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What is a Legacy What's the equation that leads to the sum that is A Human Life The curtain draws as it must and when it's done... We spill out of this "Life" a grocery bag of idiosyncrasies, neuroses, hypocrisies, and other I-sees What are we in the end but broken pieces of a puzzle we leave for others to assemble--who cares if the pieces fit. Someone found a Kind word here Another a Generosity A memory of a Lie Proof of a Cruelty Acts of Humanity by a human being acting... Who knows me well enough to define my Legacy? Who else but "I"
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Jun 1, 2016
Jun 1, 2016 at 4:26 PM UTC
Legacy
Your life is made of distant springs and falls, a straight route is not what you own for hurricanes and storms divert your path to new horizons. Will you find horseshoe ***** mussels, clams on the stopovers? Food awaits you if the shores are not ravaged by human greed, ignorance. Your resilience is written in B95's ordeals, a mosaic of adventures ingrained in his own cells. The threads of your trips assemble the places of Mother Earth connected in its roles; nothing is detached in the collective harmony of souls. Red knot shorebird, peaceful messenger, icon of strength without rage, your story is the universal flight of awareness waiting to be heard.
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 3:28 PM UTC
Moonbird
**The band starts playing at a ***** and crowded backyard. Rebellious youth gather to cast their vote with the stomping of their doc martin boots. Beer cans everywhere, everyone's trying to let loose the raw stranglehold their society has produced. The guitars go off and the ritual begins. First they assemble in the heart of the pit. In the center individual tragedies bring fourth the wrath of a God's army. Anarchy you call it, Ha! I call it reassurance, reassurance that this anger is surely communal. I never saw it more clearer, the youth's power to resist: If the government wont hear us, we will create our own sound even under the batons of fascism, we spit on your rule, your control of our art. We wont bow down to a law with our names written all over it, while another politician walks free from corruption. While another officer guns down an un armed child and calls it self-defense. While suspicious mass shootings continue to occur and mass cameras grow in recording. While you send more people off to war for another countries resources. These thoughts explode out of me into shoves, screams, ****** cuts, reckless behavior, and then finally release. Pure psychiatric release.**
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
The Pit
The warmth of the sun settles, hugging the lake. The dragonfly flies low, hovering above the tranquil water the light seeping through the paper thin skin, it hums across the lake, refracting light off its wings, An array of colors make patterns on the wings, wearing it like a cloak, a rainbow embedded within. The colors tilt and shift as the dragonfly gracefully cruises through life, laying close to the water but letting the air propel it forward, floating between two different worlds, it is like a dream where our thoughts are separated from reality, and are scattered like refracted light for us to assemble.   Through a screen of our dreams, a world can be seen. A world of hopes and desires that is dormant within The light of life just soaks us bare, our skin turns frail, under the scorching glare, the glare of eyes that want you to be, someone that is accepted by society. the dragonfly bathes itself in the sun, the iridescent colors shine on its skin, flying and floating, he’s determined to win a predator, determined to get what it wants nothing blocking its way or paving its path making the most out of life and never holding back spread your wings like the dragonfly that hums its way through life, dipping its wings in the sun to shine, breaking free a life of colors, that we leave locked and forgotten, behind a reality made of black and white, the black ink seeping through our minds, injecting us with ideas of the 'ideal life' where money and fortune, and status define. Bathe your mind in the wonders of the world, soak your heart in life's warmth and glow, and pave your own path, with the dreams you sow.
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 3:13 AM UTC
Prism of Life - Dragonfly
The warmth of the sun settles, hugging the lake. The dragonfly flies low, hovering above the tranquil water the light seeping through the paper thin skin, it hums across the lake, refracting light off its wings, An array of colors make patterns on the wings, wearing it like a cloak, a rainbow embedded within. The colors tilt and shift as the dragonfly gracefully cruises through life, laying close to the water but letting the air propel it forward, floating between two different worlds, it is like a dream where our thoughts are separated from reality, and are scattered like refracted light for us to assemble.   Through a screen of our dreams, a world can be seen. A world of hopes and desires that is dormant within The light of life just soaks us bare, our skin turns frail, under the scorching glare, the glare of eyes that want you to be, someone that is accepted by society. the dragonfly bathes itself in the sun, the iridescent colors shine on its skin, flying and floating, he’s determined to win a predator, determined to get what it wants nothing blocking its way or paving its path making the most out of life and never holding back spread your wings like the dragonfly that hums its way through life, dipping its wings in the sun to shine, breaking free a life of colors, that we leave locked and forgotten, behind a reality made of black and white, the black ink seeping through our minds, injecting us with ideas of the 'ideal life' where money and fortune, and status define. Bathe your mind in the wonders of the world, soak your heart in life's warmth and glow, and pave your own path, with the dreams you sow.
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• Fix me• Mend me•Stitch me•Overhaul me•Amend me• Alter me•Modify me •Enhance me•Patch me• Adjust me•Heal me•Correct me•Reform me•Shift me•Renew me•Remedy me•Rebuild me•Aid me•Assist me•Change me•Rectify me•Troubleshoot me•Revive me• Assemble me•Calibrate me• Service me•Love me• Repair me
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 4:26 AM UTC
Repair Me
Yank myself out of bed Peel the film of sleep from 'round my head It's 4:00 AM And all the world is dead. It's 4:00 AM and all the world is dead. From the streets every man has fled. But in hours it again shall be Brimming with potential; energy set free. I assemble my appearance. Staring into the mirror, I say to myself: "One last time. "One final tour." The door is open, before it I stand To face morning's faint chill Surrounded by paling blue. There! The first bird's trill. The air is sweet And free of smog. The faintest fog Is draped on the trees. The empty street beckons And freely I obey. I have things I need to do Before the commencement of the day. I pass the playground on the corner, Where I wasted time as a child. Where many a battle was fought And we had adventures in the wild. Past the playground and to my left There is the river bank Where I went fishing with my father And my friends and I made our mothers mad: Where we lit our little fires And we had our first drinks. Where we shared our first joint And came to talk and think. Our school is down the way. We all can safely say It's the place where we first learned Classes and books have less to say than the real world. We became: Artists. Athletes. Academics. Our achievements Are scrawled upon The stone walls That lined that same river. A little further on, And there's the little store Where I kissed my first fleeting love Just outside the door. I keep walking, I keep walking, Until I reach the shore. I put my back against a rock And rest on that sandy floor. The life that I'll soon be leaving Lies behind me asleep While I watch the sun lazily rise Over the mysterious, unexplored deep. I built myself in this town And it built me as well. But I cannot stay much longer: In a few hours I will bid it farewell. Will I ever make it back? Will I ever return To trace the scrawlings by the riverbank With bare fingers full of nostalgia? Nothing at all is sure. Therefore I must take this last chance To make my final tour.
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 8:25 AM UTC
Final Tour
Yank myself out of bed Peel the film of sleep from 'round my head It's 4:00 AM And all the world is dead. It's 4:00 AM and all the world is dead. From the streets every man has fled. But in hours it again shall be Brimming with potential; energy set free. I assemble my appearance. Staring into the mirror, I say to myself: "One last time. "One final tour." The door is open, before it I stand To face morning's faint chill Surrounded by paling blue. There! The first bird's trill. The air is sweet And free of smog. The faintest fog Is draped on the trees. The empty street beckons And freely I obey. I have things I need to do Before the commencement of the day. I pass the playground on the corner, Where I wasted time as a child. Where many a battle was fought And we had adventures in the wild. Past the playground and to my left There is the river bank Where I went fishing with my father And my friends and I made our mothers mad: Where we lit our little fires And we had our first drinks. Where we shared our first joint And came to talk and think. Our school is down the way. We all can safely say It's the place where we first learned Classes and books have less to say than the real world. We became: Artists. Athletes. Academics. Our achievements Are scrawled upon The stone walls That lined that same river. A little further on, And there's the little store Where I kissed my first fleeting love Just outside the door. I keep walking, I keep walking, Until I reach the shore. I put my back against a rock And rest on that sandy floor. The life that I'll soon be leaving Lies behind me asleep While I watch the sun lazily rise Over the mysterious, unexplored deep. I built myself in this town And it built me as well. But I cannot stay much longer: In a few hours I will bid it farewell. Will I ever make it back? Will I ever return To trace the scrawlings by the riverbank With bare fingers full of nostalgia? Nothing at all is sure. Therefore I must take this last chance To make my final tour.
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I sit and watch her bottom lip tremble, And know that it's my fault. The pieces that she can't assemble, Are locked within the vault. I sit and watch her eyes cloud over, And have to look away, She stills calls me her sunshine, But I blind her with the rain.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 8:22 PM UTC
Guilty
It becomes a secure and congenial home When a woman is around, bonny circle.. If you treat them well They bless your heart with love and arouse your intrinsic glow Dear women.. You are strong and comely May this day allay the extreme heat and assemble serene skies Buven Thepoet
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Aug 9, 2020
Aug 9, 2020 at 4:10 AM UTC
Women's Day
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM UTC
Erosion
From the ripple in a glass of water to the sonic boom of this internal Pompeii, the erosion of her etymology is the only sense of movement in her dilated, cave-pupil eyes, those two ghost towns spanning and encircling all the way back, stretched like an elastic blindfold past the moment the first brick was laid, perhaps her first vivid memory, or anecdote, or first word uttered in a Cuban slum. There are mountains of tumbleweed over the once thriving metropolis that expanded towards America; who threw herself into the architecture of seven pillars, borne from her land and minerals. Gone are the huts that housed her knowledge of basic motor skills. The women who once imagined Mami and Mima as her birth name now scrub off the graffiti of her excrement; they saw a swarm of pink moons the day she told the same story to every visitor that came their way, each day then becoming a missing surveillance tape, a sinkhole dismantling the awareness in her bones and stubborn will, until she became these dust-engulfed plains with a daughter and granddaughter archeological in their efforts to chase down the remains of a girl still breathing in those eyes from time to time. Every other ten-millionth blink of the eye rides the silhouette of a post-infant girl on the high tides of her quick visit, looking in horror as the nation of her life's nightmares, heartaches, broken promises, romances, spiritual breakthroughs, life-changing seconds drowns with morbid unity en cien fuegos, desperately attempting to assemble the remnants of her psyche past her cognitive bloodclots with the awareness of one who speaks no languages. Gone is the moment she first learned to feed her several children before the slip of sunset. One of seven pillars remain intact, the others long dismantled of their stick and straw infrastructures. One pillar remained, housed her own colony for nine months, and now both descendants travel the mind of their greatest influence with perplexed dedication, caustic humor the decoy for swarms of exhaustion and asphyxiation from the truthful atmosphere, reveling in the seconds of humanity lurking in an abandoned etymology.
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part of me wants to scream... i want to scream out to the world to get them to understand. I want to scream until there isn’t a single breath left in my lungs, until they sting with the energy i’ve expended and my words hang in the air for all  to hear. to be poet you must write with a certain passion live with the satisfaction that you can constantly assemble phrases, words and lines because to truly write you must feel.. you must freely write your emotion you must learn to let go of your darkest secrets allow the words to flow from your mind emancipate yourselves from mental salvery they cannot comprehend why I write, I am working for inner peace, fighting for the freedom of my soul writing is my form of release , because sometimes poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape of emotion moments when I start writing and yet know what I am even to write of poetry is about discovering , just like happiness these aren't things ready made we fear what we know but do not understand we are loose at the seems pretending to fine
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 9:26 PM UTC
emotions
You choked on chariots raw. Red egg yolk suppers, churned of the milk oceans this morning you kept. The lintel of stone turned toward dusk. Some great dynasty of submissive spirits catering your morning Out on a cart of muse, forms of heaven cannot even hear you. You are a soporific knot in the tale of your Old womanhood. In this infinite Tuesday morning your small black eyes, like an oil tanker toppling over The intense azure sea- shipwrecked, and lost. Departing from your childhood you slurp Coca-Cola from a silver straw. From the corner store and inside Winter yawns. There is no face, only strikingly beautiful black hair. The body under you is at home in all My hand's fingers have to fill. All the clothes that you could carry for the two-way adventure. There are Never enough bubbles between your lips and the glass bottle you have. Only the score of the whistleblower. And the poor symphony you had prayed for into the dial-tone phone, the deep Wilderness, that stiff forever-ago budding from your coffee cup. Neurogenesis lifted from your Fingerprints and emblazoned into this lump of human ingenuity. The hopeless octave that cut us all short. Every short story that was left untold. There are the brief deaths recoiling in your spiritual architecture. The ****** of morphia has bourn me awake. Inside you are often unscathed, vanishing as some of Tonight's parts assemble you, on you blue is a beautiful color. The sweet retreat that gave you life or the bountiful deaths that counted you too cutely by your side. You are the sun in my black coat. Here is my sea, your sea, you'll see.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 5:34 AM UTC
Coca-Cola at 2:00AM
You choked on chariots raw. Red egg yolk suppers, churned of the milk oceans this morning you kept. The lintel of stone turned toward dusk. Some great dynasty of submissive spirits catering your morning Out on a cart of muse, forms of heaven cannot even hear you. You are a soporific knot in the tale of your Old womanhood. In this infinite Tuesday morning your small black eyes, like an oil tanker toppling over The intense azure sea- shipwrecked, and lost. Departing from your childhood you slurp Coca-Cola from a silver straw. From the corner store and inside Winter yawns. There is no face, only strikingly beautiful black hair. The body under you is at home in all My hand's fingers have to fill. All the clothes that you could carry for the two-way adventure. There are Never enough bubbles between your lips and the glass bottle you have. Only the score of the whistleblower. And the poor symphony you had prayed for into the dial-tone phone, the deep Wilderness, that stiff forever-ago budding from your coffee cup. Neurogenesis lifted from your Fingerprints and emblazoned into this lump of human ingenuity. The hopeless octave that cut us all short. Every short story that was left untold. There are the brief deaths recoiling in your spiritual architecture. The ****** of morphia has bourn me awake. Inside you are often unscathed, vanishing as some of Tonight's parts assemble you, on you blue is a beautiful color. The sweet retreat that gave you life or the bountiful deaths that counted you too cutely by your side. You are the sun in my black coat. Here is my sea, your sea, you'll see.
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A fisherman is drifting, enjoying the spring mountains, And the peach-trees on both banks lead him to an ancient source. Watching the fresh-coloured trees, he never thinks of distance Till he comes to the end of the blue stream and suddenly- strange men! It's a cave-with a mouth so narrow that he has to crawl through; But then it opens wide again on a broad and level path -- And far beyond he faces clouds crowning a reach of trees, And thousands of houses shadowed round with flowers and bamboos.... Woodsmen tell him their names in the ancient speech of Han; And clothes of the Qin Dynasty are worn by all these people Living on the uplands, above the Wuling River, On farms and in gardens that are like a world apart, Their dwellings at peace under pines in the clear moon, Until sunrise fills the low sky with crowing and barking. ...At news of a stranger the people all assemble, And each of them invites him home and asks him where he was born. Alleys and paths are cleared for him of petals in the morning, And fishermen and farmers bring him their loads at dusk.... They had left the world long ago, they had come here seeking refuge; They have lived like angels ever since, blessedly far away, No one in the cave knowing anything outside, Outsiders viewing only empty mountains and thick clouds. ...The fisherman, unaware of his great good fortune, Begins to think of country, of home, of worldly ties, Finds his way out of the cave again, past mountains and past rivers, Intending some time to return, when he has told his kin. He studies every step he takes, fixes it well in mind, And forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. ...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, A green river leads you, into a misty wood. But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source?
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A Song of Peach-Blossom River
A fisherman is drifting, enjoying the spring mountains, And the peach-trees on both banks lead him to an ancient source. Watching the fresh-coloured trees, he never thinks of distance Till he comes to the end of the blue stream and suddenly- strange men! It's a cave-with a mouth so narrow that he has to crawl through; But then it opens wide again on a broad and level path -- And far beyond he faces clouds crowning a reach of trees, And thousands of houses shadowed round with flowers and bamboos.... Woodsmen tell him their names in the ancient speech of Han; And clothes of the Qin Dynasty are worn by all these people Living on the uplands, above the Wuling River, On farms and in gardens that are like a world apart, Their dwellings at peace under pines in the clear moon, Until sunrise fills the low sky with crowing and barking. ...At news of a stranger the people all assemble, And each of them invites him home and asks him where he was born. Alleys and paths are cleared for him of petals in the morning, And fishermen and farmers bring him their loads at dusk.... They had left the world long ago, they had come here seeking refuge; They have lived like angels ever since, blessedly far away, No one in the cave knowing anything outside, Outsiders viewing only empty mountains and thick clouds. ...The fisherman, unaware of his great good fortune, Begins to think of country, of home, of worldly ties, Finds his way out of the cave again, past mountains and past rivers, Intending some time to return, when he has told his kin. He studies every step he takes, fixes it well in mind, And forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. ...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, A green river leads you, into a misty wood. But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source?
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Liner runs thin as I examine the skin where I look for a tell-tale mark Left of a ring that would prove I'm not alone. (it's not there) My back arches and my body quakes as deep inside Infantile sexuality wakes as my lips let fly assumed and guessed sighs of fabricated pleasure (whatever that is) They did not teach me these things I was left to assume as hearts often do when they are kept in a room and ushered away from the pains and joys of Love I stare into a mirror and I stare back Until all of a sudden my smile cracks and I'm left to stare into the eyes of one born to lose. I hug warm pillows and stroke my own hair Until I realize he is not wasn't and will never be there and I'm left to assemble a Shattered Glass Heart with nothing but hammers for tools But then I see myself beauty and flaws defined and at this point I know the only glass heart I need is mine even in pieces, it retains it's strength and waits to be whole again So dormant I sit mesmerized by the prisms the pretty pieces make as I wait for a true artist to come and give this Shattered Glass Heart new form with the heat of reassuring and shared existence and the grace of gentle words and sweet kisses.
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Jun 27, 2011
Jun 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM UTC
Shattered Glass Heart
Kindness is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change she’s cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss her lest she attract your notice lest she presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Kindness is not like that – Kindness pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Kindness defies convention Kindness carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Kindness perseveres all the love-long day Kindness doesn’t delay Kindness is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Kindness confronts Courage is her currency, boldness her language, trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Kindness transforms Kindness weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Kindness pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Kindness is not 'nice' Kindness isn’t in this for the likes Kindness bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Kindness never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Kindness is nothing casual, nothing incidental This Kindness is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental Kindness is not 'nice'. Kindness is loving awe-ful.
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Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020 at 8:45 AM UTC
Kindness bites
Kindness is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change she’s cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss her lest she attract your notice lest she presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Kindness is not like that – Kindness pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Kindness defies convention Kindness carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Kindness perseveres all the love-long day Kindness doesn’t delay Kindness is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Kindness confronts Courage is her currency, boldness her language, trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Kindness transforms Kindness weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Kindness pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Kindness is not 'nice' Kindness isn’t in this for the likes Kindness bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Kindness never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Kindness is nothing casual, nothing incidental This Kindness is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental Kindness is not 'nice'. Kindness is loving awe-ful.
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I suppose there has to be a reason or at least a note to mark that day-- He ate his breakfast She let him out He walked along the railing like the plank defying death for pleasure of his lady's company to get his belly rubbed sprawled long across her lap She released him to chase the squirrels of his dreams to his black cat adventures to the aching green of life's late summer ways But, the days assemble against your return May the angels find you quickly my darling, Bailey Dark beauty of coal I was a Tuesday, bereft You disappeared-- like the shadow of a whisper Disappeared like hope-- in the last blow of day
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Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 5:00 PM UTC
The Witch's Black Cat
Fever-flushed children and Broken bodies Litter hospital halls like so much Human refuse ….Wondering why their need for care is treated so tepidly by a Society which worships Profits Power and Prestige ….Waiting while they wallow in anguish as Privacy Paperwork and Payment are Debated by bureaucrats in cubicles ….Wanting to be refreshed and restored to some measure of usefulness ….But Free to Pursue Life on their terms in exchange for Silence Acceptance and Despair Huddling for warmth and in Fear of discovery they assemble in rag-tag formation having scaled formidable fences Seeking freedom from Poverty and oppression Searching for work of any sort ….No matter how Humiliating or Hard ….No matter the Cost or Conditions Disparaged and despised they labor in hope that their children will have a chance for success instead of suffering a similar fate …..But Free to Pursue Liberty in a land where their presence is Ignored if not Denied Unkempt in camouflage One-legged and Vacant-eyed he rolls his rickety wheelchair along grassy median with muted effort displaying cardboard sign childishly scripted in one weather-worn and gnarled hand while clutching a decapitated jug in the other Forgotten Forlorn, and Discarded veteran Victimized far more by country than foe ….But Free to Pursue Happiness while Begging on street corners as Upright citizens dispense Unwelcome opinions or Pocket change with equal Self-righteousness Life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness…. Ideals that slowly incinerate on the Altar of Capitalism ….Songs forever lost in the Cacophony now Played on the Instrument of Politics
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Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 at 7:17 PM UTC
Fiddling While Rome Burns
Fever-flushed children and Broken bodies Litter hospital halls like so much Human refuse ….Wondering why their need for care is treated so tepidly by a Society which worships Profits Power and Prestige ….Waiting while they wallow in anguish as Privacy Paperwork and Payment are Debated by bureaucrats in cubicles ….Wanting to be refreshed and restored to some measure of usefulness ….But Free to Pursue Life on their terms in exchange for Silence Acceptance and Despair Huddling for warmth and in Fear of discovery they assemble in rag-tag formation having scaled formidable fences Seeking freedom from Poverty and oppression Searching for work of any sort ….No matter how Humiliating or Hard ….No matter the Cost or Conditions Disparaged and despised they labor in hope that their children will have a chance for success instead of suffering a similar fate …..But Free to Pursue Liberty in a land where their presence is Ignored if not Denied Unkempt in camouflage One-legged and Vacant-eyed he rolls his rickety wheelchair along grassy median with muted effort displaying cardboard sign childishly scripted in one weather-worn and gnarled hand while clutching a decapitated jug in the other Forgotten Forlorn, and Discarded veteran Victimized far more by country than foe ….But Free to Pursue Happiness while Begging on street corners as Upright citizens dispense Unwelcome opinions or Pocket change with equal Self-righteousness Life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness…. Ideals that slowly incinerate on the Altar of Capitalism ….Songs forever lost in the Cacophony now Played on the Instrument of Politics
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"What's going on in that head of yours?" you inquire. I shrug and shake my head, trying to make the question slip-slide its way past me. "Something. I can tell," you **** on. I don't exactly know how to explain the hodgepodge of thoughts bustling around up there. How all of the mismatched puzzle pieces sometimes inexplicably manage to assemble themselves into a picture, but it always comes out distorted. How my mind is eternal dusk, that magical moment where anything is possible and the night is full of promise. But remember, that's also when the monsters come out to play. How I have this uncanny ability to skew every word, look, or memory until every one of them is so tainted I will burn us alive while you wonder what the hell is going on. I'm good at sabotage, you see. You don't want to know what's going on in this head of mine. You can try to connect the dots, but none of them are numbered, and you'll lose yourself attempting to understand me.
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 9:53 PM UTC
Mind Games
Mirrored silver tag me blue reflective sky widgeon, merganser blithely sail broken ripples foretelling storm raucous cawing crows assemble anxious ducks explode airborne duly warned silent drone fateful wraith Eagle glides over the settling surface razor eyes seeking the meek the weak fleeing flock coalesces white bellies exposed to the sun banking hard return to serenity certain death deferred in nature alliances are clear predator prey vigilantly warning relentlessly defending Shrieking crow-beleaguered Eagle retreats no match for those united against him
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Feb 6, 2017
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:43 AM UTC
Flock
Dear Depression, I see you. We all see you. You're not very avoidable. Those slivers of light you try to enamor us with. How death seems so delicate when we talk of flowers and restful slumber- for all eternity. What the lights do not show; a grotesque, scaled abomination with a gluttonous appetite for happiness and life. I can't let you gnaw on anymore souls to leave nothing, but sunken eyes and bones. They do not belong to you nor were they yours to take. You're not welcome in the mind's of my friend's and family. Life is welcome in their heart's where joy can still be found. Don't find yourself slithering down our throat's anymore, in the empty stomachs or scars we have. The thoughts we think when you entice us are dangerous. You stole her. You stole him. You stole me. I can't recognize the stoic, numbed faces I gaze upon. You undo any progress ever done. It's been so long since, I've heard them laugh or flashed a smile I meant. Still, your might looms over as you admire the damage you've caused. Next, feeling the audacity to sneer when we weep. Depression, you're a monster who causes nothing, but suffering. Those tears are not your's to season hopelessness with. You make the covers seem like the most comfortable coffin, you make our skin look as if we've fought thousands of wars. The sun an inconvenience with the days in reverse. We've tried to compromise, you are no friend. Just a foe. Depression, there are so many things I want to do to you. You break my heart when all your captors don't believe they are worthy of love, but they are the ones I love most. I will break you like, you've broken us. My bare hands would reach into your chest, ripping the lungs out; stomp on them to preventing future sufferers. I would crush your heart in the palms of my hand's- praying for the sickness and terror to end. These innocent people you've robbed of life, love, happiness, opportunity and a soul. Will have their revenge. Your blood covers our skin and we bathe in the warmth of redemption as our thought's belong to us once more. We let the pain held inside escape our sutured lips, begging your soul to ascend back into the abyss never to return. Your bones are mine to assemble a castle for the broken to heal. Your skull resembles a crown honoring those who had given into the temptations of surrendering. We honor them.
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Oct 21, 2017
Oct 21, 2017 at 9:29 AM UTC
Dear Depression
Dear Depression, I see you. We all see you. You're not very avoidable. Those slivers of light you try to enamor us with. How death seems so delicate when we talk of flowers and restful slumber- for all eternity. What the lights do not show; a grotesque, scaled abomination with a gluttonous appetite for happiness and life. I can't let you gnaw on anymore souls to leave nothing, but sunken eyes and bones. They do not belong to you nor were they yours to take. You're not welcome in the mind's of my friend's and family. Life is welcome in their heart's where joy can still be found. Don't find yourself slithering down our throat's anymore, in the empty stomachs or scars we have. The thoughts we think when you entice us are dangerous. You stole her. You stole him. You stole me. I can't recognize the stoic, numbed faces I gaze upon. You undo any progress ever done. It's been so long since, I've heard them laugh or flashed a smile I meant. Still, your might looms over as you admire the damage you've caused. Next, feeling the audacity to sneer when we weep. Depression, you're a monster who causes nothing, but suffering. Those tears are not your's to season hopelessness with. You make the covers seem like the most comfortable coffin, you make our skin look as if we've fought thousands of wars. The sun an inconvenience with the days in reverse. We've tried to compromise, you are no friend. Just a foe. Depression, there are so many things I want to do to you. You break my heart when all your captors don't believe they are worthy of love, but they are the ones I love most. I will break you like, you've broken us. My bare hands would reach into your chest, ripping the lungs out; stomp on them to preventing future sufferers. I would crush your heart in the palms of my hand's- praying for the sickness and terror to end. These innocent people you've robbed of life, love, happiness, opportunity and a soul. Will have their revenge. Your blood covers our skin and we bathe in the warmth of redemption as our thought's belong to us once more. We let the pain held inside escape our sutured lips, begging your soul to ascend back into the abyss never to return. Your bones are mine to assemble a castle for the broken to heal. Your skull resembles a crown honoring those who had given into the temptations of surrendering. We honor them.
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Social breaks and cultural ridges, Double takes and building bridges, Seems like ages, for twenty four hour wages, Boys to men in uniforms, training in stages, To be soldiers, first, Engineers, second, Every province shares, before The Reckoning, Hands calloused, hearts as well, hands hold a couple o' beers, Which will rouse, the parts, when the day is done, with cheers! Thing, an exercise called a bridge gallop, where For two weeks and twenty two hours a day we share, A work ethic to assemble and strip bridges built, Practice for the real deal, with a unified will, We all know when some one else is not lift- ing their load, brothers in arms not using theirs, But we built bridges, long day into night we played Euchre, in the down time, Short night into day, smoky rooms and beers, In play, we called empty brown beer bottles, Dead soldiers, We became a unit, unified, by our trade, Jack of all trades, master of none, All of us were from Canada's various parts, Building bridges, in the light, in the dark. Assembling parts, to make a whole, bridge, From bank seat, to bank seat, It took many bridges, for Canada to meet, The soldiers and Engineers, UBIQUE.
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 12:12 AM UTC
Building Bridges
© 2010 (Jim Sularz) Heave ** Aweigh, the ship’s anchor, lads, climb-up, the tall ship’s masts! Unfurl the sails white billowed, all pray, the stiff trade winds blast! Men briny from white-capped oceans, Terra Firma’s, a distant quest. Feel the salt spray, stinging the faces, of the ship’s crew, tossed fore and aft. We’re compelled to sail the oceans an’ seas, with a plumb compass an’ a ration’s tack. Tattoos an’ a gypsy squeeze-box melody, the gale blows on our ruddy backs. All hands scramble, to assemble on deck, for the Captain rings-hard a muster. Churning waves in our rudder’s wake, luminous, with a strange glowing luster. Land ** A calm, deep harbor, a smoke filled pub an’ a bonny lass. But the sea’s, our only steadfast lover, an’ she beckons, to call us back. We stand proud to call ourselves - mariners, Men without fear, we tame the high seas. Bright stars as our comforting beacons, fair weather with God’s given speed. By moon beams an’ dawn’s faint daylight, we’ll turn our ship’s namesake back. Heave ** Aweigh, the ship’s anchor, Lads, climb-up, the tall ship’s masts!
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Jul 8, 2012
Jul 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM UTC
Climb-up the Tall Ship’s Masts
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. ************************************ **************** 1. I do call to witness the Resurrection Day; 2. And I do call to witness the self-reproaching spirit: (Eschew Evil) . 3. Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? 4. Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. 5. But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him. 6. He questions: 'When is the Day of Resurrection? ' 7. At length, when the sight is dazed, 8. And the moon is buried in darkness. 9. And the sun and moon are joined together, - 10. That Day will Man say: 'Where is the refuge? ' 11. By no means! No place of safety! 12. Before thy Lord (alone) , that Day will be the place of rest. 13. That Day will Man be told (all) that he put forward, and all that he put back. 14. Nay, man will be evidence against himself, 15. Even though he were to put up his excuses. 16. Move not thy tongue concerning the (Qur'an) to make haste therewith. 17. It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it: 18. But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital (as promulgated) : 19. Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear) : 20. Nay, (ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life, 21. And leave alone the Hereafter. 22. Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and beauty) : - 23. Looking towards their Lord; 24. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal, 25. In the thought that some back-breaking calamity was about to be inflicted on them; 26. Yea, when (the soul) reaches to the collar-bone (in its exit) , 27. And there will be a cry, 'Who is a magician (to restore him) ? ' 28. And he will conclude that it was (the Time) of Parting; 29. And one leg will be joined with another: 30. That Day the Drive will be (all) to thy Lord! 31. So he gave nothing in charity, nor did he pray! - 32. But on the contrary, he rejected Truth and turned away! 33. Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit! 34. Woe to thee, (O men!) , yea, woe! 35. Again, Woe to thee, (O men!) , yea, woe! 36. Does man think that he will be left uncontrolled, (without purpose) ? 37. Was he not a drop of ***** emitted (in lowly form) ? 38. Then did he become a leech-like clot; then did ((Allah)) make and fashion (him) in due proportion. 39. And of him He made two sexes, male and female. 40. Has not He, (the same) , the power to give life to the dead?
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 2:58 AM UTC
- -Quran 75. The Rising Of The Dead, Resurrection- -
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. ************************************ **************** 1. I do call to witness the Resurrection Day; 2. And I do call to witness the self-reproaching spirit: (Eschew Evil) . 3. Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? 4. Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. 5. But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him. 6. He questions: 'When is the Day of Resurrection? ' 7. At length, when the sight is dazed, 8. And the moon is buried in darkness. 9. And the sun and moon are joined together, - 10. That Day will Man say: 'Where is the refuge? ' 11. By no means! No place of safety! 12. Before thy Lord (alone) , that Day will be the place of rest. 13. That Day will Man be told (all) that he put forward, and all that he put back. 14. Nay, man will be evidence against himself, 15. Even though he were to put up his excuses. 16. Move not thy tongue concerning the (Qur'an) to make haste therewith. 17. It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it: 18. But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital (as promulgated) : 19. Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear) : 20. Nay, (ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life, 21. And leave alone the Hereafter. 22. Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and beauty) : - 23. Looking towards their Lord; 24. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal, 25. In the thought that some back-breaking calamity was about to be inflicted on them; 26. Yea, when (the soul) reaches to the collar-bone (in its exit) , 27. And there will be a cry, 'Who is a magician (to restore him) ? ' 28. And he will conclude that it was (the Time) of Parting; 29. And one leg will be joined with another: 30. That Day the Drive will be (all) to thy Lord! 31. So he gave nothing in charity, nor did he pray! - 32. But on the contrary, he rejected Truth and turned away! 33. Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit! 34. Woe to thee, (O men!) , yea, woe! 35. Again, Woe to thee, (O men!) , yea, woe! 36. Does man think that he will be left uncontrolled, (without purpose) ? 37. Was he not a drop of ***** emitted (in lowly form) ? 38. Then did he become a leech-like clot; then did ((Allah)) make and fashion (him) in due proportion. 39. And of him He made two sexes, male and female. 40. Has not He, (the same) , the power to give life to the dead?
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My life is a paradoxical monstrosity A contradiction in itself Where to start? Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere perhaps Occupation, I play with words. How naughty does that sound? Really, I'm in a complicated relationship with words, terms, definitions, metaphors Writer by day, storyteller by night And of course I love what I do And I hate what I do How very poetic of you! Why thank you! Sorry, the inner child speaks. Back to writing, And the moments of fantastic ecstasy Where this jumble of verbs and nouns and adjectives you're trying to assemble Clicks. The bigger picture develops with crystal clear clarity No fastidious statements Or meaningless passages. Just words, feelings, meanings Soul. That doesn't sound so bad you say IT HAPPENS ONCE EVERY MILLENIA! For the most I am frustrated. Stumped to the point where rage overcomes and the only cathartic release is to sleep. When I do manage to squeeze something out of the depths of my mind, it appears substandard, to say the least. Zadie told me to get used to non-satisfaction So I am satisfied with never been satisfied; does this make me satisfied? Ow. Please, I need an answer I've been looking for answers for nineteen years, But have I been asking the right questions? Are there any answers? Another question No, that was the question Confusion and befuddlment ravaging through your mind? I recently realised there are no facts Only really good suggestions by excessively knowledgeable and esteemed I quite fancy being one of those guys A visionary complete with the stereotypical glasses and overgrown beard And I'd declare that being yourself is the first step to finding your purpose Fact. But what if finding your purpose is your purpose? I'll leave you with that. This is my life. Complaining would be ungrateful of me; it's a good one really. I can walk and run and play basketball and see my friends where we laugh endlessly. Oh and Saturday morning cartoons. I have problems, enormous world ending problems But it's all relative. Some think I'm strange, I prefer quirky. I wonder how life would be if I'd chose the 'normal' option Most likely, frightfully boring
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 7:36 PM UTC
My Life
My life is a paradoxical monstrosity A contradiction in itself Where to start? Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere perhaps Occupation, I play with words. How naughty does that sound? Really, I'm in a complicated relationship with words, terms, definitions, metaphors Writer by day, storyteller by night And of course I love what I do And I hate what I do How very poetic of you! Why thank you! Sorry, the inner child speaks. Back to writing, And the moments of fantastic ecstasy Where this jumble of verbs and nouns and adjectives you're trying to assemble Clicks. The bigger picture develops with crystal clear clarity No fastidious statements Or meaningless passages. Just words, feelings, meanings Soul. That doesn't sound so bad you say IT HAPPENS ONCE EVERY MILLENIA! For the most I am frustrated. Stumped to the point where rage overcomes and the only cathartic release is to sleep. When I do manage to squeeze something out of the depths of my mind, it appears substandard, to say the least. Zadie told me to get used to non-satisfaction So I am satisfied with never been satisfied; does this make me satisfied? Ow. Please, I need an answer I've been looking for answers for nineteen years, But have I been asking the right questions? Are there any answers? Another question No, that was the question Confusion and befuddlment ravaging through your mind? I recently realised there are no facts Only really good suggestions by excessively knowledgeable and esteemed I quite fancy being one of those guys A visionary complete with the stereotypical glasses and overgrown beard And I'd declare that being yourself is the first step to finding your purpose Fact. But what if finding your purpose is your purpose? I'll leave you with that. This is my life. Complaining would be ungrateful of me; it's a good one really. I can walk and run and play basketball and see my friends where we laugh endlessly. Oh and Saturday morning cartoons. I have problems, enormous world ending problems But it's all relative. Some think I'm strange, I prefer quirky. I wonder how life would be if I'd chose the 'normal' option Most likely, frightfully boring
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The soft silver in a grandma's hair. The trophy purple of a love bruise. The blushing pink of just kissed lips. The unfathomable grey in a lover's eye. Life gives you the colours. Assemble your own rainbow.
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Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 2:44 AM UTC
Colours