Letter to my Lover

Dear Baby, *.ahem.* Life without you is like a sky without blue I'm like what would I do if like you were not true and like I have no clue! cus like this is so NEW to like have something so coool *.breathe.* You're like my change to the rule and my brand new day. You're my every way yes my winter's May where my little head can lay if my day goes astr...

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Shout-Out

*This is most-definately a work in progress. Just workin on some thoughts. I'm liking it so far though. Read it, tell me what you think!* They say silence is golden, but to speak up's somethin' platinum. Take a look around and make a shout for what is happ'nin'. Stop for just a moment; I gaurantee it won't take long To see all the hate, rape, debate, too-high stakes, and all the trappins. We got. Premature death and life without freedom. "Limitless chances" met with challenge and confusion We're loosin. Sight of the goals for which we first set out Why don't you take a look around and see what this world's REALLY about. What good's a message if no one carries it out? I'm one of faith but times all I'm feelin is doubt for this World of hunger. This shameful world of spite. And this Place...

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Ars Poetica

This is not art. This is not art. But an unfinished yet unabandoned conclusion. I'll call it a start: A beginning incomplete and never-ending, rather fresh and new each blinking eye. This is not art. This is me. This is you. This is us, we, them, true. New To some but home to many. Blue to one, a zone to plenty. An aching answer unquestioned unadorned unfathomable, unawakened, unkept, and unsur...

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rhetorical questions

i needed you most tonight and you weren't there। but i needed you most tonight because you weren't there. -but would i have needed you this badly if you weren't there yesterday? or tommorow? who knows? i hate being wrong about something so right. i hate being uncertain about something so sure. i .h a t e knowing who i am and that not being enough. i hate knowing that part of who i am is being who i am not. i hate change- when it aint broke. i HATE stagnation- alway...

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rough draft

AS I sit at the keyboard, emotions simultaneously overflowing and stilfed I struggle to find the words in which I usually find much comfort. Then, an epiphany: I can't find them, because they are no longer there. They were once. And perhaps they still are, only in a new form, with new meaning. I am reaching out to them, whole-heartedly, concerned with what this loss could mean, and they reach back further in the opposite direction. No. Not so. It is I who have changed. You see, I reach for words that still mean what they meant when we met, but these words no longer hold the same worth they did then, we have outgrown one another. Also untrue: I have outgrown them, they haven't changed a bit. Silly of me to think such terms could stay my crutch forever. Some words must, of course, those...

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well hello there

Hello, World. I'm Chaina. I'm a thinker, a writer, a lover of people and things. and this is my blog. on this site you will find all kinds off goodies: works-in-progress, completed poems, songs, and other writings, and the ramblings and insights of a (not so) random mind -which could include just about anything. have fun. enjoy. and happy blogging. ps. I like comments. comments are good. wanna chat about it? tweet me:[@cnickol...

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The Case for Love

The Case for LoveThe Precedent Some call it the L-word, others spell it L-U-V, but this 4-letter word holds just as much power as its less-than-perfect counterparts. Often misconstrued as just another verb we can use, its changing power proves true and true again- if we let it. The OpinionA constant alteration of perception and a never-ending guide, it’s this single word that holds a key so readily available- often duplicated and often more so blatantly ignored, yet hardly ever used properly and to its full effect. The only true key to every city, every heart and every soul- the single-most reliever of this world’s most hurting strife. The shocking way in which to express everything and nothing in a language universally known and understood to man all across this planet.The undeniable approach...

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