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Apr 2011 · 942
Soprano
The soprano sang through a scowl
For the lyrics meant
Nothing to her
Yet she sang anyway
And the world was better for it
For her voice was the sun
Breaking through clouds
She spoke with eyebrow raised
Making eye contact
With the alto
staring
across the room
And the alto's heart fluttered
and the alto's hands shook
and the alto's knees locked
And the soprano smiled
And the alto
the alto
I
was in love
Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mount Crumpit,

He rode to the tiptop to dump it!

"Pooh-pooh to the Whos!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.

"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!

"They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!

"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two

"All the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry BOO-HOO!"...



At the top of the mountain he untied his dog

From the sleigh. And the valley was filling with fog

As thick as the Who Hash he'd grinched just before.

He chuckled with glee at what was in store.

Now the Grinch grabbed the sacks from the top of the sleigh,

And with a mighty "HEAVE **!" he shoved them away.

The bags filled with toys well they weaved and they shook

With the weight of the things he so sneakily took.

Until finally momentum made things far less slow.

They fell 3000 feet to the jagged rocks below.

A sickening crunch and several sharp cries

At first startled the Grinch but caused him to realize

When he stole from the Whos down in Whoville his pride

Had gotten the best of him; he'd thrown some children inside.

He giggled maliciously, grabbed his dog Max

And got back in the sleigh, for he couldn't relax.

He had to go back, for his job wasn't done.

All the Whos down in Whoville, every last one

Every man, every woman, every daughter and son

Would be dead in their beds by the dawn of the sun.

The trip down Mount Crumpit was faster than up

As he growled to himself, "where's that ***** with the cup?"

He jumped off the sleigh, machete in hand

And marched straight into Whoville, whose gates could not stand

For the rage made him strong. How he hated the Whos

With their **** cheesy smiles, and their dumb pointy shoes,

Turned up noses and pigtails and hideous songs,

THE SONGS, THE SONGS, HOW HE HATED THE SONGS.

And now he'd make sure that the Whos sang no more...

At Cindy Lou Who's house he kicked down the door

And strode into the bedroom of Cindy Lou Who.

She woke with a start, murmured "Santa? That you?"

The Grinch, with a sneer, grabbed Lou Who by the hair,

****** her out of bed seven feet in the air,

And with two sharp knives pinned her arms to the wall.

Her screams roused her parents just down the hall.

They ran to their child to save her from harm.

The mistake that they made cost them each their right arm.

Writhing on the floor in their own ****** mess,

They looked at the Grinch in a state of distress.

"Why would you do this?" they managed to hurl,

"Please, you can **** us, just not our little girl!"

He listened to their pleas with a wry little smile,

He patiently heard them, then after a while,

He cut out their tongues with another sharp knife,

First of the husband, and then of the wife.

Then he turned to young Cindy with glee,

And hissed in her ear, "you'll do something for me..."

Cindy shook her head violently, but to no avail,

For the Grinch had the tongues on a rusty old nail.

He shoved them down her gullet. She started to choke,

Then she finally died, for the rusty nail broke.

He stepped over the body of mother Lou Who,

And the Grinch slithered over to house #2.

With this house he made quick work of the Whos.

He set them on fire to cure them of the "blues."

The blaze that resulted would spread down the street,

Drawing Whos from their houses like flies to dead meat.

A grenade waited for them in center of town.

A click, then a boom mowed, like, half of them down.

The other half attempted a weak attack.

With a Type-67 the Grinch kept them back.

The little Who children could do nothing but stare

In open-mouthed horror as the Grinch, without care,

Shot them down one by one till the snow was stained red,

And he would not stop firing till they were all dead.



And as the sun rose oe'r the grisly scene,

The Grinch drenched in blood of adult, child, and teen,

With a pentagram smack in the center of town,

And the tree in the middle would slowly burn down.

With the scalps of the Whos down in Whoville in hand,

The Grinch called his dog Max, who could barely stand

Because he was violently shaking in shock.

He could not even whimper, let alone walk.

Not a Who was left standing, not a song to be heard,

Save for that of a single Who bird

Which was quickly snuffed out by a single pistol round.

And after that there was not a sound.

The Grinch, his work finished, got back in the sleigh,

Cracked the whip over Max, and slithered away.

The last thing the poor town of Whoville would hear:

"If there's anyone left, well, I'll come back next year!"
I wish to reach for the white flag
To stop this bloodshed
This pointless never ending war
But as I reach for it
My arm is blown off

I look upon the ****** lump
With which I used to write
And wonder vaguely as to
Why the world
is so unfair

Through the haze of pain
I stumble to you
Eyes wild, delirious, but dry
Getting blood all over your clean uniform

And I whisper hoarsely in your ear
**Kiss it better?
Time doesn't stop
for sadness
It goes on
Ticks away
As a family mourns for a son
Who took his own life

It continues
like always
As a girl rereads old love letters
And presses them to her aching heart

It moves ever onward
As my grades sink lower and lower
Because when I come home
I can do nothing but stare into space
Too weary to care

Time doesn't stop for sadness
It goes on
Feb 2011 · 565
My Valentine
Am Montag
Such celebrations will be held
Roses, embraces
The reaffirmation of love
And this day will remind me
Of the year before
Where someone told me I wouldn't be alone

And this day will remind me
Of how wrong he is
And it makes me wonder
how
why
I'm still alive

Because my Valentine
Is not mine at all
Feb 2011 · 806
Moon Mocks Me
Up in the sky
On the eve of garbage day
The crescent moon mocks me
Leering down from the sky
I try to shake off
The pounding in my head
wake up wake up wake up
Because the whispers don't help
They never do

The stars are melting
They're coming down
Too fast to count
And they're getting closer

Back at the hospital
The doctors worry
The patient's been out
For two weeks now
Screaming in her fitful sleep
whispering to herself
wake up wake up wake up
In her padded cell

Something sharp to take the edge off?
Feb 2011 · 707
11:11
A week later
The pain remains
Even though I've taken down
Every drawing of you
At last!
Real pain!
The tears fall like rain
To land in the dirt
And hiss from the hurt
Bow my head
Broken, dead
Not a word has been said
Since the agony hit
I curled up in my bed
No more feeling, but grieving
It's my fault for believing
I could make a dream real
You could make the scars heal
Yet when I close my eyes I still see yours.
Jan 2011 · 636
Bad Good Things
Whenever I see you
I remember all the good things
And whatever it was we had
Every moment that made my life beautiful
Swirls around you as an aura
Though they seem like years ago

Where the memories once pleased me
They now torture me
Where my heart once leaped with joy at the thought of you
It now lurches in agony
Where once I couldn't concentrate from happiness
I now can't concentrate from pain

It's not your fault
I just realized today
How I feel
Jan 2011 · 506
Socially Acceptable
Although I do not know you
And have seen you but once
It would be socially acceptable
To hate you
To loathe each breath you take
To despise your beauty
They call it jealousy, I think
But I do not hate you
And I do not believe I ever will
So I will nod as you pass
And wish you well
And even after seeing you almost every day
I still cannot hate you.
Jan 2011 · 1.3k
Curse
I curse you with every piece
Of the soul you wish me to have
Yet I will bear your presence

For I know
One day soon you'll find yourself
Buried alive on the edge of the Grand Canyon

In the dark you'll feel
The worms and spiders and beetles
Crawling in and out of your
eyes and ears and mouth and nose
And they will be
Your only friends

I'll sit six feet above you
Listening to your panicked screams
Until everything is quiet
Even the sound of your voice in my head
Will be silent
forever
Jan 2011 · 1.0k
Solitaire
click, click, click
Computer solitaire after dark
Card after card
glance, nope
wrong colour
wrong number
wrong type
6 of diamonds
3 of clubs
Nothing is right
The queen of hearts is starting to look
a bit downtrodden
Another red jack passes her by
No cards left
Deal again
Jan 2011 · 842
My Wonderful Mind
Hisses delusions
Jumps to conclusions
Causes confusions
With no real solutions
Twists and tangles
Slashes, mangles
Breaks and shatters
All that matters
Nothing works
It just irks
Muscle spasms and jerks
Just a jumble of feeling
To scrape off the ceiling
Jan 2011 · 1.0k
Woodcrest Throwdown
Woodcrest Way is a boxing match
On this side of the road we have
The sunny clean sidewalk
The forty-something and mutt
white coat white boots white dog
And in this corner
The shady cracked sidewalk
The teen and bookbag
black jacket black jeans muddy black converse
The stare down
The size up
And we have a winner
Ms. Forty-Something shies away
From the deadly glint
In her opponent's eyes
Jan 2011 · 890
Snapshot of Lightning
You held me by the shoulders
And blinded us both with the flash
The opposites
White and black
Blue and brown
The difference between
smiling and smizing was evident
in that snapshot
But what you probably didn't realize was
your cool hand on my shoulder
Was like
an electric shock
coursing through my body
And the sensation
took the breath out of my lungs
and ****** the corners of my mouth
up
I laughed at the face I was making
But the wonder
remained
Jan 2011 · 522
10:08 AM
The sun
In all its glory
Reaches through the blinds
To stab me in the eyes
WAKE UP, the birds shriek
And as I groan
And grumble groggy curses
The sun chuckles throatily
And reflects off CD covers
Clock faces
And glasses
A cacophony of sight and sound
Just to get me out of bed
My neck is sore
And my stomach is empty
But the warm bed
calls to me
so
I flip over and go back to sleep
Jan 2011 · 1.5k
Emerge Victorious
We're fighting a war, you and I
Some battles were different and others the same
It's not like those movies we've seen
There were many casualties
We've each suffered
From our own battles
But in you I see an ally
And in me you see a friend
So we will fight this war together
And someday soon we'll emerge
******, scarred, but victorious
And our enemies will see our tattered banner for miles around
Knowing we've won the war
Jan 2011 · 719
Venture to Blink
Remembering October
I stood in my suit
and borrowed tie
And the butterflies
Flourished in the evening chill
For they were eating me from the inside out
The building's broken backbeat
Was nothing compared
To that of my heart
I turned around and it turned backflips
For there you were
And I was afraid
I didn't want to blink
Because I thought I would wake up
But when I pinched myself
I knew
And I was that much more awake
Jan 2011 · 453
Kids With Their Questions
They never cease to ask
Why?
Why is the sky blue?
Why is her skin darker than his?
Why do they call things what they do?
Sometimes we have answers
But sometimes we don't
Sometimes we're just as clueless
As the kids who ask those questions
It angers us
They're so annoying, we say
When really we know
Those kids and their questions
Open our eyes
To see through theirs
Jan 2011 · 869
Yesterday's Homework
Melted math
Equations too runny to solve
on a paper partially dissolved by rain
A pencil ripped through it
From halfhearted doodles
on the back
Eventually discarded
at the bottom of a backpack
And never turned in
This mess
will not be retrieved
Till the end of the year
It's a shame, too
Would have gotten
an A+
Jan 2011 · 3.1k
OCD
OCD
In my perfectly painted room
All my books in order
on my painstakingly clean shelf
Not a speck of dust
Everything is spotless
All of the artwork on my walls
straight and alligned
I look around happily
making teeny little adjustments
just to make sure
it's perfect
And then I realize
everything
is
crooked
Jan 2011 · 457
Vérité
I want nothing more
than to
turn my thoughts
into words
To speak the desires
that whisper in my mind
I want you to be
aware
that my heartbeat
quickens
when you're near
And why did I not
say all this
earlier?
Because it can't come out
no matter how hard I try
Dec 2010 · 595
Quest to the Waking World
Sleep clouds my mind
Words I have never spoken
At the tip of my tongue
I am exhausted
Yet I just woke up
Imaginary islands
Off in the distance
Begin to melt away
Colours blend together
Like thoughts heavy with fatigue
Echoing voices, barely whispers
Sound like the sirens
Of the dream police
And all the little god-children
Wave goodbye
As I sail away
To the Waking World
And as I near the horizon
The crew abandons ship
For they fear
What's on the edge
I refuse to look back
At the cowards
Instead I look
Dead ahead
I will not let them know
That I realize
The Waking World is full
Of nightmares
Dec 2010 · 1.3k
Elegance in Steel
Thin little line
drawin in steel
fill it in red
until it spills over
smears the canvas
that once was blank
And the pain of this art
helps one think
More little lines
not new
but still there
reminders of failures past
and more pain to come
and the red drying paint
helps one think
Criss crossing lines
form odd shapes and designs
I've lost count but I swear
that I don't want to die
Every slash
every line
helps me think
Dec 2010 · 474
Not a Toy
Broken limbs
through a haze of pain
I lie on the floor
in my pretty new dress
Like an abandoned doll
with a cracked china face
at the bottom of the stairs
thrown carelessly to the winds
Helplessly I watch
all possible saviors
laugh at my tumble
then shout at me
to pick up
the pieces
Dec 2010 · 701
Snow in Sepia Skies
The light dusting of snow
on the roofs
and on the leaves
of confused budding plants
lightly falling
through sepia skies
The otherworldly glow
of the final throes
of a dying sun
lights up this sleepy town
The village
that was soaked in gasoline
in the first place
spreads the blaze
to lands unknown
Dec 2010 · 807
X-mas
The season of giving
She claps her hands over her ears
to block out
the Christmas songs
and Santa
imitations
She bats away
the candy canes
their peppermint points
drawing blood
She shrugs off the festive
holiday scarves
and calls of "Merry Christmas"
For she cares not
about the holidays
Dec 2010 · 576
Indoors
The rain tears through the cracks
in the windows
ripping this place
wide open
The wind howls
with such ferocity
and slams against the walls
shaking the house to
its very foundations
But indoors
the weather is worse
Dec 2010 · 563
Prison
The smiling faces
of friends I haven't seen
in years
mock me from the walls
Pretty blinds try
to hide the fact
that this room
is a cell
in a prison
called home
Each day I wake up
to find the bars on the windows
no one else can see
My jailer greets me every morning
by asking
if I brushed my teeth,
and the guard dogs
are in fact
cats
I'm in this prison
for two more years
framed
for a crime
I didn't commit
And I can't wait
to
get
out
Dec 2010 · 505
Drown
After the initial
panicked struggle
for air
she
finally
stops flailing
and looks around
at her grave
Thoughts slowly sink
to the sandy bottom
of her waterlogged brain
as her soggy lungs
begin to shut down
Down to the murky
depths below she floats
her hair waving gently above her
like a flag
of surrender
Dec 2010 · 444
Words
They're just words
characters on a dusty old page
knives spat into someone's back
waves washing over their heads
In one ear
Out the other
Unless of course they fell
like rain
on deaf ones
Ringing
Stinging
Their they're there
Whispers, screams, and all in between
Causing pain or revelation
Thousands of languages, some of them dead
Hollow, rich
Biting sarcasm to a lover's caress
They're just words...
Dec 2010 · 422
Trees to Time
Bury your watch
so that time will
degrade
dissolve in the dirt
Make a flower out
of minutes
Make a tree out of hours
and when
the roots strike
twelve
The earth will
shake
as the alarm
goes off
beneath the ground
Dec 2010 · 615
Whistle
The wind howls around
the house like
the storm of souls
in Dante's second circle
As the rain pounds the roof
threateningly
with fists of metal
And branches scratch
the windows as if
with claws
The heater groans
and the vent whistles
because
my cat's sitting on it
Dec 2010 · 914
Back to Normal
I can't feel
the rain on my face
The coldness
that seeps into my bones
goes unnoticed
I should be hurting
but I'm
just numb
And the best part is
it will be like this
tomorrow
just like it was
yesterday
Dec 2010 · 1.0k
Computer
Emergency shut down
Can't continue
because of this
fatal error
I'm afraid this
is all my
fault
for thinking I
could fill this
computer
with good memories
that may
or may not
have even happened
So if I can somehow
restart
and remember the password
I can try to
fix it
Dec 2010 · 475
Meaning
There's nothing inside
yet
you can see
the truth
of what you meant
to me
on my hands
Dec 2010 · 844
Not Joking
In the beginning
I thought that
we
were a joke
that was devised,
nothing serious
But then I realized
I wasn't dreaming
you weren't kidding
I opened up
I was happy
for
the
first
time
in
ages
I learned how
to smile again
please
don't let me forget
how to smile...
Dec 2010 · 2.3k
Laugh
End her life
You know you want to
You'll get that
freedom
you've always wanted
She'll never
laugh at you
ever again
What's stopping you?
End her life
You know you want to
Dec 2010 · 569
First Snow
The first snow
is the best.
You look out the window
on a dull school day and
suddenly
you let out a
shout of joy.
This battle cry
charges everyone
to press their faces on the
cold glass
and watch
the snow
come down.
And as you're driving home,
the snow flying past
at warp speed,
you're still mesmerized
by it.
Dec 2010 · 571
Forget
When the earth starts spinning
backwards
when all the stars are
extinguished like candles
when the moon explodes
in a ball of flame
when existence depends on the push of a button
That will be the day
when I forget
you.
Dec 2010 · 1.1k
Sharpies
Doom fades fast
Red sharpie bleeds
and swirls down the drain
Doom fades fast
Black sharpie seeps
through my knuckles
like a ghost
Doom fades fast
Blue sharpie disappears
like fog
into my hands
Dec 2010 · 451
Wings and Lovers
A swirl of feathers
as they meet in the night
Their eyes glitter
with each other's reflections
A sigh of wings
as they move in so close
Their fingers trace words
on each other's skin
A whisper of breath
as their eyes close in ecstasy
their hearts race
with each other's passion
Dec 2010 · 1.1k
Tween
They are
surrounded by trees
whose sharp needles cry
to the smooth floor
of a young one's fort
A hole in the ground
is encircled by rocks
like a summoning place
A schoolbook
is in flames
as the future celebrates
the end
of rules.
Dec 2010 · 479
Grey
Strands of thought are
flickering in and out of
existence
Blink away spots of light
that cloud your vision
and peer through
the haze that is
so painfully thick
What you see are the murky shapes
of truth
surprise
and silence.
Dec 2010 · 376
With You
All my troubles
fall away
which is to say
I forget them
for one blissful moment.
Nov 2010 · 568
Reality Loves Dream
They ran
through Reality's old middle school.
It was night,
and the full moon
made Dream's hair glow.
As they ran away
from the shadow
Reality could not identify,
they sang,
and only Dream would remember the words.
Finally they stopped running,
and Reality
with her dark eyes
looked upon Dream
with her pale eyes
and knew that
she loved her.
So Reality began to cry,
and Dream could only
watch
as Reality
woke
up.
Nov 2010 · 983
Lefty
The lefty
who was forced to write
correctly
wrote her name
backwards
hoping it was
right.
Nov 2010 · 868
Why Not
Why don't you put on some makeup?
Why don't you straighten your hair?
Why don't you paint your nails red?
Why don't you fit in
with the crowd
of brainless
spineless
helpless
fools?
Because if you do
you'll be exactly
what they thought you were:
INSANE.
To those "perfect" girls.
Nov 2010 · 706
Hero
You caught me
and pulled me out
of the abyss
breathed life into
my weary mind.
My eyes opened
and I saw you
my hero
and for the first time
in ages
I smiled.
Nov 2010 · 5.2k
Superheroes?
They'll get their powers back
by tomorrow morning
and unfreeze the well
to save the water
because they had to carry in snow
and melt it.
When my mom talks, she has a rather thick French accent and adds an unnecessary "s" to everything. She was talking about this family who had a power outage.
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