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72 · Mar 2021
Sights and Strays
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Take me, take me to August in the streets
The fair and the sea
Babies, ladies
Crying out at night
Take me, save me
Vampires feed the fright
Furnace burns so bright

I can’t stand this heat
I’m unfurling
Burning, turning
Salty winds and skies
I think I might die when I’m ON this high
Yearning, learning

I can see us every day
Standing in the way because cliques, control and counter bait
Can’t get stuck, cannot stay
Cannot wait
Rushing with the tidal waves
Here comes another get away
Pacing, racing

Lazer eyes and my dancing shoes
No bummers Summers, we got a lot to chew
Get it, got it, good gotta get this through because this ones for you
Who?
Won’t you tune in too
What will this turn in to?

Hells bells, show and tells
Noise, boys and tipping toys
Tick tacking from tide to tide
Now your spinning in my ditzy mind
Dizzy right?
72 · Feb 2021
Hyper-culture
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Momentum meets
Immovable matter
Plaster splatter
Mad hatter
Shivers
I’m shattered
Scattered
Teased
Tatters
Ladders
Man handle
Manners

In too deep
Dreams within dreams
Tip toe on the wire
Wings of fire
The kind you want to keep
But nothings free
And so is everything in between

Hey batter batter
Zig zig patterns
Adders
Tigers running
Sitting on stun gun powder
Hungry for a feeding
Films reeling
Hyper culture beaming
Tell me now, what you’re seeing?
72 · May 2021
Solarised
Tyler Jones May 2021
I was a spy
One dizzy dove disguised
Snakes skin, shape-shift, flew too high
Fed my confessions to a beast
Drenched in disease
A purchase steep, ****** feasts
Desert scene, squeezed between
Solarised then soaked release
Rain drips and flows from twisted tongues
Coming undone, midnight sun
The rose grows until it dozes
Secrets linger left exposed
Wilt away until the wind blows
Overflow, afterglow
Jumping jacks, candlesticks
Quiet and quick
Bound my limbs
Frail and thin
Began again
Sound so bright
Wound so tight
Frozen in fear
Electrified
Become the sun
Wings inside
Stole your eye
Kept it as mine
You caught on in time
Our parallel lines
Became harder to define
Ran myself right off my mind
Though I know that I’ll get by
Wrapped up, rough edges, ripple and rise
72 · Mar 2021
Cigarettes and Bubblegum
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Lonely in paradise
Disguised design
Pinned to my lies
What a wicked demise
Serpentine afterlife
Hyper again
Hyper me
Flying free
Towards the sun
Cigarettes and bubblegum
Freaks and geeks
Playing dumb
Pressures on
Leaves us numb
Feel it all again
As the waves come
Doubling down
Diving in, getting dunked
Pacing in hyperspace
So many reasons to run
Calling all their bitter bluffs
So fly high butterfly
Ride the current
Keep making the cut
Keep proving them wrong
You know the show goes on even when you’re done
70 · Mar 2021
Go-go Doll
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
The more I explain
The less you’ll understand
Some will stray
Some will stand in sinking sands
Soaked and shameless
Fickle fixed faces
Hollow phrases
Too late to delay it
Debts need repaying
Which one should I play them?
The star or the stand in
Havoc practice
Mice and malice
Tic and tacking
Tick tock slacking
Pressure stacking, taxing
Hexes, hacking
Backs breaking
Think need relaxing
Complacency
There’s no going back to that currency
AC/DC
current carries me
Hyper culture comedown
Connect the clocks
Connect the clowns
Time is a riddle
Don’t look down
Just go with the flow
It’s all happening now
Common ground
Bounce of the walls
Won’t let you fall
My go go doll
63 · May 2021
Breakthrough
Tyler Jones May 2021
Building bridges from me to you
I’ll find a way to make it through
My face will be seen
No hiding now
After falling so far down
When no ones looking,
No ones around
I won’t bow down
Backs against the wall
Nobody on call
Although sounds cascade around
I’m stronger now

It’s been said a thousand times
Written in the sand, disguised
And with every climb
I lose my mind somewhere behind

Flowing like the ocean tides
Thoughts rush through and light the eyes
War wounds weeping
Sutured silver lines

Ever since you came around
Simple is sacred now
How do you do that?
Break me down
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Monochrome
Was my home
Blacked out in the zone
Lost in the rush
Lost in the flow
Flowers grow all around me
But I forget their meaning
Silent film screenings
Soggy shoulders leaning
Highlighters and graffiti
Tunnel vision on new beginnings
Soft sinning
Sideways spinning
I’m not spitting
Just adjusting, fitting
59 · Mar 2021
Tattoos and Tingles
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Get in line
What you been working on all this time?
Fractals and spines
Whips tigers lions
Please please gimme gimme back that dream
Lemon lime and orange sweet
I mean im trying
All outta tempo, time
Just slips right between my fingers
Tattoos and tingles
Hang on I think its happening again
Sell out on my soft sins
Begin again
Shells and wishing wells
fingerprints on the window glass
Crowded in the loud
In back seats
All through our teens
Now I know what I’ve seen
All this time
Rushing hushing spelling out all our white lies
Frozen faces
White lines
Keepin’ up with the times
They said
Wake up!
Theyre laughing in our faces
Listen up!
All the dreams
All these pieces
Rearrange and repeat it
57 · Mar 2021
Strayed Satellites
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Im alone
You’re not here
Ball my fists bc its the loneliness i fear
Instead I drink my tears and weep before I fall asleep
I miss your skin
I miss your smile
I miss your voice and noises
I miss your stillness
Sticking to your hip
Now all i can do is bite my lip
I still whisper to you
Sometimes more like babble till I’m blue
Sometimes tears dont come and i choke
Choke me from making conversation with your ghost
“When will you be home?”
I miss asking u that the most
I miss you filling my soul with silver and gold
Simple things that went untold
You broke me down and i started to fold
I asked for it bc i couldnt stand the alternative
To leave you cold
I let you take control
So i burned down myself and went back up on the shelf
The phoenix came and left ashes for you to play make believe with
Pieces which i still dont know what you did with but i trust you wore it well
I miss your kiss
I miss your tells
Being with you was a blessing in hell
Hurts so bad that ur gone
My ribcage beats so hollow and soft
I miss your sight
I miss your song
Weaving around me all night and day long
Orbiting, satellite making sure i dont get stuck or strayed too far off

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