"altho" poems
I don't need no compliments.
Altho' I do accept them.
Know this.
I love myself.
I'm not conceited.
Really far from it.
I just love myself.
If you don't.
Then expect nobody else will.
I wake up to loving myself.
I walk through life loving myself.
I look in the mirror.
And adore myself.
I'm not boasting.
Or even bragging.
That would be too much.
But I know this.
I love myself.
As a mother's loves a new born.
I love this one.
Which is myself.
Like the rising of the morning sun.
There's always a smile upon my face.
Cause, I love myself.
Enjoy you.
And you'll be enjoyed.
Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 9:26 AM UTC
Why have two arms?
If you're not willing to hug.
People are quick to punch with two arms.
Even with one arm.
You can deliver a lovin' hug.
It these limps that truly assist us.
Sure there are others.
But at the present.
I'm not mentioning them.
Altho' I'm sure the lips.
Are a little jealous.
Why have two hands?
If you're not willing to use them.
We use them to shake hands.
Altho' we have those afraid to catch a germ.
As if.
They hadn't caught germs from other items in their life.
This hug.
Which can be given with kindness.
Which can be deivered with softness.
Well, in this case.
The receiver might have a sun burn.
Or some other type of injury.
Plus, you can hug too tight.
And be banned from trying that again.
When requested to just shake hands.
Of course.
You have those that does the search and feel.
Trying to be like a detective trying to pat you down.
But for those that's truly sincere.
You personally know those that's sincere.
When giving a hug.
Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM UTC
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A zombie and a troll
Squared off one fateful night
All the ghouls and goblins watched
Expecting quite a fight!
But much to their surprise
The troll was quick dispatched!
He was dumb, and so outdone
He had met his match!
He WAS good at deception
But now the zombie reigns!
Altho he's in a fit of pique
The dead troll had no BRAINS!
SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis
Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 8:50 PM UTC
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Your Riches—taught me—Poverty.
Myself—a Millionaire
In little Wealths, as Girls could boast
Till broad as Buenos Ayre—
You drifted your Dominions—
A Different Peru—
And I esteemed All Poverty
For Life’s Estate with you—
Of Mines, I little know—myself—
But just the names, of Gems—
The Colors of the Commonest—
And scarce of Diadems—
So much, that did I meet the Queen—
Her Glory I should know—
But this, must be a different Wealth—
To miss it—beggars so—
I’m sure ’tis India—all Day—
To those who look on You—
Without a stint—without a blame,
Might I—but be the Jew—
I’m sure it is Golconda—
Beyond my power to deem—
To have a smile for Mine—each Day,
How better, than a Gem!
At least, it solaces to know
That there exists—a Gold—
Altho’ I prove it, just in time
Its distance—to behold—
Its far—far Treasure to surmise—
And estimate the Pearl—
That slipped my simple fingers through—
While just a Girl at School.
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We all serve someone in our capacity of life.
We just must be willing.
We all gather some type of benefits in life.
We jut must be willing to admit it.
I work for God Incorporated.
In other words.
I'm employee of God.
And this his service.
I have been insured in mutiple ways.
Don't have to admit how?
Don't even have to say.
In spreading his product.
Whether it's the word.
Or his love.
I have promoted his goal.
As God's employee.
He accepts request.
And He supplies many needs.
And I personally can testify.
He don't get offended being called a charity.
Altho' He does get heated at things he see.
Still, I rather stay employed in his company.
No strikes is allowed.
Too many rewards connected to his foundation.
He's always hiring.
While also advising and training others in life.
A good employer gets good remarks.
After all.
Why criticize the creator of us all?
Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 8:39 AM UTC
What man?
What man hadn't heard?
I wish I have met you first.
Especially after they entered the life of a woman that been hurt.
And you make her smile again.
Where her world has been torn apart?
You made her realize love holds the key to happiness.
To her, to her she has recovered from the hurt and abuse.
Concerning a past lover only into using her for his amusement.
And altho' she has stated, I wish I have met you first.
It's just a saying with no true importance.
Only a comment stating you were the cure to heal her.
While bringing her back around to being loved.
Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 9:36 PM UTC
I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho’ it holds but pain.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
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(sung to "If I Only Had a Brain/Heart/Courage" song from the Wizard of Oz)
I'm a ****** ***********
altho I seem quite merry,
I am always causing strife.
I've a rot for a banana,
But I'd smoke the whole Havana,
if I only had a LIFE!
I just love to cause division,
By other's lives derision,
I'll cause gossip to be rife!
It don't matter! I am toothful,
I don't claim to be that truthful,
If I only had a LIFE!
I would love ta get ta know ya,
But I smoke like Krakatoa,
You could cut it with a knife.
I will put it in my ashtray
And conclude another entry
if I only had a LIFE!
I've no girlfriend, it don't matter,
I'm as loony as a hatter,
I will never have a wife.
I've a teeny weeny shooter,
Can't make love to my computer,
IF I ONLY HAD A LIFE!!
SoulSurvivor
(C) 12/20/2015
Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015 at 3:22 PM UTC
*creating something in silence (save for keyboard clacks) is a practice in subliminal listening. Thought is like air and you can hear it whispering through the trees of your foresty dendrites.
Misery mixes with ecstasy and love mixes with confused dislike-- for 11 days straight, I've been losing myself in the phosphene glare of love for a girl named Sasha.
She insists she's not a Xanax ****** but by my standards I'm still not sure if I'm convinced altho this seems like an unfair snap-judgement that still hurts her feelings. Perhaps she needs it, and I'm just blanked as the next heretic to go on trial in the pharmacratic inquisition.
For the first time the other night I experimented (incorrectly) with DMT. Sprinkling it over a packed bowl of tea (marijuana), I drew back a breath and felt nothing more than life as a conceited dream with a strange alchemical hangover-fear of psychosis.*
Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 4:49 PM UTC
Gay is not in our DNA.
Altho' some loves to hear it said.
Except, if that was the case.
Then why are mom and dad strictly straight?
There are many reasons people are that way.
Some because they afraid of success with the opposite ***
Listen to those that date the opposite kind.
When they speaks about them getting hurt inside.
So some girls turns to their own kind.
As we all know many of the guys.
We can say they experitmenting
But that would just be a personal opinion.
But , for those that say.
It's in the DNA.
You probably believes ham is steak.
A person that cheats.
Could come up with an escape plan.
By stating it's in the bloodline.
Except we all know they would be lying.
Realize
It's not up for me to judge.
While it might seem that way.
I just don't believe you gay.
Because of your DNA.
Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 12:03 AM UTC
Altho nobody knows - and I’m not
telling! - I’m a dope fiend
******* hound and not in the
harmless sense i am
drug vampire, nocturnally creeping
into houses thru
open windows & easy doors taking
kitchen spices & cabinet cleaning
products
cooking little pills & powders
outta strangers’ **** i spend full
moons in velvet in backyards
falling out bathroom windows hopping fences
hoping your mother never finds out
Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 3:33 AM UTC
Being a kid is truly a curse... I feel like I'm treated like garbage or worse,
when I move out I will finally get the respect that I crave... never again will I be a slave,
yes! definitely... when I turn eighteen... then my life will truly begin.
Living alone is so problematic... altho once I thought it would make me ecstatic,
my wage is so low that its funny... the taxes alone take up all of my money,
the exhaustion eats me from the inside... and the old 9 to 5 is no easy ride,
surely when I get a real profession... that will reignite my long lost passion.
My life feels so stale, even with a profession... money ain't enough to fight back depression,
and at nights I feel oh so alone... sadly you can't get love for a loan,
when I find someone I so adore... than I will be happy, of that I can be sure.
My job is taking up all my free time... but surely when I retire it will all be fine,
I will take trips and explore the wide world, I just need to wait a little longer... surely that I can afford.
I should have realized it long back then... if you wait your life ends before it even began.
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 at 9:41 AM UTC
Changed is always for the better.
Altho' the past holds some good.
But when you hear athletes cry about being called soft.
And it's calling out his manhood.
You begins to wonder, if he knows what a man is?
Because words shouldn't control your action.
But they do.
In a world, where people have been called many things?
The word soft shouldn't make a real man enraged.
My , how time has changed?
If you secure.
Then you're sure of your manhood.
You don't need clarification.
Or anyone to support your view.
You alone should know you.
But this generation is a learned group.
That hadn't faced the toughest of others generation.
They been catered.
They been spoiled.
And they been fools.
To let a simple comment create havoc.
My, how times has changed?
With this new technology.
And new constant creation.
We see things that amazes past generation.
Where respect was a guided skill?
We wonder about these we see today.
That feels respect should just be given to them.
Then many have never worked hard to earn.
My, how times has changed.
It's true.
The more things changes.
The more.
It stays the same.
Still, I like those good old days.
Well, I'm not so sure.
Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 8:51 AM UTC
All it take is one to be happy.
Even if two could make it better.
All is take is one to stand up.
Altho' more give you more strength.
Self reliance.
Is self responsibilty.
We can blame failure on another.
Except the fault lies with you.
All it take is one to be truthful.
And against lies your honesty will shine through.
It's the best example of the charcter's within you.
Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 10:55 AM UTC
The dark poet speaks to me
In tones of negativity.
Altho, what is reality,
Is...we are what we choose to be.
We see just what we want to see,
Blind to spirituality.
In the true eventuality
Our hearts and souls and minds be free.
This is what I want to be...
Adrift in positivity!!
JMA
Oct 6, 2011
Oct 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM UTC
This week at work I received a Homeland Security form with a terse note that I had filled it out incorrectly - in 2003. But I had not filled it out at all; this was new form (already out of date by its own testimony) predicated on a Department of Justice form which I did complete correctly; it had simply expired.
Altho’ I obediently completed the form, I rendered part of the form (page 7 of 9) into not-really-a-poem, in lines of ten syllables:
I Attest That I Am
employment eligibility
verification department of home
land security u.s. citizen
ship and immigration services u
scis form i-9 omb
no. 1615-0047
expires 03/31/2016
start here. Read instructions carefully be
fore completing this form. The instructions
must be available during completion
of this form anti-discrimination
notice: it is illegal to discrim
inate against work-authorized indi
viduals. Employers cannot specify
which document(s) they will accept from an
employee. The refusal to hire an
individual because the docu
ment presented has a future expi
ration date may also constitute il
legal discrimination. Section 1.
Employee information and attest
ation (employees must complete and sign
section 1 of form i-9 no later than
the first day of employment, but not be
fore accepting a job offer). Last
name (family name) First name (given name) mid
dle initial other names used (if any)
address (street number and name) apt.
number city or town state zip code date
of birth (mm/dd/yyyy)
u.s. social security number
e-mail address telephone number I
am aware that federal law provides
for imprisonment and / or fines for false
statements or use of false documents in
connection with the completion of the
form. I attest, under penalty of
perjury, that I am (check one of the
following)…
I Attest That I Am
Nov 17, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM UTC
You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes
Are tender over drowning flies,
You tell me, doubt is Devil-born.
I know not: one indeed I knew
In many a subtle question versed,
Who touch'd a jarring lyre at first,
But ever strove to make it true:
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
He fought his doubts and gather'd strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length
To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,
But in the darkness and the cloud,
As over Sinai's peaks of old,
Altho' the trumpet blew so loud.
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I found that I was talking to myself tonight
No one in the room just me and the light
I think I've done lost it, that one final piece
There is now nothing in my head to decrease
Out of my cranium it must have crept
I bet you it did it last night while I slept
Now I'm talking right out loud
As if in my room there was a big crowd
Yep, it's official.......it is all gone
Yep, I think it left right around dawn
Wait for it.....wait....there it is, I just answered myself
Maybe I should go with the other crazies upon the shelf
Altho as I listen, I think I'm quite right
It's the most intelligent things I've heard in many a night
Yep, that proves, it I'm totally insane
It's done been let off of it's chain
Oh well what use is there to having one
It was never in use when I was having fun!!!!
Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 7:30 PM UTC
Mothers,
Husbands,
Cuckolds,
Embryos,
This one is for you.
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If you love someone
And this someone and yourself
Takes vows to be sincere
Under the eyes of God
Doubt is already here.
The more passion you show
You should know but haven't a clue
Back down on earth
She doesn't like you.
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As time slips by
The more you realise
There is no feeling in her eyes
Which don't like watching what you do
She doesn't like you.
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Without a notion
Of what is causing this lack
Of emotion
It isn't the way you are or even who-
It is just
That
She doesn't like you.
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However romantic men can be
With concern and care - The more you can guarantee
Altho I haven't discovered anything new-
It is the same accumulative history
She doesn't like you.
Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 3:13 PM UTC
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poets are flagra
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confining it
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Alas, Alas
I seem to have drowned myself into Kool-Aid.
"Poets are shameless with their experiences; they exploit them" said Nietzsche once.
I wonder how you are today.
Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 2:45 AM UTC
To a child.
They are the greatest guys you know.
Many are determine to be the best example.
To a child.
We aspire to be many times like them.
Because many are better than it appears.
To a child.
We remember their direct approach to truth.
A simple lie had you facing him.
Dad.
The man that placed us first in his life.
Sure there are some in this society that might not measure up.
But I'm not speaking of them in this poem.
Altho' a relation's connection is not always about money.
As certain people loves to holler.
Dad.
That man we know went the distance.
To get you the smallest of thing to make you smile.
You instantly respected him.
And was determine not to ever let him down.
From somewhere being connected to him.
Made you learned a valuable lesson.
He might not always rank high like a mother.
He made a point to alert you.
You were his son and not his brother.
Any failure that you seen.
Wasn't seen in his personality.
Because he wanted you to succeed.
And he pushed you harder in your dreams.
Aug 11, 2012
Aug 11, 2012 at 8:13 AM UTC
Felix Calvalari and the Rascals singing Groovy.
As I ride along.
What a lovely uplifting mood song?
Of two people enjoying the mood.
And the Beach Boys singing Don't Worry Baby.
Stating everything is going to be alright.
How can you not love a lady like this?
Who gives off great confidence.
I truly believe, I could never love another.
After loving her.
David Ruffin's blended truth behind the lyrics of this Temptations song.
If I lost her in any way.
I would try something new to reconnect.
The Miracles truly spoke the truth about the things love will make you do.
I guess I'm in a sixties type mood.
When words solely spoke straightly to you.
I understand the woman's that seek respect.
Otis Redding wrote the song addressing it.
Altho' Aretha seems to get the credit.
What can I say about the two Dions?
With Dion Mucci singing about Donna the Primma Donna.
The type you probably couldn't get to ride a honda.
And then Dione Warwicke singing about singing about praying.
Oh, yes I'm in a sixties mood.
When words solely spoke to your heart.
When the Beatles stated don't let me down.
Them words was a message needed to be heard.
And papa never had a brand new bag.
I'm still trying to figure out those James Brown words.
Well, I relax for a few minutes.
Until I get ready to play another song.
Cause for the moment.
I'm just enjoying these sixties songs.
Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 9:37 AM UTC
The player.
The womanizer.
When is this type not playing games.
Only the woman that fell for them seems to feel a different way.
By using this ill pretense that they were better then the others.
Did they get caught up in being his lover.
Whatever skill you have?
You can't completely fulfill his desires.
He's constantly chasing the next challenge.
The lady's man.
The woman pleaser.
Words that many males gets label from the female population.
Except, many mothers knows their sons.
And very aware, he'll never understand the word one.
You could be a lesbian having an affair with his.
Once he's aware.
He could careless.
As long a he can join in.
More than one is a joy to him.
Like a child in a candy store.
This situation would be a dream achieved.
Altho' to some.
He just a man afraid to be lonely.
Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 9:28 AM UTC
Rose, when I remember you,
Little lady, scarcely two,
I am suddenly aware
Of the angels in the air.
All your softly gracious ways
Make an island in my days
Where my thoughts fly back to be
Sheltered from too strong a sea.
All your luminous delight
Shines before me in the night
When I ***** for sleep and find
Only shadows in my mind.
Rose, when I remember you,
White and glowing, pink and new,
With so swift a sense of fun
Altho’ life has just begun;
With so sure a pride of place
In your very infant face,
I should like to make a prayer
To the angels in the air:
“If an angel ever brings
Me a baby in her wings,
Please be certain that it grows
Very, very much like Rose.”
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get out of those pj's
and into some jeans
altho i obey
i
dont know what that means
my life does unravel
undone at the seams
i prefer life by night
under moon beams
Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 7:18 PM UTC