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"artfully" poems
***** words aren’t always hidden in symbols, are they? Some poets use words to wound, and they know my weakness. The subtle weapon of language. The tool of a master. Artfully chosen, then Drawn like a dagger. Slaying my attempts at peace of mind. Because they know I always read between the lines.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 10:18 AM UTC
***** words
Spirit Dolphin To be in tune in natures light To be in touch and resonate Intelligent communicate Heartbeats of love and breath of life Superior to human sight Your sound waves and reverberates To be in tune in natures light To be in touch and resonate You touch the stars and elevate Our spirits to become alight Giving us freedom to ignite Centers begin to emanate To be in tune in natures light Beneath the sun, beneath the moon You teach us how to breathe with care Oceanic friend, solar flare Communicating our monsoon Teaching in us how to commune Opening our minds to beware Beneath the sun, beneath the moon You teach us how to breathe with care Your innocence rests like lagoon On the surface emotions bare Vulnerability is there Beneath the sun, beneath the moon A good omen to protect us Saving the lives of so many Selfless creature giving plenty From outer space some do discuss To touch you frees us from raucous To ride with you fulfills empty A good omen to protect us Saving the lives of so many With you we find our playfulness Self-confidence more than any Never to lose our assembly Connect us all with inner trust A good omen to protect us Helping others finding our truth To be One Universally What might seem strange is certainly A reflection upon our youth Make bright our eyes with wisdom's root Free from shame inadvertently Helping others finding our truth To be One Universally Though we may taste forbidden fruit What we will learn so artfully Forgives our aches so perfectly Flipping through curious pursuit Helping others finding our truth © tHE tERRY tREE
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Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM UTC
Spirit Dolphin
Spirit Dolphin To be in tune in natures light To be in touch and resonate Intelligent communicate Heartbeats of love and breath of life Superior to human sight Your sound waves and reverberates To be in tune in natures light To be in touch and resonate You touch the stars and elevate Our spirits to become alight Giving us freedom to ignite Centers begin to emanate To be in tune in natures light Beneath the sun, beneath the moon You teach us how to breathe with care Oceanic friend, solar flare Communicating our monsoon Teaching in us how to commune Opening our minds to beware Beneath the sun, beneath the moon You teach us how to breathe with care Your innocence rests like lagoon On the surface emotions bare Vulnerability is there Beneath the sun, beneath the moon A good omen to protect us Saving the lives of so many Selfless creature giving plenty From outer space some do discuss To touch you frees us from raucous To ride with you fulfills empty A good omen to protect us Saving the lives of so many With you we find our playfulness Self-confidence more than any Never to lose our assembly Connect us all with inner trust A good omen to protect us Helping others finding our truth To be One Universally What might seem strange is certainly A reflection upon our youth Make bright our eyes with wisdom's root Free from shame inadvertently Helping others finding our truth To be One Universally Though we may taste forbidden fruit What we will learn so artfully Forgives our aches so perfectly Flipping through curious pursuit Helping others finding our truth © tHE tERRY tREE
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With a body wrapped in a crimson dress, she bears a violent temper. Shining daylight, raging bewitching, captivating cunning. You arrive with starry eyes and cheeks flushed like a ****** In her curly hair, autumn curtains hang—roaming rays hot. She glows in the night like a pictorial wall with hieroglyphics concealing madness. You step elegantly, but you're a dangerously stealthy predator. Grassy hills in floating flames burn beneath a voluminous haze. Her look describes fabulous waterfalls, endlessly flowing and shining in the coming dawn. You associate with robbers and kings, but they do not understand, and no one will save you. Lovely eyes sprinkle enchanting rays, her lips intertwined like a rose petal. Her heart enticingly calls with her fruit to be drunk. You hide in the nightlife, dress up, and do your love magic. Neck fashioned in autumnal garments, wearing scarlet ruby earrings. Her pink skin smells of perfume, inviting like a grape on a vine. You invite visitors with your charm to carelessness, forever forced. Her lips are flowing bewitching rivers—intersecting strokes of crimson. They bring a dream to taste her deep soils and her artfully carved forms. You are determined to captivate without marrying— you stay lost in rebellion.
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Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 at 6:19 AM UTC
Scarlet
Her face, flawless and filtered, flows over my chest, ribs, stomach, hips, fitting the curved mounds of my body, and even within simplicity of thread and dye, I sense her presence as her face hangs from my frame, a statement louder than pillow-lips, Nancy Sinatra-hair and a glamorous 60’s ***** face. When paired with leggings and an artfully-distressed denim jacket, I become a member of the “freshman generation of degenerate beauty queens,” a hipster fallen to the circumstance of youth, but I wear her face and the romance of it all reminds me: we are not defined as Lolitas lost in the hood, or distant, airy voices in a sea of crude jokes and half-baked skits meant to highlight shortcomings of a person who doesn’t give two ***** Lana fits me better than my ribbed, red sweater and even amidst gods and monsters, this T-shirt makes pretty last, and I am just as cool.
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 12:33 PM UTC
Ode to My Lana del Rey T-shirt
What you could not tell me; as distinct as a infant's cry, was why? Had the torture within you rattled the bars and forced you to plead sweet ignorance? Would you have understood an alibi, had I delivered it to you in homonyms? Were we a pair, had we pared? Or did one of us bite too harshly on the pear? Or would you continue with me, the way you knew how... artfully coy, and full of deception? and then, I realized I knew... had always known and therein is the rub that has left me bare, a bear, a grizzly discovery.
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Mar 3, 2011
Mar 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM UTC
and then, I realized
Morning Rainbow Myriad prismatic crystals,      refract the morning sun-streams - painting layers of spectral arches      across the misted horizon. Eyes turned to the western skies,      we suspend our meteorological selves   acquiescing to miracles unveiled before us -      un-beckoned and scarcely earned, proffering thanks for the radiant epistle      of healing, hope and promise, artfully encoded in transfigured light. Synthetic Refractions A luminary ballet takes center stage     when synthetic refractors come to play: crystal pendants bathe our foyers       with dazzling swaths of color. Hazy coronas encircle streetlamps       discovered by headlights through the fog. A science class prism slices light rays      into pre-ordered spectral strata. If the sky denies us a rainbow,      we can always fashion one of our own and we do! Spectral Sound Before there was music,      bird songs brushed our souls and the murmur of woodland streams      held us captive by their banks. Soon we learned to sing and tint the air     With prisms of wood and wire and metal and to color soundscapes in our spirits      With songs of wonder, joy and longing. Before there was music,      bird songs brushed our souls. Robert Charles Howard, 2019
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 1:14 PM UTC
Prisms
Poets, the disciples of the modern world. Followers of the great Almighty Lord of alliteration and symbolism. Their eccentric natures make them the pariahs of this world. We cannot wrap our minds around the words they artfully speak, so we refuse to accept them. Their eyes burn like fire in their skulls as they stare you down from a podium. In their hands, they hold their own hearts which they have ripped out of their chests, holding them out as if asking for you to accept it from them, wanting you to understand what every beat means. Poets are misunderstood beings, tortured creatures, but they are far stronger than any others, because they have the gall to speak their minds unforgivingly, bare their most inner secrets and struggles to an audience of strangers. They are quick of tongue, speaking faster than one's ear can hear, but somehow they still manage to work themselves into your head with every word. They're parasites, infecting your mind and soul, tugging at you and driving themselves into your brain until their poems are all you think of. But they are not evil parasites. They hurt us and make us feel to save us.
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Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 11:49 PM UTC
Parasites
wondrous words, shades of colorations, this pain, artfully slow, steady stalking, finale staking into my hardened heart with tireless twinges of loss and constant regret, painstakingly plinking away, leaving pockmarks of bullets shot at the concrete ring-fencing, failing to protect me from just another, **oh god not again, have no mo' time** for jes one mo' time love's aftermath regret, bitter acid wash, that cleanses nothing, for you are already nothing when love loss wrenches/rents your soul's garments with knotholes of unfashionable distressed distress **better not to have loved, better, better, better,** than this battering silent hurricane invisible thunderstorm internally, than respects no seasonality, for which the meteorologists can predict neither its path or its final cessation painstakingly, did I build my walled shelter, only to fail-fall to the siege machines of beauty and desire, and once conquered, with fire and heat, *they burnt me from the outward edges inward, and I am not a Phoenix* see the stooped slow white walker more than dead, yet alive enough existing to be witness to his own devouring, his hands wrapped round the stake in his chest stuck, painstakingly protecting it, lest its removal be one more undoing of the painstaking man
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 7:00 PM UTC
the painstaking man
The mirror looking back at her screams compliments over the loud music coming from the stereo behind. With artfully smudged eyeliner, she slips into the little black dress purchased from the cheap lingerie shop down the street from her apartment complex. Six inches above the concrete sidewalk clicking with every step, a lit cigarette dangling at her teeth, she walks proudly to the ball twenty minutes past midnight. The morning after; spiked hot coffee in hand to cure mistakes of the previous night and a knock on the door greets a worsening headache. The door opens to a well dressed man and a tiny glass slipper atop a diamond-studded throne. He holds the delicate shoe to her foot, toe nails painted black, and patiently waits for a response. “Those aren’t my red stilettos.”
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:27 PM UTC
Twisted Cinderella
all of my exes like closed pages from a book emanate some lesson if that's all i really took relationships are time well-served don't regret a single one but i must insist i got used to this and i'm glad that they are all done all done, but one but that's how it works no more turning another page and in marriage we're stuck until one of us dies from old age if love is a test then we've artfully persevered so no going back to an ex or moving onto the next since my exes were really all kind of weird
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 2:49 AM UTC
all my exes should live in texas
This morning we jogged early I was back in my flat by six-thirty From my tenth floor view of the Charles River basin, The morning was incandescently flushed by the peach-colored sun. The transparent clouds seemed stylistically stained, artfully workshopped, which offered a softened, Tiffany glass effect wholly worthy of worship. I can’t stop to admire it. I’m jamming things into suitcases. Cramming things into boxes, giving things away. I had a second interview Monday afternoon, for Johns Hopkins med school. They put the question to me: “The semester starts in 18 days - can you do that?” “Yes,” I replied, and just like that, I'm a Blue Jay. Of course, I had to withdraw from the masters program but Harvard gave me a full (95K) refund - I think they’re more excited about my med school admission than I am. I’m not afraid of discordant notes. They change the landscape. Take us to new emotional places. Any major work is going to have them. . . A song for this: Hang on Little Tomato by Pink Martini It's Amazing by Jem
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Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM UTC
discordant notes
In one's life, A Happy Place, which we often recall...must have existed ....t'was where we felt at peace...and contented None can  break the serenity Of home...or church, or maybe a shady tree ...its proximity...offering safety, ....no worries, no fears that blur our eyes........ ...like that easy morning...with blue animated skies ........the smell of rice, ready for reaping, filled the air ....it felt nice, to sit by the creek...wind, messing hair ..........while throwing stones, on the water flowing .......having fun...watching people harvesting One day, those rice fields ..............had no more rice to yield ....just wide open spaces left, where young boys ...surrendered to the winds, their artfully designed toys ...colorful, Japanese paper...smooth, with sheen ...framed by several bamboo sticks...long and thin ...big, colorful birds and butterflies, flying high Naive, impermanent kites..... soaring to the skies We can never be sure....some  kites fly straight away, ............while a few others....stray ...fading songbirds, losing their way........broken dreams, Heading....towards distant, forgotten realms .......they're like words that couldn't rhyme ............like discordant tunes of a broken chime... In our minds, that Happy Place with kites......resides Sometimes, it stays behind, refusing light...it  hides ......for some reasons, it goes further down...deep inside Oftentimes, it inspires...and becomes our source of pride... ::::::::::::: Life, after all, is a potpourri of lengthy, and ephemeral strides, :::::::::::::: Proving further, black and white are two of life's many colors Light, or dark shade shouldn't  matter..... Because, in many ways...our cups always runneth over. ::::::::::::::: Sally Copyright October 5, 2016 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 11:30 PM UTC
KITES
In one's life, A Happy Place, which we often recall...must have existed ....t'was where we felt at peace...and contented None can  break the serenity Of home...or church, or maybe a shady tree ...its proximity...offering safety, ....no worries, no fears that blur our eyes........ ...like that easy morning...with blue animated skies ........the smell of rice, ready for reaping, filled the air ....it felt nice, to sit by the creek...wind, messing hair ..........while throwing stones, on the water flowing .......having fun...watching people harvesting One day, those rice fields ..............had no more rice to yield ....just wide open spaces left, where young boys ...surrendered to the winds, their artfully designed toys ...colorful, Japanese paper...smooth, with sheen ...framed by several bamboo sticks...long and thin ...big, colorful birds and butterflies, flying high Naive, impermanent kites..... soaring to the skies We can never be sure....some  kites fly straight away, ............while a few others....stray ...fading songbirds, losing their way........broken dreams, Heading....towards distant, forgotten realms .......they're like words that couldn't rhyme ............like discordant tunes of a broken chime... In our minds, that Happy Place with kites......resides Sometimes, it stays behind, refusing light...it  hides ......for some reasons, it goes further down...deep inside Oftentimes, it inspires...and becomes our source of pride... ::::::::::::: Life, after all, is a potpourri of lengthy, and ephemeral strides, :::::::::::::: Proving further, black and white are two of life's many colors Light, or dark shade shouldn't  matter..... Because, in many ways...our cups always runneth over. ::::::::::::::: Sally Copyright October 5, 2016 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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You remind me of sweet tea, honey cornflakes on sleepy, sunday mornings. That hell of a smile is like thick socks over cold ankles. Your 'head back; don't give a damn' laughter is like little sunshines saying 'Hello' to all the dark, empty s p a c e s in me. You remind me of artfully ruffled hair, messy white sheets from pillow fights. You, sweets, have the loveliest soul.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM UTC
Lovely Soul
-for Zukiswa Mvunguse~ and for ~ Jul, who once again, loved each line best~ having already deduced that: “the unplanned is his plan, it’s his faceted flaws that refract his coloratura”^ the titled alliteration teases him into thinking there, is more to be said, more to be prayed, the unplanned lesser lesson is as-of-the-yet unlearned, and the sunburst of a full fledged lying-in-bed born from a static spark of kinetic energy, awaking in an unfamiliar bed or a too familiar state of mind, begs for birth and vainglorious death-by-anon/amity of another poem   I have written poems commissioned, “write about suicide,” asked a friend, “take this word and artfully knead it,” once, was once an oft request, twisty manipulate your scheming resources into finely assaying a field rock raw, laboratory mind-mine it into an essay that delve dives where you fear to treacherous tread, resultant, an awkward prayer, now, a valued mineral no poem is truly planned and no prayer ever truly answered, but as you compose, pushing the last, next word ever farther to the right, you self-confess, expecting no absolution, that the poem, this one as well, and the next, and the next, and the next has always been planned since your inception, always a prayer asked, and in creation conception, answered even if not directly answered, for in the bare minimum asking, is the answering, is the planning, is the poem and the prayer, is his owned alliteration
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 8:16 AM UTC
poetry, planning and prayer (and answers)
We're all just a massive mess of energy A beautiful, massive mess And that's just the brilliance of it! Times and times retold of our divinity, Of our ancestors painted by the stars, Of glory untold And oh the glory! That you may see it Or even hear the echoes of its glorious memory resound across the heavens And the loftiest of them all being our mind Singular, not plural For we have but the same mind That we are moved by the same passions That we are subtly subject to change Oh, our malleable souls! That we aspire for the Heavens So we may get to soar freely And yet dance to tunes of a heathen kind Such is the hypocrisy that we've been raised to uphold as daily norm None being the lesser! For had it not been so, then with God you'd be this very moment As Master, nature springing to your tunes That you'll master all as Did SoloMon Tense just being one of our many creations So through this wake up call, I beg all of you to arise from your deep slumbers Your virtual realities whose bounds you artfully set with decided deliberation upon your mind Wake up and see that you are infinite! Wake up and see that you are divine! Wake up and see that you are gods!
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 5:30 AM UTC
Untitled
1 Her thick  dark eyebrows did cast a spell first, they are stuck there like vampire bats, they both symbolize  a sinister plot, kept secret, with a 'come hither' prompt, none can resist. She attracted artists in hordes, crazy moths, never did they look above her face,the serpents, lay tangled and acted as if it's smooth coiffure. Wicked lust,aroused by bitter past,                                     made her move with keen  intent an invisible net she carried behind her back. She attacked at opportune moments, pretending she is a lover, with insatiable lust in boil. 2 All crafted lies, simultaneously,she artfully solicited,        colored moths, in her slow fire, they burned, one by one, but one remained stuck there for life, fearing rejection every moment. A crop of heads she reaped , wherever she went, a kite was ever ready to fly her victim-hood colors higher and higher, that made admirers **** in their breath and stoop, before her to her advantage, she had no dearth for volunteers any time. Burning words made her chants fly like fire works, her collection of heads turned stones by admiring her increased, as a huntress she was an ace stuffed in her cubbyhole of a heart, heads of stone languished. 3 Medusa,you don't have sisters, I count it the luck of those  unborn how beautiful, you once were I still remember, though no sun visited the north you spent your childhood. Run, run my feared beauty, to the sun, before your heart get charred by the heat of hatred, you bear in the  Gothic interiors. 4 I hate Perseus, don't you fear your Nemesis? Every Athena you wrongly think your foe  and fight, all your hair turned serpents, still I thought, love would work, without  coming upfront, I kept my flame burning, but all in vein, you could never love anyone, legitimately or otherwise. Your blood, all of it, has turned venom, you spit it, slowly its beauty amazes, even  the victims on the line next...
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Jul 4, 2013
Jul 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM UTC
To Medusa, yet again a love poem
1 Her thick  dark eyebrows did cast a spell first, they are stuck there like vampire bats, they both symbolize  a sinister plot, kept secret, with a 'come hither' prompt, none can resist. She attracted artists in hordes, crazy moths, never did they look above her face,the serpents, lay tangled and acted as if it's smooth coiffure. Wicked lust,aroused by bitter past,                                     made her move with keen  intent an invisible net she carried behind her back. She attacked at opportune moments, pretending she is a lover, with insatiable lust in boil. 2 All crafted lies, simultaneously,she artfully solicited,        colored moths, in her slow fire, they burned, one by one, but one remained stuck there for life, fearing rejection every moment. A crop of heads she reaped , wherever she went, a kite was ever ready to fly her victim-hood colors higher and higher, that made admirers **** in their breath and stoop, before her to her advantage, she had no dearth for volunteers any time. Burning words made her chants fly like fire works, her collection of heads turned stones by admiring her increased, as a huntress she was an ace stuffed in her cubbyhole of a heart, heads of stone languished. 3 Medusa,you don't have sisters, I count it the luck of those  unborn how beautiful, you once were I still remember, though no sun visited the north you spent your childhood. Run, run my feared beauty, to the sun, before your heart get charred by the heat of hatred, you bear in the  Gothic interiors. 4 I hate Perseus, don't you fear your Nemesis? Every Athena you wrongly think your foe  and fight, all your hair turned serpents, still I thought, love would work, without  coming upfront, I kept my flame burning, but all in vein, you could never love anyone, legitimately or otherwise. Your blood, all of it, has turned venom, you spit it, slowly its beauty amazes, even  the victims on the line next...
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Throughout my life I've pledged to make you mine. As if, by wish, this vow would then come true. So, would I practice words of pretty rhyme, and, with my heart, would offer them to you. Oh, how I wish myself to be a poem; To enter through your eyes into your heart. For it is there I wish to make my home. I cannot bear that we should ever part. But sometimes, when I search to see your face; I, startled, see you looking back at me! Could God, in kindness, spare a gift of grace; or does He smile on simple fools as we? Still, artfully I do the things I do. The world might sing if I could speak to you.
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Sep 24, 2011
Sep 24, 2011 at 4:20 AM UTC
A Shy Sonnet
I believe in humility I believe in humbling  Acts of nature I'd often wonder  I'd sometimes wander Alone with no direction I swear it's not as  Sad as it sounds Biting my lip As the wind carries me on Through blue lit streets And artfully drawn upon Homes as abandoned As you or I  As humans we're blessed With an ability To throw ones in the air As casually as fallen leaves
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Sep 21, 2013
Sep 21, 2013 at 1:53 AM UTC
annoying
I was daydreaming about the hoverboard that was promised to me in the sequel to Back To The Future when you big-banged my mindset with a universe of thought that I was not ready to comprehend. All you said was, do you think koi fish were typecast? As if some ancient Japanese fisherman noticed that that fish in particular was more reserved than the others. I can picture him paddling quietly across the Caspian Sea as he notices these fish, looks down through his own reflection and says, you seem artfully shy. You remind me that historically and geographically speaking, my story makes no sense. And that the fisherman would not speak English. I remind you that at the rate we're going, we'll probably die before we find out how this life ends. You remind me that we're all fossils in waiting. This was on the back porch of the house you lived at in Santa Barbara. There was a mountain to our right and an ocean to our left. This was in between puffs of your cigarette. I remind you that sometimes you throw yourself out there like propellers so I threw myself down like a launch-pad-made-for-landing- not knowing anything about trajectory- hoping to show you that there are some people out here who know the importance of landing whole. You retreat to your smart phone, search Google, load a satellite image, point to the smallest blue pixel, See that? You say. That's Earth. Everything we will ever know happened on that dot. I thought about Newt's completely feasible moon colony and the first moon-born human. I thought about illegal aliens and inalienable rights. But I didn't say anything. We just sat there in perfect silence like two ukuleles wanting to be acoustic guitars, perfectly tuned, painted in moon reflection, I said, what are we doing? And you didn't have to ask. You knew. When I said we, I meant the species.
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Apr 4, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 at 12:55 AM UTC
Newt's Completely Feasible Moon Colony
I was daydreaming about the hoverboard that was promised to me in the sequel to Back To The Future when you big-banged my mindset with a universe of thought that I was not ready to comprehend. All you said was, do you think koi fish were typecast? As if some ancient Japanese fisherman noticed that that fish in particular was more reserved than the others. I can picture him paddling quietly across the Caspian Sea as he notices these fish, looks down through his own reflection and says, you seem artfully shy. You remind me that historically and geographically speaking, my story makes no sense. And that the fisherman would not speak English. I remind you that at the rate we're going, we'll probably die before we find out how this life ends. You remind me that we're all fossils in waiting. This was on the back porch of the house you lived at in Santa Barbara. There was a mountain to our right and an ocean to our left. This was in between puffs of your cigarette. I remind you that sometimes you throw yourself out there like propellers so I threw myself down like a launch-pad-made-for-landing- not knowing anything about trajectory- hoping to show you that there are some people out here who know the importance of landing whole. You retreat to your smart phone, search Google, load a satellite image, point to the smallest blue pixel, See that? You say. That's Earth. Everything we will ever know happened on that dot. I thought about Newt's completely feasible moon colony and the first moon-born human. I thought about illegal aliens and inalienable rights. But I didn't say anything. We just sat there in perfect silence like two ukuleles wanting to be acoustic guitars, perfectly tuned, painted in moon reflection, I said, what are we doing? And you didn't have to ask. You knew. When I said we, I meant the species.
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I can do this too, when I'm not au naturel And trying to beat all of your @sses with how well I make the gentleman, how excellently I am the imp, How swell I step, dancing, aside, how terribly I simp - Sometimes catch me getting back and giving the barman a chance - I heeded their call; I washed off the day, and stepped into a trance Of raspberry, rose and sandalwood; I donned my blue and pink silk, And my black boots, tights and blazer - She's got style; And in that ilk I also painted my face, with blues, whites, pinks, blacks, golds And it was late when I stepped out, and in the very holds Of the night that a lady like I should find terrifying, but I walked The quarter of an hour to the Silk Mill; talked For something more like four or five, Face sharp, hair artfully mad, alive In every sense, aided by the fine cocktails in this student setting I could enchant all in four languages, and I did, forgetting For a bit that another one of my faces I believe to be repugnant: Because it begs for attention; and my current, commanded it Because I came expecting nothing, and asking nothing, And I quite frankly didn't give a d@mn about much of anything, But if I wasn't very much a part of the room, and very much she Whom every boy needed to speak to, and would ideally keep the company Of, if that wasn't I Then every lie's a truth, and every truth, a lie.
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Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022 at 11:15 AM UTC
Go on, flirt with me
I am tired of building sandcastles; pouring heart and soul into time spent together with the enthusiasm that comes with newfound infatuation. Building relationships like sandcastles, artfully crafted with a mixture of chemistry and compassion to form beautiful and wondrous things alive with imagination with the hope that one day the proper name for it will be that elusive and all-inclusive word "love." I spend that time in a strange mixture of hard work and yet effortless way things fall together, and each castle is as different, unique, and beautiful in its own right as the next. But time spent as Queen with my King companion is shortlived. The tide sweeps in and away, and the castle crumbles and in time there is not a trace of the hallowed halls that once were the home to invested emotion. Sometimes I am left with the nagging doubt whether the castle was ever even there. Sure i remember my hands in the sand, my hand in his hand, the towers in the sky, the look in his eye. But with no evidence, no trace I begin to think it may all have been a lovely and then depressing dream. The sand lays at rest for a time but then it begins again, because I have love to give and love to share and I see the potential in the next prince to build a castle greater than the last, forgetting all about the ruins that have been swept away by that sea. No I'm tired of these sandcastles, as exhilarating and breathtaking as the adventure into architecture is... I think I'm ready for a house made of stone, I want to build a place love can find a solid home.
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Feb 10, 2012
Feb 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM UTC
sandcastles
I am tired of building sandcastles; pouring heart and soul into time spent together with the enthusiasm that comes with newfound infatuation. Building relationships like sandcastles, artfully crafted with a mixture of chemistry and compassion to form beautiful and wondrous things alive with imagination with the hope that one day the proper name for it will be that elusive and all-inclusive word "love." I spend that time in a strange mixture of hard work and yet effortless way things fall together, and each castle is as different, unique, and beautiful in its own right as the next. But time spent as Queen with my King companion is shortlived. The tide sweeps in and away, and the castle crumbles and in time there is not a trace of the hallowed halls that once were the home to invested emotion. Sometimes I am left with the nagging doubt whether the castle was ever even there. Sure i remember my hands in the sand, my hand in his hand, the towers in the sky, the look in his eye. But with no evidence, no trace I begin to think it may all have been a lovely and then depressing dream. The sand lays at rest for a time but then it begins again, because I have love to give and love to share and I see the potential in the next prince to build a castle greater than the last, forgetting all about the ruins that have been swept away by that sea. No I'm tired of these sandcastles, as exhilarating and breathtaking as the adventure into architecture is... I think I'm ready for a house made of stone, I want to build a place love can find a solid home.
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Silver tongues, diamond cut, Artfully place pandering And articulate acupuncture Dragging your cheeks up with hooks Until you are caught by strings A marionette madly dancing To another's fine sour tune
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Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 2:06 AM UTC
The power of words (or; a politicians' game)
choo choo next stop.....perdition (no, not really...no-one believes this Stygian opacity) 1. look how Time doth ravage thee look what it did to thy visage in smithereens, lies youth it so artfully takes away what is held so dear rivers and streams valleys and hills arching to ecstatic heights plunging to abysmal lows into the ravine of chance stirred by the spoon of Time slowly around the cauldron brews the self-same mixture then poured into chasms of forgetfulness using the eternal sledgehammer it smashes the foundation of thought grinds the nutmeg of speed pulps the fruit of mentality slows the pulse of sensation and pardons none. 2. what was once sensuous and voluptuous lips now are merely two dry slits on your face once stared-into eyeballs, now glass over vitreous cataracts steadily grow, weed-like toned into lithe elastic bands now stretch away into forever, a pale platform to walk on life's morn is encompassed by years' slanting clouded and bedimmed by mists of age butterfly's existence outweighs a man's by mere night-veiled windowpane of true sight draw the curtains; close the shutters; screen the eyes the time has come to shed all blinkers and face the sun. 3. crimp sag limp drag mud cracks down a dipping dale scalding pain sears sore half-foot yes, time is but a disease ravaging all without fear or favour sunken eyes slower reflexes tardier mind scraggly body hides not condescends not forgets not the glimmer of .... a time of ... 4. cathedral invites the walker in cool and calm recesses sit silent wait.... then they walk in, carrying one who had but a lucky half-score lot clear soprano note becomes a rudderless bleat announcing the folly of stifling ego now shorn of burning frost of circuitous fervour beams of mercy cast a final look-see jump the barriers of time to carry thee off. pipe organ-stops are pulled out (art thee ready?  platform number 5) S T,  9 May 2013
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM UTC
time is but a disease
choo choo next stop.....perdition (no, not really...no-one believes this Stygian opacity) 1. look how Time doth ravage thee look what it did to thy visage in smithereens, lies youth it so artfully takes away what is held so dear rivers and streams valleys and hills arching to ecstatic heights plunging to abysmal lows into the ravine of chance stirred by the spoon of Time slowly around the cauldron brews the self-same mixture then poured into chasms of forgetfulness using the eternal sledgehammer it smashes the foundation of thought grinds the nutmeg of speed pulps the fruit of mentality slows the pulse of sensation and pardons none. 2. what was once sensuous and voluptuous lips now are merely two dry slits on your face once stared-into eyeballs, now glass over vitreous cataracts steadily grow, weed-like toned into lithe elastic bands now stretch away into forever, a pale platform to walk on life's morn is encompassed by years' slanting clouded and bedimmed by mists of age butterfly's existence outweighs a man's by mere night-veiled windowpane of true sight draw the curtains; close the shutters; screen the eyes the time has come to shed all blinkers and face the sun. 3. crimp sag limp drag mud cracks down a dipping dale scalding pain sears sore half-foot yes, time is but a disease ravaging all without fear or favour sunken eyes slower reflexes tardier mind scraggly body hides not condescends not forgets not the glimmer of .... a time of ... 4. cathedral invites the walker in cool and calm recesses sit silent wait.... then they walk in, carrying one who had but a lucky half-score lot clear soprano note becomes a rudderless bleat announcing the folly of stifling ego now shorn of burning frost of circuitous fervour beams of mercy cast a final look-see jump the barriers of time to carry thee off. pipe organ-stops are pulled out (art thee ready?  platform number 5) S T,  9 May 2013
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Jonathan Anderson's collections walk a confounding tightrope between naïveté and decadence. Much of his new menswear looked like clothes for a futuristic, spiritual retreat (Anderson himself said he wanted something "laid-back, Zen-like"), but the buckled patent shoes were purest dancehall honky-tonk. The fitted leather jackets were pretty flashy, too, especially when contrasted with multi-pleated pants in plainest calico or denim. "He took himself seriously," said the voice-over that launched Michel Gaubert's stirring soundtrack (a journey all in itself), but that felt like Anderson poking a little fun at his own expense—or at least anticipating reactions to his quirky rationale. He insisted his collection was actually like an imaginary world that a child might create for himself, akin to the tree houses he and his brother used to build. The preciousness that such a boy would bestow on things that are essentially valueless was reflected in the ordinary objects—keys, tools—that were transmuted into jewelry, the board game that mutated into a constructivist jacquard, and the calico or denim artfully constructed into the pants that made up the foundation of the collection. Some of the models were carrying a small metal frame on which curious little things were suspended, almost like charms to ward off who knows what. That subtly occult tinge has become something of an Anderson signature, the way he disturbs the refined with the raw, for instance—a thin strand of bamboo or a bandage of calico nipping the waist, or a crude smear of paint across a tulle top so fine it is barely there, or even a white feather stuck to a shoulder. Such touches feel last-minute spontaneous, but also off-kilter, which is exactly where Anderson wants to keep us. But his work is now so consistent that off-kilter is proving a rather pleasant place to be.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 2:01 AM UTC
J.W. Anderson
Jonathan Anderson's collections walk a confounding tightrope between naïveté and decadence. Much of his new menswear looked like clothes for a futuristic, spiritual retreat (Anderson himself said he wanted something "laid-back, Zen-like"), but the buckled patent shoes were purest dancehall honky-tonk. The fitted leather jackets were pretty flashy, too, especially when contrasted with multi-pleated pants in plainest calico or denim. "He took himself seriously," said the voice-over that launched Michel Gaubert's stirring soundtrack (a journey all in itself), but that felt like Anderson poking a little fun at his own expense—or at least anticipating reactions to his quirky rationale. He insisted his collection was actually like an imaginary world that a child might create for himself, akin to the tree houses he and his brother used to build. The preciousness that such a boy would bestow on things that are essentially valueless was reflected in the ordinary objects—keys, tools—that were transmuted into jewelry, the board game that mutated into a constructivist jacquard, and the calico or denim artfully constructed into the pants that made up the foundation of the collection. Some of the models were carrying a small metal frame on which curious little things were suspended, almost like charms to ward off who knows what. That subtly occult tinge has become something of an Anderson signature, the way he disturbs the refined with the raw, for instance—a thin strand of bamboo or a bandage of calico nipping the waist, or a crude smear of paint across a tulle top so fine it is barely there, or even a white feather stuck to a shoulder. Such touches feel last-minute spontaneous, but also off-kilter, which is exactly where Anderson wants to keep us. But his work is now so consistent that off-kilter is proving a rather pleasant place to be.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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