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harrison-2
American Poetry over truth. / http://vimeo.com/amomerathoutgrabes
I live on a diet of foo fighters and remorse. I am 22 feet tall. I looked to her face, she disappears into thin air. "Pop." When she returns her face is not hers. My fingers are mountains, my hair is cattails and my belly rumbles for the moon. I am 5 feet tall. The Phoenix lands on my headboard and speaks calmly "nevermore." I search for Allen but only find Parsons and Ginsburg. My eyes are emeralds, everything is red. My legs are Christmas trees, my arms are machine guns. Both red. I am 17 feet tall. The moon is gone, captured away. Night is gone. I wither away, from starvation. 42 feet tall.
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Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 11:35 AM UTC
A Surrealist Dream
In the jungle of your mind I bedded with the clichés We sat round a campfire And talked about foreign trade You're favorite one stood up and begged to play charades We humored him only because we knew he had had a bad day Then the oldest and wisest asked me to sing I told him my voice was reminiscent of a bad dream He responded with laughter slapping his sides Then he pulled out a snake from the grass and held it while it slithered and writhed That night around midnight We lay under the stars We tried to use our imagination But it didn't take us very far You showed me constellations That didn't exist I told you I knew them had studied them when I was a kid You then took my hand and kissed me on the mouth I was shocked and bewildered But accepted it without The knowledge that your father Was watching from afar He took an axe and proceeded to chop my courage apart I ran further  and deeper into the jungle of your mind I found the clichés still siting enjoying their time I begged them to let me play charades The agreed politely They could see I had had a bad day
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 4:30 PM UTC
In the Jungle of Your Mind
I look across the field and past the sewer line, over the mountain range ignore the road that climbs I glare across the ocean bypass the boats that glide, peer into the forest refuse the loss of lives. Is the answer love, is the answer peace? Surely it can't be freedom or the will to go green Could it be knowledge, or publicity? When I contemplate this, honestly I just don't see. I don't see new generation, hope for humanity I don't see a great change coming, ideas oh so revolutionary. I see doom, I see fear I see destruction and a falseness. I see lies And I see a darkness.
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Sep 27, 2012
Sep 27, 2012 at 12:24 PM UTC
I See
I had a question burning on my mind And I thought maybe to pass the time I could write it down on a sign And ask the passing souls. My intentions were pure I wanted to know I would discover whether from above or below And with the answer I then would know The fate of the passing souls. I took my sign to the busy street Where there are many hands and many feet And with my question I did greet A many a passing souls. The answers did differ I can tell you that Some laughed while others answered back Still some just stared as though words they did lack Oh the many a passing souls. I was taken aback by the answers I received With some I implored and with some I did plead I cried “listen to me, won’t you please!” Oh lord save the passing souls. Not all accounts were bad, some were quite good I received a hug from a man in a hood Although by the end I understood The hearts of the passing souls. So at the end of the day, I folded my sign I gathered my things and with tears in my eyes I turned towards the street and I said good bye With no love from the passing souls.
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Oct 28, 2011
Oct 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM UTC
Qu’est-ce que L’amour?