Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
At a Mass Ave bus stop. Broken mirror in a
storefront. I see, in slivers of glass, pieces
of my mind apart from each other, madness.
Mostly I see guilt. Always GUILT! Like
being stalked by some ******* Russian writer!
Deliver me from me. Help me find redemption.
I left my wife and kids, like some suicide.
Life an emotional minefield I danced through!
******, beer and cigarettes kept me sane.
Angels guided me, so many I've lost count.
Some would call them friends and they were.
They guided me back to what mattered most.
My kids were the missing piece of me.
Awkward reunions, regaining trust, closeness.
Katie and Sean.  A mantra I never forgot.
A hope I clutched alone in the desert.
My planet escaped the gravity of the sun.
      Madness and chaos ensued. I went down a
      black hole. Every social construct was told
      to ******* as I slouched towards Boston.

      Reborn with stains of the past nesting inside.
      We're never free of our betrayals. We just pretend.
      We reinvent us and become strangers to ourselves.
      I hope my memories die before me. I'll be cleansed.
At a Mass Ave bus stop. Broken mirror in a
storefront. I see, in slivers of glass, pieces
of my mind apart from each other, madness.
Mostly I see guilt. Always GUILT! Like
being stalked by some ******* Russian writer!
Deliver me from me. Help me find redemption.
I left my wife and kids, just some suicide.
Life an emotional minefield I danced through!
******, beer and cigarettes kept me sane.
Angels guided me, so many I've lost count.
Some would call them friends and they were.
They guided me back to what mattered most.
My kids were the missing piece of me.
Awkward reunions, regaining trust, closeness.
Katie and Sean.  A mantra I never forgot.
An energy I felt while alone in the desert.
At a Mass Ave bus stop. Broken mirror in a
storefront. I see, in slivers of glass, pieces
of my mind apart from each other, madness.
Mostly I see guilt. Always GUILT! Like
being stalked by some ******* Russian writer!
Deliver me from me. Help me find redemption.
I left my wife and kids, just some suicide.
Life an emotional minefield I danced through!
******, beer and cigarettes kept me sane.
Angels guided me, so many I've lost count.
Some would call them friends and they were.
They guided me back to what mattered most.
My kids were the missing pieces of me.
Awkward reunions, regaining trust, closeness.
Katie and Sean.  A mantra I never forgot.
An energy I felt while alone in the desert.
I'm poor. All I have
is a bouquet of poems
I wrote for you that
won't die if neglected.
I drink wine from the box not the bottle.
     My empties are very functional. I make
     chairs to sit in alone for happy hour.
     Beds to sleep alone in case I can't atone.
     Dog house to be alone in when you're angry.
     Walls between us too tall to ever surmount.
     Even my own coffin hot as hell herself.
     I could never build a bridge back home.
Our first boy, boy.
My namesake, boy.
Fetch my tools, boy.
Cry beating belt, boy.
Make me proud, boy.
Ignore my cruelty, boy.
War's killing eats us, boy.
Comes home each night, boy.
Never mind the misery, boy.
She smiled at you, Boy!
Our first boy, boy.
My namesake, boy.
Fetch my tools, boy.
Cry beating belt, boy.
Make me proud, boy.
Ignore my cruelty, boy.
War's killing eats us, boy.
Comes home each night, boy.
Never mind the misery, boy.
She smiles at you, Boy!
Our first boy, boy.
My namesake, boy.
Fetch my tools, boy.
Cry beating belt, boy.
Make me proud, boy.
Ignore my cruelty, boy.
War's killing eats us, boy.
Comes home each night, boy.
Never mind the misery, boy.
She smiled at you, Boy!
Boys play at growing up and shaving.
     Girls bleed into women we desire.
     Boys want damsels who need saving.
     Girls tend to boy's raging fire.
     Boys look tough but always cry alone.
     Girls want to always be protected
     but end up having hearts of stone.
     Boys are addicted and feel neglected.
19 and called to serve in Nam.
  You said no strings keep me.
  We ****** as if there were more
  the flight to war is always free
  the flight home in body bags
  tin medals on the shredded boys
  flag draped coffins all the same
  dead sons playing war with toys.
The world keeps spinning
   against my will. I stop time
   in my secret world and live
   barefoot in summer's grass.
   I build dams in the creek
   and play with crawdads and
   steal change for candy and
   army men from Rathman's.
   Mom dresses us for Easter
   in little suits and fedoras
   crooners in her fantasy.
   We lived her lives when
   we had to. Boy trapped.
   I smell summer's grass.

   I dream in hospice care
   and smile big morphine
   grins as my body shuts
   down against my will.
These machines
we call brain
full of pleasure
and full of pain.
My life is imploding all
around me. Block by block
is demolished making room
for some brave new world
for versions of a new us
state control tech drones.
I bought breakfast for a Communist
to discuss our differences. He drank
***** and I had coffee. I don't feel
superior just sick from last night.
He hates god. God is evil to poor.
I said he deprived the poor as
the rich process fat from masses
to boil it into flame to read Marx.
I asked if I wore his Marx hat
and shout among the masses
could I convince them God is
not dead but Marx is long dead?
I have no time to listen
to your supposition
of the conversation
of your observation
when you found her ****
swimming in an attitude
she thought it amusing
and started refusing
to name her admirer
who set her on fire.
I have no time to listen
to your supposition
of the conversation
of your observation
when you found her ****
swimming in an attitude
she thought it amusing
and started refusing
to name her admirer
who set her on fire.
I was a sinner who left my wife
and kids for the girlfriend *****.
Simon and Garfunkel understood
and sang while we ****** in time.
in a friend's bed with ***** and we
laughed and killed the intruders in the
shower and ****** in a love of sorts
that never stood a chance and withered.
I lived a half life all along
radioactive from some song
when you touched me I woke
listened to words you spoke
Touch is a spark we need
Life begins with this seed.
It's a hoedown in the barn
Saturday night fiddles
harmonicas love riddles
we meet lovers on a farm
Love is tender no harm
necklace worn like a charm.
Our world grew quiet like the dead.
   I never heard silence like this before.
   I knew it was over when we ate alone
   and slept apart and watched our own
   shows. We always adapt. We're good at it.
   It's easier than fixing what is broken.
How can you love this broke man
  who can't even love himself?
  Imposter. Poseur. Always on stage.
  Playing to the crowd for applause.
  Preening in the mirror before bed.
  Don't mess my makeup, my sweet.
  Never cry real tears. Never block
  my lighting. Never ever upstage me!
There's always a price tag
hanging on your heart.
I saved my change in a jar
to down pay as a start.
You're never layaway
payment due delivery.
I'll make enough money
and ask you to marry me.
I fell off the Earth awhile ago.
I'm floating in time and space.
Time's never ticked so **** slow.
I think I recognize this place.
My lovers wait in beds for me
on fire with hate where I burn
I'll visit you with bent knee
and love you with all I learn
We bought a broken dog
and took him to our broken home
to live with this broken family.
We tried to fix him with broken
training. I was too broken to get
it right. The more I yelled the more
broke he got. I had a drunken insight
one evening walking him in a full moon.
He reminded me of me in my childhood.
I saw things through his broken eyes
and held him close. I promised I'd fix us.
I found my broken self in a dog shelter.
Still broke but much better! My college aged daughter named him Jack Daniels.
I put my brittle ego on the line
  each time I send you a drink or ask
  for a dance or your phone number.
  I break a frozen monster's mask.

  I wish I could guide my young self in
  a time machine and calm our fears.
The nest fell apart a long time ago.
I've lost count of the broken years.
I love my garden perfect.
Everything in its place and
watered and sun drenched.
I live in chaos and clouds
that refuse to give rain.
Love withered long ago.
Mr. Fantasy always breaking the rules
collecting glass frame butterfly fools.
We flutter and preen colors of rainbows
killed pristine pinned in perfect rows.
I was supreme and all knowing.
You hovered beneath my sun and moon
and adored my sacred creation.
You cursed me in famine and sung
hymns to me in bountiful times.
Karl Heinrich Marx broke me and
killed America and freedom and
his minions imprison us today.
I'm just one in a million
broken heart gazillion.
I just ache never bleed
burning for your need.
Priced as marked or best offer.
    Some damaged more than others.
    A small tear
    a workplace affair
    a bigger tear
    a torrid affair with broken promises
    devastated barely pumps
    he always cheated and blamed her
    blown out selling for parts
    he betrayed and took the kids
    she overdosed and stabbed her heart
    for good measure. Tears roll down
    but can never make things right.
    Make an offer after all why not?
At 5 I broke my leg.
At 12 a girl
broke my heart.
At 18 I broke apart
everything for Love
set adrift at start.
Drowned and burned
to death I turned
around my own sun
another day of fun
searching for Eden
rebirth in a garden.
It eats us up and spits us out.
Life is God's broken machine
addicts prostitutes for drugs.
Will we be able to get clean?

I need a needle to feel numb.
We all walk with the wounded
we die inside no man's land
always felt like we intruded.
Break wind, break promises,
break hearts but never ever
break Sacred Marriage Vows!
All the gods will have cows...
All kittens will die I swear on a
bible made in communist China.
I try to write my life in poems
but my words are never right.
They don't fit together
all they seem to do is fight.
My poetry is obituaries of
old loves turned to stone
once this broken poet
knew he'd die alone.
I harbor a sadness in my heart
I wish I could destroy but time
stops before it has time to start.
It's gravity heavy in my own bed
with God's fierce sinner's weight
I broke my vows we wed now dead.
He cheated on his wife
and three children
broken family done
a million times.
Ken is a little man
turning the kids
against his wife
to swear in court
he was a victim
of mamma.
He has no honor
no honesty.
I've been there.
It will end badly.
The war was won the men came home
   broke but ready to fill the cradles
   and cry on the shoulders that matter
   and smell of the remembered perfume.
   They spent the venom into wombs to
   bring corpses back from ugly death.
Sew my lips shut
  pluck my eyes out
  fill my ears with lies
  truth becomes doubt
  swarmed by death flies
  hear my silent shout.
Protect my beating heart
from being torn apart
by love's broke promise
sealed with that last kiss.
Your taste always lingers
in my hair and fingers.
I needed honesty at last and
walk out of the bathroom naked
jaws drop eyes shock me  in a cocoon
of truth condemned now I'm free.
I broke sacred vows and my kids
and turned into a statue of salt.
Somewhere, some place, some time.
We ****** in love's innocent shadow
hiding our true nature in this rhyme
unable to avoid the promised sorrow
my guilt followed in my broke vows.
Love is a keeper of fragile hearts
unable to silence my animal howls
we ****** in innocence from the start.
I put the tent
on hot cement
where we never went
Jesus moves hell scent
cools our sins spent
praise our pain's sweat.
Kids next door have
machines that make
bubbles. They create
bubble *****  to take
the world by bubble.
Cute imps of trouble.
Rough edged saw of a man.
What a way with words you had.
Blue collar barfly a smoke in lips
put us all in the places we know,
where we feel comfort after all.
Our uncles smell of ***** and
aunts always favor aperitifs
in the afternoons then naps.
Being honest we all crawl in
bars when things fall apart and
we just need comfort of friends
we just met that very day.
Rough edged saw of a man.
What a way with words you had.
Blue collar barfly a smoke in lips
put us all in the places we know,
where we feel comfort after all.
Our uncles smell of ***** and
aunts always favor aperitifs
in the afternoons then naps.
Being honest we all crawl in
bars when things fall apart and
we just need comfort of friends
we just met that very day.
There we were sitting on bar stools
side by side and talking about women
and the way they smell. Some earthy and
some flowers and some like stale *****.
We told sick jokes and remembered good
old days when men were fierce and girls
were gentle and tamed their beasts.
We parted. He paid my tab. Yellow teeth.
I remember his laugh. It was sincere.
I stumbled out drunk but he walked sober.
The body is buried
the life lived carried
to dumpster on a street
trash the shell's defeat.
Finally forever gone is brutal to accept.
I sleep tonight inside
a grave of my creation.
So cold no way to hide
silent the dead nation.
I died as expected
floated above me
lost my old body
my soul came to be
Hallelujah again
I felt nothing
buried in a womb
I was something.
Next page