Where We Are
Category: Writing and Poetry

Just a moment
 chemicals released with fashion
a disturbing glow cast

The shade will fall
 from the trees
ill always write you
 saying such things with ease

Envelope and pen bought
 to us letters become sword
to lay with this
 chords push against throat

Sounds made and forgotten
 no one will hear this
I was alone with anger
 silent becomes your kiss

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Catch Me Not
Category: Writing and Poetry

Take a plane out to L.A.
 make a photoshoot of our own
it's getting harder to sleep
 that's just part of being alone

I felt better in the sky
 everything below me
nothing left to make me shy

You had to be there
 i should of taken you
it's easy to say where
 when theres endless blue

we're not on maps until we land
 if you don't like
what's in the mirror
 i'll take your hand
 
lay your head on my heart
 Feel every beat you've missed
with time you could believe
 We'll make it out of this

Your strings have been cut
 provoke me to stay
i'll be your only puppet
 If i can go out to play

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Sniff and Scratch
Category: Writing and Poetry

IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
 seeing a new world
doing all that i can

A STICKER ON THE GROUND
 places i've seen
yeh i've been around

WORE ITSELF OUT
 dirt all over my back
i was once brilliant

THE LAUGH YOU FORGOT
 i tried to come out
but you were looking down

MY CHILD LEFT BEHIND
 never talk to strangers
those are all you know

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With Eyes Shut
Category: Writing and Poetry

You can't find the door
 everything turns red
you couldn't ask for more

Skin reacts to striking force
 with closed eyes
He never meant it of course

Now back at the top
 put me off course
it's all red and i try to stop

forgive me, forgive him always
 the band starts to play
notes beyond our time

I could almost see it through
 maybe then, but not today
Eyes shut, walking past you

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Blueprints In Dirt
Category: Writing and Poetry

Staring past a horizon of bodies
 None left to be an example
can't look down and be sorry

All hands raised in selfish question
 unique answer given
One without set shapes
 
 Taking face of a lesson
Paint on my back left behind
 a push for all reasons
there laid out to dry

Given moments, pigments conform in record
 alien shades of ground
Soon degrees turn for worse
 One sorry past due

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I Am: Pharmer
Category: Writing and Poetry

Take two of these
 don't call me tomorrow
I won't be home

Didn't pay another bill
 they cut off my phone
trying to put a name in place

I wear a smile well
 digesting hands of shame
down the street, up the block
he'll always get the same

Now's the time for chase
 i'll let my mind talk
attract all eyes forward

 Just one more taste
Now's the time to leave
proclaim your only faith
Exhaust her greatest dreams

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Iconic Addiction
Category: Writing and Poetry

Preparing flowers on your bed
 I can still catch one memory
through covers over my head

Those days are gone, but not mine
 stove lays cold, cabinets bare paint
You were always the forgiving kind

Time surrenders, bowing without grace
 shades drawn obediently for dreams
ideas amongst portraits lacking face
 

And here i stand, with walls not failing
 Striking stems set against darkness
That year our child turns man
 I'll grasp where you've been

12:30 PM - 14 Comments - 25 Kudos - Add Comment

Untended Debris
Category: Writing and Poetry

I'll give into this fairy tale
 find a place far away
where souls are not for sale
 and hate is hardly cheap to say
 

Just around the corner
 along curbs we've always known
another dime, another coffee
 maybe this time we'll be alone

Our favorite little booth
 just behind clear walls
overlooking familiar streets
 
You can almost see our roof
 half a grin, swinging your feet
put down every regret
 remind me how it was back then

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Requiem
Current mood: imaginative
Category: Writing and Poetry

I'm not myself today
 i could show you faith
but i'm not a saint
 
I could take your breath away
 in every picture you paint
and all the right things you say

just take my hand
 we'll make some plans
follow our own footsteps
 before washing away with sand

It's all ears on me
 but i'm not one to speak
now i start to see
 
I can feel it in the breeze
 what's safe to ruin?
i'm not myself today

Copyright 2008 Kevin Ramsey

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Safety (Off)
Category: Writing and Poetry

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