Dana Colgan: Favorites

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

SøułSurvivør

Thirteen roses in a row
Red rain falls,
Don't you know
Down the window
Pain it goes
In the gutters
Through the nose
Where's the thunder
When it flows...?

(Chorus)
Wrapped around
The gauze that's stained
What difference snow?
The same as pain
When it melts
It's just rain.

Withered flowers.
Falling leaves.
It's a howling in the eaves
It's the cult the
Maimed believe
No one cares.
No one grieves.
Cover up.
Long jeans & sleeves.

Razors are a water slide
On track like
A carny ride
Over arms & over thighs
Release all
The pain inside

(Chorus)

It's an ocean
Where we sail
A coin that can be
Heads or tails
A lover's letter,
Or junk mail
A piece of garbage.
Holy grail.

(Chorus)

SøułSurvivør
(C) 7/23/2017

This song I REALLY want to release. Cutting is a terrible epidemic in our young people. It has almost replaced street drugs as the scourge of youth...

#cutting #pain #life #love #rain #razors #roses #hellopoetry107

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Bipolar Friend

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Jenovah

Bipolar Friend

Who are you?
You're not the same person you were two minutes ago.
I just don't get you.
You're compulsive, and corrupted.
You're easily addicted.
You have friends in your mind,
but in reality friends you'll never find.
You're simple yet, confusing
like a Rubik's cube.
With all your twists and turns.
This pain you put upon me
has left me with cuts and burns.
Will we ever learn?
To get along
and fix these never ending battles?
Your bipolar versus my anger.
Some days, to me you are a stranger.
Who I thought I knew has suddenly disappeared.
Your disease is something I've always feared.
Illness invaded your mind,
and has taken over who you once were
Leaving all your past senses blind.

#addiction #friend #crazy #bipolar

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Waiting For Dawn

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Kurt Philip Behm

Waiting For Dawn

In a region divided
  on a hill far away

A last echo subsided
  quiet ruling the fray

The soldiers asleep
  fate waiting for dawn

New blood to be spilled
  ever right—ever wrong

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

coffee

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

brandalynn huling

coffee

I need you
In the mornings with my journal and my bible
On cold windy fall days
Perhaps on lazy days while watching kid movies
when i sent your smell i feel comfort
the smell fills my home, fills the streets and cities
i want you

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Monday Coffee

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Ron Gavalik

Monday Coffee

Coffee on Monday morning
carries a richer aroma
and a sweeter flavor
than the same brew
in the same cup
any other day of the week.
If our minds, our experiences
define so many of our tastes,
consider the satisfying joy a handshake
brings to a lonely old hermit.
Imagine the luscious splendor
of a long walk during a summer drizzle
after the endless confinements
of hospitals, doctors, and the funeral home
when she departed this realm.

All things are connected.

#coffee #monday #death #perspectives

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

at the 86th street station:

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

hkr

at the 86th street station:

from the platform, someone asks
where is this going?
from the tracks, two q-trains answer
with horns that sound like
i'm yours, i’m yours, i’m yours, but
when one pulls in
the other pulls away.

thinking of dropping the lowercase aesthetic, not sure tho.
edit: yeah, nah.

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Fast approaching

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Aric garza

Fast approaching

I'm fast approaching death, but not telling anyone.
So I have intentions to leave a note on my front porch for my family.
It was probably more for me,
so I know you'd have some peace of mind
and you don't go looking for me in the winter time.
Cause I loved when it was coldest and I had this place I went when I felt like I needed to get away right outside of the middle school near my best friends house.
I'm fast approaching death and you're not helping anymore.
Your smiles aren't as sincere and my lack of motivation's made it clear that I don't need to be so "here".

Some of these I post come from saved notes on my iPhone from maybe 3 years ago. This is one of them.

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Birthday sorrow

Jul 2017 Dana Colgan

Grey mirror

Birthday sorrow

It was my birthday
But I cried
I was suppose to be all happy and cheers
But I cried
Found myself drowning in tears.
I was hoping you would still be the first.
For the past two years,
You were the first to wished me without fail.
But this year I was left in tears.

Still hurts sometimes

#love #broken #tears