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 Mar 2014 Teemers
James Jarrett
Eyes emerald green and turquoise blue

Cotton soft, snowy hue

Velvet, velvet, cotton clouds

Steel and razors, shredded shrouds

Warm and gentle, purring, soft

Running, bolting, taking off

Hiss and scream, grow with fright

Teeth of ivory, day is night

Hunt and blood, running in willows

Sleep and purr in blankets and pillows

Whirling, twirling, spitting, springing

Evelyn / Evil always being

The good /bad cat that you are
A children's poem I wrote for the kids. Evelyn had one green eye and one blue one. The green one was the evil one
 Mar 2014 Teemers
pluie d'été
It was so easy
When we were alone

The lights would lie
Like bright shadows
Stained pink
At the horizon
Heavy in the sky

You would hold me
To you
Watching my thoughts
Flicker
While I would feel your heart beat
Behind me
Slow

When you spoke
You read
Of a fairy tale
With the only ending
We could imagine
Happy
It was what we had been taught

We were happy alone
You were happy with me
I was sad with you
But they cancelled each other out
A little bit
Scraped apart
It made us
It made us
Who we were

When we were alone
You had me
Almost all of me
Convinced that there were only two to a world

There are not
There is a much greater number
One
 Jan 2014 Teemers
Connor
My thoughts flow, slow from the canvas,

As if my soul's open an open window,

I dig deep because it's how I'm getting through this,

I can't hold it in, every sin that's in

me is exposed, juxtaposed with this mask

I wear and it shows that there is isn't much to know,

Especially when I hide it so well, I guess it's hard to tell,

That behind it, there's a featureless face, and it haunts me,

It's the embodiment of everything I've felt, and with every blow that's dealt

It grows bigger, yet it's hardly seen, only in my dreams,

I've tried to run from it, but I just fall

down to the ground, and I drown in the nothingness that's all around

me, and nobody seems to notice this dark thing that's keeping me on its leash,

And my voice is weak from the screaming,

But that's alright because nobody hears me anyway,

I wish I never had to write these confessionals down, but how else will I be heard,

I can't let these things be left unsaid, I can't bring them with me to the dirt,

And sometimes I wish I could wear all this hurt,

I wish I could wear it like a shirt, so that you won't have to search

for all these faults of which I am riddled,

And with these ******* skittles, I need to taste

that rainbow so at least something sweet

can be inside me again, so please would someone send

a ******* gift basket or something, so I'm not left

with all this nothing, I've been on my knees, but nothing's coming,

Jesus Christ, I'm tired of running and stumbling,

Can't we just have that something again?

I don't know what I need to do, to show you that we could be that perfect picture,

Like something Da Vinci  drew, our life could be framed and admired,

I just need a chance, and maybe someday we will dance to the same tune,

You know I can't sit here and rant, I need you,

So why can't we just start over, like it's something new,

Our lives don't need to be so blue, but maybe we shouldn't be stuck like this, like glue,

Please help me, because I know there's something left, let's wash this slate clean,

Please.
 Jan 2014 Teemers
Mike Hauser
You ask how long I will stay

I ask how long till the end of days
Till love gives out on all it's made
I'll keep holding on into the late
That's how long I'm going  to stay

You ask how long till there's nothing left

I ask how long till my dying breath
Till every dot, dash, and words been said
I'll keep giving you all I have
That's how long till there's nothing left

You ask how long I'll keep holding on

I ask how long has this love grown
Till time stands still on the grey and old
I'll keep away the chill from the marrow bone
That's how long I'll keep holding on
 Jan 2014 Teemers
David Barr
Satanic anthems are bold, as they carry their message across undefined boundaries where infinity spreads her wanton features across the generations of history.
Boston reminds me of my historical roots, where Anglican tragedy submits her fornications in submissive rebellion.
With this in mind, let us use our fallible wills to travel together, across astral vistas where timeless plantations of hallucinogenic acceptance join hands around the mistress of the dark and her tantalising secretions.
Can we please communicate into the depths of the dawn in our debaucheries?
Feel the rhythm of unspeakable energies, as the pulse ripples through your eternal lusts.
 Jan 2014 Teemers
Eulalie
Drowning
 Jan 2014 Teemers
Eulalie
I’m awake—
Home alone at four in the mourning,
Sad and suffocating, seething with this broken, desperate feeling—
I’m wondering where this dying animal came from
And when it is that I might start breathing
Again—
I am in the ocean, which is beautiful,
But my working lungs lurch and bend,
I thought that my reserves of oxygen
Were safe with you, dear friend,
But you’ve gone and left me alone again…

This time for good,
So my body struggles for the surface,
Recycling used up breaths,
Never missing you, dear friend, any less,
Any less,
But mad at you for feeling like leaving,
Stealing my air, and then later feeding
Me full of impersonal pragmatics—
Stealing from my heart this rose-colored, washed out meaning
About whether you’d ever
Told me a single romantic truth—

Everything special and dear,
As I’d grown to fear,
Was over and done and your heart is no longer near
To mine.
You said it has died,
But I guess I missed the funeral.

I feel so used up and stagnant and empty.
This pain, it can’t be around;
I’m trying to swim to the surface, but
The current is shoving me down;
You left me alone in the dark and the cold and I’m afraid I’m not strong enough—
I’m afraid that I may drown.
Is this what a breakup feels like?
 Jan 2014 Teemers
Life's a Beach
I want to run to you
I always run to you

A child with arms
outstretched, cradling a
butterfly worn with torn
wings, it
can't be real until she's shown it.
Can't be good til you've
confirmed it.
Can't have beauty til you've
admired it.
It can't, you give it life.
Without your breath
She lies bereft.

I have to run to you,
before I believe that it is true.

A child with a wounded knee,
hides the scar until
you've seen it,
once you've seen it,
then she'll ease it.
Can't have relief til your belief.
Can't look unafraid until
she's prayed to you.
She needs to limp to you.

I have to reach to you.

She needs you,
she does not wish to tease
your weary temper,
but she finds it hard
to always remember that
she's shown you it before.
A puppy jumping through the
door, happily places a cat's
treasure of a broken bird
upon the kitchen mat,
it's beauty trapped within the
meowing
mind.

I'm purring proudly up at you

Thanks for being so kind to her
menagerie, sorry for
getting confused by
internal imagery.
I forget how quite to empathise
that,
I think I need to change my tack.
But, this girl is sometimes trapped in
a loop.

Reminder: Learn when to turn on mute
 Jan 2014 Teemers
James Jarrett
I hope that wild berries
Will bring some joy to her
I wander the spring woods
In search of  sweet treasure
My footsteps are all that break
The mornings bleak silence
I slowly fill my basket with Blueberries
I pick our life with each sweet fruit
Our ripe destinies gripped in my fingers
My eyes fall upon dark Raspberries
They hang in the sun in  juicy prime
Suspended like treasures, Plump sweet jewels
Dangling from thorny crowns
Greedily they are plucked from their vine
For a moment I am happy with my bounty
My basket is full of ripe and plentiful fruit
Then her pain comes to my mind
My happiness is clouded over by worry
Cast into the shade by the dark shadows
I wonder if my basket of wild berries
Will be enough
I hope it will
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