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isilwen-grier
isilwen-grier
American With an unyielding reliance on science as an unequivocal truth, we find ourselves at a deficit. For logic or reason fail to contest the austere quandaries of the human experience. "Salt Away Verity", 2011, mine
Beautiful, balance, basically made from necessity A planet of fire, stabilizing a chaos of gas and dust- amazingly, fashioned creation A home to beings purposed to survive, from lowest crustacean, to enigmatic leaders of beasts and nations
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May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017 at 10:21 AM UTC
Fashioned Creation
We were reapers in a past life I was the cape and you were the scythe We pulled the wool over their eyes And made their dreams death in disguise Wrapped up lilies reaching for shade, a familiar tragedy, even they cannot bear the sun's gaze Wretched. Reaching for the wool and the knife In the heaven-less night Where the shades of confessions danced, we walked But, I was not there to get them to talk The Reverend and the pew Never did what they were meant to Tangled lilies reluctantly reaching for shade Ashamed to accept the slight--decaying hope and disparate daydreams Reaching for the cape and the scythe For the heaven-less sight Here lies a city Of flowers-the lilies In the dark its clarity profoundly makes A sunlit city dreary And, we were reapers in our last life I, your loveless lover, you with another spouse Drove me into despair, dragging the night-sky into our love made-up of lies So, we perfunctorily made death a heaven-less guise Death, made out of dreams and lies Be careful, of love's cape and scythe, If you're to keep your life. ***Sui Caedere translated from Latin, "of oneself **** " Suicide in a Sunlit City."
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 1:23 PM UTC
Sui Caedere in a Sunlit City
if i could do no wrong, nothing would ever get done.  i wouldn't see the fake in me,  driving a stake through me,  wrecked or coming undone. if i were a happier soul, nothing but light would be shown.  i couldn't be, wouldn't be- dark eating, dark to my bones,  crowded yet so all alone. but, if I were less noisy, and see a little  less woe in me,  if were holy,  who would revere me?  no. not one of those. they only enjoy crackling souls. if I could be left alone, then nothing would ever be wrong.  i wouldn't see faults in me  through others' eyes waiting, listing and mocking the made up things i'd done. if i couldn't be mistaken,  no sea of the doubt in their eyes. just floating not drenched a false image- shadowed nothing at all. turned around facing the wall.
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM UTC
try turning around
Fragile body, hurt aching as as wrinkles run down her face "What was the point anyway?" Should you look at her she'd become tired bitter at the chance you'd turn she'd walk away  A tear in her blouse  with a long-time dusted and withered  spouse A black cat, laying dead The wicked thing had fled No matter  He was gone  before he left her home His mind was decaying All his memories fading Bitter He'd lay in his own litter Then ****** He'd trot away Fading [Time tiptoed... glance- at heavy rain see a wind blown girl brown long curls white long pearls dainty dresses draping] Her companion buried age's blinding eyes staring What was the point? The dead and old should know This the way you go What was the point anyway? To age is a disgrace? She said "No matter" And flew away 5/8/12 (The Sun and the Moon compilation)
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 1:07 PM UTC
The Quick and the Dead
did he think it would be easy  to pick her up off her feet? she is spiteful, lazy, and weak she is unfaithfully trying--  half asleep but he comforts her repeating-  "you'll feel better, go outside, in the sun," he quickly says  staring at her  she swears it won't shine--despite the weather whether she is too heavy in the suns rays  or carrying her self-hate, hiding from  the sun's gaze, he arrives home to watch her break  and he gazes through the mess she makes he is heavy holding her close he is tired giving her a dose in her daze-- "i'm ok, i don't need it" she boasts it's these kinds of day's he hates the most when he wakes, he's thinking  "work will be long," as he's dressing as he glances over her at the clock he's thinking that he's running late  as he glances over at her "yes, i'm sure she's recovering"  even if he recalls her cycle of words, the night before  the quotes of happiness [grief, sickness, death, the end"]  then beams of happiness ...she keeps changing but "it will...be easy," he is thinking,  as he steps quietly away, while yawning.
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 1:25 AM UTC
Recovey
blood on her hands  waste at her feet I wish you could see-  -if you could be me her beneath me and around me her cry must be heard  across the street no one came no one saw anything but I wish anyone but me could see and die inside like me and be curious to see that two plain women  should meet: one sad  one obsolete I slip and slip in my myriad mind  though wet red slowly runs... she'd been rotting  while I sleep  with her body next to me playing dolls hide and seek with a corpse that seeps  watercolor composed in red  while I sleep with my body next to me and I can't peek two plain women- no none but me me the drained dead me watching me.
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 1:18 AM UTC
The Dead and Me
This is enough.           1 The water, a dark, cold river,     will hold me underneath it.     3 I've boastful thoughts, "I'll be delivered," while floating down.              5 I'm a worn raft, broken off of a boat.       You cannot hold unto me.             7 My wrenched, sadness, could pull everyone; anyone, from above,                   9 into the cold. No, I'll think nothing above the blinding surface.   11 Waves come from below the surface. But, they seem swallow the sickness,      13 and cure me, free me, "finally." But, can the sea hold my melancholy?      15 The waves roll, fast away, driving pain away There is no deliverance, from the land, for this man.            17 Please, push me under, so that this is enough.   18 Now, I'm a fish. In the blue world.          20 "I mean, I can breath!"          Beneath the red, scorching land.   22 But, with a broken fin,  and a heavy body,               24 It seems I cannot hold me, my fury And, I was once a man, hurting, and tired.    But, I was once whole, soaking up the sun.       27 I stood upright, but I began to die in the heat.                 29 That is why this is enough.        30 A wave, a fish, a man in a dark river. I'll show you what I'd be:   drowned and wretched, a raft,                  34 that pulled me under, a wave that made me flounder,    37 and now, a man  beneath the surface.     38 The ocean. It's flow will hold me,  this dark inside me... "This is enough."           42 I will sink don't try  to raise me.             45 Don't send something,  like a burning rope out    47 to save me.           The cold sea current is what becomes of me. Sinking down to get away,        49 a fish is meant to die this way. Don't hold me, in the heated hell      51 of the sun.                          Don't hunt or raise a drowned man.  53 Don't burn a pyre, or bury me in the sand.   I'm delivered from sitting in the,          55 braising day, hurting in the sun. The water in this vast blue ocean, that is enough.  57
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
The Man Who Tried to Swim
This is enough.           1 The water, a dark, cold river,     will hold me underneath it.     3 I've boastful thoughts, "I'll be delivered," while floating down.              5 I'm a worn raft, broken off of a boat.       You cannot hold unto me.             7 My wrenched, sadness, could pull everyone; anyone, from above,                   9 into the cold. No, I'll think nothing above the blinding surface.   11 Waves come from below the surface. But, they seem swallow the sickness,      13 and cure me, free me, "finally." But, can the sea hold my melancholy?      15 The waves roll, fast away, driving pain away There is no deliverance, from the land, for this man.            17 Please, push me under, so that this is enough.   18 Now, I'm a fish. In the blue world.          20 "I mean, I can breath!"          Beneath the red, scorching land.   22 But, with a broken fin,  and a heavy body,               24 It seems I cannot hold me, my fury And, I was once a man, hurting, and tired.    But, I was once whole, soaking up the sun.       27 I stood upright, but I began to die in the heat.                 29 That is why this is enough.        30 A wave, a fish, a man in a dark river. I'll show you what I'd be:   drowned and wretched, a raft,                  34 that pulled me under, a wave that made me flounder,    37 and now, a man  beneath the surface.     38 The ocean. It's flow will hold me,  this dark inside me... "This is enough."           42 I will sink don't try  to raise me.             45 Don't send something,  like a burning rope out    47 to save me.           The cold sea current is what becomes of me. Sinking down to get away,        49 a fish is meant to die this way. Don't hold me, in the heated hell      51 of the sun.                          Don't hunt or raise a drowned man.  53 Don't burn a pyre, or bury me in the sand.   I'm delivered from sitting in the,          55 braising day, hurting in the sun. The water in this vast blue ocean, that is enough.  57
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Take away the pain, and all you'll see is a ghost. Drive away a demon, and all you'll see is the host. *The host itself, came from something too. This liar, that walks around like truth.* And, trampled are the ones so pure. fragile, with veiled allure. Bodies and souls that are just like mine. And we're stumbling in rain. Disturbed. Abused. Peal off your heavy, damp, black coat.  Fix your feet, bleeding and full of holes. We'll dry our damp heels, to face the host.  And, pull on hardened boots, to protect our soles.
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:40 AM UTC
Facing the Host