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"bemoaned" poems
Portia and Bassanio Brave Portia's lot was cast Inside a mocking case of lead, Morrocco came and passed, Then Arragorn, arrived and left, forlorn. A list of louts came, failed, and went Before Bassanio played his turn... Poor rich Portia's patience spent, Nerissa's lady solace yearned Antonio, Bassanio, a troubled pair A wily shark a loan arranged, Whose bite, though small, Beyond compare aimed deepest To the matters of the heart. Antonio, about to lose his fortune, Bemoaned the losing of a friend, The foiling of a fortune, sunk. Shylock, certain of his pound of flesh, Summarily dismissed by gentile gender-bending, Played as a fool by a woman posing as a man, Who drove a lawyer's visage in a Portia. All ended well, at least for "Christian" men... Life sweetened by the turning of a Jew, No matter his conversion at duress... Straight away Portia and Nerissa turned back A ******* borrower who had landed on his feet, And sprang their traps to tame their husbands' heat.
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 11:52 PM UTC
Portia and Bassanio (Merchant of Venice)
I only prayed to the moon after it rose beyond my window, the white sill a frame for waning crescents and gibbouses--milk-drowned gods dripping stars as they climbed skeleton branches-- some nights resting behind flood-heavy clouds. People say the moon has a face, but I have yet to see it sneer at my sins even as it tastes my ocean-drop tears, evaporated into sky-bound veils, brushed along the shadowed craters ... The moon itself bemoaned imperfections in midnight wind creaking branch against branch until I woke slow from sleep--sad light staining my walls pallid, pale as my own skin, glowing in muted television shows left running while I dreamt the moon spilled a star between my ribs-- dim luminescence radiating warm, and the star, seeping through my pores, thawed the ice I had prayed to melt in the first place.
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 12:39 AM UTC
Dear Luna,
Gene and Jenny Taylor Had long been man and wife But a heinous disagreement Took a hold upon their life For each bemoaned their tackle It was Gene who started first He justified why dangly bits Were easily the worst “They tangle in your underwear And twist themselves about If I sit down in football shorts They try to wriggle out They chafe on nearly everything They’re difficult to dry And when it’s hot an humid out They’re welded to your thigh” Jenny swiftly countered him “Well ***** are surely worst For shaving is laborious And not all lips are pursed The periods are painful With a week of aggravation And we use three times the toilet roll And cause deforestation “ But Gene had more to muster “Well the ***** is a ******* And hiding an ******** Is a skill each man has mastered They lead us into jeopardy They always take the **** And first thing in the morning They’ve a tendency to miss” So Jenny said “Vaginas Are a curse between the thighs And lady bits look monstrous To anyone with eyes They’re prone to thrush and fondling And embryo gestation ***** are only any good For use in aviation” Gene and Jenny caught their breath The stalemate was called For genitals, the lips and ***** Or **** and hairy ***** Are vital to our species More useful than they seem And you’ll see a marked improvement When they’re working as a team
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 7:14 AM UTC
Knobs and ***** A Comparative Study
I tried telling her Of my life's wisdom and notions of fetters. She relayed to me Visions of nothing less than ecstasy. I bemoaned where I went wrong She said I'd been ******* a loser **** She seemed so happy I shrugged and agreed If they weren't ******* me I must be ******* them. I lost track of that ***** But words register a score And the more I seem to **** The more I seem to score. It's a cocksucker's life Even if you just do it with your wife She gets her way Day after day Until you may decide Just to chop it. Emasculation redirects Power to new ducts And the hammer rises And the hammer falls.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 3:33 PM UTC
She Laughs
Some days he'll dress in new or old But with a smile always so sharp His walking charm will take a toll When the woman turns to dark His snaking charm strolls to the pub Where the slags and twonks *** around Nothing but warm hands and pint to grub Where the woman he sees is found She spits bleeding words from her filthy mouth As he scorns them back with his hand The red only cries when she screams in doubt The snake gives her his looking glan Someone thought to call for help But no help had ever arrived The barman listened to the poor woman's yelp People pretend she never cried The smiling man of ruthless charm Walks down the stairs of death Vehemence covered with blood and sin Whereas mannequin slags spread grim In forms of angelic old and new His inhibited shape had grew More evil it grew as his smile knew His deliverance was joyful harm He preached to barman to slags to twonks His ways of nature so brash and ****** From snake to wolf to man dressed well Even a preacher of God his allure so grand The cunting ***** bemoaned downwards Dampened with red paint shrieked foreign words With her limbs cut open, "Deliverance is God" Finding it was the charming man who smiled as a sod
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Dec 26, 2013
Dec 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM UTC
Joyful Harm
Talk, shutter Cooling babble, Paddies ‘tween The bugs swim, paddle Whispered gush, Though never hush There cast soft in the light of ease Sensual talk Down the candid rock A bridge to honor the way Bemoaned pleasures Nature’s fetters Gone as a little mouse Trickling now, Walk on wetter The fall may never stop And soon all secrets are revealed Silence— Heads go to the leaves Spies returning to the eaves.
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 9:56 PM UTC
At the Springhouse
My roommates are all up and about. It’s finals week and everyone is hustling about. Lisa came in from an early exam, it was snowing lightly, she looked right at home. “How’d it go?” I quizzed. “E-Z,” she replied, shedding her long navy coat and mango cashmere beanie. After dumping it all on her bed she joined us in the common room. “Blue State (coffee) is closing,” She announced. Leong gasped, “What?” “Three of the four Blue State locations are closing,” Lisa confirmed, “not Orange Street.” “Why?” Leong moaned. “What are you why? Lisa queried. “They’re so popular!” Leong exclaimed, “There’s always SO many people in there.” “That’s real,” I chimed in, “those places are packed and noisy.” “They got bought out,” Lisa attested. “By whom?” Leong wondered. “By another coffee company.. maybe,” Lisa guessed soothingly. “Oh, I hope so.” Leong stated, sounding depressed. “You know what? Lisa added, “rumors were thick that Book Trader would close too.” “No!” Leong bemoaned. “I’m happy to announce that they’re not.” Lisa assured, “That’s something to celebrate.” “I love studying at Book Trader.” I professed. “And their bagels..” Leong mentioned dreamily. “Oh, yeah,” Lisa agreed, “so good, so cheap.” “Change is ineluctable,” Anna sighed.   “WHAT?” Leong replied, looking confused. “Inevitable,” Lisa told her, “change is inevitable.” “Then just say that.” Leong grumbled at Anna, who shrugged. “I need to go support my favorite coffee shop soon,” I declared. “Which is?” Leong inquired. “Coffee with a K,” Lisa and I blurted out, both at once. “It has an intimate, date spot vibe,” I explained, “and the chairs that are perfect for putting an arm around someone.” “The Benjamin and Acorn (two on campus coffee shops) are going to be so crowded.” Sunny stated, joining the conversation as she started putting on her shoes to go out. “True THAT.” I agreed. “Common Grounds Cafe,” Sophie revealed, coming from her room, drying her hair with a towel, “bought out Blue State,” she confirmed. “it was in the Yale News.” “OK,” I pronounced, satisfied. “Perfect.” Lisa declared. “Thank God.” Leong agreed. “Coffee’s important.” Sunny proclaimed, picking up her coffee cup and book bag. “See ya!” she waved to the room absently, with her coffee cup, as she opened the door and stepped out.
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Dec 20, 2022
Dec 20, 2022 at 1:13 PM UTC
Coffee’s important
My roommates are all up and about. It’s finals week and everyone is hustling about. Lisa came in from an early exam, it was snowing lightly, she looked right at home. “How’d it go?” I quizzed. “E-Z,” she replied, shedding her long navy coat and mango cashmere beanie. After dumping it all on her bed she joined us in the common room. “Blue State (coffee) is closing,” She announced. Leong gasped, “What?” “Three of the four Blue State locations are closing,” Lisa confirmed, “not Orange Street.” “Why?” Leong moaned. “What are you why? Lisa queried. “They’re so popular!” Leong exclaimed, “There’s always SO many people in there.” “That’s real,” I chimed in, “those places are packed and noisy.” “They got bought out,” Lisa attested. “By whom?” Leong wondered. “By another coffee company.. maybe,” Lisa guessed soothingly. “Oh, I hope so.” Leong stated, sounding depressed. “You know what? Lisa added, “rumors were thick that Book Trader would close too.” “No!” Leong bemoaned. “I’m happy to announce that they’re not.” Lisa assured, “That’s something to celebrate.” “I love studying at Book Trader.” I professed. “And their bagels..” Leong mentioned dreamily. “Oh, yeah,” Lisa agreed, “so good, so cheap.” “Change is ineluctable,” Anna sighed.   “WHAT?” Leong replied, looking confused. “Inevitable,” Lisa told her, “change is inevitable.” “Then just say that.” Leong grumbled at Anna, who shrugged. “I need to go support my favorite coffee shop soon,” I declared. “Which is?” Leong inquired. “Coffee with a K,” Lisa and I blurted out, both at once. “It has an intimate, date spot vibe,” I explained, “and the chairs that are perfect for putting an arm around someone.” “The Benjamin and Acorn (two on campus coffee shops) are going to be so crowded.” Sunny stated, joining the conversation as she started putting on her shoes to go out. “True THAT.” I agreed. “Common Grounds Cafe,” Sophie revealed, coming from her room, drying her hair with a towel, “bought out Blue State,” she confirmed. “it was in the Yale News.” “OK,” I pronounced, satisfied. “Perfect.” Lisa declared. “Thank God.” Leong agreed. “Coffee’s important.” Sunny proclaimed, picking up her coffee cup and book bag. “See ya!” she waved to the room absently, with her coffee cup, as she opened the door and stepped out.
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the words fluttered, swung, swept, swooshed, bemoaned, bereaved, bedazzled, leapt, lauded, littered, hovered, heckled, hiccuped, made U-turns, took deep dips, underwent saucy somersaults, played like notes, acted like songs, usurped as oaths, humbled as prayers, slaughtered as killers, punctuated, presided, presumed, abetted, adhered, attacked while the paper endured all with love.
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 7:50 AM UTC
ink tales
Could it have happened any differently? Perhaps. But which fork in the road was it? Where does the path start to unravel? A change in the way things are Would have changed everything else as well. For all the mistakes bemoaned, lessons Learned – unless vanity stands in the way – Or the same error repeated With different actors playing the same role – Hero and villain alike. And the split between people of insignificance and The people that matter – faces splashed on Tabloids and magazine covers – The invisible reduced to mere shadows Floating on the fringes of light. Shadows have a way of defining the light. People have a way of shaping our lives, Setting in motion our trajectories, The way banks and boulders guide water in a river – The wind, a fallen tree. No absence made a hole in the day of someone Who was never there. What’s out of our control – people, Sequences of events. What’s inevitable – How we choose to react.
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Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 7:08 PM UTC
The Way Things Are
Casket-boards of our boat all creaking Against the lapping tongue of tide, A soft journey of heartache Had my six swords and I. Across the war rent oceans And beneath the mellow moon All crooned, we few, We wash-aways, we had ****** our prayers away. Each sword aboard The vessel knew no food but thought And mused through breakfast same as supper Growing only ever more distraught. When departed we to shrouded sea From long forgotten long bemoaned Setting of the sun upon the coast, All sapient and strong These swordsmen mine. Not withered like the husks they are become, Mere chaff to rustle utterly along alone. They are dry inside, they die, Their own confusion laying waste to flesh And mother-hungry marrow. I sigh, A windy shiver running up my backbone And escaping into the endless mist and flood. The strangest glint amidst the heavens sets our course, And the grim placid seas do not reproach us For all know, All the lands of the earth, And the sea, and the sky, And every monotonous row of my oar passing by, All know these six swords, Know them truly, And know as well their coming fate. If swords these six swords were Instead of men, Then great forges would I say Lay upon that further shore: An empire of magma where all blades are fused to one. Poor dears, O my poor dead dears you do not even know the truth, And you let your brows be conquered by woe. And that is why you are my merest passenger, And why I have been bound to steer.
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Mar 4, 2012
Mar 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM UTC
Uncertainty
The last time she meekily made love, she painted woad on her arms and bemoaned the children she never bore. She summoned their  names as  "Iso" and "Tope", to her bemused lover she retorted "I want to make Roar, not  Love". She bode on the straightest longitude to Banyas  and bathed in its spring, fortified by Tennessee Honey, to  Quneitra, she bore wire cutters having already wept for a town destroyed by un-love, where she could simply set up a commune, To grow Kohl Rabi and learn new days. Instead Apache helicopters and glints of Uzis Cast the spectre of World War Three
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Feb 18, 2013
Feb 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM UTC
Broken at Banyas
My heart is a messy place I don't clean up often My emotions lay about like worn jeans and pile up at every corner Murky tears that were long bemoaned Lay inside my pillowcases long after they have dried And make heavy a light thing where my thoughts reside Shadowy folks have  unmade beds   Though long beparted And declared dead Many things that was once fresh Have now grown brown reached their Autumn They still roam the halls and vents Like after tastes of mint long after the in scents have burnt Every possible surface is stained with faces Shelves are stacked and layered and stuffed And though I rummage for space There is never enough Not for an ant Or a hand Or a new thing Just room enough for me And this big old mess of memories
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Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 4:15 AM UTC
Slob
Words tumbled out of an aluminum commode into a hungry mouth: naïveté. Libations atop a tin altar in a squalid temple rife with the stench of lascivious youth bemoaned battle cry transcendent in the sound of forever. Coming of Age a cleverly disguised charade kept in place by a smile that never breaks until dawn. White noise cryptic static proselytize vomiting mucus-draining corpses a parade of mindless disciples dancing to the beat of the heart in a distant star whose life perished in the forgotten past. Fabricated promises of maturation facetiae in the frozen teeth that only part for the stubborn tongue to lap up remaining consciousness on the floor like a begging dog. By himself he's weak but among many he's a god. A song bludgeons the eardrums "Tonight, tonight, to-night": Repetitio est mater studiorum. There's a voice in my head but you put a hand o'er it's mouth and pried mine open with the monkey's paw clutching a rose goblet containing spiritual cleansing. I've got a good idea but bad intentions and there's enough feculence wrapped in flesh and lies to make this place feel like Heaven. Stuffing my mouth with promises and fallacies that won't become clear until the bottle is empty. I'm washing away all the pain and the hurt right? I'm a man now, risen from the dirt right? I'll put my trust in the siren's call reaching through the fog to grasp her by the hair I fall into the murky bog beleaguered by strangulating tendrils wrapping around my frail bones I feel I'm being pulled under and I'm all alone I see their shimmering faces on the surface distorted in the reflection peering into the soul as I make my descent into the abyss. Waking up a man with a battered conscience Compromise wraps a warm blanket around me and places coffee between crusty and brittle fingers A gentle kiss on my forehead is the finishing touch leaving me alone with my baleful torment. Coming of Age is a charade.
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Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 at 7:17 PM UTC
Coming of Age
Words tumbled out of an aluminum commode into a hungry mouth: naïveté. Libations atop a tin altar in a squalid temple rife with the stench of lascivious youth bemoaned battle cry transcendent in the sound of forever. Coming of Age a cleverly disguised charade kept in place by a smile that never breaks until dawn. White noise cryptic static proselytize vomiting mucus-draining corpses a parade of mindless disciples dancing to the beat of the heart in a distant star whose life perished in the forgotten past. Fabricated promises of maturation facetiae in the frozen teeth that only part for the stubborn tongue to lap up remaining consciousness on the floor like a begging dog. By himself he's weak but among many he's a god. A song bludgeons the eardrums "Tonight, tonight, to-night": Repetitio est mater studiorum. There's a voice in my head but you put a hand o'er it's mouth and pried mine open with the monkey's paw clutching a rose goblet containing spiritual cleansing. I've got a good idea but bad intentions and there's enough feculence wrapped in flesh and lies to make this place feel like Heaven. Stuffing my mouth with promises and fallacies that won't become clear until the bottle is empty. I'm washing away all the pain and the hurt right? I'm a man now, risen from the dirt right? I'll put my trust in the siren's call reaching through the fog to grasp her by the hair I fall into the murky bog beleaguered by strangulating tendrils wrapping around my frail bones I feel I'm being pulled under and I'm all alone I see their shimmering faces on the surface distorted in the reflection peering into the soul as I make my descent into the abyss. Waking up a man with a battered conscience Compromise wraps a warm blanket around me and places coffee between crusty and brittle fingers A gentle kiss on my forehead is the finishing touch leaving me alone with my baleful torment. Coming of Age is a charade.
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the bubbling tar in my chest hastily swallowed too hot soup shaky hands sweaty palms not enough breath not enough time never enough of you kind of love thats what this used to be used to be desperate ‘i miss you’s and whispered ‘i need you’s and pleading ‘stay with me’s used to be anxiously awaited hellos and vehemently bemoaned goodbyes aching days apart and blessed days together never enough time spent gazing into your eyes how strange that seems now? after everything has died everything but nothing has changed i still miss you but i shouldn’t i still need you but i don’t and now i’m the one that is leaving our tar is cool and my breath is back i(love you)'m sorry it's over
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
i'm sorry (it's over)
I heard the trumpets from too far away. Labored to save what I had given away. Pretended to believe and Believed in pretend. Semper Fidelis to the bitter condescend . . . I answered the call, made a very important date; scurried to remember then remembered too late; embraced my Foe by forgetting my Friend. What is this ‘This’ of ‘This We’ll defend’? No Dream was too heavy, no payment too sleight to abandon in the brilliance of the peaceful light. So Determined I was to ignore my Fall and give everything I bemoaned for security Above all. No borders no boundaries no Heavens no Hell nothing so precious it could not be given as well. What use Freedom? What need I of mere Country? What means Non Sibi Sed Patriae? Oh Thetis put down your cumbersome sword. Lift up the blindfold, as we can afford to lay down courage, honor, duty and walk into the might of Entitlement for All and for all entitled Night . . . And Lady Liberty, you are no longer needed; walk away, walk away, liberty ceded . . . Here are your chains, Lady, wear them quite well. Pray speak not of Heaven so we can pretend there’s no Hell.
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Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM UTC
Abandoned
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM UTC
Shakespearean Sonnet ***
by Leslie Thomson One night late after midnight, A poet sat with pen in hand, Surrounded by crumpled up paper, No words came to his command. In his house there crept a poem, Full of smarm and beguiling; Just out of reach of the poet, It stood there, sardonically smiling. “Do I elude you, poet?” Said the poem with mocking tone, “Do I keep you awake at night, And won’t ever leave you alone?” The poet snatched at the poem, Which stayed outwith his grasp. He cursed at the elusive creature, Who laughed with a throaty rasp. “Poem how did you get in here? And why won’t you give me peace?” Asked the poet of the poem, “I am tired and need release.” “Why do you evade my clutches? And keep me awake so very disturbed? After all, I am a poet; I am King of the written word.” “Oh such grand conceit,” mocked the poem, “To think this is your life to choose. You are the king of NOTHING; You are but servant to the muse.” “You know your mind is not your own, And words are beyond your control. You merely scribble what is dictated; You will write what you are told.” “It is true,” bemoaned the poet, “I asked not to be entranced. To spend time with words evading me, And leading me in merry dance.” “Yet I would never want to escape it, For I love the written word so. The muse has me in her clutches, And I never want her to let go.” “So you tell me poem,” said the poet, Just what is a poor poet to do, When I’m distracted day and night, And haunted by creatures like you?” “You try too hard at times,” said the poem, “That is why we lead you on this chase. Each poem is like a lover; We must be ready to embrace.” And the poem slipped into the poet’s clutch, And only then did he understand, That he would never be king or master, The muse is always in command. His mind at once was inspired And he continued the work he planned; Contented and filled with love, For the poem in his hand. So when you look for inspiring verse, To enlighten your life or fulfil, Remember a poem will not be forced; It must come of its own free will.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
The Poet and the Poem
by Leslie Thomson One night late after midnight, A poet sat with pen in hand, Surrounded by crumpled up paper, No words came to his command. In his house there crept a poem, Full of smarm and beguiling; Just out of reach of the poet, It stood there, sardonically smiling. “Do I elude you, poet?” Said the poem with mocking tone, “Do I keep you awake at night, And won’t ever leave you alone?” The poet snatched at the poem, Which stayed outwith his grasp. He cursed at the elusive creature, Who laughed with a throaty rasp. “Poem how did you get in here? And why won’t you give me peace?” Asked the poet of the poem, “I am tired and need release.” “Why do you evade my clutches? And keep me awake so very disturbed? After all, I am a poet; I am King of the written word.” “Oh such grand conceit,” mocked the poem, “To think this is your life to choose. You are the king of NOTHING; You are but servant to the muse.” “You know your mind is not your own, And words are beyond your control. You merely scribble what is dictated; You will write what you are told.” “It is true,” bemoaned the poet, “I asked not to be entranced. To spend time with words evading me, And leading me in merry dance.” “Yet I would never want to escape it, For I love the written word so. The muse has me in her clutches, And I never want her to let go.” “So you tell me poem,” said the poet, Just what is a poor poet to do, When I’m distracted day and night, And haunted by creatures like you?” “You try too hard at times,” said the poem, “That is why we lead you on this chase. Each poem is like a lover; We must be ready to embrace.” And the poem slipped into the poet’s clutch, And only then did he understand, That he would never be king or master, The muse is always in command. His mind at once was inspired And he continued the work he planned; Contented and filled with love, For the poem in his hand. So when you look for inspiring verse, To enlighten your life or fulfil, Remember a poem will not be forced; It must come of its own free will.
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The Sparrow I once shattered broken fell into deep an empty well Screaming as I falling did many out the fears I'd hid Landing hard I hardly knew wherefore what I next should do Deeply lying shadow shroud 'round me echoed silence loud Thus remaining wonder I feeble dare to chance a cry Or resting wait til strength return as quick away my life does burn Deep above me sits the sky little caring if I die Freedom midst it's clouds does reign above a prison built of pain As I bemoaned the fate of me did land a sparrow on my knee And staring I my breath did catch to see this life upon this wretch Then know I to death was bound fell dead the sparrow on the ground Time reversing backward spun up where to first I'd begun Answer none I have to give of why once dieing now I live Ever recall shall I that day in terror hopeless as I lay How all I had did fail me when I fell to pain a prisoner, and How but a simple sparrows fall did thus to me return my all For more see: ~ http://aweavingofwords.blogspot.com ~
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Jan 26, 2010
Jan 26, 2010 at 12:26 AM UTC
The Sparrow
1. I think my life is bigger in their dreams In their stale images of grandeur behind their fading eyelids fluttering with what still passes as hope. And down the hall, my eyes like the scorching blue beginnings of gasping flames quietly burning me up from inside, my own dreams not yet formed. Years ago the winds of their dreams reached me in my angelic slumber. I know those vivid hopes, nay, prayers made me grow more than the spinach I joyously bemoaned. But tonight my heart is shrunken with the knowledge that the stars are mere reflections of what is already gone. They, curled together, their own dreams of reaching those pale stars shattered with neglect, send new ones my way, unaware that I’ve searched for my place under the feeble moon and cannot find it behind these naked blue flames. 2. I am the same girl with blue flames for eyes but stretched, molded like clay, hardened and glazed after being thrown on the potter’s wheel that was my childhood. As they lie in their dreams, I walk into a dark house under the burden of their dreams combined with my own. Mingled together, I cannot distinguish my hopes from theirs, the clay has been baked to the same white crust around my breath, my heart, the place where the flames are lit. I still haven’t reached that yet – not reached, but maybe touched, glimpsed, grazed my toes against it. Before me, these blue flames form into something less dangerous, less new, the yellow-orange blaze warm, bursting, sending off sparks – And I know I can light my own fires under this feeble moon and make it glow brighter than they did, brighter than even their womb-sent dreams made their hearts glow.
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Jan 29, 2012
Jan 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM UTC
While They Sleep
1. I think my life is bigger in their dreams In their stale images of grandeur behind their fading eyelids fluttering with what still passes as hope. And down the hall, my eyes like the scorching blue beginnings of gasping flames quietly burning me up from inside, my own dreams not yet formed. Years ago the winds of their dreams reached me in my angelic slumber. I know those vivid hopes, nay, prayers made me grow more than the spinach I joyously bemoaned. But tonight my heart is shrunken with the knowledge that the stars are mere reflections of what is already gone. They, curled together, their own dreams of reaching those pale stars shattered with neglect, send new ones my way, unaware that I’ve searched for my place under the feeble moon and cannot find it behind these naked blue flames. 2. I am the same girl with blue flames for eyes but stretched, molded like clay, hardened and glazed after being thrown on the potter’s wheel that was my childhood. As they lie in their dreams, I walk into a dark house under the burden of their dreams combined with my own. Mingled together, I cannot distinguish my hopes from theirs, the clay has been baked to the same white crust around my breath, my heart, the place where the flames are lit. I still haven’t reached that yet – not reached, but maybe touched, glimpsed, grazed my toes against it. Before me, these blue flames form into something less dangerous, less new, the yellow-orange blaze warm, bursting, sending off sparks – And I know I can light my own fires under this feeble moon and make it glow brighter than they did, brighter than even their womb-sent dreams made their hearts glow.
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the nobles cut off Rasputin's head, while the two in command of keeping Rasputin's head drunk multiplied and cut off the Romanov family's heads - and it snowed a serene symphony of snow as it did on a mime's piano - and Russian felt fed, and alive again... and those closest to the pigs' trough still bemoaned the events, on the centenary pinpoint in St. Petersburg. i was in an Athenian brothel... i know what ethnicity entertained me... national pride? if there ain't any kept with the women... just forget the football team performing to a gold standard that might inspire families to stay together or keep the children dreaming... but of course... the Irish still have their qualms about 3rd class on the Titanic and the potato famine... and the English asked Aladdin for a carpet to brush their colonial past under it - the Welsh? don't know, don't care - the Scots? y'ir a haggen hag hag dabbler in Yiddish and hang the lamb gush of intestine as edible? pardon me deep fried friend, 'e's from Mars... no wonder it took him Colonel Cook and some wacky Portugese Columbus to create the global empire, upon which the sun, never truly set, but upon which the moon did settle from time to time, to reverse it's fascist priority with a pinch of panic that had no systematic authority - or as the venom said: the only thing worse than fascism is panic... proof via Pompeii.
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 10:19 PM UTC
Athenian Shady
Neri Oxman once said: "You have to go away, to come back home. You'll never truly have a sense of home, until you leave home." Such discontentment over the thought of home can never carry the despair that is just so wary. Henceforth; I bemoaned of home--- only to wander far away from it. Only to never come back home. Because in truth, my "home" had been lost. My "home" already went away. New one, old one--- They depict such distinct disparity But then again... this is as good as it can get. Yet, bemoan I still.
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Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021 at 9:15 PM UTC
Bemoan
he was always wanting, waiting to take this walk with me back turned at the edge of the woods I called to him, said I was coming and when I arrived at his side our feet synced and tongues entwined in stride, aligned and winding along this colloidal ladder of a path inside vines climbing into curls we were so green verdant bloom mouthing heartbeats in synchronic lightstreams remember when we stepped into the clearing where treetops parted for the sky we both looked up, then laid down inside the other's mind neither push nor pull but stilled entranced by backlit rhythmic ribs arising and ebbing harmonic bathing in the shores of soul they dive deeper, you know... it didn't matter when the rains came because you stayed with me even though you bemoaned the falling wet charcoal I tousled your ashen hair and listened then I straddled you and spoke of rainbow spectrums visible only after the clouds cry and you you let me crawl inside your ear with whispers of black-lined blissings and in that instant the sky vibrantly bowed arcing prismatic across rays bestowing halos on us both imperfect beings perfectly seeing
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 7:00 PM UTC
I think
Now your fighted lightening brightens defeats Your off-White Knight thunder frightens me This hiss from those lips of this person I've missed Tightens kissing fists of a ****** horizon seen Mist heightened I do not wish to be enlightened I do not hope to hear your throat excitened Around sounds that expound my stuttering ground Or surround a thousand profoundly aroused frowns By all counts by now they hound My surmounting cloud My sound impound Say stray failures are bound round  brain behaviours Claim they wound down your feigned brave nature These sharp verses start to form  disturbing curses Hearts should favour a saviour of more deserving or curbing regalia Critical, it's **** literal It's typically, empirically, egotistically pivotal I pine to hide inside a hurst of worse design I am not diacritical I cannot align my mind with a realistic vine Of my own bemoaned confines And now this line of finely timely chides I'm dumb and undone Numb hums begun When this thunder does bedizen you, The lightening does enlighten, true But the prices are not my vices rightened for you, I've surmised a prize of a more biting view It might be right to lose sight Of the delights of tonight's plights I slight fights I blight contrite bending But this ripe, spiteful spate of trite infights trending Indicts a tending Benights, invites, ignites a new intending A descent now rendered impending; an ending
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 6:22 AM UTC
The Camel's Back
_I BECAME MY FEAR_ ~~A POEM~~ The Night *came too suddenly, As men ignited fear and thrill. The river became a haven, where loss and found entwined alike* The Storm *bemoaned the wind as air concurred the aftermath And the wailing of the dear broken souls flashed like Sun lost amidst the skies* The end *was never near The morrow was too close The night never stood still And the thoughts were too piercing* The sadness *only lingered in tears But the fear held all the lies* The fear indicted the earth The rain *sealed the tear And the tear ripped the stare The arrows began flying The assumptions began fading And only the whisper we could hear within a hollow filter beneath a broken chasm underneath a sunken crevice Through services of abysses Locked within a thousand paves of fear saddened by the river behind the years mourning the lost wanton spheres prying, yet crying at the unseen tragedy that lurks dwindling in a foreseen world, Where fear permits the doubters to wallow away in tears And so sad, they never see the light* Ovi© All right reserved/Dec 2016
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Dec 17, 2016
Dec 17, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
~ON BECOMING FEAR~