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#*The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want I dwell in fields of green Led by His hand I may drink my fill From streams where few have been Though I may walk through death's shadowed vale His presence calms every fear Through the dark dangers He sets a feast Whenever my foe comes near His goodness and mercy shall follow me Throughout my days here on earth Then take me home where forever my eyes Shall behold all His glorious worth!*#
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 10:55 PM UTC
Psalm 23 (adapted)
your witty remarks and hearty jokes aren't very funny i thought i'd tell you before things got out of hand i don't appreciate you calling me *"sweetheart" "baby"* or "darling" you are no one to me and those nicknames are reserved for those who actually know how to treat me as a human not a plaything just because i was born a certain gender does not give you the right to feel like you have the right to call me what you want and treat me as you please my ****** (yes, i spoke the forbidden, sue me) does not make me better or more than any other human with any other *** organs so next time you're about to open that big mouth of yours or put your arm around my shoulders or wink at me you'd better think twice i'm using my words nicely but i'm not always going to be so nice unlike what you said earlier i'm not overreacting this is a natural response to everyday sexism and just because society has become used to it adapted to it accepted it does not mean i will give in or give up or ever conform to these downright disgusting norms i am a woman that does not make me inferior to those of other genders nor am i superior to anyone well... except, maybe, you
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Jul 30, 2015
Jul 30, 2015 at 7:02 AM UTC
"hey there, babycakes" [sexism]
I don't care if they start rumors. I don't care if they think it's a lie. I don't care that we're not perfect. I don't care about those other guys. I don't care if we got haters, And I don't care if they multiply. There's only one thing I care about, And that's you and I.
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 12:31 AM UTC
Adapted To Haters.
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
The fire this time
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Her figure in my bed relaxes, half obscured by silk sheets; there’s a sweetness to her uncovered form, not in a way that is ****** or arousing, but for how it speaks of comfort in my presence like we are so adapted to each other that nothing is strange or foreign to us— even the vulnerability of nakedness. And like a goddess, she pulls me in to her chest, a whisper of soft and beautiful flesh; there, I imagine us as once born from the ocean, with pearl strewn hearts and wanton eyes, as goddess meets goddess among seafoam and silk.
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Jul 24, 2022
Jul 24, 2022 at 3:06 PM UTC
Seafoam
The sea was once our prehistoric home. O how we adapted to its dark currents, to its India-ink infinities, chasing seaweed, driftwood and coral, before belly-flopping onto dry ground. Now, the sea threatens our ancestral home, the sea that falls from the angry skies with their charcoal-smudged infinities. A swelling flood, chasing red alert, destroying houses and lives; raining grief. Once sea-bound creatures now drown at home, ill-adapted to meet the flood's malevolent intent: to purge the Earth of all who cannot resist the rushing, rising mountains of waters, before proclaiming its final conquest of India's ancient lands. Now, only prayer will be our home, built on deepest despair. Now, only God's omnipotent infinities circle the mud-brown rapids of sludge choking all who helplessly cross their path. Only God can make Kerala and Tamil live again, as one, on dry, holy ground.
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Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 11:41 PM UTC
Poem for Kerala and Tamil Nadu
She is strong She pulled herself through strong winds, Roots gripping the earth, refusing to break. She survived with little care, Drinking from the silence, Holding on when no hands reached out. She never complained about the thirst, Welcoming the sun, even when it burned. She learned to bloom in shadows, Happy with the little attention she received. She stayed, even when neglected, Spreading fresh air to breathe, A silent companion when no one else was around. A quiet strength, unseen yet unwavering. She stopped withering away. She adapted. She grew. She became more than survival— She became life itself.
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Feb 22, 2025
Feb 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM UTC
My Pet Plant
I ******* rock it Then I lay it down I am not a quitter, sick spitter **** I just flow in rounds atmospherics an ******* stellar sounds Lyrics of astrophysics, like chemistry I just shape the ground just huddle But do not make a sound I crush a cypher, decipher words into crooked nouns Instant reaction to actions, My riddles break the crowd I've adapted to hard labor now Can't **** with the vision I'm here to **** it and change the sound Bicycle wheel spinning, I'm grinding I need to get around Flow soulful, for the soul like I'm the golden child Y'all so so, I go super sayin No super wild No delaying, I'm not evening playing You're played out Penetrator is coming through now Left-over flow ******* better eat their food now 2016 fiend, ***** this just a new style I hit the restart button, say **** the hard drive, bike peddling to work say **** the hard ride, living life is easy I say **** the hard times I'm choking the game, I'm looking to ******* hog tie Business this you can **** on my long tie... Young killer been spittin it for a long time Past due with my ******* come up Ain't nobody ******* with the vision I'm blowing up Cutting all these lames like division So I can it add up All of the positives, at heart I'm an optimist, don't **** with my oxygen You can't breath what I breathe, **** your accomplishments, I will squash all of them I just abolish bums Don't **** with my vision, I will **** for what is mine and do it with precision All these hoes just multiply I divided with the quickness All these fakes just want to try don't try cause your missing **** all of the rules ***** I am a misfit I am just a ghoul, no goblin, no riches The world is full of fools Who can't **** with my vision
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Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2016 at 1:19 AM UTC
Can't **** With The Vision
I ******* rock it Then I lay it down I am not a quitter, sick spitter **** I just flow in rounds atmospherics an ******* stellar sounds Lyrics of astrophysics, like chemistry I just shape the ground just huddle But do not make a sound I crush a cypher, decipher words into crooked nouns Instant reaction to actions, My riddles break the crowd I've adapted to hard labor now Can't **** with the vision I'm here to **** it and change the sound Bicycle wheel spinning, I'm grinding I need to get around Flow soulful, for the soul like I'm the golden child Y'all so so, I go super sayin No super wild No delaying, I'm not evening playing You're played out Penetrator is coming through now Left-over flow ******* better eat their food now 2016 fiend, ***** this just a new style I hit the restart button, say **** the hard drive, bike peddling to work say **** the hard ride, living life is easy I say **** the hard times I'm choking the game, I'm looking to ******* hog tie Business this you can **** on my long tie... Young killer been spittin it for a long time Past due with my ******* come up Ain't nobody ******* with the vision I'm blowing up Cutting all these lames like division So I can it add up All of the positives, at heart I'm an optimist, don't **** with my oxygen You can't breath what I breathe, **** your accomplishments, I will squash all of them I just abolish bums Don't **** with my vision, I will **** for what is mine and do it with precision All these hoes just multiply I divided with the quickness All these fakes just want to try don't try cause your missing **** all of the rules ***** I am a misfit I am just a ghoul, no goblin, no riches The world is full of fools Who can't **** with my vision
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Here's one for the gamers dungeon dwellers, competitors and casual players Whether they're at home or at a friend, footballers, car racers or dragon slayers To the world that looks down on us for those who's hobbies least appeal Just because they don't understand the reason or share the passion we feel Gamers like acheivements each to their own Whether its to vanquish the opposition build, or break their enemies throne Is that so different perhaps they spend a lot of time at home But isn't playing online with their friends a little better than just sitting alone on ones phone? The world of gaming has evolved and adapted so much It's a common to see a mother aligning fruit or a child with a flapping duck And is it such a bad thing if the players are actually having fun It may not be making them better but I can think of many worse things they could have done They say games encourage violence but these people are some of the kindest I've ever seen Theft, ****** and street racing would it not be better if these things were only done behind a computer screen? For many, its more than just a game and can lead to some desperation But people need to know the limits and play in moderation For some it's to do things they wouldn't normally do or say on a daily basis A couch potato wanting to explore the world avoid boredom, keep their mind from stasis To feel the breeze of a challenge drive a fast car or sword-fight, maybe even do some parkour Whether they want to skydive or skate over a hill To be able to do something dangerous without having to sign a medical bill We all have our reasons some play casually while others play to vent E-gaming has become so popular now hosting world tournaments and many gaming event This is how we are so please let us be Our motives are like captured birds are we are just setting them free Whether you want to be a princess or guardian of a banana tree You can do whatever you want just follow your dream People will always be different this is just another sub-culture; like fans of a band But we are the gamers and by this title proudly we stand
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 5:02 AM UTC
Life is an RPG
Here's one for the gamers dungeon dwellers, competitors and casual players Whether they're at home or at a friend, footballers, car racers or dragon slayers To the world that looks down on us for those who's hobbies least appeal Just because they don't understand the reason or share the passion we feel Gamers like acheivements each to their own Whether its to vanquish the opposition build, or break their enemies throne Is that so different perhaps they spend a lot of time at home But isn't playing online with their friends a little better than just sitting alone on ones phone? The world of gaming has evolved and adapted so much It's a common to see a mother aligning fruit or a child with a flapping duck And is it such a bad thing if the players are actually having fun It may not be making them better but I can think of many worse things they could have done They say games encourage violence but these people are some of the kindest I've ever seen Theft, ****** and street racing would it not be better if these things were only done behind a computer screen? For many, its more than just a game and can lead to some desperation But people need to know the limits and play in moderation For some it's to do things they wouldn't normally do or say on a daily basis A couch potato wanting to explore the world avoid boredom, keep their mind from stasis To feel the breeze of a challenge drive a fast car or sword-fight, maybe even do some parkour Whether they want to skydive or skate over a hill To be able to do something dangerous without having to sign a medical bill We all have our reasons some play casually while others play to vent E-gaming has become so popular now hosting world tournaments and many gaming event This is how we are so please let us be Our motives are like captured birds are we are just setting them free Whether you want to be a princess or guardian of a banana tree You can do whatever you want just follow your dream People will always be different this is just another sub-culture; like fans of a band But we are the gamers and by this title proudly we stand
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He is an underwater being, who left behind a life in a lovely land, adapted to the demands of marine myths, still an alien, largely frowned up on, enamored by the coral reef rendezvous they first met and hopelessly fell in love.                     She is a cursed mermaid, that wants him to teach her only this as a love gift; flawless  moon walk through the night sky of ocean depth.
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Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 10:08 AM UTC
Illusions
_[northern hemisphere: on a beach above the 50th latitude at the end of winter]_ _(Winter-export)_, the beach frosted by fingers of polar constellations. It’s too cold to walk without huddling, but we do it nonetheless, because we only have one more night together. Your frothy hydro-rhythm spears into pith, irradiance; I breathe again, deeply. _(Thick lips; quick still-hunt.)_ I rivet fronds of dependence into the seams of your boreal palms, never planning to return the floating colony of barnacles I promised I’d throw back; you, never planning to catch the sun bored through salt spray, clasping crisp foreheads, stitching on glistered lips and froze-shut lashes. And on a day when you didn’t rise early enough, I was left out in the water until my chest was steeped deep in ice over the thought of losing you. _(Glimmering isle)_; my hair disheveled in sea-foam. Annular light. You pushed me in, and I relented. My isotherm sent chthonically. But you, in your legendary mantle, adapted my eyes to see the light hidden deep within your belt; such pinks and fuchsias I have never seen before, suddenly inverted. At absolute velocity, I cut my foot on sea-glass, bleeding blueshift, aligning to the colours of the zenith. You take me back to the starry house and we struggle with your parallax, a nadir inseminated on the celestial pole. _(Parsecs quaking.)_ You whisper, I’ll heal you. I’ll heal you, only if you let me. Only if… you let me…  Over and over and over until it’s as mundane as the crashing coast, and unrivaled, I concede to everything and wake up deep in redshift, the whole universe escaping, warmth-ribbons suffocating the abyss: without you, alone on the ecliptic at last. In the spring-sinking, you order me a silver sword, sharp in starlight; to remember you. You stand a guardian, beyond the sun, flinging tiny ice-hot rocks _(freighting gemstones)_; King of the Heavens. I submerge myself into the bathic depths, skulking in aestival despair, as you trade the night for day. Little do you know, my resurgence is also in your hands. _[i watched Orion slip from view every night this spring. No doubt he’ll return next winter... it’s sad losing a friend like that, for so long]_
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
orion
_[northern hemisphere: on a beach above the 50th latitude at the end of winter]_ _(Winter-export)_, the beach frosted by fingers of polar constellations. It’s too cold to walk without huddling, but we do it nonetheless, because we only have one more night together. Your frothy hydro-rhythm spears into pith, irradiance; I breathe again, deeply. _(Thick lips; quick still-hunt.)_ I rivet fronds of dependence into the seams of your boreal palms, never planning to return the floating colony of barnacles I promised I’d throw back; you, never planning to catch the sun bored through salt spray, clasping crisp foreheads, stitching on glistered lips and froze-shut lashes. And on a day when you didn’t rise early enough, I was left out in the water until my chest was steeped deep in ice over the thought of losing you. _(Glimmering isle)_; my hair disheveled in sea-foam. Annular light. You pushed me in, and I relented. My isotherm sent chthonically. But you, in your legendary mantle, adapted my eyes to see the light hidden deep within your belt; such pinks and fuchsias I have never seen before, suddenly inverted. At absolute velocity, I cut my foot on sea-glass, bleeding blueshift, aligning to the colours of the zenith. You take me back to the starry house and we struggle with your parallax, a nadir inseminated on the celestial pole. _(Parsecs quaking.)_ You whisper, I’ll heal you. I’ll heal you, only if you let me. Only if… you let me…  Over and over and over until it’s as mundane as the crashing coast, and unrivaled, I concede to everything and wake up deep in redshift, the whole universe escaping, warmth-ribbons suffocating the abyss: without you, alone on the ecliptic at last. In the spring-sinking, you order me a silver sword, sharp in starlight; to remember you. You stand a guardian, beyond the sun, flinging tiny ice-hot rocks _(freighting gemstones)_; King of the Heavens. I submerge myself into the bathic depths, skulking in aestival despair, as you trade the night for day. Little do you know, my resurgence is also in your hands. _[i watched Orion slip from view every night this spring. No doubt he’ll return next winter... it’s sad losing a friend like that, for so long]_
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Standing tall on the highest mountain surrounded by clouds and the most beautiful fountains. Against all odds, the tree grew on the toughest rock up in the sky with the highest-flying hawk. The cherry blossom reached for the sky. The cherry blossom wanted to fly to see the world from up high to see that last as it dies. The cherry blossom reached its goal but all too soon it lost control. it wanted to see it all even if it meant it'll fall The cherry blossom reached and reached while its trunk screeched and people preached "trees aren't flexible," they cried yet still, the cherry blossom tried the cherry blossom soon adapted for it never ever got distracted its trunk had bent and curled and soon it could see the world.
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Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 3:36 AM UTC
trees aren't flexible
After your rebellious day. And facing reality of truth. Many rebellious children wise up. And your mother says , thank you. You could be in jail. You could be dead and gone. Your friends either adapted or died. Realizing it's to late to apologize. While you can say, you're glad to be alive. And your parents says, thank you. Some fools learns too late. Some repeats the same mistakes. While your parents pray and pray. And say thank you that God saw you through. A rebellious soul don't always win. But , do recognize the truth. That a parent love means more. Then they ever thought possible. After they wise up to see it.
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 7:18 PM UTC
A Rebellious Child(Wise Up)
You pick every word I say With rapt attention. So I tell you about tangerine skies In Vermont, how I shape them. I tell you my dad invented Cuban cigars In Argentina. You heard about the prawns, The ***** and the lilies. A story only I could tell. I could tell it in fluent Yoruba. You watch me sleep like I don't have a care in this world Snorting away while chasing dragonflies and seahorses In my oblivion. You watch me walk in the shadows My gait like gridless frames of a restless gate blown open by the wind. (If I was the night, I would be bright.) Finally you see my hands well adapted to cutlasses and owes, Irrespective experienced with oriental oils and manicures. 'One day I will be king', I thought I said. But you heard it from my mind. You heard it alone. Yesterday we owed this to ourselves. Tomorrow we will be lovers Today let's be friends.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 5:24 AM UTC
From Friends To Lovers
impractical is the path where wrath meets satisfaction with hands too fast to smack we are the captors of our actions not adapted to the math understanding the subtraction with a stand that is my last i am ****** by my exaction with a plan so crass like a romance with reaction impractical is the path where wrath meets satisfaction
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Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM UTC
wrath
This is a very special day in Bulgaria, my friends. Here - http://www.balkanfolk.com/news.php?id=23 - you can read more on it. marigolds marigolds San Clemente* and the sun that is opening we will lose ourselves before they find us in the eternal searching for ourselves (and the mind again steps over us) did you recognize the happiness Ahasver** marigolds (like an epoch) San Clemente and I am bowing The original: невени невени Сан Клементе и слънцето, което се разтваря ще се загубим преди да ни намерят във вечното си търсене на себе си (и мисълта отново ни прекрачва) позна ли щастието Ахасфере невени (като епоха) Сан Клементе и се прекланям *In one lateral chapel there is a shrine with the tomb of Saint Cyril of the Saints Cyril and Methodius who created the Glagolitic alphabet and Christianized the Slavs. **Wandering Jew; the name Ahasver is adapted from Ahasuerus the Persian king in Esther, who was not a Jew, and whose very name among medieval Jews was an exemplum of a fool /from wikipedia/ Translator Bulgarian-English: Vessislava Savova rarebird © bogpan - all rights reserved.
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May 23, 2011
May 23, 2011 at 11:34 PM UTC
24 May - The Day Of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture
We’ve accepted that we’re already dead. Like the soldier Like the victim No, the veteran of love (and subsequent heartbreak) We’ve accepted we’re already dead So we can keep on living. I was broken. No longer working No longer dreaming No longer wanting Pushing away The hands that tried to help me The encounters that didn’t last broke me. I was embattled. In the trenches of my own existence. Those we met Under picture-perfect circumstances When we thought utopia could be real woefully disproved this theory. Rude awakening to what agony feels like And sleeping all day so we could self-medicate all night. Self-medicating with ***** and cigarettes Not because we needed to but For respite For the moment For a friend in the bottle Or the lighter. Life is war Survival is the only option Death, inevitable and imminent We are the ones in the ring We have lived here We will die here. There are those who are weak Succumbing to the needles The tap tap tap on veins Or worse Ordinariness Boring as the 8x11’s found in printers All around the world. I will not be ordinary. Surrender is not an option. Because I am a gladiator I have adapted. I’m still in the ring But I will defend myself now. They are the lions; The king of their race But I I am a gladiator in a Gap V-Neck Tee shirt. I will die with love in my heart, Belief in my soul My ashes will spell out the word Hope. Nothing will break me ever again.
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 2:58 PM UTC
We are Gladiators in Gap V-Necks.
I've never known how to properly end a conversation with you, whether it be a phone call or a kiss good bye. Fingers fumble and awkward "I love you"'s and "good bye"'s drunkenly find their way out of my sober mouth. I never know how to say "fare well". My theory is that I never want to say good bye in the first place. I'd rather be with you. Though you might be busy talking to someone else or in another room, I want to always be close to you. Saying "good bye" doesn't feel good at all. It feels like I'm going far away and I'm leaving a piece of me behind. I know I might sound clingy and suffocating, but I have adapted a terrible habit of needing someone around to keep me sane. I use to love to be alone, but now I go crazy with thoughts stampeding through my head. I hate to say good bye. But I love to say "hello". Our "hello"'s are the best. We meet with kisses and hugs and sometimes chocolates. We meet with wide grins and bright eyes that catch the light just right at six in the evening. Our "hello"'s are heart warming and relieving. The "hello"'s almost make the "good bye"'s worth it. Almost.
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 4:30 AM UTC
Not So Good Bye's
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end The purpose of sitting is not to be satisfied or satiated Because the timepiece not only serves a purpose, it is adapted to that purpose Except it was a secret purpose The world is a mental activity, a dream of souls, without foundation, purpose, weight or shape People in collective idleness are even more repellent than when purpose motivates them God, glass, my townspeople! For what purpose? His purpose and mine is to catch photons and store them in our bones Lately, as have you, I have thought about our war and its purpose To have a season for every purpose, Ecclesiastes was right about that Names of plants, languages of mammals, purposes of insects, placement of rocks My friend who is counselor to kings and presidents never lacks purpose To what purpose, April, do you return again? Not to say there is no purpose necessarily, I just don’t immediately get it Stately purposes, valor in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet, death for the right cause Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose, protect the young from the janjaweed, the crop from the **** The knight, the penitent misses last assessment of life’s purpose, babbling for God to appear I mean your entire purpose should be living, you must take living seriously Sleep with a purpose Or lose all purpose beyond ****** child *** and food hoarding Counting is associated with primitive forms of writing, that is the purpose of poetry The purpose of school is to introduce us to the world’s innumerable wonders Their corners sharp, their lines exact, as if their purpose was to show the plane geometry of snow That’s when everything becomes clear, purpose v. purposelessness matters less Lonely physics, national purpose This then is the purpose of purposelessness (and of eating less)! We will live with the question What was our purpose? If we are not at home in the world, contributing purpose, we lose our desire to stay here—and we die The men who left the machine have started their own business, a new endeavor by which they will keep warm and purposeful You go the way of an unknown soldier, unable to assess the purpose of the battle Let Greece then know my purpose I retain, nor vex with new treaties my peace in vain And shake the purpose of my soul no more
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 5:43 AM UTC
Out of Emptiness
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end The purpose of sitting is not to be satisfied or satiated Because the timepiece not only serves a purpose, it is adapted to that purpose Except it was a secret purpose The world is a mental activity, a dream of souls, without foundation, purpose, weight or shape People in collective idleness are even more repellent than when purpose motivates them God, glass, my townspeople! For what purpose? His purpose and mine is to catch photons and store them in our bones Lately, as have you, I have thought about our war and its purpose To have a season for every purpose, Ecclesiastes was right about that Names of plants, languages of mammals, purposes of insects, placement of rocks My friend who is counselor to kings and presidents never lacks purpose To what purpose, April, do you return again? Not to say there is no purpose necessarily, I just don’t immediately get it Stately purposes, valor in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet, death for the right cause Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose, protect the young from the janjaweed, the crop from the **** The knight, the penitent misses last assessment of life’s purpose, babbling for God to appear I mean your entire purpose should be living, you must take living seriously Sleep with a purpose Or lose all purpose beyond ****** child *** and food hoarding Counting is associated with primitive forms of writing, that is the purpose of poetry The purpose of school is to introduce us to the world’s innumerable wonders Their corners sharp, their lines exact, as if their purpose was to show the plane geometry of snow That’s when everything becomes clear, purpose v. purposelessness matters less Lonely physics, national purpose This then is the purpose of purposelessness (and of eating less)! We will live with the question What was our purpose? If we are not at home in the world, contributing purpose, we lose our desire to stay here—and we die The men who left the machine have started their own business, a new endeavor by which they will keep warm and purposeful You go the way of an unknown soldier, unable to assess the purpose of the battle Let Greece then know my purpose I retain, nor vex with new treaties my peace in vain And shake the purpose of my soul no more
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I almost wrote you a love poem ...but I don't love you. Your crayola stained lies turned my blue skies to gray so how could I be happy when there's no sunshine today? No sunshine today turned to no sunshine to this date so to this day I'm embodied in the darkness that you made. I almost wrote you a love poem but instead I wrote a riddle. I repose homely in dark spaces because I've adapted to the dark. I'm engulfed in darkness But I'm that gleaming light from afar. Answer is, I'm a Star. Consensus: Your devious dark deeds attempted to deviate my direction and detach me from the light leaving me in darkness but I empowered myself, debunking your detrimental ways and becoming the light you tried so hard to take from me. I almost wrote you a love poem and if I did, it'd say I love you. ...but this isn't a love poem! and the only I love yous I recall, are the lies you told me and the truths you told him. I almost wrote you a love poem, ...and if I did, If I did write you a love poem.. I bet I'd have nailed it! ...but you ******* it all up and now, who's really the fool? I almost  wrote you a love poem, and if I did, it  would have went a little something like ...idk because loving you is something I never want to do.
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Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016 at 10:34 AM UTC
I Almost Wrote You A Love Poem
My mind is elsewhere... and the only person I have on it; is you. My mind goes back to that night; the way you spoke to me, touched me, looked into me, The way you kissed me... The intensity and passion between us was so magnetic that even shadows could not bare to lurk. Obsession, possession, love. I want it all for myself. I filtrate your thoughts, you obsess over it, you want to do more than just **** me. You feel guilt. Nobody has ever looked at me like that... The mannerism of it was, was something I have never had or felt before. I feel his thoughts, pulsating through my every nerve, my desires are not to be obsolete. Our energies, it's intertwined in a way that I have not with anyone else. An image, a reflection... Of me. You are me, and I am you. I want to feel you again, in person. I feel you spiritually and it makes me miss you immaculately. I see you in my dreams, waking thoughts, my soul longs for yours. I know you feel me, I know you love me, I can feel it. It's creating a hold of heartache inside of you, you are dared to not even breach because of your priceless ego that stops you from what could make you someone completely different. You were hurt, and to never trust a woman again was your broken promise you made to yourself. Yet, you saw something in me when you met me, and decided to run away and treat it for what it was not because of your broken soul that you were not ready to face. Complacent, stubborn, you already know you are mine, and I already know that I am yours. I've adapted, but I still think of you. Profusely, I still remember the gleaming stare in your hazel eyes. Yet, timing is a matter of precaution...
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Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021 at 10:25 AM UTC
Twin flames
My mind is elsewhere... and the only person I have on it; is you. My mind goes back to that night; the way you spoke to me, touched me, looked into me, The way you kissed me... The intensity and passion between us was so magnetic that even shadows could not bare to lurk. Obsession, possession, love. I want it all for myself. I filtrate your thoughts, you obsess over it, you want to do more than just **** me. You feel guilt. Nobody has ever looked at me like that... The mannerism of it was, was something I have never had or felt before. I feel his thoughts, pulsating through my every nerve, my desires are not to be obsolete. Our energies, it's intertwined in a way that I have not with anyone else. An image, a reflection... Of me. You are me, and I am you. I want to feel you again, in person. I feel you spiritually and it makes me miss you immaculately. I see you in my dreams, waking thoughts, my soul longs for yours. I know you feel me, I know you love me, I can feel it. It's creating a hold of heartache inside of you, you are dared to not even breach because of your priceless ego that stops you from what could make you someone completely different. You were hurt, and to never trust a woman again was your broken promise you made to yourself. Yet, you saw something in me when you met me, and decided to run away and treat it for what it was not because of your broken soul that you were not ready to face. Complacent, stubborn, you already know you are mine, and I already know that I am yours. I've adapted, but I still think of you. Profusely, I still remember the gleaming stare in your hazel eyes. Yet, timing is a matter of precaution...
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Written by Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger; adapted by Mike Essig. Halfway around the world tonight In a strange and foreign land A soldier packs his memories As he leaves Afghanistan And back home, they don't know too much There was just no way to tell You know you had to be there To know that war was hell And there won't be any victory parades For those that's coming back They'll fly them in at midnight And unload the body sacks And the living will be walking down A long and lonely road Because nobody seems to care these days When a soldier makes it home Somewhere in America tonight In this strange and foreign land A soldier unpacks memories That he saved from Vietnam They said it wasn't easy Just another job, well done *Then the government in Saigon fell To the sounds of rebel guns* And the faces of the comrades Who were blown out of the sky Leaves you bitter and disgusted That they didn't have to die *The old men who planned that war You know they all died safe in bed With none of their rich and privileged sons Ending up torn or dead* Back home they didn't know too much There was just no way to tell You know you had to be there to know that war was hell And there wasn't any big parades For those that made it back They flew them home in secret and told them to make tracks And the living were left walking down A long and lonely road Because nobody seemed to care back then When a soldier made it home The night is coming quickly And the stars are on their way As I stare into the evening Looking for the words to say That I saw the lonely soldier Just a boy that's far from home And I saw that I was just like him While upon this earth I roam And there may not be any big parades If I ever make it back As I come home under cover To a world that can't keep track Of the heroes who have fallen Let alone the ones who roam Guess that's why nobody seems to care When a soldier makes it home
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 6:18 AM UTC
When A Soldier Makes It Home
Written by Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger; adapted by Mike Essig. Halfway around the world tonight In a strange and foreign land A soldier packs his memories As he leaves Afghanistan And back home, they don't know too much There was just no way to tell You know you had to be there To know that war was hell And there won't be any victory parades For those that's coming back They'll fly them in at midnight And unload the body sacks And the living will be walking down A long and lonely road Because nobody seems to care these days When a soldier makes it home Somewhere in America tonight In this strange and foreign land A soldier unpacks memories That he saved from Vietnam They said it wasn't easy Just another job, well done *Then the government in Saigon fell To the sounds of rebel guns* And the faces of the comrades Who were blown out of the sky Leaves you bitter and disgusted That they didn't have to die *The old men who planned that war You know they all died safe in bed With none of their rich and privileged sons Ending up torn or dead* Back home they didn't know too much There was just no way to tell You know you had to be there to know that war was hell And there wasn't any big parades For those that made it back They flew them home in secret and told them to make tracks And the living were left walking down A long and lonely road Because nobody seemed to care back then When a soldier made it home The night is coming quickly And the stars are on their way As I stare into the evening Looking for the words to say That I saw the lonely soldier Just a boy that's far from home And I saw that I was just like him While upon this earth I roam And there may not be any big parades If I ever make it back As I come home under cover To a world that can't keep track Of the heroes who have fallen Let alone the ones who roam Guess that's why nobody seems to care When a soldier makes it home
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I love the majestic ugliness of the Eucalypt; Aesthetically more appealing in its twisted, gnarled appearance Than any uniform northern conifer; Infinitely more adapted to the unforgiving antipodean climate Than those idealised European deciduous living monuments Still transfixing our collective view of how a tree should be. Those dropping leaves allowing scenes beyond; Those tendrils of bark denoting Darwinian fitness; All tug at the heart of we new Australians, Conflicted, as we are, by sensibilities born elsewhere, But borne, nevertheless, into an Ancient Eden.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM UTC
Eucalyptus
You told me yourself that “little things to you matter” Being around you I’ve unconsciously adapted that feeling when it comes to you. You say these things and the side of my brain that usually never gets what it wants is being feed. Building emotions on the words you say Building emotions on originally empty words You don’t do drugs but you parade it around an addict . You are very aware I’m trying to dispose of my feelings for you. Seeing you the way you see me But you make it difficult every time you call out with “psst” I don’t want to lose you, that is one awful big mistake. I hope you get past your shyness and let me in Or maybe... maybe you are just afraid you might lose me when you really open up on how you really feel. I really wish you’ll stop playing games even when deep down I feel you enjoy it. So talk to me or make my coping mechanism easy for me Pal ♚ Kunbi_dia
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Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020 at 4:27 AM UTC
My Coping Mechanism (PAL)
Chisel me away I've given you the hammer and all my weak points So you start With little strength starting with all my ligaments and joints You don't tear them Very precise and careful like you know exact what you're doing I should've learned from the past Even though everyone tells and teaches not to take it with you How can i forget when its in repetition and tied to the strings on my shoes I have adapted to the hurt Or lack there of The sight of you doesn't make me sick anymore Just an itch in the back of my throat that i still can't stand You didn't rip out my heart or make me question who i am You just simply made me feel like i wasn't worth it Or anything at all Dirt beneath your feet I've dug through every inch of my body and ripped out your disease Burned the bridge that connected our hearts and minds I hope you do the same As methodically and perfect as me Because when you're digging through old love notes i don't want you to feel a thing when you find Any residue of my feelings Because they were a mistake A mistake not so grave You weren't the best or the worst Just somewhere in the middle Very forgettable In all you're insecure self loathing beauty You know my nature and all i stand for A deliberate betrayel that i seen from a mile away The itch is gone And so are you
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 5:56 AM UTC
Chiseled