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TheConcretePoet Apr 2020
I'd love
to call
my Dad
today and
hear
some words
of reassurance
but,
I can't...

he's
no longer
here.
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
If I
ever
left
me
would I
want to
return
to me?
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
With venom;

i filled
her up
for which,

there is never
an anecdote.
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
Woodpeckers occupy and echo the after dawn air-
My attention is theirs, to the trees my eyes stare-
A Caribbean water color sky so calm and so blue-
A few clouds mingle in, like a chalky white residue-
Jet trails kissing the morning sun's smile-
I think I found paradise, even if, even if...only for a little while-
A sky that seems to be never ending-
It's when I grab God's ear.... and I begin bending.
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
The putrid stench
of every tomorrow's
uncertainty breathes
ubiquitously like a
plague of yore,
a cancer of
present.

casks and vats
filled with spirits
and eves of
bingeing
can't ****** the
foul smelling demons that
patiently await
your conflicted worn out soul.

burning into a hell of blackness
filled with
mind twisting pain and
agony that nary a soul could bear.

scarlet letters be ******.
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
within
every five
inhalations
of life,

there is a
new muse.
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
in a
  mirror,

your eyes
  are the

hungry
    language
of love
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Many people see
stars in the night sky.

while i see only a
graveyard,

and candles
still aflame on the graves,

even though they are
long extinguished by the angels.
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
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Life's death
and

the death
of life
are one
in the
same

both are
enigmas

enigmas entertain
an inquisitive
mind

one's mind
is a
mystery all
on its
own

puzzle master
envy

wing chun
artists
are
Bruce Lee
followers into
the void
of enigma

games of
death heed
a
martial artist's
shroud

you're inquisitive
but,
you're no
enigma

the dragon
entered with
a wrath
captivated by
enigma

the most
beautiful of
******* remain
a mystery
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!
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
I'm a man,

a fatally
flawed man.

A man
unworthy,

I'm just
a man.

I exhaust
myself
most days
trying to
be worthy.

But Jesus,
is
exclusively
worthy
of my
weariness.

My exhaustion
at day's end
reminds me
how I fight,

how I
struggle to
be worthy.

At day's end,
I will
always be
a flawed man,

a fatally
flawed man.

And...

I will
awaken
once more
as the
sunrises with
His grace and,
I will
exhaust myself
again,

until my
last breath...

and I can
no longer
fight to make
sure that,
I am worthy
to stand
before
Him.

Đaviđ
will always
chase after
God's heart.
TheConcretePoet Apr 2020
~-~

always
whispering
into a
hurricane
...~~~~...

is a
rotating
storm
of life
endured
in vain.

a torrent
of gale force
trauma
and pain.

when it's
all over,
only
brokenness
and
destruction
remain.
TheConcretePoet Jan 2021
the moon,
it just lingered
and lounged
in the sky

wolves and
most humans
hunting, reflections
of a full moon
in their
eyes


almost
stalking
as if only half
of it was
privy
to the chaos
below the
evening prior

daytime
lunar waves
crash upon
an afternoon's
shoreline full
of wanting
desire

hanging in
the sky like
an albatross,
it stalks
and it
looms

swinging from
east to west
like a pendulum
of doom

as sunset
takes hold
and night
rushes in
fast

the hunted
lie down...

"please indulge
me at long last"


'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
There are unopened gifts around us aplenty

We need to be vigilant so that life doesn't blind us from these
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
Life often
leaves us
wanting

empty,
and
unnervingly
haunting
Moments of still

How are they filled?
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
she was
supposed to
be
'thee one'
to finish
all of my
sentences?

well,
i guess
that
she did.

she finished
them all
with a
question mark.
TheConcretePoet Jun 2020
It's like watching the sun melt into the horizon at sunset.

It's two sets of eyes locking into one another's like neodymium magnets.

From afar you, yourself, anticipate the moment that their lips taste the others.

Chemistry builds as does the heat now watching two, impassioned lovers.

The moon could fall right next to them and they wouldn't even notice it there.

Loving deeply as one, which once were a pair.

Gasping for breath,
they are now each other's air.



'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
-👷🏻‍♂️-
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
The waves of life
come rushing in
against a human shore line.
Destined to caress
our feet
our hearts
our lives.
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
Little by little we all fall apart.

One by one, we disappear from this Earth's landscape.

Our memory fades until,
it finally drops below the horizon, permanently.

Remembering those lost ....

Once a day becomes once a week.

Once a month becomes once a year.

Our body, our memory is now but dust upon the wind -

But....

A gentle breeze through your hair I might be  -

A grain of sand in between your toes along the shoreline -

A shadow at 2pm beside you -

A drop of rain running down your cheek -

A ray of morning sun light that warms you through the blinds -

A snowflake that lands on your eyelashes -

A cloud to bring you shade on a hot summer's day -

A pumpkin orange leaf that your eyes just can't deny -

A star that appears to be falling out of the sky -

A light from the moon that guides you through the darkest night -

One day,

these will be the ways of how we will meet again,

how you will remember me once more .

These ways,

may be my encore.
TheConcretePoet Oct 2020
profound
poetry
renders
an
open mind
impuissant
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Moments are memories, delicious ripe fruit in a fruit bowl.
Memories are meant to soothe a lost and nomadic soul.

More memories were made last night.
Memories forever that will turn a wrong day into right.

Moments and memories-
Memories and moments.
Moments and memories,
life's most intrinsic components.

Đaviđ
TheConcretePoet Jan 2021
I wish not to wither from whence a region is in the throes of the season of death.
Salted roads, unknown footprints in the snow and minus a breath.

Lifeless trees against the canvas of a grey and slumbering sky.
I wish to leave when life and robust colors once again make love to thine eyes.

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
Anyone else having issues?
TheConcretePoet Apr 2020
-
we poets
may be
as misunderstood

and or

as
unpredictable
as

the weather?

And...

just when
you think that
rain will
never end....?

here comes
'the poet'
and an
abundance of
sunshine.
TheConcretePoet Sep 2020
We poets aren't meant to connect with everyone you see.
But those that we do take part in swimming in the deepest of seas.
Some may think of us weird or a strange breed.
When in reality; all we are is east coast trees.
We live
We die
When alone, we are life's most refreshing breeze.

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
We poets live and breath words like air.
We inhale the beauty (muses) of what our eyes may see.
We exhale our expression, our interpretation.
We intoxicate our audience with words.
Words that create a vision, only unique to you, the reader.
TheConcretePoet Jan 2021
we separate ourselves,
   for sanity.

we separate ourselves,
   for serenity.

we separate ourselves,
   for lucidity.

we separate ourselves,
   for stability.

we separate ourselves,
   for breath.

we separate ourselves,
  to push away death.

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
A physically saturated pluviophile is a soul that craves to intertwine themselves with the very deepest parts of thee.

In the eyes and heart of a pluviophile,
the rain is sunshine on an otherwise grey and cloudy day.

Make no mistake;

I am a pure breed when it comes to being/representing a "pluviophile".

The rain elicits the very deepest part of me without one moment's struggle.

It's a cleansing.
It's an act of purification.
It's a new beginning.

     A feeling of     new skin
and afflictions
  washed away.

A few still moments
  to breathe in
    the roses of
life.

  If you can not
=connect= with a
  "pluviophile"?

You're not
   'all wet'
but rather,
  as dry as the
saharan sand.

Come get
   wet
      with me...
        in
  the
     p
       u
         r
           p
             l
               e
   rain """""""""""
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    """""""""""""""

"""""­""""""""""""""""
        ' ' ' '    ' '
           '  '   '
               '
https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8
TheConcretePoet Apr 2021
From
End stage
Congestive heart failure
in July
to now
having
biopsies on
a mass
on my
kidney....

when
does
it
end?
😔
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
It is like
A cup of tea

Chipped porcelain
With a broken handle
Missing its saucer
A couple of hairline fractures
Some parts glued back together

An acquired taste
But I find
Beauty in its strangeness
A comfort in its quirky
Lopsided grin

Others will wonder
Why of all the ones I could have chosen
I picked that weird one

But if they only knew
The warmth it gives and how it feels
In my body and in my soul
How I cherish it all the more
For its imperfectness
And awkward cuteness
Off kilter appearance
Whimsical oddity
With its crooked little heart

When I think of you
I can’t help but smile

How foolish and silly
I must look
Deeply drinking you in
How I am peculiar
And you are unusual

Not everyone's cup of tea
But

Love is funny like that
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
I lay and stare up at the ceiling,
waiting with fear...
waiting with anger and confusion unappealing.
I seek comfort,
the comfort of home....
home is where I lay my head, it's my port.
Just twelve months ago the sun made me smile,
even a warm soaking rain I would crack a small grin...
the grin I took for granted like most for a while.
Everyday has now become a challenge,
the never ending hill....
the hill that breaks you of your spirit and breaks you of your will.
Dignity and grace are words that crowd my thoughts,
I'd like to keep my chin up and hide my tears from most...
slip away the man...a man that all will boast.
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
From where
I stand,

the trees
will always
touch
the sky

Why
oh why
can't I?
I'd bet after reading this, you began singing this in your head.🙃
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.
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
sure,
  i've been
a fool
  before

but your
  whispers
in the dark
  will never
fool me
  again
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
As one wave crashes up against another

       it reminds me of what takes place between two very passionate lovers

         out of breath after colliding underneath the waves... the covers.
why
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
why
there,
in the
cold hard
city streets,
on the
concrete jungle's
sidewalk.

his soul
exited
the body
amid the
powerful
aroma of
iron and
silently loud
gasps of
oh my.

his soul
circled
in
disbelief
and could
be heard
over the gasps
asking....


why?
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
in today's
world,
you
'get together'
why?

to sit across
from someone
that you
barely
even know
any more,
and perhaps
more troubling
is that you
don't even
care to?

to sit across
from someone
that rudely has
'earbuds' or
headphones
covering
their ears?

to sit across
from someone
that has their
face buried
in their
phone like...
you're not
even there?

Helloooo...
I am right here!

no thanks.

i will pass
on those
'get togethers'
with folks that
it seems have
turned into
total
strangers.

once, twice,
three times
a year?
i consider you
a stranger.

and then,
when we
'get together'
you have music
blasting in
your ears and
your face
buried in
technology?

no thanks.

let's just
continue being
strangers....
thank you.

no need for
awkward
silence...
no need for
feeling alone
around a
crowd.

no need for
a feeling of
needing to
be drunk
to deal with
this complete
waste of
time.

heck, i can
have much
more fun alone
getting drunk
and writing
poetry and
having a
functional,
creative
and
entertaining
'get together'
with...
me, myself
and i.

so,
"why even bother"?

i'm not
  impressed....
with your
  'get togethers'.
For me, it's just all so fake that I can't even stand to be around it.
Technology is destroying families and civilization as we know it.

RIP - the good ol' days
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
with Jesus,

i will
finally be
whom,
i struggle
here on
this earth
to be.

here,
i am
broken promises
i am a
broken spirit
with an
unmendable
broken heart.

most days
i just go
through the
motions,
just enough
to get through
that day and
get away
from the world
and the pain
that the world
causes me.

i am a
homebody
because
i don't trust
most humans
outside of
my home.
i go to
work because
i must, not
because i
want to.

i can't wait
to one day
make a home
with Jesus.

i can't wait
for the day
for this anxiety
and pain
to end.

to finally
live with
Jesus.
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
I could write,
listen and read poetry,
all day and evening long.
Breaking down its core,
the meaning inside the poem,
by its author
is now,
one of my favorite things to do...
one of the things I look most forward to....
in
this life...
that is filled with mystery
and unknowns.
Is it because I enjoy distancing myself
from this world in which we live?
That's possible....----
indeed it could be,
quite possible.
Or is just because I have this insatiable affinity
for works of art whether it be in written form,
painted form,
nature form or ****** form?
I suggest ---
to myself of course,
that it may be ....
a little bit -------------
of both.
Every day I need to FEEL a poem.
Live in that poem,
whether written by me....
or another author.
Entertaining my own mind.
My mind that is forever a playground.
It's nice to get away.
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
as i venture
out into
today's
population

i see
so many
sad eyes
on so many
happy faces
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
wet are
the
winds of
missing,
of...
sadness.

the winds
speak of
pain,
of
throated
screams.

the winds
blow on
by,
the winds
return
like boomerangs.

these winds
travel
over land
and over
sea.

but
make no
mistake,
these winds
of change
always
make it
back
to me.
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
the trees
wrap themselves
in slumber.
birds try
to fly away
from december.
winter comes
and schoos away
my loathing
of summer.
i wish
summer never
had to be.
summer is
obnoxious
loud and *****.
nothing beats
a crisp white
winter's beauty.
the summer's
rank and stank
of people and
garbage lined
streets.
individuals
in sandals
offending us
all with hideous
troll feet.
when i die,
i want to die
in winter please.
i don't want
to die in
summer's
smelly person
breeze.
i'd rather go
in winter's
crisp and
fresh clean
freeze.

'Yours and everyone's concrete-poet'
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
On the night that we met,
like a mid summer's torrent,
I fell for you.

You, bathing in a
full moon's light,
I was powerless
it's true.

Your eyes were
one with the sea,
vast and deep...
I was drowning
    in you.

Arrest me
and take me
to live
in your paradise....
where all that's
left is to
  woo woo woo.
https://youtu.be/Rgg1Yczq4vI
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
like the
   sensual
feeling of
     a warm
summertime
    waterfall

c
  a
    s
      c
         a
            d
               i
                 n
                    g

down your
  naked body...

   so do

a

  good
poet's

  w
      o
         r
           d
            s
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
yesterdays
have been
lived in
like your
favorite
pair of
blue jeans.

tomorrows
are never
promised
and are
only what
might have
beens.

todays
are filled
with moments
saved for
tonight's
dreams.

put on
those
blue jeans
and live
like tomorrow
will never
be here.

tomorrow's
yesterday
is today
and today
those
blue jeans
want you
to dance
dear.
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
ah yes,

even
today's sky
weeps.

the rains
cascade down
her body
of beauty.....

that houses
her soul
of integrity.

the winds
of change
have passed
her by.

lost love,
that pain
in rain
that hides
her cry.

grey skies
often hide
good things
that die.
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
That empty place at the table.
Or, perhaps the place not so void of another worldly presence.
I caught a glimpse of you....yes you.
A quick sighting of you in brightly monochromatic colored attire.
With a light so magnificent, so radiant.
Almost in trance by its wavelength and frequency.
The chair directly seated in this empty place.
It appears almost depressed with a form of what once was.
Beneath the chair , your slippers Sabre has brought with a wagging tail.
On the holiday place mat your black framed reading glasses.
The ones that made you look ever so wiser to me.
Even more than I thought could even be possible.
Also a number 2 pencil and a book of fabulous crosswords collections.
Challenging word games we both took seriously, yet enjoyed.
A navy coffee mug inscribed with your name.
Not a stain to be found on the USS Fort Mandan.
I sip from this mug , never to gulp.
I want my memories of you in stages....
not a gulping unsavoriness.
But rather slowly , cherishingly...  methodically.
I set your coffee mug gingerly down after rinsing it with care.
I will sip from this mug again another day soon.
TheConcretePoet Jul 2020
let me know...
when you
think that
you have
at
long last
reached
my soul

odds are
that with me...?

you've yet
to pay
your specific
toll

i can be
a rogue wave
or i can be
cooling mist
on a
hot and humid
summer's day

you can
only hope
to "think"
that you
know me

i still have
layers that
you will
probably
never see

i'm an enigma
and i am
something that
you would never
bet against

but....

i am the
good time
that you
would
certainly
never regret

i'm the cream
in the
middle of
your oreo

i can be
......
your favorite
song on
the radio.

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
-👷🏻‍♂️-
TheConcretePoet Mar 2020
Life dies.
Sadness cries.
The second hand continues.
By week's end it's old news.
When I close my eyes forever.
My first moments from life I sever.
I want you to look at me.
Take a look at death, your fee.
Exit the funeral home's door.
The body in the casket you will see no more.
Get into your car and turn the key.
Brush the dirt off of your bended knee.
Brush the scent of death from you once again.
Carry on with a few prayers and a meaningful amen !
Normalcy reacquaints itself in a few short days.
Until life dies and once again death is how life pays.
Live your life while you still can.
Death comes for each and every woman and man.
It might be today, it might be tomorrow.
The time on the clock is only there to borrow.
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