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199 · Apr 2021
violets and viola
SøułSurvivør Apr 2021
-

upside down
butterflies
twirling

tin
sun
spins

fat raindrops
splatter
against
piccalo
wind chimes

staccato sound
drifts

an oboe car
horn
a far street
away

alto tympany
of liquid
from the
gutters

striking the
kettle drum earth

basso profundo
voices
a dark backlit
choir
from
the

clouds
rumbling
along

tree limbs
sawing

violets

and

viola


SoulSurvivor


*a symphony of
rain tonight
199 · Feb 2022
I Welcome You to Hell
SøułSurvivør Feb 2022
I am a dear "friend" of yours
Yes, you know me well
If you know my name or not
Only time will tell.

There's a rave that's going on
A place that I have found
Kids! You need to go there!
Tho it's 6 feet underground...

All dressed up? Ready to go?
I tell you... it's a blast!
You won't know it's a furnace
And the pain will always last.......

There's party treats for everyone!
Maggots are just grand!
There's no food or water
But there's a Mega Band!

Come! We're getting closer!
And I have a hunch
That you won't mind the sulfur
No, you won't mind the stench

What's that noise, you ask me?
Oh... it's not what it seems!
Those are the amped-up guitars
NOT a-g-o-n-i-z-e-d screeeeams!

Don't mind the cuts & scratches
Don't mind all the flies
Don't mind that I am uglier
I'm losing my disguise...

Oh, are you uncomfortable?
Is it getting HOT in here?
Well, sorry, there ain't any punch
Much less any beer...

Yes, it IS most very DARK
It's very black and dank
Are you having trouble breathing?
Is the odor getting rank?

Ah! Now you see the lava
Is leaving your desire?
Sorry, your ticket was one-way
To the burning lake of fire...

Yes, regret's your portion
For your soul you did sell
You'll be here e--t--e--r--n--a--l--l--y

I Welcome You to Hell.


SoulSurvivor
(C) 6/28/2016
199 · Oct 2014
my love life...
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
...



a fallen tree...
.........in the forest...

..... with no one to hear....


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) October 2, 2014
199 · Oct 2014
Billions of Suns [10W]
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
@~~~@~~~@~~~@



if stars are actually suns
why are they

so

*COLD?
SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
October 4, 2014

A star-crossing
Is that place where
Trains of thought
Collide
199 · Oct 2019
Joy Unspeakable
SøułSurvivør Oct 2019
How can I describe
A night like this?
The exquisite joy?
The heav'nly bliss?
Jesus bent down
With a kiss!
I wonder now
How I could miss
The blessings coming
With this rest!

Wrapped within
His loving arms
Kept, protected
From alarms
Yes, in the Rock
And safe from harm

To this church
God had me brought
I never knew
How hard I'd fought
No I never
Gave much thought
But deliverance
Is what I sought!

I now know
And I agree
I was blind,
but now I see!!
My enemy was
Really ME!
But, at last,

I'VE BEEN SET FREE!!!

Catherine Jarvis
(C) 10/7/2019
I went to a revival tonight & was delivered from a LOT of oppression. Praise the Lord! ♡♡♡
197 · Nov 2019
Faux Fox
SøułSurvivør Nov 2019
Here she comes
Down LED light Strip
She's goin' on
A Vegas trip
Got her rhinestones
On her hips
Carmine nails
High gloss lips
Livin' on the ***** & chips.

[Chorus]
She's the one
With the diamond rocks
The silks & lace
And platinum locks
Though all of it
Is from a box
Meet the Queen Bee
The faux fox.


She might say she's
Bold & daring
They would say
She's overbearing

Over the years she's
Nipped & tucked
A peahen, she has
Preened & clucked

You see her face
She has some gall!
Shops with Tammy Fae
At the mall
Her makeup put on
With a trowel!

[Chorus]

Has a credit card
To travel
Though She thinks
That She will dazzle
She has a mind that's
Drugged & frazzled

Bee-hive hair
Cat's-eye glasses
Slept through all her
High school classes

She's all silicone
In her bra
She's a shark
With dentured jaw

She'll get HER WAY
WIN, LOSE, or DRAW!

[chorus]

Catherine Jarvis
(C) November 19, 2019
Still working on this one.
195 · Apr 19
shadows of the moon
~~<○>~~

shadows shed by moonlight
through the plants entwined
creating their own patterns
weaving their designs

blues and purples shimmering
the subtle shades of grey
the lovely dearth of color
unmatched by light of day!

they create a tapestry
of mystery on their looms
the woof and warp of dreamers

the shadows of the moon

~~<○>~~


SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis
(C) 9/11/2016
SøułSurvivør Feb 2022
Icarus and Daedalus
On an isle of Doom
Decided they should blow the joint
Before they were in tombs.

That bad ol' Minotaur
Was lookin' for the men
He had a real heavy-duty
Raging jones for them!

But, upon that island
They looked out on an ocean grey
They made themselves wings
Of down & wax
So they could fly away!

Now Daedalus, the wiser man,
Did not soar up high,
But his fool son Icarus
Decided he would try!

Proudly he flapped!
By pride was trapped
Within his aspirations
He was preening, overweaning
Arrogant apparition!

To the sun charioteer, Apolo
He was a little speck
The sun melted his candle
Right down to the wick!

Down, down, down
The young fool went!
There, for all to see!
But is it not
Like our own thought?
A lot like you & me?

So if you're frustrated with
Your progress
Fussing on and kvitching
If you can't handle
Your own candle...


... stay out of the kitchen!.


SoulSurvivor
2022
194 · Jan 2022
Hobble
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
I hobble hunched
I used to walk
I shuffle, once I ran.
I mumble where
I used to speak
An eloquent woman.

Yesterday, my birthday.
Today it is a test.
The future is a mystery
Til I am laid to rest.

Each day is a struggle
But it could be worse
I'd be depraved
And be unsaved
Traveling in a

HEARSE.
Yesterday was my birthday.  65 and feeling every single mile. I'm a bit proud of my age. Growing old ain't for sissies!
193 · May 2016
Reader's Block
SøułSurvivør May 2016
My Spirit's telling me to read
The Flesh is saying no
My mind is fogged and fuzzy
Is paralyzed and slow
Though it may take me all the day
I have nowhere to go
I read ALL of what you write
Just want you to know


♡ Catherine
There are people who skim and ♡. There are those who don't even read at all. I ain't one of them. I try to read and get the gist of what you are writing. I try to go back and read the poems I've missed in the time I've been gone. For each one of the people that I read. It takes me a lot longer. But I love your poetry. And I want to read responsibly. So forgive me for being slow. I am giving each and every one of you my full attention!
192 · Oct 2014
Unconditional [10W]
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
~~~♥~~~


Giving from your
HEART

and not expecting
anything in return



SoulSurvivor
This is not a new poem.
It's a universal statement

I've been feeling guilty for
Not "liking" and commenting
That is why we get stressed
On here. Admit it.

I EXPECT NOTHING
More than perhaps a little respect. Even that is EARNED.
192 · Sep 2014
Untitled
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
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Fireworks fade... respect lasts.
I never want to be in
a relationship sans
mutual respect
ever again

SoulSurvivor
191 · Sep 2014
Sweet Nothing's
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
I will eat sweet nothing's,
I will tell no lies,
I love to eat sweet nothing's
'Till they're something's

* on my thighs!
I scream for ice cream
till my seams break for same!!!

Sorry... This got added to Good Reads by mistake!
It's my own work
191 · Nov 2014
the joy of poetry
SøułSurvivør Nov 2014
is not merely
reading
but

savoring


10W
(c) soulsurvivor
I want to take in more
of the poetic expressiona here
but I don't want to
rush through
I'm sure that you can
appreciate that
191 · Nov 2019
High Tree
SøułSurvivør Nov 2019
A Redtail Hawk
Perches the high tree
A barren branch
So she can see
I wonder what
She thinks of me...
Does she know
I'm also free?

She lets loose cries
So sharp & clear
She has no
Melody to hear
Just urgent need
For meat to tear
She has young
To feed & rear.

She's not prone
To ponder. Think.
She acts upon
Pure instinct
To swoop down
Upon her prey
So her young
Will eat today.

Human beings are
Burdened. Bound.
We are tethered
To the ground
Though flight machines
Are built... abound
We still have to
Fly in steel
To the hawk
There's no appeal.

We won't spread
Our wings & fly
From the earth
We view the sky
On this earth
For now we'll be
Only hawks
Perch in high trees.
190 · Feb 7
Duchess of Dawn
She sits a high seat
The Duchess of Dawn,
A sequin of silver
To skein of silk sewn.

She twinkles on peacock,
The hue of the haze,
The moon, just a ghost,
Bows down at her gaze.

He swears his fealty,
His heart she has won,
But she will bend knee
To the face of the sun!

A figment of dreamers,
A tear we all cry,
A rhinestone of crystal
On the face of the sky.

She has a light fragrance,
To her scent we are drawn.
But she's as a vapor,
Here... and then gone.
Her name is Venus

The Duchess of Dawn.


SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
190 · Mar 26
rain
10W

clouds
like wet grey garments
dripping
from a celestial
clothesline


soulsurvivor aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis
5/4/2014
It's been raining here
189 · Nov 2020
CATS vs DOGS
SøułSurvivør Nov 2020
Cats are sure a crazy race
They softly pad on paws
Then they turn their other face
And sharpen hidden claws!

Dogs have the minds of 3 year olds
They wag their friendly tails
They are brave, but foolish bold
And love unbeaten trails!

Cats are snuggly... then aloof
They're an independent lot
They eschew the ground
But love the ROOF
Unlike silly Spot!

Dogs wear their feelings
On their sleeves
(If sleeves are what they had)
They look baleful & they grieve
If chastised when they're bad.

Cats just go their merry way
When naughtiness addressed
You can SHOUT til end of day...
They could not care less!

Dogs lift their legs when they ***
Cats are WAY too grand.
Dogs love hydrants or the trees
Cats just dig in sand.

The thing about these pets is that
People have polarity
Either they like dogs
And can't stand cats
Or LOVE a cat's hilarity!

But I find each creature special
As they do life's dance
Dog's are WAY more social...

... but Vive La difference!

SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
11/27/2020
187 · Feb 2022
Civil
SøułSurvivør Feb 2022
We are barely civil.
In fact it's a war!
I'm about ready now
To knock you to the floor!

I'm a blue-clad Yankee.
You're grey-Johnny Reb.
This fight may not be over
Til one red heart 💔 is dead!

Chorus
Collateral damage, Civil War
Please don' you come 'round no more!
No lady here, no gentleman
Was it just a one-year stand?
Call it Providence or Fate,
All that's left of love is hate.


We don't square off in a duel
We wait in the weeds!
Each of us a Devil's tool
We shoot until we bleed!

You the caustic sarcasm
Me the Samurai tongue
We won't bend, but in the end
Which of us has won??.

Chorus



SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage
2022
187 · Mar 27
fire 🔥
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

as dangerous as
the teeth of a viper
tounges of fire
wrapped her ankle

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥



SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis '25
187 · Sep 2014
12W palindrome
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
rain falls blue roses
dying the streets
the color of
her
eyes
It's about to storm.
It's one of the big ones coming.

I can't wait!
(love the rain)
187 · Jan 2020
Red White & BLUR
SøułSurvivør Jan 2020
Star Strangled Banner

O, Hussain can you see
Through your lies & your blight
While so proudly you sail
Through your elitist scheming
Your broad swipes & slight scars
You think you've the right
You with madness so etched
In your brain which is bleeding.
In your den, yes, your lair
Black birds nest in your hair
'Neath that roof of low height
Such duplicity there.
O, Hussain can you see
All the bones there, the graves?
In the land of Pe-lo-si...

... and the home of her SLAVES.
Some people of Arabic origin are lying to us.
But many are actually FOR US! I abhor the liars. This take on the time-honored song is not written in a effort to insult the PEOPLE of the Middle East. But the ELITES and their LIES!! Please read this entire commentary:

Iran and many of these countries like Syria have been used and abused by the elite. I'm not saying I'm any expert on the Middle East, nor am I saying my opinion matters.... But let me just say, these countries have been abused, they've been rapped of their resources, they've been forced to live in a war torn region. Many of your normal people that live in those countries, like America, they like President Trump. You are dealing with elite strongholds. These terrorist groups, who have run some of these countries, were specifically created through block op/clandestine operations to destabilize these countries, cause war and fighting and to create elite/cabal strongholds. You have age old principalities at play. You have a physical as well as a spiritual battle going on. You have two interlocking realms that are being dealt with, both in the physical and spiritual world. The elite placed their pawns in power, to take over the oil in those countries and what were they using that oil for? Human trafficking/terrorism and to fund their operations...... Trump isn't stealing their oil, he's confiscating it in order to remove the financial flow for the cabal/intelligence agencies. It will be given back when the regimes are cleaned out and the right people are brought into leadership. President Trump is giving the people of Iran the ability to take back their country, to live in peace and freedom. WW3 was the cabal's plan, but it isn't Trump's plan. WW3 was the Pentagon/DOD plan, but it isn't Trump's plan. And frankly it's not God's plan. The wars have been orchastated by the elite, that's how they operate. Trump's not playing that *******. Trump is taking down the elite/Intelligence operations in these countries.... The pawns of the very elite.

Earthquakes near nuclear facilities are blowing up underground bases and systems. The Nuclear industry is NOT innocent in this.... They had their hands in child trafficking and worse. You have interlocking realms above us and blow us, that connect to our physical realm.... These things are being delt with.

Anything the media tells you is either a lie, or propaganda. The people of Iran are celebrating. They're baking cakes and cookies and passing themout to people on the streets. They like Trump! The people yelling death to America are paid. They're also the ones killing peaceful protesters. They aren't the Iranian people.

And I'll tell you something, the people in the Middle East fighting for their freedom, from the elite have *****. They have fire.... Compared to the #snowflakes in the US.

Trump is taking down the elite system in the Middle East. Don't you get it?
185 · Oct 2014
Poet to Poet
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
'"\,,,/'"/,,,\'"\,,,/'"/,,,/'"\,,,/

Poetry is sculpted
One poem at a time...

SoulSurvivor

'"/,,,\'"/,,,/'"\,,,/'"/,,,\'"/,,,\
Do you have a favorite
Poem or song you have
Written that you would
Like me to read?
Send me the link on the
Site message system.

Thanks!

♥ Catherine
185 · Oct 2014
For Remembrance
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
@#@#@#@#@#



Rue is planted
along
the paths
not
taken


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) October 2, 2014
Thinking about the
Past lately.

:'(
185 · Jan 2022
My Home Isn't Here
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
I have the sampler HOME SWEET HOME
I've heard the words. It's clear.
Heard many people say it,
And shed many a tear.
I've tasted sweetness in the world,
Made many people dear
I've tried to make do on this earth
But my home isn't here.

I've heard refrains of Homeworld
I've been before its breeze,
The symphonic swelling peaks of hope
Well beyond the trees.
Will you help me get a glimpse?
Oh, God, will you please?
I'm tired of the poverty,
Hate, war, and disease!

If i could please just tell folks
Of its wondrous sights!
Not ever seeing want, despair
In this endless night!
Places redolent of rainbows
Refraction of the light!
Peak pure joy perpetually!
Happiness at height!

The slender, supple blossoming
Of lillies! Endless spring!
Of roses, buxom! Burgeoning!
And peonies which sing!
The dew never leaves them,
And bring a brilliant bling
There is a pleasant mist here,
Water falls and pings!

Such a spectrum! Endless!
Colors never seen
On the perch'd parrots
Which parody & preen.
Leaves which never leave the trees
Jeweled amethyst, NOT GREEN!!

I confess I've dreamt it.
Pellucid water's depths.
Though I've never seen it.
I confess I've wept.

Oh, God, let me be swept

From this place of hardship.
From this place of pain.
A place of passion's sorrow
And polluted rain
To a place so endless...
No horizon's on its plain!

Here's the place of perfect peace,
The place where angels roam
This is NOT a place of Pilgrimage...

Heaven is my HOME


SoulSurvivor
Aka Write of Passage
184 · Jan 15
"i"
"i"
is in the middle of

LiE
SiN
BiG
DiE

Let me not
be in middle
of self serving
and
self engrandizement


let me be in the middle of

HiM


Catherine
I shoot for this but can't say I've attained it.
183 · Jul 2015
DEAR FRIENDS...
SøułSurvivør Jul 2015
MY MOM HAS BEEN ILL
AND NOW REQUIRES
MORE CARE... PLEASE
BEAR WITH ME. I CAN'T
READ AS MUCH NOW.
I WILL ♥ BUT WON'T
HAVE TIME TO PUT UP
ON COLLECTIONS OR
COMMENT. I KNOW THAT
YOU UNDERSTAND.

PLEASE SEND GOOD THOUGHTS
AND/OR PRAY FOR US! THANKS!

♥CATHERINE
SøułSurvivør Jul 2015
I have, in fact, DONATED.
To a poet in need.
To the site.
To promote other poet's poetry.

Thank you.

♥ Catherine
It came to my attention that a
certain troll indicated that I asked
people on site for money.
This is a LIE from the PIT of HELL.

I AM ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY AND I STILL DONATE.
179 · Mar 23
Bridges
You're lookin' at the river
Feelin' down and weak
When you're
Wadin' in the water
and it's rushing 'round your feet
When you want to
Reach the other side
And feel you can't retreat
The same insane song
In your head
And it is on "repeat"...

Just remember there are Bridges
They are made of words
Remember there are Bridges
Things you haven't heard
Remember there are Bridges
Made with human hands
Remember there are Bridges
Then you'll understand

The waters in that riverbed
They are cold and deep
They have a riptide current
So look before you leap!
You can't stand against them
They will take you down
You may just go under
Brother, sister, you will drown!

Reaching out ain't easy
But it don't get much worse
Than feeling down and vulnerable
Living with a curse
It's like picking up the planet
To lift that lifeline phone
But there people who
Will care for you...
You are not alone!

Just remember there are bridges
They are made of Words,
Remember there are bridges
Things you haven't heard,
Remember there are bridges
Made with God's own hand
Remember there are bridges
Then you'll understand.

Remember there are Bridges
When you are at a loss
They weren't made to jump from

They were made to CROSS.
179 · Sep 2014
Your Cross - 12W
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Take the cross from

your neck

and put it on your

BACK


12W
Soul Survivor
Would that Christian soldiers would
really do this! Salt and Light
are what are missing from this cruel world!
179 · Dec 2024
The "fair" game [10W]
SøułSurvivør Dec 2024
--#--#--#--

life ain't fair
nor even partly cloudy

it's a
HURRICANE

‐-#--#--#--


!0 WORD
SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
178 · Jan 2022
Lying Fallow
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
I am a soil
Which has no inhalation.

I am an exhale
Waiting for breath

I am twigs
Drenched in dew.

I am stones
A skull. Death.

But I will live in a
green thatch again.

I have what
It needs.

I have the sun
And rain

I just need seed.


SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage
2022
175 · Feb 2022
Joy is a Flutterbye!
SøułSurvivør Feb 2022
🦋🦋🦋

what is a human
in fallen state?
i was a grub
i won't debate!
no, i was of
quite low estate
heading for
an awful fate!
but Jesus in me
made me great!

🐛🐛🐛

i felt a twinge
i felt an itch
the urge for growth
inside did twitch
i had to morph
i turned the switch

🦋🦋🦋

i changed inside
of my cocoon
but only after
the worm's doom
i split my skin
to make the room
it was painful
i met my tomb
but i knew joy
was coming soon!

🦋🦋🦋

joy!
my butterfly
spread her wings!
we'd encountered
painful things
sometimes the hurt
still clutches - clings
but the Spirit
Jesus brings
and so my soul
with dancing

SINGS!


SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage
(C) 9/11/2016
175 · Sep 2014
Get real - 5W
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Real eyes
Realize
Real lies
I didn't write this.
As far as I know the author is
anonymous.
SøułSurvivør Oct 2024
I'm frought against a merciless foe
Pitted with no sword or shield
All my life it seems  to me I'm
Alone against an angry world

All around me haters hate
In my life it won't abate
I am in a wounded state
A sad and lonely little girl

I look to the right I look to the left
At hellish faces pittiless
I ball up, of love bereft
It seems as though l can't unwind

I look before, I look behind
It seems as though I'm going blind
I need to heed the promises
Then some hope I'll surely find!

For angel armies night and day
Against my enemies arrayed
God receives what I have prayed
I now find Ch)rist!  I have His mind!

He presents the belt of truth
He gives me a strong breastplate
Righteousness against the hate!
Sandals of my peace with God
Hemet to protect my mind
Shield of faith... against the odds!

Then, at last, the mighty Sword!
All the armor is restored!

I will fight the evil one
Look out devil... HERE I COME!!!



SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage
Catherine jarvis
174 · Feb 2014
The Rose
SøułSurvivør Feb 2014
A rose, they say, will have its thorn
Which can't destroy nor ****,
It only serves to give its bloom
A scent that's sweeter still.

SS
172 · Sep 2014
New Collections
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
I have two new collections
Some of you may know.
I realize you're busy,
We're always on the go!

But if you'd like to be a part
Of your own accord,
I'd love to have you join me...

... so welcome aboard!


1) Brokenness
A place to share if you've had
Devastating events in your life
That have served to make you
Stronger... or not.

2) Building up
A collection for poetry specifically
For building up and encouraging
Other poets... or anyone!
Dedications/tributes/nods to others.

We pass many people in life
Let's touch them also!

10W


Thank you!
Just "like" this and I'll
Invite you to both.
Or specify which one.

Catherine ^_^
172 · Jan 2022
Rattle and Hum
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
Frigid
Like an ice sculpture
In the bowels
of Pluto.
An iceberg in
a fjord.
Yet Having
no more substance
than an armature.
A windchime
of liquid nitrogen.

Gusty ghosts whistle
in harmony with the
shuddering of
Aurora Borialis.

Hunkered down
with no more
means than
a pocket
full of
metal
shavings.

A derelict who
has pushed
his shopping cart
all the way to
the point of
no return.

Now he sits
begging so
he'll have
enough to
hobble hunched.
To be a
high wire.


To
rattle
and
hum.
170 · Nov 2020
Just a Runaway
SøułSurvivør Nov 2020
She staggered down
The Greyhound bus
Ran away
New York or bust
Now there's no one
She can trust
Wanted diamonds
She found rust...

He's just running
On a train
His ring tarnished
His hands stained
He's just running
Empty tank
Can't believe
How far he sank...

[Chorus]
She's just a Runaway
Just a Runaway
He's just a Runaway
Just a Runaway


They find each other
In the jon
Subway station
People gone
He asks her
If she's alone
She asks him
To use his phone
She lost hers
She had to run
From a man
Who wanted "fun".

[Chorus]

In the subway
Ear to tracks
The boy watched
Both of their backs
The girl ripped off
For both their lack
She stayed awake
He hit the sack
So it went...
Till the attack.

[Chorus]

"A bunch of thugs"
The po-po said.
An argument
Came to a head
The boy protected...
Now he's dead.

The girl, she stirred up
Quite a fuss
When she left
"New York or bust"
Now all she wanted
All she missed
Werethe parents
She once kissed.

[Bridge]
There's only one child
On the phone
She's very sad
That she's alone
But now that girl is
GOING HOME.


[Chorus]


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
11/24/2020
169 · Aug 2024
Razor Wire
SøułSurvivør Aug 2024
My mouth is wrapped
in razor wire.
The less said the better.
Whole worlds are
caught between my teeth.
My eyes are betwixt
and between
Amalthea and Io,
calves of twin mothers.
My nostrils breathe
Sulfur dioxide
whilst I learn to laugh out
the mist of meconium.
My earlobes hang with
kryptonite. My throat is strangled
with biohazard.
My hair straps your shoulders.
My trap is your belly.
My hands? They flutter
doves in a waterspout
leaves in the wind to catch
in their web of vain galaxies.
I long to say

just
three
words

But deserts live
under my tongue.

Drilling
for
crude
oil
u
t
t
e
r
a
n
c
e
s

It takes only a moment
to say goodbye


SoulSurvivor
3/26/2021
169 · Sep 2014
Silent Poem [10W]
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
There is a silent poem
that requires
no translation

SMILE


10W
SoulSurvivor
C'mon! Show those
pearly whites!
169 · Jan 2022
Black Holes Going Nova
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
Blighted ideals
Dark and sticky tar
They tell us how to think and act 🎬
They think themselves a Star!🌟

They ascend to the heights!
A chimneysweep of soot
They on Hollywood Boulevard
They are underfoot 👣

People like a Robot 🤖
Should give starships a Cruise
But when any star goes nova
It's a lookout world 🌎

YOU LOSE.👎👎
Legands in their own minds.
168 · Sep 2014
Just keep writing
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Sometimes the words
Answer the questions
Before you ask them.**


10W
SoulSurvivor
Something I wrote to
Another poet to bring strength
168 · Jul 2020
Little Things
SøułSurvivør Jul 2020
Appreciate the little things and you can make a start
~~♡~~
Stop and smell the roses
You'll have flowers in your heart!
168 · Jan 2021
The Cloud
SøułSurvivør Jan 2021
What is up there, by & by?
What is up there in the sky?
Is it data... can they pry?
How many ears? How many eyes?
How many truths? How many lies?

Yep. It's up there. Day & night.
All your family, what a sight.
All your life is in the light.
Your every need. Your every plight.
Every keystroke... black & white.
It doesn't matter wrong or right
Information gives them MIGHT.

Yeah. Black & white & shades of grey
It's all up there. Night and day.
Your hopes & fears... all you say.
Subject to controlling ways.
Folks better listen...

... better PRAY.

Catherine Jarvis
SoulSurvivor
1/15/2021
Big Brother's watching... & READING.
167 · Jan 2021
Troubled Paradise
SøułSurvivør Jan 2021
There's a troubled Paradise
A maelstrom lagoon
A worm in the red apple
A curse within a boon
A tempest in a teacup
A burning, red hot spoon
An orange sky in Kansas
Tornado's coming soon...

In the tender flesh of speaking lips
That's where they sink their hooks
We think that we're immune to it
But we're getting ***** looks
We're portrayed as idiots
Nazis, thugs & crooks
First they censor YouTube
Next they're burning BOOKS.

We're wondering what's happening
Things are not the same
Folks want us like-minded
Like we should be ashamed!
But we won't go Broad-way
Though we won't find fame
But we won't budge an inch ol' son
To us it's not a game
Our way of life is ridiculed

Christian is our name.

Catherine Jarvis
SoulSurvivor
1/10/2021
167 · Oct 2021
Living Stone
SøułSurvivør Oct 2021
have walked along a road
That not many will take on
I have carried heavy loads
I've done right. I've done wrong.
I have held a pilgrim's pack
So long... so long...

Chorus
I am now a living stone
In a house which no one found
And I have felt my spirit groan
With no one else around

Alone
Alone

And I am still a living stone
I gave up, oh, all of Me
I am just a stone that stumbles
And I am a stone thrown free

Chorus

I am just a part of castles
In the sky & on the brink
I'm a stone cast on a pond
Skipping there at last to sink

Alone
Alone

Through many trials, Toils and snares
The slave trader came to know
Like him I know I brought it in
With the rock & with the snow...

But...

I know bruised reeds He will not break
A gut'ring lamp He won't put out
Though I'm rejected by the world
Here am I to scream out loud...

I'm not alone!
I'm not alone!

I'm not alone...



SoulSurvivor
aka
Write of Passage
3/18/2021
Written for a contest  on another site.
166 · Jan 2022
Kool-Aid
SøułSurvivør Jan 2022
Light shuffles to my window
Muttering and weaving
Its breath is heaving
Derelict dawn
Yawns for lack of sleep
The sun slept
In a cardboard box
And now creeps out
Bleary eyed
Tired of begging
To pay for the bottle
Of Thunderbird
That will help it taste the day
It's creating.

Del Sol wears the
Solar flares like
Shrouds, the
Spiritual blindness
Of Jim Jones
Talking the earth
And its world
Of living things
To drink in the
Lemon Kool-Aid
Of light.

The only existing
Elixir to the
Ones tired to the
Marrow is
The drink of
Darkness.


Its breath
The beer
Which tells
The sober
It has
Drunk
Its
Fill.


SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage
2022
163 · Nov 2020
He Po(ker)
SøułSurvivør Nov 2020
He Po(ker) is a joker.
This card game is a waste.
How, I pray, can we all play
When we can't CUT and PASTE?
162 · Nov 2020
CHINA AT THE GATES
SøułSurvivør Nov 2020
Look at the dancing dragon
He puts on quite a show
He lifts up high into the air
As the wind begins to blow.
A wind of change is whipping
Round & round it goes
As it becomes a hurricane
Or an EF5 tor-na-do.

China's at the wall, my friend.
To scale like a flood
Question why their banners fly
Red as flowing blood.
Red, with pretty little stars
A fallen angel brood
They will come a-marchin'
We'll be DONE for GOOD.

Ever wonder why, ye fools
They buy up to the south?
You don't hear THAT on the news
But it is TRUE, by oath!
The dragon's near. Yep. It's HERE.
WE ARE IN IT'S MOUTH.

They don't NEED to buy US.
Think not? You'll find you're WRONG.
They have surely purchased us
And did so for a song.
They don't NEED to fight a war...
It already could be WON.
The Chinese have not marched without
They've conquered from WITHIN.

What will happen to U.S.
Only God can tell.
But the Red Chinese are waiting...

AT THE GATES OF HELL.

SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
11/8/2020
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