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Postby nelison » 5/20/2005, 8:43 pm

I know this could easily have gone in the pouring out your soul thread but i wanted one to archive my stuff... so I hope you guys enjoy. feel free to critique the shit of of it :D

The Filibuster Princess

quick
Don't think
It's time for us to sing
Sing the praise
in the haze
oh my god
I'm so down

It's no
No? no, it's there
You're as blind
as a pig
"oink" bastard child
It's your turn to sing.

"Heaven sent me from above"
"Hell sent me from below"
Over my shoulder I see this world.
Hey man it's time to let go.
You're a sycophant
and I'm your mirror.

Escalator
Your choice

Both want you so bad.
They want you so bad.
I want you so bad.
You want you so bad.
It's driving me mad.



-------

Hard to say I know you

Hey there
I found your note
I thought you should know
It's a roller coaster
sitting on a fence
an obsessive decadence,
Let's sit and watch.

When the highlight of your day
was yesterday
I find it hard to say
I know you.

Hey there
I think it's time
I thought you should know
I'm a trapeze artist
in artistic times
while you stradle a fence
hoping it won't break

It's hard to say I know you
When you act like this
It's hard to say I know you.



----

Code

Your headache is over
It's over
your head
is a wonder
I wonder
if this is
my business
but on Saturday
We'll break this mold
and we'll feel old
like we're wonders
that we ain't.
Pretending, our lives
your life is nice
I wish a could cry
you wish you were nine
And someday I'll run
and some days you hide
this headache
of yours
has become
mine.
Carry me
Because I care
but what do I do
when you're not living life
but life is living you.
And acres of land
lying in rows
lying smoothly
at their destination
having searched for life
and there it is.



-----

Unknotted

When I awoke
I planned
and I plotted
my path's been unknotted
I never knew
I could tell
you, what it's like
when I fell
and you caught me
in my dream
and became
from a stream
of consciousness
and activity
and relief
some creativity
my heart
and my mind
both pining
for time
often carrying
different plans
for a
plasticine man
finding lines
to be dotted.
For my heart
when she caught it
my mind
woke up
from this dream
and plotted a path
to destiny
for this quick
tiring stream
of life.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
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Postby nelison » 6/15/2005, 5:34 pm

Looking back

I used to be good
I used to think I was one
I used to feel young
I used to be one of them
I'm not one of them

I try to speak
I try to dance
I try to harbour
and follow
and make this end

In the end
When I am old
I will forgive
detach my soul
From where I lived.

I used to be good
I never felt obsolete
Running to the end
on my own two feet
From where I began.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
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Postby Hope » 6/16/2005, 10:18 pm

i really like the first stanza of filibuster princess
also, i like Hard To Say I know You. it has a special something but i dont know what :freak: and i don't get it 100% either but thats fine :duncan:

and i feel like i could correspond/reflect to Looking Back. I like.


Code and Unknotted, i cant really grasp for some reason but i think it's because they are not seperated into stanzas. and each line is really short. yeah i'm just weird but there you go.
turn your head
come back again
to here knows when

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Postby trentm32 » 6/24/2005, 1:48 pm

very good stuff! I totally dig.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.

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Postby nelison » 6/25/2005, 11:19 am

Thanks folks. It's appreciated muchly.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
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