"befalling" poems
I live in a forest of fallen sunflowers, old and wise, they speak to me of the days gone by
When the sun sets among the wilderness blaze, they tell me night is befalling, and I must make my departure
They tell of decades ago, how they’ve watched as humans lived their lives, most rotten in nature
They spoke of the one that used to tend to them, how gracious and kind, how pure and warm
For the sunflowers spoke with melancholy, for they knew that their former caretaker was well gone
So for a moment they wept their tears of seeds, and sung soft melodies of their former caretaker
They spoke to me and warned of the evils of humanity, how they were too once the victim of the evil
They asked why humans destroyed what’s beautiful around them, why they wish to sabotage what keeps them breathing
But they spoke to me and said I was a rare human, one that had good intention, and a sensitive heart
As night began to fall, I left the forest of sunflowers, carrying their tearful seeds
To spread as I walked away, to maybe rejoice and create life once more
The forest I hope will remain tomorrow, that it stands the test of time
May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 2:46 PM UTC
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Watching the rise and the fall of a kingdom
Walls once rebuilt again tumble the ground
Allowing the beasties free reign in the village
Bellowing out o’er the wickedest sound
Pacing the streets, seeking out bits of garbage
Leaving their stains on the innocent few
Leering in windows where children are hiding
Tender young things and so easy to chew
Thieves in the night lurk about come the morning
Stealing the sun at the break of the dawn
Drinking of sewage a’ flow in the gutters
Checking off names as the many are gone
Peering ‘round corners, down alleys, in shadows
Seeking the favor of all who do grieve
Laughing in spite of the torment now growing
Licking their lips in the hope you believe
Roaming in groups so the followed outnumber
Say what you will for the king does not hear
Lost in his throne made of mirrors that flatter
Shivering, cowering, caving to fear
Deaf to the villagers asking for reason
Blind to the pillage befalling this land
Dumb, well I guess that just goes without saying
Nary a care what the people demand
Feasting on turkey, potatoes and gravy
Raising a glass to the enemy proud
Taking a stand against those who support him
Locking the front doors while yelling aloud
***“Carry your torches, your pitchforks, your honor
It matters not for this evil shall win
Even when gone there are echoes of anger
Lingering on till they come back again
Give them your all, what you’ve poured your heart into
Down on your knees, bow to them one and all
Step over rock and the piles of rubble
This castle will stand even when the walls fall
Shout all you like as no change is forthcoming
Accept it or flee, you think I give a ****
When you are gone many more will replace you
Now pass those peas and a slice of that ham”***
So roam the beasties, their teeth ever sharpened
Fanning the flames as so many are burned
Tearing apart what the people envisioned
Silly to think that they somehow had learned
Nothing so happy with no ever after
Always the same, it will happen again
But unlike some other long winded stories
Sadly in this I can not say “the end”
Watching the rise and the fall of a kingdom
Walls once rebuilt again tumble the ground
Thankfully I can peruse from a distance
Witnessing all without hanging around
Jul 8, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 at 9:25 AM UTC
The iron drips from my fingers.
The man gives out a yell.
The child launches, she launches at me.
Sadly her launch had failed.
I chuckled at her, with no pity.
Her frightened face, what a laugh.
The person she’s crying for isn't worth dying for.
After all,
he was a bad man.
It’s funny, so funny, funny the fact.
The fact, she thought if she grabbed my neck then,
maybe, just maybe, maybe I’d die.
I laughed again and finally, I gave out a sigh.
“Poor child,” I said my voice left unchanged.
“You misunderstood. I shouldn't be ashamed.
Your idol has done so many bad things,
now he’ll pay for his sins of adultery,
in a place which this blind man cannot see.
She fell to the ground befalling her tears.
This was the end of her happy years.
What? Did she think it was a fairy tale life?
Reality is sharp, just like a knife.
I laughed at the fact I took his life,
with just one swing of my most dull scythe.
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 1:26 PM UTC
I tend to romanticize,
I romanticize friendships and love and all relations,
Makes them a little more than what they seem,
Doesn't it?
And maybe that's what the flaw of romanticizing life is,
Once you start romanticizing it you ignore the practicality,
That the real-life beholds,
One part of you stuck at the expectations,
And other tries to avoid the befalling of this little kingdom,
Your mind survives in,
So you romanticize bad memories too,
As if you were really dead every second someone scolded you,
Or crumpled your ***** of life,
And in this loop of romanticizing, you end up hurting everyone,
So you tell yourself to wake up,
You force yourself to be awake,
And when you finally are,
You see there never has existed a premise,
Where you were playing your orchestra.
Jan 2, 2021
Jan 2, 2021 at 11:05 PM UTC
Look me in the eyes and tell me I am not already dead.
Look within my soul and tell me, all is finally at an end.
Look with your silver eyes, which reflect my very own.
A chaotic wind right before the deadly storm.
The redden horizon, fading into the coldest of blue.
A will of a way, left to burn within the goodwill of our mortal souls.
I see you Dear Brother...
A man shroud in the facade of a devils red clothing.
But men, we are not...
Are we, O brother of mine?
Two hidden lies, masked within a mould of our own demise.
A shell our mother has bestow upon her demon spawns.
Masqueraded truths smeared, until all came crumbling down.
I spoke of my hatred as I slipped from your grasp.
I fell into Hell with a malevolent wrath,
a curse befalling my tongue;
I hate you
Another lie, another sin.
Added to a pile of our transgression,
shadowing us in its path of our own destruction.
Look into my heart and see my love.
A love, which has not commenced into something dark and malcontent.
Look and see another me, (mirrored in your stare.)
Look and believe all is fine.
Look and tell me my blue coated wrath,
is nothing compared to the inferno of a burning Dante
while playing the part of your savior, Virgil.
Two souls, forever intertwined.
Both born under the sacred son,
but destined to fall under baited spikes.
When will there be rest, O Brother?
With my blade in your chest?
Or the indirect request of your blessed reprieve?
Look, before all is too far gone...
nigh is the time,
Look and you might just see...
Me.
but alas just yet,
maybe,
you shall see a piece of yourself as well.
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014 at 4:19 PM UTC
I'm a man of my actions, and not just my words
As more and more seem to fail to be
Although there are still those who still shine a light
In the darkness, just the same as I
But sometimes my actions cannot support words
I've spoken in deepest sincerity
For circumstances that so plague my life
Prevent them from showing through distance and time
I hope that you see that this tragedy is mine
Even more so than it falls upon you
In a world where so many talk without walking
My words are but all that can show how I feel
I wish that this life would so kindly incline
To release me from losing before I lose you
For every tragedy that keeps befalling
Keeps so many dreams that I cherish unreal
I wish I could be so much more than I am
I'm afraid I am all that I will ever be
Be it lover or friend, I am still by your side
No matter what this unfair life will allow
I wish I were there by your side, hand in hand
Through your darkness and light, any way I could be
Although I am here, I hope my words confide
That if actions could be, I'd be there with you now
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 2:32 PM UTC
424
Removed from Accident of Loss
By Accident of Gain
Befalling not my simple Days—
Myself had just to earn—
Of Riches—as unconscious
As is the Brown Malay
Of Pearls in Eastern Waters,
Marked His—What Holiday
Would stir his slow conception—
Had he the power to dream
That put the Dower’s fraction—
Awaited even—Him—
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Winter cherries
My heart is one of warmth and color, but a rarity in all aspects.
Like winter cherries
Sweetheart swarms in sudden bursts of imagination, stopping my heart and purifying the air with each breath she takes.
Never has the silence sounded so sweet as when it comes from her.
Never has invisibility been so noticeable as when she does it.
Never will I be able to share or distribute such a purity as she has.
Her chill is so obvious that there are no boundaries to the conversations we inaugurate. We ride the waves of giggles and chuckles that we form, playful arguments made and led into deeper conversations never finished.
I love the way we converse like buddies yet everything about us speaks of distant strangers. I wonder does she feel the same.
It’s something in the way her voice shakes or the way her eyes dart through mine when she looks at me. It’s something about the way she smiles in a way that shows she’s fighting it.
It’s her personality
It’s who she is.
And I’m shocked to say that I’m being struck down by her energetic placidity.
I wonder more about her than any other possible that I’ve ever known. I think of what she’s like and how she’d treat me if she knew me more. I wonder what I look like in her mind and what I look like out of her mind as well. I wonder how much she thinks about me, if at all. And the only answer I get is that of cherries in calmed snowstorm
Stems filled with white crystals as light as air itself when alone, yet at the collected fruit they weigh tons.
Falling in slow motion as the last crisp it could bare falls to a rest on its ruby red outer shell.
Frozen in air as I walk past and see it. Only wondering how long it should stay before it succumbs to the inevitability of gravity.
And her voice cracks my concentration.
It falls.
But no noise shall it make, it shall stay as quiet as the snow itself and remain a music in my mind.
The befalling of her voice
The falling of winter cherries.
May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 1:18 PM UTC
*Oh I do distinguish,
What is the ALL;*
***We inwardly receive,
Knowing truly;
Beyond the painful,
stories we numerate;
Which are often,
Yes painful horrific;
Yet when the love,
Beauty we all know;
Crystallizes,
clearly within;
We are empowered,
All great gifts whereby then,
Painful needs are mete with instant;
Response;
Not one doubt,
Second thought;
We are all,
Highly and acutely aware,
most sensitive too;
As the evolved beings we are;
We are the Holy Grail;
Moving the mountains;
Of the impossibilities,
Only we have already created therefor;
We are the vessels dissolving,
Mountains back into the sea;
Of infinite possibilities;
Whereby this infinite,
Sea of love though not seen;
In blinding light,
Of our more limited,
Consciousness;
Deep gifts;
Of our commonalities,
Make the painful numerations;
All the more beautiful;
Upon Our;
God Given commonality!!!!
Therefore the fearful snake,
Firstly hissing;
Transmutable in the laughing;
Joy;
Highly developed;
Golden Wisdom;
Sans;
Any doubt,
Lest we forget;
Hard worked for,
Well earned lessons;
Thank you!!!
Eve, Lilith!!!
ALL!!!***
We are ready;
***Already free;
Freeing;
The almighty;
Tantric,
Holy breeze!!!
Always,
More willing;
Yearning,
What is good;
More,
LOVE!!!
Giving!!!
Receivable!!!***
I call,
***Welcome!!!!
Thee Eighth of Days;***
Whereby fore;
Food!!!!
For,
Our bodies and souls;
***NEED!!!
LOVE!!!
DESERVE!!!
WANT!!!!***
***INHERENTLY!!!
KNOWN!!!***
*All,
Available;*
***HERE!!!
NOW!!!***
***ALREADY!!!
PREPARED!!!***
In an instant;
***BEFALLING!!!
ALL!!!
OF ALL!!!
FOR ALL!!!***
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Dec 17, 2012
Dec 17, 2012 at 10:52 PM UTC
Can I write you a rhythm
To remind you of your scandalous beauty
That have tamed many men falling for you like a magnet
The sweet that you are is the pain that they have
Their sobbing hearts want you alone will they fit in one heart of yours
Release them ***
Your fortune against their desire
Injured soldiers to just one general
A heart of she that bears the greatest of smiles
Those in denial of her live longer as her beauty is a beast claiming souls
For if am weak take me too, the paradise of feeling your blood flow
The moments you make life worthy
The second you are a dream come true
Slain by your wonders
Your hands breed temporary heaven
See the rise of men only to fall by your side
Their strength to find you, weakness of befalling with you
Hammn my hamming guts the same pain they are left with is my desire to reach and taste
Must I be a hero in this, if I must fail I too befall along side her
The glory claim.....ahem them the men rose as soon as they fell
Dec 19, 2022
Dec 19, 2022 at 12:24 AM UTC
There’s too much light
deluge of photons
an affront to Night’s ambiance
Harsh sulfur streetlight glow:
trickery. illuminating
arteries of Artificial
making the Night
dull dark distant
confined to human construct
robbing Mystery
masking subtlety
devouring nature
the Immensity
the Antiquity
the Beauty of Stars: gone
Lost
blotted out
by buzzing wasp’s nest
Denizens’ sting
to eyes & minds
inflaming consciousness
no longer can you Feel
small and lost
under the grandeur of nocturnal sky
all is set
before you
here to there
Elsewhere to home
Home?
Sleep in Darkness?
listening & thinking
‘til sleep succumbs
No, now rather
befalling Sickly
pallor of computer glow
we stare with blinders
all else fading
save the screen
before us
******* us in
trapping us
excising thoughts
keeping us
from ourselves
that is why we fill the night
Out of fear. To hide
but not from monsters
nor from ghosts goblins gremlins ghouls
not from lurking eldritch terror of yore
but from ourselves
from Feeling and Being
for fear of perceiving
tactile intuition in the air
of what lies ahead rather than seeing
for fear of walking by ourselves
just ourselves with unencumbered thoughts
and seeing through the facade
the facade of daytime ascribed meanings
the facade of of who we are
the facade of light
The facade that Darkness
is what is lacking
that light is normality
That light is beauty
light is hope
light is life
but it’s just that
a Facade
we plastered ourselves: an Illusion
But there’s truth
at Night and under stars
truth in the sensation of dusky hours
Artistry in ink
the allure of “unknown”
feeling small and lost
Under soft Milky Way
floating over dew laden grass
caressed by cool currents
There’s Truth
& Beauty
in the Night
Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 2:19 PM UTC
Growing is my inner sense
Fading is my innocence
Life is fleeting, non repeating
Forgive my belligerence
Find my as I reference
My childhood that's now gone
Fatalities befalling me
And forcing me to move on
Forcing me to live strong
Forcing me to love long
In reference to the present
I pray my head's not on wrong
Wishing for the simpler things
A time before feeling the sting
Of adult reality and missing all the mystery
Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 3:43 PM UTC
*Sweet whispers, unlock me
Set free my dark misery
Sweep paths full of mystery
For truth is a devil.*
It's not a rush you feel, it's fear
A darkness prevailing, soon to be near
This kind of madness, will claim you for years
And all I can say is, "Take cover, my dear"
It's not unknown, you've heard the calling
A seductive moaning befalling
Begging for directions, pleading
That you take place leading
A soft greeting so fleeting
That you've been intrigued
But I sense that this meeting
Will leave you fatigued
And the kind of horrors you shall view
Shall leave you believing
Red has only one hue
That of life leaving
And those villains knew
They've become you
Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 5:27 PM UTC
Awake and alone the little boy lies. Darkness gathers, eclipsed only by the shroud befalling his soul.
He shakes, ever so slightly, then the crescendo grows.....gathering momentum with each passing moment. Soon, he shakes uncontrollably, as would a freezing man. He squeezes himself into an ever tighter circle, fighting in vain to stop his trembling.
He clamps his eyes shut ever tighter, so tight it hurts.... a futile effort to stop the hot tears beginning to streak down his face. Slowly his resolve melts, his scant remaining strength leaves him.
He sobs, gently, nearly silently. The walls come falling down, the fear rushes in. He presses face harder against the pillow, muting the sound of his cries. No must hear, no one.
Somewhere in the dark, cold chill of the night, his sobs cease. He drifts out of consciousness and into the abyss of dreams. His only escape, his only refuge.
All to soon, the bright light of the morning sun breaks through the night, announcing a new day. And his cold, stark reality begins anew.
Jan 22, 2010
Jan 22, 2010 at 5:48 PM UTC
*
me decorated
with an unexpected smile
I now expect little and live the moment
exploring while passing over
I’ve quit detaining I let
motion befalling having no
more addresses pinheads or pencils
I found myself delighted
in the last three lines
May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 at 3:23 PM UTC
***Believe as 'The Heavenly Father" speaks life living within you!!
Than cast continually outward and you will see the "Promise",
outwardly befall befalling now!!
Like any 'prophet' who has spoken 'Gods Word',
recorded as scripture no matter how it is seen,
or understood or not with old ears and eyes!!
Each of these said who me how who am I,
beyond humble being for such grace!!!
Then truth was nonetheless clear,
then compulsion drove out the 'Word'!!!
No doubt it has been said as branches of this vine,
the greater will be and indeed is being here now,
among us and One with the ALL it is!!!
Sans little half steps backwards,
we count the ones forward;
In the new 'Double Triple Two Steps' forward,
that count for all that matters;
There is,
a little half step back,
for we shall not forget;
Our lessons in what matters not!!!
No doubt greater;
Than shall keep you breathing,
Outwardly;
LIFE!!!
LOVE!!!
Mete
NEED!!!
Believe do accept breathe;
The holy breath is about awaiting;
It's Divine Will;
To flow freely;
In abundance!!!
Sa Sa
With
For
Timothy!!!
ALL!!!!!***
<3r
Dec 14, 2012
Dec 14, 2012 at 1:33 PM UTC
The salubrious nature
of the climate,
could'nt Conceal the
Sardonic smile of
the Sun.
Scorching heat withered
the Green carpet on
the Visage of the Earth,
Turgid & Rigid plants
Conceated defeat to
the Harsh enviroment
and became Flaccid.
Both live & dead,
micro & macro couldn't
Elude the Vindictive
& Reprisal power of
the Earth,
Destructive habit of man
was Remunerated with
the Sadism nature of
Eco-system.
If only Replenishing was
a Custom within our
Volition,
Catastrophy befalling us
would be a Past-Tense,
Trees & Animals may
seem lesser
but there Impact on our
eco-system is Vital......!!
@miamizoliver
Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 8:59 AM UTC
For he is gone, for he is dead
For he has left and left us dead.
No! Wilt not yet young flowers,
Flourish still.
Thy lost flow hast merely chosen
For God's table vase.
Radiate they iridescence to the eyes!
Captivate still.
For he is gone, for he is dead.
For we go on, recall instead
Dreams a dreamy man conceived
Of a flower garden, watered well
Flourishing its beauty.
Every seed of soil meticulously placed
To watch the roots grow shoots
Shooting into the sky
Capturing glorious warmth from the dreamer,
Of a thousand dreams
Come true.
For he is gone, for he is dead
Think not that, conceive instead,
Were thy flowers shall come to be
The dreamer who did succeed
Bequeaths to you
To dream
Dream through walls
Befalling the best
And become thy exalted one.
Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 12:14 AM UTC
I'm the cradle of
mankind,
yet I Prey on
myself.
Atrocities befalling me
are Unimaginable,
Warriors & Intellects
have met their fate
at my feet.
Millions have Yielded to
Despair at my Guard,
in Desolate am left
to Fend for myself,
Feigned smiles, Gorged
out Eyes,
bony Figures,
Ghost shadows ramble
my landscape.
Pain and suffering is
so Certain & Dogmatic
in my Vicinity.
Sons & daughters seek
Greener Pastures
in far away lands,
Yet those left Behind
are Caged in today's
living HELL!
All we Yearn for
is Tranquility,
Valour and
Redemption.....
@miamizoliver
Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 5:10 AM UTC
O my precious flower of amethyst,
Who blooms in the early spring,
And whose dreadful fate befalls him fast
For any of my everlasting love to last.
To you I will go forth and sing,
As once did my lord, the Sun King,
Of your amaranthine beauty, by which I am bewitched.
By the hands of the West Wind did you fall,
Where you withered in front of your god of light.
For I, your death was my most tragic loss.
But if I had stopped that discus in toss,
I would have prevented this plight
From ever befalling my sight,
And never would I have listened to you wrawl.
To the Messenger did the Sun King flee for comfort,
But I, without you, had no one to go.
Even in death, your fairness remains,
In the shape of the hyacinth, forever contained.
My love for you still overflows,
Even amidst all the woe,
But now, alone, I shall go into summer.
Apr 23, 2020
Apr 23, 2020 at 10:59 PM UTC
It is nature of all the mothers
To heartily cherish their sons
To believe with worship
In the mortality of the sons
To whim and fancy
That nothing can beat their sons,
It is nature of all the mothers
To replace their love for husbands
With the love of sons,
Always to suspect
That their daughters in law
Are giving raw deals of life and love
To the precious sons,
To stress for ****** marriage of the sons
To doubt and snook at the beauties of sons’ loves,
It is nature of all the mothers
To be in nostalgia of their past love
On the look of the new beards on sons’ face
To equate the ****** tone in the sons bass
With the voices of a raw lover
On the nuptial night of the eloping evening,
It is nature of all the mothers to fault the person
Of other woman’s sons
Only to glorify the character of their own
As they project fortune for heir own
But stark fate or failure
Befalling the male neighbourhood,
To ask the powers that be
For a political treat to their sons
On a baseboard of full discredit
Unto the otherness that be.
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 9:06 AM UTC
"Should any harm befall me on my journey, you may open this letter."
when darkness is befalling me
when it won't stop raining
i'm skidding, stumbling, and
be spiraling downwards
then, you're my balustrades and my light
on all my ways
my stilt, my rod and my staff
my soil
Nov 28, 2020
Nov 28, 2020 at 6:14 AM UTC
People will be people,
I see them all around.
They seem to have a role to play,
to encourage,to command,to judge or put you down.
You think you're better than them,
they think they're way up there.
You have that much to say,
they think they're way too good to care.
I say, people will be people,
they play their role so well.
It's as if they have all the time
to judge you even for awhile.
As if they couldn't bear the good,
that's befalling over you.
They'll tell you,
"Oh, I've been there,done that, nothing new."
Well,that's why people will be people,
each soul for their own.
You'd imagine why this world's together apart,
perhaps our action's been condone.
We pretend with hands united,
but really, are we one?
We people will be people,
it cannot be undone.
Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 12:48 PM UTC