Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
 Dec 2014 courtney
Poetic T
A green flamingo
Did land with the flock
Frank said "you ok"
"Yep"
"Air sick once more"
I tried to fly with my eyes
Closed
But I flew in to a
"Tree"
"Bill"
&
More,
I tried to hitch a ride
But the plane engine
"****** me in"
Now my head is bald
And my bottom is
Cold,
&
Soar,
I think next time Ill take the  train
I only hope I don't get motion sickness
I'll be an odd  flamingo if I am green once more.
Fun with silliness try something new
 Dec 2014 courtney
Tony Scallo
Into
a body
 of water
  we fall
                                                            ­                                      Much
                                                            ­                                   b i g g e r
                                                                ­                               than our
                                                             ­                                      own
                                        We
                                      fall in
                                   all shapes
                                    and sizes                        And
                                ­       carry                         with us
      The                                                     ­   ideas that are
    fused                                                    ­    together and
  make up                                                        what we
   are on a                                                           grand­
    scheme                          Of                          ­  
                                        things,
              ­                      we splatter
                                     and splash
                                      spreading
                                          what                                                  We
                                                              ­                                     carry
                                                           ­                                    to become
                   One                                    ­                                    within
              the bigger                                                           ­          body
          that we make                             Up
               what we                               were a
                  part                               of all along,
                                                          ­  we are
                                                             dro­ps
                              We
                           fall for                                                            An­
                        eternity it                                                        feels
 ­                      until finally                                                  we're at
                         the place                                                  we call home
                                                            ­                              in our ocean
                                                           ­                                   at peace
__________________­
             To become one within what we've been a part of all along
Read from left to right
The vast ocean, so calm
A façade of pristine nothingness
Eyes cannot scan the vastness
It engulfs your vision
The salt waters, abode for many
Known and unknown species
Rich with its own heritage
So many tales have been chronicled
Folklore mystifies it with stories
Sea of troubles and possibilities
The bravest have traversed
Facing the fierce predicaments
Relentlessly testing the valiant
So many continents surrounding it
Minuscule landscapes compared to it
Carries so much history
Forever lost in its vast depths
We are yet to reach its depths
And the world that is thriving under
We have lived with it
And yet to decipher
The ocean and its uncharted territory
This idea struck me while watching a National Geographic documentary on oceans.
 Dec 2014 courtney
Kenshō
I departed.

After singling out necessities and throwing out electronic extremities that tied me down like a social slave, I took two feet to the mountains of the world. Here I eat fresh food and observe the cities and the backdrop clouds that hold the sky. Philosophies of the mind run rampant here and this is where all my ideas stem from, as far as I have convinced myself. Sometimes, in the long months alone, I awake in the midst of expanding darkness and notice the silence. This is what I wanted to write about. The silence that exists in the solitude of being. Where no yearning is experienced, just a full, keen awareness. What is the importance of this time, I wish I knew. What I've wanted to communicate might have been plain to see.
.
All I want for Christmas
is some food to eat.
Oh what a treat
to have some meat.

All I want for Christmas
is clean water to drink,
stuff that doesn't stink,
that would be cool I think.

All I want for Christmas
is the bombs to stop,
no more to drop.
That would be the top.

All I want for Christmas
is for our food to grow,
the plants we sow
now that would be a show.

All I want for Christmas
is to be free to learn.
Not to be a germ
because I want to learn.

All I want for Christmas
is some medication.
and some dedication
from the United Nation.

All I want for Christmas
is to grow up strong.
Am I so wrong
wanting to belong.

All I want for Christmas
is some equal rights
and somewhere to sleep
through the coldest nights.

All I want for Christmas
is to earn a crust.
With employers
that we can really trust.

All I want for Christmas
is a chance at life
for a man and wife
not to live in strife.

All I want for Christmas
is oh so far away
and on this day
this is what I pray.
12th Nov 2014
 Nov 2014 courtney
Lyn
She and Her
 Nov 2014 courtney
Lyn
I wish I was She
That started your sentences
With a loving smile
When you said to yourself
"She is everything I could ever ask for"

I wish I was Her
That ended your sentences
With a proud smile
When you said to your friends
"I love Her"

*Because you are both my He and Him
But I am not your She, nor your Her
it's past midnight, but he still haunts my sleep away. sighs.
 Nov 2014 courtney
amichael
If you catch me staring at the ceiling
I'm thinking about bleeding
I am not looking for a God to cope
Just somewhere promising to loop the rope
They tell me that's life and I can like it or not
To be frank I don't and it happens a lot
My needle doesn't even work
All it does is ******* hurt
I cry I'm okay and scream I'm not upset
Can we just sit and pretend life isn't real for one minute
It's getting hard not to laugh when I'll I want is to die
And when I can't I just nap to make the time fly
Mom's sleeping pills couldn't get the job done
So I climbed to the top of dad's closet and tried out the gun
Well I stepped outside to give it one more try
But the ocean was calm and the sky seemed forgiving
So I persuaded myself to keep on living
Next page