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"barracks" poems
That small man who always sang That small man who danced in my head That small man with youth Undid his shoelaces And broke all the barracks of the festival Suddenly everything collapsed And in the silence of the festival In the ruin of the festival I heard your happy voice Your voice so torn and fragile Innocent and desolate Came from afar and called me And I put my hands on my chest where they trembled ****** Seven broken pieces of mirror with your twinkling smile
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Broken Mirror
I enter Auschwitz 1. Apprehensive crunches with every step. I stand in a gas chamber. Fully clothed. With oxygen flowing freely. I stand on a spot where thousands have stood before me. But I'm able to make an exit, Yet I'm rooted to the floor, Transfixed with horror. I feel like the last remaining tree, surrounded by a forest of death. Deforestation makes me sick. * Birkenau has a secret that it doesn't want to tell. A broken ending stood still. The arches. The ruins. The tracks. Thuds of reality slapping my face. Stood inside the bleak barracks, our guide asks us "Imagine what it would like to be here - What you'd see, smell, hear." My eyes widen open in a scream, they sting, fighting back at the image conjured within my mind. I take a sharp breath and close my eyes. I am scared.
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Nov 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM UTC
The Day I Visited Auschwitz
There was an army of ants in the plastic plants So I poured light through a magnifying glass And I created a fire on the artificial grass They scurried and hurried with flames on their backs Like soldiers on a hopeless plain, searching for invisible barracks And I sighed as they died, because we are all the same: Scurrying and hurrying from invisible pain
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 10:10 PM UTC
Army of Ants
All I wanted was a cigarette. We weren't allowed to smoke. He knew where to go. We swept sidewalks together. Raked sand together. Talked about life together. His window was across from mine. I think he saw me changing once. Maybe more than once. He was getting dishonorably discharged. I didn't think he was a good man. I didn't think he was a bad one, either. It had been two weeks since I landed in Monterey. I only wanted a cigarette. He knew where to go. I bought the Southern Comfort and bottom shelf gin. He carried them with him to his room. I didn't think anything of it. We raked sand together. We ate lunch together. We watched movies together. We sat on a makeshift bench by the ditch by the installation fence. We drank and smoked and laughed. I taught him Farsi and he taught me Russian. Russian for "hello" and "goodbye." Russian for "This is allowed." Russian for "This is not allowed." I think he saw me changing once. He tried to kiss me on the cheek. I told him no, my boyfriend wouldn't like that very much. We smoked some more. We drank some more. We laughed some more. It was 2130. I had to be in my room by 2200. He said not to worry, I'd be back in time. I insisted and tried to leave. I fell to the ground. He didn't help me up. I only wanted a cigarette. He kissed me on the mouth. I did not kiss him back. I was immobile. Paralyzed. Drugged? He kissed me again. And again. And again. I did not kiss him back. I had a boyfriend. All I wanted was to smoke and drink and laugh. He grabbed me by the ankles. Pulled me over the ditch behind the army barracks by the installation fence. I could hear soldiers coming back to their rooms. I was paralyzed. I always thought I would fight. Fend him off with car keys stuffed between my fingers. I looked up at the tree branches above me, my watch said 2147. That was the last time I prayed to God. There were leaves in my hair and dirt on my arms. There was something less than a man between my legs. It looked at me with hate in its eyes. We swept sidewalks together. God kicked back and swigged a PBR      while I was ***** behind the army barracks,      over the ditch by the installation fence. He helped me up. I couldn't stand on my own. How sweet. I vomited by a tree. I was disgusted with myself and him and God. I wanted to drown in Southern Comfort and bottom shelf gin. He walked me to my barracks building. How sweet. I made it to my room by 2200. All the girls watched me stumble down the hallway. I was so violently alone. Taps wailed outside the window. I left my hat by the bench by the ditch by the installation fence. He brought it to me the next morning. How sweet.
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Apr 22, 2013
Apr 22, 2013 at 8:38 PM UTC
casuals
All I wanted was a cigarette. We weren't allowed to smoke. He knew where to go. We swept sidewalks together. Raked sand together. Talked about life together. His window was across from mine. I think he saw me changing once. Maybe more than once. He was getting dishonorably discharged. I didn't think he was a good man. I didn't think he was a bad one, either. It had been two weeks since I landed in Monterey. I only wanted a cigarette. He knew where to go. I bought the Southern Comfort and bottom shelf gin. He carried them with him to his room. I didn't think anything of it. We raked sand together. We ate lunch together. We watched movies together. We sat on a makeshift bench by the ditch by the installation fence. We drank and smoked and laughed. I taught him Farsi and he taught me Russian. Russian for "hello" and "goodbye." Russian for "This is allowed." Russian for "This is not allowed." I think he saw me changing once. He tried to kiss me on the cheek. I told him no, my boyfriend wouldn't like that very much. We smoked some more. We drank some more. We laughed some more. It was 2130. I had to be in my room by 2200. He said not to worry, I'd be back in time. I insisted and tried to leave. I fell to the ground. He didn't help me up. I only wanted a cigarette. He kissed me on the mouth. I did not kiss him back. I was immobile. Paralyzed. Drugged? He kissed me again. And again. And again. I did not kiss him back. I had a boyfriend. All I wanted was to smoke and drink and laugh. He grabbed me by the ankles. Pulled me over the ditch behind the army barracks by the installation fence. I could hear soldiers coming back to their rooms. I was paralyzed. I always thought I would fight. Fend him off with car keys stuffed between my fingers. I looked up at the tree branches above me, my watch said 2147. That was the last time I prayed to God. There were leaves in my hair and dirt on my arms. There was something less than a man between my legs. It looked at me with hate in its eyes. We swept sidewalks together. God kicked back and swigged a PBR      while I was ***** behind the army barracks,      over the ditch by the installation fence. He helped me up. I couldn't stand on my own. How sweet. I vomited by a tree. I was disgusted with myself and him and God. I wanted to drown in Southern Comfort and bottom shelf gin. He walked me to my barracks building. How sweet. I made it to my room by 2200. All the girls watched me stumble down the hallway. I was so violently alone. Taps wailed outside the window. I left my hat by the bench by the ditch by the installation fence. He brought it to me the next morning. How sweet.
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Tonight my gums ache Because of the sin of 2:41 am And the cigarettes I stole from you After we drank the red wine Your father exclaimed was royal And originally drank by Paraguay princes. I returned home dizzy with fatigue And empty of joy and sorrow Apathetic because I am not engaged So I thumb my phone book to find Anyone who will talk or kiss Me numb, tonight. I can't sleep after because the box fan is purring And the October air is not Devoid of Magnolia scent and hope So I lay in my bed with crumbs Sticking to my stretch marked hips Taunting me even beneath the barracks of my sheets. I saw no sky-moon when you left So I smoked another Camel Crush On the back porch watching you leave Once our lips sanded the sin permanent Into our raw faces and pulsing fingers Smacking "joyful joyful-be filled! Filled!" I barricade pillows against the concrete headrest That my inherited mattress sleeps on So the cold has to try harder, tonight Even though your lips felt dry and your sighs left ghosts exhaling In my mind and neck and ***** This is how I justify sleep tonight: An attempt to evade sins damnation And my nature that, by Tuesday, Will be able to paint over The deep white lies you tongue Painted across my prickled body. Come, rest and restore my soul To its belief that words are sharp Though the imprints of your nails And the burgundy couch fabric Left on my body and on my soul Are eulogized by the alarm clock set for 702am.
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Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM UTC
Blondee, babe
The Master Corporal said to me "I'm gonna do a show" "Don't worry what I say to you" "I just thought you should know" Injured, badly two weeks gone I was set to be held back My knee was torn apart and that, was not something I could hack The day I was demoted My Master Corporal came to me He said "Turner, I hate to do this" "But, it's for the best...you'll see" I waited for inspection With the others all on line They were standing at attention Me on crutches the whole time "Turner, is there anything" "That I should hate to find" "Is there stuff inside your locker" "of a non-military kind" I stood there at attention Waiting for the end to come As he looked all through my kitting Found dust upon my gun He opened up the locker And a moth came flying out It flew past the Master Corporal And then it danced upon his snout The yell...was heard in England "A pet...you've got a pet" "Who said that you could have one?" "It's not allowed...A PET" The moth found the first window flew back towards him once again Left some moth dust on his beret And he flew away right then The Master Corporal's outrage At being "mothed" by my new pet Was one I don't think many In our platoon would soon forget He started throwing clothing Chucking boots around the room I knew it was all acting But, those boots can really zoom When finished he stood waiting For a response, I stood and stared I could not break out a smile I had to show I didn't care He moved on through the others Looking for more moths on the way But, that first one and it's face dance Well, it surely made my day He drove me to my barracks Up to my new platoon "I hope you liked my show today" " I know I'll see you soon" "Just do what you are ordered" "And one thing don't forget" "When you next have an inspection" "Don't have an insect for a pet!!" I remember fondly that last visit He knew it hurt for me to leave But, every word in here is truthful You can choose to not or to believe.
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 9:22 PM UTC
The Master Corporal and The Moth
The Master Corporal said to me "I'm gonna do a show" "Don't worry what I say to you" "I just thought you should know" Injured, badly two weeks gone I was set to be held back My knee was torn apart and that, was not something I could hack The day I was demoted My Master Corporal came to me He said "Turner, I hate to do this" "But, it's for the best...you'll see" I waited for inspection With the others all on line They were standing at attention Me on crutches the whole time "Turner, is there anything" "That I should hate to find" "Is there stuff inside your locker" "of a non-military kind" I stood there at attention Waiting for the end to come As he looked all through my kitting Found dust upon my gun He opened up the locker And a moth came flying out It flew past the Master Corporal And then it danced upon his snout The yell...was heard in England "A pet...you've got a pet" "Who said that you could have one?" "It's not allowed...A PET" The moth found the first window flew back towards him once again Left some moth dust on his beret And he flew away right then The Master Corporal's outrage At being "mothed" by my new pet Was one I don't think many In our platoon would soon forget He started throwing clothing Chucking boots around the room I knew it was all acting But, those boots can really zoom When finished he stood waiting For a response, I stood and stared I could not break out a smile I had to show I didn't care He moved on through the others Looking for more moths on the way But, that first one and it's face dance Well, it surely made my day He drove me to my barracks Up to my new platoon "I hope you liked my show today" " I know I'll see you soon" "Just do what you are ordered" "And one thing don't forget" "When you next have an inspection" "Don't have an insect for a pet!!" I remember fondly that last visit He knew it hurt for me to leave But, every word in here is truthful You can choose to not or to believe.
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silence sadness regret remorse fortitude and defiance permeate the bricks made by convicts for this old church so far far away from english shores and on the pews so narrowly wrought they listened to the chaplain say heaven was the place to seek repentence was the key.... and on the cobbled floor they scratched their marks before they made their way back to the convict barracks the hell of each and every day....
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 8:26 PM UTC
the convict church
On watching Indian Polity Such was my country twenty-one Summers ago In a starry night I ,with my wife Prema young Walked along the road of midnight Mysore slow As snow veil clad chilling breeze rippled along. No ****** , drunkard, rowdy, as hyenas did draw No clique with camera to strip or **** did throng An auto -driver so friendly took us to a lodge; so Gladly with son Sudev we enjoyed Dassara song . Now, in every city , I fancy , Sahasralinga’s attacks From Bars with bars such barbarians may pounce As executive dread such law-breakers to punish. Political aspirants languid sit in and pronounce In Parliament to protect the culprits from barracks Deceiving democrats and putting them in anguish. ====================================== Note: Prema: name of wife; Sudev: name of baby(son). Sahasralinga: nickname of Indra /Devendra.(King of Devas who live in luxury. Parliament: the legislative building. Mysore: the city in Karnataka,India former capital of Mysore kings. Dassara:a state festival in Karnataka, ==========================================
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Aug 26, 2013
Aug 26, 2013 at 6:37 AM UTC
On Watching my Polity
What’s so funny? I was remembering an Army Barracks day. A day before Boot Camp graduation We get our first set of official orders. Assignments posted on bulletin board. Striking me now so hilarious; How the dumbest among us, Got picked for Intelligence Corps. Amusing the thought that Thugs with lowest class standing All seemed G-2 bound. Jesus, the anchorman, got Fort Meade, Considered The Bigs by talent scouts. Although I was 6 foot-one, In this or that corner Weighing in at one hundred & 95 pounds, My Yerkes scores too high for NSA duty. They sent me to college instead, Doing COINTELPRO field Campus surveillance of Jewish intellectuals, John Birchers and Radical, anti-Castro, Cuban exiles. The University of Miami, Known as “Suntan U” back then. Miami: the eye of the storm in 1972. A Republican Convention in progress. New wine in old wineskins; No thing to write home about.
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 1:17 PM UTC
“BOOT CAMP”
I'd like to mention that my city Karnal was once the bastion of the armed forces. Close to my house in NDRI campus until half-a-decade ago stood remnants of the old British Barracks - an irksome reminder of the colonial period. But we went inside the rickety ruins of an olden period to play hide and seek and sometimes just for fun as an adventure. I had seen them - the erstwhile barracks in that dilapidated state only, carrying the Union Jack painted at some places, and I had seen the ruins crash to ground - a reinstated taste of Indian freedom. The Colonial army camped here until the occupying British chose to shift the army camp to Ambala due to high occurrence of mosquitoes in the city of Karnal and found this place fit only for a great cattle yard. Karnal has seen negligence & side-lining ever-since along the course of history. The Indian Oil Corporation's petroleum refinery was decided to be built in the neighbouring Panipat city & so was the National Fertilizers Limited's manufacturing plant built there and not in Karnal. In Karnal they built research institutes, filled with greenery these make the city a comfortable place to relax at ease. But ****** shameless people don't realize the value of plants & trees and keep removing them off the face of Karnal & even where I live, in the NDRI campus - acronym for the National Dairy Research Institute campus. ****** blood sucker stupid human beings are sometimes more irritating than the malarial mosquitoes. They cut trees assuming trees shelter mosquitoes! True they might be but I keep wondering what about the potholes dug by them into the coal-tar & gravel roads to facilitate the installing of religious & marriage tents. But nothing can be done to change the people whose mindset has been falsely ligated with the thought of we are the best & we won't change.
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Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 3:28 AM UTC
Mosquitoes - Their Power & Malinfluence
I'd like to mention that my city Karnal was once the bastion of the armed forces. Close to my house in NDRI campus until half-a-decade ago stood remnants of the old British Barracks - an irksome reminder of the colonial period. But we went inside the rickety ruins of an olden period to play hide and seek and sometimes just for fun as an adventure. I had seen them - the erstwhile barracks in that dilapidated state only, carrying the Union Jack painted at some places, and I had seen the ruins crash to ground - a reinstated taste of Indian freedom. The Colonial army camped here until the occupying British chose to shift the army camp to Ambala due to high occurrence of mosquitoes in the city of Karnal and found this place fit only for a great cattle yard. Karnal has seen negligence & side-lining ever-since along the course of history. The Indian Oil Corporation's petroleum refinery was decided to be built in the neighbouring Panipat city & so was the National Fertilizers Limited's manufacturing plant built there and not in Karnal. In Karnal they built research institutes, filled with greenery these make the city a comfortable place to relax at ease. But ****** shameless people don't realize the value of plants & trees and keep removing them off the face of Karnal & even where I live, in the NDRI campus - acronym for the National Dairy Research Institute campus. ****** blood sucker stupid human beings are sometimes more irritating than the malarial mosquitoes. They cut trees assuming trees shelter mosquitoes! True they might be but I keep wondering what about the potholes dug by them into the coal-tar & gravel roads to facilitate the installing of religious & marriage tents. But nothing can be done to change the people whose mindset has been falsely ligated with the thought of we are the best & we won't change.
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quite honestly, i don’t want you to remember this. i don’t want you to finish reading and think man, at least i’m not that pathetic, you know? if i can make you feel better about your own life, then great, i’ll take it, but god, please don’t remember me after you’re done. i think that people exist when they’re thought about. if it was that easy to blink out of existence, i’d erase my name from every government database and, i don’t know, go and live on an island until i got eaten by sharks. actually, let’s talk about that instead. sharks. everyone’s scared of them since jaws came out, but statistically they **** one person every two years. that’s 0.5 people a year; half a person dying. i’ve killed more people than that in stories. but hollywood thought “hey, let’s make the big scary shark into the villain”, and everyone said “okay” and ate it up with big wild teeth and now people don’t swim in shallow waters because their shadows look like seals. i wonder if someone made a movie about me. ‘the big scary sad life of never leaving your room’, because people cross the street when i notice them cross the street, so it’s only a matter of time before i join the barracks of some statistic, too.
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Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021 at 9:13 PM UTC
michelle von emster
She's risen coarse on rusted tracks, through sandy loam, a summer sheen. Rainbows are but colour barracks, fair violet, through verdant green. Through sandy loam, a summer sheen sparked exile of Fall's fleeting mist. Fair violet, through verdant green, adds tint to sun in pigment grist. Exile sparked in Fall's fleeting mist, cleared light, silky ivory. Adds tint to sun in pigment grist, silhouette of this noble tree. Cleared light, silky ivory are petals cast in modest mould. Silhouette of this noble tree, tattered leaves, raging wind unfold. Petals cast in a modest mould are magi of summer solstice. Tattered leaves, raging wind unfold simply envy of breezy fleece. Magi of the summer solstice, Purple blush on sun dipped petals. Raging envy of breezy fleece, Scalding wind that scarcely settles. Purple blush on sun dipped petals Rainbows are but colour barracks. Scalding wind that scarcely settles, she rises coarse on rusted tracks.
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Jun 6, 2021
Jun 6, 2021 at 3:47 PM UTC
Across a Rainbow of Hardiness ~ a botanical pantoum for the bigleaf Magnolia along the Highline
He sat in the barracks Comtemplating over His life Relationships Watching many of his friends die Some in his arms Others before his eyes What hurt him the most He had no one to call his own Back home He shed his tears for his comrades Behind closed doors He never wished to be seen crying For in his mind he thought emotions Were his weakness As he sat on his bed His thoughts drifted to his relationships Many women had come in and out Of his life Hurt and destroyed him Both mentally and emotionally Until he met a woman That even though she was married And had her own problems They became very close friends He tried having several other girlfriends But they threatened to hurt themselves If they didnt hear from him While he was overseas He found it rather annoying So the only one he talked to Was his best friend They would laugh and flirt around In a sense it helped him Get his mind off the battlefield Other women came into his life And did the same as the others As time wore on his best friend Stood beside him Silently watching Little did he know she was more valuable To him He realized she had done something The others could not do Through everything She had taken his heart without him Even knowing Over time he cherished her more He longed to hold her close To keep her safe But he didnt want to make her choose He knew someone would end up hurt He just didnt want it to be her So he decided to wait And to this day he waits For the love that seemed so far away For inside he was A Lost Soldier With a heart Full of Hidden Wounds.
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Aug 10, 2012
Aug 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM UTC
Lost Soldier : Hidden Wounds
He sat in the barracks Comtemplating over His life Relationships Watching many of his friends die Some in his arms Others before his eyes What hurt him the most He had no one to call his own Back home He shed his tears for his comrades Behind closed doors He never wished to be seen crying For in his mind he thought emotions Were his weakness As he sat on his bed His thoughts drifted to his relationships Many women had come in and out Of his life Hurt and destroyed him Both mentally and emotionally Until he met a woman That even though she was married And had her own problems They became very close friends He tried having several other girlfriends But they threatened to hurt themselves If they didnt hear from him While he was overseas He found it rather annoying So the only one he talked to Was his best friend They would laugh and flirt around In a sense it helped him Get his mind off the battlefield Other women came into his life And did the same as the others As time wore on his best friend Stood beside him Silently watching Little did he know she was more valuable To him He realized she had done something The others could not do Through everything She had taken his heart without him Even knowing Over time he cherished her more He longed to hold her close To keep her safe But he didnt want to make her choose He knew someone would end up hurt He just didnt want it to be her So he decided to wait And to this day he waits For the love that seemed so far away For inside he was A Lost Soldier With a heart Full of Hidden Wounds.
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Tyres and fires burning circles of rubber Rolled down black tongued roads Heading to city centre Where others meet To greet the mighty ruler With sword and soldiers dressed In fibreglass shields, green helmets truncheons with spikes backed water cannons snipers on rooftops searching for vipers to drill bullet holes The tyres rolled in and rounded in a circle Cutting off escape routes and Dividing believers and non-believers Piled high, pulled tight with pitchfork patience The leaders orders more tyres. Anything from cars, buses and bicycles that could hold up the chains of freedom. Last desperate attempt - not to escape but die In the ring of fire -soon lit Underneath the tyres Which created bursting black flames and bluegrey smoke Rising above the rants of leaders and shooters and crackling. Sparks that dulled the day And lit the night with sparklers of power. The paratroopers soon retreated into barracks and the rioters took hold of the city keys, And over broken glass and burnt buildings settled in for the long haul to freedom. The pawns moved on the chess board knights moved in the night, The queen was cornered and checkmate came when the hollow president flew the palace with his coterie of ear chewers and shoe polishers! The tyres burned slowly the fires burned down slowly. Freedom came at dawn on the 21 st day when the rubber factory churned out again many new models of tyres with tougher treads. The circle begins again today. Author Notes The Revolution continues. All common day gadgets that could burn and blister the new agenda is rolled down the road into the city centre where the protesters gather to set fire to ambitious policies, unpopular with the people. The fires from tyres will rage all night and day. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 1:21 AM UTC
Burnouts
Tyres and fires burning circles of rubber Rolled down black tongued roads Heading to city centre Where others meet To greet the mighty ruler With sword and soldiers dressed In fibreglass shields, green helmets truncheons with spikes backed water cannons snipers on rooftops searching for vipers to drill bullet holes The tyres rolled in and rounded in a circle Cutting off escape routes and Dividing believers and non-believers Piled high, pulled tight with pitchfork patience The leaders orders more tyres. Anything from cars, buses and bicycles that could hold up the chains of freedom. Last desperate attempt - not to escape but die In the ring of fire -soon lit Underneath the tyres Which created bursting black flames and bluegrey smoke Rising above the rants of leaders and shooters and crackling. Sparks that dulled the day And lit the night with sparklers of power. The paratroopers soon retreated into barracks and the rioters took hold of the city keys, And over broken glass and burnt buildings settled in for the long haul to freedom. The pawns moved on the chess board knights moved in the night, The queen was cornered and checkmate came when the hollow president flew the palace with his coterie of ear chewers and shoe polishers! The tyres burned slowly the fires burned down slowly. Freedom came at dawn on the 21 st day when the rubber factory churned out again many new models of tyres with tougher treads. The circle begins again today. Author Notes The Revolution continues. All common day gadgets that could burn and blister the new agenda is rolled down the road into the city centre where the protesters gather to set fire to ambitious policies, unpopular with the people. The fires from tyres will rage all night and day. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Walking back barefoot through summer's empty barracks on the outer, upper edge of my homework home. Feeling the freedom of my feet beneath a damp and gentle breeze, the moon reveals the room through which I let them roam. With solitary silence, I can pause and light a fire, watch the ember enter in, setting thoughts ablaze. Holding a holy ounce of hope below this tightly guarded soul that there appears a stair between our summer days. The dancing dewdrops sparkle and coat my feet anew, and splash my every other over with the starry skies. Taper the tales where I'm detained, creating paths to doors and gates, to find a place to shine like glitter in your eyes a million little mirrors that flash and blink and capture my imagination as it floats on the clouds of a single flutter and flies away through the river breeze bringing all at once a peace and a fervor and a reason to believe in the feeling for this beacon before me we frolic through flocks of freaks to find a vacant space between them and create our own vibrations between the mad machine music alive with beats and fidgets and dripping sound bravely bouncing to blips and whirrs to find our bliss within the instant you stand there bopping smiling glowing shining brimming sparkling flowing rattle my heart like the limb of a tree the girl on the rope swing attached underneath and as witness to your swaying grace it just can't help but palpitate one by one i count the miracles you here beautiful and beside me i am with you my pocket's treasures are intact and you're enjoying them the music is masterful the weather is wonderful and there's a smile pasted on your face and everything comes easily and nobody's ruining our fun and there is nothing that stands between me and my hope that someday you will see as i see our paths intertwining like strands of dna encoded through our souls a beautiful future worth risking a thousand lives just to brush my fingertips against worth the worst hurt in the world just to try and climb for the summit and even if i collapse en route and even if you shoot me down and even if a landslide unites me with the ground i will rest in peace because this time i ******* tried. I'm not in love. But I am in love with the idea of being in love.
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 8:56 AM UTC
Elovetronica
Walking back barefoot through summer's empty barracks on the outer, upper edge of my homework home. Feeling the freedom of my feet beneath a damp and gentle breeze, the moon reveals the room through which I let them roam. With solitary silence, I can pause and light a fire, watch the ember enter in, setting thoughts ablaze. Holding a holy ounce of hope below this tightly guarded soul that there appears a stair between our summer days. The dancing dewdrops sparkle and coat my feet anew, and splash my every other over with the starry skies. Taper the tales where I'm detained, creating paths to doors and gates, to find a place to shine like glitter in your eyes a million little mirrors that flash and blink and capture my imagination as it floats on the clouds of a single flutter and flies away through the river breeze bringing all at once a peace and a fervor and a reason to believe in the feeling for this beacon before me we frolic through flocks of freaks to find a vacant space between them and create our own vibrations between the mad machine music alive with beats and fidgets and dripping sound bravely bouncing to blips and whirrs to find our bliss within the instant you stand there bopping smiling glowing shining brimming sparkling flowing rattle my heart like the limb of a tree the girl on the rope swing attached underneath and as witness to your swaying grace it just can't help but palpitate one by one i count the miracles you here beautiful and beside me i am with you my pocket's treasures are intact and you're enjoying them the music is masterful the weather is wonderful and there's a smile pasted on your face and everything comes easily and nobody's ruining our fun and there is nothing that stands between me and my hope that someday you will see as i see our paths intertwining like strands of dna encoded through our souls a beautiful future worth risking a thousand lives just to brush my fingertips against worth the worst hurt in the world just to try and climb for the summit and even if i collapse en route and even if you shoot me down and even if a landslide unites me with the ground i will rest in peace because this time i ******* tried. I'm not in love. But I am in love with the idea of being in love.
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Christmas 1968 the whole hospital hurt. my bed hugged a corner and the ward ached away from me. endlessly away. I remember Nurse Merz, who saved my leg, and Fender, who lost his. mine was a small world. we had clean sheets. no one wanted to **** us at night. it was Christmas. after rounds, the medics brought us shots of whiskey in dosage cups. far away to the south, the hills were swallowing people up. I almost slept without dreaming. (106th. Army Evacuation Hospital Kishine Barracks Yokohama, Japan)
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Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM UTC
Christmas 1968
I am a cube in a dark chocolate bar seasoned with a milky white continent of courses collision of cultures chili and chill wind season in overcoats of global ambitions. Born in the barracks of colonial masters who took their women from tribal backwaters of empire. These beauties succeeded in conquering their Masters in the art of warfare in bed and beyond. say what you will I carry the cost of all completion and show the combination of colours on my skin burnt in the sun of these wars and conquests all six of us soldiers. we took his language and her complete abandonment to beauty grew in the night of knowing the white ruled the rainbow and hard liquor while the dark bred the boldness or so. (Mama said) we, as children of different cultures in a potpourri of pertinence got licked, kicked, bruised and burped cooked and laid as chocolates always do. But we grew in mamas wonder of the world at large, while Dad knew all the blends of single malt maidens from the highlands of his birth. as happy children, aware of hard work and toil we rose faster than the fumes of spirits and set about travelling the shores of net profits and university empires instead. Mama laughed when we told her of the worlds and wonders we had conquered and how the colour of our skin spoke for us. Dad knew all about peg measures and pork chops, fork, spoon and gunpowder conquests as hollow as his casks of wine and maturing as slow as his wisdom. Mama only knew the meaning of knowledge with no degrees. God bless them both as they sit around a table in that great place in the beyond and discuss chocolate bars skin and colourful wrapping of all six cubes! I am Anglo-Indian. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 8:43 PM UTC
Cube off a chocolate bar!
I am a cube in a dark chocolate bar seasoned with a milky white continent of courses collision of cultures chili and chill wind season in overcoats of global ambitions. Born in the barracks of colonial masters who took their women from tribal backwaters of empire. These beauties succeeded in conquering their Masters in the art of warfare in bed and beyond. say what you will I carry the cost of all completion and show the combination of colours on my skin burnt in the sun of these wars and conquests all six of us soldiers. we took his language and her complete abandonment to beauty grew in the night of knowing the white ruled the rainbow and hard liquor while the dark bred the boldness or so. (Mama said) we, as children of different cultures in a potpourri of pertinence got licked, kicked, bruised and burped cooked and laid as chocolates always do. But we grew in mamas wonder of the world at large, while Dad knew all the blends of single malt maidens from the highlands of his birth. as happy children, aware of hard work and toil we rose faster than the fumes of spirits and set about travelling the shores of net profits and university empires instead. Mama laughed when we told her of the worlds and wonders we had conquered and how the colour of our skin spoke for us. Dad knew all about peg measures and pork chops, fork, spoon and gunpowder conquests as hollow as his casks of wine and maturing as slow as his wisdom. Mama only knew the meaning of knowledge with no degrees. God bless them both as they sit around a table in that great place in the beyond and discuss chocolate bars skin and colourful wrapping of all six cubes! I am Anglo-Indian. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
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Press play before reading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtx0AvGAlw Take all my ashes, throw them in the earth, in the wheat fields, the remnants of cotton fields, the tree roots and the minefields. Take all my bone and sinew, sew them in the empty spaces, in the family hospital rooms, in the deployment barracks, in the wake of a tsunami, and the after burn of an earthquake, Take all my blood, seal it into a coursing river, in to the vacumn of the solitary life, the parents watching bleeping incubators, the last breath on death beds, and the blue refugee bedrooms. Take all my breath, and throw it into the tide, in to those that need words, in those that have lost their fight, in those who no longer care, and those that just can't move. Take all my heart, and throw it on the table, give the muscles to the fleeing children, give the valves to the returned soldiers, give the membrane to families destroyed by poverty, and give the beat only, to my son. Take all my wild passion, and throw it in to the air, in to the cyclists before they fall, in to the pianists arthritic fingers, in to all the first wedding dances, and into the young before they grow old. Take all my tears, and fill a bottle up, fill up those thirsty and dying, fill up the lakes of dying fish, fill up those empty with grieving, and fill up the eyes of those who forgot how to cry. Take all my love, and let it just dissipate, let it find its way, let it filter through the ******** let it wash away the guilt and shame, and let it fill you up.
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 5:25 PM UTC
My Last Will....
Press play before reading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtx0AvGAlw Take all my ashes, throw them in the earth, in the wheat fields, the remnants of cotton fields, the tree roots and the minefields. Take all my bone and sinew, sew them in the empty spaces, in the family hospital rooms, in the deployment barracks, in the wake of a tsunami, and the after burn of an earthquake, Take all my blood, seal it into a coursing river, in to the vacumn of the solitary life, the parents watching bleeping incubators, the last breath on death beds, and the blue refugee bedrooms. Take all my breath, and throw it into the tide, in to those that need words, in those that have lost their fight, in those who no longer care, and those that just can't move. Take all my heart, and throw it on the table, give the muscles to the fleeing children, give the valves to the returned soldiers, give the membrane to families destroyed by poverty, and give the beat only, to my son. Take all my wild passion, and throw it in to the air, in to the cyclists before they fall, in to the pianists arthritic fingers, in to all the first wedding dances, and into the young before they grow old. Take all my tears, and fill a bottle up, fill up those thirsty and dying, fill up the lakes of dying fish, fill up those empty with grieving, and fill up the eyes of those who forgot how to cry. Take all my love, and let it just dissipate, let it find its way, let it filter through the ******** let it wash away the guilt and shame, and let it fill you up.
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I think back to 5 years ago, To those days in northern New York, Where my life felt like some coming-of-age tale, Coming into my own. Each day was its own chapter, Shenanigans and hijinks, Bar room brawls and short-lived loves, Drunken tattoos and crutching on snow 2 feet deep, Barracks parties and field exercise tomfoolery, Oh, how it all seems like such a dream now. Fleeing from authorities, Cackling with buddies as we disappeared into the crowd to make it to the next bar, Showing up to work on Monday with a recently broken nose, blackened eye, and shit-eating grin, With my buddies sporting similar signs, Our First Sergeant taking stock of these injuries, And walking onward with a little smirk. Walking through Watertown, Feeling the age of that military town, Filled with secondhand stores and oddities, My God such a surreal dream. Stuck in bed, Knee wrapped up in bandages, Protecting all the stitches beneath, Looking out the winter at the blizzard outside, Craving a working leg more than the percocet, And knowing that the dream was coming to an end.
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Jan 7, 2023
Jan 7, 2023 at 12:40 AM UTC
Living the dream
Karma to the leader who spits fire, power to the unsung and the fellow youth. Karma to the selfish king who's hungry for credits power to the silent minds who makes it happen Kudos to the spirits who never raised a flag, One's who move to ****** the corrupt and the imagery. Down the castle walls of greed and mainstream barracks, Time will evade the white cloth into jet black. Power to the youth of silent hearts and quiet souls Never surrenders naked in front of a blistering snow. Time is the weapon, the rule is very sober. In time you will rise, and dethrone the master
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Mar 2, 2012
Mar 2, 2012 at 1:02 PM UTC
I never wished to say anyhing ******
Nighttime session, the troops gathered in the barracks I am the early bird waiting while I think of words See the sorry *** in the glass start to mutate My face scrambles in a madman’s flash of brilliance I shake in disbelief, making my supposed normal return The last of many flashbacks to a freaky fungus festival My companions enter the stomping ground unaware A trace of spasm in my body, of light refraction in my gaze Within ten seconds I went from stagnant and stationary To drunkenly wobbling, blind-deaf-mute-terrified My vision was the first, flooding steadily with snowy diamonds I noticed a distinct detachment from myself and my location Head began to throb and ears shot jets of sound Like a pulsar detectable to keen eye on rampage Bright white light, increasingly suffocated by diamonds blinding Sick and driven to escape, my face drained of all color My surprise became overwhelming and unbearable to me I made a hopeless barge through blurry barrier Dive into the bed that will bring me sane comfort Curl in ball, pathetic and fetal, waiting for the war to end
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Nov 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010 at 6:02 PM UTC
46. Diamonds 11/24/10
It’s about time our design came to life Early morning light casts a florescent glow onto the autumn leaves when the air around me bends and weaves; A-thing is to arrive. as lightning steals your eyes, I could not see them then and I cannot see them now. Is it only what is found between us? at the point of relocation lies a charm; a bad idea, an incentive, if you must for where there is emotion there is harm. Trust is always amiable, the truth was always hard to explain. drugs that play like cannibals and sleep that keeps you like a slave; inside my barracks and I sleep alone. the hustled train delivers mellow drones. Lips in hands, eyes in mouth, something I need to talk about. But things would start to grow moldy, every bone shapes up to limbs that crack and shake they fall down. they fall apart.
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM UTC
old concepts
Black and White Black and Yellow.           The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the warrior story and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Bailey Lionesses and Natte Naidi, In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches to Tacitus, and the BBC and BBC leaders have been assigned to soldiers of Saudi Arabia's Gala soldiers. The young man and his grandson have cited the Syrians, Churches, Muslim Plans and a series of generations. Black and White smoke in the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, the mouth of the mouth, the Welsh Orders model, many free programs in the Arab Emirates, Tinkengi candy brush, and Latina Natalie,                                                                              slim and slender. Point out your song and song in the big throat!! Africa, Australia, USA is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. George Griffin's words, livestock, martyrs Emperor Thomas, their friends and their families, and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life, the bridges were gathered in Russia, England and the United States. In the morning fire and poetry, a brief booklet of the Uppsala, and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man. In the second hour, the woman was a delusion, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, the old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals, filled with mountain chains, dense clouds and miraculous dreams. The beetles in my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the raging, and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom." Antiplical machines are the first payment for the first poem of the poem. It was posted on the special foot.                                  Black and White Black and Yellow.        The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the warrior story and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Baily Lionan Nattenaidi     In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches to Tacitus, and the BBC and BBC leaders have been assigned to soldiers of Saudi Arabia's Gala soldiers. The young man and his grandson have cited the Syrians, Churches, Muslim Plans and a series of generations. Black and White smoke in the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, the mouth of the mouth, the Welsh Orders model, many free programs in the Arab Emirates, Tinkengi candy brush, and Latina Natalie, slim and slender. Point out your song and song in the big, big throat!! Africa, Australia, USA is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. George Griffin's words, livestock, martyrs to Emperor Thomas, their friends and their families,      and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life, the bridges were gathered in Russia, England and the United States. In the morning fire and poetry, a brief booklet of the Uppsala, and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man. In the second hour, the woman was a delusion, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, the old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals, filled with mountain chains, dense clouds and miraculous dreams. The beetles in my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the raging, and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom." Antiplical machines are the first payment for the first poem of the poem. It was posted on the special foot.Black and white Black and yellow. The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the story of the warrior and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Bailey Lioness and Nattenaidi                        In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches towards Tacitus, and the leaders of the BBC and the BBC have been assigned to soldiers of the Saudi Arabian Gala. The young man and his grandson have quoted the Syrians, the churches, the Muslim plans and a series of generations. Black and white smoke on the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, by word of mouth, the Welsh Order models, many free programs in the UAE, Tinkengi;   candy brush and Latina Natalie, slim and slender.                                Point out your song and your song in the big throat! Africa, Australia, USA UU; It is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. The words of George Griffin, the cattle, the martyrs, the Emperor Thomas, his friends and their families,          and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life,                                                         the bridges met in Russia, England and the States United.                       In the morning, fire and poetry, a brief leaflet from Uppsala                   and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man.                              In the second hour, the woman was a deception, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals,                         full of mountain ranges, dense clouds                              and miraculous dreams. The beetles on my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the rage and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom". The machines antiplicas are the first payment of the first poem of the poem.                  It was published in the special foot.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 8:45 PM UTC
Revolt of the Prostitutes
Black and White Black and Yellow.           The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the warrior story and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Bailey Lionesses and Natte Naidi, In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches to Tacitus, and the BBC and BBC leaders have been assigned to soldiers of Saudi Arabia's Gala soldiers. The young man and his grandson have cited the Syrians, Churches, Muslim Plans and a series of generations. Black and White smoke in the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, the mouth of the mouth, the Welsh Orders model, many free programs in the Arab Emirates, Tinkengi candy brush, and Latina Natalie,                                                                              slim and slender. Point out your song and song in the big throat!! Africa, Australia, USA is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. George Griffin's words, livestock, martyrs Emperor Thomas, their friends and their families, and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life, the bridges were gathered in Russia, England and the United States. In the morning fire and poetry, a brief booklet of the Uppsala, and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man. In the second hour, the woman was a delusion, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, the old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals, filled with mountain chains, dense clouds and miraculous dreams. The beetles in my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the raging, and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom." Antiplical machines are the first payment for the first poem of the poem. It was posted on the special foot.                                  Black and White Black and Yellow.        The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the warrior story and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Baily Lionan Nattenaidi     In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches to Tacitus, and the BBC and BBC leaders have been assigned to soldiers of Saudi Arabia's Gala soldiers. The young man and his grandson have cited the Syrians, Churches, Muslim Plans and a series of generations. Black and White smoke in the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, the mouth of the mouth, the Welsh Orders model, many free programs in the Arab Emirates, Tinkengi candy brush, and Latina Natalie, slim and slender. Point out your song and song in the big, big throat!! Africa, Australia, USA is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. George Griffin's words, livestock, martyrs to Emperor Thomas, their friends and their families,      and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life, the bridges were gathered in Russia, England and the United States. In the morning fire and poetry, a brief booklet of the Uppsala, and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man. In the second hour, the woman was a delusion, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, the old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals, filled with mountain chains, dense clouds and miraculous dreams. The beetles in my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the raging, and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom." Antiplical machines are the first payment for the first poem of the poem. It was posted on the special foot.Black and white Black and yellow. The second keyboard and a small pinpoint. B İzimi'i. Now the story of the warrior and the very bad woman. AAPP 3 / Bailey Lioness and Nattenaidi                        In the 40 years since the leader of the Abyssinian diocese, a female leader marches towards Tacitus, and the leaders of the BBC and the BBC have been assigned to soldiers of the Saudi Arabian Gala. The young man and his grandson have quoted the Syrians, the churches, the Muslim plans and a series of generations. Black and white smoke on the BBC, BBC News, BBC News, Laptops, Food Supply and Arabia, by word of mouth, the Welsh Order models, many free programs in the UAE, Tinkengi;   candy brush and Latina Natalie, slim and slender.                                Point out your song and your song in the big throat! Africa, Australia, USA UU; It is part of the Geographic Division of the United States, Europe and South America. The words of George Griffin, the cattle, the martyrs, the Emperor Thomas, his friends and their families,          and the German light, the strong ideology and Christianity that symbolized the Christian life,                                                         the bridges met in Russia, England and the States United.                       In the morning, fire and poetry, a brief leaflet from Uppsala                   and a lawyer and former colleague respect the son of a dead man.                              In the second hour, the woman was a deception, a god, a Roman god, in the same god, a Roman goddess of Rome. In the eye, old trees are screams and high health benefits. The Mexican Mexican Mexican Museum, Vitamins and Minerals,                         full of mountain ranges, dense clouds                              and miraculous dreams. The beetles on my head were "in England, Guinea, the United Kingdom, the barracks, the rage and the lives of marine life in the United Kingdom". The machines antiplicas are the first payment of the first poem of the poem.                  It was published in the special foot.
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Derelict concrete buildings from the second world war sit like the skeletons of dinosaurs with gaping holes where someone used to look through windows dotting our island that look now empty eye sockets in great big skulls lookout towers and brick built barracks and cinemas and pump stations and piers reach out to supply ships that now either turned to deep reefs for fish and sea creatures of myriad kinds or cut up and recycled into modern metal sea horses carrying a new generation of teenagers on to some kind of glory death and war.
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 1:54 PM UTC
Skeletons