Atlases
We are the graveyard shifters
The takers of orders,
The shelvers of cans
They who live by the work of their hands
We, the visibly invisible,
The face at the door
Often passed by
Like so many before
Though we be transparent
It is not as it seems
To each minimum wage
Clasps a lifetime of dreams
Though the pursuit of happiness
It is not as it seems
We the Atlases
shoulder a world in dreams
-a haunted typewriter (C. I. Smith)
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Gardens
In this tumultuous world of sin and virtue
He had a simple dream
Sweet and ephemeral
Hung in his mind as a mural
Like a road map to a moment
Thus he works sunshine and rain
Past sickness and pain
Brick upon brick
Beam up on beam
He builds from dust the dream
breaths beauty into despaired dirt
The world spun from his hands
A garden from the sands.
He knows it will not last forever.
Life, dreams and his flowers it seems
though sweet, worthy of attention
are ephemeral.
He knows well the clock, its urgency
But he knows better,
Life is a flower,
And only a fool passes by a rose
Without the joy of a nose
-a haunted typewriter (pretty sure I put my actual name in at least one)
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Windows
A vast concrete colossus
Punctures the landscape
Resolutely human and yet lacking humanity
A modern monolith to metropolitain monotony
A Symbol of life in our urban lobotomy
But like the sidewalk slabs beneath,
Buckled and broken by the very weeds they sought to smother
Here too, nature permeates, piercing its concrete cover
Shining one thousand different lights,
Through one thousand different windows,
Out onto the damp, cold snow.
Pour scenes from one thousand different lives
Onto passersby on the streets below.
Each one a framed polaroid snapshot of the life within
Revealing comfort, company, solitude, youth, age, or sin
Here framed on this grey colossus,
Man made, yet still inhuman.
Busts forth humanity anyway,
In one thousand different points of light
Radiating out into the cold december night.
-a haunted typewriter (I think I published this one somewhere?)
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The Past Is Like a Bed
The past is like a bed.
Be it cold or warm
Be there a dream or nightmare
Be it inviting or discouraging
It is all the same, familiar.
And all the same we must leave it
And rise into an unfamiliar morning.
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Burn like Magnesium
Some say to “glitter like Gold”
Others say to “shine like Silver”
I’d rather burn like Magnesium.
Gold is too vain and lofty
And Silver tarnishes.
Yet, humble grey Magnesium,
Absent the beautiful lusters
Holds within a searing light
Which, if sparked,
no ocean deep,
Nor tempest, nor torrent too
Can extinguish.
Although it not a noble metal
It burns true,
with light that, for but a little while
Shames even the sun itself
In startling brilliance you shan’t soon forget.
Let them keep their golds and silvers
and for but a while burn like magnesium.
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Loss
It hurts in spurts,
As we shuffle our feet past the loss.
Though the losses differ, the feelings are the same
And perhaps it is not the loss itself we dread,
But the feeling of what comes now, in its stead
It is the dreadful change,
The gaping hole, the void, the fresh cut wound
It is the summation of the question,
“What comes next?"
What lives on in blissful memory
Of what we knew, what we lost,
Now irrevocably consumed to entropy
Slowly paved over and overgrown by time,
It is ephemerality we fear most.
But lest we forget
In all our remembering,
There is real wisdom in knowing
While the cherished past is gone
Our present too is temporary.
Beyond the winter's midnights, lies the summer days.
Beyond the ugliness, eventually so too will follow beauty,
In the flow of tears, so too, in time, laughter drips.
-C.I. Smith
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To Laugh or To Cry
In this life of tragedy,
We are given two choices,
To laugh or to cry.
To longly live or slowly die.
When it rains,
It pours.
In the weather, life closes,
All its’ doors.
But yet, a choice...is yours,
be brow beaten by rain,
Or hold your head up high
And search for sun to shine again
Through that murky sky.
-C.I. Smith (ahauntedtyperwriter)
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Life is an Ocean
Life is an ocean and
You need not find the calmest waters
Or greenest bays
You only need tread water
Without motion,
though we keep breathing
We drown
Life is an ocean
One must only keep treading
-CIS
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I found out in a field
A man who still believed
His brow was wet
And dripped with sweat
Under a sun that seethed.
I found out in a field
A man who was at peace
For, in that sunbaked field
He knew his task had lease
I found out in a field
A man who was self-freed,
The master of his feet through untrod grass
Choosing where they lead
I found out in a field
A kind of earthly bliss
That tastes of summer nights
and crisp moonlights
They call it happiness
I found out in a field
Another man to be
For in that field, I found,
The man I found, was me.
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It is a strange contradiction
When our conviction,
of the lines of
truth and fiction
Come to a matter
Of diction
And depiction
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hi! i like your blog :) i'm just starting mine out, would you mind giving me a follow back? i'll be posting a bit of everything + my original poetry :)
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One Reluctant
I am but one man,
Doing the best I can,
In a world predestined
To tear itself apart
And though I long
To flee the throng
I cannot rest
'til I've done my best
To still it's aching heart
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Is it Candidate Worship?
Among the manicured grassroots
Are Political pied piper’s with political flutes
Leading us into the swamp
They’d promised to drain
Flooding it further
With promises rain’d
From that pantheon, high
So quickly they’ll lie
Beneath the chrome,
polish and pretty faces
So common in political races
Is the candidate manufactured
In a nation so fractured
A partisan product is what they sell
We’ve bought it so long we can’t tell
They’ll tell us what we feel
elect them, we must
Compromise, "make a deal"
Tell me not your crisp, grassroot deeds
It just gets lost amongst the weeds.
C.I. Smith
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Do you believe in movies?
Do you believe in movies?
Little flecks of light
Brilliantly alluring
So simple, a sight
dangerously assuring
Like plastic dreams,
But in my own life,
I have yet seen scenes
So perfect, so vibrant,
So supernatural
The moment bewitched in technicolor
still intransactable.
-ahauntedtypewriter
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Sketch of a Cereus Repandus cactus flower.
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A sketch I did a while ago of I-25 looking south towards Socorro, New Mexico with the Chupadero, Socorro and Magdelena Mountains in the background.
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Magdelena
Does your desert sun miss me?
The warm breezes that used to kiss me.
What of your rocky paths and ways?
The sacred canyons where the pinon prays.
Does your ceiling of cobalt blue
Know that I was ever true
That I never loved anything
Quite like you
Does your shimmering silence
miss my heartbeat
As I miss your license
In my own two feet
Of what degree and range
Were your landscapes strange
Of what tales your canyons know
Their Wisdom pines will only show.
-ahauntedtypewriter
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