limelights.and.diamond.knives

By Six-Out

it's like kissing a smoking gun
sear your lips with the mockery you make of life
as you count the lies like sheep

[if only this were a dream]


sketch your spurious smiles and liquid empathy
on a cracked canvas of forget-me-nots and lost love notes
as I hand you the blade and hold out my wrists
hoping that this time you'll leave my heart out of it

such a stupid child am I
to look into your limpid limelight of delusion
and follow your checkerboard reality to whenever
dressed in khaki coated persuasions
as I hang by a string of denial


your words cut like knives of diamonds
so please, sever me from your strand of hope

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Copyright 2005 Jon Rodgers
Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2005.     Filed under: "Ironic" and "Poetry"
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  • Dei On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Dei (665)By person wrote:

    *turns away* i cant read anymore.

  • A former member wrote: ...this one...this one I can barely comment on. Being one of those subjects few readily approach, you have approached it, and without hesitation, without restraint. You leave it all here, inside this poem, the love and the lust...everything we feel, but d

  • A former member wrote: everything we feel, but do not speak...the frenzy involved...even my heart was racing....Brilliant!

  • Dei On Saturday, August 13, 2005, Dei (665)By person wrote:

    hmmm...another sad one six?

  • A former member wrote: you write like a flaming gobstopper

  • flying_fox On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, flying_fox (573)By person wrote:

    Sixy... a truly elegant and soulful write. The words flow beautifully, each word essential to the overall piece. With so much superfluous crap in the world, this is a masterpiece. Love it. Foxy xx

  • manywalks On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, manywalks (750)By person wrote:

    Damn. Old Bean I think you've got it. ~ wen

  • AniDayz On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, AniDayz (820)By person wrote:

    this echoes in the heart...piercing....image.feeling.emotion.bleeding.......you are a fucking genius.

  • Elegant Kiss On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, Elegant Kiss (182)By person wrote:

    "as I hand you the blade and hold out my wrists hoping that this time you'll leave my heart out of it" GAH! What the fuck is that but like one of the most painful lines ever?

  • Elegant Kiss On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, Elegant Kiss (182)By person wrote:

    Holy shit.

  • redtearswhitesnow On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, redtearswhitesnow (79)By person wrote:

    "sketch your spurious smiles and liquid empathy on a cracked canvas of forget-me-nots and lost love notes" This line fucking rocks man.

  • A former member wrote: Wow i sure like it alot!! very nice, short and beautiful

  • Six-Out On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, Six-Out (1435)By person wrote:

    An old repost, because I haven't written anything in a while.


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