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I don't want you anymore.*
The spark has died.
There is no more gas in the lighter
the car and even the grill.
Jack and Jill run up the hill
alone.
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Gillian
a portrait dodged on my mind
spotted and retouched
silhouetted in the grainy penumbra

a soft-focus smile with a motion blur
at the edges of the mouth
where the fixer could not hold

candid grey card hand pushing the negative
framed by the infrared cautions
my perspective agitated in my stomach

a stop bath of underdeveloped words
like a graveyard for my depth of field

those muted views from your apartment door
solarized in the albumen light of our distance

a carte-de-visite from your camera obscura
rapping on my ribcage like my heart is
enlarging and must be cropped
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Long To Sail
Come one come all
to the biggest light show
in all the world

Keep your coats and hats on
cause no big top can hold
such a spectacle

Be not fooled
though there are no carts
you're in for an inescapable ride

trust me by my tongue
I advise best to keep
your beloveds alongside

Be it night or be it day
watch the sky light up
in shocking ways

None more majestic
so feast your eyes
for not a penny will you pay

'Tis the music of the skies
rumble and sway
just heed this wondrous call

Alas! It's been too long
for now comes rain fall
come one come all

come one come all.
Man Naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done to late.

Let ever hour be in its place
Firm fixed, nor loosely shift,
And well enjoy the vacant space,
As though a birthday gift.

And when the hour arrives, be there,
Where'er that "there" may be;
Uncleanly hands or ruffled hair
Let no one ever see.

If dinner at "half-past" be placed,
At "half-past" then be dressed.
If at a "quarter-past" make haste
To be down with the rest

Better to be before you time,
Than e're to be behind;
To open the door while strikes the chime,
That shows a punctual mind.

Moral:

Let punctuality and care
Seize every flitting hour,
So shalt thou cull a floweret fair,
E'en from a fading flower
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Alee
it’s been a while
it’s been even longer since i’ve thought of you
since i’ve thought of us
and this is the first time i’ve realized my own strength

i will not condemn you by listing everything you did wrong against me because,
this is the first realization:
i am beautiful, i am strong, and i am lucky

i was lost in a dark and lonely space
but i yearned and fought to free myself
tears, memories and self-doubt will no longer shackle me
i've picked myself up off the floor, i've made tough choices
i've taken the highroad, i've paved difficult paths
and i've walked this tunnel

and here i am at the end.
my world is burning brighter than i could have imagined.
today: i begin a new chapter in my life.
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Alee
Certainty
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Alee
How about a poem about certainty.
The certainty of uncertainty.

Where lovers and friends betray or stay.
Where family supports you and disappoints you.
Where work is great.

When your life plays out to its fullest potential;
every piece of the puzzle, good and bad, fits perfectly together;
and the picture becomes clearer every day: life is so uncertain.

Are you strong enough to face this challenge?
Day in and day out? Because there is beauty in uncertainty.

Slowly we must learn everything that was never taught;
our armor will grow thick, while,
steadily, the mistakes pile up, and,
eventually, the good will sort itself out

Day in and day out, the uncertainty becomes certain.
We were hardwired to survive in an inadaptable world
Allow the insecurities to be masked by the brave and the bold;
Express your fears and challenge them

Do not lose yourself, do not give in to certainty
Life is a lingering note: ringing out
Precious are the days, limited are the years
Uncertainty is ever certain
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Ninja
He doesn't like you
He just wants this idea of *you
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Ninja
Untitled
 Apr 2014 J N Alonoz
Ninja
Facts and opinions
      I both loathe and love
Science and fiction
      I both desire and lust
Mortality and immortality
      I both fear and crave
Letting go and moving on
      I both do and cannot do
I might submit this to our school literary org
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