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she had always said her favorite color was yellow for the girl with buttery skin and crystal eyes it seemed rather fitting yellow was the color of sunshine and the color of her hair after it had been bleached by summer it was the color of the bumblebees that drank from her favorite flowers flowers that now line her grave she told you her favorite color was yellow because she knew you needed someone radiant with light to ease the depth of your own darkness so she said when autumn arrived you could watch the ground become littered with yellow leaves together when you asked what color lie beneath her skin she told you it was yellow she made herself believe her body was freckled from stardust and not from the amber glow of cigarette burns she still said her favorite color was yellow so she could continue being the light in your colorless world soon enough your favorite color was yellow too but not for the same reasons she fell in love with it you only saw yellow vaguely in the form of teeth stained from tobacco and too much coffee smiling grimly through cracked lips dripping poisoned honey you guilded the word ¨love¨ with muted ochre lies and now she no longer feels the warmth that once emanated from her favorite color she no longer tastes the sweetness of butterscotch and papaya on your lips for you left her with nothing but the sour residue of lemons and bile as your gentle breath extinguished her golden flames and reduced her heart to ash and now she realizes that bumblebees can also administer a piercing sting and as she watches the sunset with its amber hues she no longer sees the color yellow x.
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 12:14 AM UTC
her favorite color was yellow
she had always said her favorite color was yellow for the girl with buttery skin and crystal eyes it seemed rather fitting yellow was the color of sunshine and the color of her hair after it had been bleached by summer it was the color of the bumblebees that drank from her favorite flowers flowers that now line her grave she told you her favorite color was yellow because she knew you needed someone radiant with light to ease the depth of your own darkness so she said when autumn arrived you could watch the ground become littered with yellow leaves together when you asked what color lie beneath her skin she told you it was yellow she made herself believe her body was freckled from stardust and not from the amber glow of cigarette burns she still said her favorite color was yellow so she could continue being the light in your colorless world soon enough your favorite color was yellow too but not for the same reasons she fell in love with it you only saw yellow vaguely in the form of teeth stained from tobacco and too much coffee smiling grimly through cracked lips dripping poisoned honey you guilded the word ¨love¨ with muted ochre lies and now she no longer feels the warmth that once emanated from her favorite color she no longer tastes the sweetness of butterscotch and papaya on your lips for you left her with nothing but the sour residue of lemons and bile as your gentle breath extinguished her golden flames and reduced her heart to ash and now she realizes that bumblebees can also administer a piercing sting and as she watches the sunset with its amber hues she no longer sees the color yellow x.
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It's unfortunate that Parisians Are very hard to bear, In terms of flash obsequiousity, They drive me to despair! And patience is an attribute I don't profess to have To mercifully administer When accents veer to Slav. Baltics look like jellyfish, The Germans are obscene And loud and overbearing But the Swiss are very clean. Italians are a swarthy lot Who gourmandize on food And sacrifice their suavity By being impudently crude. The Spanish are no better, In fact they are probably worse, For obsessing in the blood sports I actually rate them in reverse. Starchiness is British They're convoluted to the core, The Old Boy system's lost it's sheen Aspirants flock to it no more. The Yanks are looking slightly crass Whilst fighting foreign wars, Their pinky held up squeaky clean To call "foul" to China's flaws. China sits inscrutably Holding all the cards Waiting for the moment To strike beneath the guards. India and Pakistan Are squabbling like kids The uproar over Kashmir Rates them lower than the Yids. The Yids are walking tightropes With Iran's nuclear ****** Whilst currying Yank approval, Eventual bombing is a must. The Dutch behave so anally They're always proven right When faced with rigid negatives They blanch with haunches tight. But not the Argentineans They love to dance and flirt, To chase the senorita Cavorting in the scarlet skirt. The South Pacific's wallowing They're adrift from World affairs Oz's self preoccupation Mirrors Kiwi's vacant stares. Africa's way past comment Lost to heat and dust, Warfare, **** and pillage And the rest decayed by rust. Eskimos are OK Clean living on the ice The population static, Zer-O pollution's nice! Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 14 April 2009
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May 2, 2010
May 2, 2010 at 12:08 AM UTC
Eskimos are OK!
It's unfortunate that Parisians Are very hard to bear, In terms of flash obsequiousity, They drive me to despair! And patience is an attribute I don't profess to have To mercifully administer When accents veer to Slav. Baltics look like jellyfish, The Germans are obscene And loud and overbearing But the Swiss are very clean. Italians are a swarthy lot Who gourmandize on food And sacrifice their suavity By being impudently crude. The Spanish are no better, In fact they are probably worse, For obsessing in the blood sports I actually rate them in reverse. Starchiness is British They're convoluted to the core, The Old Boy system's lost it's sheen Aspirants flock to it no more. The Yanks are looking slightly crass Whilst fighting foreign wars, Their pinky held up squeaky clean To call "foul" to China's flaws. China sits inscrutably Holding all the cards Waiting for the moment To strike beneath the guards. India and Pakistan Are squabbling like kids The uproar over Kashmir Rates them lower than the Yids. The Yids are walking tightropes With Iran's nuclear ****** Whilst currying Yank approval, Eventual bombing is a must. The Dutch behave so anally They're always proven right When faced with rigid negatives They blanch with haunches tight. But not the Argentineans They love to dance and flirt, To chase the senorita Cavorting in the scarlet skirt. The South Pacific's wallowing They're adrift from World affairs Oz's self preoccupation Mirrors Kiwi's vacant stares. Africa's way past comment Lost to heat and dust, Warfare, **** and pillage And the rest decayed by rust. Eskimos are OK Clean living on the ice The population static, Zer-O pollution's nice! Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 14 April 2009
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Heart beating, brain waves erratic Depending on another to prove you can be loved Over think like a new theorem Numbers & symbols & calculations in your head Try to look back through all the little details you missed Are you kidding yourself? Seeking for honesty Hoping it’s in your favor Everything seems fine When you are together Search for a sign, an inkling Why do I try to reach out? Stretching so far just to feel you energy It’s so strong Your lips, administer the strongest of narcotics Paralyzed with your being When we part, temporarily of course My vitals change And my heart & head battle For reassurance You make me delusional The scent of you more powerful than a magnetic field As you caress my body, stroke my face I am no longer on this planet I float with the spirits above And sadly it cannot be bought Release me from this paranoia This addiction Why so strongly do I fall into your force field? Is my pull less intense? Or is it that others just possess an energy more appealing? You are nothing to be fooled around with A different kind of beauty not in my realm But in a parallel To bring you into my circle would be an extra force in itself But the lights around you shine so bright That I’d gladly take the fall Use my inner being to fight for you But when it comes back to calculations and figures One tight hold directly on another cannot compete with various forces in multiple directions Even superheroes only deal with one villain an episode Release me from this intangible pull Because my revolving fire burns too bright for this ill-distributed chemical bonding
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Jun 25, 2010
Jun 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM UTC
bonding
Heart beating, brain waves erratic Depending on another to prove you can be loved Over think like a new theorem Numbers & symbols & calculations in your head Try to look back through all the little details you missed Are you kidding yourself? Seeking for honesty Hoping it’s in your favor Everything seems fine When you are together Search for a sign, an inkling Why do I try to reach out? Stretching so far just to feel you energy It’s so strong Your lips, administer the strongest of narcotics Paralyzed with your being When we part, temporarily of course My vitals change And my heart & head battle For reassurance You make me delusional The scent of you more powerful than a magnetic field As you caress my body, stroke my face I am no longer on this planet I float with the spirits above And sadly it cannot be bought Release me from this paranoia This addiction Why so strongly do I fall into your force field? Is my pull less intense? Or is it that others just possess an energy more appealing? You are nothing to be fooled around with A different kind of beauty not in my realm But in a parallel To bring you into my circle would be an extra force in itself But the lights around you shine so bright That I’d gladly take the fall Use my inner being to fight for you But when it comes back to calculations and figures One tight hold directly on another cannot compete with various forces in multiple directions Even superheroes only deal with one villain an episode Release me from this intangible pull Because my revolving fire burns too bright for this ill-distributed chemical bonding
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Ulrich finds comfort in knowing he could seek a lethal dose of medication to hasten his death. Ulrich was standing next to the governor on Monday afternoon, sun pouring in the oaky office, as he signed the bill into law. Doctors and hospitals and state officials are scurrying to prepare. Soon, the state Health Department will get forms ready. The lethal medication is a liquid that the patient must self-administer. Hastening death; akin to yanking out feeding tubes and removing respirators, is not suicide, they say. The underlying illness would be listed as the cause of death.
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 11:18 AM UTC
End-of-Life Bill
This is number six of ORLOK's poems When I see a fat smiling face On a plump young ****** I am consumed with lust To rip out her neck And to **** the lifeblood From her throbbing veins. And then my drooling jaws Slide down her floppy **** Heading southwards To where the business is at For a further tasty mouthful From both ends. Finally I administer The coup de grâce Which is to say Putting it bluntly Eight inches of vampiric **** Up the dirtbox.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 12:17 PM UTC
Fat faced Victims of the Terrifying COUNT ORLOK
My hands are trembling more than usual, so I have altered my coffee to a camomile tea. I administer everything as if it were medicine; a chemist punctuating his day with guilty cigarettes and vague homoeopathy. *It's all ******** I know- but whatever gets you through the day...* In the season of advent, my fingers are bitten down to the quick; throat seared with half-functioning lighters and fragile matches; I can scarcely operate either in this state. The fairy-lights turn the high-street to a runway. *But all I see are charity shops interceded with bookies and coffee houses.* This home-town exists to keep up my interest in finding some purpose. A path to eventual escape from all of these old bonds and ties, pinning me down with memories of *** and all of the street-names I have learned by rote. *I'm treading water here- living in the comfort of a sink-hole.*
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 1:41 PM UTC
Rugby in December
If you’re feeling sinister Have your mom call the minister Nail you to your splintered cross Let him purify your thoughts Regurgitate old bible verses To further rid you of your curses Leave your woes and your coven Take your head out of the oven Swear, kick, bite, and scream Just like Linda on the screen Put down your crucifix Get off your cross of sticks There are pills they can administer If you’re feeling sinister Florescent coats, fluorescent lighting Padded walls to stop the fighting You’re words and tasks become repetitive You needed a stimulant, they gave you a sedative Tell them the truth, they’ll correct it You won't get better looking for an exit So turn off the TV. You with your poison-filled i.v. Swap your identity For some medical remedy Don’t you know they’ll take you out of school If you’re feeling a little cruel? Keep your head down in the halls Ignore the writing on the walls Don’t listen to the slamming doors They can’t live here anymore No, the room hasn’t gotten colder You’re just simply growing older Ignore your phantom visitors If you’re feeling sinister
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Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM UTC
IF YOU’RE FEELING SINISTER
To the one who hosts competitions… Which ******* gave you the right? I wouldn’t listen to your rules even if you paid me. Nor would I let you tell me how I would write my poem. I could write something totally not related to your competition and submit it. Maybe I’ll **** your girlfriend and let you read about how it went. She didn’t take your name when she came(just so you know) Who said you could take such liberties? I’m gonna bash your head in with an exhaust pipe And when it dents and gains a sharp edge I’ll scrape your eye with it Just one, because I want you to see… You wanna host competitions, do ya? Meet my little match Ever wondered how a lit match feels in your nostril? If I sparked it and let the gunpowder catch flame in your nose, how wonderful would that feel? Listen here Mr. you asked for this by hosting it… there’s no backing out now… I still have a few things to run you over with. **** umbrella? no splash guard? ugh… too messy… Ah my favorite! the serpent’s tongue. For that I’ll first have to break your jaw, then hold your tongue out Then I’ll stretch your tongue out with clamps and slice it right down the middle Such a fitting exercise. For you. You have become what you really are. I’ll leave your manny parts intact… I know how we are when It comes to those. I will tell you though, you won’t be able to use em ever again… sorry about the irony. Lets get down to business, shall we? I hate you. You know why. I’m gonna inject you with a pain enhancing serum. Then I will administer XXXX XXX It’s an ancient technique of entertaining someone. Dating all the way back to almost 900 AD It was banned, sadly, in the last century. Anyway, you’re lucky I have knowledge of this It won’t spoil our fun… lets start with the obvious places Eye lids, lips, ears, finger tips, toes, arm pits, the ******* the wrists….etc…. You shouldn’t bother keeping count, that’s my job But I highly doubt you’ll even live past number 233.
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 4:57 AM UTC
Killing the competition
To the one who hosts competitions… Which ******* gave you the right? I wouldn’t listen to your rules even if you paid me. Nor would I let you tell me how I would write my poem. I could write something totally not related to your competition and submit it. Maybe I’ll **** your girlfriend and let you read about how it went. She didn’t take your name when she came(just so you know) Who said you could take such liberties? I’m gonna bash your head in with an exhaust pipe And when it dents and gains a sharp edge I’ll scrape your eye with it Just one, because I want you to see… You wanna host competitions, do ya? Meet my little match Ever wondered how a lit match feels in your nostril? If I sparked it and let the gunpowder catch flame in your nose, how wonderful would that feel? Listen here Mr. you asked for this by hosting it… there’s no backing out now… I still have a few things to run you over with. **** umbrella? no splash guard? ugh… too messy… Ah my favorite! the serpent’s tongue. For that I’ll first have to break your jaw, then hold your tongue out Then I’ll stretch your tongue out with clamps and slice it right down the middle Such a fitting exercise. For you. You have become what you really are. I’ll leave your manny parts intact… I know how we are when It comes to those. I will tell you though, you won’t be able to use em ever again… sorry about the irony. Lets get down to business, shall we? I hate you. You know why. I’m gonna inject you with a pain enhancing serum. Then I will administer XXXX XXX It’s an ancient technique of entertaining someone. Dating all the way back to almost 900 AD It was banned, sadly, in the last century. Anyway, you’re lucky I have knowledge of this It won’t spoil our fun… lets start with the obvious places Eye lids, lips, ears, finger tips, toes, arm pits, the ******* the wrists….etc…. You shouldn’t bother keeping count, that’s my job But I highly doubt you’ll even live past number 233.
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and we put our hard earned dreams in a wooden beach chair and set sail cross the blue blue sea using seashells as hats using palm fronds for tea cups and get em all mixed up chasing paper doilies sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus goin because that smile you gimmie honey midnight and she stepped to the edge of the road with a rubber duckie in one hand and a lethal dose of reality in the other she will use one to make you laugh then she will administer the other one cause that's what she thinks is funny but that's the thing reality checks always bounce got rubber duckies on the brain forevermore sneak down her road with her hand in mine and all the mister naturals in the world couldn't be wiser than the cherry eating little gnome in the movie usher outfit sitting by the exit charging admission back into the world cause its exactly as advertised its stranger than freakin fiction and its heavy brother sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus going because that smile you gimmie honey they ain't got  too many passion moments left let em get on with their neon green VW bug and its fifteen clowns waiting in the trunk cause if all else fails and she needs distraction you can set up a tent and sell tickets to the sunrise of her surprise at how easy it is but deep down inside you know its heavy brother so you pick up a guitar and start to play whatever tune comes to mind and while chopsticks is better on a keyboard your heart is hungry and chinese sounds good she lights a kerosine lamp and holding up to the sea all the lost sailors hoping to find their homes stop in for tea and a biscuit it all sounds like romantic gibberish to me all this play for pay food for gain sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus goin because that smile you gimmie honey
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Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 1:01 AM UTC
beach chair bunnys
and we put our hard earned dreams in a wooden beach chair and set sail cross the blue blue sea using seashells as hats using palm fronds for tea cups and get em all mixed up chasing paper doilies sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus goin because that smile you gimmie honey midnight and she stepped to the edge of the road with a rubber duckie in one hand and a lethal dose of reality in the other she will use one to make you laugh then she will administer the other one cause that's what she thinks is funny but that's the thing reality checks always bounce got rubber duckies on the brain forevermore sneak down her road with her hand in mine and all the mister naturals in the world couldn't be wiser than the cherry eating little gnome in the movie usher outfit sitting by the exit charging admission back into the world cause its exactly as advertised its stranger than freakin fiction and its heavy brother sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus going because that smile you gimmie honey they ain't got  too many passion moments left let em get on with their neon green VW bug and its fifteen clowns waiting in the trunk cause if all else fails and she needs distraction you can set up a tent and sell tickets to the sunrise of her surprise at how easy it is but deep down inside you know its heavy brother so you pick up a guitar and start to play whatever tune comes to mind and while chopsticks is better on a keyboard your heart is hungry and chinese sounds good she lights a kerosine lamp and holding up to the sea all the lost sailors hoping to find their homes stop in for tea and a biscuit it all sounds like romantic gibberish to me all this play for pay food for gain sing you a song that stretches all night long you spend the dawn clapping and calling for an encore so we all join hands and get another chorus goin because that smile you gimmie honey
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The screen is a madhouse of body-building, ego-boosting, and bad gig recordings. I see her bronzing in the beach, applying lotion and laughing with a new friend. I'm still stuck in the snow, watching her skirt in the breeze. I chain coffee in the morning to counter sobriety, to show that I know her more than just by the light of the moon. In sunglasses, we'll meet somewhere neutral; an escape route to run if the patient becomes lunatic again. She'll administer the pill from her pockets to ensure I'll flat-line through her absences, and then resurrect when she's lost her appetite. Far away from this selfish depression, I dream of us painting a wall. Nothing dies when it is made into memory; nothing lives without your early morning call.
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 8:55 PM UTC
Dead Scuba-Diver
. Most of the violence, and that such as he is in the Senate, The prince wounding thousands, you have to help the helpers and leaders; I do not want to go down; I do not know what you are doing, The first server design uses a classic program and she shows her sports bra - on the Sky Cam        and gets a pair of free 3D            x-ray glasses, Of brandy and white wine from the                        radio station to a wedding Weddings are,           and not before. No trading, financial world.                                               Of all the words The reason why those, who did not do this,                                 that I may know I can read the book to know how to administer treatment to The Wall Street markets, for with thee,    I will purchase other The application will be podcasts,                      but also superb. Radio and I shall not find a place for. to worry about.                      And the best way to work on that. Glasses, a robot face. it is. 1, as John Rose after warning Atọjade was from England,                            |                Paul was He moves those, it cannot be that there are no radio waves. radio Wedding wedding Cheer An old man, wish to remain in the water                             of the room. if we keep I do not think we love each other. Out of four miles he wants to get her for me;                 I do not know what First, he planned to meet Temperance When [ysbryd] appeared,             |    they and all the games in the program. Cognac-colored glasses and allowed to sit in the box. for; the radio and the wedding ceremony One of the adults,      it is said that it is not a piece of wood. If we take care of the child and the mainstream trafficking All the words that you know.         As part of the book reads A new way to Wall Street Fish poisoning complaints,                    which is also Dutch Big J Ray housing;                            Providing a file's variations. And a stack of channels,          and the best of the best More, and the other is not.      Other applications Best to be on the radio, and they are most suited. Where you can also find your location color The glass on the left hand strongly                       that's the best way to a work a gram: According to John Rose and the beautiful woman Web England,                                San Pablo flies. With the radio waves on The radio side of the water. |
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 3:06 AM UTC
John Rose & The Beautiful Woman
. Most of the violence, and that such as he is in the Senate, The prince wounding thousands, you have to help the helpers and leaders; I do not want to go down; I do not know what you are doing, The first server design uses a classic program and she shows her sports bra - on the Sky Cam        and gets a pair of free 3D            x-ray glasses, Of brandy and white wine from the                        radio station to a wedding Weddings are,           and not before. No trading, financial world.                                               Of all the words The reason why those, who did not do this,                                 that I may know I can read the book to know how to administer treatment to The Wall Street markets, for with thee,    I will purchase other The application will be podcasts,                      but also superb. Radio and I shall not find a place for. to worry about.                      And the best way to work on that. Glasses, a robot face. it is. 1, as John Rose after warning Atọjade was from England,                            |                Paul was He moves those, it cannot be that there are no radio waves. radio Wedding wedding Cheer An old man, wish to remain in the water                             of the room. if we keep I do not think we love each other. Out of four miles he wants to get her for me;                 I do not know what First, he planned to meet Temperance When [ysbryd] appeared,             |    they and all the games in the program. Cognac-colored glasses and allowed to sit in the box. for; the radio and the wedding ceremony One of the adults,      it is said that it is not a piece of wood. If we take care of the child and the mainstream trafficking All the words that you know.         As part of the book reads A new way to Wall Street Fish poisoning complaints,                    which is also Dutch Big J Ray housing;                            Providing a file's variations. And a stack of channels,          and the best of the best More, and the other is not.      Other applications Best to be on the radio, and they are most suited. Where you can also find your location color The glass on the left hand strongly                       that's the best way to a work a gram: According to John Rose and the beautiful woman Web England,                                San Pablo flies. With the radio waves on The radio side of the water. |
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Some days I feel it slither within me, a sickness, a serpent, it writhes to be free some days I feel like a dark cloud, like a shroud upon this world like the wind that whirls around your shoulders on a cold octobers day, like the smell of fresh decay, some days I have to say I that I feel I've gone astray from the path and taken it upon myself to release some sort of wrath, to take vengeance upon society for turning a monster like me loose in the world to play, I feel like I need to administer some sinister right away, straight into my bloodstream, I need a full dose of dream within a dream, nightmare scenes, I have been known to say that I often, feel like sleeping in a coffin, and that sometimes I feel sublimely surreal and inhuman like a demon born of a dying fire, Voracious and with no desire But to bleed dry everyone I find If I feel it eases my so called "troubled mind" Oh, I can't say that I don't yearn for blood and souls, some days But mainly I'm just angry enough to take it out on me you see, it's such a trip to be, the hero and the villain of your own story, no guts? then it's just not gory enough, so I gotta get tough, cause it's an army of darkness I'm standing up against, and I'm lacking the proper chainsaw limbs for defense and I could use at least one shotgun, so I guess I can stand and fight, go kicking and screaming into that good night, or I can run, ************ run!
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Dec 16, 2012
Dec 16, 2012 at 7:50 PM UTC
Sinister
An old woman sits down in the wheelchair. A small child takes her first wavering step. A million fireworks dance into the air, flash, ears hear songs of celebration, awe takes hold. A million mortar shells leap into the air, flash, ears sing the ring of confusion, shock takes hold. A man nearing the end of his time on earth stoops to tie a child's shoe. A man nearing the end of his time on earth stoops to tie a noose. A woman in white walks down the aisle alongside the man she loves. A woman in black walks down the aisle to the man she loved. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of cold medicine to an ill infant. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of pentobarbital to an ill canine. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of ****** into her own arm. A father raises his hand. . . . A child receives a reassuring pat on the shoulder, his team having just won the tee-ball state championships. A woman takes aim, her lens coming into focus on her subject. . . . A man that has been psychologically abusing her for several years collapses to the ground. A team of several hundred people stands back, looking in awe upon the skyscraper they have designed and built over the course of several years. This accomplishment towers above all else humankind has created. A team of several hundred people stands back, looking in awe upon the mushroom cloud they have engineered and constructed over the course of several months. This weapon towers above all else humankind has created. A million lives wink out. A million eyes open for the first time. A manuscript is penned, the author sets down his pen and takes a sip of tea. A pile of books burns with black smoke, the cult sets down their torches and takes a deep breath before screaming. The infant screams sharply after taking its first breath. The old man wheezes after telling the last of his stories to his grandson. "That's it, boy. That's everything I ever did." A tear rolls down his cheek, the profundity of his statement dawning on him as the breaths become harder to take. "That's everything I was to everyone I met." Under every rock a thousand secrets shimmer. Beneath every tree, a hundred promises have been made. Some of them have been broken. Remember the promises you made? You know the ones. You can become the architect of someone's dreams or the shadowed figure in their nightmares. You can put down the gun. You can pull the trigger. You can. A billion men and a billion women before you have lived out their lives, have wasted, have wanted, have sunk to the lowest depths and risen to the highest peaks. A million have set out to become the best at something, and a whole lot of them have succeeded.
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 11:55 PM UTC
We Humans, Capable of Such Things
An old woman sits down in the wheelchair. A small child takes her first wavering step. A million fireworks dance into the air, flash, ears hear songs of celebration, awe takes hold. A million mortar shells leap into the air, flash, ears sing the ring of confusion, shock takes hold. A man nearing the end of his time on earth stoops to tie a child's shoe. A man nearing the end of his time on earth stoops to tie a noose. A woman in white walks down the aisle alongside the man she loves. A woman in black walks down the aisle to the man she loved. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of cold medicine to an ill infant. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of pentobarbital to an ill canine. A doctor readies a syringe to administer a dose of ****** into her own arm. A father raises his hand. . . . A child receives a reassuring pat on the shoulder, his team having just won the tee-ball state championships. A woman takes aim, her lens coming into focus on her subject. . . . A man that has been psychologically abusing her for several years collapses to the ground. A team of several hundred people stands back, looking in awe upon the skyscraper they have designed and built over the course of several years. This accomplishment towers above all else humankind has created. A team of several hundred people stands back, looking in awe upon the mushroom cloud they have engineered and constructed over the course of several months. This weapon towers above all else humankind has created. A million lives wink out. A million eyes open for the first time. A manuscript is penned, the author sets down his pen and takes a sip of tea. A pile of books burns with black smoke, the cult sets down their torches and takes a deep breath before screaming. The infant screams sharply after taking its first breath. The old man wheezes after telling the last of his stories to his grandson. "That's it, boy. That's everything I ever did." A tear rolls down his cheek, the profundity of his statement dawning on him as the breaths become harder to take. "That's everything I was to everyone I met." Under every rock a thousand secrets shimmer. Beneath every tree, a hundred promises have been made. Some of them have been broken. Remember the promises you made? You know the ones. You can become the architect of someone's dreams or the shadowed figure in their nightmares. You can put down the gun. You can pull the trigger. You can. A billion men and a billion women before you have lived out their lives, have wasted, have wanted, have sunk to the lowest depths and risen to the highest peaks. A million have set out to become the best at something, and a whole lot of them have succeeded.
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hands remind me of you they can heal they can break they can create  they can stand idly by just like you touch is everything but your touch is more it's a hurricane  that can't break anything a feather  that weighs too much  everything you touch hurts it's only when you walk away that i can mend your hands were never meant  to administer to the beaten your hands delivered  pain and suffering masquerading  as peace and safety  it's not as though i'm surprised  i suppose that dying  is but a side effect  of living  [holyoak]
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 10:34 PM UTC
Is There Medication For This?
our mothers tears fill a hospital ward as a doctor summons the Chaplins call last rites administer to this tiny newborn thrice in five days you're destined to fall born with a hole in such a delicate heart yet no doctor nor cleric could recognise this was to allow the world seep through a shining eighth wonder of pale blue eyes held on the sill outside a neonatal room i saw with my soul a love birthed anew dad he promised that you'd be home soon there to the years of childhood we grew the time had come for mam to say to me sister was different in other ways as well not for you was destined a desk at school nor books would you read nor stories tell innocence of the pure and purity of truth special she said born of down syndrome and yet would i never once see you down for your smiles to me evoke only wisdom now as you pass over your fortieth year my sister i cherish all that we hold dear for you are a family's jewel in it's crown raising a world from love handed down
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 11:57 AM UTC
sister
You are a benevolent visitor Inaudible as my dreams Everything you touch Turns to crystal and white Oh how my eyes delight In your beautiful patterns As you lay quietly upon glass Can you stay forever? My flesh abhors you For the sting you administer yet Autumn's half-stripped trees Wear you as a morning garment I do blame the sun As it shortens your reign Your brevity intensifies my desire To see you on the morrow
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Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 at 10:45 AM UTC
Frost
Someone must stop for a girl who has lost hope. Someone must care when everyone else flees. Someone should administer soothing remedies. Full restoration of euphoric laughter. This world owes you joy whether you accept it or not. Someone. Someone care for those swept aside, like yesterdays chaff. Someone may reach down into the bleak, and oull you free. With restoration in his eyes. Someone aches for every tear shed, each child's cry. Someone wonders what must be done to put a lasting smile on your face. For very specific reasons Pain can be transmuted to rest. We are the effects. Take a piece of my soul's slow rebirth. Delivered by your actions. I ponder the unknowable Yet they will not ask me Why I smile so. I would gift to you the secret, but its stapled to a tombstone that burned up in the fire. I can see the true goodness in your eyes. Yes. I am not blind or stupid! Ignore all the fools who define beauty as skin I see the haunted majesty within Heroes come and go Healers lie But you must believe these words. Your dreams are intact, they have only been shredded in make believe. Learn from the world how to live. Nightmares like that must be disguarded, and turned into fulfillment Someone cares for you Do not lose faith Run not from this world. This world is the only one we have got.
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Sep 6, 2012
Sep 6, 2012 at 10:44 AM UTC
Alive
I penned a pen bent out of my mind asylum I seek, and of fetid dreams I reek silence dreaded, but it seems it's all she can speak.. should have taken my time, but padded cells they shook us to the core; in our loneliness we held each other in embrace like no-one has ever been held before; today I awoke dizzy; confused, and admitted to another shore one that swashes in pain; like an ocean of glass and with each break, her memory shreds my heart like an open sore. so I slowly begin to wash away the pain, disaster being; my mind isn't even mine, and it's always been that way; even before I realized sanity was just a game but in the grind of life, it's a hellish reminder to not have been born very sane. profusely I beg, and plead; but it's as plain as day, she's never coming back; so slack, and bleed, and cut as we may; administer the habitual as I plead and pray-- not to cut too deep; because this life it's already taken most of me away.
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May 1, 2018
May 1, 2018 at 2:57 AM UTC
Snowing Ashes
The first attempt ended in nothingness. Ribbons flowed from the belly of mother hollow, and though they grasped at their own absence, their fingers broke like brittle leaves, returning to the mother’s flesh. This was the birth of change. The second attempt ended in madness. Shadows rose out of the nothingness in waves and cascaded into pools of being, but when being opened its eyes and saw its image, it let out a threshing scream. This was the birth of separation. The third attempt ended in lack. Fire poured from the cosmic maw and baked earth to blood; flesh gorged on itself, and pale figures gripped the edges of rivers, gaping at one another, unable to speak. This was the birth of despair. The last attempt ended in man; and nothing birthed after it. Appended File Source states the archaeologist was investigating the Mariana Trench. Strangely, he began displaying symptoms of decompression sickness on the descent. His state worsened, but, due to his insistence, the pilot continued the mission. The archaeologist began recounting, in “muddled and broken speech”, accounts of his wife and children. In interviews conducted after the incident, colleagues claim to have never met any persons matching such descriptions. Soon after, the archaeologist collapsed. The pilot recounts, in a shaken tone, “By all means he was out. Like—I called to him, you know.” When asked why he did not administer first aid, the pilot replied “I couldn’t st—he was out cold, I ******* swear. I didn’t notice it at first, moving my hand over his face, you know—staring into space. I grabbed the kit, turned back, and that’s when it hit me. His eyes weren’t glazed, they were fixed on me. Tracking me. Like—those weren’t his eyes, anymore.” When asked to expand on this, the pilot broke down and had to be escorted from the room. The archaeologist has yet to awaken from his coma. It should be noted his eyes are closed. — 37, Male. Cairo, Egypt.
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM UTC
Non-Entity 000
The first attempt ended in nothingness. Ribbons flowed from the belly of mother hollow, and though they grasped at their own absence, their fingers broke like brittle leaves, returning to the mother’s flesh. This was the birth of change. The second attempt ended in madness. Shadows rose out of the nothingness in waves and cascaded into pools of being, but when being opened its eyes and saw its image, it let out a threshing scream. This was the birth of separation. The third attempt ended in lack. Fire poured from the cosmic maw and baked earth to blood; flesh gorged on itself, and pale figures gripped the edges of rivers, gaping at one another, unable to speak. This was the birth of despair. The last attempt ended in man; and nothing birthed after it. Appended File Source states the archaeologist was investigating the Mariana Trench. Strangely, he began displaying symptoms of decompression sickness on the descent. His state worsened, but, due to his insistence, the pilot continued the mission. The archaeologist began recounting, in “muddled and broken speech”, accounts of his wife and children. In interviews conducted after the incident, colleagues claim to have never met any persons matching such descriptions. Soon after, the archaeologist collapsed. The pilot recounts, in a shaken tone, “By all means he was out. Like—I called to him, you know.” When asked why he did not administer first aid, the pilot replied “I couldn’t st—he was out cold, I ******* swear. I didn’t notice it at first, moving my hand over his face, you know—staring into space. I grabbed the kit, turned back, and that’s when it hit me. His eyes weren’t glazed, they were fixed on me. Tracking me. Like—those weren’t his eyes, anymore.” When asked to expand on this, the pilot broke down and had to be escorted from the room. The archaeologist has yet to awaken from his coma. It should be noted his eyes are closed. — 37, Male. Cairo, Egypt.
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I have let my lustful mind forget to administer the worries that drip from my lips and onto my hands, where they seep through my fingertips and onto the ground, which is where all my vexing words belonged all along. And I have let my little mouth blabber for hours, ranting about unrelated subjects on unfamiliar ground. These words are equitable in my mind, but as they rest on my tongue, I have realized that they lack the only flavor that society would be willing to taste. I have let unrelenting consequence  find me here, for I am unable to control what chaos gushes from my mouth, and onto my lips, from which they just drip. I have let myself repeat the most engrossing words. So forgive me in advance, for I have let, and I will forever let my mind roam without a leash. But then again, why restrain what most crave for; a mind with the ability to review itself. Well, no need to crave. All you need to do is let, and I have let.
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 2:18 PM UTC
content
There was once a place called the UK That voted to leave and not stay The government lied One great nation died They'd thrown their whole future away First we look at the campaign Terrible both leave and remain Great lies on both sides The country divides My goodness are we going insane? So let us ask the population Oh we all hate immigration The economy's bad We're feeling quite sad So we'll rip a great whole in this nation How can we make a decision When there's clearly a deep incision Why change all our ways When after a couple of days There's such a great whopping division? We can all vote, young and old A value we should all uphold But it's not democratic When the campaign's erratic And lies are all that we're told One thing that I find quite sinister This new unelected Prime Minister Equality's great And I don't want to hate But why is she the one to administer? I must make it clear what I mean Don't think what I'm saying's obscene But you cry for democracy Oh the hypocrisy! Clearly you're not all that keen And maybe we'll all be alright It won't all change overnight But I'm European And if you're disagreein' Then I swear I won't give up the fight
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 4:58 AM UTC
A Limerick
I have depression. I suspect I’ve had it for a long time. It’s only recently I accepted it. Having this, is like have an insufferable house guest that just wouldn’t leave. He was never invited. I don’t even know why he’s even here. He’s very persuasive. He tells me things and shows me what I perceive to be my true value. I know he likes it here and I’ve had him for so long that I have found strange comfort having him around. At times, he may slip away without me even knowing. But at times, he’d show up. He’d make a grand entrance. He’d fuss. But I’d still wouldn’t realise. These days, people know I’m not alone. People know of him. People read and watch videos of him. I applaud them for trying to understand him. And our relationship. But it saddens me and it fuels him when the aids don’t do him any justice. They just allow people to think they know better. They think they’ve been educated and can start to administer help. They assume that you’re not heeding their advice. They think you don’t even try. But again I applaud them... For trying so very hard. This is me and I have a house guest that I’m sincerely trying to manage. I have depression.
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Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 5:56 AM UTC
Him