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Ant's Absolutely Arbitrary Anthill



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Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:24 pm
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Hello! I will be posting unpublished poetry here. And maybe other random stuff.
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Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:13 pm
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Poems I Wrote in @herbalhour 's Style



CW: A little bit of violence, also kind of morbid

how do we live
knowing we are dying
slowly
slowly
death draws nearer
pulling us
in a long red string
tearing into my skin
blood dripping down my wrist
red like rubies
slowly
slowly
dying

maybe i am just your imagination
a dream you don't remember
a face in your mirror
a bright screen when you close your eyes
maybe i am just watching you
and we are all imagination
we are all just dreams
we are all just a face in the mirror
we are all just a bright screen
when you close your eyes
so maybe we are all just binary code
and i am just 1s and 0s

(I don't know why I tried to connect with 1s and 0s for that one)
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Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:28 pm
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Random War Poems



CW: War and implied violence

If one person is thrown
in a cage
for ending another one's life
why
may one powerful person
sitting in a velvet throne
in a marble palace
throw gunpowder into
the skies of cities
in barrels
exploding like fireworks
but they're not in celebration
and they're not colorful and pretty
it is just like
a parent
scolding a child
for stealing a single candy
untouched,
sweet,
but unbeknownst
and naive
as their other child
takes the whole bowl
and leaving no apology
Childish, isn't it?

It's funny how
a world can flip upside down
when a single individual
gets everything they want
If a little boy
got everything he wanted
everything he dreamed of
everything he wished for
regardless of whether he needed it or not
it was handed to him
wrapped in paper
perhaps it would be a car or a book
But if a grown man got all he wanted
the world would shake
If the boy received his gifts,
he would crash block stacks
wooden cubes tumbling onto the hard floor
If the man got all he wanted,
he would crash memories
buildings
tumbling onto the ground
lost
How the tables turn
Perhaps not so funny

I try to ignore
the loud booms
in the distance
bleeding into the sunset
like watercolor flowing
into pink and purple
poisoning the sky with smoke
I try to ignore
the shrill cries
in the distance
piercing the silence
like sharp silver needles
into soft, ivory fabric
impaling into my eardrums
I try to ignore
my pangs of hunger
so close by
punching me in the stomach
like some cruel sport
where one punches another
so hard that they want to just
close their eyes forever
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Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:33 pm
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I don't remember anymore
how life used to be
how my laugh echoed through the walls
how I could paint my life in any way I wanted
how I couldn't wait to grow up
do you miss that?
do you remember any of it?
how happiness flowed into your life like a waterfall
how joy was just a hopscotch away
how all tears could just be left behind
but now
happiness only comes in a rare spring
in a hot and dry desert
and joy is on the other side of the world
which you have to take a plane to
and tears stay with you
but these memories didn't
so will you?
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Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:40 pm
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When did it become pathetic
to have liquid leaking from your eyes
like a broken faucet
streaming down your cheek
like a small brook of rainwater
flowing near the damp curb
Is it because your eyelids
turn a shade of cherry
under your skin tone
Or because it seems
like you cry for little things
and your feelings can be broken
as easily as sugar glass
But I'm not crying for little things
I'm not sad or angry
I'm crying because
once tears start forming
they don't stop
they just flow
freely down my face
like how once rain starts
it will continue
pouring
and pouring
but no one laughs at rain
so what is it about me?
The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:15 pm
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Spearmint says...



ahh these are all so thoughtful and amazing, Ant <33 the poems that touch on childhood— just. yesss. so true.
mint, she/her


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Thanks so much @Spearmint !!
The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true.
- Abraham Lincoln

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