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 May 2018
Abigail Hobbs
Waves come crashing, as do
memories of you
How shall I remember you?
The oncoming and dreaded storm
that sends birds to other seas
to be far from it
Or,
the gentle breeze
just gracing the sands
letting the birds glide, their
wings singing so freely
Or,
maybe I'll stay here a while longer
soaking in these waves
Because, well,
what else shall I do with all of them?
4/30/18
 May 2018
Tameka meme chapman
Promise me you will always be by my side.
Tell me you love me all the time promise me.
promise me you make me smile & laugh all the time
especially on the day's I feel sad & down.
You and I are one till the end of days promise me.
Promise me the world & we have to never look back.
Hold my hand and never let go.
Kiss me every morning & hold me tight at night promise me.
When I have grown old & I can barely walk promise me you be right there to hold me up.
I want you one to always make me happy.
We only get one life so promise me you will stay in my life.
If you can promise me these few things I will promise you this times 10...
 May 2018
Sarita Aditya Verma
Flattery is the machine
Which inflates balloons
Nineteen to the dozen
Yet all succumb
To the beat of the Heart
Genuine praises
Are the roses
Ever fragrant in the heart
Some old ,  odd thoughts
Not meant for here ,but better here than in my phone notes :)

When you help someone out of compassion ,you don't expect anything at all in return is what I feel :))
 May 2018
Sally A Bayan
Zen
~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"...go to hell, purloiners!
you breached my trust...my privacy,
both, are sacred to me...
what about you?
...is anything at all sacred to you?"
:::
:::::
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It's been
three days and more,
of crossing fears...thinking,
how easily......and suddenly...
one's precious worded gems,
could be exposed to strangers' eyes...
to think that private thoughts can
no longer be private, is infuriating...
how does one deal with violated privacy?
i'm ailing...while drowning in dim streams
.....all assurances, now disputed
all negative possibilities considered
i'm paranoid...the devil is winning...

the stomach sympathizes
with a disconcerted mind
growling its discontent
creating deleterious acids...

mad, upsetting hours stay for a while
holes must be mended or patched...
what was disorganized ...must be straightened
got to start from scratch

these past evenings, i trod
through hot valleys bright with fire
burning with anger and disgust
...for, i felt betrayed,
never have i been this way before,

.....i must go back to the water.....

slowly............i wait,
'til i can look past those trees,
those walls....those worlds outside, and
from them, create a swinging hammock
tied on two coconut trees~~~then
feel a mist from a not so far clear, blue ocean
feel the breeze whisper its magic spell
to cool and melt the fires within
be at peace with everyone
with everything...

i must take hold of that space
where i'll float...and i'll forget
where i'll toy with the ripples
and be overcome
with
~~~~moments of zen~~~



Sally
...i keep on scribbling, even when i'm angry,
      'til i get to that moment of calm.
 May 2018
Leigh Jacobson
CAN YOU HEAR ME?                
  Your lifeless body, the way your chest it rises and falls,  through no effort of its own.... can you hear me?
I wrote this while sitting at the side of the bed with my brother who is on the ventilator. My heart was aching. That he would not feel alone.
 May 2018
Mike Adam
Richard
Alfred
Edmund
Unearthed.

Reclaiming the city
River

Walking
Rising

Olde englande

Stirring

Reclaiming

Rising
Again
 May 2018
guy scutellaro
give me a ledge on a mountain
18 inches wide
quite a lot of room to pray.

when the sun rises
the flowers of the field weep:
let me love your eyes,
your lips, your compassion.
let me lie next to you.

let me walk the high wire
of  loving you.
"life is being on the wire all else is waiting."  high wire walker, Wallenda.
 May 2018
Furey
Never let me go
I’m so afraid that I’ll be lost
You’ve left me once again
No words
I have no words for this
My lover
My friend
You’ve left me behind with nothing
Never let me go I asked
But when the dawn broke you were gone
Kiss me, wait for me
Your last words to me
Forever in my mind on a repeating loop
It eats away at my mind
I’m so tired
I can’t sleep at night
I’m afraid
You were my protector
Now that you’re gone
I’m alone
Chips away at my mentality
I don’t know why
But when I close my eyes you stand there
Everytime I get closer you move farther away
You are no longer here to hold me up
I don’t want to feel anymore
So I guess I won’t
No, no more
No
 May 2018
Frank Russell
Because we are earth.
Because we are not here
And nature over there.
Because it is a dysfunctional mental habit
To conceive of ourselves as separate
From the flowing energy of the planet
- the air, water and nourishment -
That we transmute to our own energy.
Because we set aside a day to recall
How dangerously mistaken it is
To treat as a lowly inexhaustible slave
One that is both single-minded parent
   and sustaining comrade,
Worthy of love and respect.



- fr
 May 2018
Medusa
weighted scales fallen from eyes that I do not own
other monsters come beneath and rise over them
we place napkins so lightly arising and weep
tea time, flowers, amenable, soothing

running to get a foothold, three steps before a leap
none will say goose goose gander to you or I
nobody wants games now in my rubble of storm
all is a heap of torn down things floating away

hold onto your hat, it's deep here, a gamble
there are footholds in a marsh inside my dream
pitons need sharpening, moon shines merciless
as we tumble into said ravine on one long string


lost, as begun
never to
rise
 May 2018
Jeff Weddle
Enter Bonnie and Clyde
stage left
or Baby Face Nelson
maybe Pretty Boy Floyd
and stolen roadsters
racing **** cops
under crisp afternoon
October skies
every one of us ready
and riddled with bullets
everyone here for victory
and Tommy guns blasting
pretty outlaws
and point blank refusal
West Texas sounds better
than you might think
and we'll maybe
make Arkansas by dawn
if we keep our nerve
drive on, cowboy
sweat is all you need
and white knuckled grit
like diamonds
adorning the air
to stay alive tonight
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