darren-koobs
American
Darren Koobs has been freelance writing since March 2010 and published several well-received poems. His poetry explores anything that might inspire him to write, especially the extreme ends of human experience. Many of his poems come from personal experience, but some are inspired purely by observation.
Sometimes,
I’m lonely and want you here.
Sometimes,
I get nervous and need your words.
Sometimes,
I’m terrified and long for shelter.
And sometimes,
I get restless and desire something wild.
Sometimes,
I feel laughter and want to share.
Sometimes,
I’m happy and want to fuse it in you
Sometimes,
I’m content and rest in your embrace.
And sometimes,
Life glows because you are here.
Sometimes happens all the time.
And all my sometimes,
Have you in mind.
Together, all my sometimes
Equal all the time.
That is when I need you.
Jun 12, 2011
Jun 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM UTC
Let me make love to you
With my eyes
Follow every perfect curve
Caress each lovely fold
I want to soak up
Your beauty
Travel along your legs
And study your fingers and toes
I will worship the contours
Of your cheeks
And let the softness of your lips
Tease me into ecstasy
With my eyes I want to love you
Carry you in memory
To fill my thoughts
When you can’t be here
For all of you is perfection
From when we met years ago
To this moment
Much has changed about you
But not one thing at all
You are always perfect
So let my eyes adore you
Let me drink you in
So I will never forget
One perfect detail
Of the body that carries you
Jun 12, 2011
Jun 12, 2011 at 1:03 PM UTC
I stood on the porch tonight and stared into the heavens
The mild darkness and cricket melodies
Took me captive and I couldn’t move or think
The fingers of a midnight breeze tickled my edges
The night was like wine and unlike times before
I drank without objecting, without fear
Of what it would do to me
I should have resisted because before I was aware
I hunted for the Infinite, tried to perceive God
I attempted to span the universe with a thought
But even those twinkles of light are each
More massive than imagination
And I was left to question the sanity of this creation
How do you find a thing your mind can’t define
What can my spirit do when its perceptions
Are limited to five mortal senses
There must be more to life than just existence!
And just as my oceans were getting beyond restless
The midnight breeze and cricket melodies
Beckoned me by name and stilled my waters
And in their voices God said to me
“Child, when you look for me
I will always discover you.”
Apr 24, 2011
Apr 24, 2011 at 2:26 AM UTC
It’s the Sabbath day
Jesus lays entombed
There was no other way
Because forever loomed
It’s the Sabbath day
God has paused his labor
Hardest work was yesterday
It took him to death’s chamber
It’s the Sabbath day
The Devil knows he’s lost
Yet still attempts decay
To ruin what we cost
God chose to be salvation’s slave
Enemy take warning
You killed Christ on Sabbath’s eve
But Sunday morning’s coming!
Apr 22, 2011
Apr 22, 2011 at 10:40 PM UTC
It’s time to be real, time to face facts
We all love a drug, we all have our pills
We all choose addictions to soothe our ills
Trying to forfeit the pain life exacts
Things that we grasp only briefly distract
Behaviors we love that cannot fulfill
Popping bad habits instead of real pills
Making wrong choices, spurning their impact
Devices, entities, actions, can ****
All of creation mayhap abused
No matter your choice, regardless of thrill
We conceive our own monsters
By our own selves we are used
Pills only widen life’s fissures
Apr 17, 2011
Apr 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM UTC
In everything you do,
There is a piece of you.
In every meal you make
With every risk you take
In every grief you feel
With every hurt you heal
In all the joy you give
You taught me how to live.
It’s love that you impart
That has built my heart
Such love you poured so free
Is the love in me
Apr 14, 2011
Apr 14, 2011 at 6:43 AM UTC
Would you stay with me a while
The time we’ll not need to chase
Unto ourselves, our own isle
Let hours slip with no trace
Would you stay with me a while
Just my eyes caress your face
We’ll hold hands in timid style
The outside world you’ll erase
Would you stay with me a while
We’ll talk in forever’s pace
No design; talking freestyle
With gazes and words embrace
Would you stay with me a while
As our youth the years displace
Since lifetimes are just a while
I’ll stash every touch you place
Apr 5, 2011
Apr 5, 2011 at 2:16 PM UTC
I don’t know how to meet people
I mean, how do you just walk up
To someone you don’t know at all
What if they ignore my greeting?
What if they look at me funny?
What if they become angry, right?
That person could be important
In charge of a huge company
Or own a major football team
Chances are they’re way too busy
For someone as small as I am
I just can’t handle rejection
Then one afternoon in a store
A salesman walked right up to me
He said “Hi!’ and then shook my hand
The salesman didn’t have a clue
Of how I would respond to him
And then it settled on me like
An elephant waiting for food
That’s the best way to meet people
Say “Hi!” and leave the rest to them
Apr 3, 2011
Apr 3, 2011 at 2:30 PM UTC
Swiftly flowing in its placid journey
Passes towers of arboreal green
Irrepressible current coursing free
Tranquility so rarely felt or seen
Then the current engages violence
Grinding boulders in its angry freefall
Only Death travels here seeking credence
Even the stalwart in this fury stall
None will escape the current’s crashing flow
Its watery claws seize all that are born
Who, carried through paths both severe and slow
Learn of peace after beaten down and worn
Do I ride and wrestle the current’s wave?
Or pine and wish the current were a grave?
Apr 2, 2011
Apr 2, 2011 at 5:13 AM UTC
I don’t know how to say
But I ache to try
I hate I talked that way
It wasn’t from my heart
Sometimes I let my feelings
Run my motor mouth
Instead of simply thinking
Before my tongue’s in gear
If I could plug a speaker
Directly to my heart
Then you’d hear it singing
Music you impart
So now I leave this note
My apology
My sorrow is from hurting you
Please, my Love, forgive me
Mar 29, 2011
Mar 29, 2011 at 6:45 AM UTC