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If that's your mindset, I was wrong all this time
Another year wasted on a careless mind
And I feel fine, yessir, I do
The gallons of tears I wasted on the thought of
You.
Who's to say I'd run and hide
And who's to say I'd care
Who's to say I never tried
When it's
you
Who would never dare?

I spilled my heart out, took over a week
And not once did I reach for a bottle.
I just wanted to show you who I was
Before I had time to pin my throttle
In that short moment I grasped at faith
Believing life will go on
But God wasn't feeling that Good today
And dusk came without a dawn.

Once you have the best in life
There's only degrees of bland
Everything else is mediocre at best
Might as well die on my plot of land
 Dec 2014 Fake Knees
wordvango
I ate a gnat
then spat
sat
down
digesting that
what
had happened
when
a fly flew
up
my
***

and tickled
so
I farted
blew him
to
three
or four parts.

Then,
thinking
all was
done,
a Beagle
came and bit my
ankle.

I snatched him
earless.

Then, to my dismay, an
Eagle came and said,
"god ******, we are just hungry"

He snatched my thumb and flew away
into the frigid night
with my digit.
I now sit here,
twaddlin'
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
Emily Sliver
Yesterday
My feet were molded by water
They flew against the ground
Like slick rocks hungry for purpose
Amidst an endless sea

Yesterday
The leaves were red and yellow
They patted my cheeks as they cascaded
The wind caught their crevices and tugged down
Designing a waterfall over my head

Yesterday
There rushed tender currents.

But today
I walk with closed eyes.


Today
The tide carries pain down my chest
Sews my lids shut with thin thread
It's alright
The leaves will be brown if my eyes open now

Today
The ocean seeps through thin lashes
Rivers drip against sandy skin
I clip the bridges woven onto my eyes and see
A sea embroidered with tumbling mirrors

*Now
I'm drenched free,
soaked with waves of me.
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
Mike Hauser
I wished upon a star tonight
And mentioned your name

That you my dear might notice me
Before you give your love away
Some say leave well enough alone
But there's to much at stake

I wished upon a star tonight
And mentioned your name

The star shot across the Southern sky
As I thought of you

You travel through my heart and mind
With the little things you do
How it is I feel right now
You haven't got a clue

As I saw that star tonight
And I thought of you

I wish I may I wish I might
Wish upon each star

On the edge of the night
Standing where you are
Where it is you draw me in
Into your work of art

I wish I may I wish I might
Wish upon each star
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
Anand
clouds of words
from places diverse
come floating to the sky, soaking my heavy mind

they are unconnected and meaningless
stray birds wingless
kept in cage of isolation, no relation to find

when brought together
held close by a tether
they mix up to join, combine and bind

then in a pattern they flow
rise high, fall low
dancing with passion, in a rhythmic fashion aligned

a story they tell
in my thoughts that does dwell
feelings get expression, sincere confession, to soul they're affined

not seeking perfection
but creativity and introspection
my humble quill, tries to spill, colors of several  kind

my flawed verse is terse
in emotions it's immersed
it portrays a view, connects with you, as my heart unwinds
Inspired from 'When you write' by Pradip Chattopadhyay.
I guess this is how I write poems.
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
Poetic T
Death has a voice, it whispers
From birth, a scratching
In the back of your head
Days,
Months,
Years
Flutter by, but still that
Lost voice from birth, an echo
Getting louder as time passes by,
You are of the
Flesh
Skin
Bone
But as all things it grows old,
"You hear it clearer now"
As it speaks not in whispers
But that moment you know
That life will cease
It has been telling you since birth
Till this day,
20.
03.
2019
This is your last breath, it quietens
With those who understand,
Who know there is a time and place it must end
But those who scratch that itch
The voice becomes
One
Two
Five
All screaming, the end, the end,
As they scream
You scream, insanity takes hold,
The insane don't fear death, the voices
Speak through mixed tongue, an
Enigma,
Puzzled,
Voices
Spoken, They all say the same thing
Even though not spoke
"DEATH IS COMING FOR ME"
Tears of joy, tears of fear, tears for
The moment is near,
That voice you hear louder through age
Its been telling you the moment,
That moment it will take you away..
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
E
Our map seems stained
with the ink of Shakespeare's pen
dripping into our future,
Time plays with the plot
And we all must journey apart,
until we are together.

We wrestle time,
knocking out the days with patience
and mighty yawning.
Between us the fields of grass spread out
wider than fifty days on a calendar.

But at dusk, you are the star of my silver screen,
We unpack our minds like suitcases and
Move into the future together,
While apart.
Vanishing with a click,
Your goodnights soak the wind

In November
Time holds us apart,
Weary, but for the fullness of
December’s side-by-side mornings,
with toast crumbs and coffee breath
and kisses, anyway.

With hands full of promise,
you hold onto me and
we grow deeper and deeper
together despite a dreary
part of November.
for ty
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
r
i still straddle the fence on this
immigration reform manifesto

i see both sides of the story

it's good to have the grandfather clause
for the immigrants in my bloodstream

- the scrappy scots-irish-ingles-welsh
in me - but too late for the cherokee

behind the old fences of history.

r ~ 11/9/14
 Nov 2014 Fake Knees
wordvango
I say I am you
tree
roots and limbs and bark

I say I feed you as you feed me oxygen
we need each
to be

My roots are not covered
and I am not near as tall or robust
my canopy never will attain the beauty

nor hold leaves and seeds
into the sun like you
And then

I ask the tree,
who might you be?
He stands as he always has,

says, I am but a tree,
I bow and say amen.
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