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Sep 2013 · 690
The walk of the old man.
Jake Leader Sep 2013
old man walking on the street,
step by step a tired treat.

he knows where he's going but
not why and from the edges of an eye,
sees the boats and cigarettes
floating in the water.

his grey hands feel so used
dusty veins bulging, purple and bruised.
he feels young
he feels so very young.

plants being planted,
recalling the rants that he once ranted.
wished for wisdom to be granted
all for his daughter.
now long departed.

then he leaves this mournful place.
the ghost of a smile on his face.

remembering the laughter they used to share.
he takes another breath of air.
Sep 2013 · 806
Action
Jake Leader Sep 2013
Time and time again
I strike over and over.
drifting and sifting
lifting the smells of clover.

That I could be sober means nothing,
the gamble has been taken.
The prize is not lost
I have become lost.

what once was closeness
has now become space.
thanks to the emptiness
of my own action.

do not tell me that I have been foolish
for I know I have.

I am here to see that
my fear is what will be,
close to me.
Sep 2013 · 1.3k
Road
Jake Leader Sep 2013
Long farewell to pass into night,
twist and weave the green, green grass you hold so close.
Never letting it be known that the long walk we take
is mostly made of thorns.

Mind the lines for they are only lines.
Remember when the clouds gather
firefly's will kiss back the rain.
Shine like the mind.

Forever hold onto the long and dusty road
made of thorns and grass.
Let wine guide your feet
and forever hold the fire.
Jun 2013 · 663
The Meaning of Change
Jake Leader Jun 2013
Let me be the one who walks through open doors
Life showing remnants of days ignored.
Stubbing the candle in search
of normative light.

So that scented tables guide the way,
into frolicking lands where harps should play.
When these creatures take my hand
Finally all is complete.

Valleys sink and mountains rise
shifting between separate pairs of eyes.
Taking me to where is, should be.
Forlorn, for being in the now.

Take stock staggers the rocks
into shapes forming the cinder blocks.
Perhaps the mundane
can in some ways beautiful.
If you can give me any pointers as to how i can improve just leave a comment. would love to hear from you :)
Apr 2013 · 607
Crescendo
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Show me your empty orchestra.

Of halls and walls,
the silent stalls.
Which separate and manipulate.
The magic. With the tragic.

Show me your tortured dreams
of all you deem, those sacred themes.
Of hate, of love.
Of the many worlds you write thereof.

Show me.
Make me salivate.
Over this empty space,
Of which you shall never, ever deface.
Apr 2013 · 592
Wine Drunk (Haiku)
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Glass of wine today.
Maybe two? feeling wavy woo
Red divine, nice of you.
was a bit drunk when i wrote this one so don't hate if it is not a proper haiku :)
Apr 2013 · 1.5k
The Clock
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Tick Tock.

Cradles the clock.
Second hand. Slow stop.
Nailed to walls.
So the clock falls.

Cogs making cracks
Springs, springing firm then lax.
waxen marks grinding
generating sparks as the hands point.

Moving to soothing,
sometimes brooding.
Handles the seconds
guessing it recons.

How many?

Until Tick Tock.
Starts to stop.
Apr 2013 · 469
Songs to the trees.
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Sing songs to the leafs,
Lamentation to the trees who drop them.
Handily place them.
To the salvation, of recitation.

So that when they mold
into the ground.
That their primitive essence may be found.

For another tree to grow,
out of the seed that you did sow.
But sing to the seed no more.
They have all they need. A breath to draw.
Apr 2013 · 814
Red riding hoods Wolf.
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Compulsion is a sad thing,
making all of emotions deafeningly ring.
So you must understand. There's things I can do, and things I cant...
Though I have to say, that don't excuse why ate your aunt.

You must understand, that when you have these enormous fangs.
Sometime you get these inexplicably ravenous pangs.
All I seem to want to do is eat,
the very first person that I meet.

Believe it or not, but I am sorry for these rather large eye's
Which were used to make mocking disguise.
I know the shock must have been great.
The aftermath I knew you'd hate.

Though the woodsman cut me open with an axe,
I honestly don't find the judgment lax.
He did what he had to do,
so who am I to ever blame you.

But though this tale maybe done,
there are plenty of children left to chase and to run...
Apr 2013 · 586
Earth
Jake Leader Apr 2013
I look upon this humble earth,
the place I proudly, call my birth.

For there are many others worlds
with placid rings and gentle swirls.

But I look gently with loving eyes.
To the cold gray cloudy skies.

Of earth.
A quick poem about home and the earth :)
Apr 2013 · 874
Nobility
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Nobility is a word seldom spoken,
an idea that has forever been forgotten.

But out of the red and into the light.
Made this boys world ever so bright.
Was the man who told him wrong from right,
pray that he shall live for one more night.

Though we can never know just what to do.
Or how to convey how much love they have for you.
We know that this love is true.

For a just noble man.
This poem is for anyone who really loves there parents/ grandparents. Just wanted to write something for the people that are in my family who are gone. Hope everyone like it :)
Apr 2013 · 441
Fortress
Jake Leader Apr 2013
I have no fancy footing nor fortress on which I stand,
but I look upon this humble world, and think it rather grand.

I look to those cold and open pages,
the words from poets written over ages.
telling us from where to come and how we go there.
All that we have seen and done, taking us to nowhere.

They talk of war, and death galore.
Of how we paint this world, a subtle shade of red.
That all that we have ever done is dying and or dead.
but there is something they have forgotten, an idea of a road left rotten.

What of the beauty?
What of the dove?
what of all those ideas that make us love...

Are they not important too?
I leave this choice down to you.
Apr 2013 · 436
I remember
Jake Leader Apr 2013
There is something I keep forgetting.
For all your things are still here.

Why does this seem strange, for you have simply taken a voyage.
But there are things amiss, little things here and there.

Why is your closet full of cloths and shoes?
Bookcase is still holding all the books.

Why?

Why would you leave your rings behind?
You always kept them, perfectly assigned to each finger.

Sometimes I think its strange... you are only now in my mind.
Apr 2013 · 377
We are me.
Jake Leader Apr 2013
Perhaps I am me because, you are here.
Know you make me. Me.

Thus it would rightly follow that I am me and you are we.
Together we must be.

One.

Know that  through you I become, me.
Because of you. Making eyes see.

Half of me, you must be.
To complete me.
The way that you do.
Thank you. For showing me,
that together we, are me.
A small poem on love. hope you all like it :)
Apr 2013 · 687
Night time into day.
Jake Leader Apr 2013
A shallow home a stationary time,
conversations with emptiness, works and worms its own persona non grata.
Twisting against the walls, the planes of my pavilion.
Echos the shallow steps of space.

Step by... Step...

Another foray into the fog, stumbling in a savage circle.
how long will the endurance last with lungs empty, eyes shut.
Tomorrow maybe the exit will be found.
Tonight there is only the bitter pondering, the pounding of feet.

Step by... Step...

The longest hallway.
Lingering lights.
Perhaps the misty morning door should be closed.
maybe...
Apr 2013 · 435
the wall
Jake Leader Apr 2013
One cold night there was a woman.
walking home, alone from work.

when suddenly she saw a stone wall.
Standing there, immovable and tall.

She moved along, the stark stone wall.
wondering why its here at all.
For she has already walked this way
almost each and every day.

Why is it she now can see?
How has it come to be?

The wall did not arrive over night,
maybe it walked she thought.
with morbid delight.
The idea alarmed her, a whole new plight.

Then distinctly upon the ground,
A silken crack she suddenly found.
It moved and slithered to where she stood
gliding faster than she could run.

Falling fast past the earth,
she saw the wall in all its girth.
How the wall extended with joy and pride.
There was no place for her to hide.

She saw one, she saw all.
She saw the nature of time, an eternal sprawl.
Most of all she saw herself.
All her life on one small shelf.

Then suddenly she stopped falling,
The gentle stop was long and galling.

Again she saw the large stone wall.
Standing there gentle and tall.
Mar 2013 · 603
my mind
Jake Leader Mar 2013
"Take a walk around my mind, tell me what you see.
Look through the doors and hard wood floors. Take a pen and mark me.
I will guide you around the rooms and gentle flowing brooks.
I will show you all the little crevasses and nooks.

First stop, atrium. Please note the gentle breeze,
and even though we are inside the, cabbages and trees.
There very green don't you think or maybe red-ish blue...
But honestly the color keeps on changing, so I leave the tone to you.

But here we are the main attracting. A charming *** of tea.
Note the chattering china, from which it was made to be.
Along with the cups and sugar tin, which are that don the table.
of course there is no helpful spoon only, a large ladle.

The table's also made of glass... That's not really relevant.

Last stop on the tour, in here we really have a treat.
For the whole room is made of millions story's yet to be complete.
Some are good and some are bad, some even a little gory.
But each and every volume makes a book which tells a more complete glory.

In the center of the room it's easy to find.
The tiny place I call a home, a small resting place for the mind.
A large leather chair sits by the fire with a warm welcoming glow.
But right next to it there is another seat, for a person I do not know.

That is all, hope you enjoyed your stay. please remember to visit the gift shop."
Mar 2013 · 592
Tinfoil.
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Its time to panic. I let you in!
My heart is open a, shallow tin.

Tell me truly, don't be scared
Would you lie here too, now I have dared?

I ask you now to not recoil.
We are all wrapped in foil.
Mar 2013 · 622
The Shaggy Cat
Jake Leader Mar 2013
The Mainer watched the salty skies, looking at them with over-cast eyes.
Upon the rocks the old man sat. The only company a gray shaggy cat.

"Tell me cat! Would you go, over the ocean with ebb and flow?
Would you travel alone with me, all along the open sea?
Look at my boat its over there. Bobbing with a quiet flare.
So shaggy cat. What do you say will you let me take you away?"

But the cat just sat silent and still as he watched the harbor grow deftly ill.
He saw the clouds with open eye's.
He saw the sunsets fall and rise.
He saw the coast slowly fall away.
He saw saw it fall into decay.

Soon the Mainer got up and left.
Leaving the cat at his own behest.
But the cat just looked up high above.
Saw the returning of his beloved dove.
Mar 2013 · 394
would you?
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Would you wait a little longer.
Tell me that i'm that much stronger.

Would you take me by the hand.
Cross the roads on which we stand.

Would you tell me that its ok?
When i have to move away.

Of course you would.
Thank you mum.
for my mum
Mar 2013 · 658
Tale of a Tear
Jake Leader Mar 2013
When I was younger I used to always cry.
Remembering the feeling of the tears go falling meekly by.

So unhappy was I then, never did I wonder.
Where my tears would ever land,
or what they would plunder.

For when that water hits the earth it starts a whole new flight.
Born of air and free from care, will it fall from tallest height.

Perhaps that tear will find a puddle, and become a little larger.
Perhaps the suns rays will evaporate this puddle making it sparser.
becoming even smaller. Faster and faster.

Until that tiny tear makes it's way to the sky.
With all the other water vapor passing it gently by.

Maybe they will all join together to form a solid cloud.
Which will move exuberantly here and there,
gliding far with flair.

Until the cloud can cope no longer
Letting lose a mighty row.
Everything comes falling down
moving too and fro.

An older I looks looks up with joy.
As the raindrops pass me by.
Mar 2013 · 1.0k
Medusa
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Medusa the gorgon you cursed fool, you boasted one time to many.
Your pride was wrong, that mocking song would flutter from your lips.

Bowing down we all are bound to worship at your hips.
Only to hail at your holly tinted heals.

But who really did this curse bring most folly?
Where did the pain really go?
For we are all so deeply sorry.
You reaped what we did sow.

You poor, poor pawn.

We saw above and laughed and look to gods in lofty skies.
Twas not your fault that damage was done, for we gazed with ***** eyes.
But was not the lust that those gods hated,
that's not what we got wrong.
Rather the direction of our whispers.

How could we have done this, what did we destroy?

For it was no trifle thing.
No rainbow, tear or toy?
After all they took from you,
your bouncing, baby boy.

Returning the next day we heard a ghastly wail.
When we saw what we had done our faces turned stony pale.

Snakes like hate, with eye so cold.
weeping for what they lost.
Now we stand for ever more, petrified by the cost.
Mar 2013 · 743
mornings
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Who are you?
Why are you in my bed!
Oh god the pounding chattering in my head.

Hang on a moment I remember now
We met last night? really not sure how...

Ah not so loud, your awake
Hangover cure then.
Two tons of last nights pasta bake.

Find some shorts... there ripped in half
No worries though only got them for a laugh.

Pop some pills, now find and dandy
Lucky I keep some of them handy.

She walks in to the room, cute as can be.
But that's plain for all to see.

Eat, shower, shave and bye.
Last was good and so am I.
the world is what we make of it.
Mar 2013 · 372
Who Needs Love
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Who needs love when
I have a bottle of *****!

Who needs love when
I have some good friends!

Who needs love when,
when I have work!
I will no longer have anything to shuck.

Who needs love when I have solitude!
At last a moment of peace.

Who needs love... me I suppose.
Mar 2013 · 751
I See You
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Agile she flutters through the winds and leaves
Neatness forgone as she fly’s to a gateway of semi perfection.
I see you with soul shut, mind open, spinning in a circle.
Just as you are.

The sun sinks, rays outstretched.  
Sky envy’s the swiftness of her hair, water craves the flow of her fingers      
Only the dirt is content with the dance of her feet.
This way and that.

The wind plays with her in symphony of joy.
All of nature pulsing with the simple pleasure of her presence.
This is all I am allowed to take from her.
Then she smiles.

I sit under the shelter of a tree, the shadow protects me from the shrapnel of her beauty.
As it bounces off the timeless leaves of grass.
Mistress of the colors that you command so effortlessly.
Never slowing down.

Sparks that would be jagged, now glide peaceful from your eyes.
No longer colliding with the earth, fearing that they will never see you again.
Bright blue globes absorbing her surroundings with delight.
Even as I see her.

Then the moment is over.
Mar 2013 · 1.0k
Smile
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Boodle bot tammel Tot.
Jim jam filmmel flannel loodle.
Bing bang **** bubble.
Rizzle spluot jaffer dollop, yarla meng toodle vim.

Smile. toddles.
the absurd is often so simple.
Mar 2013 · 1.7k
The Things I Do Not Need.
Jake Leader Mar 2013
Sunshine, spice and spades.
Butterfly's, beards and bread.

Yellow, yearbooks and yodeling.
Paint, pizza and platinum.

Music, melons and magic.
Zoos, zippers and zillions.

Apples, analysis and art.
Waiting, wagons and wafflers.

Give me a beer with friends any day.
Life's more fun that way.
Mar 2013 · 625
Logic
Jake Leader Mar 2013
ebb and flow.
light and dark.
water and fire.
dirge and dire.

If I am one then you must be the other.
I find this idea strange. If I am the opposition then how can you complete me?

I ask you for the answer, honestly tell me.
It just seems to me logical that when I am happy you should be sad.
When ecstatic, that you must be mad.

Why is there no logic to us that I can ever find?
Believe me I have looked, over and under, near and far.
Just to find some sort of answer.

But when has love ever been logical?
aint love grand.
Mar 2013 · 2.9k
Jonah
Jake Leader Mar 2013
A long time ago in a world far away the malformed had no place to stay, so they made their own common society.

Jonah the hunched hero of our tale was born in such a place meek and frail.

Until one day Jonah found, a note on the cold muddy ground with an interesting message and a pleasing sound.

"Come to undone and enjoy the celebration. Today at the church enjoy our creation and drink with mirth in our beautiful creation."

To Jonah this note seemed rather pretty this place seemed be happy he must find this city.

So he said to his friends good bye and fair well, "wish me luck for I am going to Undone"

and so as he departed his journey started...

Soon after walking he found a hunter talking to a strange and mysterious beast. The beast was cowering in the form of a fox and as the hunters evil eye glinted the beast did cry "don't **** me I am not a good catch, you know this well for I am a Mismatch!"

The strangest beasts that one can find is a mismatch as it changes to all who are around. Whatever you desire it will become until the end of time, when all stories are done.

When the hunter spotted Jonah he did cry "you have found me taking the most sinful catch. I will have my revenge so watch your crippled back. Your time will be done and my revenge done!"

With this the hunter ran back to Undone with his plot foiled and but another to come.

Grateful was the Mismatch that it turned into a friend "I can’t thank you enough for what you have done, you saved me from that terrible hunters gun. To find undone and continue your tale you must head east to find that church and its fine feast."
“Thank you fair friend” Jonah did call. Waved goodbye and away did he fly.

So he continued on...

Just when Jonah was about to give up his search he saw in the distance what looked like a church. His heart beat faster he started to run, this must be Undone his journey was done.

When Jonah approached the mighty city, he found gates so very high to him it appeared that the barbed tops reached the sky. The guard outside had a cold heart he saw Jonah and shouted "hark! You crippled man, you can’t enter the city. Do not try. Unless that is you want to die. Our city is tall and fair and true, and will only remain so without you.”

Jonah felt his heart sink would he never get to be in the city and drink with people and make some friends to reach new and exciting ends.

As Jonah turned he saw a man tall, in a black and white suite, on a rock he sat playing on a golden flute. "If you can help me then I can you and let you in. I ask of you a moment to help me get that apple up from this tree, and you will be able to enter the city"

So Jonah did as he was asked he fetched the apple quick and fast. The tall man did as he had said. Hypnotizing the guard the tall man messed with his head."Come in quickly my friend you don't have much time until the end. You will always be a friend of mine, till the very end of time"

With this Jonah went into the city...

Jonah could not help but admire the important looking people moving towards the chapel's spire. However all of them looked down on him, they saw nothing but a horror form a ghostly tale.

In the chapel Jonah saw a skinny woman and her son who looked scared and wooden.

As Jonah approached the priest and looked eagerly at his feast... The priest looked up with eyes of disgust "What kind of evil creature are you!” he bellowed in surprise “be gone before you meet a holy demise”

So head bowed Jonah left he could no longer take part in his quest...

Later on by the street a very old man Jonah did meet. He was sitting on a broken box looking at twenty clocks. All were broken and out of sync, but something made Jonah stop and think. "If I fix these clocks he will be happy, then I go and not feel so low"

The clock man was different, this man was kind. When Jonah fixed his clock they became friends. The clockman thanked Jonah a lot "you fixed the clocks when I could not... please take my advice and go back south the people here don't want you, they call you a fiend. They do not want you around”

Not much longer around... Jonah did not like that sound. So Jonah went back to the gate in shock, but something horrible made him stop.

Jonah rushed up the stairs running wild... something bad had happened to the wooden child.

The small child he saw in the church before was lying still on the floor. Faster Jonah started to run... But to late the damage was done. The child was dead, the mother that killed him clearly sick in the head.

She then attacked him to, but the goal of the knife no one knew. For Jonah dodged but tripped her leg and on the knife she fell, tried to stop but to late she had sealed her own fate.

Jonah tended to the woman and checked the child, but the damage was done, a dead mum and innocence bleeding on the floor.

All at once the hunter appeared a smile on his face long and weird. “Your time has come, you day is done. For this ****** you will be hung"

So the hunter went to the police and a hunt began... he was not going to be released.

For his life Jonah ran, until he met he friend the tall man... "Follow me and you will be safe we will find a way out of this place"

All at once there was a flash; this man was using magic with blood and ash. When Jonah looked around at where he had gone, he knew not where he was. But the place looked weird and the man even more, how could he have hypnotized the guard before?

Was he an angel or a devil, Jonah could not tell...

"Jonah, Leave. Never return the rest of these sinful creatures will burn!"

With his clock friend in mind, Jonah begged the tall man to be kind... they were not evil just misunderstood he begged for forgiveness. Even though they never would.

The tall man then explained to him "I can only save you if they pay for them. For there must be balance no one can win”

So it came that Jonah chose his end. To save the life of his Undone friend.

It was this choice that saved Undone, from a horrible and deadly lesson.

Jonah felt a strange force pulling him, towards the ones that where following him.

So much hatred and sick delight, Jonah was stunned by fear and cried.

The priest ordered the rope around his head.
The leaver was pulled and Jonah was dead.

Jonahs friends never became aware as his body was dumped without a care.
Mar 2013 · 675
Yawn
Jake Leader Mar 2013
My sweet darling you are one alone.
And so sweet girl am I.
We could share so much this night,
But it would be a lie.

For If our love was true we always would have known
that our love would be destructive, and that chills me to the bone.

For if our love was water, we would have drunk the whole world dry.
And if your love was food, the world would starve and die.

Now we have found each other thirsty
And looked with hungry eyes.

Yet all we did at the end of the night,
Was yawn and say our good byes.
Mar 2013 · 672
nothingness
Jake Leader Mar 2013
What if I was to crumble to dust?
All the things I could do, or would be collapse into nothing.

What if I should vanish forever?
What is the feel of that? What will happen?

It’s a wonderful thing, for it is perhaps the most real state of life.
Yet for some reason we find these things scary, it is beyond.

There is nothing to worry about.
This is what is meant by nothingness.

My mind is not a mirror; it does not have to be polished nor shaped
My mind is not like my body which can be moved and faked.
It is not my giddiness or my fear.

The mind is a void.
How can a void contain dust?
There is no mirror to move or reflect or rust.

If nothing is reality.
Then how can we be happy?
I reply "how can we be sad"?
All the worries of the past and the expectation of tomorrow.

Gone.

All the things that you hold against nothing, are nothing.

We are the sun and the stars; we are the good men and the bad men.
We are the rivers and the rocks; we are the mountains and the fen.

We are all at peace.

— The End —