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Left BehindMy frustrated coat curled over my arm, I flipLeft Behind
through envelopes, gum wrappers and pennies, looking for the keys I am always losing. Shake my purse, hear the chime of metal on metal-- just a few dimes.
At ten, I watched my mother kneel sobbing in the grave-grass, searching for her keys. My black patent-leather shoes unshined, stained with the soil of a hundred faces. Twenty minutes on my knees with her, not sad, but scared of being lost, left behind.
This is my life now; a haphazard heap of ashtrays, receipts, an impatient suitcase and a legacy of things tha
by ~oktoberain
LiliesShe's always loved fresh white lilies. In the glass on the table, flowers stand in ivory stillness, expiring in silence, while I, a killer of things plucked fresh and pure, dream of flying and falling hard in a battered leather hospital chair.Lilies
The machines keep the time, tick-tick, marking the last moments of mother. She is fading here, like the pearls of dew on the lilies before they were cut down young, grasping the earth in defiance of my knife. Together, they are breathing their last.
She says the pain isn't bad, but her lips are thin red slashes w
by ~oktoberain
DesireA featherlight stroke of a finger Rising thunder, I waken within Your topaz eyes, blazing gold at my thighs And your mouth spilling fire on my skinDesire
by ~oktoberain
The FlameWhat is the nature of this flame that burns relentlessly in me? It has a tragic gravity.The Flame
Inside I smolder on, and see the dusty husks of lovers past; the withered, dead of modesty.
Life is an inferno for me.
I burn inside this empty place a flickerbright, a firespark; a vibrant torch of shapely grace.
Whether I will or no, it seems the fragile ones draw ever nearer; blind and seeking warmth from me.
I watch them come, regretfully.
But I was meant to blaze, and so the depthless paper dolls are rendered ashes
by ~oktoberain
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- Current Residence: West Virginia
- Interests: poetry, The Sandman, music, art, writing in general
- Favourite movie: Lord of the Rings
- Favourite band or musician: Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Stevie Nicks
- Favourite genre of music: Alternative, Goth, Industrial
- Favourite artist: Can't choose just one
- Favourite poet or writer: T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Byron, Tolstoy
- Operating System: Win XP
- MP3 player of choice: my iPod
- Wallpaper of choice: Something random I created in Photoshop
- Favourite game: LOTR Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, SceneIt
- Favourite gaming platform: Game Boy Advance SP, GameCube occasionally
- Favourite cartoon character: Vampire Hunter D
- Personal Quote: "This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper" - T.S. Eliot
- Tools of the Trade: Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Corel PSP 10x
- Email: oktoberain@gmail.com
- MSN: sweetbrandy69@hotmail.com
- Yahoo: sweetbrandy69
- ICQ: 35131768
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Right now I'm loving The Be Good Tanya's, Stephen Merritt and the 6th's. Were you the one that I was talking to about Iron and Wine and all those bands? I remember meeting someone on Neo that had the same musical taste as I did.
HALLO LUV *in an Brit accent*
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anais Nin
have you ever heard the original by Leonard Cohen?
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i just lost the game.
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leonard cohen is just fucking amazing.
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i just lost the game.
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Just warning you....
I reallllllly reallyreallyreallyreallyreally like hugs.
Alex
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When enthusiasm is driven by confidence any goal can be attained
-Robert E. Regent
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*livingpoetsociety
~LPSworkshop
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I try to take care of myself…ok I’m drinking and smoking, but look I’m also eating a cough sweet
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Mother is the name for god on the lips and Hearts of all children
~livingpoetsociety ~LOTRClub
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