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"burrows" poems
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: "Love has no ending. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, "I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. "The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world." But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. "In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. "In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. "Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. "O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. "Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. "O look, look in the mirror? O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. "O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart." It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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As I Walked Out One Evening
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: "Love has no ending. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, "I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. "The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world." But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. "In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. "In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. "Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. "O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. "Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. "O look, look in the mirror? O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. "O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart." It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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Turquoise in the morning light The treetops are alive With the myriad of birdsong As the swirling mists arrive And the shaft of brilliant sunshine Penetrates the greenish gloom To illuminate the craggy ridge In a honeyed, golden bloom. The rabbits head for burrows Retreating from the night, A flock of teal, in unison, Explosively take flight, There’s a freshness in the morning air A tingle to the skin And the twinkle in the blue eyes Lets a secret smile begin. Autumn in the country glade The russets and the gold, The song of early crickets In the leafy knoll takes hold, There’s a brilliance in the crispness In the piles of windblown leaves And the healthy crunch of underfoot Invokes a sense of ease. The peacefulness is calming The solace in the sound Of the distant song of blackbird In the tall oaks that surround And the velvet feel of morning Thrills the mind to warmly hum To the glory of occasion In the warmth of Autumn sun. Marshalg Beneath the reds and golds of Autumn leafage. 14 May 2012 © 2012 Marshal Gebbie
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May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 at 2:09 AM UTC
Warmth of Autumn Sun
Swirling morning mist, draws abstract patterns of love moving sprightly,  between golden rays of sun, prattling  breeze and other manifestations winter presents, green grass on the meadow looks like a dew studded carpet pussyfooting rabbits, lick dew drops in a hurry and run back to the warmth of their burrows, to sleep for some more time. Sun, the nourisher eternal of the world , don't hide anymore come out, peep above the crowd of sleepy grey old clouds, looking grumpy, ill mannered and winter arrogant to the core, don't like their attitude a bit, come out blow your trumpet of warmth make the drooping wet birds, dry, fly up to the sky with a happy cry sing songs of joy, warm the hearts,drive the winter gloom out.
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Jan 10, 2015
Jan 10, 2015 at 7:47 AM UTC
Winter morning symphony
there was a little wombat he lived in the wild somewhere in australia a proper natures child he would make big burrows that he made his home where he would hide from dingos when they were on the roam he would jump inside so he could get away for the roaming dingo the wombat was his prey he would live on grass eat shrubs and chew on bark a happy little chap as happy as lark such a lovely creature so beautiful is he all cuddly and so furry a lovely site to see.
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Mar 13, 2010
Mar 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM UTC
wombat beauty
Breeze bellows, leaves echo in quivering psithurism, dithering like unbroken smoke, this approaching omen goads. Dozing crows slumbering in rows, droves of locusts' silenced drone, almost comatose in repose; nighttime overtones choir of toads' raspy croaks answered by alto of crickets' orchestral strokes. Gust encroaches; robed boughs cloven open, bring into scope and focus me juxtaposed, suspended apropos. Although motionless and petrified in stone, provoked by zephyr coaxing to and fro; swaying pendulous and no longer frozen, locus gently thrown. Death rattle moan evoked from throat, reflex can't say no to rigor rigidly posed, final sigh in silence, awoken vocal, expelled and disposed. Smote by morose emotion, gun loaded then exploded by neurosis, now bloated necrosis decomposes into gross ochre. This trophy and this ode both an opus to my inability to cope; romanced i proposed, eloped and betrothed to my own inappropriate composure. Pocket full of posies plucked when luck bestowed and tears in a cup, a toast; crying copiously, tempest runneth overflowed, eyes swollen and soaked. Dipped my toes in the coast of this ocean's amorphous folds, gripped by undertow holding control of my soul; swiftly shipwrecked in shallow shoal, an old atoll. On sandy floor, water burrows roads; digging, carving, roams through unmarrowed silica and sandstone eroding into a cove. A host for opal geode trove, enclosing a technicolor rose, from the depths a glowing mosaic shone Unopened lotus floats on foam of lapping waves, a boat; prone to no grandiose notion or motive, adrift as wind stokes. I suppose this only shows the total corrosion into which I dove, the only foes to oppose are those of burdens, so only weightless can I atone- I must let go.
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Mar 11, 2024
Mar 11, 2024 at 11:02 AM UTC
Note to Self (Part 2)
Breeze bellows, leaves echo in quivering psithurism, dithering like unbroken smoke, this approaching omen goads. Dozing crows slumbering in rows, droves of locusts' silenced drone, almost comatose in repose; nighttime overtones choir of toads' raspy croaks answered by alto of crickets' orchestral strokes. Gust encroaches; robed boughs cloven open, bring into scope and focus me juxtaposed, suspended apropos. Although motionless and petrified in stone, provoked by zephyr coaxing to and fro; swaying pendulous and no longer frozen, locus gently thrown. Death rattle moan evoked from throat, reflex can't say no to rigor rigidly posed, final sigh in silence, awoken vocal, expelled and disposed. Smote by morose emotion, gun loaded then exploded by neurosis, now bloated necrosis decomposes into gross ochre. This trophy and this ode both an opus to my inability to cope; romanced i proposed, eloped and betrothed to my own inappropriate composure. Pocket full of posies plucked when luck bestowed and tears in a cup, a toast; crying copiously, tempest runneth overflowed, eyes swollen and soaked. Dipped my toes in the coast of this ocean's amorphous folds, gripped by undertow holding control of my soul; swiftly shipwrecked in shallow shoal, an old atoll. On sandy floor, water burrows roads; digging, carving, roams through unmarrowed silica and sandstone eroding into a cove. A host for opal geode trove, enclosing a technicolor rose, from the depths a glowing mosaic shone Unopened lotus floats on foam of lapping waves, a boat; prone to no grandiose notion or motive, adrift as wind stokes. I suppose this only shows the total corrosion into which I dove, the only foes to oppose are those of burdens, so only weightless can I atone- I must let go.
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there was a little wombat he lived in the wild somewhere in australia a proper natures child he would make big burrows that he made his home where he would hide from dingos when they were on the roam he would jump inside so he could get away for the roaming dingo the wombat was his prey he would live on grass eat shrubs and chew on bark a happy little chap as happy as lark such a lovely creature so beautiful is he all cuddly and so furry a lovely site to see.
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM UTC
little wombat
Moo-Cow-Butterfly Not a happy lass Stubby little wings Superfluous mass Four long stringy legs Twirly-whirly tongue Moo-Cow-Butterfly Highly strung Weasel-Emu-Rangutan Fifty shades of fur Quite the oddest vertebrate To naturally occur Burrows in the jungle Terrified of heights Weasel-Emu-Rangutan Restless nights Labra-Hippo-Jellyfish Slimy furry blob Genetic Engineering **** poor job Moping on the seabed Can’t fetch sticks Labra-Hippo-Jellyfish Sink like bricks Chameleon-Begonias Origin unknown Disappear rapidly As soon as they are sown Neither here or thereabouts But somewhere in between Chameleon-Begonias Seldom Seen
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 4:36 PM UTC
The Real Dangers of Genetic Modification
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 12:01 AM UTC
Old Souls (Cut From The Same Cloth)
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Mouth every mouth every mouth breathes every mouth breathes autumnal. Every mouth breathes autumnal investigations. Every mouth breathes autumnal investigations tinged with sepia tones- Torch trees live in lazy desperation, these last cider days in burrows and blanket caves. Heat in color - amber, saffron, goldenrod, maize. Sepia tones sepia tones tinged sepia tones tinged with investigations. Sepia tones tinged with autumnal investigations. They see every mouth breathe. See every mouth. Mouths.
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Jun 24, 2012
Jun 24, 2012 at 6:48 PM UTC
Persephone Drinks Hot Cocoa
in an omnipresent haze of cerulean blue and vivacious velvet petals where irises swim in lovely chaos as I mutter several choice expletives under my breath. He burrows himself deeper under my skin stealing the breath from my lungs rousing my beleaguered soul awakening a feral need. I relish this murky maze of desire he elicits from me and hungrily await his return
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Aug 19, 2021
Aug 19, 2021 at 7:37 PM UTC
I bask.....
Like a cell drawing in pure water, rejecting unnecessary, undesirable molecules. Like a virus spreading multiplying, taking over with vigor and tenacity. Like the bubbles on the burbling lips of a toddler, growing and popping and dripping. Like a ronin samurai without a lord, coming and going like the wind. Like a thought that just won’t quit, a feeling that burrows into the bones. Like the intensity of a fire, when a steady wind presses the seat of the fuel source. So is my passion for life.
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Apr 20, 2023
Apr 20, 2023 at 8:48 PM UTC
Osmosis
First off, it won’t go away Simple as that It burrows inside your head Like a Chinese finger trap (I’ve never seen one but I know what they are like) Or perhaps a camel’s thorn Another thing I’ve heard of Occasionally you find relief Maybe two minutes or even less Maybe up to five hours But it always comes back At least for that day You want to scream To plead, to cry, to beg it to stop But of course it won’t It’s OCD, are you kidding? Of course it won’t No matter how hard you try And believe me, you do try You try not to compulse because You know that’ll make it worse You imagine a drill going Through your brain, destroying your thoughts It’s illogical, but that’s OCD Normally, when things are illogical You don’t trust them You brush them aside Knowing they aren’t true That they can’t be But with OCD you believe it’s true And you don’t want it to be And it might not be But it also might be true And as the day goes on You’re more and more afraid That it is You live in fear of yourself For you are hating yourself Your possible truths You tell yourself That you aren’t your thoughts Thoughts aren’t actions But you can never be sure Of what you think It’s the doubting disease Leaving scratches up your forearm And that’s why It’s ocd
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 3:43 PM UTC
At its worst
This small talk kills me when once it was so easy. I remember when I was the favorite. This was before her first car and sixteenth birthday, movie dates, weekend sleepovers, and high school crushes. This must be how old toys feel, played out, aged, traded for the new and bright. On a sand dune, we sit shipwrecked, stranded,and talk carefully like strangers do about sea birds pecking for food, dead jellyfish, and the innocence of sand castles. Dark glasses disguise my quick views of bikinis, fitness thighs, and smooth dark tans, mask her sneak peeks at young muscle, flat stomachs, and cute boys with fashion haircuts. She burrows her toes into the sand to pass the time. I try to think of jokes to make her laugh but no punchlines come. We share a fancy grilled cheese sandwich, shy giggles, and a pink lemonade before she can no longer hide the boredom in her eyes. I know its time to leave. She reclines her seat back and sleeps the drive home, leaving me alone with miles, empty highways, and whispers of classic rock from the radio.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 10:53 PM UTC
Stepdad Blues
I - WORDS LIKE PRISMS The crystal awaits the perfect slant of sun. The world turns just so and refracted light Hurls a color blaze against the wall. So it is when a long awaited word Forms on the lips of the wise. II - WORDS LIKE FLAX In the fire of conflict,       Words fall to the floor like mounds of charred flax. Red–faced saints gather clumps to themselves   To spin into finest thread for self-flattering raiment.    III - WORDS WITHOUT WORDS When pain burrows deep in the marrow Where words cannot assuage A gentle touch can bleed some out And channel hope back in. No words can spell a kind caress. IV - POISON WORDS Beware the charismatic Carrying a jar of poison pills! Cover your glass when he passes your way Or he’ll slip one in unawares. V - LAUGHING WORDS Absurdities and failures are the stuff of jokes. Long live non sequiturs and double entendres! We love a clumsy tumble into the drink As long as nobody drowns. VI - WORDS FOR BUILDING Of course you can! I place my total trust in you.        VII - WORD PAINTING Mister Frost's words never made a wood Or caused a harness bell to shake. Even so I’d travel many miles To see his imagined snow accumulate. VIII - THE GIFT My cat, Zoe, never says a word to me! He doesn't have the tongue or lips or larynx for it. He cannot fit his paws around a pen. His brain’s too small for metaphors. The gift belongs to us alone. To craft words to build or **** or heal. Forgive us Zoe for doing little with so much. July,  2006
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 1:20 PM UTC
Mightiest of Swords
I - WORDS LIKE PRISMS The crystal awaits the perfect slant of sun. The world turns just so and refracted light Hurls a color blaze against the wall. So it is when a long awaited word Forms on the lips of the wise. II - WORDS LIKE FLAX In the fire of conflict,       Words fall to the floor like mounds of charred flax. Red–faced saints gather clumps to themselves   To spin into finest thread for self-flattering raiment.    III - WORDS WITHOUT WORDS When pain burrows deep in the marrow Where words cannot assuage A gentle touch can bleed some out And channel hope back in. No words can spell a kind caress. IV - POISON WORDS Beware the charismatic Carrying a jar of poison pills! Cover your glass when he passes your way Or he’ll slip one in unawares. V - LAUGHING WORDS Absurdities and failures are the stuff of jokes. Long live non sequiturs and double entendres! We love a clumsy tumble into the drink As long as nobody drowns. VI - WORDS FOR BUILDING Of course you can! I place my total trust in you.        VII - WORD PAINTING Mister Frost's words never made a wood Or caused a harness bell to shake. Even so I’d travel many miles To see his imagined snow accumulate. VIII - THE GIFT My cat, Zoe, never says a word to me! He doesn't have the tongue or lips or larynx for it. He cannot fit his paws around a pen. His brain’s too small for metaphors. The gift belongs to us alone. To craft words to build or **** or heal. Forgive us Zoe for doing little with so much. July,  2006
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Thus the Mayne glideth Where my Love abideth; Sleep ’s no softer: it proceeds On through lawns, on through meads, On and on, whate’er befall, Meandering and musical, Though the niggard pasturage Bears not on its shaven ledge Aught but weeds and waving grasses To view the river as it passes, Save here and there a scanty patch Of primroses too faint to catch A weary bee…. And scarce it pushes Its gentle way through strangling rushes Where the glossy kingfisher Flutters when noon-heats are near, Glad the shelving banks to shun, Red and steaming in the sun, Where the shrew-mouse with pale throat Burrows, and the speckled stoat; Where the quick sandpipers flit In and out the marl and grit That seems to breed them, brown as they: Naught disturbs its quiet way, Save some lazy stork that springs, Trailing it with legs and wings, Whom the shy fox from the hill Rouses, creep he ne’er so still.
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Thus The Mayne Glideth
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry, And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world.' But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. 'In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today. 'Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. 'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare at the basin And wonder what you've missed. 'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. 'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant in enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. 'O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress; Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. 'O stand, stand in the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart.' It was late, late in the evening The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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One Evening
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry, And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world.' But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. 'In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today. 'Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. 'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare at the basin And wonder what you've missed. 'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. 'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant in enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. 'O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress; Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. 'O stand, stand in the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart.' It was late, late in the evening The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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Loneliness burrows in your heart and it hurts more than most realize... It gives you such heartache, you can't begin to even explain... Loneliness has it's own power- when it gets you, it practically consumes you... You feel like it controls your heart, mind, and soul... Loneliness can make you believe someone is true in what they are telling you, when it's usually only part of the truth or just a lie... It makes you feel empty inside, you can't sleep, and don't want to eat... Sometimes you walk around as if in a fog; feeling dazed and quite alone... Loneliness lies heavy in your whole body; solitude becomes your best friend... 2008 COPYRIGHT; Sabrina Denise Healey, ~Angelmom~
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
Loneliness~
Autumn flares out, its flame burst clouds strewn about misted cliff sides, loam whites of winter taking their place. A stiff willow breeze, ten thousand things withdrawn to burrows and immortal pine heights. First snows stream down, duckweed carpets of August fade, jade peeking through white. I embark on the seasons final sail in hardening ice waters. Til spring my sails will be folded, my raft in idleness. ~~~ Rafting on moon drenched river, avoiding cascades and crash of rapids and falls. Silvered driftwood a warning. Silent glide of mulberry oar through dark azure, another crafts sail in silhouette. From the deck a black spectre dives below, stillness follows splash, re-emergence, beak wrapped around a dazzling rainbow. From my raft dangling lantern sways, trout swiping at gathered moths – scatter and return, some from a far off realm. Some trout in the net, others not. Luck or the way – who can tell? ~~~ Dusk colour gorge sheathed in emerald blankets, rising into sheer cliffs of auburn cinnabar, all underpinned by the fathomless flow of azure clarity. Snowy Egrets nest in pine top heights clear of dust. On white sand shores gibbons howl towards squawking beach gulls, squabble over landlocked trout – debate without end. Peach blossom petals swirl on spring breeze over carpets of jade inter cut by king fisher blue zipping over duckweed. Oriole song weaves in and out of mulberry branches. In these vast and vague waters - coves, creeks and streams all one, a river dragon lives an undetermined existence. Mud stirs below, merely a catfish airing grievances. Red tail flares in dirt, my mulberry oar rows me back home.
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM UTC
Recluse (River) (Poems)
Autumn flares out, its flame burst clouds strewn about misted cliff sides, loam whites of winter taking their place. A stiff willow breeze, ten thousand things withdrawn to burrows and immortal pine heights. First snows stream down, duckweed carpets of August fade, jade peeking through white. I embark on the seasons final sail in hardening ice waters. Til spring my sails will be folded, my raft in idleness. ~~~ Rafting on moon drenched river, avoiding cascades and crash of rapids and falls. Silvered driftwood a warning. Silent glide of mulberry oar through dark azure, another crafts sail in silhouette. From the deck a black spectre dives below, stillness follows splash, re-emergence, beak wrapped around a dazzling rainbow. From my raft dangling lantern sways, trout swiping at gathered moths – scatter and return, some from a far off realm. Some trout in the net, others not. Luck or the way – who can tell? ~~~ Dusk colour gorge sheathed in emerald blankets, rising into sheer cliffs of auburn cinnabar, all underpinned by the fathomless flow of azure clarity. Snowy Egrets nest in pine top heights clear of dust. On white sand shores gibbons howl towards squawking beach gulls, squabble over landlocked trout – debate without end. Peach blossom petals swirl on spring breeze over carpets of jade inter cut by king fisher blue zipping over duckweed. Oriole song weaves in and out of mulberry branches. In these vast and vague waters - coves, creeks and streams all one, a river dragon lives an undetermined existence. Mud stirs below, merely a catfish airing grievances. Red tail flares in dirt, my mulberry oar rows me back home.
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It really gets under my skin the way I don't hear from you in a couple of days and I become this sullen, anxiety ridden mouse that burrows her nose in the pages of books, filling her mind with the troubles of made up characters so she doesn't have to deal with her own feelings and problems and life. Is it possible to feel like a mouse and an elephant at the same time? You make me feel so small while I fumble around and destroy anything with the smallest of movements. I hate missing you. It's like my heart is fighting a cheese grater. Yes. A cheese grater. I try so hard not to even think about you sometimes I'm sure everyone can just see it on my face. But I try. I write. I talk to other guys, even though I find them so dull I want to throw personalities at them and pray it hurts. I have so many more actual life problems that are right here, screaming in my face. I need to focus on school. But I'm missing you. I need to lose these extra 10 pounds. But I'm wallowing and missing you. I need to finish that scarf I started knitting ages ago. Stop. I don't have time to miss you. There are books I haven't read yet and recipes I haven't tried and people I haven't met and places I haven't seen. But I'm wanting your arms around me. And I know this doesn't even make sense. But I'm missing you.
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 3:42 AM UTC
Missing you. It's annoying.
there was a little wombat he lived in the wild somewhere in australia a proper natures child he would make big burrows that he made his home where he would hide from dingos when they were on the roam. he would jump inside so he could get away for the roaming dingo the wombat was his prey he would live on grass eat shrubs and chew on bark a happy little chap as happy as lark. such a lovely creature so beautiful is he all cuddly and so furry a lovely site to see.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM UTC
wombat beauty
SUMMER MARCHES IN (Movement no. 1) It comes crashing down like doom. A martial fanfare begins a long conversation questioning fate, arguing for the human condition, and for death's open invitation, which we dare not deny. WHAT THE MEADOW FLOWERS TELL ME (Movement no. 2) Their blooming voices are oboes and lush violins. The sun is surely brassy bright in the sky above. Radiant alpine flowers and woodwinds from deep within their burrows make the case for a music well tended and serenely fed by sweet springs emerging from the depths here below. WHAT THE CREATURES OF THE FOREST TELL ME (Movement no. 3) The life force tends to run amok. Yet things do not fall apart, the center still holds. And though it is mundane - pedestrian, at times - we cannot deny the joy in this life, nor do we wish to. But know, traveler, that submerged in every caldron of joy is a small *** of darkness. And it will find you or you will find it - not only because it is fated, but for the sake of your sanity. WHAT MAN TELLS ME (Movement no. 4) Here darkness sings. Again the plucked string. O Mensch! You tell the tale! You take this story back to the mountain. A woeful tale you bring, but it is gilded with joy. A chorus exalts your condition. Deep is its grief, but joy is deeper still. WHAT THE ANGELS TELL ME (Movement no. 5) Bimm Bamm Bimm Bamm the children's choir sweetly intones. And what, pray tell, do Angels have to say to us? I've heard about love I've heard about emptiness I've heard about absence without presence, about nothingness and the void. But I have never heard such singing! WHAT LOVE TELLS ME (Movement no. 6) Sweet the air we breathe. Pleasant the sights before us. Words are stilled, anxious thoughts banished. There is nothing on Earth or in Heaven that disputes this sweet resolution all the parts made whole Nothing that could possibly speak against it (though French Horns will have their interests heard). But here it is. The end. O Mensch come to your last and best resting place. Also sprach Gustav Mahler.
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 9:19 PM UTC
Mahler's Third Symphony
SUMMER MARCHES IN (Movement no. 1) It comes crashing down like doom. A martial fanfare begins a long conversation questioning fate, arguing for the human condition, and for death's open invitation, which we dare not deny. WHAT THE MEADOW FLOWERS TELL ME (Movement no. 2) Their blooming voices are oboes and lush violins. The sun is surely brassy bright in the sky above. Radiant alpine flowers and woodwinds from deep within their burrows make the case for a music well tended and serenely fed by sweet springs emerging from the depths here below. WHAT THE CREATURES OF THE FOREST TELL ME (Movement no. 3) The life force tends to run amok. Yet things do not fall apart, the center still holds. And though it is mundane - pedestrian, at times - we cannot deny the joy in this life, nor do we wish to. But know, traveler, that submerged in every caldron of joy is a small *** of darkness. And it will find you or you will find it - not only because it is fated, but for the sake of your sanity. WHAT MAN TELLS ME (Movement no. 4) Here darkness sings. Again the plucked string. O Mensch! You tell the tale! You take this story back to the mountain. A woeful tale you bring, but it is gilded with joy. A chorus exalts your condition. Deep is its grief, but joy is deeper still. WHAT THE ANGELS TELL ME (Movement no. 5) Bimm Bamm Bimm Bamm the children's choir sweetly intones. And what, pray tell, do Angels have to say to us? I've heard about love I've heard about emptiness I've heard about absence without presence, about nothingness and the void. But I have never heard such singing! WHAT LOVE TELLS ME (Movement no. 6) Sweet the air we breathe. Pleasant the sights before us. Words are stilled, anxious thoughts banished. There is nothing on Earth or in Heaven that disputes this sweet resolution all the parts made whole Nothing that could possibly speak against it (though French Horns will have their interests heard). But here it is. The end. O Mensch come to your last and best resting place. Also sprach Gustav Mahler.
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Voices In His Head backwoods of his mind birds and bees stutter blossoms seeds of apathy grow a lone dwarf rabbit burrows under a bonsai trunk's a beaten path waterfalls to nowhere life's knotted of shallow pools voice ... go to deep end Logan Robertson 5/20/17
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May 21, 2017
May 21, 2017 at 12:24 AM UTC
Voices In His Head
I asked the mule just yesterday Whether he ever envies the bay Who burrows her soft, brown nose in the oats Laid out for her pleasure, to brighten her coat. The mule responded, with just a hint of chagrin, “I know nothing of the world or the way I should live; There are others who tell me this for my own good, thus: My life is blissfully simple, yet lush— “Lush,” he continued, while he swatted the flies Gathered round his muddy coat and panicked eyes, “Lush is my life that they make so secure: By bringing me down, they make me demure. “And,” he concluded, with a wheezing sigh, “It’s for my own good that I’m covered with flies, And for the good of the people that the bay gets the oats, While I struggle and toil catching flies with my coat.” I meant to ask the mule again On the issue of his grievous chagrin, But a crowd led the keening bay out of her stall, And the world stopped to answer her demanding call.
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Aug 15, 2010
Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM UTC
The Mule
Blood, now boils quick, it's intense, he is in fire, on her every touch, there is a special anesthetic a poisonous binge, causes tidal waves go berserk in his stream of blood,tangible effects of arousal results, body now is a vast field,  goosebumps sprout like spotted magic mushrooms after a night long rain and thunderclaps, the salacious intent of the scent of woman,wafts, singing pheromones perfectly rhyme with *** center of the brain, "Ï am addicted to tarantula's love" his whisper sounds ominous, tarantula casts her net Serpentine vines tangle on wild trees,in natural history museum premises,trees fall down and rise, create leaf beds dark enclosures where lovers escape the detection of radars, explore,the unbridled ascent of carnal wishes,as if a permit is ingrained in the scent of exotic orchids wafting in the wind, allowing the wild run of instincts, a dam burst, here cobras prowl, tarantulas, at a quick look are exposed ******* with dark ******* on eight legs the desire stands,waiting for the next ***** lover, She was watching an insatiable pair of tarantulas in elaborate mating rituals,they move inside, cracks and burrows,concealed by the cover of darkness,they come out,to eat the night flowers, exhaling ****** hunger; their dark, devious fingers, touching, caressing finding each other's intimate  parts has a dark frenzy... he saw the blue glimmer of a concealed weapon,smeared on by amour, as they tumble in bed,she flashes her most venomous smile, like the quick move of the sharp end of a bodkin, Tarantula's love affair,when it all are over, her lover's end comes near.
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 2:48 PM UTC
Tarantula's amour
Blood, now boils quick, it's intense, he is in fire, on her every touch, there is a special anesthetic a poisonous binge, causes tidal waves go berserk in his stream of blood,tangible effects of arousal results, body now is a vast field,  goosebumps sprout like spotted magic mushrooms after a night long rain and thunderclaps, the salacious intent of the scent of woman,wafts, singing pheromones perfectly rhyme with *** center of the brain, "Ï am addicted to tarantula's love" his whisper sounds ominous, tarantula casts her net Serpentine vines tangle on wild trees,in natural history museum premises,trees fall down and rise, create leaf beds dark enclosures where lovers escape the detection of radars, explore,the unbridled ascent of carnal wishes,as if a permit is ingrained in the scent of exotic orchids wafting in the wind, allowing the wild run of instincts, a dam burst, here cobras prowl, tarantulas, at a quick look are exposed ******* with dark ******* on eight legs the desire stands,waiting for the next ***** lover, She was watching an insatiable pair of tarantulas in elaborate mating rituals,they move inside, cracks and burrows,concealed by the cover of darkness,they come out,to eat the night flowers, exhaling ****** hunger; their dark, devious fingers, touching, caressing finding each other's intimate  parts has a dark frenzy... he saw the blue glimmer of a concealed weapon,smeared on by amour, as they tumble in bed,she flashes her most venomous smile, like the quick move of the sharp end of a bodkin, Tarantula's love affair,when it all are over, her lover's end comes near.
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