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 Aug 2012 dj
Waverly
The throne of a metropolis is on the far side
atop the lake
that wrinkles the sun,
beneath a mountain
green with sickled pines;


The people use their boughs as scythes.

The people use trees to cut down
more and more,
and burn whatever's too pesky
to stick around.

In a backyard of a house in the suburbs
people get bored playing cards,
watching tv,
getting drunk in the evenings.

They party like pagans going crazy
over a peerless future,
and an impermanent past.

Sometimes a new bonfire is started
where the old one died,
sometimes the old one will flare up
and scorch the sky beautiful;
a smoky curtain on which the tongues of stars
can make good on all the promises
made on them.

And people kiss around the fire.
Hug,
make up,
joke.

The sealed souls of the people open.

At the end,
they regret it.
This newness of life.

They swing their wooden scythes at the night,
still furry and wet
with bark and sap,
cursing god in fury, fury, fury,
trying to cut down the stars too.

These people that take and destroy,
they whittled the throne of the Metropolis
out of ivory from Africa.
 Aug 2012 dj
Alice Curtis
Home
 Aug 2012 dj
Alice Curtis
Its fun to travel, far away,
To run and swim, and laugh and play,
But its best to be home, at the end of the day,
With the people who love you true,
No matter what you do,
Home is the place you can turn to,
But home is wherever your loved ones are,
Not just a place you live, and sleep.
Some people even make a home in a car,
If love is there, your at home in the street.
Home is a place, that lives in the face
Of the ones who love you.

Home is in my face.
 Aug 2012 dj
Marisa
The pit in her stomach started when she was 11,
Growing til she was 16,
waking up one day, afraid to live,
Bullied for 11 years, the whole time she was in school,
She knew she wasn't as skinny as other girls,
She knew she wasn't pretty enough,
It was proven.
when her first love left her for another girl,
Everyday she found out how useless she was,
losing friends for no reason,
Letting the pit in her stomach become darkness surrounding her,
Til the only reason she left the house was for work, and school
The only reason she left her room was to eat,
She couldn't let her parents be suspicious,
When she was 13 everything went into a down spiral,
experimenting with self harm and becoming addicted,
For three years she then dealt with the darkness,
Sweatshirts covering scars,
Words carved into her ankles
Hope being lost.
Her only way to vent,
through poetry,
Yet finding it harder to put words together,
Get the energy to type all the words she's feeling,
The only words she could find for how she felt,
empty,
Alone,
Just plain sad.
So she.
I mean I,
wake up everyday, afraid to live,
But I still put on a smile,
So that everyone else doesn't have to  worry,
while I slowly die inside.
It may not be good, sorry, Just how I felt ya know?
 Aug 2012 dj
Angie Sea
Wildly
 Aug 2012 dj
Angie Sea
Feelings and their mysteries
a lover in mind

I remember the stories you told me
of your adventures and possibilities
I remember falling in love
with every single memory of us

je suis ici
where are you now ?

I want to be in the poetry I have never written
to live the life I had never dreamed

I travel in hopes of bumping into you again
for that's how we met
by fate and crossroads
in the wild we never waited

je suis ici
where are you now ?

The world we have yet to see
Our world we have yet to create

You climbed as I swam below
together naturally
but still going farther our own ways
our movements rippled to the other

je suis ici
where are you now ?

our stones skip four times
for every time we met

We promised each other we'd venture again
hand in hand and to share a tent
we'll meet to hike the mountains
for a date behind the waterfall

*je vais ĂȘtre ici finalement avec toi
 Aug 2012 dj
Sarah
If only I hadn't died that day.
in the icy air of
that car

i didn't want to get out in the heat.

you looked so serious
and i felt so alone,
water bottle in hand,
I kept drinking.
If only there had been
more water.
i needed an excuse
to look
away from you.

i wish you'd let go of
my hand.
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