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1260 Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track— Because that Death is final, However first it be, This instant be suspended Above Mortality— Significance that each has lived The other to detect Discovery not God himself Could now annihilate Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you, who were Existence Yourself forgot to live— The “Life that is” will then have been A thing I never knew— As Paradise fictitious Until the Realm of you— The “Life that is to be,” to me, A Residence too plain Unless in my Redeemer’s Face I recognize your own— Of Immortality who doubts He may exchange with me Curtailed by your obscuring Face Of everything but He— Of Heaven and Hell I also yield The Right to reprehend To whoso would commute this Face For his less priceless Friend. If “God is Love” as he admits We think that me must be Because he is a “jealous God” He tells us certainly If “All is possible with” him As he besides concedes He will refund us finally Our confiscated Gods—
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Because that you are going
Doctor Larch peers out the window, Pulling aside brocaded curtains to hide The grief that he will not show, The rending emptiness he feels inside. As his son Homer rides past the sunset, Not knowing where he goes But aspiring to see the wide world, The ocean at Mount Desert, Seeing wonder in the expanse And worlds inside a circle of glass. He has taken with him his heart, A dark picture of frailty. He finds unexpected work in an orchard, Leisurely harvesting round, garnet jewels. The nomads, dark and wary, Ask him to read about death and stars. There are rules for the workers. And Homer finds that they apply To no one, neither nomads or Curious young men. He sees in the errant father The reflection of his own, The man who made him good. “You are my work of art” He wrote. Like an artist with his painting, Who resists giving it away, So Doctor Larch holds on to him Hoping his adolescence ends And he returns. Finding peace at the last. The lack of rules bring about a sea change, Allowing forbidden love and pain. He ventures out once more into the vacuum Of conscience set free, He devises his own rules about the womb And how to help those in agony But eventually… With all the rules now open, There is nothing left for him to do. So he boards the migrant truck Just as the pilot returns, broken. He watches the struggle with a wheelchair Sees his lover watch him with her yellow hair Knows her future, years of sacrifice. And he admits at last That he has a purpose, The train to St. Cloud huffs slowly away, With Homer standing in the wet snow. There is the old asylum, The orphanage and home on the hill, Almost black, with the sunset behind, Homer begins the long climb. He approaches slowly. But then, a burst of laughter And children from the door Flock around him, dancing, shrieking, Some holding him like an errant dog, Who must be told to stay. “Will you stay?” they ask. “I think so,” he smiles in irony. He is home at the last.
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 10:58 AM UTC
Leaving St. Cloud
Doctor Larch peers out the window, Pulling aside brocaded curtains to hide The grief that he will not show, The rending emptiness he feels inside. As his son Homer rides past the sunset, Not knowing where he goes But aspiring to see the wide world, The ocean at Mount Desert, Seeing wonder in the expanse And worlds inside a circle of glass. He has taken with him his heart, A dark picture of frailty. He finds unexpected work in an orchard, Leisurely harvesting round, garnet jewels. The nomads, dark and wary, Ask him to read about death and stars. There are rules for the workers. And Homer finds that they apply To no one, neither nomads or Curious young men. He sees in the errant father The reflection of his own, The man who made him good. “You are my work of art” He wrote. Like an artist with his painting, Who resists giving it away, So Doctor Larch holds on to him Hoping his adolescence ends And he returns. Finding peace at the last. The lack of rules bring about a sea change, Allowing forbidden love and pain. He ventures out once more into the vacuum Of conscience set free, He devises his own rules about the womb And how to help those in agony But eventually… With all the rules now open, There is nothing left for him to do. So he boards the migrant truck Just as the pilot returns, broken. He watches the struggle with a wheelchair Sees his lover watch him with her yellow hair Knows her future, years of sacrifice. And he admits at last That he has a purpose, The train to St. Cloud huffs slowly away, With Homer standing in the wet snow. There is the old asylum, The orphanage and home on the hill, Almost black, with the sunset behind, Homer begins the long climb. He approaches slowly. But then, a burst of laughter And children from the door Flock around him, dancing, shrieking, Some holding him like an errant dog, Who must be told to stay. “Will you stay?” they ask. “I think so,” he smiles in irony. He is home at the last.
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Thousands of us were displaced Started careers late Not lucky enough to have had great jobs So we work hard Put ourselves through night school While taking care of family Finally ... Yes, yeah,  whoopee Did it ! Once again completed school Another certificate added to the growing list of achievements. More bills owed to uncle Sam Going on numerous job interviews No one's responding Instead ... All this knowledge stored in your head Current jobs pays minimum wages Those colleges attended; mounting When you try to get ahead  - They hold on to their employments As if, It's Rocket science Looking for younger, greener admits Once AARP comes a knocking on Your door You know they don't want your Expertise anymore What's one to do Still strong, healthy, seasoned Educated, no strings to boot Hopelessly stuck in a world of "We will call you " So at the tender age of fifty Thoughts of starting your own business floats in your head Right Now, back to school For another certificate A chance to use that knowledge Put bread on the table Feel useful Quality of life renewed. JRap /2016
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM UTC
Mid-age Graduate
Lone star walking roads, crowbar in hand cowgirl I'll die for, I died and I died again, fluent in 6 country's, passports; pardons no cargo, but luggage is a stainless steel flask, half full, half way, to the moon if you asked me? Cadillacs in space, expensive taste that's masked with — the cheap stuff, inspired souls, they walk, and this forsaken path, they'll never make hell a ***** deed or two from heaven, counterparts we're equals, we're lost they're my colleagues, a scandal from remembrance, remember we followed rules? no response **** there's a shift in the rubix cube,  a memo from the warden, no weapons in the visit room, coordinating sin, a taste of gin before the see you soons, world was much warm before stone replaced the sand dunes, scoff at the elixir, cordially she casts stones, ******* of a demon crossing ponds is all the child knows, tales of the fishermen, who heard it through the corridors, all and all departed, with a fear of the other gods, strictly prohibited, a swig of the forbidden fruit, who are you to judge me, When Your Son Is Not Of Holy Proof! wedded to a mortal said your honor, absent i do's, abstinence is bliss and your crime ascends civilian law, guilty -- you're filthy, your son will never know your soul, I know my role and play it well, Your god never admits he's wrong, so why would I? — a baby cried, I'm present for my son's birth, and leave before an open eye the practice of a perfect curse.
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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 8:13 AM UTC
(great grandson of Greek God Cronus) Our Deadbeat Father
A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume. Strait in the mazed bed She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room, At large as the dead, Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards. She has come possessed Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall, Possessed by the skies She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust Yet raves at her will On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears. And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last I may without fail Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.
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Love In The Asylum
A self confessed dreamer One that knew no bounds Can't keep his mind in tether It's always fleeing from the grounds He'd always been the dreamer Picking the shackles of reality Always hopeful of finding another A safe haven, an escape, a sanctuary Madness is thought of this silly little dreamer Forever bartering reality for a life of fantasy "He's moonstruck", said one to the other Obstinate still he chooses to wander free Alas one day, he stumbled upon a jewel Glistening, deceivingly within arm's reach But a beautiful game was played so cruel Fate wouldn't give easily what it could teach Glimpses of undefined beauty Himself drawn closer to this beacon He craves for this gem so madly Didn't care for what's to happen He descended to the surface One thing he just did realise That the jewel wasn't in its place But a reflection of another in the skies He looked up, he spun and he squinted Attempting this search he had just begun For a moment he found himself to be blinded For the jewel is indeed the sun He marvels at her beauty Till his eyes turned red and sore But he doesn't stop even briefly For she's the object of his adore He gazes at his newfound muse Till the day grew dim and late When she sets he would hesitate and refuse To return willingly to his ****** state Through promise he returns daily To catch his sun as she would rise For she fills him with aplenty And she listens to his forlorn cries He loves her much as she did him In each other's magic the two would bask As time flits by, the day grows dreadfully dim Too short a time from dawn till dusk The dreamer waits patiently As dusk turns to dawn The dreamer waits painfully For she will come then she'll be gone This rise is somewhat special For his love he had made known She admits the love is reciprocal For him her love had also grown But the dreamer will soon come to realise Out of reach his sun he can never kiss Her bountiful love will be the ultimate prize The prize he can never claim to be fully his *"Silly little dreamer feeding your childish dreams" "Silly little dreamer what fanciful notions you make" "Silly little dreamer you'll be ripped at the seams" "Silly little dreamer not every heart you just can take"* He pays no heed to what the others say He knows his chances run exceedingly slim He's walking on tightrope that's doomed to fray But what happens today is what really matters to him I am that silly little dreamer Whose feet is never on the ground I have chosen to live part of my life in wonder For it is you that I have found
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:59 PM UTC
Dreamer (I)
A self confessed dreamer One that knew no bounds Can't keep his mind in tether It's always fleeing from the grounds He'd always been the dreamer Picking the shackles of reality Always hopeful of finding another A safe haven, an escape, a sanctuary Madness is thought of this silly little dreamer Forever bartering reality for a life of fantasy "He's moonstruck", said one to the other Obstinate still he chooses to wander free Alas one day, he stumbled upon a jewel Glistening, deceivingly within arm's reach But a beautiful game was played so cruel Fate wouldn't give easily what it could teach Glimpses of undefined beauty Himself drawn closer to this beacon He craves for this gem so madly Didn't care for what's to happen He descended to the surface One thing he just did realise That the jewel wasn't in its place But a reflection of another in the skies He looked up, he spun and he squinted Attempting this search he had just begun For a moment he found himself to be blinded For the jewel is indeed the sun He marvels at her beauty Till his eyes turned red and sore But he doesn't stop even briefly For she's the object of his adore He gazes at his newfound muse Till the day grew dim and late When she sets he would hesitate and refuse To return willingly to his ****** state Through promise he returns daily To catch his sun as she would rise For she fills him with aplenty And she listens to his forlorn cries He loves her much as she did him In each other's magic the two would bask As time flits by, the day grows dreadfully dim Too short a time from dawn till dusk The dreamer waits patiently As dusk turns to dawn The dreamer waits painfully For she will come then she'll be gone This rise is somewhat special For his love he had made known She admits the love is reciprocal For him her love had also grown But the dreamer will soon come to realise Out of reach his sun he can never kiss Her bountiful love will be the ultimate prize The prize he can never claim to be fully his *"Silly little dreamer feeding your childish dreams" "Silly little dreamer what fanciful notions you make" "Silly little dreamer you'll be ripped at the seams" "Silly little dreamer not every heart you just can take"* He pays no heed to what the others say He knows his chances run exceedingly slim He's walking on tightrope that's doomed to fray But what happens today is what really matters to him I am that silly little dreamer Whose feet is never on the ground I have chosen to live part of my life in wonder For it is you that I have found
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I've been aware for many a year, but cut off by him, for crimes he accuses for crimes undisclosed, his silence is wider than the great oceans, with no means of passage. till one day a word, his brother uses a word that makes no pretense, that shocks, stuns, and force!admits me to a reality, I, knew but couldn't admit schizophrenic. here I am sundered speechless; as a new form of sadness now internally prevails, and I am even more quiet than usual, contemplative, they call it, but I recognize sad/mad in every one of its manifold disguises, and wonder just how much, own ingenious genes, the paucityof my impoverished down~ bringing brought, bought, caught, contributed to this loss, this onus, this cross that has no answer to the                                    ***only question that matters,                                      how much,                                      am I the guilty party                                                                          the disaster father***
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Aug 22, 2025
Aug 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM UTC
my son is ill (schizophrenic}
Here, now, summer is synonymous with loneliness, Scorching heat with empty houses and empty driveways. In a few hours, your room with a future lost Out of my own free will, And the beach we used to frequent will be synonymous with the ghosts of hope and a lover scorned. I called my uncle today and I almost cried. His voice is synonymous with love unconditional and pure, As he half-jokingly admits that he loves me more than my siblings Because When I was young and sat on his shoulders and drooled on his hair, I was synonymous with daughter years before he had his own. As I text my friends, snort at their jokes and cringe at their mistakes, I wonder What am I synonymous with?
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 1:42 PM UTC
Synonyms
The lonely notes flowing, falling, leap from The thin and flitting fingers of the pianist, The cup of melancholy, drained to the dregs, bittersweet in that the love of happiness and joy is tempered now, from longing for the delicate and pensive feel, that comes from dipping into the small and lonely pool of melancholy. Grief, a distant specter, hovering in the fringe of chance, is nearer now, melancholy, the doorway, slides open on silent hinges, and admits the crushing tide. High, high, and faster still, the pianist falls, slowly down and up again, grief, the storm, disrupts the flow of sound and silence, and incorporates itself into the threading melody, and so erodes the shores of joy and laughter, the violet waves of gentle melancholy, laced with the thinnest threads of blackest grief, sighing on, erasing so, youth and joy and light and life. The melody falters, stills. The pianist alone, playing for an empty quiet, rises, pauses, his fingers brushing, the cold steel of empty death, smooth beneath his touch. He grasps it, lifts it to face him, hands steady, gaze unfaltering. The man is still, pianists fingers gripping that instrument of death, and time passes, unheeded, ignored. In a motion refined to elegance by the passage of time and repetition, the pianist places that cold instrument of steel and intent gently, down upon the polished black. He straitens, slowly, and settling his black overcoat close around him, he turns, walks quietly to a closed and silent door, lifts the latch, and into a swirling night of snow and light, walks out, and closes the door behind him with a soft and quiet click. And all is silent.
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 8:38 PM UTC
Wistful Melancholy and Threads of Grief
The lonely notes flowing, falling, leap from The thin and flitting fingers of the pianist, The cup of melancholy, drained to the dregs, bittersweet in that the love of happiness and joy is tempered now, from longing for the delicate and pensive feel, that comes from dipping into the small and lonely pool of melancholy. Grief, a distant specter, hovering in the fringe of chance, is nearer now, melancholy, the doorway, slides open on silent hinges, and admits the crushing tide. High, high, and faster still, the pianist falls, slowly down and up again, grief, the storm, disrupts the flow of sound and silence, and incorporates itself into the threading melody, and so erodes the shores of joy and laughter, the violet waves of gentle melancholy, laced with the thinnest threads of blackest grief, sighing on, erasing so, youth and joy and light and life. The melody falters, stills. The pianist alone, playing for an empty quiet, rises, pauses, his fingers brushing, the cold steel of empty death, smooth beneath his touch. He grasps it, lifts it to face him, hands steady, gaze unfaltering. The man is still, pianists fingers gripping that instrument of death, and time passes, unheeded, ignored. In a motion refined to elegance by the passage of time and repetition, the pianist places that cold instrument of steel and intent gently, down upon the polished black. He straitens, slowly, and settling his black overcoat close around him, he turns, walks quietly to a closed and silent door, lifts the latch, and into a swirling night of snow and light, walks out, and closes the door behind him with a soft and quiet click. And all is silent.
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The kite gets  high, stays aloft- quite some time displaying enviable dexterity, for fun do spectacular  somersaults as much times as it could, climbs up in air with a loud swoosh then look! how the wind gets ***** with her, if she has something of  a skirt, it goes up, up to an indecent height, she doesn't have that balance a player at such heights should have kept always. Its absurd, all these acrobatics silly kite displays before the world at high altitudes with a unholy interest to show herself more accomplished than what she really is, could you pardon that frivolity, because she has many more colors than clouds. He admits abashedly that he too was once in love with her frivolous attractiveness, but he never could understand a kite; in spite of the lightness, that makes it easier to travel heights, has kite a significance? After all what is a kite? her merit? a strange arrangement that defies common sense, all it can do is aimless flying. Isn't it a charge serious enough? even a dry leaf, or a falling feather can do these acrobatics for a while. What is the meaning of a kite, kindly someone notify , if it has any, meaningless flying is not for anything of substance, what kind of play is it,   if it is perceived as one, by any one why the folly of someone take us for a ride all these years, without a second thought, he wonders who might have promoted it,  had some ulterior motive, some point to prove; wind, mightiest of forces is made to look weak in everyday life . He would suspect, in the bargain many generations too spent their time in this vein pursuit without any thought. Any kite display a greed to go up and stay there, till the time it is possible to float don't want to be back, when wind is on her side unless force is applied, what does it signify? Kite has a hunger to touch wonder with its fingers he knows, and he can't but appreciate it and when the occasion arises she fly up to the cloud, play with him as if he is her secret lover, that hurts could such a liaisons are to be  be tolerated she knows how a cloud tastes at different times Yes, sky certainly intoxicates her, she want to move closer, doesn't it spell danger?
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 1:09 PM UTC
The kite conundrum
The kite gets  high, stays aloft- quite some time displaying enviable dexterity, for fun do spectacular  somersaults as much times as it could, climbs up in air with a loud swoosh then look! how the wind gets ***** with her, if she has something of  a skirt, it goes up, up to an indecent height, she doesn't have that balance a player at such heights should have kept always. Its absurd, all these acrobatics silly kite displays before the world at high altitudes with a unholy interest to show herself more accomplished than what she really is, could you pardon that frivolity, because she has many more colors than clouds. He admits abashedly that he too was once in love with her frivolous attractiveness, but he never could understand a kite; in spite of the lightness, that makes it easier to travel heights, has kite a significance? After all what is a kite? her merit? a strange arrangement that defies common sense, all it can do is aimless flying. Isn't it a charge serious enough? even a dry leaf, or a falling feather can do these acrobatics for a while. What is the meaning of a kite, kindly someone notify , if it has any, meaningless flying is not for anything of substance, what kind of play is it,   if it is perceived as one, by any one why the folly of someone take us for a ride all these years, without a second thought, he wonders who might have promoted it,  had some ulterior motive, some point to prove; wind, mightiest of forces is made to look weak in everyday life . He would suspect, in the bargain many generations too spent their time in this vein pursuit without any thought. Any kite display a greed to go up and stay there, till the time it is possible to float don't want to be back, when wind is on her side unless force is applied, what does it signify? Kite has a hunger to touch wonder with its fingers he knows, and he can't but appreciate it and when the occasion arises she fly up to the cloud, play with him as if he is her secret lover, that hurts could such a liaisons are to be  be tolerated she knows how a cloud tastes at different times Yes, sky certainly intoxicates her, she want to move closer, doesn't it spell danger?
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October 20, 2018 I've spent this year Learning how to deal. This isn't melodrama Just the truth Condensed into just a few words To express a vastness Guaranteed to fill a few pages. Like all years, it's been bittersweet. I've fallen down Tripped up Left a bruise Quite a few times. But, of course You have to fall -- Maybe even bleed a little -- In order to teach yourself The triumph Of bringing yourself Back to your feet. I've stood in front of a lot of mirrors Most of them metaphysical Truly getting to know the girl On the other side. The more we talk The more I like her. She's a hot mess sometimes, sure But she's kind of a cool person to have coffee with. She doesn't look like she used to, not at all Especially when she's obviously trying to do better. She still chews her tongue a bit When she admits that she's wrong And she's so very shy When I ask her what to do And she responds: "I don't know." I should tell her that I love her A lot more often this year. I've found that the heart is a wonderfully strange instrument And that the soul is not an ***** But is something very, very real. I've found that the former Is as good at persevering As it is at making messes And that the latter Is something all-too-useful In the modern world. I've found that most friends are fairweather And, often, so am I. I still hold out hope That, maybe one day I'll discover loyalty That can be truly permanent. Lastly, I've found that poetry Is a beautiful vessel Worth so much more Than worrying about boys Through a series of rhymes. It's quickfire, artful catharsis Freeing a caged dove With words that make me feel As if I can make my writing soar. It's filled to the brim with love And laughter And tears And imagination And anger And fear And reflection Just like these passing years. And with every one I finish I long for many more.
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 1:13 PM UTC
pre-birthday musings (one)
October 20, 2018 I've spent this year Learning how to deal. This isn't melodrama Just the truth Condensed into just a few words To express a vastness Guaranteed to fill a few pages. Like all years, it's been bittersweet. I've fallen down Tripped up Left a bruise Quite a few times. But, of course You have to fall -- Maybe even bleed a little -- In order to teach yourself The triumph Of bringing yourself Back to your feet. I've stood in front of a lot of mirrors Most of them metaphysical Truly getting to know the girl On the other side. The more we talk The more I like her. She's a hot mess sometimes, sure But she's kind of a cool person to have coffee with. She doesn't look like she used to, not at all Especially when she's obviously trying to do better. She still chews her tongue a bit When she admits that she's wrong And she's so very shy When I ask her what to do And she responds: "I don't know." I should tell her that I love her A lot more often this year. I've found that the heart is a wonderfully strange instrument And that the soul is not an ***** But is something very, very real. I've found that the former Is as good at persevering As it is at making messes And that the latter Is something all-too-useful In the modern world. I've found that most friends are fairweather And, often, so am I. I still hold out hope That, maybe one day I'll discover loyalty That can be truly permanent. Lastly, I've found that poetry Is a beautiful vessel Worth so much more Than worrying about boys Through a series of rhymes. It's quickfire, artful catharsis Freeing a caged dove With words that make me feel As if I can make my writing soar. It's filled to the brim with love And laughter And tears And imagination And anger And fear And reflection Just like these passing years. And with every one I finish I long for many more.
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clinton rebukes israel over east jerusalem homes obama nasa plans catastrophic say moon astronauts alaska wolves **** woman's teacher out jogging ireland frees 3 cartoonist plot suspects sarkozy and brown attack u.s. over protectionism pope benedict's former diocese rehoused abuser priest chile puts quake damage at $30bn winnie denies interview criticizing nelson mandela climate change makes birds shrink in north america dr rowan williams is honored for work on russia weymouth ridgeway skeletons scandinavian vikings live bangladesh v england michael schumacher pledges to raise game in bahrain can the u.s. vice-president broker middle east peace? sarkozy's party faces socialist drubbing remote indian state set for development new york dust victims split on 9/11 deal german tells of childhood abuse by catholic priest a step closer to the american dream? lehman: how $50bn was buried in london ba strike union announces dates in march china's oil demand increase astonishing says iea china warns google to comply with censorship laws net clash for web police projects hsbc admits huge swiss bank data theft phil spector ****** conviction appealed sir david jason to voice cbbc animation climate change 'makes birds shrink' in north america thalidomide effect mystery solved blood pressure fluctuations warning sign for stroke winnie denies interview criticizing nelson mandela mogadishu residents told to leave somali capital same-sex couples marry in mexico city by mistake i clicked on wrong button and lost everything
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Mar 12, 2010
Mar 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM UTC
**** blue jesus
clinton rebukes israel over east jerusalem homes obama nasa plans catastrophic say moon astronauts alaska wolves **** woman's teacher out jogging ireland frees 3 cartoonist plot suspects sarkozy and brown attack u.s. over protectionism pope benedict's former diocese rehoused abuser priest chile puts quake damage at $30bn winnie denies interview criticizing nelson mandela climate change makes birds shrink in north america dr rowan williams is honored for work on russia weymouth ridgeway skeletons scandinavian vikings live bangladesh v england michael schumacher pledges to raise game in bahrain can the u.s. vice-president broker middle east peace? sarkozy's party faces socialist drubbing remote indian state set for development new york dust victims split on 9/11 deal german tells of childhood abuse by catholic priest a step closer to the american dream? lehman: how $50bn was buried in london ba strike union announces dates in march china's oil demand increase astonishing says iea china warns google to comply with censorship laws net clash for web police projects hsbc admits huge swiss bank data theft phil spector ****** conviction appealed sir david jason to voice cbbc animation climate change 'makes birds shrink' in north america thalidomide effect mystery solved blood pressure fluctuations warning sign for stroke winnie denies interview criticizing nelson mandela mogadishu residents told to leave somali capital same-sex couples marry in mexico city by mistake i clicked on wrong button and lost everything
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This is one American that drops beats, not bombs This is one American that admits when she’s wrong. But an ocean doesn’t divide us Only you divide us With your words for labels that say what’s you, not me Your stereotypes are gunna be the death of me You’re killing me with these close-minded philosophies And Who the hell ever said you were the referee of me? We gotta spend less time sneering and swearing We gotta spend less time jeering and tearing You should never have to defend when you love You should never have to defend why you love You should never have to defend who you love We are all created equal; That’s the condition of the receiver And we are all the receivers But some keep spewing that hate; those hate-believers But we don’t accept their judgment upon us We gotta rise up out of adversity placed on us Some out there will go to their graves justifying Committing acts based on fear is nothing but mortifying And I’m gunna be truthful; I’m not even lying When your preach your ******** the human race is dying. You see United this house stands strong Every new hand we hold pushes us along Every brick makes us higher Acceptance makes us flyer Gotta keep hate out of your heart And maybe then we’ll get to start To come together To love one another And to be free like it is intended Maybe then the human race will be mended Maybe then this bad movie will get a better sequel Maybe then we’ll realize We are all created equal. I want to stop it all To go into a free-for-all To rip those signs apart To take that hate from that heart All I can do is spread the word on love And hope to God that will be enough All I can do is be me and let you be you All I can do is all I can do But together we can appreciate That all together we can officiate Love that knows no bounds That type of harmony with unreal sounds. We may measure success by what’s published We may measure it by what’s re-said By how much money we make By the course that we take But one thing I know that will bring us deliverance All that matters is that one voice that says You make a ******* difference.
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Apr 20, 2013
Apr 20, 2013 at 5:45 PM UTC
Sometimes I’m like Macklemore.
This is one American that drops beats, not bombs This is one American that admits when she’s wrong. But an ocean doesn’t divide us Only you divide us With your words for labels that say what’s you, not me Your stereotypes are gunna be the death of me You’re killing me with these close-minded philosophies And Who the hell ever said you were the referee of me? We gotta spend less time sneering and swearing We gotta spend less time jeering and tearing You should never have to defend when you love You should never have to defend why you love You should never have to defend who you love We are all created equal; That’s the condition of the receiver And we are all the receivers But some keep spewing that hate; those hate-believers But we don’t accept their judgment upon us We gotta rise up out of adversity placed on us Some out there will go to their graves justifying Committing acts based on fear is nothing but mortifying And I’m gunna be truthful; I’m not even lying When your preach your ******** the human race is dying. You see United this house stands strong Every new hand we hold pushes us along Every brick makes us higher Acceptance makes us flyer Gotta keep hate out of your heart And maybe then we’ll get to start To come together To love one another And to be free like it is intended Maybe then the human race will be mended Maybe then this bad movie will get a better sequel Maybe then we’ll realize We are all created equal. I want to stop it all To go into a free-for-all To rip those signs apart To take that hate from that heart All I can do is spread the word on love And hope to God that will be enough All I can do is be me and let you be you All I can do is all I can do But together we can appreciate That all together we can officiate Love that knows no bounds That type of harmony with unreal sounds. We may measure success by what’s published We may measure it by what’s re-said By how much money we make By the course that we take But one thing I know that will bring us deliverance All that matters is that one voice that says You make a ******* difference.
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1191 The pungent atom in the Air Admits of no debate— All that is named of Summer Days Relinquished our Estate— For what Department of Delight As positive are we As Limit of Dominion Or Dams—of Ecstasy—
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The pungent atom in the Air
The Man There once was a man from Nantucket, kept all his cash in his lucky bucket. Has a daughter Fran, who is gay, ran off with a girl named May. He followed them to Pawtucket, the two girls with his lucky bucket. She said to the man, thanks for your daughter Fran. The two girls followed the man to Manhasset, where he still has his bucket as an asset. Then May and her lover Fran, stoke the bucket and off they ran. The man was in a state of shock, luckily for him he had a very long **** No more bucket, no more money, he walked home with his eyes runny. Now he has a new career, he became a Walmart cashier. Now he is the man from Nantucket, with a **** so long, he could **** it. He would always have a grin, as he cleaned the *** from his chin. If only his ear was a **** even he admits, it's one hell of a stunt. His ear, badly he wants to **** it, and save all the *** in his new lucky bucket.
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 4:42 PM UTC
The Man
Senses willfully accepting one's certitude admits existence.
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Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 4:26 PM UTC
Acknowledgement
***Here we find our greatest scientist professing an independent Theorem outside of thought and perception.. He admits this as belief and also admits: this separate reality he cannot find...in his science.. Our experience tells us: this old Theorem is thought arising in infinite Awareness..and there remains.. We search..as did he.. to no avail to find the Theorem residing outside.. Would it astonish Dr. Einstein that the Theorem we experience ..as could he.. is made altogether.. of Awareness...?***
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Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 8:39 PM UTC
Pythagorean Theorem
People wish to be settled. Only as long as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. -- Thoreau My life has been the instrument for a mouth I have never seen, breathing wind which comes from I know not where, arranging and changing my moods, so as to make an opening for his voice. Or hers. Muse, White Goddess mother with invisible milk, androgynous god in whose grip I struggle, turning this way and that, believing that I chart my life, my loves, when in fact it is she, he, who charts them-- all for the sake of some as yet unwritten poem. Twisting in the wind, twisting like a pirate dangling in a cage from a high seawall, the wind whips through my bones making an instrument, my back a xylophone, my *** a triangle chiming, my lips stretched tight as drumskins, I no longer care who is playing me, but fear makes the hairs stand up on the backs of my hands when I think that she may stop. And yet I long for peace as fervently as you do-- the sweet connubial bliss that admits no turbulence, the settled life that defeats poetry, the hearth before which children play-- not poets' children, ragtag, neurotic, demon-ridden, but the apple-cheeked children of the bourgeoisie. My daughter dreams of peace as I do: marriage, proper house, proper husband, nourishing dreamless *** love like a hot toddy, or an apple pie. But the muse has other plans for me and you. Puppet mistress, dangling us on this dark proscenium, pulling our strings, blowing us toward Cornwall, toward Venice, toward Delphi, toward some lurching counterpane, a tent upheld by one throbbing blood-drenched pole-- her pen, her pencil, the monolith we worship, underneath the gleaming moon.
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To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace
People wish to be settled. Only as long as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. -- Thoreau My life has been the instrument for a mouth I have never seen, breathing wind which comes from I know not where, arranging and changing my moods, so as to make an opening for his voice. Or hers. Muse, White Goddess mother with invisible milk, androgynous god in whose grip I struggle, turning this way and that, believing that I chart my life, my loves, when in fact it is she, he, who charts them-- all for the sake of some as yet unwritten poem. Twisting in the wind, twisting like a pirate dangling in a cage from a high seawall, the wind whips through my bones making an instrument, my back a xylophone, my *** a triangle chiming, my lips stretched tight as drumskins, I no longer care who is playing me, but fear makes the hairs stand up on the backs of my hands when I think that she may stop. And yet I long for peace as fervently as you do-- the sweet connubial bliss that admits no turbulence, the settled life that defeats poetry, the hearth before which children play-- not poets' children, ragtag, neurotic, demon-ridden, but the apple-cheeked children of the bourgeoisie. My daughter dreams of peace as I do: marriage, proper house, proper husband, nourishing dreamless *** love like a hot toddy, or an apple pie. But the muse has other plans for me and you. Puppet mistress, dangling us on this dark proscenium, pulling our strings, blowing us toward Cornwall, toward Venice, toward Delphi, toward some lurching counterpane, a tent upheld by one throbbing blood-drenched pole-- her pen, her pencil, the monolith we worship, underneath the gleaming moon.
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Disgust A brown rocky dirt When soaked in anger Creates a mud slide of Contempt Intentions are covered in filth The rain, once cleansing Now increases the slippery Destruction Till the rolling aggression admits Its more trouble than it’s worth And foolishly Retreats back into the earth
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM UTC
Disgust
Phantom Fierce Pierce For Sally Do have the courage of fear? What! You heard me. Admit that we are all inhabited, Admit that we are all inhibited. Fear, the eleventh plague visited upon the Egyptians, Nothing more paralyzingly complete. Walking down an average day, an average street, A median day, a medium day that a Black disease from whence unknown, And you are a froze shadowed chalk figure Drawn upon the concrete, unable to move. What would you pay, anything, What would you give, everything, Cleanse it all Cut out the incisions That with precision Haunt your every Waking and sleeping moment. The deeds that did not get done, The deeds that cannot get undone, Both your undoing. A plague on both, a plague on me, My plague, unique to me, Free me from this whatever the cost. But it can't be arranged. No devil to sell back the things Of which you are ashamed, No stain stick extant to guarantee success. When the hollow is so great You feel non-existent. But you do not see what I see... Courage, raw and plain, admits These phantoms are not phantoms at all. Those figures try to break you. There is a beach, a path, where you know, Safety. Not easy to get there. The bus schedule unpublished. But the bus line exists. And you have the courage to wait, patiently Until it arrives. There is value here, if you read between the dashes And the dots. I see you for who you are. You are the phantom fiercer piercer. Shown us the way.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
Phantom Fierce Pierce
It's taking over my life. It's taking control of me. I give into its wishes. I listen to its commands. It declares my every move. I'm a puppet and it's my master holding the strings, holding the reins to my life It dominates me. It restrains me. It keeps me paralyzed. But I can't ask for help. Asking for help admits defeat. I can never admit defeat. Defeat means weakness. Weakness means I'm powerless. When I'm powerless, I'm, hopeless.
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 5:57 PM UTC
Torment
We read “Captain Hook’s collection of psalms, And other songs to sing along to.” Nothing better to do off hand, But revel in our own arrogance. And, we notched holes in leather straps, To expand at the waste. Drive through diets replacing lessons- Of keeping elbows off the table. Of speaking only when spoken to. Twenty-one years plus a little change. And, daddy says- Everything I taught you is replaceable. And, daddy says- Mistake is a just a word. Hasn’t got it figured out either, At least he admits it, Choking down another cigarette, Says: here’s to now. And, don’t break your back if you don’t have to. Technology affords avenues Different rivers to float experience Overalls and baseball caps And the tree house that broke my tibia. Talked through tin cans in this age, Of golden innocence. Now I’m Facebooking and twitting or twittering Or… who the **** cares? No one I care about. Rivers given way to raw sewage. And, even dogs eat their own **** This cat called my computer a *********** box- If the shoe fits, Clichés get the hits. Search: Blonde **** Big ******* 5 million 38 hundred and 2 results. Neon Bibles erupt in the sky. Today I am a believer in the quarter pounder with cheese Tomorrow in gasoline for 2.85 Midas made gold Now he wants to change my oil. They call that economics Or advertising. And, suddenly my sneakers aren’t good enough Voice on the other end reassures- My ideas are manic. Paint a scene of terror. Laying waste to iron giants- Tearing down systems in place to restrict Setting fire to everything- Rack it up to fulfilling. Rack it up to rebuilding. Dismal haze, red glow to ash filled sky, That makes mom clutch the good book- Saying its time to go home. How she knows her redeemer lives. Clarity reigns supreme And, daddy says- Son, you’ve been watching too much TV. And daddy says- You catch more with honey by rule.
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM UTC
"Too Much TV"
We read “Captain Hook’s collection of psalms, And other songs to sing along to.” Nothing better to do off hand, But revel in our own arrogance. And, we notched holes in leather straps, To expand at the waste. Drive through diets replacing lessons- Of keeping elbows off the table. Of speaking only when spoken to. Twenty-one years plus a little change. And, daddy says- Everything I taught you is replaceable. And, daddy says- Mistake is a just a word. Hasn’t got it figured out either, At least he admits it, Choking down another cigarette, Says: here’s to now. And, don’t break your back if you don’t have to. Technology affords avenues Different rivers to float experience Overalls and baseball caps And the tree house that broke my tibia. Talked through tin cans in this age, Of golden innocence. Now I’m Facebooking and twitting or twittering Or… who the **** cares? No one I care about. Rivers given way to raw sewage. And, even dogs eat their own **** This cat called my computer a *********** box- If the shoe fits, Clichés get the hits. Search: Blonde **** Big ******* 5 million 38 hundred and 2 results. Neon Bibles erupt in the sky. Today I am a believer in the quarter pounder with cheese Tomorrow in gasoline for 2.85 Midas made gold Now he wants to change my oil. They call that economics Or advertising. And, suddenly my sneakers aren’t good enough Voice on the other end reassures- My ideas are manic. Paint a scene of terror. Laying waste to iron giants- Tearing down systems in place to restrict Setting fire to everything- Rack it up to fulfilling. Rack it up to rebuilding. Dismal haze, red glow to ash filled sky, That makes mom clutch the good book- Saying its time to go home. How she knows her redeemer lives. Clarity reigns supreme And, daddy says- Son, you’ve been watching too much TV. And daddy says- You catch more with honey by rule.
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It is the day when he was born, A bitter day that early sank Behind a purple-frosty bank Of vapour, leaving night forlorn. The time admits not flowers or leaves To deck the banquet. Fiercely flies The blast of North and East, and ice Makes daggers at the sharpen'd eaves, And bristles all the brakes and thorns To yon hard crescent, as she hangs Above the wood which grides and clangs Its leafless ribs and iron horns Together, in the drifts that pass To darken on the rolling brine That breaks the coast. But fetch the wine, Arrange the board and brim the glass; Bring in great logs and let them lie, To make a solid core of heat; Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat Of all things ev'n as he were by; We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 107
My voodoo doll sits there on the window sill, His name is Bill, Bill sits there all day and night, And when I come in at night he gives me a fright, It looks like he and evil grin on his face, Sometimes he can be a disgrace. He can be a disgrace by doing all sorts of things, Sometimes he steals my rings, I don't know how he does it, But he'll never admits, What he does to us, He puts us under alot of stress. There is something about bill you should know, He is very handy with arrows and a bow, He is very special in his own little way, He likes to make little people out of clay, He is no ordinary voodoo doll, Paulina is his best friend and they both running into a wall, This may seem very odd, And when I tell them off for doing this they just stand there and nod. This is the story of my voodoo doll, Whenever he gets tired to loll, So next time you come across him, Remember to give him a sim dim, This way he will be very happy, And forever make you his close enough pappy!
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Sep 16, 2012
Sep 16, 2012 at 6:56 PM UTC
The Voodoo Doll
Persistence is the fuel for success, Ignited by the sparks of passion. Attacked by the enemy of imperfection, Facing hardships on every battlefront. Dueling problems with a strong sword, Fighting for the ultimate cause in life. A warrior never admits defeat in battles, No surrender in the war for excellence. When success is finally won by glory, The blade of victory will shine with pride.
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Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM UTC
Against All Odds