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‘Ττυχαίοσ Φονεύω’ (Accidental Murder) By : pxc A man sat in his home It was peaceful and quiet As he sat alone Reading his book Conflict was obscured For reality, his mind forsook At the sound of a knock He abruptly woke Leaving the chair to rock He rose to welcome the guest He walked to the door Against his nerves anxiety pressed ‘Ο Υβριστήσ’ (The Insulter) By : pxc He turned on his prey and with purpose and passion He began to destroy it In the cruelest fashion His words like a sword, he wove its defeat Deftly weaving Keenly deceiving He wrapped himself in his conceit ‘Καθαρότησ εν Χάροσ’ (Purity in Death) By : pxc Sometimes a man may go through life Never knowing pain or strife Ignorant of his evil, he lies In a wail his deaf ears do not hear, the world cries He moves through life as an imitator An accuser, never seeing the true perpetrator Screaming wildly Pointing blindly Would it were evening By : Katharine Daimler death of reality WHY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr the reason to live WHITE POPPIES By : ILP Doug.E.Barr for a new remembrance day WHAT'S HAPPENING ('Waiting for Godot') By : ILP Doug.E.Barr resisting meaninglessness WARNING LABEL/PARTS PER MILLION By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP written 15June 2006 WAR on POVERTY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr Why the "more fortunate" win and the "less fortunate" lose WAR and PEACE By : ILP Doug.E.Barr A description of war; the prescription for peace WAR and MOM By : ILP Doug.E.Barr An attempt to explain the absurdity of war to my mother (1915_) WALLS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr built for security they enclose insecurity Upon the word By : Colin McGuire Poem about language UNdeath By : no walrus a short poem i wrote the day i tried to commit suicide, so it may not be the best poem ever, but i like it. TWINKLE, TWINKLE By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP a poem from June ?? 2006 Twilight By : LivingDeadGirl The horizon is masked by vivid shades, cerulean and violet, together, paint on paper. Birds twitter tucking young into wood and red yarn nests throughout the leaf-laden forest. TRUTH By : ILP Doug.E.Barr This is it. TOGETHER By : ILP Doug.E.Barr We are one Three Steves By : Gamer Three guys called Steve This Tumour of Darkness By : C. McGuire A confrontation with perversion and abnormality and mental illness. There once was a girl from Nantucket... By : Her Bessiness Sensorial poem The Way it will be in the End By : C. McGuire The way it will be in the end The Revolution of Everyday Life By : Colin McGuire Poem about the significance of small things The Push By : Bucho Like an admission In the dark, My sweat beads and stains This shirt I kept As a memento When I said goodbye To playgrounds in general. The stink of puberty Wafts from the sleeves, Giving olfactory senses A reminder of what uncomfortable means. The Mind is a Sieve By : C. McGuire informal poem that trips and falls with the thinking The memory of Fish By : Colin McGuire Poem about memory and fish THE LAST WHY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr What life is all about The Last Supper By : your cousin A poem about a person's rights to be remembered by their family. Let's eat. The BagPipes! By : C. McGuire A comment on the BagPipes and Scotland. Sunday Times By : Faust D. Fiore A poem Split Second Desires By : LivingDeadGirl I watch the way you stare at me; fierce brown eyes gazing taking my every curve into your mind. I can't help but smile thinking of weathered hands gliding over creamy white skin. SOLDIER'S LAMENT By : ILP Doug.E.Barr War from the perspective of a dead soldier. Separation by Tar By : LivingDeadGirl On my left birch trees wait nervously, swaying in unison to the wind’s lonesome serenade. Dressed to the nines in silvery white sleeves and black shadow tuxedoes, they stand waiting for a partner under a sparkling disco ball of moonlight. Senses, Delicate to Descartes By : Danny Chunger When external lies enter us The body will be confused And the mind will be a slave to insanity. Say C*** Day By : Gamer Contains profane language Religion By : LivingDeadGirl Religion isn’t just about God or gods. It isn’t Sunday morning pep talks or inhaling incense until your nose burns. It isn’t raging river baptisms or ceremonies to induct Goths into cults. REGRETS, DAD By : ILP Doug.E.Barr I came to know him too late. RADIOACTIVE WASTE By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP written 24Sep. 2006 QUESTIONS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr They have been asked by millions over thousands of years PROGRESS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr Toward what? Physis By : Alexistentialism Generation overflows Physis Here comes conflict Here comes unity sprawling out on top PHILOSOPHICAL DEFICIENCY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr An admission On the edge By : Noely G On the edge A blackness opens, seemingly from nowhere, too late to turn, too late to run. A fire bellows down below, a boiling redness, rolling sulphur, blackened forms. OLDER FOLKS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr During a visit to an eye clinic I saw the future Of Fear and Thought By : Szpak This is a poem I wrote after meditating on a discussion I had with a friend. I told him what I feared the most was not thinking... and the lack of thinking by others and their disconnection from natural emotions. New-Age Guitarist By : LivingDeadGirl We sit across from each other, you and I, in a little café. In the outskirts of Old Port. A new-age guitarist jerks at the strings trying to impress us with his musicality. Aging hands wrap around the black coffee before you while I stir a mocha latté. new haiku - this poet I know... By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP from 22Sep. 2006 MOTHER'S HOPE By : ILP Doug.E.Barr She can only hope; she can not know. MOTHER'S DREAM By : ILP Doug.E.Barr I caught an insight of Mom (1915_) MOTHER'S BENCH By : ILP Doug.E.Barr A tribute to my mother (1915 _). Mississipi Survival of Katrina (condensed) By : Kriswest We survived Katrina in a 1200 sq. ft wood home, with 29 cats and 7 dogs barricaded in with us. Our family and home survived. We were given life while many others lost their lives and or homes. We honor those that passed. Those that Katrina destroyed.She did teach us hope and love. Mid-morning By : Her Bessiness My mind takes my body to a sweet forbidden place. No one gets hurt and no one’s feet get dirty. MARKET MEMORY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr It was priceless Mad Cerberus By : C. McGuire the animal of war LOVE By : ILP Doug.E.Barr A brief explanation Little Mind By : Gamer A poem It Was Religious By : DakotaDean Night, like the calm before the storm I didn't know what to expect, The betrayers blood stained the sky for many years, Yet it was religious, My mind seeing dimensions beyond mortal thought, HUMMINGBIRDS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr A philosophical view of them High Desert Solitude By : slider Afternoon rains, cool desert night I sit on canyon rim Breezes bring fecund smells of sage and thirsty earth. Below me glitters the ribbon of desert life A tiny creek bathed in starlight HEART BEATS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr The rhythm of meaning Headache and other suggestions By : C. McGuire A wandering track of Idea Place Word and World! HARMONY By : ILP Doug.E.Barr An attempt to diminish discord. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (a new age) By : ILP Doug.E.Barr The latest in the list of ages GOD By : ILP Doug.E.Barr Maybe yes; maybe no For the Life of Us By : Father Nature This is a piece I wrote, and I am still trying to figure out what it means. ENVELOPE PLEASE By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP an anti-slam slam poem written apprx'ly 1999-2000 Eating By : Gamer i told you before of the bleary eyed mammals who wander in circles like thirsty old camels and surfing the channels suburban sedation in kennels and shackles they’re serving their nation Difference By : Alexistentialism The man is a woman Like One can be two. An homogenous glue is Pasting the world together Keeping whole in the midst of dynamism. Derived from the 12-Page Syllabus and A Professor By : Joseph Vasquez This is about a BioPsychology class and Professor. Dandelions in June By : LivingDeadGirl They come, secret little buggers. Tiny pods a first, dark green and blending in. They sit and wait, for each pod to push up out of the dirt while you are unsuspecting. Commander Poetry By : C. McGuire Formality hustles with the poorly trained poets of illiteracy! Cock boy and other boys (contains explicit sexual reference) By : Colin McGuire Poem about homosexual oral sex CHILDHOOD By : S Price it is about the relationship between mother and child in old age CHAOS By : ILP Doug.E.Barr Chaos looming? No! It's already here. BRAIN-DRAIN By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP from 3-4Sep. 2006 Big Issue By : C. McGuire observations while handing out free newspaper Based on True Stories By : someoneisatthedoor Poem constructed out of news headlines an untitled poem By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP from 10-13June 2005 - despite the subject matter, it's not merely a poem about dinosaurs AN ENTROPIC SOLILOQUY By : The Straight-faced Clown: AKA - lhw on ILP 21Sep. 2006 An Author By : pxc The prosaic poet writes his silent song. Tapping a rhymeless rhythm, he shows it to the mind's ears, a lively lullaby. With invariable inconsistency he creates his characters conventional creatively. Illustrating the indefinite with immortal actors. ALONE By : ILP Doug.E.Barr Alone we can not be Alláh'u'abhá (literally, 'God is Most Glorious') By : Alexander R. Wilkerson What is this? The bohemian arch of your consciousness. Yeah, that's it, go ahead and over-elaborate. Your babel scramjet of a threnody. What caused your drift from that big bang? The way you generate razes my ego with hope. So stop it, okay? After-math By : Alexistentialism Theorems imploded and left amputated calculations to themselves. Bloody ontology dressed down and crashed the formal soiree. Black ties turned into black eyes while adequatio completely lost all identity. a poetic reflection on time By : aporia Poem about time A Peanut By : Gamer A peanut sat on a railway track A Drunken Pity-Killing at Phoenix Corral By : Alexander R. Wilkerson A tumbleweed blew past, As each held his forty-five fast. The sun was rising as vermilion and rushed gold, Air was hard to breathe, straight and rather cold. A decrepit steer skull sits off to the side of the dirt path, Smirking at the kid and his imminent bloodbath, A dragonfly flutters past the barrel of his boomstick, You best fire first, kid -- and quick. 4 AM By : Her Bessiness Could he be real? Is it a dream? Subconscious desire Chocolate ice cream

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