Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Oct 2019 · 126
lonely nests
We are diamonds dining
On time and space
Making pathways
Through the grey skies and the grace
What path is our own you ask
For that is our predicament
To find it and walk through the fire
Please forget safety and harbor your haste
We are painting the places
We have yet to wander in
Lost hours of loneliness
Can never be salvaged
It's a promise you make to the creator
To wake and make wonder
Company can also be lonely
So we take walks in the countryside
We hike through the empty hours
And sleep in the dawn's embrace
All our hands are getting stronger
All our minds are getting longer
Extending beyond the earth
We fought for this moment
To bring form to the lonely
And songs to the lucid
We are confusing
Our consciousness with our intellect
For whomever the bell tolls
You alone must answer
When it calls you to connect
Oct 2019 · 99
wildlight
You are a diamond made
From dirt, stars and time
I am an island made
From music, song and rhyme
We are all half-mortal
And some claim half-divine
A concussion of stories
And disturbing images
A cacophony of women
And a touch of wildlight
Oct 2019 · 97
crossing fences
We are but tiny stars
Burning in our own galaxies
Fantasies part ways
And we dry our tears
On our own paper napkins
We are carrying cards
And crossing fences
That are too big
For our human minds
To ever fully comprehend
Oct 2019 · 73
woman
Bless her hands which hold no evil
Bless her eyes which see the truth
Bless her ears which have heard of all your failures
And bless her heart which has no use for them tonight
Oct 2019 · 133
Advanced supplications
I wonder if we'll ever learn to make love to our sorrow?
Oct 2019 · 119
No more prisoners
My song slips from my heart into the words on this paper
You start to unfurl them like threads curling around your ego
Dreams drift from pages into eyelids
Taking their time to remind us
That we are all just impermanent visitors here
We enter and rise to the sound of a fire burning
Turning morning into night and lightning into thunder
In slumber we shudder at the angels that take no prisoners
Gifts and poison all have their reasons
As everything is a part of every other being
Sep 2019 · 155
America's saviors
There can be no end
To writing essays
And correspondences
Despite categorical imperatives
To create a viable alternative
To the inexorable premises
When contemporary narratives
Are chronologically irrelevant
When erudition is neglected
And ambitions are deflected
Masterful articulations
Of our feelings and emotions
Are often generally neglected
And somehow the most
Outrageously bad behaviors
Are ubiquitously imitated
Sep 2019 · 76
a simple choice
Whose arms are in your reach
Whose eyes do you believe in
Whose hands do you feel the safest in
Whose kisses make you want to listen
Whose words make you feel the greatest
I don't know what you need from me
Or where we’d end up tonight
If we tried to go out dancing
But I’m hoping that you wouldn’t mind
If i kissed you with every inch of my being
Sep 2019 · 254
complex equations
There can be no end
To writing essays
And correspondences
Despite categorical imperatives
To produce an archive
Of the mind is already
Chronologically irrelevant
When erudition is neglected
And ambitions are deflected
Masterful articulations
Of our feelings and emotions
Are often generally equated
With only the most
Outlandish of suggestions
Sep 2019 · 100
Fancy a little danger
We are all a part of this one heart
Love is a future and a new start
At something older than the sun
So stay open to the left-handed savior
Who asks if you fancy a little danger
Tonight we are chasing financial targets
And recycling our milk cartons in the yard
But in the morning its back to the office
To accept our roles in something
That's probably not even worth naming
Sep 2019 · 109
Lipshticks
Ageless angels
Won’t live forever
Despite the fables
And the myths
We are equipped
With unstable bodies
And invisible images
Longing to become
Meaningful secrets
Sealed within our lips
Sep 2019 · 126
haiku raku
You take breaks from fire
And remake our desire
Into something new
You’ve tormented my taste-buds for way too long
And i am stronger now than ever
Like unhatched eggs born without nests to catch them
Or online influencers who resent their followers
We are artifacts of impregnation
Being imprisoned in our heads for so many hours a day
Creates stagnation and mental *******
We face the estrangement of our bodies
In mental institutions the solutions are still waiting
To be discovered in the ovens of our saviors
Do we bake bread or attest to our failures
Salivating women make me envision
That discipline and discernment are not easily corrupted
I am equipped with innumerable capabilities
Swift and full of inhibitions we are suddenly tripping
Walking on balance beams down halls of stereophonic wisdom
Sep 2019 · 480
Liquid polyamory
No matter how much i'd like to take our relationship to the next level,
The ocean reminds me softly that we are just barely friends with benefits.
Sep 2019 · 159
night vision googles
What if we were a pair of old barn owls
Born to bloom posthumously
In this post-mortem moonlight
These are our fumigated farmhouses
And landscapes among the stars
Where celebrities with hardened hearts
And star-beings who only come alive at night 
Are trying to write sermons in the dark
While we sit here with ceremonies in our hearts
Wondering why confused human beings
Always try to deify the colors of the rainbow
Sep 2019 · 132
a lost art
In libraries of desire and shadow
I show you my true face
Can we ever escape these paintings
And portraits of our pain
We are occupied tonight
With inflations of divine importance
Hundreds of soldiers
Dream of sleeping in the park
Making their beds on pallets of lost art
While former lovers harvest our scars
And make silent movies in the dark
Sep 2019 · 908
star spangled spasms
We are all talking much louder
Than your shoulders can translate
There are escaped sovereigns hiding from
Modern anthems of star spangled spasms
Underneath our hearts there are cars and cartridges
Condoms and consoles coiled around our flagpoles
We are through being told what not to do
So whenever we fool around with tiny tyrants
Please know that we are talking about you
And I am supplying your mind with ecstatic silence
In order to finance these fading fitness regimes
And measure your symbols in systematic struggles
We are all insignificant bundles of nerve fibers
Hoping to one day be born again
As an alchemical magus fluent in many languages
Forgotten painters roam the streets
And we are indeed dangerous to our habits
Manners are stately angels
Who feed off our strangeness
As we dance on tables too often
Making rebels and devils fall in love
Sep 2019 · 73
a new persona
One face and then another
You chase my heart and I start laughing
I'm running because i know your love
Is like a weapon pointed at the sun
We resume coming undone
Hovering over our love
Are the flowers we planted
This roaming hunger
Shows me everything you need
So I am growing food for you in pots
And taking chances in the bedroom
Soon you’ll be a new person
Infused with cinnamon and treason
Sep 2019 · 94
on the side
We are fathomless beings
Our faults lie in our voices
Not in our minutes
We are untouched by water
Hungry for the ancestors
We are old walking shoes
And slow moving vehicles
Sitting on the sidelines
Waiting for you to notice us
Sep 2019 · 90
sweet water
how sweet it is to be lost
and tossed in the river
one hand takes the place of another
in a struggle to breathe
we are free to deceive ourselves
and for once take our own
side in the battle
Sep 2019 · 136
shakti shimmers
You are the color of laughter
And a part of all that I can see
You surround the earth with feelings
And make it worth our similes
We are all individual particles of your desire
The higher we rise the more we realize
Your embodiment is necessary
I am incarnating my heart
One spark at a time
Finding the irreconcilable differences
Between science and art
We are poetic licenses masterfully exercised
I supply my own meaning to the tendencies I find

In the tender corners of the mind
You are happy to reside
In living colors and blooming flowers
Nature showers in the morning and the night
In every flavor of the mouth
Even in the hours when I doubt you
And run around you like a mountain
Pounding on the earth for you to let me in
Sep 2019 · 128
writer's block
I shall not complain if in this life,
I am fortunate enough to remain,
A tiny but indelible stain,
On a single piece of paper.
Sep 2019 · 138
lips upon the holy
The bottoms of our feet
Are the soles of tomorrow
We repeat these stories endlessly
We are here spinning our wheels
Trying to understand the streets
And how they were formed in symmetric images
We are immersed in villages of hunger
Empty of sound and fury
Lines before the jury
We are useless without our wings
So we bring kindness to your springs
And drink clean water
From the hands of your daughters
Gone before the dawn
We held on without scorn
And stole laughter from the mouth of a tornado
With ****** dripping from your lips
And ink on your fingertips
Holding iron in your palms
It appears we need to hail our faith
Now more than ever
Sep 2019 · 102
fools insist
Come connect with your friends
You hesitate to feed the bears
That live within your skin
I tremble and soften
Whenever you mention my name  
We are living prayers made to offer
We are food placed before the fire
Stolen from desire’s palace
Constantly making fools of our enemies
Observing life and all it's folly
Ever flowing into an enchanted river
Give the world it's heavy fate
While we try to remain the least bit tasteful
Sep 2019 · 661
energetic embezzlement
Do we dare to tell
Our secrets to the uninitiated
Afraid to dance
We took a chance and it backfired
I know that sometimes
I can be impossible to tolerate
And if we congratulate ourselves
Too often, we will be mistaken
For unfaithful lovers
So please do not awaken us
No matter what time the clock says
Sep 2019 · 65
the face of an angel
I should have left you
I knew it from the beginning
But you had the face of an angel
So I stayed even after
All the killing had taken place
Sep 2019 · 110
love embodied
You know the angels aren’t taking
Anymore disciples until the spring
So we sing the songs of poppy
And place our playlists on repeat
We are all a part of something beautiful
More often than we like to think
We only came here for some comfort
But left with an open mind and heart
We hold the answers in our bodies
And perhaps one day they'll speak
Sep 2019 · 82
lunasea
Below the moon
A thousand hands
Were tied
To you
We drew straws
And I fought
The urge to
Drown with you
Sep 2019 · 70
prescience
What was awake and aware from the very start
When we were left standing in the unholy dark
You were so demanding then I couldn’t wait to part
Would I have known that you'd command my heart
Sep 2019 · 81
'til the morning
In the silence
Of the dawn
A bird cried out
In the rushing wind
I heard you shout
We are it
And there was no doubt
I loved you then
Till the morning
Came around
Sep 2019 · 98
waves in a storm
Nothing takes form until there is a storm
And in that moment you decide
What you are going to write
I am a poem and you are the dawn
And we are the faces that we all forget we carry
I have your heart in my heart tonight
And we can make it all better by caring
Sep 2019 · 282
numinosa
every bowl of pasta
contains the numinosa
which is why every bite
of pappardelle is truly
a religious experience
Sep 2019 · 147
un-tilted
The Earth
Is a flowering magnet
Round and round we go
Through the ages
Of watermelons
And snow
So i bid thee farewell and claim my own company
We are seeking solace in the silence
And finding consolation in the dawn
We’ve worn down our shoes and our stereos
And poured over these scenarios for way too long
Our stamp collections have lost their meaning
And our feelings are equally outnumbered
We are unencumbered by daydreams
Of delicatessens and dentist appointments
And we are tired of waiting for our bodies to fit in to them
Sep 2019 · 195
metaphor as in medicine
What could ever be more important
Than these semiotic emergencies
The latent insurgencies of our mouths
And the symbols that come out (of them)
These images are equipped with violent rhythms
And we must determine the measurements
Of uncertainty before communication can begin
Sep 2019 · 86
rest in pieces
I saw a hundred
Arguments turn into
Silent rose gardens
Women and men
Who were frightened
Of their own innocence
Seeded the sound
Of hourglasses
With falling grains of sand
And did handstands
Along the shoreline
Of imminent oblivion
Until they could
Take the time necessary
To fully live again
Sep 2019 · 161
kindred souls
Neglect the exit strategies
Factor in the fireplaces
And make a run for the bathrooms
We are artists with no medium
As kindred spirits are united
We must drink this tedium together
And make real words from our seances
We tied ropes around our souls
Solely to shake up our abandonment issues
We have confused virtue and servitude
Confused by loose lips and loose cannons
And the bad breath of certain movie stars
We all share these vulnerable parts
That are as loyal and broken as our heart
Sep 2019 · 88
under and over
We are a pair of healthy lovers
Underneath our firmaments
Mundane apples never begin
To let you in on all their secrets
And feelings abide in the residencies
We divided beneath our skin
Sep 2019 · 76
reiterations
If you wish to
Change the world
Rearrange it
By opening your heart
Start with your self
And all else will follow
Burdened by day
Liberated at night
In the sky and the sea
We all must learn to fight
Sep 2019 · 171
apples of innocence
Within the spinal column of the earth
We tell fortunes and make empires fall
Our hearts collectively exhale
Before the sound of our victories
Among the birds and the treetops
We dwell in the scent of immanence
Dancing human bodies make choices
That reflect their connection to existence
We are only instants of inspiration
Naked against the fence lines
Money can’t buy you friendships
Or save you from your self
We are all unhealthy lovers
Underneath our firmaments
Mundane apples never begin
To tell you all their secrets
And feelings abide in the resistances
We've divided underneath our skin
Sep 2019 · 100
the spoken word
We are shells and shoulders
The shallower the better
Nocturnal symmetry
Or diurnal seizures
From the mouth of the mystery
Myth is spoken
Creating meaning and mayhem equally
From the smooth edges
Of your virginity
Sep 2019 · 210
a fantasy
You partake in pantless pentecostals
My mind is the sky
I am born to fly in
The heavens reside in your eyes
I wonder if poetry
Could ever be
Anything more than
Descriptions and comparisons
Of things that we'll never really know
I’d like to think it so
Though i know a part of me doubts it
As if the sound of water from the tap
Could imitate a rushing river
Or when the toilet flushes
I could see a thousand gallons of liquid lightning
Rushing to the sea
Like a million divided bodies
Indivisibly brought together by a fantasy
If even for one moment
So we could all feel a little better
Knowing that we are a part
Of something whole
Sep 2019 · 103
consecutive sequences
love is the best thing we ever learned
so lend a premonition to the darkness
that day will return before too long
for music is our consequence
when we have strayed too far from home
Sweet words are like malaria
Weapons, weapons, weapons
Guard your pons and cerebellum
Sep 2019 · 309
karma addicts
I really didn’t know where to turn
Until I fell into your arms and learned
A lesson that hurt but was truly necessary
Sep 2019 · 175
a compassionate undertaking
Alarming to the heart
We are partaking
In this participatory struggle
To find our soul
In the rubble of an earth
That’s been pummeled
By poisons
And corporate cannibalism
There i said it
Love is the wisdom we need
To seed the future
And plant a garden
For you and me
To breathe
Sep 2019 · 72
survival skills
If you’ve never tasted what it's like
Then you won’t know what to expect
Until it happens again and again
So we protect our talents
Like we defend our beds
As if we are strangers taking strange advice
And turning ourselves into anthills and mice
Miscellaneous meanings are never opinions
So go on seeking your own wisdom
From tonight until tomorrow
We may find an ending to our cries
But the crisis of our lies will remain despite
The fact that we already know deep inside
That none of us can ever arrive here twice
Sep 2019 · 84
Mountains of Mystery
Never-mind what i said
We are steady ahead
All engines ready
Now is the time to get out of bed
I sometimes wonder
If you’ve had enough crying for one life time
But then i realize we are all already dying
So i reply to you to keep on trying
Love is a burning rain-forest
It's starting again to diminish our souls
And burn holes in our skin
These words are weapons
Against imminent destruction
We are defeating the isolation of meaning
The specialization of reading is never that special
We are all strangers in these strange lands of reason
Filled with millions upon millions
Of dangerous stranger-beings handing out
Mountains of mythological meaning
Straight from the mouth of the Mystery
Sep 2019 · 61
head aches for love
Food is redeeming so eat your
Fill of this wisdom
Love is slowly toppling
Those towers of power where angels
Fall down and pray
To be dead
We are expecting the rain
To turn red and each
And every Eye to turn
Around in our head
Again and again
Till all is said and done
One month is a very long time
To have to wait for your love
Next page