#platform
In the world of stars, which I had hoped
to be in, to live in, and thrive in,
would be a free, floating, friendly sky,
where stars do shine, and sparkle all time.
But alas—those many, many stars,
far more than I can count
or my sight can hold,
they wish to sparkle more, be seen once more.
I watch, wishing for a brighter sky,
to let them all shine before me,
to see and be seen, in their light,
painting the sky in gold and white.
I had yet to know, to see, and learn,
that the sky isn't as free as it seems,
it trades the sparkling light from stars,
to allow their light to be seen, to shine.
Oh, those stars! how I pity them now,
for they seem nothing to me,
but fireflies, flickering, caged and confined
in that heavenly trade, of that heavenly sky.
They all need to sparkle,
to stay bright, and be seen,
but here strikes their fall,
they need to sparkle more,
more, and more...
till a day rises such that
they're left with no light,
none to sparkle, none to shine,
and wander in the sky,
as dimmed specks of gold and white,
sullen in their shine, waned to their core,
I watch them while I wonder, while I wander by,
in the same vast expanse of that floating sky.
Apr 27
Apr 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM UTC
Huddled, strained, with craned necks to the board,
They wish for that missing number,
The hope they wait upon—
The launchpad to their homes.
Puzzled, drained, enraged—the muttered sounds.
They miss that sudden cue,
The rush to be the one;
That fearful scrum of drones.
Tom Lefort
Dec 11, 2024
Dec 11, 2024 at 3:21 PM UTC
Egoism kills, I read, when walking.
I continued, strolling ahead and talking
to myself. I assured me I was fine,
the problem 'egoism' wasn't mine.
At home, cozy, dropping kisses
to the missus
and the kids, amidst I stopped, I questioned
myself
and told them I had come up with a plan.
Do if you're strong and respect those who
do whatever they can
to spread the charisma of care-ism, a
way to think of the others and ****
egoism.
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020 at 6:46 PM UTC
The Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch
for T. M.
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under your car;
every hour and flower and friend
that cannot be saved in the end;
dear things of immeasurable cost ...
now all irretrievably lost.
Note: The title “The Pain of Love” was suggested by an interview with Little Richard, then eighty years old, in Rolling Stone. He said that someone should create a song called “The Pain of Love.” I have always found the departure platforms of railway stations and the vanishing broken white bars of highway dividing lines to be terribly depressing. Keywords/Tags: pain, love, parting, kiss, train, whistle, departure, platform, interstate, dividing, line, hour, flower, friend, lost, cost
Mar 25, 2020
Mar 25, 2020 at 4:43 AM UTC
wanting a huge stage
to display her excellence
for all the world's eyes
alas she cried
on getting a tiny platform
not too grand of size
Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM UTC
On here I may be new
and my views few
but make no mistake
I have a point to make
And I'm here to stay
I have things to say
So show me some love
Or step aside and move .
I have found me a platform
Where I can perform .
I'll write from this podium
And use this medium
to represent and shine
As long as I have the time .
Jan 12, 2018
Jan 12, 2018 at 10:53 PM UTC
Backwards, like a sign that's hard to read. Like a leather jacket that's too stiff in the arms but 2 years off the rack. And then the heart explodes in the esophagus. Pieces of young trust comes out all over what the eyes can see, and each body part wants to go back to their respective bed nestling areas. Sometimes, even this little me gets nervous about being vulnerable. You can only burn the velveteen rabbit once.
These are the monkeys of my throat and the dinosaurs that tend to my fingertips. My skin gets leathery before it feels like silk. I don't smell like a motorcycle or sound like the fast lane but I'm not sure if I want to yet. I'm happier not waiting to randomly be reminded of the pain, it's much better to chase down those hydrogen bombs while the cattle **** is still hot and fire-red. Two served and five Peanuts left for playtime. I rather enjoy being a vampire.
Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 3:48 AM UTC
Dedication to hello poetry..
Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
I will give My whole life to you
I believe that you're my talent station
To you I offer every best of my letters
I believe that you will value it.
I want to share my whole of my creativity with you,
For me to show that my talent is true
I want to hold you in my words
And show to everyone here is also a new life.
what a beautiful life is this....to be continued...
Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 7:30 AM UTC
I am not meant to be, where I yam, what I yam
Unless life like spinach, is meant to be canned,
A failure by all reports, I have no retort,
Not one, n o response, my previous successes
lead me to believe, that "what have you done
lately" does not deceive, fills the beast, technology,
That leads me to my breaking point,
Rogue wave, out of the deep blue see,
If I were a martyr, that might be true,
But I am nothing more, than a man
with a love for words and I play with
sounds, really adore what they do;
with my mind,
with my heart,
preventing stagnation,
of my imagination.
Ah, the breaking point
not the tip of a coast,
where land ends,
and bends open water
to new possibilities.
We all have at least one
In our life, in our career, in our day
Weakness, faint of heart,... No Way,
Even the oceans, and their waves,
As those waves come to shore,
On breakwater's and beaches
Break! but do not dull the ocean's roar.
Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 12:29 AM UTC
The station Tannoy’s so polite,
Train’s here but late; commuter’s plight,
Doors opening, pushed to platform’s edge,
As the herd of bodies forms a hedge,
Will she be there?
A gap, way in, a scramble of feet,
The desperate scans for a vacant seat,
With a jolt and a whine we move away,
Packed with the faces of one more day,
Did she mean what she said?
Past fields and cuttings the city nears,
People gaze blankly, no smiles, no tears,
Blurred names on platforms pass with a rush,
London workers in etiquette’s hush,
But where to meet?
Slowing through tunnels, lean and rock,
Roll under the canopy, groan to a stop,
We pour from the doors like arterial bleeding,
Swept in the flow, haemorrhaged carriage receding,
By the trolley, she’d said
Moving fast, with their own motivations,
The eddy of souls takes me out of the station,
Pull out of the crowd, out of the flow,
Onwards they march to the tube lines below
But we just hold tight under J.K.’s fake signs,
And expression finds space,
Between the lines.
RD@2009
May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 12:09 PM UTC