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john-jordan
john-jordan
American I'm primarily a glass artist, but I do dabble in poetry from time to time.
I never understood the sound of a heartbeat the relentless BA-bum, BA-bum, BA-bum so draining and grating it makes me numb BA-Bum, BA-bum, BA-bum until we finally succumb I never understood how people die of a broken heart the break is not physical it is not actual it is not real it is just how you feel right? I never understood why love was a two-way street shouldn't it be a fork in the road converging becoming one-way once we finally meet? but that was because I only saw my side I had know idea how our paths were going to collide And I still never understood the sound of a heartbeat of all the beats why two? I never understood it that is... until I met you Because you were the second beat that puzzled me for so long You were the second beat that kept me going strong you were that up beat to my favorite song and you are the second beat that made my heart belong and now as a widower I never heard that second beat a murmur it had become, until I saw her again on the day of my death went the Vitals screen went BA....BA.... BA.... buuuuummm
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
heartbeat
Never express, Only repress Then repress then press again feelings aren’t not your refuge But your refuse Bury your feelings But the heart only goes so deep So break it Let the trash seep but when you’re at that breaking point Don’t try to mend Just spend On some form of escape Find you pusher And your favorite femoral eye drapes Never fix just get your fix got it? Good Need another? I knew you would
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 1:05 AM UTC
Escapism
I think I found the one but which one did I find? so far this fairytale's plot is at once upon a time feels like I'm back at 4 years old with my sleep on hold waiting with bated breathe to see how this story unfolds this is one of those road trips where the phrase "Are we there yet?" will never come from my lips because this trip is about the journey and I am in no hurry As a child I used to go and catch butterflies but now I catch them every time I look into her eyes I not trying to be Kraft Mac-n-Cheezy But I'm falling for her deeply all I know is ONCE I feel her embrace, mind body and soul, and   UPON seeing her smile and hearing her laughter   A blanket of her warmth tucks me in, filling my holes making it     TIME to say happily ever after
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 12:38 AM UTC
Once upon a time...
A picture is worth 1000 words and if a picture is a still of motion wouldn't it be absurd to try and describe an event or emotion through the spoken word? the spoken word is not in compliance with emotion and feeling I see her as golden as the silence two beings only being All I want is to hold her in my arms and have a conversation through our embrace I want to get to know her through the landscape of her face I want to feel all her cuts and scars and let her feel mine and see if the torn pieces of our hearts could ever intertwine all of this, without a word ever being transferred
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 2:55 AM UTC
no words
today's cliche was the marvel of yesterday
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Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM UTC
cliche
this message is brought by those who fought for lover's lane is now a vacant lot I heard that at it's birth lover's lane encompassed the earth like a grand equator the ultimate curator of all things love but then a dark mass came from above it was a ball of cynism and under the haze of malaise created a schism then like ripples in a pond the schism ripped at the bond that held lover's lane together maybe it was cynism that allowed the darkness to see that lover's lane was only real, because of ideals held within you and me the darkness knew it's route was to first take root in the minds of the people then gives it's followers the suit and make the corporation it's steeple the suits were faithful to their creed called the gospel of greed yet there was still a need that they had to feed happiness that money could not buy and believe me they would try and try, and try and try deep down their apathy was agony happiness the supreme ideal but all they wanted was to feel anything they went to their vices such as cellular devices that created a virtual reality that could make them virtually happy for once they could virtually say they were virtually ok virtually not in reality the reality was they were desperately trying to forget they were sardines trapped in the net the net was growing too misery likes company but really loves a corporation but what were we to do? it had spread across the nations lover's lane was shrinking all we were thinking was could love ever thrive agian? could it even survive? when... the darkness was so thorough containing lover's lane to merely a borough we tried to make them see all that love can be we tried with all forms of art wrote, and spoke from the heart but the suits were indifferent they just didn't care I realized then and there that I'd be just one of the few numerals at loves eminent funeral wearing a suit and after a tear, I'd start my commute to be the corporation's next recruit
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 9:45 PM UTC
lover's lane
this message is brought by those who fought for lover's lane is now a vacant lot I heard that at it's birth lover's lane encompassed the earth like a grand equator the ultimate curator of all things love but then a dark mass came from above it was a ball of cynism and under the haze of malaise created a schism then like ripples in a pond the schism ripped at the bond that held lover's lane together maybe it was cynism that allowed the darkness to see that lover's lane was only real, because of ideals held within you and me the darkness knew it's route was to first take root in the minds of the people then gives it's followers the suit and make the corporation it's steeple the suits were faithful to their creed called the gospel of greed yet there was still a need that they had to feed happiness that money could not buy and believe me they would try and try, and try and try deep down their apathy was agony happiness the supreme ideal but all they wanted was to feel anything they went to their vices such as cellular devices that created a virtual reality that could make them virtually happy for once they could virtually say they were virtually ok virtually not in reality the reality was they were desperately trying to forget they were sardines trapped in the net the net was growing too misery likes company but really loves a corporation but what were we to do? it had spread across the nations lover's lane was shrinking all we were thinking was could love ever thrive agian? could it even survive? when... the darkness was so thorough containing lover's lane to merely a borough we tried to make them see all that love can be we tried with all forms of art wrote, and spoke from the heart but the suits were indifferent they just didn't care I realized then and there that I'd be just one of the few numerals at loves eminent funeral wearing a suit and after a tear, I'd start my commute to be the corporation's next recruit
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you say love is your religion but that is a lie because love is a decision and what did you decide? to make your bed a church and instead of love, you went out in search of a body to rub against to try to force a spark that deep down you sensed wasn't there making love, does not make love magically appear love is not a physical act but how you act when lust is exalted true love is halted then your temple will fall and if from the ruins you build a wall around your heart, it is then that your religion will truly fall apart
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 2:55 AM UTC
Is love really your religion?
it was the day of the fall equinox and I fell for the idea that all would be equal but that idea opened pandora's box to yet another sequel Of horrors pouring, jaws ajar; Claws and eyes both pointed And lashing out both near and far Leaving all my world disjointed. How did I become a bystander to what I started I swear I'm a good person and kind hearted I just wanted to get laid, but you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men they go and arise to the horror that was today Now I long for the blissful ignorance I had back then You see, not all is as it seems with me, I have my fair share of cryptics But this was unknown to even yours truly I had not expected the apocalyptic. My eyes and soul and heart was blank, I had not an idea for solutions All was lost, my confidence shrank, I felt ***** in need of ablutions. It started out as and innocent fling but after her ***** willow went up my tree she expected a ring I fled from her bed in hurry but I had no idea the calamity it would bring. I really had opened Pandora's box, In more ways than just one. Now she claims to love me, 'lots and lots'. Oh Hell, what had I done? I ran and hid, far from her home Yet she searched for me endlessly Spitting fire from her mouth of rabid foam Ripping apart both Land and Sea. She scorched the earth in my name all eyes and claws pointed blame the people didn't deserve such a fate but I knew she was using them as bait How did she transform from a magnificent maiden to a brew of Maleficent and the spawn of satan nevertheless she could not find my place of rest Which was right inside myself, you see: I hid in between my lungs. So off in disguise, Right under her eyes To the sea, I ran and I plunged. Once out in the Sevens I reached out to the Heavens (The ones I'd not believed before) And I cried,' Someone please save me From this bat-shit old lady; Give me help!' I strongly implored. All of a sudden, the waters did blacken I had no time to swim, for out burst a Kraken! 'The eyes look familiar', I thought in my head, Then I realised: The beast is the woman I'd bed. This Kraken was looking to crack in my skull there had to be some way to get her roar to dull but I was a sitting duck, so I tossed in my white flag and tossed in some loving words almost causing me to gag she tied me up until we tied the knot and used my white flag as her vail I spent my time trying to plot how to make this wedlock fail when the reverend said you may kiss the bride I revealed the concealed weapon I had by my side Just a wedding ring, was my weapon, Rounded, gold with diamonds; seven It was made for her and she loved it dear Unbeknownst that she should be filled with fear... We'd now been married for quite some time, I'd let her love me before my crime, For the best way to **** a woman - to start, Is let her fall for you then break her heart. I found the perfect way to make her life end So while she was out, I had *** with her friends. But I said nothing, I let rumors fly the truth hurts, but what kills is no reply I let her head spin and let her unravel what once was an overbearing boulder had turned itself into gravel. the time was now prime to commit my final crime...
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 9:12 PM UTC
Untitled
it was the day of the fall equinox and I fell for the idea that all would be equal but that idea opened pandora's box to yet another sequel Of horrors pouring, jaws ajar; Claws and eyes both pointed And lashing out both near and far Leaving all my world disjointed. How did I become a bystander to what I started I swear I'm a good person and kind hearted I just wanted to get laid, but you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men they go and arise to the horror that was today Now I long for the blissful ignorance I had back then You see, not all is as it seems with me, I have my fair share of cryptics But this was unknown to even yours truly I had not expected the apocalyptic. My eyes and soul and heart was blank, I had not an idea for solutions All was lost, my confidence shrank, I felt ***** in need of ablutions. It started out as and innocent fling but after her ***** willow went up my tree she expected a ring I fled from her bed in hurry but I had no idea the calamity it would bring. I really had opened Pandora's box, In more ways than just one. Now she claims to love me, 'lots and lots'. Oh Hell, what had I done? I ran and hid, far from her home Yet she searched for me endlessly Spitting fire from her mouth of rabid foam Ripping apart both Land and Sea. She scorched the earth in my name all eyes and claws pointed blame the people didn't deserve such a fate but I knew she was using them as bait How did she transform from a magnificent maiden to a brew of Maleficent and the spawn of satan nevertheless she could not find my place of rest Which was right inside myself, you see: I hid in between my lungs. So off in disguise, Right under her eyes To the sea, I ran and I plunged. Once out in the Sevens I reached out to the Heavens (The ones I'd not believed before) And I cried,' Someone please save me From this bat-shit old lady; Give me help!' I strongly implored. All of a sudden, the waters did blacken I had no time to swim, for out burst a Kraken! 'The eyes look familiar', I thought in my head, Then I realised: The beast is the woman I'd bed. This Kraken was looking to crack in my skull there had to be some way to get her roar to dull but I was a sitting duck, so I tossed in my white flag and tossed in some loving words almost causing me to gag she tied me up until we tied the knot and used my white flag as her vail I spent my time trying to plot how to make this wedlock fail when the reverend said you may kiss the bride I revealed the concealed weapon I had by my side Just a wedding ring, was my weapon, Rounded, gold with diamonds; seven It was made for her and she loved it dear Unbeknownst that she should be filled with fear... We'd now been married for quite some time, I'd let her love me before my crime, For the best way to **** a woman - to start, Is let her fall for you then break her heart. I found the perfect way to make her life end So while she was out, I had *** with her friends. But I said nothing, I let rumors fly the truth hurts, but what kills is no reply I let her head spin and let her unravel what once was an overbearing boulder had turned itself into gravel. the time was now prime to commit my final crime...
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You're hopes and fears are multiplyin' clinging to them like a dandelion clasping the seeds of hope because now that is all you got tying them up with your fearful rope the earth dumped you in a dump and left you distraught no longer absorbing nutrients, you get absorbed in your mind daydreaming about happier thoughts that only leave you blind because if you could see outside yourself it'd be revealed that all is what you make it including your field and that the dump is entirely your own but maybe if you let those seeds of hope fly and let them be sown you might get in a reply is a field that is over grown with fulfilled hopes, ever satifyin' and that dump is now a white canvas of thousands of heads of the dandelion
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM UTC
Dandelion
These lonely lips, just want to sing your priase this lonely heart, wants to love you for the rest of your days these lonely eyes just long to see you smile and this lonely guy, don't mind waiting a while love was in bloom then winter came I loved you and I could sense you felt the same but you kept it inside, why'd you run and hide? behind walls that you hate is that the only place you feel safe? could you feel safe with me? cause I'd sure like to be the one to help you uncover, how great of a lover that you could be, if you'd only set yourself free These lonely arms just want to hold you tight this lonely mind, thinks about you every night these lonely eyes just long to see you smile and this lonely guy, don't mind waiting a while
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 12:40 AM UTC
this lonely guy