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Poetry

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Fiction

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Reference

Language:
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HIDDEN TREASURES - The Sequel to LOOKING GLASS

The sequel to LOOKING GLASS, a collection of poems written by individuals who explore the world around them and within themselves in a unique way. (Edited and Reviewed with Contributions by Jeffrey Douglas DeCristofaro.)

LOOKING GLASS was an exploration of the self, an anthology of poems exploring the world through the eyes and voices of many individuals who seek to discover the world (s) within themselves, the world that surrounds them, and the countless worlds within this world. It was an ambitious effort to unite the minds and voices behind pure poetry, to provide a universe of shifting viewpoints and enormous depth.

Now, following that effort, comes HIDDEN TREASURES, an anthology of poetry matching the sa ... More

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1/1/2009 07:23 PM PT

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE- I WISH YOU WHAT YOU WISH YOURSELF.
BLESSINGS,
POETLIFE.

1/1/2009 04:23 PM PT

Love your hole concepta nd the feel of the title as well, I am not to popular for my writings because they give all this out look of a world which right around the corner. Hope you check out some as well.

Young_Pretender

1/1/2009 05:25 AM PT

Is there a deadline for this? I've only just checked back to the site now, a month after my invite. Is it too late/when should I submit work by? :)

12/30/2008 07:20 PM PT

thanks for the invite

12/7/2008 07:44 PM PT

Actually, I didn't get an invite to join this project, but I did on Looking Glass. However, I wasn't able to get something submitted in time. May I join this project, and submit an original poem?

12/1/2008 03:26 PM PT

Hey, im new to this, I want to contribute, but I dont know how. I have written 3 poems on my page, should I share those?

12/1/2008 07:34 AM PT

I'm new here...I'd like to participate...how do I do that?

11/30/2008 08:28 AM PT

Sorry I didn't get to submit anything for the Looking Glass. I didn't have time to. I hope to this time, though.

11/25/2008 05:38 PM PT

Avast ye! Sorry I missed yall on looking glass. didn't know it had been submitted already. I'm about to make a submission for this one I hope it works out. Thanks for the invite.

11/22/2008 11:14 AM PT

Great to be part of this project.

11/20/2008 06:28 PM PT

Thanks for the Invite

11/20/2008 05:12 PM PT

Thanks for the invitation. I enjoyed contributing to LOOKING GLASS and look forward to contributing to this project (when I think I have something worth contributing).

11/19/2008 12:29 PM PT

thank you for your feedback-- I like your project concept and admire your skill as a writer. Thank you

11/18/2008 11:08 PM PT

thanks for the invite.

11/17/2008 01:39 PM PT

Thanks,was great to enter,good luck,blessings to all.

11/13/2008 02:51 AM PT

Thank you for letting me in!

11/12/2008 05:02 PM PT

thanks for the invite

11/12/2008 05:21 AM PT

there are some great works here keep it up,

11/11/2008 06:59 AM PT

thanks for the invite i wil have my poem
soon this is a great project i think im goin like reading it

11/9/2008 12:42 PM PT

Thank you for the envite. i'll join!

11/8/2008 07:29 PM PT

Thank you for the invite.

11/8/2008 12:18 PM PT

Thank you for the invite. Here goes...

11/8/2008 12:08 PM PT

thanks for the invite. i will post some rhymes, etc. shortly :)

wordsareforever

11/7/2008 08:51 PM PT

Thanks for the invite! Will try my best to contribute.

11/7/2008 05:51 PM PT

Thank you for the invite. I will see what I can do

11/7/2008 10:54 AM PT

thx for the invite. i dont usually do poems, but ill try......

11/6/2008 12:11 PM PT

Anxiety
Author: Spanks
Word count: 2173

Anxiety

Hank Cierski September, 2008

The word is plain, isn’t it

jittery, jumpy, nervous

nothing more to strangers.

I am not a fortunate stranger to the horrifying truth slithering within

me, threatening torture, cursed anxiety, no word more terribly destructive.

Blinkless, biteless, it paralyzes me,

or it shakes my brain into spinning

confusion, hateful agitation of memoryless knotted wrong turns

where either way I suffer silent screaming gut guzzle

panic.

Vainly I have scanned the word itself to exhume a shred of hope.

The x, ancient symbol, and here at the word’s syllabic crossroad!

Surely any stranger with common knowledge could take this hint.

Anxiety must have purpose, reasons, and a release based on one’s piety

backed by one’s will. Job will be vindicated.

Justice will out, calm reign, and all balance at the last.

No, no, no, stranger!

The unfaithful x is no succor to those seeking respite from the torment of anxiety.

Twisted cross, this misshapen martyr x cruelly promises

a pretty stained glass window tableau of blessed equanimity.

Faith here is none!

Serpent x, your smirk guzzling hope,

how easily doctrine is violated as you reverse

the old pledge of suffering’s supposed function,

“It strengthens one’s character”—“It saves one’s soul.”

Like a cobra swaying, the x has me

always in its stare, its rasping sounds disarranging my senses

until I am through and through panicked.

What I fear I know not, but I am locked in full alarm.

The damned buzzing, rasping consonant writhing against itself

…anxiety—guzzle…infernal harsh hum of the accented syllable.

The final sound of the alphabet, is there hopeful hint here?

A blessing would that the last sound signifies a near end to this pain.

But it never ends, the sound all waking rends,

the throb throws tumblers which lock me tied inside,

and fright accepts no key as chaos stabs my side.

I am the prisoner, the bearer, of hell.

Through my mind blood-red anxiety spurts and guzzles

a quenchless pool that seethes with shapes

unknown, unnerving, enfeebling my useless mass of brain.

It matters not what I fear but that I fear.

What flickers through my ravaged soul as rapidly quivering repeating

slide show tattoos of terror,

to you, stranger, would seem like unremarkable photos in a life, more or less,

and my panic proof that at the most I am a phobophobe,

Ha!

A fool who needs to stiffen his backbone and “snap out of it!”

Summon more effort and concoct a remedy!

No, again, no…remedies here are none!

Hercules could not break my chains.

My electrons sputter, my secretions convulse in patternless flux,

my chemistry executes pathetic unstoppable prostration

against which I test every possible cause,

and every possible cause fails rational explication.

Logic here is none!

Anxiety will not cease churning because I am doomed

to churn.

Mind tremors, unjustly, are not my only punishment.

Body and brain suffer anxiety’s attack.

My guts, tender tangled tunnels,

visceral inlets, outlets, twisting ductworks

squeeze out vital fluid in tiny mingled streams

drip

and roll

and settle

and sear

and blistered knots are racked so tight

I’m sure there’s blood!

For what crime am I punished?

Prometheus chose his course and so understood

cause for his bloody anguish.

I chose not, know not, have no solace.

Rest and rescue here are none!

The word is plain, isn’t it

jittery, jumpy, nervous

nothing….

Stranger, I cannot will myself out my lonely cell

where exertions to flee expire before they are begun

where Beauty, art or nature, transforms to sickly hell

where sweet emotions kneel to horror, then succumb.

A whispered thought of a pastel rainbow

Instant scream of the bloodied buzz saw

The word is plain, isn’t it

…nothing

11/5/2008 07:01 PM PT

Thank you for inviting me. I'll add my piece soon!

11/5/2008 06:10 PM PT

thanks for the invite

11/5/2008 02:37 PM PT

Thank you for the invite to this (seemingly) wonderful project :) I look forward to reading it all.

11/5/2008 12:34 PM PT

I appreciate the invite! But life's been pretty hectic and sadly I haven't the time to compose a piece. I am sorry, :{

But, truely thank you. XD

11/5/2008 10:55 AM PT

Thank you for inviting me to join this work!

11/5/2008 10:33 AM PT

Thanks for the invite

11/5/2008 10:22 AM PT

Thanks for inviting me....

11/5/2008 09:36 AM PT

thankz for the invite

11/5/2008 09:14 AM PT

thankx for the invite
Now I wish I could write poetry

11/5/2008 08:50 AM PT

I appreciate the invite. i'm new and unsure of how to proceed
but i'lll give it a try. Thanks

11/5/2008 08:29 AM PT

Thanks for the invite, but I'm not a poet ....

11/5/2008 07:28 AM PT

thanks for invite

11/5/2008 06:29 AM PT

thx for the invite

11/5/2008 06:18 AM PT

Thank you for the invite

11/5/2008 05:08 AM PT

thanks for the invite, but I have to many going now as it is, get me next time.

11/5/2008 04:52 AM PT

Thanks for the invite, but I have too much going on.

11/5/2008 02:54 AM PT

Thanks for the invite --I'll try to write a poem worthy of it!

11/5/2008 02:01 AM PT

Oh my love is heaven bound
My heart though sinks deeper with the sound
The angels I hear them sing
While my love ascends with new wings
I wish I could
but don't think I should
my love my life is gone
and took with him my heart
all that's left of me
is memories and used to be's
now years later
I remember
what used to be
and know that soon
I'll be the too

11/4/2008 06:42 PM PT

Thanks for the invite, i shall do my best to delve into the world that only exists within my epidermis, that kinda holds my mind together in a mush i like to call "thought". haha,pe@ce.

11/4/2008 06:38 PM PT

I'll try to write something worthy! :)

11/4/2008 01:23 PM PT

Thanks for inviting me to the project. I will try to write some poems though it is not my forte! ;)

11/4/2008 01:23 AM PT

Thanks for the invite but I am working on my own project at the moment. Best of luck!

11/3/2008 05:49 PM PT

Thanks for the invite!

11/3/2008 07:21 AM PT

Thanks for the invite Mr! You seem to have got more than you bargained for! I am hapless hopless poet, do put me off my misery with my cringe-tastic hot air baloons conveyed as thought! Cheers though

Stephen_Zimnoch

11/2/2008 11:32 PM PT

so by you inviting me into your project does that mean that you want me to write something for you?

11/2/2008 11:19 PM PT

Okay, let me dig something up off the crumpled up papers scattered throughout my desk I call my poems. I'll edit one that fits and type it up and see if it entertains, or enlightens anyone.

11/2/2008 06:00 AM PT

i made it this time. =)....added some old some new. thanks for the invitation.

11/1/2008 08:14 PM PT

This sounds like a great project and am eager to take part!
Thanks for inviting me, I hope I can produce a poem worth your while.
-Cheers

10/31/2008 09:03 PM PT

thanks for the invite...:)

10/30/2008 05:15 AM PT

Thanks for inviting me! I'll start getting my head put on straight and write something worth while.

10/30/2008 03:20 AM PT

Thanks for the invite .I'll start writing sth new .
~Feb~

10/29/2008 10:55 PM PT

thanks for the invite,,,,Just posted a poem, and hope that you like it.........

10/29/2008 12:26 PM PT

I hope the other book gets published! I've already got some new poems for this anthology.

10/29/2008 08:56 AM PT

I'm here...will post some poems soon my friend

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