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#*'Twas a time I deemed thee love;   the echoes lacked contraire Sea moon shadows dance across   this isle of despair Entwined flesh eyes doth ne'er perceive,   outside the mortal's scope No sole charter giveth passage   through salty waves unknown 'Tis what I think to see thee there   on pedestals of gold Forevermore you place thyself   on stalwart shores alone Unfurl thy sails for distant lands;   the lighthouse shines once more Praying to gods that long lost ship   will find its way to port.*#
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May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 at 11:58 AM UTC
Ode to Love Lost at Sea
Dear diary, I just can't explain the amount of thoughts that I have daily!, that continuous mind charter that I have daily....! I'm filled with thoughts, every minute, and every second of my life. My mind just keeps switching from one thought to another, & The amount of day dreaming.... well!!! you know my silly screaming ??!!! Sometimes, they are really funny! And they keep making me smile, so that I keep glowing! But some thoughts...,,, They are really too dark, That ,when I confront them, it breaks my heart apart!! I'm like a confused soul, who's in search of meaning of life... Who's in search of peace , Who's in search of shine! But the moment I start thinking, ugh!!!My head starts cracking!! I just can't concentrate on one particular thing ! Today, if I feel like being a doctor, Tomorrow I might think of being an engineer, & If today I feel like being an accountant, Tomorrow I might feel like, " I just need an Oscar...!" An Oscar for what?? I don't know ...!!! It's sounds too cool and looks good to show ! Will I work for that award?... honestly, I don't know ! I'm so lazy, I don't even get up to "shoo" a crow ! But hey!...there's one amazing part about me, Guess what ? "Anyone can come and speak to me." Being an overthinker, has also opened up my mind, I don't form immediate opinions, till I get a clear sight ! I really don't know this journey of thoughts well??!!! Will it ever be stable ? Will it ever end ? But ...If it ends, I'll die for sure, But hey!, I'm sure there is some way to cure! Which way? Hey !...I don't know again ! Is that way gonna be simple or another amazing pain! But hey hey hey!!! I don't know why did I write this ?! Was I trying to find a solution or was encouraging my thoughts already  in a continuous motion?! But hey!, it's ok if you're an overthinker, Try to be amazing my friend, even if nothing is clear!
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Jul 29, 2020
Jul 29, 2020 at 5:28 AM UTC
The diary of an Overthinker!
Dear diary, I just can't explain the amount of thoughts that I have daily!, that continuous mind charter that I have daily....! I'm filled with thoughts, every minute, and every second of my life. My mind just keeps switching from one thought to another, & The amount of day dreaming.... well!!! you know my silly screaming ??!!! Sometimes, they are really funny! And they keep making me smile, so that I keep glowing! But some thoughts...,,, They are really too dark, That ,when I confront them, it breaks my heart apart!! I'm like a confused soul, who's in search of meaning of life... Who's in search of peace , Who's in search of shine! But the moment I start thinking, ugh!!!My head starts cracking!! I just can't concentrate on one particular thing ! Today, if I feel like being a doctor, Tomorrow I might think of being an engineer, & If today I feel like being an accountant, Tomorrow I might feel like, " I just need an Oscar...!" An Oscar for what?? I don't know ...!!! It's sounds too cool and looks good to show ! Will I work for that award?... honestly, I don't know ! I'm so lazy, I don't even get up to "shoo" a crow ! But hey!...there's one amazing part about me, Guess what ? "Anyone can come and speak to me." Being an overthinker, has also opened up my mind, I don't form immediate opinions, till I get a clear sight ! I really don't know this journey of thoughts well??!!! Will it ever be stable ? Will it ever end ? But ...If it ends, I'll die for sure, But hey!, I'm sure there is some way to cure! Which way? Hey !...I don't know again ! Is that way gonna be simple or another amazing pain! But hey hey hey!!! I don't know why did I write this ?! Was I trying to find a solution or was encouraging my thoughts already  in a continuous motion?! But hey!, it's ok if you're an overthinker, Try to be amazing my friend, even if nothing is clear!
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I wander thro’ each charter’d street. Near where the charter’d Thames does flow A mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man. In every Infants cry of fear. In every voice; in every ban. The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackening Church appalls. And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
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For love to flourish Some ideas on life we need to punish And for unity to feel unified Some old philosophies should be denied A universal charter of peace One that imprisons any aggressor with no signs of an early release Third world or new world, rich and poor Eternally searching for so much more At breaking point and primed for implosion Standing at the towns gates and cheering totalitarianism on its arduous march into expulsion As masses we move in uncertain terms Living to absorb , to almost defend the disease, the genetic germs The crowd ask questions, seek answers of clarity Settling no more for the disgust of others impunity Maybe the balance will tilt And the toxic flowers of the current state of affairs begin to wilt Global humanity free to exist and have an honest future of preservation Not just confined to a future in some wildlife conservation
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM UTC
the wildlife conservation,
If I could simply overcome Possessive nouns and vowel sounds I would not need to study ****** Heavy lies’ beheaded crowns But you make martyrs with your charter School exclusive service sector To systemically condemn me To the destitution nectar Of the corner story ****** Potential Cinderella caged in The statistics of the mathematic Overdose equation Comatose’n like a Holy Ghost Of tranquil ranking party skanks Whose tanks plan out the projects For the boys still shootin’ blanks And then the slavers liberate Some nation-state of god forsaken Oil barons salivate To taste the poison Apple’s stake in Stock in stuffer markets takin’ All the products people makin’ Privatizing profit-docket lawless Mother Nature rapin’ For some scarcity disparities In wealth I can’t attain You keep me feeding on the bottom From the top, you make it rain So as the brains continue drainin’ In amenity dependency I tinker with the inner-machinations Now the enemy You’ve made me out to be you see My generation’s future’s bleaker Than the past in full HD
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 1:45 PM UTC
What Cuts to Education Spending Do to Kids in a Global Capitalist Cesspool of Gory ****** Poverty, and Drug-Addicted Killing Sprees
528 Mine—by the Right of the White Election! Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the Sign in the Scarlet prison— Bars—cannot conceal! Mine—here—in Vision—and in Veto! Mine—by the Grave’s Repeal— Tilted—Confirmed— Delirious Charter! Mine—long as Ages steal!
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Mine—by the Right of the White Election!
~ *Storms make grey the sea And erode the surface of the shore Cold resentful icebergs Outside my window A field of sinking liquid caskets Closing in on me I hear the sound Of toy pianos underwater Remnants of their music keep Washing up on achromatic beaches Songs that made love shine Have fallen into shipwreck A missing charter's rusted hull Casts the one color heaven allows Storms make grey the sea And erode the stages of the sun* ~
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Oct 20, 2022
Oct 20, 2022 at 9:19 AM UTC
Storms Make Grey the Sea
You are the petal that breaks free from the flower. You are the last fluorescent string of sunshine before dusk. You are the ripped wings of an insect. Your "love" was cancerous Your intent was murderous, Your opinions, over zealous And your range always jealous. You are the last wave of the night tide. You are the meteor to the moon. You are Nothing, Yet something, Without good; Just rotting. You are the "darkest before the dawn." You are the winter that killed the rose. You are the nuclear holocaust, That burned each bridge And broke each road. You are Loneliness in company, You are a sunken charter. You are a skipping record, On the wrong part of the song. You are famine with emotion, You are the feign of hope. You are my epitome of hatred, You are the birdsong that is but a croak. You are weakness and decay, You are a fatal wound. You are terminal illness. You are not worth a breath, You are what I can not accept. You Are ******* Revolting. You ******* Disgust Me.
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
Disgusting.
montana yellow dress, the highway looked bitter sunday fit. she knew the land given, land taken, thunder walking west. met a friend. stopped to talk. he was a holy kid or dog, both songs of kindness. trickster cool mountain calf waiting for the water promenade. deep creek good old boy swimming smiles, rose up and shot like bang with the buzzard sioux feathers. truth is low clouds flashing, dreams burst in the earth room. doused sheets of chaparral and canyon grass a pretty laughing bird. wet things watch the water-log, and a frog spits whiskey. charter bus barefoot leather and a father says kids, smell the hammer, see the hammer touch its words into the world. work-tale living, fools bled. river gal cut, oh fishing.
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 4:58 PM UTC
loki, dog
(Went out today, Charter boat Trinidad Bay Limited out on rock fish in two hours Watching Elks Head from the ocean, Grandpa) Isadore Called him Izzy Chewing all day on a fat cigar Looked at lot like Jimmy Durante His father stowed away on a ship Wasn't going to be a Russian military conscript Genocidal pogroms were coming how he knew we'll never know. Ended up in Philadelphia town, Scranton Pennsylvania Moved along to Brooklyn Stubby Izzy fighting it out with the Irish immigrants Dreaming of having a chicken farm over there in New Jersey Izzy met Grandma Sarah at the family clothing store they fought it out for 70 years The 60's book Games People Play They were the star attraction The friction was the glue that kept them together The friction was the match that lit their passion. Grandpa Izzy funniest man I ever met Drove an old 48 Ford selling housewares in the Southern route. In the morning far too early Sneaking into his room tickling his feet to the sounds of ohhs and hoho's At five years old Grandpa Izzy took me fishing on some New Jersey pond - Afternoon sun with yellow colors bringing all the foliage alive Sun setting fish rising a hand held in mine defined the peace I seek in reoccurring dreams through out a lifetime A troubled teen all suicidal the drive in the 48 Ford with Grandpa Izzy running down the Malibu pier catching the half day boat before it disappeared Grandpa Izzy never lived far from a race track I don't know about those losing days but the secret he said Was to never lose your sense of humor Always be able to laugh at yourself Izzy smoked those big old chewed cigars lived until he was 94 Ended up not knowing Who or where he was Maybe we all end up that way too But in my memory there is sharp focus he remains alive in me If heaven is there I know I'll find Izzy and I on that New Jersey pond, a fishing line and peace inside.
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 12:57 PM UTC
Generations
(Went out today, Charter boat Trinidad Bay Limited out on rock fish in two hours Watching Elks Head from the ocean, Grandpa) Isadore Called him Izzy Chewing all day on a fat cigar Looked at lot like Jimmy Durante His father stowed away on a ship Wasn't going to be a Russian military conscript Genocidal pogroms were coming how he knew we'll never know. Ended up in Philadelphia town, Scranton Pennsylvania Moved along to Brooklyn Stubby Izzy fighting it out with the Irish immigrants Dreaming of having a chicken farm over there in New Jersey Izzy met Grandma Sarah at the family clothing store they fought it out for 70 years The 60's book Games People Play They were the star attraction The friction was the glue that kept them together The friction was the match that lit their passion. Grandpa Izzy funniest man I ever met Drove an old 48 Ford selling housewares in the Southern route. In the morning far too early Sneaking into his room tickling his feet to the sounds of ohhs and hoho's At five years old Grandpa Izzy took me fishing on some New Jersey pond - Afternoon sun with yellow colors bringing all the foliage alive Sun setting fish rising a hand held in mine defined the peace I seek in reoccurring dreams through out a lifetime A troubled teen all suicidal the drive in the 48 Ford with Grandpa Izzy running down the Malibu pier catching the half day boat before it disappeared Grandpa Izzy never lived far from a race track I don't know about those losing days but the secret he said Was to never lose your sense of humor Always be able to laugh at yourself Izzy smoked those big old chewed cigars lived until he was 94 Ended up not knowing Who or where he was Maybe we all end up that way too But in my memory there is sharp focus he remains alive in me If heaven is there I know I'll find Izzy and I on that New Jersey pond, a fishing line and peace inside.
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I. Prologue Splash words across: images on canvas. Before Abraham was, I am: the cubist of poets. Mangled and tangled; Here thoughts emerge, in reverent perspectives. The real world: how many dimensions, depends on who you ask; Monotone in my unidimensions. Filter. Baritone. Coffee-brown is the best colour around. II. Love Here we sit by two-arms distance. To north, to south. Facing opposing poles. There is an attraction. Here are images from the industrial world gone post-industrial. Broken commodes. Outsource your misery here. The sky can afford a hole from on here. As long as there's none in my shoe. Sometimes, I roll over in waves. Sometimes, you wave over. Questions still hidden in the corners. III. Peace All that's passed remains flickering green like the wireless router silently at nights: recover, play it over. Flush it all up. Splash it all around. Cubism. Art nouveau. Portmanteau. Now fruck the world. Neon shades rippling through the smoke riding out dancing to metal clang; Crazy laughter like that of an empty skull: smoke the pipe, brother, spread the peace around.  2013, stupid. Idealism died in 1967. And many times since. Repeats always a farce. IV. Spirit Only one man died for the poor. Who called the dead to life. All other stories are about barons and hedgehats: while the millions were ground over to oil the world. While they roiled the world. How the poor die under the heels of those that claim to love that man? Disagree? Drone. Agree? The throne. Yes, we can, brother, we can defeat this ****** corruption. Brother, be not corrupt. V. Prospect A sigh of disapproval, soft in sleep. I come and lie, back to your back, waiting for love to seep over. Yes, we can, brother, we can overcome bigotry vile. Brother, say not, mine, the only way ever. Happy lovers day. Shout out aloud, peans more to the meek women's rights. Forget not, there's some in your sights. Two arms' distance is about the right in the day. There are two faces seen in this bubble, formed at the mouth of the tooth paste tube. Peace to the world, every morning after. Every little home by home.
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 12:14 PM UTC
Charter for Peace
I. Prologue Splash words across: images on canvas. Before Abraham was, I am: the cubist of poets. Mangled and tangled; Here thoughts emerge, in reverent perspectives. The real world: how many dimensions, depends on who you ask; Monotone in my unidimensions. Filter. Baritone. Coffee-brown is the best colour around. II. Love Here we sit by two-arms distance. To north, to south. Facing opposing poles. There is an attraction. Here are images from the industrial world gone post-industrial. Broken commodes. Outsource your misery here. The sky can afford a hole from on here. As long as there's none in my shoe. Sometimes, I roll over in waves. Sometimes, you wave over. Questions still hidden in the corners. III. Peace All that's passed remains flickering green like the wireless router silently at nights: recover, play it over. Flush it all up. Splash it all around. Cubism. Art nouveau. Portmanteau. Now fruck the world. Neon shades rippling through the smoke riding out dancing to metal clang; Crazy laughter like that of an empty skull: smoke the pipe, brother, spread the peace around.  2013, stupid. Idealism died in 1967. And many times since. Repeats always a farce. IV. Spirit Only one man died for the poor. Who called the dead to life. All other stories are about barons and hedgehats: while the millions were ground over to oil the world. While they roiled the world. How the poor die under the heels of those that claim to love that man? Disagree? Drone. Agree? The throne. Yes, we can, brother, we can defeat this ****** corruption. Brother, be not corrupt. V. Prospect A sigh of disapproval, soft in sleep. I come and lie, back to your back, waiting for love to seep over. Yes, we can, brother, we can overcome bigotry vile. Brother, say not, mine, the only way ever. Happy lovers day. Shout out aloud, peans more to the meek women's rights. Forget not, there's some in your sights. Two arms' distance is about the right in the day. There are two faces seen in this bubble, formed at the mouth of the tooth paste tube. Peace to the world, every morning after. Every little home by home.
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In this cruel,savage world every one hurts But we have to find the worth suffering far Every beautiful chick just desires and flirts Hence portray themselves like northern star Pain surpasses pleasure in a way so strange All want to play with love in Satanic mood Credence is to play part out of its given range Facade seems innocent but mean and shrewd Barter is the game and portray it as a charter Just extend your love in exchange to hatred Man is the real victim man is the silly starter All is scattered and nothing is aligned to grid Col Muhammad Khalid khan Copyright 2016 Golden Glow
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Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 2:55 AM UTC
Flirts and Flirts
trip me up get my attention and I will take you where you would rather not go the juxtaposition of communication a looters charter of the innocent mind
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 8:34 AM UTC
The Juxtaposition
WE CONSIDER THEM VERMIN-- these visitors to the rotting corpses of our loved ones. But what if they’re only there to say hello? And when’s the last time you paid them a visit, anyway? Well let me tell you something: the maggots and worms know where we're going. Billions of years, billions of ancestors, busily moving through their lives in isolated blips-- They’re just data now. And did John the Amoeba, feeding on sunlight, ever think that somewhere down the line his great-something-grandson would be a poet? A doctor? A teacher? A football player? Did he ever think that his great-something-grandson would sit in his room and listen to the Mountain Goats? To be honest, probably not. Grandpa’s a stranger. He got sick when you were young, but you could never remember the name of the disease. But it all came down to the fact that he never recognized his own grandchild— he was an ancient basket case whom you loved because that’s what you were told to do. You were 13 when he died, and his passing gave you an excuse to be sad, which worked out pretty well because sadness was the most stylish emotion at Marblehead Charter in 2007. Grandpa won’t be there on your wedding day. He’ll be with the vermin, saying hello. But you won’t mind— you still love him anyway. Because one day you'll be in his place and your grandson will be getting married and you won’t be there, but he'll still love you anyway. And somewhere down the line, you’ll be someone’s—something’s—John the Amoeba. And you know you would be proud.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM UTC
John the Amoeba
WE CONSIDER THEM VERMIN-- these visitors to the rotting corpses of our loved ones. But what if they’re only there to say hello? And when’s the last time you paid them a visit, anyway? Well let me tell you something: the maggots and worms know where we're going. Billions of years, billions of ancestors, busily moving through their lives in isolated blips-- They’re just data now. And did John the Amoeba, feeding on sunlight, ever think that somewhere down the line his great-something-grandson would be a poet? A doctor? A teacher? A football player? Did he ever think that his great-something-grandson would sit in his room and listen to the Mountain Goats? To be honest, probably not. Grandpa’s a stranger. He got sick when you were young, but you could never remember the name of the disease. But it all came down to the fact that he never recognized his own grandchild— he was an ancient basket case whom you loved because that’s what you were told to do. You were 13 when he died, and his passing gave you an excuse to be sad, which worked out pretty well because sadness was the most stylish emotion at Marblehead Charter in 2007. Grandpa won’t be there on your wedding day. He’ll be with the vermin, saying hello. But you won’t mind— you still love him anyway. Because one day you'll be in his place and your grandson will be getting married and you won’t be there, but he'll still love you anyway. And somewhere down the line, you’ll be someone’s—something’s—John the Amoeba. And you know you would be proud.
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saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 11:21 PM UTC
Apache Yawn Echo Imitation
saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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1283 Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done— Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none— Balked in the vastest instance But to renew— Felled by but one assassin— Prosperity—
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Could Hope inspect her Basis
Jump on the boat and take is real slow Throw the canvas and splash that oil Squash the duck feathers and fill the mill As the harmonica cruises craft the talk real slow A touch of the knee and the spark shatters A charter of recklessness heckled in two-tone composition   Not a monochrome but a  jest of kaleidoscope cores A fearless horizon of sirens and chaotic applause A sate of pureness, meekness;widely see this woman words The worth of how she works, the sweat in her sincerity Spot the little life that she holds, clutch her lifetime ascensions The silhouette that shows and fades away,chase her palm Stroke her freedom, take her high to the clouds and show her Ask her to sing her sweetest prescribed proscriptions Be the operator that jerks her stringed rhythmic blues Shine ohh diamond, Strike ohh as you expand…… touch the sentiment
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 3:22 PM UTC
Pillow Talks and Mellow Pauses (Additional Audio)
#*Friendships are common Friends everywhere But the true ones, oh so rare The ones who deeply care Stand by you In times of despair Age no bar There can be many Whoever they are Gender no ****** Seasons there are many Weathering all,  no wonder Distance does not matter To meet, need not fly charter All are neighbours in the heart True friends are a treasure In words One need not measure Friends that life chose Hold them aloft , in the heart Like the fragrance of a Rose*#
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 8:05 AM UTC
Happy Friends
Toes twiddling, fingers fiddling, the wait goes on, and on, and on. People passing, mind lapsing, I wait, and wait, …and wait. Bags surround me, how long will they be? Seconds slowly tick tock, tick tock. Night falls, time crawls, in it for the long haul. Bag carrier, hero warrior. Shop to shop - it never stops. True martyr, it’s in the charter. Next week, same again? Can’t wait, glad I came.
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 2:53 PM UTC
No Man's Land
I feel the call from the oceans, the voices whisper from its breeze. Snow and satire can't label the mindfulness of memories slowly coming back to me. My mountains have missed you so much, my legs miss the warmth of your thermos, I miss your gentleness and subtlety. Priority one. If you don't think you will make it by Tuesday, I'll travel back in time before we were forty degrees, you can read the seraphs on my signature if I can lay in your sheets for a week. Chrysanthemums all over the hallways, Irises in azurean hues. The charter won't take us all the way to the break wall, I'm at the airport trying to reach you by phone. I'd take the flavor of your spirit, over the sweet coolness of truth, Slide my fingers into the holes in the jeans you always wear for me when I come home. The only thing I write off are pages, Tables marked with the ends of so many words. Who are you to know what you can do without The more I've learned, I realize I'm happier with the less I know.
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Dec 21, 2015
Dec 21, 2015 at 6:30 PM UTC
Landscape Architecture
It was threatening rain for a week or more It was always threatening rain, The Weather Bureau was always sore When the threatening rain never came. We’d hold an open air barbecue Each time they said it would come, ‘Hey it’s gonna rain,’ said Oliver Payne, ‘What do they think, we’re dumb?’ But the Bureau Chief, one Adrian Reef Said he was sick to the core, Why wouldn’t the weather behave itself Like it had done before, ‘It’s making us look like a laughing stock,’ He bitterly said to Jane, ‘I want you to ring up the airport now And charter a small, light plane,’ He loaded the plane up with dry ice And a generous load of salt, And lugged along an elephant gun, The plane took off with a jolt, He peppered the clouds with ice that day, He put his job on the line, The last thing he wanted to have to say: ‘The weather is going to be fine.’ And down on the ground at the barbecue We were sizzling snags and steak, Having an ice cold beer or two And trying to stay awake. The sultry weather was drowsy then We’d heard the report, in vain, But just when the steaks were nicely done It came down, bucketing rain. We didn’t have time to pack it up, We couldn’t save snags or steak, In only a couple of minutes there We were staggering round in a lake, And Oliver’s esky floated away With the rest of the beer we’d bought, While we took shelter as best we could Under cover of Maggie’s porch. The water rose right up to our knees, Our cars were afloat that day, The chickens drowned and the old hearth hound Was found seven miles away, While on the Teev was the Bureau Chief With a grin that was not quite sane, He knew he’d won with his elephant gun, ‘The sky is threatening rain!’ David Lewis Paget
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 2:04 PM UTC
Threatening Rain
It was threatening rain for a week or more It was always threatening rain, The Weather Bureau was always sore When the threatening rain never came. We’d hold an open air barbecue Each time they said it would come, ‘Hey it’s gonna rain,’ said Oliver Payne, ‘What do they think, we’re dumb?’ But the Bureau Chief, one Adrian Reef Said he was sick to the core, Why wouldn’t the weather behave itself Like it had done before, ‘It’s making us look like a laughing stock,’ He bitterly said to Jane, ‘I want you to ring up the airport now And charter a small, light plane,’ He loaded the plane up with dry ice And a generous load of salt, And lugged along an elephant gun, The plane took off with a jolt, He peppered the clouds with ice that day, He put his job on the line, The last thing he wanted to have to say: ‘The weather is going to be fine.’ And down on the ground at the barbecue We were sizzling snags and steak, Having an ice cold beer or two And trying to stay awake. The sultry weather was drowsy then We’d heard the report, in vain, But just when the steaks were nicely done It came down, bucketing rain. We didn’t have time to pack it up, We couldn’t save snags or steak, In only a couple of minutes there We were staggering round in a lake, And Oliver’s esky floated away With the rest of the beer we’d bought, While we took shelter as best we could Under cover of Maggie’s porch. The water rose right up to our knees, Our cars were afloat that day, The chickens drowned and the old hearth hound Was found seven miles away, While on the Teev was the Bureau Chief With a grin that was not quite sane, He knew he’d won with his elephant gun, ‘The sky is threatening rain!’ David Lewis Paget
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My friends, We try to stay safe through doing what is familiar By avoiding those places of pain and discomfort within ourselves. And we may stay safe... Safe within the walls of our self constructed prison Safe in our loneliness and isolation Safe in the same old patterns which keep us narrow, small... But safe. And in this place we fear to open the unlocked door to our own liberation... We fear to step out into the light Because we know that to find our glorious presence We must travel through some dark corridors in our minds Through some fearful rooms within our soul. Confront places of pain in our hearts And release the tears which are trapped there. Lean into the mystery my friends. Lean into the discomfort... It may be that there is a force there to support you That you will remain buoyant as the winds of life flows past around and through you. But it may be that as you lean... you fall.... You may fall into the abyss of mystery and unknowing. Fall into a new and unknown space, Where you do not know who you are Or what to do next... And in that dark obscured space you must feel you way forward with your heart, Step into your wholeness and be guided by that deep ancient force with in you Your old familiar ways will not work here. What will you find there? Deep in that space of mystery That none may charter except for yourself What new wonders will be uncovered? What new gifts are waiting? If we only have the courage to abide with our selves If even for a moment? How will you know unless you take a deep breath. Still your mind And lean forward into that Abyss... Lean my friends and find out...
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Feb 19, 2023
Feb 19, 2023 at 5:41 AM UTC
Leaning into the Abyss...
My friends, We try to stay safe through doing what is familiar By avoiding those places of pain and discomfort within ourselves. And we may stay safe... Safe within the walls of our self constructed prison Safe in our loneliness and isolation Safe in the same old patterns which keep us narrow, small... But safe. And in this place we fear to open the unlocked door to our own liberation... We fear to step out into the light Because we know that to find our glorious presence We must travel through some dark corridors in our minds Through some fearful rooms within our soul. Confront places of pain in our hearts And release the tears which are trapped there. Lean into the mystery my friends. Lean into the discomfort... It may be that there is a force there to support you That you will remain buoyant as the winds of life flows past around and through you. But it may be that as you lean... you fall.... You may fall into the abyss of mystery and unknowing. Fall into a new and unknown space, Where you do not know who you are Or what to do next... And in that dark obscured space you must feel you way forward with your heart, Step into your wholeness and be guided by that deep ancient force with in you Your old familiar ways will not work here. What will you find there? Deep in that space of mystery That none may charter except for yourself What new wonders will be uncovered? What new gifts are waiting? If we only have the courage to abide with our selves If even for a moment? How will you know unless you take a deep breath. Still your mind And lean forward into that Abyss... Lean my friends and find out...
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