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4.4k · Aug 2012
Standard Issue
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
Willingly submissive to my lacking productivity,
I stir around those little thoughts aimlessly.
That cat will finally look into a day in the life
and grant me some amnesty.
1.8k · Dec 2012
One sentence for you
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Chasing you
has proven to be
the single
most self-destructive
endeavor I've
embarked in
thus far.
1.7k · Dec 2012
Puddles
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
You're a strange breed.
You look out past my street
         (when I'm fast asleep)
With the moon reflecting in the puddles
in the corner of the street,
Or, the corners of your corneas.
                             (tear puddles)
Until your vision is mottled and
your sobs muffled. Continue
to stare out your window (forever)
Keep looking until you find something
better.
1.7k · Aug 2012
I'm Pony. He's Boy.
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
Those Hamm's didn't drink themselves.
No more lighting incense on your shelves.
That bed is a ***** one my friend.
The bridge burnt, you watched the fires end.
And there's been a thing or two, written on that wall.
And a thing or two more, before paint covers it all.

I am Jaguar Paw.
1.6k · Jan 2013
Burnt
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
We've all lost our spark.
Maybe a new start on an old habit,
clarity for a change, all the same
blamed, framed, and insane.
Time to call in the strays
a game, a laugh for the blues and the blue jays;
the good old days that never came.
1.6k · Aug 2012
Medication
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
Grey nights, cold and candleless
I'm handleless, no grip on anything.
A memory, remembering
a hushed whispering
fluttering and disappearing
to a dreamscape, pursued in dedication
Medication is the modern vacation.
1.4k · Aug 2012
Castle Tower
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
Castle tower,
Stone walls.
Cold soul.
Moat of fire:

Burning passion.

Castle tower,
Cracking and crumbling,
laughing and stumbling
on my words:

My shields.

Castle tower,
***** liar.
Rubble pile.
Moat of fire.
1.3k · Sep 2012
Be Sure to Get Lost
Chris Rodgers Sep 2012
Broken, life seeping.
Gutsy and lawless:
Gunpoint switchblade
Only seeing, never sleeping.

Groan and crawl, muck and mud
Run and ****. Push my luck, down over.
Over and over again. Head over heels
Brain splatter banana peels.

Spacey air, musty sight.
Cold nights in the cold earth.
Bent and spent, came and went.
Statement of your rebirth.

Voices drowning down salt streams.
Craters on Retna Moon; green beams.
Too many visitors. No hesitation.
Sleeping beauty, my proclamation.
1.2k · Dec 2012
Ivy pipe
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Einstein smoked a pipe.
Wet stones for the ivy knives
keep the jungle clean shaven.
Stay dressed for work.
"What line of work are you in?"
"Marketing, old boy."
He didn't wear a beard to work;
neither does the jungle these days.
Einstein smoked a pipe.
1.2k · Jul 2013
Never Homesick
Chris Rodgers Jul 2013
We haven't gone home yet;
but will we ever?
Will we bother with it?
Are we best left alone (lost)?
Keeping hushed and brushing
(away) each other's (troubles)
hair our of our eyes.
The heart only ever tries.
(and beats on until it dies)
1.2k · Nov 2013
Bonds
Chris Rodgers Nov 2013
Mishaps and mispronunciation,
messy rooms and messy beards,
crops and crop duster airplanes.
Too many insiders,
too many to count.
We counted on the fresh air
in our bike tires to get us out.
Out in the open world,
the woods, the fields,
the lakes, the ponds,
the Indiana bonds
too tight to ignore.
A prison with open doors
if nothing more.
1.1k · Dec 2012
Conversation starter
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I'm leaning on a crutch
to help me stay tall.
Slender, tall mind
Short, fat heart.
Eyelids: much like the mind
(a projector screen for my dreams)
When I speak,
I read the scripts of the movies;
whatever movies I've been watching.
Subconsciously, all conversation is a mere recap,
a synopsis of the film I watched the night before.
A real spoiler to the listener. I'm a movie ruiner.

I'm the only one who sees the works that I spoil.
                         Thank god for that.

**Disclaimer: I just spoiled a movie for you.
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
That old man never gets old.

You've heard that story he tells.
The one about the haunted cabin;
the one with the wrapping paper.
The wrapping paper that goes "WRAP".
I think most of us have heard that story.

But the truth is, he's not going to tell it anymore.
That old man, he grew old.

But that old man never gets old to me.
966 · Jan 2013
Sirens (city gals)
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
Times have changed;
we're not so topsy-turvey.
Well calculated always,
cautious in all ways.
Take a deep breath (and)
a deep dive through
the eyeball into the mind.
Float around forever;
bouncing off my
thoughts & ideas.
Swim, little mermaid.
869 · Dec 2012
Sleepwalk awake.
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Camping; facing the wind.
Feeling all too safe; sleepwalking
                                    (now and then)
There's something to be said about a foundation.
(a strong one)
and there's something to be said about a dedication
to a flimsy one.
A road trip or an expedition?
A day dream or a premonition?
Take baby steps (toward big steps)
Take what you want (need) from this and (life) everything.
Smirk and scoff when you're smirked (and/or) scoffed.
Biting your tongue (off) now;
not sleeping at all somehow.
Coffee brain like a crack ******* flame.
                                       (do not condone)
Unwind your sanity to keep hunkered down
in what is real and more full-heartedly genuine
than any other known human experience.
(live)
        (die)
               (get read about)
824 · Dec 2012
Whistler
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Nothing I say is funny,
but somehow it's hysterical.
I hear whistling in the morning,
but I don't see the whistler.

Go jog; then to a sprint.
(through a slaughterhouse)
Tell me, can you imagine yourself?
(covered in insects) Rotting between
the ears,

Do you ever find yourself trying?
                                      (too hard)
                                               (way too hard)
Trying to account for lost time.
Wake up at 1 a.m. -getting shocked.
Feel your heart (sprint) and stop on a dime.

Feel your heart stop (once in a while)
Learn to love what's good and good for you.
No rotting out. More speaking out.

Nothing I say is funny,
but somehow it's hysterical.
I hear whistling in the morning,
but I don't see the whistler.
759 · Dec 2012
Sleep in sleeping bags.
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I've lit more campfires than I can count.
                             (I've never lit one with you)
I've climbed trees; dead, rotting trees.
Skipping rocks and laying out creek
soaked socks to dry, but I've never waded in
the water with (you) my hands in the air,
hooting and hollering at the stars.
I wish each day had been ours.
(as well)

(light candles and stare at the flames)
Black dots blot out your face.
739 · Dec 2012
Beginning
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I've slipped off and I've flipped off (my heart)
I've gotten lost and stayed in the trees with a fire.
                                          (reflecting in my eyes)
A small torch in my hand; a dancing liar.
Here we go again: a pulling on my mind's feet.
A loose foothold. A loose willpower.
That **** book about a wallflower,
nostalgia brain, going insane. (quite literally)
I've got some shaky hands but a sealed mouth.
The old soul is a cold soul headed south.
This trip will be a bourbon; properly aged.
No one knows. No one knows. Know one that knows.
That was the night everything changed.
723 · Dec 2012
Try
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Try
Make that a mental note.
Make a connection to their functions.
(Parallel traits; perpindicular to the global eyesight)
Take a look into the brainWINDOW.
Take a book from the thoughtLIBRARY.
                                                    Steal flimisy ideas.
Craft a fort of implementation.
Try hard. Try harder.
711 · Dec 2012
Ideal World
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I want raging nights,
dark and wild;
lit only by bonfires
and glares on glasses.

I want sun-kissed mornings,
breezy and free;
interrupted only by the voices
of lovers and friends.
703 · Jul 2016
Pine Specimen
Chris Rodgers Jul 2016
I've got a boneless back
& vision hazed black
around the edges.
Pushed to the edge
& back around again.
A beginning never marked;
shrouded in fog.
Cluttered thoughts at home
w/ no cause to listen.
Glistening with an utterance
                      of time ill spent;
orchestrated within a hollowed head.
All power to the engines.
Full speed ahead.
702 · Oct 2013
Winter is around the bend.
Chris Rodgers Oct 2013
Unhinged again.
Tired and untied,
loosely bundled,
huddled and dodging
rain puddles.
Cold cement, slick and
unforgiving, giving you
sweet/sour visions of
each year gone past.
Longing to be home at last;
warmth and a television broadcast.
Something remains.
Some distance retains
its unsympathetic pains
embedded in the grains of your being.
Being so cold, coy, together, but alone
for the long winter to come.
685 · Dec 2012
Shoot
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
You seek out some therapy,
then we'll talk again.
I've said it; you make
my mind bend and spin.

You take a trip,
and when you come home
we'll patch up the rips
and spend some time
alone.
665 · Jun 2015
Petal
Chris Rodgers Jun 2015
I've heard a story that is so pure and cold
it must have been harvested in a sunless
ice age.
_______
Kindred and distilled spirits,
seeping through the cracks in the
strangers backs and colliding among
the beds of the deep blue.
Blue eyes and stormy skies
making a flood on the floor.
Close the window and open the door.
I've never
                  spaced my questions
as they could be; all the words
where they should be.
I've never been to a place
that's made me feel insignificant
What's the trouble?: Now I'm here
and I'm not being subtle.

I hope that my heart is still beating
when you awake and start breathing again.
658 · Aug 2012
One by one
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
One by one,

pulling thoughts and memories
from deep within each other's minds.
Analyzing and reflecting,
judging and accepting,
loving and hating,
but learning
nonetheless.
655 · Nov 2013
Comet tails
Chris Rodgers Nov 2013
Fickle gleaming light once shown bright
through the tunnels of your eye holes;
dreaming and deeming yourself truthful
in action and fastened in your traction
                             (on the Traveled Path)
A refraction, split in two.
Mind soaked in indecisive dew.
At a loss, where do the paths cross?
Crossing your mind, two zig-zagging,
                              spiraling,
                                              constantly
                              colliding
comet tails leave debris that hails
down on the soft and welcoming
surface of the brain.
632 · Aug 2012
Nostalgia
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
There's nothing sweet about nostalgia.
There's something sweet about the past.
There's something sweet about the future.
There's something sweet about this moment.
But,
      there's nothing sweet about nostalgia.
630 · Dec 2012
Wishlist
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Where have we been?                           (lost)
You and I are trying our hardest.        (to get lost)
Busted, falling short. Trying and trying.
                                                                Giving our all.
Sped up, running. Knowing. Craving the unkowing.
                                                                (lost)
Cut down a dead tree; make a fire live.
617 · Jan 2013
ZZzzZZzz
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
My dreams spend the night with you
and mix themselves into your sleep.
They nestle up into your sweater
until you can't dream any better.
613 · Jan 2013
Snake pit
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
Cry out your heart while it pumps blood out your eyes.
We've both been ripped apart and sewn together with
eachother's parts. Now your blood flows through me;
slithering through my veins like snakes from hell.
612 · Dec 2012
Life limonade
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I've seen limonade spilt down the sewer
and down the drain. (life limonade)
These limons have long past rotten.
Stale, and forgotten; limonade spillway.

I wouldn't be satisfied with the quality of that limonade.
(not at all)
608 · Jun 2014
Tap tap tappy
Chris Rodgers Jun 2014
Out of food for thought and the stores are closed.
Closed eyes and sighs tonight.
Tomorrow I'll go shopping for an idea or two;
mending my inspiration with tape and glue.
dot dot dot dadot dot. tap tap tappy.
Happy Father's Day coming up. It's good to be back.
602 · Dec 2012
As is life
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Crawl through the wormhole;
Alice down the rabbit hole.
Morpheus and his red pill,
slip and trip
into an alien land.
Search and discover,
explore and uncover.

This is not an option anymore. ----------------
                                                                          
Rotten apple life, -----------------------------------
tree fall breeze.
Grass landing,
worm food
for life.
595 · Nov 2013
Road to roam
Chris Rodgers Nov 2013
Slippery roads throwing you off track,
falling backwards, flat out on your back.
Sights and sounds fading out;
                   down for the count.

Sleep tight and eat right.
Spend each night thinking about
                                  the right track
Track your steps back through
the slushed snow and gravel dusted road.

Your abode; long gone, burnt black from
firey lights shone bright through the fog of dawn.
No more thoughts of home,
                                                 just the road to roam.
585 · Nov 2013
Tired
Chris Rodgers Nov 2013
We're so much sleepier than we used to be.
So drained, so strained,
                 so uncreative.
It's been a blast while it's lasted,
but at last, perhaps it is time to quit.
Quit running in circles looking for miracles.
New things and new beams of light
will ignite (the tender) and give us
our sight.
(Or at least I hope.)
583 · Dec 2012
Woods (night)
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Sometimes it's better to sit and wait;
there's too much weight on the strings
in that mind of mine.
I've seen too much. (too fast)
I haven't sat long enough
to make any of it last.
(You've ran past.)

I've spent a night in the woods;
laying on a bench, looking at
meteors,
    thinking of the coulds and shoulds.
583 · Dec 2012
Human relationships
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Splitting hairs and stepping on toes
Pulling teeth and breaking bones
Biting and fighting. Killing and dying.
My heart is hard as nails and your eyes are lying.
Wasting time, killing time, and ******* with my time.
583 · Jan 2013
Turning gray
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
All the leaves are turning
gray as your blue eyes
were on me across the room
watching the door close on
my skull. I felt the thought
weigh down on my feet as
I sank to the bottom of your
lung, filled with sand and water.
(Escape.) Now
floating to the surface of your
eyelids to see your face
turn left towards the
bloodshot sky.
579 · Dec 2012
For a dollar
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
We've all been snuffed out and gobbled up; spat out,
trampled and crushed, beaten and strung up,
**** on, rolled into a ball, kicked in the
teeth, burnt to a crisp, ripped up,
strangled, cut to pieces,
and left to bleed
out.
526 · Jul 2015
Eet
Chris Rodgers Jul 2015
Eet
That's enough food for thought.
Take a swing at it, she said.
                                                 You're good enough
to get something done.
There's a fluttering in your eyes
& a coldness in your sighs.
522 · Dec 2012
Absolute
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Too bad, no solution;
only a personal solution
to this mental pollution.

I've looked for a better way,
but I've been shot straight out
(of the sky)
Out, exposed to the elements.
Out, with a tree and a fern.
Out, dedicated and elated.
Out now,
with a fire and an urn.
519 · Jul 2015
Black Cats
Chris Rodgers Jul 2015
Black cat omens &
black cat fireworks
scattered about the porch.
My house: packed to the gills
with sand and dandy little
tangled rubber band *****.
What does this mean &
why bother with finding out?
Just in general; ask around.
Southbound and moving fast
Don't look back but watch your backtrack.
I'll have another drink or two
before this night is through.
No doubt.
509 · Jan 2013
Tune in.
Chris Rodgers Jan 2013
I'm currently tuned in;
into something I've been listening
out for and hearing in my sleep.
I've become accustomed to your
customs and your attitude(s).
The news and the new ideas
bounce off mine and your
skull(s); ricochet back down the throat.
Think of a voyage into the knowing
unknown. Be willing to find a new home.
495 · Dec 2012
Rocket void
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
I can feel the grinding
   (tearing and ripping)
             (apart)
my nervous system.
Out here in this deep black;
not a soul speaks back
to the whispers or the shouts.

I've been lost before,
but never past the confines
of my own imagination.
I am (lost) outside.
493 · Jul 2013
Sloop
Chris Rodgers Jul 2013
Sleepy rain;
fat and slow,
wets the pages
and glues the ages
together in the snow.
485 · Aug 2012
What's it called?
Chris Rodgers Aug 2012
Find some peace of mind in the cracks and the binds.
You've been mended once, you'll mend me this time.
We'll all see the sunshine when you open the blinds.
473 · Dec 2012
Eat me alive.
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
You're going to make me lose my mind,
but I'm okay with that. I love you for that.
Take me someplace new. Set up a homestead
                                                (under my skull)
Plant your garden on my sara bellum. Grow.
Let's **** my life and make a baby.
Bring it up in a new home;
a home in the mind (my) forrest.
Building, building, and building.
                                              (something worthwhile)
I'll take you to the hardware store.
Climb a ladder over me; or a dozen
each taller than the latter.

(stay tall)
469 · Jul 2015
Value
Chris Rodgers Jul 2015
Reoccurring themes and
new beams of light breaking through
the cloud cover to shine down on
the streets and trees around me.
Casting a shadow where my
stillness used to be.
But for me,
there's a theory left in there
& you'll see the trees begin to bend.
Tend to the seams
& trap the light.
453 · Dec 2012
Gust
Chris Rodgers Dec 2012
Learn to go to a different place.
Learn to read eyes and give space.
Build and sleep. Drink and eat.
It is your words that make me speak.

(heart)
442 · Dec 2016
Cabin Fever
Chris Rodgers Dec 2016
Sloppy steps
take a walk out the door.
Take a little sample for something more.
Give yourself a look around.
                  Take a spin; round and round.
          Slip, trip, and find your path.
Off for a ride; outward bound.
Freezing rain & slippery streets;
beats the hell out of
dingy air and stained sheets.
Unknown figures and shivers
in your spine.
Capturing images for a story in
                                 Better Times.
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