Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
 Apr 2017 spartan73
N
domingo II
 Apr 2017 spartan73
N
looking at the church under the nights eyes
hoping these simple prayers will suffice
searching for god through dark times

and i'm running out of rhymes
my brain is just filled with apologies
standing in the corner with my desperate pleas
it's just a simple yes or no
where do all my unanswered prayers go
---
This poem is a collab with Tumelo Mogomotsi
(http://hellopoetry.com/arealsadboy/)
---
 Apr 2017 spartan73
Keith Wilson
There is a truly magical valley
Up to the north part of the Lakes District
As you pass through
Each side seems to have individual mountains
As the sun filters and dazzles
With swirling mists
That move around in ghostly fashion
Perhaps we could call it
The  valley of a thousand Hills
Keith  Wilson.  Windermere. UK  2017.
 Apr 2017 spartan73
Tamera Pierce
Him
I saw him with fresh new eyes.
Reborn as he asked me what type of
jar
my heart was incased in.
I told him of painted dandelions on the side
and I thought of how we are just hoarders of hearts.
Or pieces of them.
A fragment of your mother's heart for everything you have
ever done
and will ever do.
I thought of how we hold a fragment of the heart of our first
Love
Crush
Kiss
Touch
We hold the hearts of every single ghost-like memory in our hands.
We stick them in jars and pretend like we didn’t paint flowers on them.

He is fragile.
We all are.
All of our jars will cut us when broken.
And nothing can stop the jar from being broken
Because people love to smash things
With all kinds of weapons
Battering rams
Baseball bats
Hands
Feet
Tongues
We love it.
Every open flesh wound
That is opened sets us free
Free to say “sounds beautiful”
And I speak of him with romance
Platonic romance I guess
I assume
I may never know
But I don’t care
I find peace in his words
And I hope he finds peace in mine
Because the world is so broken and
Full of
Glass shards
that drunken ******* have throw down.
Full of empty eyes
And pill bottles
I want to blame my mother and my father
And I want him to blame his father
But I can’t force either of our hearts
To do it.
No force of nature can make the anger appear
We aren’t god.  
Nor will we ever be.
We will only ever be people
Talking
In the dead of night about what form of
captivity in which we hold our hearts.
 Apr 2017 spartan73
Jim Marchel
How can I love
When my coffee *** is only half full
Because you're not here anymore
To smile with me every morning?

How can I love
When I still find your hair in my car
And can't bear to throw it away
Because it's the only piece of you I have left?

How can I love
When the same sun warms our faces
But you're not here for me to cool
Your lips with an iced tea kiss?

How can I love
When my coffee *** is only half full
Because I didn't make enough for three
When I called off work without a warning?
"I've made the bed, now go and sleep with him."
 Apr 2017 spartan73
Garry
A mistress of her space
She moves,
with the airy grace
of a dancer.
No effort spared;
no gesture wasted
Choreographing breakfast
In her roadside trailer-cafe .


7th April 2017
The lady running the diner on tbe A 59 near Beamsley not only  prepared a sausage and egg bun and  a bacon and egg bun she did so with such style and grace it was genuinely beautiful. This poem is for her.
"I gave her a hand full of kisses, she
then shed a tear.
Her head moved gently into my chest
Speaking softly. "I never want to move
from here."
Never feeling love before, That's what
Foster homes do, but now she's mine in
My arms to a FAMILY to come home to.
Adoption is such a wonderful experience
to live.
Happy eyes beam like the sun.
My wife, mine, and our 11 year young
Girl we named, Sam."
 Sep 2016 spartan73
Lora Lee
All strung
out
       on
sadness,
empty shells
of needles
      that injected
the next defense
      to keep me going
splayed upon
the coldness
            of metal
somewhere in a place
lower than
the floorboards
of the nether regions
of a private hell,
where no one sees
      the truth behind
the doors of
           beaten swords
of silken pictures
in frothy shades
of effervescent green
a smiling happy family
in which the
sounds of drowning
can only be
             vaguely heard
a faded gurgle
       in an ocean of sighs

Somewhere, there,
the pain in my veins
spreads like
a self-administered
                       drug
only it's not
my prescription, at all
just a parody
from the very
    sick doctor
who shares
          this house,
meant to
be a home
one who thinks
he knows it all
but knows nothing

In this dreamlike weaving
of staring blankly
into alternative spaces
when all is so heavy
that even breathing is a task
I suddenly remember
   who the **** I am
and push my gaze through
the ceiling cracks
to look up at
         the stars,
receiving their
            shadows
           of light
      like a blessing
   upon my
   nettle-stung
    tongue
and
       rise
Thank you so much for all of your wonderful support! Your comments and responses touched my heart all day long and I felt all the spirit-hugs. I am sending those hugs right back to each and every one of you! <3 <3 ~ Lora


Words may not be fists
but they can still destroy
Next page