elliot-a - Hello Poetry

When did the soil give birth to ideologies of hate? Floating thoughts taking hold of tempestuous souls To wreak destitution and abject destruction upon City slabs Intangible ideas, not to be grasped, squeeze hard On curled metal, give birth to flying shells Hit hard on soft targets Stories held within forms, never known to thy perpetrator Indiscriminate fury built upon muddled theory How powerful a virulent ideology Minds clash in spoken wars, yet the earth does recoil As fragile limbs confronted by flying shells Limp, lifeless hand stretched forth Pleading for continuation of a life not contemplated to end Not here, in this way Crudely broken by the stench of decay I remember when Friday night was for play Humanities throat pressed upon not by religion Knife drawn not by capitalism Shots fired not by secularism Yet a common strain persists in all That of power seeking Corrupting hearts, dividing parts uneven, the spread obscene Impose a will on another Crush fledging life pursuing what is best to you Oh! The clouds I plead beneath pass me by Your ‘best’ is but yours, permit me to fly by

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Nov 28, 2015

Nov 28, 2015 at 3:21 PM UTC

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For Victims of Ideology

When did the soil give birth to ideologies of hate? Floating thoughts taking hold of tempestuous souls To wreak destitution and abject destruction upon City slabs Intangible ideas, not to be grasped, squeeze hard On curled metal, give birth to flying shells Hit hard on soft targets Stories held within forms, never known to thy perpetrator Indiscriminate fury built upon muddled theory How powerful a virulent ideology Minds clash in spoken wars, yet the earth does recoil As fragile limbs confronted by flying shells Limp, lifeless hand stretched forth Pleading for continuation of a life not contemplated to end Not here, in this way Crudely broken by the stench of decay I remember when Friday night was for play Humanities throat pressed upon not by religion Knife drawn not by capitalism Shots fired not by secularism Yet a common strain persists in all That of power seeking Corrupting hearts, dividing parts uneven, the spread obscene Impose a will on another Crush fledging life pursuing what is best to you Oh! The clouds I plead beneath pass me by Your ‘best’ is but yours, permit me to fly by

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A solitary bird does sing its song to be heard Above the cacophony of others Its song is the only song The one all others should sing along to Moving from perch to perch A different audience it attempts to convert Sing my song for you will prosper With the dulcet tones I create for you to replicate Nothing will stop this beautiful melody A flying march upon those inferior drones Leaving the nest in search of home Swapping warmth for self-worth They must hear me sing, my song is all All they must hear, for it is truth A simple beautiful truth Those who deny my song Resign them to the winds Let them fall from their flight up high To hit the ground and silence their malevolent grins

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Jun 1, 2014

Jun 1, 2014 at 2:59 PM UTC

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Proselytise

A solitary bird does sing its song to be heard Above the cacophony of others Its song is the only song The one all others should sing along to Moving from perch to perch A different audience it attempts to convert Sing my song for you will prosper With the dulcet tones I create for you to replicate Nothing will stop this beautiful melody A flying march upon those inferior drones Leaving the nest in search of home Swapping warmth for self-worth They must hear me sing, my song is all All they must hear, for it is truth A simple beautiful truth Those who deny my song Resign them to the winds Let them fall from their flight up high To hit the ground and silence their malevolent grins

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Laugh with the one you are with Care for the feelings shared Run fingers over that beautiful form Guard careless words from causing harm Look into her eyes, deeply Stare adamantly through her soul Take her up, spin her round Wrap her tight to never let go Say all the things you forget to say Do not leave to regret when she has gone Embrace all that she is But most of all give her room to grow Make that pledge to kiss her head every air filled day Leave nothing where nothing resides Make her know of secure love The one that you dream of

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Feb 19, 2014

Feb 19, 2014 at 1:30 PM UTC

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A Call To Lovers

Laugh with the one you are with Care for the feelings shared Run fingers over that beautiful form Guard careless words from causing harm Look into her eyes, deeply Stare adamantly through her soul Take her up, spin her round Wrap her tight to never let go Say all the things you forget to say Do not leave to regret when she has gone Embrace all that she is But most of all give her room to grow Make that pledge to kiss her head every air filled day Leave nothing where nothing resides Make her know of secure love The one that you dream of

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We come together in this swirling mass You participate in an endless flow of energy, from one movement to the next You kiss, feel, touch, love, care, hug You believe, think, have faith, gesture You hate, renounce, decry, hurt, break Played out on a stage, a life led as so many millions before Things you will never know are never known The knowledge you do know cherished The love you felt and feel embellished across a chest What note will you have left? A salutary glance, paragraph or a punctuation mark? You are sustained by all that ever passed before Those scraping bodies across floors to those elevated in thought From slaves and ****** To intellects and emperors Each a fully breathing entitled human being No more, no less No more, no less A mother, a father, a sister, a brother Related are all, blood tied and adored Taken away in time, eroded into the winds and forgotten for ever more Let the stars glare upon this blue orb Reflecting the dreams of those inhabiting it To never be known, secrets drowned in space What say you to heavenly bodies on deepest, darkest nights? Utterances trembling from unsure lips I love I hope Humanity built on feeling. For we must feel our way. We must feel our way.

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Jan 31, 2014

Jan 31, 2014 at 3:34 PM UTC

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Feel

We come together in this swirling mass You participate in an endless flow of energy, from one movement to the next You kiss, feel, touch, love, care, hug You believe, think, have faith, gesture You hate, renounce, decry, hurt, break Played out on a stage, a life led as so many millions before Things you will never know are never known The knowledge you do know cherished The love you felt and feel embellished across a chest What note will you have left? A salutary glance, paragraph or a punctuation mark? You are sustained by all that ever passed before Those scraping bodies across floors to those elevated in thought From slaves and ****** To intellects and emperors Each a fully breathing entitled human being No more, no less No more, no less A mother, a father, a sister, a brother Related are all, blood tied and adored Taken away in time, eroded into the winds and forgotten for ever more Let the stars glare upon this blue orb Reflecting the dreams of those inhabiting it To never be known, secrets drowned in space What say you to heavenly bodies on deepest, darkest nights? Utterances trembling from unsure lips I love I hope Humanity built on feeling. For we must feel our way. We must feel our way.

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Come darling, emit your sweet scent Entice me around your flowing stem Permit me to nestle upon your soft verges To run hands through your vibrant colours To dance, embraced as one, we blur Spinning our deathly spin Drowning in glorious, lustful sin Come darling, reveal all you hide Your vulnerable side Shed that hard exterior shell Fill my senses until overwhelmed We waltz to the tune played Many times before, oh how it has played! Resting our heads on shoulders ledge With a supple movement so slight We swirl lightly, ever so slightly Headed down to rest Until the sun does rise again And we repeat, nay, we play our lovers rhythm again

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Nov 14, 2013

Nov 14, 2013 at 11:07 AM UTC

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Come, Darling.

Come darling, emit your sweet scent Entice me around your flowing stem Permit me to nestle upon your soft verges To run hands through your vibrant colours To dance, embraced as one, we blur Spinning our deathly spin Drowning in glorious, lustful sin Come darling, reveal all you hide Your vulnerable side Shed that hard exterior shell Fill my senses until overwhelmed We waltz to the tune played Many times before, oh how it has played! Resting our heads on shoulders ledge With a supple movement so slight We swirl lightly, ever so slightly Headed down to rest Until the sun does rise again And we repeat, nay, we play our lovers rhythm again

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Shall we hide, behind this door? Or what about this wall? Stronger and taller than the door It does not open, there is no handle Only we know what happens behind the wall Too vulnerable to emerge, so we won’t Keep hidden, it is safer, easier Than to expose ourselves, to feel I despise this wall, trapped behind I long for a door, to welcome you in To open up, have you stay a while Not fear rejection of who we are But bask in a glow of acceptance Stay still, for a cold chill blows this way We laugh for we are safe Behind this wall Indifferent and cool to emotional pangs They leave us be Nothing to see Have they gone? Are we alone? Retreated behind this wall again A habit that needs to break We begin small, as a crack penetrates the wall Until finally a space shaped door

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Oct 29, 2013

Oct 29, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC

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Hide and Seek

Shall we hide, behind this door? Or what about this wall? Stronger and taller than the door It does not open, there is no handle Only we know what happens behind the wall Too vulnerable to emerge, so we won’t Keep hidden, it is safer, easier Than to expose ourselves, to feel I despise this wall, trapped behind I long for a door, to welcome you in To open up, have you stay a while Not fear rejection of who we are But bask in a glow of acceptance Stay still, for a cold chill blows this way We laugh for we are safe Behind this wall Indifferent and cool to emotional pangs They leave us be Nothing to see Have they gone? Are we alone? Retreated behind this wall again A habit that needs to break We begin small, as a crack penetrates the wall Until finally a space shaped door

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Eyes full of the unknown We slowly came to know Of each other, nervous but excited Feeling around in the dark what was to become so familiar Months past in your arms Years next to your lips Arguments set in, thunder storms We fought to make up and made up to fight There was life in it still Two strong characters of will Impassioned lust laid across covers of trust My beautiful vision of you and I Too perfect you did decry Infected by resentment, my heart shrank You were to endure words so utterly fraught with cold As though fashioned in the North Pole Yet your love remained bound tightly to me We would rise high above common ground Soaring amongst the clouds, our love not to be touched Until crashing down we fell into boundless hell Picking at faults we should have forgiven Too long they haunted our position “You need to change” we both declared Attempts were made in vein So simple it all seems now To have simply kissed your furrowed brow Taken your hand and reassured you of my love Apologised for any wrong made in haste Sadly it was too late; you took matters into your own hands Feeling away from me into foreign lands To where I could not reach you I went mad with pain of missing you My utmost did I try to show my change The man I had renounced stood no longer in me I only wished for your return To rekindle the fire that had died in my heart I would rise born again a better man With you to guide my unsteady hand The fire remains quelled ever since you came back To see and feel for me so differently Our bond lay broken, dashed aside Relinquished our tie, let loose against the tide I now struggle out at sea, wave’s crash over me Waiting, hoping for you to rescue me It never came Memories seemingly held you back Of torment, tears rolled by So your love drowned Letting it go gladly, almost a relief I now sit alone Wet and full of regret, on a vast sandy beach.

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Oct 24, 2013

Oct 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM UTC

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Unknown

Eyes full of the unknown We slowly came to know Of each other, nervous but excited Feeling around in the dark what was to become so familiar Months past in your arms Years next to your lips Arguments set in, thunder storms We fought to make up and made up to fight There was life in it still Two strong characters of will Impassioned lust laid across covers of trust My beautiful vision of you and I Too perfect you did decry Infected by resentment, my heart shrank You were to endure words so utterly fraught with cold As though fashioned in the North Pole Yet your love remained bound tightly to me We would rise high above common ground Soaring amongst the clouds, our love not to be touched Until crashing down we fell into boundless hell Picking at faults we should have forgiven Too long they haunted our position “You need to change” we both declared Attempts were made in vein So simple it all seems now To have simply kissed your furrowed brow Taken your hand and reassured you of my love Apologised for any wrong made in haste Sadly it was too late; you took matters into your own hands Feeling away from me into foreign lands To where I could not reach you I went mad with pain of missing you My utmost did I try to show my change The man I had renounced stood no longer in me I only wished for your return To rekindle the fire that had died in my heart I would rise born again a better man With you to guide my unsteady hand The fire remains quelled ever since you came back To see and feel for me so differently Our bond lay broken, dashed aside Relinquished our tie, let loose against the tide I now struggle out at sea, wave’s crash over me Waiting, hoping for you to rescue me It never came Memories seemingly held you back Of torment, tears rolled by So your love drowned Letting it go gladly, almost a relief I now sit alone Wet and full of regret, on a vast sandy beach.

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I return worn out from labour spent To rest in our household bed A subtle fragrance dances on the air You have just washed your hair I lay my head to settle down beside you Your arms stretch out to meet my tired body We sleep a deep soundless lover’s sleep We rise in our nest to birds chirping I look across, see you smiling, content at what we call our own Our home shared Our castle built upon each other’s trust Acquired memories adorn the halls Your beautiful clothes hang behind doors Our cat meanders across the bed, meowing loudly to be fed We laugh at how happy we are Would we dare have any more? A walk hand in hand watching the wind blow by Spending evenings by a fire side Holding you close if ever you cry This wonderful visage of life maybe For I must find you out there first of all.

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Oct 24, 2013

Oct 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM UTC

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Out there somewhere

I return worn out from labour spent To rest in our household bed A subtle fragrance dances on the air You have just washed your hair I lay my head to settle down beside you Your arms stretch out to meet my tired body We sleep a deep soundless lover’s sleep We rise in our nest to birds chirping I look across, see you smiling, content at what we call our own Our home shared Our castle built upon each other’s trust Acquired memories adorn the halls Your beautiful clothes hang behind doors Our cat meanders across the bed, meowing loudly to be fed We laugh at how happy we are Would we dare have any more? A walk hand in hand watching the wind blow by Spending evenings by a fire side Holding you close if ever you cry This wonderful visage of life maybe For I must find you out there first of all.

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