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 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Anon C
Echoes
 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Anon C
What is worse might I ask
than screaming into nothingness
receiving only an echo in reply
of your own voice and thoughts
forever alone
the emptiness is closing in
soon to be consumed
by the eternal chasm
that is your loneliness
Inspired by an exchange with another poet.
 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Marian
I feel so sleepy,
Let me sleep in peace tonight,
Sleep is my delight.

**~Marian~
 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Tim Knight
Grab a coach home heroes,
sit amongst the somewhere men,
the here and there women
and the growing up fast kids,
with lantern phones, magic tones.

Everyone here is going somewhere,
winter’s bare
and home awaits.

Fantastic lips and red sense in style,
a lady reclines in front.
She texted Rhys, lengthy in characters,
whilst the plot remained precise.
‘I have to agree with you, let’s take it slow’
fantastic fingers itched her fringe.
Was she confused about love
and its rules and regs,
or was he a staller,
‘the old car won’t start again’ kinda feller?

There are no heroes on this coach tonight,
we’re Sheffield bound and
all without a fight.
It's cold outside
theres snow and ice
let's stay indoors
and snuggle, nice
let's light the fire
and cuddle tight
and dream away
this winters night
a blanket shared
is a blanket warm
to curl up close
forget the storm
let Jack Frost sing
let Jack Frost dance
as we alone
share this romance
so until spring
let's hibernate
beneath the sheets
and propagate...



X
Deny we the possibility of order
Ignore we an Outside Law
Suggest we an endless possibility
Worlds without end
Positions simultaneous
Moving in all directions or none
Claim we the future as ours

Defy we realities of law external
Look we inward-outward simultaneously
To become one or none or all
Reject a single story
Saw we the Arms from Truth
Reduce we the Other to I

Forget we the order of Universes
Without-Within
The clockwork structures
Atomic
Celestial
Genetic
Physical
Biological
In and or-ganic

Reorder or Retell we the Cyclical Tales
Birth and Rebirth
Seasons and Times
Journeys of stars swirling through space
Endless flights of planets
Endless migrations of living things
Each rhyming to universal rhythms
Watts and amperes circular-linear mysteries
Predicting futures from their undisputed histories

Deny we external truth
Held here in the gracious grasp of gravity
Warmed gently by a tolerant star
Inhabitants of a universe
Unable to explain itself
Or even how its atoms came
To repel and to attract
In perfect tensions
Or to unleash energies
Predictable and measurable
In milliseconds and millenniums

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Marionettes macabre
Cut loose from our strings
Dancing slowing dirges
Proclaiming opening spaces
Beneath closed skies
Denying a Maker
Rejecting hymnody to sing
Ditties laden with lies.
Processing the post-structuralist arguments and postulations I am reading.... Reminiscing over long (1970s) teenaged conversations about the beautiful possibilities of Anarchy...and then we all grew up and went into the Matrix....
 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Anon C
Starting to be afraid of what I feel
Ignorance taking control of my life
Trusting so quickly, what the hell's my deal
Setting myself up for much pain and strife

God, I must watch my step, I'll fall too fast
I don't want to feel that sorrow, that pain
Can't get hurt again, I'm healed now at last
Can't make the same mistake over again

The world is dark, how could this love be real
In case it isn't I must watch my back
I hope it is true, this love that I feel
Why would it be, all else in life is black

Please dear God, don't let me hurt myself twice
Can't take it again, please help me alright
I wrote this some odd years ago. Turns out I was right. Also at a time where as you can see I was a bit religious. Not so much the case anymore. Spiritual not religious.
I was born with 3 legs
On two I stand.


                                       The other has a mind of it's Own.
 Nov 2012 Ruby Watson
Whiskurz
Today I found an angel's wing
Just lying on the ground
As I held the feathers in my hand
I couldn't utter a sound

I wondered if she had fallen
Or maybe been hit by a plane
I had to go ask my mama
I knew mama could explain

As I ran into the kitchen
I couldn't find her anywhere
She wasn't on the front porch swing
Sometimes I'd find her there

When I stepped into the backyard
I saw mama on the ground
I ran to my neighbors as fast as I could
And told them where mama was found

The neighbors called the ambulance
They said mama had gone to Heaven
Daddy came home as fast as he could
To his sons just six and seven

Daddy tried his best to explain
Why sometimes people die
He said she's in a better place
And that it's okay to cry

Mama took us to church on Sundays
And she was always the first to sing
But I knew Jesus needed my mama that day
To help the angel with the broken wing
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