Brother Jimmy: Favorites

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Sarah Spang

Skim to search the airwaves seeking
To abandon you
I fill this empty silence with a
Useless song or two
In silence creeping, weeping, you fill
Up my nodding head.
And all the words you've spoken hence
Flood forth to fill my head.
The voices on the radio say
All I should have said-
I skip those haunting broken tunes
And search for more instead.
Though truthfully excuses fail to
Negate what is true:
I fill this car with music to
Escape my thoughts of you.

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

I'm Learning

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Imran Islam

I'm Learning

I am learning
with your smile
how to be kind
I am following
your footsteps
do not mind!

I am seeing
with your eyes
how to be lovely?
I am rewriting
with your voice
how to talk nicely?

I am melting
with your beauty
and burning
I am walking
on your path
to learn something!

#i #am #learning #with #your #smile #how #to #be #kind

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Dusty Boy

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Imran Islam

Dusty Boy

The birdsong wakes me up
every single morning
my mind goes to the forest
to enjoy the melody of hornets.

Truly, if I get a gentle breeze
happily with happiness
only for the pleasure of heart
then I'd melt at the dawn.

I get and see in the flower garden
the flowers spread on the ground
the girl stood hiding behind
I had to hold my ears with shame
if she looks at me what will happen?
She'd have slapped on my cheek!

All the songs are the opposite of my song
I'm a dusty boy?

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

I Peruse You

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Imran Islam

I Peruse You

I peruse your poems
and feel your love,
It awakens me.
I peruse your letters
and feel your hurts,
They shock me!

I peruse your heart
and sense your feelings,
They make me weak!
I peruse your mind
and find your emotions,
They turn me back.

I peruse your habit
and realize your treats,
They glamor me.
I peruse your works
and observe your arts,
They satisfy me.

I peruse your eyes
and see your kindness,
They're cool like the rain.
I peruse your smile
and see your pleasure,
They melt every chain.

I peruse your face
and enjoy your looks,
They make me wonder.
I peruse your beauties
and reverse like books,
They make me a writer.

I peruse your voice
and enjoy your melodies,
They call me silent.
I peruse your shyness
and touch your body
They call me to be silent.

Truly, your love is my drug
Your hurts are my tears,
Your happiness is my life,
So, I need you, sweetheart!

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

TRIMERIC #2

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Lori Jones McCaffery

TRIMERIC #2

When the road curves out of sight
And you're not sure how far to go
when what awaits you is a puzzle
No one else but you will know.

If you're not sure how far to go
To find the thing you're hoping for
It's very tempting to turn back.

When what awaits you is a puzzle
You have to find the special key
It's hidden there among the many

No one else but you will know
If it's a prize that you have won
Or if the lock won't come undone.
ljm

Defeated by the format again - Dang !!

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

THEN

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Lori Jones McCaffery

THEN

When I have said the last thing
That I ever need to say
I will lay me down to die

When I have learned the last thing
That I ever need to learn
I will lay me down to die

When I have sung the last song
That I ever need to sing
I will lay me down to die

When I have seen the last place
That I ever need to see
I will lay me down to die

When I have held the last hand
That I ever need to hold
I will lay me down to die

When I have shed the last tear
That I ever need to shed
I will lay me down to die

When I have lived all the life
That I ever need to live
I will lay me down and die

And not until.
ljm

I think I'm gonna need about 20 more years at the far end of my life, in order to fit it all in.

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

MOTHER SAID

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Lori Jones McCaffery

MOTHER SAID

Wish in one hand
Spit in the other
See which one
Gets full first.
She was right.
ljm

Sometimes life kicks you in the shins. You long for the shiny pretty in the shop window and before you can save enough pennies to buy it, someone else waltzes out with it in hand. Leaving you to envy.

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

COLD TURKEY

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Lori Jones McCaffery

COLD TURKEY

Like all the rest I say
I am not an addict
I can stop this any time.

I do it just for fun
And relaxation.
I can stop this any time.

But my life is poisonous
And this is the antidote
Still, I can stop this any time.

Tomorrow I will prove
That what I say is true-
That I can stop this any time.

I’ll pack myself onto a plane
And exit to a 4-wheeled cell
That forces me to stop right now.

How will I fare,
Deprived of that which
Is impossible to stop?

I’ll tough it out Cold Turkey
And find a way to come back here
For I don’t aim to stop this any time soon.
ljm

I'm leaving on a 3 week vacation sans computer access. I will miss being here every day, as I have been for the last 11 months. But I'll be back. This addiction is as strong as any dope. And I'm hooked good.

#versejunky #hookedonpoets

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

The Grey In Black is White

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Shanath

The Grey In Black is White

I THE BLACK

You can have my whole heart and devour it
but not squeeze out a drop of blood.

You will drown in a thirst
as you try to water me.

II THE WHITE

I am not meant to fall in love
I am meant to divide my soul

Among the satans of the world
And turn fire into cosmos.

(I am lost
But I will find my way.)

Edited, I thank Guy Scutellaro for the comment.

#love #heartless #alone #strong #fire #black #white

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Devil In The Folds

Oct 2017 Brother Jimmy

Shanath

Devil In The Folds

Two sticks of bones
Laid with meat and muscles over
Cradling a devil in its fold.

The devil rises with heat
Satiated when pain is inflicted
Upon the weak.

In the midst of life
And blood and the hidden
There is an abode, a heaven.

Their chest and thighs pour
Their soul and lust
There is pleasure, there is pain.

But not all pain is pleasure.
Ask the skirts with melting limbs
Played with by the stick owners.

They violate, they tresspass
Tear them limb to limb apart
Blood is a colour they own but despise.

Parted are the weak barks
Exposed is their bottled bodies,
Their insides poisoned with sap.

Their mouths tore
To steal laughter
But what escapes are scream.

The devil in the folds
Rears its ugly head
And burnt is the heaven.

Life giving land is made to bleed
And the pillars of faith are shook
Hands to caress, strangle the own.

They are the weak
In a world of lust
They fear the devil and hate themselves.

Not all who bleed
Wish they did,
Watch those covered little girls

They have been once uncovered.

Nightmares and stories

#girls #men #devil #uncover #violation #trespass