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I love you.I am not myself these days;
I find myself, more and more,
 in the fog of window panes and the
  cold, misty morning air.

I am not myself these days;
I lose myself, more and more,
 in the way light catches off
  certain clouds of sunset: prisms.

What is different?
 I love walks in the park,
clichéd as that may be,
 and I enjoy the taste of the rain.

What else is different?
  I am not willing, try as I might,
to accept or acknowledge that
  the sins of my ancestors reflect in me.

Of course, this is all since I met you.

  I wish, sometimes,
 to feel less like a piano,
and more like a harpsichord that
only you know how t
Frigid.Without you I'm a winter heart:
a cold sunset and
a cloudy sunrise,
a night on my shoulder
like a ten minute dream
amidst the silent snow --

nothing lasts forevermore.

Ice on fire,
a melting dream,
three ways to
break apart;
will you feel anything at all
when the rain stops and
when the heart freezes?
Sanctity.A pilgrim at
the half remembered ruins,
sunset wiring
starspun and
burning low --
alive, somehow,
at the night's watch.
to love you is to lieby dolan grey

to love you is to lie;
to deceive you is to betray myself.

to curse you is to send my heart to something else,
perhaps a ghost of what I imagined,
last spring, in the rain, under the full moon,
that open heart, willing soul, and I knew them both.

to love you is to die;
to trick you is to destroy myself.

shattered windows and bloodstains,
my mind torn from my body as I tried to
fathom
my stars all falling from the sky.

loving you is agony;
shunning you is pain.

not again, said my corpse,
my battered conscience,
this house is built on stone!
but summer brought heat,
autumn brought wind, and
winter brought the chill of de
Time to change.Where did you sleep last night?

With old trees and little lakes,
because somedays,
the best we can do is pretend
it's a small world.

Entering meditation,
the verb: to dream
about happiness
and sleeping with butterflies.
the boy who belongs to the sunmoments between sleep, late at night
I talk like you're still here
shining in a dark place
like rain on the sea
dancing on a tightrope
Icarus, just before he fell
swallowing shadows
where wings once lay
falling away with you
each word gets lost in the echo
and i try to explain it
shadows under the moonlight
a memory of frost and snow
here, by this fire, with you
CovetI want his wings
and when I die
again,
the reality I chose to stay in
will make a memory of me.
Whispers of another lifeby dolan grey

Your dress is a ball gown,
an upside-down rose petal;
those inverted flowers
make half of my garden:
I'll make you a bouquet
of dark red, and lavender;
a dress for warm evenings,
our hot nights.

Eyes like watered wine,
refined, and intoxicating;
decanted, measured,
inviting and poisonous:
You've corrupted me, dear,
but slowly, carefully;
hazel depths, inviting,
deep amber alcohol.

A thousand grains of sand,
gritty and gravelly, imperfect;
nothing feels farther from
your skin touching mine:
Velvet and silk and corduroy,
these things of delicacy;
every inch of you, satin smooth,
elegant suede and swan feathers.

La
love ends six feet deep with hands intertwinedhe's a city drifter with a head full of pine needles
she's a christmas kitten stuck in a forgotten past
the same, but different
it's hard to explain but
it's grave digging time and
this is love
the elements that bind us togetherpoems, wounds, and dead birds
made a memory of me.
you can't protect me from them;
i meet things which do not belong to this world.
sometimes there is a dark character in my dreams -
her shelter
feels like the end.
take a breath
on a cold night.
little gypsy moth,
mi corazon,
in every mind
are ghosts up in the attic.
i'd kill to be queen.
Rest, Nowby Dolan Grey

I.
The mist of the mountains
Like the breath of a giant
Soft, as if sleeping
Cool this time of year
Settles in around me
Damp and grey
The air is murky
I begin to feel alone.

II.
Darkness comes quickly
The sun is saying goodnight
Over the tops of the peaks
And leaving in a hurry
He is my friend, the sun
Stretching his arms out to warm me
But betraying me at last
Leaving me to the murky gloom.

III.
It is midnight when I hear it
Quiet, at first
Almost like a secret
Then louder, forgetting stillness
Beautiful, like a hundred harps
And wretched, like a dying thing
The sweet melody shatters my soul
And I know it is for me.

IV.
W
TeeterWhen I wake,
I am
among the stars,
       poised
               on the brink
       between dreams and reality.

It’s so easy
to see through the
       broken bonds
                           between waking life...
               and the power of Imagination,

                           that same other world
                      so close...
               too close.
Separate realities
in a sea of dreams.
what we need mostby dolan grey

i.
blue skies overhead, and
the seagulls come in
from the bay, looking for some
better nourishment
than can be found
at sea.

ii.
i came in from the field,
seeking shelter and
solace
from the burning sun.

you greeted me in the doorway,
brown eyes and brown hair.

iii.
we're the same,
those gulls and i,
thermals lifting us up,
hot wind,
our concentric lives
bringing us back to

what we need most.
what we once werein space we are (searching for gods);
it can be so elusive
oh,  circumventing hearts-
the stories we tell ourselves.

they say love is unconditional,
she disagrees….

why (do) all these fantasies
fall from grace?
How does it feel-
lost in your own rage?

This isn’t happily-ever-after….
time passes cruelly;
childhood departs-
i am not splotched ink and tallied memory!

lament-
the beauty's in the leaving….
Tanganyika1.
Your naïve welcome
and medical maroon;
temperature tolerance.

2.
Speckled religion,
rituals of life and death;
viscous blood taboo.

3.
A band of crimson,
ancient June in the desert;
the opulent ivory.

4.
Patient and scarlet,
sacredly perpetual,
masks a ladybug.

5.
Flitting acceptance,
powerful saffron and myrrh,
a tribal countenance.
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what we need mostby dolan grey

i.
blue skies overhead, and
the seagulls come in
from the bay, looking for some
better nourishment
than can be found
at sea.

ii.
i came in from the field,
seeking shelter and
solace
from the burning sun.

you greeted me in the doorway,
brown eyes and brown hair.

iii.
we're the same,
those gulls and i,
thermals lifting us up,
hot wind,
our concentric lives
bringing us back to

what we need most.
twenty-four of four (plus three)by dolan grey

i.
the slipping of one's mind
like a sheaf of paper,
blown away,
leaves one grasping for the wind.

ii.
pen and ink
are not always
necessary
when one writes in blood.

iii.
shall i sing songs
of war, love, gods,
when the pettiness of conflict
is embedded in our hearts?

iv.
waters that flow
freely
are as much a gift as
uninterrupted thoughts.

v.
peace
...
can not last
...

vi.
we wait always
for the bells to ring
chiming the hour of
another's demise.

vii.
it has always been
that on still nights
a man must speak
to interrupt the silence.

viii.
tracks of tears,
like tributaries,
feed only a greater
sorrow.

ix.
lesser men,
cr
Through the fire and the flamesby Dolan Grey

Snow falls, this morning;
daybreak.
Even these early rays of light
seem deadly, piercing to us.

Night falls, this evening;
darkness.
Even the laughter of our children
sounds wicked, awful.

Battles, small and large,
through marshes and marches,
send the spirits of the slain
through shadows, to the sea.

Riding on the steppes
watching the dark towers,
we know they go through flames, too.

So now we rise up,
liberated by the elements,
towards whatever trials await,
our journey only just begun.

Behind the sun,
behind the stars,
below the surface of the moon; our souls --

Distanced, time ticks on
for the souls of the dead;
we
Whispers of another lifeby dolan grey

Your dress is a ball gown,
an upside-down rose petal;
those inverted flowers
make half of my garden:
I'll make you a bouquet
of dark red, and lavender;
a dress for warm evenings,
our hot nights.

Eyes like watered wine,
refined, and intoxicating;
decanted, measured,
inviting and poisonous:
You've corrupted me, dear,
but slowly, carefully;
hazel depths, inviting,
deep amber alcohol.

A thousand grains of sand,
gritty and gravelly, imperfect;
nothing feels farther from
your skin touching mine:
Velvet and silk and corduroy,
these things of delicacy;
every inch of you, satin smooth,
elegant suede and swan feathers.

La
to love you is to lieby dolan grey

to love you is to lie;
to deceive you is to betray myself.

to curse you is to send my heart to something else,
perhaps a ghost of what I imagined,
last spring, in the rain, under the full moon,
that open heart, willing soul, and I knew them both.

to love you is to die;
to trick you is to destroy myself.

shattered windows and bloodstains,
my mind torn from my body as I tried to
fathom
my stars all falling from the sky.

loving you is agony;
shunning you is pain.

not again, said my corpse,
my battered conscience,
this house is built on stone!
but summer brought heat,
autumn brought wind, and
winter brought the chill of de
to sophiaa cento by dolan grey

when by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead,
till blues & sorrow song,
no fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
an anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young--

of birth and death, the two sad knaves of thieves,
runoff, pitch-black, from the rivers of Psalms,
a gleaming glassy ocean,
as silent as pictures on the wall.

but when the crowing syrens blare,
it's as if the rain
and the sky came down,
its guardian grasp on blood and brain.

the ghastly clouds of yonder skies
compare thus to your love;
torrents of your miseries,
rained on me from above.

a quiet akin to ruins--
the ghosts swarm.
the

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Still-life.

:iconhauntinglogistics:

The best of my paintings:
the hum of
a sad piano,
a morning cigarette,
and a graveside angel;
all I ever wanted.
:iconhauntinglogistics:
Another found poem! :) I used these wonderful works:

best of my paintings [link]
the hum [link]
sad piano [link]
morning cigarette. [link]
graveside angel. [link]
all i ever wanted [link]
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=DrippingWords Mar 16, 2013  Student Writer
Hello! :wave:

I have used the title of your piece in a poem!

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*0hgravity Feb 26, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
ah, this one's fantastic too.
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~HauntingLogistics Feb 26, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you again! :)
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*GrannyJae Feb 26, 2013
oh I love it :)
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~HauntingLogistics Feb 26, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you! :)
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*KaitForest Feb 25, 2013   Writer
short and beautiful
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~HauntingLogistics Feb 25, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you!
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*astrangeallure Feb 23, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Excellent. :D
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~HauntingLogistics Feb 24, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you! XD
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*astrangeallure Feb 24, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
:heart:
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