    There's no escape from this.
    Feeling as a tiny hunted animal
    Laid stretched out on the bed
    With not a soul for company
    And no water to quench this parching fire
    So the moon disappears and the howling starts
    So the corners of my mind are scuttling cockroaches
    When the vision collapses to telescope sight and the four walls give nothing
    But hungry lusftul glances
    I am prey
    They never send anyone to help you
    I have ideas so horrible I think they will obliterate me
    A thing so horrible that I'll never find the words later, no matter how much I skate round it
    Where the only memory left is that of the loneliest boy
    Who had to do this himself - ride out the night
    Where nobody ever knocks
    and nobody comes to hold you
    So if you want to survive this one
    You just better grow up tonight.
    Morning brings a day's respite, friendship and some laughter
    But tonight they will give you the same stuff
    And the world will eat you up again

    The sentence here is clear
    They will do it to you in the name of healthcare
    They won't listen, they won't sit with you, they will fight you, break you until you swallow - you have no choice
    Chemical abuse.
    It really is the sickest thing
    What can it mean when the sane people are prepared to collude with torture
    And the mad ones are the only ones who know the truth
    The only thing it can add up to is the vilest 21st century abuse
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Like my sister, for half my life
    The brighter half
    The harder half
    I used to be lonely
    But now I just pause
    Pause before the memory of you and I

    Space out the times that've passed
    Try and sort out the toughest bits
    Try to work out what we are
    Never quite lovers
    Yet we tried to go all those places
    Never quite friends, how we hurt each other too much
    More like family, but your sex and smile
    Brings the same danger
    of twenty years ago

    Our love like forbidden cousins
    Destined to falter, destined to remain.
    And I still don't know what you think of me
    Yet to me you're all clear
    You've come in waves - my desires, my nightmares,
    my friendly cruel lover
    Then my fascination,
    now my other

    There must be something that draws you to me
    Other than your terror of facing all this alone
    I guess you must love me
    And I guess that deep down
    You wish I was your brother
    Some day soon
    We might just reach that settled place
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    tremors wrote:
    Like my sister, for half my life
    The brighter half
    The harder half
    I used to be lonely
    But now I just pause
    Pause before the memory of you and I

    Space out the times that've passed
    Try and sort out the toughest bits
    Try to work out what we are
    Never quite lovers
    Yet we tried to go all those places
    Never quite friends, how we hurt each other too much
    More like family, but your sex and smile
    Brings the same danger
    of twenty years ago

    Our love like forbidden cousins
    Destined to falter, destined to remain.
    And I still don't know what you think of me
    Yet to me you're all clear
    You've come in waves - my desires, my nightmares,
    my friendly cruel lover
    Then my fascination,
    now my other

    There must be something that draws you to me
    Other than your terror of facing all this alone
    I guess you must love me
    And I guess that deep down
    You wish I was your brother
    Some day soon
    We might just reach that settled place

    Tremors,

    Wow! How astounding to have put all that into words!
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Half Full wrote:
    tremors wrote:
    Like my sister, for half my life
    The brighter half
    The harder half
    I used to be lonely
    But now I just pause
    Pause before the memory of you and I

    Space out the times that've passed
    Try and sort out the toughest bits
    Try to work out what we are
    Never quite lovers
    Yet we tried to go all those places
    Never quite friends, how we hurt each other too much
    More like family, but your sex and smile
    Brings the same danger
    of twenty years ago

    Our love like forbidden cousins
    Destined to falter, destined to remain.
    And I still don't know what you think of me
    Yet to me you're all clear
    You've come in waves - my desires, my nightmares,
    my friendly cruel lover
    Then my fascination,
    now my other

    There must be something that draws you to me
    Other than your terror of facing all this alone
    I guess you must love me
    And I guess that deep down
    You wish I was your brother
    Some day soon
    We might just reach that settled place

    Tremors,

    Wow! How astounding to have put all that into words!


    Thanks Half Full, thanks

    I have been reading more of your poetry here, and every time I do I am genuinely thinking Wow - this woman should be published. I really think your poems should be read more widely - they are tremendous. And I remember you telling me you weren't sure about starting to write poems!

    Thanks for your kind words here - they mean a lot.
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Light washed the streets today
    I was begging for warmth
    And now I'm begging for cool
    Temperature rising, like too much and my thoughts
    Start to bubble up
    Too much heat and my head
    threatens to erupt
    And spill my secrets all over the sidewalk
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Pronoia

    The objects glow
    Magic enters the world
    Signs and signals speak of inspiration, forgiveness,
    charge and that sheen
    You're invincible
    Read lucid tracks
    Sprayed in pink on the walls
    The flip side
    Showing the way through
    The sparkle
    Like the spray of the ocean
    on a sunbaked back
    The glow, the tremor in the guts
    Secret routes
    Magic routes
    Whispers from the elders
    Whispers of the past
    Whispers of direction
    Whisper of protection
    That glow
    The one that saved me from the daemons
    The one that led me one day
    To the lake where Jesus sat
    Led me to the strength
    To take the bright road back
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    You wanted to eat yourself thin
    You wanted to be less than his shadow
    So the rain wouldn't get in
    You always said the less of you
    The more you felt the world
    The more you receded, the more you saw it all

    So late nights waiting up
    For candles to burn down
    So strung out on the wire
    So, echoes in the hall
    So further and further
    and less to find behind the walls

    You fill yourself with sweet dreams
    Half truths and half filled promises
    You make yourself a pledge
    For this week and the rest
    You never tell me that you've done it
    Until you're back on top of it
    Never ask for help
    Right there in the thick of it

    The sad part is
    it took me all these years to know
    How the light I see within you
    Is the one glowing through the patches
    The light within you is showing through the bare worn out patches
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    tremors wrote:
    You wanted to eat yourself thin
    You wanted to be less than his shadow
    So the rain wouldn't get in
    You always said the less of you
    The more you felt the world
    The more you receded, the more you saw it all

    So late nights waiting up
    For candles to burn down
    So strung out on the wire
    So, echoes in the hall
    So further and further
    and less to find behind the walls

    You fill yourself with sweet dreams
    Half truths and half filled promises
    You make yourself a pledge
    For this week and the rest
    You never tell me that you've done it
    Until you're back on top of it
    Never ask for help
    Right there in the thick of it

    The sad part is
    it took me all these years to know
    How the light I see within you
    Is the one glowing through the patches
    The light within you is showing through the bare worn out patches
    This one is lovely ...I can relate
    reminds me of my big sister I lost to cancer some years ago.
    I've seen the same light....I think.
    thanks tremors for the loving thought
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    pandora wrote:
    tremors wrote:
    You wanted to eat yourself thin
    You wanted to be less than his shadow
    So the rain wouldn't get in
    You always said the less of you
    The more you felt the world
    The more you receded, the more you saw it all

    So late nights waiting up
    For candles to burn down
    So strung out on the wire
    So, echoes in the hall
    So further and further
    and less to find behind the walls

    You fill yourself with sweet dreams
    Half truths and half filled promises
    You make yourself a pledge
    For this week and the rest
    You never tell me that you've done it
    Until you're back on top of it
    Never ask for help
    Right there in the thick of it

    The sad part is
    it took me all these years to know
    How the light I see within you
    Is the one glowing through the patches
    The light within you is showing through the bare worn out patches
    This one is lovely ...I can relate
    reminds me of my big sister I lost to cancer some years ago.
    I've seen the same light....I think.
    thanks tremors for the loving thought


    Thanks Pandi. Out of all the pieces I have written out here, I kind of think this one is one of the best - can't quite say why, it just seemed to say what I wanted to say in certain words.

    You sound like you have suffered some very hard things in life. It's amazing you are so strong and positive.
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Devil's Arcade
    Bruce Springsteen

    Remember the morning we dug up your gun
    The worms in the barrel, the hangin' sun
    Those first nervous evenings perfume and gin
    The lost smell on your breath as I helped you get it in
    The rush of your lips, the feel of your name
    The beat of your heart, the devil's arcade

    You said heroes are needed, so heroes get made
    Somebody made a bet, somebody paid
    The cool desert morning, then nothin' to save
    Just metal and plastic where your body caved
    The slow games of poker with Lieutenant Ray
    In the ward with the blue walls, a sea with no name
    Where you lie adrift with the heroes
    Of the devil's arcade

    You sleep and dream of your buddies Charlie and Jim
    And wake with the thick desert dust on your skin

    A voice says "Don't worry, I'm here"
    Just whisper the word 'tomorrow' in my ear
    A house on a quiet street, a home for the brave
    The glorious kingdom of the sun on your face
    Rising from a long night as dark as the grave
    On a thin chain of next moments
    And something like faith
    On a morning to order, a breakfast to make
    A bed draped in sunshine, a body that waits
    For the touch of your fingers
    The end of a day
    The beat of your heart, the beat of your heart
    The beat of your heart, the beat of her heart
    The beat of your heart, the beat of her heart
    The beat of her heart, the slow burning away
    Of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Tender
    Bruised
    Grateful
    Better
    Alive
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