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160 · Aug 2021
Reinventing love
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
Moonlight madness
Starlight sadness

Squeeze love's passion
Savor and ration

Share this here fire
Object of desire

Rhythmic ecstasy
Tidal wave fantasy

Breathing as one
Embracing until done

Lifetime memory
Climactic chemistry

I'll never forget you
Please;
Please say - I do



Đaviđ
Most are indeed forgettable
159 · Mar 2021
Share
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
Share with me
your fears.
Share with me
your dreams.
Share with me
your vulnerable
tears.
Share with me
your silent
screams.
And I'll share
with you
my world, as it
falls apart at
the seams.
I'll share with you
a love only
shared by the
moon's beams.
Share,
share yourself
with me.
159 · Dec 2019
neodymium magnets
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
as you
   brush by me,

we attract-

   pull to one
another
   like magnets.

our gravitational
   pull
has me
     rigid
as we....

   well,

unintentionally/ intentionally
   orbit
one another.

  and like
neodymium
  magnets,

once joined
  together,

it will
  take
heaven....
    to pull
us
    apart.

'Yours and everyone's concrete-poet'
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
Caleb;
my 4 year old grandson
he,

he
helped me
check and fill
my work truck
tires today.

he put the
valve caps
back on
too....

tightly.

he made sure
they were
tight for
his papa.

he put
the screws
back in
outlet covers
as we
installed those
snap on
night light
outlet covers.


then,

he drank
chocolate milk and i had
coffee on our
lunch break
together.

we took
a nap
together,
just Caleb and
his papa.

we awoke
and then
checked
the pressure
on his bike
tires as
requested by
my 4 year old grandson.

they were low,
so Caleb
advised his papa
that they are
in need of air
so we filled
them together.

we then
took his bike
up and down
the
city sidewalks.

this boy is
so smart that
he knows the
new concrete
from the old
because he knows
that's what his
papa does.

we get
all the way
down the street
and he sees
new sidewalk
and he asks,
"papa....did
you put this
concrete here"?

just then,
my friend that
owns that home
and new concrete
pulled into
his driveway.

i looked at
Caleb and
my friend and Caleb
asked,
"did my papa put this
concrete in here
for you"
to where
my friend says
"yep,
your papa is
the best".
Caleb looked
at him
and said....

"my papa
is the best".

we turn around
from there
and begin
heading back
home and
Caleb says
to me,
"papa,
I LOVE YOU"
...

..

we had more
fun from there
like seeing
my childhood
friend Mario
drive by and stop
to say hi and
give us a hug
but,
those genuine
words
from my
4 year old
grandson Caleb
was all
that this papa
needed.

to be loved
for who
he is.

that's all that i
have ever asked for.

please don't
ever try to change me because,

i won't......
this is how i deal with a "crisis".
152 · Nov 2019
an Ode to second choices
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
this is for the forgotten ones.
for the in-betweeners.
for the never-good-enoughs.
this is for my strong people.
who like me, struggle daily to find their footing in a world that seems to take pleasure in seeing them trip.

for the second choices.
for the i'll-date-him/her-if-i-have-no-other-options.
for those who always feel alone.
for my fighters.

i understand you and i am so proud of you.
it is not easy to live the way you do and yet you are breathing.
this is for my forgotten people who simply exist while no one cares.
i'm with you and .....
i do care.

i am
more bi-polar
than i care
to admit.
but ...
i do
admit it.
i'm the one
that struggles
to fit in.
and i am
okay
with that too.
152 · Oct 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Love

   does not

      always

          follow

     the

         instructions...



Because

      love

                     is

          always

                u
                n
                d
                e
                r


c o n s t r u c t i o n
151 · Feb 2020
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
don't
allow
the
world
to
turn
you
into
everyone
else.
150 · Mar 2020
hidden meaning #11
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
puddles
are not
oceans.

i prefer
to drift
in the
vastness
of an ocean,

to driving
in haste
through a
stationary
puddle.

exploration
is the
breath
of life.

exploration
only heightens
the
foreplay.
148 · Nov 2019
the roots of love
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
i say you're not you
when you wear makeup
because you spend
so much time
in that mirror
making yourself
look like a rose....

well...

when i fell in love
with you
it was with your roots
the roots that are you
not the paint you use to cover
who i fell in love with,
the one i awaken to
in those early mornings
unpainted,
just naked.

and...

your beauty goes deeper!

the superficial you
leaves me wanting your roots,
the roots i want to water forever
the you in the mirror
was not what attracted me.

the you deep inside
is all you need to be,
you're already a rose
without all of that
paint on
your face.

your roots
are breath taking

your roots have
always left me
satisfied
your roots are
an aphrodisiac
to endless
intimacy.

your roots have
always been more
than enough
for me.
145 · Oct 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Hand in hand we walk together,
God's grace warms us from above.
It's Him I thank each day I wake
for blessing me with all your love.

You're the sunshine in my morning
and the bird that sings my song.
In this life when I am troubled
it's you who keeps me strong.

You're the wind beneath my wings
as this eagle takes to flight.
You're the stars that brighten up my sky
in the darkness of the night.

You're the mother of my children
and the air that gives me life.
My truest friend of all...
my heart, my soul, my wife.
145 · Jul 2021
Interpretation
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Just about
every one,
every thing
has two eyes.

But every one,
every thing
does not see
the same
things we must
realize.

Our eyes
are simply
a tool of
our soul.

They are
the collector
of all things,
all told.

Interpretation
is why we
are all
unique.

Your eyes
are the window
for the soul
to peek.


Đaviđ
145 · Nov 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
she's
  
  a song

that

     you will

never know

        because

you never

          listened.
144 · Dec 2019
taboo
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
there is only
  one that is;

forbidden
   restricted
prohibited  
banned
proscribed
vetoed
ruled out
interdicted
outlawed
not permitted
not allowed
  illegal
illicit
unlawful
impermissible
not acceptable
frowned on
beyond the pale
off limits
out of bounds
unmentionable
unspeakable
unutterable
ineffable
censored
indecorous
verboten
haram
  tapu
an informal no-go...

   and that
is you.

        admittedly
   my mind is
often decorated
      with you

but i lament....

   you are taboo.
143 · Oct 2019
Few hearts are welcomed
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Lying there, dying of cancer ...
I will forbid most from coming to gawk at me on death's bed

When I was full of life....you should have come to see me instead

I will not allow part time anybodys to try and fill years of guilt in moments so they may feel redeemed

While I was alive and well, you never called or came to see me

Now knocking on death's door, you want to act like you will miss me?

On my way out, I want to feel your regret

My hospice room will be pretty well empty while I lie on death's bed

Save your fake pity and crocodile tears

I will not allow you to now fill my last moments with lost years

Oh well...I'll be dead and
nothing for you will really change

Nothing in your life will you have to rearrange

By the way did he leave me something, anything I get?

Nope....he didn't leave you ****!
143 · Jul 2021
Don't ignore today
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Tomorrow is the gift that most take for granted.
Today is the day where new beginnings are planted.


Đaviđ
In other words;
Thoughtfully plant some new seeds today.
Water them with understanding and love.
Don't allow tardy tears to be the source of a seed's nurturing.

Tomorrow seems so close and yet,
so very far away.
Don't ignore today.
142 · Dec 2019
Missing Persons
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
Tragic is the life ended so suddenly.
Tragic is the void that's been left in me.
Most often staring out into the never.
A hazy horizon that sets beyond the river.
I don my stetson, front brim tipped way down.
A broken cowboy, life of a rodeo clown.
Lifting my head up just to know I am not missing much.
So much love deep within but so numb to the touch.
I may have died also when you went away.
I fight just for one smile since, each and every day.
'Gets easier' , it hasn't, least not for me.
A deep breath, a sigh, I now live life on bended knee.

'Yours and everyone's concrete-poet'
141 · Dec 2019
Throw away the crutch
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
"Men do not live on a pile of excuses.
Men live on a pile of results."
*all rights protected and reserved*
141 · Nov 2019
crutches by the pint
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
at the
  very bottom
of a pint,
   there are
indeed answers.

at the
  very bottom
of the next pint,
   there is
no longer a need
   for answers.

i seem to
  prefer the
unreality of
   reality.

because reality
  is just
miserable
     reality.

look
  realistically
at all of
  the people you
around you.

the reality
   of their
selfishness
   like i do.

Ha!
  it would
make you
  miserable too.

i fight,
    EVERY DAY
i literally fight
to understand
   the shadiness
of the people
   i am forced to
share my
   reality with.

the pints
   at least....
help me,

   to forget.
141 · Jul 2021
Where to now?
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Yes;

I survived
end stage
Congestive
Heart Failure,
I sure did.

And
that stage
may be over
but;

the
PTSD stage
now
remains.


Đaviđ
8+ hours of a frantic and chaotic ICU room is a nightmare that never leaves a soul.
140 · Feb 2020
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
if she were
to come back
to this life as
a wind chime?

each wind
swept melody
would whisper;

babe i love you.
140 · Feb 2021
before you judge
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
this sunrise
i smile but,
not sure
for how long?

does it end
when the birds
stop singing
their song?

i've never lived
"happily ever
after" even
for a day.

my mind loses
happy ever
after like a needle in
the hay.

i love to
be happy and
i really love to
smile.

but my mind
tells me
it hurts;
"you can only
smile for a
little while".

as daylight
expires i long
for a grin.

as night fall
takes root-
keep my
smile away
from the
winds.

i'm not some
kind of
monster-
i'm not a
miserable man.

i'm merely
just a man
that some-
may never
understand.

but please
know this-
some days
i even can't.

chf was just
another gale
force wind to
carry away
my boyish grin.

i'm not
wallowing in
pity,
i'm simply
fighting
with my mind to
get my smile
back again.
140 · Jul 2021
Impactful 6
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
When you're
not genuine,

you're fake.
139 · Mar 2021
Afib 220 bpm SVT
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
I've had
more adenosine
injected into
an IV
and emptied
inside of me
that it
actually
should have
been considered
obscene
And I'm still here 🙋🏻‍♂️
One will never know the feeling of death like having adenosine emptied into you 3 separate times in one evening.
139 · Nov 2019
celestial engagement
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
when i
  stare at
Saturn's rings,
    i think
of you

       and

  i wonder that
if i could give
    you one of
its rings....

would you
   marry me?
138 · Jul 2021
Innocent intelligence
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
I drive and,

I looked for the birds in their normal place.
Flying, soaring high in the sky without a care of where they fly.

But on a day as stifling,  suffocatingly hot as it had become,
even the birds knew better than to over exert their frail winged feathered little bodies, not even some.

I sit under an overpass in my sweltering truck and I can immediately feel a 10 - 15 degree difference in air temperature.
On the beams of the overpass a family,
or so I assumed they were.

A family of pigeons smartly perching themselves in their modest abode away from the sun, resting, almost looking at me as I get ready to drive back into the hot sun scorched cruel world.
They all look at me as if to say,
you poor silly man .....
stay under here with us
even if,
you're not
a bird.

Đaviđ
138 · Mar 2021
i still love to love💞
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
onions make
me cry

love makes
me cry
the blues

they both
produce tears
from my eyes

but one makes
my heart
hurt too
138 · Mar 2021
self assessment
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
you can't create
memories if
the only memory
that you have is
you pushing
yourself away
from making
memories
137 · Jul 2021
Seeds of emotion
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Poet's poet


They focus on a word

They water it with emotion

Emotion;

The very best way to take a poem and to,

grow it


Đaviđ
137 · Feb 2020
hidden meaning
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
the breaking
of
one wave
could never
explain
the entire
ocean
137 · Jan 2021
Have no regrets
TheConcretePoet Jan 2021
CHF end stage.
It can absolutely feel like living inside of a cage.
Don't do this
don't do that.
Watch your sodium intake, watch your intake of fat.
Pill after pill
just to keep our hearts more still.
On the scale first thing every morning.
Overnight a weight gain of 5 lbs.?
That's a fluid retention warning.
Our hearts now beat so mild and meekly.
Life for us is not about months but, more geared towards weekly.
I could easily go off on some, "why did this happen to me" impassioned rant.
Instead I'll not get too excited because I'm not on any list for a much needed heart transplant.
My heart has already withstood
220 beats per minute for hours at a time.
Cardiologists staring at me like a puzzle, like a poem without a rhyme.
Congestive heart failure  - Supraventricular tachycardia.
I went through it all...I went through hours of literal ICU manic hysteria.
Enjoy us CHF sufferers while we are still here.
Because tomorrow with us, can quickly turn into yesteryear.
Have no regrets.
Don't miss us while viewing the sunset.
A sunset that we can see from the heavens above.
A sunset soaked and saturated with our love.
If we happen to fade away in our sleep......
Our memories will be yours, forever to keep.

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
6 months today, I was diagnosed with end stage Congestive Heart Failure.
Let's just say that I am in need of a heart transplant if I plan on surviving more than a few years.

Enjoy your life....
Because there is one word, one word that always comes to mind when I dwell on this.

Sudden!
136 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
the river
lain posthumous
after i
had slain
it with
swords of
drought and
saharan war

my sword
of darkness
has never
been rivaled
competitively

to rain
upon your
river and
replenish your
bountiful tide

thou should
never tempt
my sword
of darkness

my sword
is mystery
and has
left
them breathless

drowning in
my river
is an
every day
occurrence

i expect
to see
you
washed upon
my shore
with a
white flag

just as
those prior
to you
but if you must,
you'd better hope to be on my better side!
136 · Nov 2019
10 words
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
plural
possession
should
never
leave
you
feeling
singular....
lonely..
alone.
135 · Mar 2021
sleeping sunflower
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
i am
            nothing more
          than a
              mighty oak
                 gradually
          awakening from
              a winter's
                slumber
the sunflower -
for me

is the most
romantic
flower
132 · Apr 2020
sweet - raw death
TheConcretePoet Apr 2020
-her full
and
longing lips

-her thighs
that bring me
deep into
a mischief
so raw
and sweet

-every
granular
part of her
tasted
like
fresh,
pure
cane sugar

-she was
unhealthy
for my heart
but,

my
throbbing
sweet tooth
no longer
heeds the
warning

-death
couldn't be,

any
sweeter
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
don't
live
a
life
haunted
by
what
could
have
been

live
a
life
that's
been
and
the
ghosts
will
never
exist


Đaviđ
131 · Dec 2019
86
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
86
different
forms
of
poetry.

before
my demise,

i will
conquer
all of
these.

poetry,

it
takes
me to a
paradise
of seas.

poetry,

it can
bring me
to the
summit
of all
that is
ecstasy.

poetry,

many
times
has
brought me
to
bended knee.

poetry,

gives me
oxygen
to breathe.

poetry,

is my
exhale
in winter
that
i can see.

poetry,

is all....
that i need.

poetry,

is how i communicate
to the world....
through me.
131 · Oct 2019
Killing fields
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Our human developed streets, our "killing fields" are a muse that is nothing more than an every hour, pure horror show.

Selfishness is worn like a badge of honor by most humans as they drive right over another lifeless creation of God.

The capital letter M (Murderer)-(Me) should be branded with hot steel on these human's foreheads so that all may know the darkness that consumes their selfish, Me Me Me souls because they don't even have a heart to plunge into the abyss of darkness.

Understand this:
the sun never really shines on the killing fields of our city streets...

not for those that actually have a heart anyway..

Rather;
storms filled with tears and inward questions of why and when will all of this madness end
is what the unselfish, lovers of all things created ponder.

Powerless, we are made to watch the evil that grows and travels from day to day as developers count their green
in the middle of the killing fields.

Perhaps one day, I will have an opportunity to drive over or by their very own twisted/mangled lifeless body with their M branded forehead in full view and they can then, themselves, become my muse for a morning's write and I can write about how I finally enjoyed driving through the killing fields that day.

For once;
a horror show that is sure to make me smile!
Most of you, will never REALLY know me and;

I prefer it that way.

Unselfishly a loner which may seem complicated to you but perfectly uncomplicated to me.

Imperfectly uncomplicated.

I wish to never complicate the lives of innocence in the killing fields of this wretched society of which I am forced to dwell.

Two hands on the wheel and two eyes wide open while being forced to drive through the killing fields, and hoping for the next lifeless being to be wearing a branded M on their forehead that will now become my happier muse for that particular stormy day.

Every day is a storm for a person like me, every day.
129 · Sep 2019
Affair of the heart
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Heart in my mouth, pulse in my head
Mercury rising into the red
The smell of your skin can light up all the fires in me

Hungry to touch, I'm eager to please
Out of control and I hand you the keys
Every night I am burning to make love to you

But don't try to tell me you think it's all physical
It goes much deeper than that

You ought to know it's an affair of the heart
Have a little blind faith,
believe it's an affair of the heart

When we make love, it's a passionate thing
You shudder and shake,
sink your teeth in my skin....

I almost believe you were made to be played by my hands....

And you got the power, it amazes me still
How you play my emotions with consummate skill
I don't have to look any further than into your eyes

So don't try to tell me you think it's just physical
It goes way deeper than that
You better know it's an affair of the heart
129 · Jul 2021
Autobiography
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Have no regrets of your past - or beginning chapters of your book.
The final chapters of your book have yet to be written.
The early chapters only breathe life into the conclusion.
The person writing the final chapter only becomes wiser as time marches on, or the story reaches its finale.
Continue to write in bold ink and nevermind the pencil and eraser.

Đaviđ
128 · Mar 2021
I won that round
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
death;

it no longer
has any bite,
or any sting.

i literally
kicked its ***
too many times
to count in an
IC unit's ring.

I relive
my death often
because I am
proud of
my victory,
my fight.

Last July,
my fight for life
was the
fireworks on a
hot and humid
summer's night.

my family
the next day
said you sound
and look so calm
for a person
knocking on
death's door.

i simply
looked at them
and said that
i am now numb,
no one can possibly
hurt this man
any more.

death has lost
all of its sting
when it comes
to me.

death for me
is the very
first day
of being free.
128 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
I provide
no shadow
after nightfall

but,
wooden stakes
cast no
worrisome thoughts

side of
mouth may
drip a
reddish hue

upside down
horizontal
i conquer
the undead

until sunrise
my love
starved slave
you become

the ravens
cackle and
the bell
tolls

never fear
an ebon
sky

passion's fill
is an
endless
overflow
128 · Dec 2019
a soul bathed in numb
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
ev'ry "holiday,"
birthday,
all in sum,
my soul feels
cold, it feels
so numb.

as they pass
i stand and
applaud,
it brings me
closer and
closer
to God.

my company
sits in misery,
i suggest you
stay away.
this wretched
soul forever
in battle with
torture,
will never
be okay.

alone i aspire
to be ....

because
truthfully,

the only one
that can
make me happy
is me.

my
everlasting
inward war
is something
of which,
i will never
be free.
126 · Mar 2020
hidden meaning #13
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
do you
blame
the sun
for
darkness?

do you
blame
darkness
for the
absence
of
the sun?
126 · Mar 2021
muse
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
as birds on
lofted wing
do sing

the earth
is home
and life
it brings

soar within
the clouds
be gay

flap your wings
above storms
of grey

the river flows
so ****
so divine

sip from what
is not only
mine

nourish
your spirit
nourish
your soul

the river
in summer
is where
this man
calls home
126 · Mar 2020
Affliction of loss
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
Loss.

Loss is not some figment of our imaginations.

Loss is waking up every morning and feeling that there is something very important that is missing.

In the pit of your stomach.
In the deepest recesses of your heart.

At the forefront of your mind.
Loss is an extreme emotion.

Because loss, is something that you know that you can never get back again.

Loss can leave you lost and nomadicly meandering unfamiliar paths most days and nights.

But,
but in those moments that the sun still shines,
shine....
shine brighter than it!

Make those around you always reach for their sunglasses.

The grey skies will always be there and during those, let those that we have lost, rain down on us so that for those moments, we may hide our tears.

Loss, is an emotion more extreme and intense than love.

Because, all that's left is to relive all of the memories of love without a further touch, but to look up into Heaven when we do and smile above.
Miss you Dad, the anniversary of your passing is looming heavy upon me :(
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
tonight's sky was cold-

cloudless, blanketless, alone-

then you, my moon, spoke-
126 · Mar 2021
70's & 80's youth
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
3 letters

It only requires
3 letters
to best describe
our youth,
my generation.

Those 3 letters
are
F U N !
this song
this video
is our youth
back then.
we had
F U N

Play the song.
You'll enjoy it.


https://youtu.be/7_pzk83luwo
125 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
when high tide drifted away under ebon skies,

so did our love.

the moon and stars were witness
to a love that only lived in lust.

eventually;

even love,
turns to dust.
123 · Mar 2021
Leave love's anchor behind
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
Love not
because you
"have to"
-
love because
it overflows
from your heart

The air
around you
will no longer
feel heavy
but rather;

from anvils
and albatrosses

to feathers
and butterflies
will life's
winds prevail

Allow love
to be
that
gentle breeze
in your
sail
123 · May 2020
Are you a rose?
TheConcretePoet May 2020
Roses...

roses are breathtakingly beautiful in full bloom •

Alluring,
even seductive
when held
between
one's lips •

Unpetal'd,
it is still
a rose but,
with thorns •

Unbloomed and unessenced it may
occasionally
be •

But a rose,
is still a rose afterall •

Thorns and all •

The thorns
are to
protect itself
from the
unworthy •

Be sure
that you're worthy
to inhale
and grasp
its magical
beauty •

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
-👷🏻‍♂️-
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