SedahLiah

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Travel: An Anthology by SedahLiah, literature

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Travel: An Anthology

Walla Walla, WA The first step, a new horizon Will not unmeet my shy eye. It stalks me but will not blink back. The river running underneath Downtown, And trinket shops Succumbing to sunset hues. It's like arriving on a friend's doorstep, And taking the guest room; Drinking wine, And letting the simple Things Make a simpler man out of you. Atlanta, GA Sometimes in the absence of sleep, The colors of love look different; And in trying to define them, Comes the madness. Sometimes in the absence of love, The feelings of pleasure feel hollow; And in trying to refine them, Sows the sadness.Sometimes in a solitary place You can see the pulsing ...

Phases by SedahLiah, literature

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Phases

In my waning I am pure. In myself, my true selves mature As dry passageways; a splash of concrete Sets in a name. In my aimless straying, I settle, For being stranger Is better For some; losing faith in the phases Of what I've become.Austere moon, the stubborn cells That stir in me will breathe new life In you; as the sun returns, My inner chaos tames. There is no growth without change.The night is destitute, a womb So self-contained; the mind, a satellite Tied to only one wave. Obscure moon, may your newness obscure me, too.For there is no growth without change, And small steps are steps all the same.

Hesitant by SedahLiah, literature

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Hesitant

Could the rented sun contest Against the continent That has splurged And has spent blue skies, Perhaps the ruins of my eyes Could rest on yours and See light, and feel blessed.In the absence of ambience It seems the air is less patient For voices intent On speaking plain. Could these rented sentences make amends For anything, It's the staying still when Legs are begging to begin, When just one step feels too big.

Shipwrecked by SedahLiah, literature

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Shipwrecked

Silent as a foreign, bronze god in its shape, Toward an endless sleep it cannot escape. There is whiteness in space, centuries of sand That must be collected by speck and by strand. Already belonging to a spotless sea, Figures still litter like an ancient algae. The mind drowns, wanders when the spirit is weak; The eyes too heavy to see the crude fuel leak. Is it noble to die a slave, a machine Meant just to clean...or a thing free from routine - Silent as a foreign, bronze god in its shape, Toward an endless sleep it cannot escape?There is whiteness in space, centuries of sand That must be collected by speck and by strand. They remind me ...

Lacunae by SedahLiah, literature

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Lacunae

In bearing things, as memories, A pull of one brings something more. Could I recall The only full Expanse I've sensed, would this world then seem small? In all things said of emptiness It's a mess Of molecules that serve that end.The long-distraught leviathan called Past, Unchanged, its wilting leaves Will never last; In bearing things as parts of me, The sparseness Starts to show Where art can constantly span.Hard to parse the Distance I trek, The dust left shows a destination Best focused than reset. Afterthoughts and premonitions Of histories Long-forgotten Litter The Often Lost And Solemn Path.

Where Loving Leads by SedahLiah, literature

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Where Loving Leads

Where loving leads I lean most heavily, Where decisions aren't easy And reactions are rash. But it seems that if living has no locomotion Then it's harder to fall, harder to crash.I know of a love only taken not given, And yet in its mercy I happily stand; I see a woman enslaved by deep inhibition, Wanting not to give in to a weak heart's demand."Where loving leads is sickening" she sang, once To herself and then no longer. Were it easy to change a statue, make it like you, How could it grow stronger?It was always up to me to charm, disarm, or just engross her. Her way of being close: standing still as I inched closer.

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Encore by SedahLiah, literature

Meditation by SedahLiah, literature

Travel: An Anthology by SedahLiah, literature

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Travel: An Anthology

Phases by SedahLiah, literature

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Phases

Hesitant by SedahLiah, literature

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Hesitant

Shipwrecked by SedahLiah, literature

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Shipwrecked

Lacunae by SedahLiah, literature

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Lacunae

Where Loving Leads by SedahLiah, literature

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Where Loving Leads

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My Narrowing Escape by SedahLiah, literature

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My Narrowing Escape

A private place, my narrowing escape from The world; as a terraformed planet grows scum, The will of true consciousness will know the sum.A razor's edge severing the ends; but I Am still me, meant to congregate - multiply, Collect, connect, dissect, but never defy.A tenuous grip, to be beyond design; Where clarity's guise gets to truly define Being alive, there are other minds like mine.

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Head vs Heart by SedahLiah, literature

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Head vs Heart

The legitimate heart that argues tact, Perhaps the vessels invested in more Than exposition; meanings preface fact When loudly expressed, dressed up, but what for? To feel attacked is to engage in war, The trenches of Feeling grown battle-torn; The legitimate heart, cruelly worn. The considerate head debating truth, Drawing from logic and prejudiced ways; A pattern seen and reflected by youth, History scored by injustice and praise. To claim progress yet ignore all the 'nays', The erudite versus the too-abused; The considerate head, selfishly used.

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Night Shifts Too Soon by SedahLiah, literature

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Night Shifts Too Soon

When I look at you deeply what do I see? The person you are or I want you to be? The labored-over argument of ardor, Should I lift her high or quietly guard her? Her flaws are not flaws to me, but cause for soft Attention; the tides that rise and fall, leave coiffed And polished stones aside, beauty formed by wear. Is wanting to change what you love ever fair? To better myself, that I'll never not try, But to ask of the mirror a new reply... When I look at you deeply what do I see? The person you are or I want you to be?The labored-over argument of ardor, Should I lift her high or quietly guard her? It's the echo that's scary when I've sai...

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House Of Mirrors by SedahLiah, literature

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House Of Mirrors

A cutting gaze, the self-portrait's stare Practices mimicry to fool the eyes; The parts where light plays with air A sputtering maze of lens and lies. The foolish guise Of glass, a lair.Some are sneaky and stricken with lines Of deformities, other strangers Surely surprised; they sway like serpentines On the run from hidden dangers. The doppelgangers Of see-through signs.All these eyes, the self portrait's trap, To see oneself in such ways, a mess Of oddities within the mind that snap When revealed; a game of chess Cruelly skewed, less Shards through the gap.Something in the faces, the idealized Di...

House Of Mirrors

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White Clouds and Farewells by SedahLiah, visual art

White Clouds and Farewells

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About SedahLiah

Artist // Literature

July 3, 1990
United States
Deviant for 17 years
rickveloz.bandcamp.com
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I'm interesting in unimportant ways. I write poetry. I also write music, and barely dabble with traditional arts.

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Twitter & Instagram @velozmachine
www.youtube.com/user/punos909/...
rickveloz.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/rickveloz

Favourite Visual Artist

Sam Spratt, Jeremy Sorrell, Ashley Oubre

Favourite Movies

Wizards, Fantastic Planet, Inglourious Bastards, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Prisoners, I Am Not A Hipster, Shut Up And Play The Hits

Favourite TV Shows

Lost, Parks & Recreation, Portlandia, Adventure Time, Firefly, Dollhouse, Chopped, Kill La Kill, Attack On Titan, Soul Eater, Knights of Sidonia

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

The Magnetic Fields/Future Bible Heroes, The Faceless, Nachtmystium, De De Mouse, Led Zeppelin, Kaki King, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Animals As Leaders, Between The Buried And Me, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cyminology, The Stylistics, 65dos, Stafraenn Hakon

Favourite Books

House of Leaves, Rant, Faust, Ulysses, A Clockwork Orange, From The Corner Of His Eye, This Is A Book

Favourite Writers

T.S. Eliot, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, D.H Lawrence, James Joyce, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephin Merritt

Favourite Games

Tabletop games like Pandemic and Tsuro of the Seas, Phone games like Piratron and Scrabble, Video Games like Tekken series and Fallout series

Tools of the Trade

Pen, pencil, gray matter

Other Interests

Being alive and keeping it that way

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SedahLiah

May 5, 2016

An Anthology To Remember

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Tonight I am embarking upon things. 1. Captain America Civil War *excitement levels over 9000* 2. Travel: An Anthology (well technically I did this last night but it is being submitted tonight.)This is a promotional journal for the contest! Hosted by :devmagicaljoey: All the details are in her journal entry but the gist is: The anthology has to be one deviation, of at least 6 different poems, written around a common theme or setting.It's a lot of writing but reading some of the other entries it's looking like a lot of fun as well. I don't envy the judges' task ahead of them.So tonight as my eyes gaze upon the glory of the Russo Brothers'...

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SedahLiah

Apr 12, 2016

I've realized that the modern horror movie trope of jump scares is the equivalent of when as a kid you had a friend who would scream in your face and say "ha ha scared ya". No. You startled me. That's what happens when you're loud and suddenly in my ...

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Feb 12, 2016

I feel as though I'm always being missed, And those who do the missing never change. But if on the road is how I must exist, I'm glad the gravel never feels the same.