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Read MoreI am a prisoner behind my eyes.Oh! There is no gatekeeper!I am trapped forever by psychosis.And there is no quality of life here within.My mind is a padded prison cellwhere restrained, I throw myself into the walls.I scream for...
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Read More“I’m dead inside” you say.Like a graveyardat midnight.No mourners hereto trod untroddenpaths by your headstone.Soulless and moonlit,an empty body,a starless night sky.Heretic prayers,unheard, fall onsilent winds.I call your name,wordless in myincantation.I yearn tofeel youbreathe inside me.Take this lifelesscarcass and...
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Read More“Nurtured by sorrows in childhood”…what the hell does that even mean?I thought it, I wrote it.I lived it, I remember it…A child in darkness puts hell in ovation…but where was my heaven?I swear I was touched once then…by an...
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Other heals me temporarily like a drug. But then the signs and symptoms of depression come back and I have e to write and publish more.
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It’s a lifelong battle, Daniel. Powerfully penned my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Read MorePassages of my childhood arise within my mother’s death gaze, bringing reminiscences of olden days. When in sadness in childhood we would speak in silent gaze. No mother left to envision me now, now within those quiet eyes....
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If you have any good suggestions on finding a literary agent that represents poetry books, by all means let me know lol. All the ones I’ve queried have never gotten back to me, honestly. Still waiting on one that I sent out a week ago though. 😒
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That’s a particularly powerful piece, Daniel. I love the subject matter and how you approach it. That’s fantastic.
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Read MoreSeafaring stargazer I am,in your enchanting twilight,adrift in the blackest of seas.Moonlit waves within your eyes,the black of those irisesare a pitiless abyss.Pathless and shoreless,I know not what our future holds,as your hueless conscience chills me.So, on I driftin...
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Venus, the sun, a supernova… I see it all in something i want. 😆
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There is no escape, sometimes I’m grateful for the walls because if they weren’t there then there would be nothing to bang my head against. The only thing here to grasp onto is pain. Your poem really captures this hopelessness, maybe there is no reply but there are ears out there waiting.