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Benjamin Scraps replied to the topic Welcome DUP refugees in the forum Underground Caverns

• 1 year, 2 months ago

DUP since Oct 6, 2013. Darkpoetry since Feb 14, 2011. Known aliases include ButcherBelial, ButcherScraps, and Sonderninja. You can call me Ben.

It’s good to see y’all again 🙂
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• 1 year, 2 months ago

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Benjamin Scraps wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

Shedding Sacred Skins

Poetry, Spirituality, Uncategorized

June 7, 2025

3

Blooded early, alone, but it's a cinch: just peeling skin on spattered rock to a pooling cry gleaning god & grief with sharpened ease fated late to survive (then thrive) with nowhere to hide... a tear-filled alkahest taking liminal shade 'neath a cool palisade always teaching death with a bug-eyed splat or chipping a cough from...

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3 Comments
- Fia Naturie
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  It sounds like that life is taking enjoyment from the pain until you shed of the outer layer and reveling the truest form of you which is joy.
  That is what I am getting from this piece. I could be wrong.
  - Benjamin Scraps
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Great comment. Thank you!
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Beautifully penned, Ben. Amazing flow, this ain’t your first rodeo my friend. Spectacular write. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
Sam Nash wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

Lived

Poetry

June 7, 2025

7

I’ve Lived Running From lifeTo a life I don’t wantTo live Searching For a loverTo loveWhen I knew Many I’ve loved Pretending I knewknowing I don’t evenWant to know Looking For a pathOn the waysOf life inMy final days WonderingIf I lived The life I meant To live Or the oneI livedIs the onlyOne I...

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7 Comments
- Daniel Long
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I really liked this Sam. It reminds me on a personal level about myself. Can connect to it. Well done!
  
  Daniel
- NAAJIR
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Very introspective vibe. I thoroughly dug it
  The pic is dope as well
  
  Naaj
- Fia Naturie
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  This life you are trying to figure out is a puzzle. Who are you living for? Good questions.
- Crimsin
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  hello dearest Sam beautifully introspective I’m a firm believer in self review 💕
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Brilliantly penned, Sam. Great introspective write my friend. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
- Visions_of_Insanity
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Excellent. Love the wording and construction of this write.
- Knight
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I like everything but the end
  
  “Just so you know”
  
  It felt unfinished, it felt as if it didn’t fit with the rest.
  
  The rest felt powerful and driven.
  
  Regards James
RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

Poppies, Sails ’n Dreams (imagining)

Poetry

June 7, 2025

4

Poppies, Sails ’n DreamsO’er Gulf of Maine’s blue a gull soars high ’n free …poppy blessed Isles of Shoals scattered far below.As a sail-rigged yawl slips silently alee,days-of-yore dreams through my voyager’s soul flow.Richard Jenkins©2025

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4 Comments
- Fia Naturie
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I think this is perfectly metered. The A,B,A,B ending worked well. I love poppies.
  - RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thank you, Lady Fia 🙏
    It’s so nice to hear from you,to receive your gracious compliment, and to know you love poppies.
    
    I appreciate your read of this wee bit of imagining.
    Happy hugs! ⁓ Richard🖌
- Crimsin
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  this is beautifully crafted 💕
  - RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Crimsin,
    That is such a nice thing for you to say.
    
    Thank you so much! ⁓ Richard🖌
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